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« BASEBALL: 2001 Preview | Main | BASEBALL: Opening Month Notebook 2001 »
BASEBALL: Clemente and Musial
Originally posted on the Boston Sports Guy website.
Before the regular season really hits its stride, let's take one more trip in the way-back machine. Now, the All-Century Team, while an interesting debate at the time, was something I had not planned on going back to except as one illustration of how the all-time greats are viewed by the fans. But last week, Jon Saraceno of USA Today decided used the Opening Day festivities in Puerto Rico as an excuse to resuscitate an obnoxious and unnecessary charge against the selection of that team: that it was some sort of injustice, or worse yet prejudice, that resulted in Roberto Clemente being left off the team.
Saraceno doesn�t just argue that Clemente should have been given a special place on the team as a symbol of his pioneer/icon status, which is a defensible point depending on what you think the purpose of the team was. Certainly he is justly revered by a whole generation of Latin American ballplayers. No, Saraceno wants to show that Clemente was robbed: �Clemente belonged on that team. On merit.�
This argument is made (by noted baseball historians such as Spike Lee and impartial figures such as Roberto Clemente Jr.) to advance a larger point � whether you agree with it or not � that baseball has not given fair treatment to its Latin American stars and fans (Luis Clemente has a specific list of demands in mind when he touts this claim). So it�s worth examining the facts rather than taking them for granted, and the facts show that Clemente, great as he was, was absolutely not slighted by finishing tenth in the All-Century outfield balloting and being left off the team in favor of Stan Musial.
ITEM: CLEMENTE vs. PETE ROSE
Now, Saraceno does have one legitimate point here: of the nine outfielders chosen for the team, one (Pete Rose) was not as good as Clemente in their respective primes and didn�t spend as many years playing the outfield. It�s not a huge difference, but you would clearly take Clemente in the years 1961-67 over Rose in the years 1968-73. Both hit for great averages in a low-average era (Rose peaking at .348, Clemente at .357); Rose generally got on base more and was a bit more durable (13 straight seasons of at least 625 at bats beginning in 1968, while Clemente cleared 600 only three times while drawing half as many walks), but Clemente had more power.
And then you get to defense. Rose was a pretty good outfielder and won two Gold Gloves on the basis of his legendary hustle, but nearly everyone who ever saw Clemente thought he was the best defensive outfielder they had ever seen. Rose lasted longer, and after 1967 Clemente missed a lot of time, but over their productive years (particularly just the outfield years) Clemente was almost certainly the better all-around player.
ITEM: CLEMENTE vs. MUSIAL
Here�s where Saraceno and most of the other critics really go off the rails, arguing that the committee of experts was wrong to put Stan Musial on the team (largely because Clemente finished ahead of Musial in the voting). Saraceno doesn�t even try to explain why Clemente was better than Musial; it cannot be done. Now, people who write about baseball history and baseball stats are often (and fairly) accused of being too harsh, negative, or pompous, and I�ve tried as best I can in this space to restrain myself in disagreeing with people. But this one can�t be stated any other way: anyone who thinks Roberto Clemente was a better baseball player than Stan Musial needs to have their head examined.
It doesn�t matter how you measure it, either... but we'll break it down:
--1. Musial was by far a better hitter. His best seasons were much better than Clemente�s (and he had many more of them). He was a better baserunner. His teams won more championships, three World Championships and a pennant to Clemente�s two World Championships and a division title (in fairness to Clemente, the Cards had a cakewalk to the 1943 pennant and 1944 World Series because so few of their players got drafted, but then unlike Clemente, Musial won in his prime when he was the focal point of the team). Musial was clearly more highly regarded when he was playing. Clemente�s cannon throwing arm gives him the defensive advantage, but Musial was hardly a bad fielder.
--2. Here are their lifetime stats, per 162 games; Musial (18.7 seasons) followed by Clemente (15.0 seasons):
There�s a big difference there; besides the 14-point spread in batting average, Musial hit an extra 10 doubles and 9 homers a year and drew twice as many walks while striking out half as much. And that doesn't mention double plays; Clemente hit into 32 more double plays in about 2500 fewer career plate appearances and despite generally batting with fewer men on base. The STATS Inc. "Runs created" formula values Musial at nearly twice the league average hitter over his career (before park effects) compared to about 40% better for Clemente. The Baseball Prospectus "EqA" formula, which does take account of ballparks, similarly rates Musial about 10% better on average and more than twice as far, cumulatively, above the average or replacement level player over his career: check the player cards for Musial and Clemente.
You might wonder what Clemente would have done if he hadn�t died tragically after batting .312 at age 37. Well, Musial hit .337 at age 37, and his lifetime batting average then stood at .340. He batted .283 over the last 5 seasons of his career (the comparison would look even more lopsided if you take out that coda). And yes, Musial had two seasons (1943 to 1944) to beat up on war-depleted pitching and win an MVP award, but he also missed a full season of his prime (1945, in between .347 and .365 seasons) to the war, which more than makes up for two years of hitting soggy gray wartime baseballs.
(Granted, Clemente played his prime years in a low-scoring era, while Musial did not. According to STATS, Inc., the league scoring average was 4.12 runs a game over the course of Clemente's career compared to 4.35 in Musial's, and Musial played in a decent hitters' park (an outstanding one in his last five seasons) while Clemente played in a mild pitchers' park.)
--3. The league leaderboards confirm that Musial�s numbers truly reflect his dominance. Musial finished in the top 5 in the league in batting average 17 times. Repeat that to yourself a few times (Clemente did it 10 times, still an impressive figure). There were seven batting titles in there, to Clemente�s four. And hitting for average was Clemente�s strong suit. Musial was Top 5 in slugging 14 times to twice for Clemente, top 5 in on base percentage 15 times (Clemente did it twice, although he was sixth three times), first or second in the league in on base plus slugging (OPS) ten times to Clemente�s one. First or second in runs scored nine times (Clemente was in the top 10 three times, finishing as high as fourth); top 10 in RBI 15 times to Clemente�s three. Fifteen times.
In 1948, Musial led the NL in batting, slugging, on base, runs, RBI, doubles, triples, hits, and total bases. He was second in at bats, third in homers, seventh in walks. He led the league in more offensive categories in one season than Clemente did in his entire career. He was one of only two NL players to have 400 total bases in a season between World War II and the opening of Coors Field.
--4. Baseball-reference.com lists the career leaders in �black ink� (league leads, with special weight given to the most important categories) and �grey ink� (finishing among the league leaders); Musial trails only Ruth, Cobb, Hornsby and Williams on the black ink list (Clemente is 80th) and only Cobb and Aaron in grey ink (Clemente is 74th). Talk about not even being in the same class.
--5. OK, the stats aren�t everything. What about the respect of the people who saw them play? Musial�s nickname wasn�t just a catchy rhyme; from 1943 to at least 1954, Stan Musial really was �the Man� in the National League � the one guy nobody wanted to face. He won three MVP awards and drew more votes for the MVP, over the course of his career, than anyone else. Ever. More than Mays or Aaron, more than Mickey or Yogi or Joe D., more than Williams or Barry Bonds or any other legend you can think of (the modern MVP started in 1931). He terrorized the Dodgers, the Cards� chief rivals in the NL in those days; it was the Brooklyn fans who gave him his nickname.
Clemente was selected to the All-Star Team in 12 different seasons? Try 20 for Stan the Man. Now, Clemente was very well respected. In 1966, Sandy Koufax went 27-9 and had a league-leading 1.73 ERA in 323 innings for a team that won the pennant with a below-average offense. The writers gave Clemente the MVP even though he failed to finish in the top 5 in the league in slugging or on base percentage. That says a lot. On the other hand, Clemente clearly outhit Orlando Cepeda the following year, and Cepeda (playing first base by this point) won the award unanimously. But you could win 7 MVP awards and get fewer votes than Musial did over the years. That is respect.
ITEM: CLEMENTE vs. THE FIELD
I�ll sidestep, for now, the question of whether Clemente was more deserving than Ken Griffey Jr., the other questionable outfield choice, which is a tough question because Griffey played just 11 seasons in the 1900s. Because there were clearly outfielders left off the team who were more deserving than Clemente.
Let�s try Clemente against the field � here are his lifetime numbers again compared, in order, to two contemporaries (Frank Robinson and Al Kaline), one dead-ball era star (Tris Speaker), and two from higher-scoring eras (Mel Ott and Barry Bonds). Note again that Clemente played fewer games (about two full seasons�s worth) than any of these guys but Bonds and, unlike all except Bonds, he had no declining years:
(I left out Bonds� 2000, since that was after the team was selected and the century ended)
On the raw numbers, everyone but Kaline outclasses Clemente by a wide margin, and Kaline also comes out ahead. There has to be a pretty hefty adjustment for the times they played in to make up for that, but the first three of these guys played mainly in the same years as Clemente or under even worse conditions, and the other two are just miles ahead of Clemente. Three (Speaker, Kaline and Bonds) were tremendous fielders in their own right, and Ott was also known to have a great arm.
Let�s look at the two most obvious cases:
* Frank Robinson�s career ran nearly parallel to Roberto Clemente�s. At what point in their careers would anyone in their right minds have traded Robinson for Clemente? In 1966, when Clemente won the MVP award, Robinson won the Triple Crown, hit 49 homers, led his team to a World Championship and was World Series MVP. In the early sixties, when Clemente was just another outfielder, Robinson was the 1961 NL MVP and slugged .604 over a four-year span. Clemente hit 240 homers; Robinson hit 586. Though a year younger than Clemente, Robinson drove in or scored 100 runs in a season three times before Clemente even reached 70. And Robinson�s fiery personality and gung-ho style of play left a stamp on both the Reds and Orioles that persisted years after his departure.
* Then there�s Tris Speaker. Maybe Clemente was really the second-best outfielder ever, but Speaker was the best, a revolutionary centerfielder who played close behind second base and could go back to get nearly anything. That 76-point advantage in on base percentage is huge. In 1912, Smokey Joe Wood went 34-5 with a 1.91 ERA; they gave the MVP award to Speaker, who batted .383, had 75 extra base hits, and scored 136 runs. In 1916, he hit .386, cracked 41 doubles and drew 82 walks in a league where the average team scored 3.68 runs a game. When the lively ball arrived, Speaker was 32; he batted over .375 four more times, with line-drive power and walks. He played for three World Champions � two for the Red Sox and one for the Indians � the third as player-manager.
I�m willing to grant that Clemente belongs ahead of Kaline, despite the disparity in the numbers. First, while Kaline was a truly outstanding outfielder, Clemente was better. Second, Clemente was better at his best � unlike Kaline, he had his best years at the pit of the sixties rather than in the higher-scoring 1955-62 period. But the comparison is a very close one, and nobody would take seriously the idea of Kaline as having been insulted at being left out of the top 9 outfielders of the century. And I�m not going to run the whole analysis on Ott and Bonds here. But you can�t just dismiss them out of hand, the way Clemente�s boosters do.
ITEM: WAS THE BALLOT UNFAIR?
Saraceno argues that Clemente got shafted because fans in Latin America couldn�t vote: �Now, how many fans in the Caribbean, Central and South America, Mexico and Cuba do you suppose own a personal computer or have access to a major league stadium or Kmart?�
Now, I�m not going to defend the fan balloting, which made some really egregious errors (Honus Wagner finishing third among the shortstops was the worst, and if anyone has a beef it�s Satchel Paige and Josh Gibson), but Saraceno misses a few details. First, most of the people who actually saw Clemente play are here in the US, and it should mean something if those people voted for somebody else. Second, Luis Aparicio (who had no business getting anyone�s vote as one of the two best shortstops ever) did unexpectedly well due to an online campaign on his behalf in Venezuela. Third, the Pittsburgh Pirates, Clemente�s old employers, staged a push to get Clemente (and Wagner) elected. Now, maybe it says something about the Pirates that they couldn�t even get Wagner � the greatest player in National League history and by far the greatest of all shortstops � elected to the team. But Clemente didn�t lack for his boosters.
If you were drawing up a list of the 20 or 25 greatest outfielders, Clemente has to be on the list, probably somewhere between 15 and 20. You can move him up that list if you stretch a bit. But was Clemente's greatness so definitive that you would be snubbing him by not ranking him among the nine greatest outfielders of all-time? Don�t be silly.
TRIVIA QUESTION
If Roger Clemens wins 300 games, he will be the third 300-game winner ever to pitch for the Yankees. Name the first two.
Posted by Baseball Crank at 2:44 PM | Baseball Columns | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0)
I'd like to see you go from first to third on a hit to right field against Clemente. On defense I'd rather have Clemente in Right than any other player. There is no stats on how many players held up at second because they had respect for the greatest arm in baseball. Coaches and managers said " he takes away the strategy of hitting behind the runner". Most people who know baseball loved to see Clemente's arm in action. Maybe there is 15 better offensive players; but baseball is also defense. There is no stat "HELD AT SECOND".
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Leeds Today
Ancient hair gives up its DNA secrets
Analysing DNA from ancient strands of hair is a new tool for learning about the past, molecular archaeologists say, including whether hair samples belonged to Sir Isaac Newton.
Until now, scientists had thought analysing the hair shaft was of relatively little use as it contained so little DNA.
Stonehenge: the Welsh connection
As thousands were on their way to celebrate the summer solstice, scientists announced that three of the seven occupants of an Early Bronze Age burial close to Stonehenge (England) were from West Wales, source of the monument's bluestones. Given the dating and proximity of the burial it would be a “phenomenal coincidence” if the origins of the three adult males and the Stonehenge bluestones were not linked, according to Dr. Andrew Fitzpatrick of Wessex Archaeology. The intriguing possibility is that the burials were related to the transportation of the bluestones and the megalithic construction phases of Stonehenge.
Stonepages
Archaeology Gets a New Champion
Dr Mike Heyworth FSA MIFA MCMI has been appointed as the new Director of the Council for British Archaeology to succeed George Lambrick from 1 August 2004.
Dr Heyworth is currently Deputy Director of the CBA where he has worked for the last 14 years. A graduate of Sheffield University, his research background is in archaeological science. During his career at the CBA, Mike Heyworth has made a major contribution to British archaeology in the development of information systems for the whole historic environment sector. Amongst a very wide portfolio of responsibilities he is currently particularly involved with developing the CBA's role in encouraging public participation in archaeology.
Dr Heyworth will be only the fifth Director in the CBA's 60-year history.
Dr Francis Pryor, President of the CBA, said
"Archaeology has never been more popular in the UK and nobody knows the world of archaeology better than Mike. The CBA is in his blood and I know that he will be an effective campaigner for British Archaeology in the challenging years ahead."
Dr Heyworth said:
"I am delighted to have been appointed to this post. The CBA is a key independent voice for British archaeology and there are many exciting opportunities ahead.
"I look forward to continuing to work with all our key stakeholders and partners, particularly CBA's institutional and individual members, and building on our past successes."
Cave in
Neanderthal man has been badly misunderstood
When in doubt, trust William Golding. The author was a campaigner against hogwash. When he came across an old novel about a group of supertalented British boys who got stranded on an island — and, amazingly, managed to create on it their own, perfectly organised mini-England — he was the first to cry nonsense. Taking a slightly more realistic approach to the subject, he wrote Lord of the Flies. Another of his books, The Inheritors, is similarly straightforward in telling how the peaceloving Neanderthals were defeated by an emerging human race. As it turns out, Mr and Mrs Neanderthal were not the grunting thugs you may have imagined.
Neanderthal man was not so dumb after all
NEANDERTHAL man and his immediate ancestors were not the grunting cavemen they are commonly held to be but probably spoke and understood a rudimentary language.
Analysis of ear bones from fossilised skulls at least 350,000 years old has shown that their hearing was attuned to pick up the same frequencies as those used in modern human speech.
Outrage over destruction of Celtic fort
Heritage experts today condemned the destruction of part of a 3,000-year-old Celtic fort in Co Kerry.
The 700 metres of earthen works that surrounded the ancient Dun Mor Fort on the Dingle Peninsula were levelled at the weekend by an excavating machine. An entrance and a standing stone with an ogham (Celtic writing) inscription were also removed.
Archaeologists 'link Stonehenge to Wales'
STONEHENGE was built by a Welsh family, archaeologists now believe.
The discovery of an early Bronze Age grave, made by workmen laying pipes on Salisbury Plain, is further proof that England's ancient landmark is a Welsh export.
I C Wales
Found: the men who delivered Stonehenge
ARCHAEOLOGISTS have discovered the remains of a “band of brothers” who, they believe, helped to transport giant bluestones from the Preseli mountains in West Wales to build Stonehenge more than 4,000 years ago.
They have been dubbed the Boscombe Bowmen after the location of their grave a few miles from Britain’s most famous prehistoric monument.
WELSH BUILT STONEHENGE
Grave solves druid mystery.
THE 4500-year-old mystery of who built Stonehenge may have finally been solved.
After studying skeletons found in nearby graves, archaeologists are convinced the creators of the great stone circle were Welsh.
Stonehenge 'builders' found
REMAINS found near Stonehenge are almost certainly of an ancient people who built the monument, archaeologists have revealed.
Researchers investigating the origins of the seven 4,500-year-old skeletons found buried on Salisbury Plain last year have run chemical tests to trace their origins and age.
Stonehenge creators' remains found
Remains found near Stonehenge are almost certainly of an ancient people who built the monument, excited archaeologists have revealed.
Researchers investigating the origins of the seven 4,500 year-old skeletons found buried on Salisbury Plain last year have run chemical tests to trace their origins and age.
COULD LATEST STONEHENGE SKELETONS BE ITS BRONZE AGE BUILDERS?
Archaeologists working near Stonehenge have unearthed a grave containing the remains of seven men who they believe might have helped to build Europe’s most famous prehistoric monument.
Discovered at Boscombe Down and dating back to the beginning of the Bronze Age - around 2,300 BC – the men appear to have been alive during the period when many of Stonehenge’s vast megaliths were brought from Wales.
Welsh 'helped build' Stonehenge
Archaeologists say remains found near Stonehenge are almost certainly those of the ancient people who helped to build the monument.
Tests on teeth found in a 4,300-year-old grave at Boscombe Down suggest the prehistoric workmen were Welsh.
Historic chalk mine dig to begin
Residents of almost 300 homes are being asked to give the go-ahead to a major archaeological dig for old chalk mines.
Marbles expert: Greeks are like abusive parents
It is Europe's longest-running cultural heritage dispute, yet the row over the rightful home of the Elgin Marbles is still so hotly contested it will almost qualify as an Olympic sport in Athens this summer.
End the exile
For 300 years we have had the Elgin Marbles, but the case for their return is now unanswerable.
Unknotting a tangled tale of towels
Tests on a painting, called the Mandylion, revered as a miraculous imprinted image of Christ, have revealed it to have been made in the 13th century. There are several early versions of the image, but the one in Genoa is the first to have been subjected to a thorough scientific examination. The results are being presented at an exhibition (until 18 July) in the city’s Museo Diocesano as part of the European Capital of Culture celebrations. Appropriately, the show is presented as a journey, both spiritual and scientific—since the venerated icon has links with Syria, Turkey, Sinai and Armenia.
Developers in north determined to bulldoze Bronze Age site for villas
THE COMPANY charged with the destruction of a grade one archaeological site in the village of Kazafani says it will do all it can to go ahead with its project to build luxury housing on the site of an early Bronze Age necropolis.
Reacting to an article that appeared in the Cyprus Mail one week ago, Sercem Construction Ltd boss Cemal Bulutoglulari said: “We have the necessary licences to build on the plot, we have done nothing illegal,” adding that his company had issued an appeal to the Turkish Cypriot antiques and monuments council to have the grade one status of the site at Vounos lifted.
Thousands gather at Stonehenge
Thousands of revellers are expected at Stonehenge in Wiltshire to mark the summer solstice.
The 5,000-year-old World Heritage site is again open to the public, following earlier years in which it was closed amid fears of damage to the stones.
Solstice crowd warning is issued
Police are warning commuters to steer clear of Stonehenge on Sunday and Monday morning because of the annual solstice celebrations.
Wiltshire Constabulary says roads around the ancient monument are likely to be busy as thousands celebrate the longest day of the year.
Thousands expected at Stonehenge for summer solstice
Around 30,000 people are expected to converge on Stonehenge in England from today for one of the highlights of the counter-culture calendar- the summer solstice celebrations.
Gatherings in recent years have been far more low-key than in previous troubled times but police in Wiltshire and Hampshire have said they will still not tolerate any illegal parties after the event.
They have also warned motorists to avoid the area if possible and have reminded drivers that illegally parked cars will be removed.
Thousands head to Stonehenge for solstice
As many as 30,000 people are expected to converge on Stonehenge for one of the highlights of the counter-culture calendar - the summer solstice celebrations.
ITV.com
1/8 - Bridge on the River Wye
Sunday, 20 June 8:00 to 9:00 p.m. Channel 4
The words "daredevil" and "archaeology" aren't usually heard in the same sentence, but it's absolutely the right description for this new series. Totally mad might be appropriate, too.
The idea is for Dr Mark Davies and his band of highly skilled, daring archaeologists to excavate Britain's most inaccessible historical sites, the ones that even the most enthusiastic Time Team type wouldn't touch with a 6ft trowel.
This week they investigate the remains of a Roman bridge they think may have been built over the fast-flowing River Wye in Chepstow.
Things get exciting when the equipment starts to malfunction...
Extreme Archaeology
Thousands expected at Stonehenge for the Solstice
Today's Sunday newspapers are full of reports of thousands due at Stonehenge for the Summer Solstice. The Daily Star, ITV.com and Breakingnews.ie all print the same story...
Some 30,000 people are expected to converge on Stonehenge for one of the highlights of the counter-culture calendar- the summer solstice celebrations.
Mystery of stone anchors
Divers at Dunbar have turned archaeologists in a bid to unlock the past surrounding mystery stone anchors found off the local shore.
They are also hoping members of the public will help them in their quest to learn more about the maritime artefacts which they discovered six years ago while diving about a mile east of the town.
East Lothian Today
Illegaler Handel mit archäologischen Fundstücken verhindert
Täter innerhalb von 24 Stunden ermittelt
Beamte des Landeskriminalamtes Sachsen durchsuchten am vergangenen Mittwoch, den 16. Juni 2004 die Wohnung eines 32-jährigen Leipzigers und stellten mehrere sehr wertvolle archäologische Fundstücke unversehrt sicher. Das Landesamt für Archäologie war durch eigene Recherchen in einem Internet-Auktionshaus auf den Leipziger Anbieter aufmerksam geworden, der mehrere archäologische Fundstücke dort zum Kauf anbot. Die schnelle, unkomplizierte und professionelle Zusammenarbeit zwischen dem Landesamt für Archäologie und den Strafverfolgungsbehörden führte innerhalb von 24 Stunden zur Ermittlung eines Tatverdächtigen. Durch die sächsische Landesarchäologin, Frau Dr. Judith Oexle, die bei der Durchsuchung mit vor Ort war, konnten die meisten Fundstücke sicher identifiziert und zugeordnet werden.
Dig reveals Roman relics in town
Roman artefacts have been discovered in a new archaeological dig in the centre of Shepton Mallet.
Experts working on the largest project for 10 years in Somerset say they have found relics left behind by residents of the town nearly 2,000 years ago.
Etruscan road uncovered
A plain in Tuscany destined to become a dump has turned out to be an archaeologist's dream, revealing the biggest Etruscan road ever found.
Digging in Capannori, near Lucca, archaeologist Michelangelo Zecchini has uncovered startling evidence of an Etruscan "highway" which presumably linked Etruscan Pisa, on the Tyrrhenian coast, to the Adriatic port of Spina
Medieval Necropolis Found in Northeastern France
"They're skeletons from the Middle Ages, so much the better!" recounts this relieved resident. "I wasn't sleeping at night the whole weekend, after my son discovered the first human teeth with the first dig of the shovel, and then we had to call the police when we found the bodies," she adds. On Thursday, the regional archeological authority estimated that the bones dated from the 10th to the 15th century. "They were buried in a traditional way, east to west, arms folded and without any funeral marker," said archeologist Jean-Pierre Legendre, underscoring the important of this discovery "for the archeological map" [of the region].
Nécropole du Moyen-Age découverte dans un jardin
Des squelettes d'une nécropole du Moyen-Age, ont été découverts dans un jardin en Meurthe-et-Moselle
Une famille de Saint-Nicolas-de-Port voulant construire une terrasse dans son jardin a découvert stupéfaite des ossements humains, selon l'archéologue du service régional d'archéologie de Metz.
Dig confirms existence of Brodgar Neolithic village
Last year's discovery of a structure half-way between the Ring of Brodgar and the Standing Stones of Stenness (Orkney, Scotland) gave the first hint that old conceptions about the area were going to have to change. That discovery, together with a series of extensive geophysics scans, was beginning to indicate the sheer extent of prehistoric human activity wasn't entirely based around the ceremonial rings. But even the geophysics results couldn't prepare the archaeologists for what they found after digging a number of small exploratory trenches around the site of the "Brodgar New Hoose" - in particular that the area around Lochview could be still house an extremely well-preserved Neolithic village.
Stone Pages
Irish Monuments Bill a backward step for protection
Speaking during the second stage debate on the National Monuments (Amendment) Bill 2004, Sinn Féin spokesperson on the Environment, Heritage and Local Government Arthur Morgan TD slammed the anti-heritage ethos behind the Bill and questioned Minister Martin Cullen's suitability for holding responsibility for the Heritage portfolio.
Bronze Age findings in Donegal
Two 4,000-year-old Bronze Age burial bowls have been recovered intact from cist graves on a Donegal farm (Ireland). Also found on the site were the intact remains of a young man and the cremated remains of another person, probably a woman in her early 20s. The discovery was made on Mr David Patterson's farm in Liscooley, Castlefinn, Co Donegal when he was excavating the foundations for a shed. Mr Patterson contacted the archaeological section of the Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government, and the investigation was carried out by senior archaeologist Mr Victor Buckley.
REMAINS OF HUGE STONE AGE ELEPHANT FOUND IN KENT
Construction work for the Ebbsfleet station on the Channel Tunnel Rail Link in north Kent has unearthed a 400,000 year old Early Stone Age site.
The major find is the skeleton of an elephant surrounded by flint tools lying undisturbed where they were originally discarded.
Stonehenge: Built by Welshmen?
At least three of the builders of Stonehenge were from Wales, according to archaeologists who found the builders' grave close to the Stonehenge site, and have linked the remains to stones used in the construction of the Salisbury Plain monument.
Discovery.com
ASTONISHING ROCK CARVINGS IN NORTHUMBERLAND BAFFLE ARCHAEOLOGISTS
A trio of extraordinary stone carvings found in Northumberland have got archaeologists and experts so baffled they've asked for help in deciphering them.
"We have enjoyed speculating about the meaning of these new and unusual markings," explained Dr Aron Mazel of Newcastle University’s School of Historical Studies, "but the truth is we really don’t know what they are."
Ulster's ancient heritage explored
THE ancient and exotic will be unveiled on Archaeology Days across Northern Ireland later this week.
The DOE's Environment and Heritage Service has announced events which will explore topics such as what happens on an archaeological dig and at the rebuilding of a wedge tomb.
"The Archaeology of the St Pancras Burial Ground"
Friday 18th June 7.00p.m.
Gordon Square
London W1
Lecture by Phil Emery and Kevin Wooldridge
For further details see the EMAS Events Page
Do you dig archaeology? Well you can now
MORE than two dozen archaeological digs are looking for participants this summer, at sites ranging in date from the Neolithic to the Middle Ages.
Opportunities to join in exist in most parts of Britain, as well as in Ireland and on the Isle of Man.
Trouble logging in? Try Bug Me Not
Ancient graves found on cliffs
A 1,250-year-old cliff-face cemetery has been found in Pembrokeshire revealing the county's early Christian past.
Two skeletons dating from the Dark Ages of around 750AD have been recovered and a stone with a carefully chiselled cross has also been found.
Roman ruin 'movie' wins accolade
A plan to boost tourism by recreating Roman life in a special effects-laden film, has itself won recognition.
The National Lottery has awarded a commemorative blue plaque in recognition of the project to boost tourism around Hadrian's Wall.
Huge Etruscan Road Brought to Light
Digging in Capannori, near Lucca, archaeologist Michelangelo Zecchini has uncovered startling evidence of an Etruscan "highway" which presumably linked Etruscan Pisa, on the Tyrrhenian coast, to the Adriatic port of Spina.
Pupils get digging to unearth the past
YOUNGSTERS took part in a dig to find a hidden ruin dubbed ‘The Palace’ and unearthed a series of finds.
Archaeologist Tony Rook, a former teacher at Sherrardswood School, previously unearthed a Roman villa in the grounds of the school and believes there are remains of another large, unexcavated building with mosaic floors underground.
Welwyn & Hatfield Times
Archaeologists solve medieval mystery
An archaeologist has helped solve a medieval mystery about a thieving monk.
Gabor Thomas' work has finally laid to rest a centuries-old argument about where in Sussex the errant monk did his pilfering.
Remains of ancient farm excavated in Oestfold
The remains of a farm dating back to the Roman period is being excavated in a field in Raade in the county of Oestfold.
It is believed to be the largest find from the Roman period ever made in the Nordic countries, and seen as unique in this region, according to public broadcaster NRK.
friends of the earth malta stop waste dump damaging neolithic ruins
Victories for environmental campaigners are few and far between in Malta. The outlook had seemed to be getting worse when the Maltese government put forward plans to create two potentially hazardous and certainly polluting waste dump sites only 300 metres away from the world's largest free-standing Neolithic temples, Hagar Qim and Mnajdra, relics of a matriarchal society that existed some 4,000 years ago.
Ship wreck site to train divers
A boat is lying at the bottom of the sea on Teesside after a careful operation to sink it.
The Kittiwake is in a corner of the West Dock in Hartlepool where it will be used for divers and marine archaeologists to explore.
Borders folk may be descended from Africans
Families who have lived in the English-Scottish Borders for generations could be descended from African soldiers who patrolled Hadrian's Wall nearly 2,000 years ago.
Archaeologists say there is compelling evidence that a 500-strong unit of Moors manned a fort near Carlisle in the third century AD.
Jowell to cut 'wasteful' heritage bodies
The Government is to slash the plethora of bodies safeguarding the national heritage to crack down on waste, Tessa Jowell, the Secretary of State for Culture, has warned. Following reorganisations in art and sport, which cut numbers of staff and funding schemes, heritage is the next sector to be targeted.
Bronze Age necropolis on Cyprus is being bulldozed
A fierce row has broken out between the Turkish Cypriot Department of Antiquities and Museums and a construction company over what the department claims is the “illegal destruction of a grade one archaeological site” at Vounos, near Kazafani, to make way for luxury homes.
Antiquities Department head Ilkay Feridun said she had filed legal proceedings against the company following last-minute moves to declare the Bronze Age necropolis at Vounos a grade one site. "Our archaeologists did a detailed study of the site and found it had been damaged, and we have informed the Attorney-general of the situation," she said. She added that bulldozers had “completely flattened” the Vounos site, damaging the hundred or so tombs located there.
Archaeologists find ancient fort
Part of an artillery fort built in 1627 has been discovered near to the docks in Hull.
The South Battery once formed part of the city's defences but it has not been seen since it was demolished around 1855.
Historic henges new warning
A QUARRY firm has been warned it has a fight on its hands over plans to extend its operations next to an ancient site of national importance.
Campaigners this week pledged to step up their fight to protect the unique triple henge complex at Thornborough, near Bedale, after it was revealed that quarry operators had submitted a planning application to extract more sand and gravel nearby.
Nidderdale Today
Visit the Friends of Thornborough's Web site at
http://www.friendsofthornborough.org.uk/
Castle sold to mystery buyer
A west Wales castle with links to Dylan Thomas has been sold to a Welshman for an undisclosed sum.
Laugharne Castle, along with a nine-bedroom Georgian house, was put up for sale at an auction on Saturday.
Going to see the stones
With the Summer Solstice just a few days away the papers are coming up with ideas on how to spend it in 2004 (why not tells us in our latest poll).
STONEMASONS UNCOVER MEDIAEVAL MYSTERY
Mediaeval pots dating from the 14th to 16th centuries have been discovered in one of Aberdeen's most historic buildings.
They were found by masons repointing the west wall of one of Aberdeen University's oldest buildings. The four broken pottery jugs were carefully placed behind stones which, in two cases, had been trimmed away at the rear to accommodate them.
This is North Scotland
INTERACTIVE ONLINE MAP OFFERS UNPRECEDENTED ACCESS TO STONEHENGE
English Heritage is now offering unprecedented access to the Stonehenge World Heritage Site in the form of a new micro-website, launched on June 11.
For the first time, visitors can explore the entire archaeological landscape that surrounds the world famous stone circle from the comfort of their desktops.
Viking ‘town’ is Ireland’s equivalent of Pompeii
IT’S likely to be some weeks yet before Minister for the Environment Martin Cullen announces recommendations for dealing with and possibly preserving what historians are now describing as Ireland’s first town.
The discovery of the Viking settlement, at Woodstown, five miles from the city, which is believed to date back to the mid-9th century, was made as preparatory work got underway on the city’s €300m by-pass.
Waterford News and Star
Satellite images 'show Atlantis' in Spain
The fabled lost city of Atlantis might lie in a salt marsh region off Spain's southern coast, according to research reported online by the archaeology journal Antiquity. The study, not yet peer-reviewed by archaeologists, is based on satellite images showing ancient ruins that appear to match descriptions made by the Greek scholar Plato. Resembling two rectangular buildings, the structures are hidden in a muddy region known as Marisma de Hinojos near the port of Cadiz.
Ancient remains found at bypass site
VITAL clues into how we lived thousands of years ago have been unearthed on a bypass site.
Among the items uncovered along the A142 between Newmarket and Fordham include skeletons from the Bronze Age and Iron Age, along with a body from Roman times.
Flints and pottery, buried since the Neolithic period around 4,500 years ago, have also been discovered, and will now be cleaned and carefully examined to help experts learn more about the history of East Anglia's ancestors.
Pergamon Altar's Restored Frieze Unveiled
BERLIN - After a decade of painstaking cleaning, Berlin's Pergamon Museum has unveiled the restored marble frieze of the Pergamon Altar, the second century B.C. centerpiece of its collection.
The 371 foot-long frieze decorated the outside walls of the altar, which was built between 197 and 156 B.C. in the present-day Turkish town of Bergama. A German engineer discovered fragments of the frieze, which had been taken apart and incorporated into the walls of a fortress, in 1864.
Oxford ArchDigital Provides Stonehenge Mapping Site
When English Heritage and Wiltshire County Council wanted to create a virtual tour of the Stonehenge World Heritage Site, they chose Oxford ArchDigital for their expertise in map based websites.
Funded by the New Opportunities Fund (NOF), the new microsite goes live on 11 June as part of the English Heritage website,
www.english-heritage.org.uk/stonehenge.
CAVEMAN STIRS BREWING ROW ON WITCH'S BONES
A Witch has cast her spell to stir up a row between two tourist attractions. Former circus owner Gerry Cottle bought Wookey Hole a year ago and said the bones of the famous witch should be restored to her original home in the caves, but a museum curator has other ideas.
Archaeologist Herbert Balch found the bones around 100 years ago. They were lying alongside a comb, a crystalline ball and the bones of two goats tethered to a stake.
Western Gazette
Orpheus Grave Mystery Unveiled in Bulgaria
An archaeological expedition led by prominent Bulgarian Professor Nikolay Ovcharov unveiled the mystery of the excellently preserved Thracian temple in the region of Tatul village.
Though most of the archaeologists in the expedition assume that the Thracian temple was dedicated to the mythical Orpheus, there are still some suggestions that that it might have been built in honour of a Thracian king.
ELGIN DIG DELIGHT OVER 14TH-CENTURY DISCOVERY
Archaeologists working at a construction site in Elgin have uncovered a perfectly-preserved 14th-century oak-built well.
The find has been described as "phenomenal", and is being hailed as a rare glimpse into life in mediaeval Elgin and Scotland.
Photos from the Berry - Limousin Study Tour
Photos from the recent Berry - Limousin archaeological study tour are now on the web and can be viewed at:
http://www.archaeology.eu.com/tours/previous/2004_lim/index.html
Archaeology Days in Northern Ireland, 21 June 2004
This Northern Ireland contribution to National Archaeology Days, taking place in England and Wales in July, is timed around the 21st June, the summer solstice. There is a wide variety of events, hosted by many different organisations, taking place on Saturday 19th June, which will stimulate the imagination and be an enjoyable experience for everyone.
Roman 'industrial estate' found
Experts who unearthed the best preserved example in Wales of a medieval track, have now found what they believe is the equivalent of a Roman 'industrial estate.'
New research may uncover Byblos' Bronze Age port
If archaeologist Ibrahim Noureddine is right, sunbathers at Byblos' beaches (Lebanon) may one day find themselves next to a Phoenician port. The underwater archaeologist is currently working on ancient ports, trying to figure out whether people in the Bronze Age built their harbors or used the natural foundation. It is not an easy task, as Noureddine does not even know for sure yet where to dig for the old harbors.
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Illegaler Handel mit archäologischen Fundstücken...
Dig reveals Roman relics in town Roman artefa...
Etruscan road uncovered A plain in Tuscany de...
Medieval Necropolis Found in Northeastern France...
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Irish Monuments Bill a backward step for protect...
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Stonehenge: Built by Welshmen? At least three...
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Roman ruin 'movie' wins accolade A plan to bo...
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TROIKA Red Blue White
The TROIKA Intergenerational Dance Film Project
Longreach, Winton and Mackay
Troika began as an exploration of the unofficial tracks and trails people have walked along during their lifetime. The journey took us from the remote areas of Western Qld to the coastline of Mackay and into the lives of the elderly people who
lived there. We were joined by artists from Japan, Germany, UK, Indonesia and Australia. The red desert, the vastness of the blue skies and ocean and the glaring white sun gave us a starting point. The passion and energy of the dancers,
their inner calm and confidence and their reverence for each other and the landscape, reflected these 3 colours. At times the landscape dictated our movements. Often the dancers created their own improvisations. Sometimes people
wanted to tell their own story using just movement. Their stories were played out on mountains, grasslands, deserts and underwater. Their narratives were driven by a deep desire to be seen as artists in their own right with skills, ideas and a
passion to make a contribution to life.
Troika is about finding our place in the world through our encounters with trails and landmarks that are illusive, wild and often enchanting. While footpaths and roads are the official and sometimes mundane public connectors between people and place,
trails remain part of the interior terrain, out of the way, not easily traversed and sometimes secretive. Trails are not only a way of traversing space between one point and another, but they can lead inward towards journeys of thought and feeling.
They can also lead outward to a sense of belonging to the landscape and as a way of connecting to the past to those who walked these tracks before. If it takes more than one to make a trail we want to find out who was involved in making them
and maintaining them.
Elderly people are often the keepers of the flame in regional towns. What are the places they return to in recollection or in reality? Their stories may tell us something about the people of that community, their relationship to thelandscape and
to some kind of human longing or need to walk that way. Jess Wickins who volunteers at the Parish Op Shop Auxilliary in Mackay vividly remembers walking a track with her grandmother at the end of east Gordon St Mackay when she
was a small girl. “It curved its way towards east point and the Pioneer River.” For Jess it was a place of mystery and a place where she felt close to her grandmother When I walked across the small wooden bridge it was like was a test of courage.
I felt brave that I could do it. Having young people on board this project has made it so enjoyable."
Troika follows on from the success of the 2014 and 2015 intergenerational projects Finding Ithaka and Cheek2Cheek, which saw young people actively engaging elderly people in agedcare facilities in Mackay, Biloela and Gladstone.
“These projects have made a considerable impact on residents from the memory unit. They are now more animated in their interaction with each other. Their level of confidence has increased significantly .”
Wendy Stream Bluecare Service Manager Mackay
“I can’t say enough about this project. It changed my life. I now get up in the morning and can’t wait to go to the dance workshops.”
Woody Tryhorn Hibiscus Gardens Agedcare resident Gladstone
Following an evaluation of these projects in 2014, the following key needs were identified:
1. Opening up purposeful creative activities to breakdown the isolation elderly people experience in their lives in remote areas of Queensland.
2. Reducing the stigma of old age and dementia for residents families and the community.
3. Setting up an arts based training program for staff in the centre to ensure the sustainability of the program.
4. Actively engaging young people in the programto develop real connections through trust and communication with people who are different
to themselves and taking responsibility in helping to celebrate the lives of elderly people.
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Club wins Northumberland & Tyneside Cricket League of the Year
All of our groundsman’s hard work paid dividends for the players during the season it was also recognised by Mike Latham in his Facebook entry into Cricket Grounds of Great Britain in his glowing praise for our facilities. This was then recognised by our League when they awarded our club the honour of being ground of the year.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/Cricketgrounds/permalink/2479477182095657?sfns=xmo
Well done to the other county winners
Newcastle Cricket Club from the North East Premier League
Stamfordham Cricket Club from the West Tyne League
This is the fifth time our club has won League Ground of the Year 2008, 2010, 2014, 2015, 2019, we also have won the Northumberland County Ground of the Year in 2008 and 2015.
Club Management Officials for 2020 Season
Nov 11, 2019, 8:55 pm
Chairman – Paul Milburn
Secretary – Steven Henderson
Treasurer – Paul Milburn
Child Welfare Officer – Paul Milburn
Cory Milburn
David Wanless
Trevor Elliott
Stuart Rosser
Adam Peacock
David Dent
Michael Adamson
Club Auditor
Dean Hardy
Club Playing Officials for 2020 Season
1st Team Captain – David Dent
1st Team Vice Captain – Cory Milburn
2nd Team Captain – Stuart Rosser
2nd Team Vice Captain – Michael Adamson
Midweek Captain – Matty Tanney
Midweek Vice Captain - Vacant
2019 Players Awards
1st Team 2019 - Players Player Award – Adam Peacock.
1st Team 2019 Bowler Award – Mark Lawrence 29 Wkts @ 14.24, best figures was 5 for 12 against Bomarsund CC, 154.4 overs with 32 maidens. 2 – 5 wicket haul’s.
1st Team 2019 Batsman Award – Adam Peacock 549 Runs @ 49.91, Highest Score 109 not out against Benwell & Wallbottle CC, with 1 – 100, 3 - 50s in 14 innings with 3 not outs.
2nd Team 2019-Players Player Award – Stuart Rosser
2nd Team 2019 Bowler Award – David Wanless 21 Wkts @ 11.14, top of the division averages one of only 2 players who took 20 wickets best figures was 5 for 17 versus Civil Service CC, 85.0 overs with 14 maidens. 1 x 5 wicket haul.
2nd Team 2019 Batsman Award – Stuart Rosser 780 Runs @ 195.00 Top of the league averages. Highest Score of 132 against Bomarsund CC, with 6 not outs in 10 innings. 4 x 100’s 2 not outs and 2 x 50’s both not outs.
Annual General Meeting 10th November at 4pm all members are welcome, can you let the club secretary know that you are attending.
League end of season presentation evening
Northumberland & Tyneside Cricket League end of season presentation evening is to be held at Newcastle Racecourse on 2nd November tickets £25, 3 course meal, meet at 7pm for a 7:30pm start.
Names to our secretary if you want to attend.
End of Season Function
End of season function Saturday 28th September was a great success with vocalist Jonny Boyle and a disco we had around 130 attending.
We had a fish and chip van outside for those who wanted food.
2019 Season Ends
Our 1st team finish 5th in the Northumberland & Tyneside Cricket League Division 3 with 360 points, won 9, lost 5, we 7 lost to the weather and 1 where GEMS conceded. We progressed to the semi-final of the cup before losing to the eventual winners Wickham CC.
Our 2nd team won Division 6 South with 329 points, won 9, lost 2, we lost 6 to the weather and 1 where Blyth CC conceded. This is the first league title our club has ever won so it is a great achievement. We also made it to final's day for the T20 Big Bash before losing to the eventual winners Newcastle CC.
Our midweek team finished 3rd in the league with 85 points, won 8, lost 4, 2 was lost to the weather. We made it to the final of the Ian Appleby Cup before losing to Benwell & Walbottle CC.
Overall we had a successful season on all fronts.
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"New engines, more models."
Editor: G.R. Whale
$22,990 Base Price MSRP
$47,750 As Tested MSRP
Model Lineup: "Ford F-150 XL Regular Cab 2WD standard bed ($22,990); STX SuperCab 4WD ($31,615); XLT SuperCab 2WD long bed ($30,580); FX4 SuperCab standard bed ($37,480) Lariat SuperCrew 2WD standard bed ($37,795); SVT Raptor SuperCrew 4WD ($45,470); King Ranch SuperCrew 4WD short bed ($45,790); Platinum SuperCrew 4WD standard bed ($47,900); Harley-Davidson SuperCrew 4WD ($51,995)"
Standard Engine: 3.5-liter dohc 24-valve turbocharged V6
Engine Options: 302-hp 3.7-liter dohc 24-valve V6; 360-hp 5.0-liter dohc 32-valve V8; 411-hp 6.2-liter sohc 16-valve V8; 365-hp 3.5-liter dohc 24-valve turbocharged V6
Standard Transmission: 6-speed automatic
Transmission Options: 6-speed automatic
Basic Warranty: "3 years/36,000 miles"
Assembled In: "Kansas City, Missouri; Dearborn, Michigan"
Model Tested MSRP: "Ford F-150 SuperCrew Lariat 4x4 short bed ($40,765)"
Standard Equipment: "leather upholstery, air conditioning, 5.0-liter V8, 6-speed automatic, P265/60R18 tires, power steering, power disc brakes, power windows, power locks, cruise control, AM/FM/CD, remote keyless entry, leather 40/20/40 split bench power front seats w/lumbar"
Options As Tested: "3.5 EcoBoost V6 ($895); 3.55:1 locking rear differential ($470); heated/cooled captain's chairs and console ($975); Sony navigation radio ($2,470); Lariat Plus package ($950); trailer brake controller ($230)"
Standard Safety Equipment: "front airbags, front side airbags, side curtain airbags, electronic stability control, ABS, SOS post-crash alert"
Optional Safety Equipment: "reverse sensing system, rearview camera, MyKey"
Destination Charge: $995
Layout: four-wheel drive
Horsepower: 365 @ 5000
Torque: 420 @ 2500
Length Width Height: 231.9/79.2/75.9
Track - F/R: 67.0/67.0
Turn Circle: 47
Head Hip Leg Room - F: 41.0/60.5/41.4
Head Hip Leg Room - R: 40.3/64.6/43.5
Payload: 1520
Suspension - F: "independent, coil springs, anti-roll bar"
Suspension - R: "live axle, leaf springs"
Brakes - F/R: vented disc/vented disc with ABS
Fuel Capacity: 36
Price Effective: 01/22/2020
Manufacturer Phone: 800-392-FORD
Manufacturer URL: www.ford.com
"Smooth and quiet, the Ford F-150 is comfortable on bumpy streets around town, over rugged terrain at construction sites, around farms and over utility roads, and on the open highway. Its steering is nicely weighted and requires little correction on the highway making it nice for long cross-country tows. The cabs are comfortable, whether ordered with leather or cloth.
The 2012 Ford F-150 lineup offers a plethora of models in dozens of permutations. All are highly capable trucks, even those loaded with luxury features. The F-150 was completely redesigned for 2009. For 2011, the F-150 received a new engine lineup and electric-assist steering on all but 6.2-powered Crew Cabs. For 2012, the Lariat Limited model is no longer offered, but one of the nine F-150 versions should be close enough.
A new FX appearance package is for 2012 F-150 FX2 and FX4 models that includes 20-inch wheels and lots of flat-black trim inside and out. The FX Luxury package adds cooling to the heatable front seats.
Other noteworthy changes include electric shift-on-the-fly four-wheel drive for 2012 F-150 XL up to Lariat models, while 2012 F-150 Lariat, King Ranch and Platinum offer a 4x4 auto mode that requires no driver action and hill start assist. All 2012 F-150 4WD models can now be flat-towed behind another vehicle, like a motorhome or larger construction truck. And a new locking rear differential for 2012 is offered on more axle ratios and 2WD models than the old limited-slip was.
The F-150 lineup runs the gamut from wash-off vinyl flooring and a two-door Regular Cab to leather-lined premium four-door models with as much rear-seat legroom as the front of most luxury sedans: Within those extremes lies something for everyone. Yet even the least-expensive F-150 isn't boring; it leaves room for customization, does the work required, and keeps overhead down.
With one of the deepest beds in the segment, the F-150 has generous cargo volume out back and a maximum payload rating of 3,060 pounds; most versions carry 1,550-2,100 pounds. Any cab model F-150 can be optioned to tow more than 11,000 pounds; the range varies from 5,500-11,300 pounds. (The Ford Super Duty line of heavy-duty pickups is covered in a separate New Car Test Drive review.)
Two V8 and two V6 engines are offered, all with 6-speed automatic transmissions. Standard on 2WD is a 302-hp 3.7-liter V6. Other choices include a 360-hp 5-liter V8, the only engine offered on every cab/bed combination, a 411-hp 6.2-liter V8 on SuperCrew short beds, and a 365-hp twin-turbo 3.5-liter V6 on all but regular cab short beds. Each engine except the 6.2 offers multiple axle ratios.
Many years the best-selling pickup, the F-150's had a target on it for those same years. So it has to stay competitive: The standard V6 is more powerful than any other pickup V6 and the same horsepower as Chevy's 1.1-liter-larger V8; the 6.2 offered in Crew Cabs and Raptor is more powerful than any half-ton pickup engine; it's the only pickup that comes with a 6-speed automatic in every model. And its maximum payload and weight ratings are competitive in a world where numbers and rankings often change monthly.
Like any full-size pickup, the key to an F-150 is assessing your needs accurately and choosing the best one among all the permutations. Also like any pickup, remember that maximum payload and maximum trailer weight don't go together, are available only on a few of the 50-plus versions, and often decline as soon as you check an option box other than paint or aluminum wheels. Also remember the EPA ratings are only that, for empty trucks, and you are moving around at least 5,000 pounds. Do that, and you should be quite happy with any F-150."
"The 2012 Ford F-150 comes in more than four-dozen configurations, so it's easier to find which setups you can not get: No luxury trim Regular Cab, no ultra-lux SuperCab, and no long-bed SuperCrew. Everything else is split amongst four wheelbases, three cab sizes, three bed lengths (one of which is available in two styles), four engines, nine trim levels, and rear- or four-wheel drive.
Regular Cabs are offered in standard bed (about 6.5 feet) and long bed (about 8 feet) XL, STX, or XLT grades. SuperCab trucks add higher FX and Lariat trim to choices plus SVT's Raptor, and a short-bed option (about 5.5 feet). A long-bed SuperCab is available only with the heavy-duty package. The SuperCrew F-150, available with either the short bed or standard bed, drops the STX grade and adds King Ranch and Platinum derivatives while Harley-Davidson is SuperCrew short bed only.
The F-150 XL ($22,990) is a standard bed, Regular Cab two-wheel drive. It comes with 3.7-liter V6, 17-inch steel wheels, black bumper/grille/mirrors, and vinyl upholstery and floor covering. XL includes air conditioning, split front bench (and rear on four-door cabs), locking tailgate, tilt steering wheel, stability control, capless fuel filler and a stereo radio. 4x4 models get standard electric-shift-on-the-fly 4WD.
F-150 STX ($26,665) adds body-color bumpers over a black grille, CD player, and cloth seats with driver lumbar. More equipment is available, including 18-inch wheels, Sirius radio, SYNC, cruise control, fog lamps and power mirrors.
Many models of F-150, the longest bed in all three cab styles, are available with a heavy-duty payload package with 3.5 and 5-liter engines. This is typically about $1,700 and required to get the maximum payload rating about 1,000 pounds heavier than standard F-150. It includes stouter parts underneath and 7-lug 17x7.5 inch wheels.
F-150 XLT ($27,690) adds chrome for bumpers and trim, power mirrors, remote keyless entry, automatic headlamps, carpeting, cruise control, power windows and locks, and better cloth upholstery. All manner of options are available on the XLT, including three wheel diameters, tailgate step, cargo management and towing equipment.
F-150 FX4 ($37,480) and FX2 ($33,900) come with a 5-liter V8, black grille and body-colored bumpers, trim and mirrors. Standard are fog lamps, a locking differential, towing package, 18-inch wheels, sporty cloth split bench seat (power driver on four-doors), Sirius radio, and electric-shift 4WD on FX4. Options include infotainment and 17-inch (for more severe off-road use) 20-inch wheels and the FX appearance pack that includes 20s and lots of blacked-out pieces.
F-150 Lariat ($35,010) is the mainstream luxury F-150 and hence is four-door only with V8 or turbo V6 engines. Chrome trim and bumpers highlight monotone paint, and the Lariat adds heated mirrors with signal repeaters and auto-dimming on the driver's and inside, dual-zone climate control, heated power leather seats with driver memory, leather wheel with redundant audio controls, tow package, SYNC, trip computer, and power adjustable pedals. Options include 20-inch wheels, heated/cooled front seats, Sony sound and navigation, trailer brake controller, rear camera and park sensors, and moonroof.
F-150 King Ranch ($42,515) is like a Lariat with a different attitude. It adds two-tone paint and KR badges, unique wheels, mesh chrome grille, Chaparral leather heated and cooled power captain's chairs with driver memory, running boards, and power folding, heated, signal outside mirrors with chrome caps. Options are essentially limited to engines, a locking differential, alternative axle ratios, 20-inch wheels, Sony sound and navigation systems, moonroof, chrome tube running boards and remote start.
F-150 Platinum SuperCrew ($44,235) gets a unique satin chrome grille, body-color bumpers and wheel lip moldings, 20-inch wheels, power-deploy/retract running boards, satin chrome tailgate trim, tuxedo-stitched leather power captain's chairs, wood grain and brushed aluminum trim, rain-sensing wipers, power folding/heated mirrors, and unique console. Options are limited but you can get 17-inch wheels and all-terrain tires for luxury on the farm.
A special F-150 Harley-Davidson edition ($48,720 2WD/$51,995 4WD) comes with 6.2-liter V8 only and decked out in colors and heavy chrome trim befitting the brand it's named after.
Ford's SVT division offers the Raptor SuperCab ($42,570) and Raptor SuperCrew ($45,470) intended for serious off-road use. It comes only with the 411-hp 6.2-liter V8. Unique long-travel high-performance suspension, wheels and tires, and aggressive bodywork set it apart from any other F-150. A front camera is offered for seeing close-in obstacles or drops obscured by the hood.
The F-150 option list is comprehensive and, although simplified in recent years, can still resemble the tax code to the uninitiated; there are, for example, many option codes for running boards and trailer towing mirrors. Most options are dependent on the model and other options, and many features are standard on more expensive models or go that way with engine upgrades. In addition, prices of options often vary by trim level.
All prices listed above are just a starting point for the trim level. Options and packages add to the price, though they may also add to your enjoyment of the vehicle. To approximate an upgrade, add $2500-$3500 for four-wheel drive, $250-$350 for a longer bed, and $1500-$4000 for a larger cab. In many cases these upgrades add more standard equipment and/or a larger engine. (All prices are Manufacturer's Suggested Retail Prices, which do not include destination charge and may change at any time without notice.)
Mechanical options include engine upgrades, alternate axle ratios, limited-slip or locking differentials, larger tires and upgraded wheels, skid plates, towing mirrors, trailer brake controller ($230), 36-gallon long-bed fuel tank, tailgate step, heavy-duty payload package, and Ford Works systems like an in-dash computer. An engine block heater is available to fleet buyers and standard on Alaska and northern plains-state trucks. Other upgrades include captain's chairs bucket seats with center console, power sliding rear window, rear-view camera (with or without navigation) reverse parking sensors, tri-coat or two-tone paint, moonroof ($995), Sirius radio, sound systems, remote start, and navigation.
Safety features that come standard include antilock brakes, AdvanceTrac RSC electronic stability control, trailer sway control, frontal airbags, front side airbags, and side curtain airbags. Safety-related options include an integrated trailer brake controller, rear-view camera, MyKey, and reverse park sensors."
"The angular lines of the Ford F-150 mean it's easier to clean, easier to park, and gives maximum inside volume for outside space. Some bulge to the hood and large grille openings imply power, as does the higher altitude of 4WD models; many models have big graphics to ensure everyone knows what it is. The F-150 is easily recognized by substantial blue ovals, stepped front window ledge, and the tall bed.
The front door edge that allows a lower glass line at the front is stylish but also very useful; it allows a better view of front quarters near the truck and means you can have a good-sized mirror that doesn't limit forward vision because you look over it rather than around it. The view rearward can be aided by extendable towing mirrors, a rear camera, and a power sliding rear window. We found the towing mirrors work very well.
Pillars between the doors (called B-pillars) and the rear hand-hold on the pillar may yield an awkward blind spot for some drivers, but everyone should appreciate the windshield pillars (A-pillars) shaped to help preserve forward vision. Relatively square shoulders on the hood make it easy to see the edges of the truck, a bonus for tight parking lots, plow operators, and squeezing between trees or rocks en route to outdoor recreation.
With all beds you can get a locking tailgate and tie-down points. On many models you also get a bed extender and tailgate step (rated 300 pounds); the tailgate step makes stepping into the bed easier but it makes the tailgate feel heavier than some petite drivers will want to open or close. Some models offer a box-side step rated at 500 pounds; a pop-out, under-bed step behind the cab, but we needed considerable effort to return it and wonder how it will work after grounding on a rocky trail, having mud or snow thrown at it, or in freezing weather. Refueling is done with Ford's capless filler system so you will never lose another gas cap.
Most F-150 models have Ford's family-face horizontal three-bar aspect to the grille and the tailgate styling; the larger grille, squared headlights and more heavily contoured hood all add to the imposing size, though it isn't as imposing as Dodge's forward-leaning grille setup. On higher-level models the chrome is considerable, and extends to the front tow loops on 4WD.
The FX model has a multi-ribbed grille, blacked-out trim, plenty of decals and real truck tires if you choose the 17-inch off-road tire option. The chassis on 4WD models doesn't have anything mounted much lower than the frame rails, but if you intend to use four-wheel drive for anything more than snow or muddy roads the skid plate package should be considered. The FX appearance package's flat-black 20-inch wheels have contemporary style, but we find them far more apropos the FX2 than the FX4.
Models with the heavy-duty payload package come with 17-inch wheels with seven bolts holding each on. More attachment points are frequently used as truck weight increases but 7 bolts is an uncommon pattern and may limit your choice in aftermarket or replacement wheels."
"Ford has all bases covered inside the F-150, with plenty of patterns, textures and finishes, and the choice of a 40/20/40 split-bench front seat or captain's chairs in many models. On those trucks with a bench seat, the middle passenger should be of a smaller size for both knee clearance and the narrow space between seat and belt brackets.
Mindful that you can't have everything for $23,000, the basic XL is quite respectable and a good value given a single option tab on a bigger pickup can be nearly half the XL's purchase price. Fleet drivers will appreciate that air conditioning is standard and the truck is quieter and more refined, in part due to a smoother 60-degree V6 and not one derived from a 90-degree V8.
At the other end of the spectrum, the Platinum is like a Lincoln Navigator with a pickup bed. The King Ranch chairs may look like a fine saddle (and require the same maintenance in some climes), but you'll want to ensure the jeans are clean and spurs off before you climb into this cowboy clubhouse.
Virtually everything you might need is either standard or available, and much the same degree of luxury in a more subdued style can be found in Lariats, which follow a more eclectic approach to decor and make one wonder if seven colors and surface textures on a rear door alone might be one or two too many. The speaker grilles on high-line models that look like metal really are (with the three horizontal bar theme molded in), and in some cases the trim is real brushed aluminum. The wood is faux but well done, perhaps to save trees.
The front bench is still split three ways: The center section flips down to reveal a console with storage and cup holders. The console is flat, so you can put a clipboard on top of it and it won't slide off until you stop, start or change direction quickly. Captain's chairs on FX and Lariat models, especially with power adjustment and the optional adjustable pedals (the switch is often hidden on the steering column), provide good driver positioning for virtually everyone. We found the seats didn't suffer from our earlier criticisms of lacking thigh support and aggressively tilted headrests.
Front and rear-seat room is very good; the SuperCrew's rear is a vast, spacious area for three adults with a flat floor all the way across and full roll-down windows. On the down side, it could take a while to heat up or cool off in climate extremes, and the floor mats cover only a third of the carpet by our tape measure.
The rear seat cushions lift up to stow vertically, with four grocery bag hooks on the underside of the wider driver-side seat and, if equipped, the subwoofer for the Sony sound system under the right rear seat; rear cabin storage seats-up amounts to nearly 58 cubic feet. With captain's chairs up front there are vents in the back of the center console. There are three tethers and two anchor sets for baby seats, outboard rear headrests raise enough to protect tall passengers, and a smaller center rear headrest to preserve vision for those who use the window; you can also get a power sliding window with defrost.
We sampled a couple of trims, one with bucket seats and white-stitched black leather, the other a 40/20/40 bench in tan leather; the lighter color interior looked richer, but also busier since it had dual colors for the dashboard where the black truck didn't. Either seat is comfortable, the advantage of the bucket being goodies like heating/cooling on higher trim models. Most of the touch points on Lariat felt good, with a sort of rubberized texture to the door armrests, but there is still plenty of hard plastic in pillar covers and lower doors to ease cleaning.
The cloth upholstery in the STX feels comfortable and durable; in temperature extremes we'd prefer it to the leather on upper trims. Apart from seat coverings and the steering wheel, the STX doesn't feel budget conscious.
All models use the same basic dash layout, with tachometer to left (no marked redline), speedometer to right, and oil pressure, coolant temperature, fuel and transmission fluid temperature lined up between. On lower-level models the gauges are more traditional white-on-black and, on higher-line models, silver faces with dark numbers that light up green and are often easier to read at night than in daylight. The ancillary gauges are quite lethargic so you need to heed warning lights even if a gauge doesn't quite agree.
The new central screen provides a wider array of information called up by a thumb-switch on the steering wheel, including but not limited to transmission fluid temperature, fuel economy/range, gear selected, trailer profiles, and tire pressures.
Trucks with the Sony navigation/audio system have arguably simpler controls than those without it by virtue of the voice command, logical operation and system integration. Trucks without that option aren't bad, but even on some lesser trims we found plenty of white-on-black buttons on the center panel which could require some familiarization. Window switches are all lift-to-close but the power door lock bar is horizontal so if Rover puts his paw on the right part of the switch you could get locked out.
Bench seat models use a column-mounted shift lever, while most bucket seat models use a bigger console shift lever, both with a Tow/Haul mode. The floor-shift requires a button-push from D to N as you might at a long light or rail crossing, and the column-shift has a light detent so it's easy to go one-to-two gears too far. Manual gear selection requires engaging the M position and using a +/- thumb toggle to change, like GM's approach, but Dodge's layout is simpler and just as effective. Liberal chrome on the console can produce some distracting glare.
Headlights are to the left, four-wheel drive and the integrated trailer brake controller are to the right; the power adjustable pedal switch on the left side of the steering column is harder to find than dash switches but does keep you from leaning forward while trying to adjust your driving position. Four round omni-directional vents ensure airflow where you want it, front seatbelt anchors are height-adjustable, and our only ergonomic complaint was the lack of a sun visor that covered the length of the side glass.
The Sony navigation/sound system and Ford's SYNC system bring infotainment to a new level, integrating Bluetooth-enabled devices, 911 Assist, Vehicle Health report, Sirius travel link with real-time traffic, weather, 4500 movie theater listings and show times and 120 gas stations with fuel prices. Power points, a USB port and MP3 input jack are in the lower center dash. The Sony 700-watt 5.1 channel sound system provides very good sonic quality, even if the impact didn't feel like 700 watts. It has the usual assortment of graphics nonsense like the oxymoronic-titled audio visualizer, which we could live without.
Pickups without space are pointless and the F-150 won't disappoint. The Regular Cab is roomy enough to fit three adults across and has plenty of space for the miscellaneous debris and detritus that tends to accumulate in trucks. SuperCabs have a full-width back seat best-suited to kids and short rides for bigger adults since legroom is the squeeze point; it's similar in size and intent to the Chevy Silverado or GMC Sierra extended cab or the Titan King Cab. For larger families or routine four-passenger service, the SuperCrew's room and regular back doors will be welcome, with as many as 30 different places to put things."
"The Ford F-150 is among the heavier trucks in its class, contributing to a solid feel and none of that empty metal box bang-and-clang that characterized pickups of old. There's an impression of substance and tight construction regardless of the road surface or the model.
What stands out most driving the F-150 is the relative refinement. Ford attributes much of this to the Quiet Steel laminate used in some body panels.
The standard F-150 engine is a 3.7-liter V6 with contemporary technology like variable timing for the four cams and four valves per cylinder. This engine was in service in front-drive platforms and the new Mustang before it came to F-150, so it's not unproven. In the F-150 it's rated at 302 hp at 6500 rpm and 278 lb-ft at 4250 rpm, just 8 hp less than the 2010's biggest engine. You have to get the revs up to get the best work from it but the transmission is well calibrated, so it's a realistic choice where cost or fuel economy are paramount and work is limited to relatively light towing or hauling on fairly level ground.
Also adapted from the Mustang but not revving as fast in the truck application is the 5-liter V8 of 360 hp and 380 lb-ft of torque, more than GM's 4.8 and 5.3, Ram's 4.7, Titan's 5.6 and Tundra's 4.6; the Ram Hemi and Tundra 5.7 rate higher power. The highest-payload F-150s use this workhorse, it can tow up to 10,000 pounds, and it sounds like a muscle-car, more authoritative than even the 6.2-liter.
The 6.2 debuted in the SuperDuty pickups, that's why it's the only iron-block engine (and hydraulic steering assist) in the line. In F-150 applications it rates 411 hp and 434 lb-ft of torque at 4500 rpm, the most powerful half-ton pickup engine, but is available only in short-bed SuperCrew trucks and the Raptor. GM's 6.2 is rated slightly lower and also limited to certain configurations.
The most impressive engine choice is the twin-turbocharged, direct injection EcoBoost 3.5-liter V6. Horsepower is 365 and torque is 420 lb-ft at a nice low 2500 rpm so unless you need the rumble of a V8 it's by far the best combo of performance and economy. There is no lag waiting for power to come up, it's the quietest engine with just a hint of whistle at moderate throttle (talk-radio would mask it), its at-altitude performance will be better than the others and it often carries more than 6.2 V8 trucks because the engine is lighter. You can't use boost and get good economy at the same time, but you can have both to work with in the same truck. The only negatives are it costs more than the 3.7 or 5.0 and it's grunt sometimes overwhelms rear traction when towing resulting in axle-tramp, a rough up-and-down motion of the rear axle until traction control intervenes or the driver lifts off the throttle. On 4x4 models it comes with a 36-gallon fuel tank but 4x2 are limited to a 26-gallon tank.
The 6-speed automatic works smoothly, and is not overly anxious to get into that fuel-saving top gear as soon as possible; engaging Tow/Haul mode will stretch out the shift points, not require a mat-flattening mash of the pedal to affect a downshift and provide some engine braking on descents.
The F-150 has a fully boxed frame, which is quite stiff and resistant to both bending and twist. The front suspension is a dual ball-joint design pioneered and still used by BMW and found on the Expedition sport-utility, while the rear suspension has long leaf springs and outboard shocks.
Electric-assist steering is used on all F-150 except those with the 6.2 V8. It makes for lighter effort at low speeds, better weighting at road speeds, never loses assist in extensive maneuvering as when backing a trailer, and is programmed to reduce fatigue from crowned roads or crosswinds. It should simplify engine service, requires no service of its own, and can add up to 4 percent in highway fuel economy. However, the electric-assist steering is not rated for snow plowing, and the hydraulic-steering 6.2 V8 is only in Crew Cabs also not recommended for plowing.
The sheer mass of the F-150 combines with the suspension to deliver a very good ride (by pickup standards) and quiet composure. Sure, it will skip on bumpy corners and move around over dry wash scrabble at speed but it doesn't get upset or noisy. Longer wheelbases will bob or pogo-stick on some expansion joints and expressway surfaces but it never becomes fatiguing. As is often the case, the standard-size wheels produce better ride quality and less road noise than the 20- and 22-inch packages.
