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March. Knock. Elect Women.
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in Editorial · Elections · Government · Hoo Sook Hwang · Women
Editorial by Hoo Sook Hwang
From left, U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar, U.S. Sen. Tina and U.S. Rep. Betty McCollum (MN-4). Photo by Hoo Sook Hwang
ST. PAUL, Minn. (Nov. 3, 2018) — U.S. Senators Amy Klobuchar and Tina Smith joined U.S. Rep. Betty McCollum (MN-4) Saturday morning to rally a large group of exceptional and determined Democratic constituents as they prepared to knock on the doors of nearby residents to, “Get out and vote,” on Nov. 6th.
Passionate and full of energy, volunteers from the Twin Cities gathered at 822 Rice Street just 1 mile from the, Minnesota State Capitol, which faces Dr. Martin Luther King Junior Boulevard. Without hesitation, Klobuchar, McCollum and Smith outlined ambitious convictions upon re-election.
McCollum, first elected in 2000 launched a high profile political career as a self-built leader as the second woman to enter the United States Congress for the state of Minnesota. Serving her ninth term, McCollum has dedicated much of her political life fighting for civil rights, seniors, women and children. At the top of her agenda are innumerable emphatic goals to uphold the former President Obama’s Affordable Healthcare Act, fight for increased support in Minnesota’s public schools and work towards holding national government officials accountable. Without a doubt, the energy between the three powerhouses, created an enthusiasm that was contagious.
U.S. Rep. Betty McCollum (MN-4), left, with U.S. Senators Tina Smith and Amy Klobuchar on Saturday attending a women’s get out the vote event. Photo by Hoo Sook Hwang.
Both McCollum and Klobuchar unequivocally endorsed Junior Senator Tina Smith as the first choice to fill the former U.S. Sen. Al Franken’s seat. It was now incumbent upon constituents to roll up their sleeves and get to work encouraging St. Paul residents to get out and vote.
Smith also empowered self-identified DFL supporters to take back the U.S. Senate. Former Lieutenant Governor in 2014, Smith is well known for supporting farmers, ensuring fair and equal pay and fighting to keep Minnesota’s environment healthy and clean. While these noteworthy issues had volunteers huddled in a mass, ready to endorse, Smith’s biggest accomplishment includes passing the 2018 Farm Bill. The 2018 farm Bill promises to help protect farmers from going financially under when hit with natural disasters. It also hopes to encourage new and upcoming farmers to remain in farming, despite hardships.
Smith, McCollum and Klobuchar assured loyal constituents of their intentions to fight for all Minnesotans. Gifted with high abilities and a natural talent that connects with everyone and anyone in a predominantly Eurocentric, ethnocentric and male dominated context, Klobuchar also took the floor. Immediately, the distinguished senator had the crowd listening with bated breath.
Elected in 2006, Klobuchar confidently communicated hope and a vividly outlined political agenda for Minnesotans. Based on what she heard from her recent 2018, 87 county tour of the state, she assured those who came out to support her, that her commitment to Minnesota is unwavering. The senator’s high-energy speech was a clear indication to volunteers that, “Senator Klobuchar is ready to keep fighting for all Minnesotans.”
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It’s no secret that Klobuchar has gained a powerful reputation as the, “Senator who doesn’t back down from a fight and gets things done!” Twin City volunteers were attentive as the poised and powerful senator communicated her unshakeable political platform. DFL constituents described her as having, “honorable values and ideals,” which manifest into real change. Her successful track record of fighting sex trafficking and elder-abuse undoubtedly reveals that creating change is in her DNA, despite party lines. She spoke with conviction about maintaining universal and affordable health care for all
Minnesotans and embracing racial/ethnic diversity towards inclusion. Finally, Klobuchar and the trio of dedicated and determined female politicians ended their speeches with a note of gratitude to everyone who has taken time out of their busy schedules to volunteer, knock on doors and work at the phone banks. In just a few days, DFL campaign offices will close down with high hopes that everyone gets out to vote and realize that every vote counts.
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Talk about strong women. Everyone should read this great article about a great public servant and leader.
So nice to read about all 3 women candidates in one place. Today, knowing they all won, this article was spot on about how valuable they are to our community and state.
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SA TRIO GEAR UP FOR SHANGHAI DIAMOND LEAGUE
The country’s elite stars will look to make another impact in the early stages of the international season, with three SA athletes included in the start lists for the second leg of the Diamond League series in Shanghai on Saturday.
After in-form 800m runner Caster Semenya and national javelin throw record holder Sunette Viljoen led a powerful contingent by securing victories at the opening meeting of the top-flight campaign in Doha last week, South Africa will again be well represented at the Chinese leg.
National champion Ruswahl Samaai enters the men’s long jump as one of the favourites, after producing a leap of 8.34m in Stellenbosch last month, climbing to the top of the 2016 world rankings.
He faces a line-up which includes American Jeff Henderson and Australian Fabrice Lapierre, who have also displayed fine form this season.
Former World Championships bronze medallist LJ van Zyl goes in the men’s 400m hurdles contest which also includes world champion Nicholas Bett of Kenya and American duo Michael Tinsley and Kerron Clement.
In the men’s 800m race, Rynardt van Rensburg will hope to take advantage of the opportunity as he makes his Diamond League debut.
The middle-distance specialist, who has already achieved the qualifying standard for the Rio Olympics will turn out against 11 other men who have all run faster than his 1:45.40 personal best in their careers, spearheaded by Kenyan world record holder David Rudisha.
The meeting will be broadcast live from 1pm on SuperSport 9.
Schedule of SA athletes, Shanghai Diamond League (SA times):
1.04pm – LJ van Zyl (400m hurdles)
1.40pm – Ruswahl Samaai (men’s long jump)
1.43pm – Rynardt van Rensburg (men’s 800m)
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The Russian aircraft carrier cruiser Admiral Kuznetsov was nearly destroyed by fire.
A few hours ago aboard the Russian heavy aircraft cruiser "Admiral Kuznetsov" there was a powerful fire - the area of more than 600 was covered by fire, and according to other sources, more than 800 square meters. As a result of the fire, which arose due to the human factor, at least 12 people were injured, while three missing persons, which, it is possible, could simply die, are reported.
“The number of victims of the fire on the aircraft carrier“ Admiral Kuznetsov ”increased to 12 people. Three more people are missing ”- Lenta.ru reports.
According to preliminary information, the fire occurred as a result of serious violations of safety rules during welding, in particular, it is reported that a spark fell on fuel oil in the hold, which led to a severe fire.
According to some sources, the struggle for the survivability of the Russian aircraft carrier, which, by the way, is the only one in service with Russia, continues to this day, while experts believe that a severe fire could destroy several partitions, and therefore the introduction of the Admiral aircraft carrier Kuznetsov ”in operation may be delayed for several more years.
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Utah’s terrain will leave you feeling convinced that you’ve left our planet. Mezmorizing extraterrestrial backdrops contrast the barren foregrounds. Mesas and mountains are lined up like a fleet of freeze-framed battle ships crashing through a sea of sand dunes…
As I made a dent in the Beehive State, temperatures hit the hundreds, resources were scarce, and signal was nonexistent. Preparation and hydration have become key to survival and it can get a little scary. But I needed this. In some ways, I feel this perceived torture is not only deserved but desired, and it is indeed graduating into a new found will to live and lust for life. Comfort and convenience leave NO room for appreciation. Some would call this quest crazy or take an opportunity like this for granted, but one man’s trash is indeed another’s treasure. The right kinda wealth.
I spotted some loose rocks on the side of a mesa and formed them into a giant heart, clearly visible from the road. Maybe this little bit of Sunshine can coax a smile or briefly lighten an emotional load… You really never know when someone has decided that it is going to be their last day on earth. Be kind. Kindness can turn wolves into shepards.
Over time, white wings began forming on my back like a Rorschach inkblot. Salt from sweat, serving as evidence of this grueling, but necessary ride – climbing onward and upward. An expedition such as this is the healthiest Hell to endure. Detaching, braving the elements, and facing the unknowns alone. Using your body to power yourself across the continent. Trading your vices for victories. Breaking chains and cycles. Rewiring and repairing your own mind. Using your demons to earn your wings.
80 mile intervals without a hint of human. Perhaps a powerline or two will slice apart the landscape in passing, but that is all. Another day, another mountain. Summit after summit. Scenery, sweat, and silence. My 2004 Iraq deployment instilled a new found gratitude for silence. Nothing manifests a deep seated appreciation for the sounds of peace like the sounds of war.
Mesa Farm Market… A beautiful farm and store oasis nestled between Hanksville and Torrey, UT. The owner, Randy, said he had been running it since the day he could walk. Every item was fresh from his farm and made with labor and love. When asked for insight pertaining to his lifestyle, he responded, “It is heaven and it is hell.” I smiled and flashed back over the months, “the most beautiful outcomes are raised by contrasts.” His eyes softened and he returned my smile, then gave me a short tour. Our talk was brief, but deep – it was nearing noon and I had to beat the heat.
I love this lifestyle of bare minimum. Having to carry everything you own – an effective rule in deducing necessity. My entire self-supported gear load, including bags and tent, is under 24 lbs total. Self sufficiency is a powerful gift that you can give to yourself, and turning nothing into something is extremely satisfying.
One of the toughest rides of the west was the climb into Boulder, UT. The grades varied between 8% and 14% that day and the heat hit three digits. I made it to Hell’s Backbone Grill and was greeted by my server Kasha, who is also a cyclist. We talked for a while about A Vicious Cycle and when it came time to bring my bill, she instead brought a note. It simply read: “Enjoy Your Ride”.
On top of it all, Kasha offered to join me the next day on my ride to Escalate!! I was so incredibly excited and flattered she would do that with me. I mean, she IS in a magazine – and one of the most beautiful souls I have ever encountered. Then the staff all yelled, “Go Sarah!!” from the back porch as I rolled out after dinner. My heart melted…
That night, I stealth camped under a lawnmower shed in the city park, narrowly escaping their underground sprinker system. It was like an episode of American Gladiator getting to the port-o-john dry, lol. The next morning, I was invited to breakfast by a large group of Yale Alumni! We had a blast and they sent us off in style.
The stretch between Boulder and Escalante was likely the most intriguing and magical landscape thus far. About 13 miles from Boulder was the delightfully unexpected Kiva Koffeehouse, which was built directly into the side of a mountain. After eating lunch with Kasha, I met a few Veterans and enjoyed some bonding time.
Escalante Outfitters is a full service campground equipped with tent spots, cabins, restaurant, gear store, showers, and laundry. Down the street, Escalante Mercantile offers all natural local ingredients; including the smoked salmon filet, cream cheese, fruits and hummus that I excitedly purchased. I set up my camp, spent time with some awesome people and ate like total royalty at my little picnic table.
I stopped just shy of Tropic, UT and stayed at Cannonville KOA. The next half hour consisted of laughing with the staff followed by a job offer by Karen & Judy. 🙂 I set up camp, then spent quite a bit of time down the road being formally educated by a local on the intricacies of Mormonism. It’s always interesting to learn the foundations of different faiths. The next morning, Judy invited me into her home for coffee and a quick hangout. She told me about an upcoming waterfall that was only a short hike off my route. Totally doing it.
While paying my respects at the Tropic Veteran Memorial, I was greeted by a retired science teacher. As I fine tuned my gear, we talked for almost two hours about my journey, concepts and theories of life, nature, and then he and his son treated me to coffee. Plus, one of the best post office experiences ever. People are genuinely great – everywhere. Spoiler alert, America: We are NOT as divided as we may think. Not even close.
Between Tropic and Bryce lies Mossy Canyon and Trail, just as Judy said. It was a half mile hike or so back to the waterfall and cave. It was a blast, meeting and going on spontaneous adventures with other Veterans, familes, and groups.
After cresting my summit near Bryce, I got to secretly treat Marine Vietnam Veteran Tom and his wife Pat to a slice of Bryce Canyon Pines‘ famous pie. I heard a “pssst!” and when I turned around, Tom shot a straw wrapper right at me. The waitress blew my cover, haha. But it was the best ‘thank you’ EVER. I loved hearing about his service – Vietnam Vets always leave me hanging on their every word. I kept the straw wrapper, too. As evidence… 🙂
The day prior to my 35th birthday, I rolled into Panguich, UT (or Penguin Sandwich as I call it). I contacted a local guide named Scout, who was touring with the Yale alumni. She scooped me up and we headed to Zion for my birthday – bicycle, gear, balloons and all. We instantly connected and our first conversations were incredibly thought provoking…
On our way toward Zion, I met Chuck, a Navy Veteran who had been living on the road via his motorcycle for over 18 months. He even gave me a shout out on his YouTube Channel!! We’re obviously kindred spirits – and a little crazy… View Our Clip
Scout took me to some of her secret hideaways within the petrified sands of Zion National Park. We felt like kids again, running barefoot along the silky smooth surfaces – care free and laughing. It was blissful. I do always try to be a giver when it comes to others, but I don’t think I’ve ever taken so much away from an experience with just one person… Thank you, Scout. Infinitely.
Thank you all so much for all of your amazing Birthday calls, messages, posts, and comments!! The Yale alumni couple who invited me to breakfast in Escalante had also unknowingly treated me to a surprise day of Canyoneering!! Because of their generosity, I got to spend my 35th birthday scaling and repelling off the cliffs of Zion with Scout and Joe the Marine – a fellow Global War on Terror Combat Vet. It was incredibly therapeutic on many levels.
After a couple 60′ and 70′ cayoneering repells, the Marine Officer gave me a curious look. “You know… you look really comfortable with this. How would you feel about repelling from three times this height?” My face lit up like the sun, “TAKE ME THERE.” He smirked and said, “Thought so.” So he did. …and it was glorious.
After a night of camping at Jacob Lake, it was time to say goodbye to Scout and push south. I began digesting the fact that I was about to lay my eyes on the Grand Canyon for the first time in my life. As much as I have mastered holding back tears, I knew this would be an ultimate test of temperament – for several reasons.
On the way into the National Park, I pulled up alongside two couples near the entrance sign and asked them to take my photo. Shortly after, a herd of wild buffalo appeared by the road. Woah.
This was the spark of an incredible friendship and some major Veteran bonding time, as one of the husbands was a decorated Marine Vietnam Veteran. They invited me to their campsite for a ribeye and jumbo shrimp dinner on the grill!! I literally dream about meat and the next four meals were nothing short of heaven for me…
The North Rim awaited me without angst as if it had been there for hundreds of millions of years or something… Patient and steadfast, the earth had caved over time to form the planet’s most vast cradle, carefully lulling the inevitable reactions and emotions of the masses. After approaching the rim, I walked backward toward the ledge hesitantly, took a deep breath, then finally turned to look.
My eyes instantly welled, darting around undeservingly. My jaw disappeared through the canyon floor. For the first time on this trip, the words are not presenting themselves and I will not try to find them. It is an experience you will have to define with your own mind and through your own eyes…
Before leaving, I both celebrated the life and mourned the death of my Army Brother PFC Eric Ward, Veteran and beloved Son and Brother of my dear friends, Kendra, Brian, and Baylee. It hadn’t rained once over a month, but today, storms were rolling in from every single direction. Standing at the edge of the Grand Canyon National Park’s North Rim, I threw Eric’s commemorative rock as hard and as far as I could. I saluted and wept silently as it cut through the air and vanished into the depths.
Eric had never seen the Grand Canyon – it was the first time for us both. And now he will be part of it forever… I’ve known PFC Ward since he was 8 years old and watched him grow into a handsome, talented, incredibly loving young man. His memory is kept alive and well through his family via the 4WARD Project. Honoring him has been a priority throughout my journey. I hid a silver commemorative rock at the famous rim to rim Kaibab Trail to be found later… A tough, but incredibly special experience.
My good friend and 1st Infantry Brother CPT Jerry Bell (Vietnam Veteran / Bronze Star and Air Medal recipient), made a special trip from southern Nevada to join me for Eric’s rock throwing. He certainly helped put an uplifting spin on an otherwise solemn day. The four of us had a moment of silence on the cliff, then enjoyed lunch at the Grand Canyon Lodge. #BFFs #IGY6
So, the elevation profile on my next map set looks a freaking seismograph reading. Bring it. 😉 On some of the more menacing inclines, mental strength is everything and mind games are key. Sometimes, I’ll tip my helmet down so the climb is out of view and only allow myself focus on what is right in front of me and what is behind me. When what’s ahead seems dismal or unclear, nothing refuels your think tank like shifting your focus to how far you’ve come. That said, I hit my journey’s 3,000 mile mark right at the hiker / biker campground at the Grand Canyon!!!
The high desert and Great Basin ranges of Nevada will present their unique challenges, just as each part of the country has. Vast stretches of emptiness by day. Sleeping under a blanket of stars by night. Nevada. My 9th state out of 10. My 4th and final time zone. Two map sets remain out of 12.
My head has much to sort through while navigating these high highs and low lows… I am now surrounded solely by positivity and peace, and the healing has become instantly noticeable. Renewed momentum, empowered, and happy. Just me and my bike and the sand and the stars. My circle is seamless. Keep moving forward, don’t let anyone steal your smile, and always leave people better than you found them. Thank you all endlessly…
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Posted on June 23, 2018 August 31, 2018
The journey has begun and I am back in the saddle! It has come as a massive relief that there have been zero issues with knee pain. Thank you all endlessly for believing in me and for your continued support. People are nothing without each other – it’s a beautiful truth.
Prior to setting out on June 2nd, I had the pleasure of interviewing with Zach Hillstrom of the Pueblo Cheiftain Newspaper. We had a 2 hour talk, and he composed this incredible article, summarizing my story and mission beautifully: Read Article
Afterward, I headed to the City Park and met Caiti Blase with Pueblo ABC News Channel 5 (KOAA) to talk about Veteran Issues and the importance of pulling yourself from the ashes long after running into the flames. View Segment:
While training in Colorado Springs, I received a call from Marie Harris with Bowling Green State University. I was proud to attend and graduate from BGSU as President of my major with a Bachelor of Science in Technology, an Associate of Arts, and Minor in General Business back in 2009 before starting Sarah Lee Photography in Nashville.
Marie and I spoke for quite a while and Robb Nardeccia constructed this awesome article, which will also be published in the BGSU Alumni Magazine this Fall: Read Article
An Army Veteran couple named Nancy & Brent reached out and took me into their arms and home like part of the family, making my days prior to starting out fun and comfortable. They even threw an amazing farewell party with some local friends. Smoked prime rib, smoked salmon, baked beans, fruit salad, and greens. Then, a motorcycle ride in the Rockies!! Vroom Vroom. I miss them so much already…
Sam Chambers of Great Divide Bike, Hike, and Ski single handedly arranged a send off escort from City Park in Pueblo to Cañon City.
The escort included cyclists, bikers, and chase vehicles. They weren’t going to let anything happen to me this time, haha. ‘Honored’ and ‘speechless’ doesn’t cut it. All of us single filing down Highway 96 was an incredible sight…
It was a memorable Day One: nearly 50 miles from Pueblo to Cañon City with a stop in Wetmore near my accident site. The community of Wetmore arranged snacks and a hydration station for us all at the halfway mark. Just what we all needed!! We arrived in Cañon City and celebrated a challenging, but successful first ride at Royal Gorge Brewery.
Finally, I came face to face with the front range. As I mentioned previously: While nature and mankind are equally seasonal, nature never seems to disappoint. As promised, the Rockies held onto and handed back my heart in one piece. I left such a part of myself at the front range last year – like an offering… A collateral of sorts, until my deeply anticipated return.
On a journey from east to west, you inevitably cross paths with avid thru-hikers in two main Trail Towns: Damascus, VA (Appalachian Trail) and Salida, CO (Continental Divide Trail). It was fun to swap stories in quaint Salida at the Simple Lodge & Hostel. I even got to buy a Navy Veteran his birthday shot right at midnight, with his girlfriend’s permission of course. 🙂 Happy birthday, Shipmate.
Time for Monarch Pass. This infamous summit peaks at 11,312′ and is the highest point on my entire 4,300+ mile long route. The main climb is over 3,000′ at 7%-8% grade in only 10 miles distance, from Maysville to Monarch Crest. I reluctantly listened to all the usual trite warnings and the “watch out for’s”, but consequently, it was a prestine and consistent climb. “It is what it is” is a resignation of effort – everything is what you make it. If you can get into a groove, you are golden. Besides, I have never walked my bike once in over 2,900 miles. Not going to start now. Push yourself, not your bike.
17 years ago to this day, at age 17, I enlisted into the United States Military. June 7, 2001 – the proudest day of my life. I carried my Army flag and American flag to the top and held them high. This was a day of reflection, vigor, and victory. I miss the military and its camaraderie every day. It’s tricky finding civilian friends who would take a bullet for you without hesitation. Being a soldier in the United States Army is the only thing that’s ever made complete sense to me.
The Rockies are magnificent and breathtaking from base to tip. The detail could entertain your eyes and mind for lifetimes. The crisp air seems to revive your soul, even as it thins. On each summit lies a reincarnation of sorts; it can feel as though you’re slowly dying while climbing its sides, but are reborn ten fold during the descents. Like clockwork. The way the peaks meet the clouds is the closest reality can get to heaven on earth.
The temperatures have been relatively mild and I’ve very much enjoyed beginning my rides in the late mornings. Days consist of eating my own limitations for breakfast, sharing lunches with mixed company, and digesting all the details around me. The way the mountains and I are consuming each other is intoxicating. This mutual respect must be earned over the miles, for these ranges both preceded and will outlive us all.
Both the Dallas Divide summit and the descent into Telluride, CO could undoubtedly tweak the very definition of stunning. My cycling host for the night, Zak, met me on the way and rode with me into town. We ate dinner with Hiatt, another cyclist touring on the same route.
The next day, Zak took us on a spontaneous water skiing excursion at Ridgway Reservoir. I hadn’t attempted skiing since grade school, but managed to get up right away! It came back to me immediately… just… like… ….riding a bike, lol. Which up until last year, I hadn’t done since grade school either. We made PB&J’s and relaxed on the lake all afternoon. It was an unbelievable day with unforgettable people. You never know who you’ll meet or how or where. So put yourself out there.
I left Telluride and cycled through smoke and ash alongside a massive wildfire which forced the shut down of San Juan National Forest. A bit menacing, but I passed by it quickly enough. Thankfully, a freaking awesome group of bikers helped clear my throat by buying me a very cold, much appreciated Face Down Brown Ale. We had too much fun, as if that’s possible. Bambi, the deer skull I found in Missouri, typically attracts my favorite kind of crowd. 😉
The final test was cresting Lizard Head pass, summiting at 10,222′; my last pass of the Rocky Mountains. Monarch butterflies followed alongside me the entire climb, which was certainly symbolic. A journey such as this is meant to transform you, and while you may not yet possess the clarity of a Caterpillar, the signs seem to be everywhere you look. Pointing you in the right direction. Directing and dissecting your perceptions and perspectives.
The generosity and friendships continue to bloom as I rolled into Delores, CO and was welcomed by Coast Guard Veteran Dave and his wife Belinda, who allowed me to stay in their beautiful gym. I had met a couple named Al and Betty in the town before that they happened to know and hadn’t seen in a while, so we all got together for breakfast the next morning. What a spread!! …So grateful.
Speaking of spontaneity, my time in Dove Creek, CO was riddled with both unexpected excitement and sentiment. The locals adopted me for the weekend, took me on adventures, and I was even invited to a wedding up in the Monticello Mountains!
The wedding was unique and wonderful. Perfectly sliced sections of Aspen trunk replaced chairs and rows of trees replaced the aisle. Warm sun, cool breeze. The perfect day for love…
I had the great pleasure of spending quality time with a decorated Vietnam Veteran and Marine Special Forces Sniper named Stan. It’s truly amazing how the military bond transcends both generation, war zone, and branch. We both felt less alone after having met – our encounter was intense, deep, and will be forever engrained. Stan gifted me a beautifully engraved knife, complete with his name etched into the side to remember him by. A keep sake and a keep safe, all in one.
SITREP: Utah. The 7th state out of 10. Over 560 miles down since Pueblo with roughly 1,380 miles remain. Crippling heat topped with delicious descents, surrounded by what appear to be slices of 1,000 layer chocolate cake, called Mesas. Where wind blown sands have sculpted the earth and mountains are crumbling into dunes like an hourglass. The dust in my teeth simply adds to my grit, there’s no such thing as drinking too much water, and shade is nearly as scarce as cell signal.
I will now indulge in this untamed terrain – a desolate decadence. 40 mile long climbs, triple digit temperatures, and sharp double-digit grade inclines are a bittersweet, but just dessert for this challenge seeker. Not a single soul or resource for 70-90 miles at a time. Preparation will truly be my ticket to survival. I’m going in hot. See you on the other side…
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Current status: Colorado Springs, CO. Two more wakeups remain until I finally face the Rocky Mountains and I AM READY. Gear and bicycle are fine-tuned, the route is set, and my spirits are high. 2,400 miles under my belt and 2,000 miles remaining. 3 more states and one more time zone. The line up includes the Rockies, Desert, Sierra Nevadas, and onto the beautiful Golden Gate Bridge.
As June 2nd grows closer, I find myself reflecting on the organizations and people that not only helped make the continuation of my journey possible, but reinforced and solidified the positive mindset I’ve been clinging to since my accident last year.
In late January, I was linked up with Steven Beck, Founder of A Ride for the Wounded, through our mutual military friend, Major Cory Kline. This Kansas City based non-profit was born to better Veterans’ lives and support their missions by hosting Charity Motorcycle Rides and Events on their behalf. This year, they chose A Vicious Cycle as one of their recipients! It was an incredible experience, working with Steven and his organization…
Our Motorcycle Event (We Ride!) took place on April 21st, beginning in Nashville and finishing 90 miles east in Cookeville, TN at The Wall That Heals; Traveling Vietnam Wall. I met with Fox 17 Nashville on site and was able to gift a Vietnam Veteran the rose that I received at my Welcome Home ceremony from Iraq back in 2005. View segment:
The impact of this indescribable day certainly fanned the flames that have been building inside of me. I was overcome with emotion and gratitude for both the massive effort put forth on my behalf by A Ride for the Wounded, as well as the abundance of bikers that participated in support of my vision and mission. Breathtaking.
The last few months, I’ve been traveling to Tennessee VFWs to discuss my bicycle journey and the story behind A Vicious Cycle and I could not have received a warmer welcome. The VFW and its members have shown me an enormous amount of encouragement and support, both on a local, district, and national level.
In early May, I was notified that VFW National decided to issue me a grant toward both the completion of A Vicious Cycle and to help kickstart Waypoint Vets, the program I’ve founded and am launching upon my return this fall. It will afford other Veterans opportunities to detach and unite through nature based outings and social activities. I now know first hand how much healing can happen out there. Needless to say: goosebumps and tears. It’s happening.
I’ve had the honor of speaking to American Legions, AmVets, Legion Riders, Rolling Thunder, Combat Veterans Motorcycle Association, and other incredibly supportive groups and clubs. It’s incredible what can happen when you surround yourself with people who recognize that your intentions are pure, your vision is clear, and drive and execution will be formidable and organized. I am adamant about making a real difference for my fellow Veterans going forward. Period.
In preparation for my departure, my military family really stepped up during training. SFC Masaitis drove from Cleveland, OH to Nashville for two weeks to kickstart my training and get my mind right. At 6’6″, 255 lbs, this hurricane of a human being infiltrated my comfort zones and helped remind me that despite pain or injury, I am still a force to be reckoned with. My Army Infantry friends SFC Nunn and 1SG Steward had me back on their radio show, Stew & the Nunn (Watch Segment). My brothers and sisters from across the branches stepped up and joined me in conditioning for my mission.
A special thank you is in order for my good friend Robb (DJ Worm). He is a radio personality for Rock 106 out of Monroe, LA and a professional DJ. Robb organized a fundraising event on my behalf where contestants challenged him to a game of Name That Tune. …and no night is complete until you are “fireman’s carried” out of the venue by another woman, haha.
On my way to Colorado, I stopped in Kansas City, KS, where I met with ABC News Channel 9 to discuss the importance of post-war healing, winning the war inside, and finishing what you start. We interviewed at the National WWI Memorial downtown – a powerful and one of a kind landmark that I was honored to visit. The segment aires on June 1st: View Segment
While in Kansas City, I was able to link up with Daniel (founder) and Mark from Team Fidelis, enjoy time with the members of A Ride For The Wounded, and visit my local friends. We toured the National WWI Museum, visited a few Veteran Memorials, and said our goodbyes at iHop.
On May 21st, I left Kansas City for Pueblo, CO, where I dropped off my bicycle at Great Divide Bike Shop. The owner, Lee, and his staff gave it a thorough once over and Sam, who works at Great Divide, posed for a selfie with Bambi. Sam also organized a 7-mile bicycle ride when I got into Pueblo that visited each of the Veteran Memorials as well as an escort for our first day back! Incredible.
It’s been awesome being back in Colorado Springs. Familiar views were quick to steal my gaze and both new and familiar faces were eager to warm my heart… I couldn’t ask for more generous, thoughtful, and uplifting people to surround myself with before setting out back on this journey…
I’ve been house and dog sitting for a Navy Veteran, who is one of the members / medics of Team Rubicon that helped me last year. Such a relaxing escape to come back to after training each day… Having the right people behind you makes moving forward easy.
Time to head back to Pueblo and mentally clip in. Day 1 will be 51 miles to Canon City with a stop in Wetmore… Saturday, June 2nd, 2018 at 0800 is just around the corner – and as I said the night before I set out last year: the only thing left to do is to start. #ArmyStrong #HonorTheFallen #FinishWhatYouStart
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SGT Sarah Lee, OIF II Combat Vet, will be completing a 4,000+ Mile Cycling Journey Across America.
Start Date: June 2nd, 2018 – Pueblo, CO.
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“A Scenic Ride from Nashville, TN to The Wall That Heals: Traveling Vietnam Wall in Cookeville, TN”
I received word that the Second Brigade Motorcycle Club planned to recognize me at their Annual Banquet in Northeastern Ohio. SBMC is a Fraternal Motorcycle Club of Veterans and Non-Veterans alike, whose mission is to support and honor Veterans of all Ages and from all Wars. Each year, they present plaques to 5 Combat Veterans and I am the second Female Vet to be recognized in their club’s history!
What a privilege to be recognized alongside three Vietnam Veterans, as well my fellow OIF I / II Vet, Amanda Adamson. Adamson and I spent a couple months pulling 12-hour static security shifts together at the perimeter of FOB Speicher near Tikrit, Iraq in 2004. She has been a massive supporter of A Vicious Cycle, and an overall solid battle buddy and friend over the years.
As you can imagine, we had a wonderfully wild time celebrating with the members of Second Brigade MC. Participating in their ceremonies and traditions, swapping stories with fellow Vets, and learning about their Club’s ongoing missions. I call them the Rock for the Rocks. After all, what in the world would us Veterans do without selfless organizations such as SBMC…
While up in Ohio, I got to spend some quality time with my close friend and former Squad Leader, Sergeant First Class David Parks. We had WAY too much fun playing with weapons. I almost couldn’t bring myself to give that Ruger 7.62 back to him… And never hurts to dabble in the more intimate forms of medieval combat. It’s always a real treat for my inner child to get her hands on grown-up toys.
Don’t just turn heads. Break necks. 😉
Every military enlistee has someone they’ve looked up to since the day they arrive at their assigned Unit. For me, that Soldier is Sergeant First Class Sandra Mesenburg. My very first formation as a 17 year old Private in the 612th Combat Engineers, I watched and mimicked her facing movements and took note of her behavior.
Iraq 2003, Recruiting 2005, Panama 2002
Over the past 15 years, I have been so very fortunate to have gained a best friend. We’ve served in three Units together, deployed to Panama and Iraq, went to war and survived combat zones together, worked in Recruiting together, and we confide in and rely on each other to this day.
FOB Speicher, Tikrit Iraq, 2004
Spending time with other Veterans seems to be the best medicine. It’s a camaraderie that cheers when you succeed and catches you when you fall. Because when you fail, I fail. We joke on each other a lot and we’re tough on each other. Don’t be fooled by our grotesque humor and brutal one-liners… We care a lot. Unspoken sentiments. Unyielding loyalty. Truth is, I would not be alive today if it weren’t for one of my Brother’s ultimate sacrifice. Which brings me to my final stop up north: The Fallen Heroes Memorial in Sunbury, OH.
It was a cold day in central Ohio, with a high of 13° and wind chill of 2°. I parked, took a deep breath, and walked into the Memorial. It was quite an impressive layout, complete with impeccably aligned rows of labeled crosses, marking every fallen Ohio Hero during the War on Terror. I scanned the grounds silently, impacted and speechless; this was our war, these are my heroes. I came here seeking out one cross in particular.
PFC Samuel Bowen. A husband, a father, a Soldier in my section of the 216th Combat Engineers – who because of his ultimate sacrifice and acts of bravery, could not return from Iraq with us. Still, after 13 years, I have not the words, Brother. I am forever grateful to have known you and honored to have laughed with you. Thankful to have received your famous bear hugs, and to have served by your side. We will Never Forget your courage and selflessness.
After drying my cheeks and circling the sobering grounds one last time, I ended up crossing paths with a man and his wife. They were taking turns photographing each other next to a cross that read Sergeant First Class Charles “Chuck” Adkins. I carefully offered to take a photo so they could both be in it. They looked over and nodded with thankful eyes.
After the photo, the man introduced himself. “I’m Charles Adkins, Chuck’s Dad.” He paused, adjusting his cover that read Vietnam Veteran and straightened up tall. “That’s my boy…” Perspective flushed over me like a slow-moving tsunami – Charles had lost his son in Afghanistan near FOB Gamberi during Operation Enduring Freedom in April of 2011. He took me through the tough story of that day, then shared some endearing memories, and spoke of how they’ve kept SFC Adkin’s memory alive through benefits, charities, and programs such as their Annual Golf Scramble.
His son is a local legend and truly a hero’s hero. The Charles L. Adkins Memorial Highway (Ohio SR-101) runs from Castalia, OH to Sandusky, OH in Erie County. It was incredibly special to get to learn about Chuck directly from his father: who is also a Combat Veteran, bravely serving in Vietnam as a Small Artillery Specialist in the First Field Force’s Charley Battery. We said our goodbyes and exchanged a very lengthy and meaningful hug. What an unbelievably remarkable encounter. These coincidences continue to give me chills.
Well, it’s not every day that you find yourself sitting across the table from a bona fide Rosie the Riveter. Rosemary Keefe is a 93-year-old Michigan native who humbly describes herself as a “plain old farmer”. However, anyone who has had the pleasure of listening to her stories knows better. She is the loyal widow of Airman George Keefe, a decorated WWII Veteran. Brave revolutionaries such as Rosemary inspired a massive social movement that increased the number of working American women from 12 million to 20 million by 1944 – a 57% increase from 1940.
Rosemary’s factory was located in Detroit, MI. The riveters drilled holes into the floors of planes, which were then shipped to Buffalo, NY for assembly. The holes along these 8-foot panels had to be perfectly straight and circular as to not let air get trapped under the rivets. One Rosie would drill and another would hold a backing for the metal bolts to tighten against, forcing them flat. The rivets were then affixed and covered with mica glass to ensure they were airtight.
“The day Pearl Harbor was bombed, I was walking out of the theater and when I looked around, people were like statues on the streets. It was quite a sight to behold”, Rosemary explained. “They were all frozen in place, reading the local papers. The war separated a lot of families and it was hard saying goodbye to my George.”
“I had wonderful parents… My husband and I had 7 children together, and now I have over 80 grandchildren and great-grandchildren”, she paused. “I can’t complain about my life. All I know is the day I turn 100, I’m going to have pork roast.”
Acupuncture @ Totty Chiropractic, Nashville
Getting to gorge myself on the bare-bones lifestyle of the road has now become a constant craving. Comfort and convenience leave very little room for appreciation. Out in the elements, feeling fully submerged in LIFE, free from newsfeeds and click-bait and talking heads. Disconnecting, being embraced by communities, experiencing kindness, and listening to people’s stories has a remarkable effect on a person’s psyche. Like sunbeams through societal storm clouds, America quickly begins feeling as indivisible as it was born to be. For now, I’ll be rehabilitating my knee and counting down the days until May. Because when it comes to my limitations, I get the final say. #FinishWhatYouStart #ArmyStrong
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Supreme Court Montanile Decision Potentially Rewards Trillions to Self-Insured ERISA Health Plans
As One Door Potentially Closes, Another, More Substantial Door Opens For Self-Insured Health Plans
The January 20, 2016 Supreme Court Montanile decision potentially limits ERISA plan rights to subrogation lien recovery, but also potentially rewards trillions of dollars in plan assets recovery for all self-insured ERISA plans nationwide, from cross plan overpayment recoupments and offsets done by plan TPAs. All self-insured health plans should understand the Montanile decision’s trillion dollar impact.
The Supreme Court Montanile decision on January 20, 2016 limits an ERISA plan rights to subrogation lien recovery, but this decision also ensures potentially trillions of dollars in plan assets recovery for all self-insured ERISA plans nationwide, from all cross plan overpayment recoupments and offsets by plan TPA’s, as the Supreme court ruled: “[t]his rule applied to equitable liens by agreement as well as other types of equitable liens“.
The Supreme Court Montanile decision also limits and prohibits self-insured plan TPA’s from offsetting or converting self-insured plan claims payments into the TPAs own fully-insured account, for any alleged overpayments made from the TPA’s fully-insured plans, by claiming equitable relief under ERISA §502(a)(3);
While the case potentially limits ERISA plan rights to subrogation lien recoveries, the entire auto or personal injury subrogation lien market is relatively insignificant compared to the trillion dollar overpayment recoupment and offset market nationwide that exists within the $3.5 trillion in national healthcare expenditures.
Avym Corporation announces new, 2016 self-insured ERISA plan assets auditing and recovery projects, which are open to all large and medium self-insured ERISA plans, in order to (a) brainstorm, assess and realize the immediate true economic value of the Supreme Court Montanile decision; (b) immediately audit the plan assets for any possible conversion, embezzlement from the plan TPA’s cross plan overpayment recoupment or offset; (c) immediately recover or restore the plan assets under the Supreme Court Montanile decision and as required under ERISA statutory duties.
Supreme Court case info: Montanile v. Board of Trustees of the National Elevator Industry Health Benefit Plan, case #: 14-723, January 20, 2016
Supreme Court link to PDF copy.
Based on federal court documents and leading healthcare experts, billions of self-insured health plan claims assets may have been recouped or offset in order to satisfy alleged overpayments of fully insured plan claims.
Although the Supreme Court’s Montanile decision may have limited a plan’s right in the relatively small PI subrogation lien market, it has fundamentally and profoundly changed the landscape for medical claim overpayment offsets and recoupments, across separate plans and members, by self-insured plan co-fiduciary TPAs, in a practice otherwise known as “embezzlement ATM operations”
According to the Court Documents, the Supreme Court ruled:
“Plan fiduciaries are limited by §502(a)(3) to filing suits “to obtain … equitable relief.“
“[A]s here, an equitable lien by agreement, only against specifically identified funds that remained in the defendant’s possession or against traceable items that the defendant purchased with the funds.“
“If a defendant dissipated the entire fund on items, the lien was eliminated and the plaintiff could not attach the defendant’s general assets instead.“
“The Board’s arguments in favor of the enforcement of an equitable lien against general assets are unsuccessful. does not contain an exception to the general asset-tracing requirement for equitable liens by agreement.“
“In sum, at equity, a plaintiff ordinarily could not enforce any type of equitable lien if the defendant once possessed a separate, identifiable fund to which the lien attached, but then dissipated it all. The plaintiff could not attach the defendant’s general assets instead because those assets were not part of the specific thing to which the lien attached.“
“This rule applied to equitable liens by agreement as well as other types of equitable liens.“
The Supreme Court Montanile decision makes it perfectly clear, any alleged overpayment lien of a fully-insured plan cannot attach to a different, self-insured plan fund or claims payment and it’s a basic principle of ERISA that a TPA for a self-insured plan is absolutely barred from converting claims payment of plan assets from the self-insured plan to pay for an alleged overpayment lien and retain all recovery for its own fully-insured account, and can be viewed as self-dealing and embezzlement.
The only question now is whether self-insured plan fiduciaries will take immediate corrective actions to safeguard plan assets or wait till the DOL knocks on their door with an audit alert.
Ironically, the Supreme Court’s Montanile decision also protects the respondent, the Board of Trustees of the National Elevator Industry Health Benefit Plan, from any and all offsets or patient embezzlements based on alleged overpayments to non-National Elevator Industry Health Benefit Plan members.
Over the past 6 years, Avym has closely followed the decisions from the Supreme Court and federal appeals courts on ERISA prohibited self-dealing against ERISA plan TPA’s for managed care savings. These new ERISA embezzlement cases are just the initial impact of the court’s Hi-Lex decisions. This lawsuit in particular should serve as a warning and wake up call for all Plan Administrators to continually monitor their TPAs in accordance with the Plan Administrator’s statutory fiduciary duties and to discharge its duties with respect to a plan solely in the interest of the participants for the exclusive purpose of providing benefits to them.
Avym Corp. has been at the forefront and advocated for ERISA plan assets audit and embezzlement recovery education and consulting. Now with the Supreme Court’s guidance on ERISA anti-fraud protection, we are ready to assist all self-insured plans recover billions of dollars on behalf of hard-working Americans. To find out more about Avym Corporation’s Fiduciary Overpayment Recovery Specialist (FOR) and Fiduciary Overpayment Recovery Contractor (FORC) programs click here.
Dave Chase
Your blog post somewhat explains what’s going on in this case but it would be helpful if you could put the court’s statements in plain English. Further, explain with specific examples in layman’s language what sorts of things are going on that could be stopped. This is still filled with industry jargon and legalese that is tough to process for mere mortals.
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Thanks for reading. The SC Montanile decision limited a plan’s right of recovery in the relatively small Personal Injury subrogation lien market, but it had a colossal effect on the nation’s #1 type of health care claim denial, cross-plan “Overpayment Recoupments or Offsets”. Correspondingly, for self-insured health plans, the No. 1 hidden cost is overpayment recoupment and plan assets embezzlement.
The Supreme Court (SC) Montanile case was a decision regarding a typical third party subrogation case. I won’t go into all the details, but the case involved an unlucky defendant named Robert Montanile, who was hit by a drunk driver and suffered severe injuries. While Mr. Montanile settled with the driver who injured him, those monies were insufficient to cover his medical bills and other necessary expenses. Nonetheless, Mr. Montanile’s health plan (employer) sued him, demanding that he personally reimburse it for the six figures in medical bill expenses it had paid for on his behalf. Before this case the circuit courts of appeal were split on whether ERISA allowed a plan to obtain reimbursement (recoupment) in those and similar circumstances” so an answer was needed, In other words, could the (employer) health plan go after the member general assets to recoup monies the health plan paid for the members medical bills? http://strismaher.com/case-study/montanile/
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(Cross-Plan) Overpayment Recoupments or Offsets: This is when a TPA (insurance carrier) takes money (plan assets) that should be used to pay member claims form health plan A but instead uses that money to pay for debts or alleged overpayments of another complete separate health plan B. Thus it is called cross plan recoupments or offsets because the recoupment or offset occur across different and separate plans regardless if from plan A to plan B or plan B to plan A.
An “overpayment recoupment or offset” is typically done when a TPA (usually insurance carrier) unilaterally decides they overpaid on a specific patient claim on health plan A. The TPA ins. company then takes, offsets, or recoups money from a completely separate patient claim and or separate employer health plan B, to cover the cost of the alleged “overpayment” from health plan A.
This usually happens and hurts (employer) self –insured health plans when these “overpaid” claims are from the TPA’s (insurers) own fully insured plan account where the (carrier is responsible for claims payments not the employer). The TPA then acts as judge, jury and executioner by withholding or “Offsetting” recouping self-insured member claims monies (employer health plans monies that the TPA controls). The TPA then keeps or siphons the (employer) self-insured plans funds into its own TPA fully insured account. To make matters worse, the self-insured (employer) health plan has no idea their funds were re-directed into the TPA’s own account! In some instances the TPA alleges an “overpayment” on an (employer) self-insured plan A claim. In that instance, the TPA does the exact same thing, and recoup or offset from (employer) health plan B except they never return any of the “offset” recouped money from employer health plan B to the (employer) self-insured plan A (whose claims were allegedly overpaid to begin with). This recouped or offset money is kept by the TPA (insurance carrier).
As you can now see there are billions of monies that should be returned to (employer) self-insured health plans.
http://avym.com/health-providers-seek-level-playing-field-against-insurers-in-overpayment-recoupment-battle-rely-on-erisa-for-protection-in-claim-disputes/
The Supreme Court Montanile decision limits and prohibits self-insured plan TPA’s from offsetting or converting self-insured plan claims payments into the TPAs own fully-insured account, for any alleged overpayments made from the TPA’s fully-insured plans, by claiming equitable relief under ERISA §502(a)(3); Thus, the Montanile ruling set a precedent for Overpayment Offsets or Recoupments; ERISA health plans (or TPAs) cannot sue to recover medical expenses paid on the participant’s behalf after the settlement funds have dissipated. The Plan cannot attach the provider’s general assets as a substitute. Furthermore, ERISA does not contain an exception to the general asset-tracing requirement for equitable liens by agreement. This ERISA lien law applies to equitable liens by agreement as well as other types of equitable liens
Ultimately, The SC Montanile decision ruled that a plan cannot sue under ERISA for reimbursement of medical expenses ($$$) from a third-party settlement that has been already spent. In other words, the plan, National Elevator, could not recover the medical expenses from the patient, Montanile’s general assets because it would not amount to equitable relief under law. Specifically, the SC held “We hold that, when a participant dissipates the whole settlement on nontraceable items, the fiduciary cannot bring a suit to attach the participant’s general assets under [ERISA] because the suit is not one for appropriate equitable relief…”[t]his rule applied to equitable liens by agreement as well as other types of equitable liens”, according to the opinion. http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:7mO4hbIVcOQJ:www.law360.com/articles/748487/justices-say-erisa-plan-can-t-chase-spent-settlement-funds+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us
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Let’s see if I understand this. Cigna overpaid Charity Hospital for services provided to an employee of employer A. Thereafter, Charity Hospital provided services to an employee of employer B. Cigna does not pay Charity Hospital for these services. Instead, Cigna puts the money it would have paid to Charity Hospital for these services into Cigna’s own bank account. It is not clear to me what the court thinks should happen here. I can see two possibilities: 1.Cigna does not pay Charity Hospital and does not charge employer B’s account, in which case Charity Hospital will presumably sue employer B and the patient for non – payment. 2. Cigna pays Charity Hospital using employer B’s funds. I think that the answer has to be number 2. It should be noted that, after overpaying Charity Hospital for services provided to the employee of employer A, Cigna would have to pay back that money. The only way I can see the recoupment provision working is if employer B is fully insured and Cigna indemnifies the employee against any claim by Charity Hospital.
Thanks again for reading and taking time to comment. Using your hypothetical example and consistent with court cases, these are “ALLEGED” overpayments and as such, the carrier MUST allow the provider/member the right to appeal before 1 penny is refunded. Part of the appeal process is to ensure no conflict of interest, where the carrier processes, prices, pays and makes the determination they overpaid, in essence they are judge, jury and executioner all in one. This practice of offsetting, as you know, has already been determined to be an “ongoing conflict of interest” by at least one federal court. Lastly, to your final point, I don’t know how Cigna can indemnify the patient of Charity Hospital’s claims when the hospital is an out-of-network provider. Even if they could figure out a way to indemnify the patient, under ERISA, any cross-plan offsets are simply not allowed and barred as a prohibited transaction. Cross plan offsets may also trigger Plan/Co-Fiduciary liabilities for other violations such as self-dealing, conversion of plan assets, breach of fiduciary duty etc…
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Sun Blade
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Note: The prices, weights, and damage values that are given to you here are for weapons that made of metal, but all of them can be made from other materials
The Sun Blade is the creation of a para-elemental priest of Sun who was also a weapon smith. The weapon is used one handed and is usually about 18 inches long. Only a few of these weapons have been made.
Cost(Metal)
10GP 5 M S/P 4 D4+3 D4
Proficient Use:
Having a proficiency in this weapons the character use it. Other wise a non-trained character cannot use it.
Specialized Use:
If the user is specialize they may use the flamelike barbs of the Sunblade efficiently to do an additional 1d2 pts of dmg each round.
The Sun Axe is the creation of a para-elemental priest of Sun who was also a weapon smith. The weapon is used one handed and is approximately 3 feet long. Only a few of these weapons have been made.
Cost(Metal) Weight Size Type Speed Small/Medium Large
15GP 9 L S/P 9 D6+3 2D6
If the user is specialize they may use the flamelike barbs of the Sun Axe efficiently to do an additional 1d3 pts of dmg each round.
This weapon is only usable by half-giants because of its height of 20'. Some very large Muls or Tareks have also been seen with them occasionally, but only if their strength is 22 and then the speed factor is 15 for non Half-Giants. This weapon is called a Kreen Axe because of its use by HG's to swat jumping Kreen and because of its appearance. The Kreen Axe shaft is made of one rib of a Tik'da cactus. The rib is cut in half from its original 40ft. Two crossbars are set at the top of the shaft. One on the very top, the second about two feet lower. Both crossbars are perpendicular. Then Four Halberd-like axeheads are attached to the crossbars, all facing the same direction. The Axe head are about 2feet long apiece.
50GP 40 G S 11 2D8 2D12
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This weapon is essentially a small shield with four spikes set about 6 inches apart in a square on the outside of the shield. The spikes are about six inches long also. The weapon is held in a similar fashion to the Puchik and is used in the same way when attacking. That is in a punching fashion. Most versions of this weapon are metal because it is to break weapons. Any other material has an equal chance to break when used to break other weapons. These weapons are difficult to make as reflected by their price. The difficulty arises in the use of two swiveling pieces. One piece is at the point where the handle meets the shield, allowing the shield and spike to spin on the handle. The other piece is a small knob located on the inside rim of the shield; this allows the user to move the shield part without jerking their whole arm around.
11GP 7 S P 4 D6 D6-1
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This weapon can be used as a shield for a -1 AC bonus on attacks coming from the defenders front.
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Piercing attacks d6/d6-1 Damage
Weapon Breaking:
If the character makes a successful parrying attempt she may attempt to break the weapon parried as long as her other hand is free to grab the knob on the rim of the shield. The weapon must be at least one foot long to get caught between the spikes. The DM rolls a save vs. crushing blow based on the weapon material with the modifier of the parrying characters to damage bonus subtracting from the # rolled.
(EX: The Mul parries the elves' sword. Both weapons are made of thick wood (13vs CB) the GM rolls the save and rolls a 19 minus the Muls Dmg bonus of 5.19-5=14 the attempt failed to break the elves' sword.)
If the Laan'Thuu is not metal and fails in breaking a caught weapon a regular save vs. crushing blow must also be made for it. If the Laan'Thuu is broken then roll on the following table for what is broken
Spikes broken only usable as shield
Handle broken not usable
Rim handle broken, cannot be used to break weapons
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Kool Kat of the Week: A Pop Culture Birthday to Remember: DeWitt Dawson on the Lost Art of Wrestling Management and Crowning the Champ of Monstrosity Championship Wrestling Fri. March 1 at Famous Pub
Posted on: Feb 28th, 2013 By: Anya99
Our BFF blog Wrestling with Pop Culture is celebrating its second anniversary with the biggest, baddest Monstrosity Championship Wrestling match yet this Fri. March 1 at 9 p.m. at Famous Pub in Toco Hills. The horror-movie-inspired league is crowning its first champion, Professor Morte and the Silver Scream SpookShow gang will be on hand for scary shenanigans and Metal Gaga will be providing unforgettable entertainment with heavy metal versions of Lady Gaga hits. Oh, and lest we forget, you’ll have another chance to win a Pine Street Market box of meat and other fun prizes in the raffle! All that and more for only $10!
The night’s fearsome and fun festivities include semifinal matches pitting the Phantom against “Bona Fide” Fred Yehi and Papa Marko against “The Undead Luchador” Supernatural! Witness a queer bar brawl where previous Kool Kat Johnny Danger and Dragula take their fight against the intolerant Alabama Wolfman and Kentucky Wolfman all over the bar! Quozzy Quozzbourne promises to bring a St. Patrick’s Day leprechaun to the party, Dark Mon vows to preach his own Easter sermon, and well, they tell us there’s much, much more.
We interviewed Jonathan Williams, the monster-mind behind Wrestling with Pop Culture, last year for WWPC’s first birthday, so this time we asked him who else will be the Koolest Kat in the bar. He suggested DeWitt Dawson, better known within wrestling circles as “Double D,” who will be managing Fred Yehi in the MCW tournament and also manages some of Georgia’s other top wrestling talents from Universal Independent Wrestling in Villa Rica, NWA Atlanta in Locust Grove, etc. After all, as Jonathan notes, “managers are kind of a lost art in wrestling.” So it was a special treat to ask DeWitt not just to go behind the scenes for a preview of this Friday’s action but also about what it takes to be a wrestling manager, what he loves about the sport and how he became a master at his craft.
ATLRetro: What role do you play as a manager?
DeWitt Dawson: Simply put. I am the eyes, the ears and the mouth for my charges. I am the best foot forward outside the ring, so all they have to think about is what goes on inside them ropes and turnbuckles. If they need to be somewhere, Double D gets ’em there early. If they need to leave somewhere, Double D gets ’em out before the first blue light hits the scene.
How do you select the men you manage?
I am looking for folks who can benefit from my counsel as much as I can benefit from their talent. Nothing under the sun is free but bad advice, and the ole Alabama Icon don’t give out nothing but golden nuggets of wisdom. So that must be repaid with championships. I am not here to manage folks who might get it, or who can get it done. I only open up my waiting arms to them that need that extra push to not just be good, but to be great.
Who do you manage?
Little darling, my clientele is not hard to validate, but I ain’t going to make it that easy on you. The bricks that are building Double D’s Empire are ever increasing. If you really want to know who I am managing, start taking stock of the titles that sit on the waists of the champions in this state, and I bet you won’t have to look far to see Dewitt Dawson somewhere close by.
What attracted you to professional wrestling?
Honey, you would have a whole heap less work if I told you what didn’t attract me to this business, ’cause I can honestly say that I can’t remember a time when I wasn’t in love with professional wrestling. One of my earliest memories is a young Double D huffin’ and weezin’ trying to catch his breath in the wee morning hours having my first asthma attack. I didn’t know up from down or Hell from Heaven, and the only way my lovin’ mama could get me to calm down was to tell me that she bet all the wrestlers that I loved so much were up getting ready to be on TV that Saturday morning. That settled me right down, and you can bet your last money that I went to the emergency room and got back home in time to see Ko Ko B Ware on the TV that morning.
I guess [as] a youngern, it was the crazy characters that I loved – the Ultimate Warriors, the Stings and the Blue Blazers of the world. As I got a little older, I was infatuated with the talkers – the American Dreams and Nature Boys. After that it was the showmen – The Heart Break Kids, the RVDs and the Eddie Guerreros. These days, it is the driven ones who ain’t making a penny over the bare-ass minimum, but they still go out there and put on a hell of a show for the people – the Shane Marxes, the Jagged Edges and the Demigods of the world.
From whom do you draw inspiration?
My inspiration comes from the folks I mentioned just now and from the red clay and white fields of the great state of Alabama. Everybody wants to know why I sound the way I do and say things that they ain’t never heard before. Simply put, it is because these roots run right through the cotton fields and contradictions of Alabama the beautiful. I draw as much inspiration from my brother The Pretty Boy, and Donnie Tidwell, and my uncles, and my mama nem as I do Dusty Rhodes and Shawn Michaels.
How is wrestling different now than in your youth?
I know a lot of people will tell you how everything has gone plum to Hell with wrestling over the last few years, and they make some fine points. But when you get right down to it, good wrestling is the same as it ever was. You tell a good story, somebody gets their ass whipped, and you do it all again the next week.
Which crowds are your favorite?
A paying one. What other kind of crowd is there? Hell, I got a closet full of shotguns that ain’t as loaded as that damn question. But if you got balls big enough to ask it, I got balls big enough to answer it. The only thing that a wrestling crowd needs is passion and a little bit of sense. As long as they got their eyes focused on the action and their mouths open and yelling at who they don’t like and cheering who they do like, they will be just fine. They ain’t got to know every damn hold under the sun, and they ain’t got to be able to name all the damn Villanos to have a good time so long as they ain’t dumb enough to try to put their hands on me and they don’t [think] they’re smarter than everybody else there, then I bet they have a good time.
Why aren’t you a nicer man? Have you considered therapy?
I am as gentle as a pussy cat in the right environs. When I settle into here at the ole home place and I pull off my boots, pop the top on a Paul Bryant beer, cut on them ole Drive-by Truckers, I tell you I am as sweet as pumpkin pie. Because of that, I don’t have no reservation about raising pure hell every time I am anywhere near a squared circle, and the only therapy I need is to see my Empire bathed in the gold of champions.
What are your ambitions in wrestling?
My only ambition in wrestling is to give this business half as much as it has given me and to burn a trail in Georgia that makes General Sherman look like a lightning bug in a damn super nova.
What appeals to you personally about Monstrosity Championship Wrestling (MCW)?
On any night at a MCW show, you ain’t got clue 1 as to what in the blue Hell is going to come through that curtain next. It might be one of the best technical wrestlers you ever laid eyes on, or it might be some kind of half-dead zombie-assed sasquatch monster. You might not know whether to clap your hands or clinch pucker your assshole. It is just like ole Double D; you don’t what you are going to get, but you know good and well it is going to be entertaining as all get out.
What are you looking forward to the most about MCW this Friday?
Aw honey, that is simple. We are going to crown our first champion, and that is always a special occasion in any wrestling show’s history. When you look at the folks that are still kicking in this tournament, then you know it is going to be a champion who is plenty worthy.
Why should even someone who is not a big wrestling fan attend?
Well, if you like drinking cold beer, your ort to be there. If you like womerns who ain’t bashful about showing you a little of that thang, you ort to be there. If you like that damn banging and clanging or some kind of heavy metal outfit, you ort to be there. If you like boxes of meat, you ort to be there. And if you would like to hear the golden voice of the best damn commentator that you have ever heard in your long-legged life, you damn well better have you asses front and center.
A special thank you to Kool Kat Chuck Porterfield for his help with this article.
All photos are courtesy of DeWitt Dawson. All rights reserved.
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Kool Kat of the Week: Destroy All Wrestlers: The Epic Adventures of Johnny Danger, Rising Star of Platinum and Monstrosity Championship Wrestling
Posted on: Jan 3rd, 2013 By: Anya99
Steve Johnson, aka Johnny Danger of the PCW.
Presented by the unholy alliance of WrestlingwithPopCulture.com and the Silver Scream Spookshow, Monstrosity Championship Wrestling (MCW) takes over the Asylum East Atlanta on Friday Jan. 4 at 9 p.m. featuring such scary stars as Dragula, Papa Marko, Cru Jones and Stryknyn, as well as live music by Bigfoot. Then on Saturday Jan, 5 at 6 p.m., the entire slate of Platinum Championship Wrestling (PCW) fighters will spar for the Platinum Royal, while Shane Marx battles Supernatural, the Undead Luchador for their league title in their new HQ at 2001 Main Street in Porterdale, GA. PCW now has bouts on every first and third Saturday of the month there.
Everyone has a dream, but Steve Johnson, aka Johnny Danger, has scored the rare opportunity to live it, combining his twin passions for classic monsters and wrestling. In just a little over a year, Johnny has gone from a horror movie-loving geek and Silver Scream Spookshow/Atlanta Zombie Apocalypse performer with a special love for Godzilla to a regular with both Platinum Championship Wrestling and Monstrosity Championship Wrestling. Back in November, we caught up with regular MCW/PCW announcer and fellow monster fan Chuck Porterfield, but since both leagues have major bouts this weekend, we thought it would be the perfect time to revisit the growing world of Atlanta wrestling and get to know another of its most colorful characters as Kool Kat of the Week.
ATLRetro: You’re relatively new to wrestling. When/why did you decide to throw yourself into the ring?
Johnny Danger: It was something I always wanted to do ever since I was a kid, which I’ll talk more about later. I made the mistake of pretty much “phoning it in” during my high school years, getting pretty lackluster grades. I paid no attention to career counseling, had no hopes of going to college. I only wanted one thing in life. – the answer was always the same: “I’m gonna be a wrestler.” Well, when I graduated high school at 6’0 and 155 pounds, it was pretty obvious that my genetics did not agree with my plans, so, I put my dream aside and went to work.
Fast forward to 2011, and I’m planning to marry the woman I’d been with for the better part of the past 10 years. The traditional “bachelor party” held no appeal to me; women had been teasing me and taking my money ever since high school, so I’m not a fan of strip clubs! So I got the crazy idea to get trained to wrestle and have ONE professional match as my “last hurrah” before I settled down and became a responsible married man. Over a year later, I’m still knockin’ heads in the ring and loving it, baby!
Professor Morte officiates at the wedding of Johnny and Divine Danger, with bride and groom in wardrobe inspired by Mothra and wrestling superstar Randy Savage respectively.
I reached out to my various friends and contacts in the local entertainment industry, I think it was actually Sadie Hawkins, a burlesque performer [in Blast-Off Burlesque], who mentioned the name Stephen Platinum, the owner of a wrestling promotion in Georgia called Platinum Championship Wrestling. At the time, Steve was running shows every week at the Academy Theater in Avondale Estates. We contacted him, and he invited me out to see a show and to speak with him after the card. I was impressed by the wide range of talent and characters that wrestled that night, and even more so by Platinum himself; he was not at all the shady, bitter type you hear about running wrestling shows. He was into what I was trying to do and agreed to train me. When my plans changed from “wrestling one show with my friends” to “becoming a full-time wrestler,” he agreed to take a chance on an out of shape, out-of-practice nearly 30-year-old nobody, and try to make him into a star.
As for getting accepted, it was the hardest thing I’ve ever done in my life. From the first time I hit that ring in my first training class with Steve, I knew I was in for the fight of my LIFE. Just from a couple hours, my first class, I couldn’t walk normally for two weeks. I started at over 220 pounds, fat and slow. I couldn’t get through a single class without running to the restroom to vomit. I’d just roll to the floor and lay there, embarrassed, unable to finish a drill. Little by little, though, things started to click, and I got just a little bit better. Steve started to see improvement in my wrestling abilities, but I think what really impressed him was my talking ability. You have a lot of people in wrestling who are great, natural athletes, amazingly put together, but they can’t connect with the crowd emotionally; they can’t captivate them on the microphone. I’m not the most physically impressive guy, but I can grab ahold of you and make you believe.
As for being accepted in the ring with the other wrestlers, I had to prove myself, something I’m still doing. I changed my entire life for this. I’m in the gym most of the week, and the evenings I’m not there, I’m at PCW’s new home base in Porterdale, working in the ring with WCW veteran Fred Avery, who’s battled everybody in this industry from Sting to Cactus Jack to the British Bulldog. I’ve changed my diet, I’m down to about 170 pounds today. It’s all about holding up your end in the ring and proving you can go, to the fans and to the other wrestlers. To show that I have respect for the business, and for the people who got me into it – Mr. Platinum, the other wrestlers and the fans – I’m just always trying to get better.
Why Johnny Danger?
Why not? It’s a name I used for myself when I wrestled with my friends in high school and when I created myself in various wrestling video games. At his heart, Johnny Danger is a kid with a dream. He wants to be a superstar, a rock star, [and] more than that, a superhero. He wants to beat up the bad guy, get the girl, and fly off into the sunset, only to do it all again next week. I thrive on danger, the challenge that forces me onward. I can literally say Danger is my last name! That’s evident every time I step into the ring. I gained a reputation as a guy who’d charge into battle no matter the odds. There were literally nights I would fight three other guys, all of ’em bigger than me, all of ’em hating me, at the same time. And, as you’d expect, I got pretty beat up. But I never made it easy for ’em. Being the embodiment of danger means never backing down, using your entire body as a living weapon. I may destroy myself in the process, but if I have anything to say about it I’m taking you with me!!
Costumes can be a big part of wrestling. Can you talk a little bit about your look.
Sure. When I first started, I had a pair of shiny vinyl pants made, black with blue flames – which is kind of my signature look, inspired by Godzilla‘s blue atomic breath ray – with Godzilla’s face on one leg and “DANGER” down the other. I’d pair that with a T-shirt representing my various interests, everything from the Silver Scream Spookshow to the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles accompanied me into battle. It was a cool, grungy look fit for a brawler, but I didn’t quite look like a pro wrestler.
Well, the pants got pretty beat up during my wars, and as I started shedding the pounds I decided to drop the T-shirt to become quicker and harder to hang on to in the ring. I went to fellow wrestler Rick Michaels, who’s made gear for several huge names in the game; he actually once worked with the WWE making ring attire for their top stars. I pretty much just told him: “Make me something that’s black, with blue flames and kinda looks like an Elvis jumpsuit,” and he came up with my current look. I think he knocked it out of the park. I’ve got a lot of positive feedback on it, and I love it. I’ve also been wearing facepaint recently to show solidarity with my current biggest ally, the pound-for-pound Toughest Woman in Wrestling, Pandora, who always wears the war paint into battle herself. But perhaps what I’m most known for is my signature long black hair. It can be a liability in the ring, but Johnny Danger can’t rock out with a buzzcut, ya know?!
OK, there’s a lot of showmanship, but it’s got to hurt, right? Have you had any major injuries and do you ever question your sanity for getting into this crazy sport?
Constantly. Like I said before, the training process alone was a nightmare. My elbows and knees are constantly skinned up, lumpy and bruised from the rigors of the ring. My back, which was bad to begin with, hurts constantly. As I approach my one-year anniversary as an active competitor, my list of injuries reads something like this: bruised/cracked ribs; various cuts, scrapes and bruises; broken fingers; broken nose (twice); bruised throat; jaw knocked out of place; a concussion; and worst of all, in a battle royal on September 29 at our big show Sacred Ground Chapter III, I was thrown clear out of the ring to the floor – and keep in mind we don’t use mats at ringside, so I splattered on the damn floor – breaking a finger on impact and far worse, wrecked my back. It gave me two bulging discs and caused leakage of spinal fluid; the injury put me out of action for over two months.
I didn’t know if I’d ever be able to wrestle again. The first month was pure screaming agony. As for my sanity, honestly, I think you have to be a little bit nuts to be in this business. In football, you load up on protective gear and if you don’t want to take the hit, you can take a knee or run out of bounds. Boxers wear gloves. Now, all the respect in the world for those who partake in those forms of competition, but in pro wrestling, you have no choice but to take the hit, to get slammed down on that ring – and for those wondering, a pro wrestling ring is nothing but steel, wood, and just enough padding to keep you from being broken the first time you fall down – and then get up and do it again about 30 more times a night. You tell me what normal person thinks that sounds like a good idea?! Who looks at these guys beating the HELL out of each other and goes “That’s for me”?! But when I’m out there doing what I do, and I hear the people chanting my name or cursing it depending on what the situation is, it’s all worth it. It’s the greatest, most natural “high” in the world, and I don’t feel that pain until hours later when I finally come down.
What’s your most memorable bout so far and why?
I’ve had surprisingly many in my short time in the sport. I’ve battled Supernatural, the Undead Luchador, all over the state. We pretty much beat the crap out of each other till we became friends. We still do it from time to time for old time’s sake. I was part of the first steel cage match in Porterdale, GA, in 30 years. I was in a 12-man Revolutionary War Games match on July 4th that had hundreds of fans in attendance and took two rings and two cages to contain us all. I’ve had wars with my former allies, Marko Polo, Quasi Mandisco and Nina Monet. I was a half second away from winning the EMPIRE Title from Shane Marx in only my FOURTH pro match.
But I’ve got to go with a match I came up with, an I Quit Singapore Cane Match where I took on Dynomite Soul Eric Walker. Just to set the stage, I had been on a seven-month losing streak in PCW. Think about that. Every Friday for seven months, I ended up with my back on the mat, counting the lights. I started to doubt myself, if I should even get into the ring. Then it finally happened. Along with my partner in a team called The Surrealists, De La Vega, we joined up with the Washington Bullets to take on four members of The EMPIRE, the evil group that was attempting to take over PCW – attempting, hell, they DID take over and basically called the shots from November 2011 until they were finally defeated at Sacred Ground Chapter III. During the final moments of that match, Vega and myself hit a double team maneuver on Eric Walker, and I dove on top for the pin. I got that win I’d been chasing since January. Then the following week, Walker challenged me one on one, and I beat him again, all by myself.
Something inside Walker and the EMPIRE snapped. A bunch of EMPIRE members, including their 300+ pound monster bodyguard Antioch, charged the ring and beat the hell out of me for several minutes. Antioch injured my ribs with repeated big splashes. Walker bruised my back with repeated strikes from his singapore cane. They tried to put me out of wrestling, plain and simple. But the one thing Johnny Danger doesn’t do is quit. You may beat me, you may break me, but I will come back, I will get up. I didn’t take kindly to the attempt to put me out of the sport I love. So I came back with my own cane, and I challenged Walker to one last war to settle the score. Both our canes would be legal; hell, EVERYTHING would be legal, and the only way to win the match would be to get your opponent to say two words I’ve never said: “I Quit.” We beat the HELL out of each other that night. I hit that bastard with everything I could get my hands on – the ring bell, a fan’s soda can, a steel chain and, of course, my cane. Walker did the same to me. He assaulted my body. He knew where I was hurt, and he zeroed in like a rabid dog.
But I wouldn’t quit. Walker’s manager, Marty Freeman, produced a pair of handcuffs, and I was handcuffed to the top turnbuckle. Dynomite went NUTS with the singapore cane, he split my forehead wide open. You can see the scars to this day. He plastered me across the back of the head. I had a fist-sized lump at the base of my skull for over a week, but I would not quit. My wife and mother were in attendance for this match, and they couldn’t stand seeing me assaulted any longer. They KNEW I wouldn’t quit. My wife stood up and screamed for Dynomite to stop, and he set his sights on her. My vision was blurred from the head trauma I suffered and the blood in my eyes, but I saw him slide to the floor and grab my wife by the hair. I heard her scream. I grabbed the microphone from the referee, and I finally said the words he couldn’t beat out of me. I quit the match to save the woman I love. Classic, right? I wonder why Clubber Lang didn’t think of that? Just beat Adrian retarded, maybe then Rocky would’ve quit? Hate to say it, but he outsmarted me. And after I’d received medical attention and calmed down a LONG time later, despite the mutual hate we have for each other, Walker and myself both admitted it was the best match of our respective careers.
Who will you be up against at the PCW match on Jan. 5, and what can you tell us in general about that night?
I’m up against the entire locker room! Seriously! It’s the return of the match that put me out of the sport with a back injury – the Platinum Royal. Every PCW wrestler is invited to participate. It starts out as a normal battle royal where you throw wrestlers to the floor to eliminate them. The last wrestler left standing at the end then faces the wrestler who threw out the most people to determine the ultimate winner, who is then guaranteed a title shot against the current champion, Shane Marx. Now, I won the battle royal portion of this match back on March 30, 2012, but came up short in the final battle. I’m tougher, I’m smarter, and I’m hungrier than ever now. And I’m putting the entire locker room on notice.
Now Pandora’s been watching my back since I came back, and I’m going to watch hers too. In a perfect world, it’ll come down to the two of us, and then one of us WILL get that shot against Shane Marx. But ANYBODY else who crosses my path in that match, friend or foe, I’m not going to risk injury again – and I’m not going to miss out on this championship opportunity – you’re likely to find yourself Danger-kicked out to the floor. This is the time to come out and see a Platinum Championship Wrestling event if you’ve been putting it off. You’ll see every top star in the company in the ring at the same time, except two.
The champion, Shane Marx, is putting his belt on the line against Supernatural. I’ll be very interested in that match as well, because if I win that Platinum Royal, I’ll be the first to challenge whoever the champion is after January 5. Like I mentioned earlier, I’ve got history with both men. Shane Marx is big, strong and possibly the very best wrestler in the locker room. Supernatural is lightning fast and hits harder pound for pound than anyone else I’ve been in the ring with. Either one of them makes a tremendous champion, but I think PCW could use a leader who’s a little more DANGERous, if ya catch my meaning.
Johnny Danger as Santa checks out the glamorous Ghouls of Silver Scream Spookshow to see who's been naughty and nice.
You’re also heavily into monster movies, especially Godzilla and kaiju eiga, and perform in the Silver Scream Spookshow. Thinking back to growing up, what were your first experiences with both, and do you see a connection between your love of monsters and your love of wrestling?
Oh, no doubt. Thanks to television growing up in Atlanta, watching Godzilla movies with Grampa Munster on Super Scary Saturday on TBS, and watching pro wrestling, are two of my earliest, most treasured memories. Ever since I could talk, I’d stand in front of my bathroom mirror, pose, and imitate the interview stylings of Hulk Hogan and Macho Man Randy Savage. I used to push the couches together in the living room, load them up with all my stuffed animals and have battle royals, throwing them out one by one. It always came down to me as Hulk Hogan facing off with an enormous teddy bear stand-in for Andre the Giant. And yeah I always won. Come on, I was Hogan!
There’s definitely a connection. Some of the best Godzilla movies are pro wrestling storylines at heart. Take GHIDOROAH THE THREE-HEADED MONSTER (1964). This new, evil, terribly powerful space monster, Ghidorah, attacks the Earth. In the previous film, MOTHRA VS GODZILLA (1964), another monster, Mothra, is the only thing that could stop Godzilla’s rampage. Godzilla actually kills the adult Mothra only to be driven away by her larval offspring. So when Ghidorah attacks, the people are powerless, and Mothra has to appeal to Godzilla and Rodan to team up with her to save the Earth. Godzilla and Rodan don’t care, humanity has always despised them, so Mothra goes to fight Ghidorah alone. Godzilla and Rodan are impressed by her bravery and run in to save her, turning “good” and driving off the evil space monster. That’s classic pro wrestling! I was a despised villain in Porterdale till I’d seen enough of my former team mates, The Priority Males, assaulting Pandora, and I stormed the ring to save her. Like I mentioned earlier, I had Godzilla’s face on my old wrestling pants, a Godzilla roar plays at the beginning of my entrance music, and I’ve dubbed my finishing move “Godzilla’s Revenge. You mentioned the Spookshow, that’s the perfect environment for me as well! I’ve played everything from giant monsters to Santa Claus in the show, and look forward to working with them again soon once renovations at the Plaza Theatre are complete and Professor Morte rises from his crypt once more!
Why Godzilla and how big a Big G collection do you have? Any tips on Godzilla collecting today?
Why not? What little kid wouldn’t love Godzilla growing up? NOBODY could tell him what to do; he didn’t have a room to clean, he’d wreck Tokyo, beat up another giant monster or two, and leave the poor saps of Japan to clean up the mess! And seeing as how I never stopped being a kid, it’s a love from my childhood I’ll never grow out of. The emotion of the monsters, the heart of the hand-made effects, you don’t get that in movies today. As for my collection, the only one I know that can compete with it is Professor Morte‘s alter-ego Shane Morton. I’ve got hundreds of toys, movie posters dating back to 1965, two Godzilla-related tattoos and plans for many more.
As for today’s collectors, the market is way different than it was in the ’90s when I started my collection. I have toys I paid $200 for that I struggle to sell for $80 today. You’ve got to realize, eBay wasn’t a thing back then. You had to find specialized dealers to get these things from. My only tip is to only pay what you personally feel something is worth. The “value” of these things fluctuates so much; just be smart and patient. There’s a few groups on Facebook devoted to Godzilla collectors, just look around!
Given that, I’m guessing Monstrosity Championship Wrestling represents the best of both worlds to you. Can you talk a little bit about what makes a MCW match different from a traditional one and what’s your favorite experience with MCW so far?
MCW is wild. We’ve got flamboyant vampires and intolerant redneck misanthrope lycanthropes. It lets a lot of us to expose our dark sides. The Zombie King, Papa Marko has managed to temporarily “zombify” PCW stars like the Washington Bullets and Worse Case Scenerio. He’s even allegedly resurrected deceased wrestling stars like members of the Von Erich family! Casey Kincaid, one of the toughest wrestlers in PCW history, lets his well-documented darkness consume him to become The Phantom once more, an alter-ego we thought he put behind him. We thought it was safe; we were wrong. Then you’ve got guys like Supernatural who fit right in with MCW as is! Not only that, word of mouth is spreading, and we’ve got even more of the top stars in Georgia coming out to be a part of the carnage at MCW’s next show on January 4. Me, I’ve actually struggled to find my place in MCW, which is kind of surprising. I spent a brief period of time as a Frankenstein Monster. I think my fondest memory was wrestling in front of a HUGE crowd at this past Rock ‘N Roll MonsterBash at the Starlight Drive-In. It was blazingly hot, as usual, but all the freaks and misfits and punks and everyone else that came out for the movies, music and mayhem surrounded the ring to see me as part of a team known as The Greasy Bastards take on Supernatural and some ridiculous Leprechaun he found lurking in the bowels of the drive-in.
Event organizer Jonathan Williams, of WrestlingwithPopCulture.com, told me that you’re going to reveal a big surprise at this Friday’s bout. Without giving away any secrets, can you tell us a bit about the overall festivities?
I’ll say this, when I was out injured earlier this year, I had a lot of free time on my hands. I had to find something to get my mind off wrestling. I didn’t know if I could EVER compete again. I thought I’d wasted the last year of my life and permanently crippled myself. I did some research into my family tree of all things. I honestly couldn’t believe what I’d found – didn’t think there was ANY way it could be true. I’ve got extensive knowledge of monster fiction I knew what I’d found, but didn’t think it could be real. But as we all know, truth can be stranger than fiction. It turns out a branch of my family once had a different name than the one we carry today. It also turns out I’m the last one from that family line – a heritage that I will reveal upon MCW’s return on January 4th at the Asylum. A pedigree that spells doom for each and every one of MCW’s nightmarish combatants – a bloodline I cannot deny.
You even got married in the costume of your favorite wrestler and your lovely wife Samantha wore a wicked awesome Mothra wedding gown at the Plaza Theatre. Can you say a few words about it for folks who weren’t there and how you had the dream wedding of all time?
Oh man, it was wild, and I have so many people to thank for being a part of it: Professor Morte for allowing us to be married by a monster; Gayle and Jonny Rej, who allowed us into the Plaza Theatre under their run as owners. If I was going to get married, it was going to have to be an event. I don’t do the whole church thing. I wanted to break tradition and do something memorable. Well, the Plaza has become our church. All the joy in my life over the past five years, the Spookshow, the Atlanta Zombie Apocalypse, even becoming a PCW wrestler, all possible through people I’ve met at the Plaza. I had someone make me a replica of the outfit Randy Savage wore for his pay-per-view wedding to Miss Elizabeth from SummerSlam 1991, and entered to the sounds of “Pomp and Circumstance,” the tune that signaled Macho’s arrival for his matches. My four best men came down the aisle to the entrance theme of The Four Horsemen. We exited the ceremony to AC/DC‘s “Highway to Hell.” Instead of a boring reception with dancing and embarrassing speeches, those who stayed after the ceremonies were treated to a big screen viewing of KING KONG VS GODZILLA (1962). Instead of a fancy catered lunch, we ate the best popcorn in the world from the Plaza’s snack bar.
What’s next for Johnny Danger?
Heh, even I don’t know. I’ve accomplished so much in my first year of wrestling. I’ve fought the best in the locker room. I’ve bled, sweat and cried in that ring. I’ve wrestled in a steel cage in front of 500 people, and I wrestled a match at 1:30 in the morning in front of five or six people. Tag team matches, street fights, battle royals, I’ve done ’em all. Even spent some time behind the announce table doing color commentary during my recovery. The only thing I haven’t done is win championship gold. Anybody who ever gets in the ring, they dream of one day holding a belt [and] I’m no different. 2013 is the year I show I’m for real. Yeah, at heart, I’m still a kid with a dream. But I want to show I have the ability to back up that dream. I’ll never be the toughest, the biggest, the fastest or the strongest.
I’m not the best technical wrestler in the locker room. But I’ve got the biggest heart, I’ve proved that time and time again. There is no better “feel-good story.” If I can win that title to sit atop the mountain, even just for ONE NIGHT, it’s a victory for everyone in the crowd that’s ever believed. There’s nowhere else on the planet where any fan that buys a ticket can be so intimately connected to an experience. And that’s something I’d love to share with all my fans. Wherever I go, PCW will always be my home, where it all started. I love that company and our fans; they are a second family to me. We give you our all, twice a month, the first and third Saturday in Porterdale, Georgia. Please come out and see us!
Note: All photographs are courtesy and copyright of Johnny Danger.
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By Manning Wolfe and Scott Montgomery
FIRST DIG A HOLE…
When hired killer, Knucks, returns to his burial site with a fresh kill, he finds a mysterious body occupying the hole he left empty. Packing several guns and a lot of bullets, he goes looking for answers. The search, through sleazy strip clubs and criminal–owned bars, takes him into a set–up involving the St. Louis mob and the police. The mafia is moving into a new territory and puts a samurai–sword–wielding assassin on Knucks, along with their most brutal mob soldiers.
Before the night’s over, a lot more holes will be dug.
A legendary crime bookseller, Scott Montgomery runs MysteryPeople, the mystery bookstore within BookPeople. He also runs The Hard Word blog, covering hard boiled fiction. Always a crime fiction fan, Scott worked on the sales staff of the acclaimed and influential The Mystery Bookstore in Los Angeles for four years. He is a regular contributor to Crime Reads and his fiction has appeared on the site Shotgun Honey and in the anthologies Murder On Wheels, Lone Star Lawless, and Eyes Of Texas. His Bullet Book, Two Bodies, One Grave, debuted Fall 2019.
Manning Wolfe, an award-winning author and attorney residing in Austin, Texas, writes cinematic-style, fast-paced crime fiction. Her legal thriller series features Austin Lawyer Merit Bridges. Manning is co-author of the popular Bullet Books Speed Reads, a series of crime fiction books for readers on the go.
As a graduate of Rice University and the University of Texas School of Law, Manning’s experience has given her a voyeur’s peek into some shady characters’ lives and a front row seat to watch the good people who stand against them.
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Posts tagged Crescent City
2010 Mardi Gras Parade Review: Who Dat Nation meets Mardi Gras!
by NewOrleansMusicMan in Carnival, Carnival New Orleans, Food, French Quarter, Mardi Gras, Mardi Gras Music, Mardi Gras parade, Mardi Gras Parade, Music, New Orleans Carnival
2010 was among the most unique Mardi Gras on record. As Twelfth Night passed, the 2010 Carnival Season began and the Saints wound their way through the NFL playoffs. It became a real possibility that our local pro football team might end up in the Big Game. As it happened, the Saints WON Super Bowl XLIV 30-17, during Carnival 2010, handily beating the favored Indianapolis Colts, led by favorite athletic son Peyton Manning.
Coach Payton with Saints Super Bowl Trophy
Meanwhile, a very important Mayor’s election occurred the day before the Super Bowl, and favorite son Mitch Landrieu received 67% of the vote, and avoided the usual runoff when all the candidates get below 50%. 67% is huge win by any stretch of the imagination. So the Super Bowl win occurred during Carnival, and the new Mayor was voted in a landslide, which rarely occurs in the fractured politics of New Orleans. Landrieu is the first white Mayor of New Orleans since his father in the 1970s.
Mayor elect Mitch Landrieu
Drew Brees in action
The crowd on St. Charles for Bacchus and several other parades now rivals the Fat Tuesday crowd. Okeanos, Mid-City and Thoth all roll around late morning-early afternoon. Bacchus rolls at 5:15, and easily takes three hours to pass, ending around 8:30 pm. Minimal time on St. Charles, assuming all parades are attended, is 9 hours. Mardi Gras Day on St. Charles ends after the trucks pass, around 3 pm. Rex passes around 11 am. Total time parading on St. Charles above Jackson is 4-5 hours. Below Jackson add Zulu to the total hours, now 6.5 hours. Fat Tuesday, the culmination of the Carnival Season, always has been the big day for parades. Now, Bacchus Sunday is far longer. The consolidation of neighborhood parade routes plus the desire of Krewes to roll on the weekend has caused this.
Bacchus Sunday crowd on St.Charles Ave.
2010 saw inclement weather shift the parade schedule. Chaos cancelled, Babylon became a day parade, and Muses followed three other parades. Rescheduling means most of a parade’s bands can’t make it. Other parades changed days, changed starting times, and one canceled because of the Super Bowl.
Another less positive parade trend came to the fore during Carnival 2010- parades passing in under 2 hours! One major parade will all its units passed in under one hour! Up to last year, parades almost always took a leisurely three hours on average. What’s the rush? If a parade has rescheduled, up to half the parade’s units may be lost, shortening a parade accordingly.
Many float riders don’t keep their masks on. This trend has been creeping into Mardi Gras for several years. Of course the ‘rules’ say masking is mandatory but who enforces that kind for rule in the make believe Carnival world?
There was a nationally televised Super Bowl Victory Parade for the Saints, carried live on CNN, ESPN, and all local network affiliates, also occurring during Carnival. Good Morning America shot from New Orleans before the Super Bowl. The French Quarter erupted into a Mardi Gras Day sized party, this time a Black & Gold party, immediately after the Super Bowl victory. The Saints Players interacted with the crowd to a much larger extent than in Mardi Gras parades. Many folks who attended the Saints Super Bowl Parade say it was the greatest parade experience of their lives. It created a giant traffic jam as tens of thousands of the Who Dat Nation from all over the region clogged the ferries & highways, attempting to reach the parade. Many in the traffic jam never made it, turning around after sitting in traffic for a couple of hours.
Saints Super Bowl Parade 2010
All throughout the Mardi Gras Season, including Fat Tuesday, Black & Gold Saints Gear & Costumes were worn to an incredible extent. People who never costume wore extensive Saints Gear & Black/Gold Costumes. Tons of black & gold fleur de lis beads, black & gold footballs & beads, I Believe hand towels, etc. were tossed off the floats. By the time the Saints made it to the Super Bowl, all the Mardi Gras stores were long out of Saints stuff.
Who Dat Ladies on St. Charles Avenue on Bacchus Sunday 2010
Another Saints related parade took place during Carnival 2010-A large number of men paraded in dresses to honor the late Buddy Diliberto’s pledge to wear one if the New Orleans Saints made it to the Super Bowl.
No review of Carnival 2010 would be complete without a salute to the Who Dat Nation! Who is the Who Dat Nation? Any enthusiastic Saints fan. Who Dat has been the rallying cry of the Saints for years. Taken from a line in a popular local Saints tune, Who Dat Say Gonna Beat Dem Saints? Who Dat? Who Dat? The national media picked up the over the top frenzy that Saints fans feel about their now winning team. During Good Morning America’s coverage of the Super Bowl, they did a split screen with a group of fans in each team’s city. The contrast between the wild, black & gold Who Dat Nation fans from New Orleans, jumping in the air and dancing with Kermit Ruffins playing in the forefront, next to the staid, laid back Indianapolis fans, was startling. Super Bowl XLIV was the highest rated TV program ever. Why was this game so popular? The obvious reason is the Who Dat Nation grew beyond the Superdome, beyond the New Orleans region into a national/international Football phenomena the scale of which only became apparent when the TV ratings for the Super Bowl came in. The top rated TV program ever means the Who Dat Nation may be the biggest NFL fan club ever!
More important than the top TV show ever is the unseen and unexpected effect the Super Bowl, Mardi Gras, Who Dat Nation, and the New Orleans election had on the national and international persona of New Orleans. 4 1/2 years post Katrina, the Crescent City was seen as a dangerous, needy, unique American City, and many visitors stayed away. The triple whammies of 9/11, Katrina/Rita, plus the recession had forced the tourist business on life support.
The positive PR from the incredible media coverage changed the image of New Orleans from Katrina ‘losers’ with our hands perpetually out, to magnanimous, safe, fun loving winners! The Who Dat Nation had corrected the Katrina Curse and righted NOLA’s reputation. This is a complex equation involving American Public Opinion, no easy thing to influence. The fact is, no one predicted this opinion shift, it couldn’t be forecast, all the right factors came together unexpectedly. God Bless America!
Buddy Diliberto "Wear a Dress When Saints Make Super Bowl" Parade
REX– The throw world is very competitive. Krewes strive to come up a novel throw each year. Rex is not immune to these pressures, as they have expanded their throws considerably in quality and quantity over the last few years. They threw two sizes of three colors of Rex Lieutenant Plush- purple, green & gold dolls- all high quality, like all their plush. They threw two sizes of plush white boeuf gras, a giant plush crown, and a nice purple, green & gold REX kerchief.
Rex is a Super Krewe that runs on cotton wagon chassis with wooden wheels from the 19th century.
Rex Wooden Float Wheel
Rex also threw a heavy gold replica of their original doubloon, to celebrate their role in bringing the doubloon to Mardi Gras. 50 years ago, Alvin Sharpe approached the Rex Captain and showed him the first prototype for a mass produced doubloon. The Captain was concerned about the risk to parade attendees when showered with doubloons. Sharpe took a handful of prototypes and threw at the Rex Captain. He was of course unhurt and that closed the deal for Mr. Alvin Sharpe.
Rex Replica Doubloon
Rex also played the green card. Each Rex cup has the recycling symbol, plus reuse, recycle, degradable and giacona.com. According to giacona.com, the degradable cups have plastic resin additive allows microbes to ingest and break down in landfill. Made in USA – lower carbon footprint than imported products. Made of FDA Approved material. In the opinion of this blog, this is a serious step up for Rex and the green movement within the Carnival World. Rex had another green claim, this one not nearly as serious a green step. The Rex beads’ strings are degradable also. When Rex beads get stuck in a tree, now the sunlight will degrade the string, and all the beads will fall to the street. Where are degradable beads?
Zulu– Zulu ran on time for the first time in memory, and moved so briskly down Jackson Avenue it was amazing. Zulu is a one of kind parade with great bands like the U.S. Marine Marching Band & St. Augustine Marching 100, plus great groups like the Budweiser Clydesdale Horses. They have the original handmade throw, the famed Zulu Coconut.
Zulu coconut & Muses shoe 2009
Zulu Parade on Canal Street
Proteus– Proteus entered the modern age of throws with its first Light Up Bead, a jelly like seahorse containing three red LED lights. The floats were build on cotton wagon wooden chassis with wooden wheels, very similar to the chassis REX rolls on. Royal Artists builds Proteus in the old fashioned way, giving them a look of Carnival long ago. The flambeaux are the original model, also from the 19th Century. Proteus had some of the finest looking floats of the season.
2010 Proteus Flambeaux Lighting
2010 Proteus Fish Float
Orpheus- Orpheus had its leader, Harry Connick, Jr. on his float this year, since the Saints won the Super Bowl he’s been in New Orleans. Super Bowl Champ Saints Head Coach, Sean Payton had his own float in Orpheus. We caught a 2.5 inch 2010 Snooks Eaglin Doubloon from a Orpheus Officer. Orpheus floats are brashy, very large, with a number of annual super floats- three part Leviathan Dragon, Trojan Horse, six part Smokey Mary Train and more. Orpheus doesn’t lack for music, as the krewe was co-founded by NOLA born Harry Connick, Jr.
Bacchus– Bacchus is the original Super Krewe, the first to feature major Celebrity Kings, the first with multi-unit floats, etc. Their annual Super floats- Kong Series, Bacchusauras, & Baccawoppa, etc. are icon Super Floats and the model for Super Floats all over Carnival parades.
Orpheus Float 2010
2010 Bacchus Float
Harry Connick, Jr. (with a 'twinkle' in his eye) on his 2010 Orpheus Float
Thoth– Thoth used the same green cup base as Rex with their own design and get the same credit for going green with a throw that’s abundant. From the unfinished Thoth web site: because it designs its parade route to pass in front of 14 institutions that care for persons with disabilities and illnesses, the men of Thoth have become known as the “Krewe of the Shut Ins”. Thoth spends their money on throws, as they go past all those institutions before turning on St. Charles and joining the traditional route. This is Thoth’s 63 Anniversary and one of the larger krewes with over 1,200 members.
Mid-City- Known for the brightly colored aluminum foil Mid-City uses to cover its floats, Mid-City was formed in 1933 and is the fifth oldest continuously parading krewe. 2010 was sunny, so the foil floats were shown to their best effect. Mid-City holds a band contest among bands that parade with them. For 2010, we counted six Memphis, Tennessee High School Marching Bands in Mid-City, which we found very interesting. All those buses, accommodations, and feeding necessary for that many teenagers is quite a logistics job, aside from running a major Mardi Gras parade and ball. My Mardi Gras hat is tipped to the Krewe of Mid-City for getting all those Memphis kids down here and back.
2010 MidCity King Float
Okeanos– Okeanos had a very big crowd this year, as part of the huge Bacchus Sunday on St. Charles Avenue. They usually start off Sunday, but were preceded this year by the Knights of Babylon, who moved to Sunday after inclement weather moved them from their original date of Thursday, February 11. Okeanos is another old krewe, this is their 60th year of parading.
Babylon- Babylon is designed by the fabulous Henri Schindler, who preserves the old paper mache float building techniques from long ago. Babylon was founded in 1939 and has expanded its throw repertoire substantially- they threw Babylon backpacks, jester heads & hats, and a Light Up bead as well. This krewe lost a good number of bands because of scheduling problems due to their original date rain out. Babylon is a night parade lighted by flambeaux that ran in bright sunshine, obviously without their flambeaux.
Endymion- Endymion is the biggest of all Mardi Gras Krewes with over 2,400 members. Endymion does it just a little bit better than everyone else. Endymion didn’t have the Saints Quarterback or Coach, but the Saints Owner Tom Benson and his wife Gayle as Grand Marshalls. Endymion is the only parade that rolls through Mid City and down Canal Street. The crowds for Endymion are positively huge. Endymion has some annual special Super Floats, such as Captain Eddie’s SS Endymion Steamboat. The Budweiser Clydesdale Horses and The St. Augustine Purple Knights were featured in the parade, along with more than two dozen other Marching Bands.
Tucks– Tucks was formed by a few college students a few decades ago, and they have never lost their sophomoric potty humor- their King sits atop a giant toilet! One of their most popular throws each year is a small toilet that squirts water. Tucks is the only krewe to throw toilet paper with their logo on each sheet. Their Friar Tuck stuffed dolls (as opposed to ‘plush’ dolls) remain an icon Tucks throw and they always throw wooden nickels. Tucks is a satirical krewe that loves to tell City Government that they really could do a better job.
2010 Tucks Toilet Float & the Toilet Guy
Iris- Iris is the oldest all female krewe in New Orleans, as they formed in 1917, but didn’t parade until 1959. It’s a fairly large krewe, with around 800+ riders. Iris allows some men to ride on their floats, which is OK with me! Iris is a generous krewe who puts some money into their costumes. There used to be Venus, another Orleans parading women’s krewe, and there used to be Shangri-La, another large female from St. Bernard Parish that ended up on St. Charles Avenue before ending their big parade, and morphing into a French Quarter Buggy parade. That leaves Iris and Muses as the only female krewes still parading down St. Charles.
Muses- Muses didn’t disappoint in 2010, their 10th anniversary, tossing their usual unbelievable assortment of throws with their logo on them. Here’s very close to a complete list of Krewe 2010 throws: Shoe Bracelet, Muses Ivy Bead, Seed Glass Beads, Shoe Bead, Strobe Theme Bead, Shoe Necklace, Disco Ball Necklace, Flashlight Bottle Opener, Historic Shoe Bead, Acrylic Light Up Shoe Necklace, Diamond Ring, Puffy Key Ring, Muses 10 Ball, Sleep Mask, Glitter Frisbee, Can Koozie, Glitter Heart Tattoo, Leather Rhinestone Bracelet, Re-Usable Tote Bag, Plush Cupid Arrow, Muses Plush Assortment, Cloisonne Doubloon, Patterned Bead Bag, Mini Patterned Bead Bag.
Name another krewe that throws half that much stuff with their logo on it. Muses sells nothing to their membership without their ‘M’ on it. Muses has several signature floats, including The Shoe, The Sirens, and The Bathtub. The only all female nighttime parading organization, their feminine influence is obvious throughout the parade. Since Muses had to reschedule due to bad weather, some of their many bands couldn’t accompany them. Muses is one of the largest krewes to parade down St. Charles Avenue, with more than 1,000 members.
Muses sets the standard with wacko marching groups (except for KdV) with such groups as The Pussy Footers, Muff-a-Lottas, 610 Stompers, and Camel Toe Lady Steppers.
Morpheus– Morpheus is a krewe on the move. Over the last few years, Morpheus has grown from a small krewe to a mid-sized krewe, and in this economy post Katrina that is not an easy thing to do. Krewe dissolution and parade cancellation seems to occur more often.
D’Etat– D’tat has been around 15 years, and in that time they have carved themselves a niche in storied Mardi Gras Krewe History. They won Throw of the Year Honors from us last year for their functional Super Throw, the large, full color lenticular cup. They are as secretive as the older Krewes. Their ‘King’ is called ‘Dictator’ and that’s one identity they never reveal.
2009 D'Etat Float
D’Etat was also one of the very first krewes to toss a D’Etat Light Up Bead from their floats. Now those Beads are positively the hottest type of bead on the market. Even the old line Krewe Proteus threw a Light Up Bead in 2010. The Budweiser Clydesdale Horses paraded with D’Etat this year. They also host very good NOLA area High School Marching Bands, including St. Augustine and Brother Martin.
D’Etat also skewered the crap out of outgoing Mayor, soon to be garbageman Ray Nagin, an admitted very easy target. Virtually all the satirical krewes had to lob some major shots at such a broad target as the goodby-in-under- 70 days Nagin.
Hermes- I have always like Hermes, they are an old line krewe which began parading in 1937. Hermes now is the oldest continuously parading nighttime parade. They have modern throws, such as Light Up Beads and Plush. Hermes owns some very nice floats. A mid sized krewe with over 600 members, Hermes really surprised with the best looking floats I’ve seen from Hermes in many a year.
Druids- The Ancient Druids started parading in 1998. There was an earlier Druids Krewe, that parading after REX from 1922-1935. They are a very secretive organization who calls their King Archdruid. You have to be a member of another Carnival organization if you want to join Druids. They don’t have a ball, only their parade. There’s no other royalty chosen, the Archdruid is it. Druids is the only krewe to parade alone during the week. They are not interested in growing their membership; it’s limited to 200, which isn’t big in the world of Carnival krewes.
King Arthur– Their King and Queen are King Arthur and Queen Guenevere. They started out as a West Bank parade, before moving to the traditional St. Charles route. King Arthur threw black & gold Super Bowl doubloons, though I didn’t see any while watching this parade. They had some very good bands, including St. Augustine Marching Knights and Warren Easton High School.
