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medical abortion at home
A roadmap for research on self-managed abortion in the United States
(Posted August 29 2018)
Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health (ANSIRH), Gynuity Health Projects, and Ibis Reproductive Health. A roadmap for research on self-managed abortion in the United States. August 2018.
Media coverage and research data show a growing awareness of the option to self-manage (or self-induce or self-source) abortion outside of the formal health care system; we are learning more about people’s experiences with self-managed abortion, and how often people choose this option in the United States. Recent evidence indicates between one and seven percent of abortion patients (see below) have taken or done something to try to end their current pregnancy. In addition, in 2015, there were more than 700,000 Google searches using terms related to self-induced abortion in the United States. The reasons women attempt to self-manage an abortion are varied, but they are often related to barriers accessing clinic-based care, as well as a preference for self-care.
Continued: https://ibisreproductivehealth.org/publications/roadmap-research-self-managed-abortion-united-states
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Scottish women retain right to take abortion pills at home
Anti-abortion challenge fails as Westminster urged to follow Holyrood’s example
Libby Brooks, Scotland correspondent
The Scottish government’s decision to allow women to take the abortion pill in their own homes has been upheld following a legal challenge by the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC) Scotland.
Doctors welcomed the ruling by the court of session in Edinburgh as “a very significant step forward”, after the anti-abortion campaign group argued that the licensing of the drug misoprostol for home use was “unlawful” and a threat to women’s health and that of their unborn babies.
Continued: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/aug/15/scottish-women-retain-right-to-take-abortion-pills-at-home
abortion pill at home
Dr Catherine Calderwood
John Deighan
Lady Wise
Lesley Regan
Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
Society for the Protection of Unborn Children
SPUC
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Circle Square
Howard, Rachel
Rachel Howard plays with the tensions between control and chaos, order and entropy, making and unmaking, beauty and destruction. Working mainly as a painter, she revels in the joy of the material and the intense physicality of her process. Over the past 25 years, religion, repetition, mortality, fragility, uncertainty, madness and violence have been recurring themes in her works. Circle Square, 2015 comes from a series of grid and line paintings. These consist of intricate overlapping lines and disintegrated surfaces, which hint at unstable worlds, entropy and collapse. Howard often displays an irreverence for her material; for example, in the 1990s and early 2000s she used only household gloss paint, wanting to humanise this functional medium used mainly for painting doors and windows. Here, she used gravity as an invisible paintbrush to attain the desired effect, freeing herself from more traditional painting methods and nodding to her heroes, the abstract expressionists of the 1940s and 1950s. The past decade has seen Howard return to oil paint for the first time since her teens and, once more, a desire to use this medium in an obtuse manner.
Artwork Details: 61 x 61cm
Material description: Oil on canvas
Credit line: © the artist
Theme: Undefined
Medium: Painting
Barlow, Phyllida
untitled: dunce, 2015
Deshayes, Nicolas
Becoming Soil, 2015
Maclean, Rachel
Feed Me, 2015
Starkey, Hannah
Mirror - Untitled, September 2015, 2015
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contact@asso-amla.org
Results & general meetings
Events & actions
Lymphatic malformation
The rare disease : lymphatic malformation
Multidisciplinary care places
Clinical tests
Healthcare & and complementary therapies
Lymphatic malformation patients map
Associations in Europe
Lymph is the poor relation of scientific research
Pressure groups remain the best weapon in the struggle for recognition of lymphatic malformations and their treatment. We are confronted by the obvious frustration of medical research funding.
Lymph malformations fall under the generic heading of “Lymphangiomas” which affect children and adults of both sexes and all ethnic groups. Their common factor is that they affect the development of the wall of the lymph vessel, affecting both superficial and profound lymph vessels. They are now classified, but cover a multitude of very diverse pathologies, because of their various forms, their degree of severity and in terms of existing possibilities of treatment.
The first step towards further research and more fundamental clinical work requires that health professionals, the general public and policy makers be made much more aware of the problems faced by families and researchers. The rare researchers into these pathologies suffer from a cruel lack of financial funding.
According to the key figures provided by the Alliance for Rare Diseases – a rare illness concerns only one person in 2000 in Europe, affects 3 million people in France, of whom 75% are children and 80% of cases present a genetic origin. The average time for diagnosis takes 4 years!
Late diagnosis or wrong diagnosis, a roaming mission in search of a diagnosis, followed by the rarity of hospital centres for treatment - these are the problems faced by patients with lymphatic malformation. Their struggle means that they suffer additional physical, psychological and social consequences and often feel that no-one is interested in their case. This complex pathology involving the lymph vessels motivates only a few rare researchers and professionals who are dedicated and passionate in their quest to understand the origins and causes of lymph malformation.
This is why we believe that the Lymphangioma Association needs to have an impact on the future of care and treatment of lymph malformation by, for example, raising funds to finance a fundamental research project on lymph and its malformations; also we need to advance the progress of work engaged in clinical research, but also campaign for the recognition of alternative therapies which can enhance and improve the quality of life of the patients.
This means that we have to inform the public at large, the health professionals, the politicians and public bodies in France and throughout Europe. The association campaigns alongside all concerned in order to find solutions for the treatment of Lymphatic Malformation.
"We are counting on your support"
The Lymphangioma Association (L’Association Lymphangiomes – A.M.L.A) unites various partners (including businesses, other associations, individual donors, public figures, politicians and sports personalities), all of whom support our actions and help us to raise funds for research
“It’s better not to treat than to mistreat”
This is the motto of those specialist teams who believe that any surgical intervention should be decided by an entire multidisciplinary team with sufficient experience and knowledge of lymphatic malformations to anticipate any possible consequences which could be serious and irreversible.
What do we mean by MULTIDISCIPLINARY ?
We mean a team composed of all specialities, such as radiologists, ORL specialists, surgeons, dermatologists, gastro-enterologists, pneumologists, psycho-therapists….
Lymphatic malformations are not particularly rare, but their complex forms are both rare and difficult to treat.
Classification internationale des anomalies vasculaires : Recommandations de l'ISSVA
Vascular anomalies classification : recommendations from ISSVA
Les vaisseaux lymphatiques : la 2ème circulation oubliée dans la santé et la maladie
Malformations lymphatiques kystiques (formation médicale continue)
Imagerie des anomalies et malformations vasculaires de l'enfant (STV)
Sirolimus for the Treatment of complicated / Vascular Anomalies in Children (Wiley Online Library 2011)
Lymphatic malformations are not particularly rare,
but their complex forms are both rare and difficult to treat.
The Lymphangioma Association is the first association in Europe bringing together patients affected by Lymphatic Malformation. Founded in February 2014 and declared to the Seine and Marne prefecture in the Île de France region.
Restez en contact permanent avec AMLA
Agir Malformation Lymphatique Aliiance
12 rue Abel Leblanc
77220 PRESLES-EN-BRIE
The medical information on this site does not replace in any case the medical consultation which alone makes it possible to establish a diagnosis
and to put in place a protocol of care adapted to each individual case.
©2020 Lymphangioma Association
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Drama | 88 min | 35 mm
Fien Troch
KID is young director Fien Troch's third feature film. Her debut film SOMEONE ELSE'S HAPPINESS was screened in Toronto, Rotterdam, San Sebastian, and Gothenburg amongst others, and has received awards for Best Film, Best Screenplay and Best Actress in Thessaloniki. Her second film UNSPOKEN was shown in Toronto, Rotterdam, and San Sebastian to mention a few and has won Turin's award for Best Leading Actress.
Told through the eyes of Kid, the audience experiences a family tragedy. Seven-year-old Kid can only imagine the background of his single mother’s struggle. When she dies, Kid has to face his fears and the hardships of the world by himself. While still hoping to find his mother, he becomes more and more estranged from his environment.
This film is a simple reminder of what “being a child” really feels like. Kid, though naive and playful, is in the middle of an unfolding tragedy and unwilling to accept losses.
N279 Entertainment
Antonino Lombardo
Bent Simons
Maarten Meeuwsen
Gabriela Carrizo
Frank Van Den Eeden
Walter Brugmans
Judith Van Herck
Nico Leunen
Nadine Borreman
Line producer:
Keve Zvolenszky
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You are at:Home»Camp Pendleton»But will they be running (off) on Dunkin’?
But will they be running (off) on Dunkin’?
By Gidget Fuentes on April 6, 2012 Camp Pendleton, Food, Pop culture
When officials mark the opening of the new and enlarged Marine Corps Exchange at Camp Pendleton, Calif., in early May, they might want to brace for an unusual crowd: Dunkin’ Donuts lovers.
We’re talking coffee and donuts, and muffins and bagels, too.
Dunkin’ Donuts, a Massachusetts-based company, has more than 7,000 restaurants across the country, in 36 states plus the District of Columbia, and there’s even seven overseas. But there’s not a single one in California, a huge state where Starbucks and McDonalds are a dime a dozen. But come May, the state’s first Dunkin’ Donuts eatery will open inside the new MCX.
It’s been more than a decade since the company shuttered its few California shops, putting the nearest Boston Kreme, Powered Cocoa and Spiced Apple donuts in the far reaches across the border – no, not Mexico, although it might as well be – in Nevada and Arizona. Why they did that is just mind-boggling, even in a state that screams healthy and fit but gorges on In-N-Out burgers and burritos.
That gap in time has been agony for throngs of fans, East Coasters mostly, relegated to reminiscing about Dunkin’s Hazelnut coffee and Salt bagels and waiting for the day to travel back East, where a trip to the nearest Dunkin’ Donuts is a required pilgrimage.
But with the new Camp Pendleton store, the 64,000 people who work or live at the base will be the lucky ones able to get their coffee and donut fix daily. At least that’s what the corporate data keepers expect. “We are honored and excited about the opportunity to serve the 64,000 people who live, work and train at the military base and look forward to keeping the Marines running on Dunkin’ with our coffee and snacks,” the Dunkin’ Brands public relations manager, McCall Gosselin, said in a response to questions, picking up the company’s motto of “America runs on Dunkin’.”
Running they will be. At a base with quite a few transplanted East Coasters – including the base commander – and Southerners more familiar with the brand’s sweets, the official grand opening set to run from May 3 to May 6 just might become more of a swarm. A big one. It won’t just be base workers and residents who can access the store, not far from the main gate and Interstate 5, but thousands of military retirees in the region, which itself has a sizeable population.
“This will be off the charts,” predicted Brig. Gen. Vincent Coglianese, the Marine Corps Installations-West commander. The New Jersey native knows: He described his wife as a big Dunkin’ fan. And a recent interview veered off into warm memories of hot coffee and tasty pastries, and anticipation of the “VIP” opening on May 2.
Coglianese expects to see as big a reception to Camp Pendleton’s Dunkin’ Donuts as the Marine Corps has seen at the Camp Lejeune, N.C., store, which reportedly had more business than the Dunkin’ Donuts restaurants outside the base in Jacksonville. The company rep wouldn’t confirm but said there are 25 other Dunkin’ Donuts at U.S. military bases, and service members apparently don’t shy away from its goodies. “The military population is a great audience for us and we are actively looking to develop new Dunkin’ Donuts locations on other military bases,” Gosselin said.
The company’s original announcement that the Camp Pendleton location will be the only site in California had left die-hard Dunkin’ Donuts fans out West thinking: Are they hazelnuts?
But how soon new sites would open isn’t clear. “It will be some time before we consider expanding into California,” said Gosselin. “We recognize there is high demand for Dunkin’ Donuts on the West Coast, as evidenced by the fact that California is the #1 state for sales of our bagged grocery coffee. However, Dunkin’ Donuts is moving westward with focus on disciplined development in contiguous markets that are adjacent to our existing base in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic areas. We will enter the market once our infrastructure is established to meet the demands of our guests.”
Fans anticipate the reaction at Camp Pendleton will be hot. But if the it turns out to be more lukewarm, well, that means there’s just more coffee and donuts for the rest of us.
Gidget Fuentes
The Rock visits Pendleton
The crosses are back: after wildfire, 100 Marines restore Pendleton memorials
Poll: Marine Corps still most prestigious military branch
Eric on April 12, 2012 10:56 am
Just what the Marines need is that unhealthy garbage sold at our bases. Look at all the grease or oil seeping outta that bag and on that napkin. When you end up with diabetes or remedial PT from all the sugar and GMO’s and whatever else is hydrogenated in that crap be sure to thank Dunkin Doughnuts and your Base Commanders for setting you up for failure, just so Dunkin Doughnuts and the military can make a profit off your asses. (DISGUSTING)!!!!! Thought the Marine Corps was promoting health and fitness on Base guess I was wrong.
0341 on April 12, 2012 11:37 am
Ya Marines if doughnuts are your thing go to the MOM and Pa Shop in San Clemente off the 5 freeway forgot the offramp CHRISTIANOS or something (SURF “N” doughnuts) there real good and cheap. Fuck those corporate duschbags Dunkin Doughnuts, rather give my Money to one of the few remaining Mom and Pops then to see some Corporate dickheads in a suit and tie getting rich off us while pushing their crap down our throats.
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Jan. 22 - Feb 22
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This issue highlights the following significant developments here and in the Middle East:
The US and the rest of the world are closely watching the unrest in Egypt and the Middle East.
The abortion debate is heating up on Capitol Hill as bills to limit access are taken up in the House.
The systematic crumbling of the separation of religion and state violates two clauses in the Bill of Rights.
Senate women, through civility pact, manage to disagree yet still like one another.
A useful chart showing countries in the Middle East with political and demographic information may help explain current tensions and political outcomes.
Remember to check out our blog to keep up with current events, op-eds, reproductive rights information, sort fact from fiction in your inbox about Israel, and Presidential Ponderings - Gail's thoughts and observations.
ISRAEL & THE MIDDLE EAST
Mubarak resigns; hands power to Egyptian military
President Hosni Mubarak resigned Friday and handed power to the Egyptian military, setting off wild celebrations among protesters across the country who had demanded his ouster for the last 18 days.
Israel, Alone Again?
ISRAELIS want to rejoice over the outbreak of protests in Egypt's city squares. They want to believe that this is the Arab world's 1989 moment. Perhaps, they say, the poisonous reflex of blaming the Jewish state for the Middle East's ills will be replaced by an honest self-assessment.
What Israel fears in Egypt
One might expect that Israelis, who live in the only democracy in the Middle East, would turn out in the squares of Jerusalem and the gardens of Tel Aviv to show solidarity with the demonstrators in Egypt. The protesters, after all, are seeking to overthrow an authoritarian regime.
It's never been about Palestine
The anti-Mubarak revolution won't only topple an authoritarian regime. It will also topple 40-plus years of wrong-headed thinking about the causes of Middle East instability among the world's foreign-policy cognoscenti.
Is a Palestinian Statehood in the Near Future a Realistic Proposition?
On December 13, 2010 the European Union's Foreign Affairs Council issues a press release on the subject of its meeting held on the same day to discuss the Middle East Peace Process. The document included the following clause:
No room at table for Muslim Brotherhood
Free and democratic societies take chances. They guarantee freedom of speech and of the press, despite the risk that harmful, foolish, or depraved ideas may be promoted. They require due process of law before an offender can be punished, even though some who are guilty may go free as a result. They give citizens the power to elect their rulers, notwithstanding the possibility that voters will choose officials who are corrupt or incompetent.
Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood: In Their Own Words
The Muslim Brotherhood has taken a greater role in organizing the protest against the Egyptian regime as it unfolds its independent political agenda. Rashad al-Bayumi, the Brotherhood's second-in-command, announced in an interview with Japanese TV that the group would join a transitional government in order to cancel the peace treaty between Egypt and Israel, as it "offends the Arabs' dignity and destroys the interests of Egypt and other Arab states." He further stressed that Egypt does not need American aid.
Abortion debate heats up on Capitol Hill
A renewed - and heated - debate about abortion is underway one month into a congressional session that largely has devoted its energy to tackling economic issues.
Archaic attitudes in abortion bill
Under pressure from appalled voters, House Republicans have removed the most galling provisions from their "No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act'' - the ones that would have changed the legal definition of rape and incest as exceptions to the funding ban. But there is still plenty to dislike about this outmoded bill.
It's Not About Who Pays. It's About Respect
Pro-choice clergy in the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice network are outraged at the lack of respect for women's lives implicit in HR 3 - the deceptively named "No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act" introduced by Rep. Chris Smith. The injustice of this bill is appalling. Simply, it fails to acknowledge the worth - in religious terms, the sacredness - of women's lives. In that respect, it is immoral.
Texas Jumps on Anti-Abortion 'Sonogram' Bandwagon on Heels of Scary Ohio 'Heartbeat' Bill
This week, Texas State Senators will consider a barbaric new bill that would force women to look at a sonogram, hear a heartbeat and listen to their doctor's detailed description of the fetus just two hours before receiving their scheduled abortion.
SEPARATION OF RELIGION AND STATE
The Quietly Crumbling Wall of Separation
In his recent RD piece, law professor Bruce Ledewitz does a good job telling the story of the trend toward diminished protections for the free exercise of religion over the past couple of decades of federal jurisprudence. But it's not the whole story.
POLITICAL BYTE
The Koch Brothers' Vast Right-Wing Media Conspiracy
Last June, Glenn Beck paused in the middle of a rant about the economy and climate on his television show for an important, if rather unexpected, aside. "I want to thank Charles Koch for this information," he said.
Senate women's 'civility' pact
It's something you almost never see in Senate politics: one female senator attacking another, even when they're on opposite sides of an issue.
A region on the edge
The source of much of the world's oil, the Middle East has been riled in recent weeks by a surge of protests against entrenched regimes, most notable an uprising against Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. (A helpful chart of the countries in the region.)
Battle over Mideast transit ads heating up across U.S.
With public bickering over the Israeli-Palestinian conflict already having spilled over into university student senates, corporate pension boards and even local farmers markets, the latest battlefield in the debate over the conflict is municipal transit systems.
Our members count on JACPAC to provide information on current events, candidates, and elections. JACPAC depends on membership support to make this possible.
If you have not renewed your membership, please consider doing so today, to help us pursue a strong US-Israel relationship, reproductive choice, and separation of religion and state. Together we can make this a better world!
Gail Yamner, President
Marcia Balonick, Executive Director
Joy Malkus, Executive Research Director
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Genesis Microchip Inc.
Maclean's | November 16 1998
Education NOTES (1)
Flims (2)
When Quebec Liberal Leader Jean Charest recently announced his party’s economic platform, Quebec pundits cheered at the prospect of an ideological debate during the election campaign. By suggesting turning the page on the Quiet Revolution, Charest boldly waded into delicate territory. By BRENDA BRANSWELL
Will she ever be queen?
On Nov. 14, Prince Charles will mark his half century with a glittering birthday bash attended by many of the world’s most senior royals and dignitaries. On his arm will be his longtime mistress and companion Camilla Parker Bowles, playing hostess at the high-profile gala. By SUE QUINN
To summarize your excerpt from Peter C. Newman’s Titans (Cover, Nov. 2): when the anti-establishment establish themselves they will have re-established the establishment. According to my dictionary, “titan” means a person or thing having enormous strength.
World NOTES
Two car bombers killed themselves and injured 21 people in Jerusalem’s main street market, forcing Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s right-wing cabinet to immediately halt discussions on whether to ratify the land-for-security accord he signed with Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat last month at the White House.
November 91998 November 231998
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Essays on the MILLENNIUM 2000
LOOKING FOR LEADERSHIP
By MICHAEL ADAMS
By CHRIS WOOD
Maclean's | January 25 1999
Essays on the MILLENNIUM 2000 (1)
Newsroom Notes (1)
Among the more than 80 social trends that my colleagues and I monitor is one we call “apocalyptic anxiety”— the fear that the world is rushing towards some as-yet undefined disaster. This anxiety has grown over the past year, with a sense of impending doom extending from coast to coast. By MICHAEL ADAMS
As a storm raged outside, the constantly ringing phones went unanswered at Environment Canada’s Toronto offices last Thursday. Like many other workplaces in the city, it was shut down—by the worst series of blizzards ever to strike Toronto. By CHRIS WOOD
Your articles on “Canada’s obesity epidemic” were both timely and informative (Cover, Jan. 11). I do feel, however, that among associated health risks, some mention should have been made of snoring and obstructive sleep apnea. Not all sufferers of those conditions are obese, but a significant majority would be helped by loss of weight.
‘HOMELESSNESS IS FIXABLE'
Timothy B. was taking the storm in stride. Home on this cold, miserable night, which had brought the country’s largest city to an icy halt, was a spot on the floor of the Moss Park Armoury in downtown Toronto, a few blankets for a bed. It was snowing so hard outside that his efforts to make a few bucks by sweeping sidewalks for merchants had failed. By WARREN CARAGATA
Statistics Canada reported that the prevalence of asthma among children under 15 rose to 11.2 per cent in 1994-1995. In 1978-1979, the incidence rate was just 2.5 per cent. Although Stats-Can did not offer any particular cause for the quadrupling in the rate, past studies have pointed to poor indoor air quality due to energy-efficient, airtight homes that trap mould, chemical fumes, dust mites and cigarette smoke.
The ranting 'redneck'
In his heyday as founder and editor-in-chief of the feisty, ultra-conservative Alberta Report newsmagazine, Ted Byfield was famous for his newsroom rants and rages. As deadlines approached, he would pace the floor, railing at editors to get their copy in on time. By BRIAN BERGMAN
A SHOCK DOWN THE LINE
Chris King expected to spend the afternoon talking wages and benefits when she sat down for a union-management bargaining session at a downtown Montreal hotel on Jan. 11. King, a Bell Canada operator from Windsor, Ont., was part of a 15-member team negotiating a new contract for 2,400 unionized operators employed by the Montrealbased telecommunications giant. By D’ARCY JENISH
Raising the stakes over magazines
Ask a Canadian government official to justify the proposed federal law designed to protect Canadian magazine publishers, and the answer often rises to lofty rhetoric about “Canadian voices telling Canadian stories.” Ask Richard Fisher, the second-highest-ranking American trade negotiator, why he is leading the fight against the Canadian law, and he also claims the high ground: of “upholding a significant principle.” By JOHN GEDDES
January 181999 February 11999
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London Street Fighter IV Ranking Battles Season 1 (relocated) March 15, 2009
Yates's, Harrow
269-271 Station Rd
Harrow, Middlesex, England HA1 2TB
SF IV Ranking Battles will no longer take place at Gamerbase.
They will now take place on Sundays at 3PM at Yates in Harrow.
Due to the incredible number of people that attended our Gamerbase events over the last two weeks, we regret to inform you that we are no longer able to continue hosting events at Gamerbase. Trocadero and HMV security staff members raised a number of concerns and there was no viable workaround that would have satisfied both Neo Empire and both security teams.
But fear not, because the show WILL go on. We have decided to move the day of the Ranking Battle to Sunday, and the location to Yates in Harrow, where many of our previous tournaments and events have taken place.
In addition to try and apologise to you guys for having to make you come so far to play, it now costs just £2 to enter the venue. That lets you play casuals AND in the tournament.
We would like to sincerely apologise to everyone for the short notice of this announcement, but please try to understand that there was literally no other option available to us at such short notice. We will be continuing discussions with a number of parties to see if we can revive the possibility of a Central London location, but in the mean time, our hand has been forced.
Now whilst this may initially sound like bad news, if you really think about it, it really isn't. Here are just a number of reasons why moving to Yates is actually BETTER for our event than staying at Gamerbase:
More setups (including PS3 setups!) allowing more people to play, both in the tournament and causally!
NO MORE CAPPING!!! If 150 people turn up to play, 150 people enter the tournament!
More games! Although SF IV will make up 90% of the setups on show, we'll throw in a few PS2's with 3S, Guilty Gear, CvS2, whatever you want into the mix.
It's at a Pub! Food and Drink available all day long!
Plenty of spaces to park in the nearby vicinity!
So really the only issue is the location, which we will admit, is that Yates is not the most convenient place to get to.
However, if you want to level up and get better at Street Fighter IV, our events are THE place to be. Aside from moving to Japan for a year, nothing will improve your game faster than playing the best players in London, if not the UK, in a tournament environment on a regular basis.
So come on community, you have been FANTASTIC so far with the level of support shown at Gamerbase SF IV RB's. Let's keep the momentum going and keep the good vibes and good times rolling at Yates.
FYI, the venue will open at 3PM, with the Ranking Battle kicking off at 4PM. The event will close at 8PM.
Date: Sunday, 8th March 2009
Entry: £2
Venue: Yates's Harrow / 269-271, Station Rd, Harrow, Middlesex, HA1 2TB
No under 16's, no alcohol to under 18's.
No outside food or drink is permitted.
Anyone who does bring food or drink into the venue will be removed
Purchasing alcohol, if you look young please bring photo ID
Passport or driving licence only.
Game: Street Fighter IV Xbox 360 Pal
Format: Single Elimination. Top 8 players from current RB points are seeded.
Prizes: Top 3 Players receive 60 / 30 / 10 % split of total pot. Pot depends on number of attendees.
TOURNAMENT REGISTRATION CLOSES AT 3.45PM!
Official Website: http://www.neoempire.com/forum/showthread.php?t=5342
Added by LondonGames Fringe on February 9, 2009
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Stars explained: * A production of no real merit with failings in all areas. ** A production showing evidence of not enough time or effort, or even talent, and which never breathes any real life into the piece – or a show lumbered with a terrible script. *** A good enjoyable show which might have some small flaws but has largely achieved what it set out to do.**** An excellent show which shows a great deal of work and stage craft with no noticeable or major flaws.***** A four star show which has found that extra bit of magic which lifts theatre to another plane.
Half stars fall between the ratings
Marriages can be funny things
Sutton Arts Theatre
Ray Cooney's Run for Your Wife is one of the most successful stage farces of modern times, guaranteed to have an audience, and so it proved at a packed Sutton Arts Theatre.
First performed in 1983, producer Barrie Atchison presents it in contemporary style, rather than as a period piece. So leg warmers are out, and Charles and Camilla are in.
The script is not without its challenges for a modern production. The adult content is relatively tame, but attitudes to homosexuality, which are key to much of the humour, are very different now to thirty years ago.
Back then, the memory of Jeremy Thorpe's public ruination by homosexual allegations was fresh, now, no government front bench can be without gender, sexual and ethnic diversity.
Thus the casual prejudices of the past no longer have the same comic value. The failure of last year's film version highlights the dangers, but under the skillful direction of Atchison the carefully crafted comedy is polished and vibrant.
The tale is of London cab driver John Smith, with two wives, two lives, and a very precise schedule for juggling them both. He has one wife at home in Streatham, and another at home in Wimbledon, with occupants of the flat upstairs at both locations. So the stage is set.
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Trouble brews when Smith is attacked, ending up in hospital. Both of his addresses surface, causing both the Streatham and Wimbledon police to investigate. Having upset his schedule, Smith becomes hopelessly entangled in his attempts, with his unemployed neighbour upstairs in Wimbledon, to explain himself to his wives, two suspicious police officers, and a gay couple upstairs in Streatham to confuse matters.
The split single set works well offering a comedic potential which is fully realised.
Richard Cogzel plays bigamist John Smith as a confused, bemused, wide-eyed observer of his own downfall, powerless to prevent events conspiring as his increasingly desperate explanations founder.
His two wives are a nice contrast. Rachel Duncan plays Mary, whose solution to most things is in the kitchen; Lin Tran plays Barbera, whose solution to most things is in the bedroom. The former favours sensible non-matching underwear, the latter sports stockings, suspenders and vertiginous red high heels.
Duncan’s quiet hysteria is well pitched and amusing, Tran's sassy sex appeal is wholly convincing. Neighbour and unwitting accomplice Stanley Gardener is well handled by Dave Douglas as he is transformed from louche layabout to reluctant gay consort.
Trying to make sense of the confusion are two detectives who offer the best performances of the night. Dan Payne's bluff and incredulous DS Troughton is a delight, Stuart Goodwin's well intentioned, but not so worldly-wise DS Porterhouse, is the perfect foil.
Richard Hamm has the difficult task of playing Bobby Franklin, the gay neighbour. Steeped in caricature drafted in another era. Hamm chooses a Louis Spence style persona whose rough edges are smoothed by the energy and brio of his performance.
Farces require plenty of movement, lots of doors opening and closing, and plenty of physical comedy. Atchison's production delivers this in some style. Although the first half of the night took a little while to warm up, by the end, the laughter was constant, clothes were off and a brilliantly handled confessional finale with all protagonists on stage was a satisfying end to a very enjoyable night. To 15-02-14
Gary Longden
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The Breaking Wave sculpture is now part of Burning Man history.
After months of planning, preparation and wood gathering, the Wave was assembled and built in two nights on the playa. Since the daytime temperatures hovered around 100 degreesF. with blowing dust, we chose to work from sundown to sunrise using portable halogen lights.
The sculpture weighed approximately two tons when completed, 16 feet high, 20 feet long and 10 feet wide. The construction of the 10 support trusses and 5 box foundation frames took about 48 hours to construct at our home base, in Squamish British Columbia, Canada, about two months before Burning Man. On the playa the support trusses were erected on the base frames and then about 5,000 pieces of drift lumber of a wide range of sizes were screwed to the trusses. The Breaking Wave Team, with helpers, spun LED strip lighting and an array of strobes through the structure which delivered an amazing effect at night, powered by a generator we positioned about 150′ away from the sculpture.
The Breaking Wave stood for three days August 27 to 29, just off the Esplanade, at approximately the 4:00 entrance to Black Rock City. We burned the Sculpture on Wednesday midnight in a brief and very hot conflagration watched by several thousand people. Feedback from the Burning Man Organization indicated our presentation of the art and the burn were perfect regarding execution, fire safety, and cleanup.
The core members of the crew in alphabetical order were Kevin Curry, James Deane, Mike Hattingh, Jason Malo and Ron Simmer, with much appreciated help from Amber, Brandon, BT, Curtis, Greg, Jessica, Lilli, Ryan, Matthew, Percilla , Yvonne , Vertumnus and many other volunteers from Washington and Oregon. Ryan McCann of Documonkey TV has produced a Breaking Wave video documentary. The Breaking Wave project received no cash honorarium from the BM Org., and was financed in part by the art crew through fundraising efforts. We did receive grants from the Greater Vancouver Interactive Arts Society, while several of the crew made sizable personal expenditures in the thousands of dollars. All of the crew were motivated by their determination to deliver an outstanding art piece to the Burning Man Festival. The logistical problems in collecting and transporting such a large volume of wood were crushing but the crew came together and built a unique and amazing work of art. It is part of the Burning Man legend as a statement against ocean pollution.
The Breaking Wave sculpture created for Burning Man was inspired by the classic Great Wave of Kanagawa by Japanese painter Hokusai. We tried to capture and embody the image of Hokusai`s wave as a giant attacking claw. Mariners have always feared breaking waves as a sign of dangerous sea states or deadly shoals; the sculpture was intended as a tribute to those who lost their lives in the Japanese Tsunami of 2011.
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DOCUMONKEY TV presents a MEDIA VICTIM picture CURTIS MARR KEVIN "BT" DYKSTRA "DANCING QUEEN" graphic design STARFISH COMMUNICATIONS photography team VERTUMNUS, LUKE SZCZEPANSKI, CURTIS MARR, GREG WOLD engineering MIKE HATTINGH director of photography RYAN MCCANN music by LOS CAMINOS edited by RYAN MCCANN executive producer JAMES DEANE produced by RON SIMMER story by KEVIN CURRY screenplay by JASON MALO directed by RYAN MCCANN
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Hyderabad police encounter : More details about the incident
By jegan-ravichandran | December 6, 2019
According to the reports the accused had been taken to the crime scene on Thursday to collect evidence of the crime.
On Friday morning the encounter reports surfaced. It appears that while the police tried to collect evidence the accused tried to run away. As per the Telangana media reports the police fired back when the accused tried to hurt them. Two police men were injured. The accused were shot in the same place where Disha’s (name changed) body was burnt after she was gang raped and murdered. The accused were taken to the crime scene at chatanpally, nearly 50km away from Hyderabad, on Thursday to collect evidence of the crime.
DGP Prakash Reddy, who is at the scene of the incident, told media this morning that there was cross fire as the accused took the guns of policemen and attempted to escape. On Wednesday, the Shadnagar court had remanded the four accused to seven days police custody. The court had granted a seven day police custody of the accused.
The gang who were driving a lorry had trapped her by puncturing one of the tyres of her two wheeler which she had parked near the toll gate. They approached her pretending to help and forcibly took her and murdered. However the response to the encounter was mostly welcoming by the public. People celebrated the news saying “Justice served” and tweeted about the incident on twitter from early morning.
But few intellectual and journalist on social media were unhappy and said no one should take the law on their hands. Also they raised a question that what if they weren’t guilty?
Krishnakumar says:
On the face of it, this appears to be serious mistake by the police personnel. Considering the serious nature of the crime comitted by the accused, they deserve such punishment
Anirban Rongpi says:
The police did a gr8 job, giving justice to the girl & her family members. What I couldn’t digest is the fact that the whole situation looks filmy to me, just like Simmba movie. Why would the suspects run in the first place, when they’re already apprehanded. And the encounter seems more like a policeman suggested to kill the suspects just like in the movie. After all who would find out the truth. In short justice served too soon has pros & cons.
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Posted on June 15, 2014 by Laura Rozen
US Deputy Secretary of State Williams Burns will join talks between Iran, the U.S. and European Union in Vienna on Monday, US officials said.
Burns was seen on the plane Sunday traveling with the US delegation, led by Under Secretary of State Wendy Sherman, to Vienna. He and Sherman are expected to meet Monday with Iranian and European Union negotiators. Sherman will stay on for nuclear talks between Iran and the P5+1 expected to go til Friday, as efforts intensify to reach a final nuclear accord by July 20.
“We’re at a critical point in these negotiations, and we’re going to work as hard as we possibly can to see if we can get to an agreement here,” a senior U.S. Administration official told Al-Monitor Monday. “Deputy Burns will be joining for meetings on the 16th, including an expected trilateral with Iran and the EU.”
“We’ve always said our diplomatic efforts would continue to intensify, and they have,” the US official said. “This is another example of that effort. And we’ve been clear that various members of our negotiating team – especially the Deputy, given his history working on this issue with the Iranians – will participate in various meetings throughout this process.”
Burns previously led secret US bilateral talks with Iran last fall. But last week the State Department announced that he and Sherman were co-leading the US team to bilateral talks with Iran in Geneva in order to break what reportedly has been a deadlock in the negotiations.
As negotiators intensify efforts to reach a final nuclear accord by July 20, the US bilateral and P5+1 nuclear negotiating teams seem to have merged, and the US Iran contacts on a nuclear deal become less secret. The US will also this week open contacts with Iran about the security crisis in Iraq, the Wall Street Journal reported Monday.
Burns, when he traveled to Oman for secret nuclear talks with Iran last year, reportedly traveled on an unmarked US government plane. But he, Sherman and their team were seen Sunday at the Washington Dulles airport business lounge awaiting their flight to Vienna, with no apparent attempt at hiding his presence.
Posted in Politics, Security | Tagged EU, Iran, P5+1, Wendy Sherman, William Burns
US Special Envoy for International Energy Affairs Carlos Pascual announced Friday he will step down in July, U.S. officials told the Back Channel.
The departure plans come as oil proces have spiked amid the new security crisis in Iraq, as al Qaeda-linked the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) overtook the city of Mosul.
Pascual, a former US envoy to Mexico and Ukraine, stood up the new energy affairs bureau three years ago, but was never confirmed. He is expected to head next to Columbia University.
Pascual’s deputy Amos Hochstein is considered a possible nominee to succeed him.
Posted in Business, Politics, Security | Tagged Amos Hochstein, Carlos Pascual, energy, Iran, Iraq, ISIS, Mexico, oil, State Department, Syria, Ukraine, United States
Washington, D.C.__ U.S. and Iranian nuclear negotiators have held two days of “intensive.. useful” talks, but gaps still remain, Iranian officials said Tuesday.
The talks, lasting 12 hours over two days in Geneva, were “intensive…but useful,” and “held in a good atmosphere,” an Iranian diplomat told Al-Monitor after talks ended Tuesday. “Gaps are still there. Consultations will continue.”
The US-Iran meetings “were business-like, and we covered all the issues that we have been discussing so far in Vienna,” a second Iranian official, speaking not for attribution, told Al-Monitor Tuesday. “The exchange helped us better understand each others’ positions.”
“After these meetings in Geneva and bilateral meetings with the French, Russians and the Germans in the next few days, we hope we will be better prepared to start the talks next week in Vienna,” the second Iranian official said.
Iranian negotiators are due to hold a bilateral meeting with French counterparts in Geneva on Wednesday, and with Russia in Rome on Thursday and Friday. Iran will hold a bilateral meeting with Germany’s political director in Tehran Sunday, ahead of the next round of final deal talks between Iran and the P5+1 in Vienna June 16-20.
The US delegation to Geneva, led by Deputy Secretary of State Bill Burns and Under Secretary of State Wendy Sherman, has not yet publicly commented on the bilateral consultations with Iran, which were held at an undisclosed location. (Journalists in Geneva said they believed the talks were being held at Geneva’s President Wilson hotel, where the US delegation was thought to be staying, but the hotel would not confirm that.)
State Department and European Union spokespeople stressed that the series of bilateral meetings underway this week were all in support of the comprehensive deal negotiations being carried out by the P5+1 under the coordination of EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton. The talks are now intensifying, they said, as the parties aim to see if they can reach a final accord by July 20, when a six month interim deal expires, or will need to be extended for up to another six months.
“The E3/EU+3’s diplomatic efforts to reach a comprehensive solution are now intensifying,” Michael Mann, Ashton’s spokesman, told Al-Monitor Tuesday. “They have always taken place at different levels and in different formats and included bilateral meetings in support of the central E3/EU+3 nuclear negotiations led by [High Representative] Ashton.”
“We’ve always said that we would engage the Iranians bilaterally if it can help advance our efforts, of course acting in total coordination with the P5+1 and the EU,” State Department deputy spokesperson Marie Harf told journalists at the State Department press briefing Monday.
“We also said that there was going to be an intensification of diplomatic efforts, particularly getting closer to July 20th,” Harf said “If we’re going to seriously test whether we can reach a diplomatic solution here, we need to engage in as much active diplomacy as possible.”
Meantime, France’s foreign minister Laurent Fabius said Tuesday that it would be hard to close wide gaps over the size of Iran enrichment capacity in a final deal by next month.
“We are still hitting a wall on one absolutely fundamental point which is the number of centrifuges which allow enrichment,” Fabius told France Inter radio Tuesday, Reuters reported. “We say that there can be a few hundred centrifuges, but the Iranians want thousands so we’re not in the same framework.”
The timing of Fabius’ public comments, as the US held the first lengthy, one on one talks with Iran since last year, raised some eyebrows in Washington.
Asked about them, State Department spokesperson Jen Psaki said Tuesday the focus should remain on the “behind the scenes” talks, not “public demands.”
“Subconsciously, [Fabius] hates when [the] US-Iran meet bilaterally for the usual French reasons,” Jeremy Shapiro, a Brookings fellow in foreign policy studies, told Al-Monitor. “More consciously, he doesn’t trust the US as negotiators and believes he plays an important role in shoring them up and ensuring that they don’t give away the store.”
France’s new political director Nicolas de Riviere will take part in bilateral discussions with Iranian negotiators in Geneva on Wednesday, Araghchi told Iran’s IRNA news agency.
(Photo of Iran’s delegation, including Deputy Foreign Ministers Abbas Araghchi and Majid Ravanchi ,and the head of its expert team Hamid Baeedinejad, heading to the Geneva talks on June 9, 2014, from Iran MFA website.)
Posted in Politics, Security | Tagged Araghchi, Bill Burns, Brookings, Catherine Ashton, centrifuges, de Riviere, diplomacy, enrichment, EU, Fabius, France, Geneva, Germany, Iran, Irantalks, IrantalksVienna, Jen Psaki, Jeremy Shapiro, Laurent Fabius, Marie Harf, Michael Mann, nuclear., P5+1, Russia, State Department, Wendy Sherman
Posted on June 7, 2014 by Laura Rozen
US Deputy Secretary of State Bill Burns and Under Secretary of State Wendy Sherman will lead a US delegation to meet with Iranian nuclear negotiators in Geneva on June 9-10, US and Iranian officials said Saturday.
The bilateral meetings come as negotiators intensify efforts to see if they can reach a final nuclear accord by July 20, when a six month interim deal expires, or if they will need to extend the talks for another six months.
“We believe we need to engage in as much active diplomacy as we can to test whether we can reach a diplomatic solution with Iran on its nuclear program,” a senior U.S. administration official said Saturday, noting that the US-Iran consultations “come at an important juncture” of the negotiations, as the “talks are intensifying.”
The meetings are taking place “in the context of the intensified E3/EU+3 negotiating process,” and are coordinated by European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton, her spokesman Michael Mann said Saturday. Ashton’s deputy, EU political director Helga Schmid will join the US Iran consultations in Geneva, he said, and other bilaterals will follow in the next days.
The US delegation will include, in addition to Burns and Sherman, Vice President Biden’s national security advisor Jake Sullivan, deputy US negotiator Amb. Brooke Amderson, senior arms control advisor Jim Timbie, and NSC senior Middle East advisor Rob Malley, among others, a State Department official told Al-Monitor.
Iran will hold separate meetings with Russian negotiators in Rome on June 11-12, Iran’s IRNA news agency reported Saturday.
Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi on Saturday announced that Iran would hold bilateral meetings at the deputy foreign minister level ahead of the next P5+1 Iran nuclear talks, due to be held in Vienna June 16-20.
Burns led a secret US diplomatic “back channel” to Iran last year that culminated in the signing of the interim nuclear deal, known as the Joint Plan of Action, in Geneva last November. Burns’ secret team included Sullivan as well as then NSC Persian Gulf advisor Puneet Talwar, now assistant secretary of state for political military affairs, who has been succeeded by Malley. Burns has announced he will retire in October. The EU’s Ashton, the lead international negotiator for the six world powers, is also due to finish her term in October, adding impetus to complete the negotiations by then.
Until now, the US and Iran have not pursued the bilateral channel to advance final deal talks this year, outside of meetings on the sidelines of the P5+1 Iran negotiations in Vienna, US and Iranian officials have said. Notably, unlike the secret US-Iran meetings held in Oman, Geneva and New York last year, the US-Iran meeting in Geneva Monday was announced by both sides.
US officials said Saturday it made sense to bring the bilateral channel negotiators involved in advancing the interim deal last fall into the discussions at this critical time.
“It’s natural for Bill and Jake to join the delegation for this meeting given their history of negotiating with Iran during the Joint Plan of Action talks,” the US official said, referring to Burns and Sullivan. “The elements now under discussion in our negotiations over a comprehensive solution were part of the JPOA. So it just makes sense.”
“If a deal is going to be possible by July 20, the Americans and Iranians have to get down to real, no-kidding bottom lines now, and then go back to the P5+1 with the broad outlines of the deal,” former top Pentagon Middle East advisor Colin Kahl told Al-Monitor Saturday. “These bilateral talks will probably determine whether a July 20 agreement is possible or whether we need to work out an extension.”
“The Iranians, in particular, need to come back with much more flexibility on enrichment, and the U.S. team will also need some creative ideas to address Iran’s ‘practical needs’ argument,” Kahl, now a professor at Georgetown University and senior fellow at the Center for New American Security (CNAS), said, referring to the amount of enrichment capacity Iran will need to fuel power reactors and produce medical isotopes.
Iran, in turn, is concerned about the pace of sanctions relief in a final deal, and has balked at a P5+1 proposal that would unwind sanctions on a phased, step by step basis, over as long as a decade or two. Iran also wants to limit the amount of time it would be required to submit to highly intrusive inspections and transparency measures that it fears could be abused by adversaries to snoop on its defense capabilities.
“The addition of Burns and Sullivan, who were essential to the success of behind-the-scenes diplomacy last year, and the bilateral nature of the talks suggests something may be up,” a former senior U.S. official told Al-Monitor Saturday.
“Together with recent news that [Iran Supreme Leader] Khameini is telling hardline critics to get in line behind Iran’s negotiating team, it seems to suggest that negotiations are entering a very serious phase,” the former American official said.
(Top photo of US Deputy Secretary of State Bill Burns in Wiesbadden in February, 2009 by Reuters. Second photo of US Under Secretary of State Wendy Sherman and Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi in Geneva in November, 2013. Third photo: Secretary of State John Kerry, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, deputy Iranian negotiators Majid Ravanchi and Abbas Araghchi at a P5+1 Iran meeting at the United Nations in New York September 24, 2013.)
Posted in Politics, Security | Tagged Abbas Araghchi, Ashton, Bill Burns, Brooke Anderson, Colin Kahl, EU, Iran, Jake Sullivan, Kerry, Khamenei, Middle East, nuclear., P5+1, Pentagon, Ravanchi, Rob Malley, Russia, Timbie, US, Wendy Sherman, Zarif
France gets new Iran negotiator
When six world powers and Iran next hold nuclear talks in Vienna June 16th, France will have a new top negotiator.
France’s longtime lead negotiator, political director Jacques Audibert, was tapped in May to head the French Presidential (Elysee) diplomatic office on G-7/G-8 and multilateral issues.
France’s new political director and top negotiator at the P5+1 talks with Iran will be Nicolas de Rivière, who most recently served as France’s assistant secretary of UN affairs. De Riviere previously served as France’s deputy permanent representative at the UN in NY, among other diplomatic assignments.
The switch in France’s Iran team is not the only personnel change on the horizon, as negotiators seek to reach a final Iran nuclear accord by July 20, when a six month interim deal expires. European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton is due to step down in October. US Deputy Secretary of State Bill Burns, who led a US diplomatic “back channel” to Iran last year, has also announced he will retire in October.
Technical experts from the P5+1 and Iran began meeting in Vienna Wednesday for two days of expert level talks (June 5-6).
Meantime, lead US Iran nuclear negotiator, Under Secretary of State Wendy Sherman, is in Brussels Wednesday as part of President Obama’s delegation to the G-7 Leaders’ Summit, the State Department said.
US officials say they are working to try to reach a final deal by July 20th. “We are working towards the July 20th date, and we believe we can meet that date,” State Department deputy spokeswoman Marie Harf told Al-Monitor Monday.
But one western diplomat from a member of the six negotiating powers told Al-Monitor Wednesday that he thinks an extension is probably likely to be needed.
“The end of July comes very, very soon,” the western diplomat, speaking not for attribution, told Al-Monitor Wednesday. “We definitely prefer to have a strong, clear, sustainable long-term agreement, even if we need a few months more, than what would be considered as an insufficiently good…agreement in the next six weeks.”
The western diplomat described the final deal talks to date as “serious” and delving deeply into the details. But the last round of talks in Vienna in May, while “serious,” were “also difficult,” he said. “We still have wide differences on some of the fundamentals of the talks, including mainly Arak and uranium enrichment capacity.”
The Iranians “have to make a clear political choice, which is really a kind of prerequisite for a long-term and sustainable agreement,” the diplomat said.
(Top photo: Russia’s Sergey Ryabkov, France’s Jacques Audibert, USA’s William Burns, China’s Wu Hailong, Britain’s Robert Cooper and EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton meet in Geneva, in December 2010. Photo by Anja Niedringhaus, AFP/Getty. Second photo: French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius and Nicolas de Rivière, UN director at the French foreign ministry. Photo by French UN office.)
Posted in Politics, Security | Tagged diplomacy, Elysee, EU, Europe, France, Iran, Jacques Audibert, Marie Harf, Nicolas de Riviere, nuclear., P5+1, State Department, US
Ex envoy Ford says could not defend US Syria policy
Recently retired US Syria envoy Robert Ford told CNN Tuesday that he resigned because he could not defend US policy on Syria.
“I was no longer in a position where I felt I could defend American policy,” former US Ambassador to Syria Robert Ford told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour Tuesday.
“We have been unable to address either the root causes of the conflict in terms of the fighting…and the balance on the ground, and we have a growing extremism threat,” said Ford, who resigned in March from the State Department after a three decade diplomatic career.
There is “nothing we can point to that has been very successful to in our policy except the removal of about 93% of some of Assad’s chemicals, but now he is using chlorine gas against his opponents,” Ford said. “The regime simply has no credibility, and our policy is not addressing the Syrian crisis as it needs to.”
Of the growing extremism threat from Syria, Ford said that he and unspecified colleagues had warned more than two years ago that Syria would prove fertile ground for terrorists.
“We warned even as long as two years ago that terrorist groups would go into that vacuum, as we had seen in places like Afghanistan and Somalia and Yemen and Mali,” Ford said. “This is not rocket science.”
Ford said Tuesday that increased US support earlier on in the conflict to moderate Syrian opposition forces could have helped prevent extremists from getting such a big foothold in Syria. And he cast doubt on whether the increased efforts President Obama seemed to be considering ahead of his foreign policy speech at West Point last week would be enough.
“It’s not clear to me yet if they are prepared to ramp up (assistance) in a such a way that would be meaningful on the ground and that’s what matters,” Ford told PBS’s Margaret Warner in a separate interview Tuesday.
Ford, until his retirement one of the State Department’s top Arabists who previously served as US Ambassador to Algeria and deputy US Ambassador to Iraq, is slated to join the Middle East Institute as a senior fellow. He could not immediately be reached Tuesday.
Ford is hardly the first Syria mediator to quit in frustration. UN/Arab League Syria envoy Lakhdar Brahimi resigned last month, as did his predecessor Kofi Annan before him. Former US envoy on Syria transition issues Frederic Hof, who quit in 2012, has also become an outspoken critic of US Syria policy.
As to why Ford had not previously voiced such criticisms in the three months since he resigned, Hof noted in March that Ford was still on the government payroll and required to adhere to official policy and talking points. Ford “will likely speak out when he is free to do so,” Hof, now at the Atlantic Council, wrote.
“For quite some time, the only things keeping Robert in harness were Secretary Kerry’s pleas and Robert’s hope that Kerry could change the policy,” a former diplomat, speaking not for attribution, told the Back Channel Tuesday. “In the end he concluded he could no longer serve as apologist-in-chief for a rhetoric-based policy fundamentally unaligned with ground truth in Syria.”
Meantime, in Syria Tuesday, Bashar al-Assad was expected to be declared the winner in presidential polls being run in government-held parts of the country, in elections that the US and western nations have condemned as farcical and illegitimate. Iran, Russia and North Korea have reportedly sent observers to the polls to try to bolster the appearance of legitimacy.
Posted in Politics, Security | Tagged Assad, Christiane Amanpour, CNN, diplomacy, Frederic Hof, Iran, Kerry, Kofi Annan, Lakhdar Brahimi, Middle East Institute, Obama, Robert Ford, Russia, State Department, Syria, UN, US
Updated: U.S. denies mulling extension on Iran talks
Updated 7/2:
Washington, D.C. __ The US on Monday denied that it is signaling that it is prepared to have to extend Iran nuclear talks into the fall if Iran does not return to the table with more realistic proposals including on the centrifuge capacity it could be expected to have in a final deal.
A senior US administration official, briefing small groups of Washington experts in recent days, has been downbeat about prospects for reaching a final deal by July 20, Al-Monitor reported Sunday, citing sources briefed by the official. One expert, speaking not for attribution, was left with the impression that the senior U.S. official “didn’t think it would get done.”
Update: “The United States is not signaling that we are prepared to extend the Iran nuclear negotiations, period,” State Department deputy spokesperson Marie Harf told Al-Monitor Monday. “We are working towards the July 20th date, and we believe we can meet that date.”
“Of course, Iran will have to make tough decisions and the administration remains clear that no deal is better than a bad deal,” Harf said.
“We are not there yet,” however, a US official told Al-Monitor Friday, about whether the administration thought it would require an extension.
The US needs to determine “whether we see a mindset [from Iran] that is more realistic about what the outcome will have to be here,” the U.S. administration official told Al Monitor Friday. “We are not just waiting for a response…. There are discussions.”
Experts from Iran and the P5+1 are due to hold technical talks in Vienna next week (June 5-6) on the sidelines of an IAEA board of governors meeting. The P5+1 and Iran are scheduled to hold the next round of final deal talks in Vienna on June 16-20.
With less than two months to go ‘til a July 20 expiration of an interim Iran nuclear deal, the US and Iran are not yet pursuing parallel bilateral meetings to narrow wide differences for a nuclear deal, US and Iranian sources tell Al-Monitor. That may be because the US and P5+1 believe that Iran is going to have to do most of the modifying, particularly on enrichment capacity, if a final deal is to be reached, US experts recently briefed by Obama administration officials tell Al-Monitor.
“The Iranians know what the bottom line is,” Suzanne Maloney, a former State Department Iran expert now at the Brookings Institution, told Al-Monitor Friday. “This will not be a case of meeting in the middle.”
“It will be difficult for the powers to reach an agreement with Iran by the deadline of July 20,” Robert Einhorn, a former top US Iran arms control advisor, told Israel’s Ynetnew.com Sunday. “The last round of talks didn’t amount to expectations. There was hope that some main issues would be solved, like the issue of the reactor in Arak…but that didn’t happen.”
“My assessment is that when faced with the alternative of ending the talks, the two sides will agree to extend them,” Einhorn, now with the Brookings Institution, told Ynet.
“The odds of success are still long,” President Obama told graduating West Point cadets Wednesday, referring to a comprehensive Iran nuclear deal. “But for the first time in a decade, we have a very real chance of achieving a breakthrough agreement — one that is more effective and durable than what we could have achieved through the use of force. “
The American side and the P5+1 “had sticker shock at what the Iranians came in on in Vienna,” Patrick Clawson, deputy director of research at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, told Al-Monitor Friday, referring to the Iranian proposal for the amount of centrifuges it would like to have in a final deal at the last round of talks in Vienna in May.
The Iranians seemed to have “the impression that the P5+1 was desperate for a deal, but it’s actually not true,” Clawson said. “Therefore they [the US and P5+1] are prepared to let the Iranians” stew in the impasse for now, and may not be rushing to send the bilat team to meet with them to try to narrow positions.
“There will be no final nuclear deal without direct US and Iran bilateral talks,” former Iranian nuclear negotiator Seyed Hossein Mousavian told an audience at the New America Foundation in New York last week.
The U.S. may yet pursue face to face meetings with Iran at a future point in the negotiations, U.S. sources told Al-Monitor, but hasn’t to date this year done so, outside of those meetings that have taken place on the sidelines of the P5+1 Iran talks.
Iran Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said Sunday that he would not be able to attend a June 18 meeting of Organization of Islamic States foreign ministers in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia due to the Iran P5+1 nuclear talks previously scheduled to be held in Vienna June 16-20, Iranian media reported.
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Facilitating Funds for Women
All the managers of the municipal Women’s Rooms and representatives of the Governor’s office in Kakheti region attended a training on Business Plan Writing and Fundraising held by the Georgian Institute of Public Affairs (GIPA) with ALCP facilitation. For three days George Turkia and Nikoloz Abuashvili, full professors of GIPA, explained how to transform ideas into real plans and where to find the money for them.
‘This was the most interesting training I have ever had. A lot of women are coming to my room with business ideas but I cannot provide help because of lack of knowledge. Now I am full of enthusiasm and ready to help them. It is also important for me that helping women with starting businesses in rural areas will be supported by the local government through the Women’s Room. We will make it happen’ – Bela Marukashvili, the Women’s Room Manager in Akhmeta municipality.
Background information: Twenty-eight municipalities of Ajara, Kvemo Kartli, Samtskhe-Javakheti and Kakheti have established free information-consultation spaces - Women’s Rooms to support women’s equal participation at local decision making fora and their economic empowerment. In 2016 the Women’s Rooms in Ajara pioneered to help rural women with applying to the government grant programmes and after a year the model was copied by Kvemo Kartli and Samtskhe-Javakheti as well. To date 88 women business start-ups have been funded through the Women’s Rooms in Georgia.
Farmer Groups: Why We Love Them and When They are Successful
From the ISET Economist news (http://www.iset.ge/news/?p=3311)
By Eric Livny
(Summary of a debate hosted by ISET as part of SDC-supported Inclusive Growth Dialog series.)
There are many reasons to love the concept of farmer cooperation (and cooperation more generally). To begin with, there is a great aesthetic value in seeing people coming together, sharing resources and helping each other. After all, instinctive collectivism was the basic condition of human existence from time immemorial. But, there are also powerful economic reasons for farmer cooperation.
Farmer Groups: Why We Love Them, Why We Do Them and Why They Fail
By Tim Stewart
As Georgia embarks on an ambitious program to develop farmer organizations, it is worth considering both the positive and negative lessons from the experience of similar initiatives, both in Georgia and elsewhere in the developing/transition context. The piece by Tim Stewart, originally published on www.springfieldcentre.com, identifies some of the main reasons for the failure of start-up farmer organizations. The challenge for Georgia is to learn from these mistakes in planning and implementation, and ensure improved coordination among the many cooks involved (the newly created Agency for the Development of Agricultural Cooperatives, the Ministry of Agriculture, international donors, NGOs, and farmer associations).
Women of Kvemo Kartli
Publishing the following series of stories is an attempt to highlight the ethnic diversity of Kvemo Kartli. We are going to tell you the stories of five women living in various parts of Kvemo Kartli; these women have different lifestyles and represent different cultures, but they still have a lot in common. This is their history in stories. Stories of work, endurance, taboos, restriction, dignity, honesty and womanhood. You will not see figures and percentages here; this is not a quantitative survey. These are stories that allow us to build on those figures and percentages and enable us to develop profiles of Ajarian, Svan, Azeri, Armenian, Greek and local Georgian women’s lives, to understand their complexities and areas of commonality and to reflect this in our work as a programme.
Kvemo Kartli is one of the most ethnically diverse regions of Georgia. Ethnic diversity has developed over centuries and many contrasts and cultural differences have accumulated in this region; the study and management of these contrasts and differences and the development of models for peaceful cohabitation is not an easy task. Cultural, ethnic and language differences can be seen in every detail of life. Differences are present in rural and urban areas, in highlands and lowlands, in methods of doing business. Our objective in recording these stories was to attempt to create a profile of these women, to listen to them and build the picture of their lives, to understand the effects that culture and ethnic origin have on their lives, to see what opportunities they have and how they use or fail to use these opportunities, if they have them at all.
The Baboyans from
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Women from
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Greek Woman
from Tsalka
Nazi Bolkvadze
and her Friends
Natela Argvliani's
The Baboyans from Village Kush
Armenians have been living in Kvemo Kartli for centuries. According to the 2002 census 31,777 out of 497,530 Kvemo Kartli residents were Armenians. The number of Armenians is highest in Tsalka where 11,484 Armenians live, out of a total population of 20977. The advent of Armenians in Georgia was related to the movement of people during the Arab, Turk-Seljuk, Mongolian, Turkmen, Kizilbash, Ottoman Turk and other invasions. Several major settlements of Armenians took place in 1828-1829, during the Russian-Turkish war
Pikria, Phanura and Other Women from Kamarlo
Azerbaijanis living in Kvemo Kartli are Turkic-speaking people representing the legacy of the conquerors that came to this area at different times. in the 1926 Census they were referred to as Azerbaijanis. The Azeri population that settled in Kartli is comprised of two streams of migrants: 1. The Turkish-speaking population that was resettled between 15th-18th centuries; they went through the heaviest psychological and physical stress before they adapted to the new place. 2. Migrants who moved from one place to another to improve living conditions having adapted to the new environment. Currently the Azeri population in Georgia numbers 224,606. They mainly reside in Bolnisi, Dmanisi, Gardabani and Marneuli districts, mostly in district centers apart from in Dmanisi muniiciaplity where there are many Azeri villages. Some live in Tetritskaro and Tsalka districts.
Greek Woman from Tslaka
A small group of Greeks was settled by Erekle II (King of Kartli and Kakheti in the 18th century) back in 1763 in Kvemo Kartli. They worked in Akhtala copper, lead, silver and gold mines and were highly skilled in this business. The next resettlement took place in 1806-1807, and the following in 1829-1830. Turkish-speaking Greeks as well as Greeks speaking the Pontus dialect were resettled to Georgia. The study of archive materials tells us that the biggest stream of Greek migrants entered Georgia during the aforementioned period and their majority settled in Tsalka and Tetritskaro areas.