Brakes get the job done with their ultimate performance based as much on tire choice and weight in the bed as anything else. Electronic stability control and anti-lock brakes are standard across the board. A locking rear differential is optional for the best traction and available even on some 2WD models, and in many cases the suspension tuning on an FX produces the best ride quality over marginal roads and city potholes.
Some of the factors that aid visibility also hinder it. The high stance of a pickup is good for more distant views but hides things behind the tall tailgate and this is a wide piece of equipment. Extendable towing mirrors include a flat upper element and separately adjustable wide-angle element for a superb view rearward and safe towing but they are big and will be easily smacked off if you forget they're extended or don't leave space for that motorcyclist.
The rearview camera is good for the view behind the tall tailgate and on the navigation screen has colored lines to indicate the width of the truck and centerline for hitching a trailer; however, this display is not predictive and does not move the colored lines with the steering wheel so it applies only in straight reversing. Rear park sensors also aid maneuvering in tight quarters, raising the frequency of audible beeps as you move closer. You'll want to turn that off when backing up to a trailer or in other situations, but that involves going through a couple of menus on the information screen, more tedious than the simple defeat buttons used by Toyota and others.
The payload rating for the F-150 models varies from about 1,560 pounds to 3,060, but that includes occupants other than the driver. A construction crew of four 200-pounders in a SuperCrew might have just 700 pounds of rated capacity left for tools and materials. The highest gross combined rating (truck, trailer, cargo, passengers) for any F-150 is 17,100 pounds and these pickups are among the heaviest half-tons.
Maximum tow ratings for most F-150 cabs range from 11,000-11,300 pounds. These highest ratings are similar to the Ram 1500 HD which uses heavy-duty components including stronger (but more common 8-bolt on the Ram) wheels. Remember these maximums apply to an unloaded pickup; if you foresee towing more than 7000-8000 pounds behind a loaded F-150 you should consider stepping up to Super Duty.
The integrated trailer brake controller option is the ideal choice for smooth braking. We've tested it and it works much better than aftermarket systems. But verify that the integrated controller will work with the brakes on your trailer; some electro-hydraulic trailer systems are not compatible."
"The Ford F-150 delivers a strong combination of style, interior comfort, performance, ride and hauling ability. The new engine lineup moves Ford from follower to leader in power and alternatives. With multiple choices in trim, drivetrains and body styles, there's an F-150 for every type of pickup owner.
NewCarTestDrive.com correspondent G.R. Whale reported from Dallas, Dearborn and Los Angeles after test-driving many F-150 models."
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WATCH: The life of Colorado’s three-time World Strongest Man winner Brian Shaw
By Nicki Jhabvala
Brian Shaw — not THAT Brian Shaw — is a three-time World’s Strongest Man winner who holds world records in deadlift and atlas stone loading.
He also tosses kegs, eats seven meals a day and lives in Denver.
VICE Sports caught up with Shaw to learn more about the life of the World’s Strongest Man. And from what we can tell, it includes a lot of car-lifting, fire truck-dragging and meat-eating (almost four pounds a day!)
Watch the VICE documentary, then go back an check out The Denver Post’s 2009 feature on Shaw.
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July 7, 2014, 3:42 pm
Inside NASCAR Furniture Row Racing shop
By Alexandria Valdez
The No. 78 Furniture Row Chevrolet, driven by Martin Truex Jr. (Scott Halleran, Getty Images)
From the outside you can’t tell that the gray building in Denver houses the NASCAR Furniture Row Racing team. But then you hear the roar of an engine from inside and you know you’re at the right place.
When you walk through the door, you see the familiar No. 78 decor. The front office is small, and to the right is a picture collage from when the team won its first race at Darlington in 2011.
All the race magic happens behind this office, in the race shop. The 20,000 square feet house cars, engines, tires and a variety of machinery for the car. Furniture Row gets its chassis and engines from Richard Childress Racing in North Carolina. The parts catch a ride to Denver on the Furniture Row store trucks that transport furniture to its Denver stores.
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Categories: Colorado Sports, Motorsports
Danny Trevathan isn’t making excuses for his “drop six”
By Joan Niesen
Derek Wolfe jokes with Danny Trevathan about a botched touchdown after the Broncos’ 49-27 win. (Benjamin Hochman, Denver Post)
Next time, Danny Trevathan says he’s going to throw the ball to a fan.
Better yet, maybe he should hand it to a fan. Or deliver it to a fan. Or really not let it out of his grip until the points are confirmed on the scoreboard. After all, some of his teammates were already celebrating his pick six on Thursday in the fourth quarter of the Broncos’ 49-27 victory over Baltimore when they realized Trevathan had actually fumbled the ball on the one-yard line.
It was supposed to be a celebration toss. Instead, it was a fumble, and it cost the Broncos a touchdown and Trevathan the first score of his NFL career.
“Man, it was just a little mistake,” Trevathan said after the game. “I think it was kind of selfish. That’s the type of player I am. I’ll take full responsibility, and I’ll grow from it.”
Even after the big win, Trevathan didn’t make any excuses for fumbling the ball just inches before he stepped into the end zone. It stung, but the fact that it came in a 49-27 Broncos blowout win must have helped.
Peter Sagan wins third stage in six tries in USA Pro Challenge
Peter Sagan (Daniel Petty, The Denver Post)
FORT COLLINS — This third annual USA Pro Challenge is turning into a Slovakian folk dance. Peter Sagan won his third stage in six days Saturday on a week-long course so mountainous it scared away every top sprinter in the world. Every one but the Slovakian, Peter Sagan.
He easily won a bunch sprint after 115.2 miles from Loveland to Fort Collins.
“I came here to prepare for Quebec (Grand Prix) and I’ve won three stages,” Sagan said. “I’m very happy and a little surprised.”
He shouldn’t be. Not one of the 129 other riders in this field had ever beaten him in a sprint finish. Then again, this isn’t cherry picking. He has won 17 times this year.
They did try, however. Rory Sutherland, the Australian for Team Saxo-Tinkoff, took the lead with 500 yards to go but Sagan easily caught and passed him to the line.
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Bill Walton raves about Colorado cycling while he pedals his way to Denver
VAIL — I ran into Bill Walton in Vail Village Friday on my way to the press room and he invited me to sit down so he could talk about his week riding along the USA Pro Challenge. Before each stage, the NBA Hall of Famer rides with the rec team, Carmichael Training Systems, and marveled at Colorado cycling.
Walton primarily came to Aspen to see his son, Luke, get married. But Bill is following the race all the way to Denver.
“I was able to ride every day,” said Walton, a huge vertical scar on his surgically replaced knee. “The bike trail system in Colorado is just spectacular. And generally the cars are incredibly respectful of the riders. You don’t get that a lot. The quality of the roads has just been fantastic. The weather, the people, I’ve just had so much fun and had such a great time.”
Walton climbed Independence Pass three times already this week.
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The pluses and minuses of USA Pro Challenge vs. Tour de France
Cyclists leave downtown Aspen for Stage 2 of the USA Pro Challenge from Aspen to Breckenridge on Tuesday. (Hyoung Chang, The Denver Post)
STEAMBOAT SPRINGS — It’s Stage 3 of the weeklong USA Pro Challenge, and I’m seeing some advantages this race has over the Tour de France. So here are the pluses and minuses the Pro Challenge has with Le Tour.
PLUSES
1. The towns. What? Yes, towns. OK, take Paris out of the equation. I love Denver, but when it comes to architecture, the Eiffel Tower has a wee bit over the Wells Fargo Center. Still, the towns the Pro Challenge race through in Colorado are more scenic. Much of it is because Colorado mountain towns are more modern and richer than ancient villes in France. I’ll take Aspen over Grenoble; Breckenridge over l’Alpe d’Huez. With the Yampa River meandering through this lovely town, Steamboat Springs has a ski pole up on any village I saw in the Pyrenees.
2. Weather. The hottest it has been this week has been low 80s and dry. At night it drops to about 60. It’s absolutely flawless. Saturday’s Loveland-Fort Collins stage is scheduled for 87 but I’m still recovering from the steambaths I’ve experienced in Provence.
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DU’s Todd Baxter to return to lineup against Virginia
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Denver's Todd Baxter (24) celebrates his goal as Johns Hopkins' goalie Pierce Bassett reacts during the second quarter of last weekend's quarterfinals. Baxter had three goals during Denver's 14-9 win.
BALTIMORE — Senior attack Todd Baxter, perhaps DU’s most important overall player, will play against Virginia in Saturday’s NCAA Final Four. He practiced Thursday for the first time this week and is set to again work with his teammates in today’s afternoon workout at M&T Bank Stadium.
“I’m much stronger than I was a week ago,” Baxter told me before today’s practice. “A little less tape on my knee, but sticking with the brace, and I pretty much have a cast going on my ankle. It’s stronger.”
Baxter, who is second on the team in goals (31) and third in points (49), suffered a high-ankle sprain and partially torn knee ligament in his right leg on May 7. He missed the May 14 first-round NCAA Tournament game against Villanova and made a gutsy and productive return last Saturday against Johns Hopkins, scoring three goals before tweaking the ankle late in the third quarter. He limped off the field and told coach Bill Tierney “I’m done for the day.”
Some thought he was done for the year.
“The tweak was on the third goal,” Baxter said. “I just stepped wrong trying to stay out of the crease. But no significant damage, just a slight tweak. I’m definitely going to be out on the field Saturday.”
Baxter, from Eden Prairie, Minn., is DU’s emotional leader, and he completes the feared attack trio with juniors Mark Matthews and Alex Demopoulos.
“He’s going to have a big impact, just like last weekend,” junior attack Alex Demopoulos said. “He’s a tough guy and he’s still the impact player he’s been all season.”
Baxter’s return moves sophomore Eric Law back to midfield, where he shares first-line offensive duties with Chase Carraro, Cameron Flint and Jeremy Noble.
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Categories: University of Denver
In college circles, Colorado is “State of Hockey”
Denver's John Ryder, left, hits North Dakota's Brent Davidson during the WCHA championship game on Saturday. (Jim Mone, AP)
Air Force coach Frank Serratore reminded me of something that has occurred for the second time in four years. In addition to getting all three Colorado teams in the NCAA Tournament, Colorado has the most of any state. This two-prong success story also happened in 2008.
“More teams from state of Colorado than the three Ms — Minnesota, Michigan and Massachusetts,” Serratore said today. “Isn’t that something?”
Minnesota had just one school, Minnesota-Duluth, make the 16-team field. Michigan has two — Michigan and Western Michigan, and Massachusetts (after realizing Merrimack is in North Andover) has two — Merrimack and Boston College. New York also has two — Rensselaer and Union.
So kudos to Serratore, DU coach George Gwozdecky and CC bench boss Scotty Owens. Combined, you are more powerful than the proposed Big Ten hockey conference, which, ahem, has just one of its five teams still playing.
Categories: Air Force Academy, Colorado College, University of Denver
No Plus-One on horizon for college football
It's BCS or bust: Bill Hancock, the organization's executive director, says there's no movement for a Plus-One format. (Morry Gash, AP)
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — BCS executive director Bill Hancock met with us at Monday’s Football Writers Association of America breakfast and said the current system works and there’s no groundswell for any sort of playoff.
He said under the old bowl system, Nos. 1 and 2 met less than 25 percent of the time. Under the current BCS system, they’ve met all 13 times. Only one problem: On Tuesday morning, we’ll have a Texas Christian team that’s undefeated and just defeated a great Wisconsin team on a neutral field.
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Categories: Football
Fan Mail: Rapids’ coach Gary Smith ready for your questions
By Ryan Casey
Rapids coach Gary Smith is the next participant in The Denver Post's Fan Mail. (Karl Gehring, The Denver Post)
The toast of the town? That’d be the Colorado Rapids, who play FC Dallas for the MLS Cup on Sunday.
“I’m extremely excited and delighted and a lot of other emotions,” Rapids coach Gary Smith said after his team beat San Jose in the Eastern Conference final. “But most important, for the players to be rewarded for the very first time for all of their endeavors.”
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Categories: Colorado Rapids
A look at Adam Murray’s goalie helmet
DU sophomore goalie Adam Murray has a new helmet and paint job. He incorporates a handful of things in his new lid, including former DU mascot Boone, his pride from being an American hockey player from Anchorage, and his religious beliefs.
The Boone thing has become a goaltending tradition. Correct me if I’m wrong, but former All-American Wade Dubielewicz first started donning Boone figures on his helmet and pads around 2001 or so, after the school came out with that lame “red-tailed hawk” mascot. (Indigenous to Colorado, I remember the school higher-ups proclaiming during the announcement of the silly looking logo. I remember thinking, “Denver Boone is a person, a Pioneer, but what does a red, black and gold hawk have to do with being a Pioneer?”)
Anyway, the kids and many alumni have pushed to get Boone back as DU’s official mascot. That isn’t going to happen, but at least the goalies have been given the freedom to put the little dude on their equipment.
Here is Mr. Murray talking about his new lid:
Read more of Mike Chambers at All Things Avs.</a
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Categories: Hockey, University of Denver
Chris Paul at Carmelo Anthony’s wedding: “We’ll form our own Big 3”
Carmelo Anthony wed T.V. personality LaLa Vazquez over the weekend, but it was Chris Paul's alleged toast that made the news. (Louis Lanzano, AP)
Even at his own wedding, Carmelo Anthony couldn’t escape talk of his contract.
Anthony, who wed T.V. personality LaLa Vazquez at a restaurant in New York City over the weekend, watched a toast by New Orleans Hornets’ guard Chris Paul take the news.
According to the New York Post, Paul allegedly toasted “We’ll form our own Big 3” — in reference to himself, Anthony and the newest member of the Knicks, Amare Stoudemire. This, of course, on the heels of the party of three in South Beach.
Categories: NBA
June 23, 2010: one long day in sports
Nicolas Mahut of France reacts after losing on the of his 11-hour, 5-minute first round match against John Isner. (Glyn Kirk-Pool, Getty Images)
Well, it sure took long enough. Yesterday, and the sports world, that is.
By now, you may have heard about that marathon of a tennis match. You know, the one that spanned 10 hours, and still needed another hour this morning to finish up.
At 11 hours and five minutes, it set a new record for the longest match in tennis history. By more than four hours. Its fifth set alone, at eight hours and 11 minutes, bested the previous record for the longest match by an hour and 38 minutes.
CC, DU ranked fifth, sixth
The USA Today/USA Hockey Mag poll came out today and, not surprisingly, the WCHA had six teams in the top 15. CC, defending WCHA champion, came in No. 5, and DU, defending WCHA playoff champion, is No. 6. Makes sense.
What’s obviously skewed here is this: the top four teams are the same four teams that made the Denver-hosted Frozen Four in April. North Dakota, which got spanked at the Pepsi Center in the semis to eventual champion BC, is No. 4. Last time I looked the Fighting Sioux are in rebuilding mode, having lost virtually all of their top players from last year. Yeah, UND is a recruiting factory, but the Sioux will be so young this season, I’m not sure they belong in the top 8 or so. Anyway, here’s the “rough draft” of how things “might” develop this season:
USA Today/USA Hockey Magazine
Men’s College Hockey Poll – #1 (Preseason)
(first place votes in parenthesis)
Final Rank 2007-08 Record
1 Boston College, 490 (27) 1 25-11-8
2 University of Michigan, 432 (4) 2 33-6-4
3 University of Notre Dame, 376 3 27-16-4
4 University of North Dakota, 371 (1) 4 28-11-4
5 Colorado College, 355 (2) 8 28-12-1
6 University of Denver, 299 9 26-14-1
7 University of New Hampshire, 287 6 25-10-3
8 Miami (Ohio) University, 263 5 33-8-1
9 University of Minnesota, 223 12 19-17-9
10 Boston University, 203 NR 19-17-4
11 Clarkson University, 173 10 22-13-4
12 Michigan State University, 159 7 25-12-5
13 University of Wisconsin, 103 13 16-17-7
14 Northern Michigan University, 75 NR 20-20-4
15 St. Cloud State University, 69 14 19-16-5
Others receiving votes: Princeton University, 51; Cornell University, 30; Harvard University, 30; Minnesota State University Mankato, 28; U.S. Air Force Academy, 24; University of Massachusetts, 9; University of Massachusetts Lowell, 9; Niagara University, 9; University of Vermont, 6; University of Maine, 3; Northeastern University, 3.
Favorite son returns
The play-by-play voice of ESPN’s Thursday night college football won’t need a map to find Boulder – or to get around the University of Colorado campus, for that matter.
Chris Fowler, a 1985 Colorado graduate best known for anchoring ESPN’s College GameDay show on Saturday mornings, will be joined for ESPN’s telecast of the CU vs. West Virginia game by Craig James, Jesse Palmer and Erin Andrews. Read more…
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“Front Row Joe” a real pro
By obbie harvey
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Give Joe Nemecheck some credit. He wrecked Sunday night on lap 67 of the Sprint Cup race at California Speedway, but you didn’t hear any excuses from Joe.
Nemecheck, who earlier in the weekend celebrated his one-year anniversary of driving for the Denver-based Furniture Row team, lost control of his car, overcorrected and slammed into the turn 2 wall. His car was damaged beyond repair and he finished last in the race.
But he didn’t blame anyone but himself and didn’s use the most common Sprint Cup drivers’ excuse, a flat tire.
Nemecheck has qualified for 22 races this year, the most ever by the 3-year-old Furniture Row team and with 11 races to go they are sure to add to this total. On the downside, they stand 38th in points standings, some 400 points out of the magical No. 35 spot that would guarantee them a qualifying position and no more “get-in or go-home” situations.
But, some high finishes down the stretch could change all that and if anyone can do it, Nemecheck can. He’s a real pro and Furniture Row is lucky to have him aboard.
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Categories: Motorsports
On arriving in China
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Tourists on Monday visit Tiananmen Square, which is shrouded with heavy smog. Pollution levels remained high just 11 days before the Olympics. The Chinese capital could ban 90 percent of private cars from its roads and close more factories in a last-ditch bid to clear smoggy skies for the Olympics, state media reported. (Andrew Wong/Getty Images)
John Henderson: Yangshuo, China — I was the first member of the Denver Post Olympics team, a threat to no one in any relay but the four-man chug-off, to arrive in Beijing. In fact, I may have been one of the first American reporters. I left Thursday, and when I arrived it looked like the Beijing that I had imagined all these decades. I walked out of the terminal and dawn was just enveloping the city. Beijing appeared masked in a mysterious morning fog. A misty, gray cloak had covered a city that dates back to Genghis Khan 800 years ago.
I kept looking for a large group of elderly Chinese practicing tai-chi, their slow, fluid movements a human poetry against a backdrop of ancient China. I listened for twangy Chinese music and lotus flowers blooming on the sidewalk. Then I peered closer. The silver mist didn’t look so romantic anymore. No wonder. It wasn’t fog.
It was smog.
Folks, Beijing’s air is as filthy as you’ve heard. I arrived 13 days before the opening ceremony. It’s about the time the government started limiting car usage and stopped street construction just so you can walk a few blocks without hacking up your esophagus. Looking at the air quality, Beijing would have to use rickshaws for the next 20 years to clean it up.
Categories: Olympics
For the track and field fan …
Recently I was honored to win the Jesse Abramson Award for excellence in track and field journalism from the Track and Field Writers of America. For those who enjoy track and field I am posting the links to the stories in my entry below. Four were published in The Denver Post and one was a magazine story (Running Times) on Boulder and Eugene, the twin capitals of American distance running.
Quarter miler Jeremy Wariner and Clyde Hart: http://www.denverpost.com/search/ci_5883127
Pole vaulter Jenn Stuczynski: http://www.denverpost.com/search/ci_6214115
Ryan Shay dies at the marathon Olympic Trials: http://www.denverpost.com/search/ci_7364187
Denver’s David Oliver a top hurdler: http://www.denverpost.com/search/ci_6703469
Boulder and Eugene: http://www.runningtimes.com/Article.aspx?ArticleID=13781
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Categories: Running
Gwozdecky gets a late recruiting gem
Below is our Patrick Wiercioch story that made its debut at DP.com Friday. I wanted to make a clarification to online story, add George Gwozdecky quotes and a little commentary.
To clarify, Wiercioch made a verbal to Wisconsin and was scheduled to become a Badger in the fall of 2009. Now, he will replace inactive incoming freshman David Carle (heart condition) and be a Pioneer this fall, using the scholarship originally pegged for forward Stepan Novotny, who decided to play major junior. (DU will honor Carle’s scholarship.)
I spoke with DU assistant Derek Lalonde on Friday about Wiercioch after getting a tip from a source. Lalonde mentioned that DU coach George Gwozdecky has spoken to Wisconsin coach Mike Eaves — the two were teammates on the Badgers’ 1977 NCAA title team — and there are no hard feelings about Wiercioch’s switch.
“We had a conversation, and Mike and I have an understanding of it all, and how we dealt with it,” Gwozdecky told me.
College hockey isn’t like college football. Teams don’t typically recruit a kid after he’s committed to another program. This seems to be a case of simply wanting to play college hockey this fall, instead of waiting another year. Wiercioch took his three official visits to Michigan, Wisconsin and Denver (November), and obviously realized that, minus Carle, the Pios were in need of a puck-moving defenseman.
He phoned Gwozdecky last week and asked if DU might be interested in replacing him with Carle.
“He made it very certain that he really wanted to be playing college hockey in the fall,” Gwozdecky said. “We, along with a number of other schools, wanted him to play another year of junior hockey and come to us in (2009) . . . He called me and said he wasn’t going to play at Wisconsin this fall, and if we were interested . . .”
Wiercioch had a terrific second half of the season for the Omaha Lancers of the United States Hockey League, obviously impressing the Ottawa Senators, who selected him with the 42nd overall pick in June.
“We were well aware of his dramatic contribution to his team and their playoff season,” Gwozdecky said. “He really developed in the second half of the season. Sometimes it’s hard to project when a guy is going to be ready, but we think he’s ready and he’s bound and determined to play college hockey in the fall, and he’s going to be with the Pioneers. So that’s great.”
The commentary is this: Very nice late pick-up by the Pios. A kid of this caliber is so hard to find this time of year, and DU was fortunate to present the ideal opportunity for Wiercioch. Secondly, let’s just hope he turns out better than former NHL second-round D-men T.J. Fast and Keith Seabrook, who both bolted Denver for major-junior long before reaching their potential. Fast left in January 2007 during his sophomore season; Seabrook about six months later after his freshman year.
ONLINE STORY:
The University of Denver hockey team landed a stroke of good luck Friday when Patrick Wiercioch signed a letter of intent to play with the Pioneers next season.
Wiercioch had a verbal agreement to play with Wisconsin. But when DU defender David Carle left the program two weeks ago because of a heart problem, Wiercioch saw that opening and decided to take it.
Wiercioch visited DU in November. He also visited Michigan and Wisconsin and eventually decided to play with the Badgers.
Wisconsin was deep with defensemen, so Wiercioch switched to Denver for a better opportunity for ice time.
DU believes Wiercioch’s arrival is a windfall. He was a second-round pick, 42nd overall, in the NHL Draft, by Ottawa via Chicago.
“I just think it’s a simple case of how much he developed over this past season and his draft status,” DU assistant coach Derek Lalonde said. “He wanted to get his college career going. He was in search of someone and obviously heard of the David Carle situation. We had an opening and are ecstatic and fortunate to find this kind of player at this time of the recruiting process.”
Carle, 18, brother of former DU star Matt Carle of the San Jose Sharks, withdrew from the NHL draft and left the Pioneers after being told by doctors that he has hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, a thickening of the heart that has been linked to sudden death for athletes.
Carle was expected to be taken in the first two rounds of the draft. And he will still attend DU as a student.
NHRA comes to Denver, for better or worse
It’s the only game in town.
The Denver Grand Prix is history (although there’s always a possibility of it’s return), PPIR (Pikes Peak) is closed and the construction of a track for NASCAR Sprint Cup races is still a dream. That leaves drag racing and the NHRA as the only big-time pro racing series still available to Front Range motorsports fans.
Yes, Bandimere is not the most comfortable place to watch the drags. It’s outdated for sure. Water and sewer issues exist and it’s always hot with little relief available for most fans. But, I believe the Bandimere folks have done the best they can to cope with these problems. They created the Top Eliminator and Quarter Mile clubs to provide more fan comfort (for a price, sure, but at least they are available). Water stations and cool down areas are in place and although portalets are no treat, at least there is no shortage of them.
Other tracks I’ve visited (Topeka and Ennis among others) are way ahead when it comes to creature comforts,
but Bandimere is locked into a unique location which can’t expand or upgrade and obviously its days are numbered. The family has tried to move and I’m sure efforts continue. But for now, it is what it is and most fans seem to accept that and are willing to endure the situation for a chance to experience professional drag racing.
Don’t ask me for an objective view of the situation. I love the drags and no amount of discomfort would keep me from attending.
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Greta Van Fleet: From The Fires Review
2017 has been an incredible year for Greta Van Fleet. The young four piece band out of Frankenmuth, Michigan consists of brothers Josh Kiszka (vocals), Jake Kiszka (guitar), Sam Kiszka (bass/keyboards), and Danny Wagner (drummer). Back in April the band exploded onto the scene with the four track EP, Black Smoke Rising, which has been a major success with the single “Highway Tune” reaching #1 on the rock radio charts. Now the band returns with From The Fires, a double EP, which features all four tracks from Black Smoke Rising, plus four additional songs.
The album opens with “Safari Song,” which was on Black Smoke Rising and features a killer guitar riff and soaring vocals from Josh Kiszka. Then we get a new track with “Edge of Darkness,” which has a dark sounding riff and definitely fits with the ’70s style rock the band displayed on Black Smoke Rising. Guitarist Jake Kiszka gets to spread his wings a bit with an extended guitar solo that concludes the track. Another track from the previous EP, “Flower Power” follows before we get “A Change Is Gonna Come,” which is a Sam Cooke cover and shows a bit of the band’s soul side. Next up is the popular “Highway Tune” followed by “Meet On The Ledge,” a Richard Thompson/Fairport Convention” cover. The Greta Van Fleet version really soars in the chorus complimented by the backing vocals.
The final new track on the EP is “Talk On The Street,” an upbeat rocker and GVF original that could potentially be a good candidate for a single. From The Fires concludes with “Black Smoke Rising.”
From The Fires is a great continuation of where the band left off with Black Smoke Rising. Fans who enjoyed the first EP will certainly enjoy the four new tracks and fans who are just discovering the band have eight great rock tracks to dive in to. For all the “rock is dead” people out there Greta Van Fleet is certainly proving that theory wrong and could potentially open the door to get more rock bands into the mainstream. Rock n’ roll doesn’t need saving, but it does need exposure and Greta Van Fleet is certainly bringing it to a new generation. Ride the wave because it doesn’t appear to be crashing down anytime soon. From The Fires is another step towards rock super stardom from the breakout band of 2017.
The Review: 9/10
Can’t Miss Tracks
– Safari Song
– Highway Tune
– Talk On The Street
– Black Smoke Rising
The Big Hit
Review by Pete Francis
Buy the album: Amazon | Amazon UK
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2 Responses to “Greta Van Fleet: From The Fires Review”
Ann Whitten says:
We saw Greta Van Fleet at the Troubadour on Oct.30 and they killed it! One of the best new bands in the last decade!
Judy Adkins Hill says:
I flew from Albuquerque, NM, to Tucson, AZ, to see Greta Van Fleet on Nov 1, and was blown away by this young band. they have the maturity and talent to tear up the rock scene for years to come. oh, and I already have my tickets to see them in Paris in March on my 71st birthday. totally awesome.
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Priests and Bishop of the Diocese of Worcester Tell Vocations Stories on CatholicTV
Starting this April, CatholicTV will air new episodes of the vocations-promoting series “Come Follow Me”.
Come Follow Me is a television program in which priests share the stories of their lives as priests and how they decided to become priests.
During one episode, Bishop Robert McManus of Worcester, Massachusetts told the story of the day he found out he was going to be named the new Bishop.
On that fateful day, then Apostolic Nuncio, Archbishop Gabriel Montalvo called McManus and said, “The Holy Father loves you very much,” “uh-huh” replied McManus. Montalvo continued, “the Holy Father has assigned you to the Diocese of Worcester. Do you accept?” “Yes I do.” Replied McManus. “Very good”, said Montalvo. “Write a letter to the Holy Father and tell him that you accept, and call me later on in the week.” McManus and show host, Fr. James Mazzone laughed as McManus recalled the story.
In April, CatholicTV will air new episodes of Come Follow Me. These episodes will include interviews of the following priests:
Fr. Paul Lemire, Fr. Stephen Johnson, Fr. Brian O'Toole, Fr. Larry Esposito, Fr. Nick Desimone.
These episodes will air each week at the following times (Eastern):
Monday 11:30 a.m.
Wednesday 6 a.m.
Friday 9 a.m.
Sunday 11:30 p.m.
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Priests and Parishes Threatened by Drug Cartels
CSI | April 23, 2010
The Mexican bishops’ conference acknowledged in a statement on April 14 that Mexican priests have suffered numerous threats of violence, kidnapping and extortion from the nation’s narcotics-trafficking cartels. The conference also confirmed that a growing number of priests—mostly serving in remote and mountainous areas rife with illegal drug trade activities—have been transferred to other parishes, assigned other types of work or even moved to other parts of the country because of threats. Other priests, meanwhile, have been forced to raise up to $800 each week for extortion payments.
“We have personally felt the variety of problems that affect our homeland, such as the overflowing wave of violence and insecurity that has been ongoing for years and have claimed numerous victims—many of them innocent,” the bishops said in their statement. “Many priests live their ministries in a heroic way, amid the fear of threats, poverty, violence, extortion and aggressions,” they said. The statement was read by Auxiliary Bishop José Trinidad González of Guadalajara, Auxiliary Bishop René Rodríguez of Texcoco and Bishop Felipe Arizmendi Esquivel of San Cristóbal de las Casas as the bishops ended their spring planning session in suburban Mexico City.
The violence overflowing parts of Mexico has claimed at least 22,700 lives—a figure recently revised upward by the federal government—since President Felipe Calderón took office in December 2006 and sent the army and federal police to crack down on the cartels. “In spite of the grand efforts of various government agencies, fear exists and the insecurity destroying the life of so many communities isolates them and exposes them to new expressions of violence,” Bishop Rodríguez told reporters.
The statement marked the first time the bishops acknowledged that the violence attributed to the crackdown on the country’s warring cartels has directly affected the church. The bishops released a pastoral letter on violence in February, but the issue has confounded the church as it has attempted to minister in seemingly lawless regions of Mexico without running afoul of either the government or the cartels. Equally challenging has been the question of how the church should respond to threats against priests.
Mexico’s evangelical community went public on April 2, when the Mexico City newspaper Reforma published a report on how cartels and their affiliates have threatened to kidnap evangelical pastors and extorted churches and charity projects through protection rackets. The newspaper sought the opinion of the bishops’ spokesman, the Rev. Manuel Corral, who initially denied similar threats against members of the Catholic clergy, but stories of aggression against priests and the church quickly surfaced.
A parish church in the Chihuahua town of El Porvenir, which neighbors Fort Hancock, Tex., was damaged by an arson fire on Good Friday. The fire was extinguished by parishioners. Hours later, local military personnel, stationed just a few blocks away, finally arrived at the scene. The parish priest, the Rev. Salvador Salgado, denied he had been threatened but reported that other priests in the Diocese of Ciudad Juárez had been. Father Salgado expressed a sense of powerlessness in confronting the violence. In his region near Ciudad Juárez it has turned once-peaceful communities into ghost towns as frightened residents flee to Texas and cartel members burn down buildings thought to be affiliated with rivals. “This is something we can’t meddle in, because there have been threats against us and because there will be reprisals against us priests,” he said.
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72nd Cannes Film Festival 2019 -Directors’ Fortnight Lineup
Directors’ Fortnight Lineup
Deerskin (Quentin Dupieux) – Opening Film
Yves (Benoît Forgeard) – Closing
Alice and the Mayor (Nicolas Pariser)
And Then We Danced (Levan Akin)
The Halt (Lav Diaz)
Dogs Don’t Wear Pants (Jukka-Pekka Valkeapää)
Song Without a Name (Melina León)
Ghost Tropic (Bas Devos)
Give Me Liberty (Kirill Mikhanvovsky)
First Love (Takashi Miike)
The Lighthouse (Robert Eggers)
Lillian (Andreas Horwath)
Oleg (Juris Kursietis)
Blow It to Bits (Lech Kowalski)
The Orphanage (Shahrbanoo Sadat)
Les Particules (Blaise Harrison)
Perdrix (Erwan Le Duc)
For the Money (Alejo Moguillansky)
Sick Sick Sick (Alice Furtado)
Tlamess (Ala Eddine Slim)
To Live to Sing (Johnny Ma)
An Easy Girl (Rebecca Zlotowski)
Wounds (Babak Anvari)
Zombi Child (Bertrand Bonello)
Red 11 (Roberto Rodriguez)
The Staggering Girl (Luca Guadagnino)
Two Sisters Who Are Not Sisters (Beatrice Gibson)
The Marvelous Misadventures of the Stone Lady (Gabriel Abrantes)
Grand Bouquet (Nao Yoshigai)
Je Te Tiens (Sergio Caballero)
Movements (Dahee Jeong)
Olla (Ariane Labed)
Piece of Meat (Jerrold Chong & Huang Junxiang)
Ghost Pleasure (Morgan Simon)
Stay Awake, Be Ready (An Pham Thien)
ACID Lineup
Blind Spot (Pierre Trividic, Patrick-Mario Bernard)
Des Hommes (Jean-Robert Viallet, Alice Odiot)
Indianara (Aude Chevalier-Beaumel, Marcello Barbosa)
Kongo (Hadrien La Vapeur, Corto Vaclav)
Mickey And The Bear (Annabelle Attanasio)
Solo (Artemio Benki)
As Happy As Possible (Alain Raoust)
Take Me Somewhere Nice (Ena Sendijarevic)
Vif-Argent (Stéphane Batut)
ACID TRIP #3: ARGENTINA
Las Vegas (Juan Villegas)
Brief Story From The Green Planet (Santiago Loza)
Sangre Blanca (Barbara Sarasola-Day)
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72nd Festival de Cannes -Short Films in Competition and the Cinéfondation Selection 2019.
72nd Festival de Cannes announced the Short Films in Competition and the
Cinéfondation Selection 2019.
Presided by Claire Den
THE 2019 SHORT FILMS COMPETITION
This year, the selection committee has viewed 4240 short films.
The 2019 Short Films Competition comprises 11 films (9 works of fictions, 1 documentary, and 1 animation), from Albania, Argentina, France, Finland, Greece, Israel, Ukraine, Sweden and USA.These films are all in the running for the 2019 Short Film Palme d'Or, to be awarded by President of the Jury, Claire Denis, at the Closing Ceremony of the 72nd Festival de Cannes on Saturday, May 25th.
Erenik BEQIRI
Albania,
France 15'
Dekel BERENSON ANNA Ukraine, Israel,
Vanessa DUMONT
Nicolas DAVENEL
Vasilis KEKATOS THE DISTANCE BETWEEN US AND THE SKY Greece / France 9’
Teemu NIKKI ALL INCLUSIVE Finland 15’
Elin ÖVERGAARD
INGEN LYSSNAR
(WHO TALKS)
Agnès PATRON
AND THEN THE BEAR
Yona ROZENKIER PARPARIM
(BUTTERFLIES) Israel 7’
Agustina SAN MARTIN MONSTRUO DIOS
(MONSTER GOD) Argentina 10'
Chloë SEVIGNY WHITE ECHO USA 15'
Federico Luis TACHELLA LA SIESTA
(THE NAP) Argentina 14'
THE 2019 SELECTION CINEFONDATION
For its 22nd edition, the Cinéfondation Selection has chosen 17 films (14 live-action and 3 animated films), from among the 2,000 submitted by schools all over the world. The important presence of Central and Eastern Europe highlights the vitality of filmmaking education in these countries. Six of the selected shorts come from schools taking part for the first time.
The Jury will hand over the three Cinéfondation prizes at a ceremony preceding the screening of the awarded films on Thursday 23rd May, in the Palais des Festivals Buñuel Theatre.
Wisam AL JAFARI AMBIENCE Dar al-Kalima University College of Arts and Culture
Louise COURVOISIER
CinéFabrique
Ondřej ERBAN
STO DVACET OSM TISÍC
(ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-EIGHT THOUSAND)
Kenya GILLESPIE JEREMIAH The University of Texas at Austin
Martin GONDA PURA VIDA FTF VŠMU – Film and Television Faculty, Academy of Performing Arts
Slovakia 30’
Shoki LIN ADAM Nanyang Technological University (NTU)
Yarden LIPSHITZ LOUZ NETEK
(RIFT) Sapir College
David MCSHANE SOLAR PLEXUS NFTS
Antonio MESSANA
ROSSO: LA VERA STORIA FALSA DEL PESCATORE CLEMENTE
(ROSSO: A TRUE LIE ABOUT A FISHERMAN)
La Fémis
Katalin MOLDOVAI AHOGY EDDIG
(AS UP TO NOW) Budapest Metropolitan University (METU)
Martin MONK FAVORITEN
(FAVOURITES) Filmakademie Wien
Leszek MOZGA ROADKILL University of the Arts London (UAL)
Barbara RUPIK DUSZYCZKA
(THE LITTLE SOUL) PWSFTviT
Richard VAN
Flo VAN DEUREN BAMBOE RITCS
Olesya YAKOVLEVA SLOZHNOPODCHINENNOE
(COMPLEX SUBJECT) St. Petersburg State University of Film and Television
YEON Jegwang REONGHEE
(ALIEN) Korea National University of Arts
72nd Festival de Cannes -Official Poster depicting Agnès Varda , in the bright sunlight.
Like a manifesto, this still photo from the set sums up everything about Agnès Varda: her passion, aplomb, and mischievousness. Ingredients of a free artist, forming a recipe she never stopped improving. Her 65 years of creativity and experimentation almost match the age of the Festival de Cannes, who celebrates each year visions which reveal, dare and rise higher. And who remains keen to remember.
72nd Festival de Cannes -Jim Jarmusch’s new film The Dead Don’t Die, will be screened at the Opening, and in Competition – a world premiere
Jim Jarmusch at the Opening of the 2019 Festival de Cannes!
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The Opening Ceremony of the 72nd Festival de Cannes will take place on May 14th 2019. It will be broadcast free-to-air by Canal +, as well as in partner cinemas. Actor and director Edouard Baer will be the Master of Ceremonies.
The Competition Jury, chaired by Alejandro González Iñárritu, will present the Palme d'Or at the Closing Ceremony on Saturday May 25th.The Dead Don’t Die, Jim Jarmusch’s new film, will be screened at the Opening, and in Competition – a world premiere!
The 72nd Festival de Cannes will open with the Competition screening of Jim Jarmusch's new film, The Dead Don't Die. On Tuesday May 14th, on the screen of the Grand Théâtre Lumière, the film by the American director and screenwriter will be this year’s first Palme d'Or competition screening.In the sleepy small town of Centerville, something is not quite right. The moon hangs large and low in the sky, the hours of daylight are becoming unpredictable and animals are beginning to exhibit unusual behaviors. No one quite knows why. News reports are scary and scientists are concerned. But no one foresees the strangest and most dangerous repercussion that will soon start plaguing Centerville: THE DEAD DON’T DIE -- they rise from their graves and savagely attack and feast on the living -- and the citizens of the town must battle for their survival.
The independent filmmaker's newest foray into genre film (after the western with Dead Man, Samurai/crime film with Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai, and his vampire film,Only Lovers Left Alive ) promises to be "the greatest zombies cast ever disassembled": Bill Murray, Adam Driver, Tilda Swinton, Chloë Sevigny, Steve Buscemi, Danny Glover, Caleb Landry Jones, Rosie Perez, Iggy Pop, Selena Gomez, RZA, Sara Driver, Austin Butler, Luka Sabbat, Eszter Balint, Carol Kane and Tom Waits. The Dead Don’t Die also reunites Jarmusch with many of his frequent collaborators including Director of Photography Frederick Elmes (Night on Earth, Paterson, Broken Flowers ) and Editor Affonso Gonçalves (Only Lovers Left Alive, Paterson ).The Dead Don’t Die is Jim Jarmusch's thirteenth feature film and stands as not just a humorous and sometimes scary subversion of the genre (with a nod to George Romero’s seminal film, Night of the Living Dead ) but also a tribute to cinema itself.
Since Stranger Than Paradise, Caméra d'or winner at the Festival de Cannes in 1984, which was a landmark in the history of new independent American cinema, Jim Jarmusch has been sharing with us his artful, soulful universes, inspired soundtracks, offbeat humour, and the meanderings of his anti-heroes in an always slightly strange world. At Cannes, his elegant, rock and roll cinema, often presenting an alternative America, has been honoured with four awards, including the Short Film Palme d'or in 1993 for Coffee and Cigarettes: Somewhere in California and the Grand Prix in 2005 for Broken Flowers.
In 2016, Jim Jarmusch had two films in the Official Selection: Paterson with Golshifteh Farahani and Adam Driver, in Competition, and Gimme Danger, the music documentary on Iggy and the Stooges as part of the Midnight Screenings.
A Focus Features presentation produced by Joshua Astrachan and Carter Logan, The Dead Don’t Die will be distributed by Focus Features and Universal Pictures International around the world – alongside Longride in Japan.
The film will be released in France on the same day as its Cannes screening in the evening of May 14th, in the United States on June 14th 2019 and then worldwide.
72nd Festival de Cannes -Alejandro González Iñárritu-President of the Jury
Mexican director Alejandro González Iñárritu is to be President of the Jury of the 72nd Festival de Cannes, taking place in May 2019.
“Cannes is a festival that has been important to me since the beginning of my career, he has declared. I am humbled and thrilled to return this year with the immense honor of presiding over the Jury. Cinema runs through the veins of the planet and this festival has been its heart. We on the jury will have the privilege to witness the new and excellent work of fellow filmmakers from all over the planet. This is a true delight and a responsibility, that we will assume with passion and devotion.”
For their part, Pierre Lescure, President of the Festival de Cannes, and Thierry Frémaux, General Delegate, are delighted that the filmmaker has accepted their invitation: “It is very rare for Alejandro G. Iñárritu to agree to take part in a jury, and this is the first time that the Festival de Cannes Jury is to be chaired by a Mexican artist. Cannes embraces all types of cinema, and through the presence of the Babel 's director, it is Mexican cinema that the Festival will be celebrating.”
“Not only is he a daring filmmaker and a director who is full of surprises, Alejandro is also a man of conviction, an artist of his time. We are always happy to welcome him on the Croisette and, in 2017, have been particularly proud to present "Carne y Arena" (Virtually present, Physically invisible) into the Official Selection, a virtual reality installation that addressed the question of migrants with great strength and humanity.”
Alejandro G. Iñárritu succeeds Cate Blanchett, Jury President of the 71st Festival de Cannes, whose jury awarded the Palme d’or to Shoplifters by Japanese director Kore-eda Hirokazu.
The Festival de Cannes 2019 will take place from Tuesday 14 to Saturday 25 May.
Jesus answered, “Those who have had a bath need only to wash their feet; their whole body is clean. And you are clean, though not every one of you.” For he knew who was going to betray him, and that was why he said not every one was clean.
When he had finished washing their feet, he put on his clothes and returned to his place. “Do you understand what I have done for you?” he asked them.
“You call me ‘Teacher’ and ‘Lord,’ and rightly so, for that is what I am.
Now that I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also should wash one another’s feet.
I have set you an example that you should do as I have done for you.
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'Last Supper, Italian Cenacolo, one of the most famous artworks in the world, painted by Leonardo da Vinci probably between 1495 and 1498 for the Dominican monastery Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan. It depicts the dramatic scene described in several closely connected moments in the Gospels, including Matthew 26:21–28, in which Jesus declares that one of the Apostles will betray him and later institutes the Eucharist. According to Leonardo’s belief that posture, gesture, and expression should manifest the “notions of the mind,” each one of the 12 disciples reacts in a manner that Leonardo considered fit for that man’s personality. The result is a complex study of varied human emotion, rendered in a deceptively simple composition.’
..................................................................................................”After he had said this, Jesus was troubled in spirit and testified, “Very truly I tell you, one of you is going to betray me.”
22 His disciples stared at one another, at a loss to know which of them he meant. 23 One of them, the disciple whom Jesus loved, was reclining next to him. 24 Simon Peter motioned to this disciple and said, “Ask him which one he means.”
25 Leaning back against Jesus, he asked him, “Lord, who is it?”
26 Jesus answered, “It is the one to whom I will give this piece of bread when I have dipped it in the dish.” Then, dipping the piece of bread, he gave it to Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot. 27 As soon as Judas took the bread, Satan entered into him.
So Jesus told him, “What you are about to do, do quickly.” 28 But no one at the meal understood why Jesus said this to him. 29 Since Judas had charge of the money, some thought Jesus was telling him to buy what was needed for the festival, or to give something to the poor. 30 As soon as Judas had taken the bread, he went out. And it was night.”
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Conversations about Trees: Engagement and Retreat in Brecht, Rich, and Marvell
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In college, I spent much of my time in the classroom talking about trees. Shakespearean forests, pastoral glens, country houses. I knew that poetry about nature was removed and esoteric, but it was also the poetry I often loved most. There are myriad reasons, of course, that poets choose nature as their subject. Nature offers the comforting suggestion of continuity, an awareness of scale; it can be both menacing and welcoming; it’s fertile ground for symbol and simile. However, in times of heightened political tension, poems about trees can feel like a cop-out, or especially irrelevant. Last week I taught “The Garden,” by Renaissance poet Andrew Marvell, to a classroom full of sleepy-eyed college kids, and I wondered whether we should be reading this sort of garden poetry—which celebrates retreat from society, activity, and political life—at all. This question led me to Adrienne Rich’s poem “What Kind of Times Are These,” which explores in a contemporary context the question of poetic retreat versus political engagement. The poem wrestles with the inextricability of landscape and history, and settles on the suggestion that “in times like these / to have you listen at all, it’s necessary / to talk about trees.”
Rich’s poem is in conversation with Bertolt Brecht’s 1939 poem “To Those Who Follow in Our Wake.” Brecht, writing in a time of political upheaval, addresses the concern of retreat versus engagement with anger: “What times are these, in which / A conversation about trees is almost a crime / For in doing so we maintain our silence about so much wrongdoing!” Rich’s poem alternates between a similarly outraged tone and wistful observation of nature. The first stanza begins “There’s a place between two stands of trees where the grass grows uphill / and the old revolutionary road breaks off into shadows / near a meeting-house abandoned by the persecuted / who disappeared into those shadows.” The subsequent stanzas follow this pattern, beginning with idyllic, pastoral imagery and ending with a deep awareness of history:
I’ve walked there picking mushrooms at the edge of dread, but don’t be fooled
this isn’t a Russian poem, this is not somewhere else but here,
our country moving closer to its own truth and dread,
its own ways of making people disappear.
For Rich, the pastoral has inherent appeal as a way of making people listen. It’s an interesting philosophy—that people will more readily read a poem that’s ostensibly about nature, with some politics mixed in, rather than one that is overtly about politics or history. Perhaps it’s because nature feels inherently personal, and represents the reasons many people seek out poetry—poems are, for many, spaces for reflection, self-examination, brief retreat. This is why a poem like Marvell’s is appealing: it suggests that a life separate from the “uncessant labours” and “busy companies of men” is feasible, if only temporarily. “The Garden” fetishizes solitude, an attitude that’s comforting for young people seeking validation in poetry: “Society is all but rude, / To this delicious solitude.” It’s a beautiful, layered poem, not only about renunciation and retreat, but about the sensual pleasures of getting lost in nature: (“Stumbling on melons as I pass, / Ensnar’d with flow’rs, I fall on grass”). Rich is right: good nature poetry draws the reader in, invites them into a space of heightened attention.
In Rich’s poem, descriptions of nature aren’t only a device to hold the reader’s attention. Land, and the trees and artifacts within it, is itself at stake:
I won’t tell you where the place is, the dark mesh of the woods
meeting the unmarked strip of light—
ghost-ridden crossroads, leafmold paradise:
I know already who wants to buy it, sell it, make it disappear.
In Marvell’s British Renaissance poem, nature can be juxtaposed with “Society” (as antidote or refuge). Conversely, in Rich’s contemporary American context, the landscape is at the whim of society (those who want “to […] make it disappear”). The continued existence of the “dark mesh of the woods” is itself a political issue. In Marvell’s poem the speaker is ensnared and protected by nature; in Rich’s, the speaker is the protector. Perhaps it is “necessary / to talk about trees” because the trees themselves are at risk in a literal way (climate change, deforestation); they are emblematic of the human “wrongdoing” Brecht laments in “To Those Who Follow In Our Wake.”
Brecht’s poem can be read in response to poems like Marvell’s; Rich’s poem directly complicates the dichotomy between political poetry and pastoral imagery that Brecht raises. When read together there seems to be room for both modes of engaging with the world—and perhaps each can even enhance and nuance the other.
Tags:Adrienne Rich, Andrew Marvell, Bertolt Brecht
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Ariel Katz was born and raised in Durham, North Carolina. She graduated from Yale with a B.A. in English, and now works and writes in San Francisco.
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Auburn basketball: Tigers suffer first loss of season
By Josh Vitale, Montgomery Advertiser
TUSCALOOSA — Bruce Pearl said it more than once during the days leading up to No. 4 Auburn’s rivalry bout with Alabama: “We’re going to get beat.”
The sixth-year head coach did not necessarily mean in Wednesday’s game at Coleman Coliseum. He just meant that, eventually, it was going to happen. Losing is inevitable in college basketball. Only four teams in the last 40 years have finished the regular season undefeated. There hasn’t been an undefeated national champion since Indiana in 1976.
Pearl didn’t want to be right. He definitely didn’t want to be right Wednesday night, across the state, against his program’s biggest rival. But he was. Auburn got beat.
Alabama won, 83-64, in front of a raucous crowd inside Coleman Coliseum to knock the Tigers from the ranks of the unbeaten. San Diego State is now the only team in America without a loss on its resume.
Here are three takeaways:
1. Starting slow finally caught up to Auburn.
Auburn has made a habit of starting slow this season, on both ends of the court. Over its last eight games entering Wednesday’s, it had made just 36.9 percent of its shots through the first 10 minutes of the game while allowing opponents to shoot 48.8 percent.
But that slow start had never really held the Tigers back much, at least not since a Dec. 5 game against Furman where they had to erase a 14-point second-half deficit just to win in overtime.
Alabama proved a much tougher test than the Paladins. And Auburn’s start was much, much worse.
The Tigers went into halftime trailing 36-27, and it was only that close because freshman Isaac Okoro was able to go on a personal 5-0 run in the final minute. The freshman wing shot 5 of 6 in the first half. The rest of the team shot just 4 of 23.
Auburn missed its first 10 attempts from beyond the arc and turned the ball over 12 times — already more than it averaged over its previous five full games (11.8). And only two of those were steals. The Crimson Tide flipped those turnovers into 11 points.
So often this season, though, Auburn has dug in after that slow start. Over those same last eight games, it outscored opponents by 90 points after those first 10 minutes. But the switch never flipped Wednesday.
The Tigers got to within two points a little more than five minutes into the second half. The Crimson Tide responded with a 19-8 run.
2. Auburn struggled to do the things it is normally good at.
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The Tigers hadn’t turned the ball over more than 17 times since that overtime win over Furman on Dec. 5. They turned it over 21 times Wednesday, which matches their season-high set in the opener against Georgia Southern.
The visitors entered Wednesday’s game ranked fourth nationally making 57.1 percent of its 2-point shots. They made just 11 of 25 layups/dunks in Coleman Coliseum.
3. Samir Doughty might like to forget this night ever happened.
#HeadbandSamir has been a fun storyline for this Auburn team all season. The senior guard first put it on during the third game of the season and has worn it ever since. He has played incredibly well with it on his head, too, leading the team scoring 15.7 points per game.
But about midway through the first half Wednesday, Doughty ripped that headband off. The mojo was no longer working.
The senior guard played maybe his worst game of the season, scoring just six points on 2-for-11 shooting and committing seven turnovers before fouling out.
This article originally ran on annistonstar.com.
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Training the Operational Staff
Thread: Training the Operational Staff
Originally Posted by William F. Owen
Rat mate. Don't want to chuck a thundie in the mess, but could I sum up the above as, "trying to work out how a staff supports the commander in counter-insurgency operations?"
Now that raises the question: What is the role of the commander in COIN? My observation of an American two-star and a British three-star in Afghanistan was that they had very different conceptions of their roles.
Both did battlefield circulation, and both considered themselves the 'decision makers' for the command. The differences were:
1. The American felt very comfortable making decisions for his subordinate commanders, routinely requiring that company-level operations be approved by him. The Brit did not.
2. The Brit described himself as a 'precision guided munition' and routinely made himself available for interaction with locals, international actors, NGOs, etc., if it contributed to mission accomplishment. He did however, require meticulous preparation for such engagements, which proved to be a heavy staff burden. The American hated doing such things and routinely left those types of engagements to his subordinates.
3. The American wanted routine, twice-daily, detailed briefings on - well, everything. The Brit only wanted to be briefed by exception - when things changed, when things were going off the rail, when certain milestones were reached.
4. The Brit's Chief of Staff was a decision maker, more important than the various deputy commanders. The American's Chief was an office manager whose role was to assist the deputy commanders in making decisions.
This is related to the thread because the different command styles inevitably impacted the size, shape, and focus of the staff - both staffs were, by the way, simultaneously bloated, undermanned, and undermined by the need to continuously rotate in augmentees.
Excellent question -- and one that merits exploration.
The role of a Commander in COIN or COIN-like operations is not identical to his role in MCO; he effectively has less to do and thus more time to devote to minutia if he's inclined to do that. This can have ramifications down to the lowest level, not just to the Staff. Due to the operational tempo, the Staff also has more time...
Then there's the trickle down question; the effect on the working troops. In the first cited unit below, Platoons and Companies just worried about the job at hand -- Brigade was 'the rear.' In the second, they did the job but always with an eye toward appearances at the neglect of performance as Brigade was always in their thoughts -- thus teaching a lot of Lieutenants and NCOs some really bad habits...
I served under two US Brigadier Generals that mirrored your examples. One operated as did your British commander, to the proverbial 'T.' His standing order at night was "Wake me only if all three Battalions are in heavy contact." People were expected to inform him if changes occurred between the Tuesday and Friday A.M. scheduled briefings.
The other was much more into your American model, to the extent that he was insistent that not only did he want company efforts run by him before execution, he wanted reports to the Platoon level and constantly asked the Staff to pursue issues of no real value to be answered in the next briefing (two per day most days, 0800 and 1800; probably averaged only 1-1.5/day or so over the year, sometimes given to the Deputy Commander, the XO or, even the S3 whether necessary or not...).
So your comment:
is quite accurate and, i'd add, affects units down the chain.
The only difference to that in my examples was the Staff for the first rather austere and distant but truly excellent Commander was fairly small but not undermanned while over the months that for the second cited which started as a small but fairly good crew working for a really nice but overly busy guy grew to be just what you describe due to a lot of make-work. Said 'augmentees' of course ripped off from the Battalions...
No doubt in my mind which of those Brigades functioned best and did the better job. Both were good, the first was far more combat effective with far less hassle; benefiting from a good example -- and, as you wisely illustrate, at least partly the impact of a Commander on the Staff.
Currently based in the US.
What is the role of a commander?
UK and US mil probably (on paper) see the role of the commander in the same way. I have attached a diagram of how the UK sees the command/staff relationship and divide.
I am not aware how much thought has been given to the role of a commander in COIN. Command and Command style is such a parochial subject with each commander jealously guarding the right to be 'his own man' in matters of style and substance that no guidance per se appears to have been laid down - certainly not on a broadly disseminated basis. My last commander saw his role (in a COIN campaign) clearly as threefold: supervise the supervisors, add substance to main effort, decide where to carry risk.
What Eden descibes matches up very well what I have seen of UK commanders in various theatres. We (as staff) see his job as that of making the key decisions and, in a COIN campaign, a key influence tool where he can go in and engage with select individuals and groups, make promises and keep them. That does impose a heavy staff burden Staff also get out far too rarely. On my last tour I would see the brigade commander at my outpost every 10 days or so. I saw bde staff once in 6 months... I fail to see (and thought then) how staff could plan effectively in such a nuanced environment without getting out on a regular basis. As a staff weenie in AFG I was out probably more often then required!!
More of the staff burden (certainly in UK HQs) appears to be self-imposed with staff getting wrapped in process and generating output in order to increase their importance and career profile, or merely to justify their existance (I have yet to hear of a staff branch downsizing themselves voluntarily). An increase in output does not necessarily link to an increase in effect...
My personal feeling is that while the role of the HQ is to support the commander and enable subordinate units (right people, right kit, right place, right time and having shaped the battlespace) in fact HQs have lost sight of this and HQs do staff process for the sake of it, but also (and as pertinent) to feed the insatiable demand of the next higher HQ for product.
That aside I like the UK command approach overall, but have a gut feeling that US commanders tend to get out more then their UK counterparts on a rank by rank basis.
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Staffwork: The Hidden Hand of Operations
I searched for staffwork and amongst the very few threads shown, this appeared the most fitting.
A KoW article by a Canadian officer on the 33rd Canadian Brigade Group (33 CBG) Headquarters exercise with the USMC in cool Camp Pendleton:http://kingsofwar.org.uk/2012/07/sta...ons/#more-7235
Which IMHO is doubly interesting as the unit is:
a reserve formation, part-time soldiers, composed of university professors and high school teachers, policemen, software engineers, supply management specialists, occupational therapists and a variety of other occupations. The unit is also a conglomeration of officers and soldiers from militia units across eastern and central Ontario who work as a group only occasionally.......virtually all participating had made at least one tour to Afghanistan.
Some of the points made have appeared in Jim Storr's book The Human Face of War.
There is an interesting different point of view, an Australian one too, on the use of reservists:
The case for committing complex and professional war fighting skills to the Reserve may be tempting for Australian defence planners, but it makes little sense. War fighting is a profession and modern weaponry and tactics are highly technical and complex. Like Olympic athletes, when professional soldiers train less they achieve less. Any decision to warehouse war fighting capabilities in the Reserve is really a decision to let the capability atrophy and fail.
Link:http://www.lowyinterpreter.org/post/...y-Reserve.aspx
I know SWC has recently discussed in the US context the differences between regular and reservist components.
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The Best New Songs of August 2018 The Best New Songs of September 2018
Americana Vet Wrestles with Bandmate’s Suicide on Haunting New Album
“A Better Version of the Truth was the toughest record I have ever made,” Bow Thayer writes on Bandcamp – and that’s saying something from a man who once battled an ice storm with Levon Helm to record.
But that can’t be compared with the tragedy Thayer encountered during the three-year journey towards his latest album. First, his drummer suffered multiple strokes, rendering him unable to play during two years of physical therapy. Sadder still: This past March, his bassist Alex Abraham took his own life at just 28 years old. (Read his obituary at the Vermont Standard, which includes details about how to donate to the Alex Abraham Musical Excellence Scholarship at Woodstock High School).
Thayer writes about the tragedy quite movingly in the album’s liner notes. My paraphrase won’t do his words justice, so I’ll quote that part in full:
On March 31st of this year, we were scheduled to play a local show. Come set time, our bassist Alex Abraham was nowhere to be found. After limping through the gig without him, I called home and asked my wife to go check on him. Alex was living at a friend’s house just up the road from us. Maybe his car got stuck – it was a pretty sloppy mud season. Or maybe it was just another miscommunication – I’m known for those. But upon arriving home I was greeted with a look and telepathy that shook me to the bone. My wife had found Alex after he had placed a Remington Model 33 rifle in his mouth and pulled the trigger. Upon reaching the scene nothing could have prepared me for what I witnessed. It broke my heart (and it would have broken yours) to to see such an amazing and dear young talent snuffed out of this existence without any explanation. The grief was, and is, almost unbearable, the only solace being his fierce and extraordinary bass tracks left behind.
You can hear one of those bass tracks on the album’s just-released title track, accompanied by Thayer’s custom “bojotar” (electric guitar + resonator guitar + banjo). Though the song was written before Abraham’s death, the lyrics resonate strongly with tragedy: “Haze heavy, shadows and light / A fountain of darkness on the road tonight / Picking at the ice just to get down to the stone / Hoping there’s life at the end of the tunnel.”
Listen to “A Better Version of the Truth” below, and pre-order the album of the same name (out November 9) on Bandcamp. And, as a bonus, below that watch a live video of Bow and Alex performing together a couple months before his passing (video by Mike Dann).
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Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap (GBA)
Written by wyldcard
Category: GBA
Developed by: Capcom
Published by: Nintendo
ESRB Rating: Everyone for Mild Fantasy Violence
For: Gameboy Advance
The latest release from the Legend of Zelda franchise is The Minish Cap. The story begins when the evil wizard Vaati wins a sword tournament. This earns him the right to touch an ancient box containing both monsters and a legendary sword. Vaati does more than touch the proverbial Pandora?s Box; he opens it. Looking within the box for the ?Light Force,? the wizard cannot find it. Disappointed, he turns Princess Zelda into a stone statue. The legendary sword is the only thing that can save Princess Zelda, so the king asks you to look for the only ones who can repair the sword - the Picori, the race of people who made the sword. The problem is that no one has seen the Picori for a long time. Every Zelda game has a guide, and Minish Cap is no exception. While you are looking for the Picori you run across a cap with a bird?s head on it. The cap, you discover, is a wizard who was cursed by Vaati, and this cap (err, cursed wizard) becomes your guide. He also gives you the ability to shrink, and return to normal size with the aid of certain pots, tree stumps, etc.
GAMING EXPERIENCE: Game Play:
The gameplay is flawlessly-executed Legend of Zelda gameplay. You fight off monsters with your sword, shield, boomerang, and other familiar tools. Link handles well throughout the game no matter what size he is. The level of design in this game is amazing, a fact particularly apparent once you acquire the ability to shrink in size. I found myself in the main town marvelling at how intricate the level of design was for both sizes of Link.
The graphics are nicely done and have a Wind Waker theme to them. There are areas you can only see once you have shrunk. Leaves towering over Link are nicely rendered. Some of the boss characters are pixelated a little bit here and there, and although it is nothing too bad is is definitely noticeable. Character models are nicely done and look good, especially when you consider many of the characters are from the 3D games.
The sound effects are classic Zelda, as is the music. The music is pleasant, and many of the tunes are ones I found myself humming days and hours later. Boss battles have more of a frenzied pitch, and towns have a much more relaxed feel to them.
The control is spot on. It is hard to find anything wrong with the control. The only issue I ever had was some minor confusion at first when I was shrunk. That really stemmed from not being sure where I was. Once I learned that I had no problems.
This is one part of the game I feel is lacking. Most decent gamers should be able to beat this game in around ten to twenty hours. There are kinstone medal fusions to do, and figurines to collect after you beat the game if you did not get them all before beating the game. However, these extras, in all honesty, did not draw me back. Part of the fun of a Zelda game is figuring out the rooms, puzzles, and dungeons. Once you do that, the mystery is gone.
APPROPRIATENESS ISSUES: Violence:
There is a lot of cartoon style violence in this game. Your arrows will stick out of the bodies of enemies you shoot, and you spend most of your time fighting with your sword (hacking and slashing at the monsters). Like previous Zelda games, a defeated enemy poofs away, and there is no blood or gore.
Nintendo has been very friendly to families in this regard. Legend of Zelda: Minish Cap is no exception. There is no language I found that would embarrass you.
Occult Themes:
There have always been some occultic/supernatural aspects to the Legend of Zelda. Normally it has to do with the Triforce, and some have argued that is a reference to the Trinity. However, the Triforce is not a part of this game. There are other considerations, though. An elderly man is sick in bed from an evil spirit. You use a magical jar to free that man from the evil spirit. Link also talks to spirits of dead people who aid him in his quest. But the strangest, by far, are the swordmasters. Each swordmaster possesses your body to show you the new sword technique. Thankfully that is a small part of the game, but it is troublesome nonetheless. There are a few more instances of magic in the game. Most notable is the magical nature of the shrinking and returning to normal size that is central to the game. Second, certain blocks allow you split yourself into multiple copies to move large rocks. Finally, some of your tools are magical in nature (i.e. a Magical Cane).
Sexuality is not a part of this game. Nintendo proves a good game can be developed without any references to sex.
Moral/Ethical Issues:
There is the aspect of good versus evil. There is also the aspect of you helping people out. Throughout the game you are on all kinds of quests to not only save the world, but to help the other characters in the game. I really did not find any moral problems with the game.
Closing Comments:
This game snuck up on me. The first two dungeons were a breeze, and I thought I would be done in a few hours of gameplay. Then the puzzles got more complex to the point I was racking my brain for a solution to a room. The real key to unlocking secrets in this game is the Kinstone fusion system, which allows you combine Kinstone pieces to unlock a wide range of rewards and power-ups. Even though this game may not be one of the longest Zelda games, it is a good one. A few parts of the game felt like \'been there, done that,\' but the ability to change sizes freshened it up. I feel this is a solid game worth a buy. Plus, you can register it with Nintendo, and registering enough select products with Nintendo grants you free stuff.
Final Ratings:
Game Play: 10/10 Graphics: 9/10 Sound: 10/10 Control: 10/10 Longevity: 6/10 GAMING TOTAL: 45/50
Violence: 8/10 Language: 10/10 Occult Themes: 6/10 Sexuality: 10/10 Moral/Ethical Issues: 10/10 APPROPRIATENESS TOTAL: 44/50
Overall Score: 89%
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“The reason that we went into Iraq was to establish a permanent military base in the Gulf region….”
— Former President Jimmy Carter, Feb. 3, 2006
“The United States maintains 737 military bases in 130 countries across the globe. … In order to secure favorable access to Iraq’s vast reserves of light crude, the United States is spending billions on the construction of at least five large permanent military bases throughout that country.”
Lewis Seiler and Dan Hamburg, San Francisco Chronicle, April 30, 2007
“Charlie, we’re not in the process these days of doing permanent bases anywhere.”
— Condoleezza Rice to Charlie Rose, in a US State Department Press Release, May 7, 2007.
If perception is power, and he that controls the perception has the power…then:
Q. Who’s the Daddy?
The Big Boys and girls have been engaging us in a game of Perceptual “Peek-A-Boo!”
It keeps us guessing and amused. It’s sort of like dislodging a cell phone from the mouth of a crying toddler by singing in a high voice and replacing it with a Twinkie.
We keep taking the Twinkie! Dang.
Perception Twister #1: Exit strategy? Oh, did Daddy need an Exit Strategy? Oh, silly Daddy. Well, next time, he promises to know better. “One of the reasons we had no exit plan from Iraq is that we didn’t intend to leave,” said UC San Diego Professor Emeritus and ex-CIA agent Chalmers Johnson. So, really: Daddy don’t need no stinking exit strategy. But that’s too spicy for you, honey.
Oh, and by the way…? All those guys who’ve been having trouble doing their jobs lately? The ones who happen to be your employees as taxpayers? Go ahead: shake your finger at them very sternly, and yell at them, and say whatever mean thing you want to them. They will look sheepish ….even a little defensive!
But no, you can’t fire them. That’s for Daddy to decide. They “serve at his pleasure” (which is very S&M).
Alberto “Mi Abogado” Gonzales? Yep…. he lied! Call him names! But unless you actually throw sticks and stones: he’s staying. You don’t put a dog down just because it ruined every single carpet in the Hall of Justice.
Paul Wolfowitz? He’s decided to stay on, at the World Bank, despite repeated demands for his head over that indiscreet little “Oh, and My Girlfriend Gets $200K,” embezzlement-prank.
He’ll most likely be keeping the World Bank gig, thanks. He likes the kicky perks.
Oh wait, so…. is what they meant by Political Theater?
And The President? Despite the blood-curdling screams of the American people and even harsh reprimands from his own flying monkeys, he’s still tossing out vetoes right and left. It’s kind of like drunk driving, but it ultimately kills a lot more people and bankrupts the entire country.
But Paris Hilton? Well, still going to jail, so far. She needs bigger allies, obviously. She should have made a porn tape with Robert Gates; she might be vacationing in Qatar right now.