Carrollton- One of the oldest parading krewes, organization began in 1924. They had some problems right before WWII and stopped parading until 1947, when they resumed. Carrollton used to parade in the Carrollton neighborhood, changed to a downtown route before ending up on St. Charles Avenue, using the traditional route. Historically, they were the first krewe to use tractors to pull the floats instead of mules. Carrollton helped the first Metairie parade, Krewe of Zeus, to organize. This year Carrollton had some of the best weather of the entire Carnival season. They had several notable bands, including Jesuit & Brother Martin High School.
Pygmalion- Pygmalion moved from Friday night to Saturday morning. The St. Augustine Marching Knights led off this krewe in style this year and the Warren Easton High School Band was very good also. Pygmalion began in 2000, and is a coed krewe. Arnie Fielkow, just elected New Orleans Councilman at Large in the first primary, was also General Manager of the New Orleans Saints. He’s a better Councilman by far than he was General Manager of the Saints. It wasn’t until he moved over the the Council and Mickey Loomis took for a few years that the Saints won the Lombardi Trophy by winning the Super Bowl.
Sparta- The Knights of Sparta made certain changes to their parade that surprised me. No flambeaux, when they have always used flambeaux for their night parades. The King’s Float is mule drawn, but the mule had trouble keeping up with incredible pace of the floats. The bands had to practically run to keep up. We saw the entire parade, soup to nuts, in way under 1 hour, easily a world’s record in the fastest Mardi Gras parade. Sparta began as a Ball only krewe in 1951 and began parading in Orleans Parish in 1981. On the positive side, Sparta had more than double the number of bands this year than last year, which is very encouraging.
Ponchartrain- Now in its 35th year, Pontchartrain began parading near Lake Ponchartrain before moving uptown in 1991. This year the parade featured the cream of all local girl marching bands, Xavier Prep and St. Mary’s Academy. The krewe features both men and women. I remember when the krewe used to march in the lake front area, they had a giant paper mache Crawfish float that was named Mr. Mudbug, as I recall.
2010 Ponchartrain King/Queen Float
2010 Krewe of Ponchartrain Title Float
Oshun- Oshun was founded in 1997. The year after Hurricane Katrina, Oshun didn’t parade. The wonderful singer Charmaine Neville was the Oshun Celebrity Grand Marshal for 2010. This krewe honors Oshun, a goddess of a religion practiced by descendants of West African Yoruba slaves in Brazil, Haiti and Cuba.
Alvin Sharpe Ancient Druids Babylon Bacchus Buddy Diliberto Carnival Chaos Crescent City D'Etat Doubloon Endymion favorite son French Quarter Hermes Indianapolis Colts Iris Mardi Gras Mayor-elect Mitch Landrieu Mid-City Muses New Orleans Okeanos Peyton Manning Plush Ponchartrain Proteus Rex Sparta Super Bowl Champion New Orleans Saints Super Bowl XLIV Thoth Zulu Zulu coconuts
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Gary Hustwit: Urbanized
This, as the internet cats say, is relevant to my interests. Urbanized, a documentary about how world cities have changed in the 21st century, comes as part three of Gary Hustwit’s “design trilogy.” I still use Helvetica, the first part, as a kind of litmus test: if someone turns it off partway through or doesn’t even start it in the first place because “come on, it’s just about a font,” I consider phasing them out of my social circle. The second part, Objectified, took on industrial design, a bite perhaps too large to chew in 75 minutes. This third draws from our moment’s resurgence of urbanism, which provides both the film’s subject and its motivating force. What with the intellectual charge I’ve gotten from watching (and sometimes experiencing) that resurgence, Urbanized could hardly fit more squarely into my wheelhouse, and I get the sense that thousands of other oldish young people and youngish old people can say the same.
If I can speak for the middle-younger cluster of these oldish young people, I pin our enthusiasm for cities on having grown up in suburban bedroom communities with single-digit WalkScores. My dad explained the Baby Boomers’ dispersal throughout such dead zones as an attempt to get their kids into halfway decent school districts. That makes sense, although as I grew up I couldn’t help but notice that many of my urban-raised peers had an ability and willingness to meet life’s challenges where I felt only a nebulous fear. Granted, ragging on the ‘burbs is and has always been a highly fashionable pursuit among teens, twentysomethings, and (especially) childless thirtysomethings, but I really do get the sense that the developed world has started to accept the fundamental failure of the Cold War picket-fence dream. Environmentalists decry suburbia’s sustainability issues and artists decry its hollow moral and intellectual core, but neither of those problems bother me as much as its lack of randomness.
While none of the interviewed architects, planners, designers, advocates, and politicians ever say the word, I do find that the city’s strength lies in its capacity to deliver randomness, and I think Urbanized agrees. The film doesn’t come off like an advocacy documentary, exactly, but you can’t mistake which way its wind is blowing. When Phoenix comes in for particular scorn, its lone defender can only muster the explanation that it exemplifies not “sprawl,” per se, but an “automobile-oriented postwar urban fabric” that, unlike “cute” condo life, at least affords its residents private backyards and pools. Brasília, the first foreign city that ever intrigued me, appears as the apotheosis of wrongheaded modernist ideals about large-scale organization of urban functions. Though I still find that city striking, in its way, I can see what Robert Hughes meant when he wrote, “This is what you get when perfectly decent, intelligent, and talented men start thinking in terms of space rather than place; and single rather than multiple meanings. [ … ] You get miles of jerry-built platonic nowhere infested with Volkswagens.” Cathedral of Brasília architect Oscar Niemeyer shows up to defend this distinctive urban plan, but he is, not to put too fine a point on it, 103 years old.
A few simple dos and don’ts emerge from these case studies. Don’t separate commerce, industry, and residence. (And especially don’t put the poor people into their own towers.) Do encourage the mixed-use buildings and neighborhoods so beloved of urban-planning writer Jane Jacobs. Don’t cut the city’s fabric apart with the freeways beloved of New York “master builder” Robert Moses. Do encourage non-car forms of transportation. Don’t bother rebuilding damaged freeways, like San Francisco didn’t with the Embarcadero. I’ve now started to suspect that the best thing for Los Angeles would be for the Big One to finally come and take out a few of our freeways, at least in the sections that run through the city itself. (As Adam Lisagor tweeted on the eve of “Carmageddon,” “What if it turns out we never really needed the 405 anyway?”) Los Angeles never appears in Urbanized, except maybe in one of the freeway shots near the beginning, and those aim from too low an angle to tell. We could probably chalk this up, in part, to the inertia of unchallenged prejudice — “Los Angeles? No, I mean a real city” — but semi-sound objections remain. Los Angeles’ peculiar development history once strongly incentivized living in cheap, far-flung, nearly anonymous municipalities, then commuting by car to everywhere else. When you drive from exact points to other exact points, according to a specific plan, encountering only vast tracts of asphalt in between, urban randomness fast plummets toward zero.
The many kinds of city-builders featured in Urbanized face the same implicit question: “How to optimize our city’s randomness?” If you just want to maximize raw randomness, any absurd, bloody third-world warzone capital will do; fostering beneficial randomness — even defining beneficial randomness — proves a much more delicate task. I see examples of Los Angeles’ improvements in randomness by the month, emblematized by events like CicLAvia, which closes downtown to drivers and opens it to cyclists. Urbanized includes an entertaining chunk of face time with former Bogotá mayor Enrique Peñalosa, on whose watch that city began the weekly Ciclovía that inspired CicLAvia. In Copenhagen, we see bike lanes running not beside but between parked cars and the sidewalk. An inspiringly simple idea, sure, but, just like Bogotá’s dedicated-lane TransMileno buses, for some reason I can’t imagine Los Angeles catching up to it before the year 10000000000.
Hustwit crafts his documentaries with a certain slick rigor, making heavy use of crisp, high-definition montages; commissioning smooth scores with a slight “eclectic” edge; rounding up a robust selection of talking heads with thin spectacle frames, colorful accents, and often panethnic features; and never, ever exceeding 90 minutes per film. He thus leaves himself open to his critics’ accusations: of breeziness at best, and of a casual supercilious triumphalism at worst. Despite my fascination with how cities work, I don’t quite see it through the lens of “design;” that way, it seems to me, lies the mindset of those kids who play too much SimCity and grow up into stubborn technocrats who, staring through their narrow frames, insist that they know what’s best for poor people. While I desire few things more than randomness-conducive urban environments, I feel queasily suspect, perhaps unreasonably so, of anyone who tries to generate it from the top down. Not that this arrives as a new internal conflict: 2500 years of political philosophy, all I know is that I want more train lines now, yet I fear and loathe any government powerful enough to build them quickly.
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CAMautoMag
28th Aug2014
Gumball WRS: A Study In Cool
by Michael Chandler
What makes a cool car? I heard someone say that “the scene” considers a car cool if it’s lowered and has wheels on it. Others think cool is a full on race build, with street legality and budgets thrown in the trash with the stock struts. And others think if it isn’t adorned with the rarest of the rare it’s a waste of time. And it has to be daily driven, or else why build it? David Arellano’s 2000 Subaru Impreza 2.5RS is low, and on a rare set of wheels. It has the heart of a WRX, and enough power to embarrass some people’s dedicated track day toy. And it sees regular street duty. If this isn’t cool, then I don’t know what is anymore.
The search for his “Gumball” began three years ago. While biting into a sandwich, he was bitten by the urge to spend a large amount of money on a car. After mulling over such reliable, and easily modified chassis such as FD RX-7s and twin turbo 300ZXs, David finally settled on the mildly rare 2.5RS coupe. After looking at two other coupes he finally found the 2000 coupe you see here sitting in the corner of a shop. The shop was in the process of building the car, and swapping in a 2.0L WRX motor. With the promise of “prototype” coilovers, David was sold. After some hemming and hawing by the shop, they finally dropped it off in David’s driveway. No coilovers, but some blown struts and what would turn out to be a mismatched transmission and rear differential were in the car (which eventually failed), but so was that lovely WRX motor. Soon after arriving in his driveway, David got to work making this car his own.
First things to go were the US spec lights. David made a call to Japan and had some OEM clear corner markers and red/clear tail lights sent over, along with some Chargespeed clear bumper markers and clear signal lenses. With the scourge that is amber lighting removed and banished to the land of wind and ghosts, it was time to address some other visual cues. After running through a Bugeye WRX lip, and a Bakemono replica of a JDM V5/6 STi lip, David finally settled on something that is no longer in production: Orciari 1 piece front lip. Sitting above the Italian made lip, are his OEM fog lights which were hiding behind the OEM fog light covers. Out back there’s a purple Rallytech tow hook, and a set of Honda Accord spats. According to David they were easier to install than his OEM JDM spats, and they look better. He’s also sporting rolled and pulled fenders, because low car problems (the tires were munching the fenders before the rolling and the pulling) and also because wheel whore.
I use that last term lightly. Having a garage full of Rotas and other OEM whatever make you drive wheels, makes you a wheel street walking hooker. Having the stuff David has had makes you a wheel high class escort. The streets aren’t littered with Volk CE28Ns or Work Emotion 11Rs, and coming across a set of Volk C-Ultras isn’t as easy as walking to the store. He’s had the CE28Ns and the Works, and the C-Ultras are being repaired (they were in pretty rough shape) and custom center caps are being designed. Enough about the past and the future, let’s talk about the present. Specifically these 17×9 +38 Desmond Regamaster Marquis Promadas. An exceedingly rare, Russian made wheel. Normally you see Regamasters on Hondas, and while that’s not terribly unusual (but still cool, so if you’re doing that keep doing that) seeing them on a Subaru is VERY different. Wrapped around the wheels are a set of Achillies ATR Sport tires, measuring in at 205/40. Also of note, he’s running some adapters to make the wheels work. They’re 15mm 5×100-5×114, and they’re made by a local company called Grapple Parts.
To achieve his stance David had to not only throw on coilovers, but things that allow him to make suspension adjustments. The coilovers are BC Racing BR series coilovers with camber plates fore and aft. For more camber adjustment, he is employing OEM camber bolts up front, and Eibach’s in the rear. Joining the OEM camber bolts in the front is an OEM WRX swaybar, while an STi sway bar joins the party in the rear. Also back there are some Cobb end links. Back to the front, and in the engine bay, is a Cusco Type ST strut tower bar. And speaking of the engine bay…
Here it is, in all its glory! There is the afore mentioned WRX swap, which came from a 2004 WRX. No longer is the wrong transmission behind the motor, a 2006 WRX transmission has taken its rightful place on the back end of the motor. Between the motor and transmission rests an Exedy light weight fly wheel, and stage 1 clutch. For enhanced shifting pleasure there are Kartboy shifter bushings, and a stainless steel clutch cable has been installed. Holding the transmission is a STi Group N mount. Rigged Performance performed an internal stub axle conversion and a 2001 2.5RS 4.11 final drive conversion to pair with the 2001 2.5RS viscous limited slip differential. Bracing that rear differential is a Laile Beatrush rear differential brace.
The motor has been hepped up on goof balls accentuated by digging through the massive Subaru parts bin, and picking up quality aftermarket pieces. The OEM supplied parts are a VF39 turbocharger, top mount intercooler, and 565CC fuel injectors all from an STi. The aftermarket bits are a K&N Typhoon intake, a no name one piece header and up pipe, an Invidia Bellmouth downpipe, and a Cobb cat back exhaust. There’s also a Hallman Pro manual boost controller, which helped Jason Cleverly of Cleverly Tuned tune the car to make 286 horsepower and 240lb/ft of torque at 18psi of boost. Prettying up the bay are a Cusco turbo heat shield, Rallytech fuse box cover and radiator shroud, and a Beatrush alternator shroud. The engine bay has been semi-wire tucked, and the battery is now in the trunk. The coolant reservoir is now hiding in the fender and the A/C has been ditched all together.
The interior has also received its share of JDM goodies. JDM STi pedals and Type-RA front seats have been installed, along with a Nardi Torino steering wheel, Splash steering wheel hub and Omori boost gauge. The Beatrush Duracon shift knob sits on a stock length shifter, which has a Zealous Interiors blue suede shift boot with cherry blossom red stitching. The shift boot matches the emergency brake boot. Black WRX carpet and STi floor mats have come to rest at the bottom of the passenger cabin, and the door panels have been recovered in blue suede. All the lighting is LED, and tunes come courtesy of an Alpine deck, which has an ipod cable weaving out of sight through the center console.
Former Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart is famously quoted as saying “I know it when I see it” in regard to hardcore pornography. Cool is definitely subjective, but when you see it, you definitely know it. Will there be a unanimous consensus on what is cool in the automotive world? Probably not, but if there is ever an argument to be made for it, I shall submit David’s Impreza as my exhibit A.
Words and photos by Michael Chandler
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Gordon Martin, Chair of the Capital Campaign, and Cheri Martin.
Photo by: Perry Davis/Davis Photography
GORDON MARTIN CHAIRS $7.25 MILLION PLACE OF HOPE/VILLAGES OF HOPE CAPITAL CAMPAIGN
Palm Beach Gardens � October 16, 2008 � Jupiter resident Gordon Martin and his wife, Cheri, have devoted themselves to volunteering for and contributing to Place of Hope and Villages of Hope since moving to the area in 2006. Now, Gordon is using his enthusiasm for helping local children in need to chair Place of Hope�s/Villages of Hope�s $7.25 million Hope for the Future Capital Campaign. His chairmanship was announced at the Hope for the Future Campaign Update Luncheon on Oct. 10 at Trevini Ristorante in Palm Beach.
Gordon brings outstanding leadership experience, as well as a passion for helping abused and neglected children, to the campaign. With more than 20 years of Wall Street banking experience, he recently retired as CFO of NASDAQ. Along with Cheri, Gordon is an active mentor to children in foster care and their family members. He also volunteers his time to provide training and independent living skills development to emancipated former foster youth and homeless youth through Villages of Hope�s Ages to Ages Independent Living Program.
In addition, the Martins have played an integral part in the creation of Joann�s Cottage Children�s Shelter and Maternity Home, a primary component of the Hope for the Future Campaign. Cheri is currently co-chairing with Alex Delange the Third Annual Hope Ball, scheduled for Feb. 6 at The Breakers.
�I feel it�s important to chair the Hope for the Future Campaign, as Cheri and I are committed to advancing Place of Hope�s/Villages of Hope�s vision to better the lives of children and young adults who are in need,� said Gordon.
The campaign is designed to ensure Place of Hope�s/Villages of Hope�s mission, to provide hope and healing for abused and neglected children and their families throughout Palm Beach County and surrounding regions, now and in the future.
�Gordon is a visionary and proven leader,� said POH/VOH Executive Director Charles L. Bender III. �He�s passionate about the advancement of our mission and vision. Under his leadership in this campaign, I�m certain that we�ll achieve our goal to further provide real hope and healing for our community�s most vulnerable and forgotten children.�
Gordon and Cheri each have two children � two sons, aged 30 and 24, and two daughters, aged 25 and 21. They have three grandchildren. Cheri also serves on the Board of Directors for Place of Hope/Villages of Hope.
The Hope for the Future Capital Campaign is comprised of three core components and three exciting matching challenge grants � Joann�s Cottage will help relocate and expand emergency shelter space for pregnant or parenting foster youth (the $750,000 Martin/Kirkwood/Turri Fund provides a dollar-for-dollar match); the expansion of Villages of Hope will provide more transitional housing and support services for aged out foster and other homeless young adults (the $500,000 Lost Tree Village Charitable Foundation grant provides a dollar-for-dollar match) and the Peter & Fern Barsanti Family Life Center at the main POH Paxson campus will provide for the educational, therapeutic and recreational needs of POH children, as well as space for community-based programs (the $500,000 Barsanti Family Foundation grant provides a dollar-for-dollar match).
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No. 11 Baylor holds on for a 53-52 win over No. 18 Butler
Vital's crucial block seals Baylor win (0:33)
Kamar Baldwin drives in with a chance to win it for Butler, but Mark Vital blocks his shot. (0:33)
WACO, Texas -- Mark Vital and his Baylor teammates now get to study for final exams. They have already passed a couple big tests on the court.
Vital blocked Kamar Baldwin's potential go-ahead shot with 1.5 seconds left and No. 11 Baylor won its second game in a row over a Top 25 opponent, holding on to beat previously undefeated No. 18 Butler 53-52 on Tuesday night.
"He did exactly what I was watching (on film), and Coach Drew trusts me to guard him, because I've been studying," Vital said.
"And he's going to study like this for finals, too, by the way," Baylor coach Scott Drew then said.
The Bulldogs never led, but had the ball after Aaron Thompson rebounded Davion Mitchell's missed shot before a timeout with 7.9 seconds left. After Baldwin inbounded the ball, he got it back and drove for a layup that was swatted away and out of bounds and last touched by the shooter.
"It was kind of clear out and get the best shot available, try to go downhill," Baldwin said. "They stayed home and did a good job."
Butler (9-1) was the third team to lose for the first time, after No. 1 Louisville and No. 4 Maryland lost earlier Tuesday night. That left five undefeated Division I teams.
After MaCio Teague missed a free throw for Baylor (8-1), the Bulldogs had 0.7 seconds left. A desperation shot by Baldwin, who finished with 19 points, wasn't close -- and came after the buzzer anyway.
"That was an absolute battle. Just a high-level, competitive environment," Butler coach LaVall Jordan said. "At the beginning of the game, they out-toughed us to start the game, and we were battling up hill. Proud of guys for fighting back."
The Bulldogs also had a chance to take the lead with 41 seconds left when Baldwin was called for a charging foul drawn by Jared Butler.
"I had Christian David coming down the left side, and man, if I hit him with a bounce pass, we go up one, and then we come back and get a stop and it's ballgame," Baldwin said. "Got to make the easy play."
Teague and Devonte Bandoo each had 10 points for Baylor, whose coach, Scott Drew, is a 1993 Butler graduate and faced his alma mater as a head coach for the first time.
Sean McDermott had 16 points, including four 3-pointers, for the Bulldogs. But he didn't take a shot in the final 12 minute after making 6-of-8 shots.
Butler, after trailing by 16 points in the first half, also had a chance to tie the game with 3:46 left after Baldwin -- whose 15-footer had just gotten the Bulldogs within a basket -- rebounded a missed 3 by Baylor. But Baldwin had his potential tying shot blocked by Mark Vital, who then scored on the other end to make it 53-49.
The Bulldogs had gotten within 44-40 midway through the second half after Baldwin's third consecutive basket came in a stretch when they made seven shots in a row.
Baylor built a 28-12 lead in the first half during a six-minute stretch when the Bulldogs missed eight shots in a row. That was the largest margin in the game before McDermott's 3 ended the Butler shooting drought. Baldwin's layup ended a 7-0 run that got the Bulldogs within 31-24 before Devonte Bandoo's 3 that gave the Bears a 34-24 halftime lead.
Butler: The Bulldogs were trying to get to 10-0 for the first time since 2006-07. They were still good defensively, having come in allowing only 56.2 points a game -- and holding Baylor to under that.
Baylor: The Bears are one bad stretch from being undefeated. Their only loss was to Washington in the second game of the season in Alaska, when they had a 10-point lead before not making another field goal in the final five minutes.
TOURNAMENT LIKE
This was the sixth of 10 games in the first season of a scheduling alliance between the Big 12 and Big East -- both 10-team leagues. The Big East won four of the first five games last week. There are still four more games to play before Christmas: Kansas at Villanova; Oklahoma at Creighton; Xavier at TCU; and Providence at Texas.
After five games in a row against teams from major conferences, Butler is home Saturday against Southern University.
Baylor, which now has three wins over Top 25 teams, has only two more games in December. The Bears play UT-Martin on Dec. 18 in Houston, then are home against Jackson State on Dec. 30 in their last game before opening Big 12 play.
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Home » Blogs » Henry Collier's blog » A defence of England football fans
Submitted by Henry Collier on 6 April 2018 - 11:26pm
The England football team have come under major scrutiny recently – as they always do although over recent years it has been the fans who are making the headlines. Indeed, 90 were arrested during the game against Holland last week. So, my blog post – a reasoned explanation as to why the English fans have got such a tough time.
Firstly, the narrative of ‘I hope these troublemakers get sorted out in Russia’ is absolutely disgusting. This is the opinion formed by lots of people, who have very little idea what makes up England’s travelling support. Those fans you see causing trouble are not the fans who make the trek to south America or eastern Europe - these are the real fans. The fans you see causing the trouble are those who go for the ‘atmosphere’ as opposed to the football – but why do they go?
Simply put – the media. You can bet any money that after any England away game a major media outlet with run with the title “Trouble flares as England…” when talking to fans – this is very much not the case with the exception of Amsterdam last week. Because the media paint this picture of England away trips being a ‘tear up’ it inspires others to join and gives the hooligans, who are looking for trouble, a reason to go. They think they’ll be joining the majority when in fact those causing trouble are the exception to the rule.
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Why do the journalists do it? Its an easy story – it is easy to write about a fight in a pub or locals being unhappy about the travelling brits – it’s an easy story that doesn’t tell the true picture. Yes, the actions seen in Amsterdam were appalling and shouldn’t be tolerated, but why were these people here? Simply put, they believe the hype and piggy back on to it.
But England fans must do more, when things such as anthem booing take place, other England fans need to do more to call it out. It’s ridiculous, is frowned upon by 90% of the travelling support and openly harms out reputation abroad in front of a huge tv audience.
Rant over & lets hope the fans are not the ones making the headlines in Russia over the summer.
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REG United Artists Pennsauken
Routes 73 and 130,
11 screens
1,485 seats
4 people favorited this theater
Showing 26 - 39 of 39 comments
RickB on January 14, 2005 at 1:54 pm
Demolition is now scheduled for this month. Local news story:
Michael R. Rambo Jr. on December 25, 2004 at 10:22 pm
With the passing of the Pennsauken theatre, the only two theatres left from the Sameric days in the Philadelphia are: The REG/UA (Eric) Montgomeryville 7 Theatre and the REG/Ua (RKO Stanley Warner/Eric)Moorestown 7 Theatre.
jaybee10108081 on November 23, 2004 at 9:04 pm
11/19/04 REVISIT, PENNSAUKEN
Th entire theatre complex is now fenced in by the demolition contractors, (a six foot high fence). The facade of the UA/Regal entrance has slipped down revealing the original green & white stripes of the former Eric II canopy, I shot this several times from several different angles. I also found & shot the base, on the roof of Eric I which used to support the, (long gone), Eric tower sign.
Note, on a prior interior shoot, I found, located & shot the original Eric II box office & booth steps.
Note, on a prior visit I located the original Eric II box office & booth steps, all documented on video.
jaybee10108081 on October 21, 2004 at 6:33 pm
Just a revisit to the site, I have received several private messages from other Pennsauken managers, thank you!
jaybee10108081 on September 19, 2004 at 12:55 pm
I wish I had photos too, worked their long enough as manager, anyway – after speaking with Pennsauken Mart Security & the owner of the Mart I was granted permission, in early July, 2004, to access the complex with my professional video camera, keep in mind, this was about 30 days or so after Regal vacated the building. I had gained permission to shoot anywhere & everywhere & was shocked at what I saw, Rentalguy, you are absolutely correct in your description of the most outlandish recreation of modern day theatre design, looked like some kid sat down with a ruler & put it together. Unbelievable! And I was further shocked as to the conditions Regal had left, they slashed every screen, left entire phone systems, office furniture, concession equipment & supplies, projection booth equipment as well as full reels of film. I just completed editing the video, added music, graphics, (which describe anything I could find in regard to the orginal Erics I & II), I used high intensity video lighting & the completed video is excellent. ALSO, UA had transformed the former (two) smoking balconies in Eric I into excutive ‘regional’ offices, the signs advising of same still hung on the wall. It appeared that Regal never utilized these areas other than for storage. If anyone has an interest in the VHS video, (about 25 minutes), contact me at or, (856)228-1672.
rentalguy on September 18, 2004 at 6:47 pm
I beg to differ on the Franklin Mills 14. The GCC Franklin Mills 10 used to be a free standing building seperate from the Franklin Mills Mall. I remember seeing The Firm there, back then GCC had a concession with Taco Bell. Why that idea never worked I’ll never know, I guess the yields were better for popcorn. GCC decided to abandon that complex and build a brand new complex inside the Franlin Mills Mall. This was an odd move as the Franklin Mills 10 was a very young theatre. The new 14 is a real nice theatre with stadium seats and two THX houses-No Taco Bell though. AMC purchased the bankrupt GCC chain, if you look carefully you can still see where the GCC decorations were. Also the Pepsi logos were scraped off the cupholder armrests.
On the Pennsauken 11, I wish someone had photos of the old complex, especially the Big house before it was split. Old Theater 4 and 5 used to be one big screen with a big balcony.
timquan on September 4, 2004 at 6:55 am
I don’t think the GCC Franklin Mills 10 was replaced. It was bought by AMC Theatres in 2002, and expanded to 14 screens. But it is at the same location.
rentalguy on August 17, 2004 at 12:43 am
I worked there in the early nineties, when the Theatre had its most massive and ill-conceived changes. The Eric Pennsauken had an incredibly long life by today’s standards. For example the GCC Franklin Mills 10 in nearby NE Philly lasted less than a decade to be replaced by a 14-plex less than ¼ a mile away. The Pennsauken Hoyt’s 10 barely lasted half that time. The Pennsauken Theatre just kept changing with the times.
In 1991 the Pennsauken Theatre was still an amazing theatre. Dingy, old and badly maintained but unique in it’s odd super-sized sense. The quality of the clientele had slipped horribly over the years, as evidenced by the occasional theatre fight or riot. Still, it would be magical to approach the huge white and green racing striped structure from Kings Highway. Its huge sign spelling ERIC stood on top despite the United Artists buy-out. The largest of the old ERIC chain-though not most notable-That honor was owned by the SAMERIC/BOYD. Theatre 5 was huge with gigantic three way speakers lining the walls. AMC was known for the cup holders in the armrests, Eric was known for large high backed rocker seats. The “Eric 5†faced far less competition than has become the norm, So back then a 1000+ seat auditorium could be filled easily. T2 was playing that summer in 70mm in house five. In a few short months the big old building would be gutted and it’s 70mm equipment would be removed sent to the UA criterion 7 in Times Square. The constant refurbishing was a process that seemed to be never ending in a complex that started with two separate buildings. The incredibly expensive tile floor that spelled “United Artists†had barely been broken in before it was to be torn up.
One plan called for another identical building to be built adjacent to the already gigantic structure-a mirror image. That plan was written off for some reason or another, and a new plan emerged where the two largest screening rooms would be cut in four each. The outside building was painted Coral (NOT PINK insisted a United Artists Property Executive), to match the original color of the Pennsauken Mart. With it’s new 4 screens showcasing a modern if not somber look, the Pennsauken Theatre was an 8 for the Christmas season. By the next summer it would be an 11.
The new Pennsauken Theatre was no longer the quirky super-sized 5, but a poorly constructed and mazelike mess pretending to be a modern multiplex. The new National Amusements Atco “Multiplex†was open, and overshadowed the new Pennsauken theatre. Atco was just a sign of the quickly approaching Competition. By the end of the nineties the massive Hangar sized Loews 24 would squash the Pennsauken 11.
It still had the biggest screen in the area-it’s new theatre 5-old theatre 3, but it is amazing how horribly constructed the new building was. The designers forgot that the projection booth was going to need structural support, creating the need for a forest of columns in it’s already overcrowded lobby, and concessions storage was still located behind a screen. Meaning concesionists would need to enter a theatre with a dolly to remove the supplies. Pity the projectionist that would have to navigate through 3 ill placed projection booths. The High back Rocker Seats ended up in the dumpster (along with the signature Sameric corporation trademark Greyhound statues Duke and Duchess), replaced with awful small seats, with practically no legroom between the Rows. The new smaller theatres practically never sold out, and the Pennsauken Theatre entered a long phase with no major changes, with the exception of sound. The Pennsauken theatre was chosen as one of the 876 theatres in the nation to be equipped with DTS sound for the opening of Jurassic Park in 1993. In 1993 Pennsauken’s cousin the Moorestown Theatre was closed due to a fire at the Moorestown Mall. That facility later was refurbished to the point of losing its identity as well.
timquan on July 26, 2004 at 6:44 pm
I am so sorry to see the Pennsauken theatre go. I lived in Cinnaminson during my childhood years, and my family and I would drive past the theatre in my car every time I went to Cherry Hill. I remember seeing the huge ERIC sign, first in round shapes, then in square shapes. Then the United Artists sign replaced the big ERIC sign on the building in 1992. But the Pennsauken theatre was my favorite place to see movies in the 80s. My first trip there was in 1987 to see a James Bond movie. I have gone back there to see the third Indiana Jones movie in the big auditorium, and in 70mm!, the second Back to the Future movie, and Jurassic Park. I also remember seeing the line stretch outside the theatre for an evening showing of Back to the Future 2 in 1989, instead I saw Look Who’s Talking; but I didn’t see it until New Year’s Eve. When the theatre was remodeled in 1992, I couldn’t believe how many screens were carved in that big auditorium space! So will a new multiplex theatre reside in Cinnaminson? That is what I heard.
jaybee10108081 on June 23, 2004 at 3:53 am
Your comments confirm what I have learned in regard to the final years that the Pennsauken operation was owned by Sameric as well as the UA years. I have exchanged email with a manager who worked the Eric Theatres in both Westmont & Stratford & he has informed me that from the late 1980’s through the mid 1990’s there was no money invested in upkeep of the houses, in fact at one point things were so bad that company pay checks were bouncing. And vendors refused to deliver unless paid in cash.
The woman cashier you refer to is Marie Robinson, I hired her in 1970 & she continued to work there for 30 years.
Sadly, the theatres closed within the past two weeks, (June, 2004), & is scheduled to be torn down, as well as the entire Mart complex to make way for the South Jersey Sports Center. I was up there about a year ago & shot video of the exterior, (from all angles as well as the marquees), & hope to get video of the demolition.
FeverDog on April 9, 2004 at 2:49 am
I was an usher at the Eric Pennsauken 5 in 1989-90. I was 15, and it was my first real job (I was a paperboy for the Courier-Post for three years before). I’d been going there for years beforehand; I credit their lax MPAA policies for warping my pre-teen mind by allowing me unguarded access to movies like “Blue Velvet” and “Angel Heart.” Since it was only a fifteen minute bikeride, I was there every other weekend, forever corrupting my morals.
What a crappy theatre it was then. Sure, that huge house (#5), was great (even if the balcony wasn’t being used), but the other four houses each had their own problems. Number 1 was large, but didn’t have stereo. Number 2 had the entrance door on only one side of the house (which was directly beside the concession stand, allowing a lot of lobby noise to be heard during the movie), so anyone who wanted to sit on the right side had to walk all the way down, cross, and walk back up the other aisle. And this house especially sucked in the daytime, since sunlight flooded it everytime the door opened. Number three was shaped like a shoebox and had a very small screen (and also no stereo).
And number 4 was the worst. It smelled like garbage and urine, the drapes were torn, the curtain was damaged by fire, the house lights were too dim, the projector light was too dim, and the screen couldn’t hold 2.35:1 movies (the movie would spill over the sides and bottom). And there was usually a then-unfamiliar odor eminating from it. (After a screening of “Downtown” I asked an older usher what the smell was. He informed me the scent was of the cannabis variety.)
But Theatre 4 didn’t completely suck. Since it was in such lousy shape, it frequently held B-movies that never did much money (“Some Girls,” “Action Jackson,” “The Wraith”) but rocked my adolescent mind. Horror flicks were always welcome; an “Elm Street” or “Halloween” sequel would inevitably work its way there. I saw “Evil Dead II” there three times. “Cannibal Holocaust” (sans subtitles) unspooled there for a week. And this was where my “Rocky Horror” cherry was popped (I thought it was a slasher flick, so I freaked out when people started yelling at the screen.)
It was also the only theatre in the area brave enough to show “Do the Right Thing” (it sold out the entire first weekend.) I don’t know what management was worried about; we never had a problem with “urban” movies. (Trouble seemed to follow Jean-Claude Van Damme movies; “Kickboxer” and “Lionheart” attracted the type of crowds that instigated fights.)
But back to #5. In the spring of ‘89 there was a staff meeting meant to prepare us for the onslaught of summer blockbusters, notably “Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.” So we were prepared for the long lines and general craziness that followed by showing it on two screens for a month. But later that year brought the biggest lines we ever had, and we were unprepared for it this time since much of the staff had turned over since summer. I swear, the box office line was halfway out to Route 73 one Saturday night. Who could have known a John Travolta movie would do so well? I still flash back to those lines whenever “Look Who’s Talking” pops up on TV.
The things some customers did in the darkened theatres then. During a matinee of “Major League” I observed a man with his legs up and a girl on her knees between them. I speculated why we were cleaning up uneaten hot dogs with no buns after showings of “Roadhouse” (could women really have been using them for sexual purposes?). And the crap thrown at the screens during “Wired,” while understandable (it’s one of the worst movies I’ve ever seen), was a bitch to get off.
But I was fired in January 1990. The official reason was that I failed to lock up a supply closet after my shift, therefore allowing hundreds of soft drink cups to be stolen. I was framed; I mean, really: who would steal empty soda cups? But I figured that management was too much of a wuss to lay me off after the Christmas rush (led by “Back to the Future II”) subsided. Either that or she didn’t want me to be eligible for unemployment or something.
I rarely returned. There was some old biddy who’d been working the box office for years, and she was a humorless, stuck-up rhymes-with-witch. I wonder if she’s still there, since the last time I patronized the Eric Pennsauken 5, it was the UA Pennsauken 11. What a lousy layout the place now is. That huge theatre that made Indy 3 such an amazing experience was now chopped into several shoeboxes. When I went to see “Alien 3” the walk through the lobby and corridor was seemingly endless. The houses are arranged so haphazardly that it approaches the scene in “Bachelor Party,” with arrows pointing every which way. Ugh. And since I hate theatres with the aisle down the center, if I’m ever in the area again and in the mood for a movie I’ll go to the AMC Marlton (where I also ushered, but only in the Summer of ‘93 during college break).
jaybee10108081 on December 11, 2003 at 6:38 pm
How come nobody has typed in Sam or Mert Shapiro, or the dynasty they built? A chain of motion picture theatres that from 1965 thru the 1980’s became a giant in the Philadelphia & South Jersey areas? The Eric Theatres were THE place to go! My name is John, I was honored to manage the Pennsauken, (NJ), operation as well as NJ advertising, under the men who created the Sameric Corporation. My email adress is
Michael R. Rambo Jr. on September 10, 2002 at 11:02 pm
The REG United Artists Pennsauken Theatre has 11 Screens, not 10 Screens
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Tyrannosaurus rex couldn’t run says new research
· T. rex could not run due to its size and weight
· T. rex was unable to pursue prey at high speeds
· Even walking speed was limited due its impact on the skeleton
· This changes the way we have to think about the way T. rex behaved
It is a classic chase scene in modern cinematic history. The image of a rampant Tyrannosaurus rex (T. rex) chasing Jeff Goldblum as he sits injured in the back of a 4x4 vehicle in Stephen Spielberg’s original Jurassic Park.
But could a T. rex actually move that fast, or even run at all?
New research from the University of Manchester says the sheer size and weight of T. rex means it couldn’t move at high speed, as its leg-bones would have buckled under its own weight load.
The research, in collaboration with the N8 High Performance Computer (NPC) research partnership, looks extensively into the gait and biomechanics of the world’s most famous Dinosaur and, using the latest in high performance computing technology, has created a new simulation model to test its findings.
Led by Prof William Sellers from the School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, the researchers have combined two separate biomechanical techniques, known as multibody dynamic analysis (MBDA) and skeletal stress analysis (SSA), into one simulation model, creating a new more accurate one.
Prof Sellers says the results demonstrate any running gaits for T. rex would probably lead to ‘unacceptably high skeletal loads’. Meaning, in layman’s terms, any running would simply break the dinosaur’s legs. This contradicts the running speeds predicted by previous biomechanical models which can suggest anything up to 45mph.
He explains: ‘the running ability of T. rex and other similarly giant dinosaurs has been intensely debated amongst palaeontologist for decades. However, different studies using differing methodologies have produced a very wide range of top speed estimates and we say there is a need to develop techniques that can improve these predictions.
‘Here we present a new approach that combines two separate biomechanical techniques to demonstrate that true running gaits would probably lead to unacceptably high skeletal loads in T. rex.’
The results also mean that the T. rex couldn’t pursue its prey in a high-speed chase as previously thought. He added: ‘Being limited to walking speeds contradicts arguments of high-speed pursuit predation for the largest bipedal dinosaurs like T. rex and demonstrates the power of Multiphysics approaches for locomotor reconstructions of extinct animals.’
Although the research focuses on the T. rex, the findings also means running at high speeds were probably highly unlikely for other large two-legged dinosaurs such as, Giganotosaurus, Mapusaurus, and Acrocanthosaurus.
Dr Sellers adds: ‘Tyrannosaurus rex is one of the largest bipedal animals to have ever evolved and walked the earth. So it represents a useful model for understanding the biomechanics of other similar animals. Therefore, these finding may well translate to other long-limbed giants so but this idea should be tested alongside experimental validation work on other bipedal species.’
This isn’t the first time MBDA and SSA have been used to measure the walking and running ability of dinosaurs. However, it is the first time they have been used together to literally create a more accurate picture.
Dr Sellers explains: ‘Our previous simulations of theropod bipedal running did not directly consider the skeletal loading but these new simulations do calculate all the forces in the limb bones and these can be used directly to estimate the bone loading on impact.’
The fact that T. rex was restricted to walking also supports arguments of a less athletic lifestyle. This means the results could change the way we view the effects of how the size and shape of T. rex and other large bipedal dinosaurs alters as they grow. Previous studies have suggested the torso became longer and heavier whereas the limbs became proportionately shorter and lighter as T. rex grew. These changes would mean that the running abilities of T. rex would also change as the animal grew with adults likely to be less agile than younger individuals.
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Google has many special features to help you find exactly what you're looking for. By using our website you agree to our use of cookies in accordance with our cookie policy. Please enable JavaScript to continue using this application. Perform a hard reboot of your iPhone, i. How to fix 95 percent of iOS app crashes. You can do this by synchronizing your computer's iTunes library onto your iPhone, by purchasing music in your iPhone's iTunes Store, and by. How to Fix Instagram Videos Not Playing? Based on above mentioned reasons, we conclude that there are 4 possibly workable ways to tackle Instagram videos won't play issue. Apps Shutting Down Automatically? Jun 22, 2010. The problem is not exclusive to iOS 11, it happened since iOS 4 (or even older). how to fix these problems: Fix the pause: Videos pausing every few seconds on Samsung Galaxy S7. After that if I'm playing music and go to lock the screen, it stops any music that I'm playing constantly. Sometimes when using Sirius XM, my Alexa turns off/loses connection. how to fix these problems: Fix the pause: Videos pausing every few seconds on Samsung Galaxy S7. How to Make the Amazon Echo Stop Playing Music After a Certain Amount of Time Craig Lloyd @craigelloyd Updated July 12, 2017, 12:57pm EDT Whether you like to listen to music while you fall asleep or just don’t want to be bothered manually turning it off when you’re done, the Amazon Echo has a built-in “sleep timer” function that will. I wonder why iTunes is so buggy when it comes to distant request. Doing this also removes several bugs or other problem from phone. This is where you want to specify the portion of the song you wanted converted into a ringtone. You can choose to toggle your Spotify name on your profile, and to toggle displaying Spotify as your status! IMPORTANT NOTE: If you are transmitting with your mic in voice chat for 30 seconds while Spotify is playing, Spotify will stop playing! 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While Spotify is playing, click the + in your text box to invite your friend(s) to listen with you: You'll get a Message Preview of your invite, and you'll be able to add a comment if you like! After sending the invite, your friends will be able to click Join and listen to your sweet tunes!. i was just wondering if you can help why my battery usage does not display information? i really want to know what apps are causing my battery to get low but sadly, it keeps on saying that the battery information will be available after using iPhone for a few minutes. An average NFL game: more than 100 commercials and just 11 minutes of play. Allowing you to get your precious sleep and stops your battery from draining. Each time, the PS3 had to run a file system check when I turned it back on. Just go to the Settings app and toggle the slider to the “On” position. Set the amount of time you want the Music app to play for. I play a podcast and it plays for a second then stops, I repeat pressing play every time it stops until it starts playing like a scratched CD for a few seconds before finally playing as normal. Hands-on: Can revamped YouTube Music app be top alternative to Spotify? Despite Spotify now streaming tens of millions of tracks to over 75 million paying customers for 10 bucks a month, not. the first few lines of the message are displayed under the recipient’s name. Occasionally when I manually exit the app it will not stop playing until I clear recent apps. As long as this is working on the iPad (still on iOS12) and worked perfectly on the iPhone before iOS13 update, I think is a problem between Bose software. Press the Esc button at any time to access Kodi's main menu and settings. It was really frustrating to me. Why does my streaming radio station stop after several hours? it used to stop after some amount of time. Sometimes when using Sirius XM, my Alexa turns off/loses connection. The result, 2003's Don't Stop the Music (not to be confused with an album of the same name recorded by Swedish pop veteran Robyn), proved to be a commercial failure. Can't play Spotify. Maybe libspotify. When the screen turns off, the audio from Spotify stops playing. On your iPhone, go to Settings > Bluetooth and make sure that Bluetooth is turned on. the last time I backed up and restored my iPhone it took about 6 hours for example…. Les Miles held his iPhone at eye level, showing his phone number to the man next to him just in case. No popular service offers a built-in feature to export or import playlists, so if you want to move your favorite Apple Music playlists over to. The audio output buzzes a few seconds after audio stops! This is likely to be ALSA's Dynamic Audio Power Management (DAPM) shutting down the sound module of your device to save power. how to fix these problems: Fix the pause: Videos pausing every few seconds on Samsung Galaxy S7. I've got bluetooth on my Kia Forte Koup so I just use that along with a car charger. I have no problems with the power and charging of the phone. Give it one or two extra hours after that, just to make sure that the battery is really filled to the brim. I upgraded to a iPhone 4s hoping the … read more. One of the most annoying things is waking up a few hours later and it is still playing. Auto-launching Now Playing can be useful when you. The car will identify it. Problem 2 - Apple Music Not Playing Songs on iPhone. I can hit the play arrow and the song begins playing again from the exact spot that it stopped. Add another device that supports Spotify or has the app (like a speaker or laptop). helped me a lot. They're also designed to work with iPhone/iPod so that's why you can use your iPhone. The problem is not exclusive to iOS 11, it happened since iOS 4 (or even older). Hi, I've been a premium member for a while, but for the past few months I've had a problem when streaming songs to my iphone. I use both random and loop settings. To use Spotify Connect you must first choose the corresponding input on the Dynaudio Connect device. Many iPhone users can't listen to voicemail on iPhone after iOS upgrade. What I do have a problem with is: 1) Music will stop randomly and screen will say Check USB Cable or USB Device. It still will only play for a few seconds and then it stops. However, with. Please enable JavaScript to continue using this application. I can hit the play arrow and the song begins playing again from the exact spot that it stopped. Step 1Install 'Stay Awake - Keep Screen On' To try this one out, start by heading to the Download section in your Xposed Installer app and searching for Stay Awake - keep screen on. Live Photos is one of the best new camera features on the iPhone 6S and iPhone 6S Plus. After the elapsed time, press and hold the Sleep/Wake button again until the Apple logo appears. Restart Apple Music app on your iPhone. This is done by choosing input 4 ( USB ) on your Focus XD remote control. Often Cortana will pop up when music stops playing, and sometimes it just stops playing period. After approximately 10 seconds, iTunes should recognize the DFU mode. Bluetooth has nothing to do with this problem. You can connect the receiver to your home network or internet to enjoy Internet Radio, Spotify*, Pandora®*, Napster®*, SiriusXM*, Tidal*, Deezer* or music stored on a NAS and home PC. Spotify++ will help you get almost all the premium features of Spotify for free. Got into work and unplugged my iPhone X from my car and put it in my lap. In order to get the sound back I have to pause the song and play it again. Subscription streaming services like Spotify let you choose from an almost unlimited library of a few you can play everything you own in Spotify. I don’t know anything about these things and don’t know why it is doing this. Samsung Music is optimized for Samsung android device and provides a powerful music play functionality and the best user interface. Any thought on how to fix it?" If you have found your Apple Music randomly skipping songs you want to listen, actually you are not alone. If the problem continue after this, then move on to the next procedure. Slow connection between your PC and the streaming service's servers. I already tried reinstalling spotify including deleting all spotify folders in AppData. You're only greeted with a black screen, or a spinning interface. We responded “Hey! Our shuffling is random!” So who was right?. com is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon. How to play music on the iPhone. Hello, When i try to play "my music" spotify stops playing after 5 seconds. com FREE DELIVERY possible on eligible purchases. iTunes goes silent but still plays. When I connect via USB, it sees the device at first but then disconnects and the audio starts playing from the iPhone. On 3 of my recent rides the Strava app has stopped after a few minutes. Press and hold Power button for few seconds unless you get the options to restart. Now, press both Power (the side button) and Volume Down at the same time, and hold them for 5 seconds. When I downloaded Spotify to my MacBook, it didn’t take even ten minutes before I proclaimed it “the greatest thing ever. By Philip Michaels 2017-05-11T19:48:01Z Galaxy S According to some users in Samsung's community forum, audio stops playing through the speakers of their Galaxy S8 and S8+ phones after a few seconds. Check the app is up-to-date. It doesn't matter whether I'm using air tunes or going straight off my lap top. However, I have had problems with it freezing the media center periodically - I get a 'load error' message or the circling arrow, which never stops. Anytime I scan my phone on the bus to work or whatever this seems to activate ApplePay and after that any music stops - doesn't matter if it's in the Music app or in Spotify. My Sonos stops while streaming music. Songs stop playing after 10-15 seconds. If you only take Live Photos, you’ll probably run out of room on your iPhone quickly. Why does my streaming radio station stop after several hours? it used to stop after some amount of time. After all, you stood in line for days to get your iPhone. Songs that start more gently (even just for a few seconds) and then build, help you wake up more gradually. Toggle the button to Turn On the Bluetooth. This time, tap on "Connect" next to Apple Music. 1 Recommended Answer Currently, when we ask Google Home to play a playlist, or any music, it will play a short time (never a whole song) and stop. The Jambox is a lightweight speaker produced by the Jawbone company. I came home after school and plugged it in to the computer to charge, but it wouldn’t. I will sure that these solutions help you y\to get rid of this problem. Stops after about 5-10 mins. It resumes after a mouse-click or after a key-press. the phone has a radio but it is turned off?. Reboot iPhone. It only seems to be when using my IPHONE 7 - but that wasn't a problem before. It still will only play for a few seconds and then it stops. Now iPhone Ready. After approximately 10 seconds, iTunes should recognize the DFU mode. com to play a sound on your device. The reason for the interruption is to reduce exceeding bandwidth and to cost of royalties for played music, according to Pandora. The problem is not exclusive to iOS 11, it happened since iOS 4 (or even older). Why does my iPod stop playing music? I added music to my playlist and after playing one song, it stops and waits for me to select another. While Spotify is playing, click the + in your text box to invite your friend(s) to listen with you: You'll get a Message Preview of your invite, and you'll be able to add a comment if you like! After sending the invite, your friends will be able to click Join and listen to your sweet tunes!. Storage: Enough for a road trip You get 8GB of storage to play with, which Mighty Audio says should let you bung in 1,000 songs, but this depends on the quality setting you use. If you look at the app rating right now on the play store you can see this is a widespread issue. With that in mind, we want to show you how to fix the most common iPhone 6 problems in minutes. Subscription streaming services like Spotify let you choose from an almost unlimited library of a few you can play everything you own in Spotify. After that if I'm playing music and go to lock the screen, it stops any music that I'm playing constantly. After a few seconds, the Sonos app opens back up again, and you can type a name for your Spotify account. If you've purchased an iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, iPod touch, or Mac after September 10, you can get a year's subscription to Apple TV+ for free. Video files use a lot more memory space than pictures. To use it, just download the free app from the Google Play Store or Apple App Store. Just a few seconds, all the downloaded Amazon MP3 will be copied to your iPhone. First, make sure you’re running the latest version of iOS 12. All have had the same issue. After the automatic shutdown, take your charger and connect your iPhone to a power outlet. GPM is a great deal because it also includes YouTube Red and YouTube music if that's your thing. i was just wondering if you can help why my battery usage does not display information? i really want to know what apps are causing my battery to get low but sadly, it keeps on saying that the battery information will be available after using iPhone for a few minutes. Stops after about 5-10 mins. It is on iOS 11. In a DSLR, depth of field is easy to manage by. Follow the instructions on your iPhone. Wait 15 seconds and see if your WiFi network appears. com and will play all your favorite videos. Press and hold down the on/off button and drag slide to power off, and then turn on your iPhone/iPad/iPod touch after a few seconds. So now the only way to listen to podcasts is through the podcast appwell, ok then. One of the most annoying things is waking up a few hours later and it is still playing. Spotify works differently from many other online music services because it relies on several ways to smoothly deliver music to you with no delays. The head unit is the stock unit that comes with the 2016 Honda Civic EX-L. After a few seconds, your iPhone asks you to connect. Android Remote Play has been a big ask for a while now after iOS got it. Check out a side-by-side comparison below. Modules to try. After a few seconds, iOS 10 puts up a sheet displaying the charge status of both your AirPods and the charging case. Gadget Hacks provides lifehacks for your smartphone. Then, when I press play again - the song "starts" but you can't hear anything - it will just run for a few more seconds, then stop again. It was really frustrating to me. A few years ago (and after a lot of people complained), Apple included a new section of Settings called Battery. Little did I know at the time that there was a known bug in this app that causes your speakers to play at rediculouslly loud volumes when attempting to change the volume level using your iPhone. Unfortunately some iPhone users have reported issues with. 1 update! Using Apple Music My iPhone 6s stops streaming to my Apple TV when the iPhone goes to "sleep" or I press the "sleep/wake" button while using AirPlay. I need to talk to someone about my spotify Every time I open my spotify app. Updating iTunes Version to the latest. The playback play fine when the music is local, but connectivity is fine in other application. It doesn't turn off just freezes. "Does anyone else have the problem? Apple Music keeps skipping songs after a few seconds on my iPhone. Of course, watching football on TV is hardly just about the game; there are plenty of advertisements to show people, too. Music keeps stopping on my iPhone? I was just listening to my music on my iPhone, and it randomly stopped playing, but the play symbol at the top right corner of my screen was still blue, so I changed my headphones to see if that was the problem. 1 after a week, so you may not go back to iOS 11. Wait for at least 30 seconds. Up next Hacking Starbucks WiFi with a Raspberry Pi and Kali Linux - Duration: 22:14. Unplugging the iPhone and plugging it back in doesn't work. Set your display to turn off after 30 or 60 seconds of inactivity. Press and hold the On/Off Sleep/Wake button for a few seconds until a red slider appears, then press and hold the Home button until the app quits. It allows us to download music again. Anecdotally this seems to happen when the phone has a low charge, and I think it happened once when the phone entered in low power mode, however this may be coincidental. I just started using CarPlay so I thought maybe it was a CarPlay bug. I had my ear phones in and tried just pushing the center button. The iPhone is set to "sleep" after 4 minutes. To stop recording, tap your facecam (or the Play Games logo, How to record calls on your iPhone The best Android apps (October 2019). This is the first model that ditches the physical home button. An hour after upgrading to iOS 11, my iPhone 7 Plus phone was at 30%. For example, if you have streamed only the first 30 seconds of a song and your internet connection drops before any more of the song has streamed to your device, the song stops playing. There are Siri voice commands for accessing content like playlists, genres, moods, liking or disliking. Your music, TV shows, movies, podcasts, and audiobooks will transfer automatically to the Apple Music, Apple TV, Apple Podcasts, and Apple Books apps where you’ll still have access to your favorite iTunes features, including purchases, rentals, and imports. Just go to the Settings app and toggle the slider to the “On” position. Press the power button on your headphones for 1 second. ” That may be bold, but at least you get an idea of its impact. I've got bluetooth on my Kia Forte Koup so I just use that along with a car charger. The AV Controller app (from iTunes® App Store or Google play) lets you control various functions from your iPod®, iPhone®, iPad® or Android™ phones / tablets. If I pick a song on the list it stars 17-21 seconds in about 80% of the time. Why does my Facebook close after a few seconds; Why does my Facebook app close after 30 seconds ; Why does my Facebook close after a few seconds ; Why does my Facebook close after a few seconds; Related Help Center FAQs; Why did I lose access to my Facebook group? Why does my name or profile photo show in some ads to my fri Does Facebook. Then click the "Upload" button at the upper right and click it and drag and drop your tracks or choose files to upload by clicking the orange button. I tried out different iPhone cables/ports/computer and had same results. anyone else? Spotify has been shitty not just on Xbox but on my phone. After a few seconds, you can see that your Spotify music has been uploaded. It's easy to download from Spotify, but there are a few things you need to know first. First, make sure you’re running the latest version of iOS 12. Pandora keeps playing but I can't find the setting to allow the stock player to keep playing the background. But Apple will stop signing iOS 11. When you play Spotify on your Xbox One, it continues playing when you go to your game. How Spotify works may have an impact on your computer’s hard-disk space, as well as your Internet connection. The #Samsung #Galaxy #S8 is a flagship phone released last year which departs from the usual flagship design of previous generations. Works fine playing music from ipad, or iPhone playing Spotify and playing through the line in (connected with audio cable and set to line in on Sonos controller). On my iPhone, I can play music with the Sonos app using my Spotify account endlessly without issue. i was just wondering if you can help why my battery usage does not display information? i really want to know what apps are causing my battery to get low but sadly, it keeps on saying that the battery information will be available after using iPhone for a few minutes. Fast forward a few weeks ago when after an update noticed a difference in the sound from my speakers. Android Remote Play has been a big ask for a while now after iOS got it. 7:I can pause the music just fine and when I start the music again it continues where it stopped. Thy will stop playing after 3-6 songs. If your iPhone display stopped working after it got wet, your screen is probably black because the LCD is broken and needs to be replaced. fyi, i have change power save options to high perfomance and didnt work. How to Get Free Music on an iPhone. If I don't press play - it will start playing again after about 30 seconds. for some reason this worked for me, although i had the 2 settings turned off initially, I turned it on and then off and now my iPhone 4 plays music and doesn't stop after a few seconds. Next, copy the link of Spotify track or playlist, and please turn to the main interface of AudFree and paste the link you have just copied to the search column. After ovulation, the egg can be fertilized for only about 24 hours. 5 hours ago · Whether you're an iPhone power user or just like running a few apps at a time, here's what you need to know about Apple's latest iOS glitch. We hope you can find the help you’re looking for with our simplified. 1 but now sound is a requirement so they build it directly into the. Problem: iPhone X not working in cold temperatures. bin in order to enable wifi with the latest firmware), but it didn’t work. How To Fix A Black iPhone Screen The way you choose to proceed may depend on whether your iPhone LCD cable has become dislodged from the logic board or if the LCD is broken. I've rebooted the network, all Sonos speakers, reconnected to WiFi, still no success. This works in most cases, where the issue is originated due to a system corruption. Now that you have some music on your iPhone we can get onto how to play some tunes, and how to organise your library to make finding the music to match your mood. You'll see the Apple logo appear in the middle of the screen while it boots back up. Then click the "Upload" button at the upper right and click it and drag and drop your tracks or choose files to upload by clicking the orange button. But somehow it has become a problem to a few Android, iPhone, iPad, Chrome users. Close any other apps you’re not using. To play all the tracks from an album, simply navigate to the album, right-click the album’s name or cover, and select Play. The challenge with troubleshooting download related issues is that there could be many reasons that might lead to download issues starting with your network connection, signal strength, a particular podcast in question, iOS version, the status of Apple servers or defect in the app. Often Cortana will pop up when music stops playing, and sometimes it just stops playing period. All I could mutter was, "do ya wanna get down with us?" After a few interactions I knew something was wrong. When the screen turns off, the audio from Spotify stops playing. There is often a delay when looking to set up visual voicemail for iPhone for the first time that can take up to 24 hours. For iPhone 7 or iPhone 7 Plus: Press and hold both the Side and Volume Down buttons for at least 10 seconds, until you see the Apple logo On an iPhone 8 or above or iPad with no Home Button: Press and quickly release the Volume Up button. I'm new to Android so forgive what I'm sure is a simply question but the music player on my Atrix. Pro tip: Don’t leave Live Photos on all the time. I have tried restoring the ipod a few times and even converting the song- but nothing works. After connecting Spotify, you'll be back on the Music Services list. Rebooting the device will fix all the issues related such as iPhone speaker not working on games, iPhone speaker not playing Music, iPhone speaker not working while calling and much more. Tap When Timer Ends. I tried using a different source, my radio, and it seemed to go down in power. Something that seems to be headphone related. Somewhere about ios5 time, new songs imported into iTunes would only play on my iPhone for a few seconds and then silence or skip to the next song in the playlistand the same thing with the next song(s) and so on. The time from start to stop can't be more than 40 seconds—if it is, even if you make an M4R, it won't sync to the iPhone. com FREE DELIVERY possible on eligible purchases. Many iPhone users can’t listen to voicemail on iPhone after iOS upgrade. Find out which hard drive can help increase your storage or safely back up your Mac. helped me a lot. But if the app is minimizer or my phone is locked, it stops after the played song. Here are the best Mac hard drives and external storage options in 2019. Doing this also removes several bugs or other problem from phone. He is an Andr. The two tracks overlap for a few seconds, the volume going down for the first track as it comes up for the second. Why does the channel I'm listening to stop playing on the SiriusXM Music for Business Web Player? Our desktop and online web players use state of the art technology to automatically reconnect when there is latency in your internet connection. One such issue is when Spotify stops playing tracks on the iPhone and iPad after a while. FM, YouTube and VEVO. Open Shazam on your phone and point it in the direction of your mystery song, and it’ll figure out what’s playing, with terrifying accuracy and in only a few seconds. Songs stop playing after ~10 seconds. Tap the recording button again to stop recording. I'm having this problem with my iPhone 4S. To use Spotify Connect you must first choose the corresponding input on the Dynaudio Connect device. Sleep to Music with an iPhone or iPod touch. After the free trial ends, you'll have to buy Premium for Spotify. We hope you can find the help you’re looking for with our simplified. 2 Upgrade The reason why we choose to use iPhone is because there are a lot of interesting and useful apps we can download from the App store. The most obvious benefit is the removal of the ads. Device gets disconnected after playing couple of songs. 1 -- FLASH PLAYER: Many people are having huge problems with Flash version 9,0,115,0. • VLC fail to play the whole DVD movie. Wait for the iPad to power down completely and then press the Top button again to power it back on. Note that other devices associated with your Apple ID will appear on this screen as well. I'm using Spotify connect from an iPhone. Somewhere about ios5 time, new songs imported into iTunes would only play on my iPhone for a few seconds and then silence or skip to the next song in the playlistand the same thing with the next song(s) and so on. My iPhone 6 would not charge after the battery drained completely. I didn't press stop, pause or anything. Often Cortana will pop up when music stops playing, and sometimes it just stops playing period. The music saved on my phone however stays on and keeps playing. A number of users on Reddit have reported that the iPhone X stops working. 3 update to resolve the problem. I was most disappointed in the graphics. But in playlists, one song stops playing before the next starts. • After the OS X or Windows 10 update, the VLC DVD player won't work. writes: " Dear Dennis, Sometimes when I try and play a YouTube video, the sound doesn't work. Because streaming delivers data as you need it, slow or interrupted internet connections can cause problems. Seems like once it happens it starts to occur more frequently. You need to select Spotify song you want to move to SoundCloud.
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The Beer Goddess: LibDib, a New Web-Based Alcohol-Distribution System, Is Bringing Together Small Breweries and Eager Retailers
Written by Erin Peters
LibDib founder and CEO Cheryl Murphy: “Small craft products don’t necessarily fit with the current model of distributors. (Distributors) are not going to make enough money on your brand, so why would they care?”
What’s just as important as making good craft beer? Making sure it is available to the people who want to enjoy it.
Ever since the repeal of Prohibition in 1933, there has been a three-tier system of distribution for alcoholic products in the United States, overseen by the U.S. government.
The first tier is the supplier or producer—in the case of beer, a brewery. The second tier is the distributor or wholesaler, which purchases the product from the supplier, and then sells it to those in the third tier: the retailer—bars, restaurants and stores that sell the delicious products to consumers.
However, a new company is looking to disrupt this 80-plus-year-old distribution paradigm.
Liberation Distribution, aka LibDib, is offering what it calls the first three-tier web-based distribution platform. LibDib creates an opportunity for makers and retailers to work together directly—thus giving restaurants, bars and stores access to a larger variety of boutique craft libations.
Launched on March 22, the San Jose-based company has more than 250 accounts in California thus far, and has moved on to New York.
I spoke with Cheryl Murphy, LibDib’s founder and CEO.
What prompted you to start LibDib?
It’s really crazy, all of the industry consolidation that’s happening. … I spent 20 years in the wine business, managing wholesalers. … Every year, I would make numbers, but a distributor of mine would go out of business, or they’d get acquired, and then we would be at the bottom of the wrung at a giant distributor. It was like pulling teeth.
I had a little too much to drink one night when I was with my dad, who was my boss at the time. I was working at our family’s winery, and I said, “Ya know, you can’t do this based on the industry’s conditions. How can we be successful?”
When you take control of your own destiny, as a sales person, as a brand—that is when you can be successful. When you have a distributor in between that is beholden to larger companies … (you’re) not going to be top of mind.
My whole goal is to learn how we can facilitate legal three-tier sales. That’s really important: We are part of the three-tier system. But how can we enable small breweries, wineries and distilleries to do business with other small businesses—grocery stores, bars and restaurants—where there are thousands and thousands of them, without a giant company in between?
We built a two-sided web platform. For the maker, what we call our supplier, they can go in and put of all their materials online. … As a distributor, we collect the money. We pay the maker. We pay the taxes. We do all the things we have to do as a distributor. We take half the margin—that’s anywhere from 15 to 20 percent of whatever product you’re talking about. The maker is responsible for delivery.
It’s been really interesting so far. A couple of the breweries that we have, they were self-distributing. But now we’ve kind of brought them back into the three-tier system, because we’re taking care of a lot of the things that they don’t want to do: They want to go out and sell their brand. They want to make their beer. But they don’t want to collect. They don’t want to invoice. … We’re trying to make it easier for those guys, and we’re making it easier for the account side, because the accounts like to carry small-production craft products. But they don’t want to write 100 checks every month.
Small craft products don’t necessarily fit with the current model of distributors. (Distributors) are not going to make enough money on your brand, so why would they care? In working with us, you can have that direct fulfillment, but then still have the backend of the distributor—with one invoice and one check.
So, in essence, brewers are saving money and are able to get into more locations, without having to do the self-distribution work.
Exactly. A lot of breweries want to fulfill, because they want to have that complete control—over the temperature, over everything. But they don’t necessarily want to do all the other stuff the distributor does.
What’s your biggest group so far? Would it be restaurants, or bars, or retailers?
So far, it’s bars and bottle shops. We’re working on a couple of big deals. There’s a stadium that’s interested in working with us and having us get 15 or 20 taps—just totally unique, small-craft-beer stuff.
Have distribution companies taken notice yet?
Yes! I was very nervous about the wine and spirits folks, that they may not be happy about this. But for the most part, they’ve been pretty accepting. They recognize that with this consolidation, their bread and butter is their bigger suppliers. … Some of the little guys take away their time and effort from where they really make their money, so they like the idea.
How do you think you may ultimately affect the big beer buyouts? (Many small brewery owners are citing distribution struggles in their decisions to sell.)
There are so many small companies that need help with their distribution. I’m going after what I call the long tail of the industry—the (breweries) that couldn’t get distribution, even if they wanted it.
This is a totally different vertical, but do you consider yourself to be in any way similar to Airbnb?
In terms of posting your things once, and having people from all over the world able to see it, yes. It’s definitely like the Airbnb of alcohol distribution. It’s funny: (Venture capitalists) around here will tell us, “Don’t tell us you’re the Airbnb of anything.” But it gives people an idea. You can go in; you post your product; and buyers can see it and purchase it legally.
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“Maximalism” is having a moment. But what does it really mean? In fashion and design circles, it is thrown around almost as frequently and hollowly as all variations of “curator”, the curator Jenelle Porter joked at the press preview for Less is a Bore: Maximalist Art and Design, her show at the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) Boston (until 22 September).
The exhibition’s starting point rewards knowledge of a battle of 20th century architectural maxims that began with Mies van der Rohe adopting “Less is More” as his mantra in 1947 to describe a rigidly pared-down Minimalist vision. In 1963, Robert Venturi then wittily retorted, “Less is a bore”, praising fluid design that takes on qualities and needs of its locale rather than blindly obeying the inflexible principles of an intellectual movement.
Stepping into the first of four galleries devoted to the show and pausing in front of a large-scale Sol LeWitt line drawing from 1976, faithfully reproduced and installed by the ICA staff using the artist’s set of directions, I anticipated a summer fling bent on attracting crowds of Boston Seaport visitors who wanted busy, decorative backdrops for their live Instagram stories. Read More…
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To win hearts and minds, it might help to meet the “other guys” somewhere in the middle.
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Nature abhors a vacuum and so do we.
Nature abhors a vacuum and so do we. Nature filled the original void with stars, planets and galaxies. When we encounter a gap in our knowledge, we tend to fill it with stories. Not surprisingly, our most enduring stories focus on the origins of our universe—and ourselves.
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Mustafa Kaya: "How will Turkey normalize?"
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Milli Gazete columnist Mustafa Kaya writes on Turkey. Here is the full article.
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Our country's agenda changes frequently and every changing agenda drives us somewhere. In spite of all these problems, we are trying to proceed by hand under the bombardment of the agenda. Unfortunately, there are still those who act with the logic of reckoning, taking rematch. Today, however, we need a will more than ever to run a corporate mind. Sometimes we do not have difficulty in interpreting what happened. Maybe I have misunderstood or trying to understand and understand the developments by saying that these things may have different dimensions that I cannot see. Whatever we do, we can't get rid of that worry; Unfortunately, we continue to lose positions every day as a country and nation. Our social peace is threatened. We are sometimes ashamed to be addressed to the statements of the authorities who use irresponsible expressions whose end of life is uncertain as to the end of each extended microphone. No offense, it's not going to cost you to wait for things. Because the end of this trip is not a good place. We lose power, opposition, rightist, leftist, artisti, worker, officer, bureaucrat all together. We have to act with reason. If a country cannot get out of many unnecessary discussions and return to its real agenda, it cannot focus and solve its crucial problems.
Even the two discussion topics that we have experienced in the last few days are enough to express what we mean.
The first is the conviction of the CHP Istanbul Provincial Chairman. In particular, the ruling wing CHP is very satisfied with the punishment that the Istanbul Provincial Chairman has received over the past social media posts. The issue is now on the agenda of the judiciary. The process continues. The correctness and inaccuracy of Kaftancıoğlu's statements are a separate topic of discussion. However, everyone should ask himself the following question; I wonder why the post 7 years ago came up today? I also think that these events will have a boomerang effect and will set a precedent for many members of the ruling party or supporters in the future and will return and find them. Because they all have so many shares, speeches and explanations at the breaking points that our country lives in. In this case, I really find it difficult to understand that they have not seen such a trap.
Another issue is the efforts of mothers in front of the HDP Diyarbakır Province Presidency to look for their missing children for years. First of all, let's say that mother is mother. No matter what crime his son is involved in, he is the son first for a mother.
This country has gone through a very difficult period. The most competent authorities of the state listened to the mothers fluttering in search of their missing children and tried to find solutions to their problems. Of course, these efforts of mothers in those processes were important. There was also a common conscience in the public opinion for the efforts. But if the same conscience is not put forward for these mothers in Diyarbakır, what is not a double standard? Why don't those who play corners between the screens to evaluate every right and unfair issue listen to these mothers?
So, how will Turkey normalize?
Is that really possible? If this is possible, how can we normalize?
First, Turkey will be transparent. Heads to run the country with corporate mind and bring it forward. People won't do things they don't want to be done to anyone else. Everyone will stand up for justice. It will remove politics from being an area of personal reckoning. Authorities will be entrusted to the owners. They will be able to empathize. They won't outsource anyone. They will learn to respect and tolerate the other. They won't let the minimum commons get hurt.
If we fail to realize them, we will continue to be enslaved to empty agendas. However, we have no choice but to normalize as soon as possible, make serious efforts to solve the problems and look ahead.
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Qaeda claims attack on rebels in north Yemen: SITE
Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) claims responsibility for a suicide bombing against a Shiite Huthi gathering in mid-August
AFP , Tuesday 13 Sep 2011
Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) has claimed a suicide bombing in mid-August against a gathering of Shiite Huthi rebels in northern Yemen, monitoring group SITE Intelligence said on Tuesday.
Witnesses at the time said two people were killed and several wounded in the August 15 car bomb attack at a government administration complex at Al-Matamma, in Al-Jawf province, while leaders of the Shiite rebellion were meeting.
In a statement on jihadist forums posted Monday, AQAP declared that the attack "comes within the framework of its repelling the Huthis' alleged aggression against Sunnis" in Al-Jawf and Saada provinces, SITE said.
The US monitoring service added that AQAP claimed in its statement the blast "inflicted mass casualties in excess of 100 in the Huthi ranks" and named the suicide bomber as Abu Bakr Muhammad al-Najda.
The attack came two days after the signing of a truce by the Shiite rebels and the Islamist Al-Islah party, in a bid to stop the fighting that since March has flared intermittently in the area near the border with Saudi Arabia.
Yemen's mountainous far north is a stronghold of the rebels from the Zaidi Shiite community, who from 2004 fought six wars with central government forces before signing a truce in February 2010. The rebellion claimed thousands of lives.
Yemen as a whole is mainly Sunni Muslim but the Zaidis are the majority community in the north. Embattled President Ali Abdullah Saleh is himself a Zaidi.
AQAP is an affiliate of the global jihadist network accused of anti-US plots, including an attempt to blow up a US-bound aircraft on Christmas Day 2009.
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No stopping a debutante
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Trains and boats and planes … ev’ry time I see them I pray the trains and the boats and the planes will bring you back, back home to me.
Almost like the Burt Bacharach song, it took many modes of transportation to get several of the principals to Colorado in time for Friday night’s Denver Debutante Ball. Boats were the only exception.
With airports and roads closed because of the Holiday Blizzard, debutantes, post-debutantes, family members and friends found themselves doing whatever it took — even accepting the kindness of strangers — to get to the Brown Palace Hotel.
Leslie Liedtke, whose daughter, Mimi, was presented at the 2005 ball and would be one of the 21 post-debs taking part in the 8 p.m. ceremony, prevailed on her father, who owns his own jet, to ferry Mimi and three others who attend school in the Michigan area to Denver. The trip was successful, with Mimi, fellow post-deb
Amy Craig; Peter Zarlengo, who was to escort his sister, post-deb Ali Zarlengo; and Jaime Latcham, whose sister, Keely Latcham, was one of the 29 debutantes, arriving in plenty of time for not just the presentation, but the 3 p.m. rehearsal.
While her brother was flying, Ali Zarlengo was in Colorado Springs with debutante Holly McHugh and post-deb Kelsey Smith waiting for I-25 to open so they could make the drive from Colorado College to their Denver-area homes.
Debutante Kedzie Schotters figured she could circumvent the airport closure by taking a bus from Washington University in St. Louis. But even that ambitious plan failed when the bus only made it part of the way before road closures dictated that Kedzie figure out a Plan B: taking a train. It got her as far as La Junta, where a family friend picked her up and gave her a lift to Denver, where her parents, Barney and Nancy Schotters, were waiting.
Post-debs Sarah Coxhead and Hilary Harrington, who attend college in San Diego, were in the middle of finals when they learned their flight to Denver had been canceled. So took the only alternative available: with a third friend to help with the driving, they hopped in their car on Thursday afternoon and drove nonstop to Denver, all the while hoping that the midnight blue, Duchess satin gowns that designer Kay Unger created for the post-debs in cooperation with Neiman Marcus would fit. That’s because there was no way they’d be making it to Denver in time for the final fitting.
Debutante Madeline Caudle,who is pre-med at Hamilton College, arrived home well ahead of the storm but, according to her mom, Louise Hurlbut, an ill-timed ski trip to Vail caused some anxious moments regarding her return to Denver.
The last time there was this much weather-related excitement for the ball was in the infamous Blizzard of ’72. “Fortunately, it didn’t start snowing until everyone had arrived at the Brown Palace,” recalled Barbara Knight, who was the 2006 ball’s honorary chairwoman. “It had been very cold, so the women were all wearing long underwear under their gowns, and the orchestra played in their parkas. And every time the front door of the hotel opened — it was a single, sliding-glass door at the time –another cold blast of air would come in.”
The ball also was affected by a blizzard in 1983; that year, bandleader Lester Lanin and his orchestra made it to Denver OK but were unable to return to their home base in New York for several days after.
That winter’s angry blast seemingly cannot stop a Denver Debutante Ball is a tribute to the fact that “This is such an experienced group,” Knight said. “I guess you could say we have the show-biz mentality of ‘The show must go on.’ ”
The Denver Debutante Ball began in 1956 as a benefit for what was then the Denver Symphony Orchestra. It has raised $4.5 million, according to founding chair Katie Stapleton.
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Symposium E – Amorphous Silicon Technology
Y. Hamakawa, P.G. LeComber, A. Madan, P.C. Taylor, M.J. Thompson
Volume 118 - 1988
Mechanisms of Plasma Induced Silicon Deposition and the Control of the Properties of the Deposit
S. Vepřek, M. Heintze, F.-A. Sarott, M. Jurčik-Rajman, P. Willmott
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 26 February 2011, 3
A critical review of the available experimental data obtained under conditions relevant for the deposition of high quality material shows that: 1) The dominant channel of the deposition of microcrystalline silicon (“μc-Si”) is the fragmentation of SiH4 into SiH2 and H2 followed by fast insertion of SiH2 into the surface of the growing film. The rate determining step is the ion induced dehydrogenation of the surface of the growing film. 2) The SiH2 formation followed by fast insertion into another SiH4 forming Si2H6 is the dominant channel of silane decomposition during the deposition of a-Si. Adsorption of disilane at the surface of the growing film followed by its decomposition can explain the experimental data. The published data show that the contribution of the SiH3 radical to the commonly observed growth rates of ≥ 0.1nm/s is negligible.
The plasma parameters which control the deposition of a-Si and c-Si (μc-Si and epi-Si) are identified on the basis of experimental results, and their effect on the crystalline-to-amorphous transition is explained. Ion bombardment at energies below the displacement threshold has beneficial effect on the properties of the deposit as illustrated by electrical conductivity, gas incorporation, optical absorption and light scattering data.
Process Monitoring for a-Si:H Materials and Interfaces
R. W. Collins, J. M. Cavese
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 26 February 2011, 19
Real time ellipsometry results are presented which have been useful in characterizing nucleation, interface formation, and surface modification for hydrogenated amorphous silicon (a-Si:H) thin films and device structures. Earlier studies of the effect of deposition procedure on a-Si:H nucleation are reviewed, and new data on plasma-enhanced CVD p-type a-Si:H are discussed. Changes in the initial microstructural coalescence are observed when gas phase concentrations of 0.2% B2H6 are added to SiH4 to obtain the p-type films. When depositing p-type a-Si:H on undoped a-Si:H at 180°C and 250°C. ellipsometry allows detection of film formation at the rate of a few monolayers/minute by CVD (in the absence of plasma excitation) from the doping gas mixture. CVD requires both SiH4 and B2H6 in the gas. Other interesting aspects of this process are presented. Finally, in situ ellipsometry is applied with H2 plasmas and ion beams to study near-surface Si-Si bond breaking and etching. A common effect of many of these treatments is a reduction in the density of Si-Si bonds in the film bulk by 6–8%.
Comparative Discharge Diagnostic Study of Silane, Disilane, and Germane RF Discharges Using Optical Emission Spectroscopy and Mass Spectrometry
H. Chatham, P. K. Bhat
Measurements of the depletions of the feedstock gases in monosilane-germane and disilane-germane rf discharges indicate that the dissociation rates of germane and monosilane differ by a factor of 2 whereas the dissociation rates of germane and disilane differ by a factor of 0.8. As a result, larger germane concentrations are required in disilane-germane than in monosilane-germane discharges in order to achieve equal germanium content in the resulting films.
Growth of a-Si:H Films by Remote Plasma Enhanced CVD (RPECVD)
GN Parsons, DV Tsu, G Lucovsky
We have used Remote Plasma CVD with plasma excited He to grow films of hydrogenated amorphous silicon, a-Si:H, with substrate temperatures, Ts, between 38 and 400°C. These films differ from glow discharge (GD) and sputtered films, most notably in the Ts dependence of the hydrogen bonding environments (SiH, SiH2, etc.) and the photoconductivity. For RPECVD of a-Si:H, we have investigated: 1) the effect of replacing He in the plasma with Ar; 2) the silane mass spectrum and film growth rate as a function of rf power supplied to the plasma; and 3) the helium emission lines and hydrogen concentration in the films as a function of dilution of the He plasma with oxygen and nitrogen. Based on these observations we present a model for the deposition chemistry that includes SiH3 radicals as precursors to film growth.
Catalytic Chemical Vapor Deposition (CTL-CVD) Method to Obtain High Quality Amorphous Silicon Alloys
Hideki Matsujmura
A catalytic chemical vapor deposition (CTL-CVD) method, by which amorphous films are deposited at low temperatures only by using the catalytic or pyrolytic reactions but not by using plasma, is applied to produce amorphous silicon (a-Si) and a-Si alloys such as amorphous silicon germanium (a-SiGe), silicon carbide (a-Sic) and silicon nitride (a-SiNx). It is found that the CTL-CVD method is useful not only to produce a-Si but also to obtain high quality a-Si alloys. For instance, the photoconductivity of CTL-CVD a-SiGe of the optical band gap of 1.40 to 1.45 eV is 10−5 to 10−4 (Scm−1 ) for AM-1 of 100 mW/cm2 , keeping the photosensitivity over 104.
Transition from Amorphous to Crystalline Silicon: Effect of Hydrogen on Film Growth
C. C. Tsai, R. Thompson, C. Doland, F. A. Ponce, G. B. Anderson, B. Wacker
The transition from amorphous to crystalline silicon in films prepared in a hydrogen-diluted silane plasma has been studied. Emphasis was placed on the role played by hydrogen during film growth. Hydrogen is found to govern the film formation process by promoting the reverse process, ‘etching’. By preferentially eliminating energetically unfavorable configurations during the film growth, hydrogen controls the atomic structure, hydrogen incorporation, and grain growth of the film. It affects the total hydrogen content in the film, as well as the way hydrogen is bonded to the silicon. Excessive hydrogen dilution, however, reduces the grain size by changing the columnar grain growth to a more spherical-like grain growth, and eventually eliminates film growth. With appropriate hydrogen dilution, plasma deposition was found to yield ‘polycrystalline’ silicon films which has a large distribution of grain sizes, with the largest grains being about 2000 Å.
Deposition Kinetics of a-Si:H and a-SiC:H for Fabrication of a-Si / a-SiC Double-Layered Photoreceptor
Tatsuo Nakanishi, Yuuji Marukawa, Satoshi Takahashi, Toshinori Yamazaki, Hiroyuki Moriguchi
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In the fabrication of a-Si photoreceptor for electrophotography (Fig.1), it is important to understand physical and chemical reactions in glow-discharge plasma [1] in order to improve film quality and to achieve high deposition rate [2] and uniformity of the film, because of its thickness of about 30 μm and large area.
High Rate Deposition of DC Magnetron Sputtered a-Si for Photoreceptors
E. Niemann, R. Herkert, D. Leidich, W. Senske
High rate deposition of a-Si-layers is an important condition for an economical production of a-Si devices. We have obtained deposition rates of up to 30 μm/h by reactive DC magnetron sputtering from n-type and p-type doped monocrystalline silicon targets. The electrical properties of the films (dark conductivity, photoconductivity, activation energy) were examined as a function of the hydrogen partial pressure for the deposition rate of about 10 μm/h. The film structure is investigated by scanning electron microscope (surface and fracture) and hydrogen evolution method. The high rate deposited films show a homogeneous appearance exhibiting voids. The electrophotographic properties were examined for films on flat substrates. The charge acceptance for positive and negative charging is about 35V/pm with a low dark decay for films of the structure Al/SiOx/a-Si/SiOx. ESCA-measurements show an a-SiOx-layer of 2nm on the top. The spectral sensivitity is examined.
Deposition Chemistry and Structure of Amorphous Fluorinated Silicon Nitride
Mark A. Petrich, Rhett E. Livengood, Dennis W. Hess, Jeffrey A. Reimer
The deposition chemistry, optical properties, and structure of plasma-deposited fluorinated silicon nitride films are studied and compared to available results of other researchers. Fluorinated films show an increase in deposition rate and optical band gap, and a decrease in refractive index and film stress compared to unfluorinated silicon nitride films. Fluorine concentration in the films ranges from 5 to 25 atomic percent. The total hydrogen concentration of fluorinated films is lower than that of unfluorinated films. The improved thermal stability of fluorinated films as compared to unfluorinated films is explained by a significant decrease in hydrogen bonded to silicon. All films hydrolyze to some extent and films with large fluorine concentrations hydrolyze rapidly to silicon dioxide. The microstructure of fluorinated films consists of clustered silicon-fluorine and nitrogen-hydrogen regions within an amorphous silicon-nitrogen matrix.
Synthesis of Highly Photosensitive a-SiC:H Films at High Deposition Rate by Plasma Decomposition of SiH4 and C2H2
Y. Nakayama, S. Akita, K. Wakita, T. Kawamura
Highly photosensitive a-SiC:H films exhibiting ημτ-product more than 10−6 cm2/V at the band gap of 1.9 eV are prepared under the high deposition rate around 6μm/h by a plasma decomposition of SiH4-C2H2 source mixture gas at higher rf power. It is also shown that the SiH4-C2H2 gas system has a feature of the carbon incorporation into the films with the content nearly equal to that in the source mixture gas and hence is suitable for the high rate deposition process. This advantage and in addition the requirement of the higher rf power for obtaining the films with good electrical performance are discussed in terms of the dissociation reaction of the source gas and the secondary gas phase reactions in the plasma.
Propagation of Si-Network in Hr-Cvd and Spontaneous Chemical Deposition
Jun-Ichi Hanna, Akira Kamo, Masanobu Azuma, Naoki Shibata, Hajime Shirai, Isamu Shimizu
In comparison with the Si:H films the conformational changes in the Si:H(F) networks of the films prepared by HRCVD and Spontaneous Chemical Deposition were investigated systematically in terms of the effects of the substrate temperature and the promoters. Fluorine participation in the chemical processes of the film growth favored the reduction of terminators without degradation of the Si network and promoted the propagation of closely packed Si network, leading to the crystal growth at a low temperature.
Dependence of Hydrogen Incorporation in Undoped a-Si:H and µc-Si:H on Hydrogen Dilution During Pecvd
N. M. Johnson, S. H. Wolff, C. D. Doland, J. Walker
New results are reported on the effect of hydrogen dilution on the incorporation of hydrogen in undoped, unalloyed silicon films that were deposited by plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition in an rf-glow discharge system. A crystalline phase was detected for dilution ratios (H2: SiH 4) of 20:1 and greater. This phase change was accompanied by the appearance of higher-order silicon-hydride complexes. It was further observed that the H concentration in the films increased with dilution for ratios of 10:1 and greater. These results are compared with other recent studies of hydrogen dilution.
Structural Study on Crystallization of a-Ge Using Exafs
Masatoshi Wakagi, T. Hirano, M. Hanazono, M. Chigasaki, O. Abe, A. Nakano
Extended x-ray absorption fine structure (EXAFS) measurements were made on a-Ge and a-Ge:H films which were prepared by sputtering and were annealed at temperatures between 300 and 450° C.The first nearest neighbor distance and the Debye-valler factor were investigated. These values decrease rapidly on the crystallization of the samples. The relationship between them was analyzed in respect of tvo-body potential. The potential of amorphous state is considered to be affected by unharmonic term.
Effects of Substrate Temperature and Gas Phase Chemistry on the APCVD of a Si:H Films From Disilane
Richard J. McCurdy, Roy G. Gordon
The atmospheric pressure thermal decomposition of disilane to produce a Si:H films was studied between 450 and 520° C in a laminar flow reactor. The structural properties of the films exhibited a strong dependence not only on substrate temperature but also on reactor flow position. Films deposited at higher substrate temperatures had less dihydride bonding in the films while the monohydride bonding remained relatively constant. Despite a decrease in the total hydrogen content of the films as the deposition temperature increased from 450 to 500° C, the AM1 photoconductivity increased over an order of magnitude and the hole diffusion length of the films doubled. In addition to the changes in structural and electrical properties as a function of substrate temperature, variations in these properties were also observed as a function of flow position. At early flow positions the amount of dihydride bonding in the films was small and the AM1 photoconductivity and hole diffusion lengths of the films increased. The flow dependence of the film properties is explained by changes in the film precursors due to the evolution of the gas phase chemistry.
Structure of Hydrogen in Microcrystalline and Amorphous Silicon: an NMR Comparison
S. E. Ready, J. B. Boyce, C. C. Tsai
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 26 February 2011, 103
Hydrogen NMR data on three microcrystalline silicon samples grown by plasma decomposition using different H2/SiH4 gas ratios are examined. A decrease of the total atomic percent hydrogen content from 12 at.% to 6 at.% is seen as the gas ratio is reduced from 98/1 to 20/1. 20 to 40% of this total hydrogen content is determined to be non-bonded molecular hydrogen. In addition, evidence for SiH2 units is seen in the spectrum.
Plasma Chemistry Control of Silicon Nitride Deposition
Donald L. Smith, Andrew S. Alimonda, Chau-Chen Chen, Warren Jackson, Barbara Wacker
Triple-quadrupole mass spectrometry (TQMS) showed disilane and aminosilanes, SiH4-n(NH2)n, to be the principal products of an ammonia-silane discharge. Disilane can be completely eliminated from the plasma by operating at high power and high NH3/SiH4 ratio, which results in almost complete conversion of silane to aminosilanes by reaction with activated ammonia. Films so grown had no detectable Si-H bonding and greatly reduced ESR spin density in the dark. The triaminosilane radical appears to be a key deposition precursor, progressively decomposing and condensing towards Si3N4 with increasing substrate temperature.
Role of Power Density, U.V. Light and Hydrogen Dilution on Transition of Amorphous to Microcrystalline Structure on Films Produced by a TCDDC System
M. Vieira, R. Martins, A. Maçarico, I. Baía, F. Soares, L. Guimarães.
The role of deposition condition on content and bond configurations of a–Si:H/μc–Si:H and a–Si:C:H doped films were investigated through IR spectra and correlated with transport properties. The microstructure, morphology, chemical composition and electro-optical properties were inferred from normal X–ray power diffraction, scanning electron microscopy (SEM), Rutherford Back Scattering (RBS), dark conductivity, visible and IR measurements.
The films under investigation were prepared in a Two Consecutive Decomposition and Deposition Chamber (TCDDC[1]) system under various deposition conditions such as: power density, dp; H2 partial pressure; substrate temperature, Ts; electromagnetic static fields (ξG and IB) with or without U.V. light assisting the process.Transition of a–Si:H to μc-Si:H (doped) films is accomplished by structure variation on bond configurations, hydrogen contents, CH, and transport properties. When oxygen is present during the deposition, films deposited with U.V. light assisting the process have O2 incorporated as Si=O while at high dp levels (without U.V. light) O2 appears in the matrix as Si–O bonds. Such behaviour is explained by changes on bond configurations and on the way how hydrogen is attached in the network.
Preparation of a-Si:H Films by VHF Plasma CVD
Shunri Oda, Jun'Ichirou Noda, Masakiyo Matsumura
A novel method of the preparation of a-Si:H films by employing VHF(144MHz band) plasma is described. Optical emission spectroscopy is employed as a diagnostic tool in the plasma. Due to high generation efficiency of radicals, a-Si:H films are deposited at high deposition rates at low power density without sacrificing electrical properties. Criteria for the deposition of microcrystalline Si films are also discussed.
Structural and Electronic Disorder in Boron, Nitrogen and Phosphorus Doped 50kHz PECVD a-Si:H
Etienne Bustarret, Frederic Vaillant, Bernard Hepp
The Urbach energy E0 of undoped, Boron-, Nitrogen- and Phosphorus-doped a-Si:H deposited at 320°C from hydrogen-diluted silane mixtures has been measured by PDS. Its variations with impurity concentrations were related to those of the optical gap, of the defect density and of the width of the Raman TO peak. Taking into account the change in Hydrogen bonding in these materials, the physicochemical nature of the Valence Band Tail (VBT) states is discussed. A formal correlation between the dispersion of the Si-Si bond angle distribution and the width of the VBT is proposed within the Keating formalism.
Equilibrium Between Charge Carriers, Charged Centers, and Dangling Bonds in Amorphous Silicon
C. Fortmann
The recombination rate dependence of the high temperature saturated dangling bond density is explored. Solar cell RBA (reverse bias anneal) and FBA (forward bias anneal) are studied as a function of temperature and bias voltage. The defects that are responsible for the SWE (Staebler-Wronski effect)[1] are shown also to be related to the RBA and FBA effects. At annealing temperatures greater than 150°C, forward bias increases the density of dangling bonds in the i-layer, while reverse bias decreases the density. The temperature dependence of FBA and RBA are investigated. The density of dangling bonds was found not to be a function of cooling rate when bias is maintained during cooling. The dangling bond density is proportional to the square root of the recombination rate, rather than the linear relationship predicted by simple kinetic models. The results are more consistent with a equilibrium description of the SWE.
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Ecology of the City of Sofia
Species & Communities in an Urban Environment
Edited By L. Penev, et al.
Pensoft Publishers
456 pages, Illustrated, 6 ½" x 9 ½"
$169.50 Hardcover
The book consists of three parts - Environment, Plants and Animals. The papers in the first part aim to describe the environment of Sofia - climate, water and air - in order to provide a basis for present-day and future research on the biota and to outline some recommendations for improving the human comfort in the city. The botanical part consists of nine papers, ranging from inventories (bryophytes, vascular plants) to studies on the soil moisture regime and lead transformation in city parks. In the third part, eleven papers summarize data on several animal groups - nematodes, myriapods, terrestrial gastropods, opilionids, spiders, carabid beetles, ants, aphids, scuttle-flies and birds. The book is intended for urban ecologists, conservationists, environmentalists, urban planning specialists, zoologists, botanists and anyone interested in ecological and environmental issues.
Contents: The Sofia (Bulgaria) GLOBENET Sites: Description and Spatial Variation of the Landscape Mosaic * Climate and Human Comfort of Sofia * Urban Climate and Air Quality - a Review * Air Quality of Sofia City - Meteorological Aspects * Water Quality of the Sofia Region * Urban Planning and Ecological Problems of the Green Systems of Large Cities in Bulgaria: Sofia as a Case Study * Bryophytes in the city of Sofia * Mapping Air Quality Using a Lichen Diversity Index in Northeastern Sofia * The Vascular Flora of the City of Sofia * Soil Moisture Regime in Forest Plantations in the Borisova Gradina Park and in the North Park in Sofia * Dendrological Structure of the Green Areas in Sofia * Environmental Problems for Trees in the Green System of Sofia * Medicinal Plant Species and Edible Macromycetes in the City of Sofia - Dangerous for Man? * Pathological and Entomological Problems of Trees in the Sofia City Green System
* Lead in the Atmosphere-soil-plant System in the Forest Park of Boris' Garden - Sofia * Distribution Patterns of Nematode Communities in an Urban Forest in Sofia, Bulgaria * Myriapoda (Chilopoda, Diplopoda) in Urban Environments in the City of Sofia * Spatial Variation in Terrestrial Gastropod Communities (Gastropoda, Pulmonata) along Urban-Rural Gradients in Sofia City, Bulgaria * The Harvestmen Fauna (Opiliones, Arachnida) of the City of Sofia (Bulgaria) and its Adjacent Regions * Spiders from the Sofia Region. A Faunistic and Zoogeographical Analysis * A Checklist of the Aphids (Homoptera, Aphidodea) from the City of Sofia * Spatial Structure of Carabid Beetle Assemblages along an Urban-Rural Gradient * The Ground-Beetle (Coleoptera: Carabidae) Fauna of Sofia, Bulgaria: a Checklist * A Faunistic Investigation of the Ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) in the City of Sofia * Compound Nests and Mixed Colonies of Ant Species (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) in Sofia, Bulgaria * Scuttle Flies (Diptera: Phoridae) from Urban and Suburban Areas in the Sofia Plain * The Diurnal and Nocturnal Birds of Prey (Falconiformes and Strigiformes) Nesting in the Territory of Sofia * Magpie (Pica pica) Population Density and Habitat Distribution in the City of Sofia
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DVR Helps Essex County Escape the Past
December 9, 2005 December 16, 2009 1062 Views Product of the Month
PSE’s video watch tour was made possible with DVR technology.
Electronic security systems at the recently-opened, $416 million Essex County, N.J., Jail Annex offers outstanding examples of digital video recording solutions to day-to-day security concerns but, unfortunately, the project is well known for other reasons.
Correctional-industry insiders are most likely to remember Essex County for protracted project delays. DMJM started designing the project in 1996, but problems including trade union turf disputes pushed back completion until this year. On-site delays included plumbing snafus and the improper cutting of hundreds of door openings at the 2,000-bed facility.
While DMJM and Norment Security Group faced repeated setbacks, it would be a mistake to hold up Essex County as an example of how not to build a jail. Much would be lost, including an innovative design with sophisticated security-electronics systems, not to mention the hard work and accomplishments of the talented professionals involved with the project.
Professional Systems Engineering LLC (PSE) acted as corrections consultant to Norment’s Trentech division, the electronic systems contractor. Contributing designs for security, communications, life safety for cells and critical infrastructure, PSE helped keep systems flexible enough to be current even though they began work on the project over six years ago.
“There are sore spots for anyone, but you can work around them to achieve major things,” says Jerry Forstater, PSE’s chief executive officer. “When we speced the electronics system in 1997 or 1998, everybody had video cassette recorders,” Forstater says. “Panasonic had industrial VCRs and time-lapse recorders, and they even had an automatic tape replacer.”
Nine months later, in the shop-drawing phase, automatically-reloading VCRs were made obsolete by digital video recorders. PSE quickly embraced the superior DVR technology and used it to provide solutions that remain innovative. Not feeling at all like Rumpelstiltskin, Forstater says Essex County’s watch tour system is the only one he knows of relying on DVR to this extent.
“The original concept creator, (former administrator) Ron Manzella, asked us to develop a system that would monitor who went out, when they went out, and who it was,” says Forstater. “Because they wanted absolute verification that the officer who said he was there and didn’t see anything, actually was there as indicated by a recorded history. So we came up with the video watch tour system.”
From an octagonal central control booth in the middle of the facility, officer movements are carefully monitored and confirmed. An officer comes to the floor supervisor’s station and puts his or her finger on a fingerprint reader and supervisor then starts the watch tour process, a software-based DVR system that follows the officer and records his or her intercom use.
Every time the officer hits an intercom, the camera comes up, records it digitally, and archives the fingerprint with the tour date and time. “Every time the officer goes through a wing, stops at the end of a wing, they push the intercom and verbally confirm their position,” Forstater explains. “The person in the control center verifies that the officer is okay, and hit the next button as an acknowledgement.”
A set of DVRs dedicated to record each officer movement. “It protects staff and inmates and bolsters the supervisory function, reducing the threat of lawsuits by inmates claiming that, say, a door was open and they were taken advantage of, and also provides a record to address staff disability claims,” Forstater says.
Actually, the facility has four DVR systems. The watch-tour system is completely separate and staffers can’t access it. There is the archiving system, and also a set of active DVRs used on a day-to-day internal affairs and watching inmates. Finally, the facility directors have their own DVR system, mounted on small roll-abouts in their offices, allowing them to monitor at their own discretion.
All told, the electronic security and communications equipment and infrastructure for the project is valued at more than $25 million. Among the provisions are more than 50 touch screens, 88 bio-script readers, and one of the first examples of IP telephony in a correctional facility. Forstater credits DMJM, Norment and his own team (Diem Nguyen, Jerry Schorn, and Michael Michalski) for success within an often troubled project.
Within the three-story “control stack” centers, officers can view everything in the four wings without CCTV. Paired officers within the centers also overlook each other, an ergonomic control-room configuration that is standard for PSE. “The officers don’t have monitors shining in their face so they can still communicate with each other, but without being right in one another’s face. They can roll your eyes up to the monitors and look down again easily.”
Phone solutions were also up to date. “We saved the client over $100,000 in infrastructure costs by going with UTP cable at a very early time, allowing the IT network to serve as your phone system as opposed to a PBX,” Forstater says. “The advantage is that they can make free calls and don’t have to depend on a carrier for all their phones. Everything inside goes by way of the Internet.”
With the transition into the new facility now underway, Essex County can look to the future and feel like they belong there.
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Board index » Frank Zappa » Legends, Myths and Fantasies
Rock singer with the best scream.