The Georgian Milk Mark Cheese at the Georgian Cheese and Wine Evening
On 16th of December 2019, the Georgian Milk mark organized a Georgian Cheese and Wine evening at 8000 Vintages to introduce cheese with Georgian Milk mark (GMM) to the supermarkets and encouraged them to pass information on the advantages of GMM cheese to consumers. Cheese with Georgian Milk mark does not contain milk powder or any vegetable oils, it has laboratory analysis and is produced in the enterprises which are HACCP certified. The Guests had the opportunity to taste different types of cheese made from natural raw milk produced by thirteen enterprises: Milken Ltd, Tsintskaro + Ltd, I.E Hakob Hambaryan, I.E Karen Simonyan, I.E Tsolak Grigoryan, Tsifora –Smatskhe Ltd, Tsalka +Ltd, Dairy Products Company Tsezari Ltd, Gocha Gagashvili – brand name Tsivis Kveli, Levan Bejanishvili-brand name Shuamta, Badri Gogoladze – brand name Cheese Hut, Coop. Tanadgoma, Coop. Disvelli. The Information per enterprise is available on www.georgianmilk.ge. The website allows consumers to look up the products they are buying using a unique register number printed on a label. The evening of Georgian Cheese and Wine was attended by Mr. Levan Davitashvili, the Minister of Environment Protection and Agriculture of Georgia, by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation Project Alliances Caucasus Program (ALCP) implemented by Mercy Corps, Georgian Milk Mark Project Administrator - Business Institute of Georgia and Marketing Company GMA Representative, the supermarkets and the dairies using the Georgian Milk mark. The evening was headed by Zaza Grigalashvili, an '8000 Vintages' Sommelier, who spoke about Georgian cheese and wine pairing. Helen Bradbury, ALCP Team Leader: ‘We have private sector cheese enterprises in the room from different regions, these are a real dairy businesses operating for years and years. It is very important that this is Georgian Milk from Georgian cows who eat Georgian grass. Consumers want to eat natural, healthy, good country food which comes from this beautiful land, from this beautiful clean water, from happy cows and are made in communities living in countryside. Today we are at 8000 Vintages and we all know the history of wine. If you want ‘Qvevri’ wine or European style wine we know from where it comes from its name and the consumer can choose according wine value and its good for the producer, they can add more value and then this value goes back to the jobs, factories in the communities. So in the dairy sector it is going to be the same: as cheese will have the name, taste, value, style and its started to develop, the money supporting these factories goes back to women who are supplying milk, their families, they are putting money to their children education and investing in their life'. Levan Davitashvili, The Minister of MEPA: ‘I think the most difficult sector in Georgia is adairy sector and we have a lot to do together. A good presentation of a final product the market and how we bring cheese to the consumer is very important. We can say that competition between the enterprises is unfair, but we work on this via new the regulations to change the situation in the sector, we also empower our laboratories to have better quality and safe products. Today we have Georgian Milk mark presentation which is a very good idea for providing information to the consumers about dairy products, which also gives advantages to producer'. The Products with the mark are available in Madagoni, Spar, Ori Nabiji, Nikora, Zgapari, Fresco, Carrefour, and Goodwill supermarket chains.
The Georgian Milk Mark dairies at the Cheese and Hot Drinks Festival
Tsintskaro + and Tsipora-Samtskhe dairy products with the Georgian Milk Mark were introduced at the Cheese and Hot Drinks Festival organized by Anna Mikadze – Chikvaidze, the Head of Cheese Producers Guild and held at the Mtatsminda Park on 10th of November, 2019. The visitors tasted cheese and received information about the Georgian Milk mark. ‘What makes this festival important is to introduce cheese with the Georgian Milk mark, which says to consumers that cheese is made from natural raw milk’ - stated Anna Mikadze - Chikvaidze. Currently seven dairy enterprises are using the Georgian Milk mark: Milkeni; Tsintskaro +; Tsipora –Samtskhe; Cheese Hut; Tsezari; Tsivis Kveli; Shuamta. Products with the mark are available in Madagoni, Spar, Ori Nabiji, Nikora, Zgapari, Fresco, Carrefour, and Goodwill supermarket chains. Information per enterprise is uploaded on www.georgianmilk.ge. This allows consumers to look up the products they are buying using a unique register number printed on the label.
Unofficial AMR route in Shiraki Pastures Officially Registered
A 22 km route in Shiraki pastures, Dedoplistskaro municipality has received the status of becoming part of the official Animal Movement Route (AMR) last week. The unofficial route, which had been used for livestock seasonal migration for decades, had not been officially registered as the AMR before. As a result of a joint effort between the ALCP the Shepherds Association, The Ministry of Environmental Protection and Agriculture (MEPA), the National Agency of State Property and the Ministry of Economy & Sustainable Development, the route and297 ha land, is now officially registered as the AMR by National Agency of Public Registry of Georgia. The section of the route is now protected from saleas according current regulations, AMR land is not allowed to be sold or rented. A water point located in this area will be restored soon as well, within the planned Water Point’s project of the ALCP and MEPA.
Review of Long Term Systemic Outcomes in Dairy Sector in Samstkhe Javakheti
Katalyst 'Seeds of change'
ALCP 'Healthy herds'
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Prince and I
April 22, 2016 by Abbie Gale Leave a Comment
By: Abbie Gale
I have sat and cried thinking about begging my dad to let me go to a Prince concert in Detroit when I was 15. I had been a fan for years the way a kid becomes a young adult to a certain soundtrack. The Abbey Road record store guy, in my sleepy Michigan hometown, would always call me when a new Prince album was in stock. I started with vinyl when my older cousin Kristi played one of his records and long after she left the room I played that album over and over. My aunt had forbidden her to have it which drew me in closer. I moved onto a designated cassette case of my own with labels I kept everything I could find of his. Then I bought them again on CD and then eventually I transferred them into my digital files. He followed me through every stage of my life.
My dad refused to let me go to the concert. He threw out a string of insults directed at Prince while I pleaded my case. The next day my mom drove to Toledo, Ohio and stood in line at Jacobson’s Department Store and she bought two tickets. One for me and one for my best friend Cyndi. My mom wasn’t June Cleaver, (a little on that here.) My mom never took me to lunch or shopping, but my mom stood in line all day and scored two tickets for me. She paged me to the office at Ida High School and told me, “I met the most interesting people today in line!” She lied to the school secretary and told them we had a death in the family so they would call me down overhead to miss class. She told me to act sad when I hung up, (this was typical antics for my mom and I can laugh and appreciate her for it now.) I couldn’t stop smiling as I ran out of the office to go tell Cyndi we were going after all. My mom made my dad drive us up to Detroit to attend. I wore a half shirt under a full length shirt that I took off as soon as my dad dropped us off in front of the venue.
I have compared every concert to that concert since and no one can compare. I sat in front of the Grim Reaper and behind the Devil in a city that has over 500 fires that Saturday “Devil’s Night” before Halloween. He erupted onto that stage with all his Princely glory and no one in that stadium cared if the whole city around us was ashes. My mom has been gone for 24 years but this is my favorite story to tell about her because sometimes it wasn’t easy to know my mom loved me, but when she did this I knew she did.
We danced to Prince lyrics at our wedding. When other “kings” have died I have told my boys about Prince and his talents. He always seemed above the egos and the crazy antics. He was just eccentric enough to captivate us. I sincerely thought he had three more lifetimes in him musically. I selfishly wanted 20 more years of his music and talent. He has always been so private and yet he shared this massive cosmic gift with us. He was always so humble and yet he has this arsenal of music that it would take ten average “superstars” to create.
I thought one day he might tell us all the things we wanted to know about him that today’s reality show lifestyle has afforded us. But he died today and I have to be happy he has left us the gift of decades worth of music. I thought when he died he would be old and I would be too and that old people don’t mourn their heroes.
I thought I could get it out with an ugly cry in the shower but seriously, this sucks. His albums and songs were my actual soundtrack to my life. He loved music and he also understood how it connected us. Maybe it was his storytelling that attracted me as a kid. I am a storyteller, maybe because I never succeeded at anything musically and I have such high regard for anyone who has the talent and the work ethic. Starfish and Coffee made me happy and Raspberry Beret made me dance and Darling Nikki made me realize the power women have.
To everyone who called me and texted to see how I was, you made me smile. I don’t feel worthy of mourning a man I never met but when the plumber showed up to fix a leaky sink in my kitchen I saw the tears in his eyes when Prince’s death came up. That’s what he did. He brought people of every beautiful kind and fans of every musical style together and he made us think each song was for us.
You are beautiful Prince. I will miss you sweet man. The world will miss you.
Abbie Gale
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Chonique began her entertainment career at the young age of 8. A Los Angeles native, born in the center of Hollywood, she started her performance journey as a child actress with a background in musical theater. She began working early, on commercials, kid variety specials, and TV shows, while having a natural ability and skill in dance.
Chonique went on to dance in movies, world tours, and music videos, and has been a contributing choreographer for artists such as Missy Elliott, Christina Milian, Ricky Martin, Britney Spears, Pink, and J.Lo, to name a few. She also worked as a Supervising Choreographer and casting consultant for “America’s Best Dance Crew” for season 5, 6, and 7. She has traveled around the world teaching master classes and workshops including Tokyo, Sweden, Toronto, and London.
Chonique is also no stranger to the music scene: releasing singles on all digital platforms around the world, with her first hit song “Pop Drop & Roll” featured and named Audience Favorite on the hit show, “So You Think You Can Dance”. Her most popular single to date is “Let It Go.” Which became a dancer Smash hit licensed in over 6 television shows, films, a Spotify Favorite and a Choreography Staple around the World.
Chonique is also the co-founder of the artist/dancer mentorship program “Creating Opportunities” known as “Creating Opps,” with her business partner Lisette Bustamante. Chonique is a creator and performer who leaves her audience and community with inspiration, confidence, and new ways to develop themselves as artists, and empowered individuals.
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Juliana Areias Bossa Nova Baby
June 16 | Set Times: 8:00pm
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Brazilian Jazz & Tango Special Tribute to Jobim & Piazzolla with World Guitar Master Andres Laprida
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JULIANA AREIAS – BOSSA NOVA BABY
Dubbed the ‘Bossa Nova Baby’, this Perth-based Brazilian singer-songwriter and multiple award finalist, brings a new edge to traditional Brazilian rhythms – creating a contemporary Latin Jazz musical fusion which is taking the Australian and the International music scene by storm.
Her first original album, Bossa Nova Baby was featured on ABC Radio National on Australia Day 2016 as “The Changing Face of Australian Music”. The album was produced after a successful worldwide crowd-funding campaign and with the support of the Department of Culture and the Arts of Western Australia and corporate sponsors. It is a multiple finalist for The Western Australian Music Awards including WAM Song of the year – World Music Category 2015 and WAMi Best World Music Act 2015/2016. It has also been receiving regular air play in Australia, Europe, Japan, USA , Brazil and Latin America.
The Bossa Nova Baby show features the original songs of Areias’s album as well as exclusive arrangements of bossa and samba hits such as “Mas que Nada”, “Water of March”and “The Girl from Ipanema”. Juliana was personally introduced to the Bossa Nova founders when she was a teenager by legendary Brazilian Music historian and journalist Ruy Castro who also named her “The Bossa Nova Baby”. This direct learning and unique experience have inspired her to become a professional singer and songwriter.
Her career includes recent performances at the Sydney Opera House , at The Ronnie Scott Jazz Club in London, in Amsterdam , at the Tanks Jazz Up North Series in Cairns (along with Kate Ceberano and The Cat Empire) , a Brazilian Tour performing at the legendary Beco das Garrafas in Rio, Sao Paulo, Salvador and Brasilia , as well as at The Montreux Jazz Festival, Auckland Festival, America’s Cup (NZ), The Perth International Jazz Festival and Ritmo Festival at Darling Harbour performing for over 30.000 people.
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Translating Jujutsu Manuals: A Look Inside Meiji Era Budo
text by Eric Shahan
Last year I published a book called A Collection of Curious Jujutsu Manuals. The book was an anthology of Jujutsu manuals published in the late Edo and early Meiji Eras. My goal was to translate some of the many books on martial arts that former martial arts instructors sold to promote their art which had heretofore been supported by the government. For the most part the books extolled the virtues of Jujutsu training and then introduced some techniques from various Koryu, old school techniques. the types of books available to the average citizen of Japan and that consisted of five short Jujutsu manuals
Cover of A Collection of Curious Jujutsu Manuals published in 2018
The 5 Books included in A Collection of Curious Jujutsu Manuals:
Edo Era circa18th-19th century
I am currently working on Volume 2 of this series and would like to introduce one of the books included in this anthology and talk about how the translation is done.
The Japanese title is:
兵法要務：柔術剣棒図解秘訣Heihoyomu: Jujutsu Kenbo Zukai Hiketsu
In English this (rather long title) Fundamentals of Military Strategy: An Illustrated Guide to the Secrets of Jujutsu, Kenjutsu and Bojutsu and it was published in 1887, almost two decades after the Meiji Restoration and the end of the Samurai. The author is Inoguchi Matsunosuke井口松之助 who wrote several books about martial arts. This makes it likely he was from a Samurai family that served as martial arts instructors for one of the former domains of Japan. He was likely a practitioner of Tenjin Shinyō Ryū Jūjutsu 天神真楊流柔術since the Jujutsu techniques in this book are from that school, though he doesn’t mention that specifically. This book was an attempt to make the transition from an employee of the government to a citizen earning a living selling martial arts instruction.
The first several chapters deal with martial arts strategy and the book covers other martial arts including sword fighting, Rokushaku-bo (180-centimeter staff) and Hanbo (90-centimeter staff.) However, I am only focusing on the Jujutsu techniques presented in this book. As far as I can determine this is the oldest post-Meiji Restoration (1868) illustrated book on Jujutsu. Illustrated Jujutsu manuals existed before this time, but they were made for practitioners of a certain school and were probably not made for public consumption like this one was.
Due to the length, complexity and difficult Japanese in this book only the first two sections, Tehodoki and Shodan of Jujutsu will be translated. I hope to include the next two sections in volume 3 and translate the whole book at some point soon.
The book also went through over a dozen printings, each time adding and correcting some sections. I used a combination of three editions due to some missing pages. The author alternates between a person’s right or left and the viewer’s right or left which can be quite confusing. I have done my best to visualize these techniques and correct all such instances to the person’s right and left, not the viewers. The biggest issue was in the description of the techniques. Transitions from one movement to the next were rather unclear in some cases. To solve this, I consulted two other books associated with this school. These sources were published in the years after Jujutsu Kenbo Zukai Hiketsu. They are Illustrated Guide to the Inner Mysteries of Tenjin Shinyo School Jujutsu (1893) and Tenshin School Jujutsu (1926.) Both books contain the same list of techniques from Jujutsu Kenbo Zukai Hiketsu, therefore, for clarity, I combined the explanations from the three books into each technique.
Illustration at the front of the section on Jujutsu depicting a typical Dojo set-up in the Early Meiji Era. The Sensei is seated on a raised platform with a charcoal brazier beside him. The calligraphy above him reads 柔制剛 The soft and flexible can topple the strong and rigid.
Kenbo Zukai introduces Jujutsu in the following way:
The Origin and Significance of Jujutsu
Since long in the past Samurai have trained in Jujutsu. Whether in peacetime or in war it was considered a fundamental art. What I am describing is the art where the soft and flexible conquers the strong and rigid. Even if you are facing an opponent who is much stronger, you can easily seize and break them. Jujutsu is an art that allows you to consistently achieve victory. The reason is, there is a limit to strength, but technique has no limits. It grants you the power to take life or give it.
If you become enlightened to the Okugi, inner mysteries, of Jujutsu then you will be able to both topple your enemies and revive those that have been attacked or had an accident. Thus, I beseech the average citizen to study the art of Jujutsu. Some of the more renowned schools are the Yoshin School, the Shinto School, the Tenshin Shinyo School and the Kito School. The way these schools teach Jujutsu is largely the same, varying only in the details however the inner meaning is the same.
Chapters on Jujutsu
12 Shikumi Tehodoki, or Freeing Seized Hands techniques.
10 Shodan Idori, or First Level Responding to a Sanding Attack Techniques.
10 Shodan Tachi-ai, or First Level Responding to Armed and Unarmed Attacks
20 Shodan Nagesute, or First Level Sacrifice Throw techniques.
12 Randori, Free Sparring techniques
There are many Kuden, oral transmissions, and Hiketsu, deep secrets, in these techniques so, illustrations can’t do them justice. Therefore, only the Mokuroku level of Jujutsu training is listed.
Notes: Mokuroku is a set of basic techniques or it can be the first level of techniques.
The 12 Randori, Free Sparring Techniques listed in the table of contents under Jujutsu, aren’t mentioned in this introduction.
振解 Furi-hotoki: Shake Free
振解 Furi-hotoki: Shake free It is the second technique of the Tehodoki Section.
Note: Many martial artists are familiar with the two roles Uke and Tori, the receiver of the technique and the one doing the technique. In this school the Uke is called the Koh and the Tori is the Otsu. 甲乙Koh-Otsu can be translated as Former and Latter and is also used in Kyudo, Japanese Archery, to indicate a pair of arrows. One arrow is fletched with the feathers of from a bird’s right wing and one from the left wing, so they rotate in opposite directions when shot.
For simplicity’s sake Koh will be “The Attacker” and Otsu will be “You.” This is somewhat of an imperfect system since sometimes you attack “The Attacker” first, like in this technique.
Yahazu
A page from a Japanese Archery Document that diagrams names of the parts of the arrow. The Yahazu, or nock, is circled.
This technique is a continuation of the previous technique, Devil’s Fist.
Strike down to Men (top of the head) with the hand you yanked free in the previous technique. Your hand should be in a Shuto, or Hand Sword. This is also known as Hira Shuto, or Flat Hand Sword.
Note: Translating words like this is difficult since there is no reading given. For example, the Kanji for this could also be read as Te-Gatana.
As the illustration shows, you pick your target on the Attacker’s head and with a Kakegoe of Ei-ya! strike the Attacker in the head. The attacker matches your Kiai with one of his own and catches your wrist. He has his hand shaped like a Yahazu, the nock of an arrow. See the separate illustration of how your hand should look.
Note: The words Kiai and Kake-goe are interchangeable. The purpose of this shout is to unify your physical actions with your intent, while at the same time disrupting your opponent’s spirit and hopefully causing them to lose focus.
To free your right hand from the Attacker’s grip, use a cry of Eih! And cut your hand downward, toward the Attacker’s right knee. This is shown in illustration 2.
Note: The Kake-goe used in this document vary a lot. Eih! Ei-ya! Yaa! and Ya-to! are all used.
The left and right sides are done the same way. When attacking with the Shuto, envision yourself striking down with enough power to snap the bone at the base of the thumb.
Eric Shahan has been living in Japan for 17 years and has translated over 30 books on Japanese martial arts, Ninjutsu and Edo Era fiction. Some recent works include Twelve Rules of the Sword, The Tattooed Arm and The Hundred Rules of War. His independently published works can be found on his Amazon Author’s Page.
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Knute Buehler to Seek Republican Nomination for Oregon’s Second Congressional District
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In a video to supporters, former State Rep. Knute Buehler announced today that he will seek the Republican nomination for Congress for the seat of retiring Congressman Greg Walden.
“Many Oregonians are tired of being disrespected or ignored by Portland liberals and elite D.C. politicians. In Congress, I will defend the values, rights and jobs threatened by the powerful arm of big government. I will be a conservative voice for the people and place I call home,” said Buehler.
Born and raised in Roseburg, Buehler grew up working in the woods and driving a Pepsi delivery truck. Buehler and his two brothers were the first in their family to attend college. He earned his undergraduate degree from Oregon State, played baseball and was a Rhodes Scholar. After attending Oxford University, Buehler earned his medical degree from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He and his wife, Patty, a successful eye surgeon, have been married for 29 years and have two grown children.
Buehler was elected to the Oregon House in 2014 and re-elected in 2016. Buehler was the Republican nominee for Secretary of State of 2012 and for Governor in 2018. In four statewide elections — primary and general — Buehler has won the second congressional district four times.
In his campaign for Governor, Buehler made expanding economic opportunities to all of Oregon a centerpiece of his campaign.
“Oregon’s rural urban divide isn’t an immovable feature of the natural landscape. It is an artificial divide created by politicians each day in Salem, Portland and Washington, D.C. In Congress, I will never stop fighting for Oregon’s traditional jobs in farming, ranching and timber. I will work for limited government, secure borders and stand firm against government takeover of health care,” he said.
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the brown and white bethlehem pennsylvania lehigh university 215)758-4181 v 01.98 n0.29 tuesday february 3 1987 free world must help s africa by dave leiqht brown and white associate editor a revolution will occur if the free world does not take a major role in the tran sformation of south africa according to lincoln university professor subrisiso nkomo nkomo chairman of the public affairs and political science department at lincoln discussed the future of south africa and the migrant labor force wednesday in the university center nkomo said he strongly believes that the people in the united states can change the government in south africa although many south africans feel differently black south africans believe that the united states is irrelevant now in south africa he said according to nkomo a zulu native of south africa came to the united states in 1978 black south africans thought the united states represented democracy he said however that when he returned to his native country in 1984 many black south africans were questioning the motives of americans he added that in his most recent visit last year and currently blacks there see america as an imperial force according to nkomo the meeting last week between secretary of state george shultz and african national congress anc leader oliver tambo suggests a collapsing south africa the united states has been secretive in their dealings with other countries he added as evidenced by the iranian scandal now the south african government may be looking to the united states for help some of us speculate that the meeting was orchestrated by south africa nkomo said government officials there have created a monster and they need someone to come in and negotiate on their behalf while many governments reject the anc because of its communist ties nkomo said acceptance of the group is important to the future of south africa the free world has to embrace the african national congress the anc was founded in 1912 and until 1960 it was peaceful then the government cracked down on black south africans and the anc under the direction of nelson mandela resorted to armed struggle they were motivated by the fact that south africa was a violent state he quoted nelson mandela that a government which uses force to control its people teaches people to use force to control its government the anc is not a puppet of the soviet union nkomo stated but has looked there for help since the united states has seemed to support the south african government he pointed out that america became allies with the soviet union in world war 11 and black south africans do not understand why the united states would reject them for doing the same thing the south african government is trying to avoid the lebanon situation nkomo said black south africans cook for and take care of the white children they could release their weapons easily he said and the anc is trying to prevent this possibility the anc and other groups are preparing for a south africa without apartheid the center cannot hold in south africa nkomo said the country has been rendered ungovernable and new systems of government must be developed south africa cannot develop at the expense of the other south african countries but current development has hurt blacks who have been relegated to homelands within the country election of ifc officers to take place tomorrow by tom johnson brown and white news writer elections for the new interfraternity council ifc executive committee officers will be held at 7 p.m tomorrow at chi psi fraternity ifc secretary scan kelly said candidates will run for the positions of president vice president secretary treasurer and judicial chairman all com mittee chairmen including rush social housing scholarship publicity faculty relations and community relations along with the judicial committee will be appointed by the new officers nomination forms for each candidate were submitted at the last ifc meeting and have been distributed to each fraternity president the presidents can review each candidate's qualifications including previously held offices and other leadership experience the house presidents vote to elect the new officers and ifc president robert ripp has a deciding vote in the event of a tie two candidates are running for president they are juniors christopher clark alpha sigma phi and scan kelly lambda chi alpha the vice presidential candidates are sophomore jeffrey eichman alpha tau omega and juniors john heist phi kappa theta thomas lechard delta chi eric maurer pi kappa alpha bruce moloznik sigma phi richard potts phi sigma kappa and michael rinaldi alpha tau omega the two candidates for secretary are sophomores gregory cote pi kappa alpha and brennan hinkle sigma phi epsilon junior andrew horning chi psi is running unopposed for treasurer juniors stuart dweck sigma alpha mv and christopher surgent theta xi are running for judicial chairman ba w photo by mary ralston daren queenan who became lehigh's all-time leading scorer earlier this season had 36 points against rider saturday night parking fines to go up forum restructure set by rich rosier brown and white news writer beginning with the fall of 1987 all parking violations subsequent to the third will be fined a minimum of 30 for each time observed and ticketed according to a resolution passed by forum xvii thursday the purpose of the resolution is to free up spaces on lower campus by using financial leverage according to chris christian manager of transportation services christian said that illegal parking by on-campus residents is a problem for faculty staff and students who live off campus but need to park on campus he added that the plan is to increase ticketing efforts with the goal of reducing the number of tickets issued the forum also passed a resolution to restructure the governing body into three independant bodies a forum a student representative body and a faculty representative body that will be developed independently by the faculty the new structure is scheduled to be implemented by the spring of 1988 in the president's report president peter likins praised the student body claiming that the recent bid weekend was the best ever and without unfavorable incident the president also spoke on a meeting he had with the board of directors of the alumni association which he said expressed the view that changing lehigh's nickname would be a good idea but also some nervousness about the timing of the change the board expressed reservations of the use of the nickname packers likins said he also commented on trie proposed stadium claiming local newspaper articles concerning these proposals have been inaccurate likins reiterated brown and white ar ticles saying the trustees authorized a design and fun draising proceedings not construction of a 5-million stadium likins predicted taylor stadium will be demolished by the fall of 1988 thereby making room for the proposed business college building arts center parking structure and an additional academic building see apartheid page 9
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FullText the brown and white bethlehem pennsylvania lehigh university 215)758-4181 v 01.98 n0.29 tuesday february 3 1987 free world must help s africa by dave leiqht brown and white associate editor a revolution will occur if the free world does not take a major role in the tran sformation of south africa according to lincoln university professor subrisiso nkomo nkomo chairman of the public affairs and political science department at lincoln discussed the future of south africa and the migrant labor force wednesday in the university center nkomo said he strongly believes that the people in the united states can change the government in south africa although many south africans feel differently black south africans believe that the united states is irrelevant now in south africa he said according to nkomo a zulu native of south africa came to the united states in 1978 black south africans thought the united states represented democracy he said however that when he returned to his native country in 1984 many black south africans were questioning the motives of americans he added that in his most recent visit last year and currently blacks there see america as an imperial force according to nkomo the meeting last week between secretary of state george shultz and african national congress anc leader oliver tambo suggests a collapsing south africa the united states has been secretive in their dealings with other countries he added as evidenced by the iranian scandal now the south african government may be looking to the united states for help some of us speculate that the meeting was orchestrated by south africa nkomo said government officials there have created a monster and they need someone to come in and negotiate on their behalf while many governments reject the anc because of its communist ties nkomo said acceptance of the group is important to the future of south africa the free world has to embrace the african national congress the anc was founded in 1912 and until 1960 it was peaceful then the government cracked down on black south africans and the anc under the direction of nelson mandela resorted to armed struggle they were motivated by the fact that south africa was a violent state he quoted nelson mandela that a government which uses force to control its people teaches people to use force to control its government the anc is not a puppet of the soviet union nkomo stated but has looked there for help since the united states has seemed to support the south african government he pointed out that america became allies with the soviet union in world war 11 and black south africans do not understand why the united states would reject them for doing the same thing the south african government is trying to avoid the lebanon situation nkomo said black south africans cook for and take care of the white children they could release their weapons easily he said and the anc is trying to prevent this possibility the anc and other groups are preparing for a south africa without apartheid the center cannot hold in south africa nkomo said the country has been rendered ungovernable and new systems of government must be developed south africa cannot develop at the expense of the other south african countries but current development has hurt blacks who have been relegated to homelands within the country election of ifc officers to take place tomorrow by tom johnson brown and white news writer elections for the new interfraternity council ifc executive committee officers will be held at 7 p.m tomorrow at chi psi fraternity ifc secretary scan kelly said candidates will run for the positions of president vice president secretary treasurer and judicial chairman all com mittee chairmen including rush social housing scholarship publicity faculty relations and community relations along with the judicial committee will be appointed by the new officers nomination forms for each candidate were submitted at the last ifc meeting and have been distributed to each fraternity president the presidents can review each candidate's qualifications including previously held offices and other leadership experience the house presidents vote to elect the new officers and ifc president robert ripp has a deciding vote in the event of a tie two candidates are running for president they are juniors christopher clark alpha sigma phi and scan kelly lambda chi alpha the vice presidential candidates are sophomore jeffrey eichman alpha tau omega and juniors john heist phi kappa theta thomas lechard delta chi eric maurer pi kappa alpha bruce moloznik sigma phi richard potts phi sigma kappa and michael rinaldi alpha tau omega the two candidates for secretary are sophomores gregory cote pi kappa alpha and brennan hinkle sigma phi epsilon junior andrew horning chi psi is running unopposed for treasurer juniors stuart dweck sigma alpha mv and christopher surgent theta xi are running for judicial chairman ba w photo by mary ralston daren queenan who became lehigh's all-time leading scorer earlier this season had 36 points against rider saturday night parking fines to go up forum restructure set by rich rosier brown and white news writer beginning with the fall of 1987 all parking violations subsequent to the third will be fined a minimum of 30 for each time observed and ticketed according to a resolution passed by forum xvii thursday the purpose of the resolution is to free up spaces on lower campus by using financial leverage according to chris christian manager of transportation services christian said that illegal parking by on-campus residents is a problem for faculty staff and students who live off campus but need to park on campus he added that the plan is to increase ticketing efforts with the goal of reducing the number of tickets issued the forum also passed a resolution to restructure the governing body into three independant bodies a forum a student representative body and a faculty representative body that will be developed independently by the faculty the new structure is scheduled to be implemented by the spring of 1988 in the president's report president peter likins praised the student body claiming that the recent bid weekend was the best ever and without unfavorable incident the president also spoke on a meeting he had with the board of directors of the alumni association which he said expressed the view that changing lehigh's nickname would be a good idea but also some nervousness about the timing of the change the board expressed reservations of the use of the nickname packers likins said he also commented on trie proposed stadium claiming local newspaper articles concerning these proposals have been inaccurate likins reiterated brown and white ar ticles saying the trustees authorized a design and fun draising proceedings not construction of a 5-million stadium likins predicted taylor stadium will be demolished by the fall of 1988 thereby making room for the proposed business college building arts center parking structure and an additional academic building see apartheid page 9
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EAGLE IMAGE RELATED TO DECEASED BOY APPEARS
ON SISTER'S CAMERA 50 YEARS LATER
& FAITH SYMBOLS APPEAR
ON GOOD FRIDAY
http://www.bltresearch.com
When this report was originally posted in June, 2012 it contained details and photos of three highly anomalous incidents-- two of which clearly related to two deceased men.
The individual indicated in the first series of photos did not want those photos made public, but Robbert somehow forgot this
fact--and this man's spirit has now communicated to Robbert
repeatedly his wish that the events relating to him
& all of those photos be removed.
Therefore, with respect, this report has been so amended.
In August, 2011 Robbert moved from Hoeven into his own apartment where anomalous events continue to occur. With help from friends his own web-site is beginning to take shape and the taping of interviews with some of Robbert's clients has begun. These interviews with people who have come to Robbert for "readings" and/or "healings" are my favorite part of Robbert's website so far, because we can hear some of his clients recount their various experiences with Robbert in their own words.
These interviews (currently only in Dutch) are both intriguing and quite varied, and as soon as possible English sub-titles or over-dubs will be added to as many as possible. Whle waiting for some of the English translations to be added here are two events which occurred just before Easter, 2012 which continue to suggest the spiritual nature of these "energies" with which Robbert is in contact.
Marij van Dam
http://www.witteveder.nl/index.htm
Marij van Dam, a Dutch woman who is known as a "spiritual therapist" in the Netherlands, first met Robbert when he was only 15 years old. At the time she was living in Hoeven and had seen a newspaper article about the crop circles and Robbert's fore-knowledge of their occurrences and, so, made an appointment with him to discuss the circles and the other strange events which had already begun to occur around Robbert with some regularity.
They became friends and she did what she could to help Robbert cope with some of the social isolation associated with his situation, telling me that she realized Robbert was "very special, incredible" during her first meeting with him. Some years later she and her husband moved from Hoeven, but she stayed in touch with Robbert, visiting him in Hoeven from time to time.
Marij's birth family -- Vincent in the
center of top row.
Marij (whose family name was Buil) suffered a tragedy at the age of 11 when her favorite brother Vincent, only 13 years old at the time, was struck by a car and killed on April 1, 1962. Vincent had liked to draw and shortly before his untimely demise had drawn a picture of what Marij described to me as a "buzzard," but which looks more like a juvenile eagle (the hooked beak in Vincent's drawing is like an eagle's and young eagles' have brown plumage).
Since Vincent's death she has remained fond of birds, and continues to associate the memory of her brother with this particular image -- she said she thinks of him as a "falcon."
Vincent Buil's "buzzard," drawn shortly before
his death 50 years ago.
Not having seen Robbert in some time she had called to see when she might make an appointment to visit him again. She wanted to know if Robbert would do "readings" for two of her friends, whose photos she planned to bring with her. By coincidence the date set for her appointment with Robbert was on April 1st.
Because Robbert doesn't drive she picked him up during the afternoon and they rode together out to the fields, talking about the on-going saga of the crop circles and other events in both their lives -- and then drove to McDonalds to pick up dinner to enjoy back at Marij's hotel. During dinner she brought out the photos of her friends and Robbert did the "readings" as requested (using the photos). Marij also asked for some guidance in regards to her son, which Robbert was able to provide.
April 1, 2012 - Robbert conducting "readings" of Marij van Dam's
friends from photos she provided.
Neither Marij nor Robbert were discussing Vincent during this visit and, as it was late when the "readings" were completed, they prepared for Marij to drive Robbert home. As they were leaving the room (at about 12:30 am) Robbert suddenly became aware of the very strong presence of Vincent around him and he asked Marij if she wanted him to take some photos. Marij got her camera (a Sony Cyber Shot DSC-W310) and handed it to Robbert, standing right with him as he took just a few shots -- on the first of which appeared this image of a magnificent young eagle.
Juvenile eagle photographed by Robbert with Marij's camera 50 years after her
brother Vincent's death (original=top, cropped=bottom).
Only a few evenings later (Good Friday, April 6th) Robbert and I were on SKYPE, as we often are. Except during my first visit to his home 14 years ago, it has only been recently that I have begun to experience again the same strange "tingling" sensation that Robbert apparently always does when something unusual is going on -- but on the night of April 6-7th while talking with Robbert on SKYPE I felt this sensation becoming very strong as we talked. The whole top of my head was tingling in the same way my upper body had during that first visit to Robbert's house in the late 1990s. Robbert's friend Stan was with him that night and he felt it also -- all three of us sensed that something was "getting ready" to happen.
Around 12 midnight in Holland Robbert asked if he could SKYPE me back in a few minutes, to which I said "yes," knowing I might hear from him again that night or -- just as likely -- I might not. After waiting for an hour or two I closed down the computer, wondering if there would be something interesting from Robbert the next time I turned the computer back on.
As many times as I have experienced strange things with Robbert I never would have imagined the image that appeared on his camera that night. Neither of us adhere to any traditional religion but we do understand the important role formal religious practice plays in many people's lives. And both of us do believe in a "greater" creative principle or force, in spite of the fact we are not church-goers.
April 7, 2012 @ 12:48am (original, slightly cropped). Digital camera
set on a tripod w/automatic timer -- with Stan watching
as the photo was taken.
After hanging up Robbert had felt the "energy" we were experiencing while on SKYPE intensify and he got the "message" again that there is only one consciousness, one loving, compassionate Source -- and that we all come from it and are all part of it. He put the digital camera on a tripod, set the timer, and then stood in front of the lens and "focussed on the energy" as the camera took one photo.
Symbols for 9 religions (and 3 planets or solar systems?), as well
as a white heart (with what Robbert thinks is the "earth"
inside it) appear on the photo.
I've added the names of the various faiths associated with each of the symbols which appeared in this photo and Stan (who was present and watching Robbert as this photo was taken) translated into English for me more of the "message" that Robbert "heard" as this photo was taken:
"We all came out of the same loving Source...and it doesn't matter how you call it. People may choose for themselves whatever name they like and they must not fight about it.
The message is also that a new consciousness is arising in people so each can experience the Source in themselves, so each of us can develop a personal intimacy with this most deep, most truthful, essence. As this relationship develops everyone will know that this great "energy" does not punish...and we must learn forgiveness so we can live together in peace."
Over the years a number of crop circle "patterns" which have appeared in England and other countries look like symbols associated with one formal religion or another (in spite of the fact that many "croppies" don't follow any formal religious practice). The most common such symbol to appear in Dutch crop circles (Holland is a primarily Catholic country) has been the Christian Cross.
Another symbol which has, so far as I know, appeared only once in a crop circle context occurred in 1995 at Telegraph Hill, Winchester (UK) next to a more "typical" crop formation in barley. The very wide ring and circles had occurred first and displayed a beautiful undulating lay in the flattened crop -- but it was the Sanskrit "Om" symbol which appeared several days later which really triggered my curiosity.
Large Sanskrit "Om" sign appeared several days after the 120 ft.+ diameter
primary formation. Photo: Lucy Pringle
The plants in the center circle of the primary formation (placed on a steep hillside)
were swirled radially into a perfect "S." Photo: Steve Alexander
The 2012 crop circle season has begun and, as of this writing, there are 6 formations in Holland already. Photos of Dutch crop circles are posted in both the Crop Circle Connector's "World" section and on Robbert's new web-site: http://www.robbertvandenbroeke.nl/graancirkelarchief.
Other in-depth reports (in English) discussing the recurring phenomenal events which occur in conjunction with Robbert and/or in the circles which appear in his vicinity can be found on the BLT page devoted to Robbert's case: http://www.bltresearch.com/robbert.php (multiple individual reports are listed at the bottom, following the introduction).
Unless otherwise noted, all photos in this report are the property of Robbert van den Broeke.
If individuals wish to use any of them in not-for-profit formats please respect Robbert's ownership & get written permission from him or
Nancy Talbott at BLT to use them.
If any photos from this report are used please provide a direct link
to this original report.
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DATES: Tuesday 8 August to Sunday 20 August
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Celebrating 65 years of Parisian Glamour and inspired by the endless theme of femininity and sophistication, Australian audiences will experience the tantalizing Parisian cultural phenomenon of Crazy Horse Paris for the first time ever when Forever Crazy high kicks through Melbourne, Perth, Sydney and Canberra from 8 August
Featuring the best of acts from the legendary Cabaret, Forever Crazy consists of a series of highly aesthetic and visual tableaus presented by a multicultural cast of eleven stunningly beautiful and classically trained dancers clad only in textured lighting and
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Paris’ most glamorous legendary show is about to hit Australia and is not to be missed! Forever Crazy was conceived as a tribute to #AlainBernardin, the founder of Crazy Horse Paris. It fully preserves the cabaret’s artistic heritage while adding a touch of modernity, humour and sophistication. Forever Crazy consists of distinct choreographed acts, among them legendary Crazy Horse “classics”. Forever Crazy is on the cutting edge of art and entertainment and presents itself as a unique kaleidoscope of beauty, grace, passion and precision.
Performances are accentuated by original music and stylish costumes tailor made for each dancer. In the last 65 years, Crazy Horse Paris has collaborated with world-renowned French fashion designers including Paco Rabanne, #LorisAzzaro, KARL LAGERFELD, #EmmanuelUngaro, Azzedine Alaia, Alexis Mabille Official, Alexandre Vauthier, Chantal Thomass. Celebrity shoe creator Christian Louboutin has personally designed the dancer’s iconic red-soled shoes, making Forever Crazy a night of world-class opulence.
The French press hails Forever Crazy as “... spectacular!” (20 Minutes), while it qualifies it as a “feast for the senses” (Paris Match), and “the most beautiful show Paris currently has to offer” (Le Parisien).
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SUN, Hai, Associated professor. Mathematics and Information Collage, China West Normal University, Nanchong, China.
SUN, Hai, Associated Professor, Mathematics and Information Collage, China West Normal University, Nanchong, China.
SUN, Hong-mei
SUN, Hongwei, ]Ph.D., Zhou Enlai School of Government, Nankai University, Tianjing, China.
SUN, Jin
SUN, Jing, Doctoral Candidate of the School of History, Culture & Ethnology, Southwest University, Chongqing, China.
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SUN, Jingyi, College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Jingdezhen Ceramic Institute, Jingdezhen, China. (China)
SUN, Kai, School of Law, Changchun University of Science and Technology, Changchun (China)
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SUN, Shaoyong, Faculty of Marxism, Southwest University, Chongqing, China. (China)
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SUN, Xiangyang, School of Photoelectric Engineering, Changchun University of Science and Technology, Changchun, China; The School of Electronics and Information Engineering of Changchun Universit, Changchun, China.
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Global email benchmark report indicates Government organizations increased open rates by 11% in 2019
Email service provider Campaign Monitor has released its annual global email benchmarks report, offering marketers a glimpse into email marketing performance across industries.
Government organizations topped the list as having the highest open rates of over 30% — an increase of nearly 11% over the course of 2019. The Automotive and Aerospace industry had the lowest open rates of only 12.6%, down from 17% last year.
For marketers, the ability to measure the effectiveness of your brand’s email marketing program is essential for successful campaigns. The report provides insights that will help organizations understand how they match up against their peers and competitors across different industries, highlighting key areas for growth in email marketing programs.
“Marketing has evolved to become a data-driven discipline, and marketers need to actively measure the effectiveness of their campaigns and programs,” said Lane Harbin, director of marketing at Campaign Monitor. “Campaign Monitor’s annual global email marketing benchmarks report gives marketers a resource to see how their performance stacks up globally and within their industry in key areas, such as email opens, click-through, click-to-open, unsubscribe and bounce rates. Savvy marketers can use this information to quickly double down on areas where they are excelling and determine what they need to make improvements in 2020.”
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The following email marketing benchmarks were drawn from Campaign Monitor’s global data:
Average open rate: 17.8%
Average click-through rate: 2.6%
Average click-to-open rate: 14.3%
Average unsubscribe rate: 0.1%
Average bounce rate: .07%
Jennifer Videtta Cannon serves as Third Door Media’s Senior Editor, covering topics from email marketing and analytics to CRM and project management. With over a decade of organizational digital marketing experience, she has overseen digital marketing operations for NHL franchises and held roles at tech companies including Salesforce, advising enterprise marketers on maximizing their martech capabilities. Jennifer formerly organized the Inbound Marketing Summit and holds a certificate in Digital Marketing Analytics from MIT Sloan School of Management.
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SMTL Dressings Datacard
Product Name: Intrasite Gel
Classification Name: Dressing Hydrogel, Amorphous
Manufacturer: Smith & Nephew Healthcare Limited
Intrasite, is a colourless transparent aqueous gel, which contains 2.3% of a modified carboxymethylcellulose (CMC) polymer together with propylene glycol (20%) as a humectant and preservative. When placed in contact with a wound, the dressing absorbs excess exudate and produces a moist environment at the surface of the wound, without causing tissue maceration.
Intrasite may be applied to many different types of wound, including leg ulcers, pressure sores , surgical wounds and extravasation injuries. It is of particular value in the treatment of dry, sloughy, or necrotic wounds, promoting rapid debridement by facilitating rehydration and autolysis of dead tissue. In the management of granulating wounds, Intrasite prevent desiccation, and thus facilitates re-epithelialisation. The gel can form a useful vehicle for the topical application of antimicrobial agents such as metronidazole. Such preparations may be used, in combination with systemic therapy, for the management of wound odour caused by infection with sensitive organisms.
Contra-indications
Although there are no known contra-indications to the use of Intrasite as a topical wound dressing, the material is not ideally suited for application to wounds that are exuding very heavily.
Method of use
Intrasite should be introduced into the wound to a minimum depth of 5 mm, and covered with a sterile secondary dressing. Any unused dressing should be discarded. The selection of the secondary dressing will be governed by the condition of the wound. If significant quantities of exudate are anticipated, a simple absorbent pad may be used, held in position with tape or a bandage, as appropriate. On lightly exuding wounds, a less permeable secondary dressing may be required, such as a perforated film absorbent dressing (Melolin or Telfa, for example).
If the wound is very dry, a more occlusive covering may be used to reduce water vapour loss and to prevent the dressing drying out. A film dressing such as Opsite Flexigrid is suitable for this purpose. In the management of difficult wounds such as the hand or foot, the dressing may be retained on the wound in a suitably shaped plastic bag, forming a simple glove or boot . Intrasite may be introduced into narrow wounds or sinuses using a syringe and quill.
Frequency of Change
The interval between dressing changes will depend entirely upon the state of the wound. On heavily exuding or malodorous wounds, daily changes will be required; but on dry wounds, the dressing may be changed on alternate days. It is recommended that the dressing is not left `in-situ' for longer than three days between changes. At the discretion of the medical officer in charge, wounds that show evidence of clinical infection may be dressed with Intrasite, which should be changed daily and systemic antibiotic therapy commenced as appropriate.
Intrasite contains propylene glycol, which has been reported to be a potential irritant and sensitising agent in a very small number of patients. If a patient should exhibit any signs or symptoms of an adverse reaction to Intrasite, treatment should be discontinued at once. Each container should only be used for a single patient, and any unused gel should be discarded.
Intrasite is presented individually packed in a plastic dispenser sterilised by steam.
Intrasite should be stored in a cool dry place. The shelf life is three years.
8 gram Applipak
15 gram Applipak*
25 gram Applipak
*available on Drug Tariff.
1. Thomas S, et al., A new approach to the treatment of extravasation injury in neonates, Pharm. J., 1987, 239, 584-585.
2. Thomas S, et al., The antimicrobial properties of two metronidazole medicated dressings used to treat malodorous wounds, Pharm. J., 1991, 246, 264-266.
3. Thomas S, et al., A comparison of the wound cleansing properties of two hydrogel dressings, J. Wound Care, 1993, 2, (5) 272-274.
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Revision No 1.4
Revision date 1997/12/16
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Heritage Grains
By Laura McKissack
Heritage grains are those that have remained much the same, genetically speaking, as when early European, Andean and Aztec farmers tilled their fields, and they’ve played a huge role in supporting ancient societies. Quinoa, for example, has sustained the people of the Andes for thousands of years, and amaranth—revered as a holy plant and an essential source of nutrition by the ancient Aztecs—was once banned by Spanish conquistadores who believed its great importance to the people to be idolatrous.
These grains are gaining popularity as substitutes for much of the wheat and other grains that have been modified to provide the highest yields and fewest diseases possible—sometimes at the expense of flavor and nutrition. Also, many heritage grains are important to those intolerant to gluten, found in wheat protein. But aside from being great alternatives to wheat products, heritage grains are packed with flavor and nutrition and bring a great diversity of taste and texture to the palate. Cooked, they are excellent in salads, casseroles and breads and are a nutritious alternative to oatmeal.
In Central Texas, one of the easiest of these grains to grow is amaranth, and there are several varieties to choose from. Some, like Green Callaloo or Joseph’s Coat (a favorite of Thomas Jefferson), are best grown for their leaves and provide a nutritious addition to summer salads. The larger, tougher leaves are delicious tossed in olive oil and grilled in a grill basket. Others, such as Burgundy or Golden Giant amaranth, can be grown for their seed and make gorgeous, striking centerpieces as they can grow to over eight feet tall with brilliant golden and burgundy plumes that stay lush and keep their color well into late summer. In the garden or landscape, amaranth enjoys full sun, is very heat-hardy and can be planted directly in the ground about a quarter-inch deep after the last threat of frost. It’s usually among the first things to sprout up—roughly three to ten days to germination.
Amaranth seed can be harvested once the seed heads have matured and are beginning to lose their color. Test readiness by plucking one frond and rubbing it between your palms over a plate. If the seeds fall out easily and have a bit of a crunch to them, they are ready. To harvest the rest, you’ll need a bowl or bag to catch the seeds in as they’re worked out, and some sort of strainer set over it to catch the larger chaff and stems while letting the seeds fall through. Pluck the fronds from the main stem and work them between your hands over the strainer until most of the seeds have fallen out. What will be left is a quantity of small chaff and seeds. The chaff of amaranth is heavier than that of wheat and other grains, and the seed lighter, so winnowing must be done carefully. One method is to place a handful of seed at a time on a plate and blow gently while rolling the seeds toward you. (The chaff is edible, so no need to worry about getting every last bit.) The yield varies based on the varietal as well as the growing conditions.
There are, of course, heritage wheats, millets and barleys, as well, and several of our local growers and artisans are making good use of them. Chip McElroy at Live Oak Brewing Company is the only brewmaster in Texas who uses heritage wheat and other grains in his brewing process—lending a malty sweetness to the beers. Larry Butler of Boggy Creek Farm also grows heritage wheat, and is trying a new variety called Sonora this year that was handed down by a friend. And several Central Texas farms, including Richardson Farms and Bar W Farm and Ranch, are growing unadulterated wheat and other grains, and are making their flours available at many of our local farmers markets and area restaurants.
There are many reasons to explore heritage grains. Not only are they easy on the digestive system and highly flavorful and nutritious, but they are incredibly versatile in cooking and even easy to grow. Consider delving into the rich history of these seeds of the past, and try a few in the garden this spring.
Baker Creek Heirloom Seed Co.
2278 Baker Creek Road
Mansfield, MO 65704
Bar W Farm and Ranch
Route 1, Box 273
Boggy Creek Farm
3414 Lyons Road
Coyote Creek Organic Farm and Feed Mill
13817 Klaus Lane
Richardson Farms
Rancho Dominguez, CA 90220
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Study at JU Our programmes Master programmes Sustainable Communication
Sustainable Communication
Degree of Master of Social Science (60 credits / 120 credits) with a major in Media and Communication Science
Location: Jönköping
Start date: August 17, 2020
Sustainable Communication (SusCom) is a Media and Communication master’s programme designed for students who want to deepen their understanding of the significant role of media and communication for global sustainability.
In a time where anthropogenic climate change is threating the life conditions on which we all depend, and where inequality, wars and armed conflicts remain global problems, the need for global sustainability becomes urgent.
SusCom is a master’s programme where you will study the relationship between media and communication and the environmental, social and economic dimensions of sustainability. The programme is offered in close cooperation with the research environment Sustainable Communication at Jönköping University, which has published extensively in the areas of environmental communication, global journalism, transmedia storytelling, and communication for development.
SusCom is offered as a 1-year (60 credits) and a 2-year (120 credits) programme. The 2-year programme is an extension of the 1-year programme, which means that students of both programmes study together during their first year. A mandatory work placement of five weeks is offered during the first year. Students of the 1-year programme write one thesis (15 credits). Students of the 2-year programme write two theses (15 credits each).
Master of Social Science with a major in Media and Communication Studies. 1 year, 60 credits or 2 year 120 credits.
After graduating, students may be interested in working for organisations that work with communication and sustainability. Those who have completed the 2-year programme also have the opportunity to study further at doctoral level.
60 credits / 120 credits
Rate of study
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The applicant must hold the minimum of a bachelor's degree (i.e. the equivalent of 180 ECTS credits at an accredited university) with at least 90 ECTS credits in media and communication studies or social studies including independent, theoretical based work, i.e. a thesis or the equivalent. English 6/English B in the Swedish upper secondary school system or international equivalent.
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Degree of Master of Social Science (60 credits or 120 credits) with a major in Media and Communication Science
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Tuition fees do NOT apply for EU/EEA citizens or exchange students
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Sustainability and Communication 15 credits
Media in the Digital Age 7.5 credits
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Research Methods 1 7.5 credits
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Media and Globalization 7.5 credits
Global Crisis Communication 7.5 credits
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Viaduc de Millau
© Dominique VIET - CRT Midi-Pyrénées
© Atout France/Patrice Thébault / Eiffage- Foster and partners
Viaduc de Millau Viaduc de Millau 12100 MILLAU fr
The Millau Viaduct was built out of necessity: it opens up the southern Massif Central by creating a direct motorway between Clermont-Ferrand and Béziers.
How? By building an aqueduct to cross a gap 2460 m long and thus span the Tarn valley in Aveyron. A technical challenge that required 13 years of study and ... 3 years of construction.
At its commissioning in 2004, the Millau Viaduct became the highest motorway bridge in the world...
Its deck, which rises 270 meters above the Tarn (Aveyron), is the longest cable-stayed bridge (2460 meters) with the highest stack rising 145 m high.
This titanic structure was constructed with clean high-tech technologies in the world of public works: the structure is made out of self-climbing formwork, high performance concrete and innovative materials, making this unique structure (designed by British architect Norman Foster and French engineer Michel Virlojeux) so successful.
The bridge, made out of steel and concrete, gives the viaduct a strong fine structure with only 7 points along the construction supporting it and 1,500 tonnes of live wire covering the surface of the bridge.
13 years of study
This project did not need thirteen years of technical and financial research for nothing!
The bridge has overcome enormous geographic, climate and seismic problems in the region.
Strong winds can blow nearly 200 km/h in the Tarn valley. And there are seismic risks in the area, considered to be quite low which should be taken into account.
Ways to explore it...
If you would like to visit this symbol of modernity in its majestic setting, there are a thousand and one ways to explore it.
First you can take the 32 m wide bridge which hosts a dual carriageway, as well as:
by canoe
by pedestrian walkway, by bike or by quadbike
a view from the sky in an autogyro or paragliding
Each year, more than 500,000 people visit this work, appreciating it from every angle. This Viaduct also helped open up the region: it is the link for the A75 motorway, connecting Paris to the Mediterranean.
The Millau Viaduct in figures
Length: 2 460 m
Breadth: 32 m
Maximum height: 343 m, 19 m higher than the Eiffel Tower
Slope: 3.025% increase north-south (in the direction Clermont-Ferrand - Béziers)
Height of the tallest column (P2): 245 m
Tower height: 87 m
Number of columns: 7
Total weight: 10 100 tons
Discover le viaduc de Millau
Discover the Great Sites of Midi-Pyrénées
Le Viaduc de Millau
Rendez-vous in Midi-Pyrénées
© C. Méravilles / Grand Rodez
Soulages Museum in Rodez
The museum dedicated to the work of the French painter, sculptor and engraver Pierre Soulages, presents over 500 works and documents from the artist.
© Photo Office de Tourisme de Nîmes
Nîmes invites you for a trip through time.
© Illustration Agence Fabre&Speller
Cave of Pont d'Arc
Welcome to the Cave of Pont d’Arc, replica of the "Chauvet Cave", in Ardèche (Rhône-Alpes).
The Pont du Gard (AD 50) is the tallest Roman bridge-aqueduct in the world!
© Musée des Confluences / Quentin Lafont
Musée des Confluences in Lyon
Lyon’s futuristic Musée des Confluences is worthy of its ambition to offer the keys to understanding the intricate field of human knowledge.
Glove-making: French savoir-faire for the skin
The Millavois basin in Aveyron, Occitanie is highly regarded for its leather manufacture, it’s home to the art of glove-making.
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pageoftext.com
Posted on Published April 6, 2007 by Eugene Eric Kim
Gordon McCreight showed off his latest silly creation, pageoftext.com, at the last WikiWednesday. It’s a silly concept, and it’s got a silly lack of features. What’s really silly is how useful this silly little concept is. It’s considerably simpler than Writeboard, slightly more featureful than the various Pastebins, and better than both. (M4D)
pageoftext.com is a collaborative text editor on laxatives. All features you might think you need have been flushed away to oblivion. There’s no formatting, no registration, and no security. Editing happens in plain text. The URLs are human-friendly, which is good, because you’ll need to remember them if you ever want to find them again. Gordon does have a remind feature, in which you describe what’s on the page, and then he tries to find it for you. (M4E)
It’s great for when a bunch of people — especially normal people — need to edit a file together quickly and easily. You don’t have to go through the normal hullabaloo of logging in, because you don’t have to login. You don’t have to describe the markup, because there is no markup. It’s totally task-focused. (M4F)
This, in theory, is what Writeboard was supposed to be, except I think it’s a whole lot better. When I use Writeboard, I’m constantly reminded of what it’s not, as opposed to being excited over what it is. Writeboards are no easier than a Wiki to use, but they’re much less useful. (M4G)
I love pastebin (known as nopaste in some circles) for a lot of reasons. Pastebin emerged because developers collaborating on IRC needed a Shared Display. It’s brain-dead simple, and it does exactly what it’s supposed to do. pageoftext.com addresses a different goal than pastebin, but it has similar affordances, and could be used the same way. (M4H)
Gordon has been militant about feature creep, which is a good thing. That said, I started a page suggesting new features. Feel free to add those there. Or, if you prefer not to think about such esoteric things, you can add some Philadelphia-area restaurants and reviews to my Philly restaurants page. (I’m visiting Philly for the first time next weekend, and I need some good cheesesteak recommendations.) (M4I)
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At least 250 people die of cholera in Haiti
09:27, October 25, 2010
Patients suffering from diarrhea and other cholera symptoms are helped by other residents as they wait for treatment at the St. Nicholas hospital in Saint Marc, Haiti, Friday, Oct. 22, 2010. (Xinhua/Reuters Photo)
At least 250 people have died of cholera in Haiti, said the country's health department on Sunday.
However, the situation in the Caribbean nation is stable as there is fewer new deaths reported during the past 24 hours, according to the reports reaching here from Haiti.
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Chinese Navy soldiers hold an evening party marking the upcoming 62nd National Day aboard Chinese Navy hospital ship "Peace Ark" in the Pacific on Sept. 28, 2011. The Chinese National Day falls on Oct. 1. (Xinhua/Zha Chunming)
Photo taken on Sept. 30, 2011 shows the crowd at the plaza of Beijing Railway Station in Beijing, capital of China. The railway transportation witnessed a travel peak with the approach of the seven-day National Day holidays on Friday. (Xinhua)
A man wearing high-heel shoes takes part in the 3rd annual Walk a Mile in Her Shoes, an event when men literally walk in women's shoes to raise awareness about ending violence against women, at Yonge-Dundas Square in Toronto, Canada, Sept. 29, 2011. (Xinhua/Zou Zheng)
Photo taken on Sept. 29, 2011 shows a cargo ship in danger on the sea near Zhuhai City, south China's Guangdong Province. Cargo ship Fangzhou 6 of Qingzhou of southwest China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region lost control after water stormed into its cabin due to Typhoon Nesat on the sea near Zhuhai Thursday, leaving 12 crew members in danger. Rescuers rushed to the ship and saved them by using a helicopter. (Xinhua)
Actress Gong Li poses for L'Officiel Magazine. (Xinhua Photo)
Demonstrators from the Occupy Wall Street campaign hold placards as they march in the financial district of New York September 29, 2011. After hundreds of protesters were denied access to some areas outside the New York Stock Exchange on September 17, demonstrators set up a rag-tag camp three blocks away. Zuccotti Park is a campground festooned with placards and anti-Wall Street slogans. The group is adding complaints of excessive police force against protesters and police treatment of ethnic minorities and Muslims to its grievances list, which includes bank bailouts, foreclosures and high unemployment. (Xinhua/Reuters Photo)
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Comic-Con mines past for future hits on 50th edition
The 50th edition of Comic-Con International will see 135,000 cosplayers, bloggers, movie executives and humble fans pile into a sweaty convention center for glimpses of their heroes
AFP , Thursday 18 Jul 2019
A smorgasbord of sequels, prequels and reunions from "Terminator" to "Game of Thrones" awaits thousands of misty-eyed comic book geeks and sci-fi nerds descending on San Diego this week for the world's largest celebration of pop culture fandom.
The 50th edition of Comic-Con International will see 135,000 cosplayers, bloggers, movie executives and humble fans pile into a sweaty convention center for glimpses of their heroes, in town to promote the next mega-hit films, TV shows and comic books.
This anniversary edition promises to be more nostalgia-laden than most -- among those expected to appear are Arnold Schwarzenegger and Linda Hamilton, who will soon reunite on screen for the first time since 1991's "Terminator 2" for Paramount's killer cyborg sequel "Dark Fate."
Also pushing hard on sentimental buttons will be Patrick Stewart, attending a panel for the launch of CBS's new Star Trek series in which he reprises the fan-favorite role of Captain Jean-Luc Picard after almost two decades.
And lackluster reviews be damned: the cast of "Game of Thrones" -- or at least a hardy few -- will reassemble to dissect HBO's fantasy epic in front of an audience that has had little time to cool down since Mad Queen Daenerys and her dragons brought the franchise crashing to a conclusion.
With author George R. R. Martin rumored to be attending, devotees who have kept the faith will be scouring for details of the numerous prequel series believed to be in development.
Kicking things off on Wednesday evening is New Line Cinema and Warner Bros.' now-traditional "Scare Diego," which for the second year running will offer fans insights into evil clown slasher "It: Chapter Two," based on the 1986 Stephen King novel.
Netflix may be newer to the game, but it too is mining the archives in search of its next big hit.
A prequel series to classic 1982 fantasy film "The Dark Crystal" is generating buzz, with its combination of old-fashioned puppetry and cutting-edge visual effects aiming to cast a spell on old and young alike.
In its search for the next "Game of Thrones" the web streaming giant is set to lift the lid on "The Witcher," starring Superman actor Henry Cavill as the monster hunter from a series of cult 1990s Polish novels which spawned a lucrative video game franchise.
Another set of magical books getting the premium TV treatment is Philip Pullman's acclaimed "His Dark Materials" trilogy, which will be previewed by HBO on Thursday.
Cast members James McAvoy, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Ruth Wilson will attend.
'Phase Four'
Marvel Studios returns after skipping an edition and is expected to announce which characters from its comic-book back catalog will next be mined for its hyper-successful "cinematic universe."
After the recent "Avengers: Endgame" and "Spider-Man: Far From Home," it is now time for "Phase Four" of the juggernaut of interconnected superhero films.
Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige is in town, and hopes are mounting that he and billed "surprise panelists" will unveil identities of the eight untitled Marvel films on parent company Disney's release slate.
A standalone film for Scarlett Johansson's Black Widow and a fourth "Thor" movie are among those widely thought to be in the works.
"Avengers: Endgame" directors the Russo brothers will also stop by to discuss the making of a film edging ever-closer to toppling Avatar's global all-time box office record.
The absence of any DC Universe movies from Warner Bros. has been coolly received by superhero fans, however, while film studio giants Sony and Universal are skipping this year entirely.
And sure to stir controversy in some of the internet's darker depths is an early glimpse at The CW's new "Batwoman" series, featuring Ruby Rose as an openly lesbian, feminist superheroine.
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Turkey seeks to tighten grip on Twitter after protests
Rights groups have long pressed Turkey to reform strict Internet laws and analysts have criticized the ease with which citizens and politicians can apply to have a site banned. (File photo: Reuters)
Reuters, Ankara Wednesday, 26 June 2013
Turkey said on Wednesday it had asked Twitter to set up a representative office inside the country, which could give it a tighter rein over the microblogging site it has accused of helping stir weeks of anti-government protests.