Ironically, the President is allegedly drunk again, too: “LAURA FLEES BOOZING BUSH!” screamd the Globe cover article. “The scuttlebutt is he’s back on the 80-proof,” quoth the article, reprinting gossip leaked to none other than E! gossip maven, His Majesty Ted Casablanca, “from a reliable source and confirmed by a former White House staff member who is still close to Mrs. Bush.” Apparently, when the President began slurring his words again, Laura, recognizing the mark of Devil Bourbon, fled the White House in disgust and began camping across the street at the Hay-Adams. “The President doesn’t want a divorce but won’t recognize that there is anything wrong with their marriage,” said Ted’s source. “…Laura has put up with so much.”
Best answer to the question “But Why? WHY?” came from Allan Schnaiberg, psychiatrist and Professor at the Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern University.
“First and foremost, George W. Bush has a ‘Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD)’” wrote Schnaiberg.
“…The most disturbing aspect about narcissists… is their pathological inability to empathize with others…
…(I)s George Bush willing to risk the lives of hundreds, maybe thousands more American soldiers, on an outside chance to save his political skin, in a half-baked plan that even he knows probably won’t work at all? Yes, he is. Because George Bush is that narcissistic, that desperate, and yes, that sociopathic as well…
… The insufferable “holier than thou” attitude associated with “Dry Drunk Syndrome” is indicative of underlying narcissism…
…Finally…those persons with NPD are notoriously unable to say they’re sorry…. Anyone having this particular character flaw almost certainly has NPD.”
Well, I haven’t heard a “Sorry” yet. Neither has Laura, apparently, nor Iraq, nor You, the American People.
But that’s what you get for rolling with the NPD, Fiends. Malignant Narcissists may be fun to hang out with, for a while – they are the life of the party – but eventually, you’re probably going to want to hang out with someone who actually cares about you, as a citizenry, and get a few of your needs met. You just deserve so much more.
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Ian "Laura Drinks, Too!" Ransom
Malignant Narcissism sucks. I know, because I grew up in a family of them. They had power (such power as can be had in a town thirty miles from the Celine Dion Family Restaurant & Theater-Grill), but not a clue as to what they should do with it aside from child terrorization.
They passed on the Narcissism gene to me, sans the Malignant. Mother was a great beauty, though–the absolute doppelganger of Jessica Lange in the King Kong years. Dad looked like Kong, though not in the way that George W. looks like Kong.
Curiously, they never drank a drop, though I always believed that they were the sort who needed to.
Aside from that, I can totally believe that W is self-medicating. He’s been in a natural stupor for the last eight years…why not revisit old, familiar self-inflicted stupors?
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How to Spur Millions Toward Energy Efficiency by Martha Shaw
October 10, 2012 clean technology, climate change, energy, green businessMartha
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Posted: Oct 10, 2012 – 08:04 PM EST
NEW YORK, Oct. 10 /CSRwire/ - Zerofootprint Inc., a leader in energy information for the public, announced today that Oxford Properties Group has selected its VELO™ platform to help make their energy efficiency programs more successful; by engaging tenants. Real-time energy usage displays on big screens in Oxford’s Royal Bank Plaza lobby, show how the building’s 7500 occupants consume energy throughout the day, bringing awareness to their impact.
The effect is significant, as occupants and their guests can see the 2.1 million square foot complex’s energy usage in real time. The Sustainability Director of Oxford Properties, Darryl Neate, said, “We are proud to offer leading energy efficiency programs to our tenants through Oxford’s Sustainable Intelligence platform. The success of these programs depends on engaging people, and Zerofootprint’s VELO™ is helping us provide real-time energy information and conservation tips to our tenants in an easy-to-understand, compelling way.”
When people see their energy usage, a light goes on. Then they think about turning one off. Zerofootprint creates products that catalyze these real changes by engaging people in what they are using and their own impact. “Changing tenant behavior is the one remaining untapped resource for energy efficiency in buildings. Our implementation at Oxford sets a new standard for tenant engagement, based on actual usage,” said Ron Dembo, Founder and CEO of Zerofootprint. “We are excited to be part of Oxford’s renowned efforts in sustainability and energy efficiency. It is a leader in sustainable buildings and we are very pleased to be an integral part of Oxford’s groundbreaking energy programs for commercial buildings.”
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Banks Tightened Lending in Second Quarter - Hey Man, Don't Bring Me Down!
Tightening loan standards constricts the flow of credit (debt), and appropriately so:
Fed Says Banks Tightened Lending in Second Quarter
By Craig Torres
Aug. 17 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. banks tightened standards on all types of loans in the second quarter and said they expect to maintain strict criteria on lending until at least the second half of 2010, a Federal Reserve report showed today.
Most banks cited reduced risk tolerance and “a more uncertain economic outlook” as the main reasons for restricting credit to businesses, with 35.2 percent saying they “tightened somewhat,” the Fed said in its quarterly Senior Loan Officer survey.
The report suggests that lenders and borrowers were wary of taking on more risk until the U.S. economy showed clearer signs of growth. Since the survey, economists have raised their outlook for the economy as data suggested home sales and manufacturing were stabilizing, and the Fed said last week that the economy is “leveling out.”
“The report tells us that credit is not becoming more readily available, but also that the credit freeze is at least moving in the direction of a thaw,” said Carl Riccadonna, senior economist at Deutsche Bank Securities Inc.
The survey of 55 U.S. banks and 23 U.S. branches of foreign banks found that demand for loans continued to weaken “across all major categories” except prime residential mortgages, the central bank said. Two banks, or 3.7 percent, reported eased lending standards to large businesses in the survey, held from July 14 and July 28.
Taking Less Risk
Thirty-seven of 38 banks said a less favorable or more uncertain economic outlook was the reason for tighter credit standards on commercial and industrial loans over the previous three months, while 29 of 37 banks cited reduced risk tolerance as a reason for keeping strict standards on industrial loans.
None of the 51 respondent banks eased standards on prime mortgages in the latest survey, while 39 said demand for mortgages was about the same, moderately stronger or substantially stronger.
“Most banks have woken up to the fact that there is a lot more risk in their loan books than they ever thought possible,”said Joel Conn, president of Lakeshore Capital LLC in Birmingham, Alabama. “That has caused them to recalibrate what their requirements for future lending are going to look like.”
Loan originations by the top 22 banks receiving capital injections from the U.S. government rose 12.7 percent in June to $312.1 billion from a month earlier, the Treasury Department said in a separate report today.
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In its monthly report on the banks getting aid from the Troubled Asset Relief Program, the Treasury said total loan balances averaged $4.30 trillion in June, down 1.1 percent from the previous month. Bank of America Corp. in Charlotte, North Carolina, and Citigroup Inc. in New York are among the banks still receiving aid.
Total home mortgages were nearly unchanged in the first quarter compared with the final quarter of 2008 at $10.4 trillion, according to the Fed’s second-quarter Flow of Funds report. Consumer credit decreased at an annual rate of 5.25 percent in the second quarter, the Fed said Aug. 7 in a separate release.
The Fed today extended by three to six months an emergency program aimed at restarting credit markets, a move that may cushion the commercial real-estate industry from rising defaults and falling prices.
Tighter standards mean less access for consumers to all types of consumer credit. Now we have consumer credit falling at an annual rate of 5.25%! That is faster than the following charts that were last updated on 8/7/09… This chart shows total consumer credit expressed in change from a year ago in billions of dollars:
Here’s the total consumer credit outstanding expressed in yoy percent change. While it may not look that dramatic, note that the rate of credit destruction is faster than at any time since the early 1940s:
This is a chart from the Fed’s Monetary Trends. It is a close in look of the percent change from a year ago going back to 1992.
Contracting credit is a central banker’s worst nightmare. Again, credit dollars are much more numerous than real dollars and thus a contraction in credit does not create a growing or inflationary environment.
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DBT is based on cognitive theory behavioral theory and dialectical philosophies. The model looks at how symptoms are created through transactions in the environment and works to extinguish unproductive behaviors and find a new balance. DBT was created to treat suicidal and para-suicidal behaviors, and research now shows significant improvement for emotion regulation and impulsivity by becoming more aware of the moment.
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Turkey – Greece Match Prediction | 23-08-2019
In this away game, coach Angelos Anastasiadis must keep the team in 4-3-3, favoring a middle or low block and passing in depth for the attack, especially towards Anastasios Donis. Apparently, there are no absences of weight for this game. On the other hand, the offensive midfielder Fortounis is one of the most technically gifted players. Greece comes to this game with a draw, 2-2, in the displacement to Bosnias terrain, adding the second game in a row without tasting the bitter taste of defeat: the goals of the team were marked by Fortounis and Kolovos. It should be noted that the Greeks lost 4 of the last 10 matches played in several competitions.
Looking to secure a return to a major tournament next summer, the Reds have recorded three consecutive clean sheets and have conceded just one goal in nearly 400 minutes of action. Starting with the hosts, after losing three of their four matches in last years inaugural UEFA Nations League and being relegated to League C, few would have expected Turkeys impressive start to their EURO 2020 qualifying campaign. Coming off the back of a pair of victories over Moldova and Albania giving enol Gnes side six points and sat only behind World Cup winners France in Group H, fans in Antalya will also be impressed by their sides newfound defensive resolve. Bagging 24 international goals for Turkey and now their second all-time leading goalscorer, the 33-year-old also recorded 16 goals for Beikta in the Sper Lig this campaign, including scoring 12 goals in his last 15 matches for club and country. Looking keep up the morale before they host Les Bleus in qualifying next month, Gnes will be looking for the red-hot Burak Yilmaz to carry on his bright end to the domestic season.
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As for the visitors, Greece find themselves in an almost identical situation to Thursdays hosts. Coming from two goals behind away at Bosnia to snatch a point last month, Greeces four points from their opening two games sees them sat only behind Italy in Group J. With many of Greeces most notable names coming to the end of their international careers, Anastasiadis has found himself in the midst of a rebuilding process for the former European champions. In fact, 15 of the 25 players selected for Thursday have under 10 international caps. Now losing just one of their previous four encounters across all competitions, Ethniki also hold a respectable record outside of Athens, even if they have come up against lesser opposition. Theyve beaten Liechtenstein, Estonia, and Egypt, while losing to Croatia, Saudi Arabia, Hungary, and Finland. While Angelos Anastasiadiss men may have had to settle for a third-place finish behind Finland and Hungary in their UEFA Nations League Group C campaign, the former PAOK boss has seen his side enjoy a bright start to their EURO 2020 qualification.
This is a team that usually maintains its competitive levels in home and away matches, since in the last 30 matches they register 4 wins, 6 draws and 5 losses as a visitor; against 7 wins, 4 draws and 4 defeats in his stadium. In the last 10 home matches for all competitions, Turkey have won 4, tied 2 and lost 4. The home team plays its first friendly of the year, having played 7 last year, with the following scores in the last 5: Turkey (0-0) Ukraine, Turkey (0-0) Bosnia-Herzegovina, Russia (1-1) Turkey, Tunisia (2-2) Turkey and Turkey (2-1) Iran. The team comes to this match after a home victory over Moldova by (4-0). In their home matches there is a tendency for few goals, since 5 of the last 10 matches they played ended with Menos de 1.5 goals In 15 games, they only got 1 comeback in the 7 games in which they suffered the first goal. There is 1 period that stands out in the last 10 home matches for all competitions: they have scored 5 of their 11 goals between minutes (46-60 ).
Hakan Calhanoglu is one of the main threats in a number 10 role, while talented winger Cengiz Under is also present and the likes of Burak Yilmaz and Cenk Tosun offer options up front. The chances are that all of these talented attackers will play a part on Thursday, lining up in a 4-2-3-1 setup with Yilmaz leading the line and Tosun cutting in from the left.
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With the mood in Turkeys camp the highest it has been in recent memory, enol Gnes men should be confident of extending their winning run to three matches on the bounce. Conceding just one goal in their last three matches in Antalya and really showing some newfound defensive resolve, were backing Thursdays hosts to come away with the victory in what could be a close-fought encounter.
Coaches tend to try new things out, and with such a small amount of shared game-time, players find it hard to adapt. These kinds of matches are notorious for their uncertainty, and most importantly, the fantastic odds that they provide. Because of the previously stated reason, and their H2H records, we expect the match to end by the minimal result in Turkeys favour. In four of the previous five games between the two teams, we have seen less than a goal scored.
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Etisalat Afghanistan`s Humanitarian Aids to Badakhshan Victims
Kabul – 10 May 2014
Etisalat Afghanistan expresses its deepest condolences over the recent landslide incident in Argo district of Badakhshan province and shares the grief and sorrow of those families who lost their homes and loved ones.
Hence, the company in association with the Ministry of Telecommunication and Information Technology has allocated an amount of Afs1.2 million from its Commercial Charitable Fund which is operated in cooperation with its valued customers who participate through its loyalty program. The Ministry has handed over the collection to the First Vice President of Afghanistan towards the Afghanistan National Disaster Management Authority (ANDMA).
Expressing his condolence, Yasser Aboul Amayem, CCO of Etisalat Afghanistan said, ‘We are very sorry to hear about this tragic incident, as a result of which hundreds of innocent lives were lost. On behalf of Etisalat management, I would like to assure the people of Badakhshan that Etisalat shares your sorrow and stands by you throughout this hard time.”
Meanwhile, Etisalat employees have also started an Initiative to collect individual contributions and along with additional contribution from the commercial charitable fund, send relief material to support the families affected by natural disasters in northern provinces.
On 2nd May, there were two landslides in the Argo District of Badakhshan Province, occurring on the side of a mountain affecting the village of Aab Barik. The initial landslide struck between 11am and 1pm. Fellow villagers tried to rescue those stuck after the primary landslide, but a second landslide occurred which trapped or killed a large proportion of the rescuers. The consecutive slides leveled the village, and left the area under 10 to 30 meters of mud. A week before the mudslides, there had been torrential rain and flooding in northern Afghanistan.
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Indonesia and the European Union today agreed that from 15 November 2016 Indonesia can issue ‘FLEGT’ licences to verified legal timber products it exports to the EU.
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The first FLEGT-licensed products from Indonesia will reach the EU market this year. Any Indonesian timber products listed in the VPA’s annex on product scope and shipped to the EU after 15 November will not be permitted to enter the EU market unless they are FLEGT-licensed.
Indonesia and the EU made the decision on 15 September at a meeting of the Joint Implementation Committee, which oversees implementation of the Indonesia-EU FLEGT Voluntary Partnership Agreement.
As part of the VPA, Indonesia has developed a system for assuring that all timber products harvested or imported, transported, traded, processed and exported comply with national laws on environmental, social and economic aspects identified by stakeholders from government, the private sector and civil society.
The country’s timber legality assurance system, called Sistem Verifikasi Legalitas Kayu (SVLK), is subject to independent monitoring by civil society and periodic evaluation by an independent auditor.
“Indonesia has achieved great progress in bringing its forest sector under control and improving transparency, participation and other aspects of good forest governance through a process of dialogue and compromise among all stakeholder groups,” said Putera Parthama, Director General of Sustainable Forest Management at Indonesia’s Ministry of Environment and Forestry, and co-chair of the JIC. “By addressing legality we have built the foundation for sustainable forest management and action to address climate change. We have met the high certification standards of the EU.”
The JIC also agreed on joint activities until the end of 2017 through which the EU and Indonesia will oversee the continual improvement of Indonesia’s timber legality assurance system and wider VPA implementation. The plan will address continuation of the multistakeholder process, data collection, independent forest monitoring, enforcement, and monitoring the market for FLEGT-licenced timber products.
“The decision to begin FLEGT licensing is a landmark achievement in a partnership that links EU businesses and consumers with legal traders in Indonesia,” said Vincent Guérend, the EU Ambassador to Indonesia and co-chair of the JIC.
“By guaranteeing legality, FLEGT licences should not only make business more efficient for traders in both Indonesia and the EU but also strengthen governance and ensure fairness to all forest stakeholders,” said Guérend. “They are the result of increasing transparency and better accountability and stakeholder participation in decisions about forests. Today, all of Indonesia’s timber exports are from independently audited factories and forests.”
The EU has already completed internal procedures to recognise FLEGT licences from Indonesia. Competent authorities and timber importers in the 28 EU Member States are now preparing to receive the world's first shipments of FLEGT-licensed timber.
Another 14 countries are negotiating or implementing VPAs with the EU. Ghana is at an advanced stage of VPA implementation ahead of FLEGT licensing.
A report on the JIC meeting will be published on the websites of the Indonesia’s Ministry of Environment and Forestry and the EU Delegation to Indonesia, the EU FLEGT Facility and the Multistakeholder Forestry Programme.
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About the Exbury Egg
About Stephen Turner
Trinity Buoy Wharf
Stephen Turner’s Exbury Egg
Stanton Low Park and Great Linford Park Milton Keynes
Community Preview: Stanton Low Park: Sunday 2 April 2017 1pm – 5pm
Open: Wednesday – Sunday 12 noon – 6pm Admission Free
See events and activities below
In Milton Keyens, Stephen Turner’s Exbury Egg will be refloated on the Grand Union Canal in Stanton Low Park, where Stephen Turner will also continue his exploration of investigation of places and communities. The Egg will host an exhibition of Stephens artworks, as an installation which references its previous journeys from Exbury through Burnley and London.
Stephen will be exploring the local environment surrounding the Egg’s location and be in residence during this time, offering a range of participation opportunities for local people to engage with him, such as an artist’s walk and talk as well as issuing personal invitations to take ‘Tea in the Egg’ with him. These are special chances to enjoy conversation and to tune into thinking around contemporary life and our shared responsibility to care for nature. Stephen’s work often involves spending long periods of deep engagement in particular odd abandoned places, noting the changes in the complex relationship between people and the natural environment and this residence in Milton Keynes will lead to a new unfolding chapter.
On Monday 8 May Stephen’s Egg will slowly progress from its location at Stanton Low Park a half mile east to a new mooring at Great Linford on land adjoining the Milton Keynes Arts Centre, where additional artwork about the Egg created by Stephen will be on display from Wednesday 10 May – Sunday 14 May in the Old Schoolhouse. These works cross-over from visual art to contemporary craft, embracing carpentry, dyeing, food production, pastel and ink making, photography, video and drawing. Stephen comments "In an urban 21st century world where we are increasingly disconnected from nature I wanted to use this ancient archetypal symbol to nurture re-enchantment with the natural world, as a step toward a sustainable future."
Stephen Turner’s Exbury Egg in Milton Keynes: Calendar of Events
Stanton Low Park
Community Preview: Sunday 2nd April 1pm - 5pm
All welcome. Refreshments will be served and you will be able to collect a specially commissioned ‘Kids’ Guide to Stephen Turner’s Exbury Egg’ created by White Wall Yellow Door with lots of activities to do inspired by the Egg and Stephen’s work as an artist.
Photo: White Wall Yellow Door
Saturday 8 April 2017 2pm: Artist’s Talk at the Exbury Egg
Sunday 9 April 2017: Tea in the Egg
An opportunity to meet and talk to Stephen (free but places must be booked – please email Fiona.boundy@milton-keynes.gov.uk to book a place)
Saturday 15 April 2017 2pm - 4pm: Easter Workshop at the Exbury Egg
Natural Dye making and Egg related fun with Dyeworks
Sunday 7 May 2017 at 2pm: Foraging Walk
Join Stephen and Forest and Folk for ‘a walk and a forage’ around Stanton Low and Great Linford Park
Great Linford Park
Wednesday 10 – Sunday 14 May 2017 10am – 4pm: Exhibition at Milton Keynes Arts Centre
Milton Keynes Arts Centre, Parklands, Milton Keynes, MK14 5DZ
Sunday 14 May 12 noon – 5pm: Egg Leaving Celebration and Natural Dye Making Workshop with Dyeworks
everything comes from the egg is the touring exhibition of Stephen Turner's Exbury Egg and a wide range of new artworks developed and made by Stephen Turner while he was located and worked amongst communities in Exbury and subsequently in Burnley, London, Milton Keynes, Portsmouth and Hastings through 2016 and 2017. The Exbury Egg was originally located for over twelve months on the Beaulieu River in the care of The Exbury Estate through 2013 and 2014.
everything comes from the egg now tours to venues in England through 2017, including, Trinity Buoy Wharf, London - reaching out to communities around the River Lee, Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth (where the Exbury Egg will be located in Gunwharf Quays) and Jerwood Gallery, Hastings. The tour reflects and develops upon Turner’s original performative relationship with the Egg as a stage for events that embrace the concept that "everything comes from the egg" (Ex Ovo Omnia, William Harvey 1651) and relocates the Exbury Egg and Stephen's practice within four different public visual arts contexts for further explorations and the development of new artworks. These new local contexts are explored by Stephen through residencies as he develops new works, interacting with a wide range of people and communities along urban canals, within a shopping center and by the seaside.
Future exhibition tour dates:
Aspex & Gunwharf Quays, Portsmouth: 16 June - 3 September 2017
Jerwood Gallery, Hastings: 16 September - 15 October 2017
Stephen's original blog for the Exbury Egg and his residency in Exbury through 2013-14 is here: www.exburyegg.me
The Exbury Egg was designed to the artist’s original concept by PAD Studio in Lymington, Hampshire and commissioned by Space Placemaking & Urban Design (SPUD).
everything comes from the egg is financially supported by Canal & River Trust, Gunwharf Quays, Superslowway, Jerwood Gallery, Trinity Buoy Wharf Trust and public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England.
everything comes from the egg (and the original Exbury Egg project) could not have been possible without the continuing support of Nicholas and Caroline de Rothschild and the Exbury Estate.
For further information, media and press enquiries please contact: Mark Segal
Follow @exburyegg
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Just posted: Joel McIver is our guest on this weeks Focus on Metal
Episode 264 - McIver Alive V
Joel McIver helps us wrap up 2015 by making his fifth appearance on Focus on Metal. Joel chimes in on his thoughts on the year in metal and also lets us know what's going on in the land of McIver. Find out what he's up to at http://www.joelmciver.co.uk/ Besides his fine books Joel is also a driving force behind Bass Guitar magazine which you can find on the web at bassguitarmagazine.com
I'm sure that even Joel would agree that the single biggest impact of 2015 is the recent death of the legendary Lemmy. It's a massive blow to music, metal and the next generation of bass players that will never get to see (and feel) how bass can truly drive the bus.
Big thanks to all of you for a great 2015 and we look forward to a most metal 2016. No new show next week but we'll be embarking on the 2016 edition of Focus on Metal the week after with a massive music episode.
Get the this episode from the Focus on Metal Site, The Focus on Metal RSS feed, or on iTunes.
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Labels: Bass Player, Joel McIver, Lemmy, Lords of The Trident, Motorhead, Patreon, Rob Zombie, year end review
Online now: James Kottak Is The Guest On This Weeks Focus on Metal
Episode 263 - Little Mountain Sound Part 6
So much for wrapping up this project this in 2016. But speaking of wrapping, just in time for the holidays we bring you the sixth installment on Little Mountain Sound featuring none other than our bud James Kottak. We actually did this interview back in August of 2014 and was one of the first we did for the project, so if some of the things James talks about sound dated that would be why. Find out what James is up to these days (besides the mighty Scorpions) at http://www.jameskottak.com/
Labels: Focus on Metal, James Kottak, Kingdom Come, Little Mountain Sound, Scorpions
THE RODS re-record CRANK IT UP single for 35th Anniversary of self titled album.
Veteran New York heavy metal power trio THE RODS have re-recorded the song "Crank It Up" which originally appeared on their 1981 self titled album, as part of the album's upcoming 35th Anniversary celebration.
The re-recorded song is available for purchase via itunes, Amazon and CD Baby.
Guitarist David "Rock" Feinstein has checked in with the following comment:
"CRANK IT UP", what more is there to say? It's kind of been our "motto" since day one. Thirty-five years later, we are still slamming our audiences with great powerful music. It's amazing to see all the different generations singing along to this classic RODS "Anthem". Call it "Rock n' Roll", or call it "Heavy Metal", it's meant to be played loud with a passion, and that't what we have done for thirty-five years.
Drummer / producer Carl Canedy has checked in with the following comment:
We felt re-recording our very first single, "Crank it Up", would be a fitting way to commemorate our 35 years together. Originally we'd pressed a few hundred 45's and sent them off to radio stations and record companies without much hope of getting any response. I'll never forget how thrilled I was when I contacted the DJ at a Rochester, NY radio station, asking if he'd received our song and what he thought of it. His response was, "Yeah, we received it, and Crank it Up sounds great on air!". I was floored. It was the first time we'd received any recognition for our music. 35 years later I still love playing the song and the fans still seem to love hearing it.
Bassist Garry Bordonaro has checked in with the following comment:
Re-recording The Rods most recognized early release seemed like an obvious way to celebrate having survived 35 years, almost a miracle! We wanted to show that we still have the same energy and dedication to our fans we had in the beginning. They deserve it after the faith they have shown in us!
The Rods early years saw them open up for Judas Priest, Motorhead, Krokus, Ozzy Osbourne, Rainbow, Foghat, as well as playing alonside Virgin Steele, Exciter, Def Leppard, a rising new band called Metallica and tapped by Iron Maiden to open up their legendary "The Number of the Beast" UK tour".
Upcoming The Rods shows:
4/22-23, 2016 - Keep It True XIX festival - Lauda-Königshofen, Germany
4/29-30, 2016 - Very 'Eavy festival - Stadskanaal, Holland
For the latest The Rods news and show dates, visit the following sites:
Official The Rods website
Official The Rods Facebook page
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Labels: Carl Canedy, Crank It Up, David "Rock" Feinstein, Garry Bordonaro, Online Metal Promo, The Rods
VEKTOR announce 2016 European festival appearances
Philadelphia-based sci-fi thrashers VEKTOR have confirmed a number of European festival appearances for 2016.
The band, who have just completed their first ever European tour, will release their eagerly-anticipated new album 'Terminal Redux' on March 11th, with the first confirmations for VEKTOR's 2016 European festival run including Into the Grave (NL), Metal Mean (BE), Motocultor (FR), and Brutal Assault (CZ).
VEKTOR vocalist/guitarist David DiSanto comments:
"On the heels of a completely badass European tour - our first one - we're booking a whole bunch of festivals for next summer. This tour has been better than we could have ever expected; it's looking like it's going to get even bigger and better. We're coming back - look out for us in August, Europe!"
Listen to a brand new song, "Ultimate Artificer", at http://youtu.be/WNmHtWERWyw
Don't miss VEKTOR on tour:
Aug. 10 - Josefov, Czech Republic - Brutal Assault Festival
Aug. 12 - Leeuwarden, Netherlands - Into the Grave Festival
Aug. 20 - Méan, Belgium - Metal Mean Festival
Aug. 21 - Saint-Nolff, France - Motocultor Festival
View the flyer at http://bit.ly/1m0P3NQ
To coincide with VEKTOR's current European tour, the band's first two albums, 'Black Future' and 'Outer Isolation', have been re-released on vinyl. Order yours now in Europe at http://webstore.earache.com/vektor or in the USA at http://uswebstore.earache.com/vektor
Both albums are also available on iTunes at http://apple.co/1Nfg4IF
Get more VEKTOR news and info:
Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/VektorOfficial
Twitter - http://twitter.com/vektormetal
Labels: Black Future, Earache, European tour, Outer Isolation, Ultimate Artificer, Vektor
Fates Warning teams up with Sheet Happens Publishing to offer fans guitar transcription of classic album, 'A Pleasant Shade Of Gray'
Progressive metal legends Fates Warning recently released a 3-CD+DVD expanded edition of their critically acclaimed 1997 classic, A Pleasant Shade of Gray, via Metal Blade Records. Today, the band is offering fans a guitar transcription of the album, in conjunction with Sheet Happens Publishing. To purchase the digital guitar-book, please visit: http://www.sheethappenspublishing.com/product-541/fates-warning-a-pleasant-shade-of-gray-digital-guitarbook
A Pleasant Shade of Gray is a single song that is divided into twelve tracks. The album is notable for its darker mood and mixture of progressive rock and metal with hints of industrial, classical, and psychedelia. The all encompassing and expansive re-issue of A Pleasant Shade of Gray includes:
--CD 1: the original album
--CD 2: a live version of the album recorded during the band's 1998 European tour, as well as a sound check recording of "We Only Say Goodbye" and a studio cover version of The Scorpions' "In Trance"
--CD 3: demos from the pre-production and writing sessions for A Pleasant Shade of Gray
--DVD: two complete live performances of A Pleasant Shade of Gray: the first being a restored and re-edited version of the band's 1997 VHS release; the second being a show filmed at The Whisky A Go Go in Hollywood, CA in 1998
To preview and purchase A Pleasant Shade of Gray, please visit: http://www.metalblade.com/fateswarning
Fates Warning online:
http://www.fateswarning.com
http://www.facebook.com/FatesWarning
https://twitter.com/fateswarning
Labels: A Pleasant Shade of Gray, Fates Warning, Joey Vera, Metal Blade, progressive metal, Sheet Happens Publishing
AXE CRAZY "Angry Machines" – Limited Vinyl Edition - release date: February 26th
The release date of the AXE CRAZY album „Angry Machines“ on limited vinyl is February 26th, 2016. The pre-order phase will start on February 12th, 2016 in the webshop.
Limited to 200 vinyl copies Pure Steel will re-release the AXE CRAZY debut EP „Angry Machines“ (2014) through Pure Underground Records. Like the name – borrowed by the self titled single of Jaguar from 1982 – already suggests, the quintet from Poland has committed themselves to the spirit of the glorious, early days of NWoBHM. On four songs, they enlarge the Metal underground with majestic twin guitar leads, rapid, but tight doublebass drumming and melodic, powerful high pitched vocals. References like the eponyms, early Maiden stuff and a decent dose of early US Metal always can be perceived. But still, AXE CRAZY sent up an adolescent briskness, that can’t be found very often nowadays. Traditional, stainless steel at its best: With AXE CRAZY no frequenter of festivals like Keep It True and Headbangers Open Air will be disappointed.
1. Angry Machines
2. Hungry For Life
3. Sabretooth Tiger
4. Running Out Of Time
Total Playing Time: 17:26 min
Michael Skotnicki – vocals
Adrian Bigos – guitars, backing vocals
Robson Bigos – guitars, backing vocals
Kamil Pie?ciuk – bass
Andrzej Heczko – drums
AXE CRAZY @ PURE UNDERGROUND RECORDS
„Angry Machines“ @ PURE UNDERGROUND RECORDS
www.facebook.com/axecrazyband
Labels: Angry Machines, Axe Crazy, limited vinyl, Pure Steel Records, Pure Underground Records
Hail of Bullets announces David Ingram (ex-Bolt Thrower/Benediction) as vocalist for Maryland Deathfest
As previously reported, Hail of Bullets and front-man Martin van Drunen have parted ways; today, the band has announced David Ingram (ex-Bolt Thrower/Benediction) as his live replacement for Maryland Deathfest on May 28th in Baltimore, USA - the only confirmed Hail of Bullets show for 2016! For more information about the festival, please visit: http://www.marylanddeathfest.com
Set to begin writing the follow-up to 2013's III: The Rommel Chronicles next year, Hail of Bullets has unleashed three full-lengths of war-inspired, death metal since their inception in 2006. Fans can expect another full attack from the Dutch troop on their upcoming record, at MDF, and beyond!
To preview and purchase III: The Rommel Chronicles, head over to: http://www.metalblade.com/hailofbullets
Hail of Bullets online:
http://www.hailofbullets.com
https://www.facebook.com/hailofbulletsofficial
https://www.youtube.com/user/hailz666
https://twitter.com/hailofbulletsDM
Labels: Benediction, Bolt Thrower, David Ingram, Hail of Bullets, Maryland Death Fest, Metal Blade
Metal Blade Records re-signs worldwide deal with Chilean thrashers Criminal
Metal Blade Records is proud to welcome back Criminal to its worldwide roster! Having released four albums in the past via Metal Blade, Criminal is now preparing their return to the Blade with a major Chilean thrash attack to drop in March 2016!
Front-man Anton Reisenegger comments: "Re-signing to Metal Blade feels like coming home to me. I've had a very close relationship to the label from when they sent me vinyl promos for my fanzine in the eighties, to when they offered us to release our second album in the US and Europe in the nineties, to when I worked for them myself in the 00s. I'm very good friends with all of their staff, so I'm really happy they asked us to come back, and I am proud to say we are coming back with one of our best records to-date!"
More details about Criminal's upcoming album will be revealed soon, but in the meantime, Anton has given fans a preview of what to expect: "The new album sounds really pissed off and aggressive. Angry old men who don't give a fuck any more. We have come to terms with the fact we're not going to be the next Slayer, but we keep doing this because we love making music together and I think we have something important to say in a time when image on the one hand and technique on the other seem to be more important than the riff. To us, it's all about the riff!"
Criminal lineup:
Anton Reisenegger - vocals/guitars
Sergio Klein - guitars
Dan Biggin - bass
Zac O' Neil - drums
Criminal online:
https://www.facebook.com/Criminal.Band
http://www.criminal1.com/home
https://www.youtube.com/user/criminalchile
Labels: Criminal, Metal Blade, thrash
Just posted, Like A Storm axe slinger Matt Brooks on this weeks Focus on Metal
Episode 262 - Like A Storm
This week our guest is guitarist Matt Brooks from the band of brothers known as Like A Storm. Hailing from New Zealand these guys have forged an impressive little empire for themselves. They recently released their sophomore effort "Awaken The Fire" via Another Century Records. The band is currently on their Didgeridoo Destruction Tour and Matt called in from the road before their show in Kansas City at the Riot Room. Find out more about the band at http://www.likeastorm.com/ and while you are there be sure to peruse their very comprehensive selection of merch.
Labels: Another Century, Awaken The Fire, Chris Brooks, Didgeridoo Destruction, Kent Brooks, Like A Storm, Matt Brooks, New Zealand
DEATH DEALER GETS IN THE HOLIDAY SPIRIT WITH "WE THREE KINGS" + FREE DOWNLOAD
Death Dealer are out to prove that heavy metal and the holidays can indeed merrily coexist, with a cover of the old-time Christmas carol, "We Three Kings." A video has been filmed for the song (which is a "stand-alone track," as it does not appear on the group's latest album, 'Hallowed Ground'), made by noted European filmmakers Village Road Film.
The video can be viewed via this link: https://youtu.be/74vtllYwKks
Death Dealer's guitarist, Stu Marshall, was responsible for orchestration and producing the song, while the tune showcases the strength and pure magic of vocalist Sean Peck. The video also expresses the band's wishes for peace on earth especially in light of world activities lately.
Sean Peck said, "Christmas is a very important and meaningful time for me. I have always loved singing the songs that go with the holiday season since I was a kid. If I was not in a band, I would probably be dressed up in a full-on caroling costume, and be going house to house, singing in a group to strangers in the neighborhood. This killer video and song is the next best thing!"
“‘We Three Kings' is an absolute triumph of a Christmas tale to enjoy for the holiday season!” adds the group's leader/guitarist, Ross The Boss.
The release of "We Three Kings" comes hot on the heels of the group's aforementioned sophomore album, 'Hallowed Ground' (to order, click here http://tinyurl.com/prmq8wp). Featuring members that have previously played with the likes of Manowar, the Dictators, Rob Halford, Lizzy Borden, Denner/Shermann and Cage, Death Dealer are a true heavy metal force to be reckoned with. And "We Three Kings" shows a whole new side to one of metal's heaviest acts.
Death Dealer is in the holiday spirit bringing you their metal take on "We Three Kings"! download the song for FREE!
https://soundcloud.com/sweden-music-group-smg/death-dealer-we-three-kings
deathdealer.co
facebook.com/deathdealerband
http://swedenmusicgroup.com
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Labels: Death Dealer, free download, Hallowed Ground, Sean Peck, Stu Marshall, We Three Kings
LORDS OF THE TRIDENT launch Patreon crowd soucing campaign / Announce Re:Quests EP
After a successful opening slot as special guests of Steel Panther in their hometown of Madison, Wisconsin, metal conquistadors LORDS OF THE TRIDENT are celebrating by launching their brand new Patreon pledge campaign!
Lords of the Trident vocalist Fang VonWrathenstein has checked in with the following metal news flash:
As many of you know, the music industry has changed drastically over the past 15 years. Gone are the days of gold-plated-shark-tank-bars and artists actually making a living after signing a record deal. A Patreon campaign seeks to change that situation by cutting out the middle man – the record company – entirely.
Fans of the band pledge a monthly donation, and in return, get awesome Patreon-only rewards! What kind of rewards, you may ask? All SORTS of cool stuff, including Patreon-exclusive shirts, behind-the-scenes content, and a invite to a yearly Patreon-backer-only private concert!
And if you pledge the $5 level or more before 12/25, you’ll get a FREE MP3 copy of our latest EP: re:Quests, the Kickstarter Covers EP!
This EP will be released on Christmas Day, but if you want to hear it before the release date, pledge to our Patreon and you’ll receive it right away!
We want to stress that this is optional – pledge or not, we’re still going to continue to make the most metal music you’ve ever heard. But if you want to help us take Lords to the next level – more music, more videos, more everything – please consider donating to our campaign.
Thank you!! Whether or not you choose to pledge, we want to thank all of you for supporting us over the past seven years. It’s amazing fans like you that keep the Lords going – THANK YOU!
Lords of the Trident Patreon pledge campaign link
Lords of the Trident Patreon video link
Upcoming Lords of the Trident battles:
12/12/15 - Wisconsin Brewing Company - Madison, Wisconsin
1/2/16 - Mead & Metal Fest (High Noon Saloon) - Madison, Wisconsin
1/22/16 - TBA - Indianapolis, Indiana
1/23/16 - Powerfest V (Madison Theatre) - Covington, Kentucky
2/19/16 - The Elbo Room - Chicago, Illinois
3/18/16 - The Frequency - Madison, Wisconsin
3/19/16 - Izzy's - Berlin, Wisconsin
Official Lords of the Trident website
Official Lords of the Trident Facebook page
Labels: Fang VonWrathenstein, Kickstarter, Lords of The Trident, LOTT, Patreon, re:Quests EP
NWOBHM Trail Blazers SAVAGE Release Double Studio/Live Album '7'
NWOBHM trailblazers SAVAGE have released a new studio album 7 on Minus 2 Zebra. Included with the double-album is a live performance disc titled Live N Lethal. 7 features 12 blistering new tracks, which mix old with new. Many of the tracks are fast paced and hark back to the early days whilst tracks such as "Superspy' and Empire Of Hate' sound akin to something off a modern OZZY album or even METALLICA at their best!
Live N Lethal features 13 live tracks. Included is the entirety of classic 1983 debut album Loose N Lethal, which is given a fresh treatment in the form of a recently recorded gig in the band's hometown of Mansfield (UK). The Loose n Lethal album is delivered at a furious pace, along with a few choice tracks from the band's back catalogue.
SAVAGE, once credited for influencing METALLICA to play fast, the band has a strong history starting out in the 80s. Even though the band has often been linked to the NWOBHM movement, their roots are more in the vintage classic rock with a modern feel. Influences such as THIN LIZZY and DEEP PURPLE abound and yet with new material they sound incredibly contemporary and fresh. Their debut album, Loose n Lethal became a classic and was the biggest selling independent import in to USA in its day. The band have had a stop-start career but came back with a vengeance in 2012 with the epic Sons Of Malice. The band has been busy ever since on the live scene in the UK and Europe and most recently an Italian tour earlier this summer.
Fun Fact: The song "Let it Loose" was covered by METALLICA on their first demo Hit the Lights.
"Savage sound as vibrant as ever. Its 10 tracks hearken back to the band's early roots while also capturing a contemporary sound."
- Brave Words
"7/Live n Lethal is a fantastic combination of the band's classic era and its modern age sound in one signature set."
- Metalholic
"Continuing a rennasiance that began about 20 years ago, England's Savage keep their New Wave of British Heavy Metal rumbling along."
- Dangerdog Music Reviews
"Why Savage aren't big players on today's music scene is beyond me."
- Get Your Rock Out
Disc 1: 7
1. I Am The Law
2. Lock N Load
3. Empire Of Hate
4. Super Spy
5. Circus Of Fools
6. Crazy Horse
7. Speed Freak
8. The Road To Avalon (Sins Of The Fathers)
9. Children Of The Night
10. Payback's A Bitch
11. Shake The Tree
12. Heads Will Roll
Disc 2: Live N Lethal
1. A Prelude To Rage
2. The Rage Within
3. Black 'n' Blue
4. White Hot
5. The China Run
6. On The Rocks
7. Aint No Fit Place
8. Dirt Money
10. Cry Wolf
11. Let It Loose
12. Smilling Assassin
13. We Got The Edge
http://www.savageband.com/
https://www.facebook.com/savageuk
Twitter.com/savagebanduk
www.youtube.com/user/savagemusicuk
Labels: 7, Live N Lethal, Metallica, Minus 2 Zebra, NWOBHM, Savage
KILMARA Announces 'Daniel Ponce' As New Singer
Spanish heavy metallers KILMARA has parted ways with singer "Christian Wolfgang Kohl" and has replaced him with North American singer "Daniel Ponce".
The break with singer "Christian Wolfgang Kohl" has been done in a friendly manner, the rest of the band members intend on continuing to forge, maintain and increase the status that they have worked so hard in building these past 15 years with KILMARA.
The band is confident that they have chosen well, and they are sure that Daniel Ponce is the right candidate with whom they will be able to reach new goals, new fans worldwide and new horizons!
Daniel Ponce, who has the American nationality, was born in Tampa, Florida from a circus family (he is the fifth generation) and has traveled all his life around the world starting to appear on stage at the early age of 2. It would have been normal for him to have followed his father or his older brother’s steps, and also become a juggler like them, but from a very young age, what he really liked and what motivated him the most was music and singing. Since Daniel became 18 and settled in the south of Barcelona, he began his career as a singer, studying the voice and becoming a part of numerous projects, most of them related to Hard Rock and Heavy Metal, that gave him the opportunity to perform all around the Iberian Peninsula, some points of Europe and even in a few venues at Los Angeles in California.
Now a new chapter begins full of motivation, the best of hopes and of course a lot of work with KILMARA, to whom he is immensely grateful for this opportunity and with whom he will give his absolute best so that they can grow the most possible together and reach the highest goals.
As Daniel says; “The truth is that the try outs to become the singer have been very very hard and I know that there were very talented candidates also trying out for the position… So I really want to thank my band mates of KILMARA for trusting in me and for choosing me. And I want both them and the fans to know, that I will strive to the maximum to keep KILMARA’s name and legacy high where it belongs! Destiny has given me this chance and I don’t intend on letting down!!!”
www.kilmara.com
www.facebook.com/kilmaraofficial
Labels: Daniel Ponce, Kilmara
Motor Sister announces intimate Christmas performance in Los Angeles on Dec. 19th; launches live clip from Motorhead Motorboat cruise
Los Angeles hard rock outfit Motor Sister has announced a special hometown performance on December 19th! Set to take place at Molly Malone's, fans are welcome to join the band for a pre-Christmas rock 'n roll bash starting at 9PM. For more event and purchase details, please visit: http://goo.gl/1NO0gz
Motor Sister released their debut full-length, Ride, earlier this year to critical acclaim. Comprised of a group of musicians whose collective musical pedigrees speak for themselves (Mother Superior's Jim Wilson, Anthrax's Scott Ian, Pearl Aday, Fates Warning/Armored Saint's Joey Vera, and White Zombie/Testament's John Tempesta), the quintet was originally assembled to jam for Scott Ian's 50th birthday party. Thanks to Scott's wife Pearl Aday, who has been working on her solo career with Jim Wilson for years, all it took was a quick phone call and the stage was literally set for Scott's dream gig. "I wanted to cherry-pick a set list of my favorite Mother Superior songs and get these guys together and have the concert at my house," Scott says of the event that eventually led to an album. Since their formation and the release of Ride, Motor Sister has performed at the prestigious Motorhead Motorboat cruise, in addition to other dates across the USA. The band's upcoming Christmas party at Molly Malone's will be a rare, intimate show that fans won't want to miss!
For a glimpse of Motor Sister's riveting rock n' roll show, a new live clip from the Motorhead Motorboat cruise has been posted online (with more footage coming soon!): https://www.facebook.com/motorsister/videos/538483989656663
To preview and purchase Ride, please visit: http://www.metalblade.com/motorsister
"All you really need to know about 'Ride' is that it kicks a massive amount of ass." - Revolver Magazine
"The retro rock and roll band that you didn't even know you were missing in your life until right now!" - MetalInjection.net
"This is kick ass classic sounding hard rock! Blazing guitars, great vocals and songs! Everything I love most about hard rock music in one killer album." - Eddie Trunk
Motor Sister line-up:
Jim Wilson - vocals, guitar
Scott Ian - guitar
Joey Vera - bass
John Tempesta - drums
Pearl Aday - vocals
Motor Sister online:
https://www.facebook.com/motorsister
https://twitter.com/MotorSister
Labels: Jim Wilson, Joey Vera, Johnny Tempesta, Metal Blade, Motor Sister, Pearl Aday, Ride, Scott Ian, XMAS party
Just posted Robin McAuley on This Weeks Focus on Metal
Episode 261 - Robin McAuley
This week our guest is vocalist Robin McAuley robinmcauley.com/ . Most metal fans know Robin from his work with Michael Schenker, but he's done much more besides that and he continues to bring the rock to audiences weekly through his shows with Raiding The Rock Vault raidingtherockvault.com/. Robin also just released a rerecorded version of the MSG single Anytime and it's available on iTunes. We had a great chat with Robin and I think it should be an enjoyable episode for all.
Labels: Anytime, Grand Prix, James Kottak, Jeff Pilson, Las Vegas, McAuley Schenker Group, Michael Schenker, Raiding The Rock Vault, Robin McAuley
'We are Twisted F*cking Sister!' The Movie - Cover Artwork Unveiled & European Release Date Announced
The Twisted Sister movie 'We are Twisted F*cking Sister!' a documentary film by Andrew Horn to be released in Europe on January 29, 2016 via MONODUO FILMS. The film, lenght 137 minutes + over 2 hours bonus material will be available on VOD (iTunes & Vimeo on Demand) and as DVD (Amazon Europe and Monoduo Films Shop). The DVD cover and movie trailer can be viewed below.
Twisted Fucking Sister Trailer from Monoduo Films on Vimeo.
'We are Twisted F*cking Sister!' movie trailer: https://vimeo.com/117275694
Featuring: Twisted Sister, Dee Snider, Jay Jay French, Eddie Ojeda, Mark “The Animal” Mendoza, A.J. Pero
Produced by Andrew Horn
How fitting that 2016 marks the release of the documentary film, “We Are Twisted F*cking Sister!” a documentary film by german filmmaker Andrew Horn, which recounts the untold story of Twisted Sister’s beginnings, at the same time that the band mounts their last ever tour, making their final farewell to performing after 40 years. As the band gears up for the big finish, the movie shows how it all began.
Once upon a time, they were the Grand Funk of Glam and the NY Dolls of Metal. Some considered Twisted Sister a joke, others called them the greatest bar band in the world. While the microcosm of Punk/New Wave was taking over NYC in the mid 70s – early 80s, Twisted Sister was battling their way to the top of a vast – and unique to it’s time – suburban, cover-band bar scene that surrounded NYC in a 100 mile radius, yet existed in a parallel universe. Guitarist, Jay Jay French, says, “the history of Twisted is really our 10 years clawing our way through the bar scene. It’s who we are, and it’s why we are, and why we do what we do.”
The film follows the band from their beginnings as a cross-dressing glam band playing 4 shows a night, 6 nights a week in New Jersey bowling alleys and Long Island beach bars, to the suburban mega-clubs of the late 70s/early 80s, to their bust-out appearance on the UK rock TV show, “The Tube”. Through it all, Twisted stood ready to do or die for the sake of “the show”, giving their all to the crowd, and demanding full attention in return. They refused to play the usual bar band role of “human juke box for drunk and horny teens” – you were going to be entertained whether you liked it or not.
They regaled their audiences with comedy rants, dragging them on stage for vomit inducing drinking games, engaging them in fits of disco record smashing and, at their most extreme, whipping them into club-destroying frenzy. The performances were low on style and heavy on the humour and attitude – but behind it all, always smart and full of self-awareness. Spinal Tap may have been clueless but Twisted Sister knew exactly what they were doing!
If you think you know them from their hit songs, the MTV videos and their massive stadium shows, this is the story of how they became that band – full of strange, and often hilarious, twists and turns. It’s about Rock ‘n Roll and the business of Rock ‘n Roll. It’s about perseverance and things blowing up in your face. It’s about finding yourself, finding your audience and doing literally anything, however wild, to connect with them. And even though we know how it ends, the roller coaster ride of getting there is what it’s all about. A mesmerizing, and wickedly funny story of a 10 year odyssey to overnight success.
“A sure-fire crowd pleaser...very, very, very entertaining” – The Hollywood Reporter
“Uproarious and poignant – a tale of excess, egotism and absurdity” – The Independent
www.monoduofilms.com
www.facebook.com/monoduofilms
www.facebook.com/TwistedSisterTheMovie
www.facebook.com/Twisted-Sister-138018010313
Labels: A.J. Pero, Andrew Horn, Dee Snider, Eddie Ojeda, Jay Jay French, Mark Mendoza, Monoduo Films, Twisted Sister, We are Twisted F*cking Sister
Epic Metallers RAVENSIRE Reveal Track List and Cover Art for 'The Cycle Never Ends'
Cruz Del Sur Music has revealed the cover art and track listing for The Cycle Never Ends from Portuguese Epic Metal Heroes RAVENSIRE. The album will be released in North America on February 12. Check out new song "Temple at the End of the World" (the final installment of The White Pillars trilogy) at this location.
Formed in 2010, RAVENSIRE built a strong reputation in the European Underground Metal movement with their two previous albums Iron Will (2012) and We March Forward(2013). Given that RAVENSIRE's sound is genuinely devoted to the likes of OMEN, old MANOWAR, and BROCAS HELM, both albums were highly acclaimed by Epic Metal fans, fueling the band's songwriting on The Cycle Never Ends. The album will be available on CD, vinyl, and digital formats.
From the cover artwork (strongly recalling John Buscema's black and white art for the "Savage Sword of Conan" 70s comic - an appropriate reading to get along with Ravensire's music!) to each one of the eight songs, The Cycle Never Ends shows the band's reaching maturity through an astonishingly intense performance. Among more direct tracks such as the opener "Cromlech Revelations" and "Crosshaven," the album's highlight is definitely the "White Pillars" trilogy, "a monumental epic piece connected to the history of Sintra, famed city not far from Lisbon. At the coastline, archaeologists dig the ruins of a watchtower built in the 16th century. Contemporary manuscripts mention that ancient written stones had been found (Part I, "Eternal Sun"). Under the ruins, they find the remains of a Moorish settlement, once subdued by the invading army of King Sigurd of Norway in the beginning of the 12th century (Part II, "Blood and Gold"). Finally, among the stones of the Moorish walls, the archaeologists find Roman altars and stones belonging to an ancient temple dedicated to the Sun, the Moon and the Ocean (Part III, "Temple at the End of the World").
Definitely recommended for fans of OMEN and old MANOWAR!
1 - Cromlech Revelations
2 - Crosshaven
3 - Solitary Vagrant
4 - Procession
5 - Trapped in Dreams
6 - White Pillars Trilogy: Part I - Eternal Sun
7 - While Pillars Trilogy: Part II - Blood and Gold
8 - White Pillars Trilogy: Part III - Temple at the End of the World
www.facebook.com/Ravensire
www.cruzdelsurmusic.com
cruzdelsurmusic.bandcamp.com/
www.facebook.com/cruzdelsurmusic
Labels: Cruz Del Sur Music, Ravensire, The Cycle Never Ends
Brimstone Coven reveals details for new album, 'Black Magic'; launches video for title track
On January 29th, West Virginian dark occult rockers Brimstone Coven will release their first full-length album, Black Magic, via Metal Blade Records! Recorded at Andrew D'Cagna's Sacred Sound Studios in Ohio, Black Magic was mostly written over a year period against a backdrop of candles, incense, solitude, and a thick air of ganja. The resulting record boasts gritty, groovy riffs (a la Black Sabbath, Pentagram, Led Zeppelin) with Pink Floydian psychedelic movements, and three-part vocal harmonies reminiscent of the Mamas and Papas, Yes, and The Byrds. For a preview of Black Magic, the video for the album's title track can be viewed at: http://www.metalblade.com/brimstonecoven
Black Magic can be pre-ordered in various formats now at: http://www.metalblade.com/brimstonecoven. See below for the album's track-listing.
Black Magic track-listing:
1. Black Magic
2. Black Unicorn
3. Beyond the Astral
4. As We Fall
5. Upon the Mountain
6. Slow Death
7. The Seers
8. The Plague
10. The Eldest Tree
Formed only four short years ago in Wheeling, West Virginia, Brimstone Coven self-released Brimstone Coven and its follow-up II in 2013, before Metal Blade inked a deal and packaged both releases as a single set, entitled Brimstone Coven (2014). Inspired by the Appalachian's darkness and mysticism (such as the Mothman, a winged creature that emerged in the '60s; Screaming Jenny; and the Phantom of Flatwoods), the quartet's heavy rock also pushes the atmospheric envelope when the mood fits. Brimstone Coven explains, "What sets 'Black Magic' apart to me is the genuinely eerie aura it invokes. We strove for a sound that makes you feel like you're wandering through a shroud of mist, unable to see your own hand in front of your face. We want you to feel equally excited and creeped out, letting your imagination run wild and get the best of you."
Brimstone Coven line-up:
"Big John" Williams - vocals
Corey Roth - guitar
Andrew D'Cagna - bass
Justin Wood - drums
Brimstone Coven online:
https://www.facebook.com/brimstonecoven
Labels: Black Magic, Brimstone Coven, Metal Blade
SUPPRESSIVE FIRE Unleashes New Track of Thrashing Death!
North Carolina Death Thrashers SUPPRESSIVE FIRE have debuted a new song from upcoming album Bedlam. Stream "Ironsights" exclusively at this location, courtesy of Friedhof Magazine.
Pre-orders: http://suppressivefire.bandcamp.com/album/bedlam
SUPPRESSIVE FIRE will release debut album Bedlam on January 14, 2016. The album was mixed and mastered by Joel Grind (TOXIC HOLOCAUST) and features art by Par Olofsson (Exodus, Abysmal Dawn). SUPPRESSIVE FIRE channels the old school fury of bands like KREATOR, EXODUS, DEATH, and SODOM in creating its own brand of scorched-earth devastation. New single "The Hellwraith" is now streaming at this location.
"Suppressive Fire have the chops to be the next big thing in thrash."
- The Killchain
"Bedlam bursts out like the atomic Satan fueled fire it wants to be and for those looking for a rip roaring record it's there for you in 11 full tracks."
- The Metal Observer
1. Ceasefire
2. The Hellwraith
3. Coup d'état
4. Thy Flesh Consumed
5. Bayonet Penetration
6. Nazi Face Melter
7. Pyrophoric Blood
8. Ironsights
9. Crucify the Kings
10. Holy Masochism
11. Bedlam
SUPPRESSIVE FIRE proudly hail from Raleigh, NC, along with greats such as Corrosion of Conformity and Between the Buried and Me. The trio has shared the stage with Toxic Holocaust, Wretched, Genocide Pact, The Hookers, and a slew of other bands and have no plans on slowing down. SUPPRESSIVE FIRE began their all-out attack on the Southeastern metal scene in 2013 and have refused to restrain the assault. Independently releasing Hellwraith (EP) in August 2014 and Covered in Conflict (Split) in 2015, the stage is now set for the unrepentant annihilation that is Bedlam.
www.facebook.com/suppressivefire
https://suppressivefire.bandcamp.com/
Labels: Bedlam, Ironsights, SUPPRESSIVE FIRE, The Hellwraith
DOLL SKIN To Support METAL ALLEGIANCE on West Coast Shows In January 2016
Arizona-based all-female rock quartet DOLL SKIN to support METAL ALLEGIANCE, the all-star metal band consisting of a rotating cast of musicians, including members of MEGADETH, TESTAMENT on FOUR intimate West Coast shows w/ CAGE, to start off 2016. The West Coast run starts in San Diego on January 7, hits Las Vegas, Los Angeles, and wraps up in San Francisco on January 10.
DOLL SKIN recently confirmed for the ShipRocked Cruise 2016. DOLL SKIN will be performing onboard the ShipRocked Cruise, sailing January 18-22, 2016, from Miami to Costa Maya, Mexico. Alongside bands like Five Finger Death Punch, Seether, Halestorm, Hellyeah,Helmet, to name a few: www.ShipRocked.com
Their new EP "In Your Face" was released in North America on October 30 and will be out in Europe due on December 18, physical & digital via EMP Label Group/Cargo Records. “In Your Face” was produced by David Ellefson (MEGADETH) and mixed by Ryan Greene (NOFX, CHEAP TRICK, LITA FORD).
DOLL SKIN just released a music video for "Family Of Strangers", which can be seen here: http://vevo.ly/mckyQz
Due on December 18 in Europe, "In Your Face" features the following tracks:
01. Family Of Strangers
02. Wring Me Out
03. Let's Be Honest
04. Blind
05. So Much Nothing
06. Weatherman (live)
DOLL SKIN Tour Dates:
December 11, 2015 | Doll Skin @ Last Exit Live (Phoenix, AZ, USA)
January 07 | Ramona Main Stage - San Diego, CA | w/ METAL ALLEGIANCE, CAGE
January 08 | Count's Vamp'd - Las Vegas, NV | w/ METAL ALLEGIANCE, CAGE
January 09 | Whisky A Go Go - West Hollywood, CA | w/ METAL ALLEGIANCE, CAGE
January 10 | The Regency - San Francisco, CA | w/ METAL ALLEGIANCE, CAGE
January 18-22, 2016 | Doll Skin @ ShipRocked Cruise, Miami to Costa Maya, Mexico
www.facebook.com/dollskinband
www.dollskinband.com
Labels: Alex Skolnick, Dave Ellefson, Doll Skin, In Your Face, Mark Menghi, Mark Osegueda, Metal Allegiance, Mike Portnoy, Phil Demmel, West coast
REVERENCE premier 'Gods Of War' Music Video
American power metal band Reverence, featuring Todd Michael Hall (Riot, Jack Starr’s Burning Starr), Bryan Holland (Tokyo Blade, Arrest), Steve “Doc Killdrums” Wacholz (Savatage, Crimson Glory), Pete Rossi (Overland, Sanxtion), and Michael Massie (Overloaded, Inner Recipe), premieres a new video for the band's new full-length album's title track "Gods Of War".
'Gods Of War' video: https://youtu.be/9U3y6FJ8X_8
Reverence’s second album 'Gods Of War' follows their first release, When Darkness Calls, which was released through Razar Ice Records in 2012
03. Until My Dying Breath
04. Angel In Black
05. Tear Down The Mountain
06. Blood Of Heroes
08. Choices Made
09. Splinter
10. Cleansed By Fire
11. Race To Obscene
The impending power metal assault is coming you way, take cover!
www.facebook.com/Reverencemetal
www.reverencemetal.com
Labels: Bryan Holland, Gods of War, Reverence, Rock N' Growl, Steve Wacholz, Todd Michael Hall
KARA AND THE DAMN BAND release "Shepherd" video.
San Antonio, Texas based melodic hard rock band KARA AND THE DAM BAND have released their new video for the song "Sheperd" which can be viewed at the following link:
Kara and the Dam Band - "Shepherd" video link
Kara and the Dam Band vocalist Kara Stevens has checked in with the following update:
The song "Shepherd" was inspired by my grandmothers passing. "No one really knows what lies beyond this life, yet the mystery and our faith keeps us in wonder and eager to witness something beautiful and my grandmother was very much eager to see her shepherd meet her at the gate and call her name. The making of our music video was very important. After all, I wanted to make it very much like death..... Very mysterious..... having that fear of getting old.....but most importantly the rebirth from death into light."
Kara and the Dam Band guitarist / producer Chad Austin has checked in with the following update:
We are currently working on show dates for 2016 with plans to tour regionally and beyond. Currently we are working on our second album "Power the Engines" and we are very excited!! This album Rocks all the way through and we can't wait for it to be heard. Stay tuned to our website for upcoming tour dates and new music.
Kara and the Dam Band line-up (2015):
Kara Stevens (Lead Vocals)
Chad Austin (Guitars)
Roger Mendez (Lead Guitars)
Steven Vee (Bass)
Scott Pierson (Drums)
Upcoming Kara and the Dam Band show dates:
12/04/15 - The Barn - Victoria, Texas
12/11/15 - Guadalupe River Club - Kerrville, Texas
01/29/16 - Kickapoo Lucky Eagle Casino - Eagle Pass, Texas
Kara and the Dam Band live promo video)
For the latest band news and show dates, visit their official Facebook website:
Official Kara and the Dam Band Facebook website
Labels: Kara And The Dam Band, KATDB, Power The Engines, Shepard
CORNERS OF SANCTUARY release "Driven Snow", A Merry Metal Xmas III - free album download.
To celebrate this holiday season, CORNERS OF SANCTUARY have announced that they have put together a 10 track Holiday album titled "Driven Snow", A Merry Metal Xmas III" which will be available as a free download during the entire month of December.
Corners of Sanctuary - "Driven Snow", A Merry Metal Xmas III" - Free Album Download Link
Corners of Sanctuary guitarist Mick Michaels has checked in with the following comment:
"We are excited to release our new Holiday bum "Driven Snow" for 2015. This album marks the fourth installment of this seasonal release. It is a great mixture of traditional favorites and modern arrangements capturing the metal style of COS. The album includes four all new, all original tracks. Driven Snow will definitely make your merry metal!"
Have a Merry Metal Xmas - COSnROLL!
For the latest band news and show dates, visit their official Facebook page:
Official Corners of Sanctuary Facebook page:
Labels: Corners of Sanctuary, COS, Driven Snow, free download, OMP, Online Metal Promo
CRUZ DEL SUR MUSIC to Release SEPTAGON's "Deadhead Syndicate" in February 2016
CRUZ DEL SUR MUSIC will release Deadhead Syndicate, the debut album from German speed/thrash metal band SEPTAGON on Feb 5 (Europe) and Feb 12 (World).
SEPTAGON is the creature of LANFEAR / THEM mastermind Markus "Ulle" Ullrich, who in 2013 met Markus Becker (ATLANTEAN KODEX) with the idea of forming an old-school speed/thrash metal band which had the aggression of Exodus, Slayer and Testament but also the melody and technical appeal of Forbidden, Heathen, Realm, Watchtower.
Expect fast, technical thrash mixed with mid-paced groove and good hooklines!
The band has posted a lyric video for the song "Unwanted Company" at:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk_PnP59Qx4
Deadhead Syndicate will be released on Compact Disc | Vinyl | Digital.
Not a mere side-project but a real band, SEPTAGON will make its debut on stage on Jan 31 at Metal Assault Festival (Germany) with the likes of LIEGE LORD, VENOM INC. and RAM.
SEPTAGON Live:
23.01.2016 - KILLER METAL NIGHT IV, Omega, Erlangen
30.01.2016 - METAL ASSAULT 2016, Posthalle, Würzburg
Deadhead Syndicate Tracklist:
1. Ignite the Apocalypse
2. Revolt Against the Revolution
3. Exit...Gunfire
4. Ripper
5. Septagon Conspiracy
6. Henchman of Darkness
7. Deadhead Syndicate
8. Unwanted Company
9. Secret Silver Panorama Machine
www.facebook.com/septagonband
Labels: Cruz Del Sur Music, Deadhead Syndicate, SEPTAGON, speed/thrash
DOLL SKIN Confirmed for ShipRocked Cruise 2016
Arizona-based all-female rock quartet DOLL SKIN are confirmed for the ShipRocked Cruise 2016. DOLL SKIN will be performing onboard the ShipRocked Cruise, sailing January 18-22, 2016, from Miami to Costa Maya, Mexico. Alongside bands like Five Finger Death Punch, Seether, Halestorm, Hellyeah, Helmet, to name a few: www.ShipRocked.com
DOLL SKIN just entered the CMJ Loud Rock Chart at #34. Their new EP "In Your Face" was released in North America on October 30 and will be out in Europe due on December 18, physical & digital via EMP Label Group/Cargo Records. “In Your Face” was produced by David Ellefson (MEGADETH) and mixed by Ryan Greene (NOFX, CHEAP TRICK, LITA FORD).
DOLL SKIN recently released a music video for "Family Of Strangers", which can be seen here: http://vevo.ly/mckyQz
Formed in Arizona in 2013, DOLL SKIN's members — vocalist Sydney Dolezal (15), guitarist Alex Snowden (16), bassist Nicole Rich (17), and drummer Meghan Herring (19) — met while attending the Scottsdale School of Rock. Meghan made the initial connection when bringing the girls together to compete in Rock Revelation Battle Of The Bands. After catching the attention of Ellefson, who was one of the competition's judges, the band began a sonic assault on the West Coast, playing shows with SOCIAL DISTORTION, GREEN JELLO, D.R.I., SLUNT, and many more, through Arizona, California, and the West Coast.
Labels: Dave Ellefson, Doll Skin, EMP, Family of Stranger, In Your Face, Shiprocked Cruise
Denner / Shermann premieres new video for "Satan's Tomb"
Denner / Shermann recently released their debut, 4-track EP, Satan's Tomb, via Metal Blade Records; today, the legendary guitar duo from Mercyful Fate has launched the video for the EP's title track! Visions of darkness and blood-soaked women drench the digital landscape, while the band performs "Satan's Tomb".
The video for Denner / Shermann "Satan's Tomb" can be seen here: http://www.metalblade.com/dennershermann
Hank Shermann comments: "We are happy to be able to release a video for the title track, which was the first song that really got us going as a band.
Now we are building upon the shadowy metal essence of what we created with the 'Satan's Tomb' EP, and are moving forward with a full-length release for next year."
Featuring cover artwork painted by Thomas Holm (best known for his work on Mercyful Fate's Melissa and Don't Break The Oath), Satan's Tomb is classic heavy metal infused with an outpouring of Michael Denner and Hank Shermann's signature, dark magic shred-work. According to the formidable guitar duo from Mercyful Fate, rounding out the line-up with Snowy Shaw (King Diamond, Therion, Sabaton) on drums, Marc Grabowski (Demonica) on bass guitar, and Sean Peck (Cage, Death Dealer) on vocals was a critical component to bringing these 4 tracks to life. Their critically acclaimed release has the press and fans both craving for more from this group.
Denner comments, "Creating these songs with this line-up really ignited my metal fire hotter than ever! I'm sure the fans are going to love this thing."
Shermann adds, "This mix ended up really having an old school feel to it that sounds awesome when blasting at an unhealthy volume."
Purchase Satan's Tomb now at: http://www.metalblade.com/dennershermann
Denner / Shermann line-up:
Michael Denner - lead guitar
Hank Shermann - lead guitar
Sean Peck - vocals
Snowy Shaw - drums
Marc Grabowski - bass
Denner / Shermann online:
http://www.dennershermann.com
https://www.facebook.com/dennershermann
https://twitter.com/dennershermann
https://www.youtube.com/dennershermann
https://soundcloud.com/dennershermann
Labels: Denner / Shermann, Hank Shermann, Metal Blade, Michael Denner, Satan's Tomb, Sean Peck
Just posted: Martin Popoff on This Weeks Focus on Metal
Episode 260 - Swords & Tequila
Back once again this week is author and devout metalhead Martin Popoff. Martin just published a new book on Riot entitled "Swords & Tequila, RIOT The Classic First Decade". So of course this week involves a lot of great Riot discussion. You can get this book as well as all of Martin's other books at martinpopoff.com/ You can continue to support the Riot legacy by checking out Riot V, the latest incarnation of Riot. For more info go to areyoureadytoriot.com/
During the interview Martin and I discuss how San Antonio got to be a hotbed of heavy metal mania for Riot and so many other classic bands way before everyone else caught on. It all comes down to the effect of one DJ Joe "The Godfather" Anthony. You can read a great write up by Metal Dave on Joe Anthony at 2fast2die.com
Track of the week is from past FoM guest, Death Dealer. They've just unleashed their sophomore release Hallowed Ground it's yet another slab of classic metal. Check em' out at http://www.deathdealer.co/
Labels: Death Dealer, Fire Down Under, Guy Speranza, Hallowed Ground, Joe Anthony, Mark Reale, Martin Popoff, Narita, Riot, Riot V, Rock City, Sean Peck, Swords & Tequila
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Lights, Camera, Comic: Talking to Gordon McAlpin
By Rose Lannin
No stranger to comics, movies, or Chicago, it seems only natural that Gordon McAlpin would create Multiplex, "a comic strip about life at a movie theater." The Peoria native's knowledge of and deep affection for the webcomic's prevailing topics is evident: characters and dialogue have an easy familiarity to them, movement and expression coming through surprisingly well given the strip's slightly static, cartoonish aesthetic. Recently, Gordon filled me in on his history, Multiplex's backstory, and the next step in its evolution.