Ronny's Noomies
Post subject: Re: Rock singer with the best scream.
Location: Chicago, sort of.
Wow. Is that a human?
Everytime we picked a booger we'd flip it on this one winduh. Every night we'd contribute, 2, 3, 4 boogers. We had to use a putty knife, man, to get them damn things off the winduh. There was some goober ones that weren't even hard...
He's human but he has the gates to Hell in his throat. They require the annual sacrifice of a young maiden to stay closed.
lapsed maps
Location: misanthropia
manichispanic wrote:
Case closed. Game over. Period.
But here's an outstanding unrock screamer (microphone breaks and you can still hear this beast): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwjyZKqmkUg
that's what happens when you don't read you loose your link to higher thinking
Batchainmovie
Location: N. of Boston, MA USA
And the votes are in (Are they?) and it's Kyo #1 and a tie for 2nd place: Roger Waters & Yoko Ono for #2. (Ever hear Roger's scream continue as a "baby cry" on "Careful With That, Eugene"? I wonder if that's why he really couldn't sing after his '84 "Pros and Cons of Hitchhiking"?)
--Bat
"In my lifetime I have met too many people who were educated beyond their intelligence."-Arthur C. Clark http://www.omsj.org/
Voting shmoting. And I repeat...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPsXRiV6yo4
And I maintain my position:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VsjIcKO1HuM
(For a good time: use this as your *SPAM* and let your cellphone go off in the bus.)
Ooh: bonus: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkb-OSfXbQY
(And then I find https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZHKCs7IJOE : man this is fun.)
BBP wrote:
That guy is clearly influenced by Patton...
Or Yamantaka Eye, who influenced Patton bigtime, so yeah.
He doesn't listen to American music, he might know Mike Patton from having been compared to him a lot but everything you hear from him comes out of himself. His musical example early in the day is Kiyoharu of Kuroyume, his deeper death growls really don't come in til after the time they first toured the US, already seven years into the existence of his current band.
Trust me on this one. He may not "listen to" american music (and that is fine),
but he clearly... crystal clearly knows more of Mikey than what he has gained
via having been compared to him.
I am not saying his vocals do not come from him.
I am not saying he isn't feeling it. I am not saying he isn't great at it.
But, yeah... if he ever tells you he is not influenced by Mike Patton,
tell him that you are not stupid and walk away chortling.
Nope. That guy's really very very close to his traditional background. Though he did sing with Apocalyptica.
NuclearProstate
Location: Royal Wootton Bassett
Halford. The metal god!
The woman who sings with Noisettes. Check this scream out at about 1:30. Don't forget to turn it up!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vryX6Sg5Dj4
That guy's really very very close to his traditional background.
Yes, I am not saying he isn't. I think you may be misunderstanding me here.
But, hey - I found this thing:
Kyo is a unique vocalist which many try to copy but are never very successful. He writes all lyrics (he once said he will never write a song with a happy ending; he also doesn´t like to talk about the content of his lyrics, saying he doesn't write them for anybody in particular). On stage, Kyo puts on an expansive show for the fans. One minute he may be inflicting cuts on his chest, wrists and screaming the next he may be running around or playing dead. Kyo also has a fetish for vomiting numerous things (pudding, fake blood, raw eggs). He hates being called "cute" or "-chan" and likes to think of himself as scary. His nickname, Warumono, means "bad person" and is the name of his favorite manga.
bad person tell fib about patton influence.
I have no idea why I typed that last sentence like that.
NuclearProstate wrote:
I think this belongs in Rock singer with the best operatic scream,
alongside Brucey Dickinson and Kim Bendix Petersen.
He doesn't cut himself anymore. He did that up to 2007 and one time in 2009 when his voice failed during a concert. Nowadays he's more into heavy make-up, like in their early visual kei days but darker.
My favourite scream btw is the one from the 1978 English movie The Shout.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyDIKsHzddY
Close second is the one Tim Curry did in Oliver Twist, but I can't find that one online.
Ah yes, that is great. Thank you for the introduction.
"Warning: Don't set the volume too loud when watching the clip!" Haha, indeed.
Wait wait wait wait wait wait wait...
We are going past the one major thing here...
I say r i n g t o n e and it gets censored??!!
Found the Curry scream https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SE4ELqIrnww at about 4:20 in.
Beck does a great scream at the end of Devil's Haircut on the album Odelay. Listened to it recently for the first time in a long while.
Post subject: re: dubplate singer with the best scream.
Posted: Sat May 09, 2015 1:43 pm
jigsy ramps it up
check out any other dubplate clips, irie mon
Location: south midlands, UK
If you chaps have ever bought any of these, this may have convinced you to do so.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asXw2a4kQLc
and I know, I think
Isn't that the kind of thing Tina Fey did a striptease for just to show the world how horrible they are?
markanini
Posted: Thu May 28, 2015 2:22 pm
Roger Daltrey Won't Be Fooled Again
Bjork.
No wait a minute...she makes me scream!!!
Location: The Grape
Plook wrote:
Yoko Ono, the quenn of scream...
Queen? More like a total fucking cunt!
unclemeat69
Udo Dirkschneider of Accept
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Trichinella britovi in the jackal Canis aureus from south-west Iran.
(2014) Trichinella britovi in the jackal Canis aureus from south-west Iran. Journal of helminthology.
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Trichinellosis is an important helminthic food-borne zoonosis, which is caused by nematodes of the genus Trichinella. Although, Trichinella spp. has been detected frequently in Iranian wildlife, this parasitic infection is not considered a major public health problem. This is largely because Islamic codes forbid consumption of pork meat in this country. However, knowledge about this zoonotic pathogen is important because human trichinellosis has been documented in countries where most of the population is Muslim. The aims of the present work were to investigate whether Trichinella spp. was still circulating in wildlife of the Khuzestan Province (south-west Iran) about 30 years after the first investigation, to identify the aetiological agent at the species level by molecular analyses, and to review the literature on Trichinella spp. in animals of Iran. During the winter 2009-2010, muscle samples from 32 road-killed animals (14 dogs and 18 jackals, Canis aureus) were collected. Muscle samples were digested and Trichinella sp. larvae were isolated from two jackals. The Trichinella sp. larvae have been identified as Trichinella britovi by molecular analyses. These results confirm that T. britovi is the prevalent species circulating in wild animals of Iran.
Trichinella britovi in the jackal Canis aureus from south-west Iran
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Protective camouflage and holy victims
Today I’m going to repeat a story from the blog Alas! and discuss it, because…well, the author does not seem to have grasped the actual implications of what he wrote. It’s what I think of as a “holy victim” narrative, but the actual lesson is not, perhaps, what the author intended.
There was one girl I spent a lot of time with. A pixie-like joy of a person, Dawna, who wore her blonde hair almost totally shaved, and strung chains on her jeans. People who saw her knew there was something unusual about her. They didn’t take joy in her oddness, in her willingness to sing in the middle of the street, in her humor, in her desire to leave strange and beautiful things in public places for strangers to find and puzzle over. They shouted “dyke!†at her from car windows; they deployed store guards to follow her around; they sneered and snarled.
When I was 17 and Dawna was 15, she went out with me and started acting very strange. “Is she on meth or something?†a friend of mine asked. I said, “I’m sure she isn’t†— but I was wrong. She was on meth. She called me that night, crying. She’d been taking a lot of drugs for a long time — to try to deal with the pain of her isolation, the pain of how people pricked and pained her, and othered her, and told her she was nothing.
I told her I’d help. I arranged for her to be transferred to my high school and set her up with the teachers who’d been best for me. Nothing worked; the teachers who were more than happy to deal with my casual attitude toward authority had no tools in their kits to handle a girl who was too depressed to go to class. I’d thought they would recognize in her, as they had in me, independence and intelligence. I suppose they did. But even if they wanted to, there was nothing they could do.
I always worried Dawna would die. I thought she would overdose or commit suicide. When I read a few years ago that she was dead, and the obituary hinted at a cause of death that couldn’t be announced to potentially scandalized ears, I knew I was right.
She was twenty-two.
Dawna lived twenty-two years in the toxic hatred of our homophobic, gender policing, joy-killing world. And then it murdered her.
We are supposed to react to this story with pity and loathing at the death of the holy victim. Sorry, but my reaction was that Dawna was clearly asking for what she got. If she didn’t want the local monkeys to “other” her, why did she dress funny?
Important rule of living: you can be weird, or you can look weird, but you can’t usually get away with both.
Clever deviants – like, for example, myself – make a point of not looking like an obvious threat to the mores of their time. I’m a neo-pagan anarcho-capitalist gun-nut who talks about my way-out-of-the-mainstream beliefs and often gets the press to cover them sympathetically. I fill auditoriums! I am much more successively subversive than J. Random Punker in his chains and studs exactly because I don’t look weird. I could be as gay as a treeful of parrots and it wouldn’t slow me down a bit.
The world did not kill Dawna. Dawna’s bad choices killed Dawna. Bad choice #1: taking a visibly oppositional stance without having the inner strength not to buckle. Bad choice #2: taking nasty drugs to cope with bad choice #1.
It’s going to sound harsh, but I don’t have a lot of sympathy for the girl. She played stupid and lost – wasted her potential on mere display. If she had really wanted to change the world, rather than staying stuck in shock-your-parents mode until she died, she would have dialed back on the presentation and been an articulate but relatively normal-looking advocate for sexual freedom, or whatever.
Costume or substance. Posturing or efficiency. Looking like a threat to “the system” or actually being it. Choose exactly one….
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159 thoughts on “Protective camouflage and holy victims”
Mr Funk on 2009-06-08 at 06:23:38 said:
I Agree, but I hope you’re wearnig your kevlar shorts ;-)
Aaron Davies on 2009-06-08 at 06:50:22 said:
“neo-pagan anarcho-capitalist gun-nut”
you forgot poly :)
hari on 2009-06-08 at 06:55:32 said:
People who are “weird” in society often fall into two categories: 1. They are weird by nature in which case they learn to adjust as best as they can and not be too obvious about it, which not denying their weirdness to themselves, 2. Those who take pride in weirdness and want the whole world to celebrate their weirdness (not just ACCEPT it — that’s a huge difference) and then feel bad if the world shuns them.
As you rightly said, it’s inner strength of individuals that matter. Not the “deviation from society” aspect. There’s a very excellent reason why the majority of society “conforms” or at least appears to. Because that’s the line of least resistance and avoids so much hassles in daily life.
Hans on 2009-06-08 at 07:14:32 said:
I have pity for her in the sense that she’s another human being that was treated harshly for not being the same as everyone else, regardless of why that was. Maybe she truly didn’t know any better about how to deal with her situation. Not everyone is given the same “tools” in life for dealing with social pressure. I speak from experience growing up as the nerdy computer geek in a time when most people barely knew what a computer was. Luckily, I had parents that understood me, nurtured my interests, and had a healthy disdain for “the average person” that gave me the strength to deal with any mockery that came my way.
That said, I agree that we all make our own choices and are responsible for the consequences. I’ve met many people that were against “the system” that were nothing more than whiners that didn’t like the fact that the world didn’t instantly worship them for existing.
It’s unfortunate that this young person made poor choices that ultimately drove her to killing herself. We can chastise the person while still holding disgust for the system that contributed to her demise.
esr on 2009-06-08 at 07:33:32 said:
>We can chastise the person while still holding disgust for the system that contributed to her demise.
My goal wasn’t to “chastise” Dawna, but to point out that holy-victim stories like these are often describing remarkably stupid, willfully self-destructive behavior from a person and then attributing the consequences from that behavior to anyone but that person. It leads to the wrong lessons being drawn.
grendelkhan on 2009-06-08 at 07:46:18 said:
esr: My goal wasn’t to “chastise†Dawna, but to point out that holy-victim stories like these are often describing remarkably stupid, willfully self-destructive behavior from a person and then attributing the consequences from that behavior to anyone but that person. It leads to the wrong lessons being drawn.
You know, this comment could easily be transposed to the 1950s in Great Britain, or the same time period in the United States. Back then, suicide was the standard response to being outed. By your lights, the problem was not that gay people were regarded as slightly less respectable than cockroaches, but rather that they’d done something stupid and willfully self-destructive, and that blaming the people around them, the normal people, would be “the wrong lesson”.
From where I stand, you’re objectively pro-Alan Turing’s suicide. It’s a moderately more long-winded version of “well, as long as they don’t flaunt it”, or, if you’re feeling colorful, “shove it down my throat”.
And flaunting your supposed Otherness–none of which makes it at all difficult to pass as normal in polite, white-dude society, certainly not among strangers–is so off the mark that I honestly don’t know what you were trying to show with it. Perhaps that if only they tried, all those remarkably stupid lesbians could have easily passed in society, and led lives of quiet desperation that wouldn’t have offended people who actually counted.
chk on 2009-06-08 at 08:24:24 said:
Wow; this crystallized thoughts that have been in my head for many years, but I could never express (without tripping over everyone’s political-correctness sensors, at least). It’s another variation on an ongoing personal responsibility rant, but one not easily expressed.
>From where I stand, you’re objectively pro-Alan Turing’s suicide.
You picked an extremely bad example there; Turing was atypical in a way that damages your case. If you examine the actual circumstances of Turing’s exposure, you’ll discover that he was remarkably and willfully self-destructive about it. Outed himself, under circumstances where he could easily have covered and (as I read it) the cop was trying to look the other way. Still, I’m not “pro” Turing’s suicide, just refusing to blame anyone else for it. He made his choice and died. End of story.
You’re being remarkably thick if you think anything in my commentary has to do with a judgment on gay people. The particular reason Dawna was deviant does not matter; in fact, one reason I chose to comment on this story is that the author leaves it a touch ambiguous whether she actually was a “dyke” or not. He understands, as I do too but you apparently don’t, that it doesn’t matter; the tale is not about what made her deviant but about her willful display of deviance and her inability to cope with the social response.
>Perhaps that if only they tried, all those remarkably stupid lesbians could have easily passed in society, and led lives of quiet desperation that wouldn’t have offended people who actually counted.
Stripped of the prejudicial language about “people who actually counted”, I agree. Would have beaten suicide as a response, wouldn’t it?
No, I get it. You want me to think that’s asking something horrible and unreasonable of the lesbians. Sorry, not buying it. Try being a kid with cerebral palsy sometime, fool. I would have loved to have the option to “pass”, but I didn’t. Instead, I had to learn NOT TO GIVE A SHIT what people thought of my “otherness” – how to be stronger that the social pressure. Therefore, lesbians whinging about the agony of choices I didn’t have fails to impress me.
Sean C. on 2009-06-08 at 08:53:10 said:
I gotta say that you’re going out on a limb if you think it’s safe to draw conclusions about this persons life from a short essay.
If you want to use the essay to construct an archetype and generalize about that, then re-write your post to make it sound that way.
> “My goal wasn’t to “chastise†Dawna, but to point out that holy-victim stories like these…”
As it is, it comes off as psycho analysis of someone about whom you know virtually nothing.
chk: Wow; this crystallized thoughts that have been in my head for many years, but I could never express (without tripping over everyone’s political-correctness sensors, at least).
Did you stop and think that there was a reason for that? That “it’s just and right that people are driven to suicide by intolerance” is a profoundly ghoulish sentiment, and “everyone’s political-correctness sensors” were simply registering a smidge of basic humanity?
Mike Earl on 2009-06-08 at 09:39:13 said:
Many of those who make a point of looking weird, AFAIKT, aren’t really doing it out of any kind of serious internal conviction, but to gain/hold membership in a (often low-status in the larger culture) group. As the joke goes, “Why do all the non-conformists look alike?”
And I have pretty fair sympathy for the girl – a toxic environment indeed, but not because of homophobia and joy-killing. Meth at 15? Yikes.
Shenpen on 2009-06-08 at 09:44:36 said:
Grendelkhan (and others),
I think there are two different concepts of freedom.
One goes like this: I’ll do whatever I want, provided I don’t agress on someone else. And then full stop. No further thinking. This concep of freedom, despite its apparently soft approach, has something deeply egotistical in it, because in this kind of thinking we consider ourselves as rights-holders plus actors, but others either only as rights-holders and not actors, or actors who act exactly like me. Thus, this concept fails either on equality or on diversity – so why the hell do Progressives tend to support this approach is a mystery. I think this might have been her concept of freedom.
The second one: I may do whatever I want provided I don’t agress on others, but this is just one half of the story. The other half is that I must also recognize that the same is true for everybody else, and if they don’t like what I do they can make my life very difficult, even without agressing on me.
Others not only have rights, they act too, and they act often in very different ways than me. This is the concept of liberty than can be considered to based on equality and diversity: it sees human beings as actors just like ourselves, but ones who often act very differently.
From this second conception of freedom it follows it’s a wise strategy to often conform voluntarily to the expectations of others, if I want them to conform to my expectations: such as, talk politely to me, win the job interview, make friends, bet let into a restaurant, not being insulted, and so on. Why Progressives don’t support this concept of freedom instead, when it’s clearly based on equality and diversity, while the other one isn’t is another mystery.
Or, explaining it differently:
There are three ways to see such problems.
One is a subjectivist/relativist point of view: whether shouting “Dyke!” is offensive or just an expression of an opinon depends on one’s general upbringing and education, thus, subjective/relative. By the same token, some people may see others dressing funny in public places as something offensive because it can exert a bad influence on their children, or offend their religious feelings, or offend their machismo or whatever else. Maybe they make a living manufacturing prams and that’s why they find it offensive or anything else, really, there can be a thousand causes.
Thus, from a subjectivist/relativist point of view both parties offended each other, and there is no other resolution of the problem than: don’t do stuff others will find offending even if you don’t mean it so, if you don’t want them to do stuff to you that you find offensive. (This is largely what ESR suggested, IMHO.)
Yes, it means “don’t flaunt it” (as others can take that as offensive) if you don’t want them to tell offensive things to you. From a subjectivist/relativist point of view no other resolution is possible: who can judge why one of these should NOT be seen offensive and why the other should be, if everything is subjective and relative?
Another possibility is to view morals as objective. However, base them on what? Biology? No cigar – from a biological/evolutionary point of view a limited verbally agressive machismo is probably to be seen more normal (i.e. fitness advantage) as flaunting a clear rejection to procreate. OK, not biology then – something else?
A third possibility is to use a pluralist/intersubjectivistic approach, which is my favourite, but that would take too long to explain and I think you aren’t going to take this position anyway, so no point in it.
>That “it’s just and right that people are driven to suicide by intolerance†is a profoundly ghoulish sentiment …
And one I did not express. My essay made no ethico-moral value claims at all. “In nature there are no rewards or punishments, only consequences.”
Jeff Read on 2009-06-08 at 09:59:28 said:
If Dawna had made it to her thirties, odds are she would have mellowed out some. Taking on the responsibilities of adulthood has a way of damping one’s penchant for metal-studded rebellion.
Reading her story I suspect that there was more at work here than just her gender and sexuality, perhaps abuse of a physical or psychological nature. The fears and jeers of our wickedly conservative society are harsh on the soul, but anyone who does crystal meth is actively seeking oblivion.
From where I stand, you’re objectively pro-Alan Turing’s suicide.
A bombastic claim, not supported by Eric’s article. Turing was a gay man who dressed sharp and was a professional at the top of his game. His government forced him onto hormones (which no doubt chemically affected his mood, possibly contributing to his suicide). I do not see the analogue to this scenario in Dawna’s case. (No one forced her to take that meth.)
>perhaps abuse of a physical or psychological nature.
Ah yes – abuse, the “it must have been witchcraft!” of our day.
Ken Burnside on 2009-06-08 at 10:29:21 said:
On this one, Eric, I disagree. I’m going to be digressive on why I disagree; please read this through at least twice before responding.
Neurologically speaking, the decade or so from age 15 to 25 is where the brain is making lots of adjustments. Being a teenager is rather like being stuck in the middle of a series of kernel patches and getting core dumped on, without the ability to log out and go to sleep. And the hardware is being altered as well through androgens.
Everyone makes bad decisions as teenagers; one of the reasons why our society has evolved a system of extended adolescence, with peer groups, organized socialization, and parental backstopping, is to minimize the impact of those bad decisions. Some of those bad decisions are lethal…and many methods of backstopping teenage stupidity don’t work in our economy where both parents are out of contact with their kids for large stretches of the day.
Teenagers are miserable. Every teenager out there thinks their misery is unique. Most eventually find a peer group who are miserable in similar enough ways that they have something to talk about. Using the kernel patch metaphor, they find a group of people they can compare core dumps with and go “Oh, that’s what’s happening…” Though usually with a lot more angst, loud music, and interesting fashion choices.
What Dawna didn’t have was that support group. So she found one way of getting through the misery – meth. Meth kills only somewhat less reliably than potassium cyanide. It takes longer, and it’s possible to have someone kick your ass enough to get off the habit…but for the people who use it for the euphoria, as a break from the misery of being a teenager? It takes a serious amount of ass kicking to break the addiction.
I’m betting her parents didn’t know; I’d lay odds that she was an emancipated minor. I’m betting that she had no positive social outlet other than the recreational pharmaceutical users. That still doesn’t make her a martyr. On that we agree.
However, your original essay comes off a ham handed, and blindered by the perspective of someone who’s survived the “core dump decade”, and has it safely in their past by a few decades, rather than someone who’s just getting out of it (which the original essayist appears to be writing from).
I had an eidetic memory through the age of 19. I have unusually clear memories of what it was like to be a teenager, more so than most people who’re forty, and I’ve never met ANYONE over the age of fifty who remembers the emotional landscape of living through the core dump decade. It’s bad enough that nearly everyone suppresses it or rose tints it, or decides that it couldn’t have been as bad as they remembered, and it was teenage self indulgence.
I contend that it was that bad. I think that the next big paradigm shift in neuropsychiatry, the thing that takes it out of the lab and into practicing medicine, is going to be ways to streamline the ‘core dump decade’.
> Ah yes – abuse, the “it must have been witchcraft!†of our day.
Oh look, a yummy worm in the water! See how it dances so enticingly, asking me to come and bite upon it!
ESR says: I wish to go on record that I laughed my ass off when I read this.
esr: Still, I’m not “pro†Turing’s suicide, just refusing to blame anyone else for it. He made his choice and died. End of story.
And yet, had he made the choice to refuse to closet himself today, he wouldn’t have been subjected to the arrest, the hormones, or the withdrawal of his security clearance. The difference isn’t whether or not Turing was making unreasonable demands, but the level of bigotry in which he found himself embedded. A level of bigotry which you apparently refuse to consider as a culprit in his death, or the death of the young woman in question.
You’re being remarkably thick if you think anything in my commentary has to do with a judgment on gay people.
Surprising myself, I do agree with you on that. If she’d made the normal people uncomfortable for some other reason, I’m sure you’d be just as quick to myopically blame them for their own alienation and eventual suicide.
I brought up Turing because the common refrain thrown at gay people is, “why can’t you just act normal?”. The claims that you’re making, that there must be something inherently wrong with these folks, because they’re so prone to substance abuse, self-loathing, depression and suicide, was precisely the same one leveled at the gay men who were herded out of gay bars, briefly held, and had their mugshots printed so that they’d lose their jobs, their friends, and their families.
Stripped of the prejucidcial language about “people who actually countedâ€, I agree. Would have beaten suicide as a response, wouldn’t it?
The “people who actually counted” language is there because you are, whether you’re open about it or not, dividing people into those who have to hide themselves in some way in order not to offend the second group, people who don’t. No, I don’t think you chose these groups. But you certainly aren’t questioning why it is that some people go in the first box, and some in the second.
Why, yes, living a life of quiet desperation and self-loathing is better than death. But–and here’s the thing–both options suck.
No, I get it. You want me to think that’s asking something horrible and unreasonable of the lesbians. Sorry, not buying it. Try being a kid with cerebral palsy sometime, fool. I would have loved to have the option to “passâ€, but I didn’t. Instead, I had to learn NOT TO GIVE A SHIT what people thought of my “otherness†– how to be stronger that the social pressure. Therefore, lesbians whinging about the agony of choices I didn’t have fails to impress me.
So… your conclusion is that because you were picked on as a kid and didn’t kill yourself, everybody else should be able to suck it up without complaint?
Somehow, Eric Raymond whinging about how everyone should be as miserable as he was, even if it kills them, fails to impress me.
My essay made no ethico-moral value claims at all. “In nature there are no rewards or punishments, only consequences.â€
Failing to question those consequences is a value judgment in and of itself. Pretending that the “consequences” are part of “nature” is absolutely ridiculous. Here, I’ll quote Randy Shilts:
Homosexuals, they said, were “injustice collectors,” as if injustices fell randomly from the sky and were magnetized toward a genetically predetermined human subspecies.
It is, at best, profoundly dim of you to suggest that these people all deserved, at best, a lifetime of crippling denial and fear until they organized, protested, and changed the culture. It seems clear that the problem was more in the culture than anywhere else, but you insist on placing it on the victims.
But now that Ken has taken the time to very nicely elucidate the coredump analogy, I can bite without a lot of effort.
Traumatic events though the core dump years (or really, at any point in life) can permanently screw up a person’s hardware and doom you to a life of misery.
Like anything, some people will be more vulnerable than others for reasons I don’t begin to understand, and what screws up one person for life will leave the next unharmed.
Abuse does do terrible things to people. Look at the incidence of childhood trauma among prison populations.
Not to say that it’s an excuse for destructive behavior, but it is a cause.
JessicaBoxer on 2009-06-08 at 10:43:33 said:
I find it ironic that this young lady was destroyed by her desire to be accepted by society by aggressively rejecting society. (By rejecting, I mean choosing counter societal dress and habits.) It was her desire the “fit in” that ultimately caused her problems, not her desire to be different. But this is the very story of teenage angst. In Dawna’s case writ large perhaps, but not qualitatively different than that experienced by most here.
It is an unfortunate reality that western societies treat teenagers like babies, removing most responsibility and accountability from them (“clean up your room” doesn’t count.) So I think teenage angst is mostly an outpouring of boredom and lack of stimulation than anything intrinsic about teenagers. For most of human history teenagers were full fledged members of society, responsible for their families in the case of boys, mothers in the case of girls. One can see this most evidently in the ghetto culture where even school and parental scolding are robbed from the teenager. The nihilistic, pointlessness of their lives is worked out in many self-destructive and other-destructive behaviors.
In the case of Dawna, the extreme working out of this teenage angst causes me to ask two questions: first of all where were her parents in all this? Parents are supposed to offer a counter to this sort of nonsense and offer the wise perspective to keep kids grounded. Again, unfortunately, our society has accepted the idea of “teenagers hate and disrespect their parents” as normal and acceptable. Secondly, and as a follow up to this, I wonder, along with Jeff Read, if there was something deeper going on with this girl, either some physical problem, such as a hormonal imbalance, or an emotional problem, such as past or ongoing abuse of some kind. However, it is pretty hard to judge from so few facs, and so biased a presentation from the OP.
I think Eric brings an interesting perspective from the point of view of being someone who was dealt a genome that put him outside of the norm. I think that his lack of sympathy here may come as a result of him overcoming a real problem, where something outside of himself made him “different”, and his willingness to overcome it. I don’t know Eric, I have never met him outside of his writings, but I am going to bet that he had pretty strong and supportive parents, and probably something that grabbed his passion while he was young. Something that allowed him to bypass the teenage angst squared that he was subject to. (Apologies for the psycho-analysis Eric — the bill will be in the mail:-)
I should also point out that Eric being male, has an advantage here. For whatever reason, females are far more subject to the pressures to fit in than males are. Again, typing this it seems ironic that Dawna’s problem was fitting in, when she was so explicitly trying to “stand out.” But life is often weird that way.
To add a political perspective to this, there are at least two fundamental flaws in our political systems that contributed to Dawna’s problems. First of all, parental responsibility in totally screwed up. In our current system there is no clearly defined legal framework for parenting that sets out the expectations. Secondly, our education system, which is designed to set a framework for childhood, is majorly messed up. It is that school system (in concern with the parents) which, largely, keep Dawna treated like a baby, stripped her of all responsibilities and authority over herself, and arrogated to itself most rights to decide about her life. It then went on to fail to help her to make good choices. A better school system, less interested in making cookie cutter factory workers, would have done a better job.
In summary, Dawna has my sympathy. Many of the bad things in society put her is a very difficult situation. Not the nasty boys calling her a dyke, not the bad boy selling her meth, but rather a society that teaches her, a young person still trying to get it together in her mind, that she cannot do what Eric so rightly recommends: grab hold of your own choices, take responsibility for yourself, be who you want to be and the hell with everyone else.
This latter attitude is exactly the one that our society, school system and parenting systems are trying to drum out of Dawna, not drum into her.
>On this one, Eric, I disagree.
Not sure what we’d be disagreeing about. All the claims about what-is you make in that comment seem either obviously true or disputable only on relatively minor factual quibbles – even your claim that I don’t fully remember what it was like to be a a teenager.
What I don’t see is how anything you’ve claimed makes any actual difference to the point of the essay. We agree Dawna was no martyr, and your naturalistic analysis of the “core dump decade” doesn’t leave much room for the holy-victim interpretation that “society is to blame”. So, er, what are you disagreeing about?
>I think that the next big paradigm shift in neuropsychiatry, the thing that takes it out of the lab and into practicing medicine, is going to be ways to streamline the ‘core dump decade’.
That’s a prospect that frightens me. We might just rip most of the creativity out of the human species if we calmed that turmoil.
Shenpen: Thus, from a subjectivist/relativist point of view both parties offended each other, and there is no other resolution of the problem than: don’t do stuff others will find offending even if you don’t mean it so, if you don’t want them to do stuff to you that you find offensive. (This is largely what ESR suggested, IMHO.)
This still has the problem of drawing a moral equivalence between “dressing funny” and street harassment. They’re not the same thing; one is inherently self-contained, while the other isn’t. You can run wear whatever you want in the privacy of your own home, but screaming “dyke!” at a blank wall in a room by yourself likely doesn’t fulfill the same need.
A third possibility is to use a pluralist/intersubjectivistic approach, which is my favourite, but that would take too long to explain and I think you aren’t going to take this position anyway, so no point in it.
If you’re going to go on pretending that you can’t see the difference between offending people by looking different, and harassing people in an effort to punish them for causing that offense, then no, I’m probably not going to take that position.
Jeff Read: Turing was a gay man who dressed sharp and was a professional at the top of his game. His government forced him onto hormones (which no doubt chemically affected his mood, possibly contributing to his suicide). I do not see the analogue to this scenario in Dawna’s case. (No one forced her to take that meth.)
Turing refused to hide himself; a boyfriend of his broke into his apartment, and reported that fact. Keeping himself properly closeted for most of his life didn’t help him; the punishment for noncomformance was, in the end, the same.
Also, Eric, I have to ask–did you write this because you saw a comment I’d written on it linking to another comment I’d left here?
>I’m sure you’d be just as quick to myopically blame them for their own alienation and eventual suicide.
Um…you know, there’s a difference between “not blaming society” and “blaming Dawna”. I don’t blame anyone, either Dawna or “society”, for her alienation; she made the choice to be a pink monkey in a world of brown monkeys, and the brown monkeys responded as they usually do. “No rewards or punishments, only consequences” is the position I’m taking on that.
If I wished to assign “blame”, I could “blame” Dawna for taking meth. But I didn’t write that mini-essay to assign blame, just to disrupt the facile, stupid non-thinking that surrounds a lot of holy-victim narratives.
>So… your conclusion is that because you were picked on as a kid and didn’t kill yourself, everybody else should be able to suck it up without complaint?
Basically, yes, that’s it.
Or, at least, that anyone with the choice to “pass” forfeits the right to complain if they can’t handle the merely psychological consequences of being out. Note that I do not say this of consequences that are not merely psychological, like being targeted by gay-bashers or shot full of androgens by your government.
>Somehow, Eric Raymond whinging about how everyone should be as miserable as he was, even if it kills them, fails to impress me.
Then you didn’t get it. I’m not arguing that anyone should be miserable; if I’m arguing anything it’s that they should learn to NOT GIVE A SHIT, the way I did. That’s not misery, it’s autonomy. Individuation. Strength.
>It is, at best, profoundly dim of you to suggest that these people all deserved, at best, a lifetime of crippling denial and fear until they organized, protested, and changed the culture.
Hm…I wouldn’t say “deserved” in a moral sense. But choices have consequences. It just doesn’t do any good to whine that the culture is broken unless you’re willing to pay the freight to change it. I did. Why didn’t Dawna?
>Also, Eric, I have to ask–did you write this because you saw a comment I’d written on it linking to another comment I’d left here?
If that’s why a trackback showed up on my blog, then you were inditrectly responsible, though I was unaware of your comment until after I had decided to respond.
>Not to say that it’s an excuse for destructive behavior, but it is a cause.
And you touch on the reason why I snarked. Because “abuse”, these days, gets treated as a sort of universal bugaboo and/or unfalsifiable explanation of every bad choice and character flaw. “He didn’t do it, it was his abusive childhood!” Feh…
Thomas Covello on 2009-06-08 at 11:28:07 said:
grendelkhan, I think you are reading too much into the essay. From what I understand, esr’s point was that we should hold victims of prejudice responsible for choosing tomake life even worse for themselves, whereas, you believe he thinks we ought to blame victims for the prejudice that they face. Prejudice sucks. And given a bad situation, we ought to make the best of it.
>I think that his lack of sympathy here may come as a result of him overcoming a real problem, where something outside of himself made him “differentâ€, and his willingness to overcome it.
I’m not completely without sympathy for people like Dawna, I’m just not willing to buy the holy-victim narrative when they make stupid choices. Nor do I think anybody else should buy it. In effect, here’s what it says to troubled teens: “Go ahead, fuck yourself up on meth. Everybody will feel just as sorry as for you want them to after you die a romantic martyr to the cause of tolerance.”
Technical point, BTW: palsy is not a genome problem, it”s a consequence of damage to the motor cortex, usually as a result of prenatal or perinatal oxygen deprivation.
>we should hold victims of prejudice responsible for choosing tomake life even worse for themselves
Or, at least, that when they do make things worse for themselves, blaming society causes the wrong lesson to be drawn.
>For whatever reason, females are far more subject to the pressures to fit in than males are.
I was going to let this pass, but…no, I don’t think it is true. The definition of “fit in” varies in subtle ways, and the kinds of pressure exerted do as well, but…I grew up as the oldest of five. Three boys, two girls. And I was observant about this sort of thing, even if oblivious about much else. I’d say peer pressure is equally cruel on both sexes.
Jacek on 2009-06-08 at 12:00:00 said:
> But choices have consequences. It just doesn’t do any good to whine that the culture is broken unless you’re willing to pay the freight to change it.
I used to think it doesn’t do any good to whine about something if you weren’t ready to do something about it. But I’ve since learned that some people are effective whiners – their whining about something makes others do something about it.
Nobody inherently deserves a lifetime of crippling denial and fear. But sure, let people whine, as long as others (or worse, masses) don’t draw the wrong conclusions. I believe Eric’s original article was a clarification of the conclusions that should be drawn from a story that many would find whine-fodder.
Eric, mostly I disagree with your presentation, not your conclusion.
You are attacking a social lubricant, an expression of grief, for being insufficiently dispassionate and rational. In doing so, you also open yourself up to arguments here that could’ve been sidestepped and nullified by presenting your case in a different context.
As to ‘streamlining the core dump years’. I have few doubts that it will happen. This will be a multi-trillion dollar industry (figuring in inflation over the decade or so it’ll take to become mainstream…) It will be embraced by a lot of parents who will want to spare their kids the misery and turmoil they remember.
Please note that because I consider it likely doesn’t mean I consider it a good thing. Just because I consider hyperinfation of the dollar to be likely doesn’t mean I see it as a good thing either…
As to Jessica Boxer’s contention that teenaged rebellion and disrespect are a modern ailment based on our reduced scarcity economy…historical documentation going back to the Second Dynasty of Egypt indicates that it’s been the social norm. Heck, it’s pretty evident in primatology coverage on chimps and bonobos.
What HAS changed is that parental contact is no longer “the majority of waking hours”. We’ve tried to make social structures to compensate for that, they’re not especially functional. (I’m on a mailing list of some very bright people who are all getting into the spawning years. I get way more alternative schooling utopianism flame wars than I’d ever want to deal with.
Just as a note: A trait that’s passed on by evolution merely means it doesn’t kill the bearer before they reproduce. If anything, the tendency to rebel as teenagers means it’s likelier that you’ll run off and join another tribe…
Ah yes – abuse, the “it must have been witchcraft!†of our day.
I’m not sure what this means. I offered that suspicion to explain her actions, not excuse them. She radiates every indication of having been a headcase from the word go. Mind you, I’ve known some truly wonderful headcases, and it’s sad to see them self-destruct, but there’s little that you, I, or “society” can do about it.
Turing refused to hide himself; a boyfriend of his broke into his apartment, and reported that fact. Keeping himself properly closeted for most of his life didn’t help him; the punishment for noncomformance was, in the end, the same.
All of which makes him a much better candidate for status as an innocent victim of a crushingly conformist society than this Dawna who, again, sounds as if she were mental for a long time.
>You are attacking a social lubricant, an expression of grief, for being insufficiently dispassionate and rational.
Oh, bullshit. This “expression of grief”, though doubtless genuine on some level, was mainly a means to the end of condemning nasty old “society” for what it did to Dawna. It was propaganda for a mistaken idea about how the world is or ought to be, and deserves to be engaged on the level of propaganda.
ChrisGreen on 2009-06-08 at 13:18:17 said:
Dawna’s reaction to her ‘otherness’ is so different from my own experiences I’m having a hard time establish any kind of reference by which to interpret her actions. I’m sure she felt different and and unable to connect with most other people and that is painful. However, I think one Eric’s points is that the act of emphasizing your difference with the rest of society in manner calculated to be sensually jarring is an act of imaturity, not an act of noble heroism. This is not to say, however, that Dawna’s death wasn’t tragic. It’s simply to say what I said.
>However, I think one Eric’s points is that the act of emphasizing your difference with the rest of society in manner calculated to be sensually jarring is an act of imaturity, not an act of noble heroism.
Not necessarily. If Dawna had taken a “sensually jarring” oppositional stance and then had the fortitude and talent to translate that into changing the world – making people accept her as she was – I would in fact have considered that heroic. Even if it had begun as immature self-display and taunting.
As it was, her behavior was stupid at nearly the Darwin Award level. And apologetics of the form “bad old society did it” are even stupider.
> I’m not completely without sympathy for people like Dawna, I’m just not willing to buy the
> holy-victim narrative when they make stupid choices.
If Dawna had been 35 years old, my reaction would have been “Dumb bitch, chalk one up for Darwin.” But she was 15, an age when she isn’t necessarily capable of making all these choices. So “society”, by which I mean those who should have taken up that responsibility for her, has dropped the ball on this one.
> In effect, here’s what it says to troubled teens: “Go ahead, fuck yourself up on meth…
Sure, the message is not good, but isn’t it equally important to point out the weaknesses in the parenting and in-loco-parentis structures that allowed her to make these poor choices? I agree broadly with your general point that often we tend to blame minor causes for someone’s problems, when the truth is that it is their own poor choices that put them there. However, in Dawna’s case, there are some other very strong contributing factors to her downfall outside of her control, so I just wonder if there are some other, more convincing, “cleaner” examples to use to make your case.
Further, you seem to dismiss the contribution that abuse may have played. (Of course there is no claim of abuse in the OP, but given that this discussion is a generalization from a particular, allow me to consider it as possible.) To dismiss this as like witchcraft is to underestimate the effect of abuse on children. It can profoundly affect development of basic social skills necessary for living. I agree that it is used as an excuse by adults, but, children are completely different in that regard. Their brains are still forming, and without an appropriate environment they will form poorly. I do not think that psychological diseases are all bullshit.
> Technical point, BTW: palsy is not a genome problem
Apologies.
According to the author of the quoted blog, Dawna was a sensitive soul who loved beautiful things. If this was true, Dawna was expressed herself ineffectively to others (when I say this I don’t mean to downplay the tragedy of her death). For many people, a nearly shaved head and chains brings up images of Nazis, motorcycle gangs and other ugly images. I bring this up because it is something I’ve thought about countless times before I knew anything about Dawna. People (we will call them type C personalities) who go out of their way to stand out always claim ‘self-expression’ as the reason. In other words, they claim they are trying to communicate how they are inside by what they wear on the outside. Amazingly, if this claim is true, it almost always backfires. Most people completely misinterpret their physical appearance. For example, if my Dad sees someone walking around with a mohawk, in his mind, he has just seen a person who avoids responsibility and probably takes drugs. However, the person with the mohawk is offended by this and claims he is trying to communicate that he is a free spirit or some nonsense like that. The point is, for most people, the purpose of obviously and visually standing out is not to ‘express themselves’, but to identify themselves as a member of a sub-culture.
In other words, people who wear mohawks wear them for the exact same reason Indians of the original Mohawks did, to identify themselves as members of a tribe.
Dawna, I think, was a partial exception to this rule. She felt pain and wanted to wear things that expressed that pain (chains). However, I think she also wanted attention (most of us do). She wanted people to see her in her strange clothes, singing in the middle of the street and say, “What a unique person. I want to get to know her so I can appreciate her.” Despite her deviant appearance, she desperately wanted people to recognize her uniqueness and inner beauty and love her for it. Unfortunately, she chose a course of action that did not result in the consequences she wanted. The danger in portraying Dawna as a hero is that you encourage other youth to take the same course of action which results in consequences they are not seeking.
The bottom line is this: If you want people do recognize who you are on the inside (your intelligence, uniqueness, competence, skill, whatever), do not distract them by what you are wearing on the outside or by distracting behavior who sole purpose is to shock.
>But she was 15, an age when she isn’t necessarily capable of making all these choices. So “societyâ€, by which I mean those who should have taken up that responsibility for her, has dropped the ball on this one.
Ah, now we get to play with differing loadings of the word “society”. As you are using the word now, I agree with you. But that’s not the same “society” the author was referencing. Do you really want to bet he didn’t have some inchoate conspiracy of Evil Heterosexual White Males Over Forty in mind? (Hint: the posting I excerpted from used the term “progressives” without irony.) I mean, in practice most screeds like this actually reduce to “See? See? Yet another reason never to vote for a Rethuglican!”
>I just wonder if there are some other, more convincing, “cleaner†examples to use to make your case.
When I find one, I’ll blog about it. But I don’t go searching for stuff like this; I react to it as it swims onto my radar.
>Further, you seem to dismiss the contribution that abuse may have played.
Without more evidence, yes. I wouldn’t have my skepticism filter for “abuse” explanations set so high, though, if the category hadn’t been turned into a nigh-unfalsifiable all-purpose source of bad juju before which we are supposed to turn off all critical faculties.
>I would in fact have considered that heroic. Even if it had begun as immature self-display and taunting.
I see your point. I suppose forcing a staid society to accept someone who is radically different can be heroic if it is a cause you truly believe in, and, like you said, you are prepared to endure the consequences of a pitched battle.
I just think there are too many people in love with the idea of being different and not enough people being good parents and building solar cells that can achieve 30% efficiency.
>I just think there are too many people in love with the idea of being different and not enough people being good parents and building solar cells that can achieve 30% efficiency.
Grendelkhan,
“This still has the problem of drawing a moral equivalence between “dressing funny†and street harassment. They’re not the same thing; one is inherently self-contained, while the other isn’t. You can run wear whatever you want in the privacy of your own home, but screaming “dyke!†at a blank wall in a room by yourself likely doesn’t fulfill the same need.”
No, behaving or dressing any way in public is not inherently self-contained. See, looking it at first from the subjectivist/relativist standpoint, it’s all about conflicting narratives and both sides have consistent narratives. You’ve read one narrative in the original article, and the other one could be something along the lines of “See, we can’t even take our children out to the street anymore, there are all sorts of indecent folks out there who can have an awful influence on them!” This is just as consistent and believable a narrative as the other one. The situation from the subjectivist standpoint looks exactly balanced and fair: both sides can be equally scared, offended or feel hurt, because they both have consistent narratives to explain why and the whole point about the subjectivist/relativist view is that everything is subjective and there are no objective measures to determine which narrative is right and which is wrong.
Now, don’t get me wrong, I’m not advocating this other narrative (I always found the “concerned mothers” kind of narratives unappealing because they are about as sophisticated as a stick), but rather that I’d like to point out the contradictions in marrying a subjectivist/relativist approach to a Progressive view. The subjectivist/relativist approach fits better to the Libertarian view: you are free to live any way you want but others are too free to use any non-agressive ways to make your life difficult if you do it in any way that it affects them, up to and including the case when they plain simply see something they don’t like.
The other option is to give up the subjective/relativist standpoint and try to define either an objective or intersubjective (pluralist) take on morality and decency and suchlike.
I’m not trying to influence you (yet :-) ) in which one to choose, just trying to convince you to accept there is a contradiciton in the mixture of subjectivism with Progressivism, and there are multiple ways out of it.
So I think the ball is in your court. If everything is subjective and relative, then there are no ways to determine that one person’s taking offense at being said things she considers insulting is objectively right and another person’s taking offense at someone dressing in public in way that he considers indecent and influencing their children in a bad way is objectively wrong. I think either you have to give up the subjectivist/relativist approach or the Progressive view, they are inconsistent.
BTW what you wrote before seems like you are not really subjectivist and you try to taking an intuitive-Utilitarian approach to determine objective morality: of two things, the better is the one that hurts less, thus, the pain coming from being offended at someone’s looks is less than the pain from being offended by someone’s words. You haven’t fleshed it out yet, you seem to be doing it on an intuitive, isn’t-it-obvious level (it isn’t), but if it is the case there is some serious work to be done here, because there are obvious questions like how to determine who hurts more and how can one foresee the total amount of pain for everybody coming from a situation, and how pleasure/pain correlates with other things we value in life and can perhaps pain sometimes be a good thing etc. etc. Utilitarianism is a long and complicated story to justify. At the very least, try to justify it with a well-argued Utilitarianism, not just an intuitive Utilitarianism based on simple everyday feelings of empathy.
Bill McAlister on 2009-06-08 at 15:24:52 said:
Unfortunately, there are certain subjects that you cannot talk about dispassionately without sounding heartless. When Malthus began talking about Positive Checks at the end of the 18th century, I’m sure he sounded like a monster to his readers. That didn’t make his observations less true and nor did it make him pro-war, pro-disease, and pro-starvation. They were just dispassionate observations about populations.
It’s obvious to me that esr isn’t in favor of gay bashing. He also doesn’t seem to me to be intolerant of anything other than stupidity and creeping fascism. There’s enough pain and suffering associated with that age without adding to it with bad decisions.
From my perspective, this isn’t a post that I would have been comfortable writing. I do, however, applaud esr for making the attempt and starting a dialog with his audience.
Morgan Greywolf on 2009-06-08 at 15:39:13 said:
@esr: I don’t get the sense that many here understand what (at least I think) you were alluding to in the the title, with the term “protective camouflage”. The author is clearly disguising his (liberal) diatribe on society with the “poor Dawna” story. People here seem to be reading this as a lament on the death on Dawn, when it is, in fact, meant to be a condemnation of society for lacking political correctness. Ironically, the writing is having it’s intended effect on this audience, despite your rebuttal of it: to disguise political speech with tragedy so as to cause others to rebuke any rebuttal of the propaganda. Rather than defending Dawna, we should be deriding the author for using his friend’s death in such an opportunistic manner to
s/to/.
esr: I don’t blame anyone, either Dawna or “societyâ€, for her alienation; she made the choice to be a pink monkey in a world of brown monkeys, and the brown monkeys responded as they usually do. “No rewards or punishments, only consequences†is the position I’m taking on that.
No; she didn’t decide to be, as you put it, a “pink monkey”; she did refuse to paint herself brown or to live in a world that had no use for her. That you see this as her problem says something about you. Refusing to consider why there are what you laughably call “consequences”–to question the brown monkeys, to follow your metaphor–is, in and of itself, a moral judgment.
If I wished to assign “blameâ€, I could “blame†Dawna for taking meth. But I didn’t write that mini-essay to assign blame, just to disrupt the facile, stupid non-thinking that surrounds a lot of holy-victim narratives.
And thence to replace it with the facile, stupid non-thinking that manages to confuse our current block of brainless prejudices with immutable natural law.
Or, at least, that anyone with the choice to “pass†forfeits the right to complain if they can’t handle the merely psychological consequences of being out. Note that I do not say this of consequences that are not merely psychological, like being targeted by gay-bashers or shot full of androgens by your government.
Wait, I’m confused. Are “consequences” like being harassed by random people on the street “merely psychological” or not?
Then you didn’t get it. I’m not arguing that anyone should be miserable; if I’m arguing anything it’s that they should learn to NOT GIVE A SHIT, the way I did. That’s not misery, it’s autonomy. Individuation. Strength.
And it places the responsibility on you, when it’s not really your problem. I suppose it’s helpful to imagine that the solution to any systemic problems you encounter is within yourself, but while it may make you happy, it ensures that everyone else has to go through the same difficulties.
Hm…I wouldn’t say “deserved†in a moral sense. But choices have consequences. It just doesn’t do any good to whine that the culture is broken unless you’re willing to pay the freight to change it. I did. Why didn’t Dawna?
Maybe you had a better support system; maybe you, as a man, were raised to deal with troubling emotions in a different way. Regardless, you seem to have taken an unexpected lesson–not that there was anything wrong with the way you were treated, but that it’s impossible to even attach a “right” or “wrong” label to it, that it’s some sort of impersonal force of, as you put it, “nature”.
And no, you apparently didn’t take an interest in changing the culture, since you’re refusing to even acknowledge that “the culture” is a player here.
If that’s why a trackback showed up on my blog, then you were inditrectly responsible, though I was unaware of your comment until after I had decided to respond.
Yeah, that’d be me. I’m reasonably sure that I’m the only person who reads both Alas, a blog and this one.
Thomas Covello: From what I understand, esr’s point was that we should hold victims of prejudice responsible for choosing to make life even worse for themselves, whereas, you believe he thinks we ought to blame victims for the prejudice that they face. Prejudice sucks. And given a bad situation, we ought to make the best of it.
If that were the moral, I’d still take issue with it, but no, I don’t think he’s saying that we ought to blame victims for the prejudice that they face; he’s saying that the prejudice that victims face is simply nature, and when they’re told in no uncertain terms that they’re better off dead, and take that message to heart, that’s just a consequence. In some ways that’s worse, and yes, it does implicitly blame the victim for not either (a) closeting herself better, or (b) sucking it up. He refuses to question that choice, or even admit that there’s something wrong with it.
esr: Oh, bullshit. This “expression of griefâ€, though doubtless genuine on some level, was mainly a means to the end of condemning nasty old “society†for what it did to Dawna. It was propaganda for a mistaken idea about how the world is or ought to be, and deserves to be engaged on the level of propaganda.
Are you referring to her suicide here? Because if so, wow. It looks like you’re reacting to suicide by claiming that, darn it, she was trying to make you feel bad for her, and you’re not going to give her memory the satisfaction.
Do you really want to bet he didn’t have some inchoate conspiracy of Evil Heterosexual White Males Over Forty in mind? (Hint: the posting I excerpted from used the term “progressives†without irony.) I mean, in practice most screeds like this actually reduce to “See? See? Yet another reason never to vote for a Rethuglican!â€
From the perspective of someone who catches bigotry from a lot of evil, heterosexual, white males, it might well look like a conspiracy. But no, I don’t think anyone is positing a smoke-filled room somewhere, just a set of ideas and preconceptions, of memes like “if you’re driven to suicide, it’s your fault; you shouldn’t have been so different” are all that’s needed.
But it’s illustrative to see that, when presented with terrible things happening to people, you can remember who’s really important here. Best to make sure nobody’s ragging on the defenseless old white straight dudes.
Shenpen: No, behaving or dressing any way in public is not inherently self-contained. See, looking it at first from the subjectivist/relativist standpoint, it’s all about conflicting narratives and both sides have consistent narratives. You’ve read one narrative in the original article, and the other one could be something along the lines of “See, we can’t even take our children out to the street anymore, there are all sorts of indecent folks out there who can have an awful influence on them!†This is just as consistent and believable a narrative as the other one. The situation from the subjectivist standpoint looks exactly balanced and fair: both sides can be equally scared, offended or feel hurt, because they both have consistent narratives to explain why and the whole point about the subjectivist/relativist view is that everything is subjective and there are no objective measures to determine which narrative is right and which is wrong.
Bah. I’m reminded of Christians complaining that they’re oppressed! oppressed! if their cultural influence doesn’t thoroughly suffuse the culture. Dominant groups tend to have a different set of standards for what they’re allowed to do and what others are allowed to do.
If the worst that Dawna had to put up with was seeing everyone around her dressed in t-shirts reading “Straight and Proud!” or the like, while the straight folk in this story had carloads of furious lesbians blazing by, screaming “BREEDER!” in an attempt to intimidate them when they went outside, then I doubt we’d be talking about how the situations are equivalent. Despite your referencing of libertarian ideas like the Non-Aggression Principle, you’re still drawing an equivalence between dressing offensively and harassment. It’s not equivalent. The people complaining about how much it hurts them to see someone walking around looking strange aren’t going to become so distraught and cut off from it that they feel that suicide is their only option.
And no, screaming at people from a passing car isn’t simply “words”. It’s not the same as reading, say, a post here on the internet. It’s not the same as reading a t-shirt. There’s a reason I keep using the word “harassment”; your attempts to claim that both sides have equal claim to being offended is downright laughable.
But if you really think there’s an equivalence, please find me an example of a straight person made so despondent by gays walking around in flamboyant clothing and strange hairstyles that they killed themselves. Go on. I’ll wait.
Morgan Graywolf: People here seem to be reading this as a lament on the death on Dawn, when it is, in fact, meant to be a condemnation of society for lacking political correctness.
Oh, really? Pray tell, how did you come to that conclusion? What did you think was the point? What, then, was the subtle hidden agenda being covered up? Care to elaborate on just what you mean by “political correctness”?
K Wood on 2009-06-08 at 16:05:52 said:
“We are supposed to react to this story with pity and loathing at the death of the holy victim. Sorry, but my reaction was that Dawna was clearly asking for what she got. If she didn’t want the local monkeys to “other†her, why did she dress funny?”
Thank you for telling me how I’m supposed to react to this story, I don’t think that I cold have made up my mind otherwise. I thought it was sad, but I think you’re wrong. The only feelings that I felt were sadness at the death – if you’ve never buried someone then you’ve no idea, and distaste that people still think that sexuality deserves derision. But that is something that needs to be addressed at a societal level. Your reactions however gives the impression that you’re a mouth-breathing, bigoted oxygen thief, perhaps we should start mocking you.
I don’t think you realize just how narrow you are. You claim that you have ” way-out-of-the-mainstream beliefs ” and yet as evidenced by not only this article, but many of your previous articles you show your self to be more ideologically tied to the extreme right. You’re the relgious conservative without the religion. You have a few ideals that are outside of the norm, but you fit more into society than you probably care to admit.
If we went off of looks then you probably wouldn’t get much more respect than the an uneducated ignorant factory worker and I wouldn’t get much more. And yet you’ve shown that you have a decent ability to make your thoughts understood and have even come up with an original thought or two of your own. You’re happy looking the way that you do and “fighting the good fight” by speaking out against ideas that you oppose, while fitting in with society. And so you perpetuate that status quo. You’re happy not upsetting the balance, if we listen to your “be different or look different but you can’t have them both stance” then our society would have a much different structure.
And yet you advocate living life in fear. It doesn’t matter if you are different and look different, you can only be one. That is a very vacuous agrument. If she dressed all nice and pretty like a good girl should then she might not have been any happier, she might have been worse off becasue she might have felt that had to hide who she was. But since you and I are both making assumptions about the deceased then we’re both just making asses out of ourselves.
“The world did not kill Dawna. Dawna’s bad choices killed Dawna. Bad choice #1: taking a visibly oppositional stance without having the inner strength not to buckle. Bad choice #2: taking nasty drugs to cope with bad choice #1.”
Yes she made choices that ultimately led to her end, but there were also choices that the people around her made that influenced those choices. you make the assumption that the world has no influence on a person. Again it’s great in theory, but wrong in reality. Environment greatly influences a persons decisions. She probably didn’t want to change how she looked or acted becuase she felt that was who she was. She probably didn’t want to change the world, just to live her life. Next you make the assumption that she knew that she didn’t have the strength to not buckle. Bad assumption, completly baseless especially at a young age when many kids think that they can do anything. You quit a corporate job because of the influence that their attitudes had on you. You were miserable, blah, blah, blah so you quit. You made a decision based upon people’s treatment of you. You knew that you had something else to fall back on. At the age of 15, your local society has already made thier decisions about you and now you have no where to go and still be yourself. Someone who has to hide who they are are miserable more often than not.
You do redeem yourself by mentioning that she wasted all of her potential, but that’s the one shining moment amongst an otherwise poorly thought out and written essay. You’ve managed to continue to derided her after she died, congratualtions? I wonder if that makes you feel good?
P.S. How is a treeful of parrots gay? Is it as gay as a treeful of birds-of-paradise? Or how about a cliffside of baboons? Maybe school of dolphins? Or a Flock of Seagulls?
May I ask a question? The problem might be in my receptors and not in your argument, but to me it totally looks like you are not arguing at all, meaning, you aren’t trying to prove that something is rational, logical and practical and works well and so on. To me it totally looks like you are playing emotional cards under the guise of a rational argument, cards like “you must agree with me or you are a bad, BAD person”, generally, trying to “guilt-trip” people. To instill an emotion of guilt or bad conscience or to generate a feeling of feeling bad about oneself and thus a desire to join those who can feel good about themselves etc. You aren’t really trying to convey any sort of logical, coherent, rational and practical political philosophy, to me it totally looks like you are just trying to play the “agree with me or feel bad about yourself, feel guilty” card. Are my receptors wrong or is it really so? I don’t consider it to be a good thing. It almost looks like the mirror opposite of the Fundie arguments, and usually if something is bad, the opposite of it is equally bad…
my previous comment was before your previous one (was meant as a reply to your previous comment to ESR) (I just wanted to make it clear, it’s hard to reference individual posts here), so here’s the reply to your reply adressed to me:
OK my suspicion is right: you are pretty much a Utilitarian, you think the two things aren’t equivalent because they cause different amounts of pain. This is Utilitarianism: the political philosophy that claims that 1) life is all about pleasure and pain 2) levels of pleasure and pain between people are objectively comparable 3) we should be aiming and maximizing pleasure for all and minimizing pain for all. I think this is clearly decided now.
Utilitarianism is one of the many possible ways to construct moral and ethical philosophies, I don’t say there is something _inherently_ wrong about it. If I’d be debating with a clear, admitted Utilitarian, I’d propose some arguments but my problem with you is deeper: why don’t you just say so? Why don’t you just say I’m a Utilitarian, I believe in the above three, I think situation X causes less pain than situation Y, thus X is less wrong and Y is more wrong and so on?
Why do I have to GUESS you are a Utilitarian, dammit? This looks so childish to me, that I have to make _your_ job instead of you i.e. to identify your emotional standpoint with a well-known and fairly well-argued philosophical standpoint.
Why don’t you make it clear and make a rational case for it? Why are you playing cards to emotions like guilt and empathy, why don’t you form it into a consistent Utilitarian argument?
It’s so annoying when I debate with people who don’t even make a case for a kind of philosophy but I have to _guess_ their philosophy from their emotional appeals. You are smarter than that, you have enough brains to make an emotion-free rational case – so why?
Correction: “I have to do _your_ job” instead of “I have to make _your_ job” (in my native language “make” and “do” are equivalent).
“I don’t get the sense that many here understand what (at least I think) you were alluding to in the the title, with the term “protective camouflageâ€. The author is clearly disguising his (liberal) diatribe on society with the “poor Dawna†story. People here seem to be reading this as a lament on the death on Dawn, when it is, in fact, meant to be a condemnation of society for lacking political correctness. Ironically, the writing is having it’s intended effect on this audience, despite your rebuttal of it: to disguise political speech with tragedy so as to cause others to rebuke any rebuttal of the propaganda. Rather than defending Dawna, we should be deriding the author for using his friend’s death in such an opportunistic manner to”
This isn’t about political correctness, it’s about a) tact, b) respecting the dead (only because they can’t defend themselves) and c) whether society should share in the blame. There is a difference between using a derisive name in casual converstaion and shouting out derisive phrases at somebody that you just happen to see in the street.
> you have enough brains to make an emotion-free rational case
Hey! I thought you were a conservative – doesn’t that mean that, like Hume, you believe that on some level our moral beliefs always find some ground in emotion?
“Hey! I thought you were a conservative – doesn’t that mean that, like Hume, you believe that on some level our moral beliefs always find some ground in emotion?”
That’s a very good but complicated question. I can’t fully answer it in a comment. As a short and inadequate answer I think this is an oversimplification of Hume’s idea of the primacy of passions, which doesn’t simply mean playing cards of empathy and guilt are OK, and besides Conservatism isn’t strictly based on Hume. I think it’s based or SHOULD be based on a kind of practicalism, realism, on how things actually work, which means in human matters: how human nature works, on a kind of a realistic, experience-based psychological knowledge about how _other_ people think, feel and react. Taking emotions into account and _calculating_ with them, but the emphasis is on the rational _calculating_ with common emotions and not on the direct (ab)use of them in our own thinking. I think in it there always must be a difference between the strongly emotional common people and the philosophers or politicians who calculate with these emotions and the two should not be confused. There should be a difference between the people’s raw emotions about something and the philosophers or politicians’s rational thinking about the emotional stance of the people. And, of course, another important point is understanding there are other emotions to human well-being and living a decent life than pleasure and pain. As I said it’s complicated…
> Oh, bullshit. This “expression of griefâ€, though doubtless genuine on some level, was mainly a means to the end of condemning nasty old “society†for what it did to Dawna. It was propaganda for a mistaken idea about how the world is or ought to be, and deserves to be engaged on the level of propaganda.
I disagree. You’re trying to make sense of her behaviour by grafting it onto a rational framework, and it’s not very convincing because she probably wasn’t behaving rationally. She had probably just whipped herself into such a frenzy that the delayed-gratification circuits just switched off and her sole priority became escaping pain immediately.
>You’re trying to make sense of her behaviour by grafting it onto a rational framework,
Er…not Dawna’s expression of grief, the expression of the author of the eulogy to her.
>No; she didn’t decide to be, as you put it, a “pink monkeyâ€; she did refuse to paint herself brown or to live in a world that had no use for her.
Fool, we all have to paint ourselves brown. Pretty much every time we interact with other human beings in numbers more than one. I get no exemption from this, you don’t, and Dawna didn’t either. People who don’t paint themselves brown are called “mental patients”.
>Wait, I’m confused. Are “consequences†like being harassed by random people on the street “merely psychological†or not?
Yes. You think I haven’t had “Cripple!” and “Freak!” yelled at me by a carful of passing bozos? It stops being psychological when they start throwing things. And I, unlike lucky Dawna, didn’t have the option of not dressing funny.
>And it places the responsibility on you, when it’s not really your problem. I suppose it’s helpful to imagine that the solution to any systemic problems you encounter is within yourself, but while it may make you happy, it ensures that everyone else has to go through the same difficulties.
And in what universe will everyone else not have to? Human beings are only semi-domesticated primates. If you paint yourself pink, or are stuck being pink, the brown monkeys are going to taunt you. Conform, learn not to give a shit, or persuade them that pink is the new brown: those are all the coping options you have and all the coping options anyone is ever likely to have.
You can’t fix the conformity problem. The most you can manage is to change the definition of “conform”.
>Regardless, you seem to have taken an unexpected lesson–not that there was anything wrong with the way you were treated
No. There was a lot wrong with the way I was treated. But there was no way to fix it by whining. Blaming people for being meanies wouldn’t fix my limp or my clumsiness. Blaming people for being meanies wouldn’t have changed my options (which were narrower than Dawna’s) in any way whatsoever – they still amounted to either learning how not to give a shit or folding.
>And no, you apparently didn’t take an interest in changing the culture, since you’re refusing to even acknowledge that “the culture†is a player here.
Today’s pop culture is a lot more geek-friendly than it was thirty years ago. A couple of things I did have helped the trend along.
>He’s saying that the prejudice that victims face is simply nature, and when they’re told in no uncertain terms that they’re better off dead, and take that message to heart, that’s just a consequence
No, Thomas got it mostly right and you didn’t: I’m saying we should not hold “society” responsible when victims of prejudice choose to make life even worse for themselves.
I didn’t have a choice about whether to limp or not; Dawna at least had the choice not to dress in a way she knew would offend and disturb people. Since she chose that anyway, she bought the predictable consequences and owned them. All of them, starting with her secondary gain from feeling like a bitchin’ cool iconoclast to being yelled at on the street.
Comes back to my original question: if she didn’t want the local monkeys to “other” her, why did she dress funny?
Stephen on 2009-06-08 at 19:39:26 said:
As someone who is gay, I couldn’t agree more with ESRs lack of empathy. I have a great dislike for feel-good stories about ‘outsiders’, who are outsiders because of their own actions. Not only do “outsiders” expect people to feel sorry for them or be disturbed by them, quite often they seek it.
I don’t believe this is lacking empathy on the part of anyone who feels this way, if you care for these people, give them your time and understand them you will have become exhausted long before they feel better. As some one with a string of unlucky early-life circumstances I say that anyone with problems needs the intrinsic motivation to stop feeding on other peoples sympathy, empathy or attachment and make a better life for themselves.
Chalking your problems up to culture or human nature problems is counter-productive, it does not matter what caused your problems. There is only one damn person who will your problems, guess who that is.
eek. some corrections
* ‘feel-good stories’ refers to the lone outsider who is too good for this world and all that excrement
* I hope the two different takes on empathy are not too confusing.
Oh, really? Pray tell, how did you come to that conclusion? What did you think was the point? What, then, was the subtle hidden agenda being covered up? Care to elaborate on just what you mean by “political correctness�
Read much? Or were just two “moved” to see it?
The author is clearly condemning the world for being “homophobic” and for determining what is “normal.” While I don’t condone discrimination, I also don’t think you can erase people’s prejudices. A prejudice is just that — a condition by which someone prejudges another person, usually based on superficial things like skin color or sexual orientation. I don’t think you can erase that — people fear that which is different from themselves. It’s instinctual, born of tribal societies. People from different tribes were different, and hence, to be instinctually feared.
What people can do is control is their own actions — what they do about the fear, but not the fear itself. That’s not going away, and condemning it is akin to condemning the desire to eat or reproduce. The desire to reproduce might result in repulsive, immoral or illegal behavior — but most people are able to control those urges. Same goes for prejudice and fear of outsiders.
I’m not saying I necessarily disagree that the people should do what they can to end discrimination against homosexuals, and maybe that’s the part of the author’s intent. But even if I agree with that conclusion, I disagree with the means to express that desired conclusion. The guy’s an opportunist, and, IMHO, he has dishonored his friend’s memory.
Matt Lemmons on 2009-06-08 at 21:59:13 said:
The article makes it sound like she was caught in a vicious cycle. No friends led to displaying weird behavior and public histrionics in order to attract people, but of course, she was too weird to do anything but turn most people off to her. This continued until she was permanently a weirdo.
The drugs though…there’s no excuse for that, and at age 15, that is a huge parental failure.
Also, I’m sorry but this section:
“They didn’t take joy in her oddness, in her willingness to sing in the middle of the street, in her humor, in her desire to leave strange and beautiful things in public places for strangers to find and puzzle over.”
makes her sound like one of those kids who doesn’t fit in and takes it out on everyone else by being as loud and obnoxious as humanly possible. I didn’t really fit in in high school, but I never stooped to behaving like an idiot in public to prove a point about “society.”
Why don’t these people who are “weird” or “outside the norm” understand that there are a lot of SO-CALLED and perceived normal people who equally suffer in silence but learn to adjust in society because of their perceived normality? Abnormalities or weirdness are not always visible to the outside. It might be purely mental, psychological or even spiritual.
As ESR said, society today is a lot MORE accepting of deviations from the standard than in the past. But not all deviations are equally created, politically speaking. What I object to is politically motivated groups who continue to play the “victim” card either for sympathy or for getting society to actively and repeatedly ‘celebrate’ their status. I don’t understand why this should be so… that’s like forcing your abnormality down the throats of ordinary people and THAT is what I severely object to. I don’t want to interfere with anybody’s social or political freedom but that doesn’t mean I should actively participate in approving or celebrating them at every opportunity. Normal people (in the sense of people who otherwise conform) should equally have the freedom NOT to endorse or support these groups.
I am reasonably sympathetic towards people who genuinely suffer on account of their abnormalities or what society considers as deviations from the norm. But I don’t want to celebrate them merely on account of their ‘abnormal’ status, especially if such a status is self-inflicted.
>“They didn’t take joy in her oddness, in her willingness to sing in the middle of the street, in her humor, in her desire to leave strange and beautiful things in public places for strangers to find and puzzle over.†makes her sound like one of those kids who doesn’t fit in and takes it out on everyone else by being as loud and obnoxious as humanly possible.
That far I won’t go. I’ve known some people with traits like that who weren’t obnoxious posers; my feeling from the essay is Dawna might have been one of them. I actually think I might have liked her in person.
When I say “If she didn’t want the local monkeys to ‘other’ her, why did she dress funny?”, I do not intend the accusation that Dawna actively got in peoples’ faces all the time. In her confused artistic way, she probably thought she was making some sort of noble personal statement by passively getting in The Man’s face with her manner of dress and carriage.
Well, the monkey pack got the message and pushed back. And she gave the monkeys something to push against by desperately needing their approval and feeling broken when she didn’t get it. Which was entirely her problem…
pete on 2009-06-08 at 22:44:06 said:
No. There was a lot wrong with the way I was treated. But there was no way to fix it by whining. Blaming people for being meanies wouldn’t fix my limp or my clumsiness. Blaming people for being meanies wouldn’t have changed my options (which were narrower than Dawna’s) in any way whatsoever – they still amounted to either learning how not to give a shit or folding.
Then you haven’t understood Mandolin’s post.
She is saying that a society that limits Dawnas to those two choices is inferior to a society that accepts them.
Yes. You think I haven’t had “Cripple!†and “Freak!†yelled at me by a carful of passing bozos? It stops being psychological when they start throwing things. And I, unlike lucky Dawna, didn’t have the option of not dressing funny.
That’s a really weird place to be drawing the line. I would say it stops being “merely psychological” once an implied threat of violence is involved. (assuming the backpedal from “merely pschological” to “psychlogical” was unintentional)
>She is saying that a society that limits Dawnas to those two choices is inferior to a society that accepts them.
OK, I agree. So what?
There will never, ever, ever be a society that offers more choices than that to monkeys who are pink and can’t scrub it off. The only possibility is that the definition of “pink” will change. And as I keep pointing out, Dawna at least had the choice not to dress funny. Unlike me.
>That’s a really weird place to be drawing the line.
It’s a pragmatic one. I’ve been in worse shit than Dawna was in. I learned what I had to be and what to do to survive. She didn’t.
Craig "Fuzzy" Conner on 2009-06-08 at 22:54:19 said:
grendelkhan said:
But it’s illustrative to see that, when presented with terrible things happening to people, you can remember who’s really important here. Best to make sure nobody’s ragging on the defenseless old white straight dudes.
The “old white straight dudes” phrase/stereotype you use there made me laugh. By using it, you’re proving that particular point for Eric.
For anyone who doesn’t know, I’m an old white straight dude. This may surprise you, but I occasionally empathize with other people. And if that’s not enough to surprise you, I’m pretty sure that I haven’t made anyone do meth/crack/heroin/whatever.
I’m not offended when people’s stereotypes cause them to incorrectly perceive me. It’s sometimes fun to show them otherwise.
Dawna employed a lot of attention getting devices. Perhaps she should have employed attention giving devices. If she’d done so, she might have met more people who would’ve met her half way (if that expression isn’t too old or too white for you).
esr said: “That far I won’t go. I’ve known some people with traits like that who weren’t obnoxious posers; my feeling from the essay is Dawna might have been one of them. I actually think I might have liked her in person.”
It’s a possibility, but my personal experience as something of a high school loser leads me to believe that there are two camps among the weird: the very loud and the very quiet, with practically no gray area in between. This is “scene kids” vs. geeks, essentially.
I didn’t mean to go too far or anything; I’m sorry this woman never figured out a way to connect with other people. It’s a truly saddening story, and I don’t mean to give offense.
>There will never, ever, ever be a society that offers more choices than that to monkeys who are pink and can’t scrub it off. The only possibility is that the definition of “pink†will change.
The definition of “pink” has changed. Mandolin is celebrating that change, and she uses Dawna as an example of why that change is so important (read the whole post, and note that the part you excerpt is an “Update”).
>And as I keep pointing out, Dawna at least had the choice not to dress funny.
Dawna’s choices:
A) Dress funny, be miserable.
B) Dress normal, be miserable.
She actually had less choices available to her than you did.
>The definition of “pink†has changed. Mandolin is celebrating that change, and she uses Dawna as an example of why that change is so important
1. Why is it important to everybody in society? If people have the freedom to dress funny, other people equally have the freedom not to accept that or even actively criticize or reject it…
2. Why should we all be forced to celebrate that change?
>1. Why is it important to everybody in society? If people have the freedom to dress funny, other people equally have the freedom not to accept that or even actively criticize or reject it…
Are you using “actively criticize or reject” as a euphemism for “harrass”?
>2. Why should we all be forced to celebrate that change?
No one’s forcing you to do anything.
> Dawna’s choices:
> A) Dress funny, be miserable.
> B) Dress normal, be miserable.
To be really frank, who gives a crap what choices a person has individually. It’s the individual who determines their state of mind no matter what their position in society is. I doubt very much that society cares or even wants to know what one’s individual choices are…
If a person chooses to let society determine their state of mind, I can only say that it’s either a medical condition (clinical depression) or attitude problem. If that person chooses not to recognize that as a problem then what can society do?
> Are you using “actively criticize or reject†as a euphemism for “harrass�
If you mean I am for harrassment, I’m not. But acceptance that harrassment is a fact of life and learning to deal with it effectively is a lot different than trying to pretend it out of existence or complaining about it to no effect.
By the way, there are Laws against harrassment and abuse in almost every country. Why don’t people go to the police if it’s really that big a problem?
> No one’s forcing you to do anything.
No, not personally. I accept anybody so long as they don’t actively interfere with me. Also I don’t mean that freedom should be denied to anybody on the basis of their weirdness, race, religion, physical characteristics, sex etc etc.
But you would like society to endorse and celebrate weirdness which I will not, personally speaking. Otherwise what’s the debate about?
If you’re speaking about legal freedom to do certain things, I believe that the Laws of many countries are liberal enough to accept weirdness in any form, even if the societies themselves are not ready for change.
I know the point you’re making though, but the social change of the kind you’re talking about doesn’t happen so quickly as you might want.
>It’s the individual who determines their state of mind no matter what their position in society is.
Science would disagree with you there.
>By the way, there are Laws against harrassment and abuse in almost every country. Why don’t people go to the police if it’s really that big a problem?
lol… wait… you’re serious aren’t you?
>She actually had less choices available to her than you did.
You’re leaving out the correct choice: learn how not to give a shit about what the other monkeys think, and stop being miserable.
How do I know this choice is correct? Simple: I survived. She didn’t.
> Science would disagree with you there.
What science? Science itself is a product of human intelligence and is subject to its limitations. Do you really believe that science has all the answers to your social problems? If so, we would be living in Utopia today.
> lol… wait… you’re serious aren’t you?
I can only understand from that reply that you’ve run out of arguments to a very practical and pragmatic suggestion to victims of abuse. You WANT to work outside the system and yet you want the system to accept and celebrate weirdness.
I can only say that you’re living in a different planet. :P
>You’re leaving out the correct choice: learn how not to give a shit about what the other monkeys think, and stop being miserable.
An even better choice: learn how not to give a shit about what the other monkeys think, and stop being miserable and a pony!!1!.
>I can only understand from that reply that you’ve run out of arguments to a very practical and pragmatic suggestion to victims of abuse.
“Go to the police” is not a “very practical and pragmatic suggestion” — even if they don’t reinforce the harrassment, there’s not a lot they can do about it.
Non-smartarse response: she was as capable of making that choice as you were of “choosing” to walk normally.
Let’s put this into perspective, pete, unless you’re really arguing for the sake of argument, in which case, there’s not much point in this debate. You’re debating on a platform of weakness while I am actually on the platform of strength because I have recognized that there are two sides to any issue and I am stating things from the most practical and real-worldly standpoint.
Unlike ESR, I cannot make any academic or researched answers to your questions, because I admit that I am not a researcher or an academic into these kinds of issues.
The majority of “society” as you choose to call it, comprise of ordinary, average “mind your business and I’ll mind mine” type of people who aren’t really bother either way about deep sociological issues like you’re debating about.
Your argument about “Science” is flawed because Science can only be factual when based on established facts. Social science or other kinds of science don’t really reach that kind of certainty about anything much less about human emotion and the workings of the mind because scientists still haven’t figured out everything about how the human brain works or functions.
> “Go to the police†is not a “very practical and pragmatic suggestion†— even if they don’t reinforce the harrassment, there’s not a lot they can do about it.
Whether or not going to the police is totally effective, it is ONE of the legitimate and practical reliefs afforded by society to victims of crime, abuse or harassment whoever they might be. It negates your whole argument that “society” does nothing to stop harassment or that society turns a blind eye to genuine victims, because the police force is the agency of society to enforce its laws, even though the enforcement might not be perfect or absolute at all times.
It might be an imperfect system, but it is a far more effective way than whining or complaining about it ineffectively. Bullies who harass and abuse are inherently cowards. One single arrest can send them all running for cover. On the other hand, that society does not have to accept or celebrate the weirdness of people who CHOOSE to flaunt their weirdness in full public view and not expect ridicule, rejection or criticism.
And no, I don’t buy into the premise that society HAS to accept and celebrate weirdness in order to effectively enforce laws against criminals and bullies who harass abuse people based on their weirdness.
There’s a qualitative difference which you will turn a blind eye to because you think both problems are equal in nature.
>And no, I don’t buy into the premise that society HAS to accept and celebrate weirdness in order to effectively enforce laws against criminals and bullies who harass abuse people based on their weirdness.
You’re forgetting that the police are a part of society (and are often one of the more reactionary parts of society). Unless society in general accepts “weird” people, then specific members of society such as the police are unlikely to enforce laws against harrassment.
> You’re forgetting that the police are a part of society (and are often one of the more reactionary parts of society). Unless society in general accepts “weird†people, then specific members of society such as the police are unlikely to enforce laws against harrassment.
Society in “general” doesn’t HAVE to accept anything. That is my point.
On the other hand the police have a LEGAL DUTY to respond to every call of distress from victims of crime. Huge difference between the two.
You are assuming that the whole of society is “bad” and therefore you have to reject society and all its relief mechanisms. That’s a huge assumption not based on facts or reality but on your emotional response to a single victim of crime. In essence you’re throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
And before you argue my point about the police, I’m not saying that the police don’t have its bad apples. Every part of society has its bad apples.
But from there to your assumptions are a long way and disconnected in more ways than one.
Jake Fischer on 2009-06-09 at 01:35:46 said:
Technical point, BTW: palsy is not a genome problem, it’’s a consequence of damage to the motor cortex, usually as a result of prenatal or perinatal oxygen deprivation.
Wikipedia says you’re wrong:
Recent research has demonstrated that intrapartum asphyxia is not the most important cause, probably accounting for no more than 10 percent of all cases; rather, infections in the mother, even infections that are not easily detected, may triple the risk of the child developing the disorder, mainly as the result of the toxicity to the fetal brain of cytokines that are produced as part of the inflammatory response.
>Society in “general†doesn’t HAVE to accept anything. That is my point.
Society in general does HAVE to accept that people who are different also have rights. (If by “have to” you mean “is morally required to”)
>On the other hand the police have a LEGAL DUTY to respond to every call of distress from victims of crime. Huge difference between the two.
1) the sort of low-level harrassment in the story might not be a criminal offence.
2) the police won’t always do their legal duty if an intolerant society will not hold them to account for failing to do so.
“Today’s pop culture is a lot more geek-friendly than it was thirty years ago.”
In fact, the “hipster” phenomenon can be seen as imitating geeks in everything except those very things that are actually valuable and worthwile in the geek culture. http://20.media.tumblr.com/37jsqloFrnqwy5e1HhucjvKCo1_500.jpg
>Non-smartarse response: she was as capable of making that choice as you were of “choosing†to walk normally.
Um, and you know this how? I think it’s quite a bit more likely that Dawna bought in early to a falsehood much of our culture teaches – that you never have to choose between self-expression and social acceptance.
Nevertheless, let’s assume your premise is correct. You want me to believe that (a) Dawna had an intense need for social approval she couldn’t change, and (b) Dawna had an intense need to dress funny, e.g. do things that were guaranteed to make the other monkeys reject her.
Under these premises, Dawna was as doomed as a baby with Tay-Sachs syndrome. The contradictory urges of her own nature killed her, not “society”, and there is nothing “society” could have done to prevent it.
For “society” to be a gulty party in Dawna’s death (as the eulogist would have it), one of those premises has to be false. Choose.
> Society in general does HAVE to accept that people who are different also have rights. (If by “have to†you mean “is morally required toâ€)
Well granted they have been given rights. What you are asking for is far greater than merely legal rights. You are asking for approval and participation in the weirdness by asking society to celebrate it. THAT is a ridiculous extension of those “rights”.
> 1) the sort of low-level harrassment in the story might not be a criminal offence.
I’m a law student and I can tell you that it definitely is – at least where I live.
> 2) the police won’t always do their legal duty if an intolerant society will not hold them to account for failing to do so.
What you are again assuming is that SOCIETY in general is intolerant. Which I reject totally as being your unfounded emotional conclusion based on a few random events.
Under these premises, Dawna was as doomed as a baby with Tay-Sachs syndrome. The contradictory urges of her own nature killed her, not “societyâ€, and there is nothing “society†could have done to prevent it.
For “society†to be a gulty party in Dawna’s death (as the eulogist would have it), one of those premises has to be false. Choose.
The false premise is that there is nothing society can do to prevent it. If Dawna was born twenty years later she might have been fine.
Just as a society that has a cure for Tay-Sachs would be better to ours, our more tolerant society is better than the one that drove Dawna to kill herself.
>The false premise is that there is nothing society can do to prevent it. If Dawna was born twenty years later she might have been fine.
How is twenty years later supposed to help if Dawna has a simultaneous need for social approval and need to incur social disapproval?
Again, for “society” to be implicated, one of these premises has to be false.
>Again, for “society†to be implicated, one of these premises has to be false.
I see what you meant now. (b) is false. She could have acted and dressed the way she did today and she probably would have been fine.
>I see what you meant now. (b) is false. She could have acted and dressed the way she did today and she probably would have been fine.
You don’t get it. Someone with the psychological wiring Dawna appears to have had wouldn’t dress like that today. Instead she’d find a way to dress to offend by today’s standards.
In fact, the “hipster†phenomenon can be seen as imitating geeks in everything except those very things that are actually valuable and worthwile in the geek culture.
Indeed. In fact, The IT Crowd and The Big Bang Theory notwithstanding, we give lip service to geeks but do not incorporate geek values into our society’s fabric. Look at what is happening with regard to science, for instance: there is such a backlash against it that millions of Oprah viewers consider Jenny McCarthy an authority on autism. Jenny “pose on a toilet” McCarthy. Of all people.
Russell Nelson on 2009-06-09 at 09:44:10 said:
pete goes out on the short pier and leaps. He says that Dawna was incapable of choosing to ignore other people’s feelings about her and thus that choice was not available to her. How does he know this?
Paul Brinkley on 2009-06-09 at 09:55:59 said:
On a lark, I went back to Alas! and looked for comments responding to the discourse here. Many fewer comments there – basically, just the author, Mandolin’s – wherein ESR’s article is promptly branded as hate speech. Mandolin even entertains removing mention of this article there.
This is certainly Mandolin’s prerogative, just as it is ESR’s to remove my comment here. Meanwhile, Mandolin comes across as selfish to anyone who thinks about it for a while (essentially, the entire world must bend its value system for every Dawna in it, while every Dawna need not bother reciprocating), and intolerant of other values at the same time (I guess ESR doesn’t qualify as a Dawna; ironically, he’s the one thinking about others’ comfort). Boy, did Mandolin shoot himself in the foot.
Re: Jenny McCarthy: FWIW, I’ve come to admire her. In many ways she’s as odd as Dawna, but she’s obviously managed to survive nevertheless. To an extent, like Eric, she’s learned not to give a shit; at the same time, she appears to have needed enough external validation to have tweaked her image, intended or not. (It also helped that she’s a beautiful woman, but then, ESR’s a smart man; we each play our hands.)
radu on 2009-06-09 at 11:28:39 said:
morgan greywolf says it all: People here seem to be reading this as a lament on the death on Dawn, when it is, in fact, meant to be a condemnation of society for lacking political correctness. Ironically, the writing is having it’s intended effect on this audience, despite your rebuttal of it: to disguise political speech with tragedy so as to cause others to rebuke any rebuttal of the propaganda. Rather than defending Dawna, we should be deriding the author for using his friend’s death in such an opportunistic manner.
I think I am becoming paranoid. esr’s previous post was about answering emotional attitudes with emotional responses (mockery followed emotional contradiction; esr’s answer about disarmed non-sheep would have made no sense in a reasoned debate). Most of the comments with very few exceptions focused on arms control – merits and feelings.
The only way I can read today’s post is again as a meta-story. “It’s not about Dawna. We really know nothing about her. All we know is about the author of a story featuring a girl with this name. Any comments on Dawna as a person are as much out of place and despicable as gossiping on lowly tabloid articles. Actually, despite appearances, esr passes no judgment on Dawna as a flesh and blood person; he only refers to her as a character in a story. He even acknowledges it in his first post: My goal wasn’t to “chastise†Dawna, but to point out that holy-victim stories like these are often describing remarkably stupid, willfully self-destructive behavior from a person and then attributing the consequences from that behavior to anyone but that person. It leads to the wrong lessons being drawn.” So once again, i feel esr pulling our legs and helping us make fools of ourselves, while eluding any responsibility. So, unless I am truly paranoid: Bravo, esr! Chapeau!
Hari >It’s the individual who determines their state of mind no matter what their position in society is.
Pete >Science would disagree with you there.
Which science were you referring to here Pete? From what I know of the psychology of happiness, Hari captures a reasonable representation of the science. For example, in Sonja Lyubomirsky’s book “The How of Happiness”, she summarizes many years of her psychological research at the University of California. In this book she contends that happiness is 50% genetics, 10% circumstantial, and 40% self determined. Dawna might have fallen short on the first two, but had control of the latter at least. Of particular consequence here is Lyubomirsky’s contention that circumstances have only a very small direct affect on one’s happiness, 10% only, though there is a second order effect in its impact on your attitude — that last 40%.
I can also offer as circumstantial evidence this: I have been to small villages in parts of Africa, where the people have almost nothing. Children have no healthcare, barely enough food, little if any education and, beside a few colored rocks, no toys to play with. They can readily die of malaria, yellow fever, typhoid and other ailments that would cost pennies to prevent. They life is hard, difficult, short and without many physical pleasures. Yet, in my experience, I have seen the children there dance with so much joy they can hardly contain themselves. I have seen parents who can hardly wipe the smile of happiness of their face. I have seen the smallest kindness received with overwhelming joy. I have seen kids discover a stick that had a pleasant shape to them, and have watched them play for days with that stick. I have seen far more happy people in filthy cesspools in Africa than I have in the breathtaking mansions of Beverly Hills, or in the fancy restaurants of New York. To me, this is pretty convincing evidence that happiness is largely independent of physical circumstances.
Furthermore, one of the greatest contributing factors to happiness is the effect good quality interpersonal relationships have on your attitude. It is unfortunate that Dawna chose to be different, alienating the people with whom she could have had relationships, which would have helped her generate her own happiness. It seems ironic that the thing which she thought would bring her happiness “being who she really was”, as another commenter said, is, in many respects, the genesis of her true unhappiness.
It is also an illustration of a fundamental flaw in many of the arguments put forward here. By having a tolerant society you empower people to make choices that will bring them unhappiness. By accepting Dawna’s choice to dress funky, you are empowering her to harm herself. Of course, I think that is the way it should be, if you want to be an outlier, go nuts, but be willing to accept the consequences of doing so.
It is also worth pointing out that the “brown monkeys”, to use Eric’s phrase, served an important function in pre-modern societies. Outliers were dangerous to the tribe, and the use of scorn and humiliation was important to the preservation of the tribal structures. “Why do you want to dress funky? It is a deliberate rejection of the authority of the tribal chief and the norms of our society, and could undermine it completely.” That rejection could cause very negative consequences on everyone. If tribal cohesion breaks down, everyone could die. This is not something I am in favor of, I am just pointing out that this was the reality for most of human history.
I have recently been reading Jane Austin’s “Pride and Prejudice” again. It is an interesting read to see the complex structures and constraints that that 18th Century society had put in place to preserve the role and structure of the monied classes of England at that time. Elizabeth Bennet’s desire to push the limits of what a respectable unmarried woman of the time could do was a real danger to undermining the success of her family, and could have extremely negative consequences on not just her, but her whole family. I also recently watched the movie “Jezebel” with Bette Davis. In this movie she, an unmarried woman, decides to wear (horror of horror) a red dress to the ball, rather than a white dress as would have been appropriate. She is rejected and shunned by society and her life is destroyed (as is the life of her suitor at the time, who chose to take her to the ball in the red dress rather than use his walking stick to bring her to her senses — as would have been common in Victorian New Orleans High Society.)
Thankfully, we live in a society which is less fragile, and less in need of conformance. We can be tolerant, outliers are much less likely to cause damage. However, Dawna’s consequences for getting outside the box society provides for her were tiny in any reasonable historical context. (I am not referring to her decision to kill herself, but rather to the way she was treated by others.) In most human societies throughout history, she would have been expelled, killed, or made destitute. She was lucky to be born and live in the time she did.
Perhaps the OP might have some valid criticism’s of modern society, but compared to most of human history it is a paradise. However, we are so used to the dolce vita, we don’t even realize how good we have it. (Topically — thanks to all the sheepdogs for making life so easy for us.)
> morgan greywolf says it all: People here seem to be reading this as a lament on the death on Dawn, when it is, in fact, meant to be a condemnation of society for lacking political correctness. Ironically, the writing is having it’s intended effect on this audience, despite your rebuttal of it: to disguise political speech with tragedy so as to cause others to rebuke any rebuttal of the propaganda. Rather than defending Dawna, we should be deriding the author for using his friend’s death in such an opportunistic manner.
I think I can afford to pat myself on the back here then. I myself didn’t and don’t see it as anything else. In fact if you noticed, I had clearly distinguished the “society is bad” aspect and had replied in like terms.
I have seen too often in my own country how any particular group’s “victimized” status is used purely for political purposes in far more cynical terms than anything even hinted at here.
By the way, totally unrelated to this topic, I request a link back to the home page from a topic/article page on this blog or at least the blog title should be a link back to the main page.
Jessica, we’re STILL brown monkeys. We have a small amount of rational capacity, but not much.
Tom DeGisi on 2009-06-09 at 14:53:52 said:
My left arm and the back of my neck are light brown right now. My legs are a very pale beige. I’ve never actually known any pink monkeys.
I’m sorry Dawna died. As parents my wife and I cherish the uniqueness of our children and yet are trying desperately to teach them both how to fit in and not to care when they don’t. Homeschooling is good for cherishing and both kinds of teaching. It also may help get kids through the teen years. My oldest is fourteen though, so I can’t even share personal anecdotes on the last point yet, although one painful memory of my teen years is of the girl who loudly said to me at an awards banquet, “Hey! You’re weird too! It’s nice not to be alone.” My skin is thicker now… but still not very brown.
In her confused artistic way, she probably thought she was making some sort of noble personal statement by passively getting in The Man’s face with her manner of dress and carriage.
Indeed. Have you studied the urban primitive movement and the metaphrands of their practices?
> Jessica, we’re STILL brown monkeys. We have a small amount of rational capacity, but not much.
I didn’t say we weren’t. However our culture has evolved to the point where the need to exile or kill the outliers is not as necessary. Nonetheless, I agree with you that many of the problems we have in our societies arise from the fact that our bodies, much of our mind, and many of our social memes are designed for a tribal, hunter gatherer lifestyle. Such a lifestyle is very different than the roles we play in modern society.
I think this is because physical evolution is linear, and cultural and knowledge evolution is exponential. The actual mechanisms of evolutionary change in our physical bodies (that is to say the meta-evolution) stopped changing hundreds of millions of years ago. However, the mechanism of knowledge evolution itself (again the meta-evolution) is rapidly changing, leading to this exponential growth. It is also because the quantum of each type of evolution is different. For physical it is at least one lifetime, though more likely a large number of lifetimes before sufficient SNPs accumulate. For culture it is best case one or two a lifetime, but for knowledge the evolutionary quanta are much shorter.
“Instead she’d find a way to dress to offend by today’s standards.”
That’s of course harder, but not impossible, example: http://www.unpopart.org/artworks/
@JessicaBoxer:
>Of course, I think that is the way it should be, if you want to be an outlier, go nuts, but be willing to accept the consequences of doing so.
The necessary consequences, sure. But society doesn’t need to add harassment to those consequences.
>Perhaps the OP might have some valid criticism’s of modern society, but compared to most of human history it is a paradise.
The OP wasn’t about criticising modern society — in fact she was celebrating that today’s society is so much more tolerant than the one Dawna grew up in.
>You don’t get it. Someone with the psychological wiring Dawna appears to have had wouldn’t dress like that today. Instead she’d find a way to dress to offend by today’s standards.
You need to think at the margins. If society is more accepting of diversity, then it’s harder to offend. If something’s harder to do, people are less likely to do it.
>pete goes out on the short pier and leaps. He says that Dawna was incapable of choosing to ignore other people’s feelings about her and thus that choice was not available to her. How does he know this?
Revealed preference.
> Revealed preference.
Are you really suggesting suicide was a rational choice for Dawna?
@JessicaBoxer (sorry esr for 4 comments in a row).
Thanks for the psych info; my understanding is that the 10% refers to physical circumstances (e.g. the poverty in your Africa example) and that social circumstances play a much larger role.
Jessica Boxer on 2009-06-09 at 20:05:54 said:
> The necessary consequences, sure. But society doesn’t need
> to add harassment to those consequences.
Huh? I have no idea what “necessary consequences” means in this context. Can you give an example of a necessary consequence that you accept Dawna is due? “Society” doesn’t do anything. Society is composed of a group of individuals, and, arguably a set of memes. Is it your contention that we should change these memes so that the nasty boys aren’t so nasty anymore? Then, following along with my line of reasoning above, Dawna was lucky to be born when she was, because by that stage the memes had greatly improved, and here consequences were tiny, relatively speaking. Perhaps your concern is that we have not reached perfection yet?
> my understanding is that the 10% refers to physical circumstances…
> and that social circumstances play a much larger role.
No, that is not a correct representation of her thesis. The 10% refers specifically to non genetic circumstances outside of her control only.
Society didn’t kill Dawna. Dawna killed Dawna. Society didn’t make Dawna take the drugs. Dawna took the drugs because she actively sought negative attention from society and then when she got her wish, she couldn’t take it anymore. It’s just that simple. It is a very co-dependent thing to take blame for someone else’s actions. No one can control what others do; no one could prevent Dawna from take her own life if that’s what she wanted to do. No one could stop Dawna from taking the drugs. Only Dawna could do that. Dawna didn’t do that, and she paid the price.
It might sound harsh, but it’s true.
pete, you haven’t left the pier yet. The reason she chose to commit suicide is not available to us. The author of the story is just telling a story and speculating.
Probably the most important thing to understand is that happiness or a good life doesn’t just mean pleasure or the satisfaction of desires, and unhappiness or a bad life doesn’t just mean pain or the experience of frustration in the satisfaction of desires. Thus the logic that self-harm comes from the unhappiness caused by pain caused by others just doesn’t work.
>Is it your contention that we should change these memes so that the nasty boys aren’t so nasty anymore?
Yes! That’s exactly it.
>Then, following along with my line of reasoning above, Dawna was lucky to be born when she was, because by that stage the memes had greatly improved, and here consequences were tiny, relatively speaking. Perhaps your concern is that we have not reached perfection yet?
Yes, she was lucky to be born when she was, and we’re even luckier to be living now when the memes have improved even more. And if there’s still room for improvement, then yes, we should be aiming for an even better society.
“we should be aiming for an even better society”
Define “better society”. A society where people avoid causing short-time pain, or where people aim at the long-term of maximization of happiness (not pleasure), or something in between?
How should, for example, a “better society”, handle obesity? Avoid offending people and talk in neutral terms like “differently shaped”, in order to avoid causing short-term pain? This would reduce the incentive to lose weight, and would have two long-term consequences 1) health consequences 2) more subtle psychological ones. Certain psychological characteristics (willpower etc.) have a lot of effect on body shape and a society that doesn’t incentive people not to be obese also doesn’t incentive people to develop willpower, take control of their lives and so on. It would be an acceptance of laziness and learned helpnessness and it would lead to all sorts of negative consequences.
Or a “better society” is one where people are a bit harsh and call use terms like “fatty” in order to motivate and incentive people to lose weight? Which, in turn, incentives people do develop desirable psychological characteristics like a can-do mentality, courage, self-responsibility and positive thinking?
IMHO a “perfect” society would be one where people would be generally compassionate and empathic but would not be afraid to express exactly enough – and no more – blame and ridicule to motivate others to change their lives for the better.
Yes, she was lucky to be born when she was, and we’re even luckier to be living now when the memes have improved even more. And if there’s still room for improvement, then yes, we should be aiming for an even better society.
@pete: There seems to be some implication in this society that historically memes have changed and have tended to change for the better. The thing is, it ain’t true. In any time in history, the pink monkeys got slammed by the brown monkeys. We are not more enlightened today. It’s ridiculous to even think that.
f you think we have a more inclusive society today than in history, you need to read about ancient and historical civilizations. Homosexuality very common place in ancient Greece and ancient Rome, for example. The wide array of sexual practices in these times were pretty much tolerated. More recently, the Ottoman Turks were actually amongst the most religiously tolerant cultures on the planet ever, especially throughout the Middle Ages. Yes, an Islamic society that existed in the Middle Ages was more religiously tolerant than we are today. Think about that for a minute.
Ivan on 2009-06-10 at 09:51:06 said:
> Important rule of living: you can be weird, or you can look weird, but you can’t usually get away with both.
I’d argue this rule depends on the level of accumulated cultural capital of society. When this level is high enough the rule ceases to be true. Think ancient Greece: Diogenes and the Cynics. They did get away with both — they were weird and they looked weird and they acted weird — yet they were tolerated and even admired by brown monkeys.
Here I agree with pete that modern cultural level is higher than in Dawna’s time and thus she would have more chances to see here own stupidity and survive. OTOH I agree with Morgan that modern society is still far behind certain ancient societies in this respect.