While mainstream Turkish media largely ignored the protests during the early days of the unrest, social networking sites such as Twitter and Facebook emerged as the main outlets for Turks opposed to the government.
Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan has described sites likeTwitter as a “scourge” - although senior members of his party are regular users - saying they were used to spread lies about the government with the aim of terrorizing society.
Police detained several dozen people suspected of inciting unrest on social media during the protests, local reports said.
“We have told all social media that ... if you operate in Turkey you must comply with Turkish law,” Transport and Communications Minister Binali Yildirim told reporters.
“When information is requested, we want to see someone in Turkey who can provide this ... there needs to be an interlocutor we can put our grievance to and who can correct an error if there is one,” he said.
While Ankara had no problems with Facebook, which had been working with Turkish authorities for a while and had representatives inside Turkey, Yildirim said it had not seen a” positive approach” from Twitter after Turkey had issued the” necessary warnings” to the site over the matter.
“Twitter will probably comply too. Otherwise this is a situation that cannot be sustained,” he said, without elaborating, but stressed the aim was not to limit social media.
An official at the ministry, who asked not to be named, said the government had asked Twitter to reveal the identities of users who posted messages deemed insulting to the government or prime minister, or which flouted people's personal rights.
It was not immediately clear whether Twitter had responded.
In a statement, Facebook said it had not provided user data to Turkish authorities in response to government requests over the protests and said it was concerned about proposals internet firms may have to provide data more frequently.
Turkey's interior minister had previously announced the government was working on new regulations that would target so-called “provocateurs” on social media but there have been few details on what the new laws would entail.
One source with knowledge of the matter said the justice ministry had proposed a regulation whereby any Turk wishing to open a Twitter account would have to enter their national identification number, but that this had been rejected by the transport ministry as being technically unfeasible.
Twitter last year introduced a new feature called “Country Withheld Content”, that allows the service to narrowly censor tweets considered illegal in one specific country, causing some concern among users.
The website implemented the feature for the first time in October in response to a request by German authorities, blocking messages in Germany by a right-wing group banned by police.
Turkey last year said it had won a long-running battle to persuade YouTube to operate under a Turkish web domain, giving Ankara more control over the video-sharing website and requiring the firm to pay Turkish taxes.
Turkey banned the popular website for more than two years in 2008 after users posted videos Turkey deemed insulting to the republic's founder, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk.
Rights groups have long pressed Turkey to reform strict Internet laws and analysts have criticized the ease with which citizens and politicians can apply to have a site banned.
Turkey cites offences including child pornography and insulting Ataturk to justify blocking websites.
But Turkish users have increasingly turned to encryption software to thwart any ramp up in censorship of the Internet.
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Bangladesh Strengthening Political Landscape
The Strengthening Political Landscape in Bangladesh program (SPL), funded by USAID and DFID, works to build political party capacity and strengthen relationships between parties and constituents while reducing political violence. SPL builds on DI’s successful previous program, Democratic Participation and Reform. Under SPL, DI will continue to support political party activists and citizens as they build the skills they need to become effective leaders, advocate for inclusive policies, and constructively engage with one another to mitigate conflict. The SPL program aims to support political party activists and politically active citizens to develop the skills and knowledge to engage in decision making and gradually internalize inclusion and best practices into party structures at all levels; and support political party activists and politically active citizens to develop the skills to engage constructively to mitigate the effects of conflict. Under SPL, DI operates seven division offices in each region of Bangladesh to reach rural, isolated populations and better support the inclusion of women, youth, and grassroots activists in the political process.
SPL will enhance the internal democratic structures of Bangladesh’s political parties, foster more inclusive and representative leadership, improve the parties’ capacities to understand the needs of their constituents, and more effectively reach marginalized women and youth. To strengthen inclusive and transparent decision-making processes within political parties, DI is building the parties’ capacity to independently hold party conferences at the district, division, and national levels. To continue to increase the political engagement of women and youth in political parties and in national political activity, DI is building upon its Narir Joye Shobar Joy (“When Women Win, We All Win”) program to further advance women’s leadership in politics through multiparty dialogue, advocacy, outreach, and networking. We are also continuing and expanding our successful Young Leaders Fellowship Program for young political party activists, which provides training and the opportunity to engage with national and regional leaders from all political parties on important political and policy issues. To strengthen the capacity of political parties to craft responsive, data-driven policy, DI is leading a series of activities to mainstream public opinion research into party platform development.
In addition, SPL will confront the challenge of political violence by engaging political parties, grassroots activists, and university students, monitoring incidents of violence, and promoting peaceful alternatives. Our partner, The Asia Foundation, is integrating its successful violence monitoring system into SPL activities. This system will monitor, track, and analyze instances of political violence across Bangladesh, and work to identify drivers of violence that can then be addressed through violence prevention activities and trainings. DI remains committed to working in interparty and intraparty contexts, from the grassroots to the national level.
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Tho Anti-Defamation league of B'nai B'rith will be represented at the
seventh annual Spring Conference of the Jewish Community Counoil of Metropolitan
Boston by Hsnry ?p3tein, a member of the ADL's national commission, it was announced
this week.
Mr. Epstein, and speakers representing the Community Council, the American
Jewish Congress and the American Jewish Committee, will share the platform with
Dr. Robert K. Maclver, author of tho famed "Maclver Report" on Jewish oommunity
relations in America. Speaking for the American Jewish Committee will be Herbert
B. Ehrmann, chairman of the Co-irrdttce's national administrative committee; speaking
for the American Jewish Congross will be Dr. David Petegorsky, national executive
direotor; speaking for the Cosmmitj Council will be Robert E. Segal, executive
director; Mr. Albert Hurwitz, President of the Counoil, will preside and serve as
moderator.
Dr. Maclver1c appearance at the Hotel Statler on Sunday afternoon, March 30,
promises to make the Spring Conference one of the outstanding events of community-
wide interest this year, aooording to Council executive direotor Robert E. Segal.
Central themo of the Spring Conference will be "The Future of Jewish
Community Relations in America". The program will follow the pattern of the "town
meeting" type.
Dr. Ka elver's survey was undertaken under the auspices of the National
Community Relations'Advisory Council—with whi oh the Boston Community Council is
Columbia University.
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His report, which has stirred up considerable comment, called for a reosienta-
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Transcript ' ! FROMf Jewish Community Counoil of Metropolitan Boston Release week cf March 17, 1952 . " Tho Anti-Defamation league of B'nai B'rith will be represented at the seventh annual Spring Conference of the Jewish Community Counoil of Metropolitan Boston by Hsnry ?p3tein, a member of the ADL's national commission, it was announced this week. Mr. Epstein, and speakers representing the Community Council, the American Jewish Congress and the American Jewish Committee, will share the platform with Dr. Robert K. Maclver, author of tho famed "Maclver Report" on Jewish oommunity relations in America. Speaking for the American Jewish Committee will be Herbert B. Ehrmann, chairman of the Co-irrdttce's national administrative committee; speaking for the American Jewish Congross will be Dr. David Petegorsky, national executive direotor; speaking for the Cosmmitj Council will be Robert E. Segal, executive director; Mr. Albert Hurwitz, President of the Counoil, will preside and serve as moderator. Dr. Maclver1c appearance at the Hotel Statler on Sunday afternoon, March 30, promises to make the Spring Conference one of the outstanding events of community- wide interest this year, aooording to Council executive direotor Robert E. Segal. Central themo of the Spring Conference will be "The Future of Jewish Community Relations in America". The program will follow the pattern of the "town meeting" type. Dr. Ka elver's survey was undertaken under the auspices of the National Community Relations'Advisory Council—with whi oh the Boston Community Council is : i Columbia University. affiliatodc H© iG a professor emeritus of political philosophy and sociology at His report, which has stirred up considerable comment, called for a reosienta- tion and radivision of functions among six major national Jewish agencies.
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Posted Nov 1, 2015, 11:28 PM
Citylover94
http://www.bankerandtradesman.com/20...wer-in-boston/
Developer Pitches Another Millennium-Sized Tower in Boston
A New York developer is drawing up designs for a luxury condo and apartment skyscraper that would rival the 60-story Millennium Tower in Boston’s Downtown Crossing.
“It’ll be extremely sleek and contemporary with lots of glass,” said Sue Hawkes, CEO of the Boston-based brokerage Collaborative Cos. “And very tall – everything that you would expect in this market.”
The development team is led by Midwood Investment and Development of New York. The site is located on the north side of Bromfield Street and west side of Washington Street, diagonally opposite the Millennium site. cont.
This is a new proposal that replaces a previous proposal for a 28 story building.
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Project: 5 Washington Street
Urban Spaces LLC's latest plans for 5 Washington St., submitted after meetings with nearby residents, also calls for widening the sidewalk on Washington Street, adding a restaurant with an outdoor patio to "activate neighborhood greenspace" and a new "asymmetrical design breaking down the building massing into several different, smaller-scale components."
The proposal also calls for increasing the number of spaces in the building garage from 101 to 104, as well as a bike-storage room with a full bike repair station.
http://www.universalhub.com/2015/dev...posed-building
The Cronin Group has proposed a 22 story development at 150 Seaport Boulevard on the South Boston waterfront. Link to websites: http://croningroupllc.com/en-us/welcome.aspx http://150seaport.com/
Leftist Correctist
Location: on the artistic spectrum
Trumpism is the road to ruin
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Project: Siena at the Ink Block
COMING 2017, SIENA JOINS SEPIA AS THE NEXT CONDOMINIUM PROJECT AT INK BLOCK SOUTH END. SIENA IS A COLLECTION OF 79 NEW LUXURY CONDOMINIUM RESIDENCES AT INK BLOCK SOUTH END. SIENA COMBINES HIGH-STYLE ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN WITH AMENITIES INCLUDING WHOLE FOODS MARKET, SHOPS AND RESTAURANTS ALL WITHIN WALKING DISTANCE OF EVERYTHING THE SOUTH END HAS TO OFFER.
http://www.sienaboston.com/
Posted Jan 4, 2016, 5:45 PM
tateyb
Location: t dot
Avalon North Station Topped Off in Boston
Fresh updates show the building in its current state, which had its official topping out ceremony during the first week of December. Cladding is now catching up to fully seal the CBT Architects-designed structure.
Avalon North Station, image by Forum contributor Hub
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Posted Jan 9, 2016, 10:18 PM
Project: 4945 Washington Street
A Needham developer is planning a 46-unit apartment building on the site of a former landscaping business in a predominantly residential neighborhood of West Roxbury.
St. Mary’s Broad Street LLC, led by Ralph Vacca, wants to build the four-story, 47,537-square-foot residential building at 4945 Washington St., across from the Stony Brook Reservation.
The rental units at “4945 Wash” would include 19 one-bedroom units and 27 two-bedrooms, some with private balconies, with six designated as affordable. All residents would have access to a common roof terrace.
The estimated $6.9 million project would contribute to the much-needed revitalization of that section of Washington Street by upgrading an underused property, the company’s attorney said in a letter filed with a small project review application this week with the Boston Redevelopment Authority.
http://www.bostonherald.com/business...s_in_w_roxbury
Project: 530 Western Avenue
Architectural renderings of Mount Vernon Co.’s previously announced Western Avenue Residence project in Brighton were included in a filing with the Boston Redevelopment Authority this week.
The Boston company’s project would include a six-story building with 132 studio to two-bedroom apartments and three small retail stores at the intersection of Western Avenue, Leo M. Birmingham Parkway and Waverly and Mackin streets — across Western Avenue from the Charles River Speedway facility that’s also set for redevelopment.
The project, which would include 108 parking spaces and covered bike storage for 132 bikes, combines three commercial parcels and one residential comprising 49,383 square feet, with four existing buildings that would be demolished.
http://www.bostonherald.com/business...rings_unveiled
GE has officially announced that it will be moving its headquarters to Boston.
GE confirms it’s heading to Boston
General Electric Co., one of the most storied names in corporate America, said Wednesday it will relocate its global headquarters to Boston.
The decision marks the end of a high-stakes competition to woo GE from its longtime campus in suburban Connecticut, besting New York, Providence, and other cities, and further solidifies the region’s reputation as a magnet for innovation.
GE said it will have roughly 800 people in Boston: 200 from corporate staff and 600 digital industrial product managers, designers and developers split among various divisions.
It’s a major victory for Governor Charlie Baker and Mayor Martin J. Walsh, whose aides worked closely together for several months to lure GE to a city that has seen many of its biggest companies swallowed up by out-of-town buyers, and a state that has labored hard to shed the “Taxachusetts” label pinned on it during the 1970s.
“We want to be at the center of an ecosystem that shares our aspirations,” CEO Jeff Immelt said in a statement. “Greater Boston is home to 55 colleges and universities. Massachusetts spends more on research and development than any other region in the world, and Boston attracts a diverse, technologically fluent workforce focused on solving challenges for the world.”
PHL10
Hi Folks. Not too hijack your construction thread but I am looking for advice and time is of the essence. I expect to have about 4 hours in downtown Boston tomorrow. I have never been. What should I absolutely see in this short amount of time?
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Posted Mar 8, 2016, 8:17 PM
Prudential Center's Long Awaited Final Phase Nears Completion
The exterior is just about complete, with some cosmetic finishing being applied at the base and the top. While it's not the tallest building in Boston, 888 Boylston represents the fourth and final office tower of the Prudential Center complex, one of the United States' most successful urban mixed-use districts.
888 Boylston construction nears completion, image by Hub
Posted Mar 15, 2016, 2:43 PM
380 Stuart Street Proposal to Join Growing Back Bay Highrise Cluster
Designed by Chicago-based Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP (SOM) in collaboration with CBT Architects, 380 Stuart Street will bring a new architectural style to the neighbourhood. Indeed, with a height of only 27 storeys for 118 meters, the edifice will have a strong presence in the streetscape thanks to generous curves. Starting at street level, an arched gateway fronting Stuart Street will frame the entrance of the 58,000-square-metre building, then extend on each side of the tower as a parapet above the street-level restaurant and other retail spaces.
Posted Mar 27, 2016, 11:14 PM
The website for the South Station Tower was recently updated and says construction will begin in early 2017 but no official press release has occurred so the conclusion on archboston was to wait and see as it is unclear how likely it actually is to be built. Bldup also posted the updated information as well as an archive link to the old version of the website before the recent update. The previous version of the website gave no indication when the project would start.
Developer says work could finally begin on towers above South Station
Proposed South Station tower
Hines, which won approval in 2006 for a mixed-use development of four towers above the South Station train tracks, says work could finally begin on the project early next year.
In a new page on its Web site, first spotted by BLDUP.com, Hines says it's planning a 49-story, 970,000-square-foot office tower, a second office building about half that size, a 155-unit, 323-foot tall condo tower and a 200-room hotel, along with a garage with roughly 755 spaces, all fitting above the tracks and the bus terminal.
Renderings of the Boston Properties Back Bay Station Redevelopment.
Originally Posted by Downburst
OH HOT DAMN. First reaction is that I'm into it.
https://twitter.com/SteveAdamsTweet/...06446610178049
The tallest building will reach to around 400 feet and the shortest will reach about 300. The boxy one will be around 400 feet or just below it.
Hotel Project Under Review by Boston Redevelopment Authority
The Boston Redevelopment Authority is currently reviewing an application for a 15-storey hotel at the corner of North Washington Street and Valenti Way in the historic Bulfinch Triangle area. The file was submitted by Tom MacKay of LIMAC LLC, who is also the Project Executive at MacKay Companies, a Boston area construction contractor.
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Posted Jul 12, 2016, 4:43 PM
Permanent swimming area proposed on the Charles
http://devmap.io/developments/charle...mming-facility
BostonGlobe:
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Rental Building's Steel Floor Plates Climbing at 1350 Boylston
Just one block away from Arquitectonica's Pierce Boston development, Skanska is making their mark in Fenway with a 17-storey project designed by Stantec. Unlike Pierce Boston and most other residential developments, the tower floors now being assembled at 1350 Boylston Street are made of steel instead of concrete. With its slender core soaring skywards, passersby are getting a glimpse of how the building will fit within the traditional built form of the neighbourhood.
Posted Sep 6, 2016, 3:29 PM
Photos Capture Boston's Booming Seaport District
Located just east of the dense streetscapes of the historic downtown core, Boston's Seaport District was a blank canvas of untapped potential. It's taking visionary minds and political capital to make it happen, but a barren landscape populated by surface parking lots is finally being transformed into a unified masterplanned community with over 20 buildings and a plethora of public gathering places. The 23-acre waterfront lands — dubbed Seaport Square by developers Boston Global Investors, Morgan Stanley, and WS Development — is an active construction site as the first phases of the project charge forward.
Just came out of the CAC.
Short details for now, as I'm on my phone:
-Weiner/Samuels got buy in from Prudential for Pru air rights parcel. Construction/costs more complicated/higher than anticipated, so there will be an increase in density to offset.
-Parcel 15+Pru Air Rights will host proposed two-tower development on shared podium
-Taller tower on Scotia side; 559' + mech, 46 floors, condos, tower is twisted slightly
-Shorter tower on Hynes side; 276' + mech, rentals
-342 units total
-Parcel 12 is similar massing but with greater height as well; considering office or residential use
-Office use would be 225', residential 288'
-Not as far along as Parcel 15 is
[url=https://flic.kr/p/MBwN9C]
This is a big reimagining of the previous proposals and I just want to say I did not obtain any of this information this is all thanks to Downburst from Archboston including the pictures.
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Just for the record, here's the English (unofficial) version of TEPCO's progress report on the "Roadmap":
http://www.tepco.co.jp/en/press/corp-com/release/11071905-e.html
And the official Japanese version:
http://www.tepco.co.jp/cc/press/11071902-j.html
Did someone ask what the "Step 1" was? It was supposed to be "stable cooling of the reactors", and which TEPCO and the government (from PM Kan on down) claim to have been achieved by the full operation (at 70% operating rate) of the contaminated water treatment system and the injection of nitrogen gas into the Containment Vessels of Reactors 1, 2 and 3.
Particularly the latter looks like an effort to just tick off the box in the "roadmap", not necessarily out of real concern of recriticality. For this effort carbon workers were exposed to very high radiation levels inside the reactor buildings of Reactors 2 and 3, not to mention the bots who had to vacuum clean the floor or go measure the radiation.
Just wait for the government's declaration that now it's safe for the residents in 20-30 kilometer radius to go home to the highly contaminated soil that no one will decontaminate and high air radiation, now that the plant is "stable".
To make sure the residents have little choice but to go home, the Fukushima prefectural government is shutting down the evacuation shelters within Fukushima. Temporary housing arrangements in other prefectures for the evacuees from Fukushima are expiring, and are not likely to be renewed because of the cost.
Dr. Shunichi "100 millisieverts are safe" Yamashita is now installed as the vice president of Fukushima Medical University, and must be anxious to help Fukushima residents in any way he can. Fukushima Prefecture is so ready to receive all the residents back inside the prefecture, and the successful completion of the "step 1" is just the news they want to hear.
Labels: Fukushima, step 1, TEPCO roadmap
Dr. Yamashita, rubbing his hands together in his office, says to himself, "Now we can really get down to work.".
The Grand Experiment of defining themselves against something, done their way.
This nitrogen injection, how long until the cladding is entirely consumed by water's oxygen? There has to be point where the zirconium is saturated? Tell me it's not like burning graphite, can't be extinguished.
This is one of those areas where the nuclear experts should be informing people why the nitrogen is necessary at this late stage. For them to offer only silence generates suspicion.
I would have thought the zirconium was consumed by now, as we were told the only way hydrogen was produced was by hot zirconium stripping oxygen from water molecules.
A feel-good measure, as the owner of this blog has said.
Super hot zirconium would probably be detectable in an air sample, as well, and of course the dearth of info from TEPCO on samplings.
Zirconium oxygen capture isn't the only mechanism for excess Hydrogn productions. Water can also undergo "thermal decomposition" catalytic interaction can lower the temperature needed for disassociation considerably.
"Thermal decomposition, also called thermolysis, is defined as a chemical reaction whereby a chemical substance breaks up into at least two chemical substances when heated. At elevated temperatures water molecules split into their atomic components hydrogen and oxygen. For example at 2200 °C about three percent of all H2O molecules are dissociated into various combinations of hydrogen and oxygen atoms, mostly H, H2, O, O2, and OH. Other reaction products like H2O2 or HO2 remain minor. At the very high temperature of 3000 °C more than half of the water molecules are decomposed, but at ambient temperatures only one molecule in 100 trillion dissociates by the effect of heat. However, catalysts can accelerate the dissociation of the water molecules at lower temperatures.
Thermal water splitting has been investigated for hydrogen production since the 1960s.[12] The high temperatures needed to obtain substantial amounts of hydrogen impose severe requirements on the materials used in any thermal water splitting device. For industrial or commercial application, the material constraints have limited the success of applications for hydrogen production from direct thermal water splitting and with few exceptions most recent developments are in the area of catalytic and two step processes."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_splitting#Thermal_decomposition_of_water
Water can also be disassociated by radiation through a process known as radiolysis.
"Hydrogen production
The current interest in nontraditional methods for the generation of hydrogen has prompted a revisit of radiolytic splitting of water, where the interaction of various types of ionizing radiation (α, β, and γ) with water produces molecular hydrogen. This reevaluation was further prompted by the current availability of large amounts of radiation sources contained in the fuel discharged from nuclear reactors. This spent fuel is usually stored in water pools, awaiting permanent disposal or reprocessing. The yield of hydrogen resulting from the irradiation of water with β and γ radiation is low (G-values = <1 molecule per 100 electronvolts of absorbed energy) but this is largely due to the rapid reassociation of the species arising during the initial radiolysis. If impurities are present or if physical conditions are created that prevent the establishment of a chemical equilibrium, the net production of hydrogen can be greatly enhanced.
"Another approach uses radioactive waste as an energy source for regeneration of spent fuel by converting sodium borate to sodium borohydride. By applying the proper combination of controls, stable borohydride compounds may be produced and used as hydrogen fuel storage medium."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiolysis#Hydrogen_production
yamashita has now full power to start his experiments with humans. he will great you with a beautiful smile.
So now TEPCO has us stuck on the fence wondering if they would spend the money on nitrogen injection if it wasn't necessary to avoid hydrogen explosions, and if it is necessary why aren't they reporting the temperatures necessary for thermal decomposition.
There is much to not like about TEPCO, understatement of the day.
For someone not to note by now that TEPCO likes to do that to those who attend to its activities ..
The temperature reported may not reflect the actual temperature of the fuel in addition Radiolysis also generates hydrogen. Impurities enhance radiolytic reactions and the reactor are chock full of impurities.
"The current interest in nontraditional methods for the generation of hydrogen has prompted a revisit of radiolytic splitting of water, where the interaction of various types of ionizing radiation (α, β, and γ) with water produces molecular hydrogen. This reevaluation was further prompted by the current availability of large amounts of radiation sources contained in the fuel discharged from nuclear reactors. This spent fuel is usually stored in water pools, awaiting permanent disposal or reprocessing. The yield of hydrogen resulting from the irradiation of water with β and γ radiation is low (G-values = <1 molecule per 100 electronvolts of absorbed energy) but this is largely due to the rapid reassociation of the species arising during the initial radiolysis. If impurities are present or if physical conditions are created that prevent the establishment of a chemical equilibrium, the net production of hydrogen can be greatly enhanced."
"Efforts to continue work at Unit 2 have also run into trouble because of extremely high humidity (99.9%) inside the reactor building that makes working in the building virtually impossible. Tepco had thought the source was the heat from the fuel pool, but now that the pool is cooling, it has realized the source is heat from the molten reactor core in the suppression pool under the building — .."
UPDATE, Tuesday, June 14, 2011
http://www.nirs.org/fukushima/crisis.htm
Results of ACRO's monitoring in Japan
http://www.acro.eu.org/OCJ_en.html#12
zoomable map
Radiation dose measured by MEXT and local governments at 1 or 0.5 meter height.
http://www.nnistar.com/gmap/fukushima.html
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1619-1661 Holland/Baroque
Brief Biography-Jacob Willemsz Delff II was from a family of artists in Delft Holland. He was the grandson of the Painter of the Prince of Orange Michiel Jansz van Miereveld. Miereveld was his primary source of inspiration whose style influenced his portraits. His father Willem Jacobsz Delff was a highly successful engraver and his uncle Cornelis Jacobsz Delff was a successful still life painter.
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Mechanisms of Glucocorticoid Action on Osteocytes: Oxidative Stress vs Autophagy
O'Brien, Charles A.
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR, United States
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The overall goal of this project is to identify mechanisms that decrease bone strength with age. We have shown that osteocyte viability decreases with age and that this is associated with increased oxidative stress, reduced bone vascular volume, decreased solute transport in the lacunar-canalicular system, and a decrease in bone strength this is disproportionate to the decrease in bone mass. We have also shown that blocking glucocorticoid action in osteoblast-lineage cells prevents many of these changes and that glucocorticoids increase oxidative stress. We also showed that resistance to oxidative stress, provided by the FoxO family of transcription factors, is essential for osteocyte survival. In addition, we have shown that autophagy-related genes are active in osteocytes and that expression of these genes decreases with age. Importantly, suppression of autophagy in osteocytes results in low bone mass in adult mice. Therefore, we will pursue the hypothesis that elevated levels of endogenous glucocorticoids contribute to the age associated decrease in bone strength by directly stimulating osteocyte apoptosis via increased oxidative stress and that this is opposed by the process of autophagy. which becomes less efficient with age. To advance this hypothesis, we will determine whether the effects of aging and exogenous glucocorticoids on bone strength and vasculature are due in part to effects of glucocorticoids on osteocytes only (as opposed to both osteoblasts and osteocytes) by gain and loss of glucocorticoid action in osteocytes (Aim 1). The role of reactive oxygen species (ROS) in the actions of glucocorticoids will be addressed by enhancing defense against ROS, via over-expression of FoxOS or by deleting the ROS amplifier p66^*""""""""^ (Aim 2). In this aim we will also determine whether reduced defense against oxidative stress, by specifically deleting FoxOI. 3, and 4 in osteocytes. will mimic or accelerate the effects of aging. Lastly, we will determine whether autophagy in osteocytes changes with age and whether this process plays a role in maintaining osteocyte function and viability by measuring markers of autophagic flux in osteocytes of young and old mice and by conditional deletion of ATG7, which is essential for autophagy (Aim 3).
Successful completion of these studies should establish whether oxidative stress contributes to the decline of osteocyte viability and function with age and how this decline leads to the earlier and greater loss of bone strength, compared to bone mass, that occurs with advanced age. Establishment of such a relationship may point the way to novel approaches to maintain osteocyte function and viability in aged individuals, thereby leading to increased skeletal strength.
National Institute on Aging (NIA)
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Special Emphasis Panel (ZAG1-ZIJ-6)
Farr, Joshua N; Almeida, Maria (2018) The Spectrum of Fundamental Basic Science Discoveries Contributing to Organismal Aging. J Bone Miner Res 33:1568-1584
Weinstein, Robert S; Hogan, Erin A; Borrelli, Michael J et al. (2017) The Pathophysiological Sequence of Glucocorticoid-Induced Osteonecrosis of the Femoral Head in Male Mice. Endocrinology 158:3817-3831
Kim, Ha-Neui; Chang, Jianhui; Shao, Lijian et al. (2017) DNA damage and senescence in osteoprogenitors expressing Osx1 may cause their decrease with age. Aging Cell 16:693-703
Ucer, Serra; Iyer, Srividhya; Kim, Ha-Neui et al. (2017) The Effects of Aging and Sex Steroid Deficiency on the Murine Skeleton Are Independent and Mechanistically Distinct. J Bone Miner Res 32:560-574
Iyer, Srividhya; Han, Li; Ambrogini, Elena et al. (2017) Deletion of FoxO1, 3, and 4 in Osteoblast Progenitors Attenuates the Loss of Cancellous Bone Mass in a Mouse Model of Type 1 Diabetes. J Bone Miner Res 32:60-69
Almeida, Maria; Laurent, Michaël R; Dubois, Vanessa et al. (2017) Estrogens and Androgens in Skeletal Physiology and Pathophysiology. Physiol Rev 97:135-187
Piemontese, Marilina; Almeida, Maria; Robling, Alexander G et al. (2017) Old age causes de novo intracortical bone remodeling and porosity in mice. JCI Insight 2:
Piemontese, Marilina; Xiong, Jinhu; Fujiwara, Yuko et al. (2016) Cortical bone loss caused by glucocorticoid excess requires RANKL production by osteocytes and is associated with reduced OPG expression in mice. Am J Physiol Endocrinol Metab 311:E587-93
Fujiwara, Toshifumi; Ye, Shiqiao; Castro-Gomes, Thiago et al. (2016) PLEKHM1/DEF8/RAB7 complex regulates lysosome positioning and bone homeostasis. JCI Insight 1:e86330
Fujiwara, T; Zhou, J; Ye, S et al. (2016) RNA-binding protein Musashi2 induced by RANKL is critical for osteoclast survival. Cell Death Dis 7:e2300
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Shaw Communications Inc profit drops 24 as reorganization effort continues
CALGARY — Shaw Communications Inc. says ongoing efforts to improve its customer care operations cut into its profit in the second quarter but provided positive momentum for the longer term.The Calgary-based telecom and media company says it recorded $38 million of expenses related to severance and employee-related costs for about 1,600 affected employees.Shaw’s profit for the three months ended Feb. 28 was $168 million, down 24 per cent from the same period last year when it had a gain from the sale of specialty TV channels.This year’s second quarter net income amounted to 34 cents per share, which was five cents below the Thomson Reuters analyst estimate of 39 cents per share.Shaw said its second quarter operating income before restructuring costs and amortization was $557 million, up 5.5 per cent from $528 million a year earlier.Rogers, Shaw sign deal to stream original Amazon video content on ShomiShaw Communications Inc profit declines 7% as cable, satellite, phone subscriptions slipIt said the operating income benefitted from a more focused approach to its consumer-oriented telecom services, as announced last year, as well as growth in its two business-oriented segments.Its media segment — which includes specialty TV channels and the Global Television network — had $58 million of operating income before items, 4.9 per cent from $61 million last year.The consumer telecom segment had $409 million of operating income before restructuring and amortization, up from $408 million.The business network segment increased operating income by $6 million to $65 million while the new business infrastructure segment contributed to $25 million in the most recent quarter, compared with nil last year.Shaw’s overall revenue rose to $1.34 billion, up about five per cent from last year. Revenue from the media segment was flat, dipping to $238 million from $239 million in the second quarter of 2014.“The positive operating momentum continues across our businesses,” chief executive Brad Shaw said in a statement.“We are seeing the financial and operational benefits of the restructuring we started last year as part of our multi-year Focus to Deliver initiative . . . enhancing our efficiency and growth potential while better serving the needs of customers and viewers.”
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Versace’s new menswear collection is inspired by The Prodigy’s Keith Flint
Happymag.tv – June 18th 2019
By Sarah Gillard
Donatella Versace has commemorated the late The Prodigy frontman Keith Flint with her latest Spring/Summer menswear collection. This is not the first time that Flint has been associated with the Italian fashion house.
He caused disruption when he performed with his band at Versace’s menswear shows in 2004. With rumours of the artist breaking his leg during rehearsals, the controversial and erotic performance shocked spectators, with Flint licking and simulating oral sex on some audience members.
Donatella Versace celebrated the life of Keith Flint with her latest menswear collection, dedicating the show to the late The Prodigy frontman.
Prodigy’s iconic hit Firestarter was blasted on the Milan catwalk to open the Versace menswear SS2020 runway show, as the models stormed down the catwalk in ‘90s rave inspired leopard print, denim and leather; styled with neon-coloured hair in Flint’s signature double mohawk.
“Versace iconography is embraced through a nod to 1990s culture, paying homage to The Prodigy, the British band accredited to the rave movement” stated the brand’s Twitter account yesterday.
Before the show, Versace said “I dedicate this collection to my old friend. He was disruption… and he performed right here the last time he was in Milan.” That was in 2004, when Flint told journalists “Milan smells of sex and death. I like to bring the ugly to the beauty.”
Keith Flint passed away in his Essex home in March at the age of 49. At his inquest in May, the coroner ruled that suicide had been considered the cause of his death, but an open verdict eventually ruled that there was a lack of evidence.
Last month, his bandmates sent a message to fans encouraging anyone struggling with mental health issues to seek help. “It has been a tough time for everyone over the last few weeks since Keef’s passing,” the band wrote on Instagram. “If you are struggling with depression, addiction or the impact of suicide, please do not suffer in silence… The Prodigy fully support the campaign to improve mental health for all and give it the respect it deserves.”
Posted by Frederic Sanchez on 25 June 2019
Stitching Opposites Together at Marni
Business Of Fashion – June 16h, 2019
This collection came across as a commercially astute proposal from the designer, who already proved himself a master of prints. Now we get that he’s also a pretty mean tailor.
MILAN, Italy — Each guest at the Marni show on Saturday was assigned a dot to stand on, like a great big game of Twister, because twisting is what Francesco Risso does best. The role he played on Saturday was wedding planner. He imagined his show as the ceremonial union of Truman Capote and Che Guevara, the mixing of two worlds opposed beyond all comprehension: pretty-boy Capote in the famous photo by Henri Cartier-Bresson, guerilla Guevara in the equally iconic image by Alberto Korda. Risso envisaged Capote abandoning high society refinement to embrace “the jungle of radicalism.” In the baldest fashion terms, this could be reduced to a knit polo shirt vs. a camo jacket. Risso gave us that. But there was a deeper philosophical thread: do we live our convictions, or do we just wear them on our sleeves?
Risso came at that question from a couple of angles. He insisted his position was humanistic, not political, but that was disingenuous. How can you not exercise some political sensibility when you’re touching on the issues Risso addressed in his show? For one thing, it was staged under a cloud of aquatically-lit plastic waste, dutifully collected for months by Marni staffers from roadsides, seasides, any sides where heedless humans dump their shit. The audience was like a group of post-apocalyptic Ariels, submerged under the Sargasso Sea of plastic that chokes the mid-Atlantic. Risso claimed it would be transmuted by artist Judith Hopf after the show. One man’s garbage is another man’s art? It took soundtrackist Frederic Sanchez to create an aural co-relative. He ground together the X-Files theme, a voiceover by William Burroughs, “Rock Lobster” by the B-52’s, and a honking sax-driven thrash by UK punk pioneers the Damned to create a densely textured difference.
What makes London such an enduring presence is its variety of voices. Good, bad or indifferent, there is always a polyglot energy. It’s easy to miss that elsewhere, and that is why Risso is such a welcome addition to the Milan calendar. This Marni collection actually came across as a commercially astute proposal from the designer. He already proved himself a master of prints at Prada, his previous gig. The Fauvist-camo prints here were equally masterful. And now we get that he’s also a pretty mean tailor. There were suits to satisfy Risso’s most cautious customers. So, knowing all that, I was happy to sit back and enjoy the scenario that Francesco Risso, wedding planner for the Capote-Guevara nuptials, was ready to offer me. Some of the models wore Che’s beret, but others had picture hats spun from garbage by artist Shalva Nikvashvili. Leigh Bowery would have loved them. The footwear was equally schizophrenic: oxfords vs. scuffs, cobbled together from the Lord Of Chaos knows which bits and pieces.
Half and half – it is Risso’s design ethos, embodied by all the jackets and trousers that stitched opposites together. The political import of such togetherness was inescapable.
Donatella Versace pays homage to the Prodigy’s Keith Flint in Milan
The Guardian – June 17th, 2019
The designer’s SS20 collection once again proved her talent for making a splash; elsewhere, Dolce & Gabbana put the leopard into leopard print
Scarlett Conlon
From one 90s superstar to another … Donatella Versace dedicated her spring/summer 2020 menswear show to the Progidy’s Keith Flint in Milan at the weekend. The designer described the musician, who died in March this year, as “my friend, and a disruptor of this world”.
Homage was paid through the pounding soundtrack of the band’s monster hit, Firestarter, and models bearing his distinctive double mohawk and tinted bug-eye sunglasses. Although the revelation that Flint and Versace were friends may have come as a surprise, it’s not an incongruous pairing; Versace has been something of a disruptor herself. Picking up the mantle of the family business her brother, Gianni, established in 1978, she embraced full-blown sex appeal in her collections from day one, and has admitted in the past to not knowing how to do things quietly. Last year, she surprised the world when she announced that she sold her family company to Capri Holdings – formerly known as Michael Kors Holdings.
Less than a year into the merger, it is a bit early to say how that is going from a business perspective. On the catwalk, however, it is very much business as usual. Versace described her next-season muse as “a slightly more serious guy” just before the show, adding that she wanted to celebrate the moment “a young man becomes a man” which for her comes the ceremonial purchase of their first car. Models walked around an XL black car covered in purple flowers, wearing suits, shirts and double denim emblazoned and appliqued with car prints – a continuation from last season’s collaboration with Ford.
Continuing a theme from the womenswear show in February, looks featured vintage fragrance advertisements from the brand’s archive. We were told, post-show, that this was a nod to rediscovery; another tribute to the brand’s past without being too obvious. Other themes in this collection didn’t play the same game. The bondage look, which has been synonymous with the house since Gianni’s 1990s collections, appeared via black leather trousers with all-over eyelets and whipstitched seams.
The memory of Donatella’s brother was, as ever, evident throughout, with his signature appearing on ties, socks and in all-over Swarovski applique in skintight jersey. Moving the handwriting of the house forward, she adapted its signature baroque print – usually seen in black and gold – into acidic pastels. Tailoring, meanwhile, was softened with a less rigid fit on blazers and bootleg jersey trousers – like the ones Versace favours herself. Versace “doesn’t like to talk about gender fluidity, more interested in the fluidity of masculinity”, said the company, post preview.
The CEO of Capri Holdings, John D Idol, has made clear his plans for the brand’s evolution: there are plans to increase the number of Versace shops from 200 to 300. He added that “with the full resources of our group, we believe that Versace will grow to [sales of] over $2bn”. For her part, Versace is showing she intends to keep up her creative side of such expansion.
Earlier in the day, Dolce & Gabbana revealed the latest collection in its brand story. Titled Sicilian Tropical, it featured designers Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana paying homage to their southern Italian roots with fruit-bowl and piastrelle prints.
For the rest of the collection, they went further afield. The set was transformed into an elaborate jungle rainforest which featured a lifesize leopard and jaguar on the stage (not real, but made from sisal by the artist Anne Andersson, and borrowed from the designers’ private collection) and which led on to a 40-yard leopard-print catwalk.
On it, the collection was an amalgamation of several themes: baroque, pin-ups, polka dot and the 1950s, we were informed. Retro sports jerseys – including baseball, tennis, golf, rugby and boxing – were reimagined in lace “to make it more sexy”, said Gabbana backstage before the show, and emblazoned with messages such as, “Choose me”, “Take a look” and “Only good vibes”. Elsewhere, khaki dominated the 119-look show, appearing in uniform-fresh, box pleated separates.
The duo’s adopted decade was a dominating theme throughout, but, while it may be an era be a decade ripe for mining classic sartorial codes, some – such as the wide-lapelled double-breasted suits, knitted polos, Cuban-collared shirts and pleated trousers seen here – are naturally less problematic than others in our woke world. Such expeditions, like those evoked by the khaki section of this show, in the faraway jungle setting conjured voyager vibes which, these days, tend to get talked about in a colonial context rather than recalled in such a way on the runway.
Of the setting and direction, Gabbana said before the show: “Fashion is beautiful because you change every season.” Different, but familiar, this was a collection that was distinctively Dolce & Gabbana.
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Posted by Frederic Sanchez on 25 April 2019
Frédéric Sanchez and Laurie Anderson discuss the relationship between image and sound
Document – July 31st, 2018
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Sound designer Frédéric Sanchez and multimedia artist Laurie Anderson discuss the influence of memories, the relationship between image and sound, and Anderson’s new film, “Heart of a Dog” for Document’s Fall/Winter 2015 issue.
During his formative years, Frédéric Sanchez became drawn to the experimental sounds of John Cage and Brian Eno. Meanwhile Laurie Anderson began playing with people’s perceptions of sound in the 70s by electronically manipulating voices and instrumentals. Anderson’s breakthrough piece, “O Superman,” turned her into a household name in the United Kingdom, where it reached number two on the Singles Chart. Martin Margiela met Sanchez by chance in 1988 and gave him the opportunity to create the soundtrack for his next runway show. Since then, Marc Jacobs, Comme des Garçons, Prada, and Givenchy have tapped the sound designer to conceptualize the music for their collections.
The two artists, who are linked through the common medium of sound, blur the lines between the aural and the visual: Anderson through her work across various mediums, and Sanchez by designing the soundtracks for runway shows and art installations. This fall, Anderson returns to directing with the release of Heart of a Dog. Sanchez and Anderson discuss what it takes to be an artist, how memory affects creative output, and the role of sound and aesthetics in storytelling.
Laurie Anderson—Where are you, Frédéric?
Frédéric Sanchez—In Normandy.
Laurie—Beautiful. What’s behind that sheet on your wall?
Frédéric—On the wall? The windows and some trees.
Laurie—You don’t want to see trees?
Frédéric—Well, it’s nighttime now and when I work in the studio, I like to be surrounded in my cavern. [Laughs] So I know your work very well. And I have some experience with it not a long time ago: Last year I worked on the Prada exhibition Art or Sound, where your work was included. I organized all the sound for the exhibition. I work a lot with them.
Laurie—Can I ask you something? What is that snapping sound?
Frédéric—This sound? [Clicking]. It’s just me playing with my pen! It’s making music! [Laughs]. I remember for Prada a long time ago you did [your holographic installation] Dal Vivo. I was very impressed—it’s really something I’m looking at with my work.
Laurie—In what way?
Frédéric—This idea to be with the sound—or with the image—in two places at the same time.
Laurie—Yes. How does that work with you? How do you make that work?
Frédéric—For me, sound has always related to something with memories, like the experience with my grandfather who couldn’t go back to Spain because of Franco[’s dictatorship]. He was always listening to the Spanish radio. He was in Paris, but at the same time he was in Spain with the sound. What I’m doing all the time with the sound is this research of being in different places in a mental way.
Laurie—Can you give me an example of one of your recent pieces that does that?
Frédéric—Three years ago I did a piece Une utile illusion. It was at Galerie Serge le Borgne in Paris. It used the theater technique where I was reading the description of the scene. It was this idea that the person who listens visualizes his own fantasy. I’m really into that; I always research and work with sound. For a long time that has really impressed me with your work.
“What I’m doing all the time with the sound is this research of being in different places in a mental way.”
Laurie—That’s actually why I usually take music out. Let’s say you have a story about a forest, a storm, and a person walking through it. The last thing you want to do is have imagery or sound connected to that. I gradually pare things down and pare things down until there’s more and more room for the person who is listening to enter into that and use their imagination. What you’re saying is that you have a kind of collaboration with people and leave room for their imagination.
Frédéric—Yes. I remember once listening to you [speak] a very long time ago, and you were talking about a story where you were on a plane. I don’t know if it was from one of your pieces or if it was a real story, which is actually nice—if it’s real or unreal. You were on a plane, and there was someone sitting near you who [looked through the window and] said she didn’t know the stars were so close—but it was actually a city. That is something so poetic, these kinds of ideas. I saw your movie Heart of a Dog, and there’s something about that too. It’s not just images; there is something behind that.
Laurie—I think the film also uses a lot of those techniques because it’s just non-stop talking—just blah blah—and I tried to make that your guide through these ideas and then make the visual language very simple, very loop-like, nothing really complicated. I find a lot of times if something isn’t working I have to ask: What’s leading? Is the story leading? Is the picture leading? Is the music leading? If I find that there is too much going on—which I find is usually the case—I take everything else out except what’s leading. How do you tell your story well? You can start using other things in it, but if it starts getting too fancy, just take it out. I’m always editing to make things simpler. With this film, I kept taking music out, I kept taking pictures out, because they got in the way of the story. The story is the driver—it drives everything. I found that I’m less and less a so-called “multimedia artist” and just someone who is interested in story.
Frédéric—For me it’s something that is a very strange thing in Europe. Because you think that you have the “big past,” but for people like me the past has disappeared because of the last war. I’m trying to reconstruct a story through the sound. The sound has this aspect for me.
Laurie—What are you reconstructing?
Frédéric—Something that has been lost, something that has disappeared. People have disappeared; I’m very concerned today by what’s happening in the Middle East, Syria, when you see these people that have to leave their country. My family lived during the Spanish Civil War, and with the sound I’m trying to capture fragments of memories, to reconstruct these fragments. What is very interesting is that I do this work myself, for my personal work, but at the same time what I do for commercial work is not far from that because of its fragments of pictures, fragments of memories that I put together. Twenty five years ago when I started to do this work, I wasn’t thinking about that, but more and more I’ve learned what was inside me and why I was doing this with the sound. For example, 30 years ago when I was 15, I was completely obsessed with music, but I didn’t see myself as a musician. I was doing things with sound, but it was not really music. Then, more and more, something appears like fate, you try to keep making it appear.
I recently listened to Nothing in My Pockets.
Laurie—Oh, you listened to that? [Laughs]. You’re one of three people in the world who heard that! That’s funny. I loved that project for Radio France. But I would never again do an audio diary, because you would have to listen to all of your days over again. It’s not like reading something—you listen through in real time to decide what to do with it. I loved making it and I hated editing it.
Frédéric—Do you think it’s easier to do with images?
“I’ve thought many times about this idea of making records, but it’s not really my thing. My thing is to build an environment with the sound.”
Laurie—I think so because you can move through them more quickly; you can fast-forward and you can’t do that with sound. You just can’t fast-forward and still get an idea of what it is. I love that sound forces you to listen in real time, I love that about it. It’s a very stabilizing thing for me, because you just have to sit back and let it go in clock-time.
Frédéric—When you make music, do you make images at the same time? When I do, I have to create images at the same time. I go take photographs—there’s a real relationship between image and music or sound. I can’t do sound or music without thinking of images.
Laurie—So then how do you put them together?
Frédéric—I don’t put them together; it just either starts with images or it starts with sound. I’m always going to think of an image, and I’ll do it.
Laurie—Wow, that’s so interesting! So do you have a painting studio right behind that curtain?
Frédéric—Well, I live in Le Havre, which is a great place because it’s very industrial. It’s a great place to make images or take photographs, which will always be related to the sound or music that I do. It’s not that at the end there will be both images and sound; it’s probably only going to be sound. But there is always this idea of images somewhere.
Laurie—Are these still images?
Frédéric—They are still images and moving images.
Laurie—Oh, either way. Wow, I don’t think I know anyone who works like that—who works at the same time but doesn’t combine them. It’s very interesting.
Frédéric—It’s very important for me; I’ve always done it. If I create music—because I do a lot of music for shows, in collaboration with people who use mood boards or images—it’s very important to have this relationship between the sound and the visual.
Laurie—I always advise people who are trying to think of what to call themselves to say “multimedia artist,” because it’s totally meaningless. Also I’ve found that the category thing doesn’t help me much at all. To say that I’m a musician , a filmmaker, a painter, or a writer—I do all those things, but my main aim was to avoid the “art police” who come in and say, “What do you think you’re doing writing a novel? You’re a painter!” Frédéric, you probably became an artist for similar reasons to what I did: you want to be free, you want to make something. But guess what, here come all the categories. Generally that has to do with marketing. When I was doing a lot of music, they would say, “OK, what bin are you going to be in? Electro-pop? Experimental electro? Pop electro? Pop-pop?” I didn’t make any distinctions between what I do, and for the longest time nobody ever asked what I wanted to do, so I didn’t decide. I still haven’t decided, so it’s nice to be vague about what you’re doing. I’m preparing for a painting show now in Geneva, September 16 it opens. Which is kind of ridiculous. It’s coming along! I’m used to doing things that I enjoy doing. I don’t really worry about people thinking, “Why painting? It’s just so retro!” So I don’t care. I don’t really care what people think.
Frédéric—We don’t care!
Laurie—I also have a film installation and some music. Probably like you, you don’t really have to put those into categories. You go out and take some photographs, then you’re back in the studio and you’re not worried that one thing is “music” and one is called “photography.” Right?
“For me, sound has always related to something with memories, like the experience with my grandfather who couldn’t go back to Spain because of Franco[’s dictatorship]…What I’m doing all the time with the sound is this research of being in different places in a mental way.”
Frédéric—In America it is true, but in Europe is it not easy to do it because people are really placed into categories. It’s true that I wanted to do something, to create something. Afterwards you don’t care if it’s sound or image—just something. You go above that. Let’s just carry on.
Laurie—Exactly, just carry on and try to make something beautiful, or dark, or disgusting, just something. Just make things!
Frédéric—Yes!
Laurie—You’re sitting in your studio now, is there anything you could play for us that would be easy?
Frédéric—Uh, it’s complicated!
Laurie—No, I know I hate when people ask me that and my answer is like, “Ah, not really!” What are you working on now?
Frédéric—At the moment I’m searching for things.
Laurie—Oh, that’s a nice time! How do you search?
Frédéric—I make sounds; it’s always very free. At the moment I’m writing also.
Laurie—Writing words?
Frédéric—Yes, writing something that is quite autobiographical. All my work, a lot of my personal work, is about memories.
Laurie—Yes, I’m definitely suspicious of memories. Think of how much time you spend in the past and how little you’re spending right this second. I’m always thinking of what you’ll say next or what you just said. For me even on a bigger level, I’m always thinking of different time frames than the one I’m in. I would love to be more connected to what’s going on now, but it’s hard when you’re trying to make something. Because a lot of making is trying to remember something, trying to remember it well with all the intensity that it had. In Heart of a Dog, for me, memory was also sound. It was a sound that I had forgotten, the sound in a hospital when I was a kid. I only remembered it through telling a story about myself. I remembered how much fear there was in that situation, and that wasn’t part of my story because it was too hard to tell. At that point, they just moved all the kids into the same place. So if you’re a kid and you’re afraid and all these kids around you are dying, you don’t really know what that is, and nobody really talks about it. Nobody in my family visited me, because they were too busy. So it was very, very scary for me. It was too scary to remember it correctly, so I remembered it in a different way—called repression, as the psychiatrists say. So in the film I tried to represent that sound through silence. There is a section right after that where there is no sound. That, in a movie theatre, is scary; it’s very scary when sound is turned off. It’s different on your computer because you’re surrounded by ambient sound, but when you’re in an immersive sound situation and the sound disappears you think: “Something has happened, something is wrong.” The hairs go up on the back of your neck because you’re thinking, “Did the projector break?” The image is still there but there is no sound. And it’s a very primitive feeling of dread in a way—something broke. I think for me also sound is very connected to true and false memories.
Frédéric—When are you going to show the movie?
Laurie—It will be in the cinema at the end of the month, this August. It will go to festivals. Actually for three or four months it will be out and around and then released in movie theatres.
I like that you’re in a moment of just looking around. I think that’s the greatest moment. The freedom to play different sounds and think, “What is it? Is it the beginning of an opera? An installation?” How do you think of imagining what a sound will become? Do you think something might be a beautiful symphony? Or a static sound under a bridge in a park? Or a pop song?
Frédéric—It’s installations, always in a place, in a room. This is important for me. I’ve thought many times about this idea of making records, but it’s not really my thing. My thing is to build an environment with the sound. The next one is a show I’m doing at the National Library here in Paris. It’s going to be a sound installation.
Laurie—What kinds of sounds will be in the library?
Frédéric—The library has a huge collection of very old recordings from the beginning of the 20th century. It’s called the Museum of the Voice.
Laurie—Beautiful.
Frédéric—It’s really beautiful. They’ve asked me to do something with that, to create an environment.
Laurie—What an incredible project!
Frédéric—Something I had done in the past was using this recording of the Guillaume Apollinaire [reading his poem] Le Voyageur (The Traveler). The project is about this idea of the traveler and all the voices in the library. I had this idea of the library scene in Wings of Desire by Wim Wenders, all the voices.
Laurie—You know, when he was mixing that movie in Cannes he sent me a message saying, “Can you send me some angel fragments? I’m mixing my movie.” I didn’t ask him, “What’s an angel fragment?” I just sent him a little selection of things that I thought sounded like angel fragments. I said, “Check these out and if they work I’ll record them and get you a good copy of them.” I sent him a cassette and he just used the cassette! But the way he used it was so fantastic: he used it as headphone leakage in the scene with a guy on the train.
Frédéric—It was beautiful.
Laurie—You know, he’s so smart about the use of music and all the different ways it can sound. He’s not a purist in terms of the way the soundtrack lays under the dialogue in a movie. He has sound coming from all sorts of sources and distortions and places—it’s so moving. Instead of having the big, monolithic soundtrack where it’s just about emotional manipulation and it’s like, “Here’s how you feel about this house, here’s how you feel about this character.” You’re helpless. He doesn’t do that with music or sound, and I think he’s one of the geniuses that way. I love hearing how he treats and filters music. I’m very excited about the Museum of Voices, when is that happening?
Frédéric—It’s going to be this November.
Laurie—Coming right up! I’m likely going to be there around that time, so I’ll come check it out! I’ll see you then.
Frédéric—Yes, please do!
How Prada’s music producer Frédéric Sanchez landed on 90s classics for their 2019 Resort show
Document – May 8th, 2018
Megan Wray Schertler
The music producer crafted a show soundtrack inspired by timelessness and Daft Punk for Prada’s 2019 Resort show.
As one of the biggest show music producers in fashion, Frédéric Sanchez has created show music pieces for the biggest names in the fashion industry since his first live show gig for Maison Martin Margiela show in 1988. Ahead of the first Prada’s 2019 Cruise show in New York—its first in the city after a 20-year absence—Miuccia Prada tapped Sanchez, a long-time collaborator with the designer to provide a soundscape for the show that was unquestionably 90s—think lots of Daft Punk and R.E.M. Document spoke with Sanchez backstage at the designer’s headquarters, a former piano factory on West 52nd Street, following the show’s noisy melange of technical fabrics, loud prints, and graphic logos placed front and center.
Document—How did you land on this particular musical direction for the show?
Frederic—When Mrs. Prada and I started talking about the collection, we were feeling nostalgic for certain things that we did in the 90s. There was also a hint of the psychedelic. This season the word we kept returning to was “timeless” and the idea of being without any references, which is kind of completely the opposite of what I was saying five minutes ago. That’s why we used a few pieces of music that felt very iconic from that time, like the first record from the French band Daft Punk that came out around that time. We both said, “This is so iconic that it does not feel old.”
Document—What was the specific mix?
Frederic—I used two specific songs from that record [1997’s Homework], but I kept only the rhythm, and we remixed in a way that makes it even more contemporary. Then, we had three songs mixed with this a track from the film Donnie Darko, Gary Jules’s ‘Mad World’, and then the song ‘Wake Up’ from a band called Mad Season. It’s two musicians, one from a band called Alice in Chains from the grunge era, and another one from Pearl Jam. Then, we used an R.E.M. song.
“I think it’s very difficult to look at what is happening in the current moment because there’s so too much of everything. I think the only way to create something that resonates is to go deeply into yourself.”
Document—What was the R.E.M. song that you used?
Frederic—The R.E.M. song is The One I Love. It’s from an unplugged record.
Document—A total classic.
Frederic—Yes! So very classic songs and very romantic in a way. The obvious thing would have been to use the electronic sounds from Daft Punk to open the show, but we used the song from Donnie Darko, which is a very, very romantic thing. Then, suddenly, you have that clash with the very strong electronic beat coming in. So, it’s really these two things that are clashing through the whole show.
Document—It’s impossible to tell whether something will stand the test time without substantial distance. R.E.M. is a really great example of that. I feel like they hit the peak of their pop-stardom in the 90s then kind of fell out of favor as the decade came to a close. But, I think a lot of their music sounds really fresh now when you revisit it.
Frederic—Yes, yes. And also because the personality of the person that made them, you know? When you think about Michael Stipe or Kurt Cobain, they have become icons. Icons don’t die. [Laughs]
Document—I think they start to mean different things to different generations.
Frederic—I think it’s very difficult to look at what is happening in the current moment because there’s so too much of everything. I think the only way to create something that resonates is to go deeply into yourself.
Document—To let intuition guide you.
Frederic—Exactly, yes. It makes it personal and sensitive.
Document—Mrs. Prada must be a fantastic person to collaborate with in that case. I feel like intuition is very much a tool she uses to navigate each season.
Frederic—Completely. It’s fantastic because she pushes you to go deeply into what you want to create and what you think.
Document—How early do you start working on the soundtracks for the shows?
Frederic—I work for Prada all year long, so I am researching all the time for them, but I called them maybe two weeks ago to discuss music for this show. The process really starts the moment when they put the clothes together and do the fittings, so like a week before the show. I arrived in New York on the Monday before the show and was there everyday. When making the soundtrack for the live event, I always like to use existing music because it’s almost like the effect of perfume. I can transfer emotion through references. There’s a sort of romanticism and poetry to the songs. The rhythm tells you something about modern things, architecture—the modern world as we know it.
Missoni : classe, net et haut en couleur
Fashion Network – February 24th, 2019
Par Godfrey Deeny
La science des couleurs, dont une étude approfondie pour l’une d’entre elles, était au cœur de la dernière collection fluide, aux formes allongées, et du défilé organisé par Missoni ce samedi soir à Milan.
La directrice de la création, Angela Missoni, a choisi un nouvel espace d’exposition – un palais des glaces géant construit dans les années 1920 – et baigné la structure de style Liberty de lumière bleue éclatante.
« On pénètre directement dans un écran bleu… fait pour téléporter les personnages à travers les époques et les lieux, en un clin d’œil », expliquait le programme. L’invitation annonçait les intentions d’Angela : un foulard en soie dans une débauche chromatique de couleurs marbrées, avec un leitmotiv bleu.
Le résultat était une silhouette allongée et gracieuse, avec des variantes sous forme de charmantes vestes en jacquard portées avec des capuchons et des hijabs. Mais les silhouettes les plus spectaculaires étaient ces manteaux en jacquard aux motifs floraux abstraits, portés avec un tchador funky. Pour le soir, des combinaisons et des dos nus étincelants, en lamé bleu saphir.
C’était le dernier d’une série de défilés mixtes à Milan, avec notamment cette saison Gucci, Bottega Veneta, Giorgio Armani et Salvatore Ferragamo. Pas étonnant que la saison masculine de Milan raccourcisse sans cesse !
Pour les hommes, Angela Missoni a imaginé des cardigans en jacquard plein de goût et quelques brillantes vestes en patchwork irrégulier. Des looks classieux pour week-end d’automne frisquet, ce qui se fait de mieux en matière de chic décontracté. Et pour la ville, pourquoi pas adopter ces pardessus dégradés de gentlemen, bleu vif aux épaules puis s’estompant en bleu pacifique sous la taille ?
« Une ligne de conduite claire et pure. Rien de superflu, que du pur Missoni », insistait en coulisses une Angela Missoni tout sourire.
Tous les mannequins étaient baignés de bleu, tandis que la spectaculaire bande-son comprenait le tube culte de Kevin Ayers, « Two goes into Four ». Une chanson appropriée pour une marque qui monte clairement en puissance depuis juin dernier, quand le groupe d’investissement italien FSI a acheté 41 % des parts de Missoni pour 70 millions d’euros.
Le nouveau financeur contribue à développer l’impact de Missoni en matière de distribution, avec une demi-douzaine de boutiques supplémentaires cette année, de Miami aux pays du Golfe, et surtout un magasin amiral sur Madison Avenue.
Prada fw 19 20 vogue
Vogue – February 21st, 2019
It’s a heavy season in Milan. With the monumental news of Karl Lagerfeld’s death on Tuesday, fashion descended upon the Italian fashion capital in the wake of accusations made against Gucci and Prada that products of theirs referenced blackface. In Prada’s case it was a keyring in the image of a monkey with red lips. After strongly denying any such intention when the news broke in December, last week the house further announced the creation of a diversity council chaired by Theaster Gates and Ava DuVernay. Going forward, the artist and the film-maker will be in dialogue with Prada, making sure the company’s merchandise never evokes any such reference again. Gucci has taken similar action, but the weight of these incidents has transformed the industry in record time. And while it will unquestionably shape a better future for fashion, it currently leaves a thick cloud of disenchantment around the Milanese shows.
“Fear is around us. Danger and fear,” Miuccia Prada said after her show, which expanded the horror themes she investigated in her menswear collection last month. She continued her studies in interpretations of fear, from the terrifying – unadorned military tunics, combat uniforms and minimalism – to comical graphics like Frankenstein’s monster lifted from what she called “trashy horror movies”. “You have to make light because it’s still a fashion show,” the designer shrugged, also name-checking her fuzzy faux fur neon backpacks on that note. Mrs Prada said she added a sense of romance in all the flowers and lace that prettified an otherwise austere collection, seeking to battle the mood of fear with “a source of good”. “Each girl was a piece of a love story of my vision of love,” she explained.
The good with the evil? Frédéric Sanchez sampled an instrumental version of Lady Gaga’s ‘Bad Romance’ on an exceptionally brilliant soundtrack that deserved its own interpretive thesis. From the thought-provoking titles of songs like Marilyn Manson’s cover of ‘I Put A Spell On You’ and Qual’s ‘Existential Nihilism’, to expressive horror themes like Tales From the Crypt and the opening tune from The X-Files, he very nearly – but not quite – outdid his own soundtrack from January’s Prada men’s show, which featured The Addams Family symphony. Wednesday Addams made several appearances in Thursday’s collection, evoking the familiar idea of nihilistic teenagers – or anti-social adults – who unsubscribe from a world that they fear; in which they feel misinterpreted and mistreated. “Frankenstein’s monster was rejected, but even he was loved,” Mrs Prada reflected, perhaps forgetting how that story ended.