How did you get into comics in the first place?
I always loved superheroes from watching cartoons, specifically Super Friends. My older brother read a few comics, horror comics, he had the most copies of Gru. He was never really into it. He was more into D&D and heavy metal. In 4th or 5th grade, I got the DC Heroes roleplaying game. They kept referencing this series called Crisis on Infinite Earth, so I saved up more allowance, trucked on over to a comic book store, picked up the old Crisis books. I started hanging around Metropolis, a comic book store, then Acme, its competitor. A chain-smoking, curmudgeonly guy named Jim would recommend stuff to me. Eventually, he would introduce me to slightly more grown-up stuff, he knew I wasn't going to run and show it to my mom. I hung out there for years. Fell in love with the medium, and I always liked to draw.
Did this love last throughout high school? College?
Right at the age where most guys made up their mind whether to go for comics or girls, I didn't even need to make that choice. I studied English with a writing concentration, Art with a drawing concentration, as close as I could get to a comics degree.
During that time, did you ever work in a movie theater? Many of the situations in Multiplex are funny because they're so accurate. Are any of the characters based off people you've known in real life?
I did not work in a movie theater. After college, I got to know this friend of mine Kurt Bollinger from going out to bars and seeing his band play. His day job was as an assistant manager in a movie theater. I would eventually hang out at the movie theater, wait for him to get off of work. I ended up spending probably hundreds of hours there over the course of a couple of years.
Kurt is loosely based on my actual friend Kurt, Melissa is slightly based off his girlfriend at the time. I made a promise to myself that they will never, ever break up, I want them to be the one stable couple in the strip. Other than those two, some people say Jason is very much me. He's kind of like me in my 20's. People don't like him because he's an asshole, but he starts to mellow out with age.
At one point, Kurt said: "You like comics. You should do a comic strip about a bunch of kids who work in a movie theater."
Me: "Nah, that'd be stupid." I wanted to write these big, long, epic narratives. I don't enjoy gag strips, I can't stand the 4-panel newspaper thing, no room for art. It didn't occur to me that it would be something I would enjoy doing.
Did you ever think you'd be working on a comic full-time?
I used to write for Bookslut. I wrote a couple of webcomic reviews, and Jessa, the editor, was like: "Why don't you draw a comic for us?" I did Stripped Books: I'd go to a book-related event and turn that into a comic strip. Some turned out better than others. The monthly nature of Bookslut site was frustrating. If an event came in the middle of the month, I'd have to end up rushing and rushing to get things done.
I moved Stripped Books to own site to work at own pace, about every two months. I wanted to do something that would update more frequently, and ended up doing Multiplex as a backup feature for Stripped Books. Very quickly, it started getting more readers than the comic about authors talking. After awhile, I started separating them...just became a matter of time before Multiplex got its own URL.
What comics have influenced Multiplex, in terms of style and overall look? What else has?
South Park was a big influence, it started out very much like it. I think I've added a little more dimension to it progressively. It's pretty subtle, but adding shadows on a few things here and there, little lighting things, really helped the art. I want the backgrounds to have a little bit more life in them.
Yeah, it always bugs me when comics skimp on the backgrounds. It sounds like animation was a big influence?
Animation and movies. Flash animation, cut paper animation such as Fantastic Planet by Rene Laloux, editorial illustrations in womens' magazines. Kirikou and the Sorceress, which is based off Senegalese folktales. It's very flat, characters are almost always facing sideways, never facing the camera.
What do you think makes Multiplex particularly Chicago? The racial makeup of the characters always feels like parts of Chicago to me, but what else?
It's definitely a northwest suburb thing. It's a fictional suburb located in between Evanston and Skokie, vaguely in that direction.
I lived in Rogers Park, am familiar with that area. It's a nice mix of cultures, geographically. There's a massive Indian neighborhood, there's a massive Jewish neighborhood. I absolutely love the North Side of Chicago, it's culturally so rich, and there are a lot of great old movie theaters there. I've kind of gotten into the classic movie theater theme in the comic, with Jason and Devi going to the Bollywood theater in Niles and the Calo Theater in Andersonville.
I've mentioned the Music Box, sooner or later they'll visit that. I wanted it [Multiplex] to have some substance to it, some meaning -- actually reference real theaters, real movies. It's drawing from the real history of the city, which also establishes every history book ever written about Chicago as a backstory for Multiplex!
That sounds pretty great. So, I hear you're using the fund-raising program Kickstarter to turn Multiplex into a book?
Self-publishing is the plan. I need to finish off the book: the first year of the comic, I had to gloss over so many story points, that I wanted to expand on it, to give it the same amount of depth. That's a lot of new material. It will also be serialized in five eBooks. The first one is almost done. I'm running Kickstarter partly so I'll have the time to finish the book, partly for the publishing costs.
I'm going to add a Star Wars prequel. Multiplex started in 2006, right around the time the last Star Wars movie came out. I want to flesh out the backstory, make introductions. The main point is to do something exclusive to the print book.
What do you like about Kickstarter, as opposed to just a straight-up donation or Paypal link?
I like the idea of a funding goal -- if you don't get there, nobody gets charged. It's a way to ensure that I either get that amount that I need, or worst possible outcome, a few extra Kickstarter people find out about Multiplex and like it.
What do you hope to achieve through publishing the book?
I've always felt that Multiplex is more of a story strip. There are gags, but it's more like a sitcom, works better in larger chunks. I feel bad because people get caught up, then they can only read one at a time. Also, it gives me a chance to fix up some of the old ones without being dishonest. There's higher quality reproduction: 72dpi ruins just about any art, one of the drawbacks of reading webcomics. You can look at it on the web and think it's flat, but if you actually have the eBook in front of you, you can zoom in and see the stuff that gets blurred by downsampling it to the web.
Sounds like a lot of fun extra material. Okay, I have to ask: top five movies? And what's your favorite Chicago theater?
The Apartment by Billy Wilder is my all-time favorite movie, but beyond that it kind of changes with my mood.
Today, I'll say The Incredibles, The Proposition, Tokyo Story, and Sense & Sensibility. I've probably watched Sense & Sensibility more than any other movie, and the ending gets me every single freakin' time. It's ridiculous.
The movie theater I go to most is actually not in Chicago; it's the Evanston Century 12/CinéArts 6 Theater in Evanston. They have a pretty good mix of Hollywood stuff and indie/foreign fair, it has a bar in it, and it's two blocks from where I work. Can't beat that!
My favorite movie theater that is actually in Chicago, though, is the Uptown Theater, which is the last of the true movie palaces in Chicago. It was poorly treated for a long time, but has finally ended up in the hands of an owner who actually cares about the building.
They're in the process of restoring it, and I hope the stonework from the top of the building (which was removed some time ago in order to preserve it) finds its way home soon. There's no other building in Chicago I want to watch a movie in more.
You can learn about Multiplex by visiting multiplexcomic.com. To find out more about Gordon's Kickstarter project, go here.
geekgrrl / November 23, 2009 4:12 PM
thanks so much for the interview! I'm almost caught up on Multiplex, after not knowing about it for the past umpteen years.
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Hacker breaks into Google smart home system and turns up the temperature to 90 degrees
A couple in Milwaukee came home to a surprise when they found out their smart home system was compromised by hackers, according to Fox 6.
The hacker turned the thermostat to 90 degrees and played vulgar music, the couple said.
Samatha Westmoreland and her husband spent $700 installing the Google Nest system.
When she came back to a blazing hot house, she assumes the system had a glitch. Westmoreland tried to reset the temperature, but the thermostat continued to return to the 90-degree setting.
Not until the hacker began talking to her through a smart home camera in the kitchen, did she realized her house was hacked.
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From the GD Blog
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Welcome to the redesigned Microsoft Advertising
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Highlights of CES 2020 – Mercedes-Benz VISION AVTR
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At CES, the inventor of the automobile will be giving an outlook on the sustainable mobility of the future with the Mercedes-Benz VISION AVTR. The concept vehicle connects human, machine and nature in an unprecedented way. Ola Källenius, Chairman of the Board of Management Daimler AG and Mercedes-Benz AG, presented the visionary concept vehicle in his keynote speech to around 2,000 spectators at the Park Theater of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) together with the Academy Award winning director and creator of AVATAR, James Cameron. The VISION AVTR is the result of an unprecedented global partnership between Mercedes-Benz and the AVATAR films.
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Gonzales took the full brunt of the force of the collision. Accident investigators reported the rope was tied to a tree on one side of the roadway and a mailbox on the other. They determined the couple was traveling at about 15 miles per hour. Fabian Arvizu, age 26, and his sister, Victoria Arvizu, age 16, were killed when the motorcycle on which they were riding crashed near rd Avenue and Vineyard in Goodyear around p. Both were Phoenix residents. Christian Nagel was killed after another driver turned left in front of his motorcycle, causing a serious head-on collision. A motorcycle accident in Surprise on Tuesday afternoon has claimed the life of Tyler Deskins.
According to accident investigators, the motorcycle operated by Mr. Deskins collided with two vehicles in the intersection of Bell Road and Sunrise Boulevard. Deskins was wearing a helmet at the time of the crash. Cory Mork has awakened from a month-long coma following an accident in early October that left him with broken bones in both legs, pelvis, hands, an elbow and a wrist. He was injured after a wrong-way driver crossed the center line and struck Mr.
Demar stopped his disabled bike on the left shoulder of northbound Loop and activated the hazard lights. A pickup truck then ran onto the shoulder and struck Mr. Demar and his motorcycle. Juanita Garcia died as the result of injuries she received Sunday night in an accident on South Nogales Highway. Garcia was the passenger on a motorcycle that collided with a truck. Sabrina Gillis died when the motorcycle on which she was a passenger collided with a car on Thursday. The motorcycle was heading west on Union Hills Drive when a car turned left in front of it at 35th Avenue.
Celso Salinas-Mireles was killed Tuesday morning when a woman reportedly ran a red light and crashed into his motorcycle. The tragic accident occurred near 12th Street and Missouri. The crash was investigated by the Phoenix Police Department and the driver of the vehicle was cited for a red light violation and driving without a driver's license. A wrong-way driver sideswiped several cars as he drove north in the southbound lanes of Interstate 17 on Tuesday afternoon. Darroll Roberts ran over motorcyclist Cindy Lee Meade, killing her instantly. The wrong-way vehicle traveled for several hundred feet more until it stopped after striking a guardrail.
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Andrew Woulard, age 23 of Phoenix, died of injuries he sustained on March 18th when a car traveling eastbound on Thunderbird Road turned north onto 75th Avenue in front of his motorcycle. The collision caused the SUV to roll. Gonzalez-McDaniel was transported to a Tucson hospital where he passed away. Two motorcycles collided with a van on Saturday afternoon in the southeast Valley between the cities of Mesa and Apache Junction. Steven Slager was killed early Saturday evening in a motorcycle accident near the intersection of Power and Guadalupe in Gilbert.
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Debris from the accident caused a second motorcycle to crash, injuring an as-yet unidentified woman. She was transported to the hospital in critical condition. Joseph Martorelli was killed Friday night when a pickup truck turned left in front of his motorcycle at Union Hills and 51st Avenue in Phoenix. Bullhead City police accident investigators determined that Mr. Seebeck was driving the motorcycle while Mr. Smith was his passenger.
Christopher Campbell was killed Saturday night when his motorcycle collided with a Saturn. Accident investigators determined that Mr. His motorcycle struck the passenger side of the Saturn as it turned left onto Sahuaro Road. A violent domestic dispute turned deadly when a wife in a SUV pursued her husband at high speeds until he crashed his motorcycle into a lamp post, killing him instantly.
Jennie Jones-Hurdlow and her husband, Brian E. Hurdlow, were embroiled in a domestic dispute that began Saturday evening. The argument continued through late Sunday morning as Brian left their house for a trip to the nearby convenience store. Jones-Hurdlow followed him in her SUV.
An accident claimed the life of a motorcyclist during the Thursday afternoon rush hour on U. Phillip Grant of Chandler was riding his motorcycle in the HOV lane when he collided with another vehicle. This first impact sent Mr. Grant into a second vehicle in the adjacent lane. A Tempe Fire Department spokesman said Mr. Grant laid his bike down before being thrown into traffic where he was struck. A year-old man suffered serious injuries in a motorcycle accident this afternoon near Willow Creek Road and College Heights in Prescott.
Beeson, Mr. Kevin Douglas Terry was killed over the weekend when the motorcycle he was riding was struck by a pickup truck. The incident occurred at the intersection of 45th Avenue and Camelback Road in Glendale. Glendale Police Department accident investigators report that Mr. Terry apparently was heading east on Camelback when his motorcycle was struck by the pickup truck traveling north on 45th Avenue, causing the truck to flip and come to rest on its side. Rodrigo Ortega Saldate died of injuries he received in a crash Wednesday morning around a.
Michael Robert was killed Tuesday night just outside Marana when his motorcycle was struck by a truck towing a trailer. Robert was traveling southbound on Trico Road when a westbound truck driven by David Huntley ran through an intersection stop sign. A motorcyclist and his passenger were both critically injured Saturday when their bike struck a vehicle head-on. Neither rider on the bike has, as yet, been identified by law enforcement accident investigators.
Tyler Woelfersheim was killed Thursday evening in Green Valley when his motorcycle was struck by a car making a left-hand turn. Woelfersheim was westbound on Continental at about p. In medico-legal judgments, injuries around the groin area also called groin injuries in victims of motorcycle accidents are usually regarded as "fuel tank injuries" which are commonly found in drivers.
But, the injuries around the groin area are sometimes confused with the perineum injuries. Therefore, the perineum injuries are often wrongly reckoned as the "fuel tank injuries" and used to identify the drivers too. Actually, passengers can sometimes suffer from perineum injuries in many head-on impacting motorcycle accidents. It is of vital matters to understand the differences between groin injuries and perineum injuries so that the real driver who should be responsible for the accident can be recognized.
In this paper, the three-rider motorcycle accident was presented and the injury information of the three riders was studied in order to distinguish the real driver from the riders. We consider that the groin injury has some differences with the perineum injury and the latter should not always be related to the driver especially in high-speed head-on impacting motorcycle accidents. In addition, the injury on underbelly areas is important to identify the driver. Published by Elsevier Ireland Ltd. Motorcycle Accident injuries seen at Kakamega Provincial Hospital Background: Injuries related to motorcycles contribute significantly to the number of road traffic injuries This study was aimed at determining the pattern of injuries caused by motorcycle crash among patients seen at Kakamega provincial hospital in Kenya Methods: This was a cross sectional study which was conducted in Outcome of pregnancy in women with motorcycle accidents in Three hundred and seventeen pregnant women managed in the maternity section of the University of Teaching Hospital, Calabar as a result of motorcycle accidents were assessed to determine maternal and perinatal complications and outcome of such pregnancies.
The incidence of 6. Relation between workplace accidents and the levels of carboxyhemoglobin in motorcycle taxi drivers. METHOD: correlational, quantitative study involving workers and data obtained in July through a questionnaire to characterize the participants and blood collection to measure carboxyhemoglobin levels. The carboxyhemoglobin levels were higher among smokers and victims of workplace accidents.
The study provides advances in the knowledge about occupational health and environmental science, and also shows that carboxyhemoglobin can be an indicator of exposure to environmental pollutants for those working outdoors, which can be related to workplace accidents. To investigate the relation between workplace accidents and the levels of carboxyhemoglobin found in motorcycle taxi drivers. Correlational, quantitative study involving workers and data obtained in July through a questionnaire to characterize the participants and blood collection to measure carboxyhemoglobin levels.
Motorcycle taxi drivers had increased levels of carboxyhemoglobin, possibly due to the exposure to carbon monoxide; these levels are also increased among smokers and victims of workplace accidents. Young motorcycle drivers in Thailand are at high risk for road traffic accidents. We conducted this study to identify factors associated with motorcycle accident risk behavior MARB.
We studied randomly selected university students aged years mean Each student was asked to fill out a questionnaire asking about MARB and factors associated with this behavior. The respondents had an average of 6. The prevalence of self-reported motorcycle accident injuries was Their major MARB were using a telephone while driving Fatal motorcycle accidents in Fars Province, Iran: a com-munity-based survey. Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted in Fars Province which has the fourth largest population of all 31 provinces in Iran from March to June We included data from all recorded cases of fatalities due to motor vehicle accidents.
Data were recorded from the foren-sic medicine registry consisting of demographic and acci-dent-related information. Demographic information con-sisted of name, age, sex, status of fatal victim motorcycle driver vs passenger and educational level. Results: Of the 2 autopsy records from the foren-sic medicine archives, Mean age of these victims was Head injury was the most common cause of death in these victims, and overall they tended to have a low level of education. Motorcycle accidents frequently involved younger age groups years, and head trauma related with non-use of a helmet was the most common cause of death.
Conclusions: Head injury is frequent among victims in the province we studied. Key words: Accidents , traffic; Motorcycles ; Iran. The scope of this paper is to assess traffic accidents involving motorcycles , the victims involved and the increase in the fleet compared with other vehicles in Rio Branco, State of Acre. It is an epidemiological, descriptive and transversal study of accidents between and recorded by the Acre State Highway Department.
There were 3, motorcycle accidents and 3, victims in the period. The motorcycle fleet increased by As regards victims, there is a predominance of men, with rates of With reference to accident characteristics, the highest number of accidents - Collisions were the commonest kind of accident , with 3, The conclusion drawn is that it is essential to stage ongoing preventive programs and ensure greater integration among the institutions involved, with planning and campaigns to reverse the current situation.
Motorcycle accident injury profiles in Jamaica: an audit from the University Hospital of the West Indies. There is little data available on the prevalence of motorcycle accidents , their resultant injuries and the demand on the health care services in Jamaica. We performed a descriptive, analytical study to evaluate the extent of this problem and the need for preventative national policy measures. Between 1 January and 1 January , demographic and clinical data on all motorcycle accident victims admitted to the University Hospital of the West Indies were collected in a prospective database.
The data were analysed using the SPSS version Of motorcycle accident victims, there were Overall, The mean injury severity score was 9.
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There were patients needing surgical intervention in the form of orthopaedic operations 94 , neurosurgical operations 43 , abdominal operations 49 and vascular operations The mean duration of hospitalisation was 10 days SD There were 12 4. Fatal injuries were more common in males 11 and un-helmeted patients Motorcycle accidents take a heavy toll on this health care facility in Jamaica. Measures to prevent motorcycle accidents and reduce consequent injuries may be one way in which legislators can preserve precious resources that are spent during these incidents.
This can be achieved through active measures such as educational campaigns, adherence to traffic regulations and enforcement of helmet laws. Improving car drivers' perception of motorcycles : innovative headlight design as a short-term solution to mitigate accidents. The low visual conspicuity of motorcycles especially because of their small size is the primary reason why motorcycles are often not detected or seen or too late. The main safety measure in the past has been the use of daytime running lights DRLs by motorcycles , which became compul Motorcycle accident is the main cause of maxillofacial injuries in the Penang Mainland, Malaysia.
Maxillofacial injuries are among the commonest forms of body injuries. There are three divisions, namely, facial bone fractures, soft tissue injuries, and dentoalveolar injuries. Etiologies include motor vehicle accidents , assaults, falls, and sporting injuries. The aim of this study was to determine the profiles including the causes of maxillofacial injuries seen in an urban government hospital in the mainland of Penang State, Malaysia. This was a cross-sectional study that recruited cases reported within a period of 1 year.
The source population was maxillofacial injury patients presenting to the Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Department of an urban hospital in the Penang Mainland, North Malaysia between May and May Cases of patients involved in accidents that occurred outside the reference vicinity were excluded. A case report form was developed and completed by the attending clinicians. Data were analyzed using spss version A total of cases were studied , with the mean patient age being The majority of patients were Malay men between 20 and 29 years of age.
The main cause of injury was motorcycle accident Laceration was the commonest soft tissue injury, and crown fracture was the most frequent dentoalveolar injury.
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The facial bone that was most highly involved in the injury was the zygoma. Subjects involved in motorcycle accidents had a significantly higher incidence of sustaining facial bone fractures. Motorcycle accidents were the commonest cause of maxillofacial injuries in the Penang Mainland, Malaysia.
Most patients were young men. Hence, it is prudent to reinforce appropriate road safety and awareness interventions particularly focusing young male motorcyclists so as to reduce the risk of accidents. With power comes responsibility: motorcycle engine power and power-to-weight ratio in relation to accident risk. Current European legislation allows the EU member states to restrict the maximum power output of motorcycles to 74 kW even though evidence supporting the limit is scarce and has produced mixed results-perhaps because motorcycle performance has been measured by engine displacement, not engine power, in most of the previous studies.
This study investigates the relationship of motorcycle engine power and power-to-weight ratio to risk of fatal and nonfatal crashes in Finland. Mileage data allowed the calculation of accident risk per kilometer ridden for bikes differing in power and power-to-weight ratio. The fatality risk per number of registered motorcycles and per kilometer ridden increases both with power and power-to-weight ratio, independently of rider's age. No relationship between performance and risk of a less severe crash was found.
The risk of being involved in a fatal crash is higher among the riders of powerful motorcycles. However, it is not clear whether the results are related to the riding habits of the riders that choose the most powerful bikes available or whether the high risk is due to the properties of the bikes themselves. Therefore, further research is needed before considering legal limits on motorcycle performance. Impact of the effect of economic crisis and the targeted motorcycle safety programme on motorcycle -related accidents , injuries and fatalities in Malaysia. The MSP was specifically targeted at motorcyclists.
In addition to the MSP, the recent economic recession has significantly contributed to a reduction of traffic-related incidents. This paper examines the effects of the recent economic crisis and the MSP on motorcycle -related accidents , casualties and fatalities in Malaysia. The autocorrelation integrated moving average model with transfer function was used to evaluate the overall effects of the interventions.
The variables used in developing the model were gross domestic product and MSPs. Findings indicate that the MSP has been one of the effective measures in reducing motorcycle safety problems in Malaysia. Apart from that, the performance of the country's economy was also found to be significant in explaining the number of motorcycle -related accidents , casualties and fatalities in Malaysia.
Methods: This was a hospital based study conducted in 6 out of 10 regional This study was of cases of dentofacial injuries at-. Data were collected from self-completed questionnaires in The study detected precarious work conditions, high exposure to hazardous traffic conditions, and high accident rates among motorcycle couriers.
The effect of road characteristics on motorcycle accident in Batu east Java Indonesia. Safe of transportation on road is global problem with not only transportation problem, but also social teritory problem in sosial life. WHO pay attention to safe transportation on road to decide healthy day in the world with caption: Road Safety is no Accident. WHO is clariafy that road accident level in the world have to reach 1.
That becouse as the objective is to decide influence road charakteristics geometrics for motorcycle accident in Batu East Java Indonesia. The incidence and cost of motorcycle accidents are projected to increase. Motorcycle helmets are accepted as an effective strategy for reducing the morbidity and therefore the cost of motorcycle accidents. Despite this, states have continued to repeal helmet laws in the past 20 years. In addition, variations in the methodologies and outcomes of published reports have contributed to uncertainty regarding the health care dollars saved due to motorcycle helmet use.
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The purpose of this systematic review and meta-analysis is to clarify the economic impact of motorcycle helmet use. Our primary source was Medline. Search terms included " motorcycle ," "motorbike," " motorcycle helmet," "head protective devices," and "cost and cost analysis. Two independent authors extracted data using predefined data fields. Meta-analysis was done using the R-metafor package. Twelve papers met the criteria for inclusion. Nonhelmeted patients also required more postdischarge care and were more likely to use publicly funded insurance.
Studies also found lower injury severity and better hospital course in the helmeted population. Study limitations included selection bias, unclear statistical assumptions, lack of precision measures, confounding variables, and lack of standardization to a common year. Motorcycle helmet use reduces morbidity and contributes to significant health care cost savings.
Continuing antihelmet legislation will impose a substantial economic burden to the health care system, the government, and the public. Innovative motorcycle headlight design as a short-term solution for improving motorcycle visibility. The most frequent motorcycle accidents involve another vehicle violating the motorcycle 's right-of-way at an intersection.
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In-depth accident studies have shown that perceptual errors made by other vehicle drivers are a very frequent cause of motorcyclists' accidents and fatalities. Two kinds of perceptual errors can be distinguished. The first one is no or late detection of the motorcycle , which is mainly due to its low visual conspicuity especially because of their small size.
The principa Switching from motorcycle taxi to walking: A case study of transit station access in Bangkok, Thailand. However, motorcycle taxis are the main pedestrian barriers that hinder easy access and walkability in TODs of Bangkok, because they ride, stop, and provide services on sidewalks. From to , these problems substantially increased the number of motorcycle taxis that are not willing and able to follow the rules.
The increasing number of pedestrian accidents on sidewalks is related to the increase in the number of motorcycle taxis. Moreover, based on the estimation results of the logistic regression models, middle-adult aged residents, office employees, residents owning a car, and people living far from stations are less likely to walk. Average income households and commuters during non-peak hours tend to use motorcycle taxis more. On the other hand, residents living far from stations tend to use motorcycle taxis less, because most of the motorcycle taxi services are located near transit stations.
Keywords: Transit accessibility, Pedestrian, Walkability. Motorcycle safety among motorcycle taxi drivers and nonoccupational motorcyclists in developing countries: A case study of Maoming, South China. An increasing number of motorcycle taxis have been involved in traffic crashes in many developing countries. This study examines the characteristics of both motorcycle taxi drivers and nonoccupational motorcyclists, investigates the risks they pose to road safety, and provides recommendations to minimize their risks. Based on the data collected from a questionnaire survey of motorcycle taxi drivers and 2, nonoccupational motorcyclists in Maoming, South China, comparisons were made to analyze differences of personal attributes, attitudes toward road safety, and self-reported behavior of the 2 groups.
Results of the chi-square tests show that not only motorcycle taxi drivers but also nonoccupational motorcyclists in Maoming held poor attitudes toward road safety and both groups reported unsafe driving behavior. There is much room for improving local road safety education among all motorcyclists in Maoming.
Yet, motorcycle taxi drivers were more likely to pose road safety risks than nonoccupational motorcyclists under some circumstances, such as speeding late at night or early in the morning, not requiring passengers to wear helmets, and running a red light. The results of the binary logistic regression model show that possessing a vehicle license for a motorcycle or not was the common significant predictor for unsafe driving behavior of motorcycle taxi drivers and nonoccupational motorcyclists.
Therefore, enforcement against all motorcyclists not showing vehicle licenses for their motorcycles should be stepped up. Motorcycle safety is largely poor in Maoming. Therefore, efforts to improve motorcycle safety should be strengthened by targeting not only motorcycle taxi drivers but also nonoccupational motorcyclists. Full Text Available Introduction: There is a gap that involves examining differences between patients in single-vehicle SV versus multi-vehicle MV accidents involving motorcycles in Shantou, China, regarding the injury patterns and mortality the patients sustained.
This study aims to address this gap and provide a basis and reference for motorcycle injury prevention. Method: Medical record data was collected between October and June on all motorcycle injury patients admitted to a hospital in the city of Shantou of the east Guangdong province in China. Comparative analysis was conducted between patients in SV accidents and patients in MV accidents regarding demographic and clinic characteristics, mortality, and injury patterns.
The average age was 34 years.
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Compared to patients involved in MV accidents , those involved in SV accidents were more likely to sustain a skull fracture RR: 1. However, they were less likely to sustain a spinal fracture RR: 0. Conclusion: The relative risk of death is higher for patients involved in multi-vehicle accidents than patients in single-vehicle accidents , especially when a. Adult attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, risky behaviors, and motorcycle injuries: a case-control study. The statistical analysis was done using Stata version Results: All subjects were male and aged 13—79 years. More than two thirds of the participants did not.
Background: Motorcycle accidents are the second most common cause of road traffic accidents in both developing and developed countries. In this study we aim to look at the pattern and characteristics of lower limb injuries arising from motorcycle accidents and evaluate early outcome of treatment.
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Methods: All the patients In depth analysis of urban accidents involving motorcycle and moped riders in France, construction of prototypical accident scenarios and prospects for their prevention. This extra risk is particularly marked in urban areas and in large cities. In comparison to other transportation modes, riding motorcycle is prone to accidents. Motorcyclists are more exposed to physical injury than the car drivers. Many multi-vehicle motorcycles crashes occur, there is right-of- way violation takes place in which another vehicle turns in fronts of a motorcycle , or a sudden cross of path of an on-coming motorcycle.
One main factor which leads to high rate of motorcycle crashes is lack of conspicuity of motorcycles by other road users especially during day time traffic. This paper highlights previous studies on the implementation of motorcycle DRLs, focusing on the efficacy of the DRLs to improve motorcycle conspicuity.
This paper reviews the impacts of DRL by motorcyclists on multi-vehicle motorcycle crash. The three categories of effects of motorcycle DRLs were reviewed. This paper also recommends that motorcycle DRLs must be used globally, especially in countries with high motorcycle accidents to improve the safety of the riders as well as their pillion riders.
The costs of traumatic brain injury due to motorcycle accidents in Hanoi, Vietnam. Full Text Available Abstract Background Road traffic accidents are the leading cause of fatal and non-fatal injuries in Vietnam. The purpose of this study is to estimate the costs, in the first year post-injury, of non-fatal traumatic brain injury TBI in motorcycle users not wearing helmets in Hanoi, Vietnam. The costs are calculated from the perspective of the injured patients and their families, and include quantification of direct, indirect and intangible costs, using years lost due to disability as a proxy.
Methods The study was a retrospective cross-sectional study. Data on treatment and rehabilitation costs, employment and support were obtained from patients and their families using a structured questionnaire and The European Quality of Life instrument EQ6D. Results Thirty-five patients and their families were interviewed.
Conclusion All three component costs of TBI were high; the direct cost accounted for the largest proportion, with costs rising with the severity of TBI. The results suggest that the burden of TBI can be catastrophic for families because of high direct costs, significant time off work for patients and caregivers, and impact on health-related quality of life. Further research is warranted to explore the actual social and economic benefits of mandatory helmet use. In-depth analysis of urban accidents involving motorcycle and moped riders in France, construction of prototypical accident scenarios and prospects for their prevention.
The recent and actual growth in the use of powered two-wheelers in France, notably in urban areas, and the over-representation of this category of road users in injury accidents show the need for a better understanding of motorcycle and moped accident phenomena in order to define new countermeasures Full Text Available Laryngeal fracture is a rare traumatic injury, potentially fatal, with an estimated incidence of 1 in 30, patients admitted to severe trauma centers. Because of the rarity of this injury, physician may be not aware of its existence, leading to a late diagnosis of this entity.
We report a case of a year-old woman admitted to the emergency room after a motorcycle accident with cervical trauma. The patient presented with dysphonia, hemoptysis, cervical subcutaneous emphysema, and increasing respiratory distress that led to the intubation of the patient.
CT-scan demonstrated displaced fracture of the cricoid and thyroid cartilage. The patient was submitted to tracheostomy and the fracture was surgically repaired. Tracheostomy was removed in third postoperative month. The patient presented a good recovery, reporting only hoarseness but without swallowing or breathing problems at 6-month follow-up. Motorcycle -related hospitalization of adolescents in a Level I trauma center in southern Taiwan: a cross-sectional study.
The aim of this study was to investigate and compare the injury pattern, mechanisms, severity, and mortality of adolescents and adults hospitalized for treatment of trauma following motorcycle accidents in a Level I trauma center. Detailed data regarding patients aged years adolescents and aged years adults who had sustained trauma due to a motorcycle accident were retrieved from the Trauma Registry System between January 1, and December 31, The Pearson's chi-squared test, Fisher's exact test, or the independent Student's t-test were performed to compare the adolescent and adult motorcyclists and to compare the motorcycle drivers and motorcycle pillion.
Analysis of Abbreviated Injury Scale AIS scores revealed that the adolescent patients had sustained higher rates of facial, abdominal, and hepatic injury and of cranial, mandibular, and femoral fracture but lower rates of thorax and extremity injury; hemothorax; and rib, scapular, clavicle, and humeral fracture compared to the adults. A significantly greater percentage of adolescents compared to adults were found not to have worn a helmet. Motorcycle riders who had not worn a helmet were found to have a significantly lower first Glasgow Coma Scale GCS score, and a significantly higher percentage was found to present with unconscious status, head and neck injury, and cranial fracture compared to those who had worn a helmet.
Adolescent motorcycle riders comprise a major population of patients hospitalized for treatment of trauma. This population tends to present with a higher injury severity compared to other hospitalized trauma patients and a bodily injury pattern differing from that of adult motorcycle riders, indicating the. Motorcycle Physics. At the end of a secondary school science study of mechanics, a summary lab uses a motorcycle to provide students with the chance to apply some of the concepts they have studied. Exercises from this motorcycle physics lab are discussed.
Analysis of motorcycle exhaust regular testing data--a case study of Taipei City. In Taiwan, a continuous increase in the number of motorcycles has made exhaust pollution one of the major emission sources of air pollutants. The regular testing program carried out by the Republic of China Environmental Protection Agency was designed to reduce air pollutant emissions by enhancing maintenance and repair.
During the execution period, abundant testing results were accumulated to discuss pollutant emissions from motorcycles. Exhaust testing data of motorcycles in Taipei City from to were chosen as the basic data to survey changes in motorcycle exhaust. Effects of motorcycle age and mileage on exhaust pollution were studied.
The introduction of advanced emission standards enhances the elimination of high-emitting motorcycles. The operation cycles of two-stroke motorcycles make them high-emitting vehicles. Concentrations of carbon monoxide and hydrocarbons are higher in two-stroke motorcycle exhaust than that in four-stroke motorcycles. In contrast, the concentration of carbon dioxide produced from complete oxidation processes is lower in exhaust from two-stroke motorcycles.
Therefore, failure rates of two-stroke motorcycles are higher than those of four-stroke motorcycles and were also observed to deactivate more easily. We reason that the accumulation of age or mileage means accumulating usage time of engines and emission control systems. Concentrations of pollutant emissions would increase because of engine wear and emission control system deactivation. After discussing changes of failure rates and pollutant emissions, some suggestions are. The coverage of the official statistics is poor in motorcycle and moped accidents.
The aim of this study was to analyze the severity of motorcycle and moped crashes, and to define the degree of under-reporting in official statistics. All first attendances due to an acute motorcyclist or moped driver injury registered in the emergency department between June and May were analyzed. The hospital injury data were compared to the traffic accident statistics reported by the police and compiled and maintained by Statistics Finland.
A total of 49 motorcyclists and 61 moped drivers were involved in crashes, leading to a total of 94 and injuries, respectively. No significant differences were found between the severity maximum Abbreviated Injury Scale and median New Injury Severity Scores of the motorcycle and moped crashes. There was no in-hospital mortality. According to the maximum Abbreviated Injury Scale and New Injury Severity Scores, the injury severity was equal for motorcycle and moped crashes. Burn injuries related to motorcycle exhaust pipes: a study in Greece.
To identify measures that should reduce the incidence of burn injuries resulting from motorcycle exhaust pipes through epidemiological analysis of such injuries. During a 5-year period, persons who suffered burn injuries related to motorcycle exhaust pipes have contacted four major hospitals belonging to the Emergency Department Injury Surveillance System EDISS operating since in Greece. These burn injuries were studied in relation to person, environment and vehicle characteristics. The estimated countrywide incidence of burns from motorcycle exhaust pipes was 17 per , person-years per , motorcycle -years.
Most of burn injuries The most frequent location of burn wounds was below the knee and particularly the right leg. Among the victims Motorcycle exhaust burns could be substantially reduced by systematically wearing long pants, by incorporating in the design of motorcycles external thermo resistant shields with adequate distance to the exhaust pipe, and by avoiding riding with children on motorcycles. The importance of post-mortem computed tomography PMCT in confrontation with conventional forensic autopsy of victims of motorcycle accidents.
Since traffic accidents are an important problem in forensic medicine, there is a constant search for new solutions to help with an investigation process in such cases. In recent years there was a rapid development of post-mortem imaging techniques, especially post-mortem computed tomography PMCT. In our work we concentrated on a potential advantage of PMCT in cases of motorcycle accident fatalities.
The results of forensic autopsy were compared with combined results of the autopsy and PMCT to check in which areas use of these two techniques gives statistically important increase in number of findings. The hypothesis was confirmed in case of pneumothorax and fractures of skull, spine, clavicle, scapula, lower leg bones. As for majority of other bone fractures locations and brain injures there were single cases with pathologies visible only in PMCT, but too few to reach expected level of p-value.
In case of injuries of solid organs and soft tissues statistical analysis did not confirmed any advantage of unenhanced PMCT use. On the whole it has been shown that PMCT used as an adjunct to forensic autopsy can cause an increase in information about vitally important regions in case of motorcycle accident fatalities.
Speed-volume relationship and headway distribution analysis of motorcycle case study : Teuku Nyak Arief Road. In many developing countries, transportation modes are more varied than the other country. For example, in Jakarta, Indonesia, in some roadway, motorcycle is the most dominant vehicle, with total volume is four times higher than a passenger car. Thus, the traffic characteristic in motorcycle -dominated traffic differs from a common traffic situation.
The purpose of this study is to apply the concept and theory developed to analyze motorcycle behaviour under motorcycle -dominated traffic condition. The survey is applied by recording the traffic flow movement of research location at specified time period. The macroscopic characteristic analyzed in this research is a speed-flow relationship based on motorcycle equivalent unit MCU. Furthermore, a detail microscopic characteristic analyzed that is motorcycle time headway regarding traffic flow. Those values were calculated 1. The speed and volume relationship result is showing a linear regression model with R2 value is 0.
The headway distribution of motorcycle is compatible with the negative exponential distribution which fitted with the proposed theory for a small vehicle such as a motorcycle. The impact of the Thai motorcycle transition on road traffic injury: Thai Cohort Study results. The aim of this study was to investigate the impact of motorcycle to car transitioning and urbanisation on traffic injury rates in Thailand.
Analysis of two consecutive surveys of a large national cohort study. The data derived from 57, Thai Cohort Study TCS participants who provided relevant data on both the and surveys. Motorcycle and car traffic crash injury self-reported in , with twelve months' recall. Car access increased and motorcycle use decreased between and Among those who used a motorcycle at both time points, traffic injury incidence was 2.
Multivariable logistic regression models were used to test longitudinal and cross sectional factors associated with traffic crash injury: in the adjusted model, cars were negatively and motorcycles positively associated with injury. Living in an urban area was not injury protective in the adjusted model of traffic crash injury. Recent Client. Home Resources. Are you in need of an experienced, highly rated law firm? Personal Injury Family Law. Our firm has been featured on these stations: visit our video library.
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The 2015 LA STAGE Alliance Ovation Awards, celebrating theatrical excellence and achievement during the past 12 months, were presented on Monday, November 9 at the Ahmanson Theatre at The Music Center.
Thirty-five awards were bestowed upon 18 different Southern California theatre companies. The most honored companies of the year were The Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts/Deaf West Theatre/Cody Lassen (Spring Awakening); Center Theatre Group (Chavez Ravine: An L.A. Revival, The Price, Luna Gale); Circle X Theatre Company (Trevor); Ebony Repertory Company (The Gospel at Colonus); Sacred Fools Theater Company (The Behavior of Broadus, a co-production with Burglars of Hamm and Center Theatre Group); Four Larks (The Temptation of St Antony); and Loft Ensemble (She Kills Monsters).
Other companies honored were 3-D Theatricals, Actors Co-op, Cabrillo Music Theatre, Coeurage Theatre Company, Los Angeles Performance Practice, The Pasadena Playhouse, Rogue Machine, Unbound Productions, and VS. Theatre Company. The Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts received the Best Season Award (Enter Laughing, Love, Noël: The Letters and Songs of Noël Coward, Spring Awakening).
For a complete list of winners, go to @ This Stage Magazine (ThisStage.LA).
LA STAGE Alliance Board Chair Brian Kite said, “What a night! It is always a thrill to gather the Los Angeles theatre community together to honor excellence. The work on our stages this year was invigorating, riveting, thought provoking, and daring. Congratulations to all the artists that keep LA theatre among the best in the world. Bravo!”
Sarah Lyding, Senior Program Officer for The Sheri and Les Biller Family Foundation, presented the BEST Awards, including checks totaling $105,000 to the following LA theatre companies: Casa 0101 (also won in 2012), Center Theatre Group, East West Players (also won in 2013 and 2014), The Pasadena Playhouse, and Watts Village Theater Company.
Additionally, Center Theatre Group presented the 2015 Sherwood Award for innovative and adventurous artists to Miwa Matreyek. This award is endowed by the Sherwood family and is accompanied by $10,000 to further Matreyek’s artistic work.
The ceremony was hosted by French and Vanessa Claire Stewart, and this year’s presenters included LA theatre luminaries (in alphabetical order) Keith Allan, Bekah Brunsetter, Lap Chi Chu, Guillermo Cienfuegos, Tim Dang, Abigail Deser, Robert Egan, Christina Elmore, Ann Closs Farley, Shirley Jo Finney, Brighid Fleming, David and Kiki Gindler, Harry Groener, Sofia Klatzker, Michael Kricfalusi, Deborah Lawler, Alan Mandell, Terence McFarland, Stephen Sachs, Oz Scott, Madhuri Shekar, Trent Steelman, Seema Sueko, Jose Luis Valenzuela, and Kirsten Vangsness.
Founded in 1989, the LA STAGE Alliance Ovation Awards are the only peer-judged theatre awards in Los Angeles. Voters are Los Angeles theatre professionals who are chosen each year, through an application process, by the Ovation Rules Committee. The list of nominees is determined by a tabulation of scores conducted by Green Hasson Janks. This year’s Ovation Award eligibility period ran from September 1, 2014 through August 31, 2015.
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Taiwan’s Child Culture
Posted on October 27, 2013 by jsphfrtz
Something that always fascinates me (and also often frustrates me) is something I like to refer to as “Taiwan’s Child Culture.”
The most important thing to understand about any culture is the way they raise their children. Without question, the key to any culture is education. Education is indoctrination: it’s where we learn what society expects of us. Taiwan’s educational system is extremely simple: every question has only one answer and there is only one way to get that one answer, and anything outside of that is incorrect and you are a failure. The system of learning follows three steps:
1. Memorize.
2. Regurgitate.
3. Repeat.
Now, I know what my American readers are thinking: “That sounds like the awful American educational system we’re now dealing with!”
Believe me, it’s not.
Allow me to put it in perspective.
Your average Taiwanese child wakes up between 6am and 7am. They get to school around 8am. There’s an hour-long nap-time after lunch and children are in school until 5pm or 6pm. This is reality from the time they are 3 years old.
Creativity is only seen between the ages of 3 and 6 because most of the academic indoctrination focuses on comprehending orders and obeying them. Now, that’s the case with most children, worldwide. It’s important for them to memorize things; at that age, the human brain isn’t developed enough for analysis, so memorization and trial-and-error is really all you’ve got. So there are fun times and creative times, but it’s really just a set-up for what comes next: the early death of childhood, which leads to maturity issues that eventually and inevitably create Taiwan’s Child Culture.
After preschool (called “kindergarten” here in Taiwan), children are sent to elementary school. Again, this is an 8am-5pm day. For a six year old kid. But it gets better! Because after school lets out at 5pm, children are sent to after-school programs – privatized learning centers called buxiban or “cram school.”
The term “cram school” is perfectly suited to describe the average buxiban, because these “small classes” of 10-to-15 students (as opposed to daytime classes of 40-to-50 students) consist of nothing more than drills: memorize, regurgitate, repeat. This is important because Taiwanese students are tested in almost every subject almost every day, even as little kids. Most students don’t get home until 8pm or 9pm, where they study some more and are lucky to get to bed before 11pm. Then they wake up, 7-to-8 hours later, and do it all over again.
That’s the typical Monday-to-Friday. School for twelve hours and, keep in-mind, this is pure school: the vast majority of Taiwanese schools have no recess. Social skills are not a priority and, as such, not nurtured or developed. The closest thing to social interaction children get is in the requirement that they tattle on any student they see not obeying the person in charge.
Starting in junior high, Taiwanese schools employ a military officer to enforce discipline at the school. But, by that point, it doesn’t matter. Students have been so hammered-down in elementary school, very few of them have any rebellion in them. Confrontation is non-existent – passive-aggressive behavior rules – and any friendships are fostered in the ultra-short breaks between classes when students finally have time to talk to each other for a few minutes.
So imagine life, as a young person, where you are in school for 12 hours a day, in a school where you are tested constantly but rarely taught anything, while being expected to study and memorize outside of school (in “cram school” or at home) so you can pass all the tests you will have the next day. Saturdays are not a break – it’s just more “cram school” or, in many cases, more “actual school,” as well. A student probably has the day off Sunday, a day where they are so exhausted from their 60-to-70 hour workweek that all they want to do is crash. That is normal life from ages 6 to 18: twelve years of life where development is crucial.
In short, Taiwanese children have no childhood. The times where you should be learning emotional maturity, social skills, how to properly interact with others, how to solve problems, and how to think critically, simply does not happen in Taiwan. People mature until they get to elementary school, at which time development stops for the sake of learning one thing: obedience.
So, If Childhood Dies So Early, What Do I Mean By “Taiwan’s Child Culture”?
Because Taiwanese children are never taught how to behave like adults, once they reach adulthood, most of them are completely inept when it comes to most things a Westerner would consider “typical everyday stuff.” This becomes self-fulfilling, because it’s impossible for children to learn how adults behave when the adults essentially behave the same as children!
It’s completely normal to have never even held hands with the opposite sex before you are 20 years old. It’s extremely rare to find anyone under 20 who has ever had a boyfriend/girlfriend, let alone had a physical relationship. College is a time where the youth of Taiwan finally get to explore who they are as people, but by that time, most of their Selves have been suppressed by The System.
Taiwanese enter adulthood with little more emotional/social maturity than they had when they were in elementary school.
Finding a single 30-year-old man/woman living at home is beyond “not uncommon” – it’s completely normal.
A person living alone, paying for a separate residence from their parents, and living as independently as they can is seen as abnormal…to the point where most Taiwanese people would ask people who do it, “Why do you choose to do that?”
I know fully-grown adults who have curfews set by their parents.
I’m talking about 10pm curfews for girls who, in their 20s, still read fairy tales and await a non-existent Prince Charming to sweep them away to a fantasy land.
I’m talking about men in their 20s who have no interest in women beyond their physical appearance and women in their 20s who have no romantic aspirations beyond motherhood and a man to “take care of them.”
So this is what I mean by Taiwan’s Child Culture. It’s a culture of immature passive-aggressive people who obey anyone they see as “above them,” though they do so with resentment…not unlike what you would expect from an 8 year-old kid who obeys their teachers or parents: reluctantly, unhappily, but still doing so out of fear of retribution if they don’t.
Taiwanese people are scared. Like children clinging to their security blankets and burying their heads under the covers, they are obsessed with convenience and stability, sacrificing a great deal for a feeling of “being safe.” But there’s nothing to fear. That idea, like all the rest, is injected into them from an early age: that not doing what you are told leads to bad things happening.
It’s important to note that Taiwanese people lived under martial law for, arguably, between 60 to 90 years. Taiwan was under the Empire of Japan starting in 1895, but the Han Chinese people who would later inhabit it had been living under military rule in China since 1927. Taiwan was under martial law (dictated by the ROC government) from 1949 to 1987. That much time being spent in an “obey or die” mindset will certainly mess a culture up; that kind of thing doesn’t go away after a couple of decades. It’s unlikely for there to be significant changes in that mindset until the generation born before 1980 is no longer in power: sometime around 2030. That’s assuming these traits of obedience and fear gained from decades of military rule are not now passed down to the children, culturally…though it seems that is absolutely the case.
Because of a century of being ruled with an iron fist, leading Taiwanese people to adapt their culture to that mindset, the culture of Taiwan is left with overgrown children, robbed of childhood, without a clue of how to exist outside their myopic Small Island Syndrome. This is Taiwan’s Child Culture, so deeply-ingrained that it’s unlikely to change any time soon.
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12 thoughts on “Taiwan’s Child Culture”
Ann-Katrin says:
True. Possibly a bit exaggerated but yes, I am afraid the little I have seen so far (I have only been here two month) points in that direction, also when it comes to universities, which I feel is strange. After all everybody at university is a grown-up. Now I kind of understand better… Still lvoe this country but wouldn’t mind a bit more… What should I say? Imagination?
Very interesting to hear about it from someone “on the ground”. In my limited experience of different cultures, I’ve found that something so culturally ingrained like this will take 3 or 4 generations to change for the better. At first people are shell-shocked by the fact that they’re free, then they go to the other extreme to escape anything of their old ways and eventually, if they’re lucky, they settle into something in-between. But as I say – limited experience on my part! Very fascinating read.
Gary Hepner says:
While I agree with you that educational systems almost anywhere in the world are set up to basically indoctrinate and robotize kids so they become good workers, and not good thinkers (Thanks mainly to the efforts of John D. Rockefeller in 1903 who set up the General Education system in the US and said “I want workers, not thinkers!” I have to say that the US schools are far worse than the ones here in Taiwan. In the US kids are drugged with mind-killing psychiatric drugs (ritalin, etc.) at an alarming rate (basically schools get more money for “handicapped” kids.) The schools in the US have become fertile territory for pyschiatry/pharmaceutical company profits and victimization. Kids not only become robots in the US, they become mind-crippled robots in the US.
And speaking of drugging school children, almost every school shooting in the US can be traced back to psychiatric drug use by the perpetrators. When was the last time you heard of a school shooting incident in Taiwan?
It’s also important to look at results. Compare the unemployment rate in the US compared to Taiwan. US is running about 20% plus and Taiwan is near zero. To Taiwanese families are not only important, they’re crucial. Families run businesses together, families go on vacations together, they help one another out. I doubt this happens in the US as much as it does here. The idea that there is something wrong with a child living at home into his 20s I disagree with. Many children also work and support their parents (and grandparents often times.) I see a lot more respect given to older citizens here than I ever have in the US. Also in Taiwan almost anyone, including a woman can walk safely in the streets almost anywhere. You can leave things outside and they’ll still be there the next day.
I think in many ways Taiwan kids are far more mature than their counterparts in the US. And kids that finish school and college here actually work in the profession they studied to work in. In the US the failure rate is much higher and a college education to most American kids means party time.
Consider that the Chinese culture is thousands of years old, and many of those cultural traits still exist today. We johnny-come-latelys should try to learn from that instead of thinking we know best at everything.
Give me the so-called “child culture” of Taiwan any day.
Love how foreigners assume they understand something as complex as Taiwanese/Asian culture after a few years of surface interactions, and then try to compare it to their (very limited) worldview from a Western standpoint. They try to bring they tough guy attitude to a world where it’s seen as silly, disrespectful and immature, and then turn the tables around on the internet in the hopes that their prejudice will suddenly become validated because a few people “liked” it.
But obviously, something must be RIGHT here if little 15 year old girls are able to ride bicycles home at 2am in the morning without fear no? The author talks about fear as if it’s much more prevalent in Taiwan, as if Americans don’t have any, but that’s ridiculous denial or shortsightedness on his part. Fear is everywhere, especially outside of Taiwan. It just comes in different forms. Compare the homicide rates per thousand in the US (across the board) to that of nearly all countries in Asia. They speak for themselves to the level of fear that exists in America. He seems to have done a lot of research but will only mention the details that support his extremely biased argument, likely due to his frustration of not fully being able to adjust to a far more rational culture.
What he needs to be doing is taking his enormously ignorant stance and throwing it out the window before setting foot in Taiwan. Then maybe he can learn something about what being in a FOREIGN culture means. That there’s more than one way to do things, that other people actually have it figured out better than we do, and that Americans are the least knowledgeable bunch when it comes to how to cultivate a society that’s worth living in.
There’s so much lack of understanding, ignorance basically, in what you wrote here that I can’t even get through reading it without wincing every paragraph. You are literally, clueless when it comes to Taiwan, which is all the more sadder since you LIVE here.
Here’s a hint: sexual obsession, living on your own, and rebelliousness are all WESTERN standards
Things are working damn fine here. Nobody gives a damn about what you think “should” or should not happen by age 20. This is not America, it’s Taiwan, and you ought to tattoo that onto your head because it seems like you still think otherwise. You seem like you find it reasonable to compare and therefore criticize based on standards that are completely irrelevant in this country.
Seriously, grow up Joseph.
Parents put too much expectations in their kids in Taiwan. It is not 100% negative, however, it could stressing for kids. Also, it is sad to spend less time with kids. Sometimes, these kids can be more disciplined than kids raised in USA. I barely see young teens around 15 or 16 getting pregnant here. About dating after 20 years old, I think it is something optional and personal. We do not have to determine an age for kids to date. They will only date when they think they are ready. I was raised in Western Society. I started dating when I was 17. It was late comparing to other girls. But, I remmember when I was 15 or 16 years old. I was more interested in friendships, trips, nature, camping. There is nothing wrong with it. Many buxibans offer a lot of games to earn points during English classes. This is what I am doing right now. It is entertaining, and I can see kids learning. My school allows me to bring some new ideas to improve the teaching. Of course, I received few complains from parents. They complain about their kids not learning as much as they expected. But, these kids are just in first grade in elementary school. They are learning English as second language. Those parents expect them to learn verbs and sentences less than 2 months. That’s weird because their classes are just 1 hour per day. There is a lot of work to do with a 6 year-old-kid, specially the ones with hiperactivity disorder.
taichunger says:
Of course teens and young adults get pregnant here…abortion is rife in Taiwan. There is also severe stigma against single mothers in terms of jobs, renting apartments, social status etc. I have seen it personally.
The education system and the expectations of parents here here simply overloads students, especially the ones that want to pursue the traditional academic path. But vocational students have a lighter load.
Like lots of things in Taiwan, everybody knows somethings wrong, but nothing really changes.
The system does produce compliant workers though and therefore there is no push from businesses to fundamentally change it.
The poor working environment in Taiwan is also an outgrowth of the overloaded educational system.
There are some good points to Taiwan’s educational system though…less violence and bullying in schools (in general), more mixed schools, less religious interference, more rigorous maths education, good and modern facilities. It’s not all bad. The lack of physical activities is a big negative though!
The culture here is part of the broader ‘confucian society’ mindset. Obedience to elders being key. You can see the same attitudes across all of East Asia.
what an interesting blog, thanks for taking the time out to write. I thought the same thing but this is the first time i’ve seen it articulated so well.
like other commenters i tend to agree there’s pros and cons of the system, but i do think there is a happy balance that could be met if the educational system had a bit more focus on creativity, physical activity and social interactions.
where it becomes a huge disadvantage is if a taiwanese educated person is employed in a western environment. Much of the ingrained beliefs run deep even though i left Taiwan since 5th grade, to the point that preferring ‘stability and safety’ has limited me in my career progression.
another key problem is the inability to communicate well, taiwanese people aren’t renouned for their public speaking. and i think to a large extent the culture runs completely counter to produce charismatic public speakers, there may be historical political reasons why that is the case, e.g. to prevent Taiwanese people from rebelling agaist the then authoritarian KMT govt, but the legacy of that is that Taiwanese people find themselves utterly incapable of leading cross-national teams thus limiting successes of even global corporations such as Acer.
p.s. love the term “small island syndrome”, describes it too a tee.
Question 1.) Is Taiwan similar to Korea, in that……everything is Korean or non-Korean? The non are insignificant? I ask because one of my new colleges and classmates taught in Korea for 4+ years and now we both resigned our careers to become students again.
I enjoy the feedback/banter, both good/bad and pro/con, but I picture many involved in this discussion as Merlin from The Sword in the Stone waiving a magic wand decreeing. “My way is best……because I am American, Canadian, Australian, English. etc. ”
Lets look at the premise of Six Sigma……reduce waist=increase profit. I would agree, from my reading and insight from others, this is how I see the Taiwanese and other Asian countries “drive” their education systems. Sure, short term profits and benefits will be had, but at what cost? Why is Montessori schooling seemingly more prevalent now? Because, it works. Imagine a world where we allowed say….one or two generations of kids to forge their own path. They develop theory, strategy, and overall how best to communicate and articulate with no weight holding them down/back. Don’t you think it’s possible that history repeats because of fucked up logic, fucked up reasoning, and because, “It’s always been done that way?”
I want my son to grow as he sees fit. If he wants to study art 12 hours a day…awesome. If he delves into philosophy….great. What if he simply wants to play music and live/experience life uninterrupted by the norm? We are, many of us are, afraid to go against this status quo we allowed//allow to control/interfere. Embrace the new, give them time, and for God’s sake, please stop attacking people with using flawed arguments based on opinion without the ability to quantify.
Also, please use correct facts if using to support a position. Faulty and/or questionable facts are ok for discussion, but futile for anything else.
Is there a Canadian amongst us? As the great Homey the Clown once said, “Homey don’t play that.” Well, neither should anyone of us.
Honesty and humility…..
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Couldnt agree more. Lived here over a decade. Fluent in Chinese. Worked my way up into a sales office. And they are incompetent. They can only follow Standard Operating Procedures. When i show them that 7 or 8 points in their procedure are not required they have a melt down. They can’t handle the life outside of the box. This is why their economy is going to hell. And why their women will fuck anything white to get some fiscal security, and maybe to inject some excitement into their bored little lives before they go back to their parents home by 10pm and put on their mickey mouse sleeping tshirt and climb into their hello kitty beds !!!
I love Taiwan. I want it to change and do better. But this isn’t going to happen. I mean they pumch and slap each other in parliment …. much like a child would when another steals his or her pencil !!
Sad !!
Michelle Huang says:
Well said. This writer doesn’t understand the country very well. Taiwanese look after their parents and their family. Sure, kids work too hard but they have that burden of looking after the old too.
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1929: Japanese American groups form a national organization to foster good citizenship and civic participation, called the Japanese American Citizens League.
1930: First JACL National Convention is held on August 29 in Seattle, Washington.
1931: JACL advocates amendment of Cable Act and restores American citizenship to American women of Japanese ancestry married to Japanese nationals. Suma Sugi lobbies the bill on behalf
of the JACL, which is signed into law on Girl’s Day by President Hoover.
1935: Tokutaro Slocum and the JACL help push through the Nye-Lea Bill, which provides citizenship for U.S. Army veterans of Asian ancestry is made into law.
1936: JACL Endowment Fund is established to provide a funding source for programs for Americans of Japanese Ancestry (AJA).
1941: Japanese bombing at Pearl Harbor triggers the entry of the United States into World War II.
1942: 120,000 persons of Japanese ancestry from the West Coast are forcibly interned in 10 American concentration camps.
1942: An emergency wartime meeting of the JACL is convened in San Francisco.
1943: JACL joins with church groups and the War Relocation Authority to resettle Americans of Japanese ancestry in Eastern and Midwestern States.
1943: The volunteer, all Nisei 100th/442nd Regimental Combat Team is formed on Jan. 28. It becomes the most highly decorated unit in American military history.
1943: JACL Credit Union is formed to provide loans for Japanese Americans for resettlement.
1943: JACL establishes a Midwest Office in Chicago to provide information and assistance to Japanese Americans relocating to the Midwest.
1944: JACL efforts result in a narrowly defeated Anti-Alien Land Law proposition in Colorado.
1944: JACL files an amicus legal brief in the Korematsu v. United States case before the United States Supreme Court, testing the constitutionality of the military orders calling for the removal of
Japanese Americans from their West Coast homes.
1945: The California legislature budgets $200,000 to press escheat actions against land holding by Japanese based on the Alien Land Law. County governments were offered 50% of sales from
escheat actions. Between 1944 and 1948 some 200 escheat actions were filed.
1945: JACL opens offices in Seattle, San Francisco and Los Angeles to assist Japanese Americans returning to the West Coast.
1946: The California Supreme Court upholds the escheat of the Oyama property, after the Oyamas were displaced and forced into internment camps during WWII.
1946: JACL campaigns against Proposition 15 in California to incorporate the Alien Land Law into the State Constitution. The proposition was defeated 1,143,780 to 797,067.
1946: First Post War National JACL Convention is held in Denver, Colorado. Adoption of a 14-point program of rebuilding which included Issei naturalization, reparations for discriminatory
treatment during the war, re-examination of the constitutionality of the evacuation, stay of deportation on hardship cases involving Japanese nationals, a call for a national conference of
minorities, elimination of racial discrimination in housing and employment, challenge of the alien land laws, creation of a research clearinghouse on the evacuation, and assistance of returning
Nisei veterans.
1946: President Truman honors the 442nd Regimental Combat Team on their return from the European front.
1946: JACL Anti-Discrimination Committee opens an office in Washington, D.C. to promote a legislative campaign to promote Japanese American civil rights.
1946: JACL is victorious in a campaign to defeat California alien land laws which prevented the Issei from owning property.
1947: JACL succeeds in amending the Soldier Brides Act to admit Japanese wives of U.S.Servicemen to the United States. The language of the bill, “irregardless of race,” was a major
breakthrough in racial attitudes in Congress and the nation at that time.
1947: President’s Committee on Civil Rights recommends passage of evacuation claims and naturalization legislation.
1947: JACL organizes efforts which successfully repeal the Alien Land Law in the State of Utah.
1948: JACL helps found the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, forming a coalition of the major civil rights organizations in the nation.
1948: JACL files amicus brief in the Oyama case. U.S. Supreme Court reverses the California Court’s decision in favor of Fred Oyama, stating that the application of the Alien Land Law in this
case deprived him of his constitutional rights.
1948: The Evacuation Claims Act is passed by Congress to allow token compensation to Japanese Americans for losses suffered due to wartime internment.
1948: JACL is successful in urging passage of legislation to allow citizenship to aliens serving in the Armed Services during World War I and II.
1948: JACL backs a bill, signed by President Harry Truman, to prevent the deportation of “treaty merchants” who lost the right to reside in the United States at the outbreak of war.
1948: JACL is joined by a number of organizations, including the NAACP, in the Takahashi case, which rules that the California Fish and Game Commission’s denial of a commercial fishing
license to Japanese is unconstitutional.
1949: A JACL supported bill to provide naturalization to alien residents in the United States was passed by the Congress, but vetoed by President Truman.
1949: Oregon’s Alien Land Law is eliminated in the Namba decision by the State Supreme Court.
1950: The American Bowling Congress agrees to drop “all-white” membership clause in their bylaws.
1952: California Supreme Court finds the Alien Land Law violation of the state and Federal Constitution.
1952: Passage Walter-McCarran Immigration and Nationality Act eliminated racial barrier to immigration and citizenship. Issei become eligible for American citizenship.
1952: In an amicus brief filed with the U.S. Supreme Court in Brown vs. the Board of Education, the JACL joined the ACLU, the Anti-Defamation League and other organizations in urging that
segregation in state-supported educational institutions violates the equal protection of the laws guaranteed by the 14th Amendment. The legal brief was sent to the court one week before they
heard oral arguments in five pooled cases attacking segregation laws in Kansas, Delaware, South Carolina, Virginia and the District of Columbia.
1953: Earl Warren names John Aiso to a Municipal Court Bench in Los Angeles. Previously, Aiso was the highest ranking Japanese American in WWII, serving as a Lieutenant Colonel.
1955: JACL advocates bill to allow Issei to become eligible for California old-age assistance.
1956: Proposition 13, launched by the JACL to remove the Alien Land Law from the statutes, passes with over 2.5 million votes and a margin of 2 to 1 margin.
1957: JACL launches a campaign to eliminate the use of the term “Jap” as a reference to persons of Japanese ancestry. A massive public education drive is carried out.
1959: Idaho’s anti-miscegenation law is repealed through JACL chapter efforts.
1959: Hawaii is admitted as the 50th state by Congress.
1960: JACL initiates the Issei History Project to document the history and contributions of the Issei to the United States.
1962: JACL establishes the Japanese American Research Project in collaboration with the University of California at Los Angeles to insure the collection and research of Japanese
American history.
1962: JACL initiates campaign to remove anti-Japanese war movies from television.
1963: JACL joins the “March on Washington” with Dr. Martin Luther King to demonstrate its commitment to ensuring full civil rights for all Americans.
1964: JACL initiates a campaign to repeal of anti-miscegenation laws and for the establishment of fair housing policies.
1964: JACL develops a health and medical insurance group plan for its membership.
1965: JACL advocates for passage of an amendment to eliminate the discriminatory features of the 1952 Immigration Act. This historic action abolishes the national origins quota providing for
the annual admission of 170,000 immigrants from Asian nations, thereby equalizing quotas with Western Hemisphere nations.
1966: JACL National Youth Program is organized for Sansei leadership development.
1967: Cultural Heritage Fellowship Program is instituted to promote the study of Japanese American students in Japan.
1969: Centennial of Japanese American immigration to the United States is celebrated. JACL mints a commemorative coin.
1969: The Wakamatsu Colony, site where the first Japanese immigrants arrived, in Colma, California, is given historical landmark status.
1969: Nisei – The Quiet Americans by Bill Hosokawa is published through JACL’s Japanese American Research Project.
1970: The JACL Pacific Southwest District co-sponsors the construction of “Little Tokyo Towers,” a building for senior citizen housing and services.
1971: JACL campaign for the repeal of Title II of the Emergency Detention Act is successful.
1972: Manzanar Relocation Center in California is given historical status.
1972: JACL sponsors “Executive Order 9066,” a photographic exhibit on the World War II exclusion and internment with the California Historical Society.
1973: JACL Pacific Northwest District sponsors senior citizen housing project in Spokane, Washington.
1974: JACL forms Whales Committee to deal with racist impact of boycott of Japanese products led by American conservation groups.
1975: JACL conducts fundraising drive on behalf of Indochinese refugees.
1975: JACL dedicates its National Headquarters Building in San Francisco, California.
1976: JACL publishes The Experience of Japanese Americans in the United States – A Teacher’s Resource Material.
1976: Nisei Aging and Retirement Conference is held in San Francisco by the JACL, through a grant through the National Institute on Mental Health.
1976: In a public White House ceremony, President Ford officially rescinds Executive Order 9066, which resulted in the mass evacuation and internment of Japanese Americans during World War
1976: Bamboo People – The Law and Japanese Americans by Frank Chuman is published through the JACL and Japanese American Research Project.
1977: President Ford grants a pardon to Iva Toguri, who was convicted in 1949 as the mythical “Tokyo Rose.”
1978: The JACL adopts a resolution at its Salt Lake City convention calling for redress payments of $25,000 per individual and an apology by Congress acknowledging the wrong.
1979: JACL advocates for the introduction and passage of legislation to establish a federal commission to investigate the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II and to
make recommendations to the Congress.
1979: Minidoka Relocation Center in Idaho is declared a National Historical Site.
1979: Tule Lake Detention Center in California is named a California Historical Landmark.
1979: 50th anniversary of the founding of the National Japanese American Citizens League.
1980: East to America – A History of Japanese In America, by Dr. Robert Wilson and Bill
Hosokawa is published through the JACL and the Japanese American Research Project.
1980: President Carter signs the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment Act, which established a federal commission to review the facts and circumstances surrounding the 1942
internment of Americans of Japanese Ancestry. Those appointed include former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Arthur Goldberg and former Senator Edward Brooke.
1981: Nikkei from North and South America meet in Mexico City to discuss common concerns at the PANA Conference.
1981: The Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians holds hearings in key cities in the United States and. The JACL provides assistance to witnesses in their preparation of
testimony before the commission.
1982: The Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians issues its report, Personal Justice Denied, finding that the wartime internment of Americans of Japanese was
unwarranted, and that the causes of the internment were race prejudice, wartime hysteria and a failure of political leadership.