>I’d argue this rule depends on the level of accumulated cultural capital of society. When this level is high enough the rule ceases to be true.
No. Let me unpack that rule for you. “You can either transgress the mores of your society in provocative appearence, or in fact, but not both.” That rule never changes. Only the definition of “transgression” does.
As for “cultural capital”, the Western civilization of today has the highest level of cultural capital of any civilization in history. Doesn’t matter how you try to measure it: accumulated knowledge, expected level of trust between unrelated strangers, variey of tolerated expression. No previous civilization even comes close, because we incorporate what came before. The oldest, most complex, and culturally richest civilization in history is us, here and now.
>More recently, the Ottoman Turks were actually amongst the most religiously tolerant cultures on the planet ever, especially throughout the Middle Ages.
Morgan, you are usually pretty sensible, but this is utter PC bullshit.
You need to go look into the actual situation of dhimmis under the Ottomans. No dhimmi could build a house taller than that of a Muslim. No dhimmi could walk on the same side of the street as a Muslim. Dhimmis had to pay a special, punitive tax called the “jizya”. The testimony of dhimmis was not accepted in Islamic courts except by special grant of the presiding judge or cadi.
And that’s just the beginning of the rules that applied to Jews and Christians. Polytheists and “idolaters” had no legal rights at all and could essentially be robbed, enslaved, or murdered at whim.
Talking of Jizya, it’s a modern day practice as well. Take a look at this news item where Hindus, Sikhs and Christians live in eternal fear in Pakistan today:
http://www.indianexpress.com/news/Pak-Govt-in-talks-with-Taliban-to-rehabilitate-displaced-Sikhs/462456/
>f you think we have a more inclusive society today than in history, you need
> to read about ancient and historical civilizations. Homosexuality very common
> place in ancient Greece and ancient Rome, for example. The wide array of
> sexual practices in these times were pretty much tolerated.
And that is different today exactly how? Certainly there are those who oppose homosexuality and various other sexual practices, but they are tolerated by the law and by the large majority of people. In any society, including the illustrious Hellenistic and Latin societies, there were people who were opposed to these things, and probably some persecutions.
However, unlike today, in classical societies slavery was extremely widespread. War captives and the civilian residents of the cities they protected were either killed or enslaved. Children, boys and girls, were regularly used as slave prostitutes. Criminals and enemies of the state were tortured to death, often in public spectacles, women, even free women, were treated like property, could generally not work, could not own property or inherit property. In Rome, a father had an absolute unassailable right to kill his children (even as adults.)
In Sparta, boys were taken from their parents at seven years old and trained in the military arts. This included regular beatings until they passed out, it included practice battles that frequently resulted in the death of the children. The weaker children died very frequently, and their death was not so much a source of sorrow as of disgrace to their families. and the graduation ceremony from this school? It consisted of sneaking out and murdering a slave without being caught. Of course, if a Spartan boy got that far, he was lucky, because at first birth children were examined for any defects, and if they were not found, they left to die of exposure to the elements of wild animals. Mothers and wives sent their soldiers to battle with the phrase “Sun tai, e epi tai.” Meaning come back with you shield, or on your shield (as a corpse.)
Eric addressed the horrors of Muslim societies already.
200 years ago in the United States, black people were beaten to death if they tried to escape their putative owners. One slave “owner” punished his runaways by beating the hell out of him in from of the other slaves, then forcing one to defecate in the mouth of the runaway, then tie his mouth closed for several hours. Does the phrase “Irish need not apply” ring any historical bells with you?
Are you honestly arguing that our society is worse that these? You honestly think it is “ridiculous to think that?” If so, it is you who needs to read more history. Western societies today are the most pluralistic, tolerant, and open societies in the history of the world.
>In any society, including the illustrious Hellenistic and Latin societies, there were people who were opposed to these things, and probably some persecutions.
I’ve seen some interesting contrarian argument suggesting that the supposed Hellenistic and Roman tolerance of homosexuality and other sexual deviance is a modern myth – and to the extent I have a knowledge base in that area I think I agree. The argument goes roughly like this:
1) We overestimate Ancient Greek tolerance of homosexuality because our classical literary sources are derived disproportionately from a clique of aristocratic homosexuals and their hangers-on. They got away with it because they were wealthy and well-connected, but the social mainstream considered “boy-love” to be perverted and decadent. Wikipedia notes; “One such scholar is Bruce Thornton, who argues that insults directed at passive homosexuals in the comedies of Aristophanes show the common people’s dislike for male homosexuality.” I am not sufficiently knowledgeable in the particular specialty areas involved to evaluate the argument; I merely note that it is in play.
2) Roman attitudes about homosexuality were strongly organized around who was doing the penetrating. Lesbianism was considered horrifying and unnatural and universally condemned in legal and aboveground literary sources; some Sapphic love poetry survives, however. Being the passive or penetrated partner was considered shameful, and freeborn Romans could be disinherited or in extreme cases even killed by their head of family if they were discovered on the bottom. Being a homosexual top, on the other hand, was widely tolerated – especially when the bottom was a slave. I know somewhat more about the Roman-period primary sources and I buy these arguments.
I will note that the supposed pagan tolerance of homosexuality appears to have been first mythologized in the late 19th century by homosexual artists and literati associated with aristocratic and Tory elements in Great Britain, as a reaction against Victorianism and the evangelical Protestant revivalism then associated with the liberal Reform movement. This is such an inversion of modern political alignments that it deserves note in itself.
JessicaBoxes,
I largely agree with what you wrioe, but before you’d paint Rome as a totally evil fascist society, let me point out some positive things. For example, they managed to maintain a remarkable level of law and order without a state police force, without prisons and with capital punishment used very sparingly: usually, lawbreakers were only exiled, from Rome but not from the empire i.e. to some nice place like Massilia (Marseille). This in itself is remarkable.
tinkertim on 2009-06-11 at 05:02:22 said:
Any argument to your logic would have to come from a brain much more equipped to argue abstracts than my own.
I have one question, however:
What is the difference between pity and compassion?
> Or a “better society†is one where people are a bit harsh and call use terms like “fatty†in order to motivate and incentive people to lose weight? Which, in turn, incentives people do develop desirable psychological characteristics like a can-do mentality, courage, self-responsibility and positive thinking?
An interesting coincidence – there’s an article on Alas, a blog that encourages us to disavow the term “normal weight.” Heaven forbid we call ‘healthy’ that weight which engenders the least chance of contracting coronary artery disease! I think this is rather more stunningly idiotic than the article esr linked to.
Christian Höltje on 2009-06-11 at 12:58:16 said:
esr> if I’m arguing anything it’s that they should learn to NOT GIVE A SHIT, the way I did.
Unfortunately, not everyone can do that. Even worse, not everyone understands why they aren’t fitting in.
Or if they can do that, then they can’t do it fast enough. If the amount of pain experienced crosses a threshold then suicide becomes a reasonable solution.
It’s all and well to say, “I did it, others have done it, so you do it.” But not all brains are built the same.
I think your article is too simplistic. Of course, the article you reference is too simplistic as well. So maybe that’s all and well.
>Unfortunately, not everyone can do that. Even worse, not everyone understands why they aren’t fitting in.
Then they die. Or become mental cases, or drug casualties like Dawna. Reality does not guarantee a happy ending.
When a particular coping tactic is the only one that actually works, saying “Unfortunately, not everyone can do that.” is unresponsive. That’s talking as though there’s an alternative, and – short of acquiring godlike power to change society with the wave of a hand – there is not.
@esr
>When a particular coping tactic is the only one that actually works, saying “Unfortunately, not everyone can do that.†is unresponsive. That’s talking as though there’s an alternative, and – short of acquiring godlike power to change society with the wave of a hand – there is not.
You continue to miss the point of Mandolin’s post: society has been changed.
>> Revealed preference.
>Are you really suggesting suicide was a rational choice for Dawna?
No, the intent was to mock economists (“revealed preferences” is often a circular argument).
>You continue to miss the point of Mandolin’s post: society has been changed.
So, you’re telling me that there are no Dawnas dying from a similar double-bind and being promoted as holy victims today, and never will be again? Sorry, I won’t believe that claim either from you or Mandolin.
The fact that the definition of ‘pink’ may have changed in a way Mandolin approves of (e.g. homosexuality is less stigmatized) is barely even relevant to my point, let alone determinative.
>So, you’re telling me that there are no Dawnas dying from a similar double-bind and being promoted as holy victims today, and never will be again? Sorry, I won’t believe that claim either from you or Mandolin.
No, I’m saying there are fewer Dawnas in that situation now; the changes we’ve made as a society have been more helpful to the Dawnas than the sort of advice you’re giving; and the so-called “holy victim” narrative is a legitimate argument for making those changes.
>the changes we’ve made as a society have been more helpful to the Dawnas than the sort of advice you’re giving;
*derisive snort*
I can’t stop you from believing that, but I think any attempt to fix this sort of conformity issue that does not start, continue, and end with making individuals more self-reliant and less dependent on peer approval is…well, “doomed” is the word that leaps to mind.
>I think any attempt to fix this sort of conformity issue that does not start, continue, and end with making individuals more self-reliant and less dependent on peer approval is…well, “doomed†is the word that leaps to mind.
People like Mandolin have been making real improvements in the lives of people like Dawna by advocating for a more tolerant society. They’re already succeeding (you can improve a situation without fixing it), so your prediction of “doomed” has already been shown to be empirically false.
Meanwhile, how does one make people more self-reliant? I don’t have my magic wand handy.
Isn’t more tolerant society produces more self-reliant individuals and aren’t more self-reliant individuals make the society more tolerant? Both ideas seem to support each other.
When there are less pressure to conform, less people would depend on external approval. When more people rely on themselves, the resulting society wouldn’t need to punish outsiders for non-conformance so hard.
pete: you start by taking away the crutch of entitlement if you want people to be more self-reliant. Some people legitimately *do* need help. But if you give help to people who don’t need it, you take away their self-reliance.
And don’t even *try* to mock economists by using “revealed preference” the way you did. You’ve got the idea so wrong that you’re holding the knife by the blade. Please, knives are sharp, don’t use them without understanding.
Tinkertim asks “What is the difference between pity and compassion?” I say “love”.
Morgan says “Yes, an Islamic society that existed in the Middle Ages was more religiously tolerant than we are today.” I’m gonna need you to define “we”, because the United States tolerates many things in the name of religion, including Scientology. How do ya think they’d do under the control of Muslims, eh?
>Tinkertim asks “What is the difference between pity and compassion?†I say “loveâ€.
I think that’s both vague and false. Both people who report feeling “pity” and people who report feeling “compassion” report feeling love for the object of the feeling. The fundamental difference, I think, is that we pity pets and children and inferiors, but we feel compassion for equals.
“Meanwhile, how does one make people more self-reliant? I don’t have my magic wand handy.” –Pete
Apparently you had your wand out just a second ago when it was time to make society more tolerant. How is it so much easier to change 300 million people than to… change 300 million people?
“The fundamental difference, I think, is that we pity pets and children and inferiors, but we feel compassion for equals.”
Let’s say someone is stuck in a deep hole. Pity is jumping down into the hole so that we can suffer together, we can share the pain. Compassion is finding a ladder for him.
“Meanwhile, how does one make people more self-reliant?”
This happens automatically when no external sort of help is available. Er… trying to change adults is not quite a good idea (it would be, but it doesn’t usually work), this is something to happen in childhood: generally, less protective child-rearing should more or less automatically do it.
Nancy Lebovitz on 2009-06-12 at 08:35:09 said:
First off, I do think Dawna was up against mental problems which were quite serious, and wouldn’t entirely have been helped by being treated more kindly. Still, abuse and ostracism are hard on people. That’s the whole point of them.
One thing I get from the story about the African village is that if you value happiness, it’s very useful to be around happy people, starting with childhood. We do not live in a culture which is especially good at teaching happiness. I’m also willing to bet that It would be interesting to learn something about the tolerance levels in the African village. They don’t sound like people who’d put huge amounts of effort into making outliers miserable.
Sometimes the choice of appearing normal is much higher than you imply. I know a MtF transexual who was suicidally depressed just from trying to live as a man. This is a person whose weirdness turns around and bites her if it’s concealed.
Social capital doesn’t increase tolerance all by itself. People work on increasing tolerance, and increasing tolerance means that less human capacity gets thrown away.
Consider Cathy’s life– it’s not so long ago that it would have been much harder for her to be a lawyer.
Shenpen, it’s at least plausible that shaming people for being fat doesn’t make them healthier or thinner. After all, it’s been going on for decades, and there are still a lot of fat people.
Faré on 2009-06-12 at 09:45:16 said:
I want people to accept me!
I want people to admire me!
I want a pony!
(And if you don’t give it all to me, right now, I’ll start to cry and be obnoxious. You’ve been warned.)
People like Mandolin have been making real improvements in the lives of people like Dawna by advocating for a more tolerant society. They’re already succeeding (you can improve a situation without fixing it), so your prediction of “doomed†has already been shown to be empirically false.
Really? Are you sure we aren’t just pushing the bubble around? My observations on tolerance in America is that most attempts to increase tolerance have simply changed who is tolerated and who is not.
>My observations on tolerance in America is that most attempts to increase tolerance have simply changed who is tolerated and who is not.
It’s true. Try being a conservative or a devout Christian who isn’t “passing” at any Ivy-League university, and you’ll find out what intolerance looks like, all right.
(Note: I am neither a conservative nor a Christian, but I can recognize prejudice even when it’s being directed at groups I dislike.)
Faré,
I present for your virtual enjoyment, this virtual shetland pony. He loves virtual apples. He is a gelding, and he is gentle. I’m giving him to you because, although he seems to like the rest of my family, he apparently took an instant dislike to me. Although being repeatedly knocked off by virtual low-hanging branches only causes virtual injury, I have decided I would rather get a new pony, or have none at all.
>Really? Are you sure we aren’t just pushing the bubble around? My observations on
> tolerance in America is that most attempts to increase tolerance have simply
> changed who is tolerated and who is not.
Frankly, I think it is pretty hard to measure in any objective way. Clearly there is much more tolerance of some things, and there is definitely a rising intolerance of other things. Do they balance out? I am not sure.
What is objectively measurable is changes in what is legally tolerated, and that has clearly moved to a more tolerant position. (Talking from the POV of the USA here, I am not knowlegble enough to comment on other countries’ situations.) For example Lawrence vs. Texas would be such a change. (FWIW, I think this was a terrible SCUS decision, but for reasons other than my own intolerance.) Certainly the civil rights changes and the destruction of Jim Crow and so forth.
However, one can’t say that without also recognizing a growing set of extra judicial codes which are intolerant also. This is most noticeable in colleges where speech and behavior codes are becoming more and more prevalent, and more and more restrictive. Further there is a growing movement in this country of extreme intolerance on the left that is simply not seen to the same degree on the right. (Libertarians are too busy making money to get involved.) I find it profoundly despicable to see our colleges, the seat of learning and open inquiry, descend to where they are today.
If, as some have asserted, they want a more tolerant society, I suggest you start at the foundation for intelligent society — our schools of higher learning. That we demand that they return to free though and free inquiry. That they return to “let a thousand flowers bloom”, rather than suppress anything that might give offense to the protected few. That they return to the heady battle of ideas against ideas, debated within the normal rules of debate. That professors who grade based on ideology rather than skill be considered mistaken rather than admirable. That they put down their cream pies, and their angry mindless chants, that they burn their speech codes and behavior codes in shame and embarrassment, and allow the intellectual development of our children to take place in an atmosphere of open thought and reason. That they might hate what I say, but defend to the death my right to say it.
The same children who are taught in this atmosphere of fear and political correctness will carry these same attitudes and biases into our future society and eventually into our laws and government. God help us when America is as intolerant as academia.
JessicaBoxer,
Preach it, sister! (Rousing applause, approving shouts, finally a chant of “You go, Jessica!” starts up.)
norm on 2009-06-12 at 13:54:09 said:
>esr asks: “Comes back to my original question: if she didn’t want the local monkeys to other†her, why did she dress funny?”
Since I haven’t read anyone’s answer to this (or I missed it if they did), I might propose a theory. I think that, for *some* people (operative word being “some”), like Dawna perhaps, that they *do* want the local monkeys to “other” them. The idea being that it’s easier to blame other’s than it is yourself. Just to be clear, I’m not using “blame” in the sense that these persons are doing something wrong, but as a way to “externalize” the source of their angst/pain/problem. If this is the case, then no matter how “pink” your brown monkeys are, you’ll always have some pink monkeys – and they may be pink by choice. Granted, this doesn’t explain people that are born different…
– Norm
Phil R. on 2009-06-16 at 13:12:44 said:
I’ve seen some interesting contrarian argument suggesting that the supposed Hellenistic and Roman tolerance of homosexuality and other sexual deviance is a modern myth – and to the extent I have a knowledge base in that area I think I agree.
The arguments you quote are uncontroversial enough to be baldly pronounced as truth by lecturers in Classics at British universities. On the Roman side, for example, it’s almost the only way to make sense of Catullus’ 16, (which, I guess, is probably one of the primary sources you were thinking of). One may paraphrase the first couple of lines as “I’m going to fuck you up the arse, you poofters.” Some of the graffiti in Pompeii constitute similar evidence. This suggests that the attitude must have been as you describe, at least in the literate idle rich circles Catullus and his like moved in, and there’s no record of rustics or the urban poor being markedly more tolerant.
>Some of the graffiti in Pompeii constitute similar evidence.
Interesting you should mention this, as I just read a web page full of translations of Pompeian graffitti a few days ago. They do seem preoccupied with homosexuality, especially anal sex, and not in a way that suggests it was a widely tolerated or unremarked practice.
>and there’s no record of rustics or the urban poor being markedly more tolerant.
One pattern that seems well-nigh universal in human cultures is that the poor are less tolerant of sexual deviance than the rich. This is adaptively reasonable; they have fewer reserves with which to cover the costs and risks of deviance.
This pattern is partly masked by the fact that the poor generally have higher time preference than the rich, so (in particular) they exhibit less sexual self-discipline, as evidenced for example in higher illegitimacy rates.
What I have read of homosexuality in Rome and Greece it seems to be more along the lines of prison “homosexuality” rather than our modern concept of two loving peers. What I mean is encapsulated by the phrase, “it is only gay of you are taking it.” This seems to be the excuse amongst the macho thugs who would cut your throat for calling them homos, even while they are raping some unfortunate, unwilling weakling. Apparently, he who chooses to engage in homosexual behavior is not the homosexual, but rather he who is forced to do so, which seems truly twisted.
I actually brings me to one of my other bugbears. How come, here in the USA, the ACLU and the left are getting their panties in a major wad over the rough treatment of detainees from the battlefield in Afghanistan, yet nobody seems to give a fig about the systematic, continual rape that occurs in male prisons throughout the USA? The statistics are frightening, perhaps 20% of male prisoners are raped and abused physically on a daily basis, and nobody seems to give a care. The right have this crazy idea called “prison justice” where people, who have committed crimes like child molestation, deserve this kind of physical abuse. I don’t know if they are right, but if they are it should be conducted by the prison authorities. They should not be thrown to the pack of dogs. Nonetheless, they are in the minority, it is the young and the weak, and the non gang members who are the primary targets. These are the very people who are the most likely to be reformed by prison. But it is hard to imagine overcoming that kind of PTSD.
>What I have read of homosexuality in Rome and Greece it seems to be more along the lines of prison “homosexuality†rather than our modern concept of two loving peers.
Yes. I’m actually planning to blog an essay about this. The short form is that it’s the “prison-sex” pattern that’s actually historically normal in human cultures; the modern West (and not even all of the modern West) is a unique and, as far as I can tell, unprecedented exception.
The right have this crazy idea called “prison justice†where people, who have committed crimes like child molestation, deserve this kind of physical abuse.
Not this libertarian leaning conservative, nor my wife, who is more conservative and less libertarian. We both are horrified by prison rape and both identify with the right.
Adrian Smith on 2009-06-17 at 19:10:24 said:
I thought child molesters normally had to be kept separate from other prisoners anyway, to stop them being killed, let alone raped.
tehag on 2009-06-20 at 05:50:18 said:
I certainly wish I could live in a world where people who were different weren’t called “homophobes” or “fascists”, where peace demonstrators didn’t stone dissidents, where people who believed in freedom from Islam weren’t called racists, but, alas, tribal hatred is ingrained in human nature.
esr: It’s true. Try being a conservative or a devout Christian who isn’t “passing†at any Ivy-League university, and you’ll find out what intolerance looks like, all right.
I wonder how the Yale College Republicans and Harvard Republican Club manage, with all that intolerance. Why, they’re latter-day Mattachine Societies!
No, wait. Christians aren’t committing suicide in droves when their true natures are exposed, and folks like you aren’t explaining that, well, it’s hardly the brown monkeys’ fault that they do this to the pink monkeys, and besides, it’s just natural. When that happens, then I’ll concede some kind of equivalence. But to pretend that being made fun of or even ostracized for your wacky beliefs, especially when those beliefs entail hating on other people, is similar in any meaningful way to the experience described in the post, is downright grotesque. It’s simple whining at the loss of a privileged position, and canonizing it as being somehow brave is ridiculous. I’d expect this from the persecution-fetish Christian set, but I’d hope not to expect it from you.
Adrian Smith: I thought child molesters normally had to be kept separate from other prisoners anyway, to stop them being killed, let alone raped.
They frequently are kept separate, but prison rape is hardly a system of divinely meted out justice. Rapists target who they can; generally prisoners who are small, weak, young, non-aggressive, gay, white, and/or imprisoned for a less violent crime. While child molesters are especially targeted, they’re still a small minority of the victims.
tehag: I certainly wish I could live in a world where people who were different weren’t called “homophobes†or “fascistsâ€,
Wait, what do you call people who believe that homosexuality is somehow a threat to them which requires a a violent reassertion of their own heterosexuality? What do you call people who follow a cult of national rejuvenation which demands complete subservience to the state in service of its violent agenda of internal purification and outward expansion? Are you complaining that people are referred to as homophobes and fascists who, in your opinion, don’t fit the definition?
where peace demonstrators didn’t stone dissidents
To what are you referring?
where people who believed in freedom from Islam weren’t called racists,
If you simply believe that people should be able to choose whether or not to live under religious law, I don’t see why that would be interpreted as racist. If you went on about the subhuman, savage nature of Muslims, especially Arab Muslims, that would probably explain the claims of racism. ‘Cause it’s, y’know, racist.
but, alas, tribal hatred is ingrained in human nature.
>I wonder how the Yale College Republicans and Harvard Republican Club manage, with all that intolerance. Why, they’re latter-day Mattachine Societies!
Yes, quite. Good analogy. That’s how they report feeling, and I think they have justification for it.
>folks like you aren’t explaining that, well, it’s hardly the brown monkeys’ fault that they do this to the pink monkeys, and besides, it’s just natural.
Don’t put words in my mouth that I haven’t spoken, “Natural” only equates to “entirely predictable”, not to “right”.
>especially when those beliefs entail hating on other people
As much as I dislike Christianity and conservatism, neither belief system entails hating on other people – this is smug left-liberal moral vanity talking. A blind, arrogant and mistaken belief in a One True Way, maybe; occasional outbreaks of murderous conversion-by-the-sword, maybe – but neither of these requires or entails hatred as such, just regarding others as lesser breeds without the Law and without ethical reciprocity.
If you want to extend “hating on others” to that extent, let’s talk about left-liberals’ hatred of gun owners, individualists, and anyone who opposes higher taxes and more regulation.
esr: That’s how they report feeling, and I think they have justification for it.
Did you miss the part where I described the double standard wherein members of dominant groups claim oppression when they’re faced with a threat to their privilege? Of course these groups describe feeling like that, but what I’m apparently failing to express clearly is that both they and you are operating on some sort of sliding scale of oppression, where things that happen to members of the aforementioned dominant groups count more.
Members of these clubs do not universally risk the loss of their families and jobs if exposed, nor do they face the strong possibility of blackmail. They may even have a delightful sinecure awaiting them at one of those thinktanks–just like academia, but without the peer review. These groups are, as I explained in the paragraph following the one you quoted, in no way comparable to the Mattachine Societies.
Don’t put words in my mouth that I haven’t spoken, “Natural†only equates to “entirely predictableâ€, not to “rightâ€.
But I didn’t say that it was “right”. You claimed, above, that your position is “No rewards or punishments, only consequences”, clearly viewing bigotry and intolerance as immutable natural forces, rather than personal faults in the bigots or the society that coddles and grows them.
As much as I dislike Christianity and conservatism, neither belief system entails hating on other people
And I didn’t say that it did. Don’t, as you previously demanded of me, put words in my mouth that I haven’t spoken.
But I suppose I can see how you got that idea. To clarify, I’m speaking here of people who espouse ideas which are bigoted and hateful, many (though, of course, not all) of whom are Christians, conservatives or both.
neither of these requires or entails hatred as such, just regarding others as lesser breeds without the Law and without ethical reciprocity.
So, because pro-slavery types regarded black people as subhuman, they didn’t actually hate them? You seem to be excluding a great deal of bigotry from consideration here. Declaring groups of people to be somehow subhuman and, as you say, “without ethical reciprocity”, strikes me as inherently hateful, but if you don’t perceive it that way, then please substitute in “bigoted”; that word, I think, maps better onto the concept I’m trying to discuss.
If you want to extend “hating on others†to that extent, let’s talk about left-liberals’ hatred of gun owners, individualists, and anyone who opposes higher taxes and more regulation.
Sure, but could you first point out the relevant numerous incidents where gun owners, individualists, and free-market types have been blackmailed, murdered and driven to suicide due to their natures? It seems like you’re squishing together the concepts of strong disagreement and prejudiced hate, even when the latter creates an atmosphere of fear and shame that costs actual lives, and the former simply steps on someone’s feelings.
>Did you miss the part where I described the double standard wherein members of dominant groups claim oppression when they’re faced with a threat to their privilege?
No. In what sense are conservatives or Christians “dominant” in the society we have today? They can’t keep the Ten Commandments on courthouse walls. They can’t even reverse left-wing policies that are obviously crazy and destructive. They feel engulfed in a rising tide of secularism, trash culture, and Marxism-by-any-other-name. Mind you, I think it is in most respects good that they no longer dominate; I only wish that their control had been replaced with something less vicious and collectivist.
>Members of these clubs do not universally risk the loss of their families and jobs if exposed
No, they’d just never get offered jobs in most of academia, journalism, or show business in the first place. Now try to tell me with a straight face that a gay person would have that problem. And gay people have a lovely option denied to Christians and conservatives; if they don’t get the job they want, they can sue for compensation that can easily destroy a small business even if the lawsuit fails. Um, now, who are the powerless ones, exactly?
>strong possibility of blackmail.
Blackmail? In 2009? You’re out of your mind. It’s not frickin’ 1950 out there, in case you haven’t noticed.
>You claimed, above, that your position is “No rewards or punishments, only consequencesâ€, clearly viewing bigotry and intolerance as immutable natural forces, rather than personal faults in the bigots or the society that coddles and grows them.
Right, the instinctive circuitry that gets recruited into bigotry and intolerance is nobody’s “fault”. Which out-group gets to be the despised pink monkeys this week is society’s “fault”, to the extent that “society” is a meaningful concept (but wait another week and it will change). The only personal fault in the system is when individuals choose to act with aggressive violence on the basis of their instincts and the shit in their social environment. At that point the exact nature of the pinkness and the bigotry are basically irrelevant; it’s the aggression that’s the occasion of fault.
>So, because pro-slavery types regarded black people as subhuman, they didn’t actually hate them?
Now you’re getting it. Yes. This doesn’t make being “pro-slavery” anything but evil, but it does require you to fix your categories so they’re more predictive and productive of better reasoning.
>Sure, but could you first point out the relevant numerous incidents where gun owners, individualists, and free-market types have been blackmailed, murdered and driven to suicide due to their natures?
Look into what happens to non-violent tax protesters sometime. Or people subjected to a no-knock BATF raid. It’s worse than mere bigotry; they face the organized force of the state, and the damned media paints them as kooks and loons. Before you say “that’s not their natures”, think carefully about your own beliefs concerning the social construction of race and sexuality.
Nick on 2009-07-08 at 15:17:18 said:
I expected this post to be harsh and stupid. but I agree with you. Does that make me a horrible person?
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[S489] Arthur Pine Van Gelder, "Van Gelder Families in America", New York Genealogical & Biographical Record Vol.75 (1944). Hereinafter cited as "Van Gelder, NYG&BR 75 (1944)."
[S589] IGI Individual Records, International Genealogical Index (IGI) (Salt Lake City, Utah: Family Search (www.familysearch.org), 1999-2002). (The IGI records often do not cite sources, must be used with caution and should be verified by more reliable documentation).
[S689] Seneca County, New York Probate Records, 1804-1923; (Salt Lake City, Utah: Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1970), New York. Surrogate's Court (Senaca County) (Main Author). Microfilm of original records at the Seneca County courthouse.. Hereinafter cited as Seneca County, New York Probate Records, 1804-1923.
[S731] Esther Griswold French, Robert Lewis French and Glen E. Griswold, compiler, The Griswold Family: The First Five Generations in America (Wethersfield, Conn.: Griswold Family Association, c1990)Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1993. 6 microfiches ; 11 x 15 cm. - FHL US/CAN Fiche 6104183. Hereinafter cited as The Griswold Family: The First Five Generations in America.
[S951] Find A Grave, online www.findagrave.com. . Hereinafter cited as Find A Grave.
[S966] Charles W. Leng, Staten Island and Its People: A History, 1609-1929 (New York: Lewis Historical Pub. Co., 1930-1933). Hereinafter cited as Staten Is., 1609-1929.
[S1088] Grant Johnston and Richard Brewer,"Brewer DNA Project (Includes Bruer, Brower, Brew, etc.)", online http://www.familytreedna.com/public/BrewerDNA/. . Hereinafter cited as Brewer DNA Project.
[S1182] Henry Russell Kelly, Imprints on the Sands of Time: Left by certain Kelly's, Lampman's, Craig's, Ferguson's (S.I.: n.pub., 1972). Hereinafter cited as Imprints on the Sands of Time.
[S1195] Carol Sherer, Jeremiah Brewer, Descendancy Report, Sep 2006, Electronic copy received from Karen Sims (Santa Barbara, CA) who received it from Carol Sherer. The descendancy is essentially from Jeremiah Brewer and his wife Mahala Croy, and is based on the work of Carol Sherer's Aunt Nellie P. Smith. There are no source citations to documented records., Chris Chester, Kent, New York.
[S1228] Voorhis David Demarest, The Demarest Family: A record of the desMarets family in France, the Holy Land in the Crusades, again in France, Holland, the Palatinate (Germany) again in Holland and the migration to America, 1663 (Hackensack, NJ: n.pub., 1964). Hereinafter cited as Demarest Family.
[S1369] First Record Book of the "Old Dutch Church of Sleepy Hollow," organized in 1697, and now the First Reformed Church of Tarrytown, NY (Yonkers, NY: Yonkers Historical and Library Assoc., 1901). Hereinafter cited as Old Dutch Church Sleepy Hollow/First RDC Tarrytown.
[S1439] Samuel S. Purple, Records of the Reformed Dutch Church in New Amsterdam and New York; Marriages from 11 December 1639 to 26 August 1801 (Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, reprint 2003, original 1890 NYG&BS). Hereinafter cited as Marriages, RDC NA/NY.
[S1478] "Records of the Reformed Dutch Church in New York", New York Genealogical and Biographical Record Vols.5- (1874-).
[S1488] John T. Hassam, "Some Descendants of William Hilton", New England Historical and Genealogical Register Vol. 31, pp.179-186 (Apr. 1877). Hereinafter cited as "NEHGR 31:179-186."
[S1522] Edith (Van Huesen) Becker and Melvin W. Lethridge, "Tombstone Inscriptions, Montgomery County,N.Y.", New York Genealogical and Biographical Record Vol.58-61 (1929). Hereinafter cited as "Tombstones, Montgomery Co., NY, NYGBR 58-61."
[S1546] Walter G. Davis, Sybil Noyes and Charles T. Libby, Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire (Baltimore: reprinted Genealogical Pub. Co., 1988, orig. in five parts 1928-1939, Portland, ME). Hereinafter cited as GDMNH. http://books.google.com/books/about/…
[S1552] Wilson V. Ledley, "Willem Adriaense Bennet of Brooklyn, N.Y., and Some of His Descendants", New York Genealogical and Biographical Record Vols.93, pp. 193-204; 94, pp. 34-41, 107-114, 156-169, 205-213; Vol. 95, pp. 10-27, 155-165, 204-207 (1962-1964). Hereinafter cited as "Willem Adriaense Bennet of Brooklyn."
[S1564] Bob White, Descendants of John Manning, Manuscript (unsourced), April 2007, Bob White, e-mail correspondence.
[S1580] Howard S.F. (ed. from a manuscript by T. de T. Truax) Randolph, "The House of Truax", New York Genealogical and Biographical Record Vol.57, 58 (1926, 1927). Hereinafter cited as "Truax, NYGBR 57 (1926-27)."
[S1634] "Brouwer Beginnings" by William J. Hoffman, Manuscript, BB-50, New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, New York City, New York.
[S1652] Richard Brewer,"Family Group Pedigrees for Brewer Descendants of Johannes (Jan) Brouwer."Pedigrees submitted by participants in the Brewer DNA project. Online http://web.mac.com/brewpe/iWeb/JanBrouwerDNA/Pedigrees.html.. Hereinafter cited as Family Group Pedigrees for Brewer Descendants of Johannes (Jan) Brouwer.
[S1655] Charles Farrell, "Records of the German Reformed Church of New York City", New York Genealogical and Biographical Record Vols.126,127, 128 (1995,1996, 1997). Hereinafter cited as "Recs. German Reformed Church, NYC."
[S1680] "Research on the Descendants of John and Dorothy Rose", 10 Jan 2008, Marg Bond (Bowie, Maryland), to Chris Chester (Kent, New York). Research compiled by Marg Bond. Copyright © 2008 Marg Bond. Material may not be reproduced without the permission of Margaret (Rose) Bond.; Chris Chester, Kent, New York. Hereinafter cited as "Research on the Descendants of John and Dorothy Rose."
[S1731] Embody-Countryman Research of Norece Embody. Forwarded by Marg Bond to Chris Chester, Jan.2008. Hereafter as N. Embody, Embody-Countryman Research.
[S1733] Research of Marie Brewer Fawcett and Nita Pugh. Received from Richard Brewer, Feb. 2008. Hereafter as Fawcett-Pugh Research.
[S1798] Bob Ready,"Oneida Castle Cemetery Revised August 14, 2003.""Submitted by Bob Ready Sept 29 1926-Nov 24 2003 buried in this cemetery.". Online https://sites.rootsweb.com/~nyoneida/.. Hereinafter cited as Oneida Castle Cem.
[S1855] George Olin Zabriskie, "Daniel De Clark (De Klerck) of Tappan and His Descendants", New York Genealogical and Biographical Record vol.96-97 (1965-1966). Hereinafter cited as "De Clark, NYGBR 96-97 (1965-66)."
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[S1919] Susan Bergeron Brose, Percy Township, Northumberland County, 1851 Census (Brighton, Ontario: Susan Bergeron Brose, 1997?). FHL fiche #6004408.. Hereinafter cited as Percy Twp. 1851 Census.
[S1984] Howard S.F. Randolph and Russell Bruce Rankin, Paramus, Bergen County, New Jersey, Reformed Dutch Church Baptisms, 1740-1850 (Rhinebeck, NY: Kinship, 1935, reprint 1992). Hereinafter cited as Paramus RDC Baptisms.
[S1993] A. Van Doren Honeyman, Calender of New Jersey Wills, Administrations, Etc., Vol. IV, 1761-1770, Documents Relating to the Colonial History of the State of New Jersey, First Series, Vol. 33 (Somerville, N.J.: The Unionist-Gazette Association, Printers, 1928). Hereinafter cited as NJ Wills v.4 1761-1770.
[S1998] "Records of the Dutch Congregations of Freehold and Middletown", Genealogical Magazine of New Jersey Vols. 22-38 (1947-1963). Hereinafter cited as "RDC Freehold-Middletown Recs., GMNJ."
[S2006] "Torrey's New England Marriages Prior to 1700", online www.AmericanAncestors.org. (New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2008.) Originally published as New England Marriages Prior to 1700. CD-ROM. Boston, Mass.: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001.. Hereinafter cited as Torrey's New England Marriages Prior to 1700.
[S2052] Paul Brewer, Adolphus Brouwer, Unpublished Register Report, Sept. 12, 2008, Fully sourced. Copy received via e-mail by Chris Chester from Paul Brewer, 12 Sept. 2008, Chris Chester, Kent, New York.
[S2123] New York (County) Surrogate's Court Abstracts of Wills on File in the Surrogate's Office, City of New York (Vol. III 1730-1744), Collections of the New York Historical Society (New York: Printed for the Society, 1894). Hereinafter cited as Abs. N.Y. Co. Wills v. III.
[S2141] Letter from Herbert E. Murray (Swansboro, North Carolina) to William B. Bogardus, 25 Nov 1991; William B. Bogardus Collection (Anneke Jans and Everardus Bogardus Descendants Association, Wilmington, Ohio). Box 2, File 33A, 129-M. The charts and data accompanying the letter appear to have been compiled by Herbert E. Murray. Sources were not included or mentioned. The families outlined in the charts BR-2 thru BR8 need further verification. CHART BR-1 IS INCORRECT. Herbert E. Murray is a descendant of Jan Brower and Hannah Adams. The families charted have continuously lived in the Woodmere, Hempstead, Queens-Nassau Cos., Long Island area since the early 1700's.
[S2155] Elmer T. Hutchinson, editor, Documents Relating to the Colonial, Revolutionary and Post Revolutionary History of the State of New Jersey First Series Vol. 40; Calender of New Jersey Wills, Administrations, Etc. Vol. 11 1806-1809 (Trenton, New Jersey: MacCrellish & Quigley Co., Printers, 1947). Hereinafter cited as NJ Wills v.11 1806-1809.
[S2189] Ronald L. Stewart, Westward Movement of John Stewart and His Descendants, Privately Printed Manuscript, 1993, William B. Bogardus Collection, Anneke Jans and Everardus Bogardus Descendants Association, Wilmington, Ohio.
[S2192] Dorothy Brewer Erikson, Descendants of Thomas Brewer, Connecticut to Maine 1682-1996 with Allied Families (Boston: New England Historic Genealogy Society, 1996). Hereinafter cited as Descendants of Thomas Brewer.
[S2210] A. Van Doren Honeyman, editor, Documents Relating to the Colonial and Revolutionary History of the State of New Jersey, First Series Vol. 34; Calender of New Jersey Wills, Administrations, Etc. Vol. 5 1771-1780 (Trenton, New Jersey: MacCrellish & Quigley Co., Printers, 1931). Hereinafter cited as NJ Wills v. 5 1771-1780.
[S2223] DAR (New Jersey), New Jersey Collected Miscellaneous Genealogical Data; FHL film #0870150 (Salt Lake City: Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1971), Miscellaneous records; New Jersey, Bible and family records; New Jersey, report of the genealogical committee, 1956-1957, 2 vols.; New Jersey, genealogical data; New Jersey, genealogical records; New Jersey, cemetery, Bible and family records; New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, random historical and genealogical notes.. Hereinafter cited as DAR (New Jersey), New Jersey Collected Miscellaneous Genealogical Data.
[S2231] Lynn Austin Brua, The Brua Family and Bruaw, Bruah, Brewer (United Kingdom: L.A. Brua, 1989, 1996). Also on FHL film #2055459, item 2. The second edition can be found online at Family History Archives, www.lib.byu.edu and accessable directly from the Family History website, www.familysearch.org with a search for the Brua Family in the Library Catalog. A copy of the 1989 edition is found in the William B. Bogardus Collection, Box 5, BB-421.. Hereinafter cited as The Brua Family.
[S2307] Conklin Mann, "Thomas and Richard Brush of Huntington, Long Island", New York Genealogical and Biographical Record Vol. 67 (1936). Hereinafter cited as "Brush, NYGBR 67 (1936)."
[S2346] Jay H. Brower, "The Browers of Coventry Twp., Chester Co., Pa.", Mennonite Family History Vol. 4, no. 3, pages 103-105 (July 1985). Hereinafter cited as "The Browers of Coventry Twp., Chester Co., Pa."
[S2368] "Death and Marriage Notices, Oneonta Herald, Starting January 1869", online http://theusgenweb.org/ny/otsego/vitals/oneontaherald6.html. Compiled and contributed by Sandy Goodspeed.. Hereinafter cited as Death and Marriage Notices, Oneonta Herald, Starting January 1869.
[S2409] Richard W. Cook, "The Goulder Family", Genealogical Magazine of New Jersey Vols. 29, 30, 40 (1954, 1955, Ammended 1965). Hereinafter cited as "Goulder, GMNJ 29, 30, 40 (1954-55, 1965)."
[S2500] William B. Bogardus Collection of Brouwer, Brower and Brewer Family Material and Correspondence, Anneke Jans and Everardus Bogardus Descendants Association, Wilmington, Ohio, Box 3, File B, Jan Brouwer of Flatlands. . Hereafter cited as William B. Bogardus Collection.
[S2526] FamilySearch Record Search,"New York 1892 State Census", online https://wiki.familysearch.org/en/New_York_1892_State_Census. See the FamilySearch Record Search website for specific details about this collection.. Hereinafter cited as New York 1892 State Census.
[S2595] Royden Woodward Vosburgh, Records of St. John's Episcopal Church in the Village of Johnstown, Fulton County, N.Y., 1772-1900 (New York: New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, 1919). FHL film #0533498, item 2.. Hereinafter cited as Recs. of St. John's Episcopal Church, Johnstown, N.Y.
[S2755] Judith Walls Harmon, "The Brewers of Braddock's Army - French and Indian War, Their Descendants in Virginia, West Virginia and Kentucky", KYOWVA Genealogical Society Newsletter Vol. 28, no. 2, pages 12-13 (2005). Hereinafter cited as "The Brewers of Braddock's Army". http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/…'s%20army.pdf.
[S2763] Glenna (See) Hill, "The See Family of Calais, France and the Manor of Philipsburgh", New York Genealogical and Biographical Record Vol. 114, p. 92 (1983). Hereinafter cited as "See Family."
[S2799] Chester Collection of Unpublished Genealogy Related Material and Correspondence, Chris Chester, Kent, New York, unknown repository memo, E-Folder no. 3105, Brewer-MacDougall, 2010.
[S2928] William B. Bogardus Collection of Brouwer, Brower and Brewer Family Material and Correspondence, William B. Bogardus Collection, Anneke Jans and Everardus Bogardus Descendants Association, Wilmington, Ohio, Box 5, BIB BB-63, Bible Record - Peter Brower (b. 1760) and his wife Anne Brower (2-22-1761). DAR Bible Record, DAR Library, Washington, D.C., "N. J. Unpublished Bible Records, presented to Constitution Hall Library, Washington, D.C. by the New Jersey Chapters, DAR, State Society, 1930. Also FHL film #868782, item 6". . Hereafter cited as William B. Bogardus Collection.
[S3042] Mary Emma Burt and Robert Eugene Burt, Jacque Bruyere, A French Huguenot and Descendants (Baltimore, MD: Gateway Press, Inc., 1997). Hereinafter cited as Jacque Bruyere. http://books.google.com/books/about/…
[S3048] WIGenWeb Project,"Hillside Cemetery, Columbus township, Columbia County, Wisconsin", online https://sites.rootsweb.com/~wicolumb/…. N. Lewis St. on North side of the city of Columbus. Copied from the cemetery records furnished by Gloria Moldscheck. Edited and typed here by Anna Mae Axness 2005.. Hereinafter cited as Hillside Cemetery, Columbus, WI.
[S3065] Francis F. Spies, St. Paul's Church, Eastchester, N. Y. (Mt. Vernon, N. Y.: F. F. Spies, 1931). Hereinafter cited as St. Paul's Church, Eastchester, N. Y.
[S3100] New York Surrogate's Court (Tioga County), Index to wills, proceedings v. A 1800-1936, Index to Surrogate's records 1937-1969; FHL film #0811546 (Salt Lake City, Utah: Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1970), Microfilm of original records in the Tioga County courthouse. Hereinafter cited as Tioga Co., NY Index to Wills, proceedings.
[S3149] William J. Hoffman, "The Founders of the Bras(s), Brasser, Bresser, Bries and Brazier Families", The American Genealogist Vol. 20, pp. 140-148, 215-223; Vol. 21, pp. 147- (1944). Hereinafter cited as "Bras(s), Brasser, Bresser, Bries, Brazier."
[S3212] Charlotte Megill Hix, "The Crocheron Family of Staten Island", New York Genealogical and Biographical Record Vol. 111 (1980). Hereinafter cited as "Crocheron Family."
[S3287] Rick Brewer, "Henrich Brewer in PA (Descendants)," e-mail message from Rick Brewer, e-mail address to Richard Brewer and Chris Chester, January 16, 2011. . Hereinafter cited as "Henrich Brewer in PA (Descendants)."
[S3339] Patricia Law Hatcher and Henry B. Hoff, "Origins of Louis Laeckeman/Lakeman of Staten Island and His Wife Esther Castel", New York Genealogical and Biographical Record Vol. 139, page 212 (2008). Hereinafter cited as "Origins of Louis Laeckeman/Lakeman."
[S3387] Deborah Lynch, "Descendant of William C. Brower, b.1870," e-mail message from Deborah Lynch to Chris Chester, February 16, 2011. Hereinafter cited as "William C. Brower, b. 1870."
[S3509] Ancestry.com and Genealogical Research Library (Brampton),"Ontario, Canada Marriages 1801-1928", online www.ancestry.com. 2010. Digital images of registrations found at the Archives of Ontario, Toronto.. Hereinafter cited as Ontario, Canada Marriages 1801-1928.
[S3512] Ancestry.com,"1851 Census of Canada East, Canada West, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia", online www.ancestry.com. 2006. Library and Archives Canada, Ottawa.. Hereinafter cited as 1851 Census, Canada.
[S3582] Joyce M. Tice and J. Kelsey Jones,"Tri-Counties Genealogy, Family History and Genealogy: Brewer", online www.joycetice.com/kelsey/kjwb2.htm. Family History & Biography Section. Sources are not cited.. Hereinafter cited as Tri-Counties Genealogy: Brewer.
[S3681] New Jersey. Surrogate's Court (Monmouth County). Wills v. B, 1816-1826; FHL film #0801689 (Salt Lake City, Utah: Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1969), Microfilm of original at the Monmouth County Courthouse. Hereinafter cited as Monmouth Co., NJ Wills v. B, 1816-1826.
[S3711] "New York State Census, 1865", online www.familysearch.org. Digital images online.. Hereinafter cited as 1865 New York State Census.
[S3716] Notes of Interest; Sherrill, Roman Citizen, Rome, N. Y., February 12, 1890. Hereinafter cited as Roman Citizen.
[S3902] Richard Wilson Cook, "A Wilson Family of Millstone, New Jersey", New York Genealogical and Biographical Record Vol. 108, page 80 (1977). Hereinafter cited as "Wilson, Millstone, NJ."
[S3926] William J. Hoffman, "Bries Addenda", The American Genealogist Vol. 23, page 55 (1946). Hereinafter cited as "Bries Addenda."
[S3928] George E. McCracken, "Family of Dirck Kroesen, Bucks County, Pennsylvania", The American Genealogist Vol. 31, pages 103-104 (1954). Hereinafter cited as "Family of Dirck Kroesen."
[S3936] Albert Harrison Van Deusen Van Deursen Family, Vol. 1 (New York: Frank Allaben Genealogical Company, 1912). Hereinafter cited as Van Deursen Family.
[S4091] Mary Jane Corson, "Henry Young and His Descendants", Cape May County Magazine of History and Genealogy Vol. 7, page 36 (1973). Hereinafter cited as "Henry Young". http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/…
[S4151] Wills of Richmond County N. Y. 1787-1863. originals on file Surrogate's office St. George compiled by Francis S. Fast, Typescript, February 7, 1941, Box 5, WIL RR-174, Anneke Jans and Everardus Bogardus Descendants Association, Wilmington, Ohio.
[S4263] William B. Bogardus Collection of Brouwer, Brower and Brewer Family Material and Correspondence, Anneke Jans and Everardus Bogardus Descendants Association, Wilmington, Ohio, Box 5, WIL WW-108, Will of Maria R. Lefferts, of Brooklyn, sister of John A. Brower, and others, dated Jun. 11, 1857, and Codicils dated Apr. 12, 1858, Jan. 31, 1860, Sep. 16, 1863 and Oct. 1, 1863, probated Mar. 2, 1864. Received from 134-S, "extract of will," original source not given. . Hereafter cited as William B. Bogardus Collection.
[S4267] Brower Research and Correspondence of Chester A. Brower, Typed and handwritten notes, Box 5, UNP BB-68, 88, Anneke Jans and Everardus Bogardus Descendants Association, Wilmington, Ohio, (pages scanned by Karen B. Sims in 2009, PDFs in possession of Chris Chester, 2012).
[S4316] "Six-Mile Run Church Baptisma, 1743-1805", Somerset County Historical Quarterly Vol. 8, pp. 123-132, 211-230 (1919). Hereinafter cited as "Six-Mile Run Baptisms."
[S4319] Mike Morrissey, Children of Volkert Hansen Van Nostrand and Sarah Albertse Terhune, Word Doc., Received from Mike Morrisey via e-mail July 29, 2012., Chris Chester, Kent, New York.
[S4330] Historical Research Committee of the Colonial Dames of Delaware, A Calendar of Delaware Wills, New Castle County,1682-1800 (New York: Frederick H. Hitchcock, 1911). Hereinafter cited as Cal. of Delaware Wills. Https://archive.org/details/acalendardelawa00commgoog.
[S4335] Robert L. Billard,"Flatbush Baptisms."Online transcriptions of baptism recorded at the Flatbush, Kings Co., New York Reformed Dutch Church. Online http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~rbillard/….. Hereinafter cited as Flatbush Baptisms.
[S4401] Colonial Roots Early Church Records of Somerset County, New Jersey, Vol. 1 (Lewes, Delaware: Colonial Roots, 2002). Hereinafter cited as Early Church Records, Somerset Co., NJ.
[S4554] Baptism Register of Rev. Henry Chase, Manuscript (extractions), from FHL film #0017777, item 1, Box 7, Uncataloged Items, No. 18, Anneke Jans and Everardus Bogardus Descendants Association, Wilmington, Ohio. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/…
[S4753] Frederic B. Emery, Conrad Emery and His Descendants (Logan, Utah: Unique Printing Service, 1970). Hereinafter cited as Conrad Emery and Descendants.
[S4836] E. P. B., "The Bartow Pedigree", New York Genealogical and Biographical Record Vol. 3, p. 30 (1872). Hereinafter cited as "Bartow Pedigree."
[S4878] Scott Kraus, Descendants of Elias Brewer, Journal Report. September 2013. Received via e-mail from Scott Kraus. Researched and compiled by Scott Kraus.
[S4886] Ancestry.com,"Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Death Certificates Index, 1803-1915." [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011. Original data: "Pennsylvania, Philadelphia City Death Certificates, 1803–1915." Index. FamilySearch, Salt Lake City, Utah, 2008, 2010. From originals housed at the Philadelphia City Archives. "Death Records.". Online www.ancestry.com.. Hereinafter cited as Philadelphia, PA Death Cert Index 1803-1915.
[S4903] "Levelwoods Methodist Cemetery, Larue County, Kentucky." Interment.net, Cemetery Records Online. Online http://www.interment.net/data/us/ky/larue/….. Hereinafter cited as Levelwoods Methodist Cem., Larue Co., KY.
[S5456] Marvin T. Broyhill, The Brewer Families of Colonial Virginia, 1626-1776: Supporting Documentation Part I (Estill Springs, TN: Brewer Researcher, 1994). Hereinafter cited as Brewer Families of Colonial Virginia, Sup I. Https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/582692?availability=Family%20History%20Library.
[S5483] George Brewer will (July 13, 1741), Brunswick County, Virginia, Wills Book 2, pp. 19-20, Brunswick County Clerk of Courts Office, Lawrenceville, Virginia. Photocopy of original made by Diane Daniel. Hereinafter cited as George Brewer, Will, 1741.
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Barbary Pirates Redux
They’re baaack.
History repeats itself, this time with a return of a version of the Barbary Pirates. This is our history, and the solutions we found back then have their bearings on who we became as a nation and what we face in the present.
First the present:
The Seabourn Cruise Lines ship Spirit was attacked by pirates off the coast of Somalia early Saturday morning but escaped capture.
Two boats carrying between eight and 10 pirates armed with machine guns and rocket-propelled grenade launchers attacked the Spirit, which had 150 passengers and 160 crew members on board, CNN reported.
Canadian passenger Mike Rogers said, the captain tried to run one of the boats over, and eventually outran the boats. The captain didn’t hit the emergency alarm for fear passengers would rush to the deck. He alerted them over the loudspeaker.
One person was injured but there are no details.
The ship suffered a little damage. Rogers said there wasn’t running water and he heard that a grenade went off in a cabin.
The World Food Program announced Thursday that pirates are hijacking shipments into the area and hampering relief efforts.
The WFP website called the coastline one of the most dangerous in the world.
This is an old story. The fact that piracy is becoming more common and is affecting wealthy civilians rather than commerce says much about the growing anarchy on land and sea. These things are connected.
As Americans, most of us are ignorant of history outside our shores, including history in which we were involved. In the case of the Barbary Pirates, that history goes back to the very beginning of our nation, of our initial attempts to establish commerce as a sovereign nation. What is of especial interest is that the tack we took in confronting the problem runs like a thread through all of our history. And the solution the Europeans hit upon is also part and parcel of their character.
First some background on the Barbary Pirates: they got their name from the Berber states - Morocco, Tunis, Algiers, Tripoli - located on the southern coast of the Mediterranean during the 1700’s. Given the culture of these fiefdoms, the customary way to raise revenue was piracy, ransom of slaves caught in these raids, and ongoing demands of tribute from whichever countries wished to ply the waters there for reasons of trade or travel.
From the definitive 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica:
The first half of the 17th century may be described as the flowering time of the Barbary pirates. More than 20,000 captives were said to be imprisoned in Algiers alone. The rich were allowed to redeem themselves, but the poor were condemned to slavery. Their masters would not in many cases allow them to secure freedom by professing Mahommedanism. A long list might be given of people of good social position, not only Italians or Spaniards, but German or English travelers in the south, who were captives for a time. The chief sufferers were the inhabitants of the coasts of Sicily, Naples and Spain. But all traders belonging to nations which did not pay blackmail in order to secure immunity were liable to be taken at sea. The payment of blackmail, disguised as presents or ransoms, did not always secure safety with these faithless barbarians. The most powerful states in Europe condescended to make payments to them and to tolerate their insults. Religious orders - the Redemptionists and Lazarites - were engaged in working for the redemption of captives and large legacies were left for that purpose in many countries. The continued existence of this African piracy was indeed a disgrace to Europe, for it was due to the jealousies of the powers themselves. France encouraged them during her rivalry with Spain; and when, she had no further need of them they were supported against her by Great Britain and Holland. In the 18th century British public men were not ashamed to say that Barbary piracy was a useful check on the competition of the weaker Mediterranean nations in the carrying trade. When Lord Exmouth sailed to coerce Algiers in 1816, he expressed doubts in a private letter whether the suppression of piracy would be acceptable to the trading community. Every power was, indeed, desirous to secure immunity for itself and more or less ready to compel Tripoli, Tunis, Algiers, Salé and the rest to respect its trade and its subjects. In 1655 the British admiral, Robert Blake, was sent to teach them a lesson, and he gave the Tunisians a severe beating. A long series of expeditions was undertaken by the British fleet during the reign of Charles II, sometimes single-handed, sometimes in combination with the Dutch. In 1682 and 1683 the French bombarded Algiers. On the second occasion the Algerines blew the French consul from a gun during the action. An extensive list of such punitive expeditions could be made out, down to the American operations of 1801?5 and 1815. But in no case was the attack pushed home, and it rarely happened that the aggrieved Christian state refused in the end to make a money payment in order to secure peace. The frequent wars among them gave the pirates numerous opportunities of breaking their engagements, of which they never failed to take advantage.
That’s the British perspective.
To the Americans, things appeared quite different. Europe, enthralled as it was in its own internecine divisions and wars, found it easier to pay this maritime jizya tax than to take on the Barbary pirates. For America, though, the problem was more crucial. For one thing, we weren’t at war, our focus was to begin to move out into the world and build an international commerce. That couldn’t happen if our ships could not move safely in foreign waters. For another, it went against the grain of the American character to be at the mercy of the lawless and the whimsical notions of the Berber area.
For a time we were able to slide by because we were a colony under Britains’ protection. But with the birth of the United States as a sovereign nation, we no longer had that security. Serendipitously for us, Portugal declared war on Algiers and began patrolling the Straits of Gibraltar. The pirates were effectively prevented from moving into open waters. When Algiers and Portugal reached an agreeement in 1793, the pirates of the Barbary coast moved back into the open seas; within three months Algiers had captured almost a dozen American ships, their cargo and crews. As was the custom, the men on these ships were enslaved and put to work until such time as the Americans were willing to pay their ransom and begin the process of negotiating for ongoing tribute.
This became a tumultuous problem beginning in President Washington’s administration, and continuing into that of President Madison. The country had no money with which to redeem the men from these Muslim potentates or to pay the exorbitant annual tributes. In addition, there was sharp disagreement about the policies that would be formulated to address the issue structurally. Political and philosophical conflict existed from the very beginning:
During President Washington’s administration, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson disagreed sharply over policy toward the Corsairs [the pirate ships]. Adams strongly favored paying off the pirates, arguing that a long and protracted war would financially ruin the young nation. Jefferson vehemently disagreed, appealing not only to an American sense of honor, but also to the notion that a single, decisive war might be more cost-effective than annual bribes for perpetuity. Not surprisingly, their subsequent administration policies reflected these beliefs. Adams was anxious to prevent conflict, and ensured payment of all demanded tribute. In addition, Adams even agreed to build and deliver two warships for the Algerian Corsairs. Since the Corsairs were considered more a force of nature than a foreign nation, the fact that this was contrary to the popular, “millions for defense, not one cent for tribute,” attitude toward French demands for bribes, was rarely noted. Yet, frustrated during tribute negotiations with Tunis, negotiator William Eaton wrote home that, “there is but one language which can be held to these people, and this is terror.” [editorial emphasis]
In May of 1801, the Corsairs of Tripoli became restless and declared war on the United States, figuring they could increase their annual tribute. Their disorganized fleet passed into the Atlantic but was chased back by a recently dispatched American squadron. The Americans cruised the Mediterranean, evacuating American merchantmen and winning several engagements with the Corsairs. Later that year Sweden declared war on the Tripolitans and lent considerable support to the American blockade of Tripoli. The combined fleet of Swedish and American, and infrequently Danish, ships was unwilling to bombard the city until early 1802 when President Jefferson ordered that the war be pursued with greater vigor. Despite occasional bombardment, as the blockade continued, it became impossible for the large American ships to prevent some of the smaller, faster Corsair gunboats from slipping through. The Americans wanted to draw the pirates into a large decisive battle, but their attempts proved fruitless. When Sweden made peace that year, the blockade collapsed.
Other problems intervened. The War of 1812 held our attention. And American relations with each Berber state varied. It was a long, complicated process with Congress, as usual, dithering about what was to be done. Slowly, all too slowly, an American Navy began to be formed. In fact, it was born of necessity with the decades’ long conflicts with the Barbary Pirates.
Eventually we won the wars, both on sea and land. From the shores of Tripoli to the final settlement with Algiers in 1815, America developed her Navy and seasoned its veterans in war. Stephen Decatur and John Paul Jones became part of our national mythos. The US began to formulate a coherent foreign policy. After years of humilation, of ransom, tribute, and betrayal of treaties with the Berbers, President Madison brought it to an end. When the dey of Algiers demanded yet another round of tribute, Madison declined, most famously.
“the United States whilst they wish for war with no nation, will buy peace with none.” [Thus, the]… “settled policy” … “that as peace is better than war, war is better than tribute.”
And now there are pirates abroad again. And they are Musselmen, as of old. But are they the same muslims, with the same goals?
Probably not. There are some parallels, of course, considering that today’s terrorists are descendants of that Berber culture. One thing is their use of hostages as tools - in one case for raising money, in the present day for propaganda purposes or to influence policy. But the Barbary pirates merely wanted to raise money by terrorist means, they weren’t waging jihad against the infidel, they just wanted his money.
Essentially, piracy ended in the Mediterranean when France captured Algiers. And now we know what the long-term outcome for that victory was:
Paris is burning.
CarnackiUK said...
For anyone interested in reading more about the barbary pirates, especially the ones operating out of Morocco, I heartily recommend the book 'White Gold' by Giles Milton. Actually the focus is more on the appalling treatment suffered by Christian seamen and travellers who were captured by the corsairs and put to work as slaves.
Anyone with the slightest doubt that islam is a 'religion' of sadists should read this book.
Jude the Obscure said...
If you pay the Danegeld, you will never get rid of the Danes.
Payments of tribute, blackmail, ransom, and welfare to able bodied men, qualify as variations of Danegeld.
Mussolini said...
I've been quoting the Barbary Wars ever since the first appeaser bleated that we couldn't defeat terrorism.
I'm glad to see this important part of history making the rounds.
I think these attacks on France and Denmark are planned, well-thought out and executed centrally.
(sniff sniff.... if it smells like poop, it's poop)
I think the two most vulnerable countries have been chosen for the process of Islamification.
The Barbary Wars: American Independence in the Atlantic World by Frank Lambert is an excellent political/historical account of the time. Especially interesting are the accounts of our fledgling Navy.
Highly recommend it.
Four comments to a detailed, articulate, highly persuasive post about pirates and piracy on the high seas, and nobody can bring him (and/or her) self to say "Aaaarrrrrgh!"?
Clearly, blogging is in trouble.
Always On Watch said...
And now there are pirates abroad again. And they are Musselmen, as of old.
the shores of Tripoli, a line in the Marines Hymn as well
Carackiuk: For anyone interested in reading more about the barbary pirates, especially the ones operating out of Morocco, I heartily recommend the book 'White Gold' by Giles Milton. This book exposes sadism, all right. A must read for any who abhor twisted thinking.
So here we are, in the 21st Century, at it again. We can win this war, but not through appeasement, which amounts to what would have been the same thing had the world stood by and let the Barbary pirates have their way.
bioqubit said...
John Adams sounded so much like today's liberals and other ostriches. The continuity of this loosing mindset throughout our history is astonishing and appalling.
His building corsairs for the pirates sounds so much like our offers to build and support reactors for the North Koreans. Also, did not John Kerry make a similar proposal for working with the Iranians?
Andrew Scotia said...
There are Muslim pirates operating in several areas; the Straits of Malacca and the Southern Philippines being the two largest where over half the world's pirate attacks occur. Governments who two years ago opposed armed "guards" on transiting vessels are now turning a blind eye to the practice.
I recently heard that there are now more than one or two motion stabilized fifties on scene, probably modified Barrats. These reports are rated at slighty higher than latrine rumors so far but, it wouldn't surprise me. Guns tubs on cruise ships? Only if they can double as jacuzzi's.
Since you're somewhat of an expert: how in the world did that cruise ship manage not to get boarded? Sure, it could ourun the little pirate ship, but it would have to get going first. Why weren't the pirates up on the decks before then?
The story made me very curious.
Heloise said...
Thanks for the enlightening essay!
Redneck Texan said...
Ahhh, the good ole days.
When our enemy took hostages we reciprocated by taking hostages ourselves. We had no moral reservations against directing our firepower directly at our enemy's population centers as that increased the chances of killing as many with one shot as possible.
And our only objective was military victory (stop jackin with our shipping interests), as we felt no obligation to replace our defeated enemy's cultural values reflecting corrupt form of government with a pseudo-democracy that reflects our values.
And our indiscriminate methods effect on that enemy are still effective on that coast of Africa today.
What is the rest of the world waiting for to address this growing problem off the horn of Africa, and the Straits of Malacca?
Are they waiting for the evil and hated Americans to take care of it for them so they can criticize our methods after we take care of their problem? Can the world's other nations not take care of any problem without American leadership?
They are not attacking US warships, so I think everybody else has a problem....maybe the UN will send their navy to take care of it.
Papa Ray said...
Don't worry they (the pirates) learned from this failure. Next time they will come at night and throw grappling hooks and climb aboard before anyone can stop them.
Watch for it at 10 oclock.
Papa Ray
Interesting blog.Piracy is not simply islamic.WASP make the best pirates till date.Although i live in a society that is multi-religious, i got an idea of the global reach of jehad only after reading 'Who killed Daniel Pearl?'
Baron: I really couldn't say for sure; particularly in this case. But, in most cases the pirates are able to board lightly crewed vessels who do not stand a radar watch except for navigation.
It also appears that no attempt to board was made. The pirates in, probably, semi rigid inflatables (SRIB) fired auto rifles and a reported 2+ RPG's. Passengers were directed to leave the decks but heard the fire and a couple of "loud booms" which were attributed to a US made "sonic weapon". The captain also said that his crew deployed according to plans made in advance. Most cruise ships these days have a security detail under a master at arms/security chief.
Princess Cruises explicitly announces its' security policy which uses former UK Army Gurkhas. They may carry kukris but my money is on something by H&K. I believe that Carnival, the operators of the Seabourn Spirit the attacked vessel may have a similar security group. Bahamas registry.
Here is my take. Somali pirates have taken some ships in the area and some of them saw the cruise ship and thought, Big Payday. By the time they got close the ship was coming up to full speed, the captain may have run one SRIB down, when they got close, the speed and the clean, high rails made grapnels a dicey proposition, they would be dicey in any event with that many crew, so they fired on the ship in the hope that the effete, infidel dog would heave to.
Instead they got a 161 person crew and an armed response and maybe some 40mm shoulder launched grenades. Maybe they do have some kind of "sonic weapon" too. I believe that they may have left some floaters behind which is why they scratched an African port call altogether. Why take the chance of getting hassled by baksheesh hungry Worthy Oriental Gentlemen.
A couple of points for those who have not done much "messing about in small boats". It is a task to go boat to boat on the open ocean even when the decks and speeds match. If you are going up a grapnel line rather than down a rapell line from a helo, you are using both hands and it takes quite a while. Unless you have covering fire, some guy can drop a martini shaker on your head and ruin your day. Very dry, rocks, with a twist. Also SRIB's have short legs, cruise ships have long legs. Stand out to sea at full speed and your opponent suddenly has a long stern chase and he probably didn't pack fresh undies and a tooth brush.
Baron:
From what I've read about pirate attacks off Somalia and Straits of Malacca, their boats are relatively small speedboats (possibly SRIB's as Andrew said). The photos of the cruiseship (it was just on CNN with an interview of a passenger from Vancouver) show it has a high freeboard (typical of cruiseships) which would make a surprise boarding difficult. As Andrew said, the cruise ships also have a much larger crew than a typical freighter or tanker. The CNN interview with the passenger indicated they peppered the ship with small arms fire and radioed the ship to stop. When the ship didn't, a RPG was apparently fired (possibly more than one). The passenger stated they were warned to move away from windows and lay down low. Apparently the RPG went through a woman's portlight (window) and smashed into her liquor cabinet - it failed to explode but destroyed her booze supply anyway.
The captain upped the ship's speed to max and tried to run over one of the boats that attempted to cut the Spirit off. This was unsuccessful and the captain headed out into the open sea - the boats had a hard time I suppose in the open ocean and dealing with the wake of the much larger ship.
linearthinker said...
Andrew answered your ques before I could get this up, but what the heck:
--"The Scandinavian ambiance is inviting; mellow lounges..."
VIKINGS?
Bahamian Vikings for security?
"The World Food Program announced Thursday that pirates are hijacking shipments into the area and hampering relief efforts."
"The WFP website called the coastline one of the most dangerous in the world." Soooo, WHAT THE HELL ARE THEY (UN) DOING ABOUT IT? Whining?
(and why do I think your word verification is subliminally teaching me arabic?)
One other thing from the interview. The passenger stated that the boat positioned in front of the Spirit fired at what they thought was the bridge but took out the windows of the bar instead - hope the liquor was OK.
Fox news apparently has video of the attack, but I am too bandwidth poor at the moment to watch it.
Here is a Frame from the Video.
Nilk said...
From today's news online:
Cruise ship escapes pirate hijack
From correspondents in Nairobi
A LUXURY ship today narrowly escaped seizure by gunmen off the pirate-infested Somali coast when it sped off to the high seas amid a trail of gunfire.
The vessel was carrying at least 600 tourists from Europe destined to the Kenyan port city of Mombasa, where it was expected to arrive Monday, Andrew Mwangura of the Kenyan chapter of the Seafarers' Assistance Programme (SAP) told AFP.
"The captain made a distress call and later switched off the radio communication to avoid being traced by the hijackers," Mwangura said.
He said that the gunmen sailing in three boats later abandoned the chase as they could not venture into the high seas and that no one was injured in the botched hijack early today.
The attempted seizure came two days after the UN World Food Programme (WFP) warned that the increasingly dangerous Somali waters hampered delivery of relief supplies to more than half a million people facing acute food shortage there.
Last month pirates in the unpatrolled waters off the 3700-kilometre coastline of the war-torn Horn of Africa country released two UN-chartered vessels, one of which had been seized in June, but several others and their crews remain in captivity.
At least 23 hijackings and attempted seizures have been recorded off the Somalia coastline since mid-March, according to the International Maritime Bureau (IMB), which has warned ships to stay as far away from the coast as possible.
Sorry for posting the whole article, but I couldn't decide which bits to cut.
This news did make it into the actual hard copy of the paper (Sunday HeraldSun), but I think that was because there were 2 Australians on board the ship.
I admit, upon reading the piece in the paper, I did wonder why on earth anybody in their right minds would go for a cruise in that part of the world.
We've got enough problems in our part of the world without holidaying in other pirate havens.
A little further information. Some of us have talked about tactical loadouts for vessel security. Beyond stainless steel small arms, there is one weapons system that we agree would be invaluable. That is some version of the old Mark 20 Automatic Grenade Launcher. They can fire these. Low velocity 40mm grenades are very handy. At night, you can fire illumination rounds and, my personal favorite, a shotgun shell in a plastic ablot loaded with 20 #4 shot, that's about a .32 cal. Unload one or two of these at a SRIB and somebody may just have a Wiley Coyote moment running out of fingers to plug holes in people and boats.
Now fire these from a portable, easy to set up mount near the rail and behind a ballastic armor shield and add the Mark 20 Autobloop to the mount and you have a weapon that can put out all kinds of hurt; HE, Frag, Shot, Flechettes (Flying buzzsaw of tiny steel darts)Illumination (teeny parachutes) Tear Gas, Pryotechnics (Nasty suff for wooden boats). And it is a slow firing, very low recoil, automatic weapon; cheap but reliable.
Now when Bre'r pirate stands in to board you engage at about 300 meters, say with night optics, the 40mm has no flash signature. Suddenly his pilot station window blows in, the the pilot house blows up and multiple fires start. Don't forget to include in your first salvo the smoke round that smells like a Smithfield Ham.
Throw a couple of sacks of blood meal in the water. Wave bye bye or just wait for the fins with a beer and a big bowl of pop corn. It don't get no better than that.
Dymphna
Piracy has become a problem in several parts of the world in the last 10 or 15 years. Much of it is just basic criminal behavior, which in this case is politically difficult to take effective action against. The reason it is politically difficult is that to many of the worlds elites have forgotten that the purpose of a political elite is to take the lead in protecting society. They would rather enjoy the benefits while they last.
Can we clone George bush and make him President of several countries?
Most pirates are trying to get rich not hurt.
An awake guard with a 30’06 of some such will work for most situations.
But I do like your suggestions. The important thing is awake.
Baron & Dymphna
Do you think the French will pull it together enough that you will have to rename your blog “The Gates of Paris”?
Me either.
: -)
I really hate to say it but I have been having fun practicing my French by reading Google Actualités France. This is lot worse than in being reported in the US press.
But then Winter is coming we will have a pause until summer, then . . .
You don't have to practice your French. Google Theodore Dalrymple and "The Gates of Paris are Burning."
He wrote that in 2002...even then he said the favorite form of protest was setting things on fire.
Seriously, go read it -- he might as well have written it five minutes ago. Except now they're taking over the police stations.
Andrew S...looove your armament descriptions. So nicely done.
Speaking of Paris, there is a really good timeline on what's going on provided by a French person in Oz. He/she has provided some good insight into what's happening and how the French people really feel as opposed to what the pollies and press are saying they feel.
Jason Pappas said...
Great review and excellent commentary! Sites like this have long ago replaced my reading the Sunday NY Times. "All the history that’s fit to blog …"
Jason Pappas--
Don't forget the world history blog on our blogroll. He's go a great site.
EdWonk said...
It's a sad commentary on our times that no Admiralty Court in the world treats the crime of Piracy on the High Seas as punishable by death.
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Body Dissatisfaction and Disordered Eating
Fitzsimmons-Craft, Ellen E.
University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States
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Role of Phosphorylation in RNA Binding Protein Function
ACE: Autoimmunity Center of Excellence (ACE) at Stanford
Stanford Technology Accelerating Medicines Partnership Center
Multiplex Autoantibody Profiling in SLE
College represents a unique vulnerability period for the development of body dissatisfaction (BD) and disordered eating among women. Research has suggested that these public health concerns may be at least partly explained by social comparison and objectification theories, two prominent social psychological theories. Humans engage in social comparisons with others in order to understand how and where they fit into the world. Objectification theory holds that the feminine body has been constructed as an object to be gazed upon;given this, females learn to view themselves from an observer's perspective and to treat themselves as objects to be looked at. This proposal will extend previous research by examining how these two theories fit into an elaborated version of Stice's (1994) socio-cultural model of disordered eating and by using an experience sampling/ecological momentary assessment (EMA) approach, which involves assessing participants multiple times per day in their natural environments. Specifically, this proposal will use novel methodology (i.e., EMA), test social comparison and objectification as factors that may explain the relation between thin ideal internalization and BD in the socio-cultural model of disordered eating, and utilize rigorous prospective analyses - doing these 3 things will fill important gaps in the literature. A sample of 200 college women will participate, which will include 2 self-report questionnaire sessions (at the start and end of an academic semester) and a 2-week EMA component (i.e., via their personal computers, participants will complete a short set of questions 3x/daily mid-semester). Constructs assessed will include: pressure for thinness, thin ideal internalization, social comparison, body surveillance (the indicator of objectification), BD, and disordered eating. Key hypotheses: 1) increases in momentary social comparison and body surveillance will be associated with subsequent increases in BD and disordered eating;2) momentary instances of social comparison and body surveillance will mediate the relation between thin ideal internalization and BD;3) a socio-cultural model incorporating social comparison and body surveillance will provide a better fit to the data than a model that does not incorporate these constructs. Multilevel and structural equation modeling will be utilized to test these hypotheses. Results may inform future prevention programs for college women by identifying relevant and mutable behaviors that impact BD/disordered eating.
This study will examine the role of daily instances of comparing oneself to others and objectifying one's own body in the development of body dissatisfaction and disordered eating among college women. This study will inform prevention efforts by identifying relevant and mutable behaviors that influence these public health concerns.
Predoctoral Individual National Research Service Award (F31)
5F31MH093978-02
Special Emphasis Panel (ZRG1-F11-L (20))
Rubio, Mercedes
University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
Schools of Arts and Sciences
F31 MH Body Dissatisfaction and Disordered Eating
Fitzsimmons-Craft, Ellen E. / University of North Carolina Chapel Hill $22,344
Fitzsimmons-Craft, Ellen E (2017) Eating disorder-related social comparison in college women's everyday lives. Int J Eat Disord 50:893-905
Fitzsimmons-Craft, Ellen E; Ciao, Anna C; Accurso, Erin C (2016) A naturalistic examination of social comparisons and disordered eating thoughts, urges, and behaviors in college women. Int J Eat Disord 49:141-50
Fitzsimmons-Craft, Ellen E; Bardone-Cone, Anna M; Crosby, Ross D et al. (2016) Mediators of the relationship between thin-ideal internalization and body dissatisfaction in the natural environment. Body Image 18:113-22
Fitzsimmons-Craft, Ellen E; Bardone-Cone, Anna M; Wonderlich, Stephen A et al. (2015) The relationships among social comparisons, body surveillance, and body dissatisfaction in the natural environment. Behav Ther 46:257-71
Fitzsimmons-Craft, Ellen E; Bardone-Cone, Anna M; Bulik, Cynthia M et al. (2014) Examining an elaborated sociocultural model of disordered eating among college women: the roles of social comparison and body surveillance. Body Image 11:488-500
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Data Management and Statistics Core C
Edland, Steven Dyal
University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States
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PsycheMERGE: Leveraging electronic health records and genomics for mental health research
Synaptic Resilience to Psychosis in Alzheimer Disease
T cell compartmentalization and antiviral response
Mechanisms of impaired T-cell mechanosensing of melanoma antigens
Collaborative Study on the Genetics of Alcoholism/Coga
The Data Management and Statistics Core provide statistical consulting, data management and information transfer resources to enhance the quality of Alzheimer's disease research conducted by the ADRC investigators.
The specific aims are: 1. To provide database support to the Cores and Projects. To coordinate the entry, quality control, management and analysis of data generated by the enrollment, evaluation, and follow up of outpatient and control subjects recruited by the Centers Clinical Core. Similarly, to coordinate the entry, quality control, management and analysis of data generated by the Center's Neuropathology Core. 2. To prepare the ADRC database for routine submission to the National Alzheimer's Coordinating Center (NACC). 3. To provide statistical design and analysis consultation services to ADRC investigators. Design consultation power calculations and statistical analysis planning. Data analysis support ranges from providing simple descriptive statistics to the conduct of complex multivariate statistical analyses. 4. To develop new statistical methodology focused on application to Alzheimer's disease data. 5. To educate investigators, trainees and junior faculty in the principles and use of statistical analysis methodologies.
AD affects millions of Americans with its risk growing exponentially with age. The AD Centers Program fosters research related to AD and non-AD dementias. The ADRC will enhance the performance of innovative research on AD and related topics, including research that may lead to potential disease modifying therapies or behavioral treatments. It will provide an environment and core resources to enhance research, foster professional and community training, and coordinate interdisciplinary research.
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Burke, Shanna L; Hu, Tianyan; Fava, Nicole M et al. (2018) Sex differences in the development of mild cognitive impairment and probable Alzheimer's disease as predicted by hippocampal volume or white matter hyperintensities. J Women Aging :1-25
Wang, Qi; Guo, Lei; Thompson, Paul M et al. (2018) The Added Value of Diffusion-Weighted MRI-Derived Structural Connectome in Evaluating Mild Cognitive Impairment: A Multi-Cohort Validation1. J Alzheimers Dis 64:149-169
Sundermann, Erin E; Tran, My; Maki, Pauline M et al. (2018) Sex differences in the association between apolipoprotein E ?4 allele and Alzheimer's disease markers. Alzheimers Dement (Amst) 10:438-447
Besser, Lilah; Kukull, Walter; Knopman, David S et al. (2018) Version 3 of the National Alzheimer's Coordinating Center's Uniform Data Set. Alzheimer Dis Assoc Disord 32:351-358
Graves, Lisa V; Van Etten, Emily J; Holden, Heather M et al. (2018) Refining CVLT-II recognition discriminability indices to enhance the characterization of recognition memory changes in healthy aging. Neuropsychol Dev Cogn B Aging Neuropsychol Cogn 25:767-782
Edmonds, Emily C; Weigand, Alexandra J; Thomas, Kelsey R et al. (2018) Increasing Inaccuracy of Self-Reported Subjective Cognitive Complaints Over 24 Months in Empirically Derived Subtypes of Mild Cognitive Impairment. J Int Neuropsychol Soc 24:842-853
Wang, Tingyan; Qiu, Robin G; Yu, Ming (2018) Predictive Modeling of the Progression of Alzheimer's Disease with Recurrent Neural Networks. Sci Rep 8:9161
Crum, Jana; Wilson, Jeffrey; Sabbagh, Marwan (2018) Does taking statins affect the pathological burden in autopsy-confirmed Alzheimer's dementia? Alzheimers Res Ther 10:104
González, Hector M; Tarraf, Wassim; Vásquez, Priscilla et al. (2018) Metabolic Syndrome and Neurocognition Among Diverse Middle-Aged and Older Hispanics/Latinos: HCHS/SOL Results. Diabetes Care 41:1501-1509
Burke, Shanna L; Cadet, Tamara; Maddux, Marlaina (2018) Chronic Health Illnesses as Predictors of Mild Cognitive Impairment Among African American Older Adults. J Natl Med Assoc 110:314-325
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Innovative Approaches to Inform Evidence-Based Pregnancy Weight Gain Guidelines
Bodnar, Lisa M. Hutcheon, Jennifer Anne
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United States
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Molecular and Cellular Mechanisms Underlying the Circadian Timing of Sleep
Bacterial factors modulating host immunity
CSF Clearance of Intracranial Debris from Traumatic Brain Injury
Understanding phosphate metabolism in cancer and metastasis
Wireless Chip-to-Chip Communication: Terahertz Short Range
Gestational weight gain (GWG) is a potentially modifiable risk factor for a number of important maternal and infant health outcomes. In 2009, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) Committee to Reevaluate Gestational Weight Gain Guidelines published resubmitted weight-gain recommendations. However, the resubmitted guidelines were established without a clear understanding of their impact on a number of important outcomes such as stillbirth, infant death, child neurocognitive status, preeclampsia, and long-term maternal and offspring obesity. Further, the IOM committee highlighted the importance of assessing pattern and timing of GWG in addition to total GWG. This application directly responds to those research needs by examining the influence of total GWG and pattern of GWG on a broad range of short- and long-term maternal and offspring outcomes. Our study design will employ existing electronic records from two retrospective cohorts (124,590 singleton births at Magee-Women's Hospital in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and 36,384 singleton births at Alta Bates Summit Medical Center in Berkeley, California), as well as data from a prospective cohort of 471 mother-child dyads born at Magee-Women's Hospital and followed for 22 years. This project seeks to determine the association between total GWG and 12 adverse outcomes for mothers (gestational diabetes, preeclampsia, and maternal postpartum body mass index change at 22 years postpartum) and offspring (stillbirth, infant mortality, spontaneous preterm birth, small- and large-for-gestational-age births, neurocognitive deficits, child obesity at age 6 adult obesity at age 22). To study this association, an innovative method to assess total GWG will be developed that removes the bias in the existing measures'correlation with gestational length. This project will also examine the relationship between maternal GWG trajectory and adverse perinatal outcomes. A novel growth curve analysis method will be used to determine the independent contribution of timing, amount, and velocity of GWG to poor pregnancy and birth outcomes. The successful completion of these aims will fill major gaps in knowledge about the weight gain ranges and patterns associated with optimal maternal and child health. The use of innovative methodology combined with the ability to study multiple adverse outcomes simultaneously will advance our understanding of GWG in an effort to inform future evidence-based guidelines. Our use of two diverse cohorts will increase our study's generalizability and potential to impact medical practice and public health policy.
The 2009 Institute of Medicine pregnancy weight gain guidelines are used by clinicians throughout the U.S. to optimize the short- and long-term health of both the mother and child, yet there are still major gaps in knowledge about ideal weight gain ranges. This project will inform future evidence-based weight gain guidelines by using cutting-edge analytic methodologies to study relationships between GWG and multiple adverse health outcomes of major medical, economic, and public health importance, including perinatal death, poor birth outcomes, child cognitive deficits, and maternal and child obesity. Although the causes of poor maternal and offspring outcomes are multifactorial, we focus on pregnancy weight gain because the association is plausible, potentially modifiable, and has important implications for mother and child well beyond the childbearing years.
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development (NICHD)
1R01HD072008-01A1
Davis, Maurice
R01 HD Innovative Approaches to Inform Evidence-Based Pregnancy Weight Gain Guidelines
Bodnar, Lisa M.; Hutcheon, Jennifer Anne / University of Pittsburgh
Bodnar, Lisa M.; Hutcheon, Jennifer Anne / University of Pittsburgh $604,939
Hutcheon, Jennifer A; Bodnar, Lisa M (2018) Good Practices for Observational Studies of Maternal Weight and Weight Gain in Pregnancy. Paediatr Perinat Epidemiol 32:152-160
Hutcheon, Jennifer A; Stephansson, Olof; Cnattingius, Sven et al. (2018) Pregnancy Weight Gain Before Diagnosis and Risk of Preeclampsia: A Population-Based Cohort Study in Nulliparous Women. Hypertension 72:433-441
Leonard, Stephanie A; Hutcheon, Jennifer A; Bodnar, Lisa M et al. (2018) Gestational Weight Gain-for-Gestational Age Z-Score Charts Applied across U.S. Populations. Paediatr Perinat Epidemiol 32:161-171
Johansson, K; Hutcheon, J A; Bodnar, L M et al. (2018) Pregnancy weight gain by gestational age and stillbirth: a population-based cohort study. BJOG 125:973-981
Hutcheon, Jennifer A; Bodnar, Lisa M; Platt, Robert W (2017) Using perinatal morbidity scoring tools as a primary study outcome. J Epidemiol Community Health 71:1090-1093
Galin, Jessica; Abrams, Barbara; Leonard, Stephanie A et al. (2017) Living in Violent Neighbourhoods is Associated with Gestational Weight Gain Outside the Recommended Range. Paediatr Perinat Epidemiol 31:37-46
Leonard, Stephanie A; Petito, Lucia C; Stephansson, Olof et al. (2017) Weight gain during pregnancy and the black-white disparity in preterm birth. Ann Epidemiol 27:323-328.e1
MacDonald, Sarah C; Bodnar, Lisa M; Himes, Katherine P et al. (2017) Patterns of Gestational Weight Gain in Early Pregnancy and Risk of Gestational Diabetes Mellitus. Epidemiology 28:419-427
Riddell, Corinne A; Platt, Robert W; Bodnar, Lisa M et al. (2017) Classifying Gestational Weight Gain Trajectories Using the SITAR Growth Model. Paediatr Perinat Epidemiol 31:116-125
Pugh, Sarah J; Hutcheon, Jennifer A; Richardson, Gale A et al. (2016) Child academic achievement in association with pre-pregnancy obesity and gestational weight gain. J Epidemiol Community Health 70:534-40
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After Pantaleo firing: ‘The job has been dying and today, it’s dead’ – New York Post
“Policing is dead,” a member of the NYPD told me Monday, after NYPD Commissioner James O’Neill decided to fire Officer Daniel Pantaleo over the death of Eric Garner. “Morale was already low. This was just the nail in the coffin.”
Another member of the department told me on the condition of anonymity, “It’s just disheartening.”
“It’s hard to say whether cops will back off,” he continued, “but I think the writing is definitely on the wall. Based on how things went in other cities [Chicago and Baltimore] I wouldn’t be surprised if we went in that same direction.”
The reactions echoed that of Police Benevolent Association President Pat Lynch, who told reporters, “The job has been dying; and today, the job is dead.” Lynch went on to assert Pantaleo’s dismissal was based “on the politics.”
As is often the case with these things, context and timing are all-important. The decision to fire Pantaleo will not be perceived in a vacuum, but rather through the lens of these politically charged times.
The decision came in the middle of a presidential-election cycle in which nearly all the candidates pursuing the Democratic Party’s nomination have openly demonized police as cogs in a machine of racial oppression and injustice.
Indeed, just a couple of weeks ago, protesters interrupted a prime-time debate to demand that candidate (and, when he has time, New York City Mayor) Bill de Blasio fire Pantaleo. The political implications of the decision were not lost on the officers I spoke to, one of whom referred to Pantaleo as “the victim of a presidential run.”
Unfortunately, Pantaleo’s firing also came in the wake of a series of escalating instances of NYPD officers being taunted, threatened and assaulted while in the field.
Not long after two videos of cops being doused with water went viral, another video showed cops being swarmed by a crowd in The Bronx. That melee resulted in one cop being hit with an open container of Chinese takeout; and in yet another incident reported by The Post over the weekend, officers in Brooklyn were hit with “ ‘air mail’ objects thrown down at cops from rooftops.”
Police morale shouldn’t dictate the outcome of investigations properly within the purview of a police department’s oversight mechanisms. But neither should such decisions be colored by the politics of our moment.
The pursuit of justice does not require sending police the message that their presence is not appreciated or wanted in Gotham’s high-crime neighborhoods. Will politicians stop doing precisely that?
Rafael A. Mangual is a fellow and deputy director of legal policy at the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, and a contributing editor at City Journal.
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Valverde takes responsibility for shock Barcelona defeat
Real Madrid failed to capitalise on Barca's shock defeat after being humbled by Sevilla at the Ramon Sanchez Pizjuan.
Nabil El Zhar headed in at the far post to bring the scores level in the 52nd minute before a Gerard Pique mistake teed up Oscar Rodriguez to score the victor 68 seconds later.
Pique gave the ball away in the build up to Leganes's second goal, although Valverde insisted he is not concerned by the centre back's form.
Leganes goalkeeper Ivan Cuellar has accused Barcelona players of being bad losers after their shock 2-1 defeat on Wednesday.
In less than a minute, Leganes had taken 2-1 lead when Oscar Rodriguez netted from close range to secure their first victory of the new season. "It's a really negative result".
Mauricio Pellegrino's troops had finished the half strongly and they came flying out of the blocks after the restart to score twice in the space of a minute. Sometimes it's hard to explain the things that happen in a game.
Shaq's son Shareef O'Neal to undergo heart surgery
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#22: World Cup Song Contest
Posted on July 18, 2018 by EuroWhat Podcast in Podcast
Even though the 2018 World Cup is over, what we'll remember is the music?
Is there anything more EuroWhat? than the World Cup? How about World Cup songs performed by Eurovision Song Contest alumni? Yeah, that oughta do it…
This week, Ben and Mike take a listen to a handful of songs from 2018 that were created for the sole purpose of cashing in celebrating the quadrennial soccer futbol extravaganza that is the FIFA World Cup. Did you know that there is an official World Cup anthem as well as an official song? AND an official Coca-Cola song?
The music doesn’t stop there. Countries that weren’t even in the tournament added tracks to the playlist, with Eurovision alumni from Malta and Azerbaijan leading the charge. Host country Russia brought back their famous Grannies as well as the stellar voice of Polina Gagarina. Iceland’s last act to qualify for a Eurovision final—2014’s Pollapönk—rocks out to celebrate their homeland qualifying for the tournament for the first time. And a remix from one of 1979’s most famous acts also promotes Moscow.
There’s controversy, international intrigue, and a whole lotta flopping in this installment of the EuroWhat? podcast!1
Jason Derulo featuring(?) Ira Losco – “Colors” (4:46)
Arash, Pitbull, Blanco, Nyusha – “Goalie Goalie” (9:21)
Russia’s Gonna Russia (13:07)
Pollapönk – “Boltann í punginn” (17:21)
Dschinghis Khan – “Moskau Moskau Moskau Moskau” (19:54)
World Cup Playlist
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The EuroWhat? Podcast is available on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, or your podcast catcher of choice. When you subscribe, feel free to rate and review us. We welcome your feedback and the ratings will help other Eurovision fans find this podcast.
You can also follow us on Twitter @eurowhat, see our photos on Instagram @eurowhat, and like us on Facebook. Comments, questions, and episode topic suggestions are always welcome. We can also be reached by email, if you prefer.
Oh, and congrats, France. We recorded this well before the Final. ↵
Oh, and congrats, France. We recorded this well before the Final.
#44: Let’s Discuss Semi Final 1 Part 1
We welcome Eurovision newbie Chris King to our first discussion about the first semi-final. This week's countries include Belarus, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Finland, Hungary, and Montenegro.
#43: The Ones That Got Away (2019)
Another Eurovision Selection Season is behind us, but we are still holding out hope for a strong write-in campaign for six entries that didn't make the cut.
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Meet Terrell Johnson, Executive Chef at Exceptional Catering and Events. Chef Johnson, a graduate of the Delgado Culinary School in New Orleans, has over 20 years of experience and has served as Executive Chef in a variety of settings. He started his career in the restaurant business at the age of 15 as a prep cook at Felix’s and worked his way up through popular restaurants in the French Quarter, including serving on staff at Emeril’s first New Orleans restaurant. At that time, he realized he had a passion for fine dining.
While a native of New Orleans, specializing in Cajun and Creole Cuisine, the chef creates a diverse range of American and International fare, capable of delighting the Southern and Cosmopolitan tastes of Atlanta area residents. From the first Hors D’oeuvres of Grilled Beef Bruschetta and Caribbean Jerk Lollipops, to the Southern Roasted Chicken and Lobster-Stuffed Beef Tenderloin, your guests will agree that this is exceptional fare for any type of event you can imagine!
Meet Lloyd Camel
Meet Lloyd Camel, Dining Room Manager, of Exceptional Catering and Events. Camel comes to us from The Delta Queen Riverboat, where he originally served as Maître’d and then advanced to Hotel Manager.
Lloyd has many years of experience in Fine Dining service, elevating the dining room service of our company to new heights. His expertise in service, training, and management is seen in everything he does, from the beautiful folding and presentation of guests’ napkins, to his ability to put guests at ease with his genuine love for what he does – and all with an ability that makes it all look so easy! Hospitality is one of his many gifts. Exceptional service, every single time, in a way that makes our clients look good, is his goal.
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Feministing Jamz: What Las Cafeteras’ “This Land” says about land & power
Last week I wrote about a little yoga studio challenging big things in East LA. People’s Yoga might seem like a simple spot for some fun exercise, but with each class it offers, it challenges deeply entrenched systems of white supremacy and economic inequities.
This week People’s Yoga co-founder Leah Gallego’s band, Las Cafeteras, is doing the same thing with its latest music video, released just in time for Independence Day in the U.S. As profiled in last week’s post, Las Cafeteras is a band “who is looking for love and fighting for justice in the concrete jungle of Los Angeles,” so this video comes as no surprise.
Transcript available in the Youtube description.
“This Land Is My Land” is a new take on the classic Woodie Guthrie folk song with lines about “redwood forests” and “gulf stream waters” replaced with Spanish verses singing, “Everything for all, nothing for us,” or “The earth is yours, the earth is mine.” For a group of brown Chicanos too often painted as “foreign” to stand on top of a mountain that used to be part of Mexico and sing that this land is theirs is exciting. For the two lead women singers to lead the chant is revolutionary.
Humans have not always thought of land as a commodity that could be owned, conquered, or sold. But once they did, you can guess who was doing most of the selling and stealing conquering (hint: not people of color and definitely not women). In fact, women of color were more likely to be considered as objects to be conquered along with the land than they were to be considered landowners. Today, people of color in the U.S. own homes at significantly lower rates (try 46% to 71%) than white people. Add gender to the mix, and women of color own a pretty pitiful percentage of the world’s land. Native Americans — whose land this originally was — still have to fight to hold onto the little left to them.
But of course when Las Cafeteras sings that “la tierra es tuya, la tierra es mia” they aren’t speaking only about owning land. The song is also about the right to move freely through public space. Because so long as it is legal to control and criminalize Black people as drug users, Latinxs as undocumented immigrants, or Arab-Americans as “terrorists,” then “public” is only safe for some. Women in many parts of the country cannot walk down the street without being harassed, and trans women of color are killed for existing outside. Border Patrol is apprehending and deporting even children who attempt to do what humans have been doing as long as we have been breathing: migrate.
So who really “owns” public spaces? Whose independence and freedom do we really celebrate on the Fourth of July? Who are most people thinking about when they sing “This Land is Your Land?”
This video is about deconstructing the idea that some people get space, land, safety, and resources, and some have to work to pay the rent for it.
In my opinion, this land wasn’t necessarily made for anyone. But certainly, if those in power can use it, we all can.
This land was made for you and me.
Juliana can’t wait to go see Las Cafeteras tonight in Oakland!
Hey Fox News: Harassment Isn’t a Compliment
Video: Las Cafeteras’ “If I Was President”
By Juliana Britto Schwartz
By Sejal Singh • @Sej_Singh • 2 years ago
Hey Fox News — street harassment, and behavior like it, is neither “chivalry” nor “just a compliment.”
Right-wing media is losing its collective shit this week because actor and feminist Ashley Judd spoke out about a sexist incident at the airport. Last week, Judd posted a Facebook live video from the airport, sharing an experience of what she calls “everyday sexism.” As she was going through security, Judd explained, an airport employee touched her unnecessarily — after she had already told him off for calling her “sweetheart.” Sure sounds a lot like sexist street harassment to me.
It’s the kind ...
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Our favorite feminist Chicanx/Latinx band is back with another video, this time criticizing our new administration and its attacks on marginalized people. In “If I Was President,” the band imagines what would happen if brown folks, low-income communities, women, or immigrants had control of our country’s destiny.
They would “take from the rich, give to the poor,” free black and brown kids from prison, and invest in free education and public transportation. The chorus of the video (“Me gusta la lima, me gusta limón, pero no me gusta tanta corrupción”) expresses the sentiment felt across the country that in the age of Trump, we must fight corruption which makes the rich richer and steals from marginalized communities.
Watch the video below, and be ...
Our favorite feminist Chicanx/Latinx band is back with another video, this time criticizing our new administration and its attacks on marginalized people. In “If I Was President,” the band imagines what would happen if brown folks, low-income ...
COP22 – the conference in which world leaders meet to discuss how to fight climate change – is happening this week. Read about the UN’s report that 2016 will be the hottest on record, how Trump could roll back U.S. environmental protections, and our previous COP coverage.
Yesterday thousands of people around the world took to the streets to protest the Dakota Access Pipeline, in solidarity with the Standing Rock Sioux. I was at the San Francisco event (photo above), and Mahroh was in DC – check out the Facebook Live stream she recorded.
The Trump administration will inherit Obama’s drone strike playbook and signature counter-terrorism tactic, known as ‘targeted killing’.”
COP22 – the conference in which world leaders meet to discuss how to fight climate change – is happening this week. Read about the UN’s report that 2016 will be the hottest on record, how ...
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Of Spire & Throne/Penance/Aesthetic Death/2018 CD Review
Of Spire & Throne are a band from Scotland that plays a mixture of sludge and doom metal with some elements of drone, experimental and black metal and this is a review of their 2018 album "Penance" which was released by Aesthetic Death.
Distorted drones start off the album before adding in some drums and powerful sounding bass guitars while the slow riffs bring in elements of sludge and doom metal along with all of the tracks being very long and epic in length as well as the riffs also adding in a decent amount of melody.
Vocals are mostly deep death metal growls while the high pitched screams add in a touch of black metal along with the music also capturing an improvised atmosphere as well as the music also incorporating elements of noise and experimental at times, as the album progresses a brief use of melodic chants can also be heard and all of the music sticks to a slower direction and clean playing is added onto the closing track.
Of Spire & Throne plays a musical style that is mostly rooted in sludge and doom metal while also adding in some elements of experimental, drone, noise, and improv to create a sound of their own, the production sounds very dark and heavy while the lyrics cover life, emotions and despair themes.