But for all the romance and gallows humour she imbued her collection with in huge flower and monster motifs on silk or knitted dresses and leather skirts – sure to sell up a storm come autumn – the sentiment was undeniably ominous. Asked what it is she fears so much, the designer talked about wars. “Any kind around us. Vile parties and the vile situation in Europe. Strong contrasts growing and growing. In another siècle there would already be a war. I really fear that.” It’s not an uncommon theory: around every turn of the century, a few years before or after the clock strikes twelve, radical revolutions and wars have changed the world with tumultuous impact. What that means in the digital age is anyone’s guess, but the dialogue Mrs Prada has now initiated within her own company is a sensible precaution.
“We work for rich people. We do rich clothes,” she said on the topic of designers and their social conscience. “But somehow fashion is very relevant. There is a request for fashion to talk about political subjects. But to approach political subjects in a world of pleasant things is very difficult. You’ll be criticised. The work is serious but it’s also for pleasure.” Paradoxically – or perhaps not at all – more than her light-hearted horror graphics and romantic floral motifs, it was Prada’s decadent cocktails dresses, glamorous draping and austere tailoring and military garb that felt most desirable for the moment we currently live in.
Versace Goes Big
Business Of Fashion – January 23, 2019
The strength of Donatella’s new work is the way she embraces it, with love and fearlessness and the same dry wit with which she deals with all the tricky propositions in her life.
By Tim Blanks.
MILAN, Italy — You know the expression, “Go big, or go home”? And that other one: “You can’t go home again”? Donatella Versace is the kind of woman who wants it all. On Friday, she went big AND went home. Going back to her roots, and blowing them skyhigh. As skyhigh as the gigantic safety pin that dominated her catwalk. (The invitation was a box of safety pins.) How good did THAT look when DV posed in front of it? “We’re living on Instagram,” she murmured during a press preview earlier in the day.
Social media-savvy she may be, but Donatella is also a faithful believer in the physicality of fashion. Meaning, the show’s the thing. Frederic Sanchez, back in the fold after some years elsewhere, made a visceral soundtrack which mashed up Nirvana and electronics, the aural counterpart of Donatella’s luxury vs. grunge concept. But she herself has become the fashion equivalent of a DJ, remixing elements of her past to make new shapes the way a musician creates new sounds. It’s enough to make you wonder why more designers haven’t taken a leaf from her book, had a long, hard look at past triumphs and given them a contemporary spin.
It worked here because it felt unhinged. Like the men’s show in January, there were a thousand pieces in play: fabrics, textures, colours fighting each other in gorgeous chaos, but styled into a coherent, perversely irresistible proposal. Well, maybe not quite as coherent as it was in January, but even that seemed like it might actually have been the point. There was sheer deliciousness in a tattered lime green cashmere sweater bunched with jeweled safetypins, laid over a python-printed pencil skirt with a suggestion of red lace at the waist and a faux fox stole gripping Fran Summers’ throat (there must be a celestial fashion consensus that each season dictates how certain models get the best outfits in the shows they walk in – I would say Fran and Adut Akech are the anointed ones for Autumn 2019).
There was something exquisitely lurid about such a look, and that same quality infused the whole collection: satin slip dresses with fluoro lace stockings, or without them, with harnesses instead (like Kiki Willems’s tiny little chartreuse situation); those same harnesses restraining earnest tweeds; big fat coats hiding a multitude of sins (this was a collection for SINNERS); and Adut’s glorious gold mesh column with some odd red lace underpinnings.
Donatella literalised her back pages with a t-shirt that reproduced Richard Avedon’s 1995 ad campaign for the fragrance BLONDE. No prizes for guessing who the blonde in the ad was. She also reproduced the perfume’s Lalique bottle as a print. You can’t go home again? Not true. You can’t escape your past. The strength of Donatella’s new work is the way she embraces it, with love and fearlessness and the same dry wit with which she deals with all the tricky propositions in her life. It’s a very convincing proposition, made even more so by the casual catwalk ambulation of Stephanie Seymour at show’s end, like Donatella saying, “Those women existed and here is one of them, right here, right now, still kickin’.”
Monsters Reappear at Prada
Business Of Fashion – January 22nd, 2019
It might have been one of Miuccia Prada’s most curiously uncompromising collections. She has always twisted tropes to animate her collections, but there’s more urgency now.
MILAN, Italy — Miuccia Prada loves love, but she hadn’t finished saying what she thought about it in the men’s collection she showed in January. Modern romance is a movable but fiercely compromised feast, so Miuccia used her new women’s collection to expand on her conflicted thoughts. There’s fear in the air, monsters stalk the planet. Love is all we need, but it’s not enough, is it?
Maybe consistency will convince. Miuccia rolled over the same window-dressing that she’d used in January: the same foam-rubber floor with the filament lab lighting, the same safety-pinned heart, the same Hellmouth remakes of classic songs on the soundtrack (this time, Marilyn Manson’s “I Put a Spell on You” and a Laibach revision of “My Favourite Things” that could send you screaming to the nearest sanctuary). And Dr Frankenstein’s monster reappeared, but this time Miuccia united him with his bride. The He&She of Horror. The Adam&Eve of ManMade Man.
Miuccia felt that the topicality of reconstructed humans in an age where we are blindly walking into subjugation to AI was worthy of comment. She’s frightened. So fear was a creative impetus in her collection. She mentioned “a very real fear of wars so near” when she was talking about the military aspect of her collection. She shod her models for conflict. And then she dressed Gigi Hadid in a particularly shapely hybrid of an MA-1 and field jacket which she paired with a delicate black lace skirt. Such a contrary combination weaponised womanhood in a way that made this collection a TKO. It was amplified in the way that classic menswear fabrics – tweed, herringbone – were transmogrified into classic femme fatale shapes. Like Binx Walton, tweed sheath limned to her body, portrait neckline recklessly askew. An image more potent than the repurposed combat-wear that surrounded it.
Miuccia Prada has always twisted tropes to animate her collections. Think of a cliché, flip it or burn it to ash. But there’s more urgency now. In a grisly ironic flourish, “Someday My Prince Will Come” from Disney’s “Snow White” floated across the soundtrack. Face it, he ain’t comin’. So Miuccia’s women created an apocalyptic beauty for themselves. Something ruched, something draped, and maybe a little lacquered lace. But fucked-up. There were flowers, but they might have been borrowed from a graveyard. There were leather skirts printed with tulips and roses but they felt like fetish gear (the women wearing these particular items were fiercesomely maîtresse-like, so someone agrees with me!).
It might have been one of Miuccia’s most curiously uncompromising collections, but she’s a past mistress at anticipating moods, so timeliness ameliorates in-your-face. When she was a student, she’d man the barricades in vintage Saint Laurent. Now she’s making clothes for her modern equivalents to do just the same. Vintage Prada, in the here and now.
Marni’s Great Culture Clash
Business Of Fashion – January 13th, 2019
Francesco Risso’s collection — a seeming confrontation between youth and what he called ‘the puppet masters’ — laced his parody of power-dressing with psychedelia and subversion.
MILAN, Italy — The eerie sarcophagus of speakers that enveloped the Marni venue on Saturday afternoon bled a crackly antique recording of Debussy’s “Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune” while Francesco Risso’s first models stepped out onto the catwalk. That music will forever be the soundtrack of Nijinsky’s most transgressive ballet, a record of the moment when a radical new vision slammed into the old world with such seismic force that the culture changed. Maybe it wasn’t such a stretch to imagine Risso hoping for the same thing with his collection.
He had in his mind that there was “an elephant in the room,” which he insisted no one was talking about. As tricky as it was to winkle out the core of what Risso meant, he seemed to be talking about the power of youth, cruel but fearless in its innocence, and yet denied by those he called “the puppet masters.” Risso’s collection could therefore be cast as a confrontation between two tribes, those with power, those without. “The undefinable aliens mingle with the indefensible weirdos,” was a stand-out line from Marni’s typically dense but teasingly allusive manifesto for the season.
Risso interwove his parody of power-dressing — huge overcoats, exaggerated multi-tasselled loafers, “an army of conservative suits blown up” (his words) — with psychedelic pyjamas, manga shirts, paw-like gloves, and visual references to Bruno Bozzetto, the Italian animator whose subversive work qualified him as the anti-Disney. Perhaps you could construe the result as the most classic confrontation of Western civilisation, Apollo vs. Dionysus, with the battlefield as a single outfit lifted from a collection of menswear by Marni. That is one crazy elephant in any room.
For me, there was one particular piece that captured Risso’s uniquely screwy fashion vision. It was a diamond-patterned sweater, tattered in such a way it looked like an animal pattern was fighting to emerge, the beast within, perhaps. What really lies beneath? If humankind could ever answer that question, we might be able to free ourselves from the enduring quandary of our savagely flawed existence.
Merveilleux bal des monstres chez Prada
Fashion Network – January 14th, 2019
Voilà ce qui s’appelle un grand défilé de mode. La dernière démonstration de style de Miuccia Prada était présentée dimanche soir dans un Milan glacial : un défilé mixte aux multiples références, des masses, des marges au bal des monstres.
La principale penseuse de la mode italienne, la Signora Prada, convoquait brillamment l’ADN Prada pour l’hiver 2019, tout en délivrant un subtil message politique. Et dans une période troublée partout en Europe, elle nous rappelait que la mode joue elle aussi un rôle, même s’il est mineur, en offrant un résumé visuel des angoisses propres à chaque époque.
D’autre part, la mise en scène était d’un talent consommé : un hall en béton récemment achevé au sein de la Fondazione Prada, habillé de gradins vertigineux et d’un podium oblongue géant, composé de panneaux d’isolation acoustique en mousse noire – qui se sont révélés tout à fait confortables pour s’asseoir, en vrai. Au milieu, le podium était illuminé par des spots et des ampoules géantes de style rétro.
« Je pensais à la masse du plus grand nombre, ceux qui ne sont pas riches, qui ont du mal à payer les factures et à survivre, à la manière dont ils vivent et s’habillent », a révélé Miuccia dans la foulée du défilé, après avoir posé devant un nouveau logo Prada dans la même matière isolante. Un logo sur un mur jaune vif, la dernière révolte française en date, celle des gilets jaunes, infiltrant Milan cette saison. On avait déjà repéré des jaunes similaires ce week-end chez des marques aussi différentes que Bottega Veneta et Versace.
Sur le podium, les hommes défilaient en costumes sobres : pantalons taillés au-dessus de la cheville, vestes flatteuses et manteaux serrés à la cheville par des ceintures doubles. Opéraïste et très élégant. Son autre grande idée, c’était ces sahariennes magiques bleu nuit ou noir d’encre, réinventées en doudounes et ornées de poches sur les manches. Elles déclencheront à coup sûr une tendance majeure dans le monde entier.
Les premières silhouettes féminines étaient aussi d’une simplicité trompeuse, comme ces petites robes noires remarquablement bien coupées, avec des hauts façon soutien-gorge dégageant les épaules. Quand soudain, Miuccia a passé deux vitesses d’un coup, injectant une dose ludique de style film d’horreur : comme ces imprimés représentant le visage de Frankenstein et d’étranges fleurs déformées utilisés sur de puissantes jupes au genou, associées à des hauts en mohair rose et des bustiers composés du tissu signature de Prada, un nylon noir soyeux… bien sûr ! Et si les jupes plissées en coton dense, rebrodées de cristaux, avaient une allure folle sur Kaia Gerber et Gigi Hadid, elles iront également comme un gant à des femmes d’affaires deux fois plus âgées. En fin de compte, l’une des plus grandes forces de Miuccia Prada en tant que créatrice, c’est que ses vêtements collent magnifiquement aux femmes à de multiples étapes de leur vie.
Emmenant tout le toutim vers de nouveaux sommets, il y a eu une formidable série d’accessoires : comme ces nouveaux sacs à dos de taille intermédiaire, avec des bandoulières et des bretelles étroites, ou encore de super chaussures et bottines façon pneu de tracteur.
Une bande-son puissante de Frédéric Sanchez envoyait du Marilyn Manson, du Tuxedomoon et la bande originale du Rocky Horror Picture Show.
« Je voulais refléter mon sentiment sur notre époque. Même si, puisque c’est de la mode que nous faisons, il fallait que tout ça soit optimiste et amusant, ce à quoi le spectacle horrifique a contribué », riait Miuccia Prada, vêtue d’une très belle redingote en daim couleur tabac, avant d’être submergée par les fans. Ils mouraient tous d’envie de la prendre en photo devant ce fameux mur jaune.
Versace’s Mysteries of Manhood
The collection brooded on the scattergun codes of modern masculinity with an orgy of quite gorgeous separates likely to hit their target.
By Tim Blanks. MILAN, Italy —Donatella Versace knows her divas. Her brief to soundtrackist Frederic Sanchez for her new men’s show was to the point: Ru Paul and opera. He gave her Supermodel and Maria Callas. And if that’s where Donatella thought a boy’s head is at in the second decade of the 21st century, it explained the full-on wardrobe she served.
It was intriguing that, in her show notes, she commented on how specific the idea of a MAN was in the 1990s, and how dramatic the change has been since then. It was in the 90s that her brother Gianni unleashed the ideal of the Olympian male on the fashion world. It ruled. Her own ideal a few decades later is a guy whose appetites are a lot more scattergun. In this collection, his style vocabulary had accents of punk, grunge and rave (some of the hair was pure Madchester). The initials GV reversed all sorts of ways to look like A for Anarchy. The belts and harnesses that gave old Versace a spice of S&M transgression were defanged as prints on silk shirts. The neo-Versace man wrapped an orange feather boa around his suit in a classic Prince of Wales check. A coat in the same POW topped punky PVC pants over striped boxers. I saw Kurt Cobain in a leopard coat colliding with Boy Racer in a leather Moto branded FORD. And FORD was there because boys aspire to Ferrari, but Ford is their starter car.
That meant something to this collection. Donatella was brooding on the aspirational codes of modern masculinity. The first car? The big job? The invitation was the kind of dossier a prospective employer might expect, except the key bits were redacted. Like you were applying for a job with the CIA. That’s bureaucracy, but it’s also the layers of mystery in manhood. And maybe it was also why the safety pins (in a way, they have become emblems of teen angst) were transmogrified into stolid bulldog clips.
Admittedly, a lot of this scenario was a stylist going to town on a collection that was an orgy of quite gorgeous separates. The layering was a thing of particular wonder. Versace now belongs to Capri, a corporate behemoth with a track record in moving merch. This collection dissolved into a thousand substantial bits and pieces. You’re going to hit the target a whole lot with those odds.
Craig Green: nomadismo alla moda con un tocco chirurgico
Fashion Network – January 7th, 2019
Di Godfrey Deeny
Craig Green è il sommo sacerdote del nomadismo nella moda. Potrà non aver inventato questa categoria, ma facendo tutto da solo è riuscito a renderla molto sua.
In ogni show che realizza, il cast sembra trovarsi in una sorta di viaggio. E questo è sembrato ancor più vero in un umido lunedì mattina londinese, nella sfilata di una collezione che è riuscita a collegare sartoria, abbigliamento sportivo e vestiti chirurgici.
Ambientato nelle viscere di The Vault, un seminterrato in mattoni nel vecchio Billingsgate Market sulla riva del Tamigi, il défilé ha anche ricordato quanto Green attualmente sia, e di gran lunga, il più creativo stilista di moda maschile di Londra.
Il suo momento migliore è stato il quintetto finale di enormi cappotti con cappuccio in tessuti tecnici. Le loro parti anteriori erano monocromatiche, mentre le posteriori mostravano paesaggi astratti e collage culturali in bordeaux brillante o nel blu delle ceramiche di Delft.
Idee chirurgiche sì, ma anche maniacali, come le camicie di forza multistrisce in un materiale che sembrava il washi, la carta usata per fare i muri nelle case tradizionali giapponesi. Detto questo, i suoi caban plaid multitasche per l’uomo erano un po’ assurdi, ma in qualche modo riuscivano anch’essi a portare ulteriormente avanti lo zeitgeist stilistico del designer. Il tutto mentre capisci già che le combinazioni semi-trasparenti di nylon vedo-non-vedo e maglie leggere di Green saranno copiate in tutte le high streets globali.
Craig Green – Autunno-Inverno 2019 – Londra
La sua idea più esagerata è stata un involucro elastico in plastica a forma di bolla tagliato in combinazioni comprendenti tunica e pantaloni, realizzate in tonalità neon sporche.
“Stavo pensando a un uomo fatto di vetro. Alla fragilità che significa anche forza. A tradizione, artigianato, tecniche tessili medievali e forse, come qualcuno ha detto, al ‘Piccolo Chirurgo’”, ha sorriso il designer, riferendosi al gioco di destrezza per bambini.
In un’epoca di monotona athleisure, Green è capace di rinfrescare con i ‘gusti’ che inventa i palati più esigenti della moda del Regno Unito. Accompagnato da una brillante colonna sonora mixata dal famoso DJ francese Frédéric Sanchez, e indossato da un cast che ha palesemente apprezzato l’avanguardismo di questi vestiti, lo show ha garantito a Green il più ampio e caloroso applauso della stagione maschile di tre giorni della London Fashion Week di gennaio 2019. Lo ha meritato.
Craig Green Keeps It Real
Business Of Fashion – January 7th, 2019
The language the designer has created for himself is sturdy in its substance and oddly delicate in its effect. Today he outdid himself.
By Tim Blanks. LONDON, United Kingdom — A man made of glass: that was the extreme, sci-fi-ish image that lingered long after Craig Green’s remarkable show on Monday morning. Male fragility has been a Green theme from the beginning. At the same time, he’s always been committed to showing that emotion doesn’t mean weakness.
The designer’s latest show notes referred to “Fragile icons of symbolic strength.” His glass men were actually wrapped in “obsessively elasticated” plastic, with a bubble-wrap effect, “like fish or dragon scales,” said Green. He liked the notion of something that lasts forever reconfigured as ephemeral beauty.
It’s precisely that everlastingness which has made plastic the bane of modern times, but here it was alchemized into sweetness and light, like a dish of Venetian glass candies. (“A thing of beauty is a joy forever,” the poet John Keats once told us. That’s the kind of everlasting we can live with.)
Alchemy is Green’s secret weapon. He’s a past master of the magical transformation. His show opened with layered tailoring that had a chic new edge for him. The lining reversed so that when you turned a jacket inside it, you could wear it as a smock. Green’s signature utility made smart.
The finale was a sequence of hooded coats. From the front, the models were sober, monochrome samurai. Then they turned to reveal a glory of graphics. “Everything is so front-facing now,” he explained. “I like the idea you had to be at the show to see those images.” Keeping it real in the physical world, in other words.
Green’s work is thoroughly grounded in its physicality. This collection starred side-slit tartan caftans, tops and skirts in lumberjack checks, torsos wreathed in unravelling tapes of crochet (“a peeling cocoon,” he called it), more crochet and net sheathing bodies. This is the design language he has created for himself, sturdy in its substance, oddly delicate in its effect.
There was serenity too, in the pure white seersucker outfits that followed the exploding plastic inevitable on the catwalk. Green has already proved himself a consummate showman in the way he animates his dialogues between spirit and flesh. Here, he outdid himself, with the able assistance of stylist Robbie Spencer and soundtrackist Fred Sanchez. We could all wish for someone who would score our own lives with a mix of such epic, emotional sweep.
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HI, sorry about this. I have been busy of late dealing with the closing of Corvallis Press and reclaiming the rights to my books and battling Amazon about putting them up under my name. Hopefully that will be fixed by the end of this month and all 10 books will be available.
IN other news, my agent gave me an urgent call demanding Uncle Burnside be finished and polished ASAP.
Never mind why I'll tell you all if there is good news.
so, realizing I am interrupting your viewing pleasure, I shall resume posting Brunside by Wednesday.
Dee out.
Silva stood up, took two steps and landed on her face. While J’pin and the woman laughed Silva struggled onto her knees, brushed the snow from her face and chest and tried to work her way onto her feet. Each time she pushed down iwth her hands they sank. Her legs caught under the ice layer and slid sideways, threatening the health of her knees. Eventually her thrashing about pounded the snow into a hardpack and she was able to slip and slide her way back to the sled.
Obviously the furry lumps were as much help as she was going to get and yes, they were warmer than her previous boots but walking? No. SHe could barely balance. She clung to the wooden rail and caught sight of her Light magic walking stick. She leaned agianst the sled and tried to take a step supported by the stick. THe sharp narrow point immediately plunged through the snow. She drew it back and, holding the stick in both hands fed brillaint daylight into the stick. IN a moment she held two. She touched the tips to the snow and instead of putting her weight on them glared at them and watched as a ridge formed and flared spreading until it was wide enough to prevent the immediate decent of the tip.
Frowning to herself Silva walked about the sled, two broad booted feet, two walking sticks feeling clumsy. Once she was more confident in her steps she looked around, astonished and a little afraid to find herself in the center of a circle of scarf covered faces. She could not tell gender for the coats nor could she assss the emotion of the crowd with their faces concealed.
She pulled herself as upright as she could on the slippery ground. There was a shift in the postions of the heads. It was not, therefore, the walking sticks that caught their attention, or rather it was, but it was more the means by which she created them.
“I am Silva, Master of the element of Light from the True SOuth demesne. HIgh King Eioth has sent me north to repair roads, bridges so that aid from the southern demensnes can reach the people of True North.”
Heads turned but no one spoke.
“Surely you do not expect us to accept this … this festival trickery?” demanded the woman who had brought the boots.
“Grandmother has tested her and believes,” said J’pin.
“I do not. This is foolishness. Why should we give our protection to this … this falsehood. This desception by the elves.” The figure turned to the watching crowd. “This cannot be. We have our own families, our own people to care for and protect. To go north at this time of strange weather will not …”
“Have done!” shouted J’pin. “Ilian re Narka, you are not the matriarch of this clan and like you never will be.”
SIlva tried to remember why the name was familiar then recalled the person who so amused J’pin to tease his grandmother with the threat of marrying.
“This is not festival trickery,” said Silva, lifting her voice a little so as to be heard by all the watchers. She raised one of her walking sticks above her head and concentrated. In a moment it changed shape to become a sword, then the blade became riddles with holes until it resembled lace, reformed as a sword, then a stick and she returned it to rest on the snow. At no time did she touch more than the handle. “Tell me how it was done if not true magic?”
No one stepped forward to examine it, but no one stepped back in fear either.
“I need your help for, in this time of change and great need, there is no one able to do what you do just as there is no one else who can do what I do, change light into magic!”
Silence was her only answer. AFter a moment the people at the edges of the crowd began to drift away. Llian was in the first group to depart and caught up to a few of her fellows and began speaking to them.
Silva sighed as J’pin joined her.
“Do not be disheartened. They have heard you and now they will go talk. Public arguements are considered impolite. Besides,” he pulled down his scarf again so she could see he was smiling, “once grandmother decides it is done.”
Silva glanced toward the sunken tent where Federan was still debating with the old woman. She decided not to worry. Federan had more experience with old women than she. Her last arguement with her mother resulted in a long, frightening silence. Federan’s grandmother loved him and he was, quite, quite lovable as well as being a long time friend of the High King.
With luck…
As she watched Federan emerged and covered his eye with his forearm.
“Ah, and he survived the ordeal,” annoucned J’pin. “I must find you both sun shield’s before you are rendered snow blind.”
“That is possible?”
J’pin nodded and they made their way across the snow to Federan.
After a few steps toward them Federan windmilled his arms, failed to keep his balance and grimaced.
“You must make me a set of those walking sticks, dearest Silva,” he said, coming to his knees and accepting J’pin’s assistance to rise. “But, the good news is that Eioth and grandmother have come to terms. Generous terms on both sides.”
“Good to know, since he is hiring the whole clan.”
Silva straightened. “Is that wise? The danger…”
“Phiff,” J’pin waved a hand. “DO you think we shall abadon them? No, we rarely separate for long. You and Federan will come with my hunting group. We shall move light over the snow, fast, to reach those places where you must work. The clan will follow, pounding down the snow so that those who follow, bring the aid the High King has promised, might follow us.”
“That sounds,” Silva paused then smiled. ”Very wise.”
“We are nothing if not wise, cautious and careful,” said J’pin, “When we are given the choice. As for now, I must gather my hunters together. Sleds will be brought to you. Pack carefully and quickly. Your clothing is not adequate to the weather and travel. Better shall be brought. Also we shall provide tents.”
“My gratitude, friend J’pin,” said Federan. “YOu shall find us ready.”
“To depart in two hours.”
Federan blinked but nodded.
They loaded into the sled for the journey back. Silva worked creating another set of walking sticks for Federan, frowning.
“What distrubs your peace, my dear?”
“Pri and his contigent. I fear they may protest the plans.”
“No matter what they say the agreement with the wanderers was negoatied by Eioth, High King, himself. He will pay from his own funds. We shall declare the decision made and if they do not pack within two hours I shall be happy to leave them behind.”
Silva nodded but continued to worry at her lower lip.
“I like them not at all,” she said quietly.
As they both suspected Pri declared he was not bound by the agreement and insisted he, personally, as his uncle’s representative, must negotate. It did not improve his mood that he was ignored by both the True South deligation and J’pin.
Fortunately for Pri Nittel was no fool. In expecation of a good ressult the packing was already completed by the time Silva and Federan returned. J’pin declared Nittel a useful sort of fellow, loudly and before witnesses which pleased Nittel until he saw that the opinion was not shared by all.
Neither of the wanderers responded to this comment and the grandmother examined the lace in her hand, smiling with what Silva read as possessive delight. Perhaps she was pleased to have something no one else in her family owned, but then again Silva had given half of the lace to… oh, to the grandson.
Silva glanced toward that mortal and saw he had come to the same conclusion.
“Should I apologize?” asked Silva.
He shrugged, the movement barely readable under his layers of clothing.
“No matter. She will say and do what she will say and do. Now, at least, she will not be angered by delay.”
“Grandmother, with respect,” said Federan, “what else is required before we make our petition for your aid?”
Grandmother continued to caress the lace and thought.
“Perhaps, grandmother,” said Silva, “You might value speech with High King Eioth. He is awaiting our report and is prepared to pay the fee for your time and service from his personal funds.”
The old woman froze, staring into empty space before relaxing muscle by muscle.
“You… He… He, you have given one to him? He has one as well?”
“He has many,” said Federan, “And delights in this slice of my dear Silva’s magic. It was her first gift to him, the means by which I spoke to him from the True South when the floods came. This means of speaking to his friends and the synod and guards and all those working to aid the refugees. You can see, I am certain, how useful it is to be able to speak to a person across distances without that tedious riding back and forth with messages.”
“Yes. Yes.” She twisted the lace back and forth then turned and whistled. Another pile of rugs and scarves rose from the shadows of the tent and hurried across to take the lace. “J’pin, take off that coat. Minin, sew this lace to the collar of my, and his, great coats.”
The woman vanished back into the smoky shadows. J’pin shrugged off his coat and took it over to her.
“Yes,” said the Grandmother. “I will speak to him if he will speak to me.”
For the first time there was uncertainty in her voice and manner. Federan smiled at her and crossed the chamber to kneel and offer the whisper ribbon bearing the sigil of the High King’s personal name.
She frowned at it then looked over Federan’s head to J’pin.
“Speak to your hunting group. Tell them to prepare to leave within the hour.”
J’pin glanced wistfully toward where his coat lay before pulling up his scarf and leaving the tent. A moment later and he poked his head around the draped fabric.
“Come along, Master Silva. Your clothing, your boots in particular, will not serve.”
Silva glanced back and forth between her husband and J’pin. Federan smiled and waved her on.
Silva gasped when she emerged back into the snowscape.
“That as well,” said J’pin. “You come from the far south. Hot, even in the winter months, or so I am told. You are not prepared for our winter.”
“Not that hot,” said Silva as they stomped through the encampment. And then her foot went through the icy crust trapping her to her knee.
J’pin laughed as he pulled her up.
“Boots will be the first requirement. You will have to learn to walk again. We shall provide the tents, sleds and food. You, the magic.”
“I am sorry for the necessity, taking you away from your family at this time of trouble.”
“Do not worry,” said J’pin, keeping hold of her arm as he half carried her back to his sled. “They will be a day or so behind us. FOr a change, instead of running over the snowpack they will pack down the road to make it easier for those who follow.”
Silva paused to stare. “That is clever.”
J’pin nodded his agreement.
“We do what is necessary. If we must travel swiftly and without leaving a mark, we will. The reverse is also possible.”
Silva decided not to comment on the ‘without leaving a mark’ statement and sat on the edge of the sled. She nodded to the large, oddly shaped creatures, who appeared to be mostly nobbly knees and broad feet, still harnessed to the sled.
“What are they called?”
“The pale one is Kai and the mottled one is Trim.”
Silva blinked at the answer.
J’pin lowered his scarf. “My father told me, we do not name our food. These are my friends, my loyal friends. Others of their kind we raise to eat and trade but those who are named shall not be sold or harvested. You understand?”
“A promise you make to yourself,” said SIlva.
“Exactly so.” He frowned and moved closer. “Does this High King, this Eioth. Does he keep the promises he makes to himself?”
Silva prepared to give her endorsement then paused. This was too important a question to answer without thought. It was also too close to the bone. She didn’t know.
She could remember those heart freezing moments on the training grounds with the rank of elvan archers preparing to shoot not only herself but the Lady Regent of the North West on no better orders than an archivist.
Did the elves of the North West truly accept Halidan as their lady? No matter that she bore the High King’s child… or, perhaps, because she had that child, did they want her to live or die? A half mortal to possibly inherit the North West and the throne. To serve them as Regent?
Fortunately J’pin did not appear disturbed by her hesitation. He waited patiently while she gathered her thoughts.
“Of my own witness I can say, he did accept me before the synod and grant me the rank of Master and adept of my element. There were voices raised against it, saying mortals should not have magic…”
“Should not?”
Silva did not let her frustration with her poor choice of words show.
“And that it would be better my magic be given to an elf, but you know that is not possible.”
“I am pleased with your gift.”
“As is Eioth who thanked me many times for my useful magic and willingness to be of use. AFter my time here I must travel on to other areas of the empire to restore roads and walls, build water reservoirs - for which I am respected and well paid.” Since J’pin did not appear persuaded Silva continued. “I can speak with greater confidence of the High Lady Senoia, the Lady of True South. All my life I have known of her hontesty and eaven handed care for elves and mortals under her care. It was she who accepted those who Chandri drove out. SHe who gives rank and responsibility for ability. The mayor of her capital is mortal as was the father of her beloved grandson. She is caring for my mother, has had her to visit and declared her family after my marriage to her grandson.”
J’pin raised his eyebrows.
“And is giving my mother food, a house and all she needs to care for all the orphans of the floods. “Orphans?”
“Children separated from their family by the disaster. Some who know their parents are dead and those who are waiting, hoping to be reunited. So much caring. We have lived under her care for more than a century, elves and mortals and mixed bloods together. I trust High Lady Senoia as no other. More than my own mother.” That, at least, thought Silva, is the truth. “And she, and my husband, are close friends with Eioth for decades.”
“And by that chain of friendships, you trust him?”
“By that chain, I have hope. Halidan, the High King’s lady, advocates for legal changes to protect mortals. To create equality. She, herself, has suffered injustice and will speak for all, directly to the High King.”
J’pin grunted. Another anonymous figure buried in layers of clothing appeared bearing large furry objects in both arms.
“Boots,” declared a female voice.
“Oh, thank you for saying so,” said Silva. “I thought you were about to put them in harness.”
The woman snorted, not with humor, and turned her back on Silva.
J’pin knelt and unlaced Silva’s fine tooled leather boots, tisking when he saw the two layers of woolen liners.
“And this is what they think will keep you warm?” He shook his head, his fingers moving swiftly as he tucked her feet into a furry bucket.
Silva grunted as the weight dragged at her legs.
“How do you walk in these?”
"Forgive us, grandmother," said Silva. "My husband has told you the history that frames our quest, now I shall tell you our combined journey. And a little history of my own. My mother is a weaver and Dyer of some note in the true South. I am her journey woman. When I was very young, playing by our fireplace I remember being fascinated by the light and shadow, and the glow that danced on the pavings."
Silva looked down at the floor of this tent was covered by many, many layers of rugs. The glow from the fire pit was diffuse. The haze in the air from the burning resins tangled the light and prevented the formation of those straight lines of light and shadow that she had reached for as a child. If she had been born and raised in this tent city, with this light, she might never have developed her magic.
Her usual technique for dazzling her audience and demonstrating her odd magic was to pick up light from the floor and manipulated until formed a thread, a ribbon, I wrote. In this light she could not do it.
Raising both hands she removed her gloves and rolled back the sleeves until the precious bracelet she had created for herself and Fedoran to mark their marriage was exposed.
"Fedoran, please, lift down one of those lanterns and open one of the sides."
Before Fedoran could move their guide lifted down the nearest lantern and put it across to her. It was a brass lantern smoked glass covers on each side, all carefully locked. Silva assumed it was so it would be difficult for it to start a fire if it fell. The guide unlocked one side with a fingernail and raised a questioning eyebrow at Silva.
Silva lifted her hand toward the light and then touched one fingertip to her bracelet, drawing it away slowly so whole audience could see the formation of a thread stretching from her fingertip to the bracelet. She concentrated and the threat separated. Taking up the thread stretched it between her fingers until it was a ribbon one palm width wide and two hand lengths long. She turned it and twisted it in her fingers and then to depart again. Now it was a stretch of lace, broad and flat and glowing. She concentrated as she drew a fingernail across it and now she had two pieces. She rose and gave one half to the grandmother before taking the guide by the shoulder and walking him back to the doorway.
"Say something into the ribbon," she whispered to the guide. "Something she would not expect you to say."
The man wrapped his hand around the ribbon and spoke so softly that Silva could not hear him. The grandmother obviously did. She rose to her feet shaking her fist at the man.
“You shall not marry Ilian re Narka! You shall not! Not while I live. Not even after I die. SHe is too closely bound to you by blood. You shall marry Karin re Path of the Eperial clan or I…”
The man laughed and laughed.
“Peace Mother, Peace. Our magician asked me to speak words you would not guess and so I did. I shall not marry Ilian. Well do I know her only interest is to take your place once you are gone to eternal light.” He laughed agian. “As if my sister Minhi would permit her ambition.”
The grandmother grumbled and muttered and kicked an uneven section of rugs flat before seating herself again.
"You pulled this out of your sleeve, as has tricksters at market affairs with coins in the mouse and silk behind the ears."
"Try to set fire to it. Try to cut it with a knife. Try to destroy it by any means you choose," said Silva. "I have used light to build braizer, to build uprights for a house, a boat, a bridge. Yes, a bridge, a bridge that spans the river after it passes Hub of Harmony. I have used Light as a sword to cut through flesh and bone. This is my magic, I can hold Light in my hand and create from it what I imagine." Silva waited until the muttering stopped and added, "but it is not Water magic, or a Fire or Earth or Air. It is not Elemental magic. I cannot use it to forge iron…"
"It does not sound like you need iron," said their guide.
"I do not know what I need all that I can do with this Light magic," said Silva. "Until the weather spells broke this last third harvest festival day all I used it for was to spin shiny threats to include in my weavings."
"Third harvest day," repeated the grandmother.
"Exactly so," said Fedoran."This is part of our shared history, the reason for our journey. You can imagine that Chandri was not pleased at the failure of his plots. To have done so much and failed to have achieved the throne must have burned in his soul. We know because he admitted as much at his trial that he used the strength of all the Masters he had called to his banner, as well as the magic raised to honor the elements at third harvest festival, to lay hands upon the weather spells and tear them down."
"The fool," cried the grandmother.
"The murderer," said Silva. "We may never know how many tens of thousands died in the flooding that followed in the true South. Nor do we yet know how many have been crushed to death or frozen here in the true North."
"Those who witnessed the interrogation of Chandri before his trial and during it attest that he did not think that so much damage would happen but he was a fool indeed to tear down the spells and he did not know how to put them back up again."
"Once we were certain he did not know how to correct and repair the spells he was executed for his great crime against the whole Empire," said Fedoran."
"But we jump ahead in our story," said Silva. "When the rain started Fedoran, himself, as Heir to the True South, rode to the great Low lands to warn the inhabitants that the weather spells were gone and we were at risk of drowning in a coming flood. Suddenly there were demands on me that could not be met in the usual manner. My shining threads became shining ribbons that could be seen in the dark and the rain so that lost children could have their names attached to their in the hope that they would be found by their family. Slowly greater and greater demands were placed on my magic until…"
"In the midst of a thunderstorm she built a bridge to replace one that had fallen so that the refugees could escape the rising water, said Fedoran. "I swear to you this is true. I was witness to this magic. I was witness to the growth of her power and her abilities and her unselfish giving of that magic to those in need."
"So you married her or her magic?" asked the guide.
"No, I married her because she is a wonderful, caring person and I love her."
They entered the tent village on their guides heels. He, at least, was steady on his feet which did not slide nor sink below the crust of the snow. Although the outer ring of round, fur covered tents appeared to have been placed with no consideration for another person within that circle all was organized and neat. Wide, well trodden paths wound round and around circling them inwards to a broad, shallow fur covered tent. Smoke drifted out of irregularly placed gaps in the fur coverings giving Silva hope that the interior would not be so bone breakingly cold.
Their guide walked down a set of stairs carved out of ice and snow and covered with planks of wood and moved a heavy curtain aside. Inside was a small, very small chamber. He waited until Silva and Federan joined him before moving the inner shield. Federan let out a slow breath and released his grip on his sash blade.Silva blinked. Until that moment she had not felt fear. Federan, it appeared, mistrusted the dark room, the unknown peoples. He gave her a half smile while behind his back their guide cast a smirk toward both of them.
“Enter and be welcomed,” came a low, gravely voice.
Silva and Federan ducked under the fabric and emerged in a chamber that was high enough for them to comfortably stand upright. Silva examined the ceiling, the uprights. There were layers upon layers of thick fur, rugs, and other fabrics all supported by an interweaving of narrow curved uprights. Silva frowned slightly, trying to understand their purpose.
“When the snow is heavy,” said the same low voice, “the beams bend instead of resisting the weight. Once the snow is above our roof the snow itself becomes part of the house. An outer shell and we place supports across to further protect us.”
“Although,” said their guide,with a smile, “long before that happens you are walking about on your knees.”
“Better kneeling than crushed.”
The voice came from what appeared to be a pile of multicolored fabric wrapped about with shawls on the other side of a fire pit. The shawls shifted and a face wrinkled and fallen in on itself to resemble a prune rather than a plum. The wrinkles moved in what Silva understood was intended to be a smile. Silva smiled in return.
“It is because some of the citizens of the True NOrth are dying beneath crushed houses and heavy snow that we are sent by High King Eioth…” Silva began.
The old woman waved her to silence.
“High Kings or low lords, they can all wait. It is you we wish to know. Who are you, my girl and what is this magic of yours?” The woman frowned. “And you, elf, may wait outside.”
“He is not elf,” said Silva, “or, at least, not altogether. He is my husband and half mortal.”
“Then the half that is elf may wait outside,” snapped the woman.
Silva folded her arms. “Come now, he is here for me as this one,” she wiggled a finger in the direction of their guide, “as he is for you.”
The old woman glared, trying and failing to intimidate SIlva. So many months of deprivation and the coming into her magic gave Silva strength previously not required. After a moment the old woman laughed and beckoned them closer.
“Very well, my girl, come and tell an old woman stories. I hear such strange things from the south as to confuse me utterly.”
Silva stared at the strange chamber. The air was filled with strangely scented smoke rendering the atmosphere hazy. She glanced up. Above her head was small pottery dishes containing a smoldering resin. As she stepped towards the old woman she realized that it was to counteract the aroma of what was burning in the fire pits. She was aware from her reading at school that in the absence of coal and wood to burn some people resorted to burning animal manure.
She hoped that wasn't used to prepare.
She and Fedoran settled on thick, unyielding cushions beside the fire.
"Have you heard of the events at the Synod this year?" Asked Fedoran.
"I pay little attention to elves and their doings in the normal run of things," said the old woman leaning forward. "But this year I think you may have something to tell me I need to know."
Fedoran settled himself into a storytellers posture. Opening his hands and smiling at his small audience he began, "I hope I need not tell you of the history of Chandri, Lord of the southeast.…"
"That foul beast is not the High King, I beg you, do not tell me so!"
"Indeed, let me comfort you with the knowledge that Chandri is dead!" Fedoran smile broadened. "If you will permit I will tell you how this came about."
"Tell on, husband of Silva, you have caught my interest."
"Over the last few decades, since the water plague, the number of elemental magic users born has declined…"
The grandmother shrugged.
"I am certain," said Fedoran. "That you feel that very little, living as you do, wandering from place to place and depending very little on the goodwill of elves and elemental Masters. But others, in the cities and further south, depend on the elements and their masters for many things. The decline in births worried us very much. To be without elemental Masters was to be without iron, and healing, and the weather magics. Knowing that the number of Masters was becoming less and less, Chandri gathered as many as he could into his service as he could bribe or suborn. Also, as we discovered later, he purchased three girl children from midcourt families and managed to convince all who knew him that he had fathered three children when other families could not claim one."
Fedoran paused to assess the effect his words were having upon his audience. Their guide still remained near the door. Whether to prevent Fedoran and Silva from leaving or any other entering he could not tell.
The grandmother watched him without comment. Taking this as permission Fedoran continued.
"The time of the Synod came and, horror of horrors, some body kidnapped Chandri's daughters…"
The grandmother cackled and clapped her hands.
"Oh, wait," cried Fedoran. "It gets better."
"You know all this for fact. The truth," inquired their guide from behind them.
"In my role as heir to the true south, with my grandmother, High Lady Senoia, I stood in the Synod and was witness to all events."
"Then tell your story. What we do depends on whether we count your testimony as true." The grandmother waved him to continue.
"As soon as the daughters were taken Chandri attempted to have the task of recovering them become a test for choosing the next high King…"
The grandmother laughed again and coughed and apologized for the interruption.
"Of course, I need not tell you the back-and-forth, the arguing, the conniving and plotting that went on. Not all, in fact very few were deceived by Chandri. In fact my friend, and the high Lord of the Northwest, stood up in Synod and accused Chandri of contriving the events, of planning on offering his daughter's hand in marriage to the person who found her, and standing as regent for his underage daughter who would become our high queen as if by being kidnapped and being rescued she would gain the knowledge and skills needed to rule."
He waited patiently for the grandmother to stop rocking back and forth before he continued.
"Everyone knew what he was trying to do. Those of the Synod were not deceived by his nonsense. The sad thing was they and the people were tired of being without a high King and what other test would they all agree to? I should also tell you that about Midsummer this year Eioth, the High Lord of the Northwest demesne, met a mortal woman and installed her as his lady with all the rights and responsibilities of such within his Household."
"Halidan," said Silva. "I have met her. She is an intelligent, well-educated woman. Originally Eioth intended she should care for his library and he respects her greatly."
"Indeed," said Fedoran. "And this is important. While lady Halidan was reading she discovered the cause of the infertility within the High Court elves and told this to Eioth. And here you have the players. Chandri the monster, pretending his daughters had been kidnapped, attempting to manipulate events to raise himself to be High King. And Eioth who, when his lady told him of the cure and the cause, announced in Synod all the facts, freely. When the other High Lords were given a chance to compare the two elves the acclaimed Eioth and declared he must be High King. In an astonishing event, Chandri's daughters appeared without warning in the middle of the Synod Hall. With the emotions standing high Chandri found himself in a situation where he must acclaim Eioth instead of being crowned himself."
"All this is interesting to the elves. How does this apply to the question that I asked, which is what magic does Silva have?"
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The "Aula Scarpa" is the old anatomical theatre of the University of Pavia. It is named after Antonio Scarpa who became professor of anatomy in the local school of Medicine in 1783 and immediately promoted the building of this anathomical theatre. The "Aula Scarpa" was designed in 1785 by Giuseppe Piermarini and concluded the following year by Leopoldo Pollack1.
Its semicircular layout is modeled on ancient theatres and the Palladian Olympic Theatre of Vicenza. The horseshoe shaped auditorium is made entirely of wood. The benches for the audience and the teacher’s area are separated, according to the requirements for instruction in Anatomy of the time.
Grotesque candelabra are painted on the gores of the umbrella ceiling designed by architect Giuseppe Marchesi (the original ceiling by Pollack was a lacunar one), alternating with winged figures holding some of the most important surgical instruments.
On the curved side of the theatre, there is a series of niches with marble busts of illustrious anatomists of Pavia such as Scarpa, Panizza, Zoia and Sala.
The Aula Scarpa was restored in 1999.
Photos by Luca Borghi ti.supmacinu|ihgrob.l#| (March 2013), courtesy of Prof. Paolo Mazzarello, Director of the Museum for the History of the University of Pavia
Antonio Pensa's monument
Antonio Scarpa's monument
Bartolomeo Panizza's monument
Giovanni Alessandro Brambilla's monument
Harmony between Medicine and Surgery
Johann Peter Frank's monument
Luigi Porta's monument
- P.Mazzarello e L.Fregonese (a cura di), Pavia e le svolte della scienza, Libreria CLU, Pavia 2011, p. 58…
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Merkel on the brink as Seehofer signals intention to resign
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel was battling to save her coalition on Monday after Interior Minister Horst Seehofer announced his intention to resign over a controversial migration policy, according to German media reports.
Seehofer offered to quit as interior minister and as leader of the Christian Social Union (CSU), the Bavarian sister party of Merkel's Christian Democrats (CDU), during a marathon party meeting Sunday, but was later persuaded by CSU colleagues to meet with Merkel one more time and attempt to resolve the row, Reuters reported.
"In the interest of the country and the ability by the coalition to act, we want to try to find a way to unify on this central question: border control and refusal, only on this question," Seehofer said early on Monday. "And I hope that we can manage it. This is an act of goodwill on my part and another attempt to come to an agreement, otherwise this would have been it today."
Merkel was meeting with the CDU leadership Monday morning ahead of crunch talks between the two parties later in the day.
The CSU chief, who has repeatedly called for tougher policies on refugees, had given Merkel two weeks to reach an agreement with other European Union leaders that would allow German police to reject asylum seekers at the border who are already registered in another EU country. Under EU law, those people must be taken in and arrangements made on a case by case basis to send them back to the first country of entry.
Seehofer had threatened to implement that policy unilaterally if Merkel could not reach a satisfactory deal by Sunday. Instead, he reportedly offered to step down, a move that could provide temporary respite for Merkel but that may spell the end for the decades-old CDU/CSU alliance and for the coalition government.
Speaking to CNN Monday afternoon, Bavarian CSU interior minister Joachim Herrmann said that while his party's goals on migration were far from being reached, the CSU was not looking to break with the CDU.
"I don't want to speculate as to what the outcome will be today," Hermann said. "What's clear is that the CDU and CSU want to work together. We will need to find a common solution to the problem."
Speaking ahead of an EU summit last week, Merkel – a staunch advocate of EU-wide solutions -said migration could be a "make or break" issue for the union.
Europe's leaders emerged from talks with a bloc-wide agreement that it was best to deal with the issue collectively rather than unilaterally. But the wording was vague and nations will participate in relocation and resettlement programs only on a voluntary basis.
Merkel insisted the EU-wide deal reached on Friday was a victory, but Seehofer's party was not so sure. The CSU is fighting state elections in Bavaria in October and, under pressure from the far-right, anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany (AfD), is seeking to burnish its own anti-refugee credentials in an attempt to win back voters.
Merkel and Seehofer had long battled over the right approach to migration, but seemed to reach an agreement after federal elections last year when the chancellor agreed to try and limit the number of refugees arriving in Germany each year to 200,000 – a policy that Seehofer had repeatedly demanded and Merkel had consistently rejected.
The latest flare-up was triggered when Seehofer announced a 63-point "migration master plan" last month, which Merkel refused to endorse due to the proposal to reject asylum seekers already registered elsewhere. Merkel agrees that the current rules – known as the Dublin regulation – must be reformed, but insists that must be done at the European level.
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Trump has claimed he hates the idea of separating children from the parents who try to enter the country, but the administration has acknowledged that crackdown on the families could serve as a deterrent. "That contradicts everything we know that the kids need to build their health".
"I hate the children being taken away", Trump said. "It was a simple decision by the administration to have a zero-tolerance policy for illegal entry, period. They are criminals when they came across and that's why they are getting separated", Mr. Bannon said.
Asylum-seekers who go directly to official crossings are not separated from their families, except in specific circumstances, such as if officials can't confirm the relationship between the minors and adults, if the safety of the children is in question, or if the adult is being prosecuted. As part of this renewed dedication to prosecute all cases of unauthorized immigration, children are being taken from their parents, processed, and detained in contracted "shelters" across the US, while parents are detained for prosecution instead of released.
The situation now is "inhumane" and "un-American", he said.
"If they aren't going to cooperate, we are going to look to utilize the laws as hard as we can", said a second White House official.
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Stevenson defeats Guevera to retain title (0:39)
Shakur Stevenson defeats Alberto Guevara in the third round by knockout and retains his title. For more Top Rank action, sign up for ESPN+ at https://watch.espnplus.com/toprank/ (0:39)
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Rising featherweight star Shakur Stevenson made a triumphant homecoming as he blew out Alberto Guevara in a dominant third-round knockout performance Saturday night in Newark, New Jersey, to retain his regional belt and move to the precipice of a shot at a world title.
Fighting before a partisan crowd of 5,150 in the main event of the Top Rank Boxing on ESPN card at the Prudential Center, Stevenson put on a flawless performance, scoring two knockdowns in the second round before putting Guevara away in the third.
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"There is only one way to describe tonight -- amazing," Stevenson said of his first professional fight in his hometown. "Seeing all of my family, friends and everybody from the city come out to support was incredible. We are going to do many more fights and even bigger. We are bringing big-time boxing back to Newark."
Stevenson is already in a mandatory position to fight for the 126-pound world title held by Mexico's Oscar Valdez, so he is expected to either fight Valdez by the end of the year or fight for a vacant belt if Valdez moves up to the junior lightweight division as he has talked about doing.
Stevenson would like to fight Top Rank stablemate Valdez for his title but also called out world titleholder Josh Warrington of England.
"I think it's that time," Stevenson said of fighting for a title. "I would love to go to England to fight Josh Warrington. We can do that in December. Let's get it."
Stevenson opened the fight as the aggressor against Guevara, who is a counterpuncher, and never slowed down. He landed body shots and long right jabs from his southpaw stance to take immediate control of the fight. Guevara had no answers for Stevenson's offense. In the second round, Stevenson landed a left hand and right to the body to knock Guevara to a knee with 30 seconds to go. A straight left hand dropped Guevara for the second time in the final seconds of the round.
Stevenson (12-0, 7 KOs), 22, a 2016 U.S. Olympic silver medalist, continued to dominate in the third round before landing a four-punch combination -- two shots to the body, followed by a right and left to the head -- that dropped Guevara on his back. He tried to get to his feet but could not beat the count from referee David Fields, who waved the fight over at 2 minutes, 37 seconds.
"That was a great performance that I put on for the city of Newark," Stevenson said. "I'm glad they came out to support me. Top Rank, you all gotta give me better competition. I want the IBF and WBO titles.
"I surprised myself today. I was going for the body a lot. He didn't look like he was in shape at the weigh-in, so I went to the body and finished him off to the head."
According to CompuBox, Stevenson landed 32 of 67 punches (48%), while Guevara connected with only 5 of 51 punches (10%).
Guevara, who took the fight on eight days' notice, was the third opponent for this date with Stevenson. He was originally slated to fight Hairon Socarras (22-0-3, 13 KOs), but Socarras dropped out over various unspecified issues and was replaced by Franklin Manzanilla (18-5, 17 KOs), a former junior featherweight world title challenger, who withdrew last week saying he had flu-like symptoms.
Guevara (27-5, 12 KOs), 28, of Mexico, a two-time bantamweight world title challenger who had been training and was close to the 126-pound weight limit, accepted the fight without hesitation. But he lost his second fight in a row, having been outpointed by former junior featherweight world titlist Hugo Ruiz in January.
Greer edges Potapov in eliminator
In the co-feature, bantamweight Joshua Greer Jr. escaped with a majority decision over Nikolai Potapov in a title eliminator that Potapov dominated for long stretches. The crowd booed the decision and ESPN analysts Andre Ward and Timothy Bradley Jr. both called it a terrible decision, but Greer (21-1-1, 12 KOs), 25, of Chicago, nonetheless moved a step closer to a shot at a world title.
One judge scored the fight 114-114, but the other two gave it to Greer by scores of 116-112 and 115-113.
"He's very awkward with the Russian style, but at the end of the day, this is the pros. I pulled it out," Greer said. "The booing didn't bother me. I know I won the fight. Every time I hit him to the body, I hurt him. I didn't get the knockout, but I got the win."
The fight began slowly, with each man looking to get inside, but eventually Potapov began picking off Greer's punches and countering him well. Greer got tagged repeatedly with right hands and showed no ability to adjust after getting clocked with the same punch over and over. A right hand from Greer shook Potapov in the final seconds of the fifth round, but it was a fleeting moment.
By the eighth round, Potapov (20-2-1, 11 KOs), 29, a Russia native fighting out of New York, had given Greer a bloody nose and appeared to be in control. Greer trainer John Pullman showed ample concern about how the fight was going after the ninth round when he told Greer that he needed to pick up the pace. Greer had a good 10th round and appeared to hurt Potapov with a left hook to the body. Pullman begged Greer for a big 12th round, and while he didn't deliver a big one, he won it on all three scorecards to gain the victory.
According to CompuBox, Greer landed 160 of 424 punches (38%) and Potapov connected with 139 of 638 (22%).
"We feel we got robbed, as do boxing fans," said Dmitriy Salita, Potapov's promoter. "ESPN and the media had Nikolai winning. We are going to appeal the decision. ESPN is a great platform for the sport of boxing. We are grateful for the opportunity and what is just. Nikolai won the fight."
With the win, Greer moved a step closer to a mandatory shot at the 118-pound world title held by Naoya Inoue, one of the best pound-for-pound fighters in the world, who next will meet Nonito Donaire in the finals of the World Boxing Super Series tournament this fall. Potapov's only previous loss came when he quit after seven rounds against former world titlist Omar Narvaez in 2017.
More undercard results
• Junior welterweight Josue Vargas (14-1, 9 KOs), 21, a Puerto Rico native fighting out of the Bronx, New York, won his eighth fight in a row as he stopped Manuel Lopez (14-4-1, 7 KOs), 28, of Denver, at 2 minutes, 50 seconds of the seventh round of their scheduled eight-rounder. He was battering him with clean shots, including several uppercuts, when referee Sparkle Lee stepped in.
• Junior middleweight Vito Mielnicki Jr. (1-0, 1 KO), son of promoter Vito Mielnicki, became the first New Jersey boxer to turn pro at the age of 17 -- he was given a special exemption by the New Jersey State Athletic Control Board -- and won by first-round knockout of Mississippi's Tamarcus Smith (2-3, 2 KOs), 24.
Mielnicki, who sold some 500 tickets, knocked Smith cold with a combination that concluded with a right hand at 1 minute, 16 seconds.
• Junior welterweight Julian Rodriguez (17-0, 11 KOs), 24, of Hasbrouck Heights, New Jersey, returned from a nearly two-year layoff, caused mainly by injuries, to score a first-round knockout of Hevinson Herrera (24-18-1, 18 KOs), 34, of Colombia, who lost his third fight in a row.
Rodriguez, known as "Hammer Hands," needed only 59 seconds as he planted Herrera on the mat with a combination for the full count from referee Lee.
"I was very confident in my preparation, so I felt like I had to go in there and do what I had to do," Rodriguez said. "That's what [the fans] like about me. When they come here, they see a show."
• Junior welterweight John Bauza (13-0, 5 KOs), 21, of North Bergen, New Jersey, beat and battered the game Angel Sarinana (10-9-2, 4 KOs), 26, of Mexico, in a shutout decision victory. There was plenty of action, but Bauza won 80-72 on all three scorecards.
• Super middleweight Vijender Singh (11-0, 8 KOs), 33, a 2008 Olympic bronze medalist from India and his country's only boxing medalist, returned from a 19-month layoff to score a fourth-round knockout of Mike Snider (13-6-3, 8 KOs), 38, of Flemington, West Virginia.
Singh nearly dropped Snider in the second round, and as he hammered him during the fourth round, referee Shada Murdaugh stopped it at 1 minute, 23 seconds.
"It was excellent getting back in the ring after a long time off. It's great to be here in the USA and to get the win. It was really exciting," Singh said. "It took me about four rounds to get back in the swing of things. I expected it to take two or three rounds, but it took me four. I felt good."
• Lightweight prospect Joseph Adorno (13-0, 11 KOs), 20, of Allentown, Pennsylvania, knocked out Adriano Ramirez (10-4, 6 KOs), 35, of the Dominican Republic, in the second round of their scheduled eight-rounder. Adorno sent Ramirez to the canvas with a left hook and then dropped him again with a follow-up combination, and referee Lee waved off the fight at 1 minute, 12 seconds.
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MADRID, Spain -- Chelseas defensive game plan worked perfectly as it held Atletico Madrid to a 0-0 draw in the first leg of their Champions League semifinal on Tuesday. Jose Mourinhos ultra-defensive tactics succeeded at the Vicente Calderon Stadium despite the exit of goalkeeper Petr Cech to injury in the 18th minute. Mark Schwarzer came on, with Cechs long-term replacement -- Thibaut Courtois -- playing in the opposite goal, on loan from Chelsea. Atletico nearly broke through in the final 15 minutes as Raul Garcia and substitute Arda Turan sent headers wide, while Gabi Fernandez and Diego Costa forced Schwarzer into saves. But Chelsea looked too strong at the back, despite also losing captain John Terry to an injury that will sideline him for the remainder of the Premier League season. The result will leave the English side feeling upbeat about its chances of returning to the final, two years after beating Bayern Munich on penalties. Atletico, which is top of the Spanish league and hasnt been this far in Europes top competition since 1974, needs a plan for breaking open a Chelsea defence that will be handicapped by injuries and suspensions in the return leg. "Were not happy with the draw since we wanted to win at all costs. Were left with a bad taste in our mouth even if the series is still open," Gabi said. "We knew they didnt want to concede, but we tried to score through our best attacking football." The second leg is at Stamford Bridge on April 30 with the winner playing either Bayern or Real Madrid in the May 24 final at Lisbon. Chelsea striker Fernando Torres started on his first return to his boyhood club -- but made little impact like much of his sides attack -- as Oscar and Andre Schuerrle were left on the substitutes bench. Eden Hazard and Samuel Etoo were out due to injury. "We had to be safe, dont concede and score in the chances you create," Mourinho said. "If you score a goal in one of those situations the result would be very good. We didnt, but this result means everything will be decided at Stamford Bridge." Mourinhos game plan was not pretty, but certainly proved effective as the Blues stifled Atletico, whose best opportunity of the first half forced Cech out with an injured shoulder as he tipped Kokes wicked in-swinging corner kick over the bar. Schwarzer came on to chants of "Courtois" as Atletico supporters mocked Chelseas decision to loan out the Belgian goalkeeper. Chelsea should have been ahead moments later when Gary Cahill headed Frank Lampards corner kick wide from inside the area, shortly before Ramires broke through -- only for the Chelsea midfielder to fire wide. Schwarzer was busy gathering failed crosses and long balls as the home side attempted to break through without success, while Chelseas defenders did well to contain Diego Costa and block a series of shots, including the Spain strikers 41st-minute volley from inside the area. After Lampard forced Courtois into a save to start the second half, Atletico slowly began to break through the Chelsea wall through efforts from Diego Ribas, who came off for Turan after an hour. Terry picked up an injury after appearing to land awkwardly and made way for Schuerrle in the 73rd, while Atletico players grew frustrated with referee Jonas Eriksson. The Swede gave neither team leeway in a stop-start match featuring many fouls and also handed out a booking to Gabi that will rule the Atletico captain out of the return match. Yellow cards for Lampard and John Obi Mikel means the Chelsea midfield pair will also miss the game at Stamford Bridge. "We will fight, we will fight," said Mourinho, who said he now saw the Blues priority as being Europe rather than the Premier League. "(Branislav) Ivanovic is back, Schwarzer showed we could trust him. If we have to play the kids, we have to play the kids." Raul Garcia, who limped off at the end, headed a pair of chances over the top in the final 10 minutes, when Atletico pressed forward for a winner. Diego Costa was unable to direct his header past Schwarzer, who will now be vital for Chelseas Premier League campaign, as the London club held on for a valuable draw. Christian Wilkins Womens Jersey . He also had some help Monday night.Hibbert scored a season-high 29 points to help Indiana beat the Utah Jazz 97-86 Monday night, ending the Pacers six-game losing streak. Kenny Stills Jersey . The game had many controversial incidents that, upon closer inspection, were not as controversial as many believed. 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Messi, winner of the last four Ballon dOr awards in voting by coaches, team captains and media, was injured late in the season and could not prevent Barcelona from being beaten by Bayern in the Champions League semifinals.TORONTO - The Toronto Blue Jays will try to capture a second straight game versus the rival New York Yankees with Mark Buehrle set to take the hill Tuesday in the middle portion of a three-game home series. With a win tonight, Buehrle will match Yankees ace Masahiro Tanaka for the most wins in the majors with 11. Buehrle is 10-4 with a 2.32 earned run average, but has lost his last three starts, including a 7-3 setback at Yankee Stadium last Wednesday. Buehrle allowed three runs -- two earned -- and six hits in six innings. He has served up a home run in each of his previous three starts and hasnt fared too well in his career against New York, going 1-11 with a 5.84 ERA in 17 starts. Buehrle is 5-2 in seven starts at home this season. The Blue Jays returned home to start a nine-game stay and kicked off the residency with Mondays 8-3 victory over the Yanks. Adam Lind hit a three-run homer during a six-run second inning and finished with four RBI, while Edwin Encarnacion collected three hits. Marcus Stroman pitched well to pick up the win and limited the Yankees to a run and three hits in eight innings with seven strikeouts and one walk. &quuot;Actually getting going was fine, its the slowing down," Stroman said.dddddddddddd Toronto is 1 1/2 games ahead of Baltimore and 2 1/2 in front on New York for the AL East lead and will also host the Chicago White Sox and Milwaukee Brewers on this homestand. The Jays, who won for the second time in the last seven tries, are 21-17 as the host. The Yankees have lost three in a row since winning four straight and didnt get much help from Chase Whitley on the mound last night. Whitley was tagged for eight runs and 11 hits in 3 1/3 innings. "I couldnt command the ball at all," Whitley said. "I couldnt execute the pitches I wanted to throw." Mark Teixeira homered for the Yankees. Taking the mound for New York Tuesday will be David Phelps. Phelps is 3-4 with a 3.86 ERA and has won back-to-back outings after losing the previous four. In a 6-4 triumph over the Blue Jays last Thursday, Phelps delivered seven innings of two-run ball, struck out seven and walked two. Phelps, a right-hander, is 3-0 with a 3.96 ERA in nine career games (4 starts) against Toronto. The Yankees are 5-2 against the Blue Jays this season. ' ' '
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Seoul to Build Five New Municipal Libraries
Posted on August 13, 2019 by Korea Bizwire in Culture & Society, Education, Policies and Regulation with 0 Comments
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SEOUL, Aug. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — The government of Seoul said Tuesday it will build five more municipal libraries across the city by 2025 to help reduce cultural infrastructure gaps among citizens.