1982: AB 2710 is approved in California, compensating Japanese Americans who lost their jobs with the State of California based on their ancestry during World War II. The bill, actively
supported by the JACL, becomes a model for adoption by other governments at municipal and state levels.
1983: The Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians issues its report titled Personal Justice Denied. As remedies, the commission recommends an apology to Americans of
Japanese ancestry, compensation for loss of liberty and the creation of an educational fund.
1983: Majority Leader Jim Wright, of the U.S. House of Representatives, along with 72 cosponsors, introduces H.R. 4110, which seeks to implement the recommendations of the
Commission of Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians.
1983: Senator Spark M. Matsunaga introduces S. 2116, a companion bill to H.R. 4110, in the Senate.
1984: JACL produces videotape to facilitate development of planning for aging and retirement in the Nisei population.
1984: Congress holds subcommittee hearings on S. 2116 and H.R. 4110.
1983: In response to writ of error coram nobis, a federal court in San Francisco vacates Fred Korematsu’s wartime conviction.
1984: California State Legislature proclaims February 19 of each year to be recognized as “A Day of Remembrance” in commemoration of the signing of Executive Order 9066.
1984: JACL holds its first offshore National Convention in Honolulu, Hawaii.
1984: JACL submits an amicus curiae brief supporting the appeal of Hohri et al. v. United States, a class action suit for constitutional violations during the wartime internment.
1985: Manzanar Relocation Center designated a National Historical Landmark
1985: Federal District Court in Portland, OR, vacates Minoru Yasui’s conviction of violating a World War II curfew order.
1985: Redress legislation reintroduced in Congress.
1986: Federal District Court in Seattle, WA, vacates Gordon Hirabayashi’s 1942 conviction for violation of wartime internment orders.
1986: JACL joins other civil rights organizations in calling for economic sanctions against South Africa in response to its apartheid policies.
1986: JACL supports restoration of independence to U.S. Commission on Civil Rights.
1986: JACL approves a resolution opposing constitutional initiatives to make English the official language of the United States.
1986: JACL approves a resolution opposing forced removal of Najavos to Big Mountain.
1987: U.S. House of Representatives passes H.R. 442, the Civil Liberties Act on Sept. 17.
1988: June 21, JACL testifies before a subcommittee of the Senate Judiciary Committee in support of the Hate Crimes Statistics Act which is passed in 1990.
1988: Congress passes Civil Liberties Act of 1988 and on August 10, President Reagan signs the bill authorizing payment of $20,000 and apology to the estimated 60,000 former internees.
1988: JACL supports successful passage of the Civil Rights Restoration Act.
1988: JACL joins in an amicus brief in a challenge by the Americans Friends Service Committee that the Employer Sanctions Provisions of the Immigration Reform and Control Act are
discriminatory and violate the First Amendment.
1989: JACL publishes and distributes Employment Practices Handbook to assist its chapters in responding to cases of employment discrimination.
1989: JACL files a motion in a Washington, D.C. federal court to intervene in the lawsuit of Jacobs v. Thomberg which seeks to enjoin the government from making redress payments.
1989: JACL recommends a number of proposed changes to redress regulations issued by the Office of Redress Administration. The ORA makes revisions to the regulations, including reducing
the onerous documentation requirements to verify eligibility.
1989: President George H. Bush signs an appropriation bill on November 21 that contains redress payments as an entitlement program.
1990: JACL raises concern over the potential for acts of violence against the Arab Americans prior to the Persian Gulf War.
1990: JACL supports successful passage of Americans with Disability Act.
1990: JACL appointed to serve on the Executive Committee of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, the premier civil rights coalition in the United States.
1990: JACL passes a resolution in support of Native American Treaty Rights.
1990: JACL opposes California Assembly Resolution 181 which would have required public schools to teach that there was some justification for the internment of Japanese Americans. The
resolution is defeated on August 28.
1990: JACL appeals to the U.S. Commerce Department to proceed with an adjustment of the census to correct an undercount in the Asian American community.
1990: The initial letters of apology and redress checks signed by President George H. Bush are presented to oldest survivors of the internment at a Department of Justice ceremony.
1990: Honolulu chapter begins JACL’s involvement with the case of Bruce Yamashita who had been subjected to racial harassment and discriminatory treatment in Marine Corps Officer
Candidate School.
1991: JACL conducts year-long education campaign to lessen potential negative backlash surrounding the 50th anniversary commemoration of Pearl Harbor.
1991: JACL publishes and distributes Walk With Pride: Taking Steps to Address Anti-Asian Violence.
1991: JACL supports successful passage of Civil Rights Act of 1991, but is unsuccessful in defeating an amendment by Senator Frank Murkowski to exclude a class action case involving
Asian Pacific American cannery workers at the Wards Cove Packing Company.
1991: JACL testifies before the House Interior and Insular Affairs Subcommittee on May 21 to support legislation establishing Manzanar as a National Historic Site.
1991: JACL urges repeal of United Nations General Assembly Revolution 3379, which equates Zionism with racism.
1991: JACL testifies in support of the “Japanese American National Historic Landmark Theme Study Act,” to authorize a study to identify important sites and structures in Japanese American
history during the period 1941-1946 for the purpose of their evaluation and nomination as national historic sites.
1991: JACL supports successful re-authorization of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights.
1991: JACL joins in a Supreme Court amicus brief with the Anti-Defamation League in support of a hate crime statute being challenged in the case of R.A.V. v. St. Paul.
1992: Lillian Kimura is elected as the first woman national president at 32nd biennial convention in Denver, CO.
1992: JACL works for introduction of Justice for Wards Cove Workers Act.
1992: Passage of the 1992 Amendments to the Civil Liberties Act, which ensures sufficient money available for all those eligible for redress.
1992: JACL approves a resolution in support of reproductive choice.
1992: President Bush signs H.R. 5572, permanently designating the month of May as Asian Pacific Heritage Month.
1992: JACL helps lead Asian Pacific American community in expansion and re-authorization of the bilingual provisions of the Voting Rights Act.
1993: JACL supports the successful passage of the Family Emergency and Medical Leave Act.
1993: JACL and the Rohwer Reunion Committee work to repair the monuments at the site of the Rohwer internment camp and to gain National Historic Landmark status for the site.
1993: JACL supports successful passage of the National Voter Registration Act.
1993: JACL rebukes Cincinnati Reds baseball owner Marge Schott for her use of racist terminology.
1993: JACL organizes nationwide protest against the negative portrayal of Asians and women in the movie “Rising Sun.”
1993: Sacramento JACL office is firebombed on October 2 by an individual later identified as Richard Campos.
1993: Spokane JACL files a federal compliant against the Spokane Democratic Party, the Democratic Party of Washington State and individuals within the party for discriminatory actions
against individuals based on their ethnicity.
1993: JACL supports successful passage of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act.
1993: JACL approves a resolution in support of ending discrimination against gays and lesbians in the military and all other such employment discrimination.
1993: JACL joins other APA organization on a Supreme Court amicus brief in support of a hate crime penalty enhancement statute in Wisconsin v. Mitchell.
1994: JACL National Education Committee publishes and distributes The Japanese American Experience: A Lesson in American History, a curriculum and resource guide.
1994: Bruce Yamashita is commissioned as a captain in the Marine Reserves.
1994: JACL approves a resolution supporting equal marriage rights for all people.
1994: JACL leads successful effort in persuading Congress to pass $5 million in appropriations for redress education fund as called for by the Clinton Administration.
1994: JACL supports the Violence Against Women Act and the Hate Crimes Sentencing Enhancement Act which both pass in Congress as part of crime bill.
1994: Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee votes Justice for Wards Cove Workers Act out of committee.
1994: JACL passes resolution in support of comprehensive health care reform.
1994: The JACL’s 65th anniversary is commemorated in Los Angeles, CA.
1995: JACL supports affirmative action in university admissions.
1995: JACL opposes any legislation that changes the current immigration laws related to family reunification.
1995: JACL supports the establishment of Asian American Studies programs in universities.
1996: Manzanar Relocation Center becomes a National Historic Site.
1996: Japanese Latin Americans (JLA) file class action lawsuit demanding inclusion in Civil Liberties Act.
1997: Patsy Mink (D-HI) introduces H.R. 574, which would expedite the naturalization process for immigrants.
1997: JACL files amicus brief challenging California Proposition 209 that would eliminate affirmative action.
1997: JACL supports adopting a multiracial option on the 2000 Census.
1997: JACL supports the nomination of Chinese American Bill Lann Lee to Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights in the U.S. Department of Justice.
1998: Fred Korematsu receives Presidential Medal of Freedom.
1998: Japanese Latin Americans receive apology and $4.3 million redress payment from the U.S. government.
1998: Redress History Project wins JACL National Council approval.
1998: JACL files amicus brief in U.S. Dept. of Commerce v. U.S. House of Representatives over Census Bureau’s counting methodology.
1999: JACL and other civil rights organizations call for the Supreme Court to hire more minorities and women.
1999: “Go For Broke” monument erected honoring WWII Nisei soldiers.
2000: Census shows Asian Americans as the fastest growing minority in the U.S., with a 43 percent growth rate since 1990.
2000: Norman Mineta is confirmed and sworn in as the U.S. Secretary of Commerce.
2000: JACL approves a resolution to recognize and apologize to WWII resisters of conscience.
2000: Mike Honda (D-CA) wins a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives.
2001: JACL adopts resolution urging federal government to appoint Bill Lann Lee as the Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights.
2001: JACL adopts resolution urging investigation into the arrest and incarceration of physicist Dr.Wen Ho Lee.
2001: JACL opposes nomination of John Ashcroft as U.S. Attorney General.
2001: In the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks, the JACL urged caution against the possible scapegoating of any group based on ethnicity, religion or national origin and urged Americans to
uphold our basic beliefs in democracy.
2002: JACL sends letter to President George W. Bush protesting Department of Justice proposal to establish government detention camps for “enemy combatants.”
2002: 20th anniversary of the hate crime murder of Vincent Chin.
2002: JACL takes part in a national campaign to eliminate Abercrombie and Fitch’s offensive line of t-shirts adorned with racially insulting comments about Asian Americans.
2003: JACL joins ACLU lawsuit challenging provisions of the USA Patriot Act, claiming that it denies citizens their civil liberties.
2003: JACL joins 27 other APA organizations in an amicus brief supporting the University of Michigan affirmative action program.
2003: JACL protests the DOJ/INS special registration of predominantly Muslim men.
2004: The JACL’s 75th anniversary is celebrated at its convention in Honolulu, HI.
2004: JACL files amicus curiae with ACLU lawsuit defending same-sex marriage in Oregon.
2004: Japanese American WWII vets honored by French government on the 60th anniversary of the Liberation of France.
2004: JACL signs on to amicus brief in Donald Rumsfeld v. Jose Padilla, challenging the provisions of the Patriot Act.
2004: JACL backs the introduction of the Civil Liberties Restoration Act, which would restore the civil liberties taken away by the Patriot Act.
2005: Japantown Task Force publishes San Francisco’s Japantown, chronicling the history of Japanese Americans in the area.
2005: By action of the California legislature, former internees begin to receive graduation diplomas over 60 years after they were taken out of school and forced into internment camps
during WWII.
2005: California Rep. Mike Honda becomes first Asian American Vice Chair of the Democratic National Committee.
2006: Tule Lake Segregation Center and Granada/Amache Relocation Center named National Historical Landmarks.
2006: HR 1492 is passed, authorizing $38 million for the preservation of internment camps as historic sites.
2006: JACL releases new curriculum guide, The Journey from Gold Mountain: The Asian American experience.
2007: JACL issues support for a fair trial for the Jena Six, a group of African American students charged with felonies.
2007: JACL opposes Attorney General Alberto Gonzales’ challenge of habeas corpus.
2007: Gold Hill-Wakamatsu Colony, the first Japanese colony in North America, is purchased and restored by Japanese American groups and the American River Conservancy.
2007: JACL renews its support for the Filipino Veterans Equity Act, which would restore full benefits to Filipino-American soldiers who served in WWII.
2007: House of Representatives passes H.R. 1592, the Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act.
2007: JACL passes resolution to support Lt. Ehren Watada, calling for a fair trial and the right to be protected from double jeopardy, after he was initially charged for refusing deployment in the
Iraq War.
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Brueghel Family: Jan Brueghel the Elder
Road Along a Hilltop (Munich)
BRVEGHEL.1608
Location/Last Sold:
Munich, Germany, Alte Pinakothek, inv. #830
Ertz 1979 as Jan Brueghel the Younger
Honig database as uncertain, possibly studio
Munich 2013 as studio of Jan the Elder
Our Attribution:
Produced in Jan Brueghel's Studio
Munich 1799 inv. #465 as Jan Brueghel
Munich 1822, #2010
Schleissheim 1830, inv. #805
Munich 1905, inv. #652
1799 Munich, Germany inv. #465 (as "Jan Brueghel")
1822 Munich, Germany inv. #2010
1830 Schleißheim, Germany Schleißheim, inv. #805
1905 Munich, Germany inv. #652
Road Along a Hilltop
Private Collection/Art Market
Thiéry 1953, p. 176
Gerson 1966, p. 60
Ertz 1979, p. 164, n.147
Ertz 1984, cat. #15, pp. 60, 196ff.
Gerson and ter Kuile 1960, p. 60
Cappenberg 1952, cat. #5
Munich 2013, cat. #50
Elizabeth Honig
Ertz believes this to be a work by Jan the Younger done shortly after he took over his father's studio in the late 1620s. It would be quite possible that the painting, a variant of an earlier work by his father (Ertz 1979 #114), was left incomplete in the studio like many other works and finished by Jan the younger; the closeness in size between the two argues for a connection in manufacture rather than a later pastiche using drawings, I would think. The present work could also have been executed in the studio at the same time as the other, though.
According to the Munich catalogue the signature on this is not autograph and the piece is probably a studio work. This seems plausible to me. They do not agree with Ertz's suggested attribution to Jan the Younger; see Munich 2013, p. 268
Pieter Bruegel Site
To cite this page
"Brueghel Family: Jan Brueghel the Elder." The Brueghel Family Database. University of California, Berkeley. http://janbrueghel.net/ (accessed January 21, 2020).
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Architects sought for service on Urban Design Review Board
WAILUKU - Architects are being sought for five positions - two regular positions and three alternates - on the Urban Design Review Board.
For the regular positions, one needs to be an architect and the other a land architect. For the three alternates, two architects and one land architect are needed on the board. The panel has specific qualification requirements for some of its members.
"I appreciate the willingness of all of those who serve voluntarily on our boards, commissions and other Maui County panels," Mayor Michael Victorino said. "In this case, I'm asking architects to step forward and help serve on the Urban Design Review Board."
Responsibilities include hearing public testimony and reviewing policies and standards. Panel members make recommendations and decisions that impact Maui County.
Positions are appointed by the mayor, confirmed by the Maui County Council and have terms lasting two to five years. While no monetary compensation is provided for serving on the board, the public's participation helps provide an important government service. Volunteers are reimbursed for allowable travel expenses.
Anyone interested in serving on any board or commission should first apply online at www.mauicounty.gov/Boards.
For more information, contact Gladys Baisa in the Office of the Mayor at 270-8211 or Gladys.Baisa@co.maui.hi.us.
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Colin Linden is a genuine renaissance man of roots music. He’s a singer and songwriter of great skill, an in-demand and prolific record producer ( Bruce Cockburn, Tom Wilson, Colin James), a sideman to the stars as guitarist for the likes of Bruce Cockburn, Emmylou Harris, and Robert Plant, Alison Krauss and Bob Dylan and, for the past decade, a member of the highly successful trio, Blackie and the Rodeo Kings.
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Who will survive in the post print newsroom?
Editor & Publisher columnist Steve Outing says it now seems likely that some newspapers will abandon print, or be forced to, and asks: "What might a digital local news operation look like, and what tools and skills will be required?"
Outing accepts that the digital newsroom will have a much reduced staff and considers what it will take to survive the job cuts and concludes: "Certainly an understanding of, and probably enthusiasm for, new forms of media and storytelling."
He says: "The transformed newsroom will be filled with multi-functional journalists who are comfortable carrying around a digital camera and tiny video camera; who make it part of their routine to record audio for possible use in podcasts or multimedia project sound clips; who are regular users of social networks and understand how to leverage them to communicate with and attract new readers, and share some personal information about themselves as well as promote their work; and who are comfortable and willing to put in the time to engage and communicate with their readers or viewers, including participating in reader comment threads accompanying their stories."
Outing suggests: "Journalists clinging to notions of narrow job descriptions and who still hold dear many of the old ways of doing things for print are unlikely to be among those offered jobs in the downsized digital newsroom. To win one of these jobs, extreme flexibility and the love of learning and a challenge will be qualities that hiring managers will seek.
"I suspect that may make this digital newsroom younger than today's print newsrooms, yet I know plenty of older journalists who revel in the media transformation and 24/7 nature of today's news, and young journalists just out of college who still think conservatively. So don't count out seeing some gray hair in the digital newsroom, though not as much."
Labels: Editor and Publisher, Steve Outing
Sunday Times: new 'Lords-for-hire' video
The Sunday Times is keeping up the pressure with its "Lords-for-hire" scoop by releasing a secretly-filmed video apparently showing Labour peer Lord Truscott discussing how a law could be changed in exchange for cash.
The paper's multi-media response to the story is keeping it at the top of the political agenda.
You can watch it here via the SKY News website.
Labels: Sky News, Sunday Times
NUJ Left meeting on media ownership
NUJ Left is holding a public meeting in London with the working title of ‘media ownership: on whose terms, in whose interests?'
It says the the aim is to develop ideas about media ownership and state aid and claims: "There has probably never been a better time to have this discussion."
It will be held between 7pm and 9pm, Tuesday, 17 February at the London Welsh Centre, Gray’s Inn Rd. Speakers to be confirmed
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Labels: NUJ Left
A year ago an MBE: Now its a P45 for editor
One of the best known weekly editors in the county, John Butterworth, group editor of Shropshire Newspaper's weekly series has been made redundant, HoldtheFrontPage reports today, by the Midland News Association.
A year ago Butterworth was awarded an MBE for services to journalism and his charity work. His papers and journalists have often featured in journalism awards.
HTFP says it is expected that all sub-editing operations at Shropshire Newspapers weekly titles, which include the Shrewsbury and North Shropshire Chronicle, will be carried out from the company's head office in Ketley from March.
Butterworth, 55, has been in journalism for 36 years and in his current role for the past 12.
He told HoldtheFrontPage: "I did not want to leave newspapers. I've had 36 years and I love newspapers. If I'd wanted to leave I could have applied for voluntary redundancy."
Labels: John Butterworth, Midland News Association
Former Press Gazette and Media Week boss: 'Why I don't need them anymore'
Neil Thackray, who was chief executive of Quantum Publishing when it sold Press Gazette and Media Week four years ago, has launched a blog looking at the major issues facing the B2B sector in the age of the internet.
Thackray writes:"The Internet has had two pernicious effects on the future editorial viability of business magazines. First the news, the lifeblood of a weekly mag, is available 24/7 and immediately.
"I haven’t picked up a copy of Media Week or Press Gazette since we sold them four years ago. This hasn’t been deliberate, its just that I don’t need them any longer when I can find the news on the web. I bet your reading habits have changed. And so have all the readers of business magazines habits changed.
"The second effect has been the result of the phenomenon you are reading now. The lone or collaborating blogger. It is almost a cliche that now everyone is a journalist. As journalists get laid off, there will be more and more lone writers."
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Labels: B2B, Neil Thackray
Bolton manager Megson's pathetic attempt to keep views on fans private in The Sun
Bolton FC manager Gary Megson, talking about the club's "boo-boys" who have been giving him a hard time , says in a Sun interview today: "Their feelings for me are well documented and are regularly made apparent . My feelings about them need to stay private."
Well, maybe Megson shouldn't in the same interview say of the abuse "it's pathetic" or say "you have to wonder at the intelligence of these people."
That way his "private feelings" wouldn't appear splashed all over the Sun sports pages under the banner headline: 'Megson blasts own fans..YOU ARE THICK 'N PATHETIC.'
Labels: Gary Megson, the Sun
It's been a good week for quotes. Here's my pick.
Nick Davies, at the NUJ Jobs Summit, on the public status (or lack of it) of journalists: "Being judged by people on the performance of Murdoch and Dacre is like all Transylvanians being judged on Dracula's behaviour. We have to fight back against it. Our position is similar to that in which gay men and women found themselves in the 1950s and 1960s. They were unable to orchestrate their political strength to change the law because they weren't liked, they were shunned."
Derry Journal NUJ chapel, on proposed job cuts: "The Derry Journal survived the Famine, but we fear it may not survive Johnston Press."
Sly Bailey on Digital Britain interim report: "Frankly time is running out. Regional newspaper publishers are facing the most challenging times in their history, mergers and combinations of newspaper groups offer the only chance of survival for some titles."
Greg Dyke on the influence of the Hutton Report (five years old this week) on the BBC: "On Iraq I don't think the BBC has been brave since then."
BBC director general Mark Thompson on BBC websites linking to Gaza Appeal: "This is a valid decision for news editors to make when reporting that the appeal is happening; as we know that many people will want more information about the appeal or donating to it. Providing them with that information in no way alters the fact that my decision - however controversial - was the correct one to preserve the BBC's impartiality."
Sun editor Rebekah Wade, giving the Hugh Cudlipp Lecture: "Newspaper pessimism is age old, nearly as old as some of the media commentators."
Former Sun editor Kelvin MacKenzie: "I used to have a business in Swansea and decided to make a "seagull visit" - fly in, s*** on the staff and fly back to my London office."
Wade on MacKenzie, answering a question after Hugh Cudlipp Lecture: "He's not allowed in Scotland...or the North."
Headline of the Week: The Sun on the 'Lords for hire' story : 'PEERS MORONS'
Labels: Derry NUJ chapel, Greg Dyke, Kelvin MacKenzie, Mark Thompson, Nick Davies, Rebekah wade, Sly Bailey
'Don't rush to relax media ownership laws': NUJ
The NUJ has taken the opposite view to Trinity Mirror chief Sly Bailey and called on the Government not to rush to relax media ownership laws.
In a complete contrast to Bailey's claim that "time is running out" for the regional press (see post below), the NUJ's response to today's interim Digital Britain report is cautious on the proposed review of media ownership and merger rules by the Office of Fair Trading and Ofcom.
NUJ general secretary Jeremy Dear said: “Whilst on the one hand the government talks about the importance of plurality in the media, on the other it is considering a relaxation of the very rules that protect it.
“Politicians must take care not to allow policy to be dictated by media owners who have shown scant interest in investing in the editorial resources needed for quality journalism."
Labels: Digital Britain, NUJ
Sly Bailey: 'Time is running out...mergers and combinations of newspaper groups offer only chance of survival for some titles'
Trinity Mirror chief executive Sly Bailey has given a blistering response to the publication of the interim Digital Britain report, HoldtheFrontPage reports today.
She welcomes the move to review the merger ownership rules (see post below) in the regional newspaper sector but accuses the government of a lack of urgency.
Bailey says: "We, of course, welcome the commitment to investigate the potential for changes to merger regulations in the local and regional media sector. But how long will the process take following the full report in May? One or two years?
"Frankly time is running out. Regional newspaper publishers are facing the most challenging times in their history, mergers and combinations of newspaper groups offer the only chance of survival for some titles. Merger regulations need to change to enable the regional newspaper industry to survive in the digital age, rather than conspiring to strangling it out of existence."
In another broadside, she added: "We are bitterly disappointed that the report makes only passing reference to newspapers - the word is used just four times - and the crushing lack of understanding of the urgency required for changes to merger regulations in the local and regional media sector."
Labels: Digital Britain, Sly Bailey
Digital Britain: Government will look at changing local media merger rules
The interim Digital Britain report published today says the Government will look to see if a change in the local media merger regime is "desirable or necessary."
The report says (Action point 14) the Government "will invite the OFT, together with Ofcom and other interested parties to undertake an exploratory review across local and regional media sector and make appropriate recommendations."
It also says: "At a local level, the challenges for news are intense...Local media groups are seeking to make the transition to digital business models but argue the need to consolidate in order to have the scale and sustainability to do so.
"They argue too that the media merger regime does not take account of the potential for competition across boundaries between newspapers and other media. This position, they argue, will become increasingly unsustainable as we move into a fully Digital Britain. Such arguments need to be tested against current evidence."
Leading regional publishers, like Trinity Mirror, and the Newspaper Society have been lobbying for a relaxation of the merger and ownership rules. Reform of the regulations could lead to more consolidation in the industry and for local newspapers to play a bigger part in local broadcasting.
Labels: Digital Britain Report, regional mergers.
John Welsh: Five more blogging tips
John Welsh has come up with five more skills he suggests should be mastered before anyone starts blogging.
On his blog Theses Digital Times, John covers such topics as RSS feeds, research and how to optimise your blog to get the most readers. He has already published a list of five other important blogging skills.
Labels: blogging, John Welsh
Kelvin MacKenzie's 'seagull' management style
Kelvin MacKenzie was always a fearsome boss and known when editor of The Sun for giving his staff terrifying bollockings. One executive pretended to pass out in MacKenzie's office in a bid to avoid the hair dryer treatment.
In his Sun column today, MacKenzie gives an insight into his management style when he owned a radio station in Swansea. He reveals: "I used to have a business in Swansea and decided to make a "seagull visit" - fly in, s*** on the staff and fly back to my London office."
Labels: Kelvin MacKenzie, the Sun
Ministers should be available to give local angle
More senior officials and ministers should be available for interviews with local media journalists to increase understanding of the local impact of government policies, Lord Fowler’s Communications Select Committee has recommended.
The Central Office of Information has been urged to forge better relationships with local and regional media in a bid to improve government communications at a local level.
A committee report this week called on the COI to “take the lead in improving standards” of government engagement with local media, the Newspaper Society reports.
Regional press officers should receive more training to increase understanding of local media, tailor press releases to a local level, and become “more proactive” at building relationships, the report said.
The NS says witnesses who gave evidence to the committee criticised regional press releases which were simply a rehash of a national press releases “with a few local statistics added on” and called for better information at a local level.
The report said: “One way to engage the regional and local media more effectively would be to add more than local statistics to national press releases and to guide journalists through the local implications of an announcement.
“Another way of engaging the local and regional media is for ministers themselves to be more available for interview and comment on the local aspects of stories.”
Labels: COI, Lord Fowler, Newspaper Society
David Montgomery fan club on Facebook
Blogger Kristine Lowe reports that Mecom shareholders have launched a fan club for under fire boss and former Mirror chief David Montgomery on Facebook.
She writes: "Fed up with all the negative media coverage of former Mirror boss David Montgomery's struggling pan-European media group, Adam Billiald, a small shareholder in Mecom, has set up nothing less than The David Montgomery Appreciation Society ."
The site tells Montogomery that "loyal shareholders" are right behind him and 45 supporters have signed up.
Story via journalism.co.uk
Labels: David Montgomery, facebook, Mecom
It's not just newspapers facing cut backs
With an estimated 600 editorial jobs lost in the regional press alone since last summer, the NUJ is having to consider how it will cope with a falling membership.
The union's National Executive Committee discussed at the weekend the liklihood that membership of the NUJ will fall during the current recession. NUJ general secretary Jeremy Dear reveals on his blog: "Even with just a 2% year on year membership fall for the next three years the union would have a shortfall of £500,000 per annum by 2012. It means the NEC is having to look hard at how we can save money."
Labels: Jeremy Dear, NUJ
Government should 'live with' Information Tribunal ruling on Iraq war minutes
The government should accept the ruling of the Information Tribunal and release cabinet minutes from 2003 discussing the decision to go to war in Iraq, according to the Campaign for Freedom of Information.
The Tribunal’s decision, made under the Freedom of Information Act, found that the balance of public interest favoured releasing the minutes.
The Campaign’s director Maurice Frankel said: “The government has four choices. It can release the information and accept the Tribunal view that this is an ‘extreme’ case which does not set a precedent for the future release of cabinet minutes or require ministers to be more reticent at cabinet discussions.
"Second, it could appeal to the High Court, a process which could go all the way to the House of Lords, adding years of delay.
"Third, it could try and amend the FOI Act to remove cabinet minutes from its scope. We hope its recent unsuccessful attempt to do this over MPs’ expenses will persuade it not to repeat the exercise.
"Finally, ministers could exercise the veto which they have built into the Act and overturn the Tribunal’s decision without persuading any court of their case, a wholly unacceptable outcome. We hope it will accept the Tribunal’s decision, release the minutes and recognise that cases where the public interest favours disclosure of such material will be so rare that they can live with it.”
Labels: Campaign for Freedom of Information, Iraq War minutes, Maurice Frankel
MP says too much recession woe on BBC compared to local community media
Liberal MP John Pugh has put down an Early Day Motion accusing the BBC of being too ready to accentuate the economic woes caused by the recession - and contrasts this to the way the local media are covering the crisis.
The EDM reads:" That this House believes that, notwithstanding the very serious problems confronting the British economy, confidence, jobs and livelihoods of real people are affected by the reporting of events by mass media; notes the readiness of the BBC, with its significant global reach to further dramatise, accentuate and underline economic woes; further notes also the public's awareness of this tendency; contrasts this approach with that of local, community-based media; and urges the commissioning of academic research on the influence of media reporting on the fragile psychology of the City and, more importantly, on the real jobs of ordinary people."
Pugh's motion was discussed on BBC Radio 4's PM programme today but, surprisingly, the BBC declined to put up anyone to defend its coverage. The BBC has past form for this. It refused to put up anyone on BBC Radio 4's Feedback programme to answer listeners' claims that business editor Robert Peston's gloomy reports were causing panic in the markets.
Labels: bbc, recession reporting
BBC not 'brave' in covering Iraq war ever since Hutton Report claims Greg Dyke
Former BBC director-general Greg Dyke said today that the highly critical Hutton Report and the legacy of the row over Andrew Gilligan's "sexed-up" dossier allegations has influenced the BBC's reporting of the war in Iraq.
Asked by presenter Steve Hewlett on today's BBC Radio 4's Media Show about the long term impact on the BBC of Hutton, published five years ago today, Dyke said:"On Iraq I don't think the BBC has been brave since then."
Dyke, who lost his job as a result of the dossier affair, also said: "I think when you look back now, I think although there were odd mistakes, the central thrust of what Gilligan said was true."
He said the fire turned on the BBC was a "trick" by Alastair Campbell to try and save his own job and because Campbell disliked the BBC because "it was one of the few bits of the media he couldn't control."
Labels: Greg Dyke, Hutton Report, Media Show
'Derry Journal survived the Famine, but we fear it may not survive Johnston Press': NUJ chapel
The NUJ chapel at the Derry Journal has called for an industrial action ballot in response to plans to push through compulsory redundancies
The chapel claims that up to seven editorial posts at the Derry Journal are under threat.
It said in a statement: "The Journal chapel strongly believe (and management have not disputed) that more job losses are likely to follow at the Derry Journal. The threatened compulsory redundancies at the Journal is the latest in a series of swathing job losses at the Derry newspaper, since it came under the ownership of Johnston Press in 2006.
"Since then, we have lost more than 50 jobs as one by one, printing, accounts and production jobs were moved out of Derry."
"We are determined to fight to defend our jobs and the integrity of the Derry Journal and we hope there will be an overwhelming vote for strike action. We will be asking for support from fellow trades unionists, our readers, advertisers, and politicians locally and nationally.
"The Derry Journal survived the Famine, but we fear it may not survive Johnston Press."
Labels: Derry Journal, Johnston Press, NUJ
How blogging changes journalists
A survey of 200 journalists who are bloggers by Paul Bradshaw, a senior lecturer in online journalism and magazines at Birmingham City University’s School of Media, is now available in a new article on the latest edition of Nieman Reports.
Bradshaw writes: "From journalistic pariah to savior of the news industry, blogs have undergone an enormous transformation in recent years. As a journalist and a blogger, I was curious to see how this transformation from blogophobia to blogophilia was affecting journalism.
"Blogging is changing journalism—at least for those journalists who blog. But alongside this conclusion resides a collection of more interesting findings."
They include: "Cutting Out the Middlemen. In generating story ideas, blogging journalists don’t need someone to tell them who the readers are and what they want: They already know, because the readers are on their blogs, telling them who they are and what they’re curious about.
"In this new blogging relationship, editors are the middlemen being cut out. The role of official sources—such as public relations spokespeople and firms—were also being diminished, as sources for stories broadened.
"Story leads now come through the comments or through private communication initiated via the blog. And once they are pursuing a story, some journalists use the blog to “put the call out” for information and sources—and rely on the transparency of their reporting process to push official sources to reply."
Bradshaw says: "A third of the respondents only started to blog in the past year, so my suspicion is that there remains room for more change. Clearly, we are only at the beginning, as the news industry faces one of the most significant transformations in its history."
Labels: blogging survey, Nieman Reports, Paul Bradshaw
Thompson defends Gaza appeal ad ban but says "valid" to link to it via BBC website
BBC director-general Mark Thompson has defended his decision not to allow the DEC Gaza appeal to be broadcast, in a letter to The Guardian today.
He describes yesterday's leader in The Guardian about the affair as "wholly misguided" and refutes claims that it is "inconsistent" to publish links to the DEC appeal on the BBC website.
Thompson says: "This is a valid decision for news editors to make when reporting that the appeal is happening; as we know that many people will want more information about the appeal or donating to it. Providing them with that information in no way alters the fact that my decision - however controversial - was the correct one to preserve the BBC's impartiality."
Labels: bbc, Gaza Appeal, Mark Thompson, The Guardian
NUJ asks: 'Where's the money gone?'
This links to a copy of the NUJ's briefing on the profits made by some of the leading media companies in the lead up to the current economic downturn and the profit margins enjoyed by the likes of Trinity Mirror and Johnston Press. It was distributed at the union's Jobs Summit on Saturday. Read the jobs summit briefing on money in the media.
Labels: NUJ money briefing
Cabinet Iraq minutes will show "very little"
The decision by the Information Tribunal today that the Government should reveal Cabinet minutes in the run-up to the Iraq war in 2003 was welcomed by MP Clare Short but she predicted they would show "very little".
Speaking on BBC Radio 4's PM programme, Short said: "I am sure the Government will appeal against the decision but they will show very little. We had a sofa Government under Blair. I hope they get out but everyone will find them very disappointing."
Labels: Cabinet Minutes, Clare Short, Information Tribunal, Iraq War
MP urges Government to support freedom and safety of journalists worldwide
Labour MP Austin Mitchell has put down an Early Day Motion calling on the Government to support the freedom and safety of journalists worldwide.
The EDM welcomes that the number of journalists killed worldwide in work-related incidents during 2008 dropped to 104 from the record high of 179 in 2007 according to the report by the International Federation of Journalists.
But it notes with concern that "many journalists remain the main targets for deliberate attacks to intimidate and silence them; further notes that many governments around the world do not launch serious investigations into the deaths of independent journalists; believes that the freedom of journalists to work without fear is vital for any democratic society; and therefore urges the Government to use all international opportunities to support the freedom and safety of journalists worldwide".
Labels: Austin Mitchell
Google News rankings 'distort' web content
Interesting post on CounterValue blog by the Telegraph's Justin Williams about Google News rankings headed: 'Are We Building Newsrooms for Google News'.
He says: "Google News and our response to it as an industry are seriously distorting our web-based publishing models. There is a risk that resources are poured into producing highly commodotised, superficial articles while higher value channels - areas where we can actually make money online, something that is unlikely to happen in news - are left to whither or are stripped to feed the newsroom beast. To get to this point, the industry has to abandon its obsession with unique users - something I cannot see happening any time soon."
Labels: CounterValue, Google News, Justin Williams
NUJ executive backs Newsquest York buy-out
The NUJ's national executive has said the union will explore ways of ending Newsquest's ownership of newspapers in York.
The move follows a call by the NUJ chapel at the Press and Gazette and Herald for the union to look at ways the newspapers could be bought-out from Newsquest.
Union members also hope that local business figures may come forward to finance a buy-out that would return the papers and websites to Yorkshire ownership.
Journalists on the papers have suffered redundancies and a wage freeze. Adam Christie, NUJ National Executive Council member for the North East of England, said: "The experience of journalists in York is an example of what is happening around the country as media companies try to maintain profit levels several times greater than major supermarket chains at the cost of local news and the cultural and democratic health of our villages, towns and cities."
Labels: Newsquest York, NUJ
Sun headline apes Private Eye
The Sun has taken a leaf out of the Private Eye style-book today and headlined its story on the four "peers-for-hire" allegations with a play on the Eye's favourite editor "Piers Moron". The Sun's headline is: PEERS MORONS.
Labels: the Sun
Sun editor calls for united front by British press
Sun editor Rebekah Wade called tonight for the British press to "stop beating itself up" and put up a united front on such issues as combating a privacy law and sticking up for self-regulation.
Wade, giving the annual Hugh Cudlipp Lecture at the London College of Communications, claimed the British press was divided over issues such as the way privacy law was being made in a "drip, drip" fashion in the courts on individual stories, like the News of the World's Max Mosley expose.
She said the press's "self-flagellation" had reached a high point when the Guardian gave pages of coverage to Mosley's views on privacy. Wade also accused the Guardian of giving The Sun's campaign over the Baby 'P' case a "knee-jerk tabloid kicking" without any regard that it had the support of public opinion.
Wade argued that press should use its "collective power" to resist attacks on freedom of the press by regulators, lawyers and politicians and the "morbid" and negative commentary on the demise of the press should stop.
She also took a swipe at media pundits who were "doom mongering" about the future of newspapers. "Newspaper pessimism is age old, nearly as old as some of the media commentators," Wade said.
Labels: Rebekah wade
Did BBC staff undermine D-G on Gaza aid?
Did cunning BBC staff come up with a plan to undermine Director General Mark Thompson over his ban on the Gaza aid appeal. Blog duckrabbit seems to think so.
Thanks for the link Benjamin.
Labels: duckrabbit
Union hotline for cuts whistleblowers
The NUJ has launched a whistleblower hotline for journalists who want to reveal how media cutbacks have prevented proper reporting.
It follows the call from investigative reporter and author of 'Flat Earth News' Nick Davies, made at the NUJ's Jobs Summit on Saturday. He said: "We need to become whistle blowers in our newsrooms and show how cuts hit editorial performance."
The hotline is: email whistleblower@nuj.org.uk, telephone 020 7843 6381 or via the web. The union promises to protect the identity of all whistleblowers.
Labels: NUJ, whistleblowers
NUJ joins BBC Gaza aid ad ban protest
The NUJ today joined with broadcasting union BECTU to add to the chorus of condemnation of the BBC for refusing to run a charity appeal for the victims of the war in Gaza on the grounds it would compromise the Corporation's news impartiality.
NUJ general secretary Jeremy Dear has written, with his counterpart at BECTU, to BBC Director General Mark Thompson claiming there is a danger the BBC will be seen as "biased in favour of Israel" and asking him to reconsider the ban.
The NUJ and BECTU letter in full.
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Labels: bbc, Gaza, Jeremy Dear, NUJ
The Independent is for sale
That's the view of MediaGuardian commentator Roy Greenslade today on the back of Independent News & Media's trading statement.
He says: "Though there is no overt "for sale" sign over the Indy, it's obvious that if Alexander Lebedev - or another oligarch - came forward with a £1 coin and a willingness to lose £1m every couple of weeks or so, then INM would bite his hand off.
"Whatever INM might say to the contrary, the Indy and Sindy are in play, available to any bidder. One only has to look at the context in the rest of the statement. No dividend for 2008. No bonuses for directors. A 10% cut in directors' fees and a 10% cut in executives' salaries."
Labels: Independent News and Media, Roy Greenslade, The Independent
Digital Britain interim report delay
The BBC says that Communications Minister Lord Carter will not publish interim findings of the Digital Britain report today as planned.
A spokeswoman for the Department of Culture, Media and Sport said the report would now appear "before the end of the month".
Media secretary Andy Burnham has said in the Commons that he had asked Lord Carter to look at the local news media as part of his work on developing digital communications in Britain. Speaking at the Oxford Media Convention, last week he said: "I would like to signal today that the provision of local news – and the plight of local newspapers - has to rise up the political agenda.
"It is time to develop a sensible strategy that uses the converging nature of journalism to sustain a vital local media."
Labels: Andy Burnham, Digital Britain Report, Lord carter
Blogging not about 'mouthing off' your opinions
John Welsh asks: "When did people mistake blogging as a platform from which to mouth off their opinions?"
He has come up with: "Five online skills you must master BEFORE you start a blog - community, commenting, connectivity, collaboration and content."
It is all extremely useful advice for anyone interested in blogging.
'Innovation is the salvation for news in the post newspaper future': Jeff Jarvis
Jeff Jarvis in MediaGuardian today reveals that he is beginning work on a university project to discover frameworks for what comes after the newspapers "that will die in cities" and will be examining hyperlocal networks; national networks and new revenue streams.
This work follows a summit on business models for news that he organised at the City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism involving 100 editorial and publishing executives, entrepreneurs, technologists and financiers.
Jarvis writes: "The ideas were radical by the standards of our industry. Edward Roussel, head of digital at the Telegraph Media Group, and Dave Morgan, founder of the ad network Tacoda, argued that newspapers should be disaggregated, spinning off or outsourcing production, distribution, technology, and even ad sales. The most popular PowerPoint slide of the day was Roussel's, showing that 60% of the cost structure of papers is production and distribution - which are ultimately unnecessary in the digital age."
Unfortunately, Jarvis says: "The revenue group found no magic pill to solve journalism's problems ." But one idea was that "journalism's business and revenue, like its content, will become collaborative and networked. No one company will control news in a market any more; none can afford to."
Jarvis says starkly: "The question is: how much time is left? The Paper Cuts blog counted 15,554 redundancies in American newspapers alone last year, and at the summit, no one protested when it was said that papers' costs are still too high. Over-leveraged newspaper companies are facing ever-more-imminent bankruptcy in the UK - and the US media blogger Alan Mutter calculated that operating profits of a dozen top US newspaper companies fell in the third quarter by an apocalyptic 198%."
But he says there is hope: "I also invited 10 entrepreneurs and practitioners of new models to inspire the crowd with their fresh thinking on aggregation, linking, ad and content networks, and news video. One young founder, David Cohn, showed Spot.us, a platform to enable readers to support reporters on stories, and soon he had investors and big-company executives shoving business cards into his pocket. The point: it is possible to innovate in news. Innovation will be our salvation."
It was the view of many of the speakers at the NUJ's Jobs Summit in London on Saturday that the big corporate newspaper owners do not hold the solution to the newspaper industry's problems and that new business models will have to replace them. (See posting below)
Labels: Jeff Jarvis, MediaGuardian
'Murdoch and Dacre have brought all journalists into disrepute': Nick Davies
Journalists need to restore their status with the public as they battle against cuts and denounce those who have "betrayed" the profession, author and investigative reporter Nick Davies told an NUJ jobs summit in London today.
Davies, whose book 'Flat Earth News' attacked the easy processed news culture of "churnalism," told the summit: "We are not trusted or liked. We are misperceived."
He claimed: "If you ask people to name well known journalists, they will name people who are notorious. I am thinking of people like Rupert Murdoch and Paul Dacre. These people have brought us all into disrepute.
"Being judged by people on the performance of Murdoch and Dacre is like all Transylvanians being judged on Dracula's behaviour. We have to fight back against it. Our position is similar to that in which gay men and women found themselves in the 1950s and 1960s. They were unable to orchestrate their political strength to change the law because they weren't liked, they were shunned."
Davies said journalists should not be afraid to denounce the small minority who betray the profession and "remove the smear of their behaviour from the image of our profession".
He applauded the NUJ's "Journalism Matters" campaign and said it was vital to show the public they needed reliable, quality news more than ever and that "we need to become whistle blowers in our newsrooms and show how cuts hit editorial performance."
Davies argued that the corporate owners of the news media could not solve the problems facing the industry because "they are the problem". He said "they took over our newspapers, ransacked them for profits and readers lost trust in us" and their solutions to the present crisis were based on the priority of profits not news values.
Davies dismissed the rise of citizen journalism as "like saying if the movie industry collapsed we've got people at home with video cameras. There might be a slight decline in quality." He added that some other countries, like France and Holland, had "crossed the line" and provided public funding for the news media. "It should not go into the hands of Johnston Press but into the hands of working journalists," he said.
Davies ended by saying: "We matter. Most journalists are decent, honest, hardworking people. We should be allowed to do our jobs properly. I believe if we fight we can win and save quality news."
Update: 4:37 pm. Those attending the jobs summit backed a motion calling for a national day of action to defend quality media; a "co-ordinated industrial response" to compulsory job cuts and office closures, including industrial action "across employers"; a series of protests aimed at key company and industry events; and a lobby of MPs.
Labels: Nick Davies, NUJ
Double jeopardy for Charles Moore
Former Sun editor Kelvin MacKenzie will visit Charles Moore in prison if the Daily Telegraph commentator is jailed for refusing to pay his television licence in protest at the BBC continuing to employ Jonathan Ross.
MacKenzie made the pledge direct to Moore in a two-way interview on BBC Radio 4's Today programme this morning. Moore muttered his gratitude to MacKenzie and stood by his decision not to pay the licence fee despite Ross's apology at the beginning of his show last night.
He described Ross as "an oaf".
MacKenzie was more forgiving but warned if Ross dropped another "clanger" in the next year he would out of the BBC at "200 miles per hour".
Labels: Charles Moore, Jonathan Ross, Kelvin MacKenzie, Today
Western Daily Press RIP
Before the Western Daily Press is turned into a "Metro-style" newspaper (see posting below) perhaps we can salute its glorious past.
In Eric Price, Ian Beales and Terry Manners it had three of the most passionate editors in the regional press whose verve and drive ensured the WDP won stacks of awards.
Eric arrived from the Daily Express in the 1960s and took the circulation from 12,000 to 80,000. An absolute legend. Under Ian Beales and Terry Manners the paper consistently won top awards for design and committed, campaigning journalism.
To name but one. In 1990 Western Daily Press reporters Mervyn Hancock, Brian Best and Nigel Kerton jointly won the Campaigning Journalist of the Year in the 1990 Press Gazette Regional Press Awards for an expose of the privitisation of a council's services which led to a police inquiry. Will a free "Metro-style" paper ever achieve anything like that?
I hope the Western Morning News isn't next.
Labels: Eric Price, Ian Beales, Terry Manners, Western Daily Press
Northcliffe joins the job cutters with 45 posts facing the axe on Bristol dailies
Northcliffe stood out as the only one of the big four regional groups not to be imposing major job cuts - until today. The NUJ says that it was told this morning the company is seeking to cut 45 posts at the Western Daily Press and Evening Post in Bristol.
The scale of the cuts, says the union, has "staggered" members of the NUJ chapel who will be meeting on Monday. The plans were announced at 10am today.
HoldtheFrontPage , part owned by Northcliffe, reports: "Although it will remain a paid-for title, the WDP is set to become a "Metro-style" publication with fewer dedicated reporters and photographers. Instead it will "harvest" content from other Northcliffe-owned publications around the western region.
"The WDP website, www.westerndailypress.co.uk is also set to be scrapped after managers concluded the title had "no digital future. Instead it will point to the group's other, more successful regional portals, www.thisisbristol, www.thisissomerset and www.thisisgloucestershire.
"However the Bristol centre is to pilot what is expected to become a Northcliffe-wide initiative to turn the thisis sites into "hubs" of local information as well as newspaper companion sites, pulling in content from a wide variety of sources. A single digital production desk is to be created along with the single print content and production desks. "
The Bristol centre employs 154 people of which up to 45 could lose their jobs under today's proposals. Although reporting and photographic roles on the WDP are under threat, editor-in-chief Mike Norton has stressed that most of the cutbacks will fall on production as opposed to newsgathering roles, HTFP says.
According to the NUJ, in 2007 Bristol News and Media, Northcliffe’s local division, made profits of £7.5 million. Tim Lezard, NUJ National Executive Council member for the South West of England, said: “These are cuts that don’t need to be made. It’s an example of Northcliffe’s contempt for their readers, workers and advertisers. The company would rather bow to its boardroom than serve the community it has been an integral part of for 150 years.”
While the other members of the "big four" regional groups - Newsquest, Johnston Press and Trinity Mirror - have made widespread cuts in the current econmic crisis, Northcliffe has announced nothing on the scale of Bristol.
Labels: Bristol Evening Post, Northcliffe, Western Daily Press
Newsquest York staff look at Press buy-out
Press Gazette is today running a story that journalists at The Press in York are looking at ways the paper could be bought from Newsquest.
It also reports that Press editor Kevin Booth and Chris Buxton, editor of the weekly Gazette and Herald have left the company and managing director Steve Hughes has been appointed "acting" managing editor. All three were made redundant and asked to apply for the one managing editor job.
Press Gazette says The Press NUJ chapel has asked the union's national executive to obtain a market valuation of Newsquest York Limited, and gauge the level of interest from the local business community in a buy-out.
Labels: Newsquest York
Herald move to put redundancies 'on hold' aimed at union reps claims NUJ
The surprise decision by Newsquest's Herald group in Glasgow to put its voluntary redundancy scheme "on hold" is aimed at NUJ reps, the union claims.
The NUJ says management at the company, which publishes The Hearld, Evening Times and Sunday Herald, stopped the scheme because they want the union's FoCs to sign away their rights to take legal action for victimisation.
The union has submitted grievances and tribunal claims on behalf of three FoCs for victimisation under trade union discrimination laws.
Allmediascotland reports: "Those who applied - they thought successfully - for voluntary redundancy are now being asked to apply for jobs they most probably have little appetite for. Around 40 journalists, from a first tranche of applicants, had heard, almost two weeks ago, they had been successful, prompting a second tranche, of about ten, to submit their applications."
Journalists were told in a memo from Herald editor-in-chief Donald Martin: “The voluntary redundancy process in editorial is on hold after talks with the NUJ broke down."
Labels: Newsquest Glasgow, NUJ
Murdoch, The Standard and the conspiracy theories behind the Russian takeover
MediaGuardian commentator Roy Greenslade takes a sceptical look today at the conspiracy theories surrounding the sale of a majority stake in the Evening Standard to former KBG agent Alexander Lebedev.
Private Eye, among others, sees the hand of Rupert Murdoch and his son-in-law Matthew Freud behind the deal.
As Roy puts it: "Freud is frequently portrayed as a Rasputin-like figure by his enemies and Murdoch, of course, is routinely regarded as the devil incarnate. So I always suspend judgment on speculative stories about their activities."
He asks: "Are we seriously to believe that an ex-KGB officer who has built a vast personal fortune - amounting, supposedly, to £2bn - and who has negotiated his way through the quagmire of Russia's modern mafia politics is no more than a Murdoch patsy?"
Roy accepts: "It is true that Murdoch's company is likely to be the beneficiary of all that has happened. I understand that there were many chuckles of delight at Wapping when news first emerged of the Lebedev negotiations. And I concede that Rupert's son, James, seemed remarkably well informed about the bid hours before MediaGuardian broke the story on January 8."
He adds, however, "But there is a difference between having an inside track and actually running the train. I think too many of the conspiracists have started by accepting that Murdoch is the real winner and then composing scenarios to accuse him of a devious plot. Freud's undoubted involvement in Lebedev's affairs provides the essential link."
Roy argues bigger forces are at work: "The gloves are off. All the owners now know they are engaged in a battle to be the last one standing when the music stops. Papers will go to the wall. They will change hands.
"If a publisher like DMGT can be humbled, then imagine what might happen to lesser owners with fewer resources and much less commitment. This is not a conspiracy theory. This is fact. This is the real story."
Labels: Evening Standard, Matthew Freud, Roy Greenslade, Rupert murdoch
Twitter it's all in the name
Interesting leader in The Independent today about the Twitter phenomenon. It argues that the success of the mini-blogging site is all to do with its name.
The Indy says: "Think of the big success stories: Google, YouTube, Facebook, Skype. What do they have in common? A euphonious moniker. Being able to turn the name into a verb helps too."
To make its case it lists some of the clunky names of dot.com flops.
"DigiScents; AmCy; E-loft. Can you imagine "AmCying" someone or "E-lofting" something? But when you Twitter? Well, that really can be gold."
According to my dictionary, "twitter" is described rather lyrically as to"utter succession of light tremulous sounds". On the other hand a "twit" is a "foolish or insignificant person".
Labels: The Independent, Twitter
No, Prime Minister
Nice exchange on BBC Radio 4's Today programme this morning between presenter Evan Davis and the Prime Minister, Gordon Brown.
Prime Minister: "I repeat, the banks.."
Davis: "Please, don't."
And, guess what? Brown didn't.
Labels: Evan Davis, Gordon Brown, Today Ptrogramme
'FT makes £35,000 profit per employee'
The Financial Times makes £35,000 profit per employee the acting FoC of the paper's NUJ chapel David Crouch, told a rally held in the paper's canteen against proposals to cut 80 jobs - 20 of them journalists.
Crouch said the figure came from the FT's own accounts. According to the NUJ more than 150 members of the 220-strong chapel attended the the rally which was also addressed by veteran Labour politician Tony Benn. He told the gathering of business journalists: "Banking is far too important to be left to gamblers".
Labels: Financial Times, NUJ, Tony Benn
'Plight of local press must rise up political agenda and media jobs should not just be for rich kids' says Culture Secretary
Culture Secretary Andy Burnham said today that the "plight of local newspapers" must rise up the political agenda and called for an end to media jobs only being open to those with rich and well-connected parents.
Speaking at the Oxford Media Convention, he said: "I would like to signal today that the provision of local news – and the plight of local newspapers - has to rise up the political agenda.
"It is time to develop a sensible strategy that uses the converging nature of journalism to sustain a vital local media. There is a potential here for new partnerships which might include local media businesses, private sector partners, and communities, and may be – with proper safeguards- the public sector.
"There might even be potential for a national network of local consortia. The prize here is the opportunity to create entry points to the creative industries at the local level by providing apprenticeships, skills training, work experience and jobs.
"We must break a culture where jobs in the media go to the people whose parents have contacts for internships or where they can afford to support people in unpaid positions."
Labels: Andy Burnham
DMGT says Standard faced closure and blames Murdoch over London free paper war
The Daily Mail & General Trust says the Evening Standard faced closure if it had not sold a majority stake in the paper to Russian billionaire Alexander Lebedev.
In a statement in the Standard, DMGT also hits out at Rupert Murdoch for starting the free newspaper war in the capital by launching thelondonpaper.
The statement outlines the decline in the Standard's financial fortunes: "Over recent years, the paper's jobs, cars and property classified advertising - one of the paper's main sources of revenue - started migrating to the internet, readership habits changed, as did the demographics of London, and the Standard started incurring very considerable financial losses. Despite repeated advice from bankers to sell the paper, however, DMGT continued to heavily support it.
"Two years ago, Rupert Murdoch's News Corp launched a free paper called The London Paper in a calculated bid to damage the circulations of the Standard and its own free sister paper, the Lite. To date, The London Paper is thought to have lost News Corp about £40 million.
"It was 18 months ago that Alexander Lebedev first approached Jonathan Harmsworth, the fourth Viscount Rothermere, expressing an interest in the Standard. Lord Rothermere and DMGT were reluctant to sell.
"But, as the recession bit - and all of Britain's newspapers came under bitter financial pressure - it became clear that DMGT couldn't indefinitely provide the investment needed to ensure the Standard's future.
"It also became increasingly apparent that if the Standard failed to secure new capital it faced the very real possibility of closure."
Labels: Alexander Lebedev, DMGT, Evening Standard
Dear blasts "greedy" newspaper bosses over state aid and relaxing ownership rules
NUJ general secretary Jeremy Dear is scathing on his blog about possible state help for the ailing newspaper industry or a relaxation of media ownership rules.
Both topics may be looked at in the Digital Britain report due out on Monday. But Dear says of the newspaper owners: "Does their greed know no bounds? Whilst they have made excessive profits over the past decade or so and failed to properly manage their businesses they now want taxpayers to bail them out - not because they are losing money but because they can't maintain such high profit levels.
"And on top of that they want further relaxations in media ownership rules as a way of solving 'the crisis'. Each time ownership rules have been relaxed we've been told this will solve the crisis, each time it has led to more job cuts, a fall in quality and a boost in profits - until the next crisis comes along.
"Any merger/takeover resulting from any relaxation of ownership rules should only be approved under conditions on investment, resources for news-gathering and employment rights. Anything less would simply be feeding the insatiable appetite of the corporate news industry."
Labels: Jeremy Dear, newspaper owners, NUJ
Flying a kitemark for 'professional' journalists: Reuters Institute report on news out today
Adrian Monck's blog has a good run down on the recommendations of Andrew Curragh's 'What's Happening to Our News?' report for the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (RISJ) which will be released at the Oxford Media Convention today. They are:
A review of the legislation governing charitable giving, which largely rules out newsgathering, to open up this source of funding for independent professional journalism, bringing the UK in line with countries like the US.
A voluntary set of media standards, leading to a digital kitemark, to make transparent the sourcing of news and to enhance the visibility of professional journalism on the web.
The release by the government of more data on the operation and performance of publicly funded bodies in accessible electronic formats to support both professional and citizen journalism.
More interactivity between parliament and citizens, with digital media used to democratise knowledge and the understanding of political processes.
The extension of media literacy teaching in schools to incorporate the unique challenges and opportunities of new media.
Labels: Adrian Monck, Andrew Curragh, Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism
MPs may have another go at concealing expenses warns Campaign for FoI
The Campaign for Freedom of Information has welcomed the government's decision to withdraw the proposed Order excluding MPs’ expenses from the FoI Act but warned that the issue may resurface.
Campaign director Maurice Frankel said : "It was wrong in principle for MPs to try and conceal their expenses claims when all other public servants have to release theirs. It was improper for the government to try and rush the measure through without the public noticing or having time to object. MPs should not be legislating on the quiet to remove an existing right of access to information about their own expenses in the hope that no-one will notice.”
However, the Campaign suggested that it was possible that the measure would resurface in the near future in amended form. Frankel added: “Some MPs are clearly desperate to prevent the release of past expenses claims which are likely to have exceeded what could reasonably be justified to the public.”
The Mail's Benedict Brogan refers on his blog to the claims and counter claims by the parties in Westminster about the expenses affair but says: "This ding-dong should not distract us from the central question: why did the Government decide to expose itself to a PR disaster by siding with the Labour and Tory backbenchers who want to keep things secret? Some say cost, others say security, but neither explanation stacks up. Surely Mr Brown made greater transparency and reviving institutions the cornerstones of his administration, not sparing the blushes of his own side?"
In his first full day in office, President Barack Obama issued a memorandum ordering government agencies to examine Freedom of Information Act requests with a bias toward release of the documents -- overturning eight years of a Bush administration directives to find ways not to disclose information," reports Editor & Publisher.
"For a long time now there's been too much secrecy in this city," Obama said. "The old rules said that if there was a defensible argument for not disclosing something to the American people, then it should not be disclosed. That era is now over. Starting today, every agency and department should know that this administration stands on the side not of those who seek to withhold information, but those who seek to make it known."
No wonder the press like him.
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Labels: Barak Obama, Benedict Brogan, Campaign for Freedom of Information, Maurice Frankel, MPs expenses
Journalists at Johnston Press in Leeds hold strike ballot over forced redundancies
Journalists in Leeds are to be balloted for strike action after Johnston Press announced three compulsory redundancies and called for fifteen more volunteers to leave the company, the NUJ said today. The cuts affect the Yorkshire Post and Yorkshire Evening Post.
The union says today’s proposals from the company would mean three photographers being made compulsorily redundant and claim management is also seeking six job cuts from Yorkshire Post editorial, six from Yorkshire Evening Post as well as three picture technicians who serve both papers.
A joint chapel statement says: “The new round of job losses are not genuine redundancies within the definition of the term. Redundancy occurs when there is no longer any work for a person to do. In our case the work is still there. The company simply wishes to save the wages of some of the people doing it, and pass their workload on to colleagues who are left."
The chapel, which meets tomorrow, has a long-standing policy of balloting for strike action if any member is threatened with compulsory redundancy. They want to improve any settlement terms, and stop the compulsory element of the job losses, the NUJ says.
Labels: Johnston Press, Yorkshire Evening Post, Yorkshire Post
Remember when the Government used to vet newspaper owners? Ask David Sullivan
No one expects the UK government to block former KGB agent Alexander Lebedev's takeover of the Evening Standard, which was announced today.
But the Government has in the past intervened to stop an individual taking over newspapers. David Sullivan, the LSE * educated pornography publisher, who launched the Sunday Sport and Daily Sport was prevented in 1990 from taking a majority stake in the Bristol Evening Post and its sister title, the Western Daily Press.
The Monopolies and Mergers Commission (Competition Commission) ruled that Sullivan's acquisition of the Bristol newspapers would not be in the public interest. Interestingly, it was not his porn background that prevented the deal going head so much as a disastrous link up with the Daily Star and Express Newspapers.
The Commission ruled: "The evidence from Mr Sullivan's previous involvement with the Daily Star suggests that his proposed acquisition could well impair the ability of BEP newspapers to hold readers and advertisers and thus their profitability."
Sullivan, who was once described as "a munchkin porn baron,"claimed: "I've probably had the worst press in the world. People think if you are in the sex business you are not a good businessman. Well, I am. I'm good at what I do.”
You can read the Commission's ruling online.
*See posts
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Labels: Bristol Evening Post, David Sullivan
Russian Lebedev is Evening Standard's 10th owner - if you don't include the Germans
As Russian billionaire and former KGB agent Alexander Lebedev finally clinched the deal to take a majority 75.1 per cent stake in the Evening Standard today it is interesting to note he is the paper's 10th owner.
Associated Newspapers has agreed the sale of the Evening Standard for what it is described as a "nominal sum" to Evening Press Ltd, a company formed by Alexander Lebedev and his son Evgeny Lebedev and owned by Lebedev Holdings Ltd.
'The Encyclopedia of the British Press', edited by ex-Fleet Street and Standard journalist Dennis Griffiths, describes the Standard as the "oldest evening newspaper in Great Britain" and "a great survivor" that has absorbed nine other titles.
The Encyclopedia says the paper was launched as the Standard by Charles Baldwin as an afternoon paper on May 1827. It then passed to Edward Baldwin, owner of the Morning Herald, who went bankrupt trying to beat The Times.
The next owner was James Johnstone who on June 29, converted it into a "first-class morning paper." Two years later on Thursday, June 11 1859, Johnstone launched the Evening Standard, published at 3.15 p.m. daily "containing all the latest intelligence up to one hour of going to press".
With the death of Johnstone, William Mudford, the editor, took over as chief executive. In 1904, the Standard was sold to C. Arthur Pearson but increasing blindness led him to sell it to Davison Dalziel. He in turn sold the Evening Standard to Edward Hulton junior.
Lord Beaverbrook secured the Evening Standard from Hulton in 1923 and for the next 40 year it was "his joy" as a fashionable London evening.
In 1977 it was purchased, along with the Daily and Sunday Express by the property and construction company Trafalgar House headed by Lord Matthews. In 1980 the Evening Standard absorbed the Evening News and six years later Associated Newspapers (Daily Mail & General Trust) assumed full control of the title.
'The Encyclopedia of the British Press' lists as the papers absorbed during its 181-year-history by the Standard as Traveller, Lane's Star, The British Traveller, The Albion, St. James's Gazette, Pall Mall Gazette, Globe, Evening News and Star.
Intriguingly, it also reveals that one issue of the Evening Standard, number 35941, was published by the German government during the Second World War as a propaganda exercise.
Labels: Encyclopedia of the British Press, Evening Standard
'Economic foundations of modern journalism crumbling in the digital age'
Digital technology is threatening the quality and commercial prospects of British journalism, according to a report from the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (RISJ) which will be released at the Oxford Media Convention tomorrow.
Journalism.co.uk reports that Dr. Andrew Curragh, author of 'What's Happening to Our News?' has said in a release: "The economic foundations of modern journalism are crumbling due to unprecedented changes in the scale and character of news consumption."
The report examines the future of commercial newsgathering, the value of 'professionalism' in the age of blogging and what can be done to meet the challenges facing the industry.
Dr. Curragh warns:"Publishers are in danger of being reduced to the digital equivalent of a windsock, shaped by the short-term whims of the news consumer."
The report outlines several proposals, including targeted tax breaks for public interest news publishing, changing legislation to allow for charitable funding of newsgathering and a voluntary set of media standards to improve public trust and transparency within the industry.
Labels: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism
Obama everywhere but it's a Fiat on the front of the Daily Express
On the day most papers across the world were splashing on the historic inauguration of President Barak Obama, the Daily Express sold a front page wraparound to an advert for a Fiat 500.
The ad is headlined "It's A Big Day For Firsts" - and readers are told "The World's Greatest Newspaper" is inside, where a proper copy of the Daily Express is found leading on the inauguration.
It's not the first time newspapers have sold their front page, Pepsi and the Mirror for instance, but I am not sure it's ever happened on such a strong news day.
Labels: Daily Express, Obama
'Free-ish' - The Economist's verdict on FoI
An excellent article in this week's Economist details the publication's frustration in trying to prise information out of Transport for London using the Freedom of Information Act.
The Economist lists the excuses it was given for delays: “Please accept my apologies for the delay.”…“Unfortunately, I have been off for most of this week due to illness.”…“I hope that we will be in a position to respond by the end of next week.”…“I have been on leave.”…“The response is still being finalised.”
The Economist says "18 e-mails gave nine different reasons for missed deadlines; it was two months before a response arrived, in the negative, and three more before an internal review confirmed that refusal".
The article argues "non-compliance is endemic" and claims: "Part of the reason they can afford to be so relaxed is that the commissioner’s office is itself slow in pursuing complaints. This newspaper’s beef with TfL was referred to it last April but the matter is still being pondered."
Its verdict on FoI is summed up by its simple one word headline on the article: "Free-ish".
Labels: FoI, The Economist
Murdoch the winner if Russian gets Evening Standard says Private Eye
Private Eye's take on Alexander Lebedev taking over the Evening Standard is that the real winner would be Rupert Murdoch, who sparked the fierce free newspaper war in the capital by launching thelondonpaper.
The latest issue of the Eye says "...the man with the most potential cause for rejoicing is Rupert Murdoch. Associated Newspapers, in the London freebies war, committed the same mistake Conrad Black made when he dragged the Telegraph into a price war with The Times: they thought they could outspend him. By forcing Rothermere to consider the sale of the Standard ... the News Corps boss has once again demonstrated that no one but no one, has deeper pockets than the Digger."
Richard Addis also closely examines how Murdoch would benefit from the deal on his Shake Up Media blog.
Labels: Evening Standard, Private Eye, Rupert murdoch
DMGT got over the 'emotional stuff' when it put Northcliffe titles up for sale
The Daily Mail & General Trust showed it had no sentimental attachment to its newspapers when it shocked the industry by putting its Northcliffe titles up for sale in 2005, Peter Williams, the company's long-serving finance director, says in an interview with the Financial Times today.
Significantly, Williams says of the possible sale of a majority stake in the London Evening Standard to Russian billionaire Alexander Lebedev: "From our point of view [the Standard approach] is simply a commercial transaction, equally as if we had a loss-making B2B business. That is the way we think of it. We went through the emotional stuff with the Northcliffe decision, I think."
The FT points out that though the sale of Northcliffe failed it did "show the group was open to selling treasured assets." Williams concludes."To be honest, we don't see this [proposed Evening Standard deal] as a hugely significant event."
Labels: Evening Standard, Financial Times, Nortcliffe, Peter Williams
Shoe-throwing journalist spends birthday in jail
The Iraqi journalist held in a Baghdad jail since throwing his shoes at President George W. Bush during a press conference has been visited by his brother and was given a birthday party by his guards as he turned 30, Associated Press has reported.
Muntadhar al-Zeidi, who has gained cult status for his protest, is in good shape but has been denied access to his lawyer, relatives said after his brother Maitham visited him for two hours in his detention cell in Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone.
Al-Zeidi has been in custody since the December 14 outburst at Bush's joint news conference with Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki.
Via Editor&Publisher
Labels: Muntadhar al-Zeidi
NS welcomes Balls backing but warns: "In some parts of the country the local authority may become the only source of local news”
The Newspaper Society has welcomed the support of a Government minister in its battle to hold on to statutory local authority advertising. But it has warned that if newspapers are forced to close in the economic downturn, the only source of local news in some areas of the country will be from council-owned papers.