In my opinion Of Spire & Throne are a very great sounding mixture of sludge and doom metal and if you are a fan of those musical genres, you should check out this band. RECOMMENDED TRACKS INCLUDE "From Dust" and "Sorceror". 8 out of 10.
https://ofspireandthrone.bandcamp.com/
Comatose Vigil A.K Interview
1.Can you give us an update on what has been going on with the band since the recording of the new album?
Well, we’ve returned to our usual life after the recording. We all have jobs, families, other projects, lots of things to do. But we apparently save our strength for future activities.
2.You have a new album coming out in December, musically how does it differ from the stuff you have released in the past?
I’d say it has no fundamental distinctions from our previous works. We wanted to make it as recognizable as early Comatose Vigil used to be. Musically it reminds our debut album but the songs are structured a bit more complicatedly. However, you can hear echoes from both early and later periods there. I think this album sums up our previous releases. We also chose very heavy and low guitar tune that makes our music sound rougher than before.
3.The band has split up a couple of times, what was the cause of the splits and also the decision to reform?
We had uneasy relationships between us. We all wanted to make music but couldn’t make it together for some reasons. We had different views of our future stuff, I guess. That classical line-up became entirely incapable, unfortunately. New ideas seemed to be tedious and impersonal. We were wasting time disputing and drinking alcohol. One day that inner discord completely stopped the progress and it couldn’t be sustained anymore. We disbanded but then gathered to try again, without Zigr though. It looked pity, honestly. It made no sense to prolong that agony, and we disbanded again finally. The only thing I'm happy with is that we haven’t released the shit we composed at that time.
I understood we couldn’t record anything new by that line-up, but I believed we could do this by another one. Everything changed when I found David, famous in Georgian band Ennui. We have been long known each other. But that time I found him as a new composer of new comatose stuff. I decided to take a chance and try once again. And damn, it worked! He sent me his first samples and I had to admit they sounded like real Comatose Vigil. There wasn’t a shadow of doubt that we had to record this album.
4.What are some of the lyrical topics and subjects the band explores with the newer music?
I’d like to observe that all lyrics were written in Russian in spite of their titles. Every song of this album allows you to gaze into a sort of “fictive reality”. This is my subjective observation not applying for the truth, of course. “Evangelium Nihil” discloses how religion distorts present reality and creates fictive one instead. It also depicts the following disappointment and regret. ”Comatose Vigil” shows an invented world of coma, where the protagonist wanders self-reflecting. Confusion, uncertainty, a state of gloom and oppression... “Deus Sterilis” is about a civilization which considered itself god. It shows the whole humanity as an insane god. He commits suicide in a fit of anger but the Universe stays blind to such an unimportant event. It allegorizes our civilization and its probable end. I’m afraid that this scenario’s gonna come true soon. “The Day Heaven Fell” is a sequel of “The Day Heaven Wept”, presented on “Fuimus, non Sumus...”. You may plunge into a world of personal mental disease, that I described in this dilogy. It can be also interpreted as a fictive reality.
5.Originally the band was known as 'Subhuman Abstract', what was the cause of the name change?
Our first name wasn’t well thought-out. I’d say we picked it out of the air. We definitely weren’t happy with that. We chose Comatose Vigil because it seemed to reflect the very essence of our art. It sounds like an existential paradox.
6.Can you tell us a little bit more about the artwork that is presented on the new album cover?
This album has two covers by the way. We placed the ancient christogram Chi Rho to digipak (read Wikipedia to learn more as needed). Some versions of this symbol include Alpha and Omega on their two sides, that define Jesus as the beginning and the end of everything. The difference is that our Chi Rho has two Omegas. I think there’s no need to explain the “hidden message”. The booklet picture shows a charred bible laying on the ground as a symbol of its own futility.
7.With the new line up all of the band members live in different parts of the world, can you tell us a little bit more about it?
As it turned out I couldn’t find local accomplices, so I found them abroad. David is the only man I know, who completely understands how it has to work. I see no problem that he’s from Georgia. It’s pretty possible even to play gigs together, I think. John joined us right before recording the album because that time I had some troubles with the studio and couldn’t work on drums. He did it much better than I could and joined the line-up as a regular member. John is known in American doom-death band Mesmur and a few other bands.
8.What have been some of the best shows that the band has played over the years?
The best one was Moscow Doom Festival pt. 3 in 2008, indeed. That year we shared the scene with such giants as Esoteric and Worship, and that was amazing. I’d also like to highlight our double set in Moscow and Saint Petersburg with Shape of Despair in January, 2015.
9.On a worldwide level how has the reaction been to your music by fans of funeral doom metal?
There was pretty positive reaction as far as I can judge. We got a lot of laudatory reviews.
It’s hard to tell for now. I only can assure you that we’re gonna stay the same Comatose Vigil that you used to know.
As I don’t compose music, I can’t answer the first part of your question. I’m responsible for lyrics only. Death and Black metal are always my favourite. But I also have other genres in my playlist, such as Sludge, Post-metal, Industrial, EBM, Dark Electro, Synth-pop and many others. The choice depends on my mood.
I like traveling, riding bicycle, playing hockey, cooking yummies with my family and many other simple things that all average people like. Unfortunately, I can’t get enough time and money recently to do all I want. Reality often changes my plans.
I’d like to thank all who believe in us and support us in our new beginning. Thank you, guys and see you soon!
Doomcult/Life Must End/Loneravn Records/2018 Full Length Review
Netherlands solo project Doomcult have returned with a new album which continues his mixture of traditional, atmospheric and funeral doom metal with some dsbm elements and the recording is called "Life Must End" and was released by Loneravn Records.
Melodic guitar leads start off the album before adding in some slow and heavy doom metal riffing while the vocals bring in an 80's influenced style which also adds in a touch of first wave black metal along with the riffs also adding in a decent amount of dark sounding melodies.
A great portion of the tracks a re very long and epic in length while the music also adds in the more traditional style of doom metal with some influences from the more atmospheric and funeral orientated styles of the genre along with the solos and leads being done in more of an atmospheric style as well as some tracks also mixing in elements of dsbm which also results in a brief use of grim screams, one track also introduces melodic chants onto the recording and all of the songs stick to a slower direction.
On this recording Doomcult remains true to his mixture of traditional, atmospheric and funeral doom metal while also expanding on the elements of dsbm, the production sounds very old school while the lyrics cover Occultism and Death themes.
In my opinion this is another great sounding recording from Doomcult and if you are a fan of traditional, atmospheric, funeral doom metal and dsbm, you should check out this album. RECOMMENDED TRACKS INCLUDE "Suffering" "King Of Bones" and "Deathwish'. 8 out of 10.
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Absent/Minded interview
Since the recording of the new album “Raum” there was a time of a little rest and also time to work hard to let the world know that we will release our 4th album soon. Also we played a few shows and we are trying to establish our own concert series called Mt. Doom.
After this we’re not lazy but thinking about a new video shoot for one song from the new recording and of course starting slowly writing new songs.
2.Recently you have released a new album, what are some of the things the band has done different musically on this recording that you where not able to do on previous releases?
Musically we’ve tried to put in some faster stuff but also I am always on the search of more atmospheric and melancholic tunes what is a growing thing from album to album in my opinion. The faster stuff sound a bit black metal-ish sometimes what is new for us. Not that we never had some harder tunes in our songs but before this record we weren’t that fast. Atmospheric/melancholic-wise we’ve tried to play less notes but let these notes speak for itself. With some reverb, delay or chorus in the guitars... Also this isn’t that new for us but also a growing thing from song to song.
More important what we did different musically was what we did different in terms of recording. With our producer V.Santura we have had some freedom to record the instruments just like they sound in our rehearsal room. V.Santura found a room where we recorded the drums. A real big studio room with loads of natural room in the sound. Also my guitars was recorded a bit different to the last 2 albums. These seem to be just little changes but you can hear the difference in the albums. And as we all know: it is a never ending search for THE perfect sound…
3.Your lyrics cover astronomy and esoteric themes, can you tell us a little bit more about your interest in these subjects?
The lyrics our singer Steve writes by himself aren’t that far away from reality. It is about the whole thing, life, the world, may be the existence or the universe. So it may seems to be esoteric but it is close to reality all the time.
4.What is the meaning and inspiration behind the name 'Absent/Minded'?
The name absent/minded just describes the way we go with our music. We try to be absent in our minds and just play whatever we feel in our hearts. And for us we try to have no boundaries in the way we should sound like. So if the last album was more Doom in it and this album contains more faster beats the next one could be different at all. Who knows how we feel the next months.
A friend of us, Ben, who is a good photographer (Golden Shot Photography) took this picture what actually isn’t more than a fence. And after 3 albums of more or less colorfull artworks we decided to go more black and white or grey and white and simple. But the fence and the album title “Raum” (space, room) do not match and despite all the freedoms we have, we are always within any boundaries that we cannot overcome.
6.What are some of the best shows that the band has played over the years and also how would you describe your stage performance?
We enjoy every show we play. Also when something bad happens there is a laugh at the end… I remember a show the former bassist had to play the gig without his pedals because I forgot those to pick up from the rehearsal room. This show was at a venue we never played before and so we couldn’t find the place immediately. There wasn’t a real backstage area but only an open room with a fence between the “backstage” and the audience. Yes, this BACK-stage was an IN-FRONT-OF-stage.
During the show my guitar stopped making noise because the singer accidently stepped on my cable. After all this the cable was plugged in again and we all started laughing on stage because it couldn’t come worse. And so the rest of the show was great and we have had a lot of fun and also the audience liked it. To name one show we like the most is not possible. But we have played shows that was special for us. My personal highlight was a show last year with the mighty Crowbar.
7.Do you have any touring or show plans for the new album?
Of course we want to play some shows. On November 24 we release the album with a little release party but after this the next shows will come next year. May be somebody who reads this wants to see us playing then just don’t hesitate and get in touch with us. You can find us on facebook or here: www.aminded.com
8.Currently you are unsigned, are you looking for a label or have received any interest?
We’re not in hurry to find a label but of course we’re interested in. We are a DIY band since the beginning and why changing a running system. All of our 4 albums and our demo before we released with no help from any label. If there is somebody hearing us and has interest in our work of course can contact us. But I think we are not searching that hard as other bands may do just to have a record deal.
9.On a worldwide level how has the reaction been to your newer music by fans of doom and sludge metal?
Oh, what a “hard-to-answer” question. I don’t think that the reaction counts in the way that we hear then and then react to them. In my opinion we were all the time some kind of unique sounding and back in the days we sounded more “metal” what from album to album changed a bit. It is a come and go of musical styles, influences and preferences of every one of us. So maybe there’s a doom fan out there who likes the Earthtone album the most, no matter how much doom is in this album. Or there is the sludge fan out there who enjoys the Alight album that may has less sludgy tunes in it. And then there’s the metal fan out there who loves the new album knowing that the album contains more clean guitars. The resume would be that we do our music as we like it and we are glad to have supporters and fans who like the stuff we record.
Back to your question: we received lots of reviews and when I remember right there was one review out of ten that didn’t liked it that much but still we got 5 or 6 of 10 points in this review. So all we have heard is positive reactions.
Well, as I said: head off, heart on and lets go. We do not know what the next album will sound like. May be we have some crust punk influences may be we do have more Joy Division kinda post punk influences… It’ll be a surprise.
But one thing is for sure: it will have the same dynamic range. There will be quiet clean guitars and there will be some loud and heavy distorted guitars too. There will be a crisp snare ghost note and there will be some earth-shaking bass drum hits. There will be whispers and screams. And all together with a bass guitar that goes directly into your stomach with its overdriven tone before it will stroke your ear with a catchy melody.
Oh maaaan… My first big love was the Florida death metal end of the 80/beginning of the 90s. But also this gothic and doom from the 90s, and Crowbar… Nowadays I would name such bands as Monarch! or Chelsea Wolfe or Implore or Amenra.
But this answer would change depending on who you ask.
I do not have other interests L Seriously: My daily job has to do with music and musicians, than I have a band and a second band (where I am just the live guitarist), I listen to music and I collect vinyl records and sometimes I do have the time to read some musicians biography.
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We would like to hear the thoughts of fans who really listened our new album (or also the old ones). So if you want to let us know your feelings while enjoying (or not) our album just send us a few lines.
Of course we have to say: stay peacefull, love each other and try not to destroy our earth further and further. Everyone can do a bit and may the world will become a better place!
Sobaki Tabaka Interview
1.Can you give us an update on what is going on with the band these days? We have completed our new album, its Russian and English versions. In the later the vocals are done by Patrick Stevens (Hypnoskull) and Rachael Kozak (Hecate). We hope to release it in Europe or the USA.
2. Can you tell us a little bit more about the double compilation album that has been previously released which contains plenty of different bands and artists doing their own versions of your own songs? Our project member Sergei Ulik has been living in Switzerland for many years. That’s him who suggested the musicians he’s friendly with working out their version of an ST song. The response was surprisingly high. It’s a big event for us as it was a completely new experience for Sobaki Tabaka since most of our musicians are based in Russia.
3. Which your original material (?) how would you describe your musical progress over the years? Initially the press and our audience identified our genre as ‘Industrial’ although it’s a very vague noon and phenomenon in music. I tend to think that all this me we have been working out our own music genre.
4. What are some of the themes you bring into your music? This is a very complicated question since the concepts are different from album to album, and the lyrics is prey abstract. I would suggest you listen to our new album, its English version, for beer understanding. We have plans to make French and German versions as well.
5. What is the meaning and inspiration behind the name 'Sobaki Tabaka'?
Sobaki Tabaka can be translated as ‘dogs grilled under heavy press’ (by analogy with ‘grilled flattened chicken’ dish which sounds in Russian like ‘tsyplionok tabaka’). ‘Dogs’ refer to all people while the press can be interpreted as politics, the state, propaganda, daily reality and all that is associated with it.
6. The band has a history that goes back to the 80's, what is it that motivates you to keep going after all of these years? The musical project Sobaki Tabaka started in 1996. That’s a project, I’d like to emphasize, as before each of us was playing another kind of music in his own band.
7. What are some of the best shows that the band has played over the years and also how would you describe your stage performance? One of the best shows we’ve had was about 3 years ago when we were joined by Kristof Hahn from Swans . That was both unforgettable and unpredictable. On the stage we are a band of psychopaths. Kristof Hahn also joined us for our new album.
24/10/2018 interview - Google Docs
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8. Do you have any touring or show plans for the future? We had tours to Lausanne and Geneva. We wish and plan to come with a tour to Europe.
9. You have different line-ups for both Russia and Europe, can you tell us a little bit more about it? As I mentioned before, Sobaki Tabaka is not a band but a musical project which allows musicians to whom our whole idea sounds appealing participate in it. Besides, it is good to be in contact with musicians in Europe since Russia being considered a rather dangerous country, many Russian citizens have a problematic visa issue to your wonderful dreamland.
10. On a worldwide level how has the reaction been to your recordings by fans of industrial, noise and underground music? A booking agency we work with brings lots of European and American bands. Many of those musicians have been welcomed in my house. Aer having some vodka, they usually start asking for playing some of our music. As a rule, it makes them highly thrilled. As for our shows, we can only see people listening with their mouths open which we consider as a high compliment.
11. When can we expect new material and also where do you see the band heading into musically during the future? We already have a freshly new album. It will be released in Europe in early 2019. It’s not that important though. 20 years later the music from our new album will sound as relevant. The same as our first album of 1996. Which musical direction in the future? – God knows…
12. What are some of the bands or musical styles that have had an influence on your music and also what are you listening to nowadays? Personally for me, at different mes it was different music. Voivod, Slayer and other ‘heavy’ bands in the 80-s. In the early 90-s it was Missing Foundation, God, Einstürzende Neubauten and The The . Now I listen to new Ulver and Brazilian music, Marcela Mangabeira (Sobregal) as an example.
13. What are some of your non musical interests? Fighting the Pun regime.
14. Before we wrap up this interview, do you have any final words or thoughts? Final words are usually said at funerals, hence no final words or thoughts. Just – to be continued
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Iterum Nata Interview
1.Can you give us an update on what has been going on with the musical project since the recording of the new album?
I have been working quite closely with Jussi Pohjanen, the stellar artist who drew the cover art for the album. There will be a small batch of screen prints made out of the artwork available as soon as the album is out. Also, I've been quite busy writing press-releases, newsletters etc. Luckily the record label has helped me a lot with this stuff - kudos to Inverse Records! I have also written some new material, which is...let's call it Qliphothic!
2.In December you have a new album coming out, what are some of the things you feel you have done different musically with this recording that you where not able to do on your previous releases?
When I started to record the first album I had no clue what kind of material I would end up with. With "The Course of Empire" it was much clearer; I already knew the studio and the equipment, and I had a certain musical style in my mind. One could say that this album continues where the first one ended.
Musically the material is a lot darker and not so serene. There are loads of percussion's, which gives the record a certain shamanistic twist. In the first album everything was played by me but in The Course of Empire there's also some featuring musicians (another kudos!).
3.The lyrics on the new album cover Hermetic Philosophy, can you tell us a little bit more about your interest in this Western Esoteric Path?
Every song in The Course of Empire has its own correspondence in the seven Hermetic Principles. Hermeticism itself is such a massive concept, that I like to use it as a hypernym which bends over several Western Esoteric schools; it has influenced Rosicrucians, Gnostics, Kabbalists, Freemasons and later for example Thelemites. So there are loads of influences from all of these traditions in the album as well.
4.On your previous album you also covered a lot of Crowley and Thelemic themes, can you tell us a little bit more about your interest in the works of Crowley and also do you have an interest in other occultists from the Golden Dawn era or others that expanded on Crowley's teachings such as Kenneth Grant or A.O Spare?
The first album revolved around Thelemic Qabbalah and indeed Crowley's work was heavily present in the lyrics. Crowley was, and still is, a very controversial man, but his influence in the modern Western Esotericism is worthy of respect. One could say that he brought the old traditions into the modern age - even if it was over a hundred years ago. Grant, A.O.S. and others have continued Crowley's work and renewed the Western Current with their own philosophies.
There are many other interesting people in the Western Esoteric field, like Dee, Levi, Blavatsky, Bardon, Jung etc., but in my esoteric studies I try to focus on the deeper philosophy behind these people instead of the people themselves. There's always a risk that one starts to worship another person, or finds himself following someone else's path.
5.What are some of the other esoteric paths that you have an interest in that you have not covered with your music yet?
Maybe some nature-related traditions or Eastern mysticism. You never know the theme of the next album!
We have to keep in mind, that in the end you can call the "Tao" with thousand different names, but it will always be the same!
6.What is the meaning and inspiration behind the name 'Iterum Nata'?
It's Latin for "born again". Each moment we are born again, and hopefully as a better version than the previous. Also, these albums are kind of an initiations for me, and a true initiate is always born again after the ceremony.
7.Can you tell us a little bit more about the artwork on the new album cover?
As said before, it is drawn by Jussi Pohjanen who also made the artwork on the first album. In the cover picture there are references to practices such as Qabbalah, Goetia, Thelema, Tarot, Hermeticism and many more. You should explore it and see what you can find in it!
8.With this project you record everything by yourself but have also worked with full line ups in the past, how would you compare the two?
They are two totally different things. When I'm doing stuff alone, I don't need to care about the schedules or what other people think about the takes. Although at some point it would be better to have a producer who tells me when to stop; for example the vocals can be really hard for me to record by myself.
Also, in other line-ups I am mainly just a guitarist. So I just nail the guitar parts and that's it. In Iterum Nata I need to build everything from a scratch. When I look at the empty project on the computer, it feels like I have a goddamn mountain to climb. But once I get started, it's actually pretty painless!
9.The new album is coming out on 'Inverse Records' a record that is mostly known for metal, do you feel your adding something different music wise to this label?
Inverse has treated me really well and I'm super thankful for those guys about everything - I hope Iterum Nata gives them something in exchange! I'm sure The Course of Empire will also appeal on the metal audience because of the dark occult themes and the bleak aesthetics.
10.On a worldwide level how has the reaction been to your recordings by fans of folk and occult music?
It has been good, but I'm still just a small name in the scene. The first album was self-published and not well distributed at all, but now when there's a real label behind me, I'm sure lots of new people will hear my music. Hopefully the album gets lots of feedback and reviews!
11.Can you tell us a little bit more about the other bands or musical projects that you are a part of or where a part of in the past?
I have played in dozens of bands from children's music to extreme metal, but nowadays my main focus outside of Iterum Nata is in Hexvessel, The Aeon and King Satan.
I have been a fan of Hexvessel for years and I was so happy when they asked me to join them at the beginning of the year. It is kind of psychedelic folk-rock with a twist of nature mysticism. There's a beautiful new album coming out next year!
The Aeon is a 7-piece dark folk band from my previous hometown, Oulu. We have released one album, "The Songs of the Great Beast", where all the lyrics are by Aleister Crowley. We have been writing some new material and the second album is coming at some point.
King Satan is musically something totally different; it is super provocative and aggressive industrial metal. The lyrics are filled with dark occult themes, once again!
12.Where do you see yourself heading into as a musician in the future?
This is a question which only the reborn future-me can answer! I wouldn't want to become a huge mega-star - I'm happy as long as I can create and play music that feels like my own. For me music is the main way to express myself.
There are so many of them. I literally grew up with music, for both of my parents are really musical and we had loads of recordings and instruments at home. I have always loved progressive music, as well as anything that's made with feeling. Unfortunately I don't listen to music that much anymore, guess I'm too busy with my own projects. Nevertheless, there are these old favourites, including Pink Floyd, Opeth, Ulver and Camel that I always seem to get back to. Also, the old jazz classics such as Miles Davis' Kind of Blue and Freddie Hubbard's Straight Life keep on appearing to my playlist.
I do taiji few times a week and then there are the esoteric studies and practices. I am a social counselor in my profession and I work with the disabled to earn a living.
Love is the law, love under will.
https://www.facebook.com/IterumNata93/
Clovvder/Traits/2018 EP Review
Clovvder are a duo from Uruguay that plays a mixture of experimental, drone, dark ambient and noise and this is a review of their self released 2018 ep "Traits".
Ambient style drones start off the ep while field recordings and elements of noise can also be heard at times along with some spoken word parts also being used at times as well as the music capturing a ritualistic atmosphere and the second track also brings in a great amount of atmospheric sounding synths.
Clovvder plays a musical style that takes experimental, dark ambient, drone, noise and field recordings and mixes them together to create a sound of their own, the production sounds very dark while the lyrics cover philosophical and metaphysical themes.
In my opinion Clovvder are a very great sounding mixture of experimental, dark ambient, drone, noise and field recordings and if you are a fan of those musical genres, you should check out this duo. RECOMMENDED TRACK "Hydrophilia'. 8 out of 10.
https://www.facebook.com/clovvder/
Iterum Nata/The Course Of Empire/Inverse Records/2018 CD Review
Iterum Nata is a solo artist from Finland that plays a psychedelic and occult form of neo-folk and this is a review of his 2018 album "The Course Of Empire" which will be released in December by Inverse Records.
Ambient style synths start off the album which also gives the music more of an atmospheric feeling along with some folk instruments a few seconds later while the vocals are done in a clean style as well as the music also adding in a great amount of acoustic guitars and the songs are also heavily influenced by 60's era psychedelic rock.
Electric guitars are also used at times and they also add melodic leads onto the recording while drones are also utilized in some parts of the recording along with percussion also being added onto some of the tracks and they give the music more of a ritualistic and shamanistic feeling and as the album progresses a brief use of spoken word parts and female vocals can also be heard and the recording closes with an instrumental.
Iterum Nata plays a musical style that takes neo-folk and psychedelic occult rock and mixes them together in a more modern way to create a sound of his own, the production sounds very dark while the lyrics cover Hermetic Philosophy and the relationship between death and birth.
In my opinion Iterum nata is a very great sounding occult mixture of folk and psychedelic music and if you are a fan of those musical genres, you should check out this solo project. RECOMMENDED TRACKS INCLUDE "All Is Mind" "Solve & Coagua" and "The New Aeon". 8/5 out of 10.
Experiment#508/The Hollow Ward/Attenuation Circuit/2018 Full Length Review
Experiment#508 are a solo project from Portugal that plays a mixture of experimental, ambient, drone and noise and this is a review of his 2018 album "The Hollow Ward" which was released by Attenuation Circuit.
Atmospheric sounding drones start off the album while field recordings can also be heard at times along with most of the tracks being very long and epic in length as well as some tracks also mixing in elements of harsh noise and the music also gets very avant garde and experimental at times.
All of the tracks are instrumentals while all of the songs sound different from each other along with a great amount of atmospheric soundscapes as well as elements of dark ambient also being used at times and one song also adds in the sounds of animals being slaughtered onto the recording.
Experiment#508 plays a musical style that takes experimental, ambient, noise and drone and mixes them together to create a sound of his own while also keeping everything instrumental and the production sounds very dark.
In my opinion Experiment#508 are a very great sounding mixture of experimental, ambient, drone and noise and if you are a fan of those musical genres, you should check out this solo project. RECOMMENDED TRACKS INCLUDE "Eerie Desolation" "Meatdrive Tango" and "And Then Came The Ghosts'. 8 out of 10.
https://emerge.bandcamp.com/album/the-hollow-ward
Absent/Minded/Raum/2018 CD Review
Absent/Minded are a band from Germany that plays a mixture of post, doom and sludge metal with some elements of black and death metal and this is a review of their self released 2018 album "Raum" which will be released on November 24th.
Field recordings start off the album before adding in some drum beats while clean playing can also be heard briefly along with some whispered vocals also being used briefly before going into a heavier direction as well as the vocals also adding in a good mixture of growls and screams.
Most of the tracks are very long and epic in length while the slow riffs bring in elements of sludge and doom metal along with the tremolo picking bringing in a touch of black metal as well as the faster sections of the songs also adding in a small amount of blast beats, all of the musical instruments on the recording have a very powerful sound to them and atmospheric and post metal elements are also added into the music at times and as the album progresses a brief use of spoken word parts can also be heard.
Absent/Minded plays a musical style that mixes post, sludge and doom metal with touches of black and death metal to create a sound of their own, the production sounds very professional for being a self released recording while the lyrics cover astronomy and esoteric themes.
In my opinion Absent/Minded are a very great sounding mixture of post, sludge and doom metal and if you are a fan of those musical genres, you should check out this band. RECOMMENDED TRACKS INCLUDE "Treasure" and "Alpha". 8 out of 10.
http://aminded.bandcamp.com )
Night Machine Interview
1.Can you give us an update on what has been going on with the musical project since the recording and release of the new album?
Mostly rehearsal for upcoming shows. I’ve also been organizing a Synthwave Showcase for 2019 in Nashville
2.Recently you have released a new album, what are some of the things you have done different musically with this recording that you where not able to do with your previous releases?
With Themes of the Dead I was able to make a concept album. Compiling all my horror influences into one lump sum. With my other releases I tried to show more range with mixing different sounds and styles.
3.All of your music deals with horror themes, can you tell us a little bit more about your interest in this genre?
I can remember being completely freaked out watching Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors at a very young age. Since then I’ve always been fascinated with the darker side of things. Those soundtracks setting the mood.
4.The project formed out of the ashes of 'Iraconji' a band in the death/thrash genre, what was the decision behind going into more of a synth orientated direction?
Not really in the ashes of Iraconji but in tandem. At the time Iraconji was on hiatus, our drummer was handling some family business. I’ve always dabbled with electronic music and with the downtime from Iraconji I wanted to keep myself occupied. It’s something I can control 100%.
5.What is the meaning and inspiration behind the name 'Night Machine'?
If I recall correctly, I just blurted it out when talking with a friend about possible names for the project. My first and middle initials are N.M. So I’ve always been a fan of the NM combo. I have a mascot, he’s the real “Night Machine”. My idea was that a terminator T-800 was bitten by a zombie and the living flesh zombified over it’s metal exoskeleton.
The artwork was done by Geoff Collins. He was asked what direction I wanted to go with the cover and I said “neon crypt”. The disco ball moon shines down on the gallows in the cemetery while Death lurks below.
8.What are some of the best shows that the band has played so far and also how would you describe your stage performance?
The best show was in Atlanta with Watch Out For Snakes, Gregorio Franco and Acid Gambit. My stage performance is fun it matches the mood. Lots of strobes, smoke and synth
9.O you have any touring or show plans for the new album?
Not at the moment. I’m working on some merch ideas and a synth fest in Nashville for 2019
10.Currently you are unsigned, are you looking for a label or have received any interest?
I haven’t shopped the album around. I’ve talked with a couple small labels but I mainly do this for myself. If the right offer comes along there may be a possibility.
11.On a worldwide level how has the reaction been to your music by fans of synthwave and metal?
It’s been cool. I’ve got some people listening in Europe and Canada. I’ve had some reviews from synthwave and metal blogs. The synthwave fans love it so far. The metal fans dig it but don’t quite understand it yet but a lot of synth artists come from metal backgrounds so they’ll come around.
Hopefully ever evolving. Writing and playing, keeping a good balance between them.
I love metal, classic rock, punk, classical, new wave, most everything really.
I’ve mostly been listening to the new Gunship, Twin Temple and Flight of the Concords lately.
Cartoons, Horror films, Tattoos and Baking
15.Before we wrap up this interview, do you have any final words or thoughts? Thanks for taking the time to talk. I really appreciate it.
https://nightmachine.bandcamp.com/
Wolcensmen/Songs From The Fyrgen/Indie Recordings/2018 CD Re-Issue Review
Wolcensmen are a solo project from the United Kingdom that plays neo-folk music and this is a review of his 2016 album "Songs From The Fyrgen" which will b e re-issued on November 30, 2018 by Indie Recordings.
Acoustic guitars start off the album which also bring in a good mixture of finger picking and full chords and also bring in elements of folk music while the clean vocals gives the songs more of a pagan atmosphere along with some stringed instruments also being utilized at times.
Synths are also added on some of the tracks while some of the songs are very long and epic in length along with some percussion also being added into certain sections of the recording as well as some neo-classical touches also being added into the music at times and one of the songs is an instrumental.
Wolcensmen plays a style of neo-folk that also adds in some influences of pagan and black metal to create a sound of his own, the production sounds very dark while the lyrics cover old European spirituality themes.
In my opinion Wolcensmen are a very great sounding neo-folk solo project and if you are a fan of this musical genre, you should check out this recording. RECOMMENDED TRACKS INCLUDE "The Fyre-Bough" ''Neath A Wreath Of Furs" adn "The Bekens Are aliht". 8/5 out of 10.
Comatose Vigil A.K/Evangelium Nihil/Non Serviam Records/2018 CD Review
Comatose Vigil A.K are a band from Russia that plays funeral doom metal and this is a review of their 2018 album "Evangelium Nihil" which will be released in December by Non Serviam Records.
Atmospheric sounding synths start off the album while all of the tracks are very long and epic in length along with the slow riffs being very heavily rooted in funeral doom metal as well as the vocals being mostly deep death metal growls and when screams are utilized they add in a touch of black metal.
Spoken word parts can also be heard in certain sections of the recording while a brief use of Am radio noises are also brought into the music briefly as well as the riffs also adding in a small amount of melody at times, clean playing is added onto the closing track and all of the music sticks to a very slow direction.
Comatase Vigil A.K plays a style of funeral doom metal that is very slow, dark, heavy and atmospheric sounding, the production sounds very professional while the lyrics cover dark and depressive themes.
In my opinion COmatose Vigil A.K are a very great sounding funeral doom metal band and if you are a fan of this musical genre, you should check out this album. RECOMMENDED TRACKS INCLUDE "Evangelium Nihil" and "The Day Heaven Fell". 8 out of 10.
https://www.facebook.com/ComatoseVigilAK
Clavicvla/Sermons/Sentient Ruin Laboratories/2018 Full Length Review
Clavicvla are a solo project from Italy that plays a mixture of dark ambient and death industrial and this is a review of his 2018 album "Sermons" which will be released on November 23rd by Sentient Ruin Laboratories.
A very avant garde sound starts off the album along with some atmospheric soundscapes in the background while the synths bring in elements of dark ambient along with most of the songs being very long and epic in length as well as some demonic voices also being utilized in some parts of the recording.
At times the music gets very ritualistic while also adding in a great amount of atmospheric sounding drones along with some songs also adding in a small amount of percussion as well as mixing in elements of death industrial, some of the tracks are instrumentals and all of the songs sound different from each other.
Clavicvla plays a musical style that takes dark ambient, drone and death industrial and mixes them together to create a sound of their own, the production sounds very dark while t he lyrics cover Occultism and Left Hand Path themes.
In my opinion Clavicvla are a very great sounding mixture of dark ambient and death industrial and if you are a fan of those musical genres, you should check out this solo project. RECOMMENDED TRACKS INCLUDE "Beelzebub Invocat" and "Abstratio Diaboli". 8 out of 10.
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Velvet Dream Interview
1.For those that have never heard of you before, can you tell us a little bit about the musical project?
It´s a Dark Ambient/Field Recording project about Nature and how Nature influence my inner
Feelings and Emotions.
2.In September you had released your first full length, musically how does it differ from the ep you had released in 2011?
Some Songs that you can find on the EP were thrown out and some new Songs were added to the project.
3.This is your first release in 7 years, can you tell us a little bit more about what has been going on during that time span?
Nothing special in the musical direction.
In the last three years i decided to focus on sketching and painting Minerals and Landscapes.
4.What are some of the themes and images you bring out with your musical sound?
The Main theme is the season Winter and somebody or somewhat is walking through a snowy Winterlandscape.
I also put in some local myths about a mountain King who lives inside the the Mountain
and hiding a secret Key.(Im Kristallsaal des Herrschers)
The Songs „Calling of Morpheus“ and „Vision Saturnia“ are about Dreaming or Visions of other Planets or Dimensions.
I wanted to create a mystic and dark atmosphere that can transport the Listener into a another World.
5.What is the meaning and inspiration behind the name 'Velvet Dream'?
I like the Ambient Album „Atropine“ from the Band Velvet Cacoon and Dream stands for the dreamy Atmosphere of the Album.
So i decided to put Velvet and Dream together
6.Can you tell us a little bit more about the artwork that is presented on the album cover?
It shows a Mountain in the Austrian Alps called „Olperer“ that i visited on a stormy Winterday.
7.With this project you record everything by yourself, are you open to working with other musicians or do you prefer to work solo?
At the Moment i am not involved in any musical projects but i am open to work with a other
musicians.
8.Very little information is hard to find online about the musical project, can you tell us a little bit more about it?
An otherworldly creature is descending from the snow covered peaks of the Ore Mountains to deliver bleak ambient sounds for the impending winter.
Expect to be shrouded by winds as cold as the longest winter nights by the sonority echoing in the valleys of frost and ice.
9.The album was released on 'Into Endless Chaos', can you tell us a little bit more about this label?
A record label with the intention to release only the true dark music. Record label, booking agency and beyond...
10.On a worldwide level how has the reaction been to your music by fans of ambient?
At the Moment there are not many Reactions.
11.Are you also involved with any other bands or musical projects?
At the Moment i focus on painting Minerals and Landscapes in Watercolor.
But i am open for some new projects.
A Big influence for the project was the Swiss Black Metal Band Paysage d' hiver with the Album „Festung“ and „Einsamkeit“
And also the Italian Ambient Musician Bad Sector with his side project Olhon which is mostly based on Field Recordings.
I also hear to different Genres of Metal,Classical Music,New Wave,Dark Wave,Folk,Pop,Punk and many others
Thanks for the Interview and have a good time.
https://velvetdream-iec.bandcamp.com/
Onset/Unstructured Dissemination/Weird Truth Productions/2018 EP Review
Onset are a duo from Singapore that plays a mixture of experimental, post and atmospheric doom metal and this is a review of their 2018 ep "Unstructured Dissemination" which will be released on November 28th by Weird Truth Productions.
Ambient style synths start off the ep while both of the tracks are very long and epic in length before going into a heavier doom metal direction which also introduces melodic guitar leads onto the recording along with all of the music being instrumental as well a s the riffs also adding in a great amount of melody.
At times the music also mixes in elements of post rock, sludge, black and death metal while both of the tracks also have their experimental moments along with some psychedelic and noise touches also being used at times as well as some of the riffing also adding in a small amount of dark sounding melodies and both of the songs stick to a slower direction.
Onset plays a musical style that is mostly rooted in doom metal while the experimental, sludge, post rock, death and black metal elements makes the music stand out a lot more while also keeping everything instrumental and the production sounds very professional.
In my opinion Onset are a very great sounding mixture of experimental, post and atmospheric doom metal and if you are a fan of those musical genres, you should check out this duo. RECOMMENDED TRACK "Permeation The Ordeal". 8 out of 10.
https://www.facebook.com/Onsetdoomachine
Phobetor/The Abyss/Section 8 Recordings/2018 EP Review
Phobetor are a musical project from the United States that plays a mixture of extreme metal, drum'n'bass and darkstep and this is a review of their 2018 ep "The Abyss" which was released by Section 8 Recordings.
A very dark drum'n'bass sound starts off the ep along with some atmospheric sounding synths that also add in a touch of ambient while spoken word parts are also used quite a bit throughout the recording as well as some heavy and melodic riffing also being added into some parts of the music.
All of the tracks sound very different from each other while a great amount of programmed beats can also be heard along with the music stick mostly to a mid tempo or fast musical direction as well as the songs also mixing in elements of darkstep..
Phobetor plays a musical style that takes drum'n'bass, darkstep and extreme metal and mixes them together to create a sound of their own, the production sounds very dark while the song themes focus on darkness.
In my opinion Phobetor are a very great sounding mixture of extreme metal, drum'n'bass and darkstep and if you are a fan of those musical genres, you should check out this musical project. RECOMMENDED TRACKS INCLUDE "Bloodbath" and "The Kill Freg". 8 out of 10.
https://section8recs.com/r/phobetor-the-abyss/9570
Martyr Lucifer/Gazing At The Flocks/Seahorse Recordings/2018 Full Length Review
Martyr Lucifer better known for his work in progressive black metal band Hortus Animae is a solo artist from Italy that plays a mixture of goth, darkwave, post punk and alternative rock and this is a review of his 2018 album "Gazing At the Flocks" which was released by Seahorse Recordings.
Clean playing starts off the album before going into a heavier direction while the synths bring in elements of darkwave along with the solos and leads being done in a very melodic style as well as the riffs adding in influences of goth metal and spoken word parts are also utilized at times.
When clean vocals are utilized they are done in more o a goth rock style while one song also introduces acoustic guitars onto the recording along with all of the musical instruments having a very powerful sound to them as well as some female vocals also being used briefly, elements of alternative rock can also be heard in a great portion of the songs and as the album progresses an instrumental is also added onto the recording and when the music finally speeds up a small amount of blast beats can also be heard and one song also adds in a small amount of black metal screams.
Martyr Lucifer plays a musical style that takes goth, darkwave, post punk, alternative rock and a touch of black metal and mixes them together to create a sound of hos own, the production sounds very professional while the lyrics cover dark, metaphysical and poetic themes.
In my opinion Martyr Lucifer is a very great sounding mixture of goth, darkwave, post rock and alternative rock and if you are a fan of those musical genres, you should check out this solo project. RECOMMENDED TRACKS INCLUDE "Bloodwaters" "Wolf of The Gods" "Someone Super Like You" and "Spider Queen". 8 out of 10.
http://martyrlucifer.net/
https://www.facebook.com/MartyrLucifer
https://www.instagram.com/martyrlucifer/
Night Machine/Themes Of The Dead/2018 Full Length Review
Night Machine are a solo project from Tennessee that plays an 80's and horror inspired form of synthwave and this is a review of his self released 2018 album "Themes Of The Dead".
Ambient style synths which also use a variety of many different sounding keys start off the album while also capturing the atmosphere of a horror movie soundtrack along with soem avant garde elements being utilized at times as well as some tracks also adding in programmed beats.
All of the tracks sound different from each other while all of the songs are instrumentals along with the music being very heavily rooted in the 80's era of horror films as well as the music bringing in a more update approach by adding in some elements of extreme metal without the use of traditional instruments and as the album progresses a small amount of programmed blast beats can also be heard.
Night Machine plays a musical style that mixes 80's era synthwave and horror soundtrack music along with some touches of extreme metal to create a sound of his own while keeping everything instrumental and the production sounds very dark.
In my opinion Night Machine are a very great sounding horror inspired synthwave solo project and if you are a fan of this musical genre, you should check out this album. RECOMMENDED TRACKS INCLUDE "Black magic (The Witch)" "Countess (The Vampire)" "Chapel District (The Ripper)" and "Old Scrath (The Devil)". 8 out of 10.
Rigor Sardonicous Interview
1.Can you give us an update on what has been going on with the band since the recording and release of the new ep?
Greetings and thank you for this talk. The ep comes out 11/11 at 11 AM UTC in remembrance of the end of WW1. We have been silent for several years and plan on doing more now that we got these 4 new songs out.
2.Recently you have released a new ep, what are some of the things the band has done different musically on this recording that you where not able to do on your previous releases?
It is Rigor Sardonicous to the fullest extent, perhaps a little more grown as bands do over time.
3.This is your first release since 2012, can you tell us a little bit more about what has been going on during that time frame?
Life happened and I got involved in another project, Teloch Vovin, so the focus was not on RS. Otherwise Rigor Sardonicous has been quiet for that time.
4.The band has been around since 1988 but has a lot more heaviness than the doom/death metal bands of that era, do you feel you were ahead of your time?
In some ways yes. We did what we did because nobody else was doing it. We found that the slow parts of many death metal songs had this intensity and energy about them but they were usually just transitions in songs so we built our style off of that primarily.
5.The band has been around for 30 years, what is it that motivates you to keep going after 3 decades?
We still feel largely the same with the same amount of hate and anger so we need it to help us deal with this miserable world. And still there is nobody that sounds like us and we consider that a good thing.
Death and all death things death-inspired. For this ep the first song “The Smiling Dead” is about WW1 as was “Blood Of The Seraphim” from our 2007 release “Amores Defunctus Tuus Mater”. The second song “The Hound” is based on the H.P. Lovecraft tale. The third song “The Unsepulchered Dead” is about going out into the world and dealing with the living dead of this life, and the last song “Intereo Parum Infantia” is about dead and dying children and these lyrics were left over from our 2008 album “Vallis Ex Umbra De Mortuus” which is based on that theme.
7.What is the meaning and inspiration behind the name 'Rigor Sardonicous'?
The name from Glenn, the founding member of Rigor Sardonicous, after reading a short story titled “Mr. Sardonicus” and we have toyed with that title in many ways in some of our song titles. It is a blend of the dead and smiling.
8.Can you tell us a little bit more about the artwork that is presented on the ep cover?
This was an impromptu design that a fan created many years ago and we felt this was a good opportunity to utilize it.
We were never a live band and have played only a few shows since Glenn hates performing. This is the reason why we released “Vivescere Exitium”, a free to download show from 2009.
10. Do you have any touring or show plans for the future?
Not at the moment, though I enjoy performing live but if it can be arranged to do a show I will, but likely never a tour.
11.Currently the band is unsigned, are you looking for a label or have received any interest?
This is our first release since our early days that we did a self-release. Between 2004 – 2012 all of our releases were through labels. This ep came about suddenly when a recording session for my other band did not go as smoothly as was expected and in the meantime while waiting for that I got inspired to resurrect Rigor Sardonicous.
12.On a worldwide level how has the reaction been to your newer music by fans of doom and death metal?
We have been rightly hailed and intensely despised. We never fit so well into the mold that people expect and some thought we were a joke. Like all worthwhile artistic endeavors one should do it for themselves and then allow others to discern their own manner of intent regarding it.
13.When can we expect another full length and also where do you see the band heading into musically during the future?
It is hard to say exactly when another release will be issued but it will happen. This ep was composed over a weekend but expect more of what we do.
14.What are some of the bands or musical styles that have had an influence on your newer music and also what are you listening to nowadays?
We are influenced by the same and that has always been varied and this includes non-metal sources. Whatever piques our interest may apply to inspire Rigor Sardonicous but primarily it is the lack of it that moves us the most.
15.What are some of your non-musical interests?
I love going out in nature, hiking, and climbing mountains in solitude. And porn, just like everyone else reading this…
Thank you to all who choose to bear us. Find us on the interwebs on Bandcamp, where all of our music is available, along with the ever-distressing facebook.
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Britomart CPO and the City Rail Link with Jenny Chu, October 2017
Regular readers of this irregular journal may remember that sometimes your correspondent organises tours but can’t attend ’em. Unfortunately, I missed the Britomart visit in favour of a crook two-year-old—although luckily she was well enough to come down to town with me and hand over the hard hats to the site visitors.
Thanks to the great kindness of Matt Goodall, I have a few pictures from the tour to share with you all. My apologies for the delay in getting these on the web.
This brief post will (hopefully) serve as something of a placeholder. It has been suggested that we might be in with a shot of going back in 2018—which will no doubt be welcome news to the sixty-odd people who signed up but didn’t get a spot.
Those of you who are interested in following the project may also enjoy seeing an animation of the proposed work and the well-illustrated work-in-progress blog.
Many thanks to Jenny Chu and John Fellows of the City Rail Link for their kind hosting and for giving generously of their time.
CPO, general view of the interior. Sandrine le Drilling Machine lurking in the background. Note wrapped columns and protected ceiling. Image courtesy of Matt Goodall, all rights reserved.
Detail of column base. Image courtesy of Matt Goodall, all rights reserved.
Drilling operations. Image courtesy of Matt Goodall, all rights reserved.
Backfilling trench. Image courtesy of Matt Goodall, all rights reserved.
Hopetoun Alpha with John O’Hagan of Compusoft Engineering, October 2017
Concrete classicism
A lightning-fast summary: Hopetoun Alpha was built in 1875. It’s mass concrete, meaning concrete with no internal reinforcing steel. Built for the Congregationalist church, this is a Neoclassical temple in the Doric order, with a charming and luminous timber interior. It’s in Beresford Square, close to the intersection of Pitt St and K Road.
Hopetoun Alpha, exterior
If you’re reading this, you likely know that concrete is pretty strong in compression, but not great in tension. It’s hard to crush, but it doesn’t like to bend. You’ll also have a pretty good idea that 140-year-old buildings can move around a bit: slowly, as the ground settles over the course of the years; and quickly, in extreme cases—for instance, when the ground shakes. So the task that John O’Hagan of Compusoft Engineering has accepted in assessing a building like this is twofold. Firstly, to evaluate how well the building has coped with all the slow movement and the vicissitudes of time, and secondly, to consider how well it might handle an earthquake or a severe weather event. John shared some of the process of making this assessment with us, as we walked around the building.
To understand how the building will perform, you need to know exactly what’s made from, and how the pieces are put together. Over the last few weeks, John and the owners of Hopetoun Alpha have carried out a number of investigations to establish this. They’ve been underneath the building, into the roof void, and everywhere in between. John began today’s tour by explaining the structural system of the building.
Alpha’s anatomy
The building is a long rectangle, shaped somewhat like a shoebox. Its two long walls, the side walls, get narrower in two steps as they get higher. At ground level, they’re about 640mm thick. The site slopes, but the walls come up to establish a level for the floor. At floor height, they step in to 420mm, creating a ledge both inside and out. On the outside, the ledge demarcates the plinth on which the building sits, and the walls change colour to emphasise this. On the inside, the step creates a handy support for the floor joists.
Hopetoun Alpha, basement. John indicates the ledge on which the floor joists rest
It’s a very common detail for “masonry” buildings of all kinds. As we’ve learnt on our tours, brick buildings often contain a similar step (or sometimes just a socket in the course) into which floor joists can be inserted. The problem is, of course, what happens when the walls move so much that the joists fall off their ledge or out of their sockets!
The walls step in at ceiling height, too, and there the step supports the ceiling trusses, which are likely made from jarrah. John shared a drawing of the trusses.
Hopetoun Alpha, drawing of ceiling trusses. Image courtesy John O’Hagan / Compusoft Engineering
He noted that although the trusses are statically indeterminate, they were well analysed by the designer for resisting gravity loads. The steel ties that you see connecting the vertical members to the bottom chord are wrapped around and pinned, forcing the verticals into tension. The diagonals carry compression. The trusses are sound and strong, and seem to have performed well. John mentioned that nails seem to have been a scarce resource at the time of construction, as there were very few to be seen in the timberwork! Fasteners of all kinds were clearly at a premium: a single bolt connects the front truss to the gable end. (As you can imagine, this is not ideal.)
The trusses span the main hall laterally, but there is far less roof structure in the longitudinal direction. What’s there is more or less entirely cosmetic—boxwork, panels, trim, ventilators. This meant that the engineers needed to wear abseiling harnesses to get up in the ceiling for a look—there’s not much to stand on and a fair way to fall.
Hopetoun Alpha, interior from mezzanine. Note bowed ceiling panels, and mezzanine cutting across windows.
As you can perhaps divine from the photo above, the mezzanine or gallery wasn’t part of the original build. The windows on the long walls would probably look different if this were the case (c.f. the smaller auditorium at the Auckland Town Hall.) The addition of the mezzanine meant some additional supports were needed underfloor. Cast iron columns carry the load down to neat brick piers—far neater than the original footings, which seem to have been pragmatically cast inside a few handy barrels!
Hopetoun Alpha, concrete footing (and extraneous foot, far right). Note the remains of barrel hoops and staves—easy formwork!
Mass (of) concrete
The entrance to the building presents the greatest challenge for modelling and analysis. There are large volumes of concrete in the pediment and the stairwells on either side, and, as noted, this section is poorly connected to the roof truss.
Hopetoun Alpha, portico. John O’Hagan explains the structural system of the building
There are decent-sized spans between the columns—approaching two metres—and of course the concrete is being asked to cross that gap without tensile reinforcement. This part of the building may yet require more analysis.
She’ll be right
When the mezzanine was put in, Hopetoun Alpha was also extended at the rear. This allowed a stage to be built and an organ installed, and to accommodate this a large opening was made in the back wall of the existing hall. And the building didn’t fall down.
Hopetoun Alpha, model, showing the opening in the rear wall (the blue rectangle)
It didn’t fall down, but over the long years, a large crack has developed in the wall. This is probably the result of the foundations moving slightly outward, and of tension forces in the reduced thickness of wall above the stage. Whatever the cause, the crack extends from below a round window above the stage (not visible from inside) to the top of the proscenium. Then the crack starts again at the left-hand edge of the bottom of the stage aperture, and continues down to ground level.
Hopetoun Alpha, basement. John points out a deep crack in the transverse wall below the stage.
How significant the cracks are, structurally speaking, is yet to be determined. But it seems to me that some form of strengthening will be required to make up for the diminished capacity of the wall.
Solution, general form
I want to preface what follows by saying that John made it clear that he didn’t want to talk about specific solutions for Hopetoun Alpha. It’s too early for that—too early, even, to say for sure whether work is needed at all, until the NBS rating is determined. Instead, we talked about some hypothetical solutions for a building of this type. Please read the rest of this post in that spirit. Your mileage may vary.
Hopetoun Alpha, view from the mezzanine
The major concern in a building of this size and style would be the out-of-plane response of the long walls. This means, if an earthquake shook the building from side to side (as opposed to back and forth), how well would the long walls cope with being flexed?
It might be sufficient to support them by connecting the floor joists to the walls in the basement. (At the moment the joists are just resting on the ledge you saw in the picture above.) As well as that, you’d probably put a plywood diaphragm across above the ceiling panels to tie the walls together at the top. By doing this, you’d end up with the long walls far better supported by the in-plane elements of the building.
Hopetoun Alpha, longitudinal section showing position of mezzanine. Image courtesy John O’Hagan / Compusoft Engineering
But if floor and ceiling diaphragms weren’t enough, the mezzanine might present an opportunity. Site visitors may remember hearing about the truss inside the gallery at the Auckland Town Hall. There’s obviously no room, and no need, for a truss inside the mezzanine at Hopetoun Alpha. But the mezzanine itself has some inherent strength, aided by its tongue-and-groove flooring. This could be enhanced with some inserted material. If the mezzanine were then connected more securely to the wall, it would serve as a brace at about halfway up the wall height. The walls could then be modelled as rocking about the pivot of the mezzanine, improving their performance. Tying the structure together better would be completed by more securely fastening the pediment and the rest of the portico to the main building.
Grateful thanks to John O’Hagan for his time and enthusiasm. Thanks also to the Ashton Wylie Charitable Trust which owns the building, and to Paula King, who made it possible for us to go and see it. We’ll stay in touch with this project as it progresses.
Pitt St Buildings with Tracey Hartley of Salmond Reed
I’m going to work for Salmond Reed over the summer. Knowing that I love to have a dekko at an old building with the covers off, Tracey Hartley from SR very kindly invited me along to a site visit she was making to the Pitt St Buildings. A brief post, then, to share with you a couple of details from the project.
On the (new) roof, Pitt St Buildings, facing south towards K Road
Braced back
The main aim of the work at Pitt St is to replace the roofs and restrain the parapets. The parapets are large, ornate and slender. They needed thorough bracing, but that bracing had to be as unobtrusive as possible. The original design was a conventional diagonal bracing approach, but that was too obvious from the street and created future roof maintenance problems. Following close collaboration between the architects and the engineer, a design was developed that not only met the seismic strengthening requirements but also was acceptable aesthetically for this important 5th elevation of the building. Most of the braces and their triangulated members have been tucked under the roofs and exposed steelwork minimised to the gables. At the bottom left edge of the picture above you can see a hatch—I ducked though it to have a look at the rest of the brace.
Pitt St Buildings, detail of parapet bracing inside roof space
Pitt St Buildings, detail of the brickwork of the parapet, inside the roof space. Note the rounded courses, corresponding to decorative roundels on the street side. See also the line of bolts on the timber at the gables. I was told by the contractor that they assist restraint of the brick panels.
Draining the pool
Designing efficient water run off is part of Tracey’s expertise. She’s developed an instinct for understanding how water flows through and over a structure. My photograph below doesn’t show quite the right angle, but Tracey explained that she’d advised on the design of the connections between the bracing and the parapet, to avoid potential water traps. For example, the C-section channels that run horizontally are packed out slightly from the wall, allowing water to run behind them without getting trapped.
Pitt St Buildings, detail of connection between brace and parapet
On our way to look at another part of the roof, we passed by a beautiful piece of crafting—a welded-lead cap connecting the new stainless-steel gutter with the existing downpipes. This nifty improvisation is the work of Chris the artisan plumber.
Pitt St Buildings, lead gutter cap
Moving to the Pitt St/K Road corner of the building, we inspected the timber and steel components of the new roof. The roof has been altered from its original profile: it now has a central gutter, instead of sloping right down to the back of the parapet. Keeping the water away from the brickwork protects better against intrusion.
Pitt St Buildings, K Road corner. Framing for new roof, with steel parapet bracing visible. Note also the original tie-rods crossing over at the lower left. They appeared to be slack.
The repositioning of the gutter at this corner section also serves a structural purpose: the short rafter members that go from the gutter to the parapet are also tying the parapet back to the steel beam that runs around the corner section. The timber running along just below the top of the parapet is fastened into the brick. As you know, attentive reader, this kind of heritage-structure win-win design is catnip for me.
All the water on that roof has to go somewhere. In this case, the gutter leads to a smallish aperture in the rear gable wall called a corner sump outlet. Tracey wanted to make sure that the water would pass through the outlet, visible in the picture below, without backing up, overspilling, getting behind the lead flashings (the grey step-shapes on the right) or exerting too much pressure on the outer wall.
Pitt St Buildings, detail of water flow path for new gutter. The water passes through the gap in the bricks.
In the end, the solution she devised with Adam the project architect and René the contractor was to increase the fall somewhat, and form a stainless-steel sump box before the hole. The increased fall makes the choke-point a bit larger, and the tank protects the surrounding fabric if water backs up at this point. This is the kind of on-the-fly rethinking that takes decades of experience to spot and to remedy. The author (somewhat uncharacteristically) kept his trap firmly shut.
Pitt St Buildings, preparation for re-roofing, Pitt St side
Passing around the corner to the Pitt St side of the building, we saw more re-roofing and parapet work. There was no angle to photograph it from, but it was possible to peek under the bottom of the timber roof sarkings that you see in the photo above. Underneath were more steel parapet braces—these ones appeared to be long straight members, concealed entirely under the roofs. They have to be long because they can only rise at a shallow angle under the small roof spaces. As at the corner section, these braces connect to a longitudinal beam.
Tracey, Adam and Chris worked on a plan to connect the gutters of the new roofs to the existing Colorsteel™ gutters on the parts of the building that sit behind this section—to the right, in the picture. They settled on a plan that involved joining the new stainless steel and the old Colorsteel™ on the vertical section of a step (the riser, as it were), as opposed to joining it on the flat, where water could pool at the joint. The plan also involved overlapping new and old materials for some distance below the joint. Pernicious stuff, rainwater.
Do have a look next time you’re going along K Road. The project is also going to involve repairing the awning—Heritage Society regulars will remember both Peter Boardman and Jason Ingham talking about how strong awnings protect passers-by from falling parapets. Hopefully, the newly-strengthened parapet won’t tumble, but if it did, you’d be grateful that the ties were in better nick than this.
Pitt St Buildings, canopy tie pulled out of pilaster.
Thanks very much to Tracey, René, Chris, and Adam for letting me have a look. More soon—two site visits coming up in the next two weeks. Registration links at the top of the page if you’re keen.
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David Emery's Gilbert Erector No. 10 Coal Loader
Dave writes: "We've all looked at the picture... the one with the boy in necktie and shorts kneeling beside the Erector Coal Loader. (Did kids really dress like that?) Although I had seen this model on manual covers for years, I had no idea which set, if any, had actually built this model. I found the answer when I bought a reproduction No. 10 Erector manual from a friend. But the drawings of this model are so lacking in detail, and the reproduction manual is just rough enough that I never gave construction more than a passing thought. Then there was the matter of finding the parts, especially the 'Y' clamshell which, if you can find one, can cost $400 or more.
A few weeks ago I saw photos of Bob Galler's No. 10 Coal Loader on this website and wondered how difficult it would be to build. I studied the drawing of the hoist mechanism in my manual and found it, at first, to be indecipherable. I laid gears and other assorted parts out on the bench to help me understand what I was seeing... and in a flash of inspiration I saw it. Eureka! Then I noticed that I had all the necessary parts... well, almost all. No 'Y' clamshell and no 'CQ' slotted couplings. But I forged ahead and had it operating in three days!
My version of the No. 10 Coal Loader, as you see it here, is a very close replica of the original as it appeared on Erector manual covers and as it was intended to be built with the No. 10 Master Engineers Erector Set from the Classic period. All parts other than the 'Y' clamshell and 8 'CQ' couplings are original except for the occasional hardware store nuts, bolts and washers.
There are really only four significant differences in my version of this famous model: the first difference (if it is, in fact, different) is the manner in which the 'P58' motor is mounted; the second is my reproduction 'Y' clamshell, very ably made by Brian Johnson; the third is the use of homemade 'CQ' slotted couplings; and the fourth is the addition of a circa 1953 'Smoke-and-Choo-Choo' unit inside the boiler, along with an orange light. I am fortunate enough to have two of these rare 'Smoke-and-Choo-Choo' units, and they are really a spectacular addition to Erector models like this one.
Construction of the Hoist Mechanism
The first task was the construction of the hoist unit, and I immediately ran into difficulty. From the drawings, it appears that the boiler and 'P58'` motor are mounted on a base made of two 'P' regular baseplates, with the gearbox made of two more 'P' plates mounted on the side. But the gears wouldn't mesh! The 'P14' worm gear sat about 1/8" above the 'CJ' 36-tooth gear. Something was very wrong! Finally, I solved the problem by mounting the 'P58' on an 'EJ' gearbox base. The boiler is mounted on a small base made of 2 'Q' small baseplates. The gearbox, made of two 'P' baseplates, is held together by two 'N' brackets. The boiler base covers one end of the 'EJ', and the gearbox is mounted on top of the 'EJ' at the other end. The 'P58' sets in the middle, raised above the 'EJ' by the additional thickness of one 'H' 11-hole strip to allow the worm and gear to mesh without pressure. The net result is an arrangement that works smoothly and reliably! For all I know, this is the intended arrangement, but there is no way to tell for sure; the drawings simply don't show it.
The next obstacle was the gearshift mechanism. From the drawings in the manual, it appears that the lower-drum gearshift gear train is made of two 'P13' 12-tooth pinion gears mounted between two 'H' 11-hole strips. When the gearshift is engaged, the gear train is supposed to tilt toward and mesh with a third 'P13' mounted on the drum shaft. But it didn't even come close! I laid several gears out on the bench and soon discovered the reason: the manual drawing is misleading. These gears aren't 12-tooth 'P13's... they are 18-tooth 'P49's! And when the 18-tooth gears are used, everything fits together perfectly.
There was a similar issue on the other side of the hoist mechanism, exacerbated by the fact that the placement of the upper drum made the 'gear gap' even wider. This requires the addition of a third 18-tooth gear in the gear train meshing with a fourth 18-tooth gear on the upper drum shaft. It is the addition of the third gear in the upper-drum gear train that makes it necessary to use a pair of 'I' 21-hole strips to make the bracket instead of 'H' 11-hole strips. But since there is no drawing of that side, you just have to figure it out.
There are other gear train configurations that work, but there are problems with each. You can use 'CJ' 36-tooth gears on both drum shafts which provide maximum lifting power, but the drums then turn too slowly; the same occurs if you use 'MP' 24-tooth gears. You can easily use a 'P13' 12-tooth pinion gears on the upper drum shaft, but a 'P13' on the lower drum shaft causes the gear train tilt so far when engaging that it interferes with the 'BT' that drives the boiler piston. I finally figured out a solution to make the 'P13' work properly by changing the angle of the 21-hole strips that hold the drums. I have used this 'P13' arrangement in my model in order to closely approximate the original design.
It is necessary that the drums turn at exactly the same speed or else the clamshell will open or close as you raise it or lower it; when the drums turn at the same speed, the clamshell remains closed unless you open it intentionally, or vice-versa. Therefore, you are stuck with the same gear train scheme, whatever you choose, on both drums.
As far as I can determine, the use of 'P49' 18-tooth gears is the most satisfactory arrangement for this model. In my opinion, none of these other arrangements are as mechanically sound The 'P49' gears mesh well when engaged by the operating levers, avoid interference with other parts of the mechanism, and produce a reasonable balance between lifting speed and power. You will need 9 'P49' gears in all... 7 for the gear train mechanism just discussed... and two more for the clamshell carriage discussed later in this article.
The base onto which the hoist mechanism is mounted is made of two 'S' 10" baseplates. The 'outriggers' to which the tower is fastened are also 'S' baseplates, but if you don't have these, there is no reason that you can't use standard 'MN' 12" baseplates. As I erected the tower, I used a level to keep it straight and to keep the arms straight and parallel to the base.
Construction of the tower is very straightforward. But have plenty of 'C' girders handy (it takes 84), plenty of washers (you may have to cheat and go the hardware store), and plenty of 'S-62' 7/8" screws! It's all square girders except for the dumper funnel braces and dumpcart railings. No matter which way you orient the square girders, you will inevitably have to screw something into them 'the weak way' (that is, through the girders that are not supported).
As I mentioned, I don't have authentic 'CQ' slotted couplings. These are used to hold 4 'P57E' 8" axles as tower braces. Even if you can find original 'CQ's, they may cost $10 or more each, and this model requires 8. There are two options: you can use 'P15' dual couplings and screw one of the setscrews through the end hole of the 'F' 5-hole strip; or you can do as I did and split 8 'P15's halfway with a standard metal-cutting sabre saw blade. A standard sabre saw blade is exactly the right width and if you take your time, you can produce your own 'CQ' couplings that are virtually identical to the originals but at a small fraction of the cost. And 'P15' dual couplings are easy to find.
Cabling and Operation
Another mystery was the method of running the string to operate the clamshell. This proved to be easy. The trick is to tie one end of each string to the rod that supports the end of the clamshell carriage arm. One string is then passed over a pulley on the carriage, down to the clamshell, back up over the opposite carriage pulley, and down to one of the hoist drums as shown on any manual cover. The other string is threaded in the same manner. If this is done properly, one lever raises the clamshell, and the other closes the clamshell. If the two drums are operated together, the clamshell is raised while remaining either open or closed, however it is left. But if the clamshell is raised while the other lever is not engaged, the clamshell will open; if the clamshell is lowered while the other lever is engaged, the clamshell will close. You'll get the hang of it when you play with the levers.
You will notice that you can move the carriage without changing the vertical position of the clamshell. But don't be tempted to use a simple string-and-pulley arrangement to operate the carriage. This will not work well. You will see that the carriage tends to move toward the tower on its own when you raise the clamshell, particularly if there is a load. Even if you add a gear and ratchet on the crank, the load will cause the string to slip on the crank pulley. That is why the original loader uses two 18-tooth gears and ladder chain to operate the carriage.
Because the upper drum and the lower drum are driven by different numbers of gears (4 and 3 respectively), they turn in opposite directions. I found that I needed to wire the motor so that the direction of rotation causes the drums to wind the string on the outside of the drums rather than on the inside of the drums to prevent the strings from rubbing against each other during operation.
Since the motor turns the hoist drums in one direction only, lowering or opening the clamshell is accomplished entirely by gravity, which can be tricky. The clamshell needs to be quite heavy, and the drum shafts well-lubricated and loose, for the clamshell to descend properly when the gears are disengaged. But if the clamshell and load are too heavy, the strain on the motor will be too great and it will not be able to lift the load.
When adjusting the mechanism, be sure that nothing keeps either drum from moving freely... so freely, in fact, that you can spin them with your fingers when the gears are not engaged. Likewise, be sure that all the pulleys are loose and will spin and don't forget to check the 'Z' flanged wheels used for string guides on the tower. Also, be sure that the brake strings are loose when the brakes are off. And place a drop of light household oil on everything that moves. Another source of friction (and frustration) is the tangling or twisting of the cable. Even one twist between the carriage and the clamshell may prevent it from descending smoothly.... or at all.
I found this to be a very satisfying model-building experience. It was challenging partly because the instructions found in the No. 10 manual are lacking in detail, and partly because of the many adjustments necessary to make it operate properly. There is no question that its gravity-driven design could be improved upon. But, in my opinion, few other Erector models (and we each have our own favorites) have the esthetic appeal or the sentimental ties to the 'glory days' of Erector as does the famous No. 10 Coal Loader."
Email: doc@girdersandgears.com
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Harry Vardon won six Open Championships and one U.S Open
July 10, 2013 on British Open, Featured Content by admin
Equipped with a near flawless swing that he taught himself and a scrappy confidence that carried him to a record six Open Championship titles and one U.S. Open, Harry Vardon was one of golf’s most significant champions since Young Tom Morris. With no formal training, Vardon’s unique approach and demanding practice schedule facilitated his launch…
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Three-time Open Champion Henry Cotton served in the Royal Air Force during World War II
July 9, 2013 on Blog, British Open, Henry Cotton by admin
Unlike many professionals of his day who came from humble origins, three-time Open Champion Henry Cotton was born into an upper middle-class English family. He found his way to golf at the age of 13 after abandoning cricket. At 17, Cotton turned professional. After tying for 7th at St Andrews in 1933 and several other…
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Gary Player boasted three Open Championships among his nine majors
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After winning his first Open Championship in 1959 at Muirfield, followed by a Masters title, a PGA Championship and a U.S. Open in the 1960s, South African golf legend Gary Player faced one of the strongest Open Championship fields ever assembled at Carnoustie in 1968. Read More
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Opponents of the Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians in California are hosting a meeting to discuss the tribe's land-into-trust bid.
The tribe hasn't filed an application to have 1,400 acres placed in trust. Instead, the tribe approached Rep. Elton Gallegly (R-California) about a legislative acquisition.
The move has opponents worried so they are trying to convince Gallegly there is no local support for the tribe. “We have all been working together to put together this meeting,” Preservation of Los Olivos (POLO) President Kathy Cleary told The Lompoc Record.
POLO is part of a lawsuit against the Bureau of Indian Affairs that claims the Chumash Tribe can't follow the land-into-trust process. The group claims the tribe wasn't "under federal jurisdiction" in 1934.
Meeting to discuss Chumash land (The Lompoc Record 8/12)
An Opinion:
Nancy Eklund-Hunsicker: Tribal land expansion vs. the Santa Ynez Valley Community Plan (The Santa Ynez Valley Journal 8/11)
Opinion: Stop Chumash Tribe from placing new property in trust (8/5)
Group seeks field hearing on Chumash Tribe land-into-trust bid (7/28)
Chumash Tribe wants to discuss land-into-trust bid with county (6/30)
Opinion: Enough is enough with Chumash Tribe's land grab (4/14)
Opinion: Evidence shows Chumash Tribe's legitimacy in doubt (4/8)
Column: The Chumash Tribe and a fix to land-into-trust ruling (3/31)
Letter: Rep. Gallegly plays politics on Chumash land-into-trust (3/24)
Editorial: Chumash Tribe should forego land-into-trust process (3/17)
Opinion: Chumash Tribe lobbying Rep. Gallegly on land-into-trust (3/10)
Local official claims Chumash Tribe doesn't need land-into-trust (3/8)
Opinion: Groups fight Chumash Tribe land-into-trust application (2/24)
Groups claim Chumash Tribe can't follow land-into-trust process (08/23)
Groups question BIA review of Chumash land-into-trust (4/29)
Opinion: Chumash Tribe wields influence on land-into-trust (04/08)
Chumash Tribe purchases ranch property for reported $40M (4/6)
BIA reaches MOU for California land-into-trust consortium (4/1)
Groups claim BIA wants to study Chumash land-into-trust (3/29)
Groups file first brief over Chumash land-into-trust (02/22)
Groups battle BIA over Chumash land-into-trust (11/12)
California a battleground after land-into-trust ruling (3/6)
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Dodd calls on Anderson to resign over broad recusal
Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Connecticut) called on Bureau of Indian Affairs head Dave Anderson to resign due to his broad recusal on all federal recognition decisions.
In a memo last month, Anderson asked Interior Secretary Gale Norton to delegate all federal recognition, gaming and gaming land-into-trust decisions to deputy Aurene Martin. Dodd said Anderson shouldn't have accepted the job in the first place.
Sen. Ben Nighthorse Campbell (R-Colorado) criticized Anderson at a hearing last month after learning of the broad recusal. He has been upset that Anderson hasn't testified before the Senate Indian Affairs Committee when asked. Since joining the Bush administration in February, Anderson has appeared just once at a hearing on trust reform.
Indian Affairs Official Faulted For Recusal (The Washington Post 5/6)
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Abominable - Review
HEART-warming and visually ravishing, new animated adventure Abominable may not boast the most original concept but it’s very big on charm.
Following hot-on-the-heels of similarly themed mythical ape movies (Smallfoot and Missing Link), this collaboration between DreamWorks and the China-based Pearl Studio nevertheless boasts plenty to recommend it, not least in the way that it embraces Chinese culture and even adopts some of Studio Ghibli’s more emotional traits.
The story is simple: Chinese teenager Yi (voiced by Chloe Bennet) is still quietly coming to terms with the death of her father, when she comes across an escaped yeti hiding out on her rooftop.
This abominable snowman has been the captive of rich collector-explorer Burnish (Eddie Izzard) and his zoologist assistant (Sarah Paulson) and they are hot on his trail, along with a team of bad guys.
But Yi determines to get him back to his home on Everest and enlists the help of basketball fixated cousin Peng (Albert Tsai) and resident ladies man Jin (Tenzing Norgay Trainor).
Their ensuing adventure takes them across various mountain ranges and rivers, while bringing this unlikely foursome closer together, as well as helping Yi to understand and overcome her grief.
If the plot beats are fairly predictable, Abominable still thrives in other areas. Its notable for making its own kind of history by making its writer-director, Jill Culton, the first-ever woman to direct an animated film with a female lead.
But it also boasts a timely message about being kind to each other as well as the wider world and its creatures, as well as embracing different cultures and practices. It also offers a supremely satisfying and sometimes extremely poignant emotional journey (enhanced by a classic Coldplay tune popping up at a crucial moment). Yi’s story arc is particularly endearing and draws comparisons with the likes of both Pixar and Studio Ghibli at their best during one or two key moments.
The creature, too, is suitably furry and loveable, while Yi’s accomplices – while certainly stereotypical at times – also exhibit winning personalities, learning their various lessons along the way.
Visually, the film is also beautiful, drawing on its Chinese backdrop to create vistas that are both breath-taking and different from the US norm.
True, there are elements that require huge suspensions of disbelief and some of the writing opts for contrived escapes from certain scenarios that don’t always seem logical. But Culton maintains the film’s optimism and fantasy to ensure that it’s refreshingly cynical free. And that’s its own kind of tonic for families seeking some inspiring escapism.
Minor gripes aside, it would take a very hard heart indeed not to be melted by Abominable‘s considerable charm.
Running time: 97mins
UK Release Date: October 11, 2019
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Correction to: Physical health in children with neurodevelopmental disorders.
Alabaf, Setareh
University of Gothenburg, Gillberg Neuropsychiatry Centre, Institute of Neuroscience and Physiology,Gothenburg, Sweden.
Gillberg, Christopher
Lundström, Sebastian
University of Gothenburg, Gillberg Neuropsychiatry Centre, Institute of Neuroscience and Physiology,Gothenburg, Sweden. Center for Ethics, Law and Mental health (CELAM), Institute of Neuroscience and Physiology, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden.
Lichtenstein, Paul
Karolinska Institute, Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Stockholm, Sweden.
Kerekes, Nora
University West, Department of Health Sciences, Section for health promotion and care sciences.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-8854-0399
Råstam, Maria
University of Gothenburg, Gillberg Neuropsychiatry Centre, Institute of Neuroscience and Physiology, Gothenburg, Sweden. Lund University, Department of Clinical Sciences Lund, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Lund, Sweden..
Anckarsäter, Henrik
University of Gothenburg, Center for Ethics, Law and Mental health (CELAM), Institute of Neuroscience and Physiology, Gothenburg, Sweden.
2019 (English)In: Journal of autism and developmental disorders, ISSN 0162-3257, E-ISSN 1573-3432, Vol. 49, no 1, p. 96-97Article in journal (Refereed) Published
The original version of this article unfortunately contained a mistake in Fig. 2 part labels, the label "d" was incorrectly labelled as "c" and the subsequent labels should be corrected as d, e, and f. The corrected Fig. 2 is given below.
2019. Vol. 49, no 1, p. 96-97
NURSING AND PUBLIC HEALTH SCIENCE, Nursing science
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Young, Horny, and Impotent
Woody Allen defined the act as “sex with someone I love.” But sometimes you hurt the one you love, and in my case I proved Norman Mailer’s theory that “anybody who spends his adolescence masturbating enters his young adulthood with … Read More
By Marty Beckerman / December 24, 2007
Woody Allen defined the act as “sex with someone I love.” But sometimes you hurt the one you love, and in my case I proved Norman Mailer’s theory that “anybody who spends his adolescence masturbating enters his young adulthood with no sense of being a man.”
Specifically, I entered adulthood with no sense of how to have sex with an actual human female, thanks to Traumatic Masturbatory Syndrome. TMS affects between five and fifteen percent of the male population, according to the TMS-awareness website HealthyStrokes. The effects of TMS are twofold: inorgasmia, the inability to climax (unless the penis is stimulated in the traumatic fashion), and erectile dysfunction. Two-thirds of prone masturbators suffer from the latter even if they’re 70 years younger than former Senator Bob Dole.
Before we proceed, it’s important to note that TMS isn’t entirely accepted in the medical community as a physical affliction; it is a theory that Dr. Lawrence Sank of the Center for Cognitive Therapy postulated in 1998 after studying just four traumatized masturbators. (Wouldn’t “Four Traumatized Masturbators” make a great name for a band?) More research is necessary. That said, my story would indicate that Dr. Sank is right on when it comes to hard-ons. The first time I had an orgasm, I had no idea what I was doing. I was lying on the floor of the family living room, doing seventh-grade homework, and suddenly my groin started to feel good. So I pushed harder against the carpeting. And harder. And harder. And then I peed my pants, only the pee was tugged out of my urethra. At least I thought that it was urine. My boxers were soaked with a warm, sticky liquid. My heart was racing, my face was flushed and I was hyperventilating. Why is my pecker so sore after peeing? I wondered. Why did I piss myself when I didn’t need to go? I stood and limped through the living room, a stab of pain with every footstep. “Why are you wincing, honey?” my mother asked. “Do you have a headache?” Mom had guessed correctly, except that it was my southernmost head that ached. I staggered to the bathroom and removed my briefs, dismayed to find that I had ejected gooey, clear piss. I wondered if I should tell Mom to call 911. I had taken sex education the previous year, so I must have technically known what semen was—although the teacher never detailed its albino yolk-like consistency—but I didn’t put two and two together. I decided against summoning an ambulance, changed into an unsoiled pair of underwear and forgot about the incident. A few weeks later, however, I was lying face down in bed, trying to sleep before class the next day, and I felt the same pleasant pressure. By instinct I cupped my testicles with my hands, thrust downward into the mattress, and soon ejaculated for the second time. The third time, I used a towel from the linen closet to capture my sticky Semitic seed. (And thus was I united with my jizz rag; it’s a heartwarming saga.) I never had an older brother to teach me how to masturbate, and I didn’t understand the jerking motion my friends made whenever they referenced the topic. Humping the bed seemed to work fine. But when I finally scored the occasional opportunity to have sex with girls, the effects of this prone method took their toll. The majority of traumatic masturbators would rather whack off than have sex, as opposed to 80 percent of non-traumatic masturbators (which is still a startlingly low statistic—seriously, guys?), and I soon discovered why. Because of TMS my penis was moodier than a Dashboard Confessional record. The first time a girl offered to have sex with me—an act of charity that dwarfs anything that Mother Teresa ever accomplished—I couldn’t get it up. This was partly due to nervousness, but mostly due to my traumatic masturbating. “Um… just give me a minute…” I kept pleading, humping the mattress.
“Maybe you should drive me home now?” she asked forty-five minutes later, as I sobbed upon her breasts like a little girl who had lost her teddy bear. The next time a chick offered to defile me, however, I did manage to get it up—only I couldn’t get it down. After a good hour of fucking, I couldn’t finish. She was getting sore and asked if I’d take much longer; ultimately I drove her home with a raging, unsatisfied erection. (Guys assume that it would be great to last forever, but when you can’t actually enjoy the proceedings, the feat of endurance is useless.) When I arrived back at my house, my mattress finally got me off. This happened the next time I had sex, a month later. I bragged about my superhuman capacity to anyone who would listen but I privately wondered what the hell was wrong with me. Why could I orgasm so easily when I made love to my bed, but mashed these girls’ innards into the raw, stringy consistency of ground beef? However, by the time I started college, I had the opposite problem: I lasted only a few minutes, and sometimes seconds, during sex. A girl once laughed after my sub-par performance and asked the most dreaded question a man can hear: “That’s it?” The most shameful incident came in the summer of 2003, when I had the chance to have sex with a lesbian whom no guy had ever penetrated. (If I’ve said it once, I’ve said it a million times: Thank Christ for booze.) We were pounding shots. She said that I was cute—which proves that I’m either such a stud that even lesbians can’t resist me, or I look like a pretty woman—and we made our way to a bedroom downstairs. She gave the best head that I’ve ever gotten in my life (she licked my balls like a clitoris, I think), and then confessed that she had always wondered what it’s like to have a man inside her instead of some chick’s fist. So I slid into her, totally getting off on the fact that I was converting a lesbian, and then I actually got off. I blamed my premature ejaculation on the alcohol, but I knew it was the same problem that had plagued me for years. I just didn’t know what the problem was. (Fun Factoid: after I had finished filling the lesbian with Man Juice, she said, “I thought it would spray more—like a geyser or something!” Fun Factoid #2: Did you know that only scientists can impregnate lesbians?) With my next girlfriend I tried those “extended pleasure” condoms with a numbing agent for guys with control issues, except that they made me so desensitized that I couldn’t summon an erection in the first place. By this point, I was terrified of sex—it always meant embarrassment and emasculation.
But salvation came in the form of a Google search for “young male impotence,” or some such thing. I discovered HealthyStrokes.com and realized that I had been my own worst enemy for all those years; I had conditioned my anatomy to only respond to the stimulus of pressure instead of friction. The good news was that TMS is fully reversible. I could save my privates through a journey of sacrifice. The sacrifice was this: I had to forever give up humping the mattress. At age 20 I had to teach myself how to masturbate all over again. At first it felt foreign and strange, jerking up and down whilst I lay on my back. There was nothing erotic about it; I couldn’t picture myself on top of a woman, and because of my TMS I hadn’t yet had one on top of me during sex. I started to despair; what if I couldn’t fix the problem and recondition my penis? What if I was doomed to a solitary life of self-satisfaction? But like Senator John McCain, my motto is No Surrender. After a couple unsuccessful tries at whacking it like a normal human male—and subsequent relapses into prone masturbating—I forced myself to jerk it faster, faster, faster, and finally my body responded. It was the best nut-bust of all time because it meant freedom. Free at last! Thank God Almighty, I was free from TMS at last! I continued to squeeze ‘em off using the time-honored method, and then something happened when I next had sex: I actually had sex. I lasted for a decent amount of time, I enjoyed it. And I climaxed. It was everything that I had always (wet-) dreamed. However, because I’m faithful to my current girlfriend and therefore cannot have good sex with all the girls whom I’ve disappointed—especially that horny fucking lesbian—I must always live with the shame of knowing that I underperformed for all those years. Things have straightened out, so to speak, but those females will always remember me as a boy—an invalid—instead of a man. But for all of you budding traumatic masturbators out there, you can avoid my mistakes. You are the future; TMS is scary enough to make you really piss your pants, but you can spare yourselves from years of humiliation and self-doubt if you simply take the time to learn the proper method. The choice isn’t hard, my friends, but you will be.
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reference to to Naliya rape case in which some local BJP leaders have been held for allegedly gangraping a woman from Mumbai Opposition members also wore black bandana Watch what else is making news: Instead of seating on their benches Congress corporators stood near the chair of the board city mayor Jaiman Upadhyay But the ruling BJP also sought to counterattack by taking potshots at Congress party and reminding it of how it’s members had been caught watching objectionable contents etc Despite repeated requests from the mayor Congress continued its protest With the Opposition not budging BJP corporator Nitin Bhardwaj retorted that residents of Rajkot had made Congress stand up since 2005 when it was thrown out of power Amid the din standing committee chairman Pushkar Patel presented the budget Leader of Opposition Vashram Sagathiya sought to know how many projects proposed in last year’s budget had been completed and added that the percentage was only 30 For all the latest India News download Indian Express App More Top NewsBy: PTI | New Delhi | Published: September 23 2016 1:58 pm Delhi Commission for women Chairperson Swati Maliwal (Source: File Photo) Top News Delhi Commission for Women (DCW) chief Swati Maliwal today lodged a complaint with the Anti- Corruption Branch against her predecessors–Barkha Shukla and Kiran Walia–and former Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit alleging financial fraud Maliwal’s complaint comes days after the ACB registered an FIR against her in connection with alleged illegal recruitments in the women’s panel on a complaint filed by Shukla “The commission while pursuing the files of the previous commission has discovered instances of gross financial irregularities and high misappropriation of government funds done by previous chairpersons namely Barkha Shukla Singh and Kiran Walia with some instances prima facie being carried out under directions of then Delhi Chief Minister Shiela Dikshit” the complaint alleged The allegations in the complaint include financial fraud of over Rs 50 lakhs in name of Nirbhaya and a silent march for her on January 2 2013 appointment of a sitting MLA as DCW chief providing opportunities for misuse of office diversion of funds for political gains and personal glorification paid interviews and irregularities in celebration of International Women’s day over the years Watch What Else Is making News “While holding the post of Chairperson her (Shukla’s ) conduct amounted to misusing of public office with aim to benefit certain individuals Every year a majority of the budget of the commission was spent only on organising such functions and giving out advertisements which has been criticised by audit reports time and again” the complaint said For all the latest India News download Indian Express App More Top NewsWritten by Ruhi Bhasin | Mumbai | Published: November 14 2016 2:13 am Bombay High Court upheld the Maharashtra government’s ban on slaughter of the cow but allowed people to consume beef imported from other states observing that a ban on imported beef would be “an infringement of right of privacy” (File Photo) Top News Despite a Bombay High Court order allowing people in Maharashtra to consume beef brought from other states or countries for trader Sadique Qureshi the harassment associated with possession of the meat has not ended Around a week ago two trucks carrying beef that he was transporting from Karnataka to Mumbai were allegedly stopped midway by gau rakshaks according to Qureshi He says this is just one of the many incidents being faced by traders like him Watch What Else is Making News Qureshi who is from Pune earlier slaughtered bulls or bullocks for a living and supplied the meat to shops and restaurants across the state However with the ban on slaughter of cows bulls or bullocks upheld by the court he has begun sourcing beef from other states such as Karnataka This has meant continued attacks by vigilante groups or gau rakshaks he claims “There is lack of clarity regarding implementation of the High Court orders The police at the ground level are either clueless or don’t want to take a chance and so we are booked” he said Qureshi claimed the orders of the High Court were not being implemented fully “The Maharashtra government is not implementing the orders of the court I am not slaughtering the animals I am getting the meat from other states and have the required certificates to prove this” he claimed “My vehicles carrying beef were stopped in the middle of the night by a gau rakshak samiti They started threatening the drivers They were finally taken to two different police stations in Pune Eventually while complaints were registered the police cooperated in one of the cases and we managed to free the vehicle The other truck is still with the police” said Qureshi The High Court on May 6 upheld the Maharashtra government’s ban on slaughter of the cow and its progeny in the state but allowed people to consume beef imported from other states observing that a ban on imported beef would be “an infringement of right of privacy which is a fundamental right” The court said the objective of the ban was to protect the cow and its progeny not to prevent residents from eating beef that may be brought from a state or a country where there is no prohibition on cow slaughter But months after the order there seems to be a reluctance in people to get involved in the business anymore or to serve the meat in restaurants According to the Mumbai Suburban Beef Dealers Association no one is getting beef from other states “There is too much harassment involved in the entire process There have been instances of disturbances when some people were getting beef from Goa in a bus This meat is usually eaten by poor people and the process of getting it from other states is far too expensive There is also the issue of how fresh the meat will remain in the end It is not profitable No one is getting beef from other states as far as I know” said president of the association Mohammad Ali Qureshi The cold storages in the city too are no longer stocking beef items “There is a fear of harassment We stopped storing beef when the ban was announced In terms of importing it there is lack of clarity For instance we import canned tuna but that is not possible for beef products as the law is still unclear” said Sunil Desouza owner of Marvel Cold Storage Arif Chowdhary from the All India Jamiatul Quresh feels nothing has been done by the government and the police to ensure that officials at the ground level are aware of the changes in law so that the High Court order can be implemented in letter and spirit “The Director General of Police should issue circulars to all police stations to inform officers that possession of beef slaughtered outside the state is no longer a crime This is important to end harassment” said Chowdhary He added that they had filed an intervention application in the matter with the state government already having moved the Supreme Court against the High Court’s directions The matter is likely to come up for hearing on November 28 While in high-end restaurants and hotels beef might be off the plate in smaller restaurants running in areas like Bhendi Bazaar buffalo meat is being served A source at the Taj Hotels in Mumbai said that they had stopped serving beef soon after the ban They further stated that they had not thought of importing it as the freshness of the meat served is very important in their fine dining restaurants According to sources almost all of the high-end hotels in the city have stopped serving beef owing to legal hurdles and the harassment associated with importing it But Savera Hotel in Bhendi Bazaar serves buffalo meat “We have someone who supplies us legally slaughtered buffalo meat from Deonar We have not faced any problems due to this We are serving it as there is still demand for it” said Mohammed Aqeel owner of the hotel According to the commissioner of Animal Husbandry Department Kantilal Umap the High Court has watered down the Maharashtra Animal Preservation (Amendment) Act 1976 In its order the High Court held that preventing a citizen from possessing the flesh of a cow bull or bullock slaughtered outside the state amounts to prohibiting a citizen from possessing and consuming food of his choice In a 245-page judgment the court struck down provisions for conviction of a person for one year and a fine of Rs 2000 for import of such meat It also struck down the right of police or any other authority to stop or search a vehicle carrying bovine flesh slaughtered in another state “The law has become milder after the High Court order There are cases where the animal is being slaughtered within Maharashtra but the traders are getting away by claiming that it was slaughtered outside the state To prove otherwise becomes difficult for us Right now the matter has reached the Supreme Court so we will have to wait and watch Parties have approached court seeking striking down of the law in its entirety while the Bhartiya Gau Raskhak Dal from Gujarat has approached the court seeking that the Act should be kept in its original form” said Umap Meanwhile according to a senior police officer no circular has been issued by them to various police stations informing them of the changes in the Act “The government is yet to make relevant amendments in the Act We are implementing the law but there are clashes in some instances when the gau rakshaks get to know of illegal slaughtering Otherwise the police officers are doing everything to ensure no one is harassed” said the police officer ruhibhasin@expressindiacom For all the latest India News download Indian Express App More Top News therefore,but brave girl Jyoti Sharma, panorama and HDR.s house.
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Executive director of Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL) V K Aggarwal, The Scottish microbiologist defended herself against long-standing charges of partisan advocacy for genetically modified (GM) crops, 2013 4:46 pm Related News A herbal and inexpensive method to get respite from mosquitoes has been developed by a professor at Kaashi Hindu University — in the form of green tea plants. 2014 2:45 pm JK election results: PDP workers celebrate victory in Jammu and Kashmir Assembly elections Related News As Jammu and Kashmir stares at its verdict,607 students who received Merit-cum-Means Scholarship for the same year are easily accessible on the Social Justice Department’s website.as reported by the media are in violation of the Model Code of Conduct – the guidance of political parties and candidates as prescribed and notified by the Election Commission, the party said in the complaint Addressing the press conference in Shimla on TuesdayJaitley had alleged that Singh had altered his income tax account books from 2008 onwards to show a forgedback-dated contract and a highly inflated income of around Rs 65 crore This is a case of briberyconversion of bribe money through money-laundering into real incomeforgery by back-dating an agreement? download Indian Express App More Related NewsWritten by Agencies | Mumbai | Published: August 18, She says her last memory is of passing out on the bathroom floor and waking up in intense pain at 10 am, for now. Google Pixel.
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J/Newsletter- September 4th, 2019
The big news for the sailing world this week has been the epic battles that have been taking place on Torbay in the southwest coastline of the United Kingdom. A fleet of seventy-nine teams have been battling all week long, starting on Monday, racing hosted by Royal Torbay YC in Torquay, England. Racing concludes on Friday, and with two more races in big breezes with shifty winds, it will be difficult for current leaders to stay atop the podium. Currently leading is Paul Ward (GBR) EAT SLEEP J REPEAT, followed by Pichu Torcida (ESP) racing NOTICA. Also, with a great chance of winning the title are Alberto Rossi (ITA) ENFANT TERRIBLE, Joel Ronning (USA) CATAPULT, and Claudia Rossi (ITA) PETITE TERRIBLE.
In the previous weekend of sailing, a dozen women’s teams from across the Alpine nation of Switzerland, hosted their annual J/70 Swiss Women’s Cup on Lake Zurich, with racing taking place just south of the very picturesque Zurich city waterfront.
Over in the Americas, the J/105 North American Championship is currently taking place in Marblehead, MA for a modest fleet of eighteen boats from the USA and Canada. Currently leading is Bruce Stone & Nicole Breault’s GOOD TRADE. Then, south of them this past weekend, the famous Conanicut YC 21.0nm Round the Island Race was hosted in challenging, changing breezes. Leading three of the classes in the tough, tricky winds were a J/121, J/99 and J/35. Meanwhile down in Long Island Sound, the Stamford YC hosted their annual Labor Day weekend tradition, the Vineyard Race- a 238.0nm race from Stamford, out around Block Island to starboard, and back to the finish line in Stamford, CT. A number of J/Teams lead sweeps in 6 of 9 divisions they raced in
J/70 World Championship Update
(Torquay, Devon, England)- 79 Teams, 20 Nations, 5 Continents. On Monday September 2nd, racing started at the Darwin Escapes 2019 J/70 World Championships, hosted by the Royal Torbay Yacht Club. This will be the sixth edition of the J/70 World Championship and the first to take place in the United Kingdom. Five days of windward-leeward racing are scheduled with up to 14 races in the stunning, yet tricky sailing grounds of Torbay.
J/70 teams from all over the world are competing at the Darwin Escapes 2019 J/70 World Championships: Argentina, Australia, Bulgaria, Brazil, Cayman Islands, Cyprus, France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Malta, Monaco, the Netherlands, Norway, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, and the United States of America. So far, the racing has been extremely challenging, tricky, and have tested the skills of the world’s best J/70 sailors. Here are the reports from the first four days.
Day One- Shifty, Puffy, & Streaky Offshore winds
The Worlds kicked off on Monday with three races in Torbay. Big wind shifts and changes in wind speed tested the 78 teams competing as well as the Race Management team led by Stuart Childerley. In the Open Class, Joel Ronning (USA) racing Catapult, leads the championship after three races. Second is Claudia Rossi (ITA) racing Petite Terrible, which recovered from a 28th place in Race 1 to post two podium finishes. Andrey Malygin (RUS) racing Maria, is third. In the Corinthian Class Patrick Liardet (GBR) racing Cosmic leads by just one point from Doug Struth (GBR) racing DSP. Wilson & King (IRL) racing Soak Racing completes a trio of British boats leading the championship for the Corinthian title. There were race wins today for Pichu Torcida (ESP) racing Noticia, Reg Lord (AUS) racing Juno, and Nelson Mettraux (SUI) racing CER Aprotec - Ville de Genève.
Joel Ronning (USA) CATAPULT
“It was a very anxious series of races and we had a lot of fun. It was very shifty, very puffy and you have to find a lane, which was incredibly important downwind because if you didn't find a vein of breeze or gybed the wrong way you were a loser. Consistency is going to be very important, we have a bet on the boat in terms of the average score for the winner, my number is 9, and we are all about that range. This is a very tricky venue, and we expect variable results but we are prepared for that, we know we will bring in some real shockers but we are looking forward to tomorrow, this is a lot of fun.”
Patrick Liardet (GBR) COSMIC
“We had a great day, the conditions were fantastic for us, 9-14 knots is a good for us, and we have practiced a lot in that range. It was very exciting to be out there with 78 boats on the line racing amongst some of the top keelboat teams from all over the world. The worlds is really testing and competitive, and we were really on the pace today, the team on board performed well, and we enjoyed it.”
Pichu Torcida (ESP) NOTICIA
"The first race was fantastic we went for the left and winning the race made us feel very happy. The rest of the races proved more difficult, in the second race, we went right and the left won, and in the last race, we were going well downwind for the finish but a very big shift caught us out. This championship is very long, so to finish the first day in fourth is okay. The Noticia team are good friends, we all do a very good job. Torquay is a tricky place to sail but we enjoy being here and tomorrow we will try to do our best.”
Murray Jones (AUS) JUNO
“The start line was really packed with everyone pushing the line really hard. Getting a bullet at the worlds was a good feeling. We were about 25th on the water up the first beat but we managed to slowly chip away, had a good second downwind to slide into the lead at the end and it felt good. Last race of the day, we managed to find a pretty clean end of the line but it was the wrong end and we got buried. We don't get many big fleets in Australia, here there is much more boat on boat action, which puts on the pressure.
Day Two- Brilliant & Breezy
The breeze for Day Two started with a stable 10 knots from the southwest, but backed south after the first race building to a 18 knots, with brilliant sunshine providing spectacular condition for the international fleet. With the wind direction and speed fluctuating, today's results were far from stable.
After six races there are new leaders for both the Open and Corinthian classes. Alberto Rossi (ITA) racing Enfant Terrible, acknowledged as one of the best in Europe if not the world, moves up to pole position for the Open Class, after posting 1-16-2 today. Joel Ronning (USA) racing Catapult, drops to second, three points behind the leader. Boat of the day was Eat, Sleep, J, Repeat raced by Paul Ward (GBR) propelling the team to third just a point off second. Pichu Torcida (ESP) racing Noticia is only one point off the podium. In the Corinthian Class, Doug Struth (GBR) racing DSP, is the new leader. Wilson & King's Soak Racing (IRL) discarded a Black Flag infringement in Race 5, to place second for the amateur status class, as did Denis Cherevatenko (RUS) racing Joyfull. All results are provisional pending protest decisions. There were race wins today for Alberto Rossi (ITA) Enfant Terrible, Andrey Malygin (RUS) Maria, and Peter Duncan (USA) Relative Obscurity.
Henry Brauer USA RASCAL- Past President J/70 International Class and Vice Commodore Eastern YC- host of the 2018 J/70 Worlds, commented: “The folks at the Royal Torbay YC, led by Bob Penfold, are doing a great job, this us a tough regatta to organize with a lot of volunteers and a lot of moving parts, and it has been seamless, and they are doing a fantastic job. On Rascal, we are getting it together, a bit better every day. The competition is world class and the sailing conditions are challenging, you have to keep your head out of the boat and keep on your toes. The last race today was the stand out, things didn't work out upwind and we rounded the top mark pretty deep, but our tactician Brian Kamilar called for a quick gybe, and we got a great puff and moved up into the top ten, so it paid off in spades. Tomorrow the weather man says we will have more breeze, but Torquay seems to have its own micro-climate with its spectacular topography of climbing cliffs, I think Torquay does what Torquay wants to do!”
Doug Struth GBR DSP- 2018 J/70 UK National Champions for both the Corinthian and Open Classes.
“So far it has ben very good but we have had tricky sailing conditions, unlike the conditions we normally get in the Solent. Everyone is having the same issues with the shifty wind and awkward chop but for us so far so good. The team has been together for nearly a year and a half, it has always been the worlds that we have been building towards, and we have been refining our roles. As with all teams, we have our moments but it is all beginning to click together. I think we are better than last year, and we are pretty happy with our results so far.”
Day Three- Big Wednesday
20 knots of breeze piping in from the north created full-on battle conditions for the 20-nation fleet on Day Three of the Darwin Escapes 2019 J/70 World Championships. For the third consecutive day, the Open and Corinthian leaders have changed, with teams from nine nations occupying the top ten places. There were thrills and spills as the wind speed reached close to the top end of the wind speed for the class but with flat warm water, it was a day to remember for the J/70 fleet.
In the Open Class, Paul Ward’s EAT SLEEP J REPEAT scored a 1-4-15 to take the overall lead. Pichu Torcida (ESP) racing Noticia has climbed to second after scoring a 5-17-6. Joel Ronning (USA) racing Catapult, drops to third after scoring 14-14-10. Yesterday's leader Alberto Rossi (ITA) racing Enfant Terrible, started the day well posting 9-8 but a 28 in the last race after broaching out drops Enfant Terrible to fourth.