The five new libraries, each with a gross floor area of about 9,000 square meters, will be built in Naebalsan-dong of Gangseo Ward, Sillim-dong of Gwanak Ward, Banghak-dong of Dobong Ward, Jangji-dong of Songpa Ward and Bukgajwa-dong of Seodaemun Ward at a cost of 310 billion won (US$254 million), it said.
“The locations of the new municipal libraries have been selected from the perspective of balanced regional development. They will operate as branches of Seoul Metropolitan Library,” an official said.
In addition, the Seoul government plans to build 66 ward-run libraries and 195 “small libraries” throughout the capital city by 2025, raising the number of public libraries in the city from the current 1,178 to 1,444.
If the expansion plan is completed, all citizens will be able to reach a public library in 10 minutes on foot, officials said, adding the number of library books per citizen will also increase from 1.43 last year to 2.4 in 2025.
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Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
아시아태평양암예방학회 (Asian Pacific Organization for Cancer Prevention)
Hepatic Angiomyolipoma: Contrast Patterns with SonoVue-enhanced Real-time Gray-scale Ultrasonography
Wei, Rui-Xue (Department of Ultrasound, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University) ;
Wang, Wen-Ping (Department of Ultrasound, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University) ;
Ding, Hong (Department of Ultrasound, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University) ;
Huang, Bei-Jian (Department of Ultrasound, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University) ;
Li, Chao-Lun (Department of Ultrasound, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University) ;
Fan, Pei-Li (Department of Ultrasound, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University) ;
Hou, Jun (Department of Pathology, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University) ;
He, Nian-An (Department of Ultrasound, Anhui provincial hospital of Anhui Medical University)
https://doi.org/10.7314/APJCP.2012.13.2.493
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This study was conducted to retrospectively evaluate the pattern of contrast enhancement with SonoVue on gray-scale ultrasonography of hepatic angiomyolipoma (HAML). Imaging features of 33 pathologically proven HAML lesions in 33 patients who underwent baseline ultrasound and contrast-enhanced ultrasonography (CEUS) were assessed retrospectively. All lesions were enhanced in the arterial phase and showed whole-tumor filling in. Thirty-two of 33 (97%) lesions showed early positive enhancement in the arterial phase. Twenty-three of these exhibited isoechoic or hyperechoic features in the portal phase. HAML demonstrate characteristic manifestations with SonoVue-enhanced real-time gray-scale ultrasonography.
Contrast agent;hepatic angiomyolipoma;microbubble;ultrasonography
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Diagnosis of Hepatic Angiomyolipoma by Combination of Baseline and Contrast-Enhanced Ultrasound—A Prospective Study in Non-Cirrhotic Patients vol.10, pp.7, 2015, https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0132290
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Do you trust the Scottish Government?
Answer: If you are a woman, probably not.
Many of you will no doubt have heard of the Scottish Social Attitudes Survey. Public research, publicly funded, the Survey covers a broad gamut of concerns since it was first conducted in 1999. Although my own research sympathies and interests are less statistical than the folk who conducted this study, unlike my more militant anthropological cronies, I'm far more patient about the value which these large-scale can have. The answers permitted by structured surveys may be terse and sparse compared to the range of opinions which people can hold. The use of scales can look fishy and improbable. Certainly, if a survey is pushed in front of me and I'm invited to express satisfaction on a measure of ten pips, I invariably panic. All of these qualms may be true, but there remains no better way to generate an understanding - however conditional or partial it might be - of the otherwise imperceptible eddies and pools which form in the public consciousness. I thought this recent Scottish Government publication would be particularly of interest to political obsessives. It:
"... explores trends in attitudes to government, the economy and public services. It examines longer term-trends in public opinion since the start of devolution in 1999 and changes in attitudes over the shorter period since the last SSA took place in 2007."
This core module explores the following -
(1) Changing attitudes to government in Scotland
(2) Changing attitudes to economic performance and public services
(3) How to attitudes to government and the economy vary?
Interesting questions abound here on how the public perceive the legitimacy of devolved institutions and government, how voters vary, the role the demographics, how voters' views vary, policy by policy and issue by issue. Under the first heading, the researchers asked whether respondents trusted government; their awareness of governmental activity; the responsiveness of the government to public views. This included asking how much do you trust the UK government to work in Scotland's best long-term interest? and how much do you trust the Scottish Government to work in Scotland's best interests? Devolved institutions and their supporters can feel quite satisfied by the results. Table A.8 sets out the answers to the question - Which do you think ought to have most influence over the way Scotland is run? The first preference of 72% was the devolved Scottish institutions. The black-hearted unionist cohort - answering Westminster - came second with only 13% of respondents giving that Palace precedence over Holyrood. Interestingly, 11% suggested that they thought that local cooncils should get the most power, while ardent Europhiles, wanting to make "the European Union" our lord and master, slipped from 1% of the total in previous surveys. I can't do justice to all of the data which they uncovered - it is all clearly set out in the relevant sections of the report and it is extremely unlikely that I could improve upon their presentation.
Blame & standards of health...
However, with our political cap on - it is worth paying particular attention to public services and the economy - and in particular, who the respondents blamed for successes and failures. On health, for example, of those who believed that standards have improved in 2009, 55% credit the Scottish Government policies with this improvement, only 18% Westminster policies. Of those who believe standards in the NHS have fallen, however, only 12% blamed the Scottish Government while 41% attributed falling standards to Westminster policies. On the balance of the same, some 26% of the total believed there had been some improvement, 25% alleged diminished performance, while 41% took the steady as she goes course - of no change.
Blame & standards of the economy...
The expressed views on the standards of the economy, the 66% who think there has been any improvement attribute this to the Scottish Government with only 14% attributing positive developments to the UK government. For those who take the negative view of the economy, how blame was attributed suggests a fascinating story. A slim 7% believed that the Scottish Government were responsible for the diminished economic circumstance, the UK government pick up 38% of the blame, while 44% suggest 'some other reason' is at work behind it. What might this suggest? Firstly, that the Scottish Government appears to be scooping up credit and avoiding blame - but that on the economy, many may have bought into the idea of the global economic crisis, while a secondary cohort believes that the London government is at fault. Significant perhaps for Labour attempts to pin cash cuts on the Scottish Government, undoubtedly significant for those of us wondering how the discourses of impending 'Westminster cuts' might go down with the Scottish people.
On political engagement...
Interesting things too on people's political activities (or lack thereof). Table A. 23 collates more or less 'political' activities which respondents engaged in over the last year. While 45% had done 'none of the below', 17% of respondents had contacted their MPs or MSPs, 14% had attended public meetings, 28% signed some sort of petition, while 9% claimed to have "spoken to an influential person".Well, I suppose the Maximum Eck does put himself about a bit.
Finally, the demographic breakdown of the results is of interest, disclosing as it does variations based on gender and education, party affiliation, constitution preferences and so on.
On gender...
Rather surprisingly, the survey discovered that...
"Women were significantly less positive than men about a number of aspects of government in Scotland in 2009. For example, just 29% of women, compared with 43% of men, trusted the Scottish Government 'a great deal' or 'quite a lot' to make fair decisions."
In 2007, 50% of men and 44% of women expressed 'a great deal' or 'quite a lot' of trust in the Scottish Executive to make fair decisions - a gap of just 6 points. But by 2009, while the proportion of men who trusted the Scottish Government on this measure had fallen to 43%, the proportion of women who said the same fell even more sharply, to 29%. In fact, it appears that while the views of men remained more positive in 2009, trust among women had fallen back to close to 2006 levels (33% of men, 30% of women).
This is a concerning statistic for we nationalists, not least because the party's appeal to women voters has generally proved lower among women than men. Something to be looked at very closely.
On educational background...
"those with degrees were significantly more likely than those with no qualifications to trust the Scottish Government to act in Scotland's best interests (71% vs. 52%), to believe having a Scottish Parliament gives Scotland a stronger voice in the UK (64% vs. 43%) and to think that having a Scottish Parliament gives ordinary people more say in how Scotland is run (60% vs. 35%)."
On newspapers...
"... 69% of broadsheet readers said they trusted the Scottish Government 'just about always' or 'most of the time' to act in Scotland's best interests, compared with just 53% of tabloid readers."
As you can see, plenty to be pouring over here. Do take a look for yourself.
Posted by Lallands Peat Worrier at 10:30 am
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Cat, Bird, and Retail Worker
Summary: Luna, Rayne, and Shirou chat in the Usual
Who: Luna, Rayne, Shirou
When: October 16th, 2016
Where: The Usual Restaurant
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At the bar, at the usual, there sits someone unmistakable for any other. There sits Rayne Hurris, the one with the rainbow hair. The acting director of TASK. She's looking just a little bit dazed in the eyes, not quite paying enough attention to her surroundings as she munches on an order of fried mozzarella sticks that have arrived as an appetizer. If someone is in the place that she knows... she doesn't appear to be aware of it just yet.
Luna comes through the front door of the Usual! Well, her grocery bags do anyway, she follows shortly after, peering around and through them so as not to trip over anything. Luna quickly moves to the nearest empty table and sets her bags down, then wipes her forehead of imaginary sweat. Phew! She looks around the bar, and immediately spots rainbow hair, "Rayne! Hello," she says, and abandons her grocery bags to walk over to her at the bar, her ears twitching lightly.
Apparently Emiya Shirou is going for a record breaking amount of times he hasn't been making his own food. It's likely now that he's less taking a super rare moment of laziness for laziness' sake, and more scoping out foods he doesn't know how to make yet, possibly for future attempts at making them himself. He walks in not long after Luna, and raises a brow. "Hello again Rayne, hello Luna," he greets before taking a place at the bar.
Rayne blinks and lifts her head up before looking around as she hears her name being spoken. She smiles tiredly at Luna as she approaches, then waves to Shirou as he approaches as well. "Hey, uh, guys, how's... everything going?" she manages to blurt out at the two, watching as they take places at the bar. "Um, leaving your things at the table, then, Luna?"
Luna looks over towards her groceries she's abandoned, then at the other occupants of the restaurant. Slugs playing poker, some guy drinking in a corner, a weird cat man like thing licking out a bowl, o O ( Hmm... ) "Yes well, I suppose if someone is going to steal foodstuffs and diapers, they need it more than I or the girls, yes?" She smiles, showing off her fangs, then looks over as Shirou comes up! Ah, two people she knows at once! "Yes well, greetings Shirou." She takes a moment to perform a curtsey to him and Rayne before she hops onto a barstool before replying to Rayne's prior question, "I am well, yes? I have decided to take a break and come here rather than go home immediately, yes? There are times where dealing with so many at once causes undue stress, hmm hmm hmm..."
Shirou says, "Nothing out of the ordinary for me. I just finished a shift and a half cause they needed coverage for a guy who chose his lunch poorly." He says as much like it's a natural thing and not a complaint. "Did you get to talk to Sunset?" He'd look a little awkward and try to bow back toward Luna."
Rayne shrugs at Luna's comments about people needing her things, then nods a bit slowly to what she says next. "I... yeah. I suppose when you have that many people around you all the time... some... alone time can be good, right? Got to spend time for just you as well every once in a while..." She glances at Shirou next, then shakes her head. "I... meant to, but I didn't get the chance." She sighs and slumps forward slightly.
Luna holds a hand up to the bartender! Surely there is one! o O ( What's a good drink, yes? ) o O {Wine, yes? Although, it is doubtful your body has a taste for it, so likely another drink would be good, hmm, hmm hmm...} Her past self responds. Luna looks over at Rayne and Shirou as they talk about speaking with a sunset? A person rather than the actual sun, she assumes. "I don't mean to interrupt, yes? But what is a good drink? I am not overly fond of ale."
Shirou raises a brow at that question. "Alcoholic drinks? I haven't experimented with much outside of sakes," he states, "I usually just stick to tea." That said he orders a green tea and some psarosoupa.
Rayne lifts her head again and looks at Luna again for a few seconds before saying, "I... don't know. You're looking for alcoholic? I don't really drink much, either, so... I dunno. I like mixed drinks. If you like a fruit, ask the bartender for a drink with that juice included?"
Luna nods her head at both Shirou and Rayne. Ah, tea. Sure. Why not? She's not super fond of fruit, so she'll order some tea as well. o O {Mmmm...} Her past self disapproves, but she'll just ignore that for now. "Thank you, yes?" She says to them both for their help. Then looks between them both, her left ear twitching, "I wonder, if I may, ask about you both, yes? I am rather curious as to your origins and how you came to Twisted." She can't help but be curious about things, especially other people. It's just part of what she is as the black dragon of Lunar, especially with her past self influencing her so much.
Shirou tilts his head slightly. "I just kind of showed up here one day. That seems to be the way every multiverse I've arrived in. One day, without remembering how I got there, I'm just THERE.
Rayne frowns slightly. "As far as Twisted is concerned? I literally got punched into this place. One second I'm in a forest on Cevernal fighting a Tuuk, the next I've been punched and I'm on Twisted Street with what I think was a concussion." She sighs and looks down at her plate of fries. "But full origin... How much detail do you want me to get into? I'm the daughter of an admiral and a bounty hunter, and I've been drifting through most of my life."
Luna nods her head at both of them, "I see, yes?" She takes her tea as its set before her and sniffs it. Hm. She takes a sip and wrinkles her nose slightly. Nothing like the tea leaves on Lunar. Still, it's not atrocious either. She looks at Shirou, "Ahh?" Then turns her attention to Rayne as she talks about her life before Twisted, "Indeed?" She was hoping Rayne might spill a bit more about her not quite human nature, alas, "I am the black dragon of Lunar, however, after a woman named Nancy and a creature named Gegoshi led my past life's wives to my current rebirth, one of them, Corinasia, sacrificed her soul in order to restore the memories of my past lives to me." She takes another drink of tea, "She's in a coma now, along with Sift, the other one. I came here because the Akira Institute seemed a fitting place to take 1,000 people and keep them safe."
Shirou says, "Oh, right, origin...umm...that's a lot harder of a story to tell. The least difficulty in it being that I don't even remember anything before a certain point." He blinks at Luna's story, TRYING to be polite and not look as totally lost as he is."
Rayne nods a bit slowly to Luna, then shrugs lightly. "I actually finally met Gegoshi recently... She's nice. I've... really not had a massage in an extremely long time. It was nice to be able to have one..." She frowns a bit more. "...without it being too stressful for me to be worthwhile. Not since my first marraige." She frowns again as she thinks about that institute. No, she's not been there, but she's heard the general gist about it. She blinks and looks up at Shirou again. "Amnesia? Damn, that sucks, man."
Luna nods at Rayne, "Alas, I was busy dealing with an apocalyptic being called Guarlesia at the time, yes?" She shakes her head, wondering why in the world those two wanted her ressurrected in the first place. She still isn't sure about it, but she had a debt to repay, so she wasn't going to say no. Although that was mostly her past self making the decisions at the time. She didn't know Gegoshi gave massages, hm. Perhaps she'll look her up sometime. She looks to Shirou, "Indeed, no memory?" She twitches her right ear as she takes another sip of tea, "Have you sought to recover it, or is it something you believe has been locked away for safety?"
Shirou says, "I went through this thing when I was seven and I can't remember anything before then. All I can remember of my parents is one thing my father told me at that time. It doesn't even bother me, I just find it kind of strange. I haven't tried to recover it cause I don't even feel like I need it. I don't miss it or anything. ...it just strikes me as strange that I can't feel bothered by the fact I can't remember my own parents."
Rayne tilts her head at the mention of Guarlesia. "Oh, her? Apocalyptic? She just seemed... bored when I met her. I felt sorry for her, stuck in that cave. I got some wine for her, got Gegoshi to... make her an entertainment center." She finally smiles lightly. "I felt good about that." She looks back to Shirou and her smile vanishes again. "Well... I guess because you don't really know what you were missing, it feels normal to you?"
Luna nods her head at Shirou. If someone wants to keep their memory loss, then that is their decision and she won't bother offering to examine their soul closely to see if she can help. Granted not all memories are buried in the soul, but you don't know unless you look. She raises an eyebrow at Rayne mentioning Gualesia as being bored and stuck in a cave. "I see, yes? I suppose that must be where she ended up after she was sealed." She nods, "There is a satisfaction with helping those in need, yes?" o O {Careful.} Her past self warns her, o O ( I don't think it will lead me down a path to madness, yes? )
Shirou says, "That might be it. I remember not seeming to care about anything at all for a while. Obviously I got over that at some point. But, well...was there anything specific you wanted to know?"
Rayne frowns slightly at the mention of Guarlesia being sealed. "Well... her seals are still intact, as far as I know. She couldn't leave, at least, and I wasn't about to try to do something about that. But like I said, I felt sorry for her." She shrugs lightly, then tilts her head at Shirou's description of his younger self. "Sounds like textbook depression," she says quietly.
Luna nods her head at them both, finishing off her tea and setting it aside. She glances at Rayne and looks back to Shirou. Anything specific, "Yes well, not really I suppose." She smiles, showing her fangs, "I enjoy learning about those I encounter often, yes? And people's past can often show what their actions will be in the future." Although she'll just ignore that applying to her, because it means eventually she'll go mad and become like her past self was at the end of its life.
Shirou says, "I've....done a lot.....I guess." He murmurs that uncertainty when Luna explains her interest. The red head shrugs and adds to the information he's given. "I guess the easiest way to narrow everything else down into a simple package is by saying I've been in several magic wars for the sake of keeping something out of people's hands?"
Rayne nods to Luna, but then almost immediately changes that up to shaking her head as her actual meal arrives... in a to go box. "Maybe I'll give better detail another time, Luna, but I'm.... I'm really tired. I'll see the both of you later, okay?" She leaves a tip on the counter as she stands up, then picks up the box. "I'm gonna go home now," she says barely above a mumble as she starts meandering out.
Shirou waves after Rayne as his own food arrives. "Take care Rayne. Hopefully you can speak with Sunset soon."
Luna nods her head at Rayne as she takes her food and heads out, "Indeed, fare well, yes?" She says to the rainbow haired girl. Her gaze lingers on her, thinking of the possibility of more details to come in the future. She hops seats, sitting next to Shirou since it's weird to leave a gap between them both.
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Cockcroft, Laurence
Wealth -- Moral and ethical aspects
"Corruption has played a pivotal role in sustaining appallingly high levels of poverty in many developing countries, particularly in relation to the deficient provision of basic services such as education and healthcare. It is also a major reason why growth-rate increases in Africa and South Asia have failed to benefit large segments of the population. Corruption drives the overexploitation of natural resources, capturing their value for a small elite--whether timber from Indonesia or coltan from Congo. In the developed world, corrupt funding undermines political systems and lays policy open to heavy financial lobbying. Laurence Cockcroft argues that corruption has to be seen as the result of the interplay between elite "embedded networks," greed, and organized crime. The growth of corruption has been facilitated by globalization, the integration of new and expanding markets into the world economy, and the rapid expansion of offshore financial facilities, which provide a home to largely unregulated pools of money derived from personal fortunes, organized crime, and pricing malpractice in international trade. This book shows how the current international interest in corruption follows the fifty years of the Cold War in which efforts to rein in corruption were regarded in international policymaking circles as off the table. Cockcroft describes the change of attitude from the 1990s onward and the initiatives that have been designed to combat corruption over the past twenty years--from individual prosecutors, to governments, to civil society, and to progressive business--and assesses their impact to date. By identifying the main drivers of corruption worldwide and analyzing current efforts to control them, Global Corruption: Money, Power, and Ethics in the Modern World suggests ways in which the problems caused by corruption can be addressed and ultimately prevented."--Publisher's website
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Global corruption : money, power and ethics in the modern world, Laurence Cockcroft
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The Libes Libation
Why I love Comcast, Verizon, the FCC, and everyone else.
Verizon Files Suit Against Montgomery County
Today , Verizon sued Montgomery County, Maryland. I've never reprinted a press release before but this one speaks for itself:
Harry Mitchell, 304-344-7562
WASHINGTON - In an effort to bring video choice and competition to citizens of Montgomery County, Maryland, Verizon today filed a federal lawsuit against the county for its unreasonable and illegal cable-franchising process and demands.
The suit, filed in U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland in Greenbelt, asks the court to declare that Montgomery County's cable franchise process and requirements violate federal communications and antitrust law, as well as the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
Verizon is asking the court for a preliminary injunction invalidating Montgomery County's current cable franchising law and directing the county to negotiate a franchise with Verizon on lawful terms within 60 days. At the same time - in an effort to help speed the negotiations to resolution - Verizon is asking the court to invalidate the numerous unlawful requirements the county is attempting to impose on the company.
"Verizon regrets having to take this step, but the county's unlawful demands leave us no other choice," said John P. Frantz, Verizon vice president and associate general counsel, who is leading the company's legal team on the case. "We would prefer to reach agreement on a franchise that would offer Montgomery County consumers more choice for their cable services, but after a year of essentially fruitless negotiations, we are at an impasse."
Montgomery County's Demands Hurt Consumers, Protect Incumbent
Over the year that Verizon has been negotiating to obtain a franchise to offer its FiOS TV in Montgomery County, county officials have made numerous unlawful demands that have stymied the negotiations. For example:
The county asserts the right to collect fees on, and otherwise regulate, Verizon's telephone and broadband Internet service, in clear violation of federal law. In addition, the county claims authority to regulate the engineering, construction, placement and maintenance of Verizon's entire fiber-optic network once the company starts offering video service, again in clear violation of federal law.
The county is demanding that Verizon set aside roughly 65 channels of digital capacity for public, educational and governmental programming, even though the county currently has programming for only 11 channels. Verizon wants to use the channels the county is insisting the company set aside to deliver programming that county residents want to see.
The county is demanding that Verizon pay hundreds of thousands of dollars to cover the fees that the county owes to its own private consultants and attorneys; federal law forbids such demands.
The county is demanding additional cash and free services as a condition for granting a franchise; it has no right to demand such terms under established federal law.
"We're frustrated at the lack of progress in these negotiations, because the inordinate delay benefits only the monopoly cable incumbent," said Frantz. "Meanwhile, Montgomery County residents continue to suffer, held hostage to Comcast's ever-rising cable rates."
Comcast has increased Montgomery County cable rates more than three times the inflation rate since 2000. In Montgomery County, the stalled franchise negotiations are costing county households more than $725,000 a month in possible savings.
"Competition will bring lower prices, more innovation and better quality," said Frantz. "It's past time for Montgomery County residents to join their neighbors in Howard County and Northern Virginia who are reaping the benefits of cable competition and choice."
Montgomery County is the only place in the Washington metropolitan area where Verizon has sought a franchise and has not been able to obtain one. In Maryland, Howard County, Bowie and Laurel have all granted Verizon a franchise; Anne Arundel County is poised to do so July 5; and Verizon's negotiations with Prince George's County are on track for an agreement by late summer. In northern Virginia, Verizon has obtained franchises from Arlington, Fairfax, Loudoun and Prince William counties; the City of Fairfax, Dumfries, Herndon, Falls Church and Leesburg; and the Marine Corps Base at Quantico.
Montgomery County Neighbors Enjoy Cable Choice, Competition
In other markets where Verizon has introduced FiOS TV - including neighboring Howard County - cable incumbents have responded with lower prices, more innovative bundled offerings of phone, broadband and video service, and increased broadband speeds.
Verizon's standard FiOS TV package, FiOS TV Premier, offers 180 digital video and music channels, two dozen high-definition channels and access to an extensive on-demand library for $39.95 a month. Comcast's most comparable cable package costs $68.60 in Montgomery County.
A family that switched to Verizon's video offering would save more than $300 a year and get more for its money. Verizon currently offers numerous other channels not provided by Comcast, including the Mid-Atlantic Sports Network, which broadcasts Washington Nationals baseball games.
The competitive response to Verizon's entry to the video market is swift and dramatic. In communities where Verizon already is offering FiOS TV, incumbents initially responded by slashing prices by 28-42 percent.
"Verizon's interest in this is simple," said Frantz. "We want the ability to bring choice and competition to Montgomery County consumers as quickly as possible, and we want Montgomery County officials to do the right thing by their constituents to make that happen."
A summary document provides more detail about the basis for Verizon's lawsuit. Some of it sounds accurate and some of it doesn't but without the filings (not yet available), I can only speculate (and will do so as I find out more info). In the meantime, here is the summary document:
SUMMARY OF VERIZON’S COMPLAINT AGAINST MONTGOMERY COUNTY, MARYLAND
In May 2005, Verizon asked Montgomery County to grant a franchise to offer cable service in competition with Comcast. A full year later, the county has failed to approve Verizon’s application. Instead, county officials have responded by demanding that Verizon agree to a host of unlawful requirements as a condition for getting a franchise.
MONTGOMERY COUNTY’S ILLEGAL ACTIONS
Montgomery County’s Cable Franchising Process Violates the First Amendment.
By adding cable television to its menu of communications services, Verizon seeks to engage in a form of speech protected by the First Amendment. Local laws licensing speakers must spell out narrow, objective standards that limit the discretion of government officials in deciding whether to grant franchises and what conditions may be attached.
Montgomery’s County’s cable franchise process violates the First Amendment because it delegates to county officials discretion to approve or withhold franchises at will, to charge any fees they wish, to condition franchises on any demands they see fit, and to render decisions on any timeline they choose.
The First Amendment requires that local authorities issue franchises in a timely manner. Yet county officials told Verizon it would take until at least November 2006 to grant a franchise, even if Verizon agreed to all the county’s illegal demands – a full 18 months after Verizon first asked for a franchise.
Montgomery County’s Franchise Demands Violate the Federal Communications Act.
The Communications Act expressly prohibits local governments from exploiting their control over cable franchises to seize control over telephone and broadband Internet services. Yet county officials have, by ordinance and regulation, imposed a host of requirements on broadband and telephone services, as well as a series of rules governing the construction, operation and maintenance of Verizon’s telephone network, to which Verizon would be subject once it begins offering video service.
The county has no justification for these requirements. Verizon is selling broadband and telephone services in Montgomery County today free from these regulations. There is nothing about Verizon’s offering video programming that suddenly creates a need to regulate its other services.
Federal law limits the fees the county can collect to 5 percent of Verizon’s cable revenues. Montgomery County’s cable ordinance requires Verizon to pay 5 percent of its revenues on all services, including Internet service.
In addition, to secure a franchise, the county has demanded that Verizon pay an additional 3 percent of its revenues to cover the county’s cable programs; provide free cable service to hundreds of government and private buildings around the county; pay hundreds of thousands of dollars to cover the county’s consultants’ and attorneys’ fees; and provide additional cash or free services on top of all these other concessions. Federal law prohibits all of these demands.
The county’s contention that its actions are justified because it imposed the same requirements on Comcast is specious. Comcast’s franchise provides that if the county negotiates an agreement with a new entrant that requires smaller monetary contributions, Comcast can renegotiate its agreement to match those terms. This is not a question of competitive equity, but of county officials being unwilling to part with the perquisites offered by a cable monopolist.
The county does not need the money. It is projecting a surplus of roughly $1 million for its cable fund in fiscal year 2007.
Montgomery County Is Enforcing Its Franchise Agreement With Comcast in a Way That Violates Federal Antitrust Law.
Congress outlawed exclusive franchises in 1992. Prior to that, cable operators often offered perks over and above what the law required in order to win monopoly control of a market. The cable operator could then exploit its monopoly position to recoup the costs of these give-aways. Incumbent cable operators continue to employ this strategy to raise barriers to entry.
The county has interpreted Comcast’s franchise agreement to block the county from offering a franchise agreement to a Verizon on different terms. This halts competition and protects Comcast’s monopoly. By entering into an agreement with Comcast that ensures the county will impose cost-prohibitive terms on new entrants, effectively blocking entry, the county has violated federal antitrust laws.
COMPETITION WILL BENEFIT MONTGOMERY COUNTY CONSUMERS
If allowed to compete in Montgomery County, Verizon’s FiOS TV will introduce much-needed competition and create significant benefits for cable customers.
The Lack of Cable Competition Is Harming Montgomery County Consumers.
Control of the Market … Comcast currently controls the video market in Montgomery County. Roughly two-thirds of all households in the county, and roughly 75 percent of households that purchase cable or satellite service, subscribe to Comcast.
Rising Prices … Because of a lack of competition, Comcast has been able to raise prices in Montgomery County by 25 percent since 2000 – nearly three times the rate of inflation. From 2004-2005, Comcast raised prices by 6 percent.
No Competition … While satellite service is available, the FCC has determined that satellite is not effective at constraining price increases by cable companies.
Competition Can Constrain Comcast’s Price Increases.
Competition Works … In its March 2006 report on video competition, the FCC found that in areas with real cable competition, monthly cable rates are 16 percent lower and customers pay 27 percent less per programming channel.
Delay Costs Consumers … Nationwide, the delay in wireline competition is creating economic losses of between $8.2 billion and $21.4 billion per year.
Montgomery County Consumers Are Paying a Huge Price … Thomas Hazlett, an economist at George Mason University who submitted a declaration in support of Verizon’s case, concluded that the county’s actions are costing residents more than $725,000 per month.
Verizon’s FiOS TV: A Much-Needed Competitor in Montgomery County.
Customers who switch to Verizon will save money. Verizon’s standard digital package costs $28.65 less than the comparable package offered by Comcast in Montgomery County. A family in Montgomery County that switches to Verizon could save more than $300 per year.
Even customers who don’t subscribe to FiOS TV will benefit from competition. In communities where Verizon has been allowed to compete, cable prices have dropped 28 to 42 percent.
In Keller, Texas, the first location where FiOS TV began competing, Charter lowered its rate by $16 per month or 28 percent.
In Herndon, Va., Cox dropped its price from $52.44 per month to $30 per month after FiOS TV entered the market.
In Temple Terrace, Fla., Bright House lowered its price from $58.45 per month to $36.33 per month.
Verizon carries the Mid-Atlantic Sports Network, which broadcasts Washington Nationals baseball games. This is just one of the many channels Verizon carries that Comcast does not.
Anyone from the Montgomery County Executive's Office or Cable Office care to respond?
posted by Don Libes at 6/29/2006 10:20:00 PM | 4 Comments Links to this post
No Shows All Around
This week's Telecomm Advisory Committee meeting was lightly attended. The Verizon representative rumored to be there wasn't. A rep from RCN (aka StarPower) was officially given time on the agenda - and didn't show. And the two humiliated Comcast reps from last month didn't return.
And they might have been justified. Indeed, Jane Lawton was absent as well. As I understand it, she's officially back as the MC Cable Administrator but also still serving as a state delegate. The term was supposed to be over last month but the Governor wanted the entire Maryland General Assembly to stick around for awhile and try to address soaring energy rates. And her office reports that Jane will be running for her delegate position again. Since fall elections aren't that far away, it's only fair to wonder how much time she'll have to commit to cable issues during the campaign season.
One thing on Jane's mind is that her future may be more secure in Annapolis than in Montgomery County. Bills currently pending in Congress appear likely to strip away local cable regulation and pass it over to the FCC. Is that good? Well, it's good if you're concerned about obscene language. Regulating four-letter words on broadcast TV - the FCC has been good. But reining in soaring cable costs - not so good. And unless you can get a hundred thousand of your close friends to write to the FCC that your bill is wrong or your cable drop wasn't buried deep enough and was just cut by the landscapers, well, forget it.
The leading bill in Congress would nationalize the franchise system. The obvious benefit: Competition. According to Consumers Union, Americans who have a choice between two cable companies pay about 17% less on average. And cost is only one aspect that would likely improve. Being able to choose another provider (even if only one other choice) gives you a lot of power. All of a sudden, you're in control over who gets your hard-earned coin.
Is competition a total win? No. Although service may improve from competition, another concern is that the new bill contains no language forcing companies to provide service to everyone. If you live in a demographically-incorrect area, you may be out of luck. Well, you can move. Or band together with neighbors for community WiFi or community fiber. Hey, the local government may find a new role supporting these efforts! (Indeed, amendments to the bill support this idea.)
Sadly, the propaganda from both sides distorts the true advantages and disadvantages. For example, even traditional franchises have never provided guarantees of so-called universal coverage (a concept in and of itself of questionable merit). I take issue with claims of the Cable Office and its lobbying organization(s) as much as I take issue with the claims of the cables and the telecomms.
There are many other issues affected by these proposed bills (net neutrality being another world of distortion propaganda). I'm not going to get into them except to mention that the details in the bills are far from settled. It's been reported that there were over 200 amendments tacked on to the leading bill and god only knows what will happen once the bill goes into conference where legislators will add language never before seen by the public. From articles I've read in the Post, interested companies have sent hundreds of lobbyists to Capitol Hill and are spending millions of dollars per day pushing their interests on members of Congress.
So what does this all mean locally? Well, the latest word from the Cable Office is that, once again, there has been no progress on a video franchise for Verizon in Montgomery County Maryland. Although no one is talking freely, it is apparent that nothing will happen locally until the bills in Congress either pass or die. And it seems pretty clear that the fighting will rage on for months. Bottom line: Unless MC and Verizon start talking, it will be at least a year before we see FIOS TV, even under a national franchise.
Curiously, the Cable Office had a meeting the following day (Thursday, June 22 '06) to which it invited the municipalities that MC normally represents in franchise negotations. According to the Cable Office, the meeting was to inform the municipalities of the status of the Verizon franchise. But why now - when there's been zero change in the status for months? Is it possible that some of the unhappy munis are negotiating with Verizon on the side, desparate to get around the county deadlock? If so, the county would surely like to squelch that before a domino effect completely undermines the county's position. Can any municipal representatives reading this offer their insights?
Vital This
As if to remind us that they are still a vital piece of the system, the Cable Office noted that:
Comcast complaints were up last month, primarily regarding exposed drops.
Comcast was out of compliance with respect to several different customer service measures and has thus been sent a warning as a prelude to a fine if they don't come back into compliance within the next quarter.
RCN was late with franchise fees so they will now owe late fees. As I recall, the same thing happened last year. Is it serious cash-flow problems at RCN or just utter incompetence in their finance department? Too bad - because the county received only 3 billing complaints from RCN subscribers for the entire month of May. That's it. No customer service complaints, no installation complaints, no marketing complaints. That's a good record.
I shouldn't be too hard on the Cable Office. I appreciate the fine work they do - and yet I'm also frustrated at the limited reach they have given the fees they collect. (Did I mention that language in the national bill will ensure that locals continue to get their 5% franchise fee?) For example, the Cable Office is great at investigating safety issues such as ungrounded drops but the Cable Office can't touch frustrations like the incompetence of the phone reps at Comcast and the inability to be able to speak to a knowledgeable supervisor. (At last month's meeting, one TAC member speculated that Comcast doesn't actually have supervisors. It's just an empty title so that the front-line reps can say that "There are no supervisors around now, but I'll have one call you back." Has anyone been called back by a supervisor? Ever?)
And there's nothing that local regulators can do about prices in the upper tiers and the creative games that Comcast plays in making packages that include channels that no one wants. As an example of this nonsense, last month Comcast introduced a new package: The Family Tier, nominally for child-safe TV watching. Let's be honest - the only child-safe TV watching is no TV watching. The true reason for Comcast's new package was to head off Congressional interest in forcing a la carte subscriptions. A la carte would allow people to subscribe to just the channels they want. But this is the last thing that video providers want to provide. They figure that by offering a few more packages, they can claim that they are providing people with choice. And so far, Congress appears to have gone along with this charade. Have any customers swallowed this nonsense and signed up for this tier?
Triple Play Attraction/Repulsion
At dslreports.com, Karl Bode wrote about the Triple Play concept that I analyzed recently. As I said at the time, it's got some benefits but a whole lotta negatives. For example, in Comcast's case, the big negative is price. You ought to be getting a deal; in reality, the 'deal' is awful. And Karl notes that few customers are signing up for triple plays (and in some cases, quadruple plays). Here's Karl's take:
Karl Bode On The Triple Play
If you listened solely to ISP press releases, you'd think that the triple-play bundle is all the rage, and that the majority of customers are lining up to pay one company $100+ for three or more services. In reality, most customers still prefer to grab one or two services, and frequently can net better bargains by shopping around for their third or fourth service - be that video, wireless, or VoIP.
According to a Jupiter Research survey from March, only five percent of subscribers sign up for the triple-play, and only around a quarter of all customers are interested in nabbing all services from a single provider. "The assumption that everybody wants a bundle is flawed," a Jupiter analyst told the Washington Post last March.
This week a new study by Pyramid Research claims most customers are interested in either one or two services. The study finds that "most telcos are selling 1 to 1.5 revenue generating units (RGUs, aka one service) per customer while cable companies perform slightly better, selling around 1.5 to 1.9 RGUs per customer" (thanks to cable deploying VoIP faster than telcos are deploying video).
The report almost laughs at the idea of the "quadruple play."
Occasionally you'll catch rare candid admissions by incumbents that customers aren't quite as keen on the triple-play as their press releases would lead you to believe. For example, Time Warner's CFO recently admitted that only 7% of his company's customers subscribe to three services, and the majority only purchased a single service.
Whenever this topic is breached, there's a chicken and the egg debate here that springs up: are customers really saving significant money by bundling? Or are they being penalized for not bundling in environments where competitive choices are lacking? Comcast's stand-alone broadband service remains ridiculously expensive for someone who doesn't watch television. Similarly, stand-alone VOIP from Comcast costs a whopping $55.
Bundling is, in part, an effort by providers to obfuscate the real price of services, clouding the consumer's ability to directly compare single-service prices. Once a customer has switched to a single-provider, they're frequently greeted by unexpected fees, and the cost-savings they expected are nowhere to be found.
Upcoming Advisory Committee Meeting
The next CCAC (aka TAC or Telecommunications Advisory Committee) meeting is scheduled for June 21 at 7pm. The meeting will be held in Room 225 at 100 Maryland Ave., Rockville, and is rumored to include a Verizon representative. It would be nice if she were to address the status of the FIOS TV franchise but I don't expect it - all the negotations are being kept private - although snatches have escaped on occasion. At the same time, franchises are being hotly debated in Congress so a local franchise may be a moot point. Verizon may well have written off the MC franchise given its success to date lobbying Congress for national franchise legislation (it's already passed in the House).
If you'd like a question posed, send it directly to your CCAC representatives. You can check the Frapper map to find your nearest CCAC representative (look for the green icons). Most of them are publicly listed in the white pages. Call one up and express your thoughts. These people represent you!
The Best Deal For Comcast Customers
Computers are too damn complex. When my email stops working, I know how difficult it can be to narrow down the problem. Is it my broadband provider? My mail provider? My computer? My router? My toaster oven?
I have a more complex setup than most people - I use a 3rd party email provider. I accept the additional complexity of this but many people would not - they want the same provider for both email and broadband. They figure that broadband providers provide basic email service for free anyway. Plus, there's less fingerpointing when things break.
Wouldn't it be even better if we could simplify even further? Hey, broadband providers can! Internet service, video service, and phone service all from one company. One bill. One number to call for problems. Lately, I've been seeing the One Bill mantra played up more and more in advertisements. Not so much for the One Number For Problems though - I guess no one wants to focus on problems (especially when there are so many of them).
A Good Time Was Had By Almost All
I was reminded of the goal of simplification during the most recent meeting of the Montgomery County TAC (Telecommunications Advisory Committee) on May 18 2006. A good time was had by all. Well, all except the two Comcast representatives who gave a briefing to the committee. Admitting that things had not been going well in Montgomery County for some time, Angela Lee and Erin Pinkney attempted to put the right spin on it.
Angela, Comcast Senior Director of Government Affairs for MC and PG (and soon to include Frederick, thanks to the purchase of the Adelphia market but pending a lawsuit) described how complaints were now at a "very low level, lower probably than in years." Oooh, don't you just love unprovably vague assertions?!
Let's recast that in a different (but equally vague) way: Comcast's complaint levels have been so bad for so long, that anything has to be better. (See how this game is played?)
Attempting to shift the blame as much as possible, Angela noted that the number of problems (without giving an actual number, of course) due to Verizon construction was down significantly. (So Comcast replacing their area General Manager was just an everyday personnel change?)
Remind Me Why I'm Here
Erin Pinkney, Area Director of Marketing for Comcast, then had her turn. Apparently under a total misimpression as to her purpose for being at the meeting, she launched into a description of Comcast's latest products. Actually, a better phrase would be Comcast's latest marketing because that's all it was. Same products, different promos.
The committee politely listened to Erin go on about how customers want simplification (which she termed "lifestyle simplification" ) for about 15 minutes. Finally one committee member rudely interrupted and said: So my cable was cut for 3 weeks - no service - and only after I filed an official complaint with the county did I get a temporary drop. You promised me it would be replaced in 30 days but it's been 5 weeks - when are you going to fix it already?
At this point, the concept of simplification fell on the floor as committee members let loose with a barrage of questions and comments - paraphrased below. After each, I've shown Comcast's paraphrased response:
TAC: You're offering phone service? What are your reliability figures?
TAC: How can we be assured that your E911 is reliable?
TAC: I wouldn't trust my phone service to Comcast.
Erin: We have a new culture at Comcast!
TAC: How will you deal with phone outages? These are important!
TAC: How can I report outages if my Comcast phone is out?
Erin: Ask our Director of Technical Operations!
TAC: Why doesn't Comcast send out people who can fix the problem? I'm tired of getting people visit me who say "Oh, you need a line tech."
Erin: Miss Utility is causing severe delays!
TAC: Why can't we get Nats games?
Erin: We're negotiating!
TAC: Why is Comcast failing to provide us with FCC-required close-captioning statistics.
Erin: Write us a letter.
TAC: We did already!
Erin:
TAC: We're still seeing Verizon-related construction problems.
Angela: Yes, but less so.
TAC: Channels are disappearing from the analog band, will we get price reductions?
Erin: No, but we'll give you a free month of digital!
TAC: Why are additional digital boxes so expensive?
Erin: ... completely non-responsive ...
As you can tell from the last answer, I got tired of writing down questions followed by non-responsive answers. Indeed, the only reason I wrote down as many as I did is because they were, quite simply, outrageously entertaining in their non-responsiveness. Ok, the answer to the Nats question was responsive ... albeit useless.
To elaborate on a few:
Erin used the phrase new culture at Comcast several times in her answers. This came up yet again after one extended diatribe by a committee member who works for Geeks On Call. He frequently has to call Comcast on a customer's behalf - so he's got plenty of experience. He described typical interactions like this:
Comcast: Do you have your own router?
Customer: Yes.
Comcast: Then the problem must be in your router!
After describing how unhelpful the Comcast phone reps were, the same committee member asked directly: So what do you mean by "new culture at Comcast"?
Erin: I mean a new culture from a marketing perspective!
That certainly left everyone speechless! And in response to another question, Angela expanded: There is a focus on customer service! and she requested to Bear with us! Hmm, I've never seen that latter phrase in Comcast's advertisements!
Promos That Backfire
Speaking of ads, Angela and Erin went over a new promotion: the Comcast Triple Play. It works like this: If you don't already subscribe to all three of video, internet, and phone, you can do so at $33/month for each additional service for 12 months.
Who might find this attractive? I see the pricing targeted at 3 different groups:
Comcast TV and HSI (internet) customers who don't like the high price Comcast is asking for phone service.
Comcast TV customers who don't have Comcast HSI but are looking at (or already have) Verizon FIOS and traditional phone service.
Comcast HSI customers who already have satellite TV and traditional phone service.
In each case, there are substantial discounts to be had. For example in case 1, Comcast's deal is a 17% discount off their nominal cost of phone service. In case 2, Comcast is undercutting their own internet price by 23% as well as Verizon FIOS by 8%.
There are some differences in the internet service between Comcast and Verizon and I'm not going to go any further into that. And I'm not going to try to compare Comcast TV with the satellite equivalents - because they're harder to compare.
But it is easy to find a better price for phone service than Comcast's deal (which quite frankly is absurdly overpriced). Indeed, Verizon's VoiceWing (unlimited nationwide) package is $24.95. And there are even cheaper deals out there.
But if you want lifestyle simplification (to use Erin's phrase), Verizon should be considered. For example, say you're the typical long-term Comcast customer considering Comcast's offer for their Triple Play. So you have Comcast HSI+TV and are paying $96.60 (before taxes and fees). Add on Comcast phone for the special $33 and you're up to $129.60. But if you wanted to get the same three comparable services from Verizon, it would be Verizon-DirecTV ($44.99) + VoiceWing ($24.95) + FIOS ($34.95) for a total of $104.95. That's significantly lower. And the disparity is even greater if you're a Comcast Digital TV customer.
So if you're a new customer, the Comcast deal looks good - $99 for all three services. That's $5.95 less than Verizon. But Comcast's deal doesn't look too good if you're an existing Comcast customer. For substantial savings, you're far better off switching to Verizon. (Plus you get significantly higher upload speeds.)
Ironic, isn't it? If this new Comcast promo makes anything clear, it is that the best deal for Comcast customers is to leave Comcast.
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So with the contest being extended until the 18th, does that mean resubmissions are allowed until then? Or are the results just being delayed until the 18th due to the volume of responses? Sorry if that's a silly question.
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Quote from: Gizzmo0815 on April 10, 2011, 11:21:12 PM
You can submit final tweaks, etc until the 18th, but Mike won't be commenting on anything submitted after the 4th. He wanted to be sure everyone had a chance to get his comments, then adjust their mix if they choose to before the final submission deadline.
Love the kick-drum sound in the verses -- velvety, but powerfully insistent. It probably needs some high-end boost during the louder sections of the mix to bring it out better on smaller speakers, though. The cymbals sound fine too, although they might perhaps be smoothed out a little with some cut at 5-6kHz. I love the sense of sustain you've achieved with the snare. It's not the longer tail that some people have gone for, but more of a brief burst of energy focused around the attack so that it doesn't become just a 'bip' even when the guitars are at their most aggressive. (I'd be interested to know what you used to achieve this, in fact.) Could it have a fraction more low midrange? I can't quite make up my mind on that. The toms feel a little indistinct, though. It's like I'm not quite sure where they're coming from, even though they seem balanced fairly sensibly.
The bass tone is well-judged, well-controlled, and translates pretty faithfully to small speakers, which is all good. At times, though, I wonder if the bass could balance with the kick a bit more equally in the sub-100Hz region. The guitars are in general rather low in the balance, even if I drive the mix hard into a loudness processor (thereby ducking the drum peaks), and I think they could afford to fill out the texture more across the board. While the tone of the chorus guitars seems fairly sensible, and there's decent separation of the two lines, the mid-section guitars feel like they're rather lacking in the low midrange, which leaves the bass alone to provide the power in this department. Even in Berk13's mix, which scoops out a good deal of midrange to assist with the long-term dynamics, there's still a suggestion of low-end weight in there that prevents the bass guitar feeling too disconnected. I'd also like to hear more stereo width in these parts if possible, because their image is rather narrow at the moment. (That said, the mono-compatibility of this mix is very good currently, so be careful not to compromise that if you can.)
The vocal also seems a little on the thin side, although that's partly on account of the tonal character of the mix as a whole, which feels a couple of decibels shy in the 2kHz area, as well as a touch too crispy at 9kHz. Still, even taking this into account, I think the breathy upper frequencies are perhaps overplayed. Sibilance is also a problem throughout -- whether you stick with this tone or not, some de-essing would be advisable. I like the verse spot effects, which provide some welcome ear-candy, but using that heavy chorus-like treatment carries with it a danger of dating the sound, so I'd probably choose delays myself out of preference. I like the way the LV and double-track are blended together in the choruses, and also the BV tone and effects, but the latter are mixed too low for me, especially in the outro section, and I remain to be convinced about their unbalanced stereo spread.
The main comment I have about this mix, though, is that I would want it to sound subjectively 'bigger' in a general sense. That's partly a question of just turning up and spreading out the guitars, but you could also perhaps use a bit more compression on the drums and the mix as a whole, as well as considering adding in things like additional overdubbed layers or faked double-tracks. However, don't be tempted to turn up the reverb, because I think that's already been taken as far as it can at the moment, and you'll risk washing things out if you go any further. Delays, on the other hand, are probably worth further investigation, because of the way they can add sustain without many of the less-desirable side-effects of reverb.
Thanks for submitting this mix. You've got the workings of a very good balance going there, especially in terms of the way the drums and bass fit together. (Thanks too for bearing with me while I caught up! )
Berk13
Quote from: Berk13 on April 03, 2011, 07:44:06 PM
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This is one of the wetter mixes we've had so far, but the balance in general is nonetheless very nicely managed on the whole, and there's also a nice sense of dynamics, both in the short term and in the longer term. In particular I think this may be the best mix-only solution to the final chorus entry I've heard so far, which you've pulled of by a clever sleight of hand: by recessing the meatier midrange guitar frequencies during the mid-sections and keeping a firm lid on the bass (it's normally inclined to eat the rest of the mix for breakfast in the second mid-section if left to its own devices), you've then given the main chorus guitar riff much more impact by making sure it's rich in the very midrange energy that the mid-sections were lacking, and the bass doesn't feel a let-down either. An impressive solution to the problem without recourse to overdubs. (And I thought it wasn't possible -- oh ye of little faith! )
The bits of this mix that convince me the most are the larger-scale sections, where the richer effects landscape really comes into its own to make the production full and epic-sounding. The snare is a highlight for me, because it manages to make its presence felt strongly, without being either very bright or very spiky -- it's got that elusive midrange sustain that I've already mentioned so often, achieved comparatively conventionally in this case with judicious compression and reverb, it sounds like. For my own tonal preference I'd prefer it to have more high end to bring it more in line with the brightness of the cymbals, but it already functions perfectly from a balance perspective as it is. The kick, toms and cymbals fit together beautifully too, with the possible exception of the low tom, which does seem to boom a little on occasion. I also wonder whether the cymbals might be a bit rich in the 5kHz region, especially in the middle section and outro when the guitar tones get more strident. Switching to small speakers does reveal that the kick doesn't survive too well there, however, so I'd be tempted to give that a bit more high end for the choruses at least.
I've already alluded to the quality of the bass-guitar processing, but it really is exemplary -- rock solid control and a lovely rich sound, but without overloading the low midrange such that the guitars have no room for their own warmth frequencies. It also comes through beautifully on small speakers.
So far so good. However, there are a number of areas where I think improvements could be made. The first main point I'd make is that while the heavier use of reverbs has its benefits in terms of making the very biggest sections of this mix impressive-sounding, I think that the effects are perhaps making the whole production sound a little too smooth and lush. It's not that I don't like 'smooth and lush', but this is a rock band carrying a bucketful of angst, and it seems like it's getting slightly sugar-coated. Back off the returns by a couple of decibels and give the mix a little more overall compression, however, and I think you'll find yourself back on the right side of the line there. More of an issue, is that I think that there's not enough contrast in the effects use from section to section, which waters down the verse/chorus dynamics for me. Get the automation going and pull back some of the more epic treatments for the verses in particular -- it's surprising how effective this can be at breathing extra life into an arrangement.
In addition, I think you could maybe have a bit more front-back depth going on by varying the send levels a little more between different tracks, especially in terms of the vocals, which feel like they could take a good couple of steps forward in the balance. However, I don't think it's only the reverb levels which are holding the vocals back, so I'd probably bring their fader up at least a decibel across the board into the bargain. The vocal tuning could be tighter too, in the choruses especially, and the consonant flams between the lead and double-track are still a bit distracting for me. The sibilance feels a bit out of control on the choruses too, so it's probably time to get busy with a de-esser. The chorus BVs are quite nicely done in terms of having a greater sense of distance than the leads, but I'd weed out a bit of their low mids to avoid clogging up that area of the mix. You've made an interesting choice by panning them to one side only, but it does rather imbalance the stereo picture for me -- there's nothing on the other side of the image performing a similar duty. I suppose you could say that they're balancing the riff guitar, but it doesn't really feel that way to these ears.
Overall tonality might benefit from some tweaks: I found myself adding a couple of decibels at 900Hz and 8kHz, and dipping out a little 3kHz too, to get closer to the Thrice reference, for instance. I'd also have a close look at the phase relationship between the overhead mics in particular, because the mix feels like it's losing a lot of 'height' in mono.
Criticisms aside, though, this is a really nice-sounding mix in a lot of respects, so thanks for sending it in. You've pushed the sense of size about as far as anyone has so far, and it's great for everyone to hear a good example of the possibilities available there.
First of all Thanks for taking the time to review my mix and everyone else.
I discovered this forum the last Saturday before the deadline so this track was a 1 day work.
The first thing that concerned me about this song was the long term dynamics because I wanted to have a cresscendo sensation with a big explotion in the outro so I worked very hard to make that illusion but without doing any overdubs because I wanted to have the original guitar tracks that were recorded to retain the same tone of the instrument in all the song.
I havent listen to the Thrice reference so this mix is just my approach without any external influence. Now I´m going to concretrate to have a mix most close to the references.
About the FX , in the first place I wanted to have an epic kind of mix with a lot of things going on but like you said in your comments maybe is better to have a raw sound with more power between sections and playing with the sound of the instrument rather than the effects.
Thanks again for listen to my track and I´m going to do the changes that you mention and improve my mix.
« Last Edit: April 11, 2011, 10:20:46 AM by Berk13 »
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The bass guitar delivers a lot of energy in the 150Hz region, and while this does keep the low end of the mix sounding warm, pushing the instrument into a much more prominent position than in some of the other mixes, it also lends it almost a slightly dubby timbre which doesn't seem to quite fit in with the stylistic context, as well as skewing the overall mix tonality undesirably towards woolliness. The other difficulty with this particular mix choice is that you've left no room for the guitars to provide power in their lower frequency ranges, so they tend to come across as being slightly thin-sounding. A couple of decibels boost of the whole mix at around 800Hz and a slight dip at 5kHz helps with this issue a certain amount, but a simple master EQ is too blunt a tool to bring about a complete solution -- especially in the mid-sections, which feel altogether too tinny.
The cymbal timbre is nice and smooth, which I like, but you could probably process it a bit further to pull down some of the stick noise, which pokes out of the balance at times. The kick and snare both appear to be relying too heavily on their lower frequencies: the former therefore has trouble cutting through on small speakers during the choruses, while the latter just ends up sounding rather muffled against the guitars. While a lot of people on this thread have over-emphasised the snare HF, in my opinion, I reckon your choice of tone has taken things too far in the other direction. The toms seem a touch too loud and also don't seem to blend quite as well as the snare does with the rest of the kit, so maybe you just need to apply a bit of whatever treatment the snare has to those mics as well.
The essential channel processing of your guitar sounds seems fairly sensible, and I like the stereo flanger/phaser widening a lot, even if it's possibly drawing a fraction too much attention to itself in the mix overall. The delay/reverb 'tail' effects, however, feel rather like they're wrapping the guitars up in a blanket, and while this doesn't sound unpleasant by any means I figure it's probably not the best decision stylistically again. It's somehow a bit too epic and not tough enough, so that the details of the parts themselves don't come through well and they're distanced in a way that waters down the emotional aggression of the louder sections. There's scope for these kinds of effect sounds to an extent in the verses, but even there you'll need to exercise some care in terms of managing the transitions to and from the louder sections to make it work convincingly. (If you're after a bit more sustain, you could do worse that going a bit heavier on the buss compression, both on the master channel and on the drums buss.) The way you've created stereo width in the choruses using effects rather than panning is a canny solution to the potential for stereo imbalance in this song, and I like the way it's turned out in practice too.
Is the phaser/flanger on the verse vocal too? Whatever it is you've got on it, it seems like you're sitting on the fence, in that the effect's active enough to imbue the vocal with a not entirely attractive tonal boxiness, but not extreme enough to act as a featured special effect! My advice would be to let the vocal speak more directly from an emotional perspective in the verses, and leave that treatment for more extreme spot effects. I do like your vocal delay effects a lot, though, and the way the chorus expands the vocal sound into stereo is also great.
The choice of a more central riff guitar in the choruses, widened with effects, means that this part translates very well into mono against the lead vocals in particular, but there are other aspects of the balance that don't fare so well, in particular the BV levels and the high end of the cymbals. Taken as a whole, though, this mix is already very proficiently handled, and the idea of using a more overt stereo-widening patch to tackle the stereo guitar picture is an excellent bit of lateral thinking. If you can just shift your mixing emphasis slightly more towards dynamics rather than effects, then I reckon most of my niggles will clear themselves up pretty swiftly. Thanks for sending this in!
Quote from: man with hat on April 03, 2011, 09:02:30 PM
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You've produced a pretty successful balance overall here, with clear sounds and good separation of the individual parts. I like the delay spins you've used a lot, and the long-term dynamics make a lot of sense from a musical perspective. There are a few straightforward balance issues which I'd want to look at, though: the kick and bass both feel like they're struggling to come through on small speakers at the moment, so might benefit from more mid-frequency definition; I reckon the BVs have been ridden up too far in the outro (although I love the way you've differentiated them from the leads so they don't get in the way), and the guitar solo could probably afford to take up more slack instead; the low tom is booming unduly at the low end, with relation to the kick level. The overall mix tonality could probably do with a bit of tweaking too, as it's light on the 700Hz zone and gets a bit harsh at 4kHz when things really get going. Plus the vocal tuning feels too unstable to support such a prominent place in the balance come chorus time.
These simpler issues aside, the bulk of my remaining concerns all relate to one thing: blend. At the moment the track only really hangs together if you really crank it up, in which case it's means it's having to rely the ear's built-in safety compression and the listening-room acoustics. This is an area that I reckon you could do a lot to improve here, but in doing so you may find that you have to pretty much rebuild your mix from the ground up -- such is the way of mixing a lot of the time, I'm afraid!
The drums are probably the biggest contributing factor. It sounds to me as if you've hard-gated the overhead and room mics, because I can clearly hear two different layers of drum ambience cutting out after the first cymbal hit of the track, and also after the end of the first chorus. In the first instance, it sounds like one of the gates (the one on the room mic?) is also chattering as it closes. While the audibility of this processing could be decreased by giving the gate a longer release, I don't really think you need much in the way of gating on these tracks at all, and the fact that you've applied it here makes me suspect that all the close mics are gated too. Although gating if very useful in live situations to avoid feedback problems, I usually recommend applying it with caution for studio recordings, because removing lots of inter-mic spill on in individual drum tracks tends to suck a lot of the life out of the combined sound, and stops the instruments gluing together into a cohesive kit. In this case this blend issue is exacerbated by the transient-rich snare tone too, which has a high-frequency spike that seems out of character with cymbals, but that's really only a secondary issue for me.
So my suggestion would be to try remixing the kit from a different perspective, trying to treat the spill much more as an asset rather than as a nuisance. If you can bring in more of this natural ambience, then the sound should fill out nicely with a bit of drum-buss compression, and the overall feeling of blend should improve, even without any effects at all. Some of the close mics may still need some short reverb to gel them with the overheads, but this needn't sound like anything obviously artificial if you prefer to gravitate towards more 'raw and authentic' kinds of sounds as a rule. Tying the rest of the tracks into the balance alongside a more cohesive drum sound should be more straightforward, with just a bit of short delay/reverb -- if you've already got the book, then check out sections 16.3 and 17.1 in particular for help with this. You've already got some subtle longer delay/reverb effects in there which work fine, but those kinds of treatments won't create enough of a blending effect on their own.
Thanks for letting us hear your mix. Your instinct for balance already seems well-developed, so I reckon you'll notice the whole mix making a lot more sense once you get more of a handle on the blend angle.