Ed Balls, the secretary for children, schools and families, voiced his opposition to any moves by local or central government to undermine local media – including local authority publications and websites competing for readers and advertising revenues and current government proposals to remove the obligation to place public notices in local newspapers - describing them as a “retrograde thing to do”.
Balls made the remarks at at a lunch organised by the Newspaper Conference , which represents London and political editors of regional newspapers who are members of the Newspaper Society.
He described local newspapers as playing a “very important role” in the community. “I don’t think it would be sensible to have any strategy on these things which actively damages them.”
The MP was asked by the NS for his views on removal of statutory notices from local papers. The NS claims local authorities are increasingly seeking to supplant the role of local newspapers by producing publications and websites offering local news and competing head-to-head with local newspapers for third party advertising revenues.
Lynne Anderson, director of communications for the Newspaper Society, warned. “It is probably not an exaggeration to say, in the current economic climate [with pressure on all media companies, the severe drop in advertising revenues and titles closing], that in some parts of the country the local authority may become the only source of local news,”
Labels: Ed Balls, Newspaper Society
Demand forces NUJ Jobs Summit venue switch
The NUJ’s Jobs Summit to be held on Saturday has been switched to a bigger venue after registrations far exceeded the 70-person capacity of the union’s Headland House headquarters in London's King's Cross.
It will now be held at The School of Pharmacy, 29-39 Brunswick Square, London WC1N 1AX, close to the union's HQ. The summit's aim is to galvanise NUJ members to plan a response to the widespread redundancies, budget cuts and pay freezes currently being imposed across the media industry, particularly on newspapers.
Among speakers lined up for the event are Nick Davies, the investigative journalist and author of 'Flat Earth News' and Michael Klehm, of Deutsche Journalisten-Verband (DJV), the German journalist' union.
NUJ general secretary Jeremy Dear said: “The level of interest being shown in the summit just goes to show our members’ resolve against the latest media cutbacks. The event isn’t just about training people in how to respond to redundancies, budget cuts and pay freezes. Everyone will have a chance to add their ideas about how we can work together to challenge the short-term cutbacks that are damaging our industry.”
The latest job cuts in the regional newspaper industry have come with Johnston Press announcing a new centralised subbing system which could cut up to 49 jobs from its Midlands divisions.
Labels: Jobs Summit, NUJ
Government pledge on local newspaper crisis
The Government responded to the crisis facing newspapers today by announcing it was undertaking an investigation to see what could be done to help the industry, Parliamentary correspondent David Rose reports on the Press Gazette website.
Rose says:"Media secretary Andy Burnham said that he had asked Lord Carter of Barnes, the communications minister, to look at the local news media as part of his work on developing digital communications in Britain and agreed himself to meet with the National Union of Journalists."
Labels: David Rose, newspaper crisis, Press Gazette
Greenslade repeats extracts of Glover's pulled 'Telegraph a national tragedy' article
Roy Greenslade has on his MediaGuardian blog today reprinted parts of the contentious article by Stephen Glover in The Independent in which Glover claimed what was happening at the Telegraph was "a national tragedy" - even though it has been pulled from The Indy's website.
Greenslade has alleged that The Independent caved in to legal pressure from the Telegraph's owners, the Barclay Brothers.
He writes of Glover: "No word from Stephen Glover in The Independent today about his December 22 column having been deleted from the paper's website. So it looks as though the fearless media columnist and campaigner for press freedom has tamely accepted his bosses' censorship following complaints from Telegraph Media Group."
Greenslade then repeats some of the most critical comments made by Glover.
Labels: Roy Greenslade, Stephen Glover, Telegrapgh Media Group
'Let freed Guantanamo journalist into UK'
The NUJ is calling for an Al-Jazeera video journalist, who was detained for seven years at the US Guantanamo detention camp in Cuba, to be allowed entry to Britain.
It is urging that Sami El-Haj be given a visa to take part in a speaking tour about his experiences in Guantanamo, which is expected to be closed by President-elect Barack Obama.
The Sudan-born journalist was a video reporter for the Al-Jazeera TV news channel when he was seized by American forces in Afghanistan in 2001 and taken to Guantanamo. The union claims he was was tortured and brutally force-fed through several hunger strikes.
Sami El-Haj was released last summer and returned to Al-Jazeera in Qatar to resume his career, as a programme producer. In December he was invited to join a speaking tour in the UK organised by the group Cageprisoners and sponsored by the peer Lord Ahmed but the union says the British Embassy is refusing him a visa.
NUJ general secretary Jeremy Dear has written to the embassy, stating: “Journalists around the world campaigned for Sami while he was locked up and mistreated in Guantanamo. Now we want to be able to hear his story directly from him, and so should anyone else."
Labels: Guantanamo Bay, NUJ, Sami El-Haj
Burton Mail and Leicester Mercury editors quit
Another regional editor has quit his post. HoldtheFrontPage reports that former Sun journalist Paul Hazeldine, has resigned as editor of the Burton Mail after seven years.
He is to be replaced by Steve Lowe, previously group editor of LSN Media and editor of Bedfordshire on Sunday, who has been made editor-in-chief of the new Iliffe News and Media Central division, which now covers the Burton title. Hazeldine told HTFP:"I am leaving today but it's nothing to do with anything else that has been announced. I am just retiring from journalism and doing other things."
Lowe was recruited to Bedfordshire on Sunday by the paper's founder Frank Branston.
It was also revealed on Friday that Nick Carter, one of Northcliffe's longest-serving editors was leaving the Leicester Mercury after 15 years. He is to become the first chairman of the Leicester and Leicestershire Economic Development Company, a new body set up by the city of Leicester and county councils to help drive economic growth across the area.
Meanwhile, HTFP is reporting more jobs gloom. It says up to 49 jobs are at risk on papers in Johnston's Midlands divisions. The company is proposing to create three centralised subbing operations to be based in Northampton, Peterborough and Milton Keynes. A staff consultation is due to finish by 6 March.
Labels: Burton Mail, Leicester Mercury, Nick Carter, Paul Hazeldine
Mississippi paper apologises to readers for ignoring segregation and civil rights issues
A newspaper in Mississippi has on the eve of the inauguration of Barack Obama run a remarkable apology to its readers for ignoring segregation in the southern states of America and failing to fully report the struggle for civil rights, Editor & Publisher magazine reports.
The Meridian Star apologised in a leader column which concludes: "There was a time when this newspaper – and many others across the south -- acted with gross neglect by largely ignoring the unfairness of segregated schools, buses, restaurants, washrooms, theaters and other public places.
"We did it through omission, by not recording for our readers many of the most important civil rights activities that happened in our midst, including protests and sit-ins. That was wrong. We should have loudly protested segregation and the efforts to block voter registration of black East Mississippians.
"Current management understands while we can't go back and undo some past wrongs, we can offer our sincere apology -- and promise never again to neglect our responsibility to inform you, our readers, about the human rights and dignity every individual is entitled to in America -- no matter their religion, their ethnic background or the color of their skin."
Labels: Editor and Publisher, Meridian Star
A subbing guide for the digital age
Sub editors are beginning to look more and more like an endangered species in the digital age and economic downturn, with some newspapers dropping them altogether.
A new online subbing guide has been produced by journalism.co.uk which attempts to answer such questions as: What new skills do subs need and what existing traits are still relevant online? and what can journalists include at the writing stage to make their work more web-friendly?
The guide is interactive and contributors can help share and shape the rules of subbing as it develops for the web by contributing to the guides wiki page. Journalism.co.uk describes the guide as "a work in progress".
Labels: journalism.co.uk, Subbing guide
Charles Moore versus Jonathan Ross: this will run and run despite lunch with the D-G
Lunch with the Director General of the BBC Mark Thompson has failed to sooth ex-Daily Telegraph editor Charles Moore and stop him continuing his campaign against Jonathan Ross over the Andrew Sachs affair.
In today's Telegraph Moore stands by his vow not to pay his licence fee while Ross remains an employee of the BBC, despite being dined by Thompson.
Moore reveals today: "Responding to my complaint, the Director-General of the BBC, Mark Thompson, invited me to lunch. He is a thoughtful, well-educated man. I suggested to him that the television licence fee was the modern equivalent of the tithes which people used to have to pay to the Church of England: even if you did not believe in Anglicanism, or even in God, you still had by law to enrich the Church because your "betters" considered it good for the nation. For the same reason as the tithes went, I argued, so should the licence fee.
"Mr Thompson did not demur from the comparison, though he rejected my conclusion. He explained to me that the role of the BBC was based on Matthew Arnold's idea that culture could perform the elevating role in society which religion, because people ceased to believe it, had vacated."
Moore remains unpersuaded and reveals he has even forced himself to read Ross's book "Why do I say these things?" Moore's answer to the question posed by Ross is... "because Jonathan, you are the big mouth of an age with nothing to say."
Labels: Charles Moore, Daily Telegrapgh, Jonathan Ross
Manchester Confidential turns spotlight on journalists who followed up MP scoop
ManchesterConfidential's Sleuth column is quite rightly crowing over the way the media followed up its exclusive column by MP Graham Stringer claiming dyslexia was a "cruel fiction".
Sleuth notes: "Confidential got everywhere, the BBC TV news, BBC radio news, GMTV, The Times, The Independent, Reuters, The Sun, you name it."
But then turns on some of the journalists who followed up the story, claiming : "Weirdest call came from Deborah Summers of the Guardian who rang up the editor and asked if the story were genuine.
"What? As if Confidential would randomly write such a serious piece and then ascribe it to Graham Stringer and put his photo up there too. Somehow Sleuth thinks that sort of behaviour might land this Manchester magazine in court."
Sleuth said the question prompted an idea: "Let's make up lots of controversial headlines from famous people. So next week on Confidential: 'Abortion an option, argues the Pope,' 'Richard Dawkins isn’t real, says Jesus', 'Life on £120,000 a week is too hard, explains Ronaldo', 'Immanuel Kant was right, there is such a thing as the Categorical Imperative by Katie Price'."
Sleuth also dishes it out to Cassandra Jardine, who in her online column for the Daily Telegraph, wrote: ‘To judge by the responses to MP Graham Stringer's remarks there is indeed a severe problem with reading and writing in this country. Among the misspellings by furious responders to his article on ManchesterConfidential.com who argue that dyslexia is real, I picked out – and this is just a tiny sample – "inacurate", "bluf", "mater", "concentarte", "dyselxicx", and "macnhester". Among those who agree with him, there were considerably fewer mistakes.’
Sleuth's verdict: "Oh dear Cassandra. Those errors are nothing to do with dyslexia, darling, it’s just that people often can’t spell very well. Do you use the internet much? Honist."
Labels: ManchesterConfidential
Nick Carter quits as Leicester Mercury editor
One of Northcliffe's longest-serving editors Nick Carter is leaving the editorship of the Leicester Mercury after more than 15 years, HoldtheFrontPage reports tonight.
Carter is leaving to become the first chairman of the Leicester and Leicestershire Economic Development Company, a new body set up by the city of Leicester and county councils to help drive economic growth across the area.
Posted by Jon Slattery at 11:06 pm 1 comment:
Labels: Nick Carter, Northcliffe
Barrow dispute over as job is saved
NUJ members at the North West Evening Mail in Cumbria have called off plans for industrial action after the union claimed today it had persuaded Cumbrian Newspapers management not to press ahead with a threatened compulsory redundancy.
A sports writer facing redundancy has transferred to news, meaning no journalists on the North West Evening Mail will be made compulsorily redundant.
Labels: Cumbrian Newspapers, NUJ
One Brazilian footballer is worth more than Trinity Mirror and Johnston Press
According to The Sun today, Manchester City has valued Brazilian footballer Kaka at £108 million, plus wages over five years also of £108 million, making a staggering total of £216 million. Yahoo Finance! today gives Trinity Mirror a market capitalisation of £130 million and Johnston Press of £83 million, making a total of £213 million.
Labels: Johnston Press, Kaka, Trinity Mirror
Tony Benn on menu in Financial Times canteen for journalists' day of action
Former Labour cabinet minister Tony Benn will address a meeting of journalists in the canteen at the Financial Times as part of a day of action next week against proposed compulsory redundancies on the paper.
Management want to axe 20 editorial jobs but only eleven volunteers have come forward, according to the NUJ which is organising the day of action on Thursday January 22. NUJ members at the paper will wear stickers opposing the job losses and pledging support for the union’s 'Stand Up for Journalism' campaign.
The union claims to have seen a secret management document called "CCC" for "create-craft-complete" which would involve further job cuts. FT journalists have dubbed it “Cut-Cut-Cut”.
New multi-media venture for Jon Gaunt?
Sun columnist Jon Gaunt, who was sacked from his role as a talkSPORT shock-jock for calling a councillor "a Nazi", is understood to be in discussions with a major media player about a new multi-media venture.
Gaunt said today in an email to his supporters: "As for returning to air it is getting closer by the minute" but did not refer to the multi-media venture which is said to be at an advanced stage.
Meanwhile, Gaunt is due to appear on Tonight with Trevor McDonald discussing taste and decency on TV and Radio, is guesting on The Daily Politics show and will be in Dictionary Corner on Countdown on Channel 4 for a whole week in February.
Labels: Jon Gaunt
Is Alexander Lebedev a "fit and proper" owner for London's Evening Standard?
MediaGuardian commentator Roy Greenslade poses this question today about Alexander Lebedev, the billionaire and former KGB agent, who is said to be about to buy a majority stake in the London Evening Standard.
He points out that the "fit-and-proper-person" test is no longer relevant. It was part of now defunct competition law and there is no regulatory requirement to consider the merits and demerits of individuals who wish to acquire papers.
After a good run through of the various profiles of Lebedev in the nationals (there is a particularly flattering one in The Independent, which is also said to be a target of the former KGB man), Roy says "the general consensus from commentators is that Lebedev would pass muster" if the old "fit and proper" test was still applied.
He says he can see why offloading the Standard is a good deal for the Daily Mail & General Trust but asks: "What's in it for Lebedev? Why buy a paper selling so few copies and losing so much money? It is, as Winston Churchill once remarked of the Soviet Union, 'a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.' "
Maybe Lebedev just likes the idea of owning a newspaper. It's fun, like owning a football club, but you need deep pockets.
Labels: Alexander Lebedev, Evening Standard, Roy Greenslade
Redundancy requests at Herald almost 50
allmediascotland reports today the number of people seeking voluntary redundancy at Newsquest's Herald group of newspapers in Glasgow is now almost 50.
Staff at the The Herald, Sunday Herald and Evening Times were made redundant and asked to reapply for a reduced number of posts. allmediascotland says it understands efforts are on-going to prevent the number of production staff falling to "perilously low levels".
It quotes an insider: "There is a strange feeling in the building. There's euphoria among those leaving that the stress of working in the place will soon be behind them and real sadness that a great team is being decimated. Everybody fears for the future of the paper."
Labels: Allmediascotland, Herald Group
Sun chews up BBC's stolen hamster story
The Sun's most famous front page might be "Freddie Starr Ate My Hamster" but today it indulges in a bout of BBC bashing after Auntie's 24-hour News Channel ran the sensational breaking news ..."Lassie the hamster had been stolen from a flat in Stourport-on-Severn".
An outraged Sun reports: "Bulletins on the turmoil in Gaza and a third Heathrow runway gave way to a shock-horror news ticker along the bottom of the screen screaming:HAMSTER THEFT."
Despite mocking the "BBC chews flash," The Sun asks readers today to phone the paper if they know where Lassie is.
Oh, and The Sun's splash today? Is it the turmoil in Gaza or third Heathrow runway? No its "NASA scientists last night confirmed that there probably IS life on Mars".
Labels: BBC News Channel, Daily and Sunday Telegraph, Hamster
NUJ urges 'conscience clause' to combat unethical editors: fines on rogue papers
The NUJ is urging MPs to back a "conscience clause" for jounalists so they can resist unethical demands by their editors without getting the sack.
Even more controversially, the union is also calling for papers to be fined if the Press Complaints Commission rules they are in breach of the Code of Practice.
The union has put both pleas in a submission to the Commons' Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee, which is carrying out an inquiry into Press Standards, Privacy and Libel.
The submission to the committee says a “conscience clause” would “allow reporters who feel they are being pressured to produce material that is not supported by evidence, or whose reporting is being stretched beyond credulity in its presentation, to refuse that assignment.
“We believe that journalists are responsible for their work and are therefore entitled legally to refuse instructions they consider unethical,” the union says.
The clause would protect journalists by giving them a case for unfair dismissal if they were sacked for refusing instructions. On fining papers, the NUJ says: “the fine would send out a message that the PCC has teeth and would be prepared to bite.”
The NUJ has always felt cold shouldered by the PCC. It had a seat on the PCC's predecessor, the Press Council. Although it resigned the seat in protest it rejoined the Press Council just in time for it to be abolished and replaced by the PCC.
The Code of Practice is drawn up by the Editors' Code Committe and underpins the work of the PCC.
Labels: Code of Practice, conscience clause, NUJ, PCC
Russian takeover of Evening Standard delayed but not dead says MediaGuardian
MediaGuardian - which broke the sensational news that Russian billionaire and former KGB agent Alexander Lebedev was about to take a majority stake in the London Evening Standard - reports the deal has been delayed but has not stalled and was expected to go through "within days".
Lebedev's London-based son, 28-year-old Evgeny, was due to see DMGT's lawyers today for a meeting at which it was understood the final terms of the deal to buy a 76 per cent stake in the Evening Standard would be agreed, MediaGuardian reports, but adds: "However, tempers are understood to have frayed on both sides after news of the imminent signing of the Evening Standard deal were revealed by MediaGuardian yesterday."
Lord Rothermere, DMGT's chairman, is also said to still hold concerns over post-takeover issues such as redundancies.
Supporters of Lebedev say the paper he has backed in Moscow, Novaya Gazeta, is known for its editorial independence and published the work of assassinated journalist Anna Politkovskaya.
The NUJ today bemoaned the lack of transparency surrounding the deal. NUJ head of publishing Barry Fitzpatrick, said: “If it is true it is yet another example of sealed bid deals with no transparency about the new ownership's commitment to the future of the only paid-for title to cover all of London.
“Investment is clearly needed, and a long term strategy to serve Londoners in a more impartial way would be welcome. Once again no declarations have been made about editorial independence.”
Interestingly, Roy Greenslade on his blog tonight is more sceptical than the MediaGuardian story. He writes: "At this end of the day, almost 24 hours after it first broke, I am beginning to wonder if the story about Alexander Lebedev's acquisition of the London Evening Standard is quite as strong as we have been led to believe.
"By which I mean, the deal has not yet been sealed, and an official statement to that effect on behalf of the Daily Mail & General Trust (DMGT) will emerge very soon. It does confirm that there have been negotiations between Lebedev and DMGT. But these are ongoing talks with a way to go before there is any possibility of them being finalised.
"I do know that DMGT's chairman Lord Rothermere and his senior executives were less than pleased - well, incandescent with anger - about the story's emergence way ahead of any firm agreement."
Labels: Evening Standard. Alexander Lebedev, MediaGuardian, Novaya Gazeta
Union recognition talks 'back on track' at New Statesman but redundancies feared
The NUJ said today that recognition talks are "back on track" at the Left-wing political weekly New Statesman but redundancies at the magazine are also being discussed.
The NUJ claims 15 of the New Statesman's 16 editorial staff are in the NUJ and the union was shocked, given the magazine's Left-wing history, to be denied automatic recognition.
Businessman Mike Danson, who co-owns the magazine with Labour MP Geoffrey Robinson, has invited the union for talks.
Sue Harris, the NUJ organiser for magazines, said: “It's great to see our negotiations back on track. We are delighted to be discussing recognition with a magazine that supports trade unions in its editorial columns."
The union said it is also in talks with the New Statesman about possible redundancies.
Labels: New Statesman, NUJ
MSP repeats warning on how local press could lose out on Government advertising
Interesting interview on journalism.co.uk with MSP Ted Brocklebank in which he again outlines the danger to the press of losing vital Government and local authority advertising to state-owned websites.
Brocklebank first raised the matter in the Scottish Parliament in a debate about the reorganisation of the Herald newspapers. He mentioned trials being undertaken by local authorities in Scotland to put their ads on their own online sites rather than in local newspapers.
The MSP has submitted written questions asking how much the Scottish government currently spends on local newspaper advertising and how much is used on web advertising on local authority and government websites.
He tells journalism.co.uk's Judith Townend: "It seems to me that the government is moving away from placing recruitment ads with local and national newspapers, and from statutory and public notices. These are major parts of the income [for newspapers]. This is symptomatic of a much bigger thing.
"Governments are about saving money and it's very difficult to argue with that, but when it comes to statutory notices we think it's another thing. We think the public has a right to that information [via newspapers]."
Newspapers in the rest of the UK are also concerned that they might lose statutory advertising and public notices as well as recruitment ads from the Government and local authorities.
The MSP's comments comes on the day the Daily Mail & General Trust's annual report said of its regional newspaper arm Northcliffe: "The gloomy economic outlook points to extremely challenging conditions for our key advertising markets in the coming year".
Labels: journalism.co.uk, MSP Ted Brocklebank, Northcliffe
Save the paper: stop the presses for a day
Blogger Martin Belam of Currybetdotnet has a humorous hit back at the proposal by Canadian journalist Cale Cowan, reported here on Saturday, that newspapers across the world should shut down their websites for a day to show its is the press that provides most of the news on the internet.
Martin's firmly tongue in cheek six point plan for how newspapers can show their "unique" value includes the following:" Stop the presses for a day. Newspapers could decide to all not produce a printed edition on a normal weekday, and then use all of the money they saved on materials and distribution to invest in technology, innovation, and keep on some of the journalists and sub-editors they are currently sacking.
But that, of course, would be utterly, utterly, utterly unthinkable...."
Labels: Cale Cowan, Martin Belam
Newsquest parent company in US asks staff to take week off without any pay
Editor & Publisher is reporting that Gannett, which owns Newsquest in the UK, is asking its employees to take a week off without pay.
The magazine quotes a memo from Gannett CEO Craig Dubow: "Today Gannett is implementing a furlough program across all U.S. divisions and at corporate headquarters. This means that most of our U.S. employees - including myself and all other top executives - will be furloughed for the equivalent of one week in the first quarter. This furlough will be unpaid. Unions also will be asked to participate. We are doing this to preserve our operations and continue to deliver for our customers while confronting the issues raised by some of the most difficult economic conditions we have ever experienced."
Could it happen here?
Labels: Gannett, Newsquest
Russian may be coming for more than Standard
The former KGB agent Alexander Lebedev who MediaGuardian has sensationally revealed is expected to take a majority stake in the Evening Standard today, also has his eye on The Independent, Press Gazette reports today.
Labels: Evening Standard, Press Gazette
Axe for 70 at Midlands newspaper group
HoldtheFrontPage reports today that aound 70 newspaper staff employed by the Midlands News Association, publisher of the Express & Star and Shropshire Star, are facing the prospect of compulsory redundancy after a proposal for voluntary job losses failed to get enough takers.
Last October, the Midlands News Association said it wanted to shed 135 jobs in a major restructuring operation.
HTFP says it is not clear at this stage how many journalists' jobs will be affected. The Express & Star is the country's biggest selling regional daily with an ABC in the first six months of last year of 137,948.
Posted by Jon Slattery at 8:56 am 1 comment:
Labels: Express and Star, Midlands News Association
When Kelvin MacKenzie looked crisp
From today's Sun, the paper's ex-editor Kelvin MacKenzie, writing about the death of 1960s pop star Dave Dee, remembers his own sixties sartorial elegance. "...orange chiffon shirt, white hipster trousers, two-tone green and brown shoes and a tapestry jacket. With a bit of luck I could have been the Quentin Crisp of journalism."
Labels: Kelvin MacKenzie, Quentin Crisp, the Sun
Does the internet make privacy injunctions a 'ludicrous pantomime'?
That was the question posed by Clive Anderson on Radio 4's Unreliable Evidence last night.
Anderson argued that "those in the know, know" about famous people who have taken out privacy injunctions to stop newspapers publishing details about their private life and can easily find their names on the internet.
He suggested that such injunctions meant the courts were indulging in a "ludicrous pantomime" which meant "it was just the great unwashed that didn't know."
Anderson also suggested "we've arrived at an odd place" when a privacy injunction stopped a man from naming a famous person who had had an affair with his wife.
Former Telegraph legal correspondent Joshua Rozenberg revealed that some injunctions were framed so tightly that he could not even report that an injunction had been granted.
He warned that newspapers would become "reluctant to do an Insight-type investigation unless they can be absolutely sure they can get a good story they can publish without getting a privacy injunction."
Labels: BBC Unreliable Evidence, Clive Anderson, Joshua Rozenberg
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You are at:Home»News»Community News»Friends, loved ones schedule paddle out to remember local restaurateur Josh Vach
Josh Vach with wife Cindy and dog Gunner.
Friends, loved ones schedule paddle out to remember local restaurateur Josh Vach
By Terry Lane on May 28, 2019 - 9:11 pm Community News, News
Harnessing inspiration from the roadside fish tacos he found on the Baja Coast during surfing trips, local restaurateur Joshua Vach replicated that experience by building a series of local dining establishments that offered a unique “surf vibe,” including quintessential Wrightsville Beach restaurant Tower 7. Last week, locals remembered the contributions that Vach brought to the community after he died on Wednesday, May 15 at the age of 53.
To remember and honor those contributions of lifelong surfer Vach, friends and loved ones have scheduled a paddle out on Sunday, June 2 at 8:30 a.m. at Wrightsville Beach public access no. 29 at Stone Street.
In addition to the family of eight restaurant locations he opened under the Live Eat Surf brand, Vach was known for his charitable contributions, which included establishing a surf scholarship, as well as giving back to charities that benefited people and animals alike, according to the obituary published by Wilmington Funeral & Cremation.
Building on the experience he gained from the restaurants his parents owned and operated in Ocean City, Md., in 1993, Vach opened his first local restaurant, K38 Baja Grill on Oleander Drive. Building on that success, Vach eventually opened seven more restaurants, including Tower 7 in Wrightsville Beach.
The success of the restaurants provided Vach the opportunity to give back to the community through many charitable endeavors. A 1987 graduate of the University of North Carolina Wilmington, where he was also a member of the school’s surf club, Vach established a surf scholarship in 2008 that has grown into the Tower 7/WBLivesurf Scholarship, which this year provided funding to more than a dozen students. He would provide free food to the annual Hope from Helen fundraiser. He also established the
Cinco de Bow Wow fundraiser, which benefited local animal welfare organizations that included Paws Place Dog Rescue, Pender County Humane Society, C.A.R.E. – Coastal Animal Rescue Effort, New Hanover County Animal Services Unit, Adopt An Angel and Canines For Service, the obituary said.
For his efforts, Vach was awarded the UNCW Distinguished Citizen of the Year in 2015 and was inducted into Wrightsville Beach Museum of History’s 2014 Waterman Hall of Fame for his contribution to beach culture.
On October 3, 2009, he married Cindy Parcell during a ceremony on Wrightsville Beach.
Vach was preceded in death by his parents, Richard Joseph Vach, and Mary Carroll Vach, his sisters Mary Elizabeth Vach, Carroll Vach England, and by his beloved dog Wyatt. Josh is survived by his wife Cindy and their treasured dog Gunner, his sister Martha Vach Redding, his brothers Richard Joseph (Jr) and Thomas Carville Vach, along with numerous in-laws, nieces, nephews, grandnieces and grandnephews, his obituary said.
Contributions in his memory can be made to: Tower 7/WBLiveSurf Scholarship: Hope From Helen P.O.Box 187 Wrightsville Beach, NC 28480. . Email donation questions to Tony Butler – tony@hopefromhelen.com.
Last print edition? Interest mounts in preserving Wrightsville Beach’s local news source, but future remains uncertain
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In a move that was expected, DC United midfielder and fan favorite Ben Olsen has officially retired as a player. In his career with the Black and Red, Olsen has won two MLS Cups, was the 1999 MLS Cup MVP, two time all star and a member of the 2007 Best XI. There is no doubting that Olsen is a great player and has the potential to be a good coach in the MLS, but there are things that Olsen did off the field that cannot be ignored, and one of them was for Santino Quaranta.
As many people know, Quaranta struggled with severe drug addiction and recently got clean. It was Ben Olsen who provided a hand to Quaranta enabling the young man to come back into form this year. Here is a quote from Quaranta on the matter:
Santino Quaranta's thoughts.....
"When I called him when things were bad for me, he helped me so much as a person. It's not about the soccer; everybody knows what he does on the soccer field and everyone respects that. For me, it's the bigger picture of who he is as a person. He gave me hope. He was the person who said I could come back from all of it, and afterward, I believed I could."
While I always liked the way Olsen played, both for DC United and for the U.S. National team, he will be the first to admit that early on he was all energy and little focus. But between 1999 and 2004, he really matured as a player and became the kind of player that fans love, teammates love and opposing players respect.
But one thing that I think might be missing in the coming years off the field, is Olsen's sense of humor and willingness to have some fun promoting the league. I loved these videos that were done in the lead up to teh 2008 MLS Cup.
While Olsen was good, I thought Chris Klein did a good job as well looking like he was going to burst.
I love Ben's talk with the red headed boy in this video:
"It's more of a craving, an endless longing that haunts me in the darkness of night."
Great stuff. Oh and who can forget this photo of Ben and his teammates for the Body Issue of ESPN the Magazine.
I hope we see Ben Olsen on the sidelines as an assistant next year.
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Severall letters from Colonell Morgan Governour of Gloucester, and Colonell Birch.: Fully relating the maner of the taking of the city and garrison of Hereford, with the number slain on both sides, and the particular circumstances at the gaining thereof. With a perfect list of the names of the prisoners taken therein. Die Martis 23. Decemb. 1645. Ordered by the Lords in Parliament assembled, that these letters, with the list, be forthwith printed and published. Joh. Brown Cler. Parliamentorum
The work Severall letters from Colonell Morgan Governour of Gloucester, and Colonell Birch.: Fully relating the maner of the taking of the city and garrison of Hereford, with the number slain on both sides, and the particular circumstances at the gaining thereof. With a perfect list of the names of the prisoners taken therein. Die Martis 23. Decemb. 1645. Ordered by the Lords in Parliament assembled, that these letters, with the list, be forthwith printed and published. Joh. Brown Cler. Parliamentorum represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Boston University Libraries. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.
The Resource Severall letters from Colonell Morgan Governour of Gloucester, and Colonell Birch.: Fully relating the maner of the taking of the city and garrison of Hereford, with the number slain on both sides, and the particular circumstances at the gaining thereof. With a perfect list of the names of the prisoners taken therein. Die Martis 23. Decemb. 1645. Ordered by the Lords in Parliament assembled, that these letters, with the list, be forthwith printed and published. Joh. Brown Cler. Parliamentorum
Morgan, Thomas, Sir, d. 1679?
Birch, John, 1615-1691..
England and Wales. Parliament.
Great Britain -- History
Hereford (England) -- History
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Context of Severall letters from Colonell Morgan Governour of Gloucester, and Colonell Birch.: Fully relating the maner of the taking of the city and garrison of Hereford, with the number slain on both sides, and the particular circumstances at the gaining thereof. With a perfect list of the names of the prisoners taken therein. Die Martis 23. Decemb. 1645. Ordered by the Lords in Parliament assembled, that these letters, with the list, be forthwith printed and published. Joh. Brown Cler. Parliamentorum
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Agency Size Can Influence PRA Penalties
July 2, 2018 by Foster Pepper
Category: Open Government Advisor , Public Records Act
Written by Andrea L. Bradford
The Washington Court of Appeals recently ruled that the Superior Court is permitted to consider the small size of a municipality when reducing penalties under the Public Records Act (PRA).
In the third appeal related to a 2003 public records request, the Washington Court of Appeals concluded that in setting a penalty for violations of the Public Records Act, Chapter 42.56 RCW, the trial court did not abuse its discretion in considering the small size of the City of Mesa and the burden the penalty imposed per capita on its taxpayers.
Courts have authority to enter penalties of up to $100 per day for wrongful withholding of public records under the PRA. The Washington Supreme Court has adopted a 16-factor test to determine the size of the penalty. One of these factors is deterrence considering the size of the agency and the facts of the case.
Here, the trial court calculated a penalty based on the 16 factors and then reduced the overall penalty amount from approximately $350,000 to $175,000, an amount the court deemed “sufficient to deter future conduct” without financially crippling the agency, the City of Mesa.
The population of Mesa is under 500, and the court concluded a per-capita penalty of $350 was sufficient to deter misconduct. The Court of Appeals concluded that giving greater weight to the deterrence factor and size of the agency in this case was reasonable given the Mesa’s limited budget and resources.
The Court also addressed the retroactivity of amendments to the PRA provision regarding penalties. In 2011, the legislature amended the penalty provision, RCW 42.56.550(4), to remove language that penalties should be between $5 — $100 per day. Under the current language, which permits penalties “not to exceed one hundred dollars” per day of wrongful withholding, courts have discretion not to impose penalties if appropriate. The Court determined that this amendment was remedial and thus, retroactive: Therefore, it could be applied to the calculation of penalties for the 2003 public records request.
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Austin, Texas alternative pop artist Saint Loretto released his sophomore LP, Passage / S, on March 29th. Clocking in at 30 minutes, this album is on the shorter side, but if there’s anything Saint Loretto mastermind Evan Crowley has clearly figured out, it’s that less is more. The release kicks off with the brief yet catchy track “In Honor of Progress” which almost acts as a proverbial cover page. “Aisles” follows up with infectious synths, upbeat drums, and a guitar lick that’s sure to stay in your head. Crowley’s vocals meld wonderfully with the track; he has a sound and style that is reminiscent of acts such as The Killers and The 1975, but very much holds his own flavor. The track ends with a beaming guitar solo before charging into “Paris,” which is driven by a punchy bass guitar. As Crowley sings about spending “another weekend in paradise,” I can’t help but picture a place far away from my bedroom in the frigid, manic climate of New Jersey; preferably with warmer weather, great hispanic food, and reasonably priced mixed drinks.
Passage / S moves forward with “Control (Fool for You)” and “Closing Time (The Best of Times).” These tracks offer a bit more pop-rock tendencies, with the bass and drums clicking away together on “Control” and the driving force set by the guitars during the chorus of “Closing Time.” However, Crowley doesn’t skip on his flavor of synth-pop with these tracks. “Head Over Heels” features some amazing synth and keyboard work which paints the track with good vibes. “American Kids” is a powerhouse track that is pure party fuel, complete with a memorable guitar solo. The album begins to wind towards its end with “‘68,” a mid-tempo track with a lot of heart, and “Wide Awake (All This Time),” a slower jam befitting of a late night car ride with the windows rolled down. Passage / S ends with an acoustic guitar-driven, eponymous track, which is a chill and catchy conclusion to this release.
Passage / S, as well as Saint Loretto’s previous full length endeavor Depth / S, is now available on Spotify, Apple Music, and Amazon.
New Noise Magazine Reviews Almost Famous Friends Debut Album
New Noise Magazine reviewed the debut album from our Texas boys Almost Famous Friends, I’m Not Who I Want to Be!
Noting that the opening track is “a melodic masterpiece,” they went on to say it was proof that they’ll be “more than almost famous.”
“There’s a lot of bands in Texas, even without SXSW, but this is the one to look out for– especially if you liked Hawthorne Heights and Silverstein back in the day and want to listen to a more mature, updated version of that angst.”
Read the full review here!
Stitched Sound Reviews New Album From Almost Famous Friends
“[Tristan] Wilson’s melodic voice offers a comforting tone with deeply personal lyrics…Drawing influences from such bands as Brand New and The Story So Far, the band comes off as a strong candidate for a future Warped Tour act.”
Check out Stitched Sound‘s new review of Almost Famous Friends upcoming album I’m Not Who I Want To Be, coming May 20th, HERE!
Music Box Pete Shares Thoughts On New Almost Famous Friends Song
“What impressed me most about these guys was their ability to carve out their own individual music identities…and how that sound adds up in the end to create something that is equal parts original and cutting edge.”
Head HERE to check out Music Box Pete‘s take on Almost Famous Friends and their new song “All I Can Do”
Almost Famous Friends Release New Music Video For “All I Can Do” On Antiquiet
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Austin, TX based band Almost Famous Friends have just released their brand new official music video for “All I Can Do”. The music video is being premiered by Antiquiet and you can check it out HERE!
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Breaking News articles for August 2012
Despite regulation, debit growth continues
Despite profound regulatory changes, debit card transaction volume experienced strong growth in 2011, according to a 2012 Debit Issuer Study commissioned by the PULSE network and Discover Financial Services. Since the implementation in 2011 of Regulation II, as mandated by the Durbin Amendment to the 2010 Dodd-Frank Act and which restricted debit interchange fees charged by financial institutions with at least $10 billion in assets, there has been speculation about the long-term financial implications of the regulation.
$2,500 awarded in IdeaBank Challenge
The U.S. Department of the Treasury, the Doorways to Dreams Fund and the Center for Financial Services Innovation awarded the winners for the IdeaBank portion of the MyMoneyAppUp Challenge. The grand prize winner won $1,000 in cash for a mobile app idea that allows users to track the satisfaction quotient of purchases over time, while the two runner ups received $500 apiece for a purchase trading app and a college return on investment app, respectively.
PayPal's Discover deal makes room for acquirers
PayPal Inc. will be issuing cards and working with acquirers as it moves toward its goal of ubiquity in the payment marketplace, Don Kingsborough, PayPal Vice President of Retail and Prepaid Products, said in an investor conference call about PayPal's new alliance with Discover Financial Services. PayPal's wallet is expected to be available at more than 7 million U.S. merchant locations that accept Discover cards by the second quarter of 2013.
Fraudster sentenced in RBS WorldPay hack
A U.S. district court judge sentenced a "money mule" to two years and six months in federal prison for her role in the 2008 fraud scheme against Atlanta-based processor WorldPay US Inc. that netted fraudsters $9 million. Sonya Martin, a 45-year-old resident of Nigeria and Chicago, was convicted of conspiracy to commit wire fraud. The district court said Martin was part of a Chicago "cashing crew" that took account information stolen from the processor's systems to fraudulently withdraw approximately $80,000 from various Chicago ATMs on one morning in November 2008.
Square outage sheds light on industry's complexity
Mobile payment startup Square Inc. apparently experienced a service glitch on the night of Aug. 22, 2012. As reported by media outlet The Next Web, the Square website went down for an hour, and payments could not be processed via its portal during that time. TNW quoted Square spokesman Aaron Zamost as saying, "The issue was quickly recognized by our engineering team and has been fixed. We're sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused and we're taking the appropriate steps to ensure it doesn't happen again."
Buffalo fights crime with prepaid
Buffalo, N.Y., paid out $32,140 in prepaid cards to people who turned in a total of 746 guns at the city's fifth annual Gun Buyback program held Aug. 18, 2012. The program is part of Buffalo's effort to remove weapons from the streets. "This year's gun buyback will continue to assist in our efforts to reduce the overall crime rate in the City of Buffalo," said Buffalo Mayor Byron W. Brown.
Payment processor leads Inc. 500/5000
Miami-based Unified Payments LLC has cause for celebration as the top company on the Inc. 500/5000 ranking of the nation's fastest-growing private companies for 2012. Rankings were determined based on percentage of revenue growth from 2008 to 2011. In securing the top position, the payment processor achieved three-year sales growth of 23,646 percent and generated $59.5 million in revenue during 2011. "To be recognized as the fastest growing private company in America is overwhelming," said Oleg Firer, Executive Chairman of Unified Payments.
Visa readies encryption for POS terminals
Visa Inc. will begin integrating its new point-to point-encryption (P2PE) service, Visa Merchant Data Secure, into payment terminals and critical systems across the payment processing industry in early 2013, the company reported Aug. 21, 2012. The company said merchants and acquirers will be able to add P2PE to their systems with minimal impact. For instance, merchants can choose a format-preserving option that allows merchants to integrate P2PE using a 16-digit encrypted value with their current systems.
CFPB weighs imposition into state gift card practices
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is considering whether to impose its regulatory authority on states with gift card laws that are inconsistent with federal gift card laws. Specifically at issue are regulations in Maine and Tennessee that allow the states to seize funds on unused gift cards two years after the cards have been inactive, compared to federal law which generally imposes an expiration date of five years on cards, according to the CFPB.
MCX – it's about more than the wallet
Paul Martaus, Chief Executive Officer and President of the payments industry research and consulting firm Martaus & Associates Inc., said ISOs should be alert to the possibility there is more to the Aug. 15, 2012, launch of the retailer-backed mobile payment technology company Merchant Customer Exchange than a mobile wallet.
New flat rate signals need to take Square seriously
Square Inc. continued its aggressive entry into the payments world when it introduced a monthly flat processing fee for small businesses Aug. 16, 2012. Square said merchants who process up to $250,000 in card transactions a year can now choose a flat monthly processing fee of $250 with no additional fees or contracts. Merchants will still have the option of continuing to pay a fee of 2.75 percent of every transaction instead. Square said its new flat monthly fee is the first pricing option that gives small businesses a lower processing fee than bigger merchants.
Is direct deposit key to prepaid card longevity?
One significant hurdle faced by prepaid card providers is how to get consumers to use prepaid cards for longer periods of time. A report conducted by The Payment Cards Center of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia and the Center for Financial Services Innovation suggest that the answer may be to offer direct deposit on the cards.
ThreatMetrix warns of new malware threats
Sophisticated new malware programs are not only difficult to detect, track and contain, but they also have highly specific targets, said Andreas Baumhof, Chief Technology Officer of ThreatMetrix Inc. As a result, the reputation of electronic devices touted as "malware free" is eroding and the threat to financial institutions (FIs) and mobile devices is growing, he warned. An Aug. 9, 2012, report released by ThreatMetrix alerted FIs that a new FI-targeted, peer-to-peer Zeus Trojan malware called Gameover is the "largest financial botnet we've ever seen."
TSYS, Central Payment form joint venture
In a joint venture revealed Aug. 9, 2012, global ISO and processor Total System Services Inc. (TSYS) acquired 60 percent of U.S. ISO acquirer and processor Central Payment Co. LLC. TSYS, a publicly traded company, said through its spokesman Cyle Mims, it is "unable to disclose the terms of the agreement." Central Payment focuses on restaurant, personal services and retail market segments. It serves more than 40,000 merchants and processes more than $3.5 billion in credit card sales annually.
Prepaid cards facilitate a majority of federal benefits
In a July 2012 report to Congress, the Federal Reserve said the government's Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), formerly called the Food Stamp Program, disbursed nearly $73 billion in benefits in 2011, with all of those funds loaded onto prepaid cards. Out of a total of over $149 billion in government benefits disbursed last year, 67 percent were issued on prepaid cards, according to the Fed.
ETA CEO says goal remains growing ISOs
Jason Oxman, Chief Executive Officer of the Electronic Transactions Association, said the addition of the four major mobile network operators (MNOs) to the ETA's member ranks and an increased focus on the emerging mobile payments industry will not alter the association's goal to help ISOs and other members grow their businesses.
Durbin urges merchants to reject proposed settlement
Sen. Richard Durbin, D-Ill., denounced a proposed settlement of claims that the interchange fees charged by MasterCard Worldwide, Visa Inc. and a number of issuing banks are unfair and violate provisions of the Sherman Antitrust Act. Durbin authored an amendment to the 2010 Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act that gave the Federal Reserve Board authority to cap debit interchange fees. The more than $7 billion settlement proposal agreement was divulged in July 2012 by lawyers appointed by the Brooklyn Federal District Court to represent the nearly 7 million merchants in the class. If Federal Court Judge John Gleeson accepts the settlement, which merchant lawyers said will be submitted for the court's preliminary approval by Oct. 19, it would be the largest settlement in Sherman Antitrust history.
CFPB embeds 'safe harbor' into money transfer rule
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau' will give certain financial service providers "safe harbor" exemption status from the new international money transfer rules. Community banks, credit unions and financial institutions that provide less than 100 international money transfers per year will not have to notify consumers of fee disclosures, exchange rates and the actual monetary amounts that money transfer recipients receive.
Mobile payments in the spotlight
Payment technology is changing at breakneck speed, and mobile solutions, in particular, have been making news throughout 2012. The first week in August continued that trend, with a number of noteworthy developments in the mobile sphere. #h2Fed looks at new regulatory needs The Federal Reserve is closely following mobile payment events. Among the Fed's concerns is the entry into the payments industry of companies with no payments background.
Small biz views prepaid as potential funding source
A survey of small U.S. businesses reported merchants are more likely to fund businesses via loans on prepaid debit cards than with payday loans. The National Small Business Association's 2012 Small Business Access to Capital Survey said 13 percent of survey respondents were more inclined to use prepaid cards as a funding tool over the last two years, compared to only 1 percent of respondents who were likely to use payday loans in the same time period.
Smart Card Alliance EMV forum
The Smart Card Alliance formed a cross-industry forum to support the introduction of Europay/MasterCard/Visa (EMV) security standards and technology in the United States. The EMV Migration Forum is designed to help the payments industry transition from mag stripe cards to the more secure EMV contact and contactless cards.
Visa Europe in the news
Here, from across the pond, are three recent Visa Europe developments of interest to the payments industry. They pertain to new European Commission objections to Visa's interchange fees, iZettle's inability to process payment cards in certain countries and an information technology (IT) snafu at the London Olympics. #h2More antitrust objections for Visa Visa's multilateral interchange fees (MIFs) may violate European Union antitrust rules, the EC contended in a formal statement of concerns the EC has about the card company's interchange policies. The EC informed the card company of its views in a supplementary statement of objections released July 31, 2012.
MWAA celebrates 10 years, Chicago-style
As befitting its 10-year anniversary, the Midwest Acquirers Association Conference pulled out all the stops for the 2012 show. Held July 17 to 19, 2012, at the historic Chicago Hilton in downtown Chicago, the MWAA hosted a record 655 attendees and featured 106 vendors. "We had more vendors than we ever had, including a number of new vendors, many new faces and some new companies," MWAA President Donna Ayers said. "We had more room for vendors than we ever had. The rooms were big enough to open up and offer more booth space, and the vendors had room to spread out."
Global Payments breach update
International payment processor Global Payments Inc. said the data breach it discovered in March 2012 cost the company $84.4 million in remediation expenses and card company penalties this fiscal year. The company shared the price of the breach damage for the first time in its fourth quarter year-end earnings report released July 26, 2012. Global Payment's fiscal year ended May 31, 2012.
ABA to CFPB: Strike balance in prepaid regs
The American Bankers Association believes the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau must walk a fine line to effectively regulate the prepaid card industry. In a July 23, 2012, letter, the ABA said the CFPB must make rules flexible and not over burdensome to the industry, even as they extend to prepaid cardholders the protections already afforded debt and credit cardholders.
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Rediff.com » News » Pix: 'Longest human chain' formed for Telangana
Pix: 'Longest human chain' formed for Telangana
Last updated on: February 3, 2010 15:15 IST
'Longest human chain' formed for Telangana
The people of Telangana on Wednesday formed a 500 kilometers-long human chain all along the National Highway number 7 from Adilabad on the northern most tip of the region to Alampur on the borders of Kurnool district, to press their demand for a separate state.
The call for this novel protest was given by the all party Telangana Joint Action Committee to send a clear message to the Central government that the people of the entire region were involved in the movement.
The chain, claimed to be the longest in the country, was formed through five districts of Adilabad, Nizamabad, Medak, Ranga Reddy, Hyderabad and Mehbubnagar.
Text: Mohammed Siddique in Hyderabad
Image: Schoolchildren join the massive human chain for Telangana in Hyderabad on Wednesday
Photographs: SnapsIndia
'Chain formed to send the message of unanimity'
While prominent leaders of the movement including JAC convenor Prof Kodanda Ram, N Narasimha Reddy of the Telangana Rashtra Samithi and P Srinivas Reddy of the Telugu Desam Party participated in the human chain program on the Tank Bund in the heart of Hyderabad, other leaders were participating in the program in their respective districts.
Speaking on the occasion TJAC convenor Prof Kodanda Ram said that the human chain has made it clear that there was complete unanimity among the people of the region that they want a separate state. "Nothing else is acceptable to them," he said.
Image: Politicians and members of Telangana Joint Action Committee also participate in the human chain
'When everyone united for a cause..'
Women, youth, students, government employees and workers of different political parties and the mass organisations were participating in the human chain.
Just when the human chain was being formed, news came from Delhi that the Central government has announced that the proposed committee to go in to the demand for a separate Telangana will be headed by Justice Sri Krishna.
Image: Women join the chain in front of the historic Charminar in Hyderabad
'Telangana committee must not be a farce'
Kodanda Ram said that the TJAC will react to the committee formation only after the government comes out with the terms of reference of the committee.
The leaders of various other political parties said that they would welcome the committee only if it is meant for preparing the roadmap for Telangana state.
Image: Students take part in the human chain in Hyderabad
A show of strength and commitment
"But if it is going to seek the opinions of the leaders of coastal Andhra, it will be a waste of time. Because they have already made it clear that they were against Telangana state and for united Andhra Pradesh," said TRS leader and former minister N Narasimha Reddy.
Pocharam Srinivas Reddy of TDP said that he hoped that the committee will only deal with the issues connected with the formation of Telangana state and will complete its work within a set frame of time. "If it is meant for putting Telangana in cold storage, we will not accept it," he said.
'Won't settle for anything else'
M Lakshmaiah, another member of JAC, said that there was no need for such a committee as the Union home minister P Chidambaram had already announced on December 9 that the process for the formation of Telangana had started.
"If the committee means backtracking on that promise, we will not accept it," he said.
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Shadi Bartsch-Zimmer
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Shadi Bartsch-Zimmer’s research focuses on two areas: the literature and philosophy of the Neronian period and the reception of the Western classical corpus in modern China. She is the author of Persius: A Study in Food, Philosophy and the Figural (2015) and The Mirror of the Self: Sexuality, Self-Knowledge and the Gaze in the Early Roman Empire (2006). She also recently co-edited the Cambridge Companion to Seneca (2015).
In April 2015, Bartsch-Zimmer was named the inaugural faculty director of the Stevanovich Institute on the Formation of Knowledge. Among her many honors and awards are the University's Quantrell Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, and being among “40 under 40” in Crain's Chicago Business Journal.
Interlitq interviews Shadi Bartsch, Helen A. Regenstein Professor of Classics
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Education: PhD, University of California, Berkeley; MA, University of California, Berkeley; BA, Princeton University
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Europe leads the world with its green ambitions
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New European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has made the “European Green Deal” a centerpiece of her administration and is moving to back the initiative with vast funding and a powerful new executive focused exclusively on climate change.
But she also vows solid growth and more jobs. Some say going green and delivering old economic growth could actually be mutually exclusive notions, something of an oxymoron. The issue also lays bare the ongoing disparity among countries in the EU, which are developing and evolving at different speeds.
High school graduates have likely read about the Ruhr Valley, the industrial heartland of Germany, a key objective for Allied forces in WWII. Today the former steel and coal region no longer belches steam and smoke.
The vast coking ovens and smokestacks of the Zollverein Coal Mine Industrial Complex are now silent following their closure in 1986. Today Zollverein is a Unesco World Heritage site that has become a gentrified, green post-industrial environment and home to business startups, a restaurant, a centre for contemporary arts and a design museum.
An apt metaphor for its repurposing is a cool and calm ice-skating rink now resonating with the talk and laughter of children instead of the whine of coal conveyor belts and the hiss of hot steel. Yet the reality is, the site has a much more limited economic impact today and its present incarnation does not employee anywhere near the number of workers it did in its production heyday.
Some 600 km away, an industrial region almost as famous for its industrial past as the Ruhr, is still living its coal-reliant legacy. In Silesia, Poland, coal is still king. The province’s capital Katowice is often covered in smog generated by thousands of coal-burning home heaters.
The city of about 300,000 sits in the heart of the aging Polish heavy industry belt. It hosts the mining industry’s largest trade fair and is home to Europe’s largest coal producer. Almost half of the 82,000 jobs in Poland that rely on coal production are found in Upper Silesia.
In Katowice many talk not of change but of keeping their jobs and the 200-year-old coal culture alive. Of course, they would likely embrace a move to less arduous work, but they and their families need a decent-paying financial alternative. The key to any transition away from coal in the region is ensuring that mining jobs are not simply replaced with precarious work, say miners.
As it stands now coal is still used to generate 80 per cent of Poland’s electricity. In a December vote, it was the only EU member state to decline signing on to reach carbon neutrality by 2050.
Von der Leyen is certainly aware of the magnitude of the challenge in both economic and cultural terms. She recently likened de-carbonisation to Europe’s “man on the moon moment”.
“The European Green Deal is on the one hand our vision for a climate neutral continent in 2050 and on the other hand a very dedicated roadmap to this goal,” she said in a speech to the EU parliament as 2019 drew to a close. “Our goal is to reconcile the economy with our planet, the way we produce and the way we consume, to make it work for our people.
“I am convinced that the old growth model based on fossil fuels is out of date and out of touch with our planet,” said von der Leyen. “The European Green Deal is a strategy for growth that gives more back than it takes away.”
That ambitious, perhaps over-the-moon, view must be backed by a real and tangible design for action, say critics. The commission has responded with a plan it says would mean a staggering ?1 trillion investment in the European Green Deal.
The plan scheduled for adoption on January 14 calls for at least 25 per cent of the EU budget to be devoted to climate action, a record share, as well as help for financial institutions and private investors so they can make sustainable investments. It also wants to turn the European Investment Bank into a ‘climate bank’ that doubles its climate-related lending.
But anything affecting the real finances of European workers better be well considered, a harsh fact French President Emmanuel Macron discovered when he tried to raise the tax on vehicle fuel to fund environmental efforts.
Macron’s move triggered the violent ‘yellow vest’ protest movement in France that has now continued for more than a year. He said on Saturday the attempt to raise the fuel tax was a ‘mistake’ and he now might ask for a referendum on the fight against climate change to ensure government policy is backed by voters.
Yet more so than anywhere else on the planet, climate change is seen as an existential threat in Europe, say opinion polls. The threat is real, most agree. The rub for European workers comes when the response is no longer a theory but a reality that affects their own lives. It seems the moment for sacrifice is not in the distant future. It has already arrived.
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PITHY QUOTE FROM Bayle: Dictionary
The visions of Cerinthus in relation to the temporal reign of Jesus Christ, have induced some writers to regard him as the true author of the revelations to which he put the name of St John, in order to obtain credit under the authority of that venerable apostle: in consequence of this supposition, many persons have wholly rejected the apocalypse, as a work neither of St John nor of any other inspired writer, but the impertinent and obscure reveries of an early heretic.
Pierre Bayle's Historical and Critical Dictionary, Cerinthus
Pierre Bayle's Historical and Critical Dictionary
Language: English Translation
Detail: Portrait of Pierre Bayle. Engraving. By François Chereau
Pierre Bayle. An Historical and Critical Dictionary, Selected and Abridged from the Great Work. 4 volumes. London: Printed for Hunt and Clark, 1826.
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An anti-climax maybe, but to break the Fulham hoodoo will set City up nicely for what lies ahead
1st May 2015 By Gary Gowers 14 Comments
In his final MyFootballWriter piece yesterday, Kevin Baldwin wrote eloquently, as ever, on the part the footballing gods still have to play in the Canaries’ fate.
If they opt to lead us down the romantic path, a trip to Wembley would be a wonderful way to mark the 30th anniversary of City’s Milk Cup win but equally they may instead prefer a mischievous route – one akin to the 50th anniversary of the 1959 FA Cup run being ‘celebrated’ with a return to the third tier.
Whether they now have any interest in tomorrow’s visit from Fulham is a moot point – one suspects they will be more interested in events at Blackburn, Derby and Brentford – but the fact it’s not a game on which our whole season hinges suggests that somewhere along the line they missed a trick.
Ever since the Championship fixtures were released back in June of last year, the smart money was always on City needing to beat Fulham on the final day to either secure a top two finish or a place in the play-offs.
It seemed inevitable. That the only thing at stake is third or fourth place in the Championship makes it the biggest anti-climax since March’s solar eclipse.
The proverbial jury is still out on whether it now offers Alex Neil an opportunity to rest some weary limbs and give game time to those on the fringes – like Vadis Odjidja-Ofoe, Jamar Loza and Tony Andreu – or whether it’s more important to regain that winning feeling ahead of the play-offs.
The two are not mutually exclusive of course, and it would be great for a ‘second XI’ to win the game, but logic dictates the win is more likely to be achieved by picking the strongest eleven.
And I think that’s more important than wrapping our prized assets in cotton wool.
To enter the play-off semi-final first-leg off the back of a three-game win-less run would be far from ideal and would mean that City enter the mini-tournament minus the momentum that, until the Middlesbrough defeat, had threatened to see us crash into the automatic spots.
The flip side – and this has been the subject of much debate on Twitter and the messageboards – is that a Gary Hooper or a Cameron Jerome picks up an injury that keeps them out of the play-off semi-final, and then the inquests would open as to why they were risked in a ‘nothing’ game.
But I think that’s a calculated risk worth taking.
Fulham for their part, and for numerous reasons, will be a tough nut to crack regardless of the chosen XI and will be keen not to be merely participants in a warm-up game for the Canaries’ play-off challenge.
Unbeaten in five games, they will be desperate to sign off with a good performance and a win, and offer their travelling faithful a memorable end to a disappointing season.
As an attacking force the Cottagers possess more than enough to occupy a City rearguard – even one that has continued to be miserly in the midst of a mini-wobble – and in Hugo Rodallega and Ross McCormack they have, on paper, one of the Championship’s strongest pairings; the former a regular thorn in the Canary side.
And then there’s that bloody hoodoo.
At the risk of covering old ground (why change the habit of a lifetime) the last time City beat Fulham at Carrow Road, Cliff Richard and the Young Ones were at number one in the pop charts with their collaborative version of Living Doll; The Money Pit, A Room with a View and Pretty in Pink were on at the cinema and Ronald Reagan was still flirting with Maggie Thatcher.
The date of said victory was March 29, 1986 and City, having been relegated the previous season, were en route back to Division One at the first attempt (in the spirit of straw clutching I’m taking that as a sign).
In a narrow 2-1 win, the scorers for City that day were Mark Barham and John Deehan, with Fulham’s reply coming from none other than Dean Coney – a feat that was not to be repeated!
If, 29 years on, City can do the impossible and secure a win, preferably accompanied by a clean bill of health, they will be set up nicely for the two – hopefully three – tests of nerve that lie ahead.
Alex Neil, for his part, will naturally be desperate for for the win, will demand nothing less than 100 per cent from his men, and will not be spooked in the slightest by a win-less run against the Cottagers that dates back to when he was preparing to start primary school (and I get the distinct impression he’s not a great believer in hoodoos and bogey teams).
But equally, an afternoon that does not yield three points will not affect his preparations for next weekend one iota.
The steely resolve and meticulous planning that took us to the cusp of the automatics will be drawn on once again, and I trust him implicitly to prepare a team capable of beating any of the four ‘possibles’ over two legs.
In a one-off – such as a play-off final – anything is possible, but with 180 minutes to find a way to win any Neil-built team will be hard to beat.
Let’s get Fulham out of the way, try and enjoy it even, and then the hard work starts all over again.
“On the Ball City…”
Filed Under: Column, Gary Gowers
1st May 2015 at 8:35 am
Ah, Dean Coney… Must be the only City player to score with his backside but never with his feet.
Agree about momentum and the need – on balance – for a strong side tomorrow. From his comments, I suspect AN feels the same.
Good stuff as ever, Gary.
PS to my last comment.
Now you’ve got us thinking about Dean Coney, he clearly wasn’t the best money we’ve ever spent on a player. But who is? First thought that comes to my mind is the £10,000 we gave Colchester for Duncan Forbes. But I’m sure others can do better…
How many times have thought, or written, “surely we’ll beat Fulham tomorrow?” After their heroic performance last weekend against Middlesbrough, I’m now thinking, “surely, not again?”
And wasn’t it the impressive form of Rodellega last April which made Adams think, “I’ll drop Bassong.”
A timely win is required and I really can’t see Alex Neil making wholesale changes just to keep some fresh for the play offs.
Ben K says
I agree, Gary F. I’m confident that we’ll beat Fulham. Going into the play-offs on the back of a decent victory would be a very good thing, and I think the players and management will feel strongly about that.
Stewart: Martin Peters? I don’t know the amount but he was a hell of a signing.
Mark Robins? £800k looks like a bargain now, and did then.
What about Grant Holt? Less than Robins, 17 years on.
Has there been a bigger flop than Ricky van Wolfswinkel?
Cosmo P says
1st May 2015 at 10:17 am
Beating Fulham – the dream. Be good for confidence and to end the jinx..not to mention some measure of payback for that 6-0 final day-relegation nightmare they dished out. That has to be avenged sometime surely? Maybe we could unleash Becchio on them as a surprise tactic?
*Stewart – like Ben, Martin Peters – it was 50k.
*Ben – RVW question – answer..No. I see he’s now a bench warmer in France. Can’t we sell him to Watford to jinx their season?
Michael D says
On your point, Gary, about whether Alex Neil rests some players for the Fulham game, I would put it the other way round. I think it would be great to see players like Vadis and Gary O’Neil get some game time, even Loza, so AN can assess whether they can play a useful role in the play-offs.
In the three games in a week that culminated in the Middlesbrough defeat, my one quibble with Neil’s personnel management is that he used too few players for that intensive run. In particular, Vadis, O’Neil, and Hooper received little game time, despite the need to keep the team as fresh as possible for the Middlesbrough game, and the result was they were jaded. Vadis has looked useful when given the game time, and I am not sure why you bring in someone who has played for Belgium only to sit him on the bench even when he is fully fit.
Maybe he did it too much at times, but one thing Lambert was good at was mixing up the squad, and keeping things competitive within it.
Jon Dunn says
I’d be inclined to try Andreu (for Wes?) and V-O-O (for Tettey?). If thay have a stormer vs Fulham, then great – nice selection problems for the gaffer next weekend. If not, no worries, a rested a champing-at-the-bit Hoolahoops and Tettey should be ready to go again for the first play-off game.
Plus – as has already been well documented, who’s a silly boy Lewis? Piling extra pressure on either Hooper or Jerome (or both?) when we could use one of them fresh as a daisy next week.
Michael (6) – You make a good point re utilising the same team week in week out, but guess he was operating under the ‘don’t change a winning team’ theory. Gary O’Neil, given his recent experience of the play-offs, needs little ‘warm up’ time but for VOO and co, I agree it could be important
1st May 2015 at 12:12 pm
Ben (4): great call re Martin Peters. Classiest player I’ve ever had the pleasure to see in a Canary shirt.
Mark Robins was a great signing. But £800k was a lot of money back in 1992, and he only actually scored 20 goals for us. For value, surely he’s beaten by Grant Holt – arguably a more transformational acquisition, for half the price (and 17 years later).
How about Ted McDougall – £140k, scoring 66 goals for us at 1 in every 2 games? Graham Paddon at £25k? Steve Bruce at £135k (worth it just for the semi-final winner vs Ipswich)?
The £100k for Bryan Gunn wasn’t bad either…
Ash Diback says
That full Fulham horror show since ’86 is played 17, drawn 4, lost 13 – scored 6, conceded 35! Don’t think AN is one for history but personally, I would be pinning that up on the dressing room wall for a bit of extra motivation.
Kev ‘the cat’ Keelan cost 6.5k in 1963 (equates to 125 K today).
1st May 2015 at 1:37 pm
Michael (6) & Gary (8) – It’s an interesting question, to which there is probably no simple answer.
On the one hand, I can see the logic behind suggesting it’s a nothing fixture, so why risk players X, Y & Z.
On the other, we’ve not won the past two games and I’m sure Alex Neil won’t want that to extend to a third game. He’ll almost certanly want to win the game.
I suspect that there will be a pragmatic approach. Players are rarely 100% fit at this stage of the season and, if Alex Neil thinks that a particular player may only give him 60 to 70 minutes, then it’s probably worth resting him.
I guess we’ll all have to wait until 11.15 tomorrow morning when the team selection is revealed.
Chris Riches says
Gary F. (11)
I think the fact we’ve not won the past two games would be the perfect reason to change the side. Presumably that was AN’s thinking when starting with Grabban against ‘Boro?
I’d leave the defence unchanged, but mix up midfield and start with Loza. Time for Hooper & Jerome to come on for a half-hour later.
Chris (12) I thought Jerome had a tight hamstring problem and that’s why he wasn’t risked at the start?
Notwithstanding this, I agree that certain players weren’t 100% at Rotherham.
Bradley seemed to “run out of steam” towards the end (although that’s not surprising, given how long we played with ten. Also, the form of Wes has dipped since we played Sheffield Wednesday.
My point is, I’m not expecting wholesale changes for Fulham.
Cosmo P(2) says
Dean Coney cost us 350k (today – 890k!). One goal was the return – not quite up there with master Ricky but not far off.
Former (?) MFW columnist Ed, summed up his career at Carrow Road a while back in a top 11 of flops with Dean at no. 9;
http://norwichcity.myfootballwriter.com/2013/06/06/eds-disappointing-ncfc-xi-a-rogues-gallery-of-those-who-failed-to-set-the-canary-pulses-racing/
He’s now a Ladbrokes manager. Cheers for the memories ‘Dixie’.
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Corrosion Of Conformity - Technocracy
I'll make no secret that I am a huge fan of the metal/hardcore crossover years during the mid-80's. Nothing from that era tops this EP though. Plenty has been said or written about how the mixture of metal and hardcore was the death of hardcore, I like to think of it as a logical continuation of two bloodlines that were so close to one another, it was inevitable. It's all metal to me anyways. Listen to an AC/DC record at 78 and it's basically D-Beat. The Cro-Mags jacked Iron Maiden riffs... and neither punk nor skin nor hessian alike can deny the influence of Motörhead. Before there were blogs or MP3's or streaming audio, your only chance to hear something new was to trade tapes. I was hoodwinked in a shady deal one night by a scurrilous ne'er-do-well and lost my copy of the new FULL LENGTH album from Testament called "Souls Of Black" for this CASSETTE EP that repeated on both sides of the tape. Was I ever a dumb kid. Unwise in the ways of commerce and bartering. I mean... Souls Of Black was a slick new full length and they had a video on MTV! What was I thinking? Since it happened though, I could care less about Testament.
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The hungry child worships... no more
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All-Tour Jam Vehicles & Summer Awards
Posted in Jams with the tags 2014, Miner's Picks, Reader's Picks, Summer '14 on September 15th, 2014 by Mr.Miner
Merriweather 7/27 (Andrea Nusinov)
“Chalk Dust Torture”
Top Version: 7/13 Randall’s Island
Other Standouts: 7/9 Mann, 7/25 Charlotte, 7/29 Portsmouth
Two-thousand-fourteen has been “Chalk Dust Torture’s” most significant year in its 23-year history. The rock anthem had been known for blowout jams every now and then, but this summer really changed the game for “Chalk Dust” as it became a routine launch pad. Phish threw down six significant versions of “Chalk Dust” this summer, and more than half are legitimate keepers. Though most of the jams followed a similar contour with constant motion, the band diversified the major versions and carved out several top-level improvisations. Mann’s version set the tone for Randall’s all-timer, while Charlotte and Portsmouth’s versions anchored the back half of tour.
“Harry Hood”
Top Version: 7/1 Mansfield
Other Standouts: 7/12 Randall’s, 7/19 Northerly Island, 8/29 Dick’s
“Harry Hood” had a complete transformation over summer tour. Previously, the band had taken the “Hood” jam far out of structure four times in thirty years (Charlotte ‘03, Camden ‘03, Worcester ’10, Hollywood ’13). This summer they did so three times in a month (Mansfield, Randall’s, and Chicago) and then also veered slightly off course another twice more (Philly, Denver). For the first half of summer, while Phish was focused on deep improvisation, “Hood” became an open jam vehicle, birthing three instant classics. But as the summer progressed and the band’s jamming waned a bit, so did “Hood’s” role as a springboard into the ether. The band played a quality contained version at Merriweather, used it as a means to four duets in Alpharetta, and played a stellar though relatively in-the-box version at Dick’s.