In the Corinthian Class, King & Wilson Soak Racing (IRL) is the new leader after posting 2-34-9 today. Doug Struth (GBR) racing DSP drops to second place. Denis Cherevatenko (RUS) racing Joyfull retains third but is under pressure from a top performance today by Charles Thompson (GBR) racing Brutus. There were race wins today for Eat, Sleep, J, Repeat, Henry Brauer (USA) Rascal, and Carlo Alberini (ITA) Calvi Network.
Paul Ward GBR EAT SLEEP J REPEART
“The conditions today were exactly like we expected for Tor Bay – shifty, difficult to sail, and hard to find the right way to go. We managed okay and had an absolute blast out there. Leading the championship is terrifying, there are some really good sailors and we have a long way to go, and we will see how it all rolls tomorrow.”
Ian Wilson (GBR) SOAK RACING
“It is really difficult to track the boats in the Corinthian fleet because we are all out on one race course and we are racing against the pros and we can give them a really good run for their money but we do keep an eye out for our mates from Hamble, DSP, if we are in front of them, we know we are doing well. It was brilliant today, blowing 20 knots, wind all over the place, a great day out with boats planing all over the place - just great fun. We are hoping for more of the same tomorrow, big breeze and great racing in Tor Bay.”
Carlo Alberini (ITA) CALVI NETWORK
“We are very happy to be in Torquay but today we had a black cloud with the first race when we were just one second over the line before the start, and we were disqualified. We won the last race in the sunshine, so we were so happy. Today those conditions were good for us, we specialize in strong wind, and I hope we will do better over the last five races.
Day Four- More Breeze, More Shifts
The penultimate day was blessed with beautiful conditions in Tor Bay. With the breeze coming from the land once again, shifts and puffs of breeze made for tricky conditions with snakes and ladders right across the race course. Three windward leeward races were held in a shifting northerly breeze oscillating 45 degrees, the mean wind speed was about 12 knots with occasional 20-knot gusts.
In the Open Class, Paul Ward (GBR) EAT SLEEP J REPEAT retains the lead having scored a 6-8-30 today. However, Pichu Torcida (ESP) racing NOTICA has shortened their odds on winning the worlds posting an 11-9-11, finishing the day just four points off the lead. Realistically these two teams will battle for the Open World Championship in a double-header of racing tomorrow. Still in with a chance of winning the title are Alberto Rossi (ITA) ENFANT TERRIBLE, Joel Ronning (USA) CATAPULT, and Claudia Rossi (ITA) PETITE TERRIBLE.
In the Corinthian Class, Doug Struth (GBR) racing DSP has regained the lead but only just, Denis Cherevatenko (RUS) racing JOYFUL had a great day on the water and move up to second just 4 points off the lead. Yesterday's leader King & Wilson SOAK RACING (IRL) drop to third after three mid-fleet finishes. There were race wins today for Reg Lord (AUS) racing JUNO, ENFANT TERRIBLE, and Luis Bugallo (ESP) MAR NATURA.
Luis Bugallo (ESP) MAR NATURA
“Today the conditions were a bit easier, especially as there was less chop but it was still difficult to work out which way to go. This is a difficult place to sail but it is the same for everybody. We are looking forward to the last day of the regatta, we have a lot of teams in front of us but we are a young team looking to improve, and just like every day, tomorrow there will be lessons that we can learn.”
Tom Grimes (AUS) JUNO
“Today the shifts were shorter and more manageable and we had a much more enjoyable day. We just have to keep it together and avoid any big mistakes. It is a really big thing for us to come and race here, as we only have a few J/70s in Sydney Harbour, so to shake it up with this big competitive fleet is a lot of fun. Tor Bay is a lot like racing on Lake Macquarie where a lot of the crew grew up sailing.”
Ludovico Fassitelli (MON) JUNDA-BANCE DEL SEMPIONE
"We scored two podiums today so that was really good, Tor Bay is a big surprise for us, we were expecting big ocean waves but this is like sailing on a beautiful lake with very strong winds! We are in sixth position and tomorrow we want to stay in there and maybe get up the leaderboard. To race in this beautiful place with 80 boats is great, and we expect to have all of these boats in Monaco 2021 for the J/70 World Championship."
The Darwin Escapes 2019 J/70 World Championships, hosted by the Royal Torbay Yacht Club, will have up to the minute coverage as the drama unfolds at Facebook here. For more Darwin Escapes 2019 J/70 Worlds sailing world information
J/Teams Dominate Vineyard Race
(Stamford, CT)- The 2019 edition of the Vineyard Race was a relatively fast race, with many J/crews covering the track in over a 6.6 kts average. The 238.0nm course stretches from Shippan Point through the swirling currents of Plum Gut past Block Island, and on to the light tower at the entrance to Buzzard's Bay. Once reached, sailors return by leaving Block Island to starboard en route to the finish in Stamford Harbor. The shorter Seaflower Reef Race is run entirely within Long Island Sound.
Vineyard Race
Leading the sweep of the top two spots in IRC 6 Doublehanded Class was Gardner Grant’s J/120 ALIBI and Mike Greene’s J/35 LOBLOLLY took the silver!
The PHRF 9 Class was swept by three J/109s- John Greifzu’s GROWTH SPURT was 1st, Dan Nash’s MISTRAL took 2nd, and Cao Deambrosio & Chris Nicholls’ RHIANNON III placed 3rd. Jim Farrell’s J/35 SAPPHIRE ended up sixth. Brian Spears’ J/120 MADISON won PHRF 10 Class, while Rick Oricchio’s J/120 ROCKET SCIENCE took the bronze.
In IRC 11 Class, Len Sitar’s J/44 VAMP took the silver, while Don Dwyer’s J/122 BLUE YONDER finished fourth. Two J/111s swept the top two spots in PHRF 12 Class. Winning was Bill & Jackie Baxter’s FIREBALL, with John Donovan’s LIBERTAS taking the silver. Finally, in IRC 13 Class, Steve Levy’s J/121 EAGLE placed fifth.
Seaflower Reef Race
Winning the PHRF 4 Doublehanded Class was Greg Imbruce’s J/109 JOYRIDE! Then, in the fully-crewed PHRF 5 Class, Justin Scagnelli’s J/88 ALBONDIGAS led a sweep of the podium by J/Crews. Second was Frank Conway’s J/105 RAPTOR and third place went to Todd Aven’s J/92 THIN MAN. For complete Vineyard Race results For more Vineyard Race sailing information
J/105 North American Championship Update
(Marblehead, MA)- The 2019 J/105 North American Championship started on September 5th off Marblehead, MA on the open waters of the North Atlantic Ocean. Hosting the event is Corinthian Yacht Club, along with title sponsor “The British Virgin Islands Tourist Board”.
The eighteen teams from across the USA and Canada enjoyed spectacular early fall sailing conditions, with winds starting clear, cool from the Northeast, and saw winds shifting into the Southeast by late afternoon. The Corinthian YC PRO managed the conditions well, getting off three races in a breeze that persistently shifted right all day, as forecasted.
Leading the regatta after the first day is Bruce Stone and Nicole Breault’s GOOD TRADE from San Francisco, CA with a 2-2-1 record for 5 pts, in a no-throw out up to 12 race series. Second is Ken Horne’s FINAL FINAL crew from Houston, TX with a 3-1-6 tally for 10 pts. Third is hometown local hero Charlie Garrard’s MERLIN with a 6-4-3 scoreline for 13 pts. Rounding out the top five are Tim Russell’s NE*NE crew from San Francisco, CA with a 8-3-4 scoreline for 15 pts and Terry Michaelson’s Canadian team on THE USUAL SUSPECTS with a 1-8-8 score for 17 pts.
In the first race, Terry Michaelson’s THE USUAL SUSPECTS banged the left corner hard on the first leg to lead the race at the first mark, followed by Stone/Breault’s GOOD TRADE. Those two boats finished in that order, followed by Horne’s FINAL FINAL. In the second race, a similar scenario played out, with Stone/Breault’s GOOD TRADE leading around the first leeward gate, but with Horne’s FINAL FINAL splitting from the fleet all alone into the deep left corner and rounding the second weather mark in first, holding on for the lead at the finish; GOOD TRADE second again, and Russell’s NE*NE passing two boats on the final run to take third place. In the final race, GOOD TRADE took off from the port end of the line, tacked and crossed the feet, and led around the first mark, the first boat to lead from wire-to-wire in the racing on Thursday. Second was Steven Goldberg’s AIR EXPRESS and third was Garrard’s MERLIN.
Good racing is expected on Friday prior to Hurricane Dorian upsetting things a wee bit on Saturday (possibly no racing). And, there should be great racing on Sunday post-hurricane Dorian. For complete J/105 North American Championship results For more J/105 North American Championship sailing information
J/121 & J/99 Class Winners @ Conanicut Round Island Race
(Jamestown, RI)- Sunday dawned with partly cloudy skies and a gentle northerly breeze wafting down Narragansett Bay. The forecast was for the gradient winds to swing into the east/ southeast by late afternoon and only build into the 5 to 9 kts range. The course selected was “X”, a counter-clockwise race starting north through the Newport Bridge, leaving all marks to port. After the first four classes started at 1100 hrs, the Conanicut Yacht Club PRO wisely decided to postpone all following starts for over an hour. The northerly winds had died and the powerful ebb tide of 1.5 kts was pushing the first four classes backwards across the starting line! Soon, the forecasted southeaster seabreeze slowly filled in and the rest of the fleet was sent off on their 21.0nm circumnavigation of Conanicut Island (Jamestown).
It turned out to be a “big boat” race on an overall basis, as the big, tall rigs were powering the 50-plus footers down the eastern passage to the finish line in the fickle southeast breeze. The smaller boats had to deal with variable winds from the Beavertail Point bell buoy, down past Clingstone bell, to the finish.
Nearly 100 boats sailed the race. Winning the PHRF H Division was Stu Johnstone’s J/99 AGENT 99 with his “Big Chill” crew of 60-somethings; many were members of past J/24 World Championship and J/24 North American Championship campaigns three decades ago. Third in their class was EC Helme’s J/92 SPIRIT, fourth was Matt Schmitt’s J/105 HARDTACK, fifth was Tom Sutton’s J/109 LEADING EDGE, sixth was Bill Kneller’s J/109 VENTO SOLARE, and seventh was John Sahagian’s J/109 PICANTE.
In the one-design PHRF C Class of J/22s, winning was Bill Fortenberry’s QUINN, followed by Jeff Westcott’s MACHBUSTER in second place, and Peter Parsons’ CATCH in third position. Rounding out the top five were Matt Dunbar’s DON’T TELL MOM and Victor Oancea’s WHARF RAT, in 4th and 5th, respectively.
J/24s dominated the PHRF D Class Spinnaker class. Winning was Henry Lane’s FAST LANE, followed by Mike Hill’s OBSTREPEROUS in third.
Winning the closely fought PHRF G Spinnaker class was Paul Grimes’ J/35 BREAKAWAY; his team are multiple Round Island Race class winners.
Finally, winning the high-test PHRF J Class was Joe Brito’s J/121 INCOGNITO. Not too far behind them in fourth place was Jack Gregg’s J/122 TARAHUMARA, and Mark Nannini’s J/120 SALACIA placed eighth. For more Conanicut YC Round Island Race sailing information
Zurich Segelclub Top Swiss J/70 Women’s Cup
(Zurich, Switzerland)- The 2019 edition of the Swiss Sailing Women’s Cup enjoyed two glorious days of sailing, with a south wind in the 5 to 10 kts range. It was a great atmosphere on the lake for the fifteen teams from all four corners of Switzerland. In total, twenty races were sailed.
Saturday started windless. Towards midday, an initial breeze blew across Lake Zurich and the wait came to an end. But, after just an hour of sailing, the heat dominated again, and another postponement kicked in; an opportunity for more swimming and chilling in the lake. Late in the day, a beautiful south wind with 5-9 kts enabled Race Director Rolf Frey to fire off a few more races to complete the day.
On Sunday, the south wind welcomed the sailors, and after some passing rain dampened the euphoria, the south wind was back, the sun was starting to show, and like the proverbial Swiss watch, races were run in perfect precision.
The sailors offered thrilling sailing, and the fight for victory between YC Horgen and the Zurich Sailing Club (ZSC) remained exciting to the end. The ZSC team with Amrei Keller, Theresa Lagler, Zoé Straub, Annika Pellegrini won the duel- almost a match race- against YC Horgen with the Top Match Race sailor Alexa Bezel at the wheel
The third podium place was hotly contested between the CV Lausanne and the sailors of the SV Thalwil. Lausanne took the third podium place tied, but took the bronze based on their victory in the last race.
Even though the winning teams clearly dominated on points- the two winners scored only victories and second places- the course was very close and exciting. Between victory and defeat were often only a few boat lengths. For this great and fair sailing, we congratulate all participants!
The Women's Cup was also a successful party on land. The paella on Saturday night was just as "WoW" as the wind on the water. Wonderful what the kitchen crew and the members of host ZSC served up, from the aperitif to the dessert.
It’s gratifying to see that more and more women are actively involved in taking the helm into their own hands. The success of this event shows that women's sailing is on the rise. The initiative "WoW - Women on Water" is intended to motivate new teams as well as organizers to enter the women's sailing. We look forward to more WoW events and the Swiss Sailing Women's Cup 2020. Sailing Photo Credits- Felix King For more Swiss J/70 Women’s Cup sailing information
Sep 12-15- Rolex Big Boat Series- San Francisco, CA
Sep 13-15- German J/80 Championship- Glucksburg, Germany
Sep 13-15- Dutch J/22 Championship- Medemblik, The Netherlands
Sep 14-15- IRC Doublehanded Championship- Cowes, England
Sep 19-22- J/30 North American Championship- New Orleans, LA
Sep 22-29- J/70 North American Championship- Cleveland, OH
Sep 27-29- Canadian J/105 Championship- Toronto, ONT, Canada
Sep 28-29- J/Fest San Diego- San Diego, CA
Oct 11-13- China Coast Race Week- Hong Kong, China
Oct 11-12- J/80 Copa de Espana- Coruna, Spain
Oct 17-20- J/88 North American Championship- Rye, New York
Oct 18-20- J/105 Masters Regatta- San Diego, CA
Oct 19-26- J/24 World Championship- Coconut Grove, FL
Oct 19- Rolex Middle Sea Race- Gzira, Malta
Oct 25-27- J/24 East Coast Championship- Annapolis, MD
Oct 25-27- J/Fest Southwest- Lakewood, TX
Oct 25-27- J/105 Lipton Cup Regatta- San Diego, CA
Nov 1-4- French J/80 Championship- La Rochelle, France
German J/80 Championship Preview
(Glucksburg, Germany)- The Flensburger Fordewoche is playing host to the 2019 German J/80 Open Championship, hosting is Flensburger Segelclub. The eleven-boat fleet includes most of the top boats from across Germany.
Certain to be the top contender on the leaderboard is Martin Menzner’s PIKE, a previous German J/80 Champion. Giving them a “run for the roses” should be Torsten Voss’ FRIDA, Arne Wilcken’s DIVA, Hauke Thilow’s POLLUX, and Inken Braunschmidt’s JOY TOY. For more German J/80 Championship sailing information
Dutch J/22 Championship Preview
(Medemblik, The Netherlands)- The 17th edition of the Open Dutch Sailing Championships, hosted off Medemblik, The Netherlands, will see an enormous flotilla of dinghies (29ers, 49ers, Contenders, Finns, F18s, Lasers) and keelboats such as the J/22, Star, and Yngling.
The event also marks the Open Dutch J/22 Championship for 2019. The lone German team is Thomas Loesch’s GER 1640 with crew of Emmanuoela Filippidi and Lenskaya Ektaerina. The top Netherlands crews include Suzanne van Iterson’s NED 1223 with crew of Anne Rietveld and Frans Dijcksmeester; Dirk Naj Verdoorn’s NED 1295 with crew of Anneloes Krikhaar, Rosemary & Liselotte Verdoorn; and Merlin Rutten’s NED 1500 with crew of Alexandra Siebels, Floor de Boer, and Janine de Groot. For more Dutch J/22 Championship sailing information
IRC Doublehanded Championship Preview
(Cowes, England)- The RORC’s IRC Doublehanded Offshore Championship is comprised of two components. The Offshore event is this coming weekend’s Cherbourg Race, an 80.0nm dash across the English Channel (La Manche) from Cowes nearly due south to Cherbourg, France. The second event is next weekend’s two days of around-the-buoys racing on the classic Solent random-leg courses off Cowes, Isle of Wight.
Participating in the IRC Doublehanded event at two J/109s (Chris Preston’s JUBLIEE and Mike Yates JAGO), Jerry Freeman’s J/105 JUILETTE, and Chris Miles & Mike Sellers’ J/97 HIGH JINKS. This quartet of boats will be up against all the top doublehanded teams from the 2019 RORC summer sailing season. For more RORC IRC Doublehanded Championship sailing information
US Sailing’s Mallory Trophy Preview
(Marion, MA) – Regional Sailing Associations (RSA) from around the United States will be well represented this week by a talented group of sailors competing for the historic 2019 U.S. Adult Sailing Championship, hosted by the Beverly Yacht Club.
Thirteen teams will be fleet racing for the Mallory Trophy in the J/80 over four days on Buzzards Bay. Competition for this legendary trophy gets underway on Thursday, September 5 and wraps up on Sunday, September 8, 2019.
Returning to defend the 2018 title is Michael Hanson (Deephaven, Minn.) of the Minnetonka Yacht Club and his team representing the Inland Lake Yachting Association and Area K. Hanson and his team dominated the regatta, hosted by the Wayzata Yacht Club (Minn.) and raced in the J/22, posting the low score of 53 points to win the coveted Mallory Trophy.
They won six races and finished outside of the top three only three times in 20 races for an incredibly low average score of 2.7. His 16-point margin of victory is the largest since a 21-point victory in 2011. Hanson and crew won the first four races and never looked back.
Returning to crew for Hanson from the 2018 team is Mark Swift (St. Paul, Minn.), along with newcomers Maclean Potts (Hopkins, Minn.) and Judson Koehn (Minnetonka, Minn.).
Hanson is not the only returning champion competing this week. Charles Quigley (Winthrop, Mass.) of the Boston Yacht Club won this title in 2002 and 17 years later, he hopes to capture a second Mallory Trophy.
Quigley and his team representing the Mass Bay Sailing Association and Area A includes David Bryan (Boston, Mass), who won with Quigley in 2002, Kay VanValkenberg (Boston, Mass.), and William Colehower (Marblehead, Mass.). Johns is representing the Southern Massachusetts Sailing Association, Area A, and is a member of the Beverly Yacht Club.
Another local standout sailor will be on hand to challenge Hanson and the rest of the fleet. The 2018 J/80 North American Champion, Chip Johns (Mattapoisett, Mass.), will be a major contender for this year’s Championship. Johns will be sailing with Alex Gryska (Marion, Mass.), William Godfrey (New York, N.Y.), and William Marvel (Marion, Mass.). Gryska and Marvel sailed with Johns as part of the winning J/80 North American Championship team.
This Championship will be sailed using league racing, a fast and competitive format, featuring two flights with teams rotating every two races. Each team will race an equal number of races against the others. Races are approximately 15 minutes in duration. The host club ensures quick rotations and on-the-water judging, in addition to an improved viewing experience for spectators.
“We will be tested in conditions that we don’t regularly sail in,” said Hanson. “The J/80 is a new platform for us, with very few of them around the Twin Cities area. We managed to find one to practice on over the past few weeks, so we will be coming into the event as prepared as possible.
“One thing we like about the event format is the small courses and the fast-paced nature of the racing. It is a format I’m used to from both college sailing and match racing, so we look forward to bringing the smackdown on our competitors when things get tight.”
To drive more participation in the event and to improve diversity overall for the Championship there are several requirements per boat. Sailors under 30 make up 25% of the team and female sailors make up at least 25% of the team. A bonus is provided if a female is a helm.
The Mallory Trophy, a magnificent sterling silver tureen trophy, has a long and colorful history that dates to the Battle of the Nile in 1798. Racing for the Mallory Trophy was first held in 1952 as the U.S. Men’s Sailing Championship and transitioned to an open event in 1993.
Since then, it has become a more open and inclusive regatta, allowing female skippers and all-female crews. In reflection, the regatta was renamed the U.S. Adult Sailing Championship in 2013.
“It’s great to see so much enthusiasm here at the Beverly Yacht Club in anticipation of hosting this historic regatta,” said Jack Gierhart, CEO of US Sailing and Commodore of the Beverly Yacht Club.
“The Beverly Yacht Club has a longstanding tradition of hosting major national and international regattas, including many US Sailing National Championships and Olympic Trials, and the club will add to its legacy by hosting its second U.S. Adult Sailing Championships this week on Buzzards Bay. I know the club is excited to welcome these talented sailors to this spectacular sailing venue.”
US Sailing medals will be awarded to the top three teams. The first place team will be presented the Clifford D. Mallory Trophy. The Staton J.Peele, Jr.Trophy voted upon by the sailors may be awarded for sportsmanship. For more US Adult Sailing Championship information
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* Royal Canadian team driven for NYYC Invitational Cup
With two victories and a second place under his belt, no one knows better how to succeed in the Rolex New York Yacht Club Invitational Cup than Terry McLaughlin, helmsman for the Royal Canadian Yacht Club entry in the sixth edition of this premiere Corinthian championship. Terry is also a three-time J/105 North American Championship winner over the past few years.
But, anyone looking to extract a shortcut to victory from all that experience will be disappointed. “What do we need to do well to succeed?” he says. “Pretty much everything from getting off the line in good shape, keeping the boat going well in all conditions and gelling on crew work at the corners. Sorting out the communications will be very important for us.”
In other words, you need to put together a group of good sailors, make good decisions and work well as a team. If only it was as simple in practice as it is in theory.
Led by McLaughlin, an Olympic and Pan Am Games silver medalist and former America’s Cup skipper, the Royal Canadian Yacht Club was as close to a dynasty as the Invitational Cup has seen in the first five editions. The team from Toronto finished second to the host New York Yacht Club in the inaugural event in 2009 and then won back-to-back titles in 2011 and 2013.
“It’s good to be back at the Invitational,” says McLaughlin (at right, sailing with the RCYC team in 2015). “We missed 2017, but speaking for myself, the new boats sort of intrigued me. We wouldn’t be attending this year if it was not for the support of many members who have contributed to our effort. Like in past years, we will have a good group of RCYC members in Newport for the regatta.”
As the event has evolved, so too have the methods used by yacht clubs to select their representatives. For 2019, the RCYC opened up the selection process to all members knowing that the in-house competition would only make for a stronger team.
“This is the first year that we had a selection trials at RCYC,” says McLaughlin. “There were five teams in the event in early May that was sailed in Sonars. John Millen, Andrew McTavish and I were fortunate to come out on top. Along with John and Andrew, our team includes some veterans who have sailed with me for, dare I say, decades, as well as four younger members who I have not sailed with that much.”
McLaughlin and his teammates, including tactician Lance Fraser, did what they could to get some insight into the new IC37. But like many teams, they will aim to climb the learning curve quickly during the upcoming practice days.
“I was able to gain some sailing time in June and July on an IC37, though not as a helmsman,” he says. “I did learn that they are very different from the Swan 42. The biggest difference is downwind where they get up and go. I don’t recall as many crew members running to the back of the boat in the Swans when the puff came in. I think the competition should be just as tough as in previous years, but a little more hairy downwind.”
While much of McLaughlin’s success of late has come in displacement keelboats such as Swan 42s, J/24s, J/105s, and 12 Metres, his first major international victories were in planing dinghies such as the Flying Dutchman. Should things get a little “hairy”, as he says, during the course of the 2019 Rolex New York Yacht Club Invitational Cup, he’ll be right at home.
The Rolex New York Yacht Club Invitational Cup is a biennial regatta hosted by the New York Yacht Club Harbour Court in Newport, R.I. Twenty teams from 14 countries and five continents will compete in the 2019 Rolex New York Yacht Club Invitational Cup, which will be held at the New York Yacht Club Harbour Court, September 7 to 14.
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Those responsible for the London Bridge Attack
Posted on December 1, 2019 by A Cunt Who Cunts Cunts
The British legal system
It turns out that the Cunt who was shot on London Bridge yesterday, was convicted of terrorism offences some years ago, and was out on licence.
Once these fuckers have been locked up they should stay locked up for life.
The ideal would be to stick them in front of a firing squad.
Only for our poxy, bleeding heart, liberal system, two innocent people would not have died yesterday.
What a heap of Cunt.
Nominated by Jack The Cunter
Lets have another Square Mile cunting for this diminutive crock of shit, London Mayor, and failed ex-cabinet minister Sadiq Khan.
Want to find somebody to blame for yesterday’s terrorist attack at London Bridge?. Of course it cant be the fault of his compatriot, the terrorist ex jailbird. It certainly isn’t little Sadcunt’s fault, anymore than the record number of murders we have had in London this year. It can’t be careerist lesbian Cressida Dick’s fault for running a joke police force,
No the solution is obvious – blame that nasty government
https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1211315/London-Bridge-Terror-Attack-Sadiq-Khan-blame-Conservative
Just a few years ago this little arsewipe would have been thrown out of his job. Perhaps he would now if he were pale, male and stale, but it seems highly likely that the poisonous motherfucker will be returned for another 4 years of misery next year. Fuck him (I’ll leave Dame Keir to do that)
Nominated by W. C. Boggs
The Parole Board
The parole board need cunting again.When are these cunts going to be held to account when they let the dregs of society back out on the streets .Yesterday we had the attack in London from a twat who was out on parole,and funnily enough the ankle tag didn’t seem to dissuade him from crime.The cunts that sit as the parole board should be doing time for letting these scumbags out.
Gobshites
Nominated by CrustyFlaps
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87 thoughts on “Those responsible for the London Bridge Attack”
Bertram Cuntatious DCO on December 1, 2019 at 8:56 am said:
Apparently the parole board had nothing at all to do with his release. They are cunts anyway but this time it’s not their fault.
dingly on December 1, 2019 at 10:13 am said:
it is about time that ‘all must eat bacon’.
Boilsmypiss on December 1, 2019 at 11:29 am said:
I get the impression, that those that have the say of yes or no to the release of cunts like the London Bridge attacker, will sleep safe at night in their well protected houses in a fairly affluent area of town … Judges, parole board members etc. I may be wrong, but the release of these cunts won’t affect them.
Back in June 2018, we had the coloured chap on a bicycle that pulled a ‘Zombie knife’ to try and hack fuck out of a motorist that had cut across him. A judge decided due to a ‘back ground’ story … this guy didn’t deserve prison.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/7842796/zombie-knife-teen-cyclist-spared-jail/
I believe this was actually overturned.
That got me thinking …. just to make any cunts mind clear, that if there is ANY doubt if some cunt should or shouldn’t go to prison, or NOT be released from prison … The responsible cunt in authority, who signs on the dotted line, should take FULL responsibility. If some cunt, not jailed, then goes on to commit a further crime … both of them should be banged up for the same length of time … And, if some cunt released early goes on to commit a crime, the ‘resonsible’ person that allowed their release should be banged up along side them for the remainder of their sentence. that should put any doubt out of their Liberal minds. Cunts.
Dick de Pfeffel Foxchaser-Fiddler on December 1, 2019 at 8:59 am said:
Good one on Sickipedia this morning…..
America: only guns can keep us safe.
Britain: pass me that Narwhal tusk
Duke of Cuntshire on December 1, 2019 at 9:21 am said:
You have to hand it to him (literally) for improvisation.
Spoonington on December 1, 2019 at 11:18 am said:
I imagine some britons might buy replicas of narwhal tusks.
“We shall defend ourselves with these”.
Why not just do a SBD fart like in the Farting In Public nomination?
EVENING STAR on December 1, 2019 at 5:27 pm said:
Or place the narwhal tusk in your arse then fart
JonDoe on December 1, 2019 at 11:14 pm said:
Still didn’t stop the threat until someone with a gun showed up.
Freddie the Frog on December 1, 2019 at 9:06 am said:
A pity the cunt didn’t blow up the Stock Exchange as he originally intended. If he’d killed a few rich cunts he would never have seen the light of day again.
Earl Kravdath of Bumholia on December 1, 2019 at 9:09 am said:
Comrade Corbyn is blaming UK military action overseas.
I wish Corbyn would move overseas: The DPRK would fit in well with his madness.
Technocunt on December 1, 2019 at 9:22 am said:
Any word from Jo Swinson? Or is she blaming the Brexit result for this, and thus underline the need to throw the entire referendum result under a bus!
W. C. Boggs on December 1, 2019 at 9:45 am said:
Granny Grieve and Dame Keir have refused to make a statement, but along with Ben Bradshaw and Lloyd Russell-Moyle they did say “oooh, we do feel q. ueer ducky”
Ruff Tuff Creampuff on December 1, 2019 at 10:28 am said:
That’s been his default position for the past 50 years.
anne frank on December 1, 2019 at 3:14 pm said:
Putting that comment on a lighter note you make it sound like kim jong un/corbyn& trump in north korea !sat around a coffee table having tea like the mad hatters tea party! Mind u when u oppress the masses like kim jong un does you dont get shit kicking off !when jailed over there thats it!
Smug cunt on December 1, 2019 at 9:09 am said:
Sadiq Khan is probably related to Usman Khan. Probably his brothers son on his mother’s side
J R Cuntley on December 1, 2019 at 9:14 am said:
Twice this morning I’ve heard on the BBC and Sky….
“On London Bridge, where two people tragically died.”
Lets get it right….
“On London Bridge, where two people were murdered by a Muslim”….
Unkle Terry on December 1, 2019 at 9:25 am said:
You won’t hear anyone in the MSM use the words terrorist or murder.
It all has to be watered down for puffs and cry babies.
Cunts.
Had it been a member of the EDL doing the killings you can almost guarantee the BBC, Guardian and MSM will have the words “murdered”, “massacred”, “right wing” and “terrorist” plastered all over the front pages of their news sites!
The Sheriff of Cuntingham on December 1, 2019 at 10:49 am said:
It’s easy to tell when it’s a Muslim terror attack, just read the news and if they don’t mention the perps skin tone it’s a Muslim. Whenever it’s been a white man they instantly tell you that fact .
Britain in Bollox on December 1, 2019 at 10:40 pm said:
Just watched the BBCstanistab 10:00 pm news about the second victim of that murdering mozzie, Khunt Khan. Eight minutes long and not once was the word I-slam or Mudslime mentioned.Those libtard mind fucks are fucking terrified of associating that murderous piece of shit with the religion of the so called peacefuls.
CuntyMort on December 1, 2019 at 9:14 am said:
1/ Reintroduce the death penalty, the fourth reich wont accept any state that has it on the statute book. 2/ Don’t release the body, just let the slimes know its been buried in pig shit. 3 Wherever the stabby twats worshiped close said premises and demolish it. I don’t know about the cunters on here I’ve had enough of the goat shagging cunts antics.
Thats made me feel so much better, medieval bastards. Fuck them to hell and gone.
Deport his entire family and any cunt who moans about it.
Cunty Chops on December 1, 2019 at 4:08 pm said:
“Shut the mosque/s… Don’t release the body…”
My thoughts exactly. Fuck any notions of respecting their kulchrull norms and practices.
“…just let the slimes know its been buried in pig shit.”
Even better; inform them that it is currently being turned INTO pig shit by the state’s herd of feral boars and they won’t even be getting the bastard’s bones back.
Expect the usual buck passing and “nuffin’ to do with us. guv!” responses from those chiefly in charge of this kind of shit.
While all the obfuscating goes on in the Establishment, and the liberal media go into their usual hand-wringing “well its them right wing xenophobes that really pushed that poor man over the edge!”, you have to feel sorry for the fucking victims in all of this!
Not only have the relatives got to deal with the loss, but will have to suffer the media spotlight, rent-a-quotes, social media scrutiny (if they say anything remotely critical of the camel shagger on Twitter they’ll be hung drawn and fucking quartered all over again); and having to put with local politicians grubbing for votes and PR stunts in the run up to the election.
But the bottom line is that no one in power will take the blame because shit always rolls down hill and ending up with the plebs having to deal with it.
All of those that were responsible for this cunt Usman Khan being let out and back amongst us should be held accountable.
They should be punished for dereliction of duty, or embezzlement of public funds, or anything as long as they’re made to suffer.
I want to single out that pathetic piece of shit Sadiq Khan for extra special treatment after trying to blame the Tories for his Muslim friend’s murder spree.
I’d like to see the Pakistani cunt tied to London Bridge railings where any passer-by can inflict whatever damage they feel appropriate on his unwelcome, stinking, carcass.
Miserable northern cunt on December 1, 2019 at 9:40 am said:
Just saw Corbyn interview with sophie Ridge he said “3 people tragically died”…
The fucking terrorist he meant!
Fuckin daft cunt!
People like him? …bullet.
Him and people like him are enablers to terror causes.
I bet the cunt doesn’t even know their names, but he’ll be quick enough to get his Labour candidate over to the homes of the victims’ relatives for a quick photo op!
You can see which way this country is heading if Corbyn and his Britain hating cohorts get in.
I find it incredible given this shambling old fuckers recent balls ups on TV and radio, his fantasy economics and plain downright lies that his stinking party are rising in the opinion polls. Are the British public really that stupid. If you get a Marxist governemt it will be the last proper election – after that they will be mere 5 year formalities voted in by 16 year old wankers who cream themselves at the word *free*
Plus all of the gimmegrants shipped in by the boatload to keep the loonies in power.
Ruff Tuff Creampuff on December 1, 2019 at 9:57 am said:
The IRA, Hamas and Hezbollah will have their feet under the table in No.10 before you can shout “Ali’s Snackbar!”
W. C. Boggs on December 1, 2019 at 10:22 am said:
The terrifying thing is Comrade Corbyn doesn’t actually have to win – provided he gets near the line he will be propped up by Swinson and all the other opposition fuckers.
If the Liberals do badly we have the delight of that bunch of bastards being led by Umunna, one of the most pompous, self-promoting arsewipes in a sea of the bastards.
Jack on December 1, 2019 at 6:17 pm said:
Swinson should be banned from Parliament as sge is not a fit and proer person to carry out the duties of a member of Parliament. Its one thing arguing against leaving the EU before the vote but its quite another doing everything in your power to prevent the implimentation of the result of that vote. This is an affront to democracy and sets a very dangerous precident .
George W Bamboo on December 1, 2019 at 10:23 am said:
Corbyn loves our enemies hates our armed forces Hates the generic white people of this Country Hates everything the Jewish faith stands for.He cannot stand
anyone who is rich but earns £180 grand a year himself a complete hypocrite and champagne socialist a total cunt.
Communist Labour For The Many But Not The Jew
Sick of it on December 1, 2019 at 10:38 am said:
Two people tragically died and a rabid dog was put down!
Monsieur le q'unt on December 1, 2019 at 12:57 pm said:
Corbyn you fucking treacherous cunt. die die …..
Hmmm well thats politics for you .this mudslime then m lord before he murdered two innocent people was he wearing a jeremy corbyn mask?no thought not so there you go bigger cunts in this world.
George W Bamboo on December 1, 2019 at 4:08 pm said:
No they Were murdered in cold blood That’s the fact the snowflakes don’t like murdered 👎👎
Vernon Fox on December 1, 2019 at 9:31 pm said:
Comrade compo has always been a friend of terrorism – secret visits to Soviet controlled Czechoslovakia, turning up to see his IRA friends at terrorist funerals, laying wreaths at the funeral of islamic terrorists etc..
2 Humans died, and one feral savage beast and we have to wait like little bitches for the next peaceful atrocity so inspector Wokeflake can blame everybody but the perpetrators.
Corbyn is a traitor and cunt of the first order
Air Vice-Marshal The Reverend Sir Stanley Poor-Beggar on December 1, 2019 at 10:05 pm said:
I know I’m banned (and too lazy/proud to circumvent the banning) but perhaps admin might allow me this one opportunity to paraphrase that font of all knowledge, ‘Catch 22’…
“The enemy is anyone who will cause you harm, irrespective of the uniform they wear, the flag they claim to serve, and the allegiance they purport to pledge.”
Moister Cuntflaps on December 1, 2019 at 10:19 am said:
Cunts, goes without saying even though I’ve just said it…
Unkle Terry on December 1, 2019 at 10:23 am said:
Nobody is safe as all politicians know their are thousands who sympathise with Islamic terrorism in the UK but won’t do anything about it.
Take the fucking gloves off and deal with the cunts properly.
Fuck them.
General Schizophrenia on December 1, 2019 at 10:36 am said:
Unless there is a proper threat or punishment, this will continue.
I favour the Electric Chair being introduced.
A good idea but I think boiling them in pig fat and having the gays be the ones to cast their remains back to the families.
Thats pretty much the point i tryed to make ! Well said^its not down to politicians all together its the system itself .stop &think a minute where did this happen?at a conference to do with helping ex offenders or something similair/and this shitbag turned up wearing a fake bomb vest and attacked /killed peopke .IT WAS PREMEDITATED MURDER HE HAD PLANNED IT WITH INTENT TO KILL
POLITICS/BULLSHIT ASIDE IF HE HAD BEEN LEFT TO ROT IN JAIL IT WOULD NOT HAVE HAPPENED.THIS WOULDNT HAPPEN IN OTHER COUNTRYS /HE WOULD BE INCARCERATED IR DEAD.
Sounds like a plan!
Miserable northern cunt on December 1, 2019 at 10:29 am said:
Talking of champagne socialists,
Billy Braggs seaside mansion up for sale, £3million!
Obviously he’ll be putting it into a peoples fund, wont you Billy?…
Billy?
Gutstick Japseye on December 1, 2019 at 11:11 am said:
It seems there is plenty of money to be made from being a whinging socialist.
Beemack on December 1, 2019 at 12:09 pm said:
Billy Bragg.
Quite possibly the most tuneless, hopeless layabout to ever step up to a microphone. Shockingly bad “singer”, this jammy cunt actually had a number one single with his eardrum-shattering cover of the Beatles song “She’s Leaving Home”, but that was because it was a double A-side with Wet Wet Wet’s version of “With A Little Help From My Friends”. A charity single from around 1988 or thereabouts. Bragg also wrote Kirsty Macalls hit “A New England”.
Apart from that, I’m at a loss to name any other song by Bragg, or indeed anything else he’s ever done. And yet he’s a millionaire.
What a cunt.
I presume he will be using the money to set fire to the KLF!
Steptoe has spoken:
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/10460070/jeremy-corbyn-london-bridge-attack-prison-sentences/
Incredible old wankstain. He will never learn – you can’t teach an old dog new tricks
HBelindaHubbard on December 1, 2019 at 3:03 pm said:
Steptoe has spoken…
Sounds like one of those appalling hymns with bad rhymes and inept scansion that Victor Lewis-Smith wrote of when reviewing Songs of Praise. (“Inside the Magic Rectangle”)
“Steptoe has spoken…first cuckoo of spring”. more like.
Paul Maskinback on December 1, 2019 at 10:46 am said:
Bury all dead mudslime terrorists covered in a blanket of smoked streaky. That’ll at least stop the rampage, although they might then resort to planting bombs and car bombs etc. like the IRA, to crush ‘the infidel’.
But no, that would be an affront to modern snowflake sensibilities. We are fighting a battle with both arms tied behind our backs (by snowflakes).
Does anyone else think Suckdick looks like a Bobble Head (apologies for using Americanism), every time I see the cunt on TV that’s all I see.
When something in the region of 900 people left the the UK to join ISIS and there are over 20000 cunts who are of interest to the security services it doesn’t take much thought to see where the problem lies.
The problem with our political class is that they seem to think they can apply the logic and values of western society to rehabilitate these extremists which is total crap.
Islam can be compared to the great enemy of the federation on Star Trek, The Borg, the collective will assimilate or destroy.
But we are all missing the obvious, the real blame for the London Bridge attack, Tommy Robinson, not his real name!
Liberal Liquidator on December 1, 2019 at 11:46 am said:
Its like when the bell end in charge of terrorism operations said there was a rise in far-right terror plots but failed to mention the vast majority, save one or two IRA inspired ones , were paradise seeking towelheads.
Sadiq Khan? No, he Khan’t.
Sadiq Khan would blame the government wouldn’t he a proper little wanker
He’s the Mayor of Londistan the buck stops with him stop spending money on PR and spend it on knife crime Don’t use these murders for Labour Party Political Advantage you scumbag.
Not so long back, we had those touchy-feely adverts for the Army. You know, the ones where the squaddie has a little cry because some cunt had sent him a teabag. I think they were aimed at soppy millennials, who get anxious if their phone battery goes below forty percent. However, it was the one where there was a peaceful squaddie, getting his prey on, and his mates were giving it the ‘ah bless’ treatment. At the time this was being aired, more peacefuls had left Britain to join Isis than were serving in the British army.
What the fuck is so wrong about asking people to fit in? There are a few places I’d like to emigrate to, but I would want to fit in, as that is part of the attraction. It’s the way of life as much as the place itself that should draw you to a particular place, it’s values and customs. The cunt who got shot on London Bridge was recorded for a documentary years ago, saying he wasn’t a terrorist. He should have added the word ‘yet’. He also said that he was English, born and bred. I would say maybe born, but definitely not bred. His appearance, and his whole outlook on life belonged to someone from a faraway land.
Pedantic Cunt on December 1, 2019 at 11:40 am said:
Facts :
1. The parole board was not responsible
2. You missed out the Labour Party. In 2008 they passed a bill setting all prisoners free after serving half their sentence. In 2012 the Tories changed that. However, the lsw cannot be changed retrospectively and this cunt was sentenced before the law was changed. So blame Labour.
3. Corbyn wants to abolish MI5 so expect more shit like this if he wins
4. Corbyn said this weekend that terrorists are radicalised because of our interference in overseas wars, so basically its all our own fault.
Its our goverments fault for lletting them in
Also everytime theres a war in some mudslime country does the uk always stick its nose in??? Yes it does so if we left them to kill each other they wouldnt come to settle in uk.but because we fight their war(not our business blame goverment)they say its our fault win/lose either way they end up being sent over here with the mass immigration we have already so at least partially true.
Excellent pedantery – I had a feeling it would be all our fault!
Rev R. Sleeker on December 1, 2019 at 12:32 pm said:
Strip the terrorists families of their assets, sell off any property they own, rip up their UK passports, stop the benefits they bleed, and put them on the next plane to wherethefuckisthatastan. Proceeds from that to be given to the victim’s families. Watch how quick terrorism would stop!
Captain Magnanimous on December 1, 2019 at 2:59 pm said:
Move the fuckers up yo Scotland then give the English a say in their independence. Better still, an island off the Hebrides.
Gruinard would be better.
By the time they’ve shagged a few sheep, they’ll find that anthrax still lies there…
The Stained Gusset on December 1, 2019 at 12:42 pm said:
Corbyn & McDonnell
Following the latest atrocity on London Bridge, I want to nominate these two terrorist sympathisers & apologists for a cunting.
It’s no secret that these two shit-heels despise their own country & people so much that they’re prepared to align themselves with the bastards that want to kill us & our families in our beds.
Yet even in their slimy grab for power, as they talk up their ‘For the Many, not the Few’ shite, they still can’t bring themselves to vehemently castigate the ‘peaceful scum’ that walk among us. Dirty Grandpa doesn’t even think that all terrorists should necessarily serve a full sentence; no Jezza, it’s better to have them out on the streets, being all rehabilitated & that, just like Usman was, eh? You cunt.
Given his previous statements about the former Irish terrorists, Marxist McDonnell will probably be nominating Usman ‘I ain’t no terrorist’ Khan for a posthumous bravery award. What do you reckon John? Honour another ‘freedom fighter’ should we?
God help the UK if this pair of terrorist sympathising cunts get control.
Bertie Blunt Rentagont on December 1, 2019 at 12:54 pm said:
What’s happened to good old British revenge?
Too often, the response now to these attack is typically ‘don’t look back in anger’, turn the other cheek, show them we’re not like them etc.
WTF. It’s normal and healthy to show anger.
To repress it, is to slowly desensitise us all to the next attack. Thank god for the man who did show anger and had to be pulled off the cunt before the police could shoot him.
Without that mans anger-and courage, there may well have been other deaths.
Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrh!
The Stained Gusset on December 1, 2019 at 1:30 pm said:
Agreed! Love the footage of the tusk & fire extinguisher being used, looked like he got twatted with the extinguisher once he went down too – fairly sure good ol’ Usman wasn’t expecting to be surrounded & fucked up like he was. Hope it fucking hurt before he was shot too.
I notice even Dirty Grandpa hasn’t got the balls to say what he no doubt thinks, that the Rozzers should have tried to arrest him, the way he did about that other camel shagger that topped himself before the Yanks could shoot him. Fucking Corbyn, The Terrorists Friend.
I agree it ll soon become exactly like THE MORLOCKS AND THE ELOI.A SHAME THERE WASNT MORE PEOPLE USING THIS CUNTS HEAD AS A FOOTBALL TWO MORE PEOPLE WORTH INFINETLY MORE TO SOCIETY WOULD BE ALIVE TODAY .
Rebel without a Cunt! on December 1, 2019 at 1:11 pm said:
Today on the Raspberry Marr Show the Prime Minister was categorically blamed for what Happened in London last week. It was all his fault and the nasty Tory Party to blame.
Now because of optics, the PM responded in light tones, however let me respond in his stead…
The reason that last week happened was because Usman Khan (a surname all too familiar to Londoners) should not have been there in the first place.
Nor should his cunt family.
Productive members of the commonwealth came over from the West Indies and India. The non productive ones come from Pakistan (and muzzie Africunt nations). They are leeches on society full stop, and but for cash in hand trades like taxi driving (handy for other nefarious activities) or rip-off corner shops, not one of the cunts would work!
Suckdick Khunt’s first words were: “Diversity is our strength…” ahead of passing on his sympathies to the victims and their families.
Is it Saddiq, is it really?
Any word that has “divide” as it’s root is not a source of strength but one of weakness, and a nation cucked into believing those from without are “just like us” is naive at best and complicit at worst.
We have been cucked into falling over backwards to appease minorities in this country, especially those of a “peaceful” persuasion, for the last 40yrs and that’s worked out well hasn’t it!
So answer me this Saddiq – YOU CUNT: the native British people are expected to be tolerant, kind and indiscriminant towards minorities. That is a noble thing. However, when we become a majority Muslim country – between 2050 and 2060 – will the minority indigenous peoples of Britain be afforded that same luxury?
I very much doubt it but hey, who gives a fuck right! Your family will be alright Jack, won’t they!
Instead of a “hug a peaceful” standpoint after every fucking atrocity they commit, we need to get a bit more “Marcellus” on the cunts with a couple of “pipe hitters” in tow – metaphorically speaking.
I RESERVE THE RIGHT NOT TO BE MURDERED IN MY COUNTRY BY SOME FOREIGN OR ISLAMIST CUNT!
We should legally be allowed guns like in america .shoot on sight end of.
Lord Cuntingdon on December 1, 2019 at 1:56 pm said:
The only way the British population will stay safe from these cunts is either to put all Muslims in camps, or make ghettoes of the places they live in. They’ll love it as they don’t want to integrate anyway, and we can keep a check on their movements.
Nitrogen would be very effective, and it’s not harmful to the environment, so should keep the Thunderpants brigade happy.
Ian Appropriate on December 1, 2019 at 9:29 pm said:
Just ban the lot of them. Deport, prosecute or whatever is necessary.
Compulsory purchase orders on all Mosques etc etc.
Why are we so fucking liberal in this Country?
Haven’t posted on here for a while. Feels good to be back.
Bob Stokely on December 1, 2019 at 4:16 pm said:
Any fucking goat fucker that has had anything to do with terrorism no matter how small should be hanged. I’m sick to the back fucking teeth of these attacks killing innocent British people and nothing being fucking done. Islam has no place in the West and never has done. I despise islam with all my heart
Took the lads round the “Trucks Tanks & Firepower” show a few years back and copped a couple of these bad lads, gotta tell it straight. Mine have the script in dayglo orange though.
https://www.forcewear.co.uk/products/infidel
Mystic Maven on December 1, 2019 at 6:04 pm said:
A nomination please for Guardianista Shaniqua O’Toole for the following tweet :
“If the police had known how to disarm a simple suicide vest, Usman Khan would still be alive. Instead, they killed him.”
I demand to know why the @metpoliceuk didn’t know it was a fake suicide vest, only in tomorrow’s Guardian.”
She ‘demands to know’ — her cuntitude is unarguable. Just a look at her stupid vacuous ugly mug reinforces it.
Reminds me also of the cunt on Radio 4 Any Answers programme yesterday who wanted to know whether the British police now had a shoot to kill policy. Well yes you cunt, it’s reserved for cunts who wear suicide vests, real or fake, who go around stabbing people. Cunt.
Dioclese on December 1, 2019 at 7:17 pm said:
Not all terrorists are muslims. I remember nearly being killef at Westminster Bridge tube station by the IRA. Now we have Corbyn as a friend of the IRA. Hammas and Hebollah running for PM. Can’t believe we’d be stupid enough to elect him but you never know. God help us!
i reserve the right to prevent anyone being murdered in this country. I don’t care what colour they are, what their religion is or where they come from. I also support the return of capital punishment.
As regards rounding up all muslims and putting them in ghettos, that turned out well for Hitler when he did it to the jews didn’t it? I understand the anger, but that’s just a daft idea…
Bertie Blunt Rentagont on December 1, 2019 at 7:32 pm said:
“Not all terrorists are muslims.” Agreed. However, many Muslims tacitly support these terrorists.“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”― Edmund Burke
Ruff Tuff Creampuff on December 1, 2019 at 11:03 pm said:
The thing that didn’t work out well for Hitler was invading Poland and the Soviet Union.
lord benny on December 1, 2019 at 7:22 pm said:
I think this may go down in history as the worst case nomination.
I think usman Khan is a total cunt an am rather glad he is dead for many reasons, I will also go against the grain by praising felons.
So lets start with Accreditation, Due to a few diplomatic issues I was removed from active service for a foreign nation and moved across to a non combatant role in the interior (Basically there was a massive war going on, the EU asked that foreign combatants be cleared from the field so I was found other work in the lull, I worked for the Ministry of Justice).
So lets get back to the subject, Usman turns up to a meeting hosted by some very nice and well meaning people, Who have no idea about the realities of life.
Unfortunately for him they have also invited a number of people who never lived the luxury of the VPU (vulnerable persons unit) .
These people are very inventive in their quest to stay alive and not be sodomized in the showers (we are on the topic of prisoners not Cambridge students) so on the basic soap in a sock to a nasty slicer made from a tin lid these guys and girls are top of there game!
So why the fuck did he choose to kick off there?
As I type the victims were students, who probably thought that “Lilly Allen” reasoning would talk him out of it, and the aggressors who drove him out of the building and on to the bridge were ex cons.
I note that one was armed with the tusk of a Narwhal (soon to be issued to all CT units).
I have a mental image in my head of an ex con ripping it from the wall and objections from scholars and students who’s ancestor had provided the specimen.
Then the final scene’s on the bridge which quite frankly showed signs of conflict with human nature, The cons really did want to give him a kicking but held back fearing retribution and a possible return to prison.
I really hope that does not happen, but the parole board take this in to consideration and maybe, well the police relax their application criteria (well done chaps)
sorry did I mention that Usman Khan is a cunt (a dead one )
Bosshog on December 1, 2019 at 7:23 pm said:
First and foremost, Bravo to the marksman for the kill, I would have preferred a gutt wound for a bit of pain but the bonus is that the wanker is now good and dead.! Now Death doesn’t seem to bother these brain dead pricks so a different deterrent seems to be in order, the suggestion I would like to put forth is thus: once the terrorist has been sorted they are To be taken and fed to a hungry pack of pigs, resulting in their final journey instead of drifting off to Mecca would be through a pigs digestive system to be turned into a load of Pig shit, now even the hungriest of animals might turn its nose up at such a repulsive meal so as a back up said terrorist would be buried along side a dead pig and be made to spoon the animal in a final act of love to a superior being.! What do you think.?
General Schizophrenia on December 1, 2019 at 8:00 pm said:
Bit tame. Mix the corpse’s bit up with pork and make it into a sausage to be transported to hungry Africans. In a way it’d be like returning home.
When theyve eaten it and shat it out then it s returned home
Yorkshire bastard on December 1, 2019 at 10:29 pm said:
It’s time anybody found guilty of terrorism in this country is executed full stop .Why the fuck are we locking these cunts up at a cost of millions when they would be a queue a mile long snuff these cunts out.
WokeUpTodayAndRealisedWhatACuntIAm on December 2, 2019 at 12:13 am said:
Went with some friends to stay overnight in the smoke on Saturday (so I guess we qualified as being ‘uncowed’ and ‘keeping calm and carrying on’. No – we had this planned for months and paid a lot of fucking money, Suckdick Khunt.
Stayed near Tower Bridge, and standing on that fucking resplendent bastion of historic British pride in building a civilization, walking it, sailing back towards it from Greenwich like a conquering armada ship was uniquely moving and stirringly patriotic.
Until I then looked out over towards London Bridge to see the eerie sight of the buses and lorries frozen in time since Friday, the bridge cordoned off for (presumably) crime scene work. What they’re looking for since the cunt’s dead and in his deserved place on a red-hot poker up his chuff for all eternity, I don’t know, but there we are I’m sure Strapon knows what she’s doing.
The two contrasting sights are, dispiritingly, a reminder of where we’ve come from, and confirmation of where we’re going to.
(PS – spell strapon backwards… it never occurred to me before 😀 :D)
This might be a bit controversial, but I would like to nominate David Merritt, the father of Jack Merritt who was murdered by that savage at London Bridge.
Why do I nominate him? Because he has condemned the prime minister and Priti Patel, for using the attack as justification for a series of tougher criminal policies.
He suggested the Tories were using his son’s death to promote “vile propaganda” and shared a tweet accusing Mr Johnson of trying to “make political gain from people’s death in a terror incident”.
He then shared a tweet by the hard left, corbyn loving ‘journalist’ and ‘academic’ Ash Sarkar which said: “It’s beyond disgusting that Boris Johnson, Priti Patel and newspapers like the Daily Mail are using Jack Merritt’s death and image to promote an agenda he fought against all his life. He was a passionate believer in rehabilitation and transformative justice, not draconian sentencing.”
He then retweeted a second post by Sarkar which said: “Jack Merritt’s family and loved ones have asked that rightwing newspapers and political parties not use his murder to advance reactionary demands. If you see it happening, call it out. They deserve so much better.”
Then he posted two front-page articles about the Conservatives’ crackdown on released terror offenders, writing: “Don’t use my son’s death, and his and his colleague’s photos – to promote your vile propaganda. Jack stood against everything you stand for – hatred, division, ignorance.”
Well, good for Jack, but it didn’t seem to work with that barbaric savage, did it.
I don’t know whether his father is just too overcome with grief and is not fully aware of what he is saying. But if he is really serious about this, then he can explain his point of view to the parents of the next victim of a barbaric muslim fanatic.
Fungi Cunt on December 2, 2019 at 7:14 pm said:
First time on here so sorry if I come across as a total cunt.Couldn’t agree more,you couldn’t make this shit up,fella loses his son at the hands of a fucking savage and then when the government says its going to try to stop these cunts being released to fucking murder innocent people he spouts up that doing that would be fucking wrong,what the fuck is up with these people!! Fucking insanity,so after innocent people are murdered on the street this tool and his ilk think a bit of a chat and some poetry writing will stop the cunts killing anyone else…these fuckwits all need locking up…in Broadmoor.
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[Newsmaker] Court denies arrest warrant for ex-Big Bang member Seungri
A Seoul court on Monday again denied an arrest warrant for Seungri, the disgraced former Big Bang member accused of overseas gambling and procuring prostitutes for investors.
The Seoul Central District Court dismissed the prosecution's request to detain Seungri, who was at the center of a major sex and drug scandal that roiled the K-pop industry last year.
Seungri (Yonhap)
It is the second time the court has turned down law enforcement authorities' bid to detain the 29-year-old. A similar attempt by police in May fell through, with the court citing "room for dispute" and little concern that Seungri could destroy evidence.
Upon arrival at the court hearing Monday morning, Seungri briefly bowed his head to reporters asking him questions but did not comment.
Seungri is suspected of regularly gambling at hotel casinos in Las Vegas for over three years beginning in December 2013 with Yang Hyun-suk, the founder and former chief of YG Entertainment. The two allegedly breached the foreign exchange transaction act in the process.
The prosecution also suspects Seungri to have arranged sex services for Japanese investors between September 2015 and January
2016 together with his business partner Yoo In-suk, former chief of Yuri Holdings Co. Also among the seven counts prosecutors brought against Seungri are his alleged distribution of naked photos of women in a Kakao Talk chat room.
Seungri is one of the entertainers who allegedly shared sex videos of about 10 women secretly filmed by now-jailed singer Jung Joon-young in a mobile chat room.
The scandal-ridden K-pop star, whose legal name is Lee Seung-hyun, ceased all entertainment activities in March last year after Burning Sun, a nightclub he was affiliated with, was probed over drugs and sexual abuse.
The nightclub drew an outpouring of suspicions as a hotbed of collusion with police officials, drug trafficking, tax evasion and other illegalities, prompting President Moon Jae-in to order a thorough investigation into the case. (Yonhap)
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Nobleton’s novice Knights strike gold again
With the NobleKing Novice LL1 Team still in celebration mode from their win at the Hockey Moms of Delhi Tournament, they were at it again at the Wasaga Beach Novice LL Tournament on Jan. 27. It was just one week prior that the Knights were raising their arms celebrating their first tournament win of the season. Just a short 6 days later, they headed up to the town of Wasaga to compete in another battle.
Exhausted from the hard-fought victory, the boys had to get all their energy back for this challenge. One short practice of preparation between games and it was on the ice for game one of the tournament. The Knights round robin draws were against the towns of Essa and Muskoka, who were tagged as the number 2 favourites, behind the hometown Wasaga Stars.
It was another early riser for the Knights and both teams were off to a sluggish start. Lots of early whistles kept the pace down and didn't allow either team to gain momentum. The excitement began at the 8:34 mark of the first period when Daniel Pathan buried a rebound on a shot to give the Knights an early lead. It was from that moment that the momentum started to build. Not even a minute later, Marco Tucciarone got sent in alone with a pass from CJ Rotiroti and made it 2-0. Both teams exchanged goals in the 2nd period with Xavier Manzerra finding the scoresheet once again. With the score sitting at 3-1 for the visitors, Essa scores to make it a 1-goal game and setting up for an exciting finish. With time winding down, the Knights had iced the game with their 4th goal and go on to win their opening round game.
The buzz was in the air. Could this novice team from King do it again? The boys seemed to think so. They came out of the gates roaring for game 2 and exploded with 3 goals in the 1st period. Nicolas Mbermberakis, Joseph Cerqua and Luigi Gerardi gave the Knights the big early lead. Muskoka however, did not go quietly into the night. They had scored 4 unanswered times in the 2nd to tie the game at 4. With time winding down in the period, Muskoka had scored another, ending the 2nd period up 5-4. The boys of NobleKing were behind for the first time with their heads hanging heavy, they were staring at the ground with glossy sadness in their eyes. They needed some inspiration. And that's what they got. Head Coach Chris Gerardi, Assistant Coach Orin Del Vecchio, and trainers, Carlo Manzerra and Danny Tomada started to feed the positive vibes back into the boys and reminded them that there was still a 3rd period to play and to fight, fight, fight, if they did not want it to be the last period of the tournament. They drew up the game plan, made their necessary changes and told them to bring it home.
Once again, with a short bench as Taran Steed and Stefan Niro were unable to make the trip, the boys needed to find some secondary scoring if they were going to pull this one out. Boy did they find it. With one of his is best games of the year, Michael Racco, narrowly missing 2 earlier opportunities, made this one count. He tied the game at 5 mid-way through the 3rd. The boys were now energized once again, with the crowd fully behind them. Julian Tomada found his winger in the slot, with the goalie out to challenge, and Xavier unbelievably flicked the puck over the goalie and into the top corner. “The Knights have the lead, the Knights have the lead” screamed the announcer. With the cheering still pounding, the Knights score another two to win 7-5.
Now it was on to face the hometown boys, the Wasaga Stars, in the final. They're known to have a high scoring offence and strong goaltending. Well, the Knights proved to be quite the challenge for the Stars. With the defence getting all the ice time they could handle, they came to shut down these scoring Stars. Joshua Del Vecchio, Luca Mignardi, Patrick Filippo and Christian Volpe must have had a game plan which obviously included their star goaltender Luke Di Fonzo. Together they shut this Wasaga team down, earning Luke a shutout. The offence must not go unnoticed, scoring a whopping 7 goals. With one of the Knights' players unable to attend his last tournament, he wanted to make sure he contributed to this tournament, and that he did, in a big way! Roman Tarantino scored 3 of those 7 goals, earning himself player of the game.
This NobleKing Knights team is starting to make it look a little too easy, after capturing gold in back to back tournaments.
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Jackie Chan Stuntmaster (PS1) Review
December 29, 2016 March 14, 2017 Ben McCurry Retro
By 2000, everyone had their own game, so why not you too, Jackie Chan? Jackie Chan Stuntmaster reviewed.
By 2000, the gaming world was abuzz for the PS2, meaning that the console’s daddy, the PS1, was getting forgotten about all too quickly. This was a rather sad turn of events, as the PlayStation had entirely changed the game of games in its run: instead of its predecessors like the SNES and Genesis which seemed tailored to a youth market, the PlayStation facilitated more mature audiences, and presented titles in (primordial) 3D – the PS1 leapt forward immeasurably, and yet it just seemed to be cast aside in its last days. This is not to say it’s not appreciated; the likes of Crash Bandicoot, Spyro The Dragon, and Final Fantasy are beloved and part of gaming’s canon – yet once the PS2 came, the PS1’s titles, even though still coming thick and fast, just were ignored. Jackie Chan’s Stuntmaster from Radical is one of those titles, and for the purposes of review, one must ask: did it get forgotten by circumstance or on purpose?
The premise of the title is so cartoonish, you’d think it came directly from Mr Chan’s movies and not a 2000 PS1 title. Playing as Jackie in a 3D beat-‘em-up setting, you must fight your way through 15 levels spread across 5 different environments, with each “zone” capped off by a ridiculous and hilarious boss encounter, as you smash your way through what feels like a million mooks, using Jackie’s sweet movies (and weapons such as a frying pan) to eliminate the horde of eviltons that come your way. Admittedly, there is a certainly campy, cornball aspect to the whole thing in its presentation that is nothing but endearing: frying pans aside, the game is filled with endearing Chan quips that play when he picks up items and defeats enemies, as well as in the bosses: forget anything serious that you might see today, one of your main enemies is a fat chef. With their tongue planted firmly in their cheek, it’s as if Radical were paying tribute to Chan and the sillier side of his work, and it’s certainly a solid foundation for an entertaining game, one they put true care into: they had Chan do impressive mo-cap work in order to really bring the “Stuntmaster”’s moves to life, even if the title is a bit of a misnomer; it’s purely mad beat-‘em-up action, nothing to do with recreating movie stunts.
Control is tight but not overly complicated which compliments the game engine, which is fun, efficient, but somewhat shallow. Square once will let you punch, triangle lets you kick. Hit it three times and you’ll perform a combo. Hit any combination of the two buttons and it’ll yield a different combo. Jump and block a few times in there and it is truly party time. Stuntmaster doesn’t reinvent punching a dude in the face, but for what it is, it still provides enough of a thrill and sense of fun to be enjoyed, even if, considered as a piece of gaming progress, it’s more a step to the left than one forward.
Even for the time, in the terrible beauty of jagged polygons that the year 2000 still gave us, Jackie Chan Stuntmaster still looks quite decent. Here, Jackie takes on a cute cartoonified look and this extends to the game a large which opts for a goofy look rather than sharp hyper-realism, which only serves to augment the fun, turn-your-brain-off nature of the game that the controls and light-hearted approach to storytelling provide: instead of being a serious and heartrending tale, it’s firmly tongue-in-cheek, and that’s so much more attractive, as it’s a lot harder to get sincere drama right. The game takes place at night, which means the title isn’t as bright as it could be, but the game achieves impressive lighting effects to make the scenery moody rather than drab – it perfectly evokes the feeling that Jackie’s walked into a hornet’s nest and we need to be ready for a fight. A fight with frying pans, but a fight nonetheless. This isn’t to say that the game is dark and miserable, however: colour does appear and works well in conjunction with the mood lighting, but is slightly muted. It all works, even if it makes for a slightly unusual package – the setting is dangerous, but it’s undercut by Jackie’s happy-go-lucky nature, yet it feels perfectly natural since this is how movie Jackie might actually react. As such, the graphical design helps to tribute the Kung-Fu movie legend and makes the experience more edifying. Sound design is fine too, but aside from a few very pleasing sound effects and Jackie’s silly quips (“lucky day, lucky day!”), it’s fairly standard and not worth mentioning.
Yet despite being a consummately enjoyable title in its own right, Stuntmaster is a crushingly short game, and the supposed plus-side is that it never outstays its welcome, but you will definitely feel a sense of desiring more. As previously mentioned, there’s only 15 levels, but Stuntmaster is a one-and-done affair, the levels don’t offer up any more secrets on a second run. Sure, there’s a handful of “golden dragon” collectables to find as well as “red dragons” that offer certain bonuses, but you won’t really care about either; the real pursuit in this game is to see the narrative through to the end: five evil henchmen have kidnapped Jackie’s grandfather, you must get the wrinkled human McGuffin back. As such, this game has a real longevity problem, but the hours it does provide are enjoyable nonetheless.
What might stretch out the game a bit more is the difficulty, although one might get the sense of it being needlessly hard at times, due to the cheap nature of some of the game’s rooms: for instance, the game might throw tree or four mooks simultaneously for you to deal with while also having to negotiate falling traps, platforming, or, the most beloved of all old gaming tropes, the conveyor belt. In these harder moments, Stuntmaster becomes a juggling act that more often than not results in all your balls falling to the ground and your controller going smack dab through the middle of your television. There’s no problem with difficulty in gaming; most players adore a challenge, but this kind of difficulty relies on luck over skill, making it a sort of artificial hardness that diminishes the fun and the cute aesthetic that the game profits in.
Jackie Chan’s Stuntmaster is not a perfect game, nor is it a true hidden gem of the fifth-gen era. It’s more like an uncut diamond, as there’s a lot of fun to be had, and the design, both in sound and visuals, are memorable and engaging. It’s not a game that you absolutely must play, but if you gave it a chance, you’ll have a few happy hours. When it comes to games, who can really ask for more?
Verdict: Not the perfect game, but a solid one in which it’s clear Radical tried very, very hard. Worth your time if you found a copy, certainly.
Score: 6.5/10
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Posted on November 3, 2013 by bn7hu
A postage stamp was issued in 1974 to mark the 150th anniversary of the RNLI. This depiction of the rescue of the crew of the Daunt Lightship by the Ballycotton lifeboat RNLB Mary Stanford was chosen as the image to be represented on that postage stamp – Oil painting by B. F. Gribble
Name: Mary Stanford
Owner: Royal National Lifeboat Institution
Builder: Saunders Roe Ltd,
Cost: £9,402-15s-11d
Christened: 7 July 1931
Completed: 22 July 1930
Maiden voyage: 17 September 1931
In service: 1930
Out of service: 1959
Identification: ON733
Fate: On display on a hillside overlooking Ballycotton harbour
Notes: Only Lifeboat to be awarded a gold medal
Donor: John Frederick Stanford, London.
Station Ballycotton
Class and type: Barnett
Installed power: 2 x six-cylinder 60hp Weybury C.6 petrol engines running at 1,200 rpm
Sail plan: auxiliary sail
Speed: 8.88 knots
Crew: 12
Notes: saved over 100 lives
RNLB Mary Stanford (ON733)
RNLB Mary Stanford was the Ballycotton Lifeboat from 1930 to 1959. Many lives were rescued and awards accumulated. She performed what many regard as the most famous rescue: the Daunt Lightship rescue on 7 February 1936. She is the only lifeboat to be awarded for gallantry (boat as distinct from the crew).
Two RNLI lifeboats carried the name RNLB Mary Stanford. The first, RNLB Mary Stanford (ON 661) was the most tragic. She capsized in Rye Harbour on 15 November 1928, taking the entire 17 man crew, practically the whole male fishing population of the small town of Rye, to their deaths. This lifeboat had been funded by a London businessman, in memory of his late wife. After this tragedy, their son, John Frederick Stanford offered to fund another lifeboat. This RNLB Mary Stanford (ON 733) became the most renowned.
Lifeboat RNLB Mary Stanford after 1936 Rescue (credit RNLI)
The RNLI established a lifeboat station in Ballycotton in 1858. (1) There is a long history of life saving at Ballycotton. The first to be acknowledged by the Royal National Institution for the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck was when they awarded a silver medal in 1826. (2) On 21 December 1825, the vessel Britannia was wrecked in Ballycotton Bay. Her Master, the only survivor, lashed himself to a rock. There he remained for seven hours. In spite of the danger, a local man, Dennis Crowen rowed out and rescued him and then sheltered him in his cottage for four days.
There were many early rescues by coastguards (3). For example, on 13 December 1850, in a violent storm, the Mountaineer was being driven onto rocks at Dunmanus Point. The coastguards rowed out to assist, and got on board. Then their boat was smashed on the rocks. Fortunately the Mountaineer was carrying a cargo of timber and although damaged, remained afloat. Using their local knowledge, the coastguards were able to steer the Mountaineer to mud flats and beach her. The rescue of the 28 crew of the Mountaineer resulted in the award of one gold and five silver Lifesaving Medals to Lieutenant Goss and the men of Dunmanus Coastguard Station. (4)
The current lifeboat Austin Lidbury and the new lifeboat station. (Nicholas Leech)
The need for a purpose-built lifeboat was evident. The boat was delivered in time for the visit of Prince of Wales Albert Edward in 1858. The lifeboats prior to the Mary Stanford were all powered by oars and sail. As ships became larger the need for a motorized craft was realised. On 12 December 1928, the RMS Celtic was wrecked at Roche’s Point, Cobh. She was the largest ship in her day, one of the “Big Four”, the first to exceed 20,000 tons, dwarfing the Ballycotton Lifeboat, which came to the rescue. The Mary Stanford was named on 7 July 1930 by the First Lady, wife of President Cosgrave. The cost, £11,000, was donated by Mr. J.F. Stanford, of London. (5) There was a previous lifeboat, named “Mary Stanford“. Two years earlier, it had capsized with the loss of all 17 crew in Rye Harbour, England. (6) The new Mary Stanford would be more fortunate. She would save many lives, including the famous rescue of the Daunt Lightship. Not only would her entire crew receive gallantry awards, she would be the only boat, in lifeboat history, for a boat to be awarded. (7)
Daunt Lightship Puffin
the Puffin raised at Ringaskiddy 1896
Daunt rock has always been a hazard to shipping. The first lightship was stationed there by the Irish Lights Board in 1864 following the wreck of the City of New York on the rock. Lightvessel Puffin took up this duty. There was a severe gale on 8 October 1896 and the Puffin vanished. (8) The wreck was not found until 5 November 1896, a month later. (9) The remains of the crew were never located. In folklore they remain at their post, as a “Ghost ship”, appearing to warn of impending danger. (10)
Daunt Rescue
On 7 February 1936 a south-eastern gale, with rain and snow, developed into a hurricane. Mountainous waves were crashing over the pier and breakwater transforming the harbour into a seething cauldron, the spray was flying over the lantern of the 196ft high lighthouse (11); “stones, some a ton in weight, were being torn from the quay and flung about like sugar lumps” (12). At 8am next morning an SOS was received: the LV Comet, on station at Daunt rock, had broken from her moorings and was drifting dangerously. Without waiting for orders, in horrendous conditions, Coxswain Patrick (“Patsy”) Sliney took Mary Stanford to sea. Comet was not at Daunt rock, she was riding at anchor a quarter mile away. Other ships arrived, but dare not approach the Comet in such conditions. Lightships, are not ‘lightweight’, they are heavy: built for endurance. Comet was being tossed around by the waves, were it to hit another ship, that ship would suffer serious damage.
Oil painting by Bernard Gribble
Postage stamp issued to mark 150 years of RNLI
Mary Stanford made several attempts to get a steel cable aboard the Comet. Every time they did, a terrible wave crashed the ships further apart and the cable snapped. When darkness fell, Mary Stanford headed for Cobh to get stronger cables. The Innisfallen and a Royal Navy Destroyer tender stood by. The Lifeboat crew had been, all day, without food. They ate, slept for three hours and received a change of clothing. Early next morning (Wednesday) Mary Stanford returned to Daunt rock. The sea was just as stormy. It was now enveloped by a thick fog. It was impossible to effect a rescue. The lifeboat remained in the storm all day and all night. The Commissioners of Irish Lights vessel ILV Isolda had arrived and stood by while Mary Stanford went to Cobh at 7am to refuel, and promptly returned.
That evening, the storm increased. Comet drifted closer to Daunt rock. When she was 60 yards from the rock, as darkness approached, the Coxswain decided the only option was to try and get alongside and for the crew to jump for the lifeboat. He knew the dangers. On the first attempt, one man got on board, on the second attempt no one jumped; a third time, and five men were safe. The lifeboat went in a fourth and fifth time, and again no one was able to make it. Two men were still on board, clinging to the rails, too exhausted to jump. On the sixth attempt, as the Mary Stanford came alongside, the two were seized by the lifeboat crew and dragged aboard. (This moment was depicted on the postage stamp) (13)
They then went to Cobh and disembarked the rescued at 11pm and then returned to Ballycotton. Mary Stanford had been away for 79 hours. (14) The crew had only three hours sleep during the 63 hour rescue (from leaving Ballycotton to disembarking Comet’s crew at Cobh), they were all suffering from colds, saltwater burns and hunger.
A Gold Medal was awarded to Coxswain Patrick Sliney, Silver Medals to Second Coxswain John Lane Walsh and Motor Mechanic Thomas Sliney, and Bronze Medals to Crew Members Michael Coffey Walsh, John Shea Sliney, William Sliney and Thomas Walsh. Even the boat Mary Stanford received an award – the only time this has happened in lifeboat history. This rescue became legend. It was depicted by marine artists (15). It featured in popular books (16). When a postage stamp was issued to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the RNLI, this rescue was chosen. The design of the stamp was based on the painting by Bernard Gribble, (17) which depicts the last two lightshipmen being pulled on to the lifeboat.
Other Rescues
Mary Stanford languishing in Hannover Dock, Grand Canal Docks
Mary Stanford had many other rescues to her credit. The years of the Emergency (as World War II was known) were difficult. There was a serious risk from drifting mines. On 27 January 1941 a mine exploded on the Baltimore shore, demolishing the curate’s house and smashing the windows in the church.
Rescues which merited medals were:
On 30 January 1941, there was a strong wind, thick fog and drifting mines. The eight man crew of the SS Primrose of Liverpool were rescued just as she was sinking. Bronze medal awarded
On 23 December 1943, the Irish Ash was in difficulties. This rescue took 30 hours. They managed to bring the ship to safety in Cobh. One silver and two bronze medals were awarded.
Some rescues involved the Cliff Rescue Team. On 1 February 1947, the Irish Plane was driven onto rocks below cliffs, west of Ballyshane. The Mary Stanford was called out. Attempts to pull the Irish Plane off the rocks failed as she had been holed and started to breakup. As the lifeboat couldn’t get close enough, because of the rocks, the crew of the Irish Plane were rescued by the Cliff Rescue Team.
Leach, Nicholas (1 May 2005). The Lifeboat Service in Ireland. The History Press. ISBN 0752435094.
Leach, Nicholas; O’Driscoll, Brendan (June 2009). Ballycotton Lifeboats – 150 Years of gallantry. Landmark Publishing. ISBN 978 184306 472 5.
Lifeboat RNLB Mary Stanford “back home”. Picture credit to the The Mary Stanford Project
Mary Stanford retired on 16 September 1959 and she was replaced by Ethel Mary. Lifesaving continues at Balycotton, there have been many callouts, including the 1979 Fastnet race. Two Gold, seven Silver, and eight Bronze medals have been awarded to Ballycotton lifeboatmen.
Since March 1998, Ballycotton has been served by Trent Class lifeboat Austin Lidbury.
The Daunt Lightship Comet survived. After she was sold, she became Radio Scotland, a pirate radio station.
Coxswain Patsy Sliney retired in 1950, he had taken part in the rescue of 114 lives and was awarded Gold, Silver and Bronze Medals .
Mary Stanford served as the pilot lauch in Limerick port. She remained in a backwater of Grand Canal Dock, with other heritage boats. In 2014 the destruction of these boats was announced. The people of Ballycotton and others rescued the Mary Stanford and ‘brought her home’. They continue fund-raising for her restoration.
1^^ (27 March 2009) Ballycotton Lifeboat:History. "http://www.ballycottonlifeboat.org/history.htm"
2^^ (1998) entry present, image absent:Lot 214 : Royal National Institute For The Preservation Of Life From Shipwreck silver medal, type 1, engraved (Dennis Cronen), complete with silver ring. "http://www.artfact.com/auction-lot/royal-national-institute-for-the-preservation-of-1-c-gmef9f5o8x"
3^^Daly, Tony, coastguards of yesteryearcoastguards of yesteryear. "http://www.coastguardsofyesteryear.org/articles.php?article_id=14"
4^^Cox, Brian, Lifeboat Gallantry isbn:0907605893.
5^^ (2013-11-03) The Mary Stanford: Ballycotton: Scoil Réalt na MaraThe Life & Times of the Church & Community of Ballycotton; 1921 - 1930. "http://www.scoilrealtnamara.ie/nineteentwentyonetonineteenthirty.htm"
6^^ Rye Harbour Lifeboat StationThe 'MARY STANFORD' Disaster. "http://www.ryeharbourlifeboat.co.uk/mary.htm"
7^^MacSweeney, Tom, (16 February 2006) "the boat also being awarded one, the only time this has happened in lifeboat history" On 2013-11-03 Podcast absent: Radio Telefís Éireann"Seascapes" (smil)..
8^^Blaney, Jim, Beam Magazine (The commissioners of Irish Lights) 5 (25) (1996) Puffin Lightvessel:
9^^Shipwrecks of Cork Harbour. "http://www.iol.ie/~mkeniry/llpuffin.htm"
10^^ Waterford County MuseumThe Phantom Ship. "../the-phantom-ship/"
11^^ Ballycotton: ballycotton.com (non-profit making)Ballycotton lifeboat station. "http://www.ballycotton.com/village_history.htm"
12^^ (25 September 2008) Midleton News "http://www.midletonnews.com/issues/sept2508"
13^^ "Rescue at sea (2)" (postage stamp). Reproduced above.:
14^^ Royal National Lifeboat InstitutionBallycotton History.
15^^Thompson, Tim, "The Daunt Rock Lightship Rescue". oil painting. Reproduced above.:
16^^ Boys' Book of the Sea. (google books) On 3 November 2013, entry present, but text absent. An alternative reference:: page:64.
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Campfire Stories for Parents
by Marla Coleman
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New Year’s Resolution: A Happy Life
Happiness. If there were one New Year’s Resolution I were to unequivocally endorse, it would include “happiness” as the operative word. Fifty years of happiness research has led us to this crossroads, and 2009 is the year to embrace the news: happiness is the best predictor of success, longevity, and contentment.
Not only that, happiness is contagious, according to the just-published Framingham Heart Study. So here’s your chance to both shape the resolution for the family and model the behavior for your child. It turns out that happiness is a result of being socially connected; in other words, the entry point of happiness is a sense of connection.
Dr. Ed. Hallowell, in “The Childhood Roots of Adult Happiness,” explains that happiness is the feeling that your life is going well. BINGO. If there were one overriding word to describe your wish for your children, I think it might be “happiness” then. The big question, of course, is how to help them achieve that state. Hallowell contends, “A connected childhood is the most reliable key to a happy life.”
It begins with unconditional love, that precious gift that is initially bestowed at birth. (Hallowell points out, by the way, that unconditional love doesn’t mean you say ‘yes’ to everything… “Think of ‘no’ as a special kind of hug.’”)
And from there, you actually teach happiness as a skill. The Science for Raising Happy KidsWeb site has loads of ongoing tips for instilling the strong connections that lead children to understanding and responding appropriately to others’ emotions. Positive feelings that can be coached are gratitude, optimism, competence, and altruism to name just a few. The key is to describe, then label those behaviors; you’ll also need to praise those deeds when you see them being applied, but be careful to be specific about that commendation and not fall into the trap of self-esteemia.
“Dominic,” the title dog in the book by William Steig, sets off one day to see the world. The restless, freedom-loving canine at first disconnects from his everyday environment but soon discovers his happiness traits through his encounters with an alligator, a catfish, and even the infamous Doomsday Gang. Dominic emerges from his journey as a considerate, compassionate, generous, and even philosophical dog, declaring, in the end, “What a wonderful world!” Dominic is indeed an enviable hero with a great message: “How perfect,” he assesses after having been cheated, attacked, and challenged. It turns out that “the challenges were his delight. Whatever life offered was, this way or that, a test of one’s skills, one’s faculties; and he enjoyed proving equal to these tests.” Indeed, Dominic turns into the quintessential Renaissance Dog with nerves of steel and a heart of gold.
I was elated to learn that the Framingham study finds that “emotions can spread like a [benevolent] virus.” Happy friends, happy siblings, happy neighbors… and, most of all, happy parents!
Suggest a resolution for 2009 that reflects a focus on happiness in your household and pledge to each other to cultivate connections. Whether it’s reaching out to friend on Facebook or calling Grandma more often or promising to walk a new pet (yes, did I mention that having a pet is a great way to build connections?!)… authentic happiness grows through connections.
The results of the research were striking: “A happy friend who lives within a half-mile makes you 42 percent more likely to be happy yourself.” Imagine what life-long impact a happy parent can have!
Tuck-In Tips
What did Dominic set out to find on his journey? Was he successful?
What did Dominic learn along his adventure?
Describe some similarities between you and Dominic.
What does that look like in your (human) world? What is that called? Label behaviors like compassion and trustworthiness that encourage connections.
“You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.” -Kahlil Gibran
About Campfire Stories
“Even in an age of computer games and electronic toys, you can’t beat a good story – especially when it is offered by a caring adult.” So said William Bennett, author of “The Book of Virtues,” prompting me to reflect on all the stories I have seen unfold over my years of working with children and families and to realize that I could use many of these as examples of what works and what doesn’t work when it comes to raising resilient, independent, self-disciplined, and happy children. With the backdrop of current news, societal trends, and the latest research, I seek to prompt the best parenting decisions to help parents nurture productive, connected children who can navigate the world on their own. Not surprisingly, the campfire metaphor is ideal, since the camp experience itself is so conducive to building these youth development assets. So please join the conversation, either by commenting on a post that resonates or riles, or by e-mailing me with comments or ideas at blog@MarlaColeman.com.
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FITNESS CENTRE RIVM
text Machteld Kors, translation: Willem Boterman, photos Joachim Baan
The National Institute for Public Health and Environment (RIVM) is a closed campus tucked away in the woods of Bilthoven. The campus is dominated by gloomy office blocks and concrete laboratories. It was planned that the Cohen-building (1986) should host the new gym for employees, which nowadays has become a standard part of Dutch terms of employment in order to keep workers fit and healthy. The available space, which was in use as standard offices in a spacious yet dark office landscape, was stripped completely. The closed front panels were replaced with glass. In the part of the space with a double high ceiling a volume is placed that is floating in the air, which accommodates the dressing rooms. The wooden benches on either side are carefully positioned in line with the size and pattern of the tiles. The same applies to the shower drain and the mirror. The lockers, made in perforated-steel, are placed against the outer glass wall, enabling backlight to conceal the partially visible contents of the lockers. The wash-hand basins are, as well as the framework and the number plates of the lockers, made in sandblasted stainless steel. As a project architect of the Government Buildings Agency Marlies Boterman has turned different levels of transparency, reflection, and concealment into important themes in her design. Supplies as installations, lightning, and also mirrors have been wholly integrated behind a layer of perforated white panels, which cover the ceiling and the walls too. This white ‘veil’ differs subtly between surfaces and together with the white and shiny cast-floor brings about a serenity, which enables the sportsman to concentrate and perform optimally. The employees can look outside through the veil, while it is hardly possible to be watched from the other side, thereby guaranteeing privacy to the sportsmen. Confrontational mirrors are placed carefully. Through the partition-wall with its golden trophy box, passers-by can only catch a glimpse of exercising colleagues. Due to the mirroring effect of the shining golden studs they mainly see their own reflection. It is a glamorous eye-catching element in the design. On the golden studs silhouettes are punched that resemble sports trophies. From a distance these golden studs together constitute on a bigger scale again shapes of sports cups and ribbons. The idea of this trophy box was by Joachim Baan. The integral approach and the precise and consequent detailing together with the glamorous use of materials make this design a powerful statement that speaks out for an attractive space.
Fitness centre RIVM in Bilthoven
Client: Central Gouvernment Real Estate Agency and RIVM,
Project architect: Marlies Boterman
Project team: Aad van Berkel, Maarten Meester, Elmer Gouw, Diedrick de Vilder, Winfried van Zeeland
Graphic designer: Joachim Baan, Another Company
Area: 295 m2, Start design: October 2005, Finished: February 2007
Nominated for Lensvelt Interior Price 2007
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Born Free: Toward An Expansive Definition Of Sex, Laura Palk, Shelly Grunsted May 2018
Born Free: Toward An Expansive Definition Of Sex, Laura Palk, Shelly Grunsted
The State of New York recently issued its first physician-certified “intersex” birth certificate, correcting a 55-year-old’s original birth certificate. This is a positive step towards eliminating the traditional binary approach to a person’s birth sex, but it creates potential uncertainties in the employment discrimination context. Over the past several years, the definition of what constitutes “discrimination on the basis of sex” has both expanded (with the legalization of same-sex marriage) and narrowed (restricting the use of gender specific bathrooms). Until recently it appeared that a broader definition of the term “sex” would become the judicial—and possibly legislative ...
Bridging Bisexual Erasure In Lgbt-Rights Discourse And Litigation, Nancy C. Marcus Dec 2015
Bridging Bisexual Erasure In Lgbt-Rights Discourse And Litigation, Nancy C. Marcus
LGBT rights are at the forefront of current legal news, with “gay marriage” and other “gay” issues visible beyond dispute in social and legal discourse in the 21st Century. Less visible are the bisexuals who are supposedly encompassed by the umbrella phrase “LGBT” and by LGBT-rights litigation, but who are often left out of LGBTrights discourse entirely. This Article examines the problem of bisexual invisibility and erasure within LGBT-rights litigation and legal discourse. The Article surveys the bisexual erasure legal discourse to date, and examines the causes of bisexual erasure and its harmful consequences for bisexuals, the broader LGBT community ...
A Joyful Heart Is Good Medicine: Sexuality Conversion Bans In The Courts, Wyatt Fore Oct 2014
A Joyful Heart Is Good Medicine: Sexuality Conversion Bans In The Courts, Wyatt Fore
Led by California and New Jersey, states have begun to ban Sexual Orientation Change Efforts (SOCE) for minors. States have targeted SOCE, also called ‘gay conversion therapy,’ by regulating state licensure requirements for mental health professionals. Conservative legal groups have challenged these bans in federal court, alleging a variety of constitutional violations sounding in the First and Fourteenth Amendments. More specifically, these legal groups propose theories claiming that the bans infringe upon individuals’ freedom of speech, free exercise, and parental rights. In this Note, I survey the history of these bans, as well as court decisions that have rejected constitutional ...
Bathroom Bias: Making The Case For Trans Rights Under Disability Law, Daniella A. Schmidt Jan 2013
Bathroom Bias: Making The Case For Trans Rights Under Disability Law, Daniella A. Schmidt
Disability law is one of the more successful tools currently being used to protect trans people fom discrimination. While the use of disability law as a framework for affirming or creating trans rights has come with some success, many in the community remain reluctant to use disability law for fear of the policy implications and stigma associated with medicalization of trans identity. After exploring the current state of the law on both the federal and state level, this Note will argue how disability law both could and should be used more often to further trans protections. In particular, this Note ...
Displaced Mothers, Absent And Unnatural Fathers: Lgbt Transracial Adoption, Kim H. Pearson Jan 2012
Displaced Mothers, Absent And Unnatural Fathers: Lgbt Transracial Adoption, Kim H. Pearson
While some might believe that Black versus gay discourse only surfaces in highly politicized settings like the military and marriage, it holds sway in the area of LGBT transracial adoption. LGBT transracial adoptions are a relatively small percentage of all adoptions, which include private adoptions, LGBT second-parent adoptions, and step-parent adoptions, but they are an important site for interrogating the Black versus gay discourse because adoption and custody decisions often address parent-child transmission. When claims intersect, as they do in a case where a White LGBT foster parent and a Black maternal grandmother dispute the adoption of a Black child ...
Sex Equality's Unnamed Nemesis, Veronica Percia Jan 2011
Sex Equality's Unnamed Nemesis, Veronica Percia
Sex inequality still exists. However, its manifestations have evolved since the early sex inequality cases were heard in courts and legislatures first began structuring statutory regimes to combat it. In particular, so-called "facial" discrimination against men and women on the basis of sex has no doubt decreased since the advent of this legal assault on sex inequality. Yet the gendered assumptions that structure our institutions and interactions have proven resilient. With sex discrimination now operating more covertly, the problem of sex inequality looks considerably different than it once did. Courts, however, have failed to successfully respond to the changing contours ...
Removing Categorical Constraints On Equal Employment Opportunities And Anti-Discrimination Protections, Anastasia Niedrich Jan 2011
Removing Categorical Constraints On Equal Employment Opportunities And Anti-Discrimination Protections, Anastasia Niedrich
It has been the "historical tendency of anti-discrimination law to use categories to define protected classes of people." This Article challenges the categorical approach and seeks to change that limited framework. This Article focuses on the flaws with Title VII's categorical approach and discusses why there is a desperate need for change to combat the different types and targets of workplace discrimination today, focusing on the transgender community as one example. After discussing the current framework and operation of Title VII, this Article analyzes the insurmountable flaws inherent in the categorical approach to anti-discrimination law, and specifically considers Title ...
Taxing Civil Rights Gains, Anthony C. Infanti Jan 2010
Taxing Civil Rights Gains, Anthony C. Infanti
This Article is divided into four parts. In Part I, the nature of the levy that the DOMAs impose on same-sex couples is explained. In Part II, how this levy can be classified as a "tax" is explained. In Part III, the federal- and state-level ramifications of classifying the levy that the DOMAs impose as a "tax" are discussed. Finally, brief concluding remarks are provided that discuss how this Article might pave the way for making similar arguments with respect to other nontraditional families and, concomitantly, how it demonstrates the transformative potential of same-sex marriage.
Passions We Like… And Those We Don't: Anti-Gay Hate Crime Laws And The Discursive Construction Of Sex, Gender, And The Body, Yvonne Zylan Jan 2009
Passions We Like… And Those We Don't: Anti-Gay Hate Crime Laws And The Discursive Construction Of Sex, Gender, And The Body, Yvonne Zylan
This Article proceeds as follows. In Part II, the author catalogs the history of anti-gay hate crime laws in the United States, describing the rapid spread of state-level laws extending race- and religion-based hate crime laws to LGB people. The Article also provides an overview of federal legislation addressing anti-gay hate crime. In Part III, it examines the policy environment within which anti-gay hate crime laws have been, and continue to be, considered. Specifically, the jurisprudential frameworks that shape, define, and constrain discourses of equality, rights, and social identity are analyzed. The argument is made that the policy environment of ...
More Than Mere Semantics: The Case For An Expansive Definition Of Persecution In Sexual Minority Asylum Claims, Monica Saxena Jan 2006
More Than Mere Semantics: The Case For An Expansive Definition Of Persecution In Sexual Minority Asylum Claims, Monica Saxena
This Article asserts that the requirement in U.S. asylum law that requires an asylee to make a showing of persecutory intent is overly and especially restrictive in claims made by sexual minorities. This Article proposes that the U.S. adopt the asylum standards of New Zealand and Canada, where the focus is on the failure of government protection as opposed to a focus on persecutory intent. Such standards are consistent with both the realities of persecution that sexual minorities encounter and the original impetus behind the Refugee Convention. Part I examines the different forms of persecution against sexual minorities ...
Restructuring The Marital Bedroom: The Role Of The Privacy Doctrine In Advocating The Legalization Of Same-Sex Marriage, Nadine A. Gartner Jan 2004
Restructuring The Marital Bedroom: The Role Of The Privacy Doctrine In Advocating The Legalization Of Same-Sex Marriage, Nadine A. Gartner
Part I of this paper examines the reasons underlying queer rights advocates' reluctance to insert privacy arguments into the case for legalizing same-sex marriage. Part II illustrates that, due to such disinclination, advocates transformed notions of privacy into concepts of liberty. Part III argues that, after the Lawrence decision, proponents of same-sex marriage can and should use privacy-based arguments to fortify their claims.
From Presumed Fathers To Lesbian Mothers: Sex Discrimination And The Legal Construction Of Parenthood, Susan E. Dalton Jan 2003
From Presumed Fathers To Lesbian Mothers: Sex Discrimination And The Legal Construction Of Parenthood, Susan E. Dalton
In Part I of this article, Dalton briefly reviews the way legal scholars commonly define sex-based discrimination, particularly as it pertains to issues of reproduction. Part II is a brief historical review of legal constructions of parenthood. In Part III, Dalton examines two legal concepts: retroactive legitimation and presumed fatherhood. Both concepts were introduced in 1872 and each independently encouraged judges to think of fatherhood as consisting of two distinct spheres, the biological and the social. She then traces the legal development of these concepts through a series of presumed father, retroactive legitimation, and putative father cases. In Part IV ...
Law As A Tool For A Sexual Revolution: Israel's Prevention Of Sexual Harassment Law- 1998, Tzili Mor Jan 2001
Law As A Tool For A Sexual Revolution: Israel's Prevention Of Sexual Harassment Law- 1998, Tzili Mor
Discussion of the newly enacted law will outline the theoretical underpinnings and their effect on the resultant version (Part III), followed by the legislative history, including the Knesset and the public debate surrounding the bill (Part IV), and the impact of that debate on the final outcome of the law (Part V). Part VI will pay particular attention to the innovative approach of the law as a whole and some of the revolutionary specific provisions within. In particular, the legislative framework will be considered in the context of a nation founded and conducted on traditional religious tenets of Judaism. Finally ...
"Trapped" In Sing Sing: Transgendered Prisoners Caught In The Gender Binarism, Darren Rosenblum Jan 2000
"Trapped" In Sing Sing: Transgendered Prisoners Caught In The Gender Binarism, Darren Rosenblum
This Article first summarizes gender, transgendered identity, and legal issues facing transgendered people to contextualize the lives of transgendered prisoners. Parts II and III explore respectively the placement and treatment issues that complicate the incarceration of the transgendered. Corrections authorities, through indifference or incompetence, foster a shockingly inhumane daily existence for transgendered prisoners. In Part V, I examine the plight of transgendered prisoners through the metaphor of the miners' canary. Transgendered prisoners signal the grave dangers facing all of us in a wide array of social structures, elucidating the apparently intractable problems of gender. This Article simultaneously explores a human ...
The Freedom To Marry For Same-Sex Couples: The Opening Appellate Brief Of Plaintiffs Stan Baker Et Al. In Baker Et Al. V. State Of Vermont, Mary Bonauto, Susan M. Murray, Beth Robinson Jan 1999
The Freedom To Marry For Same-Sex Couples: The Opening Appellate Brief Of Plaintiffs Stan Baker Et Al. In Baker Et Al. V. State Of Vermont, Mary Bonauto, Susan M. Murray, Beth Robinson
As the first state to prohibit slavery by constitution, and one of the few states which, from its inception, extended the vote to male citizens who did not own land, the State of Vermont has long been at the forefront of this nation's march toward full equality for all of its citizens. In July 1997, three same-sex couples challenged Vermont to act as a leader yet again, this time in affording full civil rights to the State's gay and lesbian citizens. Stan Baker and Peter Harrigan, Nina Beck and Stacy Jolles, and Holly Puterbaugh and Lois Farnham were ...
The Marriage Mirage: The Personal And Social Indentity Implications Of Same-Gendered Matrimony, Linda S. Eckols Jan 1999
The Marriage Mirage: The Personal And Social Indentity Implications Of Same-Gendered Matrimony, Linda S. Eckols
This Article will examine why so much is at stake in the political, social, and legal debate over same-gender marriage. It will not address the constitutional questions of whether there is a fundamental right to marry, although persuasive arguments have been advanced from both sides of the debate." This Article will focus on a more introspective view of the potential effects of legalizing same-gender marriage on the identities of gay men and lesbians in committed relationships and on the interaction between same-gender couples and society. Marriage would provide the integration sought by gay men and lesbians, but at the expense ...
Bisexual Jurisprudence: A Tripolar Approach To Law And Society, Rachel Haynes Jan 1999
Bisexual Jurisprudence: A Tripolar Approach To Law And Society, Rachel Haynes
Part I of this Review will briefly assess the principal arguments in Colker's book. In Part II, Colker's book will be situated within the larger currents of the discussion concerning bisexuality and the arguments for a bisexual jurisprudence. Part III critiques Colker's concept of a bisexual jurisprudence as applied to sexual hybrids from the standpoint of an identity, as well as a legal, skeptic. Part IV will sketch out some important implications for the advancement of a bisexual jurisprudence as well as question the need for a bisexual jurisprudence. This review concludes that the addition of a ...
Naming The Grotesque Body In The "Nascent Jurisprudence Of Transsexualism", Richard F. Storrow Jan 1997
Naming The Grotesque Body In The "Nascent Jurisprudence Of Transsexualism", Richard F. Storrow
After a description of an analytical framework constructed of theories drawn from the writings of Mikhail Bahktin, Roland Barthes, and Sigmund Freud, this Article discusses the discrepancies in courts' use of medical authority in cases considering the rights of transsexuals and then analyzes courts' ultimate refusal to recognize transsexuals' psychological sex. The thrust of this Article is an examination of the forces compelling such inconsistencies. The result is an analysis which interweaves medical, juridical, psychological and mythic perspectives to disclose the underpinnings of courts' antipathy toward transsexuals.
Doma: An Unconstitutional Establishment Of Fundamentalist Christianity, James M. Donovan Jan 1997
Doma: An Unconstitutional Establishment Of Fundamentalist Christianity, James M. Donovan
According to the text of the Act, DOMA's purposes are "to define and protect the institution of marriage," where marriage is defined to exclude same-sex partners. To be constitutionally valid under the Establishment Clause, this notion that heterosexual marriages require "protection" from gay and lesbian persons must spring from a secular and not religious source. This Article posits that DOMA has crossed this forbidden line between the secular and the religious. DOMA, motivated and supported by fundamentalist Christian ideology, and lacking any genuine secular goals or justifications, betrays the Establishment Clause of the U.S. Constitution.