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Ozzy releases bad ass new song “Under The Graveyard”
Posted by Morgan Ywain Evans on Friday, November 8, 2019 at 5:19 AM (PST)
Any morning when I can genuinely get goosebumps from “that Ozzy feeling” is a great day. I can truly say that hearing “Under The Graveyard” today had me shook and it was so awesome to get that stoked by a new Ozzy Osbourne tune to this degree for the first time in awhile. This is definitely my favorite song he has put out in some time and it was pretty thrilling to experience for the first time, the rush of nostalgia and love for metal’s king paired with the excitement of hearing something new and cool that could still hang beside past glories. Decide for yourself below.
If every song on the forthcoming 2020 release Ordinary Man is as good as this we are in really great shape, bat biters. No Zakk on this song but it does feature a crazy line up of producer/guitarist Andrew Watt, bassist Duff McKagan (Guns N’ Roses) and drummer Chad Smith (Red Hot Chili Peppers). Ozzy credits Andrew with giving him the strength to make an album and after a near decade of wanting some killer new solo Ozzy, we ought to be thankful. This shit is already better than the final Sabbath record, honestly.
“Under The Graveyard” is now live on @YouTube!#ozzy #ozzyosbourne https://t.co/M9SxpoDRM6
— Ozzy Osbourne (@OzzyOsbourne) November 8, 2019
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Lamb Of God release brief statement that Chris Adler is out, Art Cruz officially in
Posted by Morgan Ywain Evans on Friday, July 19, 2019 at 4:59 PM (PST)
Big metal news heading into the weekend as we learn from an oddly brief and very formal statement that NWOAHM hero Chris Adler is officially out of Lamb Of God. Best wishes to both camps moving forward. Art Cruz, who has been playing with the band live for awhile, will be on the next album. Adler’s precise and deadly drumming is a HUGE part of the band’s appeal to a lot of fans, though hardly the sum total of it. Still, this is a big blow to longtime fans, though as with Slayer and Slipknot we know that even after an iconic drummer leaves a band can still potentially make good albums.
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HELLYEAH release “Welcome Home” music video
Posted by longhairedpoet on Thursday, May 23, 2019 at 1:45 PM (PST)
HELLYEAH, recently rocked by the passing of Vinnie Paul, have released their latest track “Welcome Home,” the title track off their upcoming album, due out on September 27.
“Welcome Home” follows “333,” released on March 14. The album will be the band’s sixth, and the followup to 2016’s Unden!able.
HELLYEAH have enlisted Stone Sour drummer Roy Mayorga for their upcoming tour.
Check out the video for “Welcome Home” and HELLYEAH tour dates here.
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OZZY OSBOURNE Announces Rescheduled 2020 UK And European Dates
Posted by Morgan Ywain Evans on Monday, April 29, 2019 at 12:25 PM (PST)
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee and Grammy®-winning singer and songwriter OZZY OSBOURNE has just announced rescheduled shows in the UK and Europe on his “NO MORE TOURS 2” tour.
The six-week trek kicks off in OZZY’s native UK on January 31 before wrapping March 16 in Zurich, Switzerland. The tour includes stops throughout the UK—Nottingham, Dublin, Manchester, Newcastle, London (O2 Arena), Glasgow and OZZY’s Birmingham hometown–before heading to Europe for gigs in Germany, Finland, Sweden, Austria, Czech Republic, Italy and Switzerland. This news follows an April announcement about OZZY‘s North American dates, which will kick off in February 2020 (more details here).
Says OZZY: “I’m really looking forward to getting back to Europe for these shows. Thank you to all the fans for sticking with me and waiting for the new dates to be announced. I can’t wait to see you all next year.”
OZZY‘s initial 2020 European dates are below.
Dublin, IE
Newcastle, UK
Utilita Arena
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Glasgow, UK
SSE Hydro
*Mon
Dortmund, DE
Westfalenhalle
Hartwell Arena
Stockholm, SE
*Wed
Vienna, AT
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Prague, CZ
Barclaycard Arena
Munich, DE
Olympianhalle
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Mannheim, DE
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Unpol Arena
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**New show–city and venue change from Frankfurt, Festhalle–tickets no longer valid.
***New show–city and venue change from Barcelona, Palau Sant Jordi–tickets no longer valid.
Happy 70, Ozzy.
Posted by Morgan Ywain Evans on Monday, December 3, 2018 at 6:51 PM (PST)
Ozzy turned 70 today, proving you really can achieve anything with the help of heavy metal and perhaps some unholy magic pacts? In all seriousness, congrats to Ozzy and thanks for all the years loving and living rock n roll. Everyone has a favorite album or song or show or memory and I hope it is not insulting to say that with all his antics over the years there are many people who were expected to outlive Ozzy but he proved them wrong and has had a wild, full and incredible life.
Here’s one of my favorites from The Prince Of Darkness. “Road To Nowhere”? Nah, man. More like road to eternal metal glory.
Happy Birthday @OzzyOsbourne, have a great 70th! All the best, Tony.
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— Tony Iommi (@tonyiommi) December 3, 2018
Happy 70th birthday Ozzy!!! @ Royal Arena https://t.co/Ql3UZyyHMC
— Scott Ian (@Scott_Ian) December 3, 2018
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Judas Priest North American 2019 Tour Dates
With Judas Priest’s latest studio album, Firepower, confirmed as one of the most successful of the band’s entire career – landing in the “top 5” of 17 countries (including their highest chart placement ever in the U.S., at #5) – demand to see the legendary metal band in concert is higher than ever.
And North American headbangers will get their chance to experience the legendary band on a nearby concert stage this coming spring/summer, when Priest will tour throughout the continent – with the classic metal band Uriah Heep as support.
Kicking off on May 3rd at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Hollywood, Florida and wrapping up on June 29th at The Joint at Hard Rock Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada, fans will get an opportunity to catch Priest at the height of their concert powers on any one of the tour’s 32 dates.
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Integrity cover Ozzy
Posted by Morgan Ywain Evans on Wednesday, October 31, 2018 at 1:05 PM (PST)
Integrity covering “Bark At The Moon” by Ozzy? Sign us the Hell up! Even if the candy has push pins in it, we are into this by the handful! Happy Halloween, headbangers.
New Year’s Eve Ozzfest plus Catharsis, Trans Metal Support, Hottest Ghoul poll news items
Posted by Morgan Ywain Evans on Monday, October 22, 2018 at 7:48 PM (PST)
Man, Season 3 Episode 4 of Daredevil with the jail situation was stressssful af! Please stream that show so it does NOT get the axe like Iron Fist and Luke Cage did just as they were really hitting their groove! WTF they are just gonna sleep on Daughters of The Dragon now or Heroes For Hire? This is some bullshit, Marvel! Anyhow, here for some random metal items and to send some love out there to the LGBTQAI folk in the scene today who need support after a horrible 24 hours in this bad dream. Let’s get down to it.
Ozzy has been recovering from an infection but now we have the great news of a big New Year’s Eve Ozzfest Celebration for the big lunk. WE LOVE YOU OZZY!!! Body Count, Marilyn, Rob Zombie and Jonathan from Korn’s solo band along with the Ozz-meister himself are gonna make sure it is a night fans will remember for many years to come. I have a feeling this will be a historical concert in metal history as time passes. Info below!
I wish Ozzfest was still a huge full summer tour. I know it had some bands too “mainstream” for some cooler than thou types, but I for one think the scene benefits from bigger tentpole bands as it allows smaller bands to open for them. My friends Gizmachi played one year. I first saw Killswitch with Howard there. Lots of good memories. Plus, there are a lot of bands Ozzy has supported over the years big and small on the festival who I like still to this day from Mudvayne to Kittie to Neurosis. Who remembers Drain STH? Right on. Metal is a big enough tent for all kinds of bands (except Nazis).
New Year’s Eve #Ozzfest at @TheForum
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Samsara from Catharsis is now on Bandcamp along with pretty much every Crimethinc release! This is awesome. Blasting “The Evolution of Dying” as we speak to celebrate.
Next up, I wanted to thank some trans folks and some allies in the scene (or really anyone who falls in that category during these times or ever). Trump is trying to erase trans people’s rights to exist as we KNEW he would. Well, most of us who aren’t super gullible at least.
just remembering this gem of a take this morning https://t.co/9eOq9abb7p
— Joe Monstermashnkill (@JoeThrashnkill) October 22, 2018
Anyway, I made a little video today (below) and want to also suggest you read this thread and support the Equality Act! It will make this kind of bs much harder to do to marginalized communities. Please support artists and regular trans people in your communities (binary, enby or whatever) and educate yourself to defeat tired talking points with ease. And ASK how you can help? I am lucky and have several platforms as well as a very supportive community but these are also hard times with rights threatened and not everyone is in the same boat.
Thanks trans folk + allies in scene @JessieRaeFisher @MinaCaputo @otepofficial @PopeRichard @globelamp @gileadmedia @eyehatethou @kngwmn @Doomstress + others. Not all have a platform like them so if you care please ask how you can help. Self discovery matters! #wewillnotbeerased pic.twitter.com/PLdRYfgZ6r
— MetalRiot.com (@MetalRiot) October 22, 2018
So wait. You don’t want “big government” but you’re cool with the government looking in everyone’s pants?! #AnInjuryToOneIsAnInjuryToAll
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Now for today’s most important news item. Ghoul have a poll for World’s hottest Ghoul. This is harder than picking a favorite Spice Girl (for most people. I stan Melanie B).
Who is the HOTTEST Ghoul?
— Ghoul (@GhoulOfficial) October 23, 2018
Ozzy cancels remainder of North American Tour
Posted by Morgan Ywain Evans on Thursday, October 11, 2018 at 8:59 PM (PST)
Ozzy Osbourne has now cancelled the remaining four shows on his North American “No More Tours 2.” Following additional evaluation from his doctors, Osbourne will likely require another surgery in the coming days to treat multiple infections in his right hand.
The four cancelled shows were originally scheduled as follows: Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, CA (October 6), Mattress Firm Amphitheatre in Chula Vista (October 9), the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles (October 11) and MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas (October 13). The three California shows had previously been rescheduled following his initial prognosis from doctors. All four shows will be rescheduled for 2019.
“I’m so fu**ing bummed about cancelling these shows,” Osbourne says. “The tour had been going great and we were really looking forward to these last few gigs. We’re hoping everyone will be patient and we’ll look forward to seeing them at the shows next year.”
Ticketholders for the four shows should hold on to their tickets, as they will be honored for the rescheduled dates. Refunds are also available at point of purchase.
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— Ozzy Osbourne (@OzzyOsbourne) October 11, 2018
Chad Gray shares warmth and grief with fans about Vinnie Paul’s tragic passing
Posted by Morgan Ywain Evans on Monday, June 25, 2018 at 2:04 PM (PST)
Chad Gray of hard rockers HELLYEAH has spoken his thoughts to fans on the passing of drum legend Vinnie Paul. If you are a fan or anyone in general you should read this as it is heartfelt and full of brotherhood. Condolences to the folks in HELLYEAH who we appreciate a lot around here.
First off I’m sorry to all of you for our loss. It’s consumed me as I’m sure it has many of you. I’m sure you can all understand This has been incredibly hard and impossible for me to wrap my head around. I just don’t want to believe it’s real. I want to tell all my crew I love you guys so much. We couldn’t do what we do with out you. And I want to say thank you to everyone around the world for your kind words, blessings and condolences to all of us through this tragic time. We love you all! And to all of my friends in and out of the music business thank you for reaching out to me. It means more to me then I could ever express. I don’t know what I would do without you. So Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! It really has taken “the heavy metal family” to another level. This has been one of the toughest things I’ve ever had to face in my life! I’m so confused, sad and as helpless as I’ve ever been. I’m at a loss and completely devastated. But I’m trying. It’s the equivalent of an emotional riot in my head and In my heart as I write this. But I’m trying to focus on anything good. I know Vinnie would want that. And the good things are my memories of him. His smile, his infectious laugh and his personality that beamed light. Him and his brother Dimebag lived to make people smile. That’s what I’m gonna miss the most. I just want to say thank you Vinnie Paul! For saving my life, for your music, for your endless generosity, for accepting me into your life, for creating our music that touched people, for being proud to be in hellyeah and for always treating me like a brother and more importantly for treating me like a friend. So many times I’ve looked back to see you just bashing away and have to pinch myself. It was Unbelievable! And for all of those things you will live forever in my heart. And I will never let you go!!! I will always love you and go to the end of the earth to carry the torch for you and Dimes legacy. R.I.P Vincent Paul Abbott. I know your with DIMEBAG Right now Smiling down on us. Even in all this emotional darkness, that thought alone makes me smile right back. I LOVE YOU! Your eternal friend, -Chadnesss
A post shared by M4DN666 CH4D3666 (@chadnesss) on Jun 25, 2018 at 2:07am PDT
Here is Vinnie recently talking about Hellyeah’s recent record Unden!able.
More tour talking. Enjoy hellions! Metal On! The Screamin' Demon
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Vinnie Paul dead at 54
Posted by longhairedpoet on Friday, June 22, 2018 at 9:50 PM (PST)
News of Vinnie Paul’s death first broke an hour ago on Billboard as of the time I’m writing this. A while later news of his passing was posted on the Pantera Facebook page.
Vinnie Paul was, as the Facebook page makes note of, the drummer of Pantera and Hellyeah. He was also the drummer in Rebel Meets Rebel and Damageplan.
From the time of the release of Pantera’s Metal Magic through till his death, Vinnie Paul had been involved in the heavy metal scene for over 35 years, setting the rhythm from behind his kit that would drive Pantera and Hellyeah to the front of the pack.
You can’t throw a rock in the heavy metal community without finding a fan of the music Vinnie helped make. From shotgun-slinging Cowboys From Hell to those who have a New Found Power, to those who just like to throw up their devil horns and declare Hellyeah! Vinnie Paul has been a prolific contributor to the scene.
Metal Riot contributor Andrew Johann Datoush had this to say about the news:
“I’ve always been a fan of everything Pantera did prior to Cowboys From Hell. That entire era for them was criminally underrated. There was some excellent song writing in those days. Dime had a different guitar style back then, and Vinnie’s drumming back then very clearly showed his love of KISS. There was definitely some Eric Carr influence to his drumming present in those days. While a lot of fans will be playing some of the harder tracks during their tributes tonight, I’ll be sticking with their more melodic era, and playing their tune “We’ll Meet Again” from their Power Metal album. Rest easy Vinnie. Give Heaven a Hell of a soundtrack!”
As I listen to “Matter of Time” and feel a chill run through my body, I don’t have anything more to say. We here at Metal Riot are all deeply saddened by Vinnie Paul’s death. It’s almost 1am here on the east coast of the U.S. and sometimes all you have is to put the metal on and break the fucking knob.
Rest in Peace Vinnie Paul!
Terribly saddened by the news of Vinnie Paul’s passing. Vinnie was a beloved fixture in the rock and metal communities and we will miss seeing him out on the road. His impact on heavy music is immeasurable. Rest In Peace Vinnie, condolences to your family, friends and fans.
— Alice Cooper (@alicecooper) June 23, 2018
FUCK!!! Just waking up here in Belgium to the news of Vinnie Paul…I’m in total shock…Heaven just got a little crazier with the Abbott Bros back together again…RIP Bro 😢 pic.twitter.com/HkC2yVaqtu
— Mike Portnoy 🤘 (@MikePortnoy) June 23, 2018
Tragic news about Vinnie Paul today. He was one of the warmest people I knew. A truly good & fun friend. We're going to miss you more than you could possibly have known. RIP buddy. https://t.co/yQqruY4tio
— Slash (@Slash) June 23, 2018
GOD BLESS VINNIE PAUL – 1964-2O18 – FATHER VINNIE,Your Compassion for others & Your Love for seeing everyone around you Happy I will never forget – Your Heart of Gold Made The World a Better Place – Go be w/Your BELOVED BROTHER – I LOVE YOU – tBLSt SDMF pic.twitter.com/8VC3T3hQa2
— Zakk Wylde (@ZakkWyldeBLS) June 23, 2018
Not confederate flag apologist at all+def was not into Phil white wine antics but this is about good Vinnie did, not just low points. pantera made a huge impact on metal and did more good than bad. Crushed live. hellyeah camp was swell to M Riot. Hardest snare hit in metal. Rip
— Morgan Ywain Evans (@morganyevans) June 23, 2018
Tipton joins Priest on stage in Kent, WA
Posted by Morgan Ywain Evans on Monday, April 16, 2018 at 2:37 PM (PST)
Judas Priest‘s legendary Glenn Tipton may have recently announced he is not a touring guitarist for the Firepower era due to Parkinson’s complications, but he joined the band on stage Sunday night (April 15) at ShoWare Center in Kent, Washington for the encore.
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March 2018 Round Up: 4 fave albums of the month (Morgan)
Posted by Morgan Ywain Evans on Saturday, March 24, 2018 at 11:40 AM (PST)
Eagle Twin by Russel Albert Daniels
March For Our Lives is going on today and I am so stoked at the bravery and power of all the voices in unison demanding change. This has been an incredible month of social change and even accountability in metal as well as the world.
Well, it was VERY hard to pick just four albums for this month’s four favorites. There were a dozen records I really LOVED this month. Some flirt with dark stuff but weren’t really metal like my actual fave any genre record of the month – the new one from post-gothers VOWWS called Under The World. Other stuff I want to shout out includes stuff that is absolutely killer like Andrew WK (who had the two most uplifting singles in hard rock by far for the year thus far at a time we really need it), Memoriam, Slaves BC or especially also Rivers Of Nihil’s great prog influenced leap forward or BESVÄRJELSEN‘s potent Swedish doom brew Vallmo.
These records were and are bad ass af but ultimately edged out to the four records BELOW which I felt were the best four albums associated with the metal genre this month.
More On: Heavy Metal, Exclusive, Judas Priest, Epic Records
Judas Priest release “Never The Heroes” lyric video
Posted by Morgan Ywain Evans on Friday, March 2, 2018 at 10:28 AM (PST)
Judas Priest, heavy metal icons of the highest order, have released a lyric video for “Never The Heroes”. The band’s new album Firepower touches down to scorch the Earth on March 9th, but here is another molten taste for ya. The song opens with unmistakeable Priestly arena-worthy swagger before Halford’s iconic voice eases in like a pure natural to seize the reigns. And it only gets more metal from there.
Priest has reunited with producer Tom Allom for this record (the man behind the board for all of the band’s releases from 1979-1988, including such stellar classics as Unleashed in the East, British Steel, Screaming for Vengeance and Defenders of the Faith) and with Grammy Award-winning producer Andy Sneap also helping to raise the sonic bar even higher.
More On: Heavy Metal, Music, Judas Priest, Epic Records
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Thread: Investigative Reporting Boot Camp April 9: Reserve Your Seat NOW!
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Investigative Reporting Boot Camp April 9: Reserve Your Seat NOW!
Investigative Reporting Boot Camp Announcement
Presented by the Arkansas Newspaper Foundation
April 9, 2011, 10:00am – 4:00pm
University of Arkansas at Little Rock,
Stabler Hall 109
APA Members $20 - includes materials and lunch.
Limited seating. Reservations required.
The Arkansas Newspaper Foundation is pleased to present an Investigative Reporting Boot Camp on April 9 at UALR in Stabler Hall 109. Beginning with the panel of experts in the morning, the boot camp will be a day filled with tips, advice and techniques that usually take years to acquire. The panel will discuss hitting the street hard to gather data, making connections and how building relationships help you put together information using old and new technologies! These are veterans of the newspaper – sharing stories you won’t want to miss! Panelists will be revealed later….
The afternoon session will be led by Jaimi Dowdell who joined Investigative Reporters & Editors (IRE) as Training Director in October 2008. Before that she was computer-assisted reporting (CAR) editor at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch for more than three years. Her duties included obtaining and analyzing data for daily and long-term stories; training staff on CAR and investigative techniques; and maintaining the newspaper’s online data center. In addition to her work at the Post-Dispatch, she taught a CAR course for Washington University in St. Louis. Previously she worked at IRE and NICAR in the Database Library and Resource Center while completing her master’s degree at the University of Missouri.
Her session will include:
• Public records: Let the sunshine in - Advice on crafting records requests, tracking them and holding officials’ feet to the FOIA fire. Includes strategies for dealing with excuses and obstacles from public officials who stand in your way of getting key documents and data.
• Quick-hit investigations - Strategies, story ideas, resources and tips for watchdog stories on a variety of beats. How to produce meaty enterprise stories that may take a few days or a few weeks rather than months.
• Paper and database trails - Advice on developing a documents state of mind, navigating public records, understanding records retention schedules, exploring key records on a variety of beats, and becoming familiar with key national data sets to produce high-impact local stories.
• Tapping into Twitter and social media - Making effective use of Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and other social media sites for reporting and digging. How to connect with sources on social media, follow breaking news in real time, and track conversations and commentary in a specific geographic area.
Handouts and links will be provided! Students are free. To secure a seat, complete an enrollment form and forward it to Terri Cobb at the APA office. Contact information is at the bottom of the form. If you have questions, please contact Karen Brown, at karenb@commpub.com. Terri Cobb may be reached at 501-374-1500.
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Aylezo Ecotint Racing
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ZEN AND FAIRUZ AIMS FOR STRONG WEEKEND IN OKAYAMA
Zen Low was confirmed today as an ambassador for Rudy Project.
Aylezo @ Okayama International Circuit, GT Asia Series Round 3 & 4
It will be an exciting journey for Zen Low and Fairuz Fauzy as that head to Okayama International Circuit for rounds three and four of the GT Asia Series this weekend. The second outing for the duo and after a tumultuous race weekend at the season opener in Korea, finishing in points in round two, both drivers are eager to make a bigger mark.
Zen and Fairuz will once again compete in OD Racing’s Lamborghini Gallardo FLII, backed by EcoTint, Prince Lubricants, Jonnesway, GoPro, Rudy Project and Shark Helmets.
The team’s first outing in Korea was a challenging one, a gearbox issue in round one that cost the team a top eight finish just two laps shy of the end of the race, but they redeemed themselves a little in round two by collecting vital points with a top eight finish. Both Zen and Fairuz are excited to be in Japan and are aiming for a strong weekend.
It will be the first time in Okayama for Zen so the duo got an early start last week on the simulator, getting a feel for the circuit and to learn as much as they can before arriving in Japan.
For Fairuz, it will be a visit to a familiar place as he has raced there two years ago, but in a different car and very different atmosphere. “I am really looking forward to the weekend and to come back to Okayama. For me it was a challenging track and the last time I was here was during the Super GT in 2013. That weekend, I experienced both wet and dry track conditions” said Fairuz as he arrived at Kansai International Airport on Monday evening.
“The circuit itself is tough in terms of the layout as it is a short and narrow track where you can’t afford to make mistakes. It’s a very unforgiving circuit, and to me it has some similarities with Brands Hatch.
“This will be the first time here for Zen and we went for some practice on the simulator. So hopefully that helps us to plan our race here as Zen is a little bit more familiar with the track now” he ended.
Both drivers are eager to get to the circuit as the Aylezo crew, who were in Japan since Saturday evening, have already started to unload and set-up the pit area.
“It’s going to be my first time so I tried to find out as much about the track as I can from the internet and it seems really technical and its small. Nothing like Sepang” laughed Zen.
“I was told that it is an interesting track with various elevations so it will be another great learning curve for me, so we will see how it goes. I’m like a sponge now, absorbing as much information as I can as we go along. Really looking forward to it” ended Zen.
The GT Asia Series is at Okayama International Circuit for rounds three and four with the first Free Practice session scheduled for Friday, 26 June at 10:45am Japan time (11:45am Malaysia), followed by FP2 at 2:15pm. Qualifying and Race 1 (round 3) is scheduled for Saturday, 27th June at 10:50am and 3:10pm respectively. Final race of the weekend (round 4) is on Sunday, 28 June at 3:00pm.
Aylezo Competizione is a Sporting Administration and Technical Team with over 30 years of combined International race experience in some of the Region’s most renowned Series. In 2015 Aylezo Competizione acts as the Technical Partner for a newly established team, OD Racing, in their first participation in the GT Asia Series. Aylezo Competizione will also partner with EcoTint, Prince Lubricants, Jonnesway, GoPro, Rudy Project and Shark Helmets for their participation in both GT Asia and Asian Le Mans Series.
GT Asia Series will travel to six countries at seven Asian circuits beginning with Korea International Circuit on 15-17 May. Then the Series will head to two Japanese races – at Okayama Circuit on 26-28 June and Fuji Speedway on 17-19 July, to Malaysia at Sepang Circuit for its first ever three-hour endurance race on 14-16 August, then to Shanghai Circuit, China on 25-27 Sept before ending the season at Buriram Chang International Circuit, Thailand on 23-25 October. The Series continues with a non-Championship round held at the legendary Guia Street Circuit, Macau on 20-22 November.
The three round Asian Le Mans Series will run during the FIA World Endurance Championship weekends in Fuji, Japan on 9-10 October and in Shanghai, China on 30-31 October. The Series will then make its final stop in Sepang, Malaysia on 19-20 December 2015.
Established in 2009, Aylezo is a Sporting Administration and Technical Team with over 30 years of combined International race expertise. Aylezo provides race management services and coaching, and has its own training facility housing classrooms, race simulators, a go-kart track and a gym.
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Queen Of Hearts Wins Nordic Council Film Prize
Denmark’s submission for Best Foreign Language Film at the 92nd Academy Awards, Queen Of Hearts (Dronningen) by May el-Toukhy, has been awarded the 2019 Nordic Council Film Prize, against stiff competition from Aurora, A White White Day, Blindspot and Reconstructing Utøya.
Queen Of Hearts follows Anne (Trine Dyrholm), a brilliant lawyer who lives an idyllic life with her husband and twin daughters. But when her estranged teenage stepson moves in with them, Anne’s escalating desire leads her down a dangerous rabbit hole which unleashes a series of events that destroy her world.
The jury said in their deliberation: “Is it about a midlife crisis? About class? Or about desire and passion? Is she a sexual abuser? Or a psychopath? We’re used to movies serving a clear point, we almost always know whether a movie character is good or evil, but with Queen Of Hearts director May el-Toukhy and co-writer Maren Louise Käehne leave it to us, the audience.”
“Strangely it feels entirely right to have that responsibility. It’s not a pleasure to get to know Anne – but it is an arousing pleasure to experience a finely masked film that gives us the right tools to see our own relationship as a complex human being. And this film believes we are capable of it.”
“It’s impossible not to praise Trine Dyrholm for her formidably nuanced performance as ‘Queen’ Anne, but at all levels – cinematography, music, production design and more – Queen Of Hearts is an impressive feat. It makes seemingly impossible task seem easy and effortless.”
The Nordic Council Film Prize aims to raise interest in the Nordic cultural community and recognise outstanding artistic initiatives. Its nominees must have deep roots in Nordic culture, be of high artistic quality, and distinguish themselves by their artistic originality.
A prize of DKK 350,000 is awarded to the winning film to be shared equally between the screenwriter, director and producer, underlining how film as an art form is a collaborative effort.
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Fakirs!
If you're a regular reader, you may remember we already dealt with fakirs. Also called fakers, those street vendors, more or less honest, were looked at with suspicion. Remember how Garrett J. Couchois was discredited when a "witness" told to the Court having seen the piano seller and nose flute designer playing a Humanatone as a fakir.
Indeed, the early Humanatone, while sold by mail-order, were also largely distributed in the streets by the fakirs. George W. Stivers, whose sons founded the Humanatone Introducing Novelties Co., was called the King of fakirs, and was used to recruit hundreds of "agents" to sell his tin novelties.
But who were exactly the fakirs? How did they look like?
I found a full page of the San Francisco Chronicle on the subject, dated of Apr. 18, 1909. This period corresponds exactly to the full-charge marketing of the Humanatone. Indeed, the new-yorker company is named.
The pictures are great, and show the real street scenes and it's easy to imagine how the Humanatones were demonstrated and sold:
One paragraph of the article is dedicated to a "first-class merchant" working for the Humanatone Co. Unfortunately, there is no further mention of nose flutes:
There is also a photograph of this Humanatone agent:
The whole text is interesting and well written, thus I recomposed it in the case you want to read it in full.
Libellés : archives, Humanatone, United States of A.
Maikel Mei February 8, 2013 at 7:35 PM
Important post about the background to the success of the nose flute in the early 1900s.
This selling on the streets reminds me of the travelling shows in the Western US: bringing a product to the people.
Charles Fasano's new works
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You are here: Home / News / National News / Pakistani Canadian pleads not guilty in terror cases
Pakistani Canadian pleads not guilty in terror cases
January 28, 2010 By Northwest Asian Weekly
By Mike Robinson
CHICAGO (AP) — A Chicago businessman accused of leading a double life as an international terrorist pleaded not guilty Monday, Jan. 25 to making plans for an attack on a Danish newspaper and helping to arrange the rampage in 2008 that killed 166 people in the Indian city of Mumbai.
Tahawwur Hussain Rana, 49, a Canadian national born in Pakistan, intends to fight the charges, attorney Patrick Blegen said after the arraignment.
“I am optimistic that we can fight these charges and clear Mr. Rana’s name,” Blegen told reporters. He said he will keep up the fight, futile so far, to get his soft-spoken, gray-bearded client released on bond while awaiting trial.
Rana appeared in court guarded by husky marshals. He was wearing the bright orange jumpsuit of a federal prisoner, with leg irons that rattled when they caught momentarily on the wheel of a chair.
He politely said good morning to Magistrate Judge Arlander Keys and spelled his name for the court reporter but said little else. If convicted, he could be sent to federal prison for the rest of his life.
Rana and co-defendant David Coleman Headley, 49, an American who went to school in Pakistan, are accused of laying the groundwork for the deadly November 2008 rampage by 10 terrorists who left a trail of carnage through Mumbai. Nine were eventually killed and the tenth person accused is now in custody.
Rana and Headley are also accused of planning an attack on the Jyllands Posten newspaper, which set off weeks of protests among Muslims after publishing 12 cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad in 2005. That attack never took place.
Prosecutors say that the alleged terrorist plans were tied to a Pakistan-based terrorist group, Lashkar e Taiba (Army of the Good), that has been in violent conflict with the government of India over the disputed territory of Kashmir.
Two other men, retired Pakistani military officer Rehman Abdur Hashim Syed and accused terrorist leader Ilyas Kashmiri, also are charged in connection with the planned attack on the Danish newspaper. Their whereabouts are unknown, although the indictment said Kashmiri has been in Pakistan’s tribal areas, home to various terrorist groups.
Rana is specifically charged with two counts of conspiracy to provide aid to terrorism and one count of actually providing such support.
Headley, who is cooperating with federal prosecutors, faces a possible death sentence if convicted of the various charges against him. An American citizen who went to school in Pakistan, Headley is due to answer to the charges on Wednesday.
Blegen said at the arraignment Monday that Rana, who owns a downstate farm and an immigration service, cannot afford to pay for his defense.
The attorney said he will ask U.S. District Judge Harry D. Leinenweber, who is presiding over the case, to appoint him as Rana’s government-paid counsel.
While Rana may have some money, “he doesn’t have enough to fund the defense of a large, federal criminal case and virtually nobody does,” Blegen told reporters later. He said such a trial could take months and cost a fortune.
Blegen said Rana “is a pleasant man” but is being held in an area of the Metropolitan Correctional Center reserved for troublemakers, confined “in a very small room almost 24 hours a day.” He said that Rana cannot move within the center without “a three-man hold” — three correctional officers to guard him. ♦
Filed Under: National News Tagged With: 2008, 2010, Ilyas Kashmiri, India, Jyllands Posten, Magistrate Judge Arlander Keys, Metropolitan Correctional Center, Mumbai, Pakistani Canadian, Patrick Blegen, Prophet Muhammad, Rehman Abdur Hashim Syed, Tahawwur Hussain Rana, Vol 29 No 5 | January 30 - February 5
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white house correspondents' dinner Apr. 29, 2012
Reggie Love’s Words of Encouragement for Obama
By Noreen Malone
Photo: Pete Souza/White House via Getty Images
“Nothing’s more fun than working in the White House. Every day I miss it.” That straight-outta-the-West-Wing sentiment came from the smiling mouth of current Wharton MBA candidate, onetime Obama body man, and all-time Daily Intel person of interest Reggie Love. The nostalgia seems to cut both ways; Obama still hasn’t found a replacement to fill Love’s role at the White House.
“I miss my comrades! The guys like Marvin [Nicholson], the president, Robert Gibbs, David Axelrod,” he continued, pausing briefly to call out “hi, beautiful!” to Alan Krueger’s wife, and to make dinner plans with her husband in the corner of a room at a pre-Correspondents’ Dinner brunch yesterday. “I grew up working with those guys and spent a lot of time with them, and ultimately, in sports, your teammates are what make the journeys really exciting and really fun.” Sports? Weren’t we talking about work? But maybe that framework is exactly why Love found the famously stressful workplace so fun. Either way, we seized the chance to ask him whether Obama really ever beats the former Duke player on the basketball court, per a highly suspicious campaign e-mail sent a few months back.
Love didn’t sound as if he’d been fully filled in on the Obama-beats-Reggie propaganda. (There were, in fact, two versions of the e-mail floating around; the second was revised to downplay Obama’s basketball skills a bit.) He laid the matchup out for us, very diplomatically. “The president’s 20 years older than me. Twenty is a lot! He’s a really good player. I don’t know.” Love paused to consider the odds. “Would I beat him 100 percent of the time? Probably not. But I hope and I think in a one-on-one game, I would probably beat him.” The blow perhaps seemed a little harsh. He added, “But in horse, we split!”
What about those YouTube videos making the rounds of Obama bricking three pointers? Love knew exactly what we meant. “At the Easter Egg Roll.” Yeah, those. “I mean … they weren’t BAD misses. Everyone knows even a great shooter has an off day and they tell you a great shooter has to shoot himself out of a slump. You can’t stop shooting just ‘cause you missed one!” We weren’t sure, again, if we were talking about sports or governing.
Previously: Reggie Love Is Leaving the White House: A Bromance, Remembered
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Reggie Love’s Encouraging Words for Obama
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New England Fashion an Amusing Concept!
This might sound odd from a guy whose idea of fashion is a clean T-shirt, but one of my favorite features in the paper is its periodic look at “local fashion.” The quotation marks are necessary because New Englanders don’t really do fashion. But that doesn’t prevent some folks from trying. I love the fashion section because it’s so damned funny.
Weather conspires against high fashion. In Massachusetts, there are just 98 days of full sunshine per year, and more than a third of the time Mr. Sol fails to appear at all. Imagine the statistics for northern Vermont or Down East Maine. We get enough snow, ice, rain, and cold to make skinny fashion models reach for long underwear, pork rinds, hot coffee, and the “Help Wanted” ads. New England fashion pretty much gravitates between styles labeled “prep,” “classic,” “hunting and fishing,” and “Igloowear.”
Here are some things that make for New England fashion amusement:
1. Uggs are rather universally panned these days. I don’t find them offensive, but they seem pretty dumb up these parts. We call untreated suede “bedroom slippers,” and know better than to wear them on slushy streets. We also wonder why anyone would wear them in warm weather.
2. Short dresses with down jackets make even less sense. Replace the rule of thumb with the rule of knee: If your knees turn red when you go outside, put on long pants! The male equivalent is the idea that a hoodie is outerwear. I don’t know whether to laugh or scowl when I see some young guy shivering in 10-degree weather. Hoodies are a layer, dude! (Move the calendar to June. Observe the same feckless youth sweltering in his hoodie.)
3. Sneakers: No more than two primary colors under any circumstance. Avoid all hues that look like something went wrong in the chemistry lab.
4. Long shorts are a contradiction in terms—especially if, like me, you’re short. It’s embarrassing when people come up to you and ask how you manage to walk without knees. NBA players are even worse; their ‘shorts’ make them look as if 80% of their height is from the waist up.
5. Clam diggers are for people who can’t decide between jeans and shorts. For the record, they have nothing to do with hunting mollusks; actual clam diggers wear wicked tall rubber boots. As fashion, Grace Kelly introduced clam diggers. She would have looked just as glamorous wearing the aforementioned rubber boots.
6. When I see ripped jeans I think, “Sucker!” Practical New Englanders either patch ripped jeans, or call them “rags.” If you must have a pair, don’t pay some fashion label $100; buy a pair of $30 Lees from Target, an exacto knife, and make your own.
7. On most men, moccasin style shoes say “geezer.” Or “banker on holiday.”
8. I am a proud Scot. Scots have a quirky sense of humor. Plaid is the best joke Scots have ever played on the world. There are–maybe–two plaids that look halfway attractive. Chances are they are not in an L.L. Bean catalog near you.
9. There are two worse patterns than plaid, one of which is madras. I think it comes from the Hindi words that means, “getting sick from Indian food that’s off.” The worst of all, though, is camouflage, which is French for “monkey butt ugly.” Do you ever have the urge to come up to some camo-clad mall rat and say, “Despite your best efforts to hide, I saw you behind that rack of fuchsia towels?”
10. Pastels look good in Florida. In New England they make you look like a lost tourist.
11. Hey guys, WTF with the sport jacket and an untucked shirt hanging a foot below the jacket hem. It makes you look like either: (a) a person who needs to get up 10 minutes earlier to finish dressing, (b) a slob, (c) a person who needs to ask his mom what goes together, or (d) all of the above.
12. It’s hard to avoid logos like the Nike swoosh, Lacoste alligators, or designer labels, but steer clear of what I call billboardware—the stuff that blasts the brand name and logo all over the article of clothing. You are, in essence, paying big bucks to become a walking advertisement. Especially avoid clothing that plasters its name across your rear end, or anything filled with so many logos it makes you look like a NASCAR driver or a Tour de France biker. Here’s the difference: those companies sponsor the celebrities, whereas you pay the companies for the privilege of looking dopey.
13. If you’re a normal person, avoid things in catalogs that say slimming. Yeah—they take a 100-poung woman or a ripped 160-pound guy, stick ‘em in Spandex and they instantly look to be not an ounce over 95 or 157. You will look like meat being stuffed into a sausage skin.
14. Mullet dresses. Just no. No mullet anything for anybody except hockey players missing at least 9 teeth.
Not Ok.
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Death of Stalin is No Funnier than Stalin Himself
THE DEATH OF STALIN (2018)
Directed by Armando Iannucci
IFC Films, 107 minutes, R (language, violence, crude and disturbing sexual references)
The humor in The Death of Stalin is droll, dark, and irreverent. Unfortunately it’s also dull, crude, and as broad as Rush Limbaugh’s backside. (Hey, why not put all our tyrants in the same bowl of borscht?) I was hoping for an offbeat comedy such as Christopher Guest, Wes Anderson, or the Coen Brothers would make, but Scottish—yes he is Scottish—director Armando Iannucci isn’t up to such standards. He’s not even up to a sophomoric Mel Brooks-like effort.
The setup is real enough, even if Iannucci plays loose with facts. Josef Stalin took power in 1924, after pretty much betraying the Russian Revolution and turning the Soviet Union into a combination gulag and killing field. By the 1930s he had established himself as one of history’s great monsters—one responsible for the death of three times more Russians than Jews under Hitler. His brutal secret service, the NKVD, led by the brutal torturer Lavnentiy Beria routinely rounded up “enemies” of the State—a category that pretty much meant any sort of rival to the Stalin cult of personality. Survival required becoming a glad-hand sycophant and even then, one had to be careful that a drunken remark or poorly worded joke didn’t cause fatal offense.
Move the clock to 1953, the year in which we join the tale. The film opens to a Radio Moscow concert and a phone call from Comrade Stalin himself demanding a recording of the evening’s performance. Big problem—no tapes were rolling, but engineer Andreyev (Paddy Considine) and others in the booth know their heads will tumble if they don’t provide one. They scramble frantically to reassemble the musicians, find a conductor to replace the one who scampered out, and recruit a new audience. The line of scruffy peasants entering the hall is funny enough, albeit a gag that trades in stereotypes. But as the recording is delivered to a courier, pianist Maria Yudina (Olga Kurylenko) slips a hate note into the album sleeve. Stalin sees it, laughs heartily, and collapses to the floor with a cerebral hemorrhage.
Call this the first of many scenes that could have been outlandishly humorous but is instead only mildly so. Stalin is lying on the floor, but there are no competent doctors to be found because Stalin had them all shot. (Not so!) So we watch his inner circle of yes men stand about wringing their hands: Beria (Simon Russell Beale), the hapless Georgy Malenkov (Jeffrey Tambor), the conniving “Niki” Khrushchev (Steve Buscemi), and the bureaucratic waffler Vyascheslav Molotov (Michael Palin). “This is terrible,” each proclaims, but none will take action lest Stalin survive and disapprove or, worse, he dies and the others turn against the actor in the power struggle sure to ensue. It could have been amusing, but it plays like a third-rate Victorian drawing room comedy.
Also misplaced is the orchestration of Stalin’s funeral. Instead of a full-bore send up of the State-directed/bungled attempt at image and impression management, we get a stitched-together parade of one-liners that are essentially a skim milk version of the dialogue among thugs from Quentin Taratino’s Reservoir Dogs. The only part of this sequence that brings a smile comes from Tambor as Malenkov. Under the Soviet constitution, he is acting head of state, a job for which he is as qualified as a plumber is to do brain surgery. There is funny sequence in which Malenkov tries to manufacture continuity by recreating an iconic photo of a smiling Stalin embracing a peasant girl oblivious to the fact that said photo was a few years out of date. His "official" portrait is also a hoot.
The central lampoon of the messiness and bloodiness of Stalin’s succession is true in its essence, though it’s unnecessarily freighted with detail that is more scene-chewing than central to the story: Svetlana’s (Andrea Riseborough) Jekyll and Hyde act of grieving daughter and erstwhile plotter, or Rupert Friend’ rather ham-handed turn as Stalin’s drunken and cowardly son Vasily. Jason Issacs goes so far over the top as the be-scarred General Zhukov I expected extras to enter the room and proclaim, “Hail, Caesar!” Uncharacteristically, Buscemi is flat at Khrushchev, and Tambor brings to the table many of the same fey qualities from TV’s Transparent. The best performance by far is that of Simon Russell Beale, who is chilling as Beria.
As for the rest, I give credit for not trying to make the actors speak in bad Russian accents, but that’s about it. There is nothing remarkable about the camera work, the cinematography, or the script. There are pocketfuls of laughs scattered here and there, but not enough to offset inappropriate jokes about rape, rampant ethnic stereotyping, or gruesome scenes such as Stalin’s autopsy or the murder of Beria. The script was developed from a graphic novel and that is part of the problem. Not to slam graphic novels, but most are more visual than verbal and The Death of Stalin needed sharper words to pillory the world of soulless apparatchiks serving a heartless tyrant. By the time you read this review, The Death of Stalin will be available in video and streaming. A better fate would be to send it to Siberia.
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Photograph too Languid for its Own Good
Photograph (2019)
Directed by Ritesh Batra
Amazon Studios, 108 minutes, Not-rated
In Hindi and English
Director Ritesh Batra attracted attention for his delightful 2013 film The Lunchbox. It garnered so much renown that he got to direct The Sense of an Ending, a 2017 adaptation of an acclaimed Julian Barnes novel. If, however, you plan to see his new film, Photograph, set your personal shutter to a slow speed.
Our protagonist Rafi (Nawazuddin Siddiqui) is a street photographer who poses his subjects in front of Mumbai’s Gates of India, a famous city landmark.* Rafi scrapes by and carries most of his belongings, including a portable printer, in his backpack. He shares a squalid and allegedly haunted hovel with four other men and his only real indulgence is a once-a-month kalfi, a frozen dessert that’s like a cross between ice cream and a popsicle. Indeed, one wonders how he can afford the expensive Nikon that he uses in his work. Poverty is just one of his problems. His dadi (grandmother) is relentlessly pressuring him to marry and settle down. She’s so tenacious that, though she lives in a remote village, she is known to Rafi’s friends and uncle, who also pester him about marriage and making his dadi happy.
Rafi recalls an enigmatic young woman whose picture he took, but who had to dash off before her picture was developed. Imagine his surprise when he finds her image on a poster outside an accounting school as its star student. He learns that her name is Miloni (Sanya Malhotra) and concocts a scheme to pass her off as his girlfriend to get his grandmother (Farrukh Jaffar) off his back. Perhaps because in her own way Miloni is as morose as Rafi, she agrees. If this is a love story–and that’s up for grabs–it’s certainly an unconventional one. Rafi is dark-skinned, Miloni of fair complexion. He is an impoverished Hindu who is streetwise, and she a sheltered middle-class Muslim whose parents employ a beloved house servant. There is also an age discrepancy.
Let's cut to the chase, which is something Photograph takes its time in doing. The strictures of Indian society are such that all relationships must play out according to social norms. Don’t expect fireworks in relationships or in any other way. In one scene, Rafi and Miloni are in a rundown movie house where a Bollywood film is being shown. Miloni is so distressed that she runs out. Rafi pursues her and the two share their dislike for the Bollywood genre** and the sameness of story arcs. This is reflexive filmmaking from Batra, whose reputation was built upon not making formulaic Bollywood films. This is to be applauded, but Batra goes too far in the other direction. The line between languid and somnambulant is porous and is often transgressed in a film that spotlights two characters defined by their inaction. The only break in the pacing is a scene that makes no sense. I won’t spoil it, but let’s just say that a splash of magical realism in a film with two characters trapped within the routinized and quotidian seems misplaced.
There is also the issue that Photograph is not a comedy, a drama, or a recognizable romance. Was this deliberate on Batra’s part? Perhaps, but the film has the feel of painting one’s self into a corner. Apparently distributors were also confused. Photograph gets tagged as a “love letter to Mumbai.” Huh? It is quite a stretch to infer that from what’s on the screen, most of which is literally or figuratively interior. Whatever Photograph might be, though, it’s certainly not a travelogue.
Both Siddiqui and Malhotra are fine actors that wring as much as they can from a thin script that calls each to be passive. If you think the film’s deliberate pacing is a refreshing change from Bollywood and Hollywood histrionics, this film is for you. I liked parts of it, but overall Photograph is underexposed.
* The Gates of India were built in 1911 to commemorate a royal visit during the days of British colonialism. They are impressive and Indians like to pose before it, an oddity in that the Gates are practically modern in such an ancient land.
** This is an inside joke on Malhotra’s part as she rose to cinematic fame for her dancing in Bollywood films. Bollywood films nearly always feature singing, dancing, and a formulaic chaste romance.
Sleeping at Last, Molly Thomas. Rachael Sage, SUSTO and More
Sleeping at Last, The Spring
New Age music–now generally called ambient music–has taken hits from critics who dismiss it as elevator or fern bar music. Often that's warranted, but when done right there's something about it that reaches deep into one's emotional core. Seeping at Last, the handle of Chicago composer/producer/musician Ryan O'Neal, decidedly does it right. His original composition The Spring evokes adjectives such as contemplative and pretty in some very good ways. This project began as the score for a 2016 film fin support of Charitywater.org. I gave a plug for it when just a few tracks were released, but now that I have all 13 tracks in hand, I want to give it a rave. It is, save one selection, an instrumental album but one that will make you revel in the spring, appreciate the very life force of water, and astonish with its crystalline beauty. Rain-like piano and museful strings (Anya and Sharon Gerber) frame "Atlantic" and then send us metaphorically coursing downstream and into mysterious depths. The cello in "Transformations" is so gorgeous it aches; it's simply a work of rare beauty. If you need to get out of your own head, try "Insteadof Myself" and disappear down a swirling, magical hole. The keys and jumping string bounce with what is at once joyous, yet urgent. And, yes, the title track captures spring's essence, even though it means water's source, not the season. But you can be forgiven for conflating the two given the composition's opening fragility and the radiant burst into which it evolves. Objectively, the plinky piano keys are overused on the album, but I was so nonetheless deeply moved by it. ★★★★
Molly Thomas and the Rare Birds, Honey's Fury
If you've ever seen Todd Snider's band and were dazzled by his fiddler and backup singer, chances are good it was Molly Thomas. Thomas is also a crackerjack songwriter, acoustic guitarist, and lead vocalist. Her latest project, Honey's Fury, finds her fronting a dynamic quartet that includes one-time Wet Willie lead guitarist Rick Hirsch. Think a country-flavored rock vibe and a voice that's somewhere between Patty Griffin and Emmylou Harris and you're in Molly's wheelhouse. As you will hear on "The Boatman," she can sing it soft or bold. On "Calling My Name, " she soars through a big arrangement like a fearless bird, and the surf isn't the only thing thundering on "The Ocean." On the latter she sings, I was born in a little town east of the Biloxi wind and all one can say is that though it may be the case that the ocean is in my veins, the currents have carried her far. There aren't many videos yet available from the new album, but check around and you'll find samples from the rest of the album. I particularly admire Thomas' ability to shift moods, as she does on "Tumbleweed," which truly could be one of Emmylou's songs with its folky ambience that gives Thomas quiet spaces to air her voice. And, man, does she ever air it! She also gets swampy and bluesy on a cover "I Wanna Live," a piece that flashes "Danger!" at every turn. The album title comes from the enigmatic trippiness of "Calling My Name," which would have been at home at the Fillmore West circa 1968. From where I sit, Molly Thomas left it all on the studio floor when she made Honey's Fury. ★★★★
Rachael Sage, PseudoMyopia
Some singers possess an innate sense of how to construct grab-you-by-the-earbuds songs. Rachel Sage is one of them. She doesn’t have a big voice, but she more than compensates through her command of how to work her way through intriguing mixes. On “Alive,” she lulls us into a middle groove and then punches out the It’s good to be alive refrain with such panache that it snaps us to attention. Some have compared her to Carole King, but I thought of Sarah McClachlan when I heard “Spark.” Listen to how Sage uses the piano cadences to build to the repeating lines that begin Hold me like a candle/Shine me like a knife. The EP’s theme is vision, as in both perspectives and in sight; Sage is legally blind without lenses. Sage is nothing if not adventuresome and quirky. “Olivia” is a strong woman inspired by a Law & Order character. The arrangement of this one is ever-so-slightly off-kilter and is a sound envelop that features everything from bouncing cello to piano cascades and sprays of strings. For my taste, Sage swallows a bit too much air on “Myopia,” but she redeems herself with a redux of her 1998 “Sistersong.” True to form, it’s a wee bit offbeat, opening like the prelude to a jingle and venturing off into accented vocals and dramatic instrumentation that evokes a scene from a musical. ★★★★
SUSTO, Ever Since I Lost My Mind
SUSTO [sic] is a five-piece Charleston, SC-based indie rock band captained by Justin Osborne. It has been around since 2013, but almost broke up when Osborne considered becoming an anthropologist. A study tour to Cuba changed his mind; Osborne hung out with musicians and began to explore new ways of making connections. Susto is, by the way, a Spanish word that's a bit hard to translate exactly. It's a scare or something that appears suddenly and unexpectedly, or–as the band's Website puts it–a kind of "spiritual panic attack." This makes the title of SUSTO's new recording a bit of double wordplay. The band's material is equally elusive to pin down. "Esta Bien" finds them in full Caribbean mode, with Osborne toggling between Spanish and English like a folk crooner, "Homeboy" sports a galloping acoustic intro that delivers us unto a mix of crashing power chords, electric surf guitar, and a splash of psychedelic lead. But what do we do with "If I Was," a bit folk ornamented with crystalline electric lead and bass? Or "Last Century," with its buzzy mix that feels like The Police on 'roids? If you're not perplexed and intrigued yet, try "Weather Balloons," a hopeful little love song that gathers force and repeats its reminder: I'm not dead yet. ★★★★
Whenever I get free EPs of back pages material, it generally means performers are about to drop a new release. Yet insofar as I can tell, this isn't the case of Toad the Wet Sprocket. No matter, their 5-track Something Old Something New is a reminder that they are one of the better jam bands. Check out a few tracks from Constellation (2013), their most recent release. You can hear the title track and "California Wasted." For my money, though, their 1991 song "All I Want" makes me hope the band will indeed release a new record soon. For those that don't know, the unusual band name was lifted from a Monty Python sketch.
I also got a Wilco concert sampler titled 12-12-11 that is four songs from its album The Whole Love (2011): "Born Alone," "I Might," "One Sunday Morning," and "Rising Red Lung." I offer this Noise Trade release for the many of you who are fans. My confession is that Wilco has always underwhelmed me.
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Where the Crawdads Sing is Best When It's Wild
Where the Crawdads Sing (2018)
G. P. Putnam and Sons, 384 pages.
Where the Crawdads Sing was among the top-selling novels of 2018, helped enormously by an endorsement from actress Reese Witherspoon, who has secured the right to make a film adaptation. You can also find effusive, even worshipful praise from those who post reviews to Amazon and Good Reads. Does it live up to its hype? It depends upon which part of the book one means.
The bulk of the story takes place between 1952-1969. It centers on Katherine “Kya” Clark, whom we first meet at age 6. She lives in the wetlands of coastal North Carolina and hails from what is derisively called poor white trash. When Kya observes her mother walking down the dirt track in her “fake alligator shoes” carrying a case, Kya quickly surmises that she might not be coming back. For the next 4 years she witnesses her older siblings leave home, including Jodie to whom she is closest. Poverty can grind you down, and pa has become an abusive alcoholic who disappears for long stretches until one day he stops coming home at all. From this point on Kya is on her own.
This is the first of several improbable things a reader must accept. Locals whisper about “Marsh Girl,” who occasionally comes to town (the fictional Barkley Cove) to buy supplies, but few ever venture to the ramshackle cabin where she lives. (You’d need a boat or an exceedingly rugged vehicle to get there.) The school truant officer manages to track her down and forces her to attend one day of school, where other pupils make fun of her. This will be her only formal education; Kya is swamp smart and knows how to hide.
How does she survive? That’s where improbable thing number two comes into play. Kya digs mussels and fishes from the small boat her father left, and sells them to “Jumpin’,” a black man who operates a fuel, fish, and bait shop in the bayou. Also, he, his wife Mabel, and a deep-in-the-woods black church supply the charity that white Christians only think about for an hour on Sundays. Plus Kya comes to know the marsh in all its rhythms, mysteries, and abundance.
The only one to breach her watery fortress signals in ways only one versed in nature would know: by leaving rare shells and feathers by an old stump Kya passes on her travels. He is Tate Walker, a boy her own age who loves the marsh almost as much as Kya, and will eventually teach her to read. In one of the book’s least believable passages, Tate will also explain menstruation to Kya, a device we are supposed to believe because Tate harbors dreams of becoming a marine biologist. (Huh?)
Despite credulity issues, these sections of the book are so beautifully evocative that we can conjure mental images of the marsh and metaphorically lick the saltwater from the pages. Owens wrote three non-fiction books on African wildlife before penning Crawdads, her debut novel, and possesses a gift for making us feel both the wonders and terrors of nature. It’s when she takes us beyond childhood that things become problematic. As Kya and Tate get older, Crawdads drifts toward contrivance and the cheap sentimentality of a YA novel. When Tate goes off to college and stops coming around, isn’t he just like the teens on the beach that make fun of her? Or worse, just the latest to abandon her?
By the time she 23, Kya is deep into poetry, but is also a self-trained evolutionary biologist familiar with John Maynard Smith’s “sneaky fuckers” study of how the male of a species often assumes a subordinate role to mate with a female. (It often goes badly. I’d say ask a male praying mantis, except you can’t for various reasons!) Kya is also recognized as a budding ethnologist for her keen observations and beautiful and exacting illustrations of swamp ecology. She has even been out of the marsh to meet with a publisher. Still, she’s at least 50% feral/socially inept, so how does she negotiate the attention shown her by the studly Chase Andrews, a former star high school quarterback who comes from the closest thing Barkley Cove has to a bourgeoisie: one that owns a Western Auto store.
When Chase is found dead at the base of a tower, Kya is charged with his murder, though there are no footprints and she has an airtight alibi. Owens goes full Harper Lee for courtroom scenes that feature a deus ex machina resolution. The central mystery isn’t hard to unravel if you’ve paid attention to the book’s internal themes and the trial serves to make us begin to see the various ways in which the book’s internal logic is 21st century, not that of the 1950s and 1960s. Take the book’s race relations. How likely is it that a black community would reach out to a white girl during the age of Jim Crow? Could Kya become an ethnologist without training or a powerful mentor/sponsor? There is also the matter of a murder investigation that's more CSI than what was done in he 1960s. Nor is it feasible that a district attorney would try a white girl when there was no physical evidence–not even in 1960s North Carolina.
Owens does give us a few twists here and there: revelations about Kya’s family, a nice play on “broken token” legends, and an alter ego reveal. Still, after a while the flashback/flash forward/flash sideways structure wears thin, as do simplistic good/bad characterizations. If the last few post-1969 chapters feel like tack-ons to get us to a resolution, that’s because they are.
The phrase “where the crawdads* sing” references a place where the “critters” (Kya’s phrase) remain in an Edenic wild space. It’s also a metaphor for how I felt about the novel. To invoke an old rock song, Kya was born to be wild. When Owens tames her, even ever so slightly, both Kya and the marsh become more ordinary and the fireflies dim. Read the novel for its elegant prose, but be skeptical of Ms. Witherspoon’s gushing adulation.
* If you don’t know, a crawdad–also called a crayfish or crawfish–is a crustacean that looks like a shrimp crossed with a miniature lobster. They are quite tasty.
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BLADE RUNNER 2 ~ A Fan Film
When we look through the eyes of a replicant, or a blade runner, a merchant, or little people, we see Blade Runner in the world around us. Whether it be the architecture of a building, or the lights downtown on a rainy night; it conjures up a particular feeling that has come to be tagged Blade Runner-esque.
After thirty years, Blade Runner still continues to influence artists across the broad spectrum of creative expression. It has been rendered in the visual arts; in painting, sculpting, computer animation, architectural designs and even in fashion design. We can experience Blade Runner virtually in video games. We can listen to Blade Runner-inspired music. This paradigm has been presented in live theatre productions, in dance recitals and on home video productions. And writers across the web have kept the story of Rick Deckard and company alive in fan-fiction.
The ultimate expression of Blade Runner fandom is when it is presented on film–referred to as fan film. Fan filmmakers have traditionally been amateurs. But, this medium has also been used to showcase the talent and expertise of a seasoned professional, while paying tribute to their hero or inspiration. Those who have undertaken the task of producing a fan film know that it is no easy feat. Some don't get beyond the storyboard; some meet their doom during their production. But, this doesn't deter others from following through with their creative tributaries. Such individuals are filled with faith and passion; faith in themselves, and a passion for what they do. And I have met such a person–albeit virtually–who is doing just that; producing the fan film, Blade Runner 2–a sequel.
Director/actor, Matt Mickelson, recently introduced his fan film project to me. And I was immediately impressed with not only his vision of a Blade Runner sequel, but with his acting and directing skills. So, I asked him about his acting career and what inspired him to take on a Blade Runner sequel.
In 2006, Matt moved to NYC with his family from Baltimore, MD with the intent of taking his acting/directing career to new heights. In Baltimore, he had some success as an actor and was directing film shorts with some regularity, but felt he could go no further there.
“Moving to NY, I increased my cost of living considerably,” Matt explained. “And without knowing anyone in the city, I launched my freelance career in acting and directing, and picked up camera jobs to compensate for the directing and acting work that was not as plentiful as I had hoped. It became a struggle to pay our enormous bills that came with being near NYC at the end of a false housing boom.”
Two years later, in September 2008–during the financial crash–he was shooting a Food & Wine show on the 50th floor at the World Trade Center, building 7 (the new one). “The sunset was spectacular, and with the Jersey City Goldman Sachs Tower in the distance, and the World Financial Center building pyramid across the street at window level, it looked just like Tyrell’s office in BLADE RUNNER. I brought my video camera the next day and grabbed a few shots so I could show some friends; I was flooded with a concept for a sequel. The plot developed after revisiting the original film. As a filmmaker, I could at least make a BLADE RUNNER sequel as a vehicle for my stalled acting career and capitalize on my Harrison Fordiness. I can do the voice and the mannerisms, so why not; no one else was doing it.”
Matt sat on the idea for a few years, frustrated that he had not made any movies or shorts of his own since his move to NYC. “I wrote a cop show based on my dad’s life as a homicide detective, THE SOCIAL WORKER, but I've had trouble getting it seen by a major studio ... or any studio. I had made several short films in Baltimore, but not a feature. I directed a ton of 48-hour film festival shorts and won something every time. I knew how to make a good story, but making a living at it was another thing all together. I telephoned and emailed ScottFree and Alcon Entertainment in March–when I heard they were making a sequel–but they had no idea what they were going to do. I tried to get someone to listen to my plot idea, but I could not get past the interns manning the front desk.”
Despite the cold response from the Blade Runner Partnership, Matt forged ahead with his production. And in September 2011, he began shooting some scenes. “I had a well laid out plot; a rain coat; a Harrison Ford Guy, (me); the PKD prop gun from an FX guy; a CG guy I knew from a Star Wars short I was in, “PITCHING LUCAS” (2007 Comic-con winner); and a few friends who were willing to help and loan me their apartments for locations. People were very generous with their time, property and homes, and very supportive that I was excited about making something I believed in.”
Matt shot some test shots of Deckard, (himself), running around in the rain in Chinatown; Times Square; drinking in a hotel bar (with the shakes); riding in an elevator; and of course, reading the newspaper in the rain. “If you have been to Times Square lately you will see that it looks like the BLADE RUNNER set on crack.”