Other Standouts: 7/26, Merriweather, 7/20 Chicago, 8/29 Dick’s
“Ghost” could make an case for MVP of summer tour. Just hear me out. It appeared eight times this summer and never disappointed. Phish crafted three very diverse and creative jams out of “Ghost” at Randall’s, Chicago, and Merriweather, while using it as a blissier, peaked out jam on three other occasions at Mansfield, Oak Mountain, and Denver. The Mann’s version isn’t particularly outside the box, but is quite smooth and enjoyable nonetheless. And even its least significant version in Clarkston was the highlight of a throw-away show, thus it’s hard to make a case against a jam that is essentially batting 1.000.
“Down with Disease”
Other Standouts: 7/4 SPAC, 7/15 CMAC, 8/1 Orchard Beach, 8/30 Dick’s
Some things are like clockwork. The sun comes up every morning, bears shit in the woods, and “Disease” is always on the top shelf of jam vehicles for the Phish from Vermont. Ever since breaking out and becoming a consistent springboard in the years of ’96 and ’97, “Disease” has been Old Faithful, never wavering in its quest for the most innovative jams around. This summer, “Disease” had another rock solid tour with several high quality outings that took on different shapes and sizes. Randall’s version is at the head of the class, while Dick’s and Orchard Beach’s also elevated in different directions (as they might as well have been played by different guitar players). SPAC’s “Disease” feels like the forgotten version of tour, though got into a intricate jam following “Fuego” on July 4th. All in all, Summer 2014 another all-star tour for one of Phish’s staple anthems.
Top Version: 7/19 Chicago
Other Standouts: 7/4 SPAC, 7/13 Randall’s, 7/26 Merriweather, 8/30 Dick’s
“Light” has become a regular all-tour selection in the modern era, always pushing the boundaries of Phish’s sonic comfort zone. “Light” was most often used as a supporting jam this summer, but flourished in this role with multiple late-set standouts. It’s best outing, however, came as the centerpiece of Chicago’s second show, plunging the depths of space jazz. Randall’s version also stood out, coming after the jam of summer and riding the same magic into a gentle and surreal Mind Left Body jam. SPAC’s, Merriweather’s and Dick’s versions all popped off late in the set, keeping the high-end improvisational vibe rolling right through the end of the show.
SPAC ’14 (Andrea Nusinov)
Top Version: 8/30 Dick’s
Other Standouts: 7/5 SPAC, 7/12 Randall’s
“Carini” saw a huge step backwards from its monstrous 2013. The band didn’t truly commit to any particular version from summer tour, using it mostly as a vehicle to ethereal soundscapes. Randall’s version got pretty interesting and intricate, but the “Carini” of the season easily goes to the explosive rendition we just heard in Denver, featuring Trey’s most soul-inspired peak of the year.
Top Version: 7/8 Mann Music Center
Other Standouts: 7/4 SPAC, 7/30 Portsmouth
“Fuego” had quite an odd summer. Phish played the song lord knows how many times, but only jammed it thrice. Two of those three jams are among the best of the summer, including Philly’s masterpiece, and Portsmouth’s is fully connected as well. “Fuego” could make a case for the first team, but it’s fighting some pretty horrible percentages.
Other Standouts: 7/27 Merriweather, 8/1 Orange Beach
“Tweezer” had a fairly laid back summer, tough its campaign was highlighted by unique and inspired Randall’s Island outing. Merriweather got the full “Tweezefest,” but the actual “Tweezer” jam is a thing of beauty-turned-psychedelia. Orange Beach’s version reaches a gorgeous space but feels a bit underdeveloped.
Top Version: 7/5 SPAC
Other Standouts: 7/18 Chicago, 7/30 Portsmouth
“Piper” was most often used in combination with other jams this summer and was almost always good for some interesting minutes of jamming. Its one truly shining moment came as more of a centerpiece in SPAC’s final show in which the band truly developed the jam into something special.
“Bathtub Gin”
Other Standout: 7/3 SPAC
On the strength of two versions, “Bathtub Gin” made Second Team, All-Season . There’s just nothing else out there with two better jams from summer. And these two were pretty great.
Miner’s Post-Season Awards
Jam Vehicle of Summer: “Chalk Dust Torture”
Runner Up: “Ghost”
Rookie of the Tour: “Fuego”
Runner Up: “Wingsuit”
Show of Tour: 7/13 Randall’s Island
Runners Up: SPAC 7/4, MPP 7/27, Dick’s 8/30
Run of Summer: Randall’s Island
Runner Up: SPAC
Segue of Summer: “Twist -> Circus” 7/25
Runner Up: “Free -> Tweezer -> Simple -> Tweezer -> Free”
MVP of Tour: Jon Fishman
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Reader’s Picks: Chris “Topher” Mont
Posted in Uncategorized with the tags Pre-1990, Reader's Picks on June 20th, 2013 by Mr.Miner
Junta Promo
All selections and text by Chris “Topher” Mont
The 80’s Like Totally Didn’t Suck…
Hello. I feel I should preface this by saying that in no way am I actually qualified to speak facts about Phish in the 80’s. While I was alive and well during that decade, I did not even discover Phish until ’97. I don’t want to give anybody the wrong idea. That being said, I do love to study up and do lots of research on the band. So, I hope this can help to expose people to an era of the band that I feel is very underappreciated. I tried to choose songs based more on historical interest as opposed to “best versions.” Hopefully it will be enjoyable regardless. A quick shout out to all the ATLiens. I look forward to another great summer this year. Be excellent to each other, and party on dude!
“Whipping Post” 5.3.85 II, UVM, Burlington, VT
No better place to start than the beginning, and for me this show is it. This was Page’s first time playing live with the boys…boys being the operative word there. It is very interesting to listen to the band at such an early stage. It is quite unpolished, but you get to hear the potential that was eventually fully realized. Plus, it’s interesting to hear two guitars.
“Run Like An Antelope” 10.15.86 III, Hunt’s, Burlington, VT
In the next year, Phish made some changes and entered a new phase. Jeff Holdsworth left the band in the summer, and they added Paul Languedoc into the mix. This was his first show as the band’s sound engineer. Perhaps he was partially responsible for bringing some new effects to Trey, which help to put some fire on this otherwise very humorous, early version.
“Peaches En Regalia > David Bowie” 10.31.86 II, Goddard, Plainfield, VT
It seemed like a tradition for a while to play “Bowie” on Halloween, which I would assume is because this concert was its official debut. I wish they actually would play some Bowie for a musical costume, or in my wildest dreams some Zappa. But, I guess this is as close as it gets. There is some different treatment in the composed section that makes it especially fun to hear. Also, “Peaches” was played a little differently, albeit not really as good as the later versions in my opinion.
“Punch Me In The Eye” 4.24.87 UVM, Burlington, VT
That’s right! It’s not a typo. No, not those few times Trey called “PYITE” by this name. There was one time when Phish had an entirely different version of this song. Can you call this the same song? It definitely somehow brought about “PYITE,” and also some sections from other future Phish classics. It was just too interesting to resist putting on this playlist.
“Melt the Guns -> Dave’s Energy Guide” 4.29.87 II, Nectar’s, Burlington, VT
First off, this entire show from Nectar’s is quite enjoyable. It is simply an awesome setlist, plus there are pretty decent recordings as far as audio is concerned. I chose “Melt the Guns” because it is absolutely my number one, single most desired bustout. I friggin love this song! Speaking of bustouts, I felt very lucky to be at the Charlotte show for the bustout of “Fuck Your Face,” which debuted at this show. Shout out to the Queen City.
“Skin It Back -> Low Rider -> Back Porch Boogie Blues -> The Sloth” 8.21.87 II, Ian’s Farm, Hebron, NY
One, two, buckle my shoe…Rock on Marley, and rock on Ian, wherever you are!
“Sneakin’ Sally Through the Alley” 2.24.88 II, Gallagher’s, Wattsfield, VT
This certainly is not the best version of this song, but, I thought it was interesting to hear since some other dude named John Carlton sat in on the drums allowing Fishman to really let loose on the trombone!
“The Curtain (With)“5.24.88 I, Nectar’s, Burlington, VT
This is another one of those old school classic shows, and this song opened up the first set of three. This is probably my favorite version of “The Curtain.”
“Jesus Just Left Chicago” 5.24.88 II, Burlington, VT
This song opened up the second set, which was a rare example of a three-song set from concerts pre-97. Don’t think Phish didn’t jam back in the day. Much thanks to Fish and Mike for playing along with the drunk dude in the audience who was yelling “slower…”
“Reba” 10.26.89 II, Wetlands, NYC, NY
I went in chronological order for this playlist since I figured it is worth noting how much growth the band made in the three years from May ’85 to May ’88. But, as far as saving the best for last goes, I’m so glad that this works out to have the final spot because this is really what I was most excited about. This is what really started my idea for an all old school playlist. I really wish they kept in the “Don’t Get Me Wrong” segment. I absolutely love it! For those of you who have not heard how Reba once was…
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Reader’s Picks: Mathias Loertscher
Posted in Uncategorized with the tags Reader's Picks on June 18th, 2013 by Mr.Miner
8.19.12, BGCA (Ken Scelfo)
It is my pleasure to introduce the Reader’s Picks from one of the first reader-commenters on PhishThoughts back in 2008—@Matso! Welcome back buddy.
All selections and text by Mathias Loertscher aka @Matso
“Maze” 12.9.95 I, Albany, NY
A ferocious set one opener. Listen carefully for the subtle, eerie industrial drone effect that Trey uses to set the scene. I would love to see the band take such a careful approach to show openers more often.
“Yamar -> Runaway Jim” 8.2.03 II, Limestone, ME
A moment when it all came together: My first post-hiatus show and my younger brother’s first show; one of my favourite songs seguing into my favourite song; and a serious left turn into Type II, which moves through many different ideas deftly and assuredly, with some fantastic use of the uncompressed tone. I had tears in my eyes.
“Stash” 12.28.98 I, MSG, NY
1998 is the year when Phish arguably peaked in terms of popularity and intensity. The energy at MSG for the first night of the first four-night NYE run at MSG was therefore off the charts and, after a quick “Axilla” to get the blood pumping, Phish detonated the Garden with this “Stash.” Although musically I prefer the 1997 MSG version, the straight-forward, dark intensity here made for a more memorable experience. Listen to the audience roar at the end of it. Fierce.
“Tweezer -> Have Mercy” 7.17.99 I, Volney, NY
Another one where I basically cried. Most of my crew were stuck in the traffic on the way in and it was during this stunning “Tweezer” that they found their way through the crowd and miraculously found me. This was also a summer when Phish’s music provided on-going comfort from some tough personal circumstances. So when they moved into “Have Mercy,” I got a bit emotional.
“Down with Disease” 11.13.98 II, Cleveland, OH
Both sets this night in Cleveland started and finished off strong, but had some of the worst, most prolonged mid-set lulls I’ve experienced. Miner has highlighted the “Wolfman’s” from set one for its clear Mind Left Body jam a few times, but this “Disease” is worth hearing as well. Very tight Trey-shredding for a good while, which stays in the box but is otherwise unreproachable, followed by a wonderful section of chord-led jamming (sounding almost Dead-like at times), which leads back nicely to the “Disease” theme.
“Farmhouse“ 8.5.11 II, George, WA
How do you follow up perhaps the greatest jam of 3.0? With not one, but two amazing segues. Then what do you do? You play this. Trey’s solos on Farmhouse throughout 3.0 have been a treat and this version is as good as any (check out Miami ’09 and Woosta ’10 too).
“Ghost” 8.13.97 II, Burgettstown, PA
My second “Ghost” of the summer and first one state-side. The band’s sound was developing so fast this summer that this version didn’t sound anything like the first one I’d heard (7/1/97). This one gets so thick and funky that I thought the band had turned into robots at one point.
“Makisupa -> Night Nurse -> Makisupa” 10.26.10 II, Manchester, NH
Not much to say about this one other than that the band NAILED the “Night Nurse.” One of my favourite moments of 3.0. More reggae please.
“2001” 8.11.04 II, Mansfield, MA
A controversial version from the final, dark days of 2.0. Some vocal commentators think that Trey’s playing on this version lacks direction and drive, but I hear the jam section before the first “ASZ” theme as a moment of lucidity, with some fantastic slow, considered playing from Trey. Afterwards, he’s clearly out of ideas, but that first solo is very unusual for a “2001” and noteworthy.
“David Bowie” 7.19.91 I, Somerville, MA
“Bowie” with horns. How the song was always meant to be played.
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Reader’s Picks: Phamily Bezerker
12.28.12, MSG (Graham Lucas)
“Boogie On” 9.18.99 II, Chula Vista, CA
The “Boogie ON”! Transcendent trajectory on this one. Know it.
“Mike’s > H2 > Groove” 3.13.93 II, Boulder, CO
This is a worthy second jam “Mike’s,” but the “‘Paug” is not to be missed. Mike lets you know this is his song right up front, no questions there. Kenny Powers remastered this show if you’d like a copy of some old school Phish. Get some!
“Gin > Makisupa > Bag” 7.25.97 II, Dallas, TX
This one gets overlooked by many who bailed straight to Cali and prefer the version a few days earlier due to greater availability/attendance. Nice little first set sequence.
“Antelope” 7.29.97 II, Phoenix, AZ
The Arizona “Antelope.” Check out this in Boone and Crockett!
“Piper > Twist > Slave” 11.14.97 II, West Valley, UT
Seemed good at the time. Still holds a special spot—’97’d!
“Lengthwise” 11.19.92 II, Colchester, VT
It’s the debut and a nice change up from what we get these days (or even anything since this one). First time I heard this version was Summer ’95. Good for a laugh. Skip it if you’ve heard it or you can’t handle your dairy even in small doses, whiner!
“Limb by Limb” 7.26.97 I, Austin, TX
Bob Gullotti on a second drum kit helped lift this one right out of the gates for a show opener. I like Fish’s vocal reprise to close.
“It’s Ice” 5.13.94 I, Hayden, AZ
Back when Ice was fire!
“Split -> Catapult” 12.31.99 I, Big Cypress, FL
Such a nice memory this one ushers in.
“Tweezer” 9.3.11 II, Commerce City, CO
Do you remember where you were when this dropped? That we have this on Vimeo ain’t a bad kick down to those that like this kind of stuff.
VENTURA BOX SET HAIKU WINNERS!
The Ventura Box Set
First off, thanks to everyone who participted! I received 24 sets of haikus, so needless to say that picking three winners—with two strong haikus—was quite difficult. But here we go… Winners please contact me with shipping address. Thanks!
WINNER #1: Edward Smith
Palm trees and sea breeze
European funk returns
Stateside to blow minds
Mid-July Monday
The faithful bear witness to
Riverport Gin’s kin
Winner #2: Ted Rubenstein
Sonic skull massage
Counter-cultural cow funk
Played to perfection
By the Sea and Sand
Nearly Drowned in the Bathtub
Seeing my first show
Winner #3: Bingo’s Brother
I just mowed my lawn
And the neighbors got done too
Ventura Bowie
Spun Ventura Gin
Swimming through molasses deep
Aural soft core porn
Jason Mass
Sound and light get hotter ‘til
It ends in fire
And begins again
With all us taking a bath
Ending out in space
Marc Tosh
four-headed pimp groove
cotton candy tornado
free bowie city
coastal summer tub
diving down for skunky pearls
Matt Tiscornia
Summer Winds Blowing
A Segue That Still Dominates
Blind Side At The Went
Where Is The Joker
Let Me Get Back To The Sea
Central Part Of Town
Mark Lecuyer
Tortured song fills sky;
Fun chords signal summer chant
D’oh – said creator.
Sea’s Healing provides
inspiration and focus.
Drummer sings new song.
Reader’s Picks: Greg Schneider
Posted in Uncategorized with the tags Reader's Picks on June 7th, 2013 by Mr.Miner
8.5.11 – The Gorge (Graham Lucas)
All selections and text by Greg Schneider aka Mr. Palmer
I tried to avoid some of the obvious choice selections while sitting down to do this. I’m sure there are a few that everyone on here knows well and I hope there are a few others that are new to some folks…
“Harry Hood” 12.11.99 I, Philadelphia, PA
One of my all-time favorite shows in an all-time favorite venue. This “Hood,” with a near five minute intro, opened this special night in Philly. And the rest, as they say…is history.
“Vultures” 9.21.99 II, Tucson AZ
This is a song I have always loved because, unlike most Phish songs, for me, this song is more about the vocal stylings than the music. However, this version is the outlier, and to my knowledge the only one. A Type II Vultures? Indeed. If you are going to blow up the Dirty Bird, it might as well be in a dusty, desert venue, don’t ya think?
“Fee” 7.8.99 I, Virginia Beach, VA
A 23-minute version of “Fee.” Just sit back, chill out, and let this beautiful version take you on a trip out to sea with the weasel and his friends…
This “Antelope” was played in the second slot of the second set this night in Arizona. This was one of only two shows I saw in ’97( I know, I know.) A tremendous overall show after the band returned from their historic and game changing tour in Europe. Not your every day, standard “Antelope.” This one goes deep…real deep.
“Tube” 7.21.98 I, Phoenix, AZ
My third selection from the state of Arizona…yes, this caught me by surprise also. It is my opinion that 1998 was Phish at their peak. Each band member was truly a master at their craft and combined, they brought a fierce, tight sound with incredible ambient textures. This is maybe my favorite Tube with it’s start-stop action. Each band member sounds at the top of their game here. If this version doesn’t get you up and dancing then I don’t know what to tell you.
“Funky Bitch -> Jam” 11.22.94 II, Columbus, MO
This selection likely needs no introduction. Just an absolute killer jam out of this “Bitch.” Turn this one to “11.”
“Tweezer ->DEG -> Tweezer” 6.28.95 II, Wantagh, NY
A true heater from the Summer of ’95. Tough to describe this one with a few words. It’s Phish, it’s “Tweezer,” it’s 1995…Enjoy.
“Wolfman’s Brother” 12.28.98 II, MSG. NY
This was the highlight of the first night of the first four-night stand at Madison Square Garden. Expectations were through the roof for this run and Phish did not disappoint. This “Wolfman’s,” at times, has an eerily similar feel to the version played roughly two months prior in Las Vegas. This NYE run in 1998 is still my favorite run that they have played to date. The consistency and jams from night to night were magical. Let’s do it again this year, huh?
“Bathtub Gin” 6.28.00 I, Holmdel, NJ
I was lucky enough to have third row seats for this night—right in front of Trey. He was totally “on” this evening. Some nights in ’00 this wasn’t the case. We truly got the hose this night. This “Gin” is all about Trey and his guitar annihilation. Fast paced and precise, a top three version for me and many others as well. Enjoy.
“Down With Disease” 9.14.99II, Boise, ID
It is probably weird to see this date and a song other than “AC/DC Bag” or “Gumbo” attached to it. This isn’t one of those huge “Diseases” with massive improv. This version always grabbed me for Trey’s ferocity. Check the You Tube video of it if you get the chance. Trey is jumping (prancing?) around and really feeling it.
LAWN MEMO’S “33 in 33”
Perhaps you followed @LawnMemo‘s massive project, “The Daily Ghost” in which he reviewed each and every “Ghost” ever played. The same @LawnMemo is back with another big project, but this time around he is the behind-the-scenes orchestrator of “33 in 33,” in which he invited 33 different writers to chronicle a single jam from a single show from the 33 shows of 2012—all in the 33 days leading up to Summer Tour! The project has been underway for just over a week, and you can check out all the entries so far. My contribution will be posted on Sunday, and chronicles a selection from June 22nd’s show in Cincinnati. It was the first piece I’ve written in quite a while and I had a great time doing it. I’ll link it here when it’s posted, but bookmark “33 in 33” and peep it every day as we countdown to Bangor!
Check my essay on the Cincy Twist here!
Reader’s Picks: Joe Bakaitis
Posted in Uncategorized with the tags Reader's Picks on June 3rd, 2013 by Mr.Miner
All selections and text by: Joe Bakaitis (a couple audio clips were edited to save bandwidth)
“2001 > Bowie” 10.27.95 II, Kalamazoo MI
This was my first show and still to this day the best “Bowie” I have heard. When the jam starts up Trey is chanting some pretty strange stuff under his guitar work. This is a must hear for any “Bowie” fan.
“Mike’s > Lifeboy > Weekapaug” 8.13.96 II, Noblesville, IN
What a night this was. Everything about this show was great. The last four songs of set one are also worth checking out, but this is by far the best “Mike’s” from the whole 96 summer tour. For the most part summer 96 seemed pretty tame, but they really let it out in this “Mike’s.”
“Theme, Punch, Ghost > Taste” 8.9.97 I, East Troy, WI
97 has so many gems, and it seemed like the bands style would change every show. The first four songs of set one was some of my favorite Phish music I have ever heard. This was my first time seeing them play “Ghost” and what a “Ghost” it was. These first four songs still seem fresh in my memory 16 years later.
“Julius > Slave” 12.5.97 II, Cleveland,OH
For a 97 show this one seems to be overlooked alot, and on paper this might seem like a let down as being the heart of the second set, but this “Julius” swings harder than any Phish song I have heard them play, and then the “Slave” is out of this world.
“Tweezer > Izabella” 12.6.97 II, Auburn Hills, MI
This is the best “Tweezer” ever. I’m sure just about everyone has heard this one. You really just need to listen to the whole second set.
“2001 > Mike’s > Weekapug > Zero “7.17.98 II, George, WA
My friends and me did this whole summer tour and even though the tour opener in Portland was a great show, summer tour really felt like it started this night. What a magical night in the desert.
“Mike’s > Simple > Bittersweet Motel” 7.21.98 II, Phoenix, AZ
This “Mike’s Song” is dark, rocking, and just out right awesome but the best part of this show is the “Simple.” This “Simple” is just great. Trey and Pages playing is so sweet and light. This whole second set is worth listening to, but I always find myself enjoying the “Mikes > Simple” the most. I believe this was the first time they played “Bittersweet” too.
“Bathtub Gin” 7.29.98 I, Maryland Heights, MO
This is the “Bathtub Gin” of all “Bathtub Gins!”
“Mike’s Song” 12.30.99 III, Big Cypress, FL
From my top ten list it would seem that I really like “Mike’s Song,” and who doesn’t, but I wanted to pick only songs from shows that I was at and I also wanted to pick out songs that are forever my first thoughts when I am asked about Phish, so behold another “Mike’s Song.” I remember CK5 filling up the swamp with the most smoke I have ever seen at a Phish show and this is one dark, electric, rocking “Mike’s Song.” I am sad to say that I feel that this is one of the last true “Mike”s Songs” with a real jam.
“Moma, Light > Taste, Fluffhead, Joy, Gin> Hood. E. Slave” 8.7.09, George, WA
For my tenth pick I’m going to have to pick this whole second set. I have thought Phish has played some great shows in their new era, but maybe its’ the openness of the Gorge but to me this show has a feel that you don’t hear very much nowadays. Every song has a pop and a lightness to them. The jams do not seem forced and the “Light” and “Gin” have epic jams for 3.0 Phish. I have not been to a lot of show in the 3.0 era, but have downloaded most of the shows, and I keep finding myself listening to this show the most out of all of the 3.0 Phish. Great Phish music all around.
This was a fun project and than you Mr. Miner for the opportunity to share my memory’s with everyone.
Reader’s Picks: Nathan Tobey
Posted in Uncategorized with the tags Reader's Picks on May 30th, 2013 by Mr.Miner
8.24.12 (Ryan MacNeil)
All selections and text by Nathan Tobey
“Free” 11.22.95 II, Landover, MD
After a terribly (and amusingly) botched “Rift,” the band comes out with a “Free” that is one of the best versions ever played. 33 minutes of dynamic improvisation that features an especially strong performance from Page. At about the 21 minute mark, the jam moves into a quiet, breathtaking sequence featuring Trey whistling that evokes memories of the 12/29/94 Bowie.
“Down with Disease” 12.12.95 II, Providence, RI
Thrilling. This jam is an adventure comprable to some of the very best jams from this peak period of Phish. It may just be the most interesting “Disease” the band has played (no offense to 11/12/94 or 6/25/97).
“Stash > Ghost” 6.19.97 II, Vienna, AT
Most of you know the Paradiso Wormtown “Stash”—meet its lesser-known little brother, the Vienna “Stash.” A great but straight ahead “Stash” seems to be winding up only to dissolve into a extended funk jam that will have you dancing by the time “Ghost” arrives.
“Antelopes” that venture into true experimental improvisation are few and far between—and this is the best of a very short list. This Desert Sky “Antelope” goes far off the beaten path into a beautiful jam, before finding its way back to close things out.
“YEM” 7.26.98 II, Dallas, TX
97-98 is known as the funk period, but Phish always had some funk — mainly in the form of YEM. So, what better vehicle for the cow funk treatment of the 97-98 period? This “YEM” got that treatment. At 29 minutes, the funk goes on (just about) forever—without a dull moment.
“Ghost” 9.12.99 II, Portland, OR
I love ’99, but it’s true that the band could sometimes be sloppy or disconnected that year. This is not one of those times. 29 minutes of plugged in, focused playing that shows off 99 at its best—a combination of subtle textures, abstract soundscapes, and powerful grooves.
“Down with Disease” 3.8.09 II, Hampton, VA
There a lot of reasons to love the reunion run, but the jams are not usually considered one of them. That’s true for the most part, but this is a huge exception. A 22 minute adventure with a gorgeous Trey-led segment that starts about mid-way through, followed a section of stunning Mike soloing, and wrapping up with a Fish/Trey race to the finish. This one flies under the radar. It shouldn’t.
“Simple” 11.16.94 II, Ann Arbor, MI
A 34 min masterpiece that every fan should hear. Like most of the rambling 30+ minute jams of the era, it breaks down at points, but there are several sections of thrilling, jaw-dropping playing that could each have sustained an amazing jam out of “Simple” by themselves. The jam ends with delicate, gorgeous outro followed by a huge ovation. Perfect.
“Twist” 7.18.03 II, East Troy, WI
This dark horse “Twist” comes out of nowhere late in the second set at Alpine to create a dark, swirling jam that reaches some menacing peaks before returning to the theme.
“Bathtub Gin” 8.7.09 II, George, WA
Unquestionably the best “Gin” of 3.0—and one of the very best jams of 3.0, period. The creativity is pulsing in this jam as the band locks together for 18 minutes of adventurous improvisation that—like the very best of Phish jams—sounds almost composed. This is a jam that stays with you.
“Piper” 7.8.12 II, SPAC
Any “Piper” played at SPAC would be overshadowed by the epic, essential 6/19/04 performance. But this “Piper” holds its own, and then some—it’s a stunning, tight powerhouse of a jam that features a thrilling peak from Trey. My favorite 3.0 version (though 10-30-09, 6-27-10, 6-15-12, 9-4-11 and 12-30-11 are all must hears).
“Frankie Says” 12.28.03 II, Miami, FL
My nominee for best “Frankie Says” ever. A stunning jam that came out of nowhere in the first frame to set the tone for an exploratory night of powerful Trey-led, Hendrix-inspired jamming.
Reader’s Picks: Benjamin Lee
Posted in Uncategorized with the tags Reader's Picks on May 23rd, 2013 by Mr.Miner
8.28.12, St. Louis, MO (Jeremy Renda)
All selections and text by Benjamin Lee aka Llamalee
As a young phish fan I was reluctant to make a top 10 list to share. In the end I decided if I were to make a list, I would avoid the blatantly obvious jams and include what I consider to be not as well known segments of Phish that I find myself listening to repeatedly, or versions that have personal significance to me. Hope you enjoy.
“Bathtub Gin” 7.21.97 I, Virginia Beach, VA
The introduction of funk to the US, this is a classic although repetitive funk jam with some solid start-stop play. The best part of this jam is the multiple hammered notes the band hits during the peak of the funk highlighting the level of percussive, cohesiveness the band was playing with at the time.
“Foam” 5.28.94 I, Monterray, CA
Ever wonder why certain Phish songs that may have nothing too exceptional to them but just get you going? “From,” for some reason unknown, does this to me. This version of “Foam” never gets old. What I have come to realize is this “Foam,” like lots of pre-95 jams and other early “Foams,” centers on a drastic volume change, something the band has not used at all in 3.0. A style I would like to see return provides a lot of energy when the jump from quiet to raging hits.
“Reba > Yersuashalayim Shel Zahav” 7.8.94 I, Mansfield, MA
Even though the “Reba” two days prior is probably better, this is a strong “Reba” with a perfect ending in the odd but beautiful chant. An all-time favorite show that surprises me to never have been remastered to the Live Phish archives since the “Stash” from A Live One shows the high quality of recording that exists.
“Stash” 12.31.03 II, Miami, FL
This is where it all began for me. I was working in a coffee shop one day listening to Grateful Dead when one of my neighbors came in and said I should check out this band “Phish.” He gave me this CD and after hearing this “Stash” (and “YEM” too) from the New Year’s Show, I was hooked.
“Simple > Loving Cup > Mike’s Song” 11.8.96 II, Champaign, IL
I had to include a “Simple” with Trey on the drum kit from this time period because these are my favorite style jams. Although the other “Simples” of Fall ’96 are superior (see 10.26.96, 10.31.96, 11.18.96), this one—like all of them—illustrates how Trey stepping back allows Page and Mike to control the direction of the jam, give the band a unique sound, and focus the music on highly percussive rhythm when Trey returns to the guitar. The “Mike’s Song” is included just because it has a great section that jumps back and forth from funk to shredding.
“Weekapaug” 7.17.98 II, George, WA
A high paced, straight-forward “Weekapaug” in a year in which the song truly shined. After a heavy “Taste” tease this one seems like its going to end as the band returns to the main theme but the jam extends into serious funk that ends with a nice change of pace before being cut off by Trey for “Character Zero” (not just a 3.0 thing).
“46 Days > Oh Sweet Nuthin” 8.15.09 II, Columbia, MD
This is the meat of the second set from a MPP show that gets no respect. The second set starts with a weak “Tweezer > Taste” but things really pick up with this “46 Days” that passes from a seeming fade out end of the hard rock jam into a blissful peak. A transition into the Velvet Underground cover caps the song perfectly. See also the “Harry Hood” that ends the set which I consider to be the best “Hood” of ’09.
“Crosseyed and Painless” 10.16.10 II, N. Charleston, SC
A favorite for personal reasons, this song—considering the name—appropriately started with a friend of mine being pushed by a falling drunk guy eight rows vertically downward through the North Charleston auditorium seating (He looked dead at first but was perfectly fine.) Some of the best play from Trey in the year 2010 with a jam that keeps you still waiting.
“Rock and Roll > Lizards” 8.24.12 II, Pelham, AL
Another personal highlight since I was only able to see four shows in 2012, this jam segment is my favorite live memory from the year. A truly beautiful jam with ambient melodies transitioned into the classic Gamehendge song.
“Harry Hood” 12.5.95 II, Amherst, MA
Returning to the idea of the band using volume for energy, this “Hood” exemplifies that perfectly. Reaching an original peak that involves an “Entertainer” tease, the band brings everyone back down before turning the volume way up for one of the all-time best “Harry Hood” peaks (see 12.30.95 for the best, headphones recommended).
Reader’s Picks: Lindsey Pontieri
8.22.12, Kansas City, MO (Ryan MacNeill)
All selections and text by Lindsey Pontieri
Geeking out about Phish is one of my favorite activities. Rather than taking the clinical route-breaking down the jam, analyzing the tour or spitting out the stats, I put together this list based on what the band and shows bring to me—a sense of community and joy. Some are from shows that I’ve attended, some not, but all put a big fat grin on my face every time I hear them.
“Boogie On Reggae Woman > Golden Age > 2001” 7.7.12 II, SPAC, NY
I began this with the intention to stick with “Golden Age > 2001” as it’s become one of my favorite one-two punches, and then I remembered that “Boogie” preceded the pair at SPAC last summer. It’s funky, it’s joyful, it’s triumphant and then “2001” drops in and the whole crowd starts to groove. Love it.
“The Divided Sky” 10.24.10 I, Amherst, MA
Every time they hit the pause, I get goose bumps up and down my arms knowing the beauty of what comes next.
“Chalk Dust Torture” 8.16.96 I, Plattburgh, NY
On August 16, 1996, surrounded by 70,000 of my closest friends, I got hooked on Phish. This may not be the “best” Chalkdust (7/10/99 is often hotly debated as…oops. Stat! Sorry) but this is my first “Chalkdust” and we all remember our firsts. And god was it good.
“Dog Log” 8.2.03 E, Limestone, ME
Silly, goofy fun. I caught this one as the encore and have been chasing it ever since (and Page’s keys in this are great….).
“Suzy Greenberg” 10.31.09 E, Indio, CA
I am a firm believer that a horn section should invade the stage on a more regular basis. Trey shreds through this one with Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings taking it to the next level.
“Run Like An Antelope” 7.14.91 I, Townshend, VT
Giant Country Horns were on tour with Phish during the summer of ’91, and this one is a fun show to listen to. It’s raw, relaxed and a sign of what’s to come. During the verse towards the end, there’s some play and a bit of horns as an added bonus.
“Wilson” 3.13.93 I, Boulder, CO
The opening chords to “Wilson” with the familiar call back are known and beloved to many. However, I totally dig the original dark and twisty opening found in this version. There’s also a bit of secret language play with the Simpsons theme. Listen full through; the original chords work their way through the song giving it a different feel.
“You Enjoy Myself” 4.5.98 I, Providence, RI
It’s “You Enjoy Myself.” From the Island Tour. That should explain everything.
“Squirming Coil” 12.30.11 E, MSG, NY
While this [2011] NYE run was inconsistent at best, this is a version that Page takes his time with. As time has gone on and I’ve focused on different aspects of the band, this one has grown on me. Initially, depending what was going on in the set, it was one of my bathroom songs. Now, with time and a different perspective, I find that when Page is alone on the stage, taking his time to finish it up, it is a moment of stillness and beauty.
“Tweezer” 2.28.03 II, Uniondale, NY
Before the band hit the stage, it was a special night. My sister’s first show. And holy crap, did they not disappoint. There are shows embedded in Phish lore and this one is dug deep right in there. This second set opener is 27:08 min of patience and band connectedness that shifts from psychedelic glory to playing off the Frampton tease. This is one of those jams that you get lost in and when you emerge from it, you have to take a second to question whether it just happened.
“Tweezer Reprise” 2.28.03 E, Uniondale, NY
Wherever there is a “Tweezer,” there’s a reprise lurking. Most nights it closes the same show, but in 3.0 I’ve seen it split and played to close multi-night stands and, in one instance, repeated (6/18/10). No matter where or how it presents itself, it’s four minutes of pure head banging energy, and on this fateful night in 2003, that’s exactly how they closed the show. Like all “Reprises,” this one builds and builds, with the energy in the room off the hook, and as it hits its peak, the room explodes and everybody is left exhilarated wanting more.
Reader’s Picks: Jeff D’Alonzo
Posted in Uncategorized with the tags Jams, Reader's Picks on May 15th, 2013 by Mr.Miner
The Storage Jam (Brian Ferguson)
All selections and text by Jeff D’Alonzo
A disclaimer. I love trey and i love jams that exude emotion. Tried to do a combo of relatively unknowns and monsters, but thanks to Miner and this ridiculous community, there aren’t really any unknowns.
“Carini” 2.17.97 II, Amsterdam, NL
Thank the dude who remastered this show. It’s my belief that this show changed the game. The winter Europe tour started off strong, new style being developed and whatnot. The night prior, 2.16.97 took it a little further. However, this show, specifically this “Carini,” is where it went down. Coming out of the gate dirty, the band connected and went straight into that funky psychedelic vibe that is everywhere in ’97. There is really solid playing by everyone throughout the jam, but what makes it, is the ending. The last 4 minutes is the blissiest piece of bliss every made. Utter beauty and flowing with a peak that is the definition of gorgeous. I just blissed my pants.
“Antelope” 5.16.94 II, Los Angeles, CA
Pretty sure the only people that knew about this one, were the people at the show until this set popped up on etree, i guess 4 or 5 years ago, it was the last missing link to my 1994 collection. Lo and behold I saw a 20 minute “Antelope.” Popped it on and the rest is history. The jam after the “BBFCFM” nonsense is one the most beautiful pieces of Phish music ever made. Trey leads a melodic build up that makes me shiver with emotion. Not really sure how to explain it, heart wrenching glory I guess.
“Ghost” 6.15.00 I, Osaka, JP
I went through a month phase where I listened to this “Ghost” three times a day. Perfect driving music. Fishman is a god here and Trey follows his lead all the way through. Two jams, both brilliant, leading to a groove laced peak towards the end. Kids were lucky to be in Japan for this one.
“Bathtub Gin” 2.14.03 I, Los Angeles, CA
A personal favorite of mine. The only song on my list that i was present for. It seems like tour openers always have a big jam. The “Gin” is it. The whole winter tour was laced with huge “Gins.” But i like this version the best. Trey is a monster during this one. Funky, dirty, grooving, crushing. Pick whatever adjective, maybe Miner can help me. This jam is just amazing. Throw down city.
“Bathtub Gin” 9.12.99 I, Portland, OR
When I discovered this jam randomly back in the day, I was floored. Hadn’t really read about it anywhere or heard any mention, prolly overshadowed by the “Ghost” from the same show. But this jam rules. It’s a perfect summer show jam, sunset, all that jazz. As my buddy Shin likes to say, a straight candy raver. It’s just a really bouncy and happy version with a beautiful groove.
“Tweezer” 6.9.00 II, Tokyo, JP
Japan 2000 is arguably their best “jams” tour. So many heavy hitters. This one is probably the biggest. This “Tweezer” starts off cool, really laid back and patient. Gets a tad lost in the middle but then around the 18:00 mark,
everything in the world makes sense. So patient, all four of them finding their way. Both dirty and pristine, this ending jam is one for the ages, complete perfection.
“Mike’s Song” 11.7.98 I, Chicago, IL
My favorite “Mike’s” ever. First jam is solid, well played and energetic. Then comes jam two, an absolute blissful beast. I love every kind of Phish, acidy experimentation, deep swamp funk, methjazz, etc. I love it all. But what really gets me is the bliss. And the second mikes jam from UIC is one of the blissiest. And also being a complete Trey whore, i love it, and this jam has IT.
“Ghost” 7.12.03 II, George, WA
Post hiatus fire. Trey tone is in full effect. Another grooving shred fest, starts off really smooth and elegant. 10:50 mark on is why I go to shows. One of those moments when all you can do is smile at the fact that you got to listen to the greatest band on the planet do their thing.
“AC/DC Bag” 11.7.98 II, Chicago, IL
Everyone knows this one but I don’t care. ’98 is prolly their best year all around, imo. The ambient shit brought things to a whole other level. This monster has complete experimental psychedelic ambiance all over the place. Whatever that means. I don’t condone drug use, but if you decide to indulge, put this on and listen to the whole thing.
“Mike’s Song” 11.21.95 II, Winston-Salem, NC
My friend Cheryl turned me on to the jam a couple years ago. Not the best “Mike’s,” but a personal favorite. First jam is typical ’95, rocking, Page and Fish owning. But again, the second jam is what i crave. It starts off spotty and confused but towards the end turns into another bliss fed gem. Trey takes control and plays a slow melody that cuts to my core. Beauty.
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Daxing airport will have Spring Festival for the first time the flight navigation company put on extra
On January 9, according to civil aviation administration aspects, during the Spring Festival in 2020, Beijing daxing international airport is expected to protect passengers 1.9 million person-time, roads on a 1.25 vehicles;Average daily flights to 312 sorties, increases by about 15% than usual.
Has been in daxing airport flight are open.
China Eastern and its China united airlines is the main capacity, daxing airport in daxing airport share of 53.6%, as of January 7, 2020, the cumulative execution on a 14300 classes, running ZhengChangLv reach an average of 94.78%.
During the Spring Festival, China Eastern and its China united airlines will open 92 routes, flight plan execution of more than 6600 flights, prudent in Shanghai, guangzhou, shenzhen, haikou, sanya, hangzhou, Qingdao, Harbin, such as several major cities in China, da nang and fukuoka, Japan, Vietnam and other international popular tourist destination.
China Eastern said, adding the Beijing daxing international airport to chengdu, wenzhou, guangzhou, xian, chongqing, ningbo flights to a total of 364 class.
The Spring Festival this year, China Eastern airlines will also be in Beijing for the first time two operations.
The capital airport, China Eastern airlines will increase during the Spring Festival in Beijing capital international airport to Bangkok, krabi international flights, a total of 74 classes, the new Beijing capital international airport to Harbin, wuhan, xishuangbanna, wenzhou, nanchang domestic flights, a total of 98 class.
According to China Eastern aspect, after two operations, the Spring Festival in Beijing capacity was increased by 21% over the same period last year.
And united as one of the first fully transitions in daxing airlines, since the rotation field of sailing, have been in Beijing daxing international airport on route 69, ensure flight 12751 class, run ZhengChangLv amounted to 94.32%.
During the Spring Festival, united will enable the newly introduced four aircraft capacity, the company fleet size reach 53, in daxing airport flight 5417, year-on-year increase of 6.51%;Project total investment of about 1.699 billion km, up 7% from a year earlier.
United are expected, in the Spring Festival period in daxing, or the carrier will be more than 830000 passengers, the first peak for January 18 - January 24, average daily passenger flow is expected to more than 22000 people;After peak for January 29 - February 3, average daily passenger flow is expected to about 23000 people.So far, united in daxing, or has already sold 400000 ticket.
Another base of daxing airport, China southern airlines said plan extra flights at the airport in the capital airport and building a total of 650, up 235% from a year earlier.
In addition to the increase in daxing airport hot airline flight, China southern airlines will also be in the capital airport expansion from haikou, sanya, baishan, changde and other airlines flight 144.
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The Institute of Buddhist Studies’ 2010 Graduation Ceremony was held in Berkeley on May 14, 2010. Graduates included: G. Kenji Akahoshi of San Jose, David Kazuyoshi Fujimoto of Hawaii, Jon Brett Turner of Orange County, and Mutsumi Fujiwara Wondra of Orange County. Ms. Wondra is currently studying at Ryukoku University, Kyoto. Her husband, Mr. Alan Wondra, accepted the degree on her behalf.
Mr. George T. Aratani, a long time supporter of Institute of Buddhist Studies, was presented an Honorary Doctorate. Upon the conferring of the honorary doctorate to Mr. Aratani, Rev. Dr. David Matsumoto stated that Mr. Aratani could not be present to receive the award, but was truly appreciative. Rev. Dr. Seigen Yamaoka received the degree on behalf of Mr. Aratani.
The commencement address was presented by Dr. Paul Harrison, co-chair of the Ho Center Buddhist Studies at Stanford University, who spoke on the expanding interest in Buddhist Studies, which is based on the discovery of new documents in ancient languages closer to the Buddha’s time.
Copies of this footage are available on DVD for students, friends, and family. Please contact contact Scott Mitchell for more information.
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Washington Capitals: Winning with Power I
Since we have a little time on our hands between now and the next time the Washington Capitals take the ice, we thought we would spend the time by taking a look at what we once referred to as “The National Mall Power Play.” It has been efficient, to say the least, in the early going. And, it is ruthless in taking advantage of openings in opponent’s penalty killing structure. How much? We will take a look at the successful power plays to date, starting with Game 1 in Chicago…
Here we pick things up 27 seconds into the Caps’ first power play of the season. What you see is that the Blackhawks are in a perfect four-square defensive position with Mike Green (52) holding the puck at the top of the 1-3-1 formation…
In the second frame, Green moves the puck to Nicklas Backstrom (19) at the right wing wall. Backstrom has his head up looking first through the horizontal axis of the formation – Troy Brouwer in the middle and Alex Ovechkin at the far side. Duncan Keith (2) has his stick in a position to challenge a pass to Brouwer, while Joakim Nordstrom (42) has dropped down to challenge a through-pass to Ovechkin, who has moved below the face-off dot. As innocuous as this looks from the defensive side, the breakdown is already in motion. Why? Because what is going on in the far side of the formation with Nordstrom and defenseman Niklas Hjalmarsson (4). And what is that?...
Backstrom moved the puck down to Mikhail Grabovski at the goal line extended to goalie Corey Crawford’s left. And this is where the breakdown on the far side of the formation is now fatal. Hjalmarsson has backed down almost to the goal line to Crawford’s right. He cannot defend anything in front of him easily. Nordstrom’s decision to collapse on Troy Brouwer in the middle proves even more problematic, especially since Marcus Kruger (16) is in a position to defend on Brouwer’s stick side. Chicago is left with two defenders on Brouwer, Duncan Keith unable to pivot to Grabovski (remember, he had his stick in the lane for a pass to Brouwer; he has to bring his body and stick all the way around to defend Grabovski), and Hjalmarsson…well, he’s in a no-man’s land…
By the time Grabovski’s pass through the crease gets to Ovechkin (a lane having opened because of decisions made by Hjalmarsson and Nordstrom on the far side of the play). Nordstrom has collapsed on Brouwer, and Hjalmarsson has too much space to cover to deny Ovechkin the open shooting angle…
The entire sequence took eight seconds. Eight seconds to break down what was a solid four-square defense into two defenders out of position and two others helpless to cover up for that problem.
Let’s go to the second Capitals power play scored in this game. This sequence starts with a faceoff in the Chicago zone between Nicklas Backstrom and Jonathan Toews 54 seconds into the third period. Backstrom wins the faceoff. Not, perhaps, all that unusual, but it is what happens just after the faceoff that will pose a problem for the Blackhawks. Toews (19 in black) cannot get past Backstrom (19 in red) to challenge Alex Ovechkin at the left point. That task then falls to Marian Hossa (81), who is charging out from the hash marks at the edge of the left wing circle…
As Ovechkin winds to take a slap shot, Hossa is still trying to close the distance, Toews is still tangled up with Backstrom. What this means is that defenseman Johnny Oduya (27) has the right side of the ice to himself to defend as Mikhail Grabovski spins into the slot and Mike Green slides over to the right point…
Hossa having bitten on Ovechkin showing “slap shot,” Ovechkin slides the puck over to Green on the right point. Green has nothing but clean ice in front of him, three of the four defenders to the far side of the left wing hash marks and the other defender (Oduya) occupied by Grabovski in front…
Oduya has a choice to make. Allow Green to take a free windup and shot at the Chicago net, tying up Grabovski should any rebound occur, or try to close the angle on Green to either block a shot or force Green to shoot wide. Oduya chooses the latter, but Green had the advantage of so much space to receive and tee up a shot. What complicates the problem for the Blackhawks is that not one, but two Capitals have inside position on Blackhawk defenders, Grabovski on Brent Seabrook (7), who has tried to slip in behind Oduya to defend Grabovski, and Troy Brouwer (20) on Toews. The Caps not only have an open shot from the point, they have two players in position to redirect the shot unless Oduya can block the drive…
It is Grabovski who manages to get just enough of Green’s drive to redirect it past goalie Corey Crawford. The entire sequence took five seconds…
The third power play goal for the Caps in this game took longer to unfold. Play started with a faceoff at the 4:21 mark, the Capitals getting shot attempts from Alex Ovechkin (on goal) and Nicklas Backstrom (blocked) as part of the sequence. The puck worked its way to Backstrom (19) on the right wing wall. The Blackhawks are in solid defensive position. Joakim Nordstrom has a stick in position to challenge Troy Brouwer (20) in the middle, Duncan Keith (2) has a stick in position to challenge a pass to Mikhail Grabovski (84) along the goal line extended. Marcus Kruger (16) has backside coverage if Backstrom tries to slid a pass across ice to Alex Ovechkin (8). So far, so good…
Even with the coverages, Backstrom had options. He found Grabovski down low, but even here the Blackhawks look to be in decent shape. Keith has Grabovski covered for anything but a pass back to Backstrom; Nordstrom is in position to tie up Brouwer’s stick, and there is no lane to thread a pass to Ovechkin at the left wing faceoff dot. But things are not what they seem, either…
The puck comes back to Backstrom, and now Chicago has a problem. All four defenders are at or below the hash marks, giving Backstrom a lot of free ice to survey or into which he can skate to force a response on his own...
Backstrom steps up into the open space at the top of the right wing circle. Nordstrom inches out for the Blackhawks. Kruger is defending a pass to Ovechkin, who has his stick cocked for a one-timer. The Blackhawks cannot cover everyone, though, and there is Mike Green (52) at the top of the formation with all that clear white ice in front of him…
Mike Green has a clear shooting lane with the two defenders on top too deep and too wide to challenge a shot. And everyone is looking at him…Backstrom, Ovechkin, Brouwer… Kruger, Nordstrom… and Duncan Keith (2). It is Keith “peeking into the backfield” like a defensive back in football that allows Grabovski (84) to make a bee-line for the net and get inside position as Green is winding up and firing...
Keith has ceded inside position to Grabovski, who has an unencumbered opportunity to make use of his stick to redirect the puck past goalie Corey Crawford. The whole sequence takes ten seconds…
The examples differ. One sequence starts with Mike Green at the top of the 1-3-1 power play formation, another with a faceoff, and the last with Nicklas Backstrom set up along the right wing wall. But they are similar in that they force the Blackhawks into making decisions that unwind their defensive structure. In the first, the weak-side defenders end up making poor decisions – Joakim Nordstrom essentially double teaming Troy Brouwer, and Niklas Hjalmarsson getting caught deep giving Alex Ovechkin a clean shooting lane. In the second, Johnny Oduya does not make a bad decision as much as he picks the lesser of two difficult ones. In the third, Duncan Keith gets caught peeking to allow Mikhail Grabovski a lane to dart to the net and get inside position for a redirect.
In all three examples the decisions were made in the blink of an eye (the combined elapsed time of the three examples is 23 seconds of clock time), the Caps using the vision and hands of Niklas Backstrom, the shooting talent of Mike Green and Alex Ovechkin to direct pucks on net, and the opportunism of Mikhail Grabovski to put himself in a position to create havoc in front of the goaltender. When it works, it forces and takes advantage of breakdowns that compel defenders to make a decision in a split-second. If it is the wrong one, or one made hesitantly, the goalie is left in a difficult position.
(images: screen captures from NBCSN broadcast/NHL.com)
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New Girl (Season 2 - 2012)
Author Topic: New Girl (Season 2 - 2012) (Read 213 times)
Re: New Girl (Season 2 - 2012)
Even though the bulk of the episode was on Nick and Jess, I felt that the star of this one was clearly Winston and his inability to talk to girls. I kinda figured that chick that he was bonding with would in fact announce to him that she wasn't really married. So, it looks like we have a new cast member....for the time being. My guess is 3 episodes tops before she is written out of the show. Biggest moment of course goes to Nick finally kissing Jess and it was with intent. No playing around of any kind.
Added Episode 16: Table 34
I was expecting more from this episode given that it would pick up right where the last one left off and the aftermath of Nick and Jess kissing. I did find the idea of 'nervous moonwalking away' as the only way Nick can deal with his problems to be very funny. But the rest of the episode was just okay for me.
Added Episode 17: Parking Spot
The episode started off slowly but ended in gangbusters. So damn funny watching Winston running around the city looking for a condom and then getting lost trying to find where his girl lives at. Also funny was watching Jess, Nick and Schmidt fighting over the parking sport. Too bad the episode started off so slow because this could have been the greatest one ever.
Added Episode 18: TinFinity
TinFinity
Meh. Average. Other than the 'Sensitive' guy that Jess was pursuing, I hardly laughed at this one. As always, I did like the flashback scenes though.
Added Episode 19: Quick Hardening Caulk
Quick Hardening Caulk
Nice rebound from the previous episode to give us an incredibly funny half hour. This sh*t was indeed funny. Watching a drugged up Jess coming onto Nick had me in stitches. I couldn't stop laughing at how odd and bizarre their "flirtation" became. Also, Schmidt's obsession with getting a Lion Fish was just as funny as well. Bravo for adding Odette Annable into the series. My guess it will be 2 and out at the most.
Added Episode 20: Chicago
What started off as a very strange episode centering around Nick returning home to Chicago to take care of his father's funeral turned out to be very heartfelt and better yet, very funny. I was on the floor when Jess, dressed up as 'Elvis' started singing and dancing.....just like the 'King'. She was awesome and that made the season for me.
Added Episode 21: First Date
As funny as it was watching Nick and Jess on their first "date" together, they make an incredibly odd couple. No way in hell in real life does Jess ever go out with Nick. Yes, I've blurred the lines of make believe and reality. Sue me. But you know what I mean. Funnist moment in the episode was Winston's "worst date moment" involving the shirtless homeless guy singing 'Dude Looks Like A Lady". THAT's the funniest thing I've seen all year long....so far. Hahahaha.
Added Episode 22: Bachelorette Party
Average episode with only one truly funny moment and that was at the very end when Schmidt is forced to eat pizza by his Ex-Girlfriend. Now THAT was funny.
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Pan Law Of The Land
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By Kim Lajoie Last updated May 20, 2013
(Editor’s Note: This article on pan law is a repost of an article originally posted on our old server. Please be aware that in some cases, these reposts may present information which may be out of date, but the bulk is still completely relevant.)
Most people have heard of the term “pan law”, but many people don’t fully understand what it is or why it matters to them. So we’re here to define pan law in detail.
Pan law determines what happens when a mono channel is routed to a stereo bus (either a group or the “master” 2-bus). The designator (0dB, -3dB, -6dB, etc) describes how much the audio is attenuated (made quieter) when it’s panned to the centre.
More specifically, it determines what happens when mono channels are not panned hard-left or hard-right (that is, they’re panned somewhere in the middle). In (almost[1]) all cases, a mono channel panned hard-left or hard-right will come through to (one side of) the stereo bus at exactly the same level as it is on the channel.
0dB Pan Law
0dB pan law is probably the easiest to understand. With this pan law, mono channels that are panned centre are not attenuated at all. Audio that’s at full scale digital (0dBFS – very loud!) would appear at the stereo bus at the same level – full scale 0dBFS – on both the left and the right side of the bus. Another way to think about this is to imagine panning a mono channel from hard-left to hard-right. When it’s panned hard-left, the left side of the stereo bus is showing the same level as the mono channel. As you pan towards centre, the right side of the stereo bus starts to raise in level, but the left side doesn’t lower. At centre, both sides of the stereo bus are at the same level as the mono channel. As you then pan towards the right, the left side of the stereo bus lowers in level. But the right side stays at the same level.
The advantage to using this pan law is that mono channels are as loud as stereo channels (stereo channels are just two mono channels panned hard-left and hard-right). This is because the mono channel “fills up” the stereo bus as if it’s a stereo channel. This could be useful if you regularly work with a mix of stereo and mono channels and don’t do much panning. It might also be worthwhile if you regularly use mono channels for foreground instruments (such as lead vocals or kick drum) because with 0dB pan law, mono channels are actually louder when panned centre than when they’re panned to the side. This is because mono channels panned centre are sent to both speakers at full level.
The disadvantage with 0dB pan law is that mono channels are much louder when panned centre than when panned to the side. This can make pan automation sound strange. It might also be a problem if you mostly mix with instruments panned center (as I do), leaving the panning to the later stages of the mix. With 0dB pan law, audio will actually get quieter if you pan it away from centre, which can unbalance the mix because those instruments are pushed further to the background. Of course, you’d compensate for this by adjusting the fader at the same time, but it’s more work.
Another disadvantage to 0dB pan law is that if you control the width of a stereo channel by adjusting the pans of the left and right sides, you’ll find that the audio gets louder as you collapse it to mono. This is because each side gets added to the other side, but the level is not automatically reduced to compensate. In most cases this sounds “wrong”.
0dB pan law is probably useful for modern electronic or pop music, where powerful foreground synths are in stereo but highly correlated (mostly mono anyway), and there’s a strong emphasis on the foreground sounds that are panned centre.
-6dB Pan Law
By contrast, -6dB pan law attenuates the mono channel by 6dB when it’s panned mono. If you pan a mono channel from hard-left to hard-right, it’ll start at full level at hard-left. As soon as you start moving it to the right, however, the left side of the stereo bus starts lowering in level at the same time that the right side of the stereo bus is increasing in level. At centre, the audio is coming through both sides of the stereo bus, but at half the level. As you then move the audio to the right, the left side of the stereo bus continues lowering in level and the right side continues rising in level. When the channel is finally panned hard-right, the signal coming through the right side of the stereo bus is at the same level as it is on the channel.
The advantage to using this pan law is that mono channels stay the same level wherever they’re panned. This should make pan automation sound more natural, and make it easier to pan mono channels late in the mix without changing the balance much. The other advantage is that stereo channels in which the main component of the sound is equal on both sides (i.e. mono) can have their width adjusted by panning each side without the apparent level changing.
The disadvantage is that in a full mix it can make a mono channel actually sound weaker in the centre and louder at the sides. This is because most mixes are more dense in the centre than at the sides. So even at the same level, a mono channel can get a bit lost, or “masked” in the center, but come through clearly at the side. This is the exact opposite behavior to 0dB pan law, where mono channels in a mix are louder in the centre but can get lost at the sides. Also worth considering is that with -6dB pan law, stereo channels can actually sound up to 6dB louder[2] than mono channels at the same fader setting.
Another disadvantage relates to stereo channels that are loosely correlated (true stereo). These are stereo channels where each side is similar, but slightly different (for example, ambience effects or wide stereo synths). If you try to adjust their width by panning each side using -6dB pan law, they may actually get quieter. This is because each side is not exactly the same, and thus they won’t exactly reinforce each other to make up for the 6dB gain reduction. This is also what happens when you use a separate plugin to collapse the stereo field to mono. Most such plugins use a -6dB pan law and thus the sound itself gets smaller.
-6dB pan law is probably useful for more ambient or acoustic music where there’s more emphasis on background textures (and stereo space), and foreground sounds don’t dominate the mix.
-3dB pan law is a compromise between 0dB and -6dB pan laws. Mono channels are attenuated when panned centre, but not as much as with -6dB pan law. When listened to in solo, there’s still a slight increase in level as the channel is panned towards the centre. When panning in a mix, however, the level remains mostly even and the mix retains its balance better. Fully correlated stereo channels (where both sides are exactly the same – effectively mono) will become slightly louder when collapsed to mono using pan controls for each side. But loosely correlated stereo channels (where each side is slightly different – true stereo) will remain about the same level no matter how each side is panned.
-3dB is probably your best choice if either 0dB or -6dB pan laws don’t feel right to you, or you find yourself regularly working in a variety of different styles and genres.
Why It Doesn’t Matter… Much
Mixers are complex, but so are mixes. When you’re actually working on a mix, you’re adjusting faders as well as pans anyway. Using a pan law that works for you merely reduces some of the work in adjusting the volume as you place a sound in the stereo space. Additionally, each mix is different. The way audio signals combine to reinforce and mask each other is subtle and complex. Regardless of which pan law you use, you have to use your ears to determine if you need to adjust the fader to compensate for any actual or perceived volume change.
Other Weird Pan Laws
0dB, -3dB, and -6dB are the basics. But some other digital mixers have other options. -2.5dB, -4.5dB, -3dB compensated, constant power, log/sin taper, and others are some examples of pan laws on offer in some mixers and DAWs. You’ll have to check the manual or other documentation to find out how these differ from the usual pan laws.
Armed with this article, you should be able to make sense of it all and choose the best option for you!
[1] I’m not a Logic user, but apparently the “3dB compensated” pan law in Logic boosts hard-panned mono channels by 3dB. Look out!
[2] Depending on correlation. A stereo channel will sound 6dB louder than a mono channel with -6dB pan law if both sides of the stereo channel are exactly the same (they’re fully correlated). If each side is slightly different (that is, the stereo channel is loosely correlated), then it will sound slightly less than 6dB louder than the mono channel.
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RB-24 THE ADDITIVE “rb bertomeu” beco F1/ASF AND THE INCREMENT OF THE USEFUL LIFE
OF REFURBISHED EXHAUST VALVES , IN DIESEL ENGINES USING HEAVY FUEL OIL
rb bertomeu, S.L.
Technical Department – May 2002
Confirming our opinion, written in our previous article published in July-98, (see complete article) about the viability of using refurbished exhaust valves in Diesel engines , with the condition of using heavy fuel oil with a correct anti-corrosion treatment to guarantee that normal TBO (Time Between Overhauls), foreseen by the Maintenance Department, will be reached without problems, we set out the results of a tests carried out in a Deutz engine installed in a power plant, where has been recently demonstrate that even using refurbished exhaust valves (refurbished from 1 to 3 times), the use of a good fuel treatment like the heavy fuel oil additive “rb bertomeu” beco F1/ASF has allowed , not only reach the normal foreseen TBO (which was not possible before using that additive), but DOUBLING it.
Tests for duplication of the normal value of TBO (Time Between Overhauls)
Date of execution : 2000 – 2002
Engine type : Deutz BV 16M 640
Engine power : 6.3 MWhe
Number of valves : 32
Fuel used : Heavy fuel oil
Reconditioned valves installed for the test (1) : 26 (81.25 %)
New valves installed for the test : 6 (18.75 %)
Fuel treatment : “rb bertomeu” beco F1/ASF
Inspections carried out : 2 intermediate random inspections on 2 valves
1 final inspection over all installed valves
Results : Reached TBO : 203 % of Normal TBO
(normal TBO + 103 %)
(normal value of TBO is doubled)
The test was given as concluded when the objective of duplication of normal TBO value was reached, although was evident that should be
possible to increase the TBO still more. See this letter of reference (in Spanish).
Exhaust valves changed due to blow out , before final inspection: 3
1 Valve at 150 % of normal TBO ( B1A )
1 Valve at 180 % of normal TBO ( A8B )
1 Valve at 190 % of normal TBO ( A5B)
Valves B1B and B8B , were also changed , in spite that it was not necessary, before the test conclusion, to made some studies and controls by Deutz.
(see Test Report "RB-13 Energyworks-Carballo extension of the useful life of exhaust valves up to doubling TBO (Time Between Overhauls)"
Reusable valves find in the final
inspection, at the end of the test : 31 (96.8 %) (2)
Non reusable valves find in the final
inspection, at the end of the test : 1 ( A3A ) (3.2 %)
(1) Valves used previously in other engines, with a number of mechanical rectified
variable between 1 and 3.
(2) Among all valves, 28 had some compactation or hammer signals in the seats , which can be eliminated by a slight mechanical rectified. The other 3 valves had very soft corrosion on the surface of seats , which can be also eliminated by a mechanical rectified slightly more deep than in the previous case.
In the next pages you can find the article published in July-1998, titled "Considerations about the installation of reconditioned exhaust valves in a Diesel engine ............. "
CONSIDERATIONS ABOUT THE INSTALLATION OF REFURBISHED EXHAUST VALVES IN A
DIESEL ENGINE RUNNING ON FUEL OIL, REGARDING THE USE OF ADDITIVES FOR THE FUEL
Rb bertomeu S.L.
Technical Department / July-1998
Exhaust valves consist basically of two different components, the basket and the spindle, with closure seats , male – female type.
The area of the valve seats is made up of a certain thickness of a special alloy designed to withstand their harsh working conditions: percussion between seats, with particles of solid residues on both faces, chemical attack and thermal attack.
Percussion between valve seats is produced each time the valve closes. Given that the stream of exhaust gases contains a high quantity of solid particles, (Sulphates, Vanadates, etc.) formed in combustion from the impurities in the fuel oil, a large proportion of these particles are trapped between the valve seats each time the valve closes. This causes compacting which produces pitting and deformations on the surfaces of the valve seats. If this phenomenon is detected in general overhauls, the valves may be reconditioned by mechanical correction or rectification, and can be re-installed without trouble.
Chemical attack may appear on the seats of baskets and valves, and due to the compounds formed during the combustion of fuel oil from the impurities it contains (principally sulphur, vanadium and sodium). When the attack is severe the seats of the basket and/or the sleeve are perforated (valve blow-out) and the effect of sealing or closure between the two is lost, and thus the only solution is to replace both components with new ones. Valve blow-outs may also occur due to faulty rotocaps, which may cause a “blowing” effect at a particular point.
When the attack on the valves is slight, i.e. the corrosion is superficial, both components are reconditioned in general overhauls by correction or rectification of the seats, and they may be re-installed as in the previous case.
Thermal attack may appear on the flat surface of the sleeves after several thousand hours in operation. On the valves of Deutz engines, this may occur after 12,000 – 15,000 hours in operation. When acute thermal fatigue is detected, the sleeve must be replaced in order to avoid the possibility of its breaking and causing a major breakdown in the engine. Technically, supposing the fuel oil did not contain any corrosive elements, or if it is treated with additives in order to render them harmless, valves should come to the end of their working lives due to thermal fatigue.
On the basis of the information above, it follows that the components of the valve must be discarded and replaced by new ones for one of these three reasons:
- Severe thermal fatigue.
- Severe corrosion or blowout.
- Removal of the special alloy layer on the valve seats (the component does not conform to size) after successive mechanical corrections or rectifications.
When either of the two components is replaced, considering that engine overhauls are performed approximately at intervals of 3,000 – 4,000 hours in operation, it is immaterial wether they are replaced with new or reconditioned components as it is merely a question of being in operation again for a similar period time:
- If the reconditioned sleeves that are installed are not thermally fatigued, the symptoms will not appear until the following overhaul at the earliest.
- If the rectified seats conform to size, this implies that they have sufficient thickness of special alloy and are thus equally resistant to corrosion as the seats of new components.
- Obviously, a rectified seat will survive fewer overhauls, if it has previously been subjected to a greater number of surface corrections, or deeper surface corrections, due to more severe corrosion.
The additive treatment applied to the fuel oil used is fundamental to prolonging the working life of valves, both new and reconditioned ones. In this respect, the additive must ensure that both corrosion and pitting on the valves are minimised so that the corrections performed in general overhauls may be as superficial as possible. This will minimise the reduction of the thickness of the special alloy, and the working life of the valve will be prolonged over many more overhauls.
We are widely experienced in this field. To give the clearest example of this we may quote a co-generation plant equipped with three Deutz engines which has recently undergone its 26,000-hour overhaul and has used fuel oil treated with our products:
- The original valves have been reconditioned and re-installed at each general overhaul.
- Currently, after 26,000 hours in operation, 84% of the original baskets and 60% of the original sleeves have been reconditioned and re-installed, whilst the manufacturer’s figure for their operational life is of 12,000 – 15,000 hours.
- Of the rest, 60% were replaced at the 26,000-hour overhaul and 30% at the 21,000-hour overhaul due to thermal fatigue of the sleeves or seats that did not conform to size after between 8 and 9 general overhauls.
The conclusion is clear: The fuel oil additive must achieve two objectives in relation to the life of the valves, whether they are new or reconditioned,
A) Extend the operational life to the maximum degree.
B) Ensure that breakdowns due to corrosion do not occur between general overhauls.
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Series 1: Videotapes, 1988-1989
United States Forest Service Video Workshop Videotapes, 1988-1989
The United States Forest Service Video Workshop Videotapes were generated as part of Forest Service workshops held at Oregon State University. The productions were intended for a general audience and address reforestation, debris burning, log exports, logging careers, and tree diseases and pests. Several items from this collection have been migrated to digital format and are available online.
United States. Forest Service
Elefant, Steve
Fletcher, Richard A.
Oregon State University. College of Forestry
Oregon State University. Communication Media Center
Oregon. Department of Forestry
Woodard, Steve.
ID: FV 264
6 videotapes; 1 box
The United States Forest Service Video Workshop Videotapes were generated as part of Forest Service workshops held at Oregon State University. The productions were made in collaboration with OSU departments and individuals -- including the College of Forestry, Extension Service, and the Communication Media Center -- as well as the Oregon Department of Forestry. The productions were intended for a general audience and address reforestation, debris burning, log exports, logging careers, and tree diseases and pests.
Steve Woodard and Rick Fletcher with the Extension Service and Steve Elefant with the Oregon Department of Forestry appear in the videotapes.
All of the videotapes are VHS format.
All items in this collection have been digitized and are available online and on DVD in the reading room. Links to online streaming video are included with the detailed descriptions of the videotapes.
The United States Forest Service sponsored Video Production Workshops at Oregon State University in 1988 and 1989.
The USFS Video Workshop Videotapes consist of one series: I. Videotapes, 1988-1989.
Preferred Citation: United States Forest Service Video Workshop Videotapes (FV 264), Oregon State University Special Collections and Archives Research Center, Corvallis, Oregon.