Fighting Anti-Gay Abuse In Schools: The Opening Appellate Brief Of Plaintiff Jamie Nabozny In Nabozny V. Podlesny, Patricia M. Logue, David S. Buckel Jan 1997
Fighting Anti-Gay Abuse In Schools: The Opening Appellate Brief Of Plaintiff Jamie Nabozny In Nabozny V. Podlesny, Patricia M. Logue, David S. Buckel
In Nabozny v. Podlesny, 92 F.3d 446 (7th Cir. 1996), a case of first impression, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals recognized the constitutional right of a gay male public school student to equal protection from anti-gay harassment and assaults. The court held that Jamie Nabozny had stated equal protection claims against his school district and three school principals for gender and sexual orientation discrimination based on allegations that, because he is gay and a boy, defendants had failed to afford him the same kinds of protection given to other harassed students. At trial on remand a jury found ...
Honesty, Privacy, And Shame: When Gay People Talk About Other Gay People To Nongay People, David L. Chambers, Steven K. Homer Jan 1997
Honesty, Privacy, And Shame: When Gay People Talk About Other Gay People To Nongay People, David L. Chambers, Steven K. Homer
There is a longstanding convention among lesbians and gay men in the United States: Do not reveal the sexuality of a gay person to a heterosexual person; unless you are certain that the gay person does not regard his sexuality as a secret. Lie if necessary to protect her secret. Violating the convention by "outing" another person is widely considered a serious social sin.
Second-Parent Adoption: Overcoming Barriers To Lesbian Family Rights, Maxwell S. Peltz Jan 1996
Second-Parent Adoption: Overcoming Barriers To Lesbian Family Rights, Maxwell S. Peltz
Part I of this Article will discuss some of the legal difficulties associated with co-parenting and why lesbian couples have sought second-parent adoptions. Part II will examine the particular statutory obstacles to second-parent adoptions and then analyze the various ways courts in several states have overcome these obstacles. Finally, Part III will discuss the implications of these decisions in terms of their creation of legal and social norms.
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Half a Rupee Stories
Gulzar / Jan 20, 2020
Half a Rupee Stories Twenty five fascinating stories from the inimitable GulzarA suicide bomber in a small town plans out her last day getting herself photographed before she goes and blows up the prime minister A drunka
Title: Half a Rupee Stories
Author: Gulzar
Twenty five fascinating stories from the inimitable GulzarA suicide bomber in a small town plans out her last day, getting herself photographed before she goes and blows up the prime minister A drunkard in a Mumbai slum tries to compete with the torrential rain, even as it washes his dwelling away An army man at the border has become so accustomed to speaking over the wiTwenty five fascinating stories from the inimitable GulzarA suicide bomber in a small town plans out her last day, getting herself photographed before she goes and blows up the prime minister A drunkard in a Mumbai slum tries to compete with the torrential rain, even as it washes his dwelling away An army man at the border has become so accustomed to speaking over the wireless that he ends every sentence with Over And in the title story, a cop drags a dead cow from Vinayak Rao Patwardhan Road to the adjoining Bapu Road, since the latter is so much easier to spell.From real life stories about Javed Akhtar, Sahir Ludhianvi and Kuldip Nayyar to tales set in Kashmir, in the hinterland, in the modern megapolis and on the LoC, from anecdotes of love and betrayal to fables of courage and conviction, this is an enthralling collection available in English for the very first time.
Customer reviews Half a Rupee Stories I feel diminutive while attempting to write a review for a book penned by the celebrated poet, writer, lyricist and director Gulzar This book Half a Rupee Stories is an awe inspiring kaleidoscopic collection of short stories that encompass a mixture of emotions, feelings, values and lives, young or old, each with varied hues and colours. Rupee The rupee is the common name for the currencies of India, Pakistan, Indonesia, Mauritius, Nepal, Seychelles, Sri Lanka, and formerly those of Afghanistan, Tibet, Burma and British East Africa, German East Africa and Trucial States and all Gulf Arab Countries as Gulf rupee. In Indonesia and the Maldives the unit of currency is known as rupiah and rufiyaa respectively, which is a cognate of the History of the rupee The history of the Rupee traces back to the Ancient India in circa th century BC Ancient India was the earliest issuers of coins in the world, along with the Coins of India from ancient times to the present COINS OF INDIA, PAKISTAN, BANGLADESH, NEPAL BHUTAN FROM ANCIENT TIMES TO THE PRESENT ANCIENT BENT BAR COIN OF INDIA This unusual bent bar Satamana is VICTORIA Rupee Dot Varieties JFCampbell Rupee A I A II B I B II In Hundred Years of Indian Coinage Dr Sharif says that the ten examples of four dot Rupees in his collection were all different, and he believes he s examined another different variations. Indian Currency History, History of Indian Rupee The history of Indian currency not only spans centuries but also boasts quite a fascinating past Read on for a brief glimpse of India s and your wallet s financial history The rupee in your pocket has a mysterious past Behind Mahatma Gandhi s smiling face lies a long history of Rupee weakens past to new closing low The Hindu The rupee weakened further on Thursday, closing past the mark against the dollar for the first time ever as foreign funds continued to stream out of emerging markets on expectations of higher U India scraps and , rupee bank notes overnight Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has announced that the . and , rupee banknotes will be withdrawn from the financial system overnight The surprise move, announced on Tuesday Oil, widening CAD may push rupee to against The Hindu The Indian rupee is likely to touch a U.S dollar as weakness in the currency market is continuing with the upward trend in crude oil prices and strengthening of the U.S dollar index, aided by XE RUB USD Currency Chart Russian Ruble to US Dollar Rates USD US Dollar Our currency rankings show that the most popular United States Dollar exchange rate is the USD to EUR rate The currency code for Dollars is USD, and the currency symbol is.
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About "Gulzar"
Sampooran Singh Kalra Punjabi , Hindi , Urdu known popularly by his pen name Gulzar Punjabi , Hindi , Urdu , is an Indian poet, lyricist and director He primarily writes in Hindi Urdu and has also written in Punjabi and several dialects of Hindi such as Braj Bhasha, Khariboli, Haryanvi and Marwari.Gulzar was awarded the Padma Bhushan in 2004 for his contribution to the arts and the Sahitya Akademi Award in 2002 He has won a number of National Film Awards and Filmfare Awards In 2009, he won the Academy Award for Best Original Song for Jai Ho in the film Slumdog Millionaire 2008 On 31 January 2010, the same song won him a Grammy Award in the category of Grammy Award for Best Song Written for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media.Gulzar s poetry is partly published in three compilations Pukhraj, Raat Pashminey Ki and Pandrah Paanch Pachattar His short stories are published in Raavi paar also known as Dustkhat in Pakistan and Dhuan.
Simran Khurana
That Gulzar is a magician with words is a given. Notwithstanding his contribution to Bollywood, Gulzar has written soul stirring poetry in Hindi and Urdu that can give you goosebumps. I came across this book while I was reading one of his fabulous poems online. Without giving it a second thought, I ordered for the book. And let me tell you, I was not disappointed.Half a Rupee Stories is just that: simple, inconsequential stories about everyday struggles of ordinary people. No major plot, no twis [...]
My rating is not for the book as such. It is for two heartwarming stories- Ghugu and Jamuni- Oh!! What a lovely lovely tale. A bird in love with a kite. A story that will be in my heart forever.Even if you skip the whole book it is ok, but don't miss this love storyThe Charioteer- At first you might feel sorry for Maruti who works asa sweeper in a ferry and has a hard life. But when he gets back home he is in the warmth of his family's love. Then you realize you have no right to feel sorry for h [...]
Pooja Venkat
Half a Rupee Stories is a brilliant translation of Gulzar Saab's works by Sunjoy Shekhar. In this choicest collection of short stories Gulzar Saab , like always, weaves his magic of raconteuring. Encompassing stories from the length and breadth of his homeland i.e. from the panic-stricken valleys of Kashmir, the skirmishes along the barbed borders of India and Pakistan , the fierce battle for existence in the metros , excerpts from the vaults of Filmdom, and across many other poignant fronts. Th [...]
Farhan Khalid
[Gulzar] A good storyteller is the conscious-keeper of a nationWalk through the pages of a book and you'll find charactersLike old friends ― In the corridors of timeA large part of me still lives on that side of the borderMy roots still remain on the other side[Javed Akhter] Poetry flows in his veinsJ Krishnamurti. History would be read and then repeatedDreams heed no border, the eyes sees no visas With eyes shut I walk across the line in time ― All the timeBoth sides stake their claims on K [...]
Namitha Varma
Touching stories, some, but I didn't like all of them. I believe they might have read better in Hindi.
Manish Purohit
Half a rupee stories by Gulzar is a compendium of twenty five stories touching various chords of the human sentiments, woven around those daily emotions of one’s life that there is some inherent oneness that the reader feel once he reads the stories. There are no major plots in the stories to glue the readers…there are no exemplary twists and turns to arouse one’s interest…there are no larger than life characters that remains historic… There is, however, an experience of almost each an [...]
Atthani would be too much to pay for this sentimental drivel. When he isn't namedropping, Gulzar presents us with excruciatingly crude caricatures of the picturesque poor. He's trying so hard to be like Manto, esp. the story "Hilsa" where a murdered gangrape victim's eyes are compared to that of a fish on the chopping board of a coy Bengali housewife. Manto had compared the necrophiliac energies of Partition violence to thanda ghosht (cold mutton) with such provocative and lyrical force. Gulzar [...]
Gorab Jain
2.5/5Out of 25 stories divided in 8 parts, immensely enjoyed 7 stories comprising mostly the first and the last parts. Rest of it were at best mediocre and a total let-down.The ones which struck many chords in my heart. and the sole reason to be happy to have picked this : Kuldip Nayyar and Pir Sahib - Real account of Kuldip Nayyar's memory of Pir SahibSahir and Jaadu - Real account of Javed Akhtar's relation with father figure Sahir.LoC - On the bondings of family friends split across Indo-Pak [...]
Shantanu Patnaik
A few stories might have a slow pace but almost all of them are really good. You got to admire the simplicity and lucidity. The stories were very touching and masqueraded the sadistic life people near the border live due to the partition and other socio-economic issues. Stories involving Kashmir were undoubtedly more interesting and rather black, but really reaffirm the unity that should be binding India and Pakistan instead of separating them.
Dushyant Chaturvedi
the first few stories are about film personalities like javed akhtar and others and apart from his tale,the rest are average. but despair not.once the book moves to mumbai,it literally takes off and stuns with the poignant insights.fantastic collection with nearly twenty stories out of the twenty five being truly world class.
Probably Gulzar is better off writing poems. I couldn't manage to complete the book. And then the translation is awful. Somebody should have been paid to proof read the grammar. Overall, the book is just like the title - half baked!
Aravind Vivekanandan
I am sure there are a lot of elements that get lost in translation. However, the humanity of this work transcends the boundaries of language.
Only a story or two had an impact on me, others compelled me to keep the book back in the shelf.
Himali Kothari
The translation killed the stories for me
Asha Seth
25 short stories with immensely captivating endings. Proves the genius Gulzar sahab is renowned for. Brilliantly translated too.Review to follow!
Siddhi Palande
'Because "common man" like us only having half of things –half-plate eating, half-night sleeping, half laughing, , half crying, half living and also half dying. This atthanni never becomes full rupiah.' Gulzar. Gulzar. Gulzar. I am absolutely in love with this wordsmith. His words will definitely melt your heart. Even the toughest cannot survive when stroked by the pleasantness of his word power. So I began reading this book by Penguin India. I had finished it a long time ago but owing to the [...]
Vikrant Rana
Frankly, I was disappointed nothwithstanding the fact that Gulzar has a reputation of a literary giant. One reason could be the loss of nuances when translating from one language to another. While the prose is terrific and it comes through, it still doesn't read like someone writing in his/her natural language. Stories are short and feels more like a roving camera that goes through people's life. This powerful narration obviously shows his mastery of the art of storytelling. In a nutshell, me re [...]
Beautiful stories, enchantingly told. The collection reminds you on a chilly day, sitting around the fire and somebody starts tales or people known and unknown. Totally captivating and heart warming. A slice of life, a small incident in their long meandering life, that is what these stories are about. The translation is excellent. It often left me wondering, if the translation is so good, how much more captivating would the original have been. And knowing Gulzarji's style, there is no doubt abou [...]
Bhumika Shah
Reading Gulzarji is a treat! Half a Rupee Stories is a journey towards emotions we observe day to day yet we don't express! Every story is narrating some special incident that grows inside us. Human emotions and life has been portrayed so beautifully that reading this book one feels living it within.A must read! :)
Gulzar Sahab as everyone calls him really does deserve the Sahab after his name. Though I read the book in English it felt very Hindi Urdu on my tongue. my favourites were the story on Javed Akhtar and Gulzar Sahab's travelog.
Vishal Talreja
Everyday stories that happen around us and are easily forgotten or missed. Each of us carry a story and Gulzar and brought some of them to light. The translation is weak in parts but overall, an easy quick and sometimes hard-hitting read.
Sudhakar Gupta
There were a couple of stories that struck a chord but for the most part, they were underwhelming. Perhaps something was lost in translation. Note to self - Read Gulzar in Urdu/Hindi.
Dr.J.G.
Half a Rupee is a story taken from a collection of stories (Half a Rupee: Stories) by Gulzar, the title story in fact, and offered here as an independent read. It is from part five, which is about Naxalite movement in India, so named after the small rural place Naxalbari in West Bengal (east Bengal is what is now called Bangladesh, the half that split away from motherland in '47 at partition and then had to seek independence because faith based nations don't necessarily work when all other bases [...]
AHA !! and OUCH That is what you’ll feel after reading this book !The book is divided into 8 sections with 3 stories each. Each section starts with a poetical introduction. All the stories have a typical Gulzar touch and Sunjoy ji has not lost the essence while translating. 1st section has biographical stories wherein Gulzar ji talks about Kuldeep Nayyar, Bhushan Banmali and Saahir and Javed Akhtar’s relationship.2nd section describes the Mumbai city. In “The Stench”, there’s this fami [...]
Sanjana Bajoria
Come compilations are like gummy bears. You gulp some, you chew some, you lick some. How long does one stays in your mouth will never be the same. In the end its all about the after effects, to each its own. Some will touch your heart and leave an after tought, some will just end there itself. Overall a delicious mixture of gummy bears.
Meenal Mandil
I have always been a fan of short stories. This is my first book of Gulzar and the stories were amazing. But I certainly think that I need to read the original version to write about the translation.
To start with, I am a huge fan of Gulzar Saab’s writing. I was really excited when I discovered this collection of short stories in a little book store in College Street, Kolkata. The variety in the terms of genres that this book offers is huge. There are tales about the deadly partition that had hit our country some seven decades back, about the bitter sweet relationship people across the bordering areas of both our countries still share. There are stories woven around the myriad complexities [...]
Kakuli Nag
I think he is just God in Short Stories. The way he thinks about a situation, the way he sequences it to have the reader craving for more at the end of each story, the way he ends his stories, the impact of the last line is so powerful that you need to pause and reflect on it, each time, every time you read it.Be it his choice of title, theme of the short writes, fiction or real, Gulzaar saab never fails to evoke the dormant sentiments in you and play hell with it.In “Over” where he builds a [...]
Raghavendra
A half rupee, an atthani, is hardly worth anything today. It's more a burden to carry that coin around, you're trying to get rid of it, than to use it to buy anything. After all, what can you get for a half-rupee? Gulzar sets out to answer this question in his collection of short stories, Half Rupee Stories.A short story is almost always difficult to read and write. Keeping a tale short without being trite or uninteresting, is an art by itself. Gulzars excels in his stories. These stories transp [...]
Arun Divakar
Gulzar is a renowned persona in the field of letters. He is known as a poet,lyricist and director of feature films. His skills as a writer of short stories is something very new to me. Having read this book of 25 tales, I was not very impressed with this. The backdrops of the stories range across the northern half of India and sometimes even strays to Pakistan. The characters are from all walks of life and Gulzar does a good job at sketching their lives. However all these stories suffer from a h [...]
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Pottsville, PA – July 13, 2015 – (RealEstateRama) — Today, U.S. Representative Matt Cartwright announced that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has awarded two Schuylkill County fire departments each with Assistance to Firefighters Grants (AFGs). The funds will be distributed via the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).
The Sheppton-Oneida Volunteer Fire Company in Sheppton has been awarded a $171,429 vehicle acquisition grant, which will enable the company to purchase a new tanker, a fire vehicle tasked with transporting large amounts of water to a fire. These are especially useful in rural areas where fire hydrants are not available and natural water resources are insufficient.
Deer Lake & West Brunswick Fire Co. #1 in Orwigsburg has been awarded a $36,191 operations and safety grant, which will fund the purchase of a new air compressor.
Rep. Cartwright, a member of the Congressional Fire Services Caucus, said, “I am happy to see this funding come to Schuylkill County, and I congratulate both the Sheppton-Oneida Volunteer Fire Company and the Deer Lake & West Brunswick Fire Co. #1 on successful grant applications.”
The purpose of the AFG is to award competitive grants directly to fire departments to enhance their ability to protect the health and safety of the public, as well as that of first-responder personnel. Since 2001, the AFG program has provided approximately $6.1 billion in grants to first-responder organizations to obtain much-needed emergency response equipment, personal protective equipment, firefighting and emergency vehicles, and training.
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Q: What are you working on now?
PGN: I am taking a break from the Civil War to write other things. I do have plans for more books, so check back for news.
Q: When will your books be made into movies?
PGN: Know any Hollywood producers?
Seriously, the process of choosing books to make into movies or television shows takes place in the film industry, and is largely out of the hands of those who write the source material. I’d be delighted to have my books made into movies, and I’ll be sure to announce on the website any Hollywood deals that come my way.
Q: Will there be another book featuring Lacey McIntyre? Another featuring Kip Whistler?
PGN: Nothing has been scheduled, but I do have ideas for stories featuring Lacey and Kip.
Q: How can I visit the Valverde and Glorieta Battlefields?
PGN: Valverde is unfortunately not accessible; the land is privately owned. There is also nothing to see, as the battle was fought over a ford that has since flooded repeatedly. I recommend a visit to nearby Fort Craig, which has excellent interpretive signs for a self-guided tour and is well cared for by the Bureau of Land Management. Access to the Fort Craig ruins is from Interstate 25 south of Socorro, New Mexico. Be advised that the fort is reached by driving about 5 miles of gravel road, which can become slick and muddy in wet weather.
Glorieta Battlefield is part of Pecos National Historical Park, and lies east of Santa Fe on NM Highway 50. There is now a battlefield walking trail with interpretive signs, and also a guided tour by van (currently running on Saturday afternoons). For more information or to schedule a tour call the park (505-757-6414 extension 1) or visit the PNHP website.
Q: What happened to the guns the Confederates buried in New Mexico?
PGN: The guns buried in Albuquerque were 12-lb mountain howitzers that Sibley’s Brigade had brought with them from Texas. Major Teel returned years later and had them dug up. One is on display in the Albuquerque Museum, one in the Colorado History Museum in Denver, and I believe the others went to Texas. There are also two replicas of the mountain howitzers on the Albuquerque Old Town Plaza.
The Texans buried more guns in several places along the retreat through the Magdalena and San Mateo Mountains, but never the “trophy guns” of the Valverde Battery–those guns the Texans were determined to carry home, since they were all they had to show for their efforts in New Mexico.
Q: Can you help me with my writing project?
PGN: No, but here are my three favorite tips:
1. Write. Nothing will happen unless you sit down and start working.
2. Learn to throw away the garbage in what you have written. Not all will be garbage, but a lot will, especially at first. Writing is like any art form–it takes a lot of practice to become proficient.
3. Meet other writers in your area. Writers work in solitude, so a support system is essential. Join or form a critique group, or just connect over coffee with other writers to share news and ideas.
There are some excellent writers’ resources on the web. Links to a few of my favorites are on this page of resources For Writers.
Q: I live in New Mexico. What local writer’s resources are available to me?
PGN: SouthWest Writers is an excellent organization for writers in New Mexico and throughout the Southwest. Their annual conference is a great opportunity to meet and learn from writers and other publishing industry professionals.
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An Interview With The Brains Behind We're All Going To Die Festival
Hitting Sydney November 17, featuring artists, filmmakers, speakers, creators and more.
Posted By Guest Writer 2 years ago
Words by Connor Benfield.
We’re All Going to Die - a depressing inevitability or a liberating awakening? For prolifically creative Sydney artist and filmmaker, Stefan Hunt, it was the latter - and he’s positive that it should be the same for you!
We’re All Going To Die Festival is Hunt’s latest brainchild. The festival will gather together a diverse collection of artists, surfers, filmmakers, dancers, speakers, creators… (like I said, it’s diverse), including Ozzie Wright, Tom Tilley, Georgia Hill and Otis Carey, as well as some
forward thinking and innovative organisations like Indigo Project and Groove Therapy x Retrosweat. And it’s all in the name of opening up a conversation about fear and death, and how talking about these things can grant us the freedom to do whatever the hell we want!
I gave Stefan a very stern grilling about the festival. Here’s what he had to say:
Stef, at a glance, this sounds weird. But when you dig a little deeper, there’s actually a huge amount of philosophical credence to what you’re saying. How’d you come up with the idea for WAGTD?
The concept evolved off the back of my own experience with anxiety. Two years ago, I was so afraid of the unknown that I couldn’t make a simple life decision. My life spiralled. Then I wrote this poem called ‘We’re All Going to Die’, and it shifted my perspective on everything. The small stuff I’d been sweating didn’t matter as much. I spoke to mates about this poem I’d written and they were frothing. I think collectively we we’re all numb to cliches like “life’s short” or “YOLO”, so to talk about something real, like how we wanted to live our lives before our inevitable death, that was weirdly exciting. That’s how WAGTD came about I guess.
I don’t think many people would say that starting your own festival is the next logical step, but it is a bloody good step all the same. What do you hope people will get out of WAGTD?
I’m creating this festival because I want us all to come together and kick fear in the nuts! Every day we’re so crippled by the fear of judgement or failure or the unknown and it sucks. Getting this festival off the ground has been a massive undertaking, and there hasn’t been a
single day where I haven’t been afraid of failure. But if I’d given up, fear would’ve won. I want WAGTD to empower us all to fear less and live more, because we’re all going to die anyway, right? And I plan on doing that with everything I love - film, music, art, panel discussion,
experiences, the list goes on.
Right! So what happens next? Are you going to take this show on the road?
SH: Hell yeah! For starters, we crowdfunded this thing into existence. Over $30,000 in three weeks was donated by friends, family and bloody legend strangers, which tells me that this is an idea that the people really dig. We’ll get the debut edition out of the way first, but I want to take this idea everywhere. I know that this concept transcends language and borders, so why not take it to the rest of the world?
The We're All Going To Die Festival will take place on the 17th of November at COMMUNE in Waterloo, Sydney. It’s a one night only show from 6-10pm. Tickets are on sale now through Eventbrite. Click the poster below to go to the website and get more info.
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Journey into Healing
By Sherri Waas Shunfenthal
In Journey into Healing, Sherri Waas Shunfenthal invites her readers to delve into the hearts and minds of eleven women from the Hebrew Bible. As with her previous book, Sacred Voices: Women of Genesis Speak, Shunfenthal utilizes her poetic spirit to give voice to these matriarchs and heroines, a freedom not allowed to most of them by the biblical writers. The author is particularly interested in how women who have undergone such diverse and stressful life experiences as these biblical women seek, and hopefully find, healing and wholeness. Each woman's story is presented in five parts: poetry, discussion, reflections, contemplations, and meditation. This design provides the reader with an entry into the biblical woman's story followed by a roadmap for journeying further into the emotions of her life and the possible connections between these biblical characters' experiences and those of the reader. The final product reaches the reader on various levels and allows for repeat visits to the spaces for healing the author has given her audience. Journey Into Healing is a text that is at home in both the classroom and the religious environment. Wherever this book is read, lives will be changed and the biblical stories of these women will never be the same.
-Dr. Lisa Davison, Lexington Theological Seminary
The author's appearances have included Georgio's Restaurant in Washington, DC; Burke Community Center; Burke Presbyterian Church; Adat Reyim Rosh Chodesh Group; Lakeridge Book Club; Border's Books in Springfield; Barnes & Noble in Springfield; Del Ray Artisan's Gallery in Alexandria; Fall for the Book Festival in Fairfax; Pam's Local Book Group; Howard Community College; and Olam Tikvah Synagogue.
Journey into Healing is also available as an ebook on Amazon.com for the Kindle.
Book Review Details:
Reviewed Appeared In: Washington Jewish Week
Reviewed By: Aaron Leibel
Text Of Review: Finding healing in biblical women No. Virginia poet's book invites contemplation, meditation
Focusing on biblical women helps individuals put their problems in perspective and heal themselves. So says Sherri Waas Shunfenthal, a northern Virginia writer and poet whose book Journey Into Healing (Pocol Press) was published earlier this year. "In our fast-paced lives, we don't take the time to grieve or look inside ourselves," says Burke's Shunfenthal. "The book looks at the process of healing through the lives of biblical women. The more depth we see in these women, the more is reflected back in our self-mirror." Noting that individuals don't always have a clear picture of themselves, she says, "by looking at another's story, we often see ourselves. We become better people by realizing that we all suffer sorrow, loss, grief and pain."
The book examines 11 biblical women -- Lilith, Eve, Sarah, Rachel, Leah, Dinah, Miriam, Hannah, Ruth, Naomi and Esther. Each chapter deals with one woman, usually beginning with a poem written by Shunfenthal, then proceeds to a discussion of the historical background; contemplations ("questions arising from the biblical woman's story," Shunfenthal writes in the book); journal writing (questions are asked relating to the woman and readers are encouraged to answer those questions in a journal); and meditation ("helps us find strength within, allowing us to focus our energy on healing and be open to God's guidance"). For example, for Miriam (one of Shunfenthal's favorites) there are three poems. In "Miriam Saves Moses," the author tracks Miriam down the river, following the basket with her baby brother inside, until it is rescued from the river by the Egyptian princess. Miriam runs home to tell her mother.
"Her ecstatic cries create tremors through me. We dance with abandon like cascading waterfalls, singing 'Our baby is safe.' "
In "Crossing the Red Sea," Miriam calls the people to sing and dance after crossing the Red Sea, and the poet writes of her relationship with God in "Miriam's Well." In the sections that follow, readers learn that Miriam's name means "bitter sea," and that she had "extraordinary powers to heal and nourish the people." Shunfenthal writes that dance is important in her own life, and invites readers to write about one of their important symbols and its meaning in their lives. Finally, she asks readers to meditate on drawing water from their spiritual wells. Shunfenthal "has always felt connected to Judaism and Jews," she says, crediting her love for Judaism to her home life as a child. She grew up in Philadelphia in the 1960s, attending a synagogue where four generations of her father's family had worshiped, studying in its Hebrew school and taking part in weekly Shabbat candlelighting at home on Friday night. Her attachment to Jewish communal life continues today at Congregation Adat Reyim in Springfield where she periodically leads healing services and meditations, has written poetry used by Rabbi Bruce Aft and has written several services, including that used by children on Yom Kippur. After studying deaf education at Pennsylvania State University and getting a master's in speech-language pathology at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, she worked with emotionally disturbed and developmentally disabled children in the Philadelphia area and deaf individuals in California before moving to the Washington area 15 years ago. Here, she has helped adults and children with language problems in a clinical setting. But poetry always has been Shunfenthal's avocation. "I've always been interested in writing poetry since my mother put a pen in my hand as a child," she says. Some 35 years ago, when her poetry-writing began to take shape, her mom requested an original poem every mother's day, and Shunfenthal has complied ever since. She says her first published poem, "Einstein's Formula," which appeared in Welcome Home magazine, was composed for her mother. "Poetry makes you focus on the moment," Shunfenthal says. "It gives you a glimpse into something you may not have seen or noticed before. It allows us to use our senses, and find a universal connection to each other." Her interest in biblical women was spurred by a parsha study group that Aft led at Adat Reyim several years ago. "We kept studying about men, and I kept asking, 'Where are the women?' "Also, many of the traditional interpretations of women were negative, and I wanted to give them a different slant." The result was her first book, Sacred Voices: Women of Genesis Speak (Pocol Press, 2000). Journey Into Healing evolved from discussion with Aft, she says, who encouraged her to write a sequel to Sacred Voices in which she would discuss how biblical women healed themselves. She would like to write a novel, perhaps about one of those biblical women. "We are still coping with the same problems those women did," Shunfenthal notes.
Date Reviewed: 07/31/2003
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Author Appearances: Oct 23, 2007- Agudas Achim Congregation in Arlington, Va 7:00pm
November 4, 2007 Olam Tikvah in Fairfax, Va 7:00pm
November 10 Lunch and Learn Kol HaLev in Baltimore, Md at noon
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* There are fewer sights in cricket that has the purists' eyes playing pinball and causing technical-minded coaches to cover the eyes of their pupils (side-dish: if one of the pupils was called "Iris" and she had a humourous disposition, the optician would be even more pleased) than that of Shivnarine Chanderpaul facing André Nel. But both have had reasonable successes of varying degrees showing that not everyone needs to stick to a mould to get to the highest level.
* Randomly riding the channel waves yesterday, I paused to see the curious sight of even the outtakes at the end of a dubbed film having Hindi voiceovers. That's a complete job by the dubbing people. Well done.
* The skies darkened, the wind picked up, leaves danced. Rain pattered in, impromptu pools formed. Still something was missing. The pre-monsoon showers were a little incomplete in their effect. Then in answer, a transformer blew and the lights went out. Ah! The monsoon is knocking at the gates.
The Corpses of Roads
There is something rotten about the roads of Pune.
Quite a lot actually. And despite repeatedly lamenting the state of the city (indeed, all our cities), the mind is not sated. Complaining doesn't help, but atleast it quietens the frustration for a while.
Riding through Bombay two weeks ago was an exercise in going to the trenches. I hope there will be a "better tomorrow" and all this inconvenience will be worth something. As soon as I was back in Pune, the trenches had gone, but there was quicksand in place. A highly viscous mass, choking and choked with guttural sounds to show. I didn't know why this last year has seemed more vicious than preceding years in feeling the strangulation of traffic on the roads, but I am a traffic-asthmatic now. The open roads induce a serious claustrophobia; almost every inch is packed with motor vehicles; each inch that has escaped annexation will lose that status the next moment.
A statistic appeared in the newspaper that may explain this: apparently, the population of vehicles in this city has gone up by 35%. The booming second-hand car market, the rise in affordability of vehicles, the availability of more (larger and powerful) models and the continuance of a lack of any mass transport alternative have ganged up together. For several people, it is a great ambition to possess a car, something their fathers would never have been able to contemplate so easily. But with bigger paypackets, loans and "special offers", purchasing a car is within grasp. One can hardly blame anyone for doing so and why should they be prevented? So anyone who wants to buy a car today can do so and any director/ad-film-maker/actor who cherishes a dream of working with Amitabh Bachchan can get him on board. Truly, it is the time for fulfilling fantasies.
We do have a significant number of vehicles on the streets. I'm willing to guess that most middle-class families in Pune have more than one vehicle in their name. A count of vehicles in my own apartment revealed that there are 6 cars and 10 two-wheelers for 7 flats. I can hardly blame anyone else; we ourselves have > 1 vehicle. Pune has always been a two-wheeler city and almost everyone who has to leave the house daily for work or studies uses or expects to use their own vehicle. This could directly be related to the poor standard of buses and also the relatively short distances one has to travel. Hence it becomes more convenient to employ one's own vehicle. If I had to take advantage of "flexi-time" at work, I would have to use my own gaaDi; plus there is just one bus (possessing an indifferent frequency) plying that route.
Since none of us will shy away from purchasing vehicles just because the per capita road space dwindles everyday and parking spots don't expand infinitely, we will sacrifice long-term for short-term. It is tough to start via individuals - why should I sacrifice when others won't? It is the price for the city's success and it's hard to leave the party.
There were many noises months back when Pune Municipal Corporation members wanted to mimic the great advances made in Bogota, Colombia where a professor-turned-mayor turned things around there. "If it can happen in that drug-cartel infested city where the respect for law is thought to be minimal, why not here?" is the feeling. However, the mayorship there has a greater concentration of powers and it lacked only the will. Here, the responsiblities are so divided among the executive & the political authorities, not to mention infighting & publicity hungry MPs, that both the will & wisdom is hard to find.
Nor do ordinary people care much if they can achieve their small goals of going from place A to B irrespective of the means. My veins & arteries are going to pop one day from the routine mania of the traffic violations; the behaviour is downright criminal.
I think I am a fool to feel so wretchedly about all this while others nonchalantly breeze through. Every trip through the killing fields scrapes my confidence a little; the roses of my brow are replaced by pessimistic thorns just on setting wheel to tarmac. There are three large buildings coming up on the road where my place of work is - that stretch of road used to be among the best in the city. It is impossible to imagine exactly how bad things are going to be when the thousands of residents/office workers of those buildings will start to pour in. Perhaps it will be like drowning amidst the salty ocean after the scuba gear starts to go phut. My empty rant's genesis is mostly from impotent rage and from a sense of having lent a hand to the massacre.
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I remain surprised that there seem to be no bloggers among "celebrities" (not bloggers who are celebrities, but noted people who blog :-) ). I'm sure if the likes of Rahul Dravid or Harsha Bhogle or Ruskin Bond or Upamanyu Chatterjee or even the juniors Deora/Pilot were to blog, they would find their blogs being subscribed to in large numbers.
Why would their blogs be instantly successful? Because readers are thirsty for inside information, backroom insights, perhaps even mundane trivial peeks into their worlds. In fact anyone who provides these tidbits (for which the mainstream press wouldn't be able to spare column inches) would find a large audience. I'm sure the likes of Amit Varma and his fellow Cricinfo bloggers notice a surge in their page views whenever they're covering a cricket match live or are in a position to talk about the game from much closer. (Which is a good time to ask: why has the Cricinfo blog never returned from vacation?)
Some of these celebs have columns or are interviewed often. Those are usually along set lines. Many columns, especially the sports ones, are obviously ghost-written (imagine Javed Miandad using all those fancy words) and run-of-the-mill, so those have lost both credibility & ability to interest. The agents of some of the more articulate ones may well point them in the direction of the blog. Blogs are less polished and raw which works in their favour.
Two issues: quality and credibility. Blogs need to be updated at a consistent frequency and must not seem to be contrived or even too politically correct. The content also has to offer novelty and issues that aren't in the forefront of mainstream media. I'm sure these "celeb" bloggers would make money from selling adspace on their blogs.
Of course, the online world is notorious for attracting riff-raff (just look at the comments left behind on online articles in major portals). But it represents a unprecedented opportunity to get close to fans and others by pushing content instead of the regular media extracting it from them.
I haven't checked it in ages, but Bob Woolmer's site used to have a semi-blog like page where he'd post notes on the Pakistan team. I am really surprised no big name has actually plunged into this space (I don't know of anyone famous doing so in other parts of the world as well) This would be a little different that say a "News" page on their personal websites or an occasional entry. It has to be frequent, informative and from the heart.
Perhaps these people would prefer the relative security and safety (not to mention the better returns) of a newspaper/website column. I don't say that the blogging community needs such people to raise the profile of blogging in general or that their type is sorely missed. It's just that as I said at the beginning, I'm surprised no one seems to plunged into it yet. Or perhaps they have done so (even anonymously) and I haven't realised yet!
Comic. Strip?
I saw the Rituparno Ghosh directed (and authored ;-) ) Raincoat this weekend. Quite a decent film and I think George's review of the film perfectly summarises it.
I am no Aishwarya Rai fan. I don't hate her or something, but I have yet to be dazzled by her acting skills. I admit to getting a little hot under the collar when people went gaga the week she turned 30. What I'm about to write here is a little unlike me, but I'm sure many of you will recognise the pragmatism in these words.
Ms. Rai is never going to hit it big in the acting registers. She has had her innings for over 5 years now. She has had several major acting roles, opportunities that have been seldom offered to better actresses. Mainly, she has been incapable of being even average, barring very, very few sparks. Just look at the mess she made of a reasonably decent role in Raincoat. So objectively speaking, she is unlikely to grow into a better actress.
OTOH, Ms. Rai's agent has been successful in hoisting her onto the leading US talk shows. This is obviously a well-thought out strategy to project her in Hollywood. But Ms. Rai's disinclinations towards making a spectacle of herself (if you know what I mean) seem to be a crippling roadblock. The problem is that no casting director is going to hire her on the basis of her histrionic skills (especially if s/he saw Devdas). So what's left is the "Joey" tactic: take it off.
I'm not being s3xist or anything. Frankly, she is not going to make it otherwise. Perhaps she should cast an eye homewards, at the careers of sundry Koppikars, Aroras and Dhupias. She was lucky enough to not have to require such steps at home, but if one takes a hard look, Hollywood's not all that different.
Surely, it's none of my business, but I'm really getting tired of these endless promotions. They hardly lead anywhere. I wish the lady would decide how ambitious she really is. One way or the other, please put a lid on these "Cannes" ooh-la-lahs.
Bean Talk
A glaring hole in my TV timetable was pointed out by a visiting niece and I have done much to rectify that in the last couple of weeks. Mr. Bean shows up every night on weekdays at 8:30 pm (preceded by one of those candid camera shows called Just For Gags, a Quebecois show). All this on POGO, a channel that didn't show up earlier on my radar.
The thing about the Mr. Bean series apart from the brilliant acting and the situations is how the writers never lose grip on the characterisation. Mr. Bean isn't all an imbecile, he just has a radically different way of approaching things and the writers always keep him true to his illogic. They don't try and wrench sympathy from the viewers as may have been the easy way by showing him as an idiot. Mr. Bean is selfish, sometimes mean, not above ripping off the head of his only friend, the emaciated teddy, to make a paintbrush and is easily tempted into cheating.
For anyone who would find it hard to believe that Rowan Atkinson is capable of playing anything else (such is his body language), I recommend the equally brilliant Blackadder series. The first Blackadder is a little like Mr. Bean, but later versions become this suave, cynical, canny character, far removed from Mr. Bean.
The team of Atkinson, Richard Curtis, Howard Goodall have had a tremendous influence on some of the popular English films in the last 15 years. Especially the Curtis brand of romantic comedies. However stereotypical, they never disappoint.
Gift horses
Last evening, there was no doubt that Manchester United were robbed of the F.A. Cup by Arsenal. The problem was that Manchester United opened the doors & windows, threw the keys away and thought they were living in a place like Shani Singnapur.
Today's Indian Express reports that soon we may have direct air links between Iceland and India. That gladdens me because I have a strange fascination for Iceland.
The direct, single cause for this fascination was a spy thriller called Running Blind by Desmond Bagley. This book was set among the lava lumps of Iceland and the description of the landscape (which isn't always covered by snow contrary to popular perception), the geysirs, the desolation and how all of this has shaped the people of the land somehow attracted me to Iceland. I have always nurtured a secret desire to visit that country and perhaps a direct air link would come in useful :-)
This Icelandic interest had one amusing consequence. The book describes how many Icelanders followed the "Germanic" system of naming where a suffix is added to the father's name to produce the last name of a person. For instance, if Magnus had a son named Gunnar, the son's name would become Magnus Gunnarsson Gunnar Magnusson. In turn if Gunnar had a daughter called Elin, she would be called Elin Magnusdottir Elin Gunnarsdottir.
Apparently, this was quite common among the Scandinavian people and would cause a lot of headaches in managing records, for a single dynastic surname helps as seen in other countries. From what I learnt, countries like Sweden actually offered people incentives to abstain from this practice and stick to a single surname.
I happened to write in to Wordsmith during a week when the theme to their Daily Word was "patronyms" (names derived from the name of a father, ancestor or a family name). One reader, Willie Velloso, an 84 year old Brazilian from Florida mistakenly thought I was an Icelander and told me of his own interests in that land. He'd never been there himself, and was giving up all hope of doing so now.
In closing he mentioned it was unusually cold there, 4°C and asked me not to laugh at these "high" temperatures. I shivered just reading that!
More analogies
I don't know why I have the urge to compare key figures from English football and Indian cricket, but after the last one, here's another: Wayne Rooney and Virender Sehwag.
Perhaps it is their attitudes to their respective games that is identical. Both go hard at the ball and have the powers to come up with outrageous results. Temperamentally, they are poles apart with Rooney being so much more combustible. But they have set themselves up as the key men to provide victories to their respective teams.
I had occasion to compare English football and Indian cricket about 4 to 5 years ago when both teams hired foreign coaches and also had captains at the helm who were both always criticised for being both special-and-limited: Beckham's prowess from the deadball and also drawing flak for being a one-foot wonder, while Ganguly's fluid timing and lack of onside ability. Fill in the other details about temparament and affairs.
Not sure Dada has "Dona" mispelled in English on his arm though.
CD Conservation
Is the whole dangling-CD-in-vehicle a very Indian phenomenon? Is it because we have an innate inclination to recycle? I can't think that any other place in the world would see a compact disc serving as a festoon after it's finished spinning in the drive and been cast out.
Does anything become obsolete in the Indian ecology? (Apart from cheetahs and seemingly tigers of course.)
Jolly good fellow
Members from the paternal side of my family have always had a rich store of anecdotes to narrate. So when uncles come visiting and strike up old memories, there is a lot of merriment to be gained.
One of father's cousins, a former Professor of English and someone with a fleeting involvement in local politics, provided this real-life tale:
Many years ago, a constituency in the Nagercoil area came up for elections. The two usual suspects, both lawyers, were up against each other. Let's call one Raman and the other Krishnan. Krishnan's supporters were quick to begin campaigning, and overnight a large sign appeared on a wall in the main town square. It read:
Should you vote for that drunkard Raman?
The night-time inclinations of Lawyer Raman weren't hidden from the townsfolk as he was an old local. But what was ironic was that everyone knew Krishnan was no saint either. The staff of Raman scratched their heads over an appropriate response: merely defacing the sign was a sure provocation to cause fighting in the streets and wasn't considered an equal riposte. At last someone had a brainwave.
Next day, an equally large sign appeared right below the previous one. It read:
Why not vote for the other drunkard then?
The old professor also told us another one, an American joke I hadn't heard before.
A man was filling out an application. He raced through the Name, Gender, Age, Address fields before hitting a section about his parents' details. He wrote down his Father's name and paused at "Age (if alive)". Thinking it over, he carefully wrote: 128. For that's what his papa would've been if he was still alive.
CCCLXV diem: annus blogus - III
I lopped off part of the right margin, but the text can be extrapolated. The last word on the 2nd last line is "paper" :-) Note to graphologists: I'm not sure if this is a proper sample of my handwriting given that I didn't write this in ideal conditions.
Previous annual commemorations
* 2004 - the Nadsat Post
* 2003 - the Boustrophedon Post
* - and for historical reasons, the début post
Coach Coach Hota Hai
Question? Answer.
BTW, who is the unfortunate coach of the Railways Ranji Team? Think of the possible ribbing he must be getting by being a railway coach. (or has this been pointed out before?)
Foucault's Code and the Da Vinci Pendulum
Finally managed to get this post up.
Good Heavens
If you thought only mere mortals suffered the mundaneness of the ritual called "appraisals", Nikhil shows you that it's all not hunky dory up in the celestial realms as well. Read A Celestial Appraisal (Note: Nikhil writes mainly in Marathi).
It is cruel to ask people to come back to work full tilt after a three day weekend. We need atleast a half-day to ease back in - like dipping a shivering toe in an Arctic lake prior to the plunge. [This last statement doesn't apply to Vinayak - he just spends his vacations diving into them.]
Love in the time of the Emergency
I watched Hazaaron Khwaishen Aisi with about 30 other people in a cinema theatre meant for about 100. The rest of the potential cinema population was presumably watching Kaal and I hope that film was as interesting as the Sudhir Mishra one was to me.
The way an ordinary person of my profile in India learns about history is by chance. Perhaps you will meet someone knowledgeable about the past. Or you will stumble by a book or even a film that fills in areas of the canvas you didn't even know existed. For instance, I got to learn some of the most basic facts about the events of 1947 from Freedom at Midnight. The events of the Emergency of 1975 may be as remote to me as say the Mughal era; in fact I may know more about the latter. So it isn't surprising that a film like Hazaaron... won't set box office registers ringing, but it did set my mind aflutter.
The film is essentially a love story (however trite that may sound) set before & during the Emergency. Mishra doesn't go about analysing and dissecting the tumult of the times, but simply chooses to explore how all that affects his characters. Siddharth (Kay Kay), a radical from a wealthy family, Geeta (Chitrangada Singh), educated abroad and quietly worshipful of Siddharth, and Vikram (Shiny Ahuja), openly in love with Geeta and who "wants a way in". Into the power structure that is.
Threading through a Naxalite group in Bihar, commercialisation of palaces, venality, crime, supplication - the usual stuff of politics, then and now - we follow these three for about 8 years and get a sense of how it all must have been (and perhaps is). It is far removed from my current reality, but who's to say?
The story isn't of a kind that has a definite beginning and end, but describes a phase. No loss-of-innocence fable as well; almost of all the players know the score and feel the need for survival very strongly.
I was a little puzzled at the ending though, mainly with the abrupt transformation of Siddharth, for which I didn't see any adequate explanation. Sudhir Mishra wants to show a certain loss of morals in some as well as a contradictory strengthening of it among others simultaneously, so perhaps why the film ended the way it did. There is however, a sense of closure with what happens to Geeta & Vikram. The cynical & caustic imprint begins right at the opening lines of the film where the filmmaker follows a stock shot of the "tryst with destiny" speech by mentioning the technical fact that not the whole world was asleep when India woke to light and freedom - it was 2:30 pm in parts of America.
The performances are first-rate, and the meatiest parts are gobbled by Shiny Ahuja & Chitrangada Singh. Some of my friends didn't want to watch this film because of Ahuja after they apparently walked out of a screening of Sins (their explanation for being there was that they "strayed into it") in 15 minutes after watching him. If that was the case, well, he has paid for those and recovered his name here. Chitrangada Singh's uncanny resemblance to Smita Patil has already found mention in many places, and it is to her credit that her acting stands up to those levels of quality. Several good cameos including ones by Sandeep Kulkarni & Saurabh Shukla add ballast. This film could've only succeeded by such good actors supporting the storyline.
Much appreciated also was the score by Shantanu Moitra, especially with man yeh baa.nwraa. Trivia notes existed: the dedication to Mishra's former wife, the late Renu Saluja, a tiny appearance by Mishra himself and two fleeting references to "Ahuja" and "Tarneja" in the film being the most noteworthy.
The film is believably "Indian", respecting the diverse nature of players in such stories. There are no concessions to help you understand some of the subtleties, which helps the elasticity of this two hour film. All in all, quite recommended if you have the inclinations for such stories.
It is a sign of the times that when I'm watching a film where the heroine has just opened the taps at full blast in preparation to take a bath, all I can think of is does she really need to use so much water? Especially, when the scene cuts and I realise that no one has turned the tap off. (In case your imagination is getting a little "steamy", it was My Fair Lady and quite a chaste scene, I'm afraid).
It also wasn't the best day to look expectantly at the dripping tap after having just had a haircut. Later in the day, noting the further deterioration of several roads in the areas I was visiting after a while was saddening and maddening.
Bijlii, SaDak, Paani for us too.
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Going up north to commune with nature. Be back on Monday. Drive safe, remember our veterans, and FLY YOUR FLAGS!!
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A blog for the Times .....A MUST read
As Memorial Day approaches, there is a blog that starkly captures and reminds us of the sacrifices made by our men and women in uniform--Zero Two Mike Soldier. A member of the military himself, he relates his own and others' experiences. As this monday approches, pay special attention to the sites he links here and here. Thanks, Mike--for your service. It is indeed appreciated.
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So much for the Art of "Compromise"...Bolton Cloture vote fails...
It would seem as if the democrats are still acting like democrats. Who'd a thunk it. Can Republicans perhaps start acting like the majority party now? I got a fundraising call from my friendly RNC gal tonight. Told her no can do. Funny... she said everyone else was saying that, too. I wonder why.
Makes ya real proud...to be a republican, doesn't it?
? and the Mysterians got nothing on this guy. The NYTimes has a puff piece (go to bug-me-not to get a log-in password) on Voinovich and the other RINOs .
WASHINGTON, May 12 - The unusual pact that permitted the nomination of John R. Bolton to go forward on Thursday without the support of a crucial Republican senator has exposed, in a very raw and public way, the extreme pressures facing Republican moderates in a Senate that is increasingly dominated by conservatives.
Senator George V. Voinovich, who broke ranks with Republicans on Thursday over John R. Bolton’s nomination as envoy to the United Nations.
President Bush called the dissenting Republican, Senator George V. Voinovich of Ohio, on Wednesday, the day before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, on which Mr. Voinovich serves, was to take up the nomination, the White House spokesman, Scott McClellan, said.
Karl Rove (click here for dramatic effect), the president's powerful political adviser, and Andrew H. Card Jr., the chief of staff, also called to chat with Mr. Voinovich in recent weeks, Mr. McClellan said.
And Mr. Voinovich, who has steadfastly refused to answer questions about any discussions with the White House, is hardly the only Republican who is feeling the squeeze these days.
From the fight over Mr. Bolton to the looming blowup over the president's judicial nominees to the debate over the proposal to overhaul Social Security, Republican moderates are caught in the middle as never before. As they look to the near future, to a possible vacancy on the Supreme Court, they realize that the pressures will only intensify.
"Bolton is a perfect example of putting the moderates in an impossible situation," said Senator Lincoln Chafee, the Rhode Island Republican who also sits on the Foreign Relations Committee and who agonized publicly over Mr. Bolton for weeks. "It's a no-win. Either we don't support the president or we vote for a very unpopular pick to represent us at the United Nations." (click here to read the rest...)
The piece goes on to relate the trials and tribulations of the six other Senate RINOs. Ohhh boo-friggen-hoo! I heard Voinovich's testimony on the Laura Ingraham Show this morning, and he literally sounded like he was ready for the rubber room at "2-South" at the St. Cloud hospital. He was literally blubbering and crying, wringing his hands at the prospect of a Bolton confirmation, fearing for his grandchildren. (sound clip here courtesy of radioblogger)
FOR CRYING OUT LOUD (literally)--When you're talking about the collection of thugs and criminals at the U.N., the last thing we need is a blathering, blubbering idiot who is worried that we're going to send someone there who isn't going to be very nice to them. Where is General Patton now when you need him to go up to the podium and bitchslap this pantywaist?
Like I said before, Ohio, the RNC, the U.S. Senate, and the United States of America can do a lot better than George Voinovich.
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Smoke 'em if you got 'em ...Parte deux
This from Newsday:
Judge upholds NY smoking bans after private Players Club sues to defend pipe ceremony
By LARRY NEUMEISTER
May 25, 2005, 9:21 PM EDT
NEW YORK -- A judge has tossed out a lawsuit brought by a 115-year-old private club that sought to strike down smoking bans so it could continue to honor its members _ who include Walter Cronkite and Carol Burnett _ with pipe ceremonies.
The Players Club is no more entitled to special privileges with city and state health inspectors enforcing the smoking bans than are pro-tobacco organizations that tried unsuccessfully to overturn the laws, U.S. District Judge Victor Marrero said Wednesday.
"Individuals have no `fundamental' constitutional right to smoke tobacco," (emphasis mine) the judge wrote. "While individuals' freedom of association, freedom of assembly and freedom of speech merit constitutional protection, there is no basis for concluding that the smoking bans infringe those rights."
He said the smoking bans target conduct _ smoking in certain places _ rather than speech, association or assembly, which are not regulated by the statutes.
The judge rejected the argument that the smoking bans caused a prohibition on a club tradition in which members are honored with pipe ceremonies, which involve smoking on the club's premises.
The judge suggested that the ceremonies at the club's Gramercy Park facility still might be able to occur after a substitution of "suitable non-tobacco products." (maybe they can import some of this from Vermont).
The Players Club filed the lawsuit in December 2003 after health inspectors ticketed it for keeping ashtrays behind an office desk. A telephone message for comment left with a club lawyer was not immediately returned Wednesday.
The city smoking law went into effect in March 2003, banning smoking from all restaurants, bars, offices and private clubs with paid staff and requiring the establishments to remove their ashtrays. The state law went into effect in July 2003.
The Players Club had claimed that scientific evidence of second-hand smoke's health effects was bogus and that the ban violated its rights to due process and equal protection.
Besides Cronkite and Burnett, the club counts among its roughly 700 members Angela Lansbury and Timothy Hutton.
Did I read that right? The judge stated that individuals have no 'fundamental' Constitutional right to smoke tobacco? While admittedly the action of puffing away on a heater cannot be found in the Constitution, what can be found in the Constitution is this:
"The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people." (10th Amendment)
Hmm... must've slipped his mind. I'm not arguing against the judge's decision here. What I take with great umbrage is what the judge is using to justify his decision. Using that logic, anything under the sun or any activity that a judge takes exception with and that is not enumerated in the U.S. Constitution would be subject to confiscation or worse.
Heck, since parts of the Constitution apparently don't mean anything to anybody anymore, maybe we should just hand it over to Iraq. Perhaps they'll have better luck with it.
Smoke 'em if you got 'em....
David Strom from the Minnesota Taxpayers League has an eye opening article on how smokers are paying the freight for nonsmokers, even before Pawlenty's proposed tax increase "user fee".
According to a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, the societal costs of smoking amount to about 15-24 cents a pack in 1986 dollars, or 27-43 cents a pack in 2005 dollars. Those costs are obviously substantially less than the taxes charged by the state and federal governments and being paid for by smokers through the tobacco settlements—amounting to 64 cents a pack in 1998. This year alone the state is getting about $200 million in tobacco settlement dollars from smokers, adding up to $1.6 billion paid into state coffers since 1998. Tobacco products are also subject to the 6.5% sales tax. “Smokers are getting reamed already,” said David Strom. “Blue Cross and the tobacco tax advocates are smoking something if they are trying to argue that smokers aren’t paying their way already. They are already paying about $1.60 a pack in direct and indirect taxes to the government per pack.”
“Compared to the high-end estimate of social costs per pack of cigarettes put out by the Journal of the American Medical Association of 43 cents a pack, smokers are subsidizing non-smokers to the tune of over a $1 a pack. Adding another 75 cents a pack is highway robbery!” said Strom.
“Hitting smokers with another tax may be the most politically popular solution to the budget impasse, but it sure isn’t fair! The average retail price of a pack of smokes is $3.81 today—adding another $.75 is highway robbery.
“Given that smokers are disproportionately lower-income, this is also one of the most regressive taxes you can raise,” Strom added. (emphasis mine)
The “health impact fee” on cigarettes also opens a can of worms; sugar, corn syrup, trans-fatty acids, saturated fats, and a whole host of other foods are known to have adverse health effects. “What next, a twinkie tax?” asked Strom.
“Given that smokers are disproportionately lower-income, this is also one of the most regressive taxes you can raise,” Strom added.
Gives new (this time, real) meaning to the trite phrase, "balancing the budget on the backs of the poor," doesn't it? Pawlenty has now jumped with both feet onto the politically-popular cash cow ride via smokers with this proposed user fee tax. Something about this has Bush 41 written all over it.. something about reading lips.
Tim Pawlenty has lots of political capital to spend, but does he really want to spend it on this?
Now I'm no smoker (except for an occasional fine cigar), so in effect I don't have a dog in the fight. But if Pawlenty doesn't figure out a way to wriggle out of this proposal, and do it fast, he's going to have a lot of mud flung his way (and rightly so)smacking of "broken promises" come election time.
***UPDATE**** King Banaian has some insights here.
Those F'ing BASTARDS ...Are they all insane??
This just in from Reuters:
FBI memo reports Guantanamo guards flushing Koran
Wed May 25, 2005 7:58 PM ET
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An FBI agent wrote in a 2002 document made public on Wednesday that a detainee held at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, had accused American jailers there of flushing the Koran down a toilet.
The Pentagon said the allegation was not credible.
The declassified document's release came the week after the Bush administration denounced as wrong a May 9 Newsweek article that stated U.S. interrogators at Guantanamo had flushed a Koran down a toilet to try to make detainees talk. The magazine retracted the article, which had triggered protests in Afghanistan in which 16 people died.
The newly released document, dated Aug. 1, 2002, contained a summary of statements made days earlier by a detainee, whose name was redacted, in two interviews with an FBI special agent, whose name also was withheld, at the Guantanamo prison for foreign terrorism suspects.
The American Civil Liberties Union released the memo and other FBI documents it obtained from the government under court order through the Freedom of Information Act.
"Personally, he has nothing against the United States. The guards in the detention facility do not treat him well. Their behavior is bad. About five months ago, the guards beat the detainees. They flushed a Koran in the toilet," the FBI agent wrote.
"It's not credible," chief Pentagon spokesman Lawrence Di Rita said of the allegation regarding a Koran in a toilet.
Di Rita said the U.S. military questioned the detainee on May 14, and that the man was "very cooperative and answered the questions but did not corroborate the allegation recorded on Aug. 1, 2002." Di Rita said he did not know whether the man actually recanted the allegation.
"These kind of, sort of, fantastic charges about our guys doing something willfully heinous to a Koran for the purposes of rattling detainees are not credible on their face," Di Rita told reporters.
The documents indicated that detainees were making allegations that they had been abused and that the Muslim holy book had been mishandled as early as April 2002, about three months after the first detainees arrived at Guantanamo.
In other documents, FBI agents stated that Guantanamo detainees also accused U.S. personnel of kicking the Koran and throwing it to the floor, and described beatings by guards. But one document cited a detainee who accused a guard of dropping a Koran, prompting an "uprising" by prisoners, when it was the prisoner himself who dropped it.
"Unfortunately, one thing we've learned over the last couple of years is that detainee statements about their treatment at Guantanamo and other detention centers sometimes have turned out to be more credible than U.S. government statements," said ACLU lawyer Jameel Jaffer. [ED: Any surprise there?]
Former detainees and a lawyer for current prisoners previously have stated that U.S. personnel at Guantanamo had placed the Koran in a toilet, but the Pentagon has said it also does not view those allegations as credible.
In document written in April 2003, an FBI agent related a detainee's account of an incident involving a female U.S. interrogator.
"While the guards held him, she removed her blouse, embraced the detainee from behind and put her hand on his genitals. The interrogator was on her menstrual period and she wiped blood from her body on his face and head," the memo stated.
A similar incident was described in a recent book written by a former Guantanamo interrogator.
White House spokesman Scott McClellan last week said Newsweek "got the facts wrong" and Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman called the article "demonstrably false." Di Rita said last week the Pentagon had received "no credible and specific allegations" that U.S. personnel had put a Koran in the toilet.
What a bunch of sick idiots. Let's have a few more Muslim riots. Let's have more people die. Let's make the recruiting lines for suicide bombers even longer. Let's have more of our service men and women come home in body bags.
Sick bastards. The MSM doesn't give a rat's ass about anything except for circulation. Screw them. Send the bastards out on a pizza run in Iraq right next to an IED and see how they like it.
Gads, I'm so friggen mad right now I could just friggen explode.
How the hell do you flush a Koran down a toilet? Tell me that. Again, sick propaganda being spewed forth by media ghouls. And we and others around the world are going to have to pay the price.
That's a prisoner's word--and of course the MSM eats it up and reports it as if it were friggen gospel, while being spoon-fed by the ever-so-nonpartisan ACLU. The FBI statements are just that. Statements. Uncorroborated. But as Newsweek and others so aptly coined the addage: Don't let an uncorroborated story get in the way of a good U.S. smear piece--and if we can take some soldiers down, so much the better! Screw the consequences!.
After the Newsweek debacle, the MSM has decided to circle the wagons. You can also read about it here and here, here, and here. Hell, even Calypso Louie is getting into the act. I suppose if enough ghoulish bastards report on the same thing.. and say the same thing enough times in enough places, just like any good propaganda, it will become true.
These ghouls report on uncorroborated "fairy tales" without taking one second to ponder whether they should.
Rather than learning from their missteps, the MSM has now apparently taken a step in normalizing the reporting of uncorroborated stories. Make no mistake about it. This is the beginning of an undeclared war on fact checking and the blogosphere through sheer will; no more will they kowtow to scrutiny by paeons. It is now clear that they will fight to keep what they perceive as their god-ordained right to print whatever the hell they please, whatever the hell the consequences And if they take down some American lives in the process? Hey, it's just collateral damage in the war, then, isn't it?
***update****
This from Powerline:
This story is absurd on its face. What about the "similar incident" described by the former Guantanamo interrogator? Presumably Reuters refers to the recent book by Erik Saar, the only book-writing former interrogator I know of. I heard Saar relate this story on the radio, only it wasn't blood, it was red ink, and there was nothing about the female soldier removing her blouse, etc. "Similar," indeed.
This story has been marked by two features, I think: lousy reporting, and a desperate desire on the part of leftists worldwide to believe that assertions made by Guantanamo detainees, no matter how outlandish and uncorroborated, are true.
It will be interesting to see this non-story's ability to sprout legs in the coming days.
Rush has a similar take:
But, oh, no. Mainstream press has to circle the wagons and protect their own inside Washington, DC, and I told you to be on the lookout because we were going to see a spate of stories about how this was true anyway even though Newsweek got this instance wrong, that this was true anyway. So you read the New York Times story, "The prisoners' accounts are described by the agents in detailed summaries of interrogations at Guantanamo in 2002 and 2003. The documents were among more than 300 pages turned over by the F.B.I. to the American Civil Liberties Union in recent days and publicly disclosed Wednesday." So it's the same story, it's the same allegation by the same wacko detainee, but the press writes about it today as though it's brand-new, a new story, a new allegation when it's the same one, it's three years old and there's no corroboration for it. The only difference is that the report in which the allegation is contained has been made public, this is the report that Newsweek did not make public, that they obviously have a source on who was wrong.
An Open Letter to the FEC
Dear Sirs and Madames,
Please let me voice my ultimate disapproval and opposition to any regulation of free political speech on the Internet. The First Amendment makes no bones about free political speech:
— The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
Please note that no law shall be made abridging the freedom of speech. As any school child can tell you (or should be able to tell you) the First Amendment was enacted especially so as to protect free and unfettered political speech. The Internet and the freedom that it offers, in my opinion, would be the Founding Fathers' dream. The internet has become the national version of the town hall; a forum in which ordinary people from all walks of life can participate and freely exchange political ideas. That, gentlemen and gentleladies of the FEC, is the embodiment of the internet and the true intended spirit of the First Amendment. Weblogs, or blogs are a venue whereby ordinary citizens can have their say in the townhall of ideas, which are thankfully no longer monopolized either by print or broadcast media, and no longer the exclusive purview of politicians.
Gentlemen and gentleladies of the FEC, let me make it abundantly clear: Any move to abridge the freedom of political speech on the internet and specifically on political blogs can only be construed as a direct violation of the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America--which makes it perfectly clear that Freedom of Political Speech shall NOT be infringed!
Gentlemen and Gentleladies of the FEC, I urge you in the strongest possible terms to preserve the First Amendment Rights for which our forefathers sacrificed life and fortune, and for which so many of our fighting men and fighting women have fought for and continue to fight to preserve! Do NOT let their sacrifices be in vain! Not only for our own sakes, but even more importantly for the sake of our progeny.
Gentlemen and Gentleladies of the FEC, the future of free political speech, the very essence of our Republic, is in your hands. I trust you will make the right decision.
Respectfully yours in free speech,
Leo J. Pusateri
656 Roosevelt Road
Saint Cloud, Minnesota 56301
Owner and editor of: Psycmeistr's Ice Palace
http://psycmeistr.blogspot.com
Only 10 Days Left to protect bloggers from the FEC
This from the Online Coalition:
Time is running out at the Federal Election Commission. The period for public comment on the proposed rulemaking regarding the Internet closes June 3, 2005.
As a blogger, or blog reader - you have valuable input from your firsthand experience that the FEC desperately needs. You don't have to be a lawyer, and you've got a duty to weigh in. Please take a moment and read over and endorse the 11 Principles for Online Freedom we've written up with the Center for Democracy & Technology and the Institute for Politics, Technology, and The Internet: http://fec.cdt.org/signup.php
If you'd like to file your own comment, here are two places where you can find help and instructions:
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Once you do submit a comment, please consider sending us a copy. Knowing what bloggers are telling the FEC will help throughout this process.
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On Bending Yodi's Ear....
Here's a blog worth reading. No, it's not political. But the author (a Roman Catholic Priest), a wonderful writer, has some sage advice, some timely musings, and incredible insights on day-to-day life issues. Check it out.
I almost forgot about this...
This has gotta make you laugh--from Sesame Street and the Muppet show.
(hat tip to Eckernet)
What Kind of Blogger are You?
You Are a Snarky Blogger!
You've got a razor sharp wit that bloggers are secretly scared of.
And that's why they read your posts as often as they can!
Hat tip to Kevin. BTW,
snark·y ( P ) Pronunciation Key (snär k )
adj. Slang snark·i·er, snark·i·est
Irritable or short-tempered; irascible.
C'mon Mitch, tell us how you really feel (and a lot of other Republicans, too)
Extraordinary Circumstances?
Now that I have spent the remainder of what was inside my stomach and have given my due to the porcelain god, I am somewhat ready to comment on the "deal" made between seven (yep, 7) Republicans and 7 democrats (though it may have been the whole friggen DNC for that matter). These seven RINO brides for seven brothers are responsible for thwarting the President's agenda, the majority party in the Senate, and by fiat the mandate given Bush's agenda by a sizeable majority of the United States' electorate. The deal, which allows an up or down vote without threat of filibuster on only the next three judicial nominees (Janet Rogers Brown, Priscilla Owen and William Pryor) to come down the pike. Three out of 10. Now there's a great deal for the majority party--NOT. Reminds me of the deal the Indians got for Manhattan. And the dems, in return for their continued ability to exercise their unconstitional option to filibuster judicial nominees, promise that they will only filibuster under extraordinary circumstances. What is an "extraordinary circumstance" to the likes of Teddy Kennedy, Harry Reid, and "Sheets" Byrd? Why the fact that the candidate was appointed by George Bush, of course! Under the agreement, Bush will actually have to consult with this coalition of 14 moderates prior to nominating a candidate. That's 14 people out of 101 (including the President) that are going to be the powerbrokers with regard to judicial appointments. Talk about tyranny of the minority!
I'm not even going to waste my time focusing on the "moderate" dems. They are who they are. But I will focus my attention on the usual cadre of RINOs who have seen fit to usurp party leadership in an unprecedented power grab, along with the will of a majority of the American people: Lincoln Chaffee, John McCain, Mike DeWine, Lindsey Graham, John Warner, Susan Collins, and Olympia Snowe. A good rundown of the whole story can be found here.
Meanwhile, this on Free Republic, comparing John Warner to Neville Chamberlain, after he sold out Czechoslovakia:
"Peace in our time, eh?"
(It appeared that I blogged this too late--Doug at Bogus Gold had a similar assessment yesterday.)
On the Limbaugh show, Frist's office reportedly called and assured that the Constitutional option was still on the table, and that he would ensure that all of Bush's judicial nominess would get the up or down vote they deserve. Frist's office noted an outpouring of irate phone calls to his office. Frist, hopefully, has seen the writing on the wall. His RINO counterparts would also do well to heed it.
Tiple_A from Residual Forces has this take:
What did the GOP get?
If I got it right, only 7 out of the 10 nominees on the Senate Floor right now get votes. Meaning to me, that 3 of them are still being phillibustered! So what kind of compromise was this? The Dems got what they wanted, and the GOP got squat!
The only bright spot of this whole thing is we now know the day the GOP died.
. Triple_A counted 7; I counted three. In any case, I have to agree with that last paragraph.
I want my MTV, Benedict!
This from the St. Cloud Times Writers Group, Ron Ohmann:
Habemus papam. "We have a pope."
After watching John Paul II neurologically decline and heroically suffer, the white smoke was welcome.
While Cardinals Hummes of Brazil or Danneels of Belgium would have given many of us more ecclesial hope, Joseph Ratzinger was installed as Benedict XVI exactly a month ago today. Who is this 78-year-old Bavarian theologian?
After attaining his doctorate in 1953, Ratzinger began university teaching and, at the Vatican II Council, served as a liberally minded theology expert.
The Rev. Hans Kung recruited him to the University of Tubingen. In 1968, at age 41, following campus unrest and the untidy dissent against Humanae Vitae (Paul VI's encyclical against hormonal regulation that Bishop Wojtyla, the late John Paul II, even more strongly opposed), the Bavarian professor left Tubingen and allied with Paul VI and Wojtyla.
Soon afterward, elevated to bishop and then cardinal, Ratzinger gravitated toward Augustine and away from Thomas Aquinas. It was dualism theology: the city of God and the city of man, in conflict.
He wrote, "Mankind comes to itself not through what he does but through what he accepts." And again: "Faith comes not from reflecting. Its essence consists in the rethinking of what has been heard."
The ideals of Vatican II — loosening of hierarchical authority, more internal debate and honoring of individual conscience — were gradually de-emphasized in the prelate's thinking.
His view of a less horizontal Catholicity, by which laity and bishops could counter Rome's dominance, gave way in 1968. He now criticized Kung's views as "school certitude" and instead embraced dogma that does not change.
Church hierarchy
All indications are that centralization and absolutism of the papacy will become, once again, more entrenched. This seems especially distasteful to many American Catholics who have a strong sense of democratic governance.
Moreover, the early years of Catholicism in America under Bishops John Carroll and John England were remarkably open and egalitarian.
The new pope's reign has begun with some positive gestures.
However, optimistic sentiments are dampened by last week's forced resignation of Thomas Reese as editor of "America," a long-standing Jesuit publication.
It seems "America" had a tradition of presenting both sides of a theological question. This could not be reconciled with Ratzinger's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.
All in all, about 140 theologians have been variously punished or silenced under the new pope's former office. Is this any way to run a church?
The Catholic Church has suffered dark days before, notably the pontificate of Pius X.
This pope (1903-1914) led a campaign against his own theologians and imposed an Oath Against Modernism on all clerics. It took Benedict XV to bring some reconciliation to the church.
Our new pope has hinted that he too, as Benedict, will bring healing, promote collegiality and mitigate divisiveness.
However, that begs the question that Arthur Jones of the National Catholic Reporter asks: Can the sheepdog become the shepherd?
As you may surmise, I don't share the optimism of some regarding this pontificate.
However, as a lifelong Catholic, I do hope and pray that Benedict XVI will be somewhat redirected to use his prestigious role as Holy Father to really address the entire Catholic community.
I also hope he will call on his cardinals and bishops to show at least a tolerant respect to theologians and scripture scholars as they debate various theological views in their quest of God.
And just as importantly, that he call on his Catholic subjects to show sensitivity and love to each other and to other Christians despite any differences in their journeys of faith.
My grandfather was a Catholic-educated Bavarian, and he would agree.
Translation of this piece: "I want to define deviancy down. I want to feel okay with aberrant behaviors, and want my neighbors to feel okay too. Just like a "living and breathing Constitution" made malleable to fit the times, the new Pope needs to bend the teaching of the Church to fit in with our whims du jour."
Have I gotten that right?
Somehow this does not surprise me...
Question: Do Newsweek's editors hate America?
The American Feb 2nd, 2005 Version of Newsweek
The International Feb 2nd, 2005 Version of Newsweek.
The Japanese Feb 2nd, 2005 version of Newsweek:
Caption above the U.S. flag placed in a trash can: "The Day America Died"
That, coupled with the Koran-in-the-Toilet nonstory, leaves no doubt in my mind that Newsweek's editors do hate America. Not only that, but the cowardly bastards refuse to say it to our face.
Chalk up another one to my list of organizations that will not get any of my thin dimes.
This from Shape of Days:
(Hat tip to Ozark Preacher from Unto the Breach)
Not one thin friggen dime... not one...
Will go from my pocket to the national GOP. Mind you, this is coming from a delegate. Here's why. Now pardon me while I go to my favorite commode and call Ralph.
A Clear Message? It's anything but...
In yesterday's St. Cloud Times Opinion section, a letter, supposedly written by Minnesota Chamber of Commerce president David Olson, ran as follows:
Letter: Kleis' vote on taxes sends clear message
By David Olson, Minnesota Chamber of Commerce,
On May 6, Sen. Dave Kleis voted for, and the Senate passed, a bill that will raise taxes by $1.2 billion during the next two years.
Kleis supported one of the largest tax increases in recent history at a time when the economy is fragile and Minnesotans are facing higher costs for consumer goods and rising interest rates.
Wouldn't it be nice if Kleis and the 34 other senators would have paused for a second and thought about the message they are sending to successful entrepreneurs, business owners and other folks who decide where their companies are located and where they expand their operations?
Kleis is now on record for higher business property taxes, higher corporate income taxes and the highest marginal rate for personal income taxes in the nation, which affects many small-business owners.
Businesses in Kleis' district, and throughout the entire state, will not forget this vote.
Many senators will posture this vote as the first step in negotiating a budget settlement with Gov. Tim Pawlenty and House Republicans.
Negotiations or not, the message has been sent: If you want to do your part to create jobs in Minnesota, you're going to pay more to state government for that privilege.
There are problems on so many levels with this letter, which of course ran on the day of the week with the Times' highest readership levels. First,Dave Kleis voted against the bill, not for it. He was one of the most vocal adversaries of the bill, and has throughout his term been a champion against higher taxes in Minnesota. Which brings us to another two pronged issue. First, that the letter would have come out of the Minnesota Chamber office in the first place, and second, that the Times would print such a falsehood. At 6:15 this morning, on Dan Ochsner's show, the original story was that David Olson denied sending the letter. Later, around 7:50 am, David Olson called the show, and while not admitting that he wrote the letter, said that the letter probably came from his office. What happened, apparently, is that form letters (i.e., insert legislator's name here) went out to state newspapers, and somehow, Dave Kleis got on the list of those who voted "yes" to the tax increase. Shame on the Minnesota Chamber!. The second part of this bad soap opera is the fact that the Times, having full access to Senator Kleis' voting record, and having often reported Kleis' opposition to tax increases, didn't bother to check their facts before printing the op-ed. Shame on the St. Cloud Times! To their partial credit, the Times now has the following disclaimer next to the story on their website:
(EDITOR'S NOTE: Information containted in this letter has been found to be incorrect. Sen. Dave Kleis did not vote for the tax bill.)
But the problem with something being published in the Sunday paper, is that many folks don't read the paper again til the next Sunday. If they don't listen to the local news, or check the web site, they will be left with the erroneous impression that Kleis is turning into a tax-and-spend liberal. Both the Minnesota Chamber of Commerce and the St. Cloud Times owe Senator Kleis a BIG apology, and a very public one at that. How 'bout a full page ad in next Sunday's Times for starters?
King Banaian from SCSU Scholars has this to say:
What is remarkable to me is that our university is still campaigning about anonymous comments on the Times site, yet in this case not only did they expose the error and get it corrected, but that not one but three local legislators -- including the two area DFL legislators -- came up to Sen. Kleis' defense rather early in the day. But in the middle of the chat there's our Mayor Ellenbecker trying to score a political point on Pogomonster's soak-the-rich tax increase. Ellenbecker would do well to get off those boards -- he keeps adding fuel to the fire. Which, as long as he is going to stand in the middle of it, is just fine by me.
BTW--I don't venture predictions too often, but I think this one's a sure bet. Should Senator Kleis decide to run again, either for his current Senate seat, or for another office, some kinniving democrat will state that Kleis voted to raise taxes, citing this article. Prediction made 5/23/2005, 10:31pm.
The Minnesota State Chamber of Commerce has issued this apology:
Our sincere apologies to Sen. Dave Kleis for our letter Sunday, which misstated his vote on the Senate tax bill ("Kleis' vote on taxes sends clear message.")
He did not vote for the tax increase, and we know better. The mistake was ours, regardless how it happened.
Kleis has been a longtime proponent of protecting the interests of the business community and has been a staunch advocate of holding down taxes.
We know he'd never support the bill passed by the Senate on May 6 which would raise taxes by $1.2 billion in the next two years. We regret our error.
Well, that takes care of the Minnesota C of C; now what about the Times. While the Times took the step to retract the story, an apology is lacking. Kleis' voting record is readily available. The Times has oft reported regarding Kleis' stand on raising taxes. Their not checking the sources was negligence that could very well have resulted in damage to Kleis' reputation and character. I think an out-and-out apology by the Times is in order. But I'm not holding my breath.
In the "Paved with Good Intentions" department...
This story on Yahoo news:
N.Y. Audit: Sex Offenders Getting Viagra
ALBANY, N.Y. - Scores of convicted rapists and other high-risk sex offenders in New York have been getting Viagra paid by Medicaid for the last five years, the state's comptroller said Sunday.
Audits by Comptroller Alan Hevesi's office showed that between January 2000 and March 2005, 198 sex offenders in New York received Medicaid-reimbursed Viagra after their convictions. Those included crimes against children as young as 2 years old, he said.
Said Hillary Clinton:
it was "deeply disturbing and runs contrary to the purpose of Medicaid, which is to provide health care coverage for uninsured, low-income individuals." Clinton, a Democrat, urged Leavitt to look into the matter, and said she would explore legislative options.
The esteemed Chuck Schumer:
...said at a press conference in New York City that he hoped the issue could be resolved without a bill, but he's prepared to offer one if needed.
"While I believe that HHS did not do this intentionally, when the government pays for Viagra for sex offenders, it could well hurt many innocent people," he said.
It is said, and indeed has been proven since time immemoriam that the road to hell is paved with good intentions. This is just another in an unending series of those proofs. But take heart, readers on the left, Chuck & Hillary are merely following Step 10.
Appropo after last night's festivities
Found this on Wog's Blog:
How true. How very true.
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What's a little 2 million dollars between friends?
The Dirt Pile and Raging Right Wing Republican report on this story in the London Telegraph that reports on a two million dollar bribe offered a Swedish member of the weapons inspection team by none other than Saddam Hussein.
Rolf Ekeus, the Swede who led the UN's efforts to track down the weapons from 1991 to 1997, said that the offer came from Tariq Aziz, Saddam's foreign minister and deputy.
Mr Ekeus told Reuters news agency that he had passed the information to the Volcker Commission. "I told the Volcker people that Tariq [Aziz] said a couple of million was there if we report right. My answer was, 'That is not the way we do business in Sweden.' "
A clean report from Mr Ekeus's inspectors would have been vital in lifting sanctions against Saddam's regime. But the inspectors never established what had happened to the regime's illicit weapons and never gave Iraq a clean bill of health.
The news that Iraq attempted to bribe a top UN official is a key piece of evidence for investigators into the scandal surrounding the oil-for-food programme. It proves that Iraq was offering huge sums of cash to influential foreigners in return for political favours.
Nile Gardiner, of the Heritage Foundation in Washington, who has followed the inquiries, said: "It's the tip of the iceberg of what the Iraqis were offering. For every official like Ekeus who turned down a bribe, there are many more who will have been tempted by it."
This has to beg a question... If Saddam had no WMDs, why the need to bribe inspectors so as to "doctor" a report to give Iraq a "clean bill of health" (something that, according to the story, was never given)? And how many of those inspectors actually took the bribe? Since Rolf Ekeus was the only one to report being bribed, one could justifiably harbor the suspicion that others were not as forthcoming; perhaps for reasons of self-interest. Anyway you put it, the sudden absence of WMDs in contradiction of a plethora of evidence that they were there, and Saddam's bribes in what appeared to be an effort to keep them from being reported, begs the real $64,000,000 question that nobody appears to be asking: Where are the WMDs now?
Thought for Today Iraq, or D.C.?
From Kiwi-Too at Unto the Breach:
If you consider that there has been an average of 160,000 troops in theater in Iraq during the last 22 months, and with the number of deaths, that gives a firearms death rate of 60 per 100,000.
The rate in DC is 80.6 per 100,000.
That means that you are more likely to be shot and killed in our nation's Capitol, which has some of the strictest gun control laws in the nation, than you are in Iraq.
Conclusion: We should immediately pull out of Washington, D.C.
(Kiwi_Too is a civilian contractor currently in Iraq)
About Last Night...me & the MOB...
I'm creating this post a bit on the hungover side, so please bear with the poor spelling and other seemingly tangential and/or loose associations that may come about in the course of this screed. Thanks to King Banaian for putting on this great event. Granite City Food & Brewery, as always, did a bang-up job of service and serving up the finest brew in the nation. It was great to finally meet with King, a fellow St. Cloud Blogger. Rumour has it that he may be joining me in my passion for singing, and he would be a great addition to our barbershop chorus. (I've also tipped his wife off to steer him in that direction). It was also great to meet John "The Night Writer" and his wonderful family, whose collective countenance would be at home on the cover of "Home and Garden" or in a Norman Rockwell painting. Cathy in the Wright, Kevin from Eckernet, Captain & Mrs. Fishsticks, the lovely and gracious Jo, and The smokemeistr Marcus Aurelus from the Attic. It was also a pleasure to meet the extremely funny Mitch, as well as Flash and Brian from Heavy Handed Politics. King Banaian's economics colleague Phil from Market Power was also there, as was Gary of Let Freedom Ring and Wog from Wog's blog. Speed Gibson was also in attendance, as was Shawn (not Sean) of The American Mind. Cathy in the Wright guest blogged on SCSU Scholars, giving a gripping account on an altercation between the Scholar Family and a waitress. The only thing she left out was the midget mud wrestling... but that's a topic for another day.
Great meeting everyone. Tis a great bunch of bloggers we have in Minnesota. :)
The White Limousine Liberal Plantation and Justice Brown ...a political lynching in the making
If you think the current U.S. Senate dog fight over Priscilla Owen is resulting in the dems getting their thongs in a bind, wait til you see what's coming down the pike. Justice Janice Rogers Brown. Brown, the daughter of a sharecropper in rural, segregated Alabama, worked her own way through law school while being a single mother. An African American woman, and the antithesis of the lilly-white limousine liberal plantation establishment, Justice Brown embodies the fullness of the American spirit. A champion of small, laissez faire government, Justice Brown recognizes the insidious encroachment of government in our lives, and tells it like it is:
Protection of property was a major casualty of the Revolution of 1937. The paradigmatic case, written by that premiere constitutional operative, William O. Douglas, is Williamson v. Lee Optical.23 The court drew a line between personal rights and property rights or economic interests, and applied two different constitutional tests. Rights were reordered and property acquired a second class status.24 If the right asserted was economic, the court held the Legislature could do anything it pleased. Judicial review for alleged constitutional infirmities under the due process clause was virtually nonexistent. On the other hand, if the right was personal and "fundamental," review was intolerably strict. "From the Progressive era to the New Deal, [ ] property was by degrees ostracized from the company of rights.25 Something new, called economic rights, began to supplant the old property rights. This change, which occurred with remarkably little fanfare, was staggeringly significant. With the advent of "economic rights," the original meaning of rights was effectively destroyed. These new "rights" imposed obligations, not limits, on the state.
It thus became government's job not to protect property but, rather, to regulate and redistribute it. And, the epic proportions of the disaster which has befallen millions of people during the ensuing decades has not altered our fervent commitment to statism. The words of Judge Alex Kozinski, written in 1991, are not very encouraging." 'What we have learned from the experience of Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union ... is that you need capitalism to make socialism work.' In other words, capitalism must produce what socialism is to distribute."26 Are the signs and portents any better at the beginning of a new century?
Is this woman brilliant, or what? I urge all to read the entire text of the speech here.
Of course, the usual suspects are not wasting any time in doing their level-best to smear Justice Brown, calling her ( GASP!! ) a female Clarence Thomas (as if that's supposed to be some kind of insult). In a joint statement on the Black Commentator, People for the American Way and the NAACP state:
"Janice Rogers Brown has a record of hostility to fundamental civil and constitutional rights principles, and she is committed to using her power as a judge to twist the law in ways that undermine those principles (emphasis mine), said Hilary Shelton, director, NAACP Washington Bureau. "For the administration to bring forward a nominee with this record and hope to get some kind of credit because she is the first African American woman nominated to the DC Circuit is one more sign of the administration's political cynicism."
So, all of a sudden, interpreting the Constitution according to the Founding Fathers' original intent is "twisting the law" in ways that undermine principles? Which principles? Whose principles? You mean those "principles" that have to do with the NAACP and the Limousine Liberal Establishment's wish to make the Constitution a "living, breathing document" to be malleated at will into their whim du jour? You mean the principles of expanding the dependency class on the White Limousine Liberal plantation, creating more vest pocket voters for the DNC cause?
The mental midgets go on:
The report, "Loose Cannon," notes that when Brown was nominated to the state supreme court in 1996, she was found unqualified by the state bar evaluation committee, based not only on her relative inexperience but also because she was "prone to inserting conservative political views into her appellate opinions" and based on complaints that she was "insensitive to established precedent."
So taking an original intent view of jurisprudence, that is, going by the Founding Fathers' intent when writing the Constitution, is somehow wrong or ill-advised?
And experience?
Since May 2, 1996, Janice Brown has been an Associate Justice of the California Supreme Court. From November 4, 1994, she was an Associate Justice of the Third District Court of Appeal in Sacramento. From January 7, 1991, to November 1994, Ms. Brown served as Legal Affairs Secretary to Governor Pete Wilson. The job included diverse duties, ranging from analysis of administration policy, court decisions, and pending legislation to advice on clemency and extradition questions. The Legal Affairs Office monitored all significant state litigation and had general responsibility for supervising departmental counsel and acting as legal liaison between the Governor's office and executive departments.
Prior to joining Governor Wilson's senior staff, Brown was an associate at Nielsen, Merksamer, Parrinello, Mueller & Naylor, a government and political law firm.
Yep... no experience there.
Look for the treatment of this woman of color to only get nastier. While it is true that the white limousine liberal establishment despises Republicans, they hold a special place of hatred toward those they deem should be one of their own, but refuse to play their game. While it may be true that hell hath no fury like a woman scorned, that fury doesn't even begin to touch the fury of the white limousine liberal plantation and its inhabitants thereof toward a person of color who refuses to be a card carrying slave to their philosophy of dependency and government largesse. You don't believe me? This cartoon was part of the People for the American Way/NAACP hit piece:
I thought blatantly racist cariacatures like that went out with the minstrel shows and Amos n Andy.
Look also for the racist democrats in the Senate (and their willing pet RINOs as well) to get particularly nasty, and host their own little political lynching party. But instead of white sheets and pointy hoods over their head (well, perhaps this guy will revert back to the good old days), they will be burning a cross of intimidation, sending a message to un-like minded people of color that they not only need not apply, but better not apply.
Cuban Militant/Terrorist Luis Posada, awaiting extradition to Venezuela
Andy Griffith, a/k/a Matlock.
Think Barney Fife had a clue?
(hat tip to Squid from Unto the Breach)
Dougger and the Psycmeistr...separated at birth?
Doug at Bogus Gold has a link to take a test to see which Star Wars character you most resemble...
Both Doug & I had the following:
Said Doug
Don't know how thrilled I am that my alter ego is dead. But they gave me a lightsaber, so it balances out.
As Dark Helmet said to Lone Star in Spaceballs, You have the ring. And I see your schwartz is as big as mine.
Speaking of Star Wars, there's a great spoof at Atom Films. Quite unexpected ending.
I'll be at the MOB road show on Saturday
King Banain has all the details.
I'll be dewinterizing my camper (hopefully it's safe enough to do so by now) in Detroit Lakes this Friday night, staying overnight, and then hopefully will be back in St. Cloud by 5:30 or 6:00p on Saturday. I'm very much looking forward to meeting everyone there!
The Ice Palace will soon be going International
...stay tuned for details!
Play Ball!!
Yours truly will be singing the Canadian and American National Anthems tomorrow night (May 18) at the Twins-Toronto game (along with a hundred or so other barbershoppers). Unfortunately, they don't usually air the anthem on TV anymore, but I hear you can catch it on the radio broadcasts. Anyway, I did it last year as well and it's always a blast. I'm especially looking forward to a cold beer and a jumbo Chicago dog (a Chicago native, I'm partial to hot dogs, and, believe it or not, the Metrodome has as good a Chicago dog as anyplace in Chicago).
Of course, I'm also looking forward to a Twins-Win.
Musings of a chain gang worker
I had the pleasure of working road side cleanup on Highway 23 East between St. Cloud and Foley this evening, part of our organization's participation in the "Adopt a Highway" program. When I volunteered to do this, I thought I was doing my part to beautify Minnesota, a state which although not a native, I have adopted as my home state. As a partner and I were trudging down the roadside ditch, cleaning the two-mile stretch, my sense of civic pride evntually started turning into one of first annoyance, and then outright disgust. Cups from McDonald's; newspapers; porno rags, hundreds of cigarette butts, cigarette packs by the score, beer cans, pop cans. And I thought, "What the hell am I doing here, picking up everybody else's garbage? Couldn't they just wait til they got to a garbage can at a gas station instead of just chucking the crap out their car window?
And it got me to thinking about all the times I have walked to the edge of my driveway when mowing the lawn, only to see at least a hundred cigarette butts strewn on my lawn and on road next to the curb to be picked up--every week (I live on a fairly busy throughway), and I thought, "Geeze, people--Do I go and take a friggen crap on your lawn?" And it got me to fantasizing about the day when I finally see someone chucking a cigarette butt out their car window, and my following them to their house, carrying a week's worth of residue from my four dogs, and dumping it on their doorstep. Aaahhh.... hey...a guy can dream, can't he?
Too Little, Too Late? Newsweek retracts.
Newsweek has now retracted its story:
"Based on what we know now, we are retracting our original story that an internal military investigation had uncovered Quran abuse at Guantanamo Bay," Whitaker said.
White House press secretary Scott McClellan called Newsweek's retraction "a good first step" but said it could not repair all the damage that had been done.
"The report had real consequences," McClellan said. "People have lost their lives. Our image abroad has been damaged. There are some who are opposed to the United States and what we stand for who have sought to exploit this allegation."
Newsweek has taken an important first step in righting a wrong. But the task that Newsweek has ahead of itself in repairing its reputation is nothing compared to the task that is before our nation in repairing the damage done with respect to U.S.-Islamic relations. Newsweek's irresponsibility served only to breed further distrust and to fan the flames, creating an even larger pool of potential suicide bombers and others willing to die for the jihadist cause. In the midst of our efforts to create a safer world, Isakoff and Whitaker's actions served to thwart those efforts. If they truly do regret their actions, they would do well to step down from their respective positions.
(hat tip to Captain Ed)
Yet another weasel gets sucked into a jet engine...
Fox News has a story regarding deep Russian government connections in the Oil for Food scandal. According to a report released today,
The payments were made so that Iraq could buy support for lifting sanctions against Iraq in the U.N. Security Council, former Saddam officials told the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs (search) investigations subcommittee.
Saddam's vice president, Taha Yasin Ramadan (search), told investigators that the allocations were "compensation for support," according to one of two reports released Monday.
Well Surprise, Surprise, Surpriiiise!!!
The light that continues to be shed on these cockroaches known as The "coalition of weasels" continues to deplete the left of the ammunition required to maintain their argument that the U.N. Security Council had only the world's best interests at heart when they opposed the U.S.-led Iraq invasion.
Newsweek's Non-Apology
This just in on the Fox News website:
"We regret that we got any part of our story wrong and extend our sympathies to victims of the violence and to the U.S. soldiers caught in its midst," Editor Mark Whitaker wrote in the magazine's latest issue, available on U.S. newsstands on Monday, the Reuters story said.
..And from this story:
Newsweek, which said opponents of the Afghan government including remnants of the Taliban had used its report to fan unrest in the country, said it was not contemplating disciplinary action against staff.
"This was reported very carefully, with great sensitivity and concern(emphasis mine), and we'll continue to report on it," said Newsweek Managing Editor John Meecham. "We have tried to be transparent about exactly what happened, and we leave it to the readers to judge us."
With great sensitivity and concern? This comes as close to a non-apology as anything gets. At least 15 people are dead (this latter story reports 16). U.S. Islamic relations in a nation where our soldiers continue to be in harm's way and where our soldiers continue to rely on their cooperation to obtain our objectives, are now without a doubt at a new low. Not to mention the fact that our enemies in the rest of the Islamic world are now getting a much needed morale and P.R. boost.
It has been often said that the pen is mightier than the sword. What Newsweek has done with regard to reporting this non-story in its hell-bent propagandistic jihad to bash America at all costs is to set back U.S.-Islamic relationships at least three years, putting our troops at further risk, lengthening the terrorist recruiting lines, and costing more and more American lives in the process.
And they plan no disciplinary action, and to let the readers decide?? At least when this guy lied, nobody died.
All that the esteemed readers of Newsweek need to do is look at the literal carnage this fiasco has left behind to know that one should spend not one more dime on that rag.
****UPDATE*****
Newsweek continues on its long journey down that River in Egypt:
Whitaker, however, did not say that the allegations in the story were wrong, but that the Newsweek reporters' source could not pinpoint where the source obtained his or her information. He also implied that the story had no causal effect on the recent riots in Afghanistan, in which 16 people have died and dozens have been injured(emphasis mine).
"The riots started and spread across the country, fanned by extremists and unhappiness over the economy," Whitaker wrote.
No causal effect? This guy is so steeped in denial that he couldn't get out of it if someone handed him a 10-mile long section of rope. His & Isakoff's deliberate negligence in their blind efforts to badmouth an administration with which they are at odds (regardless of cost or consequence) initiated a chain reaction that cost lives. There is no getting around that. There is no denying that. Isakoff and Whitaker will answer for their derelictions, sooner or later. If not in this world, then in the next.
Sunday meanderings... a lighter look on things...
(originally posted 4:20p on 3/6/2005)
My wife and I took our weekly sojourn to the Waite Park Goodwill store today, where my eyes beheld a true relic. It was a 1940s-50s era woodburning set, complete with the original box, stenciled pieces of wood, and instructions on how to use it (printed on the inside cover of the box). The instructions, paraphrased, said,
1. Plug woodburning tool in 110 volt outlet.
2. Wait for woodburning tool to heat up.
3. Begin using tool to burn designs in wood pieces.
On the outside of the box cover was a picture of a boy and girl, clad in "Leave-it-to-Beaver" attire, smiling, and carving pictures into wood. All harmless enough. Until something about it hit me. "Wait a minute," I thought. There's something missing. Not one word of "caution" on the tool, the box, the wood pieces; not one word of caution to be found. Anywhere. No "Caution, improper use of this tool may lead to injury or death," or "Danger-Fire Hazard- product may be hot, do not place tool on lap," or "do not use this toy while bathing," or "You'll shoot your eye out!" No "no warranty made, express. written or implied, as to the safe use of this product." No multi-lingual 25-page pamphlet filled with the hazards of using the woodburning tool. Anywhere. Just an electric wood burning tool, pieces of wood, and a box with instructions printed on the inside of the cover.
This observation led me to wonder if the emergency rooms were filled in the 1940s and 1950s with children who were maimed or dismembered via uninformed, improper use of wood burning tools. I wonder if the courtrooms of the 1940s and 1950s were filled with ambulance-chasing trial lawyers hell bent on getting every last nickel out of the Acme woodburning tool company for not warning their clients ahead of time that their child may burn his fingers if not careful while using their product. Or, alternatively, did their moms simply have their child run his finger under some cold water, put a band-aid on the finger, give the tool back to him, and then advise him to be more careful with it?
It also got me to wondering, was it the same kids who had actually maimed themselves with woodburning kits the kids who would later grow up to be bureaucrats working at the Consumer Products Safety Commission and other nannystate agencies, determined that other children should not suffer the same fate as they? It's been an interesting voyage our society has taken -from the "oops" generation to the "Somebody-else-is-responsible-for-my-oops-and- I'll-sue-the-pants-off-you-get-my-attorney-now" generation. And it gets me to wondering what the next 50 years will bring.
Thank you, Newsweek ..the consequences of irresponsible MSM "journalism"
Newsweek sparks global riots with one paragraph on Koran
By Catherine Philp
Claim that the Holy book was defiled by US guards at Guantanamo Bay has incensed Muslims
Demonstrators show the depth of anti-American feeling in Islamabad after the Newsweek report (REUTERS)
AT LEAST nine people were killed yesterday as a wave of anti-American demonstrations swept the Islamic world from the Gaza Strip to the Java Sea, sparked by a single paragraph in a magazine alleging that US military interrogators had desecrated the Koran.
As Washington scrambled to calm the outrage, Condoleezza Rice, the US Secretary of State, promised an inquiry and punishment for any proven offenders. But at Friday prayers in the Muslim world many preachers demanded vengeance and afterwards thousands took to the streets, burning American flags.
Although the original report in Newsweek was small, it was re-broadcast by television networks such as al-Jazeera and al-Arabiya and in Pakistan it was quoted by Imran Khan, the cricketer-turned-politician, at a press conference. He said it would strengthen the impression that America’s War on Terror was against Muslims.
The most violent protests were in Afghanistan, where the death toll in clashes between demonstrators and security forces reached fourteen after a third day of rioting. Three people were killed and twenty-two injured near Faizabad, in Badakhshan province, when a thousand rioters burnt down aid agencies’ offices.
Worshippers in Pakistan poured on to the streets after prayers, chanting “Death to America”, and burning American flags. In Jakarta, hundreds gathered noisily at a mosque. Thousands marched through the streets of a Palestinian refugee camp in Gaza.
The unrest began this week after Newsweek published an allegation that American military interrogators had desecrated the Islamic holy book in an effort to rattle detainees at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. The report said that they had placed the Koran on the lavatory inside inmates’ cells and had “in at least one case, flushed a holy book down the toilet” .
Thing about it is, there is NO EVIDENCE that such an event ever took place. So, in Newsweek's zeal to put an anti-American slant on things, albeit without confirmation, people died. Hope you're happy, Newsweek. Hat tip to Little Green Footballs.
*****UPDATE*****
From Fox TV News: Newsweek has just come out with a statement to the effect that it regrets any errors that it may have made, and that they send their sympathies to the families of those who were injured or who were killed. As of this writing there is no such statement on their web site, nor on the Fox News web site. As soon as the actual text of the retraction is available, I will post it here.
For now, suffice it to say that 15 people have died, and scores more have been injured. I would say that some journalistic heads should roll after this one.
Stuart Smalley, without the annoying Al Franken personna
Click on this for a quick pick-me-up. Hat tip to Residual Forces.
Not to be outdone by Newsweek, CBS gets into the act.
CBS headline on its coverage of Uzbekistan:
U.S. Ally Fires On Its People
Of course, the fact that Uzbekistan is a U.S. ally has a bearing on this story like a snowstorm in Siberia has a bearing on whether the Twins game will be cancelled, or whether "weather concerns" in May really have a bearing on a certain Minnesota majority leader's decision not to visit St. Cloud.
With friends like CBS, who needs France?
hat tip to Little Green Footballs
The Smoothing Plane hits it spot on...
Check out the Smoothing Plane for a great post regarding Paul Harvey's take on modern day PC terminology regarding terrorists. One heck of a slap-in-the-face wake up for a P.C. spoon fed electorate. A MUST READ.
Poor Dean Johnson... a little under the weather?