He then wrote a couple of small scenes off of his plot line and recruited some of his actor friends to run the scenes. “I would shoot and light, and have another friend run the camera if I was in the scene. My Special FX friend had an arsenal of movie and theater weapons I could use in a scene, and another friend had a large apartment in Tribeca. I knew what lines I wanted in the trailer, but as we were all set up, I would run through a whole scene. Then I edited a rough cut trailer with the footage I had acquired.”
But, filming didn't come without its difficulties, as Matt explains. “Many of these location shoots were rushed or were cancelled at the last minute by crew members being sick, relatives dropping in, renters being off their meds, traffic, you name it. I work fast, but getting 3 hours to shoot your 12-hour day is what it is, you deal with it. My CGI guy had to pull out because his day job was getting frantic and CGI takes a long time and he would be starting from scratch. I got on the Internet right away and found this guy, Patrick Parenteau, in Montreal, that had already made 2 shots, the SPINNER landing and the message blimp. I emailed him. He said he had been approached before, but the projects were not up to snuff. Then I sent him the scene with Rachel in her loft and he sent me what I needed, and is willing to do more if I can get some traction with this project, THANK GOD. I incorporated the CGI into the edit and it worked great.”
After posting the 1st trailer in November 2011, Matt ran into an old friend who looked a little like Sean Young–more so in make-up. “I asked her to play the real Rachael that Deckard meets, Tyrell’s niece, which the replicant Rachael was based off of. I had a couple of scenes written and she jumped right in. This really sold the project for me; she nailed it. And the Ridley Scott lighting trick, to “Put a light behind your actor and smoke it up”, rings true. It works every time. There is a lot you can do with a couple of Liko lights and a smoke machine. I have been a fan of his for a long time.”
What does Matt hope to accomplish with his fan film? “The dream scenario would be if Ridley Scott would let me buy him a scotch, light a cigar, and tell him about the idea, and bring me on as a writer or a stand-in for the already famous person they want to play Rick Deckard,” Matt confessed. “Why not? Or maybe chop my project up into a series of webisodes with financing from ScottFree or Alcon. Who wouldn't want that? $100K can go along way when you are used to $0. That wouldn't be so terrible. Maybe they would help me produce my original films and TV shows; there is no right or wrong way into the business. That is the rub."
The film picks up nine years after Rachael and Deckard leave LA. Rachael shuts down, and Deckard drinks himself into a stupor, knowing the authorities have honed in on the Nexus 6 homing beacon. Deckard is arrested for treason, but then sprung. He is brought to NYC at the request of the Tyrell Corporation–run by Eldon Tyrell’s brother; the real Rachael’s father.
The story has many moving parts that tie in with the original story, with details that the casual viewer may have missed. The plot gets very involved, filled with twists, turns, crosses and double-crosses–where Deckard finds himself making some difficult decisions between the law and love.
“I shot a scene last week that I am adding to the front of the trailer that is very disturbing, and asks the question if we should be executing our own creations. What gives us the right to kill something someone else loves just because the local authority considers it a risk? The Nazis tried this out and it was not very popular. It also asks the creator / manufacturer when to draw the line and when to keep the law out of personal endeavors if they do not harm anyone else. Creation and law of man do not always mix well. You can read into this all you want, but every movie has messages that asks different questions of different people, and everyone can draw their own conclusion."
This fan film could be produced as a two hour film or spread out into webisodes that follow the Deckard story line. Matt is even open to suggestions from other Blade Runner fans. He wants to maintain the magic that the fans fell in love with 30 years ago.
“Movies are people.”
Rick Deckard - Matt Mickelson
Rachael Tyrell - Jessica Hester
Tyrell and Tyrell's Butler - Jim Conley
Detective Oaks - Jonathon Ruckman
Detective Mayfield - Phil John
Police Chief - John Cramer
Replicant Detective - Blake Rowe
Replicant Girl - Navey Rene Mickelson
Replicant Girl’s Sister - Carmen Faye Mickelson
CSI Cop - Errol Spat Oktan -
Art Department:
Prop guns: SpatCave Studios
CGI: Patrick Parenteau
Advertising Blimp
Deckard in Chinatown
Police Spinner
Rick Deckard inside Spinner
Replicant Detective
"What's a tortoise?"
Detective Oaks
Detective Mayfield
Deckard with his blaster drawn
Detective Mayfield with CSI cop
Deckard meeting the real Rachael
Rachael Tyrell
Scene - rough cut - Deckard Meets Rachael
Blade Runner 2 Facebook page
Matt Mickelson's YouTube channel
Hellespont Films
Have a better one!
~ C.A. Chicoine (A.K.A. Kipple)
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OFF-WORLD NEWS DIGEST | OCTOBER 2012
Early this month, the internet was buzzing with news of a possible connection between Ridley Scott’s Prometheus and Blade Runner. The article, "PROMETHEUS Blu-ray Easter Egg Reveals BLADE RUNNER Connection?" explains this.
The last part of the month buzzed with the news of the release of the Blade Runner (30th Anniversary Collector’s Edition) on Blu-ray set -- with reviews and contests to win a set. Below are some of the contests where you can enter to win one.
'Magic Mike' giveaway! "Blade Runner" [EXPIRED]
You Could Win A Blade Runner 30th Anniversary Commemorative Blu-Ray™ Combo Gift Set! Contest period starts on Wednesday October 24th 2012 & ends Monday December 10th 2012 at 23:59 (Eastern Standard Time). [Open to Canadian residents only]
Win A Copy Of Blade Runner (30th Anniversary Collector’s Edition) On Blu-ray. -- The contest will end on November 3
BladeZone's "Blade Runner 30th Anniversary Give Away!" -- Ends November 24, 2012.
TR Contest Special: The Best/Worst Moments of Blade Runner 2 -- [Expired??]
Win the Blade Runner 30th Anniversary Collector's Edition combo pack! -- Sweepstakes begins at 10:00:01am PT on 11/1/12 and ends at 11:59:59pm PT on 11/5/12.
Blade Runner: Rep-Detect board game, designed by I. J. Thompson.
Blade Runner: Rep-Detect is a game of action and suspense based on the 1982 film Blade Runner. In this game, players portray one of the film’s titular detectives and must search futuristic Los Angeles for five genetically-engineered humanoid Replicants, who have illegally escaped to Earth from the off-world colonies and are virtually indistinguishable from the human population. It is the Blade Runner's job to shoot to kill, upon detection, any trespassing Replicant. However, it is possible that any one of the Blade Runners may become a fugitive Sympathizer and attempt to escape the city with one or more Replicants.
Now for some articles, art, music, and videos!
More human than human: how Philip K. Dick can change your life
O design de Blade Runner [Portuguese]
Blade Runner en Heráclito: el asomo del no ser como esperanza [Spanish]
Music Review: Vangelis, "Blade Runner: 30th Anniversary Celebration, Music from the Motion Picture Soundtrack"
REVIEW: Blade Runner: 30th Anniversary Collector’s Edition (Blu-ray)
Blade Runner: 30th Anniversary Edition [Blu-Ray Book]
Blu-ray Review: Blade Runner - 30th Anniversary Collector's Edition [4 Disc Set]
Random Thoughts: On the Truman Show’s Seahaven and Blade Runner’s Los Angeles, or Why the Small Town is Worse
More Blade Runner Fan Art on fanpop!
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And remember to follow @OffWorldNews on Twitter to receive these and other Blade Runner related news items, (including movie showings, specials, and auction items not featured in this newsletter), as it comes in.
~ Kipple
UPDATED: November 1st, a new contest to win the Blade Runner Blu-ray set.
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Labels: Digest, Update
MAKER PROFILE: JASON EATON'S BLADE RUNNER BLIMP REPLICA
Professional model-maker Jason Eaton shares the story of his amazing Blade Runner Off-world Blimp.
By Norman Chan
Featured on Jamie and Adam's Tested website.
Here's a prop replica build that even Adam envies. Jason Eaton is a custom kit builder who frequently contributes to the Replica Prop Forum, and reached out to us to share the story of his Blade Runner Offworld Blimp project. Jason, who has worked on licensed replicas from collectible model companies like Master Replicas (no longer in operation) and eFx, spent over three years researching a prop which was only on screen for a few moments in Blade Runner. His replica is 1/2 studio scale, meaning it's about half the size of the model used for filming, and features dozens of LEDs, four servo-controlled spotlights, and two mounted LCD panels displaying the original video advertisements seen in the movie. Just watch this video of the completed build.
Jason tells us a little bit about his model-making career, how he approaches kit design, and the behind-the-scenes story of his awesome Blade Runner Blimp.
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OFF-WORLD NEWS DIGEST | SEPTEMBER 2012
New Blade Runner Blu-ray Trailer Arrives
To celebrate its 30th anniversary...
Now for some articles, art, music, podcasts, and videos!
How Philip K Dick transformed Hollywood
Do androids dream of disappointing movies? | Philip K. Dick on film
Science Fiction’s Greatest Failures (And How They Saved Us All)
BLADE RUNNER: A Minority's Report
Blade Runner, by Andrew Brandalise (Portuguese)
Blade Runner poster in Saul Bass style by Boger.
Mondo’s Latest Amazing Poster: Blade Runner’s Pleasure Model, Pris!
by Craig Drake
by Craig Drake Article HERE.
by Ray Fawkes
by Ren
Lunchtime Movie Review | Blade Runner
The Projection Booth | Special Report: Blade Runner
NERDCAST 108 – BLADE RUNNER E A DISTOPIA NOIR FUTURISTA
Model Building Hotel at Movie Madness
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OFF-WORLD NEWS DIGEST | AUGUST 2012
2012 Philip K. Dick Festival
Philip K. Dick in 21st Century
The Largest Gathering of PKD Scholars and Fans Ever Assembled in North America, A Multi-disciplinary Celebration of the Legendary California Writer
Philip K. Dick is arguably one of the most important writers of the 21st century. Dick’s uncanny prescience not only foretold of our current surveillance technology and color-coded terror, but additionally captured the narcissism and psychological withdrawal that defines the early part of this new century. Considered at the time of his death to be little more than a genre writer, Dick’s burgeoning literary reputation was kindled by a handful of fans and scholars. With his recent canonization in the prestigious Library of America and the 2011 publication of Dick’s esoteric religious notes, The Exegesis, now is the time to examine Dick’s influence and how he became such an important literary figure. The Bay Area, home to Dick for the majority of his lifetime, is also the perfect location for the event, allowing fans and scholars to step into Dick’s own past and retrace his steps in this vibrant city by the bay. Sept 22-23, 2012 will be a weekend long celebration and examination of Dick’s life and work.
Homage to Blade Runner - 30th Anniversary
Dystopian music by Kuedo ,
live in the mix! Jimmy Edgar , Majenta show. Live w / led + Visuals & Replicants standing € 10
Now for some articles, art, and videos!
Marc Haefele, Philip K. Dick editor, reviews "How to Build an Android"
By Marc Haefele with John Rabe
Natanya Reviews Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Blade Runner: A terrestrial adventure
BLADE RUNNER, ALIEN, INCEPTION, SILENCE OF THE LAMBS and Spielberg: Five Video Essays by Steven Benedict
DADoES Book Review by Carla Ribeiro (Portuguse)
Blade Runner: Computerspiel nach Ridley Scotts Kultfilm (German)
Enthralling Books: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? By David Gill
14 GREAT FILMS WITH PUZZLING ENDINGS by: Britt Hayes
Watch the composer from Blade Runner and Carl Sagan’s Cosmos have a synthesizer freakout by Cyriaque Lamar
An Oscar-winning visual effects supervisor picks the 5 movies that floored him visually
Blade Runner, a legend was born 30 years ago: The nostalgic look of Ridley Scott on the death of emotions (Italian)
Blade Runner, un mito nato 30 anni fa (Italian)
BLADE RUNNER - thirty years later, to the day
True Lies in Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Questions of Empathy in “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?”
Blade Runner by Scott Bukatman – review By PD Smith
Review: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
DADoES Review (Malay)
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Donato Giancola
Blade Runner y ArTe
30 COOLEST ALTERNATIVE BOOK COVERS
Moon River from Agustina Andreoletti on Vimeo.
If you defaced your @STARBURST_MAG and cut out the coupon, you could see BLADE RUNNER for free, before it opened in UK!
Vote for shirt to get printed if you like it!
OFF-WORLD NEWS DIGEST | JULY 2012
Morgan Paull, the actor who played the memorable role of Dave Holden in the 1982 sci-fi classic Blade Runner, died July 17th at his home in Ashland, Oregon.
Comic-Con: BLADE RUNNER 30th Anniversary Panel Recap; The Replicant Debate, Which Version of the Film Is Best, Possibility of a Remake and More
Blade Runner celebrated it’s 30th anniversary at Comic-Con this year, and I was on hand during the celebratory panel to take notes of all that occurred. Art director David Snyder, journalist Paul M. Sammon (Future Noir: The Making of Blade Runner), and DVD/Blu-ray producer Charles Lauzirika made up the very informal panel that basically consisted of them moderating themselves and fielding a slew of questions. The reason, according to Sammon, was because at the last panel the year before they simply had too many people on the panel and it was a slog to get the banter and information beyond the simple answers. MORE HERE.
Hampton Fancher's birthday was July 18th!
Blade Runner: The Peter Griffin Cut. The roles are performed by various characters from the TV series, Family Guy. Peter Griffin and his friends Glenn Quagmire, Joe Swanson and Cleveland Brown are at The Drunken Clam talking over some beer when it's revealed on the Quahog 5 News that Ridley Scott will be working on a Blade Runner sequel. This sparks a conversation between Peter and his friends that leads to him telling them his version of Blade Runner. This is a fan-created screenplay, written by C.A. Chicoine.
The Blank Sheet Project: Rutger Hauer. Synopsis: Thirty years ago, Blade Runner was released in cinemas. For the occasion of the anniversary of this cult classic, Rutger Hauer shares his experience working with Ridley Scott. Rutger also talks about how his life started as a blank sheet of paper in the Netherlands. What started Rutger on this unusual journey as an actor? What drove him on to greater things?
Now for some articles, art, music and videos!
Solving the "Blade Runner" mystery - the backstory for Philip K. Dick's "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by John Rabe
Mind Blowing Movies: Blade Runner, by Gareth Branwyn
Getting my feet wet: 'Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?' by Phillip K. Dick - Book review
Unreleased Blade Runner intro included in Vangelis' "The Collection"
"Blade Runner:" Great, but a little dull
Blade Runner, Philip K. Dick - Review (French)
How Blade Runner Teaches Bad Japanese Table Manners
The obsession of surrogates is never out of fashion (Italian)
'Total Recall,' 'Blade Runner' and a History of Philip K. Dick's Hollywood Legacy
Blade Runner Musings by Andrew Singleton (Commentary)
by *inkjava
by Jska Priebe
Luis Quiles’ Blade Runner (The Replicants)
by Rhys James
by ~2depaus
by =urban-barbarian
Inside Adam Savage's Man Cave: The Blade Runner Blaster Pistol
Common Film Ground - A BBC Comedy Exclusive by Isabel Fay & Clever Pie
MAKER PROFILE: JASON EATON'S BLADE RUNNER BLIMP RE...
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fonte: www.sailinganarchy.com
It’s almost impossible to comprehend; after nearly a decade of decline and a couple of years now with an overall fleet that’s around a third of its historic (2003) high-water mark, West Race Week – now rebadged Quantum Key West – is likely to have it’s first up year! And wonder of wonders, it ain’t because of TP52s or HPR or Melges 32s or any of the other high-dollar boats that KW spent so many years wooing.
Ironically, the smallest and arguably one of the most Corinthian boats of all is saving KWRW’s bacon (after the DeVos family and Quantum saved it from death last year); in fact an incredible thirty-seven (read: 37) J/70s are registered as of today for 2013 Quantum Key West.
Other noteable classes forming up in bigger numbers than past years include the Swan 42 (7 entries) and the IRC52 (6 entries) and HPR class (8 entries), which are benefitting from a schedule that includes multiple Florida events this winter, including the US 52 SuperSeries stop that’s taking over where the Miami Grand Prix failed with a major March event in Florida’s showcase city.
But the J/70-fueled increase might mask some other things going on. It may not be America’s biggest and most important regatta anymore, but the timing and expense help clarify what’s going on in grand prix racing, if such a thing even exists anymore…
Note: The Farr 40 has just four entries as of the end of November.
Note: The Melges 24 is down to just 22 (though we expect a few more)
Note: Just seven Melges 32s are registered.
Note: Farr 30s don’t seem to be coming.
Note: J/80 and J/105 fleets are hanging on by a thread
Note: No PHRF class has more than four boats
Note: IRC is down to 12 boats. Outside the 52s, you have a 2-boat Mini-Maxi class and an IRC3 class that looks more like a clown car than grand prix racing.
All in all, Quantum Key West is finally starting to reflect the changing trends in racing that have been so obviously quantified in events around the country.
Most Americans want to sail smaller boats in more convenient locations, while the true Grand Prix boats are going for standalone events.
If we were going, we know what we’d sail: A J/70 with Quantum sails.
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More info on Coral
1911 encyclopedia
Halopedia
Wookieepedia
Star Wars Fanon
TibiaWiki
Coral: Quiz
Coral reef quiz
Scleractinia quiz
Gorgonian quiz
Tabulate coral quiz
Rugosa quiz
Deep water coral quiz
Coralline algae quiz
Great Barrier Reef quiz
Zooxanthella quiz
Sea pen quiz
the magnitude of the 1833 Sumatra earthquake was calculated from the amount of uplift recorded by coral microatolls around the Mentawai islands?
the extinct coral Coelosimilia is the first known example of a scleractinian coral to have a skeleton not composed of the mineral aragonite?
the European fungus Ramaria formosa, found under beech trees, resembles a yellow-tipped pink piece of many-branched coral?
the earliest fossil reef formations that show high biodiversity, containing the earliest corals, form the mid-Ordovician Chazy Formation, reaching from Tennessee to Labrador?
the isolation of antibodies and flu viruses from birds on Tryon Island, a coral cay off the coast of Queensland, Australia, led to the development of antiviral drugs, such as Tamiflu?
the antimicrobial protein hydramacin-1 was extracted and isolated in 2008 by German scientists from Hydra, a freshwater relative of corals and jellyfish?
a previously undescribed species of coral called Pocillopora sp. was found off the coast of Puerto Ángel, Mexico?
Bunaken National Park (pictured) in the north of Sulawesi island of Indonesia, located near the centre of the Coral Triangle, provides habitat to 390 coral species?
hypertrophied skeletons of the deep water coral Madrepora oculata (pictured) were thought to be signs of the first neoplasm to be discovered in coral, but are now reinterpreted as an internal gall?
yellow-band disease is a disease that attacks colonies of coral when the coral is under stress from pollution, overfishing, and climate change?
The Structure and Distribution of Coral Reefs, Charles Darwin's first published theory, explains how coral atolls (example pictured) form?
a sea fan is a form of sessile colonial cnidarian, similar to a sea pen or a soft coral, found in tropical and subtropical seawater?
corals, graptolites, brachiopods and trilobites are frequently used as index fossils?
More interesting facts on Coral
Include this on your site/blog:
Categories: Coral reefs > Incremental dating > Anthozoa
Question 1: Fossils of fellow reef-dwellers algae, sponges, and the remains of many echinoids, brachiopods, ________, gastropods, and trilobites appear along with coral fossils.
Bivalvia Gastropoda Animal Mollusca
What phylum does Coral belong to?
Question 3: ________ bamboo corals (Isididae) may be among the first organisms to display the effects of ocean acidification.
Pelagic zone Deep sea Hydrothermal vent Black smoker
What classis does Coral belong to?
Dinophyceae
Question 5: The polyps are multicellular organisms that feed on a variety of small organisms, from microscopic ________ to small fish.
Primary production Zooplankton Phytoplankton Plankton
Question 6: Rugose corals became dominant by the middle of the Silurian period, and became extinct early in the ________ period.
Triassic Permian Dinosaur Geologic time scale
Question 7: Coral rag is an important local ________ in places such as the East African coast.
Titanium Tin Aluminium Building material
Question 8: Synchronous spawning is very typical on a coral reef and often, even when multiple ________ are present, all the corals on the reef release gametes the same night.
Evolution Life Species Biological classification
Question 9: The stomach closes at the base of the polyp, where the epithelium produces an ________ called the basal plate or calicle (L. small cup).
Arthropod Small shelly fauna Exoskeleton Sponge
Question 10: The sea anemone Aiptasia, while considered a pest among coral reef aquarium hobbyists, has served as a valuable ________ in the scientific study of cnidarian-algal symbiosis.
Model organism Fungus Evolution Biology
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Forum » Retro Video Games » Mario Party
By Superman
At 00:46 On 03 December 2016
My apologies if this thread appears familiar, but I posted the original shortly before all of the craziness happened and never saw whether or not it got any replies. That's the reason I'm posting the same topic over again now.
Are there any fans of the Mario Party series here? Which games have you played? Which characters do you most often play as? I currently own the first seven games in the series and usually play as either Mario or Donkey Kong.
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By Rick Ace Rhodes
Teenager With Attitude
I played all the games that were on the Gamecube and 8 that was on the Wii. Me and my friend certainly had some good times playing Mario Party, not without controversy though. A little over a year ago I tagged one of my childhood friends in the below photo on Facebook and we both had a laugh because it was so true.
*Insert funny signature here*
By blueluigi
Most of my memories of playing Mario Party is with Mario Party 4 for the Gamecube. Had so much fun with that game. I do wish Nintendo would make another Mario Party game that goes back to what made the first four games fun. I remember getting Mario Party 8, and I absolutely hated it. I thought the Mario Party franchise had already gone downhill during that game. It got even worse after ND Cube took over the series after Hudson Soft ceased to exist.
Rick Ace Rhodes wrote :
Me and my friend certainly had some good times playing Mario Party, not without controversy though. A little over a year ago I tagged one of my childhood friends in the below photo on Facebook and we both had a laugh because it was so true.
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I remember a little controversy over star stealing in my early days of playing, but then, to keep the peace, my household adopted a policy of everyone ganging up on the computer player(s) whenever it came to star stealing. It worked since we rarely had a fourth person playing with us and therefore almost always had at least one computer player to gang up on.
blueluigi wrote :
I remember getting Mario Party 8, and I absolutely hated it. I thought the Mario Party franchise had already gone downhill during that game. It got even worse after ND Cube took over the series after Hudson Soft ceased to exist.
It saddens me to hear that the newer games aren't as good as the older ones. I was hoping for something cool to look forward to if I ever got around to purchasing them.
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Episode 8: Digital Photography Secrets with Rick Sammon
Digital Photography Secrets with Rick Sammon
Digital photography secrets are yours to learn with today's guest, Rick Sammon, who comes on to tell us all about his new book called, um, Digital Photography Secrets. For the full show notes, along with links to everything we talk about on the show, please check out www.scottsphotoblog.com.
What lighting secret that artists have used since the Renaissance can you start using today, no matter what kind of equipment you have? What is the sharpest f-stop on the lens of your DSLR (it's not what you'd think)? What can we learn from psychologists about how to take more appealing portraits? These secrets - and more - are revealed by the always-interesting and inspiring Rick Sammon.
The answer to this week's giveaway can be found on this page at Amazon.com. Send your answers to us at [email protected], and we will pick THREE lucky listeners to receive a copy of Digital Photography Secrets. But wait - there's more! If you want to go ahead and buy Digital Photography Secrets today, you don't have to wait. If you're lucky enough to win our contest, Rick will give you another of his great books as a prize. That's just the way Rick rolls.
Before Rick joins us, We answer listener Mark's question about whether or not Nikon has a line of lenses comparable to Canon's L series, and we express our excitement about the latest version of iPhoto.
Interested in entering our photo contest, The Joy of Photograhy? Please visit www.scottsphotoblog.com for the contest rules. In the meantime, take a look at the entries on dplife.smugmug.com.
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Virgin goes out on top with second monthly award in 2018
Topic: Customer Satisfaction Press Release
Source: Roy Morgan Single Source Australia, September 2016 – August 2017, n = 14,787. September 2017 – August 2018. n=14,985. Base: Australians aged 14+.
Virgin Mobile has won its second Roy Morgan Mobile Phone Service Provider Monthly Customer Satisfaction Award in 2018 with a customer satisfaction rating of 88% in August jumping ahead of ALDImobile on 84% in second place.
Virgin Mobile’s victory in August comes after the service provider announced in late May that the Virgin Mobile brand will be phased out over the next two years and will be closing in early 2020. Over 750,000 Virgin Mobile customers are now in the market for a new mobile phone service provider to meet the high standards delivered by Virgin Mobile.
Virgin Mobile and ALDImobile were the standout performers over the last year with Virgin Mobile increasing customer satisfaction by 12% to take the monthly award and ALDImobile up by 14% to be second. Third-placed Vodafone increased 3% for a customer satisfaction rating of 78% just ahead of Telstra on 77% and Optus on 74% rounding out the top five mobile phone service providers.
Both Virgin Mobile and ALDImobile have achieved multiple victories in the Mobile Phone Service Provider category in 2018 and are the leading contenders to take out the 2018 Annual Award with four months to go. Virgin Mobile last won the Roy Morgan Mobile Phone Service Provider Annual Award six years ago in 2012 while ALDImobile last won the Annual Award in 2015.
Roy Morgan Customer Satisfaction Annual Award winner for 2017 Amaysim just missed out on a top five position in August after finishing in sixth place overall.
Mobile Phone Service Provider Customer Satisfaction August 2018 vs August 2017 – Top 5
Of course Virgin Mobile is not itself a network provider but rather a ‘Mobile Virtual Network Operator’ (*MVNO) which utilises the underlying Optus mobile network to provide its service. Runner-up ALDIMobile uses the Telstra network and several other smaller providers use either the underlying Telstra, Optus or Vodafone networks.
When it comes to the underlying mobile networks the Optus network with an overall customer satisfaction rating of 78% is narrowly ahead of both the Vodafone network on 77% and the Telstra network on 75%.
Michele Levine, CEO Roy Morgan, says Virgin Mobile’s victory in the monthly award shows that despite the MVNO’s decision to close its Australian business over the next two years it is still committed to delivering high standards of customer service:
“Virgin Mobile has consistently satisfied its Australian customers now estimated to number over 750,000. Virgin won the first two Roy Morgan Annual Customer Satisfaction Awards for Mobile Service Providers in 2011-12 and is one of only two providers, along with ALDImobile, to win multiple awards in the category so far in 2018.
“Virgin Mobile’s customer satisfaction rating of 88% in August was a significant improvement over the past year, up 12% from August 2017 indicating that despite the decision to close its Australian business Virgin is still supporting its customer base to a high standard.
“The estimated three-quarters of a million Virgin Mobile customers are set to transition to Optus contracts over the next two years although the uncertainty facing existing Virgin’s customers provides a huge potential market for rival telcos such as Telstra and Vodafone to tap into as they search for new customers.
“The high customer satisfaction rating for fellow MVNO ALDImobile in August of 84%, up a significant 14% on a year ago shows that despite the consolidation in the industry with the closure of Virgin there is still a significant market for re-sellers to compete with the established networks of Telstra, Optus and Vodafone as Australia heads towards 5G networks in 2019.
“Australia’s three largest mobile phone networks filled out the top five mobile phone service providers in August with third-placed Vodafone up 3% to 78% coming in just ahead of Optus on 77% and Telstra on 74%. The top two mobile phone service providers of 2017, Amaysim and iiNet, are yet to win a monthly award in 2018 and were out of the top five providers in August.”
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*Mobile Virtual Network Operators (MVNOs) are smaller operators which use a larger network to provide their mobile service. These include: Optus: Amaysim, Coles Mobile, Dodo, iiNet, Southern Phone, Vaya & Virgin Mobile. Telstra: ALDImobile, Belong, Boost, Lycamobile, Woolworths mobile. Vodafone: Kogan Mobile, Lebara, and formerly TPG – which has now set up its own dedicated network.
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Shahid Kapoor at the 10th anniversary of PETA Awards
Bollywood actor Shahid Kapoor signing the board at the 10th anniversary of PETA Awards (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) in Mumbai.
Star shower at PETA's anniversary
While Shahid Kapoor gets the PETA Asia Sexiest Vegetarian Award, a bevy of B-town celebs gather to be honoured with humanitarian awards at PETA's 10th anniversary bash. The gala will also have recorded video appearances by former Baywatch actress Pamela Anderson and rocker Bryan Adams.
As celebs gather at the Trident Hotel at Bandra kurla Complex, in Mumbai, we caught up with some of them who have supported the humble cause.
"My contribution towards PETA should have been much more than what I have done. I feel honoured for being recognized by such an amazing
organization. I am extremely honored to receiving the humanitarian award," says Bollywood actress Eesha Koppikar.
Talking about her lovee for animals, Celine Jaitly, who appeared in a PETA ad in 2009 for saving elephants from captivity says, "Animals are my first love, getting PETA's award motivates me to do more work for animals. They can't speak for themselves and yet their love is so unconditional. I am glad I could make a difference."
Raveena Tandon Thadani, who's equally excited about being honoured says, "Animals need us to speak for them. Let's stop the cruely and let us make a difference."
John Abraham, who campaigned for independence for caged birds in a popular ad campaign for PETA and is also hosting the event, remained unavailable for comment.
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Music Review Chance Pe Dance' music makes you shake a leg Rating:** 1/2
Chance Pe Dance' music makes you shake a leg (IANS Music Review)
By Ruchika Kher
Film: "Chance Pe Dance"; Music Director: Adnan Sami; Lyricists: Kumaar, Irshad Kamil, Irfan Siddique and Amitabh Bhattacharya; Singers: Sukhwinder Singh, Tulsi Kumar, Javed Ali, Vishal Dadlani, Soham Chakrabarthy, Shreya Ghosal, Kunal Ganjawala, Master Saleem, Neeraj Sridhar, Amit Kumar and Shaan; Rating:** 1/2
Put on your dancing shoes and get ready to shake a leg with the music of Shahid Kapoor-Genelia D'Souza-starrer "Chance Pe Dance". The soundtrack has been composed by Adnan Sami and it boasts of fast-paced, high-on-energy dance numbers.
The album contains seven originals and two remix versions.
It opens with "Pe pe pepein" that starts with typical wedding music in the background. A Western song with rap by Hard Kaur and vocals by Master Saleem and Neeraj Sridhar, "Pe pe pepein" has a strong Punjabi flavour. It's a fast-paced song and slowly grows on you.
The song also has a remix version that adds more beats and makes it a perfect dance number.
Next is "Pump it up" with Vishal Dadlani behind the mike. The song has a punch and starts with a bang. It's a full-on dance number with a mix of dhol and electronic guitaring.
This track too has a remix version which is faster and includes more orchestration.
Up next is a slow love ballad "Pal mein hi", which is beautifully crooned by Soham Chakrabarthy and Shreya Ghoshal. The song brings in a tranquillising effect. It's a sweet and pleasing romantic number that touches a chord with the listener.
Then we have another fast track in the guise of "One more dance". The song sung by Kunal Ganjawala is not that impressive. The song has a techno feel and is meant for the dance floor; it, however, fails to create an impact and falls flat.
It is followed by "Yaba Daba Yahoo". Sung by Kunal Ganjawala, it takes the dance flavour of the album further. A fun number, it has a heavy dose of English lyrics.
"Rishta hai mera", sung by Shaan and Tulsi Kumar, changes the mood of the album. It's a soft, smooth song. An inspirational number, "Rishta hai mera" is a melodious composition and generates interest.
Finally there is "Just do it". High on electronic arrangements, the song has been crooned by Amit Kumar and director Ken Ghosh has composed it. It has influences of hip hop and is a dance number yet gain.
On the whole, if you want to dance away to glory, then "Chance Pe Dance" is the album you are looking for.
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I don't get affected by rumours and gossips about my love life Shahid Kapoor
By Joginder Tuteja, December 18, 2009 - 11:32 IST
Shahid Kapoor isn't resting. He has already seen two of his films releasing in 2009 (Kaminey, Dil Bole Hadippa), is currently shooting for Parmeet Sethi's film with Anushka Sharma, and is busy promoting Chance Pe Dance which arrives in January next year.
Meanwhile, even as names of his past, present and perhaps future girlfriends continue to emerge at a break neck speed, he prays if a Vivah organized by his parents would finally settle all rumours, speculations, gossips, grapevine and idle talk once for and all.
Joginder Tuteja gets into a conversation with Shahid who has been super busy shooting for his films but is still managing to keep a close tab on the promotion of Chance Pe Dance as well as reactions to his newest on-screen partner Genelia D'Souza.
Akshay-Katrina 'jodi' is the hottest today while Saif and Kareena too are building a good brand around themselves. In such times, it is seems quite good to see a fresh pairing with you and Genelia coming together for the first time in Chance Pe Dance.
We had a hearty laugh because it was the camera that eventually had captured my 8 packs
I agree. Ever since the First Look of the film came out, I have got so many messages and calls congratulating me about this new pairing. Yes, there is a certain freshness that has certainly come in due to both of us coming together. Since the film boasts of a young subject, it was imperative that Genelia and I look compatible with each other. We really had a lot of fun doing Chance Pe Dance together and with the promos and songs clicking with the audiences, I am now excited to see how they react to the entire film. Genelia has done really great work in the film and what strikes me most is that she is a heroine who can also act! I am sure we will do a lot of more movies together.
For these abs, I am not going to stop eating what I want or take added strain
After Shah Rukh Khan and Aamir Khan, you too seem to have developed a fascination for this entire 6 pack, 8 pack abs affair?
(Laughs) Believe me; even I was surprised when I developed 8 pack abs. I was just trying to get in shape and was working out for that. However, it was during the shooting of a song for Chance Pe Dance when director Ken (Ghosh) just smiled and waved at me. He called me near the monitor and asked me to have a look at it. We had a hearty laugh because it was the camera that eventually had captured my 8 packs.
Come on, it's hard to believe. You developed an 8 pack and it's the camera which told you first about it?
I swear that was indeed the case. See, I was working out to be fit and not to get into any competition with anybody. I wasn't sitting and counting my abs. But yes, when Ken pointed this out, I did feel good about it, more so because this hadn't been planned. However, let me also clear that I am not going to live for maintaining this physique. Fit rehna important hai but for these abs, I am not going to stop eating what I want or take added strain.
Meanwhile, you seem to have developed quite a playboy image for yourself during last couple of years. It seems like you are having an affair with every leading lady that you interact with during the making of your films. Vidya Balan (Kismat Konnection), Priyanka Chopra (Kaminey) and now Anushka Sharma (yet untitled Yash Raj film) - it is indeed one enviable list. Really Shahid, what's happening?
(Laughs) Really yaar, my mummy-daddy should just find a nice girl for me and marry me off Vivah style. I guess it would be best if I go through an arranged marriage. At least talks around my so-called affairs would come to a stop. I mean ever since I went single two years back, there have been these constant talks around my relationships with fellow co-stars.
It is amusing when media breaks the news to me that I am seeing a girl. Can it be funnier than that?
Isn't it annoying for you?
Annoying would be too harsh a word. But yes, I am really aghast about the entire thing - not because of the entire pairing up thing but the fact that at least I should know if I am really going around with someone. It is amusing when media breaks the news to me that I am seeing a girl. Can it be funnier than that?
Does it lead to an uncomfortable situation between you and the girl in question?
I make sure that it doesn't turn out to be the case. I don't get affected by rumours and gossips and neither do I want my co-star to be. I am living my life the way I want to and I am not going to stop that just because someone out there wishes to talk or write about it by giving it a spicy connotation.
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Shahid Kapoor uncut Exclusive Interview
think of myself as a general store, where everything is available. You’ll get anything you want. Shahid Kapoor gets candid.
How do you feel when you look into the mirror these days?
I’m shooting for a new film now, so the look and the hair is different. Those six and eight pack abs were for Kaminey and Chance Pe Dance.
Do girls ask you to take off your shirt?
(Laughs) It has happened a couple of times. I look down or look away because it’s embarrassing... but I won’t deny that I like it. In Chance Pe Dance, Ken (director Ken Ghosh) and I had to create some shock value. That was the eight-pack. It got me a lot of ‘Whoas!’ Girls seem to like me a little more now.
Are we talking about any girl in particular here?
Sorry, I’m not going there.
Does having an eight-pack make you feel more like a man?
I won’t be politically correct and say it doesn’t really matter. Yes, it’s a great feeling.
Was six-pack Shah Rukh Khan the role model or eight-pack Aamir Khan?
Honestly, it was neither since I had not planned on either a six or an eight pack. Kaminey needed a raw, rough look, while Chance Pe Dance an aesthetic, chiselled body. For a year, I worked out with my trainer keeping both requirements in mind. It was Ken who, after looking into the monitor, pointed out that I had an eight-pack. It took me by surprise, but when others agreed, I realised he was right. You could say it happened by chance.
What was the biggest challenge getting there?
Getting the last four packs. It’s easy developing your upper abs but losing fat in the lower half happens only last. Also, it’s more difficult when you are a vegetarian.
Did the abs help you as a dancer or add to your performance as an actor?
They were for purely for visual effect and aesthetic appeal. I didn’t build them to prove a point to anyone. For me, the greatest actors in the world are Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Dilipsaab (Kumar) and Amitji (Amitabh Bachchan) who have a body of work rather than a body to show.
Your dad, Pankaj Kapur, has also relied more on performance than physical appearance. What was his reaction to the macho image?
Dad understands that in this new space the look is as much a part of the job. He reacted with a wry smile and an “achche lag rahe ho beta.”
How is your look different now?
In Parmeet’s film I’m playing a regular 22-year-old, so I didn’t need a bulky body. Parmeet saw me at a show earlier this year and was worried. We were going to start shooting in 45 days and he wanted a boy next-door. He got it. Personally, having an eight-pack is a high but professionally, I cannot be obsessed with it. I’m an actor not a body builder. Still, it must be heartbreaking to lose it just when you got it? I’m a fitness freak now, I can get it back in three months.
How do you feel when you look at your old films now?
I’m not going to run away from an Ishk Vishk or a Vivah. I don’t mind going back to a love story. I think of myself as a general store, where everything is available. You’ll get anything you want.
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Shahid Kapoor plays Santa to Ahmad Khan's sons
By Subhash K. Jha
Mumbai, Nov 10 (IANS) Choreographer-turned-director Ahmad Khan says he can't thank his friend Shahid Kapoor enough for fulfilling a long-cherished dream of his children.
"I had been promising my two sons Azaan and Subhan a trip to Disneyland for months. Earlier, when we shot in the US for Yash Raj Films' 'Bachna Ae Haseeno', I kept hoping there would be time. But I couldn't manage to get away. But this time Shahid made sure it happened," Khan, who is back from the US after shooting for a song with his best friend Shahid, told IANS.
Shahid not only ensured that Ahmad wrapped up his work as quickly as possible, he made all the arrangements for his friend, his wife Saira and two sons to take off for Disneyland.
"And why not?" said Khan defensively. "Shahid and I are childhood friends. Before my mother held my sons, Shahid took them in his arms. So it's perfectly natural for him to look out for me and my family.
"Out of the one month I spent in the US only 12 days were devoted to shooting the song. It wasn't even a dance song. It was a concept number showing the hero and his friends splurging and bingeing all over the US.
"We shot at casinos and at various pleasure and tourist spots in Philadelphia, Orlando, New York, New Jersey and Chicago," said Khan who choreographed Shahid in the recently hit song "Dhan te nan" from "Kaminey".
Shahid is also featuring in Khan's directorial debut "Pathshala". The first time director says that the actor's role is similar to Aamir Khan's in "Taare Zameen Par".
"In a two-hour long film, Shahid is there for an hour� he's there for 55 minutes. His role is like Aamir Khan's in 'Taare Zameen Par'. He comes in mid-way and yes, he's the teacher. Both Shahid and I have decided to focus on the kids in the marketing rather than on Shahid."
Shahid Kapoor Priyanka Chopar bag Teacher Achievement awards
Actors Priyanka Chopra and Shahid Kapoor bagged the Teacher Achievement Awards while noted lyricist Gulzar was bestowed the lifetime achievement honour at a function in Mumbai. Priyanka, who bagged the award in the entertainment category at an event on Saturday night, dedicated the award to her mother. "I am thankful to the jury. Whenever I get a prize, I think this would not have been possible without the constant support of my parents," she said. Shahid was conferred the Teacher's People Magazine Achiever award. "I feel special. It's really a big achievement when such an eminent set of jury has decided to give me the award," Shahid told IANS. Filmmaker-poet Gulzar was modest when given the Lifetime Achievement of the Year award. "I don't know what I have done so special. It's you, the people, (who) make me realise that I have made some contribution to the Indian film industry. I am thankful for that," he said. Leading advertising photographer Iqbal K. Mohammad got the award in the communication-photography category and Saina Nehwal, the first Indian to win World Junior Badminton Championship was given the achievement award in sports. "We are hopeful that each edition of the Teacher's Achievement Awards shall inspire and encourage people from all walks of life to strive for accomplishment, that not just add to individual glory but also propel societal growth and well-being," said Matt Shattock, president and CEO, Beam Global Spirit & Wine Inc.
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Terror: Ideas Towards a Working Definition
Terror is an emotional response to a force external to ourselves that causes intense fear. For semantic purposes ScepticThomas.com distinguishes between the emotional effects of terror and those of horror. We define terror as a threat from without, while horror is a threat from within. One way to distinguish between terror and horror is to think of terror representing an imminent threat to our physical well being. Horror, in contrast, represents an internal threat (psychological) that is most likely to affect our emotional or psychological stability; however, horror can indirectly affect our physical well being.
In some ways, terror is less interesting than horror. On an intellectual level it seems quite reasonable for human beings to react fearfully or even hysterically to a life threatening event. In contrast the intellectual interest in horror generally provides a refuge from serious bodily harm. But there are those who for whatever reason enjoy the more dangerous aspects of terror; perhaps understanding that the fear response from terror is informed by a true risk of death or injury. Most commonly, those whose tastes have graduated from horror to terror usually prefer to be witnesses to fear rather than participants in the terror. Consequently, individuals with too sweet a tooth for terror often display symptoms sadism. If they participate in terror events, they usually perpetrate the terror on others so that they can experience the effects vicariously; a form of voyeurism. In extreme cases, such an appetite for terror shatters civilized norms and enters the realm of socio- or even psychopathology. At this level the entertainment value is lost; what remains is violence, destruction, sadism, and psychosis. Terror has become a psychological issue.
The taste for terror can also extend to religion and politics. Countless human beings have lost their lives throughout history as a result of terror imposed on them by religious zealots or self-proclaimed believers. The Salem witch trials resulted from an imposition of Puritan morals on victims who failed to comply with Calvinist laws. The Spanish Inquisition was notorious for its violent enforcement of its arbitrary religious laws on non-Catholics. These are examples of political actions performed in the name of religion; actions intended to strike terror in the hearts of those who might refuse to comply (or even be incapable of complying) with religious law. The threat of crucifixion under Roman law or the threat of disembowelment by Germanic tribes for cutting down a tree are examples of terror used to enforce political rule.
There are less grand examples of terror being used as a tool for coercion. For example, vivid stories told to innocent children by their religious school masters about the consequences of not conforming to their faith; the wages of sin are eternal damnation and suffering. Or even ancient lore that has been passed through the centuries and later transformed into innocent tales or myths; for example, the Sandman and La Llorona are stories originally told to children to terrify them into sleeping or fearing the night.
Terror can arise from unintended situations or from impending accidents: the terror of being buried alive in a building collpase, the major malfunction of a airliner during flight, the experience of a parachute failure, or the terror of getting caught in an under tow; all of these are experiences of terror not deliberately perpetrated by human intention. Terror can also arise from natural causes: shark attacks, bear attacks, Africanized bee attacks, earthquakes, tornadoes, hurricanes, floods, or any number of natural disasters.
But whatever form terror takes or from whatever cause our sense of terror originates, many of us still have a fascination for understanding the intensity of emotions driven by these experiences. If we are generally of sane mind and maintain a certain curiosity about life, we may find that our interest in terror is comparable to our interest in death. We hope to avoid the overwhelming anxiety and fear of both by experiencing them in small doses vicariously. Hence our fascination with the sensation of terror is in that way comparable to our fascination with the sensation of horror. We imitate Emily Dickinson's fear of death by practicing dying through the stories, movies, and sometimes the pastimes that attract us. We discover the same degree of attraction to terror and death described by Rudolf Otto's fascinosum. And we sense both the mysterium and tremendum in terror and death that Otto attributes to the Numen.
Links to Sites Containing Terrifying Stories and Images
"Secret Animal Attack Files" is a website with stories about actual animal attacks on people
"Amazing Australian Animal Attacks" is a website with stories and pictures of animal attacks in Australia
"Victims Files" (WARNING! Very disturbing images) is a new website about shark attacks
"Bear Hunt" at Snopes.com (WARNING! Very disturbing images) website about bear hunt with highly disturbing picture
"YouTube - Animal Anarchy: When Animals Attack"
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SGA Rewatch: The Return Part 1
Hello, and welcome to my Stargate Atlantis Rewatch! We have been plugging along through season three and we have finally reached the mid-season cliffhanger episode, "The Return Part 1." Today's discussion will include spoilers for the episode as well as all that came before it.
Ready or not, here we go...
Teams in the Pegasus and Milky Way galaxies have finally harvested enough gates for the gate bridge (remember the gate bridge?) that will shorten travel time between Earth and Atlantis from three weeks to thirty minutes. This is especially good news considering Atlantis no longer has a ZPM. The bridge works by using a macro that instead of rematerializing travelers when they reach the destination gate instead forwards their information along a series of gates until they reach the midway station poised between the edges of the two galaxies. Exiting one gate at midway, the traveler then steps through a second gate, the first in the series of gates for the destination galaxy, which forwards them on to their final stop (the SGC or Atlantis). With the gates in place, the SGC and IOA are eager to test out the bridge to ensure that it works. Since construction of the midway station is not yet complete (it hasn't been enclosed yet and is just a structure holding the two gates), they are sending John in a puddle jumper to do the test, with the Daedalus stationed at Midway to monitor the proceedings.
The first round of the test, from Atlantis to Earth, goes off without a hitch. During the test, however, Rodney does pick up an anomalous, though unrelated, reading on his sensors. They have picked up an object traveling at .999 the speed of light and it seems to be headed toward the Daedalus. Rodney is unable to determine what the object (presumably a ship, but no telling what kind) actually is because of the Doppler shift from traveling so close to the speed of light. When John arrives back at Midway Caldwell orders him to bring the jumper aboard the Daedalus rather than returning to Atlantis, due to the mystery object. Rodney, of course, wants to know what the heck the object is and Caldwell is inclined to oblige him. They can't match the object's speed, the ship wasn't designed for that, but if they max out the sublight engines they should be able to get close enough to the object for long enough as it passes to catch some readings.
The object flies by and Rodney is astounded to realize that it appears to be an Aurora class Ancient warship. Given the ship's speed, relativity would be in effect, meaning that the people on the ship would only have experienced a handful of years over the last several thousand. Meaning that the people on the ship are probably living, breathing Ancients. Rodney immediately wants to send the ship a message before it gets out of range, and as he and John debate with Caldwell over what it should say, the Ancient ship begins to slow down, basically slamming on its breaks. A holographic image of a woman in typically horrid Ancient-style fashion appears on the bridge. She announces that she is Helia, captain of the Lantean warship Tria. She states that her ship has suffered damage to the hyperdrive. A scan of the Daedalus has revealed that it has hyperdrive capability. She asks for the unknown vessel to render assistance. Rodney replies immediately to the holograph, forgetting that Helia can't actually see or hear him. Caldwell then opens up a channel to the Tria and replies that they would be honored to help.
Upon learning the current state of affairs in the Pegasus galaxy and that her people no longer inhabit Earth, Helia asks Caldwell to return her crew to Atlantis. All told there are about a hundred Lanteans. She explains that her ship was damaged and recalled to Atlantis toward the end of the war. Before they returned home, they were told of the evacuation to Earth and decided to just press on straight there. The damage was extensive, however, and their hyperdrive gave out before long. Still, they decided to press on as fast as they were able, even knowing that a million years might pass in "real" time before they reached Earth.
Elizabeth eagerly meets Helia and a handful of her people when they are beamed into the gate room upon arrival, along with John and Rodney. Helia thanks Elizabeth for the care the expedition has taken of the city. She then asks to speak to the person who might speak for all of the people of Earth. Elizabeth is a little puzzled at this but replies that it can be arranged. She asks why, and Helia makes a motion, causing a pedestal to rise up from the ground. She presses a few buttons and all of the expedition's computers attached to the Ancient systems and database go dark. She then replies to Elizabeth that the expedition's guardianship of Atlantis has come to and end and she is now in control of the city.
Woolsey and O'Neill are sent to Atlantis to speak with Helia on behalf of Earth and the expedition. She explains to them that she and her people had given up any hope of ever seeing their home again. Now that they have returned, they need some time to readjust to all that has passed in their absence. Alone. She wants the expedition gone. They implore with her to let the expedition remain, pointing out all they have done in defense of the city and galaxy, but Helia will not be swayed. Elizabeth, John, and Rodney are gathered in Elizabeth's office, extremely upset. O'Neill comes in and tells them that Helia has given them forty-eight hours to vacate the city. He says he knows they are angry at losing the city and Elizabeth chirps up that it isn't just that. They are also losing the chance to speak with and learn from living Ancients. O'Neill says that he thinks eventually Helia will be willing to let some of them back. Speaking with Elizabeth privately, he also reveals that the Ancients are willing to let one person remain behind to liaise between Earth and Atlantis in the hopes of building a future alliance. Before Elizabeth can jump at the chance, however, he stops her, saying that the IOA is demanding that Woolsey be that person.
Everyone begins packing up and preparing to leave the city. Ronon and Teyla stop by John's quarters to say goodbye to him. Teyla reveals that the Ancients don't even want the Athosians remaining on the mainland. They have found a new planet and are relocating her people. She and Ronon will be going with them, since they aren't welcome in the city anymore either. It is a big letdown for Teyla's people and for Ronon, since they had always thought that the return of the "Ancestors" would be a joyous affair, not a summary dismissal. John makes the offer to Teyla and Ronon to come back to Earth with the expedition but they decline. Neither is ready to leave their responsibilities in the Pegasus galaxy behind. Teyla extends an offer to John to stay, but he also declines, doubting the Air Force would let him. Carson, Radek, and Rodney are packing up in a lab and discussing where they will each be going next. Radek says he will probably be going to a university back in his country to teach and do research. Carson has been offered a position at the SGC, and Rodney will probably go to Area 51. As they discuss this it dawns on them all that they are approaching a true parting of the ways and the air is full of the sadness of the moment.
The time comes for the last of the expedition to leave Atlantis. Rodney dawdles until the last possible moment, giving Helia all sorts of updates on the status of the city (damaged areas and suchlike). Eventually Elizabeth calls him down to the gate and he grudgingly goes down. Ronon and Teyla have stayed behind to say farewell to their friends. Elizabeth, John, Rodney, and Carson walk towards the gate together, though Elizabeth stops and turns around to take one last look at the city before stepping through.
Flash forward to Earth about six weeks later. John is returning to the SGC from a mission with his new (and very green) team. He is obviously kind of disappointed by them, lamenting out loud that he never could have believed he would miss having Rodney on his team. As they clear out from in front of the gate it activates once more. Landry tells John to stick around, as it is probably O'Neill calling in from Atlantis. John is surprised that O'Neill went back but Landry explains that the Ancients needed someone to help them deal with Woolsey. Woolsey and O'Neill report that talks are proceeding, but then they throw out that the Ancients have picked up an Asuran ship (remember the Asuran replicators?) headed toward Atlantis. John tenses but O'Neill comments that no one seems that worried about it. When John asks why, Woolsey pipes up that the Asurans have a law in their base code preventing them from attacking Ancients. They are heading toward Atlantis expecting the expedition. If they continue to attack once the Ancients make their presence known, they will be in for a nasty surprise.
Later John is on the phone with Rodney, who is griping that he hates his new assignment. He admits to being lonely and missing a lot of the people from the expedition. For example, he tells John, Elizabeth has completely fallen off the radar, refusing to answer any calls or letters. John tells Rodney to cheer up and we learn that Rodney is actually flying in the next night and will be having dinner with John and Carson. Rodney isn't the only one who has noticed Elizabeth's withdrawal. Carson drops by her place in a surprise visit. She is kind of a mess, and clearly having a hard time accepting her situation and adjusting to life outside of Atlantis (as indicated by her ponytail). She tells Carson she is just trying to move on but he is skeptical. He tells her that Rodney is coming into town the next night and invites her to join their dinner. He doesn't give her the chance to say no.
The Asuran vessel drops out of hyperspace over Atlantis. O'Neill watches nervously as they send up a lone jumper to warn it to turn back. They open communications and Helia announces that the city is back in Lantean control, ordering them to stand down or face the consequences. The Asuran vessel makes no reply, just blasts the jumper out of the sky and continues on toward the city.
Elizabeth, John, Rodney, and Carson are at dinner, catching up with each other. Things are starting to wind down when suddenly Elizabeth, John, and Rodney's phones all blow up with calls from the SGC. Carson exclaims in dismay that he didn't bring his and asks what is going on. They head back to the SGC and Landry shows them a databurst he received from Atlantis. O'Neill and Woolsey called in, telling them that Atlantis was under replicator attack. The Asurans somehow managed to rewrite their base code to be able to attack Ancients. They have pretty much taken over the city. O'Neill requests immediate evacuation and the transmission cuts out. Landry tells the team that O'Neill and Woolsey never made it through the gate. He demands to know how the hell the Asurans managed to overwrite their base code and Rodney realizes he might have enabled that when he altered their code during the last encounter.
Per O'Neill's standing orders Landry has already sent the Daedalus back to Atlantis to nuke the city. They cannot allow the Asurans to have access to Earth, or to the gate bridge--he fears they could just rewrite the code to come out at another gate in the Milky Way galaxy without a shield like Earth's gate. The Daedalus will arrive in four days, he tells them, and then he asks them what is the best way to get a nuke through the city's shields. Everyone immediately starts to protest, wanting to mount a rescue. Carter has just developed some new weapons, anti-replicator guns (ARGs), specifically designed to fight replicators. They think with those they could easily take back the city. Landry refuses though.
After the meeting, the four of them gather in John's office to go over the situation. They refuse to just sit back and let the Daedalus blow up Atlantis if there is anything they can do to stop it. Rodney points out that he should be able to rewrite the macro so that instead of Atlantis it takes them to another Pegasus gate, such as perhaps the one on the new Athosian planet where Teyla and Ronon are. He also admits he built a back door into the Atlantis gate shield. That should allow him to keep the Asurans from raising it if they gate into the city. They agree that they have to try. They just need to "borrow" some of the ARGs and the jumper the SGC is studying.
Unfortunately, Rodney has been denied access to the SGC jumper, so they will need to get around that. Dr. Lee is in charge of the project. Access can only be granted from his office, which he is in, so Rodney takes Elizabeth along to distract Lee. While Rodney gives his keycard access to the jumper lab, Elizabeth talks World of Warcraft with Lee and flirts (badly). With all of that taken care of, they gear up and sneak to the jumper lab. On the way they encounter one of John's new teammates. He realizes John is going on a mission without him and they stun him and stick him in a closet so he can't alert Landry. Then they get to the jumper and stun Siler, the scientist on duty in the lab (this is really funny if you also watch Stargate SG-1, Siler is always getting knocked out). They fire up the gate and head to Midway.
At Midway, they pause for a few moments so that Rodney can rewrite the Pegasus macro to take them to the Athosian planet instead of Atlantis. While they are waiting, the Milky Way gate activates and Landry sends a transmission. He orders them to turn back immediately, starting to promise retribution if they don't, but John cuts the transmission. Rodney gets the rewrite done and they gate to Pegasus.
Ladon Radim of the Genii is paying a visit to Teyla and Ronon in the Athosian settlement. Having learned of the expedition's eviction from Atlantis, he realizes that the Genii are now the most likely source of serious resistance to the wraith. He has come to try to recruit Teyla and Ronon to work with his people and fight back. They decline and he leaves, but Teyla seems to be considering the offer. She is discussing it with Ronon when John and the others step out of the night. She and Ronon are overjoyed to see their friends again but quickly realize that something must be wrong. John briefs them on the situation and tells them that they have a plan to take back the city and rescue O'Neill and Woolsey from the replicators. He asks if Ronon and Teyla are in and they are of course eager to join. They all load up in the jumper and John dials Atlantis. Rodney sends a signal through the gate and when the Asurans try to raise the shield they are unsuccessful. Sheppard takes a deep breath and flies the jumper through the gate.
This episode sees the payoff of a lot of little things that have been building up so far over the course of the season. It is actually really impressive how the writers managed to drop so many casual hints throughout the previous episodes to set the stage for these events. It really is a case of reaping what you sow. As Elizabeth told Landry, they only messed with the Asuran base code because they believed it was their only option for saving Atlantis. Yet that very thing might see it lost forever. The readiness with which John, Elizabeth, Rodney, and Carson (only one of them a soldier, mind you) are willing to defy Landry and the SGC to try to save the city, despite the odds, is really telling about how much the expedition sees Atlantis as home. They know their chances are slim to nonexistent, but they'd rather die trying to save Atlantis than just sit back and let it be destroyed, knowing it is lost to them forever. I find it fitting that it is in this season where the expedition manages to really separate itself from the SGC, given that the final season of SG-1 ran this same year.
This episode is also a wonderful character piece. All of the actors were going at full tilt, very convincingly portraying a wide range of (often conflicting) emotions. Watching this episode it is so easy to believe these people are a true family. Seeing them torn apart without any sort of regard for that fact is gut-wrenching.
For the record, my least favorite character in all of Stargate Atlantis? Frakking Helia. What. The. Hell? It is my firm belief that she was a low-level, underachieving, unpopular officer (probably due to incompetence--her lack of personality sadly probably didn't hinder her at all given the other Ancients we've met) who agreed to do the whole "head back to Earth at not-quite-light speed" because she knew that meant she wouldn't have to report her screwups to anyone when she got there. I imagine she ran into the Daedalus, learned that her crew (a group of people already inclined to taking orders from her) were the only Lanteans left in existence, and realized with glee that she could easily take over Atlantis. The whole time she was riding on the Daedalus she was probably thinking, Mine mine mine! Bleah. Clearly she couldn't let the expedition stay because they were actually capable of getting things done, it would only make her look bad by comparison to have them around.
Um, where was I? Oh, right. Sorry about that. All of that is to say, it is hardly a surprise that everyone was let down by their encounter with true Ancients. Everything they have learned since coming to Atlantis (and probably even before then) should have prepared them for the fact that these guys had kind of gotten away from themselves by the time they decided to abandon Atlantis.
Anyhoo, I have to say, one thing that I love about this franchise as a whole is how the stargates in each galaxy look a little bit different. It tickled me pink that you can very clearly tell the Milky Way and Pegasus gates apart at Midway. That made for a happy Cori.
"You're just mad you didn't get to fly the maiden voyage yourself." (Landry)
"General, I am quite fond of both maidens and voyages. I mean, put the two together and..." (O'Neill)
"You're not a test pilot anymore Jack." (Landry)
"That's what the President said." (O'Neill)
"You're taking this rather well." (Elizabeth)
"Actually, I'm pissed. For one thing, I'm only a quarter of the way through War and Peace." (John)
"It is impossible for them to harm us." (Helia)
"I could use some enemies like that." (O'Neill)
"What's going on?" (Landry)
"I don't know, sir. The gate just started dialing on its own." (Walter)
"It doesn't do that!" (Landry)
"I know that, sir." (Walter)
"My turtles!" (Carson)
"What?" (Elizabeth)
"I just bought some wee baby turtles and no one knows to feed them!" (Carson)
That leads us in to the mid-season hiatus. When this season originally aired, Syfy waited seven months to broadcast the back half of the season. It was...frustrating is the nicest thing I can think to say about that. Especially since in Canada and Britain the season resumed after only a few weeks. Avoiding spoilers was not fun, let me tell you. Luckily for you, I am not nearly that mean. You only have to wait until Monday for our discussion of the conclusion of this adventure. Join us then for "The Return Part 2," won't you?
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Very first New Horizons Pluto encounter
The latest images from New Horizons are showing Pluto and Charon to have unique faces, distinct from any other icy worlds in the solar system. New Horizons images have dramatically reduced uncertainty in Pluto's diameter. Stern reported Pluto's radius to be 1185 +/- 10 kilometers, so its diameter is 2370 +/- 20 km. Implications of
Pluto Comes Into Focus In New Horizons Latest Images
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Up till now, 2015 has been a year of historic, ever bigger revelations regarding some of the Solar System’s “lesser bodies”, with ESA’s Rosetta spacecraft returning breath-taking close-up images of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko and NASA’s Dawn mission providing stunning views of dwarf planet Ceres in the vast expanses of the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.
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While no one yet knows what's needed to build a habitable planet, it's clear that the interplay between the sun and Earth is crucial for making our planet livable -- a balance between a sun that provides energy and a planet that can protect itself from the harshest solar emissions. Our sun steadily emits light,
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Ceres is the largest object in the asteroid belt, and NASA’s Dawn spacecraft will arrive at this dwarf planet on March 6, 2015. Pluto is the largest object in the Kuiper belt, and NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft will arrive at this dwarf planet on July 15, 2015. These two events will make 2015 an exciting
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Having accomplished another month of ion thrusting, and now more than two years after embarking on its journey away from protoplanet Vesta, Dawn is beginning its approach phase to dwarf planet Ceres. Early in December, Dawn obtained its first resolved photo of Ceres, spanning nine pixels. Its next pictures will be taken on Jan. 13.
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On 28 November 2014, the flight control team at ESOC reported lack of contact with Venus Express at the first opportunity for communication with a ground station after execution of the 6th of the pericentre-raising manoeuvres. It is possible that the remaining propellant onboard VEX was exhausted during the manoeuvre. Repeated attempts to re-establish contact
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Operators at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Md., confirmed at 9:53 p.m. (EST) that New Horizons, operating on pre-programmed computer commands, had switched from hibernation to “active” mode. Moving at light speed, the radio signal from New Horizons – currently more than 2.9 billion miles from Earth, and just over 162
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Humans have long dreamed of traveling to Mars, hopscotching across the solar system and fanning out into the cosmos beyond. Several nations and private organizations are developing plans for crewed Mars missions in the coming decades. But a new study shows that increasing levels of cosmic radiation spurred by weak solar activity could make such
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ERRATA – GURPS Martial Arts (First Edition, Second and Third Printing) – Updated June 8, 1999
Copyright © by Steve Jackson Games Incorporated.
p. 30. Wrestling skill can also replace DX in an attempt to Grapple a foe.
P. 40, sidebar. Clarification: Roll vs. HT to avoid decapitation if the throat takes over the victim's HT damage from an edged weapon.
P. 47. Switch agents 3 and 5 in the diagram.
P. 47. In the third paragraph under Chambara, the fighter needs a balanced weapon.
P. 78. The cost for the White Crane Kung Fu style should be 6 points/12 points.
P. 79. Add Pressure Secrets to the list of cinematic skills for Wushu Kung Fu, and raise the cost to 9 points/18 points.
P. 91. The Tonfa was omitted. It uses Tonfa skill (p. 30). Typical stats are: crushing, swing+1, reach 1, $40, 2 lbs., min ST 7. Note that parry is 2/3 skill.
P. 108. The sequel to Marathon Man is Brothers.
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Fair is fair EDITORIAL 07/07/2010
Fair is fair
Curiouser and curiouser it is that there is today talk from Malacañang of the probability of having the claimed Truth Commission probe not just former President Gloria Arroyo, but former Presidents Fidel Ramos and Joseph Estrada for alleged irregularities.
It was also just as curious that this suggestion came from Cardinal Gaudencio Rosales who, along with his bishops, has been noticeably actively meddling in politics, even as the bishops’ body had earlier claimed that the Catholic church will not be meddling in politics.
Still, it may be a good idea for the Davide-led Truth Commission to include all previous administrations, which should include the Cory Aquino administration and not just the Ramos and Estrada administrations, as the probe should show that the Cory administration was hardly as clean and sainted as the yellow media then portrayed it.
In the case of Estrada, the probe, if done objectively, would show that there were no irregularities committed by him or his Cabinet members, and would serve to clear him of all those allegations the anti-Erap media threw at him, in their bid to demonize him.... MORE
Unprepared, undecided and unaware
Private detectives: A pre-nuptial priority for some in India
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Unprepared, undecided and unaware FRONTLINE Ninez Cacho-Olivares 07/07/2010
Noynoy Aquino and his team appear to be very unprepared for the presidency and a full administration organization, which is pretty strange, considering that he had all of a month and a half — more actually — to prepare appointees to his Cabinet, sub-Cabinet, bureaus and agencies, if only to hit the ground running from Day One. They appear to be hitting the ground...stumbling.
To this day, he has not even completed his Cabinet and he has not as yet decided whether to have a press secretary or a communications director to take charge of his media needs, or even have a press secretary that would be under the supervision of the communications director.
A secretary with Cabinet status functioning, not under the president but under a communications director?
There is also the unfilled Department of Interior and Local Government post, which he said he is taking on in a concurrent capacity. Lord knows how he can manage the DILG when he can’t even seem to manage the presidency, taking off three days after his official takeover of the presidency, and again, taking the weekend off..... MORE
Private detectives: A pre-nuptial priority for some in India FEATURE 07/07/2010
NEW DELHI — The wedding, to be celebrated in sumptuous Indian style, was due for June and everything was progressing smoothly until the groom suddenly lost interest.
Suspicious of an affair, the bride did what increasing numbers of anxious lovers and nervous families are doing in India: she rang a private detective to find out why.
In a country where nine out of 10 marriages are still arranged and modern social pressures are putting the institution under pressure, the industry of snooping on lovers has expanded fast over the last five years, say insiders.
In this case an investigation by the agency AMX — “marriage is a gamble,” says its Web site — revealed that the groom had recently discovered he was HIV positive.
The discovery was made by an attractive female undercover agent sent by the agency, who befriended the groom and found his medicine.
The wedding was eventually called off, like 20 percent of cases after a probe, AMX boss Baldev Kumar Puri told AFP.
“A pre-matrimonial investigation is your duty,” Puri said. “A post matrimonial investigation is much more costly.”
Puri and others, like Kunwar Vikram Singh, director of the New Delhi-based Lancers agency, are in a growth industry being driven by social changes and the way in which weddings are arranged.
In cities, families are relying increasingly on small advertisements in newspapers and Web sites or specialist dating agencies to find the perfect match for their children.... MORE
Good moves C.R.O.S.S.R.O.A.D.S Jonathan De la Cruz 07/07/2010
It is good that newly appointed Energy Secretary Rene Jose Almendras has deferred any action on the proposed sale of the government’s 10 percent stake in the multibillion-dollar Malampaya gas project. That gives one and all, including the old set of directors which failed to firm up a decision on the matter until it was unceremoniously changed toward the end of the term of the previous administration, to come out with their suggestions on how best to handle this issue. As Almendras himself correctly noted “...it is best that the board issues be resolved first then we will study how the Malampaya approach is going to be, or even ask the question: Do we really want to sell Malampaya if it’s generating revenues for the government today...” Which is how it should have been worked out in the first place. For if truth be told, the sale of assets such as the revenue rich Malampaya stake, considered one of the remaining “crown jewels” among government properties, should really be as deliberate as can be.... MORE
A-ha! HE SAYS Aldrin Cardon 07/07/2010
Wang-wang stories have fed tabloid (and even broadsheet) headlines for a week, with reactionary law enforcement agencies taking President Aquino’s order to rid our highways of siren-equipped cars which have become more of a curse than a simple menace to law-abiding motorists, like you and me.
I have no problems with Noy’s order, however. If that’s what Noynoy wants, then he deserves to get it, as it is primarily the thrust of his inaugural speech. President Aquino only wanted to drive home a point, and there was no better way than to stir his crowd of common folk to an applause by providing a simple solution to a simple problem, which our law enforcement agencies could not seem to address, except perhaps for a short period of time when Erap was president (and Ping Lacson his Chief of Police), but it also led to Erap’s downfall when he intended to silence Chavit Singson’s siren, which proved to be louder than anybody else’s wang-wang during Gloria Arroyo’s ambitious drive to power..... MORE
Uh-oh SHE SAYS Dinah S. Ventura 07/07/2010
Now that the excitement of “newness” has begun to ebb and the Aquino administration is buckling down to work, one can’t help but wonder about some early “slip-ups” and brow-raising moves that have reaped their share of reactions.
Philippine media, which have often been regarded by the objects of their eagle eyes as a living, breathing being that tend to bite and breathe noxious fumes, were the first to raise an “issue,” if one may call it that.
On President Noynoy’s first day at work, the Malacañang press corps got all confused over Memorandum Circular No. 1, which declared “all non-career executive service positions vacant as of 30 June 2010 and (extended) the services of contractual employees whose contracts expire on 30 June 2010.” This was then revised but still signed as Memorandum Circular No. 1, but now declared “all non-career executive officials occupying career executive service positions to continue to perform their duties and responsibilities and extending the services of certain contractual and or casual employees whose contracts expire on June 30.”.... MORE
Luisita massacre case closed—Palace By Aytch S. de la Cruz 07/07/2010
Ombudsman already cleared Noynoy—spokesman
Luisita massacre case closed—Palace
By Aytch S. de la Cruz
For a presidency that calls for closure — even through a special Truth Commission — this is easily claimed to have closure when it comes down to a case involving President Aquino and his Cojuangco relatives pertaining to Hacienda Luisita. To Aquino and his Palace, the hacienda case is a closed case that should not be questioned or investigated further.
Malacañang yesterday said the long-standing issue on the plight of the victims in the 2004 Hacienda Luisita massacre should be regarded as a “closed case” following the resolution supposedly executed by the Office of the Ombudsman which absolved then Tarlac congressman now President Aquino of any accountability in the massacre of the farmers.
This acquittal of Aquino must have been recent, since this issue was a campaign issue against him yet his camp never stated that then Senator Aquino had already been cleared by the Ombudsman.
Presidential spokesman Edwin Lacierda made this statement in response to a reporter’s question on how Aquino plans to address the continuing cry for justice of the relatives of the farmers who were killed in the outskirts of the Hacienda Luisita in Tarlac while fighting for their right to just compensation from the Cojuangco-Aquino clan.
“That (Hacienda Luisita massacre issue) has been investigated. There was already an Ombudsman report way, way back and it has already cleared then Congressman Benigno Aquino III. So it’s an old issue,” Lacierda said.
“That’s been a closed issue…that has been a campaign issue before and we have already answered that—that the charges against then Congressman Benigno Aquino were already dismissed,” he reiterated in an apparent bid to quickly end a discussion on the matter.
Lacierda also mentioned that the protracted land row dispute in the HLI between the farmers and the Cojuangco-Aquino clan will be addressed by newly-appointed Agrarian Reform Secretary Gil de los Reyes but he said the case will be treated just “like any other ordinary case.”... MORE
Noynoy eyes line budgeting, slashed pork
Miriam claims Villar already has Senate presidency in the bag
Comelec into cover-up on folder scam—ex-employee
Widened ambit seen to weaken truth body
Malacañang sees nothing wrong in extension
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Noynoy eyes line budgeting, slashed pork By Gerry Baldo 07/07/2010
By Gerry Baldo
President Aquino’s popularity could be short lived in the Senate and the House of Representatives, with his Liberal Party (LP) allies disclosing yesterday that the ruling party is now eyeing to itemize the budget and slash the pork barrel, euphemistically called Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF), into something that is just enough for each congressional district.
Quezon Rep. Lorenzo “Erin” Tañada III, LP spokesman, said each department would have to depend on its budget and not on the congressional allocations from the pork of the lawmakers.
“It has always been mentioned during the campaign that President Aquino favors zero budgeting, which means each department would have to depend on its actual budget.”
Tañada explained that Aquino wants to find out if there is really a need to increase the budget.
“This is because we might say that we need a P1.6 trillion or P1.7 trillion budget, but that the reality is that we may just be needing only P1 trillion,” Tañada said, adding that a big cut in the pork barrel could drastically reduce the budget deficit.
Citing the recent decision of the G20 heads of government during their Toronto Summit on June 26 and 27, 2010 to reduce their deficits, Tañada said Aquino’s move would augur well with the move of the world’s biggest economies.
Miriam claims Villar already has Senate presidency in the bag By Angie M. Rosales 07/07/2010
While senators engage in a psy-war to gain the needed numbers to seat a new Senate president when Congress opens late this month, Sen. Miriam Defensor-Santiago said the support being contested is already in the bag for Sen. Manuel Villar Jr.
Santiago disputed conflicting claims on who among the senators will support to replace Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile and gave hints that Senator Villar, one of the frontrunners, already has secured the commitment of 12 of them.
This, she said, was long before another aspirant, Liberal Party (LP) bet Sen. Francis Pangilinan, started courting senators for support.
“There are some who are mistaking their dream for the reality. They’ll wake up on July 26 (Congress’ opening),” the senator said in twitting Villar’s so-called rivals during a phone-patched interview with reporters.
Santiago, who already made earlier pronouncement on Villar securing the commitment of some of their peers, said immediately after the May 10 elections, where Villar lost in his bid for the presidency, he had managed to seal the support of 12 senators for the Senate leadership.
This would mean having 13 of the required votes, to include Villar himself, according to Santiago.... MORE
Comelec into cover-up on folder scam—ex-employee By Marie A. Surbano 07/07/2010
By Marie A. Surbano
Commission on Elections officials, evidently, even the Comelec commissioners, are allegedly into a cover-up of the P700-million budget translated into 1.8 million ballot secrecy folder scam, with their refusal to even put under suspension those poll officials mentioned in the poll body’s law department probe findings.
This was the charge aired by former Comelec employee Melchor Magdamo, the whistleblower, who has called for the immediate suspension of the people behind the botched P700-million secrecy folder acquisition during the May 10 polls.
Magdama said by not suspending the poll officers named in the probe report, there is no one to prevent the pieces of evidence in the case from possible “disappearances.”
Magdamo stressed that all those implicated in the controversy remain in position and it has become only too obvious that the Comelec high officials are planning a cover up.
He particularly cited Comelec executive director Jose Tolentino who he stated in his affidavit as the poll official who had approved the specifications of the ballot secrecy folder that was given to the winning supplier OTC Paper Supply.
“The mere fact that Tolentino (and others) are still there, it is obvious that there would be a cover up. They (their superiors) should have placed under preventive suspension all those involved to prevent them from getting the evidence…,” Magdamo said in Filipino during an interview at UNTV.
Magdamo noted that this is not the first time that evidence in cases in the Commission disappears.
A highly reliable source in the Comelec, told the Tribune that on top of the list of poll officials involved in the folder scam is Tolentino, who was also under fire during the congressional probe of the automated polls as well as the Congress during the presidential canvassing, for having issued last minute memos and changing rules, thus opening the auto polls open to electoral fraud.... MORE
Widened ambit seen to weaken truth body 07/07/2010
Expanding the scope of the so-called Truth Commission to include alleged irregularities and abuses committed during the Ramos and Estrada administrations could only muddle, if not weaken, the purpose of the body and affect its initial expressed purpose of giving closure to issues raised against former President Arroyo.
Sen. Miriam Defensor-Santiago also expressed pessimism over the competence of the fact-finding body under the helm of former Chief Justice Hilario Davide Jr. in taking up unresolved cases supposedly committed in the last three adminis-trations.
“That is justified under the circumstances but it might have a problem building up a case or finding evidence to sustain the charges against (former) President Arroyo. We might be asking too much from it,” she said in a phone-patched interview with Senate reporters.
Some church leaders have urged Malacañang to expand the mandate of the body and not focus solely on Arroyo but to include past presidents.
Presidential spokesman Edwin Lacierda said the Palace was open to this idea but clarified that it is up to Davide to decide on this matter given his authority to oversee the commission.
“For me, the magnitude of the task makes it impossible. You’re talking the presidency. There are so many layers of bureaucracy that insulates the president. So it’s very hard to prove that the (former) president was first liable for an official act of the State. That’s why if the investigation against all other prior presidents are conducted at the same time as the investigation against (former) President Arroyo, that is the best way to dilute the limited resources of government and in effect, stymie the proceedings,” she pointed out.... MORE
Malacañang sees nothing wrong in extension By Michaela P. del Callar 07/07/2010
By Michaela P. del Callar
Foreign Affairs Secretary Alberto Romulo defended yesterday his directive to extend the terms of 21 political diplomats appointed by former President Arroyo, saying there is nothing irregular and illegal about it.
In a media interview, Romulo said the extension of terms of political envoys has been a common practice by previous presidents such as Corazon Aquino, Fidel Ramos and Joseph Estrada.
“During the time of transition from President Ramos to President Estrada, they were extended for six months from July 1 to Dec. 31. During Cory’s time, they were also extended,” Romulo was quoted as saying.
Under the Constitution, the President has the power to appoint or re-appoint officials and diplomats, but not extend their terms and, therefore, a Commission on Appointments confirmation is needed.
In a separate interview with the same network, former congressman Apolinario Lozada, who used to be a career diplomat, branded as “questionable” the extension of the envoys.
Lozada pointed out that political diplomats cease to represent the Philippines once the President who appointed them steps down. “They aren’t representatives of (President) Noynoy (Aquino). That’s illegal,” Lozada said.
He added that the envoys should have tendered their courtesy resignation on or before June 30 and turned over the operations of the embassies to their deputies.
Executive Secretary Paquito Ochoa Jr. said in a statement that he and Romulo have jointly recommended to Aquino to allow a three-month extension of the terms of the ambassadors, whose terms were deemed to have ended with that of Arroyo on June 30. If approved, the terms of 21 ambassadors should expire on Sept. 30.... MORE
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All women\'s run EDITORIAL 03/15/2011
All women\'s run
For his release of the partial Senate blue ribbon committee report finding Ombudsman Merceditas Gutierrez guilty of non-feasance and betrayal of public trust over the plea bargain agreement the prosecutors forged with the former military comptroller Maj. Gen. Carlos Garcia, its chairman Sen. Teofisto “TG” Guingona and those who signed without any reservations are getting a lot of flack, mainly for misleading the public by making it appear that the partial report had been approved by the majority in the blue ribbon committee, when the opposite was true, along with the public perception that not only are they lackeys of Noynoy Aquino, but that they have prejudged the impeachment case of the Ombudsman, who is fast earning public sympathy due to the obvious denial of due process and her demonization by the Noynoy allies.
Several senators have pointed out that it was unwise of Guingona to have included the Ombudsman in the plea bargain agreement in the committee report on account of the impeachment that will reach trial stage at the Senate..... MORE
Some two weeks ago, Justice Chief Leila de Lima titillated the media with her claim that she and her agencies have had a “breakthrough” in the Vizconde massacre case probe she is currently conducting, but gave no details.
Shortly after, it was announced that she had asked Hubert Webb to provide her probe team with his original stamped passport, adding that which was presented to the court was merely a photocopy.
She added that this would prove whether indeed Webb was in the US as he said he was, when the murder had occurred.
Asked whether this was the “breakthrough” she was talking about earlier, De Lima refused to say, although it has been noted that she is no longer talking about “breakthroughs” in the case..... MORE
Chinese farmers go online to sell produce focus 03/15/2011
Chinese farmers go online to sell produce
BEIJING — For years, Wang Yulan and her husband drove their three-wheeled vehicle to an outdoor market near Beijing to sell broccoli, peppers, eggplants and tomatoes grown on their small plot of land.
Now, thanks to the web, they don’t even have to leave their living room.
Two years ago the couple bought a computer and joined a growing number of Chinese farmers selling their produce online, giving them access to customers around the country and boosting their meager income.
“A broad market is opened once you get on the computer,” Wang, 55, told AFP as she logged on to agricultural trading Web site aptc.cn with the help of her niece..... MORE
Pray NO HOLDS BARRED Armida Siguion-Reyna 03/15/2011
Tragedy brings out the worst and the best in people. Our not-so distant memories of Typhoon “Ondoy” support the statement to be fact.
How truly awful now in the aftermath of the twin quakes that hit Japan, to have despicable opportunists set to make money out of the misery of others; termite-like publicity-seekers out of the woodwork believing that good or bad, publicity is still publicity; and idiots-and-a-half pushing to have their share of the limelight.
In the US, CNBC anchor Larry Kudlow on the business segment of his show was perhaps trying to be witty, when he compared the global stock market doing better than Japan: “The human toll here looks to be much worse than the economic toll and we can be grateful for that.” Viewers were outraged, and he apologized, explaining he was really only “talking about markets, I flubbed the line. Sincere apology.”
A supposedly popular American rap star — I’d never heard of the guy, 50 Cent, I mean, how can that be the name of a person — made offensive tweets about the earthquake and the tsunami and is being lambasted for it. He dismissed the tsunami threat to the US West Coast with “Wave will hit 8 a.m. them crazy white boys try to go surfing.” (sic) And followed it up with “Look this is very serious people I had to evacuate my hoes (the slang word, I am told, for whores) from LA, Hawaii and Japan. I had to do it. Lol” (sic). Reacting to intense criticism, the rapper’s feeble alibi was “Some of my tweets are ignorant I do it for shock value. Hate it or love it. I’m cool either way.”.... MORE
Another Singapore? AN OUTSIDERS VIEW Ken Fuller 03/15/2011
Another Singapore?
Sen. Bongbong Marcos’ claim that the Philippines, had his father remained in office, would have become another Singapore has attracted criticism. Some, unfortunately, has not been particularly well-informed.
One commentary (I forget now whether it was an editorial or a column) claimed that before Ferdinand Marcos was elected to the presidency the exchange rate was P2 to the dollar and the foreign debt problem was practically non-existent. Not true. That was the rate before Diosdado Macapagal took over the presidency in January 1962, and his administration immediately devalued the peso to P3.90 to the dollar. At the same time, foreign currency controls were lifted. Why? Because the International Monetary Fund had attached these conditions to its approval of a $300 million loan — the first for the Philippines.
These actions by the Macapagal government, under IMF dictation, had far-reaching consequences..... MORE
Russia taps geekpower for growth focus 03/15/2011
Russia taps geekpower for growth
MOSCOW — US-Russia trade has yet to live up to the reset in political ties but US firms believe Russia’s human resources can soon do for high-tech engineering what India did to the IT sector two decades ago.
Vice President Joe Biden this week lamented on a visit to Moscow that annual trade between the two countries was equivalent to just a few days of commerce with neighbors Canada and Mexico.
But executives at some of North America’s biggest companies are grasping onto a vision of a 24-hour production cycle in which Russian engineers zip their drafts to board room executives in Europe and the United States.
The US aerospace and defense behemoth Boeing now has a $27 billion plan in place to purchase Russian parts and R&D services — with much of the focus placed on the latter..... MORE
M.8.9. VIEWPOINTS Archbishop Oscar V. Cruz 03/15/2011
M.8.9.
On the occasion of the magnitude 8.9 earthquake that hit Japan and left the country ravaged, had people killed and has its economy devastated, it is expected that there are certain individuals who will speak and engage in a good amount of prophecies of doom.
There will be some characters who might even wear curious clothing with proper face looks, and predict the fearful events of the days ahead — infallibly predicting the when and how of the end of the world. And this is certainly not the first time that such public scenarios come to fore. Philippine history is the witness to this periodic curious if forced, the necessity and practicality of the Church in the matter — as squarely premised in the Sacred Scriptures according to the clear and plain teaching of Christ Himself:
One: As the world has a beginning, it also has an end. In other words, the end of the world is a certainly. And therewith go the end of nature and the environment, the final curtain fall for humanity included. The end of the world is a certitude — with or without harmful biotechnology ventures, with or without climate change and other assault at nature..... MORE
Guingona pre-judgment assailed by peers By Angie M. Rosales 03/15/2011
Guingona pre-judgment assailed by peers
The move of Sen. Teofisto “TG” Guingona recommending that his blue ribbon committee enjoin the House of Representatives to impeach Ombudsman Merceditas Gutierrez, already implies that he has prejudged her guilt.
No less than Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile underscored the implication of the decision of Guingona, who until yesterday, remained defiant in the face of the Senate chief’s call for the blue ribbon committee chairman to remove the “impeach call” contained in the partial panel report on its inquiry into the plea bargain agreement that the Ombudsman’s prosecutors sealed with former military comptroller, Maj. Gen. (ret.) Carlos Garcia.
“I do not know how he will be able to explain this position. He does not have to hear the evidence anymore if he has made up his mind,” the Senate chief pointed out.
Enrile, who over the weekend, expressed strong reservations over the panel’s recommendations, called on Guingona to consider removing the issue on impeachment as it could jeopardize the standing of the upper chamber since there is an impeachment complaint anticipated to be transmitted to the Senate, which is mandated by the Constitution to constitute itself as an impeachment court that will hear the case against Gutierrez..... MORE
SC: Transfer of ethics probe to whole Senate vs Villar valid By Benjamin B. Pulta 03/15/2011
SC: Transfer of ethics probe to whole Senate vs Villar valid
A ruling by the Supreme Court (SC) has decided that the transfer of the investigation of the complaint against erstwhile presidential candidate Sen. Manny Villar in the controversial C-5 Road Extension Project from the Senate’s ethics committee to the committee of the whole does not violate his right to due process.
In an en banc decision by Senior Associate Justice Antonio Carpio, the SC voting 13-0 said the referral of the complaint can take effect upon publication of the Rules of the Senate committee of the Whole. The decision partially grants the petition filed by Villar and his allies composed of then Sen. Aquilino Pimentel Jr. and Senators Joker Arroyo, Francis Pangilinan, Pia Cayetano and Alan Peter Cayetano.
The SC ruled that the referral of the investigation of Villar to the Senate committee of the whole was a valid extraordinary remedy under the circumstances and said the adoption by the Senate committee of the whole of the Rules of the Ethics Committee does not violate Villar’s right to due process..... MORE
RP toes US line: Boost Spratlys pact By Michaela P. del Callar 03/15/2011
RP toes US line: Boost Spratlys pact
Days after the Chinese Navy reportedly harassed a Philippine vessel searching for oil at a disputed territory in the South China Sea, acting Foreign Affairs Secretary Albert del Rosario and US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton have agreed that a legally-binding code of conduct for claimants must be finalized to ensure peace and stability in the region.
Clinton phoned Del Rosario last Sunday to congratulate him on his new appointment and to discuss key bilateral and regional issues, among which is the dispute in the South China Sea territories.
In a statement, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said both foreign secretaries “underscored the need to ensure maritime security in the Asia-Pacific and agreed that a way forward is the conclusion of a binding regional code of conduct in the South China Sea.”
Washington has urged the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) and China to forge a stronger
code of conduct and even offered its assistance on the negotiations for the crafting of the new document..... MORE
Rift with De Lima’s classmate led to Ampatuan case removal — Fadullon 03/15/2011
.Rift with De Lima’s classmate led to Ampatuan case removal — Fadullon
A classmate of Justice Secretary Leila de Lima who had misgivings about how state prosecutors are handling the Maguindanao massacre case prevailed over the Justice chief to replace the entire prosecution panel.
The pannel led by Assistant State Prosecutor Richard Anthony Fadullon yesterday said they could not accept De Lima’s claim that they lacked the expected passion in prosecuting the case as the reason for the Justice secretary’s decision to replace them.
“It’s okay if the secretary replaced us, that is her prerogative. But I can’t help myself and my members from feeling bad when she said we lacked the zeal, enthusiasm, dynamism and aggressiveness because we knew how much effort we put into this case,” he told reporters.
Fadullon admitted that the decision of De Lima came as a surprise since they were neither consulted nor informed about it.... MORE
Japan episode seals fate of plan to go nuke 03/15/2011
Japan episode seals fate of plan to go nuke
The leading proponent of introducing nuclear energy to the country reversed his stand yesterday in the wake of a potential nuclear disaster in quake-hit Japan.
Former Pangasinan Rep. Mark Cojuangco said there was a need to rethink assumptions that nuclear power was safe following two explosions in three days at Japan’s Fukushima plant.
“In the light of Fukushima, I would like to say that now is the opportune time, the right time, for the whole world’s nuclear power industry to be in a period of introspection,” Cojuangco said in a statement. “Meaning, they should examine events like Fukushima and see if all the assumptions of safety of nuclear power are still valid, and if adjustments are to be made, what they should do.”
Last year, while he was a member of parliament, Cojuangco lobbied heavily for the reactivation of a mothballed nuclear energy plant as a means to address the Philippines’ perennial power outages..... MORE
New failure hits Japan nuke plant after blast 03/15/2011
New failure hits Japan nuke plant after blast
TOKYO — An explosion rocked a building housing a nuclear reactor at a quake-damaged Japanese power plant yesterday, the second such blast in two days, and the cooling system failed at a third reactor.
The new troubles at the Fukushima No. 1 plant, 250 kilometers north of Tokyo, stalled Japan’s efforts to secure the facility after Friday’s massive earthquake and devastating tsunami.
Officials said the container surrounding the plant’s number-three reactor was not breached in the blast — which left 11 people injured — and there was no major rise in radiation levels.
The nuclear safety agency ruled out the possibility of a Chernobyl-style accident at the plant, according to national strategy minister Koichiro Genba..... MORE
Mother, son, helper murdered in Laguna By Efren B. Chavez 03/15/2011
Mother, son, helper murdered in Laguna
By Efren B. Chavez 03/15/2011
CAMP VICENTE LIM, Laguna — A mother, her son, and househelper were killed in her home in San Pablo City, Laguna, police report said yesterday.
Zanaida Fronda, 74, a widow of a member of the US Navy, her son Julius 51, also a former US Navy, and househelp identified only as Laleng from Pitugo Quezon, were found dead in Fronda’s house in Barangay 2-C, San Pablo City around 5 p.m. last Sunday.
The victims’ bodies bore slits in the necks and wounds in the heads.
City police chief Supt. Leo Luna said Zenaida’s brother-in-law Ceferino Abril, who also live nearby, felt strange that none of the victims went out from their house the whole day last Sunday. Abril sought help from village watchmen to check the whereabouts of Frondas..... MORE
Religious leaders unite to strengthen peace 03/15/2011
Religious leaders unite to strengthen peace
Religious leaders from different faiths convened to discuss peace building initiatives to strengthen Muslim-Christian relationship in Lanao del Norte province.
They are members of the Interfaith Council, composed of bishops, pastors, priests, nuns, imams, provincial government leaders and non-government organizations (NGOs), whose aim is to develop better understanding of the two major religions Muslims and Christians and to promote unity and peace among their followers.
Lanao del Norte Vice Gov. Irma Umpa-Ali, a staunch peace advocate in the province, urging the Muslims and Christians to resolve conflicts or differences in a peaceful and diplomatic ways instead of using power or weapons of mass destructions..... MORE
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Solgen moots sinister aim in Sandigan ruling By Benjamin B. Pulta 05/12/2011
PLEA BARGAIN ‘DONE DEAL’ SINCE MAY LAST YEAR — CADIZ
Solgen moots sinister aim in Sandigan ruling
Solicitor General Jose Anselmo Cadiz imputed sinister motives in the recent decision of the Sandiganbayan to uphold the plea bargaining agreement entered into between the Office of the Ombudsman and former military comptroller Maj. Gen. Carlos Garcia and in denying the Office of the Solicitor General’s (OSG’s) bid to intervene in the case for the government as Cadiz floated a theory that the agreement was a “done deal” early as May last year —before President Aquino won the election — and that the recent ruling was just “a formality.”
“My thesis is the Sandiganbayan approved the deal on May 4 last year when President Aquino was leading mightily in the surveys. The Sandiganbayan only wanted Gen. Garcia to comply with some conditions, or to transfer your assets to the government. So when he complied, the court just came up with a resolution formalizing the deal,” he explained.
Cadiz said the OSG will insist on its legal standing to intervene in the plea-bargaining agreement between the Ombudsman and before the Sandiganbayan anti-graft court..... MORE
Congress approves bill to reform state firms By Gerry Baldo 05/12/2011
Congress approves bill to reform state firms
The congressional bicameral conference committee yesterday approved a bill creating a body that would oversee the operations of government-owned and controlled corporations (GOCCs).
The move, aimed at curbing the alleged excesses of some officials of the GOCCs, will look over the 157 GOCCs under the present Aquino administration.
Sen. Franklin Drilon said the approval of the bill will institute wide-ranging reforms in government corporations.
“This law will create a Governance Commission for GOCCs (GCG) which will review the performance of these GOCCs. The abusive practices of the board — as we have seen in the MWSS (Metropolitan Waterworks and Sewerage System) — of granting 36-month pay for 12 months of work, or in GSIS (Government Service Insurance System) where the directors would earn half a million pesos for attending one board meeting,” he told a press conference yesterday..... MORE
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Falling ratings EDITORIAL 06/22/2011
Falling ratings
Noynoy’s public satisfaction is fast dipping, losing, from his best net rating of +64 in November, to +48 this month, June, or just a week to complete his first full year as president.
That’s a big drop of 16 points, which is substantial, although predictably, Malacañang is playing it down, claiming that Noynoy still enjoys wide public support, citing the Social Weather Stations (SWS) survey’s rating of “good” at +48,
SWS’ terminology for net satisfaction ratings are the following: +70 and above, “excellent”; +50 to +69, “very good”; +30 to +49, “good”; +10 to +29, “moderate”, +9 to -9, “neutral”; -10 to -29, “poor”; -30 to -49, “bad”; -50 to -69, “very bad”; -70 and below, “execrable.”.... MORE
Political greed FRONTLINE Ninez Cacho-Olivares 06/22/2011
Political greed
What a feeble excuse for Noynoy not to sign the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) election postponement measure immediately.
In trying to rid the public of suspicion that he is delaying the passage of the law on the ARMM poll postponement, he now claims that it is scheduled for signing on June 30, 2011, in order for all the “principal sponsors” of the bill to be present during its signing.
What? When the President says he will be signing a bill, or bills, the principal sponsors, all of whom are his allies, will quickly come, no matter the date. Not to attend would be seen an ally’s disinterest in the bills he sponsored. Yet Noynoy intimates that he could not schedule the ARMM delay bill because he wants the principal sponsors around?.... MORE
Little change in Moroccan air ANALYSIS 06/22/2011
Little change in Moroccan air
PARIS — Moroccan King Mohammed VI’s proposed new Constitution would do little to change the status quo, falling short of expectations raised during the heady early days of the Arab Spring, analysts say.
“In terms of the distribution and architecture of power, this constitution is still far from democratic,” said political scientist Mohamed Madani of Mohammed V University in Rabat.
The touted new constitutional monarchy is “drowned” amid a raft of qualifiers and not backed up by the text, Madani said.
Under the draft Constitution unveiled by the king on Friday, he would remain head of state and the military and still appoint ambassadors and diplomats, while retaining the right to name top officials of unspecified “strategic” administrations.... MORE
Nepal risks political chaos over constitution task focus 06/22/2011
Nepal risks political chaos over constitution task
KATHMANDU — Having won an extension to do in three months what it failed to manage in three years, Nepal’s parliament has only deferred a crisis that threatens the Himalayan nations’s fragile peace process.
Elected in 2008 after a decade of civil war between the government and Maoist insurgents, the 601-member parliament, or Constituent Assembly, was given a two-year mandate to write a new constitution.
But even after a one-year extension granted in 2010, the country’s bickering political parties were unable to reach a consensus on the new charter — meant to pave the way for fresh elections and usher in a new social and political order after centuries of inequality.
Facing a constitutional crisis, political leaders agreed late last month to a further three-month extension and downgraded the task to just hammering out a first draft for the public to see..... MORE
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DoJ chief wants Erap’s side in Dacer, Corbito slays By Benjamin B. Pulta 06/22/2011
DoJ chief wants Erap’s side in Dacer, Corbito slays
Former President Joseph “Erap” Estrada may still be included in the Department of Justice’s (DoJ) reinvestigation of the November 2000 murders of publicist Salvador “Bubby” Dacer and his driver Emmanuel Corbito, Secretary Leila de Lima said yesterday.
Speaking to reporters, De Lima said the former leader might be invited by prosecutors to give his side once state witness former Senior Supt. Cesar Mancao II appears before state lawyers.
“If that reference to the former President as the alleged ‘bigote’ again crops up in the statements, then so be it — he will be included (in the reinvestigation),” she told a news conference.
The DoJ chief stressed that the decision on whether to include Estrada or not would really depend on testimonies to be submitted by Mancao and other accused in the double murder case already undergoing trial in a Manila court, including former Supt. Glenn Dumlao and former Senior Supt. Michael Ray Aquino who is
expected to be extradited from the US within the week..... MORE
SC ruling ends debate on Danding SMC shares By Benjamin B. Pulta 06/22/2011
SC ruling ends debate on Danding SMC shares
The Supreme Court (SC) upheld with finality an earlier decision affirming businessman Eduardo Cojuangco Jr.’s ownership of the 20 per cent shares of outstanding capital stocks in Asian conglomerate San Miguel Corp. (SMC) that in turn ended debates on whether or not these came from the multi-billion-peso coconut levy funds.
In its ruling, the high court turned down all motions for reconsideration filed in connection with the case, and ordered that no further pleadings will be entertained and that an entry of judgment should be made in due course.
Denied were the motions filed by the Office of the Solicitor General (OSG) in behalf of the government, former Solicitor General Francisco Chavez, and a multi-sectoral group headed by former Senators Jovito Salonga and Wigberto Tañada..... MORE
DFA renews call on OFWs to leave Yemen By Michaela P. del Callar 06/22/2011
DFA renews call on OFWs to leave Yemen
The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) yesterday renewed its call to all remaining Filipinos in strife-torn Yemen to leave as tension in the Middle East state continues to escalate.
Since the government ordered the evacuation of all Filipinos in Yemen in May 30, only 178 of the estimated 1,200 Filipinos there have returned home.
Manila raised the crisis alert level in the Yemeni capital of Sanaa to alert level 4 on June 6, where mandatory evacuation and repatriation at the expense of Philippine government is in effect. The government has also banned work deployment and all kinds of travel to the country.
Philippine ambassador-designate to Saudi Arabia Ezzedin Tago, who leads a crisis team in Yemen, said Filipinos “should not wait until it is too late for them to leave Yemen.” Manila does not have an embassy in Yemen.
Filipino workers’ refusal to take part in government evac.... MORE
Corona orders live online ‘webcast’ of Maguindanao massacre trial By Benjamin B. Pulta 06/22/2011
Corona orders live online ‘webcast’ of Maguindanao massacre trial
A live online “webcast” of the lower court’s proceedings in the ongoing Maguindanao massacre murder case has been ordered by Supreme Court (SC) Chief Justice Renato Corona.
In an order to the tribunal’s Public Information Office (PIO), the head magisrate ordered the webcast to allow more people, particularly those outside the country, to view the proceedings.
Corona’s order finetuens an earlier unanimous decision on June 14, granting the request of several media entities and relatives of the massacre victims for the live broadcast of the trial.
Court administrator and spokesman Jose Midas Marquez said his team is now restructuring the Court’s website and acquiring the technical requirements to comply with the order of the Chief Justice..... MORE
15-year-old girl accuses barangay chairman of ‘selling’ her to three members of PSG By Pat C. Santos and Aytch S. de la Cruz 06/22/2011
15-year-old girl accuses barangay chairman of ‘selling’ her to three members of PSG
By Pat C. Santos and Aytch S. de la Cruz 06/22/2011
A barangay chairman is now in hot water after a 15-year-old girl filed a complaint against him at dawn Tuesday before the Manila Police District-Women’s and Children Concern Division, claiming she was sold to three members of the Presidential Security Group (PSG) in exchange for sexual orgy.
The victim identified as “Sweety” (not her real name) accused Barangay Chairman Angelo Morillo of Barangay 637, Zone 65 of pimping her to three PSG soldiers but failed to name them.
MPD Police Station 8 commander Supt. Jimmy Tiu said the incident happened around 11 p.m. in front of the barangay hall of Barangay 637, Zone 65, on J.P. Laurel Street near Malacañang, Manila.
The victim was in front of the barangay hall accompanied by two of her friends when they greeted Morillo who was then drunk, but after a few minutes Morillo grabbed the hand of the victim and pushed her towards a group of men who were also standing in front of the barangay hall..... MORE
Cagayan solon says current system not yet ready for DepEd’s K+12 program 06/22/2011
Cagayan solon says current system not yet ready for DepEd’s K+12 program
Cagayan Rep. Jack Enrile yesterday reiterated calls for Malacañang to review the implementation of the K+12 program as he pushed new rules that would make school administrators more accountable for the quality of education both in public and private schools throughout the country.
Enrile said protests from teachers and parents following the implementation of the Universal Kindergarten Program are an indication that the current school system is not ready to handle the additional load.
The K+12 program calls for additional year for both the elementary and the secondary levels..... MORE
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Strategic Missile Forces is updated.
27.09.2011 Category: UkraineAuthor: admin
Armament Strategic Missile Forces will be updated
http://www.arms-expo.ru/0…48124050053056057052.html
The official website of the Ministry of Defense reports that the share of modern weaponry in the Strategic Missile Forces (SMF) will be increased by 60% by 2016
From 2007 to 2011 the number of modern weapons in the Strategic Missile Forces (SMF) has increased by 8.5%, and by 2016 their share in the battle of the Strategic Missile Forces will be around 60%. This was announced by Assistant Commander of the Strategic Missile Forces Logistics Colonel Igor Denisov during his speech at an enlarged meeting of the Military Council of the Strategic Missile Forces.
According to Colonel Igor Denisov and features of solved problems in 2011 for the maintenance of weapons and military technology strategic missile systems (IWT RKSN) ready for intended use is the union in the same direction two types of support (technical and logistical), the exclusion of finance functions operation and maintenance of IWT RKSN with the subsequent transfer of these powers to the military districts and specialized organizations.
Accordingly changed the principles and approaches to the organization of work at the facilities operating SMF services and materiel RKSN, command and control, technology-Arms destination. Now there is a rearrangement of the Material and Technical Department of the Office of Strategic Missile missile SRF.
As stressed in the meeting of the Military Council RVSN commander of the Strategic Missile Forces, Lieutenant General Sergei Karakayev, despite the fact that today more than 70% of the missiles are outside the warranty period, technical condition, the reliability characteristics of AME provided in 2011 to maintain a desired level of combat readiness of missile complexes.
At the same time, according to the commander of one of the major destinations in the organizational activities of commanders and government in 2012 will be to maintain readiness of weapons and military equipment to use, providing them competent and safe operation, taking into service and commissioning of new samples AME unconditional fulfillment of a Schedule I (O) in the combat strength of the Strategic Missile launchers in 2012, support development activities for the development and modernization of defense systems and command and control, automated command and control, communications.
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General Hospital · If I Wrote The Show
If I Wrote GH: The Search for Faison
June 1, 2019 June 1, 2019 Melissa
Originally posted June 27, 2018.
Picking up where last week ended, we are now in October. There are several pieces of the story happening at once.
To recap, Joss, Cam, and Oscar started the ball rolling by investigating the possibility that Andrew Cain and Jason Morgan are related. They’ve brought in Spinelli to assist them. Once Spinelli confirms they went missing at the same time and that they are identical twins (a simple DNA test would prove that Jake and Oscar are brothers — they’re actually cousins, but Jason and Drew share identical DNA), they go up the food chain.
Carly and Sonny are eager to jump on this, while PC!Jason (who from now on will be referred to as Drew) is more mixed up about it. He believes that Andrew Cain exists, he just can’t understand how any of this is happening. Sam is in denial. Drew is not Jason. She’s married to Jason, end of story. Oscar’s mom, Kim, Drew’s wife, has gone to Jordan to start an investigation. Jordan and Carly both independently have turned to Anna at the WSB for more information.
Franco is involved because he’s been having strange memories all summer–memories of a little boy, memories of a lab, memories of pain, etc. He and Elizabeth have been drifting apart after the death of Audrey in June. He’s angry when Elizabeth talks to him about Andrew and Jason. He hates when Jason comes into their life. He’s already given into the urge once and killed someone. He learns from Betsy that up until about 2011, he always knew who Drew was. That his obsession with Jason began because Franco knew Drew was Jason’s twin brother.
Ava has escaped from a Russian clinic with Griffin’s help, and they’ve spirited a mysterious patient with connections to Port Charles along with them. Ava was sent to the clinic on Valentin’s recommendation and her agreement to remain quiet in Spencer’s civil suit about Nikolas’s death. Ava and Griffin are both shocked when the patient is able to remove the mask that has hidden his features and prevented him from speaking. He claims he is Jason Morgan and has been held at the clinic for a long time–Jason is stunned to learn it’s 2017, and that he’s lost five years.
This brings up to October. Anna has revealed to Jordan that the WSB was playing around with memory manipulation during Victor’s tenure and that Faison was working with the WSB when he kidnapped Jason. A lot of the files have gone missing or are corrupted. They put Spinelli on the re-organization of the project trying to figure out who is in charge or who had access to the materials. Anna wants to get rid of Faison once and for all. He’s haunted her for nearly thirty years.
Back at the Russian clinic, Dr. Klein makes a call to a mysterious backer to inform him that Patient 6 has left. He’s told not to pursue the patient, that it’s time to see how this all unfolds. Dr. Klein promises not to tell Valentin Cassadine.
Elizabeth is working at the hospital and receives a mysterious medical file that she doesn’t understand. She knows enough that it’s records about brain surgery and there are scans.
Griffin has returned with Ava and they’ve holed up at her penthouse, trying to figure out the next step. Jason is hiding out there. He doesn’t know who to trust or how to understand what’s happened or why everyone has accepted this other guy. Griffin gets a call from Liz about the records and goes to look at them while Ava and Jason talk about what’s going on in Port Charles.
She admits that there’s a lot that’s going to upset him and she’s not sure where to start. She tells him that Morgan died and admits that everyone blames her. She gets a chance to tell her side of the story, and Jason reserves judgement. He needs Ava right now and there’s time to sort it all out later. He puts on a disguise and wants to go to the cemetery.
Griffin meets with Liz and gets a copy of the files. He tells her that they’re brain scans from a hospital he can’t identify. They’re once a month over a period of three years. Activity is all over the place. The last two scans show a brain tumor in the frontal lobe–a tumor that showed up in April 2014. The date does not go unnoticed by Elizabeth. Griffin thinks that someone sent these to her to tell her something about Franco. Elizabeth realizes if these scans belong to him, then Franco’s tumor was not long-standing. That it did not cause him to commit those crimes.
Anna is tracing Faison’s whereabouts by tracking Britt, his daughter with whom she knows Faison is on the run. Liesl is upset that Nathan is participating in the investigation, which he doesn’t really understand. Maxie is upset that Faison is back in the picture–she knows from experience how evil he is. Robin’s kidnapping is still fresh in her mind.
Jason goes to the cemetary–he’s upset at finding Morgan’s stone and then really upset that Jake’s grave is missing. His tombstone is gone. There’s someone else there instead.
Griffin turns to Anna with the files, and she immediately recognizes them as WSB issue. Someone sent Elizabeth WSB medical records–why did the WSB have Franco? What were they doing with thim? And Jordan’s really worried about the idea that serial killer Franco is still part of his brain. She starts to look into open cases and finds a few that might be his.
Ava is worried because Jason is out there alone, Griffin is mixed up in some weird mystery, and she really hates being out of the loop. She gets a phone call asking her if she wants to know more about why Patient 6 was in the Russian clinic in the first place.
Drew and Sam have heard back from Curtis whom they asked to look into Andrew Cain’s past, and Curtis has unearthed Drew’s fingerprints from the Navy. They’re a match. He’s not Jason Morgan, he’s Andrew Cain, a man who has been missing from his wife and son for five years. Sam and Drew are devastated by this news.
Elizabeth is walking through the park with Jake on the way home from a field trip. They’re talking about Halloween in a few days. She calls Jake by his name, and Jason, on the other side of the wall, hears them. He can’t help himself. He steps out.
Ava shows up at the meeting point and there’s a man she’s never seen before. He introduces himself as someone who wants to make sure that Valentin Cassadine pays for the death of Nikolas. Ava is glad for that, but the man has no time or energy for her. She’s already showed she can’t be trusted. She betrayed Nikolas, too. Ava realizes she’s been pulled into a trap, tries to back pedal but there’s no escape.
The man tells her she should understand about the greater good, about killing in the name of protection and family. After all, that’s why Connie Falconieri is dead, isn’t it? To protect Julian Jerome? Ava blanches at the memory. She tries to stall. She wants to know the identity of the man who’s threatening her.
He shrugs. What harm could it do? He tells her to give his regards to his mother and brother who are surely burning in hell. Where else would Helena and Stavros Cassadine be? Ava’s confused for a minute–how many Cassadines brothers are there–
He’s the last one, Stefan says with a smile and then kills her.
And then we’re in November sweeps, and the shit has hit the fan.
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Demand rises for Scottish independence
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Raymie Kiernan
Trouble for the Scottish Tories, the shifting sands of the Brexit crisis and growing disillusion with the Scottish National Party’s neoliberal policies in practice have all combined to created a boost for independence. Raymie Kiernan calls for a renewed radical movement to deliver real change.
“It can no longer be presumed that Scotland would vote No again in an independence ballot,” said the respected pollster professor John Curtice last month. He was commenting on the first poll taken after the resignation of Scottish Tory leader Ruth Davidson in late August.
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When race riots marred the streets of Britain
Laura Miles
A combination of racism, unemployment, housing shortages and post-war disillusion led to a series of terrible attacks on black communities following the end of the First World War. Laura Miles describes the events, and how the authorities either stood aside or blamed the victims.
A century ago, after four long years of war, Britain was on the brink of revolution. Strikes raged across the industrial heartlands such as Glasgow, Liverpool and Belfast. Martial law was declared to quell a revolt in Luton. But vicious race riots also erupted in several British ports, resulting in four people being killed and hundreds badly injured.
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China's revolution at 70: reality trumps myths
Adrian Budd
As China launches its official celebrations marking 70 years since the revolution of 1949, Adrian Budd looks at the longer context of what was a national revolution, far from any vision of communism.
On 1 October China was set to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic. Massive parades are organised, children will sing patriotic songs whose lyrics they have learned by heart but do not understand, military hardware has been polished. The multi-millionaires who run China will admire themselves in their new hand-made suits and dresses.
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Hong Kong: 'No progress without real system change'
Lam Chi Leung
We asked local activist Lam Chi Leung about the character of the protesters and how their demands are developing.
Given the escalation of strikes as part of the protests, what is the class composition of the Hong Kong protests?
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Break the Tories on the streets
Boris Johnson, within weeks of taking over as (unelected) prime minister, has outraged everyone by suspending parliament in the run-up to the Brexit deadline. Ian Taylor analyses the forces at work around Johnson, while looking for signs of strength on the left to take the Tories on.
Boris Johnson challenged MPs opposed to a no-deal Brexit to a showdown by suspending parliament for up to five weeks from the week of 9 September.
It meant MPs must move to topple the government the week of 3 September. The move wrong-footed Labour, Lib Dem and Tory opponents who had been groping towards a strategy to prevent no deal without backing Jeremy Corbyn and called their bluff. Crucially, it invited the 40 or so Tory MPs opposed to no deal to fall on their swords.
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Is our diet wrecking the environment?
Amy Leather
In the first of a series on food and the climate crisis, Amy Leather explains how capitalist agriculture has shaped our diet and the planet.
Earlier this year the Lancet medical journal published what they called the “planetary health diet”. They claimed that if their universal scientific targets for healthy diets were adopted, not only would it save at least 11 million lives but would also help avert global environmental catastrophe and prevent the collapse of the natural world. Their central message was that “the world’s diets must change dramatically” to both save ourselves and the planet. The diet they recommended was largely plant-based, and therefore boosted the claim that only by going vegan can we save the planet.
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New sites of struggle in a changing China
In a sobering and detailed analysis, Kevin Lin speaks to Adrian Budd about the resilience of workers’ struggles in China, despite fierce state repression.
The precarious working and living conditions of the millions of migrant labourers who have moved from rural to urban areas of China over recent decades made the development of an organised labour movement harder. Have the circumstances of these workers become more stable? Is their increased stability helping to develop class consciousness?
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Are there too many people on the planet?
Martin Empson
Martin Empson unpicks the arguments of those who claim that population growth is to blame for the climate crisis.
At some point between October 2011 and March 2012 the world’s population surpassed 7 billion people. Whenever such a milestone is passed there is a rash of alarmist articles in the media warning of the dangers of uncontrolled population growth. In the years since 2012 the total has increased by a further 700 million people, which for some activists, politicians, demographers and media commentators only fuels the panic. As a result, you don’t have to campaign around environmental issues for long before someone will tell you that the problem is “too many people”.
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Hong Kong’s protests in perspective
John Smith puts the Hong Kong protests of recent weeks into the broader contexts of Hong Kong’s development over the past few decades, its growing connections with the hugely important Pearl River Delta area and the growth of an increasingly aware, organised and militant Chinese working class.
The 2 million-strong demonstration in Hong Kong on 17 June and the proliferation of smaller demonstrations led by students and student-worker alliances, have been truly exciting.
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‘Every single Viceroy of India, whether they liked it or not, had to deal with Gandhi’
Talat Ahmed
Harjeevan Gill speaks to author and historian Talat Ahmed about her new biography of Mohandas Gandhi, the battle over his legacy in India today and what Extinction Rebellion can learn from him.
There’s been so much written about Gandhi. What was the motivation behind writing your book?
Yes there are lots of books about Gandhi — you could fill an entire library with the number of biographies and political theses. Some of the literature is very good indeed and there are lots of historical works dating back 30 or 40 years where historians have mined all kinds of archival material in order to try and make sense of Gandhi. Much of that work has been very useful and it certainly influenced me in my own thinking.
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Interview: Hilary Mantel
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Home / Uncategories / 'The Originals' Season 2 premiere date: Filming on hiatus, Mikael and Esther return, new cast expected
'The Originals' Season 2 premiere date: Filming on hiatus, Mikael and Esther return, new cast expected
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Can't get enough of the Mikaelson vampire drama? Don't fret because the cast and crew are gearing up for an awesome second season.
The release date for "The Originals" season 2 has been confirmed and it will be moved to a different time and date. Joseph Morgan, who plays Klaus, announced via Twitter "Our season 2 premiere date is MONDAY 6th October 8/7c #theOriginals #CWfallpremieres Who's ready? ;)"
Who's taking over "The Originals" old time slot? It's "Flash," the "Arrow" spin-off. "Flash" will premiere on October 7 and hopefully, the time slot will do just as well for the new CW series.
Meanwhile, the people behind the show have been working so hard since season 1, so the executive producer of the show decided to have a break. In April, Julie Plec tweeted that "Meanwhile The Originals still has 6 days and 3 season 2 eps to shoot before we get a break. Hence my impending death-slash-mental breakdown." Right now, filming is on hiatus.
Moving on to the season 2 spoilers. According to Den of Geek, there will be two new characters who will join the vampire-werewolf-witch drama in New Orleans. One is Kaleb, played by Daniel Sherman of "Teen Wolf," and the other is Lenore, played by Sonja Sohn from "The Wire." Both are witches. Rumor has it that Lenore may be the ultimate villain for the 2nd season.
The other villains in contention for being the ultimate "baddie" of season 2 are Mikael and Esther Mikaelson. In an interview with TV Line, Morgan shared "They're not very happy with us. We're responsible for killing both of them. So I imagine they'll be seeking revenge."
What about werewolf drama? The werewolves will still be prominent in the new season. Leading the way is hybrid Hayley who will be in a very dark place in season 2. She was forced to let the child live with Rebekah. Hayley will do everything to protect her child.
Seems exciting enough for you? It's going to be a short wait, and a worthwhile one at that. Source
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Yuma County Sheriff Leon Wilmot: ‘Feds Refusing to Prosecute Illegals’
October 9, 2015 by Guest Opinion Leave a Comment
By Olaf Ekberg
(Reposted from The American Mirror)
Yuma County, Arizona Sheriff Leon Wilmot is tired of his county’s taxpayers paying to recapture illegal immigrants because of the federal government’s refusal to enforce the law.
“If you are not going to do your job and we have to do it for you, you should be paying us,” Wilmot tells KYMA.
Wilmot says his department has arrested illegal immigrants for drug smuggling and identity theft, but the U.S. District Attorney “fails to prosecute them.” The sheriff says the feds’ inaction is costing Yuma County taxpayers about a million dollars a year.
The Sheriff’s Office has made more than 150 arrests since last October, and 13 illegals in the last week alone for fake passports.
Wilmot says it has cost about $950,000 over the last year to house illegals in the county jail. That amount has increased to $980,000 and so far, there’s no word from the District Attorney about whether the feds will help cover the cost.
“They think it’s better served by the local authorities. Our point on that is you’re costing us an arm and a leg to do your job,” says Capt. Eben Bratcher, according to The Republic.
Illegal immigration prosecutions in Arizona were down 15% between July 2014 and July 2015, according to data compiled by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse at Syracuse University.
To Bratcher, that means more drug smugglers and immigrants who use false identification are getting off the hook too easily.
“We don’t believe that letting these people go is doing anything to protect our border,” he says.
Bratcher says local authorities have been charging illegals for crimes based on state statutes. “He gave the example of a man who was caught transporting 30 pounds of methamphetamine at a border crossing but whom federal prosecutors declined to pursue,” according to the paper.
Marc Rosenblum, deputy director of the U.S. Immigration Policy Program at the non-partisan Migration Policy Institute, says fewer arrests and less resources “could contribute to the decline in prosecutions.”
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Is Immigration Amnesty Bad Public Policy?
March 8, 2013 by Cafe Con Leche Leave a Comment
Nativists quickly label any legalization plan as immigration amnesty and a magnet for more illegal immigration, but is that true? America’s Nativist lobby, led by the Federation of Americans for Immigration Reform (FAIR) and NumbersUSA went into hyper-drive when the ‘gang of eight’ U.S. Senators announced plans for sweeping immigration reforms.
Net illegal immigration from Mexico recently dropped to zero, reflecting Mexico’s healthy economy and jobless U.S. economic recovery. Cartoonist Michael Ramirez offers his own perspective:
Copyright Michael Ramirez – reposted with permission
America’s Mass Amnesty Experience
In 1863, President Abraham Lincoln issued his The Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction giving amnesty to all confederates who swore a loyalty oath. Andrew Johnson continued Lincoln’s policy but added 14 exceptions.
Progressive era liberals were avid supporters of racial eugenics and passed very restrictive immigration laws to ban Chinese in 1882, all Asians in 1917 (Asiatic Barred Zone Act). Strict strict quotas followed in 1921 and 1924, with 85% of immigrant visas reserved for Nordic Northern/Western Europe, banning non-European immigration.
Early 20th century immigration shifted to Southern/Eastern Europe. Italy furnished 200,000 per year, but Italy’s quota was set at just 3,845! By the late 20s several million immigrants from Southern/Eastern Europe were here illegally, and granted immigration amnesty. In the 30s, “Mexicans” were blamed for depression era joblessness. One half million were deported; 60% of the “Mexicans” were citizens, and the rest mostly legal guest workers.
1965 immigration reforms removed nation quotas, and remains the policy foundation today. The “braceros” guest worker program implemented during wartime labor shortages was eliminated in 1960s due to pressure from big labor, laying the groundwork for future illegal immigration. Historically, whenever demand for immigrant labor far exceeds quotas, mass illegal immigration results.
During the Vietnam War, 100,000 Americans fled to avoid military service. In 1977, Jimmy Carter granted pardons to draft evaders, who by then had already lived at least several years in exile.
In 1986, Congress granted amnesty to most unauthorized immigrants, and 3 million received green cards. None of the dire consequences predicted by Nativists occurred. It’s no surprise we hear the same arguments today.
Is Immigration Amnesty a Magnet?
Opponents of immigration reform insist amnesty is a “magnet” for more law breaking, but what does history say?
In the civil war, millions of Americans committed treason, punishable by death, and yet despite Lincoln’s mass amnesty we have not experienced another civil war.
Did mass immigration amnesty to 1920s immigrants spark more illegal immigration? No. The great depression and massive unemployment deterred immigration in general. The next wave of mass illegal immigration came in the 1950s, when labor needs of a resurgent post-war economy far outstripped braceros quotas.
There’s no evidence amnesty for draft evasion led to more draft evasion. The Vietnam war was hugely unpopular among young Americans at the time. Many believed they would be denied conscientious objector status.
Did the 1986 Immigration Amnesty Increase Illegal Immigration? What is Amnesty?
Immigration restrictionists quickly label any immigration reform leading to legal status as immigration amnesty. However, amnesty is akin to a pardon, forgiveness without punishment for a wrong. All proposals in recent years required stiff fines, and long waits for permanent resident status behind those already ‘in line.’ Some plans barred citizenship forever. Nativists intentionally conflate “amnesty” with “path to legalization” despite a range of solutions between mass deportations and mass immigration amnesty.
Congress promised to follow up with guest worker reforms and border security. Guest worker reforms still haven’t happened to this day, due to Big Labor opposition. Congress did follow-up with more border security, but slowly.
Is Immigration Amnesty the Answer?
Immigration amnesty by itself will not fix our broken immigration system, and is unfair to legal immigrants who waited a long time, some since 1989. Problems are solved by addressing root causes, not ‘band aids.’ We admit 1.8 million guest workers each year, while another 7.5 million ‘guest workers’ lack legal status, filling jobs not enough Americans want. Robust guest worker programs that flex with our economy are urgently needed, and would enhance border security by diverting migrant workers to legal channels.
Nativists claim we are overrun with immigrants and our economy will collapse due to immigration reform, but as a percentage of population the U.S. ranks #22 among 34 OECD nations. Our legal immigration level is just 0.334% of population. Tiny Luxembourg ranks #1, accepting 3.116%, while affluent Switzerland accepts 1.751%. Canada accepts 0.825%, 2-1/2 times that of the U.S. The Nativist lobby wants draconian cuts to ‘traditional’ 1956 levels, or 0.084%, #32 of 34 OECD nations. No, we are not overrun with immigrants!
The lesson of 1986 is piecemeal solutions and ‘ band aids’ don’t work. If Congress followed up with robust guest worker programs, we wouldn’t have 10 million immigrants here illegally! True, we have more than in 1986, but illegal immigration waxes and wanes with our economy. The magnet is jobs, not future amnesty that is far from certain.
Bob Quasius is the founder and president of Cafe Con Leche Republicans – original link
Filed Under: Illegal Immigration, Immigration, Latinos Tagged With: Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Johnson, Asiatic Barred Zone Act, braceros program, Chinese exclusion act, draft dodgers, draft evaders, FAIR, Federation of Americans for Immigration Reform, gang of eight, guest worker programs, illegal alien amnesty, Illegal Aliens, illegal immigration amnesty, immigration amnesty, Mexican repatriation, Nativism, Nativist, NumbersUSA, Progressive era, The Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction
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