From the KNSI News web site:
Senate Majority Leader Dean Johnson had been scheduled to make a stop in St. Cloud yesterday, however he cancelled the trip because of concerns over the weather. On Wednesday the Willmar Democrat had been criticized by Senate Republicans for not staying at the capital and finishing up the session. Johnson had been facing pressure to meet with Governor Tim Pawlenty and House Speaker Steve Sviggum for budget negotiations yesterday. Johnson had been scheduled to stop in Saint Cloud to promote the D-F-L budget plan for an income tax increase to fund schools.(emphasis mine)
It would appear that Dean Johnson is now taking hiding lessons from Mark Dayton. Only rather than imagined terrorist threats, Dean Johnson, a Minnesotan, seems to have a fear of a 1000:1 shot freak May snowstorm. If that is truly the case, Dean Johnson, you may want to call your buddy Mark Dayton to reserve an adjacent padded cell.
A momentary lapse of reason? or the shape of things to come?
The Republican Controlled House of Representatives voted yesterday to increase the Minnesota State gas tax by 10 cents over the next three years. The RINOs who voted for this measure are:
Jim Abeler, District 48
Ray Cox, District 29B
Ron Erhardt, District 41A
Pat Garofolo, District 36B
Denny McNamara, District 57B
Doug Meslow, District 53B
Dennis Ozment, District 37B
Neil W. Peterson, District 41B
Char Samuelson, District 50B
Kathy Tingelstad, District 49B
Minnesota House Speaker Steve Sviggum, who said he was surprised by the vote, vowed that it would never get to the Governor's desk in its current form.
Now seeing this actually pass a Republican controlled body of the state legislature, one only has to wonder... just what were they smoking? Why pass a law that they know will be vetoed by a governor who has done-very-well-thank-you by sticking with his "no new taxes" pledge?
As Dan Ochsner so aptly said, "They will have the distinct honor of sharing the fate of John Kerry, when they tell their constituents, "I actually voted for the bill, before I voted against it." If this keeps up, it would appear that the Minnesota state Republican party will share the fate of their national party counterparts.
Filibuster was busted at the House of Representatives...
When listening to Rush Limbaugh a couple of days ago, he pointed to an article by John A. Barnes at the National Review regarding Reed's Rules, which were enacted by Senator Thomas Brackett Reed (known thereafter as "Czar Reed" after the incident) in 1889, as a response to end a filibuster tactic in which democrats, who were physically there (mentally? I don't know), would refuse to acknowledge being there during roll call, thereby preventing a quorum. The article points out striking, even eery similarities between the conditions in the House of Representatives then, and the conditions in the present day U.S. Senate. For an interesting lesson in history, I would urge all to read this piece. Barnes ends his piece by opining
Majority rule no doubt has its problems, but they pale in comparison with those presented by minority rule. The term was unknown in 1889, but "going nuclear" can be unavoidable when a majority party finds itself caught between keeping faith with its electors and an obstinate minority that simply refuses to yield. "Czar" Reed knew that. Does Sen. Bill Frist?
Just how long will the Republican "Majority" continue to thwart the will of the voting majority constituents? Just when will the Republican "leadership" rein in the RINOs and once again assert their majority status? Right now there are a lot of angry republicans whose deep pockets are going to close wide shut should things not change, and the current Republican "majority" leadership will once again find themselves in the minority (a position in which, by virtue of their inactions, they will beyond a doubt feel the most comfort).
Who needs democrats?
George Voinovich, just another in the cadre of the ever-present RINOs, had this to say regarding John Bolton:
VOINOVICH: Mr. Chairman, I have to say that after poring over the hundreds of pages of testimony, and, you know, I wasn't here for those hearings, but I did my penance, I read all of it. I believe that John Bolton would have been fired, fired if he worked for a major corporation. This is not the behavior of a true leader who upholds the kind of democracy that President Bush is seeking to promote globally. This is not the behavior that should be endorsed as the face of the United States to the world community in the United Nations. Rather, Mr. Chairman, it is my opinion that John Bolton is the poster child of what someone in the diplomatic corps should not be.
All things being equal is my proclivity to support the president's nominee. However in this case all things are not equal. It's a different world today than it was four years ago. Our enemies are Muslim extremists and religious fanatics who hijacked the Koran and have convinced people that the way to go to heaven is through jihad against the world, particularly the US. We must recognize that to be successful in this war, one of our most important tools is public diplomacy. After hours of deliberation, telephone calls, personal conversations, reading hundreds of pages of transcripts, and asking for guidance from above, I've come to the determination that the United States can do better than John Bolton.
I would dare say that after this complete and utter display of idiocy and given his track record of complete ignorance of who we are dealing with at the U.N. nowadays, the Republican party, the State of Ohio, and the United States in general can do better than "Senator" George Voinovich.
I'll be on the road for a few days..
I'll be travelling to Chicago to do some catching up with an old friend. I'll try to do some blogging while over there. Have a great weekend!
The Ox and the Kamp ... in Iraq
Local St. Cloud radio personalities, Dan "The Ox" Ochsner and Cory "The Kamp" Kampschorer have been broadcasting live from Iraq this past week. During Operation Homeland, Ochsner and Kampshorer have been providing St. Cloud listeners with actualities from Kuwait and Baghdad. Though their main objective, to embed with Minnesota area guardsman in Tikrit, was thwarted due to safety concerns, they were still able to hook up with those soldiers via phone link, and broadcast it back here in Minnesota. They'll be in Iraq til Friday. You can listen live from 6a-9a CDT, Monday thru Friday here, or you can listen to audio clips of the broadcasts here.
As a founding "200 Club Member" (I credit myself with coming up with the term) I salute Ox and the Kamp for their efforts!
Biting the Big Apple ...The Night Writer has some great observations
My friend The Night Writer took his family to New York, and has been blogging from there this past week.. Don't miss his musings, sure to delight. This guy is a novel, waiting to happen.
Can We Afford Minnesota-Nice at the Capital?.. legislators pass a "feel-good" minimum wage hike; Pawlenty expected to sign it..
The Minnesota House & Senate agreed yesterday on raising the minimum wage, and Governor Pawlenty is expected to sign it:
"It was a reasonable increase," said Sen. Paul Koering, R-Ft. Ripley, one of eight Republicans who joined DFLers to support the increase. "It's not out of line to have an increase once in a while." (ED: In that vein, it's not out of line to go rob a liquor store, as long as it's only "once in a while")
An estimated 49,000 workers earn the minimum wage in Minnesota.
About 4,000 workers in Koering's district make $7 an hour or less, according to information from the Department of Employment and Economic Development.
Senate members voted in February to increase the minimum wage to $7 an hour in two years, but agreed to the lower increase the House approved Monday because Gov. Tim Pawlenty said he would sign it.
Politically it was a given that this thing would go through, even among Republicans, so as to allow a chance for one and all to avoid the dreaded "voted against higher wages for Minnesota workers" attack line come election time. Good politics is good politics, even if the practice of "good politics" serves only to throw a wrench into a recovering economy.
At the time of the February signing (can't find the link but in my "steel trap" mind I remember) one of our esteemed legislators said that we need to raise the minimum wage because even McDonald's (voluntarily) pays higher than the minimum wage.
Do you see the disconnect there? McDonald's pays higher than the minimum wage because they know they can attract better employees that way, and that is what the labor market demands at the time.
Minimum wage is what the market will bear to obtain the quality of employees that a business desires. Minimum wage is associated with entry level, unskilled jobs. Given the amount of financial assistance for technical colleges and other venues of higher education, especially for those with very little means, there is no reason why one must forever have an "entry level" job. Government imposition of a "minimum wage" should therefore be deemed irrelevant and unneeded.
An increase in minimum wage also increases inflationary pressure, because once an increase in the minimum wage takes effect, pressure to increase wages in skilled positions also increases. Either costs of manufacturing and/or providing services increase, or businesses attempt to do more with fewer employees, resulting in fewer entry-level jobs.
As one of the few legislators (especially in the Senate) with any common sense, Dave Kleis called the legislation a "feel good measure," saying:
"It should happen at the federal level so Minnesota doesn't become an island," said Kleis, whose district includes about 5,500 workers who earn $7 an hour or less. "We don't need to put ourselves at a competitive disadvantage to neighboring states."
But State Senator Ellen Anderson actually went so far as to state that the minimum wage passage is
"...a way that we can show those who clean out the bedpans in the nursing homes, the people who make the beds in the hotels, the people who serve us eggs and coffee at the cafe, that they are going to get a strong message from us in the legislature that we value their work" and "...that's what raising the minimum wage is all about. [ED: insert music here]"
Ain't it a caution how some people can be so generous with other people's money. If Ms. Anderson values their work so much why doesn't she just leave an extra tip? Easy... because like all good liberals, she feels perfectly comfortable tipping the wait staff with other people's money (i.e. the businesses' money) rather than her own.
As Senator Kleis said,
"Senator Anderson, by passing this bill, you said you know, you're going to pass this bill so all the hard working Minnesotans are going to have this increase...so all of those people who get up in the morning and work hard, are going to make $6.15 per hour. First of all, the market dictates that and it's already above that in the market, so that's not the case
"Those who vote for this will feel good and say that they raised the wage. But you gotta remember that it's private businesses that actually pay the wage---they pay the wage based on the market, not according to the government"
and (this is my favorite line),
"I almost feel like doing an amendment to say insert everything in after the enacting clause, and insert "feel good" because that's what this is..it's just "feel good" legislation-it doesn't do anything."
Kleis went on to point out how after a minimum wage hike in Washington even service jobs were outsourced, and drive through orders in Washington were taken by pimply faced teenagers in South Dakota.
Unfortunately, the substance and common sense inherent in Senator Kleis' comments took a back seat to an Anderson-injected "butt monkey", who felt the need to comment that
"...over 80% of Minnesotans think that the state's minimum wage is too low."
Err...uh.. Senator Kleis--maybe Anderson's got a point. Let's not let any common sense keep a bunch of liberals (along with a cadre of 8 spineless Senate Republicans and a Republican-led House) from feeling good, right?
Hey... a dose of reality can sure wreck a good buzz, can't it? It sure is good to have people like Kleis around to dish it out.
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Leaving the Antarctic base Casey for Hobart: We are heading home!
The last few days we have been staying on the icebreaker Aurora australis just off the the Antarctic coast near the Australian base of Casey. For the operations team on the vessel, it has been a busy time, resupplying the station, bringing gear and waste offshore, balancing logistical needs against the ever changing weather. For those on the AAE, it has been a time for rest, work and reflection. Everyone seems to have slept – a lot. Afternoon naps are a common occurrence, and during lectures, no matter how interesting the content, many team members – including myself – have been known to doze off. No one seems to get upset by this; it’s just seems to be the natural way of things. Alongside the daily programme of talks, the team have been working hard on the analysis of the scientific data we have collected. Erik and Chris have been working on the salinity and temperature analyses made during the voyage south and around Commonwealth Bay. Chris Fogwill has been drilling down with New Z…
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OPENING OF THE GREAT OCEAN ROAD NATIONAL HERITAGE CENTRE
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LAUNCH OF THE STAR PITT STREET INTERPRETATION CENTRE!
SHP team members Sue Hodges, Jhana Pfeiffer-Hunt and Quinn Veldhuis were delighted to attend the opening of The Star Pitt Street Interpretation Centre in George Town, Penang, Malaysia on 6 September 2014. The Interpretation Centre, which was designed, curated, fabricated and installed by SHP, is the result of a collaborative effort between The Star, the Penang Philharmonic and Think City to create community-based urban renewal in Penang ...
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Army trooper killed in suspected NPA attack in Albay
From GMA News Online (Nov 18): Army trooper killed in suspected NPA attack in Albay
A Philippine Army trooper was shot to death Saturday morning in Daraga, Albay by an alleged sparrow unit of the New People's Army (NPA).
The victim identified as Private First Class George Rey Murillo was attacked by three unidentified gunmen at a marketplace in Purok 4, Barangay Anislag.
Murillo was killed instantly after sustaining head injuries.
The three assailants, who were believed to be NPA Sparrow members, also took the victim's firearm and cash bonus.
In the ongoing investigation, it was learned that the trooper from Sorsogon went to the market without a companion.
http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/news/regions/633651/army-trooper-killed-in-suspected-npa-attack-in-albay/story/
Abu Sayyaf terrorists kidnap civilians in Sulu
From Gulf News Today (Nov 17): Abu Sayyaf terrorists kidnap civilians in Sulu
Members of the Daesh-linked Abu Sayyaf terrorists abducted six civilians, including two children on the island province of Sulu in restive Mindanao, which the military said would be used as “human shields” in the intensified operations against them.
Brigadier General Cirilo Sobejana, the Joint Task Force Sulu chief, said the terrorists took the six hostages at gunpoint during a raid on Tuesday night on their houses in a village in the town of Patikul, Sulu where the terrorists operate with impunity.
Sobejana suspected the terrorists would use the hostages as human shields as government forces intensified their operations against the Abu Sayyaf which has pledged allegiance to the Daesh extremists in the Middle East.
“The incident again showed the terrorists in Sulu are victimising even their fellow Tausugs and those who have less in life. Such hostility reminds us that security is everybody’s responsibility,” Sobejana said.
The latest abduction brought to 15 the total number of Filipinos held hostage by the Abu Sayyaf, including the four fishermen they had kidnapped off the town of Panguratan, also in Sulu on Oct.14, Sobejano said.
He added the terrorists are also holding as hostages five Indonesian sailors, a Vietnamese crew of a fishing boat and a Dutch national.
The Abu Sayyaf, meaning “bearer of the sword,” has gained notoriety through a spate of kidnap-for-ransom cases that were often marred by the beheading of their foreign and Filipino hostages.
Also in Mindanao, the government forces launched at dawn on Wednesday ground and air attacks against members another Daesh-linked terror group called the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF) who were seen massing in the outskirts of the town of Shariff Aguak in Maguindanao.
Captain Arvin Encinas, an Army division spokesman, said the BIFF members are wanted for the burning of an 80-year-old Catholic chapel as well as the destruction of religious images including the statue of the patron saint San Isidro de Labrador in a village in Shariff Aguak.
“Such crime is most disturbing and provocative,” lamented Archbishop Cardinal Quevedo of Cotabato even as he expressed the hope the incident would not affect harmonious relationship between Muslims and Catholics in the area.
http://gulftoday.ae/portal/af2bdb7c-e999-4d9f-b31d-724c19c3f5a6.aspx
WATCH | Activists chafe as Duterte bares plan to tag NPA as terrorists, crack down on leftist groups
From InterAksyon (Nov 19): WATCH | Activists chafe as Duterte bares plan to tag NPA as terrorists, crack down on leftist groups
President Rodrigo Duterte appears ready to take a crucial turn in his love-hate relationship with the Left, signalling Saturday night he will place the New People’s Army in the same category that the United States has placed it – as “terrorists” – and warning activists he will find a way to expose their alleged unholy alliance with armed rebels. The threat drew angry reactions from an activist group Sunday.
Speaking to reporters in Davao City, Duterte said he would henceforth also have government lawyers file, not charges of rebellion but ordinary criminal offenses like murder and arson against arrested communust rebels. He said he was fed up with the series of NPA attacks on businesses in the countryside, especially the torching of their equipment and facilities.
He blamed the attacks on the businesses and revolutionary taxes for driving out investors and jacking up prices of goods produced by the businesses that remain.
The threat of launching a crackdown against legal progressive groups affiliated with the main leftwing alliance Bagong Alyansang Makabayan or Bayan was assailed by one of the alliance’s members, Anakbayan.
The youth group said in a statement Sunday morning that it was not hard to see why Duterte would want to do this. “Progressive groups have been at the forefront of opposing Duterte’s war on drugs, all-out counterinsurgency ops, and martial law in Mindanao that trample on human rights as well as his perpetuation of anti-people neoliberal policies. Duterte’s threats will not intimidate us into submission,” said Anakbayan chairman Vencer Crisostomo.
In a talk with reporters Saturday night, Duterte said of the NPA, armed wing of the National Democratic Front (NDF) with which his government had pursued peace talks in a bid to end a four-decade insurgency: “Before, we recognized them as legitimate rebels. But with their continued depredations, killing innocent people even an infant four months old, I’ll be issuing a proclamation. I will remove them from the category of a legal entity . . . placing them – same as America – [in the category of] terrorists.”
Duterte was alluding to the killing of an infant who was among eight civilians in a Toyota Fortuner caught in the crossfire when NPA rebels ambushed a police vehicle in Bukidnon last week.
The NPA local command admitted killing the infant, apologized to civilians and offered to recompense them.
The incident, however, angered Duterte, who learned about it in between his ASEAN hosting duties. He said Saturday he was just allowing the soldiers to rest, after a harrowing five months of fierce engagement with the homegrown, but ISIS-inspired Maute Group that laid siege to Marawi City.
“Pinagpapahinga ko lang mga sundalo ko [I’m just allowing the soldiers to rest]. But we will also go on the offensive,” Duterte said.
No more ‘rebellion’: criminal charges to be filed
He said it was also time to change the government’s legal tack against the rebels. “So beginning from now, wala nang [there’ll be no more charges called] rebellion-rebellion. We will fight terrorism, murder, arson na…. because we will consider them criminal already.”
He said the government “may take steps” against activists, sounding stung by the tags of “fascist” and “imperialist dog” that the various protest groups had hurled at him during rallies while the country was hosting the 31st ASEAN and Related Summits and he met with world leaders including President Donald Trump of the United States, one of nine country dialogue partners that joined the ASEAN events in Manila.
At the start of his presidency in June 2016, Duterte had fast-tracked peace negotiations with the NDF-CPP, occasionally referring to himself as “socialist” and “leftist” and citing his ties with some leaders like CPP founding chairman Prof. Jose Maria Sison, based in The Netherlands. Negotiations have since been suspended, though he recently said he wold not block an announced plan by his daughter, Davao Mayor Sara Duterte, to reach out to local rebels in her area.
Duterte had also named several leftists to the Cabinet, but at least two of them – Agrarian Reform Secretary Rafael Mariano and Social Welfare and Development Secretary Judy Taguiwalo – have since been rejected by the bicameral Commission on Appointments dominated by his congressional allies.
On Saturday, he said he believed groups like Bayan were in league with the communist rebels, adding “We will study and maybe we will have a crackdown here somewhere.”
In reaction, Anakbayan’s Crisostomo said, “That Duterte is contemplating a crackdown against activists and progressive groups speaks much of his antipathy to any criticism and his thirst for absolute power. Repression is the logical consequence of equating all dissent with detabilization.”
http://www.interaksyon.com/activists-chafe-as-duterte-bares-plan-to-tag-npa-as-terrorists-crack-down-on-leftist-groups/
Maute recruiting students in Northern Mindanao?
From the Manila Times (Nov 19): Maute recruiting students in Northern Mindanao?
The military and the police in Northern Mindanao are closely monitoring reports of the alleged recruitment of the Maute and other Islamic State-linked groups in the region.
Supt. Lemuel Gonda, spokesman for the regional police command, said the reports were taken seriously during the Regional Peace and Order Council last week.
Recruitment is reportedly undergoing in Cagayan de Oro City, Iligan City and the Central Mindanao region.
The immediate targets of recruitment are relatives of those affected by the Marawi conflict, the “Balik-Islam” group or converts and residents in Lanao del Sur and neighboring provinces, the council reported.
He said the terror group was reportedly recruiting students in various universities and colleges in Northern Mindanao, including high school students, by offering them each P20,000 per month.
Aside from paying P 20,000 upfront to the new recruits, the group reportedly promised a monthly stipend once they started formal training, Gonda added.
In Central Mindanao, the council received information that new recruits are each offered P 50,000.
Gonda said the military and the police were closely coordinating with the local officials and the Department of Education to thwart the alleged recruitment activities.
Chief Insp. Mardy Hortilloza said the military and the police were coordinating with local Muslim and religious leaders in Northern Mindanao to verify the alleged recruitment of women.
“The local law enforcers are closely monitoring various ‘soft areas’ in the city like the Mosques, schools, and the local Moslem community,” Hortilloza said.
The Maute group, led by Isnilon Hapilon, the designated IS “emir” in Southeast Asia, attempted to establish a caliphate in the Muslim dominated city of Marawi in May, which resulted in a five-month gun battle with the government forces.
Hapilon was killed with Maute leader Omarkayam Maute in October.
The five-month armed conflict resulted in the deaths of about 1,000 people and the displacement of 400,000 Marawi residents.
http://www.manilatimes.net/maute-recruiting-students-northern-mindanao/363764/
India expresses interest to supply military hardware to AFP
From the Manila Bulletin (Nov 19): India expresses interest to supply military hardware to AFP
Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana said that India has expressed interest to provide the Philippines with military hardware to boost the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) modernization program.
Lorenzana made the remark when asked if the Philippines and India signed any deals on defense matters during the bilateral talks between President Duterte and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi during the ASEAN Summit here recently.
“We haven’t signed anything… they want to supply us also with equipment…because India has a very robust defense industry,” Lorenzana said during a press briefing at Camp Aguinaldo, Quezon City.
“They make ships, tanks and bullets. In fact, in the past we bought from them rounds of artillery. So they are capable of going there and they want to tap into our (logistics needs),” he added.
Lorenzana said India knows that the AFP is currently undergoing a modernization program, hence the need for them to enter on possible deals with the Philippine government.
Lorenzana said both the Philippines and India signed a memorandum of understanding about visitation of students to the AFP, and vice versa.
Some of their students will come here, and our enlisted personnel in the AFP will be going there. We already have that. We have a defense attache there, Lorenzana said.
“This is good for us to have regular contacts with each other,” he added.
https://news.mb.com.ph/2017/11/19/india-expresses-interest-to-supply-military-hardware-to-afp/
Military backs Duterte’s ‘terrorist’ tag on NPA
From the Manila Times (Nov 19): Military backs Duterte’s ‘terrorist’ tag on NPA
PRESIDENT Rodrigo Duterte’s declaration that the New People’s Army (NPA) was a terrorist group has gotten the support of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP), a spokesman said.
“We totally agree with the Commander-in-Chief in calling the NPA [as]terrorists] because it is clearly reflected in the numerous criminal/lawless/terrorist acts they have been committing against defenseless and innocent civilians,” Maj. Gen. Restituto Padilla Jr. said in a statement on Sunday.
On Saturday, Duterte said he would issue a proclamation calling the NPA a “terrorist” group as he reiterated that he did not want to pursue peace talks with the the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) and its political arm, the National Democratic Front (NDF). The NPA is the armed wing of the CPP.
Duterte also called on the NPA rebels to get jobs as they surrender and return to the fold of the law.
In July, the President called off peace talks with the communists following a string of attacks by the NPA against state forces in North Cotabato and Palawan.
Padilla said the government “has done its part” when it resumed talks with the NDF.
“What we are asking from them is their commitment to cease and desist from the attacks but they did not and went into a period of peace relatively from August 2016 to February 2017,” he said in an interview with reporters.
“They (the Left) were the ones who violated and they were the ones who suspended the peace talks. So, we were prompted. What do they really want? We should be the ones asking what they really want,” Padilla added.
http://www.manilatimes.net/military-backs-dutertes-terrorist-tag-npa/363788/
IN PHOTOS: PH, Australian troops train in urban warfare
From Rappler (Nov 19): IN PHOTOS: PH, Australian troops train in urban warfare
Fighting terrorism is the main concern among leaders who attended the ASEAN Summit and Related Summits held in Manila
Australia is the only other country aside from the US that has a visiting forces agreement (VFA) with the Philippines, allowing its troops to stay in the country.
On the sidelines of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Summit held in the Philippines last week, visiting Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull watched the two militaries simulate urban warfare, an area where they committed to continue training.
Turnbull said Australia will strengthen defense cooperation with the Philippines.
"We are in the same fight [against terrorism]. Now more than ever the Australian Defense Force (ADF) and the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) are working together, supporting each other, learning from each other, and fighting the fight, we cannot afford to lose," he said.
Fighting terrorim was among the main concerns during the summits held in Manila.
(READ: A region in panic: ASEAN doubles down against ISIS threat)
https://www.rappler.com/nation/188913-photos-australia-philippine-military-war-game-simulation
Soldier wounded in BIFF attacks
From the Manila Times (Nov 18): Soldier wounded in BIFF attacks
A government soldier was wounded as Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF) bandits attacked an Army base and a school on Friday in Maguindanao.
The identity of the wounded soldier was withheld by the military, but said he is a member of the 57th Infantry Battalion which has been involved in fighting the BIFF in the province. One of its detachments in Barangay Timbangan in Shariff Aguak town came under attack with militants raining rockets and rifle grenades on the Army post.
Soldiers fought back but no reports of enemy casualties.
The assault came minutes ahead of another attack at the Gani Abpi College in Datu Unsay town. It was unclear why it was targeted by the BIFF, but soldiers were patrolling the town regularly.
Both Maguindanao Gov. Toto Mangudadatu and Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao Gov. Mujiv Hataman did not release a statement on the violence in the province where security forces are battling BIFF militants since early this week.
Most of the BIFF members were former fighters of the larger Moro Islamic Liberation Front who broke away and are opposed to peace talks with the government.
http://www.manilatimes.net/soldier-wounded-biff-attacks/363730/
MILF assures presence in ARMM celebration
From the Manila Bulletin (Nov 19): MILF assures presence in ARMM celebration
The Moro Islamic Liberation Front remains trustful and confident in President Rodrigo Duterte’s leadership, especially in its commitment to correct “historical injustices” among the Bangsamoro through negotiated political solutions prescribed in government’s peace accords with legitimate revolutionary groups such as the MILF.
MILF First Vice Chair Gazali Jaafar (MB PHOTO/JIM GUIAO PUNZALAN)
This, according to MILF First Vice Chairman Ghazali Jaafar, who assured yesterday the front leadership’s attendance for the “first time’ in a celebration for the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao’s (ARMM’s) founding anniversary.
“Yes, that is my plan,” Jaafar told the Manila Bulletin in an interview by phone when asked if he or any MILF central committee official will attend today’s 28th ARMM foundation anniversary celebration in this city.
“It will be my first time,” Jaafar said, referring to his attendance in a celebration for ARMM, which the MILF leadership has never recognized officially since inception in 1990.
In past public forums, Jaafar – sitting as chairman of the Bangsamoro Transition Commission (BTC) – had called for the abolition of ARMM,,saying it does not reflect the “legitimate concerns” of the Moro people.
The Jaafar-led BTC drafted a new Bangsamoro Basic Law (BBL), which the President eventually certified as priority for Congressional deliberation. The 16th Congress shelved the old BBL draft amid questions aggravated by widespread outrage over the death of 44 police commandos in the Jan. 25, 2015 bloody clash in Mamasapano, Maguindanao.
In Saturday’s interview, Jaafar said the MILF remains trusting and confident that the Duterte administration will enact the new draft into law and establish a more empowered Bangsamoro autonomous region in replacement of ARMM.
“We were with him before, we are with him now, and we will still be with him in the future,” Jaffar said, referring to the first President from Mindanao, citing the essence of Duterte’s having a Moro blood.
In a statement on Saturday, incumbent regional officials said they have invited MILF central committee officials along with members of the international community to grace the 28th ARMM foundation anniversary today (Monday) here.
The day-long commemoration will be capped by ARMM Gov. Mujiv Hataman’s delivery of his 7th state-of-the-region address (SORA) to update the public on the gains and concerns of the regional governance.
“This could be the last SORA of an ARMM governor if (Congress) will give its nod to the proposed creation of a new autonomous government (prescribed in the BBL). I am optimistic that will happen,” Hataman was quoted as saying in a statement posted on Sunday.
ARMM officials have lined up simple activities in today’s celebration in deference purportedly to the plight of victims in the five-month conflict in Marawi City, a component of the autonomous region.
Hataman said his administration has been supportive of the government’s peace processes with Moro revolutionary fronts such as the MILF, reiterating his readiness to facilitate a smooth leadership transition from ARMM to an MILF-led Bangsamoro region if its creation would cut his term short.
Hataman is in his second elective regional gubernatorial term, which will end in June 30, 2019.
https://news.mb.com.ph/2017/11/19/milf-assures-presence-in-armm-celebration/
Philippine court convicts bomber in congressman’s death
From the Washington Post (Nov 18): Philippine court convicts bomber in congressman’s death
A Philippine court has convicted a man for a daring 2007 motorcycle bombing that killed a Muslim rebel-turned-congressman and three other people and wounded 10, including two legislators.
Judge Ralph Lee of the Regional Trial Court Branch 83 on Friday convicted Ikram Indama but acquitted two other key suspects in the Nov. 13, 2007, bombing that killed Rep. Wahab Akbar as he walked out of a lobby at the House of Representatives.
Indama, who has links to Muslim militants, was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole, according to a copy of Lee’s decision.
Senior Assistant State Prosecutor Peter Ong said that Indama, a cousin of a notorious Abu Sayyaf extremist commander in the country’s south, brought the motorcycle laden with a bomb and was identified through closed circuit television.
Ong said the attackers had also plotted to kill Akbar before, including the previous day, but he was absent from the lower house.
FILE - In this Monday, Nov. 19, 2007, file photo, left to right; from right, suspects Adnam Kusain, Ikram Indama and Caidar Aunal linked to the blast at the House of Representatives are lined up at the Department of Justice in Manila, Philippines. from right, Adnam Kusain, Ikram Indama and Caidar Aunal. A Philippine court has convicted Indama of multiple murders in the motorcycle bomb attack that killed a Muslim rebel-turned-congressman and three other people and wounded 10, including two legislators. Kusain and Aundal were acquitted of their charges in the case. (Bullit Marquez, FIle/Associated Press)
Former Rep. Luzviminda Ilagan, who survived the bombing with leg and back wounds, head burns and a shattered ear drum, welcomed the conviction but said government investigators should continue efforts to identify the other suspects involved in the attack.
“We should not be content with just being told that the one who planted the bomb in the motorcycle has been taken in,” Ilagan said by phone. “The next question is, who ordered him to do so and what was the motive?”
Ilagan, now a social welfare undersecretary, recalled that she was about to board her van from the lobby when “a flash of light illuminated the area followed by a loud, loud explosion that forced me and my aide like a strong wind.” Her driver died and she later realized she was hit when she felt her leg was bloodied as she lay in the darkness.
Akbar was reportedly among the original leaders of the Abu Sayyaf extremist group when it was established in the late 1980s on the southern island of Basilan. He later had a falling out with the militants, was elected Basilan governor and backed U.S.-backed offensives in his province against the militants, who are notorious for bombings, kidnappings and beheadings.
As governor, Akbar had been blamed for a brutal crackdown against Abu Sayyaf militants, who had plotted to retaliate against him, anti-terrorism authorities said.
The Abu Sayyaf has been blacklisted by the United States and the Philippines as a terrorist organization.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/congress/philippine-court-convicts-bomber-in-congressmans-death/2017/11/18/cf618132-cc24-11e7-b506-8a10ed11ecf5_story.html?utm_term=.0b83573d6e8e
Bato looks at BIFF as serious threat in central Mindanao
From the Manila Bulletin (Nov 18): Bato looks at BIFF as serious threat in central Mindanao
Director General Ronald dela Rosa, chief of the Philippine National Police (PNP), has ordered his personnel in the central part of Mindanao to be alert against possible attacks from the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF).
PNP Chief Ronald Dela Rosa (Ali Vicoy | Manila Bulletin)
At the same time, dela Rosa instructed his directors in the same area to assist the military in running after the BIFF by conducting checkpoints and chokepoints to deny the rebel group opportunities to regroup, or escape.
“My instruction to them is that they should be wary of possible attacks that may be made by enemies as possible diversionary tactics to ease up the military operations against them,” said dela Rosa.
The military has been bombarding the locations of the BIFF in Maguindanao and Cotabato areas since Wednesday as an effort to flush them out of the areas.
The BIFF is a breakaway faction from the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, the schism started when the mainstream rebel group began crafting a peace agreement with the Aquino administration.
The group is responsible for bombings of government facilities and ambush on military and police personnel in Maguindanao and Cotabato areas.
Dela Rosa said the policemen in the central part of Mindanao have been very active in supporting the military every time there is an operation against the BIFF and even other lawless elements.
But he said there is a need to remind them to become on alert especially if there is an ongoing operation as the BIFF might attack them in order to distract the military.
https://news.mb.com.ph/2017/11/18/bato-looks-at-biff-as-serious-threat-in-central-mindanao/
100 foreign jihadists in Philippines? Government checking
From the Philippine Star (Nov 19): 100 foreign jihadists in Philippines? Government checking
Sources said the jihadists, who arrived in several batches, went straight to Mindanao from Indonesia in a bid to reinforce their trapped cohorts in Marawi. Uncredited AP, File
At least 100 foreign jihadists, fresh from their Islamic State (IS)-supervised military training in Indonesia, reportedly entered the country before the five-month Marawi siege was officially over.
Sources said the jihadists, who arrived in several batches, went straight to Mindanao from Indonesia in a bid to reinforce their trapped cohorts in Marawi.
“While a handful of these foreign militants made it to Marawi, most did not because of the tight security the military enforced around the city,” the source said.
Since the fighting started on May 23 until Marawi was liberated on Oct. 23, the military accounted for more than 900 bodies of terrorists, at least 20 of them foreign-looking.
The presence of these foreign jihadists, the source said, could be the reason why President Duterte kept on saying that the terrorism problem in the country is not over yet despite the defeat of the Maute group.
“This is now causing us some concerns because of the upcoming Christmas,” he said.
Meanwhile, a senior anti-terror official declined to confirm the presence of this huge number of foreign jihadists in the country.
“We are still validating this,” the official said, although he confirmed that prior to the Marawi siege, a dozen foreign militants – some from the Middle East – entered the country through Palawan and Tawi-Tawi from Malaysia.
He said government agents are verifying the presence of foreign jihadists in Mindanao as well as in other urban centers including Metro Manila.
There were also reports that all these foreign jihadists – including those who linked up with the Abu Sayyaf bandit group in Sulu, Baslian and Tawi-Tawi – are headed by a young Indonesian terrorist, identified as Abu Mohammad Busrow.
A separate intelligence brief showed that Busrow, along with a Jordanian terrorist, has a $1-million bounty on his head and is closely associated with slain Abu Sayyaf leader Isnilon Hapilon, who was said to be the designated IS emir in Southeast Asia.
Philippine National Police chief Director General Ronaldo dela Rosa earlier said that Malaysian terrorist Amin Baku assumed as head of the foreign and local terrorists in Marawi following the death of Hapilon and Omarkhayam Maute at the hands of government forces.
The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) expressed belief that Baku was killed in the fighting in Marawi and the foreign and local militants in Mindanao have no leader.
While the AFP is maintaining this claim, it has mounted sustained anti-terror operations directed toward another IS sympathizer group, the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters, in Maguindanao and North Cotabato.
Lessons from Marawi battle
Meawnhile, former AFP chief retired general Eduardo Año has shared lessons learned from the five-month Marawi siege to prepare members of the peace and order council against the threats of terrorism.
Año, now interior and local government undersecretary, said during the quarterly Regional Peace and Order Council (RPOC) meeting that one of the many lessons the government learned from the siege was poor governance.
“Poor governance contributes to the development of the would-be terrorists,” Año told the RPOC Western Mindanao chaired by Mayor Maria Isabelle Climaco-Salazar on Friday.
Año said other lessons were the urban warfare push, intelligence surveillance and reconnaissance, and signal intelligence.
The Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) and the US military provided their Filipino counterparts with surveillance capabilities during the height of the Marawi battle.
But Año said the current laws in the country must also adapt to the developing threats of terrorism.
He said local government laws are not adequate to help authorities address the threat of extremism.
He said the social, political and economic conditioning makes communities vulnerable to terror narratives.
During the siege, President Duterte declared martial law in Mindanao and extended it until Dec. 31 to help the military quell groups sympathetic to the IS.
Meanwhile, troopers from the 4th and 5th Scout Ranger Battalions were undergoing stress debriefing following the five-month stint in Marawi fighting the Maute terrorists as well as the Abu Sayyaf bandit group.
The debriefing was being conducted by psychologists from the Western Mindanao Command (Westmincom) and Mayor Salazar, who is a guidance counselor by profession.
Salazar said the activity seeks to ensure psychological health, morale and welfare of the troops who liberated Marawi from lawless elements.
http://www.philstar.com/headlines/2017/11/19/1760341/100-foreign-jihadists-philippines-government-checking
Foreign fighters seen in North Cotabato
From the Philippine Daily Inquirer (Nov 19): Foreign fighters seen in North Cotabato
HOT SPOT Government soldiers go on patrol in Pikit town in North Cotabato in this file photo taken on Feb. 24, 2015. —JEOFFREY MAITEM
Military says several Caucasian-looking gunmen along with BIFF fighters being pursued by government troops
Several Caucasian-looking gunmen, among at least 10 foreigners and their pro-Islamic State (IS) allies from the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF) were being pursued by government troops on the borders of two North Cotabato towns, the military said on Saturday.
Col. Gerry Besana, chief of civil-military operations of the Army’s 6th Infantry Division based in Maguindanao province, said this was not the first time that foreigners were sighted in the company of BIFF militants in the province.
It was in Maguindanao where Indonesian bomb expert Zulkifli bin Hir, alias Marwan, was killed in a bloody police raid that also left 44 Special Action Force commandos dead in January 2015.
Besana said they were trying to determine the nationalities of the foreigners. The black-clad gunmen were seen fleeing with BIFF fighters led by Commander Abu Torayfe following several skirmishes with soldiers on the borders of Aleosan and Carmen towns.
“They escaped from the SMPS box in Maguindanao due to massive military operations there,” Besana said.
“SMPS” refers to the adjoining towns of Shariff Aguak, Mamasapano, Pagatin (Datu Saudi Ampatuan) and Datu Salibo, the marshland bailiwick of BIFF.
Reports reaching the Armed Forces general headquarters in Camp Aguinaldo said the presence of the foreigners were tipped to the military by commanders of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), which is negotiating a final peace agreement with the government.
Government troops fought alongside MILF fighters last month in Maguindanao when Torayfe’s gunmen attacked an MILF territory.
Air Force MG-520 armed scout helicopters have been strafing and bombarding Torayfe’s group with rockets in the village of Tonganon, the military said.
Besana said village officials and civilians alerted the military to the presence of heavily armed men in their areas.
Separate airstrikes were also carried out on the borders of Datu Unsay and Shariff Aguak against another BIFF faction led by Esmael Abubakar, alias Commander Bungos, he said.
Civilian witnesses said at least seven BIFF fighters were killed during the operations in Shariff Aguak. Soldiers were unable to recover a single body, though.
Preemptive operations
About 5,000 people have been displaced by the fighting in North Cotabato and Maguindanao, according to government disaster relief officials, who are attending to the immediate needs of the affected families.
Besana said the twin operations were being carried out with the help of the MILF which was helping them collect intelligence information on the enemy.
He said the preemptive and surgical operations were meant to prevent IS terrorists from massing and then launching a Marawi City-like siege in any part of Mindanao.
On May 23, IS-inspired militants attacked Marawi City, forcing some 260,000 residents to flee the country’s only Islamic city.
The five-month battle that followed left most of Marawi, Lanao del Sur’s center of economy, culture and heritage, in ruins. The military counteroffensive killed 920 terrorists, including its leaders, Omarkhayam and Abdullah Maute and Abu Sayyaf chief Isnilon Hapilon, IS “emir” in Southeast Asia.
The military said scores of foreign fighters from such countries as Indonesia, Malaysia, Yemen and Chechnya were also killed in the battle.
http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/946089/foreign-fighters-seen-in-north-cotabato
Bayan tells Duterte: Got problem with NPA? Resume peace talks
From the often pro-CPP online publication the Davao Today (Nov 19): Bayan tells Duterte: Got problem with NPA? Resume peace talks
In this July 29, 2017 photo, President Duterte meets with Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (Bayan) Secretary General Renato Reyes Jr. At the Malacañan Palace. (Presidential Photo)
If President Rodrigo Duterte has a problem with the New People’s Army (NPA), this could be addressed through peace talks, a spokesperson of a progressive group said on Sunday, November 19.
Renato Reyes Jr., secretary general of Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (Bayan), said that the resumption of the stalled peace talks between the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) and the government is the “best” solution to all the issues that Duterte have with the NPA, the armed wing of the Communist Party of the Philippines.
“All the issues Duterte against the NPA are best addressed through the peace talks. He knows who he needs to talk to,” Reyes said.
Reyes’ issued a statement following Duterte’s pronouncement that he is no longer inclined to resume the peace talks with the communists while branding the NPA as “terrorists.”
On November 18, the President took a swipe against the NPA, hinting a possibility that peace talks may still be in limbo.
“I am tired of seeing properties destructed, equipment burned, and the killing of innocent people, and there’s even a four-month old (baby) involved,” Duterte said in Filipino, referring to the armed group’s atrocities.
READ: NPA ‘sorry’ for baby’s death in Bukidnon attack
When asked by a reporter about the slated resumption peace talks, he said: “No, I am not anymore inclined to.”
The President is also planning to issue a proclamation that would declare the NPA as criminals and not a legitimate rebels.
But Reyes said that Duterte’s orthodox style of tagging NPA as terrorists “would not accomplish anything, only intensified attacks on the people.”
He also responded to the President’s threats against Bayan and political dissenters.
“It is such a Marcosian mindset. Duterte’s threat of a crackdown is intended to eliminate the most effective resistance to fascist dictatorship, human rights abuses, anti-people economic impositions and increased US intervention,” he pointed out.
http://davaotoday.com/main/politics/bayan-duterte-resume-peace-talks/
Iligan ups measure vs NPA recruitment
From the Manila Times (Nov 18): Iligan ups measure vs NPA recruitment
ILIGAN City has intensified security measures as massive recruitment of armed men believed to be New People’s Army (NPA) rebels were reported in the mountain villages.
Jo Pantoja, city information officer, told The Manila Times that while the measures to counter the alleged Islamic State (IS)-inspired Maute recruitment had been heightened, the concern was more on the NPA rebels who were reportedly conducting similar activity in the hinterlands.
Some 148 individuals were evacuated from the mountain villages of Rogongon and Mainit to safer grounds as the military and police launched pursuit operations against the communist rebels who killed a soldier and wounded another last Sunday.
The hinterland village of Rogongon is located in the tri-boundaries of Iligan City–Bukidnon–Lanao Del Sur while Mainit is on the border of Iligan City and Misamis Oriental.
Killed was Philippine Army T/Sgt. Edgar Andal while wounded was Corporal Reymart Pamplona who were ambushed at a rebel checkpoint in Mainit town.
Another group of communist rebels abducted Police Officers 2 John Paul Doberte and Alfredo Degamon Jr. while guarding their post in Placer town in Surigao del Norte last Monday.
The fate of the policemen remains unknown.
Aside from the reported incident in Mainit and Rogongon, Iligan City remains peaceful as the military and police continue to monitor and track down traces of the Maute-IS terrorists who fled from Marawi City.
Marawi City is 35 kilometers southwest of Iligan City, where fighting between the terrorists and government forces ensued in May 25 after the group led by the Maute brothers and Isnilon Hapilon, alleged IS “emir” in Southeast Asia, tried to establish a caliphate in the Islamic city.
Apprehension about possible retaliation by the vanquished terrorist group in the neighboring provinces and cities in Mindanao was exacerbated after alleged massive recruitment of the IS-Maute remnants.
http://www.manilatimes.net/iligan-ups-measure-vs-npa-recruitment/363733/
Missing Isabela farmers found in army camp – rights group
From InterAksyon (Nov 18): Missing Isabela farmers found in army camp – rights group
The headquarters of the Army's 86th IB, where two missing farmers are said to be kept. PHOTO COURTESY OF KARAPATAN
Two farmers from Barangay Diasan, Echague, Isabela earlier reported missing by the rights group Karapatan-Cagayan Valley since November 13, 2017 have been found: in the custody of the 86th Infantry Battalion of the Philippine Army (IBPA) inside their headquarters at Sitio Balabal, Barangay Uno in Jones town in Isabela.
Farmers and cousins Oliver Molina and Robert Dalupang were said to be tending to their swidden farms in the mountains of Barangay Diasan just before they disappeared. An earlier alert by rights group Karapatan said that when the farmers did not return and their families went to search for them, they saw traces of combat shoes in the area, where some soldiers reportedly reside.
Karapatan said the search party even met soldiers in the area, and asked them if they saw their relatives. The soldiers allegedly claimed said they did not see them and told them that the pair might have joined the New People’s Army (NPA).
The group also added that the 86th IB troopers are conducting military operations in the place.
Karapatan and the farmers’ organization Danggayan dagiti Mannalon ti Isabela (Unity of farmers of Isabela or Dagami) subsequently went to the army camp to check on the situation of Molina and Dalupang, whom they heard were brought there. They were told by a certain Technical Sgt. Fernando Baldomero that they need to wait for a “third party” to talk to them.
“Hindi sinasagot ng mga sundalo nang maayos ang aming mga tanong hinggil sa paghuli nila sa dalawang magsasaka. Ayon pa sa mga sundalo ay ayaw umano kaming harapin ng mga biktima kaya hindi namin nakausap ang mga ito,” (The soldiers are not properly answering our queries on the arrest of the two. According to the soldiers, the farmers refuse to see us, so we cannot talk to them).
Karapatan said the soldiers would not even say what charges the two farmers are facing.
http://www.interaksyon.com/missing-isabela-farmers-found-in-army-camp-rights-group/
2 soldiers hurt in grenade attack in Masbate
From the Philippine Daily Inquirer (Nov 19): 2 soldiers hurt in grenade attack in Masbate
Two soldiers were wounded when a grenade thrown by suspected New People’s Army (NPA) rebels exploded at the municipal building in Cayawan town in Masbate province on Saturday night, report reaching the Philippine National Police (PNP) in Bicol said.
Senior Inspector Maria Luisa Calubaquib, Bicol police spokesperson, said Sunday that Sgt. Dennis Orogo and Private First Class Alfie Romero, of the Army’s 93rd Civil Military Operations (CMO) Company, were wounded in the attack.
The report said the two soldiers were manning the CMO office at about 8:20 p.m. when two suspected NPA men on a motorcycle threw a hand grenade at the back of the building where the Army unit was based. The attackers immediately fled.
The wounded soldiers were brought to a hospital for treatment.
The Army pursued the attackers while an investigation was on going.
http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/946166/2-soldiers-hurt-in-grenade-attack-in-masbate
BAYAN: Crackdown on left-leaning groups may justify revolutionary gov't
From GMA News Online (Nov 19): BAYAN: Crackdown on left-leaning groups may justify revolutionary gov't
Acvitist group leader Renato Reyes Jr. feared that President Rodrigo Duterte's planned crackdown on left-leaning groups for allegedly conspiring with the communist movement is a "Marcosian mindset."
Reyes said in a text message to GMA News that Duterte may use the "imagined" conspiracy as justification for the declaration of a revolutionary government.
"Duterte's threat of a crackdown is intended to eliminate the most effective resistance to fascist dictatorship, human rights abuses, anti-people economic impositions and increased US intervention. Indeed we have seen this scenario before in our history," he said.
"If that happens, it will be 1972 all over again," Reyes added.
"The people however will resist such a plan. Never again," he said.
Duterte said he will study the possibility of launching a crackdown on left-leaning groups in a press conference in Davao City on Saturday night.
"Now it's a great conspiracy between itong mga BAYAN, pati ano... We will study and maybe, we will have a crackdown here somewhere. Nagsasawa na ako dito sa kalokohan nila," he said.
The President made the remark as he revealed his plan to issue a proclamation order, branding the Communist Party of the Philippines and its armed wing, the New People's Army, as terrorists.
In the same speech, Duterte clarified that he will only declare a revolutionary government if a revolution by certain groups actually happens.
"Revolutionary? Then we should have a revolution first then I will… Until there is a revolution ‘yung ma-ano, malabo... Sinabi ko noon, and I repeat now, and I know it would not be taken into account again. I said, if things go out of control at tumagilid ‘yung gobyerno, ‘yun ang predicate ko," he said.
He also said he doesn't like martial law because of the restrictions that come with it.
Meanwhile, Reyes said that Duterte should raise his issues with the communist movement through the peace negotiating table.
"All the issues Duterte against the NPA are best addressed through the peace talks. He knows who he needs to talk to," BAYAN Secretary-General Renato Reyes said in a text message.
"However, threatening the NPA with a terrorist label... will not accomplish anything, only intensified attacks on the people," he added.
http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/news/nation/633723/bayan-crackdown-on-left-leaning-groups-may-justify-revolutionary-gov-t/story/
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Abducted cops safe – NPA leader
From the Manila Bulletin (Nov 18): Abducted cops safe – NPA leader
Butuan City - A New People’s Army (NPA) spokesperson has claimed that the two policemen the rebels abducted in Placer, Surigao del Norte were in safe condition, and that their families need not worry.
According to Ka Oto, speaking on behalf of the guerilla-Front Committee 16 in Surigao del Norte, PO2s John Doverte and Alfredo Degamon “are in safe condition and families, relatives and friends have nothing to worry (about).”
Ka Oto gave the statement in a live radio interview here, following the appeal made by the Crisis Management Committee (CMC) on Friday, through its spokesperson Placer town Sangguniang Bayan member Sonny Caluña, on the safety of the hostages.
The families of the victims personally requested members of the provincial and municipal CMCs, led by Surigao del Norte Governor Sol F. Matugas, to intercede for the safe release of the abducted policemen.
The wife of 28-year old Doverte is reportedly five months pregnant while the 33-year old Degamon is set to get married in January 2018.
The custodial force of guerilla-Front Committee 16-B declared the two abducted policemen as their ‘prisoners of war’ (POWs), but assured their families that Doverte and Degamon were being treated humanely and their rights, protected in accordance to international laws, Ka Oto said.
On Monday, about 20 communist rebels aboard two Starex vans from Cabadbaran City in Agusan del Norte, snatched the two policemen at 1:40 p.m. at their assigned police outpost in Barangay Bad-as public market in Placer town, Surigao del Norte.
Ka Oto said the custodial force was looking into alleged atrocities committed by the two policemen against local villagers and in relation to the government’s war on drugs.
However, Placer MPS claimed that the two policemen have no derogatory record.
Matugas said the provincial government was exerting all efforts to ensure the safe release of the captives.
The families of the two abducted policemen were given financial assistance by the governor, while counseling was given by the CMC.
https://news.mb.com.ph/2017/11/18/abducted-cops-safe-npa-leader/
Duterte to proclaim CPP-NPA as ‘terrorists’
From the Philippine Star (Nov 19): Duterte to proclaim CPP-NPA as ‘terrorists’
President Rodrigo Duterte reiterated that he is “not anymore inclined” to continue the peace talks with the Communist Party of the Philippines and its armed wing, the New People’s Army. PPD/Karl Norman Alonzo, File
President Rodrigo Duterte on Saturday said he is eyeing to declare communist rebels as terrorists.
Duterte reiterated that he is “not anymore inclined” to continue the peace talks with the Communist Party of the Philippines and its armed wing, the New People’s Army.
"I'll be issuing a proclamation. I will remove them from the category of a legal entity or at least a semi-movement which would merit our attention, placing them pareho sa (like) Amerika, terrorist," Duterte said Saturday.
The CPP and NPA are on the US list of foreign terrorist organizations since Aug. 9, 2002. The Arroyo administration requested for the rebel group's inclusion on the list.
The United States last February said it is keeping the CPP and NPA on its list.
Duterte said he would also file criminal raps against the rebel groups including the alliance of left-wing organizations, the Bagong Alyansang Makabayan.
"We will file terrorist, murder lahat. Arson with murder. Lahat na (Everything). Because I would consider them criminals already. Now, it's a great conspiracy between itong mga BAYAN pati—they are in conspiracy with the rebellion going on," the president said.
Duterte said he would also consider the communists as “criminals” and insisted that there would be “no more rebellion.”
Last July, Duterte said he would no longer talk with communist rebels, but he vowed to pursue peace up to his last day in office and even beyond. However, in September, he took back his statement and said he is open to resuming peace negotiations with the communist rebels again.
Armed Forces of the Philippines spokesman Brig. Gen. Restituto Padilla said Duterte probably lost his patience in dealing with the CPP-NPA. He cited that Duterte wanted to resolve the peace issue with the rebels during the start of his term.
“By and large ang tingin namin dito, nagpapatuloy ang economic sabotage ng grupong ito (NPA). Kung siya (Duterte) man na nagsabi na maaari na niyang irekumendang tawaging terorista ang NPA, nararapat lang siguro dahil sa ipinamamalas nilang mga aksyon,” Padilla said in a radio interview with dzBB on Sunday.
The communists have been waging an insurgency against the Philippine government for 50 years.
http://www.philstar.com/headlines/2017/11/19/1760420/duterte-proclaim-cpp-npa-terrorists
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Six Flags Entertainment Corporation owns and operates regional parks. The Company has parks comprised of theme, water and zoological parks offering rides, water attractions, themed areas, concerts, shows, restaurants, game venues and retail outlets. The Company holds long-term licenses for theme park usage throughout the United States (except the Las Vegas metropolitan area), Canada, Mexico and other countries of certain Warner Bros. and DC Comics characters. These characters include Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Tweety Bird, Yosemite Sam, Batman, Superman and others. In addition, it has certain rights to use the Hanna-Barbera and Cartoon Network characters, including Yogi Bear, Scooby-Doo, The Flintstones and others. The Company uses these characters to market its parks and to provide an enhanced family entertainment experience. Six Flags Entertainment Corporation is based in New York, NY.
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Market Cap: $3,200.8 Mil $306,894.0 Mil
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Historic Revenue: N/A (.1%)
Estimated Revenue: N/A 5.8%
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Price-to-Book: N/A 4.6
Dividend Yield: N/A N/A
Market Cap: $3,200.8 Mil $30,689.4 Mil
Net Margin: N/A 19.7%
Gross Margin: N/A 33.0%
Return on Equity: N/A .2
Return on Assets: N/A .1
Current Ratio: N/A 2.5
Quick Ratio: N/A 2.3
Cash Ratio: N/A 1.3
Debt-to-Equity: N/A .7
Interest Coverage: N/A 2.1
Relative-Strength Index: 35.8 N/A
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Rape and “Compulsive Heterosexuality”
21:26 Mon 18 Jan 2010. Updated: 14:14 25 Jan 2010
[culture, education, feminism, gender, politics, power, psychology, sex, sexism]
This post at Yes Means Yes! is an excellent overview of how the profoundly unhealthy culture of American high schools socializes boys to have negative and domineering attitudes towards women. The post is a review of Dude, You’re a Fag , an academic study of student ethnography and behavior at a Northern California high school. While the degree to which the behavior in the school is typical can be debated, it certainly seems to me that it’s certainly not a total aberration. I think a key paragraph is this one:
[Male sexual aggression in this context] has little to do with sexual orientation or desire and everything to do with a gender performance that positions the boys in relation to other boys.
—Thomas. “Compulsive Heterosexuality And Rape Culture”. Yes Means Yes!, 13 January 2010.
I don’t think this is all that controversial, but I do think it’s important.
Milder forms of this persist throughout contemporary Western culture; the common perception that a heterosexual guy who lacks female sex partners is a “loser” is directly related to the same conception of masculinity. The assignment of status on the basis of advertised sexual partners is a major driver of this behavior. More interesting to me right now are two tangents not explored in the article; the first is the question of what kind of environment leads to this kind of cultural setup. Not all high schools are the same, but more than that, I don’t believe for a moment that this culture is somehow “natural” and that teenagers left to their own devices would inevitably end up with it.
Apart from the larger cultural factors (messages from television, other media, and so on) which clearly contribute, the organization of a school very likely contributes also—specifically, I strongly suspect that the importance of social status to individuals increases as their degree of autonomy decreases. At the same time, the impact of this is not to produce greater individuality—more likely to produce problems for administrators—but rather an enforced conformity. Enforcement of this particular kind of conformity flows fairly directly into homophobia and “slut-shaming”, with attendant ill effects.
The other tangent that occurs to me is outwards towards society as a whole, and specifically towards marriage—I’m reminded of a scene from Scorsese’s The Departed , in which Captain Ellerby (played by Alec Baldwin) tells Colin Sullivan (Matt Damon): “Marriage is an important part of getting ahead. It lets people know you’re not a homo. A married guy seems more stable. People see the ring, they think ‘at least somebody can stand the son of a bitch.’ Ladies see the ring, they know immediately that you must have some cash, and your cock must work.” The message here seems consistent: a (very) public relationship with a woman establishes male in terms of status, and is therefore important for all kinds of reasons that have nothing whatsoever to do with desire for, attraction to, love for, or even liking, that woman. The line about stability is also telling, as what Ellerby means by stability can more or less be swapped out for “conformity”.
“Compulsive heterosexuality” is the term applied by Pascoe to this kind of gender policing, and it makes sense, although perhaps not as much sense as “compulsory heterosexuality”, but that latter phrase is somewhat overloaded due to the contents of the essay in which Adrienne Rich coined it. “Compulsive” still works, however, given that many people are not necessarily going to understand the ways in which their own drives may have been shaped by cultural conditioning.
Just to be clear, this isn’t an attack on heterosexuality, heterosexual relationships, long-term relationships, or marriage—it’s an attack on participating in any of those things for reasons other than being into your partner(s) or being into the sex qua sex.
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19 Jan 2010 at 00:51
Hmmm. I think the American high school is a very particular toxic environment with its own self-perpetuating culture, from what I have heard – gender prescriptions and compulsory heterosexuality are the norm in Irish and British schools too, but I have a feeling the culture is not as universally toxic. What do you think?
As for Rich, every word of that essay makes perfect sense to me. But then, I’m just a bolshy lez ;-)
Tadhg Says:
I agree that the culture is more toxic in the US, but there are plenty of commonalities, and my own interests draw me to the commonalities in conformity, status judgment/scarcity, and denial of autonomy.
Without getting too into the Rich essay, which I haven’t read all of, I’ll say that it seems like a necessary critique but I’m deeply wary of anything either putting forward universal prescriptions or suggesting universal biological (or otherwise “innate”) drivers for behavior, and those appear to be significant aspects of the essay. (I’m also not too big a fan of McKinnon.)
I love that term compulsive heterosexuality.
It reminds me of someone, somewhere once exclaiming: “fucking heterosexuals – they’re always at it!”
All kidding aside, they clearly need to be rounded up and re-educated. Heterosexuals. After all “heterosexuality” and “homosexuality” don’t really exist, do they?! While we’re waiting for the entire world to realise it’s bisexual, lets start spelling the terms in slightly different but vaguely annoying ways without explanation. Like, “hehterosexuality” and “honesexuality” or something? Remember you have to mispell them repeatedly and consistently or people will just think it’s a typo.
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7 Tips for Connecting with Music Supervisors at a Conference (from a Music Supervisor)
Photo Credit: Jay Farbman for The Guild of Music Supervisors
This past weekend was the very first Guild of Music Supervisors State of Music in Media Conference. Many of the most influential players in the media music community shared their knowledge and experience with students, aspiring music supervisors and peers across 24 panels, presentations and sessions. Topics ranged from an overview of the job, to getting hired, to creative strategy and communication, an in depth look at music clearance, metadata practices, marketing the music and more.
We involved in the the planning could not have been happier with the turnout – both the number of and the enthusiasm and support from the attendees. I had many discussions with panelists and presenters about how unusually intelligent the questions were.
Still though, there were a few…frustrating situations that arose. As with any conference where music supervisors are present, regardless of the content or goals, there was a faction who just viewed the event as an opportunity to put music in the hands of those with power.
Neat Tracks / Matt FX “Breezy (feat. Zoe Penina)”
Just Plain Good, Neat Tracks
By Amanda DK
Artist: Matt FX
Origin: New York, NY
Label: None
Latest Release: None
It was only last Friday that I made this announcement via Twitter:
Can’t wait until more people hear some of the music @FXFELDMAN is making. I’m not an A&R expert, but I think he may have the 2012 summer jam
— Amanda Krieg (@tadpoleaudio) April 6, 2012
Well, it’s appears that summer came early this year (or is generally always hanging around, if you live in Los Angeles like I do). Moments later I found out that I could, in fact, share this infectious tune with all of you. And the same statement I made then still holds true today.
Guest Mixtape + Interview / Matt FX “Don’t Like This”
Music Supervisors, Special Guests
I don’t know about you, but when I was 19 years old my mind was occupied with getting good grades, play rehearsal (I was a theatre nerd), and what I was doing that Saturday night. Meet Matt “FX” Feldman, who spent his nineteenth birthday hard at work on one of the most hyped telvision shows of the past year. The job: music supervisor. The show: Skins, a sexy – often constroversial – adaptation of the UK hit show by the same name.
Guest Mixtape + Interview / Andrea von Foerster: I Know When I’m Not Wanted
Interviews, Music Supervisors
It gives me great pleasure to present to you my very first mixtape and interview from a music supervisor – one that I not only admire professionally, but who also happens to be a really funny, opinionated, and all around awesome person. She’s most known for her work on (500) Days of Summer and Dollhouse, but Andrea von Foerster has music supervised films and TV shows all over the map, and contributed to tent pole series like Grey’s Anatomy, The OC, and Supernatural. A self-proclaimed “music nerd” von Foerster knows how to use music to tell a story on film – Broken Social Scene did the score for her most recent film, It’s Kind of A Funny Story, which also features music by White Hinterland and The Middle East – and in mixtape form.
Film / Soundtrack Review / Eat, Pray, Love
Film, Reviews
I saw Eat, Pray, Love this past weekend without skimming the soundtrack even once beforehand and I have to say my first impression leading the theatre was not – in the words of Larisa Oleynik – whelmed. Neil Young somehow seems an obvious choice for a soul-searching 40-something. M.I.A “Boyz” is a great song, but now three years old. And the collaboration between Eddie Vedder and Nursat Fateh Ali Khan (“The Long Road”) while lovely is off of ANOTHER soundtrack released in 1996. The only original song on the album is “Better Days” by Vedder.
Now that I’ve listened to the soundtrack over and over again a few times – I still hold true to my above criticisms, but at the same time definitely appreciate how good of a job music supervisor P.J. Bloom did choosing music that supports the film. And the film is really what is whelming.
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Erap on offensive: Noynoy, Villar sponsored GMA rule 03/08/2010
SINCERITY NOT ADS TO WIN VOTES — ESTRADA
Erap on offensive: Noynoy, Villar sponsored GMA rule
The recent Pulse Asia survey showing the United Opposition’s (UNO)-Partido ng Masang Pilipino (PMP) ticket for the May 10 elections is starting to catch up with the frontrunners had triggered bigger support to former President Joseph Estrada and his running mate Makati Mayor Jejomar Binay, including the traditional administration bailiwick of Cebu province.
Estrada said based on the recent survey, Filipinos are now seeing through the real colors of Estrada’s rivals who are supposedly opposition candidates,adding the two frontrunners — Liberal Party (LP) bet Sen. Benigno Aquino III and Nacionalista Party (NP) standard bearer Manuel Villar Jr. — played pivotal roles in imposing on the people the widely rejected administration of President Arroyo.
In the UNO-PMP sortie in Subic, Zambales, Estrada said sincerity is key to winning the trust of the people and not the quantity of television advertisements and celebrity endorsers.... MORE
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A decade of upholding trust EDITORIAL 03/08/2010
A decade of upholding trust
The Daily Tribune marks 10 years of religiously bringing Filipinos unembellished news daily, a feat to which only a few newspapers can lay claim.
That period was never easy as the newspaper, if likened to a boat, had to sail against the political wind where it eventually found its strength.
From what was first being branded as a pro-Estrada newspaper (by newspapers that were, ironically enough, pro-Gloria and her new administration), since it was born during the term of the Centennial President Joseph Estrada in 2000, it was later branded as an opposition paper during Estrada’s unconstitutional ouster in 2001 and through the rapacious term of President Arroyo which hopefully ends in June. But the paper was merely being independent and believed in the freedom of the press.
The Tribune has evolved as most now see it as a political paper that dishes out the real deal in government and its officials.
ALTERNATE URL: http://www.tribune.net.ph/commentary/20100308com1.html
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True grit FRONTLINE Ninez Cacho-Olivares 03/08/2010
We — and I mean all of us who are with, and connected to, The Tribune — must have being doing right all these years, to be able to have been in existence for 10 years, which is a long time in the newspaper business, and this despite a lot thrown against us in the early days, such as, for instance the many rumors spread about our inability to go on as a newspaper, and that we would be facing closure soon, to the rumor of being wracked by resignations, to being branded as an opposition paper, to being sued for libel on the whims of the powerful and influential, to the government sending its forces to close down the paper, having been critical of the Malacañang occupant but whose move was stymied as we — and I mean the editors, the deskmen, the reporters, the business personnel and officers, the correspondents — united to fight the government move to close us down, tooth and nail, not giving the police and military sent to take over our newspaper an inch of giving in to them.
That, if I am asked to describe The Tribune officers and staff, is what true grit is. We are determined and we never give up the fight.
And true grit is what we at The Tribune have, and the reason we have survived all these years, despite the sling and arrows thrown our way by the powerful and influential.... MORE
Do surveys capture D-E voter sentiment? ZOOMING IN Rudy Romero 03/08/2010
Rudy Romero
The trend of the present electoral campaign is being dictated by the results of the opinion surveys conducted with increasing frequency by the leading polling organizations, and the fortunes of the candidates for national office have been rising and falling in accordance with each new set of survey results.
The results of the latest Pulse Asia survey, conducted between Feb. 5 and 8, have Noynoy Aquino widening his lead over Manny Villar by seven percent of the 1,800-respondent survey sample, Manny Villar losing six percent of his previous share of the respondents and former President Joseph Estrada increasing his share by six percent, bringing their ratings to 36 percent, 29 percent and 18 percent, respectively.
On the basis of the results of this latest survey, it can be said that if the presidential election had been held around the time that it was conducted, Noynoy Aquino would be the new President of the Philippines and Manny Villar and Joseph Estrada would be the first-runner-up and second-runner-up, respectively. Is this an accurate presentation of the state of popular opinion regarding the worth of the individuals who are offering themselves for selection as the nation’s top officials? Do the surveys accurately capture the sentiments of the electorate of this country?.... MORE
Back to basics C.R.O.S.S.R.O.A.D.S Jonathan De la Cruz 03/08/2010
It’s back to basics 24 years after Edsa l. After all the huffing and hewing about how the country was saved from the precipice by the so-called “Yellow Army” of crusaders, the question of whether we are better off than before remains as valid as ever. True, we now have more democractic space and one can write critical pieces against those in power without having to suffer dire consequences. People can speak their minds out and pour out their heartaches against all kinds of evil including those committed by the ruling class without having to fear for one’s life. That is, if one is not is some nook of the country (whether in the urban jungle or in the backwoods), where drugs and gangsters, official or otherwise, reign supreme. I mean we have the formal trappings of a democracy (although the same is being eroded every single day) but do we really enjoy it in its proper form and have the means and the environment to so move as in mature societies? The overwhelming response is NO. Not even the best laid plans of the Yellow Army which converged at the Araneta Coliseum to celebrate the events of long ago could hide the fact that we are a democracy in name only. We remain hostages to the whims and caprices of a ruling elite which hold sway over the country and have majority of the people in peonage. The institutions of democracy are so feeble they can be bent with the right connections. And the sad reality is those who should know better try to perpetuate and even take advantage of the situation to promote their divisive politics instead of uniting the people and instill the proper values to enhance our democratic traditions and practices. Worse, their kind of politics has and will definitely not bring food, clothing, shelter, jobs and a host of other basic needs to the masses of our people who continue to wallow in poverty and destitute surroundings while they throw mud at each other in their quest for power and personal gain.... MORE
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Vietnamese firm Viettel's 5G claim raises eyebrows outside - The military-controlled firm's claim to have joined the 5G network equipment-making elite is questioned.
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Been there; heard that EDITORIAL 10/29/2010
Been there; heard that
The last time a Palace occupant felt irritated by a “small” newspaper that she claimed she never read and swore for her administration not to subscribe to it, even when she and her Cabinet reacted vehemently to its reports, and read it anyway, top-level pressure started to be applied on this newspaper in an attempt to choke it of its primary source of income, advertisements.
Failing to do that, the pressure was gradually raised in intensity until in 2006, Malacañang tried to forcefully take over the operations of The Tribune, padlocked the printing press, confiscated several documents without any search warrant through an illegal raid by her police forces.
So here we go again. The other day, Noynoy Aquino ranted in Vietnam that a small newspaper with very “minimal readers” had upset him since it printed a warning from a prelate that he may not complete his six-year term as a result of his poor management skills and his reliance on a two-man team in the Palace in the crafting of major policies and decisions.
While not mentioning the name of the paper he was referring to, he described it as a “Manila-based newspaper of minor circulation, minor only because it only has few readers,” it was evident that he meant this paper since it was only The Tribune, that carried in its front page a story quoting Marbel Bishop Dinualdo Gutierrez on his assessment of Aquino’s leadership skills on the day Noynoy went nuts in Vietnam..... MORE
Bordering on paranoia FRONTLINE Ninez Cacho-Olivares 10/29/2010
Bordering on paranoia
Whoever opposes him and criticizes him, Noynoy sees as his enemy.
Thus, the Daily Tribune, whom he called a “small newspaper” and small because it has few readers, that criticizes him constantly, and which he said before the Filipino community in Vietnam, benefited from the past administration and therefore out to destroy him, is his enemy.
That’s really very paranoid of him, apart from which, Noynoy should really be told a few home truths.
One: The Tribune certainly did not benefit anything at all from the past and previous administrations, as it has always been critical of the Malacañang tenant — whoever it is sitting as head of government--including Cory Aquino.
Proof of this is the fact that not only did the previous Palace occupants make life economically hard on the Tribune all these years, but also the fact that the Arroyo administration went to the extent of raiding the Tribune offices, and having her police force padlock the paper’s offices and printing press, with even the chief of the police force going on live TV to announce that it was taking over the newspaper..... MORE
2010 rout may not augur ill for Obama in 2012 ANALYSIS 10/29/2010
2010 rout may not augur ill for Obama in 2012
WASHINGTON — Barack Obama’s foes will rejoice if his Democrats get thumped in mid-term congressional elections, but even if his presidency needs a rethink, it may be premature to prepare his political obituary for 2012.
Obama is facing a rebuke from voters on Nov. 2, only two years after they swept him to power, with Republicans tipped to grab back the House of Representatives and thin Democratic margins in the Senate.
Pundits are asking why Obama has lost the magic of 2008, and whether he will suffer the ignominy of going down as a one-term president.
“The weeks and months following the election will be a time of testing for President Obama,” said William Galston, a former Clinton administration official now at the Brookings Institution.
“He will need to look into himself and at the situation.”
If Republicans do emerge triumphant next Tuesday, confrontation will be a certainty as the parties feud over taxes and the deficit in a divided Washington and as the already-stirring 2012 presidential race heats up..... MORE
Am back NO HOLDS BARRED Armida Siguion-Reyna 10/29/2010
Am back
We flew in Tuesday night. Wednesday morning saw me reporting for how-are-yous with the tulisanes of the 365 Club at the coffee shop of Hotel Intercon. A quick trip to the parlor, a catnap in between, and then this lola was off to a cocktail party at the Makati Shangri-La, upon the invitation of Vice President Jojo Binay, chairman of the Housing and Urban Development Coordinating Council, for National Housing Day.
The affair was for the diplomatic corps, for them to see where the government’s efforts to provide decent public housing stood. Among those mingling with the diplomats were Sen. Ferdinand Marcos Jr., Ompong Plaza, JV Bautista, Rene Diaz, big names in real estate, the Binay family of children and grandchildren, including the Makati City mayor, the second district representarive and a talented boy who played his instrument with such musicality and grace, prodding his grandma Doc Ellen to proudly turn to me, with “Sige na nga, ibibili ko na siya ng marimba!”
It’s good to go home to a major event. You see familiar faces, hear so many solicitous inquiries, receive quite a number of warm hugs. Except that with all eyes and ears on the Vice President as he delivered his speech on the rostrum that evening, I could not give out a complete answer to, “Nagpa-check up ka raw sa Amerika? Ano’ng resulta?”
But, yes, to all who care enough to know, I saw my doctors in the US. Nothing wrong with me in a major, major way, save for the unavoidable body changes that come with years. True, I could have had the tests done here, pero ‘yun na nga, you get older, you also get more impatient faster. You have expectations, you make demands, and when few of these are met, local providers tend to dismiss you like it’s your fault, as if what is wrong with you is only.... MORE
Ten minutes vs power plunder DIE HARD III Herman Tiu Laurel 10/29/2010
Ten minutes vs power plunder
Our last column outlined the “power plunder” being inflicted on the people by the collusion between Manila Electric Co. (Meralco) and the Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC), as well as by the Power Sector Assets and Liabilities Management Corp. and the National Grid Corp. of the Philippines, with Therma Marine Inc. of the Aboitiz group.
All told, their profits increased between 60 and 100 percent in the span of just one year, and they were able to manipulate the rate-setting mechanisms to escalate the cost of our energy use by up to 300 percent!
A few days after the said column came out, yet another confirmation of this profiteering was headlined by BusinessWorld: “Meralco powers past Petron in BW’s Top 1,000.”
Meralco came up with a “red herring” to mitigate any adverse reaction to the No. 1 ranking by saying that this came despite “a 2.8-percent drop in gross revenues to P183.7 billion due to reduced generation and transmission charges last year.”
In truth, generation and transmission charges had nothing to do with Meralco’s net income jumping midway this year by 82.3 percent (from P3.15 billion from the same period last year to P5.8 billion so far), as well as with the company’s 2009 P7.7 billion net income surpassing its target of P11 billion for 2010. In fact, Meralco had been raking in this doubling of profits since 2008 when its net income jumped from P3.5 billion to P7.7 billion in 2009.
All through these periods, there was not any real increase in the size and volume of the market. Meralco has taken great pains to hide this with its so-called statistics of 11 to 17 percent growth in the volume of its sales.
What has actually happened was that the massive increases came as a result of the shift from the old Return-on-Rate Base (RoRB) to the new Performance-Based Rate (PBR) setting mechanism that increased allowable returns from the previous 12 percent to the current 15.8 percent!
On top of this, we are faced with the massive overcharging of electricity consumers. The Commission on Audit has already found that Meralco overcharged us by at least P7 billion in 2004 and 2007 alone, which indicates the strong likelihood that the same has happened for the intervening years and beyond.
In fact, an 81-year-old veteran of the Lawyers Against Monopolies (LAMP), Genaro Lualhati, who has fought against this overcharging and won for us 4 million Meralco consumers P28 billion in refunds, filed another petition in 2008 for the power firm to refund another P35 billion worth of overcharges in the past 10 years.
But even as the ERC is obliged by law to resolve the issue within 30 days, it took the regulatory body three long years to issue a decision, and only after Lualhati pressed further. It was revealed in our GNN program by Mang Naro, as Lualhati is called, that the ERC deliberately dilly-dallied and dwelt on irrelevant issues, only to declare his petition “moot and academic.”
Not be deterred, Mang Naro’s one demand is for the other crusaders in this fight to be active again. With Mang Naro on my show was Butch Junia, who came out of retirement for this fight, as well as Pete Ilagan of Nasecore, former QC Mayor Jun Simon, Jojo Borja of Mindanao and many others.
Volunteer lawyers have since been recruited to take all these issues to court so that someday we may finally see ERC pay for its betrayal of public trust.
Butch Junia updated us on the comparative electricity rates of different countries, such as Tokyo’s $0.20/kWh compared to Meralco’s $0.23/kWh, making the Philippines the highest in Asia in terms of power cost today.
Our rates are simply astronomical compared to Jakarta’s $0.06/kWh; Kuala Lumpur’s $0.06/kWh; Paris’ $0.11/kWh; Shanghai’s $0.07/kWh; and even Singapore’s $0.21/kWh.
Few places, in fact, can beat Meralco’s rate; with the only possible exception being New York’s $0.29/kWh — but then, how can you compare the two?
Worse, the situation of Meralco’s 4 million electricity consumers is further aggravated by the formula where regular consumers pay up to P3/kWh in distribution cost while the very large consumers, such as malls and big industries, pay only as low as P0.28/kWh.
As the public is made aware of these facts, the momentum for the consumer campaign is sure to grow.
Action plans have been drawn up, with a “soft launch” on Nov. 1 of the “lights out protest.” The plan calls on all Meralco consumers to turn off their lights from 7 to 7:10 p.m. every Monday.
As people are made aware, then the number of “lights out” days will be increased, helping consumers save money while at the same time synergizing neighborhoods toward the cause. This action has been done before but this new initiative shows the growing support for the struggle. All sectors should thus “volt-in” for a nuclear chain reaction.
Media workers can help in the information campaign; even the UP Law Department can help while businessmen can donate stickers, tarps, and posters to spread the word.
Remember: Lights out every Monday 7 to 7:10 p.m. Let’s knock the lights out of those power plunderers!
(Tune in to Sulo ng Pilipino, Monday, Wednesday and Friday, 6 to 7 p.m. on 1098AM; watch “Electrocuting Power Consumers: The ERC-Meralco Collusion, Part II” with former mayor Jun Simon, Pete Ilagan, et. al on Politics Today with HTL, Tuesday, 8 to 9 p.m., with replay at 11 p.m., on Global News Network, Destiny Cable Channel 21; visit our blogs, http://newkatipunero.blogspot.com and http://hermantiulaurel.blogspot.com)
(Reprinted with permission by Mr. Herman Tiu-Laurel)
South Africa in race against toxic mine water threat focus 10/29/2010
South Africa in race against toxic mine water threat
WESTONARIA — For years Neels Van Wyk suspected something was wrong with the water on his farm, worries that grew as mining and government officials started frequenting the area to test nearby rivers.
Van Wyk, 48, lives in Westonaria on the southwestern outskirts of Johannesburg, surrounded by four major mines which over the last 120 years extracted gold and uranium.
Most of the mines closed down 11 years ago, when pumping of underground water reserves also stopped.
Now researchers worry that toxic mine water is rising toward the surface and seeping into nearby water supplies, contaminating rivers with a cocktail of acidic and sometimes radioactive waste.
“My concern is that I use borehole water which could be contaminated. I sell peaches and vegetables to the hawkers and they sell it to the community. What if the vegetables are contaminated and we don’t know that,” Van Wyk said.
Activists fear rising water levels in the mines have created an underground time bomb that could threaten the country’s nearby financial capital Johannesburg in 16 months.... MORE
Hispanic vote important for Democrats, but harder to get FEATURE 10/29/2010
Hispanic vote important for Democrats, but harder to get
WASHINGTON — Democrats are courting Hispanic voters to blunt a likely Republican advance in US legislative elections Tuesday, but they may prove hard to get after three years of hard economic times.
“The Latino community, like the rest of the country, has gone through a very difficult two years. And so it’s understandable that people feel frustrated,” President Barack Obama said last week in an interview with Hispanic news organizations.
“Now, if I’m the Latino community, the notion that somehow I would sit back and not participate and not have my voice heard (...) that makes no sense whatsoever,” Obama said.
Two years ago, Obama won the presidency thanks in part to a record turnout by 9.7 million Hispanics, casting 7.4 percent of the ballots nationwide. Obama got 67 percent of their votes.
And as this campaign goes into its last frenetic week, the Democratic Party spent a million dollars to air nationally a spot featuring Obama speaking Spanish in its latest attempt to get out the vote.... MORE
Dinky faces Gloria grilling in House bonds probe By Gerry Baldo and Angie M. Rosales 10/29/2010
Dinky faces Gloria grilling in House bonds probe
By Gerry Baldo and Angie M. Rosales 10/29/2010
The woes of Social Welfare Secretary Corazon “Dinky” Soliman are far from over, and she still hasn’t faced the bicameral Commission on Appointments for her confirmation, as some members of the House of Representatives are bent on probing her for her role in the P10-billion PEACe Bonds scam.
Soliman is also expected to get a beating again from former President Arroyo when the House starts its own probe on the Poverty Eradication and Alleviation Certificate (PEACe) bonds which earned a windfall P1.4-billion for a non-government organization then headed by Soliman.
At the same time, a former Senate President, Aquilino “Nene” Pimentel, yesterday pointed out that the Department of Social Welfare and Development, under the law, should have ceased from existing several years ago and its functions, already should have been turned over by this time to local government units.
And as the DSWD is an “illegal” entity, it should not therefore be tasked with a P21 billion fund for the government’s conditional cash transfer program..... MORE
NBI files criminal raps vs Bar bomber suspect 10/29/2010
NBI files criminal raps vs Bar bomber suspect
A day after the suspected Bar examinations bomber, Anthony Nepomuceno, voluntarily agreed to be interrogated by the National Bureau of Investigation agents, the NBI yesterday filed a criminal complaint for multiple frustrated and multiple attempted murders against him before the Department of Justice.
Nepomuceno, a member of the Alpha Phi Omega fraternity and a call center agent Wednesday appeared before the NBI and denied allegations he was involved in the blast at De La Salle University, insisting that he was nowhere in that area on Taft Avenue when the bombing occurred.
He claimed he was nowhere near La Salle when the incident happened, although the NBI said the suspect was positively identified by witnesses as the person who lobbed the grenade.
The bombing incident injured 47 individuals, including law students and Bar examinees themselves.
NBI spokesman Cecilio Zamora said the NBI also charged some “John Does” who are now the subject of extensive investigation to establish their identities..... MORE
Enrile takes rap for fat pays of Senate execs By Angie M. Rosales 10/29/2010
Enrile takes rap for fat pays of Senate execs
Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile assumed responsibility for the grant of huge allowances to some upper chamber executives, ranging from P30,000 to as high as P200,000 a month, which was recently questioned as being excessive, saying that those who got these deserve what they’ve received.
“I take full responsibility,” Enrile said in addressing the Senate employees during a gathering in relation to the celebration of the upper chamber’s 94th anniversary.
But former Senate President Aquilino Pimentel Jr., who was a guest in the weekly Kapihan sa Senado news forum, said the upper chamber should not spare even its own employees believed to be similarly situated with executives from government-owned and controlled corporations (GOCCs) by subjecting them into an investigation as well.
“If we, as an institution, criticize other agencies of government for excessive allowances, I think we should also take a look at ourselves accordingly,” Pimentel told reporters.
Several executives of state firms and financial institutions were found to be receiving huge salaries and excessive allowances in a recent series on inquiries conducted by the Senate finance committee prompting President Aquino to order the suspension of their allowances at least until the end of the year..... MORE
Truth body to hamper delivery of justice — Pimentel 10/29/2010
Truth body to hamper delivery of justice — Pimentel
The matter of the Philippine Truth Commission (PTC) delivering justice and finally providing closure to the alleged irregularities committed under the Arroyo administration was put into question again yesterday.
“I think that the Truth Commission is an abnormality that should never have been created. Why? Because the tendency of the commission is merely to delay the administration of justice. There are existing agencies of government which have the jurisdiction already to look into accusations against anyone. There’s the DoJ (Department of Justice), (Office of the) Ombudsman. Now, what is the effect of the EO (creating the Truth Commission)? You remove that jurisdiction and give that to a toothless tiger,” former Sen. Aquilino Pimentel Jr. said yesterday.
Pimentel’s comments came in the light of the series of petitions being filed before the Supreme Court challenging the validity of the issuances made by President Aquino.
The constitutionality of EO 1 has been questioned by the minority bloc in the House of Representatives.
The former senator, appearing as guest in the weekly Kapihan sa Senado, expressed serious doubts on the effectiveness of the commission in conducting investigations as the body does not even have the power to issue a subpoena to those individuals subject of an investigation..... MORE
Webb seeks acquittal due to missing DNA sample By Benjamin B. Pulta 10/29/2010
Webb seeks acquittal due to missing DNA sample
Convicted rapist Hubert Webb’s lawyer has asked the Supreme Court (SC) to order his acquittal citing government investigators’ failure to keep the semen specimen for DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) forensic analysis.
In a motion, the son of former Sen. Freddie Webb urged the SC to reverse his conviction in the Vizconde massacre case citing the failure of the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) to produce the semen specimen taken from the body of one of his victims for DNA analysis.
Defense lawyer Demetrio Custodio Jr. stressed that the semen specimen extracted from the remains of Carmela Vizconde during her autopsy on June 30, 1991 “plays a significant role” in his client’s defense.
“Even if the NBI’s failure to produce the semen specimen were not due to willful suppression but by negligence, the failure to deliver this evidence to appellant Webb for DNA testing denies him a complete defense and violates his right to due process,” Custodio said. “For this reason, he is entitled to an acquittal,” he added.
Custodio noted that a DNA analysis of the semen specimen excluding appellant Webb as the source of that specimen would disprove the prosecution’s evidence against him..... MORE
DoJ to wait out ex-Lacson aide’s appeal in extradition case 10/29/2010
DoJ to wait out ex-Lacson aide’s appeal in extradition case
Justice Secretary Leila de Lima yesterday confirmed that a United States court has granted the Philippine government’s request for the extradition of former police Senior Supt. Michael Ray Aquino, a key aide of fugitive Sen. Panfilo Lacson.
“Once the ruling becomes final, the DoJ (Department of Justice) shall work on his (Aquino) deportation to face the criminal charges against him here,” she said.
De Lima explained that she “was told that this latest ruling is still appealable to a higher court. So if Michael Ray Aquino avails of that remedy, we will have to wait for that ruling.”
The US court granted the request of the Philippine government to extradite Aquino to face the trial in the November 2000 killing of publicist Salvador “Bubby” Dacer and his driver Emmanuel Corbito.
Aquino and another police official, former Senior Supt. Cezar Mancao, fled to the US reportedly upon the instructions of Lacson to escape prosecution. Lacson has been in hiding since January this year after being implicated in the murders..... MORE
DFA drops RP acronym, now PHL in usage By Michaela P. del Callar 10/29/2010
DFA drops RP acronym, now PHL in usage
By Michaela P. del Callar 10/29/2010
The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) and its foreign diplomatic posts began using the initials PH or PHL when referring to the Philippines, and not anymore “RP,” an acronym for the Republic of the Philippines, in compliance with the country codes set by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO).
Moreover, the DFA said the use of the designated country codes would “avoid the ambiguity and confusion with the use of the initials RP.”
“The long standing usage of the initials RP is not in accordance with ISO codes, leading to ambiguous initials that can also refer to other countries,” the DFA noted.
In a Department Order dated Oct. 20, Foreign Affairs Secretary Alberto Romulo directed the DFA’s 67 embassies, 23 consulates general and four permanent missions to use the initials PH or PHL in their dispatches and reports to the Home Office.
The ISO developed the ISO3166-1 codes, assigning two letter (alpha-2) and three letter (alpha-3) code to member countries..... MORE
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Science of Love
You and Me and Everyone We Know
Marriage goes far beyond spouse and children. Your family, friends, and entire community have a stake.
by Erik Newton
photo courtesy of Aubrie Pick
filed under Advice, Science of Love
I was at the wedding of a close friend recently, and someone asked me what I had learned about marriage from my years as a divorce lawyer. At the time, it all came down to two core truths: Conflict is inevitable, and community is part of every marriage.
As to the first point, I have often written here about how important conflict is in relationships. Conflict allows us the greatest access to our unresolved fears and to creating intimacy with our partners.
Regarding the second point, especially in the chaos of planning a wedding, couples often forget about the power and purpose of community in their marriage.
Stephanie Coontz, in her well known book Marriage, a History, writes that community ties have always been fundamental to marriage. Throughout time, marriage has appeared in just about every form imaginable: In China, for instance, young girls are still occasionally known to marry ghosts; in Tibet, brothers are often expected to all marry the same woman. The one common thread in marriages across the world, however, is the involvement of community. Usually this means establishing financial, land-related, or diplomatic ties with other families. There’s safety in numbers, and so marriage serves the purpose of uniting more than just the couple. It unites families, tribes, and entire communities.
This is why marriage is made as a public declaration. We bring our communities together and make a commitment before them while they make a commitment to us. Both are strengthened as a result.
Sometimes the couple or the community forgets about the commitment, and that is where the reciprocal relationship comes into play. As a divorce lawyer, I saw repeatedly how negative talk about a marriage in the community can kill a relationship. Likewise, when couples bad-mouth their relationship to their communities, they destroy their support structure and hasten their own divorce. The community has power over the marriage just as the marriage has an obligation to the community.
The commitment the community makes to the couple is not explicit; it depends on why and how the couple is marrying, and every couple is different. That said, the typical commitment in America today is to put the marriage first. As friends of a married couple, we are usually making a related commitment to put the marriage itself first, to uphold the relationship before the individuals.
And that brings us back to my first point, that conflict is inevitable but it can deepen the relationship. The couple will sometimes forget this fact and great pain will ensue, sometimes ending in divorce. That’s when the community steps in to remind the couple about their commitment, and about what’s possible. Other times the the community will forget about the commitment, and that’s when the couple must stand up for their own relationship and act as an example for the community.
Marriage cannot in fact exist without community. It is a product of community and exists for the betterment of it. The community plays an integral role in marriage success, and in recognizing conflict for what it is, an opportunity to create a deeper and more meaningful relationship.
Erik Newton is the founder of Together.
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Post-synod document on young people coming soon
VATICAN (CNS): The Vatican announced on February 24 that Pope Francis will issue a document on Young people, faith and vocational discernment, five months after the world Synod of Bishops gathered to discuss the topic.
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One is Bishop Joseph Guo Jincai of Chengde, in Hebei province, who was recently readmitted to communion by the pope. He also secretary-general of the Bishops’ Conference of the Catholic Church in China (BCCCC), for whom a US$11 million ($86.3 million) complex comprising a cathedral, convent and residence was recently built.
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“You would think in our isolation we would not hear about this topic,” the bishop said describving diocese as one of the “dots in the Pacific Ocean. Many dots.”
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The world will love Mayawati as PM
2008.Aug.10 2010.Mar.22 Swaminathan S. Anklesaria Aiyar 15 Comments
The next general election looks certain to produce another hung Parliament. This will give many politicians a chance to cobble together coalitions and become prime minister. At a recent office discussion, I opined that Mayawati, head of the BSP, had the best chance.
Some youngsters in my office found this disturbing. One said, “If Mayawati becomes PM, won’t that lower India’s prestige? She is corrupt, crude and unprincipled. Doesn’t India need a prime minister who is more presentable to the world?”
I explained that Mayawati was actually the most presentable candidate by far. If she becomes PM, India can claim to be the most empowering democracy in the world. Nowhere else has a woman from the bottom of the social and gender ladders risen to the top.
Women are oppressed in India, and Dalits are the most oppressed caste. For a Dalit to rise to the top would be miraculous. For a female Dalit to do so would be doubly miraculous. If Mayawati becomes prime minister, she will become a beacon of hope for oppressed people across the world.
Many middle class Indians want a prime minister from their class who is honest, principled and erudite; who can debate intellectual issues with the best in the world. Mayawati does not qualify. Jawaharlal Nehru had all these qualifications, and so is still admired. Yet, the world has seen many leaders from eminent families, blessed with wealth, status and foreign education. Never before has the world seen a Dalit woman rising to Nehru’s level.
isited Pakistan in 2003, he was a huge hit. Pakistanis had seen many Indian politicians from top families. They were utterly unprepared for and thrilled by this man who made a virtue of his humble antecedents, who used earthy language and rural aphorisms utterly unlike the sophisticated prattle of the chattering classes. No Pakistani of his class could ever aspire to political stardom, and for that reason Lalu was viewed as a superstar. Ditto for Mayawati.
Dynastic politics has enabled many women to rise to the top in the sub-continent. Consider Indira and Sonia Gandhi in India, Begums Khaleda and Hasina in Bangladesh, Benazir Bhutto in Pakistan, and Srimavo Banadaranaike and Chandrika Kumaratunge in Sri Lanka. All became prime ministers because of their dynastic lineage.
Mayawati has no such lineage. She grew up in a Dalit shanty town, daughter of a lowly clerk. Most Dalit women don’t dare speak in public. But Mayawati became a school teacher, spitting fire at public meetings. This brought her to the attention of Kanshi Ram, who was organising a Dalit political party. Kanshi Ram persuaded Mayawati to abandon her plans to join the civil service, and plunge into politics instead. The rest is history.
She may be a symbol of what democracy can achieve. Yet, her own behaviour within the BSP is utterly autocratic. She has mercilessly purged old comrades who dared dissent. She is seen as unprincipled since she has first teamed up with and then broken with every political party in sight, for short-term gains.
I once asked Kanshi Ram whether he was rightist or leftist. He replied, “Neither: I am opportunist.” So is Mayawati. Her only guiding principle is to promote the interest of Dalits and herself. Everything else is negotiable. She started by castigating Brahmins as oppressors of Dalits. Yet, today she has stitched together a convenient alliance with those very Brahmins.
She can be crude, abusive and arbitrary, and so has antagonised all other parties. Yet, she remains politically attractive. When she allies with another party, her Dalit votes get transferred to the ally’s candidates. No other party can guarantee this transferability. That makes her an awesome ally. An election jingle says it all: Auron ki majboori hai, Mayawati zaroori hai. (It’s the misfortune of others, Mayawati is indispensable).
Like many other politicians, she faces several criminal cases, notably the Taj Corridor case. Other politicians seek to hide their ill-gotten wealth, but Mayawati glories in it. Her Dalit followers view her wealth as a symbol not of corruption but Dalit empowerment: she has beaten the upper castes at their own corrupt game.
Her self-declared assets rose from Rs 16 crore before the 2004 general election to Rs 52 crore before the UP election in 2007. This made her far richer than other chief ministers such as Prakash Singh Badal (Rs 9.2 crore), Karunanidhi (Rs 22 crore) or Chandrababu Naidu (Rs 21 crore).
She paid income tax of Rs 26 crore in 2007-08, making her one of the top taxpayers in India, in the company of film stars and industrialists. Mayawati has faced prosecution for having wealth disproportionate to income. She says the money represents gifts from well wishers. And a tax tribunal recently upheld her contention.
The world is not interested in the gory details. Politicians everywhere face sundry charges, and the world notices only if this results in political dismissal. So, if Mayawati becomes PM, the world will lionise her as a Dalit heroine. And it will lionise India as a democracy without parallel.
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15 thoughts on “The world will love Mayawati as PM”
Ashutosh Behera
2016.May.19 at 11:25
If the dalit queen Mayabati want to be next PM of India.She should put more priority to each state as UP.Specially,if she put focus on Odisha easily BSP can make CM.Bcz most of Dalit people are in Odisha.I hope the Iron lady Mayabati will be next PM in India.
Hemanth
I was reading your article in sunday TOI. Now it has been proved that newstrader like you only writes for money or misguide pepole.Now do u have any answer for BSP peformance of this gernal election BSP got 0 in UP.Any comments ?
Interesting. So people say that communalism is not good, but have no objection to accepting somebody as a PM just becuase she happens to be of a specific caste. These people cry foul when people talk of Hindutva, but when somebody seeks to be a PM just on the basis of minority religon or minority caste, the so called secularist welcome it. What absolute jokers and hypocrites.
Sandeep Kashyap
2014.Apr.01 at 14:08
Very interesting and thought provoking article !!!
We very much want to see Behan Mayawati Ji as PM of India , she will not only unite all the Dalits ST and Backward classes but will also provide the equal share of resources to the mentioned backward people who are deprived of their share from thousands of years . It will increase the stature of the country in the whole world .
Santosh Deshmukh
2014.Mar.30 at 18:32
Great Article !!
Behen Mayawatiji represent true India and she will ensure that every Indian is empowered to take this country to the glory of King Ashoka’s period.
bahujansamajpartyamp
Behanji will be the PM of India.. If she becomes PM all proproblems of bahujans will be solved which have not solved by bjp n congres yet
H D Kumar
Mayawati can built India according to constitution of INDIA. She is only iron person who can built India Sorrow free. So my choice for the post of PM is Mayawati.
prajju
2013.Nov.02 at 20:41
yes mayawati will b the PM of India. only she can solve the problems of Indian. not Modi r Rahul gandhi
K.Sekhar
2013.Oct.18 at 17:30
Yes. Why should’nt Mayawati become the Prime Minister of India ? She is only politician who has guts to dismiss her own cabinet colleague when found involved in a crime. She does not brook indiscipline and it was during her regime law and order situation was most satisfactory. She may be blunt, she may indulge in bulldozing,but at least she did not engineer communal or caste riots. The hypocrisy quotient is least in her. She never appeases any category including hers beyond a point. She stands for Bahujan Samaj-an inclusive structure in which all castes shall have equal share in political power. With some corrections in her policies she would make a very pragmatic and progressive PM. She alone has a pan Indian appeal and she alone can best Modi on any turf. It would be naive to believe that only Dalits admire her. I am an upper caste non Brahmin Hindu. I root for her.
Mayawati ji is the most deserving condidate as PM.
Surendra Faridabad
As you said Mayawati one of the most INCOME tax payees in india than how can she be a corrupt , UP is now (akhilesh govt) becoming like kashmir, we have two personalities for PM One is Mayawati and another one is Narendra Modi JAI HIND
kiran mysore
Great article..
It is 100% sure that BSP Supremo will be Next P.M of India.
Dawa Tshering Lepcha
2012.Aug.23 at 21:41
Yes, Mayawati deserves to be PM of India and it is going to be materialised in near future. She is not representing the Dalits but the countrymen as a whole. The World will witness her incumbent as PM of one of the biggest democrary with applause.
2012.Feb.25 at 02:37
Thanks for this article.. i wish mayawati become the PM
Iamtired!
2011.Jun.09 at 21:14
Why should mayawati become PM just because she is a dalit?What sort of shallow sense of equality is that?It would’nt benefit dalits in any way as they worst treated in UP and tamil nadu politics is only for backward castes,not dalits!BTW we have had a dalit president in R.K.Narayan.Besides brahmins were poor in pre-colonial India(self imposed) and powerless.They are poor and powerless today too(atleast 30%).Still electing a brahmin to power merely to empower seems unthinkable,does’nt it Mr.Liberal?brahmins carry all the burden of the supposed evil of the caste system.They were and are the worst affected by it! Dalits were much better off in comparison,with some even having ancestral properties.BTW why should castes be involved in everything?Why should a poor OC or brahmin be denied an engineering or medicine seat despite scoring 98%?under the justification that an OBC,BC,Dalit who scores 50% has more eligibility over it merely because of his/here birth?Is that what promotes equality?No it merely replaces one underclass with another.The brahmins are merely vindicated because they are docile,peacefull,3% of population in this filthy representative democracy.brahmins thought they were nationalistic in adopting a one child policy in the 70s so as to help the population explosion taking place then.They did their part,unfortunately others did’nt care and boomed the population of their repsective castes leading to more representation.India today truely does’nt care for the welfare of all and people like modi who practise true inclusive development are communalised by the congress and liberal hippies like yourself just because of that one riot.According to your logic,we should’nt vote for the congress either because of the party backed pogroms against the sikhs in 1984.They have also engineered multiple other riots.The DMK and periar,kamarajar and other dravidian leaderws openly discriminated against brahmins?Their only fault being brahmins were successfull…without any sort of reservation or support.why don’t we consider the DMk or congress communal?Because this whole modi/BJP is communal concept has been created by congress and our India media awash with petrochemical dollars.
India does’nt need a dalit like mayawati or a communist like nehru or a BC.What we need is good,modern, forward thinking leaders-caste no bar.
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