Acquisition Note: These videotapes were transferred from the Valley Library multimedia collection in 2007.
Series 1: Videotapes, 1988-1989 Add to Shelf
Arranged in alphabetical order.
Box-Item 1.1: Green Side Up! Plant Right, Grow Right, 1988 Add to Shelf
(14:19) Discusses the reforestation of clear cuts in Oregon including the appropriate tools to use, how to transport the bare-root trees, and where and how to plant them so they are protected from heat, wind, and animals. Steve Woodard, with the Oregon State University Extension Service, appears in this production.
Box-Item 1.2: Log Exports: Industry Views, 1989 Add to Shelf
(6:32) Regarding the effects of the export of raw logs from federal forest lands on the Oregon timber industry. Presents some of the pros and cons of the proposed ban on exporting raw logs from National Forest lands.
Box-Item 1.3: Log Scaler: A Career for You?, 1988 Add to Shelf
(6:48) About the work of log scalers in Oregon. Norm Ripley, Hal Lindlsey, Neil Middleton, Tom Petty, and Francine Snisky appear in the production.
Box-Item 1.4: Reforestation: It's No Accident, 1989 Add to Shelf
(8:27) About reforestation in Oregon. Written, produced, and directed by Elroy Brown, Kathryn Haberkorn, Jana Leinbach, George Reinhart, and Bill Wilcox.
Box-Item 1.5: Steps to Safe Debris Burning: Don't Let Debris Burning Make an Ash Out of You, 1989 Add to Shelf
(4:38) Produced, directed, and edited by Robin Bergey, Don Casey, Laurie Johnson, Ken McCall, and Warren Plocharsky. Steve Elefant of the Oregon Department of Forestry explains that debris burning is a major cause of wildfires in Oregon and outlines steps for safe burning of wood waste.
Box-Item 1.6: What's Killing My Trees?, 1988 Add to Shelf
(14:05) About tree diseases and pests. Ray Forrest, Master Woodland Manager, and Rick Fletcher, Oregon State University Extension Forestry Agent, appear in the videotape. Produced by James Heid, Ron Johnson, Merrily Jones, Dave Thorson, and Jimmye L. Turner.
Export controls--Oregon.
Loggers--Oregon.
Logging--Oregon.
Reforestation--Oregon.
Tree planting--Oregon.
Trees, Care of--Oregon.
Trees--Diseases and pests--Oregon.
Wildfires--Oregon.
Wood waste--Oregon--Burning.
Video recordings (physical artifacts)
Other moving images pertaining to forestry and logging are part of the College of Forestry Moving Images (FV 061) Extension and Experiment Station Communications Moving Images (FV 120), and the Alderman Farm Films (FV 214).
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Final 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Baltimore 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 2 7 0
Toronto 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 x 3 5 0
W: J. Waguespack (5-5) L: G. Ynoa (1-10) S: K. Giles (22)
4:07 PM PT5:07 PM MT6:07 PM CT7:07 PM ET19:07 ET23:07 GMT7:07 4:07 PM MST6:07 PM EST6:37 PM VEN3:07 UAE (+1)6:07 PM CT, September 25, 2019
Rogers Centre, Toronto, Ontario Attendance: 13,853
Tellez hits two solo HRs as Blue Jays beat Orioles 3-2
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Toronto Blue Jays' Rowdy Tellez hits a home run against the Baltimore Orioles during the sixth inning of a baseball game, Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2019 in Toronto, (Fred Thornhill/The Canadian Press via AP)
By IAN HARRISON
TORONTO (AP) Toronto rookies have made a habit of hitting home runs in bunches this season.
On Wednesday night, it was Rowdy Tellez's turn.
Tellez hit two solo shots, Jacob Waguespack pitched six shutout innings and the Blue Jays beat the Baltimore Orioles 3-2.
Billy McKinney also homered as the Blue Jays denied Baltimore a third road series win north of the border. The Orioles won two of three at Toronto from April 1-3, then again from July 5-7, two of their four road series wins this season.
Tellez, who hit his 20th and 21st homers, is the fourth rookie in Blue Jays history to hit 20 or more home runs. The others were Eric Hinske (24 in 2002), J.P. Arencibia (23 in 2011) and Fred McGriff (20 in 1987).
"It's pretty special, one of those things people dream of and work hard to do," Tellez said of reaching 20.
Tellez hit a leadoff drive against right-hander Gabriel Ynoa (1-10) in the fourth, then followed up with an opposite-field shot off left-hander Paul Fry to begin the sixth.
It was Tellez's third career multihomer game, and the 11th this season by a Blue Jays rookie, extending Toronto's major league record.
McKinney got Toronto started with the first leadoff home run of his career, lining Ynoa's second pitch of the game over the wall in right. The homer was McKinney's 12th.
Ynoa is winless since a July 17 victory over Washington. He allowed two runs and four hits in four innings.
"He wasn't feeling great going into the game," Orioles manager Brandon Hyde said. "I thought he did a great job only allowing a couple of solo homers. He kept it right there for us."
Speaking through a translator, Ynoa downplayed his soreness.
"It's normal," he said. "It's just one of those days where maybe you don't feel 100 percent."
Baltimore's 18-game streak with at least one home run came to an end. The Orioles fell two games shy of matching the 1998 club record.
Waguespack (5-5) allowed four hits, all singles, to win for the first time since Aug. 16 against Seattle, snapping a streak of four losing decisions.
"It was a gutsy performance because he didn't have good stuff," Blue Jays manager Charlie Montoyo said.
Baltimore's Trey Mancini went 0 for 3 with a walk, halting his 11-game hitting streak. Mancini said Waguespack relied on surprise, and superior location, to keep the Orioles off the scoreboard.
"He did a really good job of locating and mixing his pitches," Mancini said. "You never really knew what he was going to throw. He wasn't afraid to throw anything in any count."
Jason Adam worked the seventh before the Orioles broke through against rookie Jordan Romano in the eighth, scoring their first run on Rio Ruiz's RBI groundout. Wilmer Font came on with the bases loaded and walked DJ Stewart on four pitches to make it a one-run game, then got Chris Davis to fly out to end the threat.
"We had our chances late in the game and just didn't quite get the big hit," Hyde said.
Baltimore produced 21 total runs Monday and Tuesday, scoring 10 or more in back-to-back games for the second time this season, but couldn't keep it going in the finale.
Toronto closer Ken Giles struck out the side in the ninth to earn his 22nd save in 23 opportunities.
ADDING ARMS
After Toronto relievers combined to work 20 innings over the previous two games, the Blue Jays recalled RHP Yennsy Diaz from Double-A New Hampshire and selected RHP Ryan Dull. To make room on the 40-man roster, OF Lourdes Gurriel Jr. (appendectomy) was moved to the 60-day injured list. Blue Jays relievers tossed 11 innings in a 15-inning win Monday, then worked all nine innings Tuesday after LHP Anthony Kay (back) was scratched.
TWO FOR TELLEZ
Tellez also hit two homers May 21 against Boston and June 19 against the Angels. All three of his multihomer games came at home.
The Blue Jays won with fewer hits than their opponent for the 10th time this season.
Toronto is 18-23 in one-run games while Baltimore dropped to 11-21.
Blue Jays: SS Bo Bichette (concussion) missed his sixth straight game. Bichette left last Thursday's game at Baltimore after being hit on the helmet by a pitch. He played catch and hit off a tee Wednesday, his first action since being hit. If Bichette plays again this season, it's expected to be as the DH in Sunday's season finale against Tampa Bay.
Orioles: Baltimore is off Thursday. RHP Asher Wojciechowski (3-8, 5.31) starts Friday as the final series of the season begins in Boston. Wojciechowski is 1-1 with a 5.89 in four September starts after going 0-4 with a 6.75 ERA in August. The Red Sox have not named a starter.
Blue Jays: Toronto is off Thursday before hosting the Tampa Bay Rays in a season-ending series that begins Friday. RHP T.J. Zeuch (1-1, 4.58) starts for the Blue Jays. The rookie has allowed three runs or fewer in each of his four outings. The Rays have not named a starter.
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1 Timeline of International Response to the Situation of the Rohingya and Anti-Muslim Violence in Burma/Myanmar This timeline provides a chronological list of important responses and actions from national and international actors since anti-muslim violence erupted in June [Skip to 2013] [Skip to most recent] June June President Thein Sein declares a state of emergency in Arakan/Rakhine state after deadly clashes between Buddhists and ethnic Rohingya Muslims, killing at least 88 people and displacing over 90, June Organization of Islamic Cooperation Secretary-General Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu expresses grave concern over and condemns violence against Rohingyas in Arakan/Rakhine state. (Statement) July July President Thein Sein tells the UN High Commissioner for Refugees that the government will take responsibility for its own ethnic nationalities, but it is not at all possible to recognize the illegal border-crossing Rohingyas who are not our ethnicity. He says the Rohingya pose a threat to national security and that they should be resettled in any third country that is willing to take them. 1
2 15 July Organization of Islamic Cooperation Secretary-General Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu condemns renewed repression and human rights violations against Rohingya Muslims, as well as the government s continued persecution and discrimination against them. (Statement) 27 July UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay expresses concern over reports of human rights violations committed by security forces in Arakan/Rakhine state against Muslims, particularly Rohingyas, and calls for a prompt, independent investigation. She calls upon national leaders to speak out against discrimination, the exclusion of minorities and racist attitudes. (Statement) August August concludes six-day visit to Burma/Myanmar, reporting that the country continues to grapple with serious human rights challenges, particularly in Arakan/Rakhine state. He calls for an independent investigation into allegations of human rights abuses and excessive use of force by security and police in response to the June violence. (Statement) 6 August UN Secretary-General s Special Adviser for Myanmar Vijay Nambiar and the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, call for an impartial investigation into the violence in Arakan/Rakhine state. September September releases a report on the human rights situation, saying the country continues to grapple with serious human rights challenges. (Report) 29 September UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon meets with President Thein Sein to discuss the situations in Kachin and Arakan/Rakhine states. President Thein Sein commits to addressing root causes of the violence in Arakan/Rakhine state. October October Buddhist monks gather at the All-Arakanese Monks Solidarity Conference, calling for Rohingya sympathizers, including those advocating for the protection of their human rights, as national traitors. 2
3 21 October Sectarian violence reignites across nine townships in Arakan/Rakhine state, displacing another 35,000 people, mostly Muslims. 25 October expresses his concern over continuing violence in Arakan/Rakhine state. He calls upon the government to prevent further violence and engage in dialogue to resolve longstanding concerns, including the endemic discrimination against the Rohingya community. (Press Conference Statement) 27 October Organization for Islamic Cooperation condemns renewed violence against Rohingya Muslims urges the government of Burma/Myanmar to deploy concrete measures to put an end to the aggressive acts against Muslims, ensure their safety, and bring perpetrators to justice. (Statement) 30 October Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Secretary-General Surin Pitsuwan reports that the government of Burma/Myanmar has rejected an offer by ASEAN to open tripartite talks between ASEAN, the UN, and the government aimed at quelling the violence in Arakan/Rakhine state. (Source) 31 October UN experts on Myanmar, Minority Issues and Internally Displaced Persons release a statement expressing deep concern over continuing inter-communal violence in Arakan/Rakhine state and reminding the government of its obligation to obligation to protect those affected by violence, particularly the Rohingya Muslims. (Statement) November November UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay calls upon the government of Burma/Myanmar to review the 1982 Citizenship Law, which rendered Rohingya Muslims stateless, to ensure that Rohingya have equal access to citizenship. 19 November United States President Barack Obama meets with President Thein Sein and Aung San Suu Kyi, becoming the first sitting US president to visit Burma/Myanmar. 26 November UN General Assembly adopts a resolution on the human rights situation in Burma/Myanmar, expressing concern about ongoing violations, and calling upon the government to address the continuing armed conflict in Kachin State and the outbreak of deadly violence in Rakhine State, and the discrimination and human rights violations affecting ethnic minorities, especially the Rohingya. (Resolution) 3
4 28 November Association of Southeast Asian Nations Inter-Parliamentary Caucus releases a statement welcoming the 26 November UN General Assembly resolution and warning that the government s refusal to recognize the Rohingya could exacerbate inter-communal tensions and the spread of violence. December December UN General Assembly adopts a resolution expressing concern about violence in Kachin and Arakan/Rakhine state, and the situation of Rohingyas, and calling upon the government to accelerate its efforst to address discrimination, human rights violations, and violence affecting various ethnic minorities, and to take all necessary actions to protect civilians. (Resolution) January January World Bank announces that Burma/Myanmar s arrears to the World Bank and Asian Development Bank have been cleared with the help of the Japanese government, and approves a $440 million credit to the country. The Asian Development Bank grants a $512 million credit. February February releases a statement at the conclusion of a five-day visit to the country, saying there are significant human rights shortcomings and a gap between reforms at the top and implementation on the ground. He calls upon the government and armed groups to ensure the protection of civilians in Kachin state, and urges the government to remove discriminatory regulations imposed upon Rohingya. (Statement) March March UN Human Rights Council adopted a resolution urging the government to ensure accountability for those responsible for violence in Arakan/Rakhine state, facilitate effective humanitarian assistance and end discrimination against Rohingya. (Resolution) 4
5 20 March Inter-communal violence between Buddhists and Muslims engulfs the town of Meikhtila, in central Mandalay, and sweeps through several other regions, killing at least 40 and displacing another 12, March President Thein Sein declares a state of emergency in Meikhtila. 25 March UN Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide, Adama Dieng, releases a statement expressing concern over increased violence in Meikhtila. He warns of the considerable risk of further violence unless the government implements measures to prevent escalation and protect populations at risk. (Statement) 28 March UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in Myanmar, Tomás Ojea Quintana, expresses concern over the spread of violence between Muslim and Buddhist communities and calls upon the government to take immediate action to stop it from spreading. He says the government has not done enough to address the spread of discrimination and prejudice against Muslim communities. (Statement) April April ASEAN Inter-Parliamentary Myanmar Caucus expresses concern over violence between Buddhists and Muslim communities and urges the government of Burma/Myanmar to work to end discrimination and combat intolerance among religious groups in order to avoid further violence. (Press Release) 14 April Organization of Islamic Cooperation Contact Group on Rohingya Muslim Minority 1 convenes at the Ministerial level in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, condemning the spread of anti- Muslim violence in Burma/Myanmar, including atrocities committed against Rohingyas, and calling upon the government to ensure Buddhist extremists put an end to the use of force and violence. (Final Communiqué) 17 April UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar, Tomás Ojea Quintana, releases a report welcoming progress being made by the Government of Burma/Myanmar, but expresses deep concern over the situation in Rakhine State, discrimination against Rohingya, and the ongoing human rights violations in Kachin State. He says that government reforms are not meeting international human rights standards. (Report) 1 The OIC Contact Group on the Rohingya includes Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Indonesia, Malaysia, Brunei, Bangladesh, Djibouti, Turkey, Afghanistan, and the United Arab Emirates. 5
6 22 April European Union lifts all sanctions against Burma/Myanmar with the exception of the arms embargo and the embargo on equipment which might be used for internal repression. (Document) 29 April Rakhine State Conflicts Investigation Commission releases its report on the June and October 2012 sectarian violence, calling upon the government to increase humanitarian support to displacement camps and ensure that the human rights of all groups are protected. The report recommends the increased presence of security forces in the area. (Report summary and recommendations) May May UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in Myanmar, Tomás Ojea Quintana, welcomes the report of the Rakhine Investigation Commission but expresses concern over the lack of recommendations to address impunity and ensure investigations into the widespread human rights violations targeting Muslims in Arakan/Rakhine state. (Statement) 2 May United States President Barack Obama extends current US sanctions against Burma/Myanmar for one year, while lifting the 1996 visa ban. (Document) 20 May Government authorities in Maungdaw District, Arakan/Rakhine state impose a two-child limit on Rohingya families. 22 May Burma/Myanmar s Parliament extends the state of emergency in Meikhtila for 60 days. ASEAN Inter-Parliamentary Myanmar Caucus expresses its support for a resolution drafted by Organization of Islamic Cooperation members on anti-muslim violence and human rights issues in Burma/Myanmar to be brought before the UN Human Rights Council. (Press Release) 26 May Government of Japan grants a loan of $504 million, the first loan to Burma/Myanmar in 26 years, and cancels the remainder of the country s debt, saying that the Japanese government backs the progress of Burma/Myanmar s reforms. 28 May Anti-Muslim violence breaks out in Lashio, Shan state. Buddyist rioters destroy a mosque, orphanage and Muslim-owned businesses, displacing at least 1,400 Muslims. 6
7 31 May UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar, Tomás Ojea Quintana calls upon Burma/Myanmar s Central Government to respond to the revival of the local order limiting Rohingya families to two children, saying the order is a clear-cut human rihts violation targeting a particular ethnic and religious group. (Statement) European Union appoints Roland Kobia as Head of the EU Delegation to Burma/Myanmar, the EU s first ambassador to the country. (Statement) June June European Union adopts a resolution condemning the grave violations of human rights and the violence perpetrated against Rohingya Muslims and urging the government to ensure the protection of Rohingya and to authorize the establishment of a UN human rights office within the country to allow for adequate monitoring of the human rights situation. (Resolution) 14 June UN Human Rights Council expresses deep concern at the gross violations os human rights in Burma/Myanmar, in particular against Rohingya and other Muslims in Arakan/Rakhine state, urging the government to take immediate measure to end all acts of violence and to grant full citizenship rights to Rohingya. (Presidential Statement) Buddhist monks meet at a Buddhist leaders conference in Yangon and propose an interfaith marriage law to impose restrictions on Buddhist women seeking to marry a Muslim man, including making it necessary to obtain permission from authorities and for the Muslim man to convert to Buddhism. 17 June UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator for Myanmar Ashok Nigam reports that 140,000 people remain displaced since the June and October 2012 violence in Arakan/Rakhine state which caused the death of 167 people and destroyed over 10,000 buildings. He calls upon the government to address the citizenship status of stateless Muslims. (Statement) 19 June UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay calls upon the government of Burma/Myanmar to tackle the continuing discrimination against ethnic and religious minorities, saying the ongoing human rights violations against the Rohingya community in Rakhine State, and the spread of anti-muslim sentiment across the State and beyond, is threatening the reform process and requires focused attention from the Government. (Statement) 7
8 July July Government of Malaysia urges Burma/Myanmar to take stronger action to prevent the persecution of Muslims. 7 July Organization for Islamic Cooperation Secretary-General Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu urges the government of Burma/Myanmar to assume its responsibility to eradicate all incitement and discrimination against Muslims, including the law limiting Rohingya families to two children. (Statement) 11 July Government of Indonesia urges Burma/Myanmar to address the citizenship status of Rohingya Muslims so they have access to the same legal rights as the rest of their countrymen. 14 July President Thein Sein announces the disbandment of the border security force, NaSaKa, which was long-accused of committing grave human rights violations against the Rohingya, including extrajudicial killings, arbitrary arrest and detention, and torture. 16 July UN Special Rapporteur on the human rights situation in Myanmar welcomes the abolition of the NaSaKa and urges authorities to hold accountable members of the force responsible for human rights abuses. (Statement) 20 July President Thein Sein lifts the state of emergency in Meikhtila, saying the situation there has stabilized. 22 July European Union adopts a Comprehensive Framework defining the EU s policy and support until 2015 to ongoing reforms in Burma/Myanmar, pledging to press the government to address the causes and prevent further outbreaks of inter-communal violence, ensure the accountability of all offenders, address the human rights and humanitarian needs of the populations in Arakan/Rakhine state, and address the welfare needs and status of the Rohingya. (Comprehensive Framework) August August UN High Commissioner for Refugees calls for peaceful dialogue between the government and Muslim IDPs in Arakan/Rakhine state after clashes on 9 August between Muslims and security forces left one dead and 10 injured. (Briefing Notes) 8
9 19 August UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon releases his annual report to the UN General Assembly on the human rights situation in Myanmar, raising concern over human rights violations against the Rohingya and the plight of the wider Muslim community. He calls upon the government to address the issue of Rohingya citizenship and hold accountable those disseminating hate literature and killing innocent people. (Report) 20 August ASEAN Parliamentarians for Human Rights expresses concern over reports of inhumane conditions in which Thai authorities are holding Rohingya asylum seekers, as well as the lack of legal protections being offered to them, and calls upon Thailand to address these concerns and to ensure that Rohingya fleeing persecution in Burma/Myanmar are not forcibly returned. (Statement) 21 August releases a statement at the conclusion of a ten-day visit to the country, saying that displaced Muslims in Rakhine state are still being denied fundamental human rights. He also describes his car being attacked by a crowd of around 200 people while police stood by, saying that the government failed to protect him. (Statement) 22 August warns about the need for reconciliation with ethnic groups and the spread of incitement of hatred against religious minority groups. (Statement) 25 August Buddhist rioters burn down dozens of Muslim-owned homes and shops in Kanbalu, Sagaing Division. 27 August ASEAN Parliamentarians for Human Rights says the government of Burma/Myanmar is not doing enough to reduce inter-communal tensions and prevent anti-muslim violence, raising the prospect of widespread conflict. (Source) October October Inter-communal violence that began on 29 September in Thandwe spreads to several other villages in Arakan/Rakhine state. Reports suggest at least 480 people were displaced, while at least 5 people were killed and 110 homes, mostly belonging to Muslims, were burned down. 9
10 3 October President Thein Sein says the government will use all means, without discrimination on the ground of race and religion, to restore peace and stability and ensure the rule of law in Arakan/Rakhine state. (Statement) 6 October UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs publishes findings of its twoday assessment mission to Thandwe, Arakan/Rakhine state, reporting that protection concerns continue to restrict villagers freedom of movement and calling upon the government to provide security and hold accountable those responsible for violence. (Report) 22 October releases a report on the human rights situation following his eighth mission to the country. He expresses his concern about the spread of anti-muslim sentiment and says that in Arakan/Rakhine state there is little evidence that the Government has taken steps to tackle the underlying causes of the communal violence. (Report) November November A boat carrying over 70 Rohingya fleeing persecution at home capsizes off the coast of Sittwe, killing all but 8 passengers. 5 November UN High Commissioner for Refugees deplores the loss of life in the Rohingya boat tragedy, saying, It is unacceptable that people are driven by such desperation into liferisking journeys. (Statement) 15 November Organization of Islamic Cooperation delegation visits Arakan/Rakhine state to investigate the situation of Rohingyas and meet with representatives of Buddhist and Muslim communities. Buddhist monks lead over 3,000 protestors in demonstrations against the delegation s arrival. 19 November UN General Assembly 3rd Committee passed a resolution urging the government of Burma/Myanmar to grant equal access to full citizenship for the Rohingya minority and to address the root causes of attacks against Muslim minorities elsewhere in the country. (Resolution) 10
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Governor of Massachusetts, John Hancock, Issues Proclamation of a Public Day of THANKSGIVING and PRAISE
November 18, 2019 in Columnists, News by RBN Staff
By Je suis Spike for RBN
My friends,
This is one for forwarding to all for whom you are thankful, and also to those who could use a lesson in thankfulness.
Do you suppose that a signer of the Declaration of Independence could tell us if the people’s nation was founded for the purpose of having government kicking Jesus out of the public square, out of the schools, off of the street corners, out of the books, or even out of the government? I think that he can, and one only need to be able to reason as completely as a squirrel, which takes an autumn snowfall as a sign to finish preparations for winter, to realize this. Now, I know that it’s true that many an educator and many elected officials and others whose disproportionate influence on others are turning our society upside down don’t have enough sense to gather up nuts and prepare for lean times, squirrels being smarter than they are, and they make it difficult for the rest of us to do it. But I know that each of you can reason completely enough to correctly infer that this signer, while administering government as best he could according to the Gospel of Christ, has made Jesus his personal king and in his official capacity as Governor is urging the people to prepare for their own future, for the future is eternal and those who know Jesus know that, and know, also, that the union of then thirteen nation-states, together often referred to simply as America,
was NOT founded so that idiots could pander to those who think that girls should be able to force themselves into the Boy Scouts.
was NOT founded so that men and boys could claim the right to use the girls’ bathroom or the women’s shower.
was NOT founded so that babies, ten minutes from birth, could be ripped limb from limb and discarded summarily like undesired leftovers.
was NOT founded so that license could be protected, even celebrated, even in the street.
was NOT founded so that schemers could take control of it to enact confiscatory taxes and use that money to direct and control the people; the union was not founded so that, what we currently call THE DEEP STATE could usurp the rights, deposited, by the Creator, in the people, to control the people.
John Hancock tells us in this proclamation why the nation was founded, or at least how the nation prospers and could continue to prosper. Hancock was one of the most educated men in the world and he, as well as his fellow revolutionaries, could have lived quite comfortably under the reign of the monarch(s) of Britain. So why did he and the rest of those revolutionaries decide to risk everything, as told to us in the Declaration of Independence, “And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, [God,] we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.”? These were men, (yes, men), who, more, even, than most men, had much to lose, but, unlike a rich man who failed to follow Jesus,* had a firm conviction- by faith- that they were doing the Lord’s work and that it would prosper the whole world when they succeeded. And our nation did benefit the whole world, for a time.
But that time may be over because good men do nothing and we are allowing it to end, for now the enemy within invites the world to storm our gates and, unlike the minutemen who repelled invasion, we watch it from a couch.
The book also tells us: Except the Lord build the house, they labor in vain that build it: except the Lord keep the city, the watchmen waketh but in vain. (Psalm 127:1)
Again, if there is to be a separation of church and state, with state dominating, would not John Hancock know it and refrain, as Governor, from invoking “…our LORD JESUS CHRIST?” The separation was to require government to refrain from making law regarding an establishment of religion, and I still argue that this is best understood when “establishment” is read solely as a noun, not a verb.**
With no further comment from one not nearly worthy enough to call himself a Christian, (Spike), please enjoy John Hancock.
http://www.wallbuilders.com/libissuesarticles.asp?id=18294 (At WallBuilders.com you can find evidence of the faith in Christ that this man and his contemporaries relied upon to take on the most powerful empire in all history. Let there be no doubt, Jesus mattered to- and motivated- these men.)
The following is the text of a Proclamation for a Day of Thanksgiving and Praise, issued by John Hancock (Signer of the Declaration of Independence), while he was serving as governor of Massachusetts. The proclamation was issued October 5, 1791 and was declaring November 17, 1791 the day of Thanksgiving.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts.By His EXCELLENCY
John Hancock, Esq.
GOVERNOR of the COMMONWEALTH
of Massachusetts.
A PROCLAMATION,
For a Day of Public Thanksgiving.
In consideration of the many undeserved Blessings conferred upon us by GOD, the Father of all Mercies; it becomes us no[t] only in our private and usual devotion, to express our obligations to Him, as well as our dependence upon Him; but also specially to set a part a Day to be employed for this great and important Purpose:
I HAVE therefore thought fit to appoint, and by the advice and consent of the Council, do hereby accordingly appoint, THURSDAY, the seventeenth of November next, to be observed as a Day of Public THANKSGIVING and PRAISE, throughout this Commonwealth:—Hereby calling upon Ministers and People of every denomination, to assemble on the said Day—and in the name of the Great Mediator, devoutly and sincerely offer to Almighty God, the gratitude of our Hearts, for all his goodness towards us; more especially in that HE has been pleased to continue to us so a great a measure of Health—to cause the Earth plentifully to yield her increase, so that we are supplied with the Necessaries, and the Comforts of Life—to prosper our Merchandise and Fishery—And above all, not only to continue to us the enjoyment of our civil Rights and Liberties; but the great and most important Blessing, the Gospel of Jesus Christ: And together with our cordial acknowledgments, I do earnestly recommend, that we may join the penitent confession of our Sins, and implore the further continuance of the Divine Protection, and Blessings of Heaven upon this People; especially that He would be graciously pleased to direct, and prosper the Administration of the Federal Government, and of this, and the other States in the Union—to afford Him further Smiles on our Agriculture and Fisheries, Commerce and Manufactures—To prosper our University and all Seminaries of Learning—To bless the virtuously struggling for the Rights of Men—so that universal Happiness may be Allies of the United States, and to afford his Almighty Aid to all People, who are established in the World; that all may bow to the Scepter of our LORD JESUS CHRIST, and the whole Earth be filled with his Glory.
And I do also earnestly recommend to the good People of this Commonwealth, to abstain from all servile Labor and Recreation, inconsistent with the solemnity of the said day.
Given at the Council-Chamber, in Boston, the fifth Day of October, in the Year of our Lord, One Thousand Seven Hundred and Ninety-One, and in the sixteenth Year of the Independence of the United States of America.
JOHN HANCOCK.
By his Excellency’s Command,
JOHN AVERY, jun. Sec’y
GOD save the Commonwealth of MASSACHUSETTS!!
Before I close, please allow me to express my thankfulness to God for the eyesight He has give me which allows me to see both the Beauty He created and, so that I know the truth, the Ugly which men have made. I am also thankful that, from Him, I receive more than I could ever earn; for I am a sinner who surely deserves separation from Him, yet the sunshine and rain fall on me and my stomach is never long empty and I see more smiles than scowls during my days. I am thankful for John Stadtmiller and all who bring us RepublicBroadcasting.Org for the risks they take and the work they do in keeping us apprised of both the horrors of a sometimes unlawful government and the hope that it might yet be overcome. Also, I am more grateful than I am capable of expressing for RBN allowing me these pages.
And thank you for reading this,
Je suis Spike
Mark 10: 21-22
** A portion of the first amendment reads, “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;” If this means that congress shall not establish a state religion, why would congress then go on to say that they would make no law prohibiting the free exercise of it? May I paraphrase? Congress shall not establish a state religion and congress shall not prohibit the free exercise of it (the non-existent state religion). Does that make sense? Congress shall not form committees of dumb-asses, but congress will not prohibit the free exercise of the (non-existent) committees of dumb-asses. Ok, bad example, they form many such committees. How about this? Congress shall not establish a book club- and congress will not prohibit that (non-existent) book club from its free exercise. Senseless, illogical and wrong is how the “establishment clause” is used against the people to deny the people the exercise of their supremely useful and harmless religion.
But would it not make sense if congress were to make no law regarding that which comprises religion: the praise of worshippers, the buildings in which they gather to worship, the tenets of their faith which harm no others, the works they feel compelled and impelled to take as directed by the object of their faith, their “religion?” (And, by religion, they meant the recognition and praise of the Creator, Jesus as the Christ, not worship of any created thing- such as the earth- nor worship of any other, for they knew that there is no name under heaven by which you may be saved, only Jesus.)
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Cornell’s Project FeederWatch has Begun
By Matthew T. Dearing On November 14, 2010 · Leave a Comment · In AmSci Opportunities
Cornell University’s Lab of Ornithology has just begun its 24th year of Project FeederWatch. This annual winter citizen science program asks participants to maintain bird feeders in a clearly defined observational area, like your backyard view from the kitchen window, and count maximum numbers of identifiable birds on selected observation days.
The observational period runs from November 13 through April 8, and anyone may still register to get involved in the 2010-2011 season. Registration may be quickly completed online and costs $15. With this fee, you will receive an observational kit including a bird-identification poster, bird-feeding information, and instructional materials.
The data collected from participating citizen scientists is extremely valuable for monitoring the distribution of winter birds all over North America. And, because the program requests reporting to be completed every week, if possible, a very detailed and dynamic view of bird populations can be developed during the observational period.
The FeederWatch project is a perfect opportunity for anyone who is a casual backyard bird watcher to take only a small step to observing birds at the next level. The information provided to the Lab or Ornithology will be used by engaged researchers who are dedicated to monitoring and protecting our avian friends.
This program also offers a great educational experience for families to enjoy together at home. Through making observational identifications (which is made much easier with the provided poster and additional online resources–see All About Birds), recording and submitting data, and reviewing and exploring current data online, young learners will have a self-guided experience to develop critical skills along with a new appreciation for nature and the scientific process.
Dynamic Patterns Research has just registered with Project FeederWatch, so we will be participating in the current season. After our first observational days and reporting has been completed, we will post our results and experience here on DPR.
If you are also participating, please let us know by commenting below or contact us. We would like to share your observations with brief summaries here on Dynamic Patterns Research to report on active citizen scientists and their efforts and experiences.
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Watch the live dissertation defense about Citizen Sky
By Matthew T. Dearing On October 24, 2010 · Leave a Comment · In Citizen Science in the News
Last year, DPR AmSci Journal wrote about a great new citizen science program called Citizen Sky [read from August 26, 2009]. This project is collecting observational data on the current eclipsing of the variable binary star system epsilon Aurigae. The primary star is estimated to be 300 times the diameter of our Sun, and the eclipsing object orbits at about the equivalent distance of Neptune from the Sun.
Eclipse durations measurements of epsilon Aurigae. Courtesy CitizenSky.org.
Discovered in 1821 by Johann Fritsch, the system has continued to be a mystery with its odd 27-year eclipsing cycle coupled with a 600+ day eclipse, which has been increasing in length during each cycle.
The most recent plausible hypothesis to describe this interaction was proposed in 1965, which suggests that an edge-on disk, possibly surrounding another star or planet, is orbiting the giant star. This idea was just recently confirmed with the direct observation of the current eclipse from an international team lead by Brian Kloppenborg at the University of Denver, and joined by groups from the University of St Andrews, Georgia State, and the University of Michigan.
Combining the images from four separate telescopes, this innovative method uses optical interferometry to generate a spectacular view of the eclipse estimated to be 140 times sharper than what the Hubble Space Telescope could generate.
CHARA-MIRC Image of Eclipsing epsilon Aurigae. Courtesy University of Michigan Astronomy
The eclipse began in August 2009, and will be in its dim minimum throughout 2010 until returning to normal brightness in the summer of 2011. Over one thousand citizen scientists have been participating and more are still being requested to help collect as much data as possible over the next year.
With all of the participants in this science program, and the hundreds of thousands of citizens working with the ever-growing collection of real science opportunities for the public, it is interesting to start considering how this participation actually influences the individual volunteers.
Graduate student and staff member at the American Association of Variable Star Observers (AAVSO), Aaron Price, has been developing his thesis in science education at Tufts University to begin exploring this important connection between science literacy and the volunteer citizen scientists. Using a series of pre- and post-surveys administered to actual users of the Citizen Sky project, Mr. Price develops quantitative reviews of how some aspects of scientific literacy can be impacted by direct participation in collaborative citizen science programs.
This type of research should become an important building block for the continued success and development of future citizen science programs. By learning to focus in on how to best connect a broader population into an increased level of general scientific understanding and appreciation will not only allow for scientific advances to progress more efficiently, but the participating cultures will benefit as a whole with more sophisticated ways of living.
You may watch Mr. Price’s dissertation defense live, and even participate yourself with questions, on November 1, 2010. With this streaming event, we should participate as active citizen scientists to help guide the professional scientific community in the underlying understanding of how these projects connect with the participants so that future citizen science projects may be improved and developed with new education innovations.
“Scientific Literacy of Adult Participants in an Online Citizen Science Project”
Time: Monday, November 1, 2010 at 4:30pm (EST)
Location: Crane Room, Paige Hall, 12 Upper Campus Road, Medford, MA 02155
If you do watch the defense and participate, please comment below or on the DPR Facebook page to tell us what you thought of the discussion. How do you feel your personal scientific literacy has changed since participating in citizen science programs? Do you think that these projects are valuable methods for expanding the general public’s appreciation for scientific understanding?
“Online streaming of dissertation defense about Citizen Sky” :: blog posting by Aaron Price :: October 22, 2010 :: [ READ ]
“Scientists capture ‘terrifying’ Tolkien-like eclipse (w/ Video)” :: PhysOrg.com :: April 7, 2010 :: [ READ ]
Learn more about the Citizen Sky project and register to prepare to submit your own observations of epsilon Aurigae. There is still plenty of time to participate as the 600-plus-day long eclipse in only half-way complete.
Observe the Close Encounter of Comet 103P/Hartley 2
By Matthew T. Dearing On October 17, 2010 · Leave a Comment · In Science at Home
Skimming by Earth as close as 11 million miles on October 20, the apparently young Hartley 2 comet will be nearly visible to the unaided eye. With binoculars, it will appear even better as a fuzzy, green blob, and a backyard telescope will offer excellent viewing. The next several days should be busy mornings for amateur astronomers, and will also be a great time for anyone to do some easy viewing of a special celestial event.
Head outside while it is still dark before sunrise, and look upward to the north. Passing through the constellation Auriga will be an unusual green blip from October 17 through October 20. If you are skilled in taking photographs… or, just want to give it a try!… please post your images on our Facebook page and tell us about how you took the image and what equipment you used. We are very interested to see the results from experienced amateurs as well as first-time astro-photographers.
Sky map for Comet 103P/Hartley 2 on October 17 through 20. Courtesy Spaceweather.com
Discovered in 1986 by Malcolm Hartley, Comet 103P/Hartley 2 orbits the Sun about every 6 1/2 years. Based on current estimates of mass loss, it’s expected to last for another 700 years. [ READ MORE ] What’s particularly interesting about this comet is that it is relatively small–just less than a mile in diameter–but the nucleus is still very active. On November 4, 2010, NASA’s Deep Impact/EPOXI spacecraft will venture only 435 miles away from the comet to frantically take images and data about the unique comet. At this point in the comet’s orbit, it will be about at its closest approach to the Sun, called the perihelion distance, and the ice formed during it’s long journey in the outer solar system will be vaporizing at rates that are much higher than other previously observed comets. EPOXI will be close enough to take stunning images of out-gassing, and it will potentially observe physical features directly on the surface of the nucleus at a resolution of 7 meters per pixel.
Orbit Diagram of Comet 103P/Hartley 2 generated from NASA's JPL Small-Body Database Browser.
This study is so important because Hartley 2 will be only the fifth comet nucleus viewed up close and personal by NASA. And, comets are critically important because they represent untouched remnants from the formation of our solar system. These chunks of pre-system debris did not get sucked into a forming planet long ago, so they contain material that was present way before even the Earth started preparing itself for the development of life.
Be sure to learn more about this exciting Comet 103P/Hartley 2 and how NASA is preparing to study the orbiting body [ READ MORE ]. Take the time this week to head out in the early morning and look up for the green, glowing blob that might prove to be a treasure trove of new scientific understanding.
World Maker Faire 2010 in New York City
By Matthew T. Dearing On September 26, 2010 · Leave a Comment · In Inspiring Citizen Science
What a special weekend for citizen scientists, amateur researchers, and do-it-yourself enthusiasts of all kinds (from techies to crafties)! The World Maker Faire is going on right now at the New York Hall of Science in Queens… the site of the 1964 World’s Fair.
This grand event features a plethora of wonderful projects, how-to’s, and hands-on experience for doing more cool things yourself. Key people in the DIY-world are presenting at the Faire, including Stephen Wolfram, creator of Mathematica and Wolfram|Alpha, who spoke on Saturday about discovering and creating on your own interesting computational programs that do remarkable things.
If you aren’t attending this year’s Faire, you can keep track of the events taking place by checking out their daily postings.
If you are attending, please tell us what exciting things you discover, and post a picture on the Dynamic Patterns Research Facebook page.
Citizen Science Panels Proposed for the United States
By Matthew T. Dearing On September 12, 2010 · Leave a Comment · In Citizen Science and Policy
The scientific elite have been moving forward with their advancements in science at an accelerated pace over the past one hundred years. It is this exponentially speedy development that is providing modest hope to even the Gen-X babies at reaching the moment in the near future–maybe as early as 2042–where living forever will be a technological reality.
This seemly unbounded, fast-forward approach is presumed to be an unquestioned modus operandi for the professional scientist. One must publish or perish in the academic world, and one must be the first to figure out the new science or you can just forget about that tenure track and lifetime job security.
It is also assumed that science, in general, is searching for the truth, and, it would seem that everyone might want to know the truth. And, if we are moving toward the truth sooner than later, then there should be nothing wrong with these sorts of noble, fast-pace, truth-seeking efforts. But, what does the broader populace think about all of the advances, and does what the non-scientific professional think and care about actually matter?
Margaret Wertheim, the director of the Institute of Figuring, recently wrote an opinion article for the Australian Broadcasting Company that presents a clear frustration about how seemingly unchecked advancements in science and technology are allegedly leading to the demise of the planet’s global environment, especially that of coral reef ecosystems. A native of Australia and currently residing in Los Angeles, Ms. Wertheim focuses a great deal through the Institute on publicizing the crises being experienced by coral reefs and believes that citizens can really do something about it.
The idea presented is to develop influential panels composed of concerned citizens who can hear and learn about recent scientific advances, and then help evaluate and predict the potential repercussions of implementing the new science. This sort of “citizen science advisory panel” would possibly provide generalized recommendations, and even offer representative wishes from the masses as to what is desired to come out of new science and technology. The goal with this idea is to open up the dialog to not only present the new science, but to actively discuss its ramifications.
New opportunities for involved interactions between citizens and their society’s professional scientists are becoming more critical for the continued advancement of science. The results of these sorts of interactions today offer more efficient and wide-spread data collection capabilities for the professionals, and they provide an outstanding method for informal education so that more people will appreciate and understand the universe from the backyard to other galaxies.
Opening a formalized dialog between citizen scientists and professional academics can add to this productive collaboration. However, the purpose of the Ms. Wertheim’s proposed panels could also offer a detrimental effect on the advancement of research if not focused correctly. The concern seems to be that advancing science is somehow out-of-control and directly leading to the destruction of ecosystems. Although it is certainly true that some technologies negatively impact our environment, there must be a clear distinction between the discussion about the study and research of new science and the implementation of new science.
A worrisome extreme case of a negative citizen science panel might be a group of non-scientists who collectively don’t want to see certain advancements move forward for personal, religious, or narrow view-points. The panel would act to restrict the research either by trying to influence political policy decisions or filing lawsuits. Scientists would become so frustrated with the red-tape required to “make the masses happy” about their own work that it becomes entirely uninteresting to even pursue a career in academia. And, private research companies–who could possibly avoid the wrath of the panel–might become the primary source for science discovery, but then resulting in extreme secrecy, competition, and the exclusion of knowledge sharing to only further stifle new advancements.
On the other hand, a positive citizen science panel might be one that also participates in the research being considered, or at least is a representative body for a large-scale collaboration of citizen scientists from around the world. The panel could perform their discussion online or by web-based conferences hosted by local academic institutions.
If the panel is designed for a more generalized dialog with scientists with the goal of keeping the professionals in groove with the culture in which they work, the goal of the panel’s feedback should be more focused on the implementation of a particular scientific advancement. Although a hypothetical citizen science advisory panel in the 1940’s might have limited the development and utilization of an atomic bomb during World War II, for example, it should have maintained a role of addressing concerns about implementation of the science, and not on restricting the timely advancements in understanding of quantum mechanics and nuclear interactions.
In addition, professional scientists would have a long-term advantage to take part in the development of citizen science panels, whether they be advisory or collaborative. There can only be positive repercussions from bringing more people to a higher level of understanding of both established scientific understanding and cutting-edge research. With a broader appreciation from a culture, financial support of professional work will become easier to obtain and more individuals will be motivated to follow into the scientific research world.
This appreciation will also bring a more sophisticated approach to science policy-making by elected government officials. Sometimes it seems that governments lack so much understanding of basic scientific principals, that they rely heavily on resources that they can only hope to trust. This certainly increases the risk of irresponsible, illogical, and even dangerous science policy decisions being followed by a nation. By bringing more people into a realm of science appreciation, so much of this risk could be avoided.
Today, a few examples of citizens guiding science directions already exist. In particular, the Florida Citizens for Science is a group of people from all across the state who’s mission is to promote good science, especially in the classroom. And, although this is not a panel organization that directly influences new scientific discoveries, it is a useful model for how citizens work together in an organized and responsible way to affect science learning in the United States. Many more of these grassroots organizations across America supporting science education can be found through Citizens for Science.
Most recently, a new network of professional and citizen scientists is currently being developed called ECAST, the Expert and Citizen Assessment of Science and Technology. The goal of this future group is to help policymakers evaluate new science and technologies to better understand the potential social, economic and environmental impacts before making decisions on their implementation.
ECAST will not be comprised of only citizen scientists, but will be a broader collaboration between nonpartisan policy research institutions, universities and other science centers. The founding partners include The Consortium for Science, Policy and Outcomes at Arizona State University, The Loka Institute, The Museum of Science, Boston, Science Cheerleader, and the Science and Technology Innovation Program from the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.
So, with the successful implementation of ECAST, a key test will be seen as to how effective and beneficial broader scientific advisory bodies can be for the positive integration of new science and technologies into society. Through these types of review committees, citizen scientists can become more involved in real scientific advancement and increase their importance in the development of new technology.
Another existing organization that could bring citizen scientists into a policy advising role is the Society for Amateur Scientists. This membership group already has collective of active citizen scientists who largely work independently on personally-interesting science and technology projects and research. Together, however, they could mobilize through the SAS to offer a new advisory council of active and motivated citizen scientists through partnerships with government and professional research centers. In addition, SAS might be a useful vehicle to develop participatory panels of volunteers. These panels would not only maintain an open and ongoing communication with the scientists on a particular research program from development, implementation, to analysis, but would also offer direct involvement with the data collection and reporting results.
To become involved with the exciting SAS organization, visit their active Facebook group and join online.
If you are interested in finding a seat at either a future science policy advising or participatory table, please contact us at Dynamic Patterns Research to express your ideas and motivation. We would like to begin to develop a list of citizen scientists who believe that participatory and advising panels should become a critical element in future science research and implementation. We can then together move forward to prove this growing and important interest from citizen scientists, and consider joining an existing advising organization, or possibly create a new participatory panel that will partner with science research teams from around the world.
“Time to face the dark side of science” :: ABC Science, Margaret Wertheim :: August 17, 2010 :: [ READ ]
“Reinventing Technology Assessment for the 21st Century” :: Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Richard Sclove, Ph. D. :: April 28, 2010 :: [ READ PRESS RELEASE :: READ FULL REPORT – PDF ]
Get involved with ECAST today by joining their mailing list [ JOIN ]
Creepy Crawly Citizen Science Down Under
By Matthew T. Dearing On September 6, 2010 · Leave a Comment · In AmSci Opportunities
Citizen Science throughout the Southern Hemisphere has been growing recently, in particular with thanks to increasing efforts in Australia. In fact, Dynamic Patterns Research has just updated an Australia Regional list in our Opportunities section to feature some of these exiting new programs (view).
The most recent event, just launched on September 1, 2010 and sponsored by the citizen science-centric Australian Broadcasting Company and radio station 891 ABC Adelaide, is Operation Spider. This new “down under” citizen science program hopes to encourage people to get to know their crawly co-inhabitants, and report to the program what species of spiders exist in their spaces and how they behave when encountering a spider. (Yes, part of this research is to understand human behavior as well as the spiders!)
The main element of the project asks Southern Australians to complete a two-part online survey. First, is a review about how the observer feels toward spiders, and asks specific questions about how one would behave when encountering a specific species of spider. For example, if you see a daddy-long-legs in your living room would you (a) kill it yourself, (b) have someone else kill it for you, (c) “rescue” it and take it outside, (d) or leave it alone.
Second, the survey includes a worksheet to use while perusing your house and garden for recording observations of specific spiders. Images of certain anticipated species are available to assist in identifications.
Steve Donnellan and Chris Daniels presented a spider information talk to students from Rostrevor, Eden Hills and Belleview schools. (Brett Williamson)
View more images of the launch of Operation Spider on September 1, 2010.
An informative set of six Fact Sheets have also been developed to provide a nice range of educational materials for learning about spiders in Southern Australia. These include a general introduction to invertebrates and their evolution, how spiders live, eat, and make webs, and information on specific species that are expected to be found.
For the compositionally-creative citizen scientists, Operation Spider is also hosting a spider Poetry Competition. They are looking for 8-line short poems about spiders, and winners from four categories will be awarded a spider “prize pack” (valued at over $100!)
If you live in the southern “Down Under,” then start getting friendly with your spider neighbors, and take part in this fun citizen science project. The next time you want to squash an eight-legged crawly creature, you might discover that your feelings have changed from murderous to creepy affection!
Operation Spider Fact Sheets [ VIEW ]
Operation Spider Survey from the University of South Australia [ VISIT ]
Operation Spider Poetry Competition [ SUBMIT ]
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2017-18 Pac-12 Big “Ifs”
Posted by RJ Abeytia on November 10th, 2017
The Pac-12 has had a starring role in the extracurricular tomfoolery brought to life by the FBI this offseason. Certainly this story has no expiration date on the horizon, but the games are coming and there will be no shortage of intrigue this year in the Conference of Champions. Here are 12 Big Ifs separating each team from its best-case scenario this season.
Is This Finally the Year For Arizona (USA Today Images)?
Arizona: There is just nowhere else to look when sizing up the Pac-12 favorites. Once Allonzo Trier and Rawle Alkins’ returns were secure, the combination of those two plus the arrival of heralded freshman DeAndre Ayton is just too much top shelf talent, buttressed by an outstanding roster that also includes returning glue guys Dusan Ristic and Parker Jackson-Cartwright along with Ayton’s freshman co-stars Brandon Randolph, Emmanuel Akot and Alex Borcello. If this roster remains intact come March and the FBI distractions don’t do just that, Miller has his best shot at breaking through that Final Four barrier that has stonewalled him to this point in Tucson.
USC: The Trojans are bringing back 98 percent of their scoring and 96 percent of their rebounding to a team that won two NCAA Tournament games last season. Bennie Boatwright, De’Anthony Melton, Chimezie Metu, Jordan McLaughlin and Alijah Stewart form the only returning starting quintet in the league. Can they improve upon a defense that finished a middling seventh in the Pac-12 in efficiency last season?
Oregon: The Ducks return the least amount of points, rebounds and blocks of any team in the conference and yet they return the most important piece of their success: head coach Dana Altman. Oregon has top recruits Troy Brown and Victor Bailey, Jr., joining three transfers this season: Paul White (Georgetown), Elijah Brown (New Mexico), and MiKyle McIntosh (Illinois State). If Altman works not just well but quickly then Oregon could be ready in time for Pac-12 contention.
Stanford: The Cardinal owned the 10th-rated offense in Pac-12 play last year, largely from scoring only 23.5 percent of their points from three-point range last year, a number that makes consistent offense virtually impossible. If Stanford can ascend to just the national average on three-point production this time around, it should be an NCAA Tournament team. Read the rest of this entry »
| feature, microsites, pac 12 | Tagged: allonzo trier, arizona, Arizona State Sun Devils, Bennie Boatright, bobby hurley, california golden bears, Colorado Buffaloes, daejon davis, dana altman, david collette, DeAndre Ayton, Derrick White, Dorian Pickens, ernie kent, george king, jaylen hands, jerod haase, Kingsley Okoroh, KodiJustice, Kris Wilkes, kyle kuzma, michael humphrey, mike hopkins, oregon ducks, oregon state beaver, Rawle Alkins, reid travis, sean miller, shannon evans II, stanford, steve alford, tad boyle, tra holder, tres tinkle, UCLA Bruins, USC Trojans, utah, Washington Huskies, washington state cougars, wayne tinkle, Wyking Jones
Rushed Reactions: #3 Baylor 82, #11 USC 78
Posted by Chris Stone (@cstonehoops) on March 19th, 2017
RTC will be providing coverage of the NCAA Tournament from start to finish. Chris Stone (@cstonehoops) is in Tulsa this weekend.
Johnathan Motley, who was stellar defensively, put up big numbers in Baylor’s win over USC. (J Pat Carter/Getty Images)
Three Key Takeaways
Baylor dominated the interior. The Bears did what they always do and took care of business in the paint on the offensive end. Junior Johnathan Motley finished with 19 points and junior Terry Maston added 19 of his own. As a team, Baylor finished with 40 points — nearly half of their total — in the paint. The Bears also managed to grab 14 offensive rebounds to help extend possessions and create extra scoring opportunities. USC’s zone defense helped open up opportunities for their opponent to crash the offensive glass. This is the second big performance for Maston — he also put up 19 points in Baylor’s opening round game against New Mexico State.
USC made up for it with threes. The Trojans didn’t go away quietly, though, finding opportunities to exploit Baylor’s defense — whether zone or man — from behind the three-point arc. As a team, USC finished 9-of-22 (40.9%) from deep and it was Bennie Boatwright and Elijah Stewart who led the way. Boatwright hit 4-of-9 triples while Stewart made three of his six attempts. The three-point shot can be a great equalizer in basketball as it opens up the game offensively and puts an extra point on the board. Against Baylor, Chimezie Metu was the beneficiary of the extra spacing. He finished with 28 points.
Manu Lecomte was the hero. With Motley on the bench with four fouls, Baylor coach Scott Drew made a surprising decision to play a smaller lineup. The Bears have spent most of their time on the court this season with two traditional bigs, so this was a big departure for their norm. Drew was rewarded by point guard Manu Lecomte. The junior had struggled for most of the game, but found an extra gear during its most crucial stretch. He scored eight of his 12 points during a 46 second stretch to help build Baylor’s lead.
Star of the Game. While Motley’s stat line was a bit better, this award has to go to Terry Maston for his second straight important performance off the bench. In addition to his 19 points, the junior grabbed nine boards and collected a pair of steals. Read the rest of this entry »
| 2017 ncaa tournament, rushed reactions | Tagged: baylor bears, bennie boatwright, chimezie metu, elijah stewart, johnathan motley, Manu Lecomte, scott drew, terry maston, USC Trojans
Rushed Reactions: #11 USC 66, #6 SMU 65
Posted by Chris Stone on March 17th, 2017
Rush the Court will be providing on-site coverage of the NCAA Tournament from start to finish.
USC pulled off the upset on Friday afternoon. (J Pat Carter / Getty Images)
Three Key Takeaways.
USC has the talent to make the second weekend. The Trojans have been wildly inconsistent this season, often oscillating between lengthy winning streaks and tough losing stretches, but they have proven that they can compete with the top teams in the country when at their best. Sure, everyone was looking forward to a potential SMU-Baylor matchup in Sunday’s Round of 32, but USC — because of its size and versatility on the interior — should also be competitive against the Bears. The teams are oddly somewhat similar with De’Anthony Melton playing the Ish Wainwright role of versatile wing. While he scored just two points today, he also dished out three assists, grabbed a pair of boards and snagged a steal. Melton, Jordan McLaughlin and Chimezie Metu are all potential NBA players and it’s all too common for these types of teams to coalesce and make a run in March.
USC’s zone changed the game. After going into halftime with an eight-point deficit, the Trojans switched it up and played a 2-3 zone against the Mustangs for much of the second half. The new defense worked magnificently as SMU looked like it hadn’t seen a zone all season. The Mustangs struggled to get dribble penetration against it with the long arms of the USC defense all over the place. SMU also failed to get the ball into the middle of the zone by passing it to the free throw line. USC outscored the Mustangs 36-27 in the final 20 minutes to come away with a one-point win.
We got a One Shining Moment play. It’s always fun to try to pick out the plays that might show up in One Shining Moment at the end of the NCAA Tournament. SMU’s Semi Ojeleye delivered a no-doubt inclusion against the Trojans as he skied above everyone else for a one-handed putback slam early in the second half. Ojeleye is a special player who at 6’7″ gives head coach Tim Jankovich versatility because of his athleticism, strength and outside shooting. The junior may ultimately be bound for the NBA at the end of this season, but in the meantime, we can watch his ridiculous slam on repeat.
Well, @SMUBasketball's Semi Ojeleye literally threw down one of the most insane dunks you will ever see. pic.twitter.com/4RR9yyf563
— CBS Sports (@CBSSports) March 17, 2017
| 2017 ncaa tournament, feature, rushed reactions | Tagged: de'anthony melton, elijah stewart, Semi Ojeleye, SMU Mustangs, USC Trojans
Overrated/Underrated: Six Teams to Watch Down the Stretch
Posted by Will Ezekowitz on February 3rd, 2017
Now halfway through the conference season, things are beginning to take shape around the college basketball landscape. As we advance into February, there are a number of overrated and underrated teams in the national polls. This week let’s dive into who some of those teams are and what makes them that way.
Baylor Played Kansas Tough But Found an All Too Familiar Result (USA Today Images)
Baylor, 20-2 (7-2), #2. The Bears earned some #1 votes in the most recent AP Top 25 for a reason — this is a very good team. But can Baylor keep it up for the next five weeks in the rugged Big 12? Wednesday night’s loss to Kansas in Allen Fieldhouse was perhaps expected, but what about upcoming road tests at Iowa State, Oklahoma State and Texas Tech and a home date with West Virginia? Lastly, there’s that pesky issue that Baylor wasn’t ranked in the preseason, which matters more than you’d think. Since 2006, only one team that was unranked in the preseason and ranked in the pre-tournament poll has made the Final Four. That was Shabazz Napier’s 2014 National Championship Connecticut team. These Bears feel more like last year’s Iowa club or the 2014 Syracuse team, though.
USC, 19-4 (6-4), NR. After a home upset of UCLA, the Trojans climbed up to a #8 seed in Joe Lunardi’s bracketology and sat just outside the Top 25 in this week’s poll (28th). But KenPom only rates the Trojans as the 59th-best team in college basketball and that’s probably closer to reality. USC is an athletically gifted team that maximizes offensive possessions by grabbing rebounds and avoiding turnovers, but its offense isn’t very efficient (52nd nationally) and its defense generally doesn’t pick up the slack (73rd nationally). Moreover, the bottom quarter of the Pac-12 is exceptionally weak this year, inflating win totals and otherwise artificially boosting all the numbers. The Trojans played well in the non-conference with good wins over SMU and Texas A&M, but if they can’t meaningfully separate themselves from the rest of the league over the last five weeks, they may be staring a bubble disaster right in the face on Selection Sunday.
| feature, rtc analysis | Tagged: baylor bears, maryland terrapins, oklahoma state cowboys, St. Mary's Gaels, USC Trojans, Virginia Cavaliers
Pac-12 Roars Out of the Gates: Opening Weekend Thoughts
The Pac-12 took a lot of heat as a conference during the Big Dance last year as a number of high-seeds (forgiving Oregon) didn’t amount to deep runs in March. The beauty of college basketball is that a new year brings new chances to make a mark, and as a whole, the conference’s opening weekend was outstanding to tip off the year. Here is a rundown of some of the opening weekend action:
UCLA and its talented freshmen burst out of the gate and ran Pacific right out of Pauley on Friday night. The Bruins’ 119-80 victory came with very auspicious debuts for T.J. Leaf and Lonzo Ball. They combined to shoot 15-of-21 for 41 points, and Ball stuffed his first stat sheet with a very impressive 19 points, 11 assists, and eight rebounds (and just one turnover) in 34 minutes. That minutes total brings us to one of the big takeaways from the game, as head coach Steve Alford used a very tight rotation, something rare for an opener that was clearly over at halftime. Leaf played 37 minutes and every starter played at least 26, with Aaron Holiday rounding out the half-dozen man rotation with 24 minutes off the bench. Nobody else logged more than six minutes off the bench.
With a great freshman class in action, Steve Alford has a great chance to lead his Bruins back to the top of the conference. (USA TODAY Images)
UCLA came back Sunday night in a defense “optional” performance to beat Cal-State Northridge. The Bruins blitzed the Matadors’ matador defense to the tune of 62 points in the second half to overcome what was actually a small halftime deficit. Again, Alford utilized a short bench, with Holiday getting 29 minutes off the pine and Gyorgy Golomon seeing 15. With Alford depending on such a young and inexperienced core, it’s understandable why he might be willing to give his youngsters heavier doses of minutes. Bruins’ possessions lasted 12.5 seconds on average in the opener, and they didn’t take the foot off the gas against Northridge. Something’s gotta give here. Either Alford lengthens the bench or the Bruins slow down, lest they collectively collapse from exhaustion come January.
| feature, microsites, pac 12 | Tagged: arizona, arizona state, Cal Golden Bears, cuonzo martin, Ivan Rabb, Kobi Simmons, Lauri Markannen, Lonzo Ball, reid travis, sean miller, stanford, steve alford, T.J. Leaf, ucla, USC Trojans
Pac-12 Power Rankings: Week 13
Posted by Connor Pelton on February 13th, 2013
Congratulations to Arizona, who managed to climb through a messy week on the west coast and take the top spot in our power rankings. If Oregon could have scored a point or two in the final four and a half minutes against Colorado last Thursday, there is no doubt the Ducks would be in the driver’s seat right now. UCLA comes as a unanimous pick at the three spot. The Bruins barely squeaked by Washington on Thursday before getting a dominating win Saturday night against Washington State. Our conference team of the week comes in at number four in the form of Colorado, who is fresh off a road sweep of the Oregon schools. Arizona State was another unanimous pick at fifth after picking up an impressive win over California and dropping a close decision to Stanford. Those same Cardinal round out the upper half of the conference at sixth, and the surprising and fast-rising USC Trojans follow them. California, Washington, Oregon State, Washington State, and Utah round out the remainder of the rankings.
Rank School Record Last Week Δ CP AM PB AB Average
1 Arizona 20-3 N/A – 1 1 1 2 1.25
2 Oregon 19-5 N/A – 2 2 2 1 1.75
3 UCLA 18-6 N/A – 3 3 3 3 3
4 Colorado 16-7 N/A – 4 5 4 4 4.25
5 Arizona St 18-6 N/A – 5 4 5 6 5
6 Stanford 15-9 N/A – 7 6 6 5 6
7 USC 11-13 N/A – 9 7 7 7 7.5
8 California 14-9 N/A – 8 8 8 8 8
9 Washington 13-11 N/A – 6 9 9 9 8.25
10 Oregon St 12-12 N/A – 10 10 10 10 10
T11 WSU 11-13 N/A – 11 12 12 11 11.5
T11 Utah 10-13 N/A – 12 11 11 12 11.5
Matching The National Rankings. The three Pac-12 teams receiving votes in the two national polls appear in the same order in our rankings. Arizona, ranked ninth in both polls, is obviously first here. The second place Ducks come in at 23rd and 27th, respectively, in the national rankings. And UCLA, who has a solid amount of distance between the two teams closest to them, is ranked at 38th and 41st. This upper third of the conference also has another thing in common; the fact that all of them are considered locks for the NCAA Tournament right now. That could change for Oregon and UCLA with a couple losses this week, but they are on solid ground for now.
The USC/Washington Debate. The Trojans and Huskies had more than just Sunday’s game in common this week. Both teams spurred the most debate between one voter and the other three, as I ranked UW three spots ahead of SC, and the other voters did the opposite. Even as the Trojans had the obvious better week, I can’t justify in my mind placing a team that will struggle to make the postseason in front of a near lock for the NIT.
| microsites, pac 12 | Tagged: arizona, arizona state, california, colorado, oregon, oregon state, stanford, ucla, USC Trojans, utah, washington, washington state
Tough Weekend in LA: UCLA and USC Face NCAA Problems Again
Posted by Chris Johnson on September 4th, 2012
Chris Johnson is an RTC columnist. He can be reached @ChrisDJohnsonn.
Situated only 12 miles apart, an angst-inducing, traffic-clogged car ride away from one another, USC and UCLA have for many years sustained an adversarial existence on the athletic playing fields. The Trojans have dominated their cross-town rivals on the gridiron of late, while the Bruins have lorded over their cardinal-and-gold clad foes on the basketball court. The rivalry is alive and well, and both teams continue to make strides hoping to find ways to outperform one another in the revenue-producing sports. It starts with recruiting, the elemental building block to any successful program. Coaches at top programs like UCLA and USC must be able to seek out and sway the nation’s best high school players to their respective institutions. The meteoric rise of recruiting, propelled by expansive coverage from general scouting sites like Rivals, Scout, 247sports and ESPN Recruiting Nation, has pushed the art of courtship into the national spotlight, and coaches/programs are now judged on their ability not only to win games and draw fans but to also attract the best prospects in the country. The two LA schools have long stood as premium destinations for top-tier high school talents, but in today’s financially-intertwined recruiting market, these programs’ reputations, coaches, facilities and prime location – who doesn’t enjoy the comfort of a sunbath on the way to practice nearly every day of the year? – don’t hold the alluring force they once did. Often times persuading the cream of the high school crop requires more than what NCAA legislation allows.
The subject of an NCAA investigation, Anderson and Muhammad might not see the court in 2012-13 (Photo credit: Albert Dickson/SportingNews)
So even when an historic program like UCLA reels in the nation’s No. 1 recruiting class – as it did in 2012, built on the backs of four commitments and featuring the nation’s No. 1 overall prospect, Shabazz Muhammad – at least some measure of suspicion is warranted. Athletic director Dan Guerrero revealed on Monday that the NCAA has shifted its analytical eye toward that prized recruiting haul. In a statement released by the school, Guerrero confirmed that two members of the Bruins’ incoming class have yet to receive eligibility clearance for the upcoming season. A recent report by Scout’s BruinReportOnline.com indicated three players (Muhammad, Kyle Anderson and Tony Parker) are in danger of losing their eligibility, but ESPN Los Angeles, citing an unnamed source, reported the ongoing probe concerns potential recruiting violations on behalf of Anderson and Muhammad. Parker, according to the same source, has been cleared to play this season. Muhammad’s recruitment has been subjected to NCAA scrutiny over the past several months, with particular concern over his relationship with financial advisers Ken Kavanagh and Benjamin Lincoln and his method of payment for several unofficial visits. Muhammad was held out of UCLA’s recent foreign exhibition tour to China, but Anderson and Parker both attended with the team (though Parker did not play due to injury).
| recruiting, rtc analysis, scandals | Tagged: ben howland, davon jefferson, Joe McKnight, kyle anderson, Scott Schenter, shabazz muhammad, tony parker, ucla, UCLA Bruins, usc, USC Trojans
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Kuwait Population: 2,916,467
Kuwait has been ruled by the AL-SABAH dynasty since the 18th century. The threat of Ottoman invasion in 1899 prompted Amir Mubarak AL-SABAH to seek protection from Britain, ceding foreign and defense responsibility to Britain until 1961, when the country attained its independence. Kuwait was attacked and overrun by Iraq in August 1990. Following several weeks of aerial bombardment, a US-led UN coalition began a ground assault in February 1991 that liberated Kuwait in four days. In 1992, the Amir reconstituted the parliament that he had dissolved in 1986. Amid the 2010-11 uprisings and protests across the Arab world, stateless Arabs, known as Bidoon, staged small protests in early 2011 demanding citizenship, jobs, and other benefits available to Kuwaiti nationals. Other demographic groups, notably Islamists and Kuwaitis from tribal backgrounds, soon joined the growing protest movements, which culminated in late 2011 with the resignation of the prime minister amidst allegations of corruption. Demonstrations renewed in late 2012 in response to an amiri decree amending the electoral law that lessened the voting power of the tribal blocs. An opposition coalition of Sunni Islamists, tribal populists, and some liberals, largely boycotted legislative elections in 2012 and 2013, which ushered in a legislature more amenable to the government's agenda. Faced with the prospect of painful subsidy cuts, oppositionists and independents actively participated in the November 2016 election, winning nearly half of the seats but a cohesive opposition alliance largely ceased to exist with the 2016 election and the opposition became increasingly factionalized. Since coming to power in 2006, the Amir has dissolved the National Assembly on seven occasions (the Constitutional Court annulled the Assembly elections in June 2012 and again in June 2013) and shuffled the cabinet over a dozen times, usually citing political stagnation and gridlock between the legislature and the government.
Strategic location at head of Persian Gulf
Location: Middle East, bordering the Persian Gulf, between Iraq and Saudi Arabia
Area: total: 17,818 sq km
land: 17,818 sq km
water: 0 sq km
Size comparison: slightly smaller than New Jersey
Land Boundaries: total: 475 km border countries (2): Iraq 254 km, Saudi Arabia 221 km
Coastline: 499 km
Climate: dry desert; intensely hot summers; short, cool winters
Terrain: flat to slightly undulating desert plain
Natural resources: petroleum, fish, shrimp, natural gas
permanent crops: 0.3% (2011 est.) permanent pasture: 7.6% (2011 est.) forest: 0.4% (2011 est.)
Irrigated land: 105 sq km (2012)
Natural hazards: sudden cloudbursts are common from October to April and bring heavy rain, which can damage roads and houses; sandstorms and dust storms occur throughout the year but are most common between March and August
Current Environment Issues: limited natural freshwater resources; some of world's largest and most sophisticated desalination facilities provide much of the water; air and water pollution; desertification; loss of biodiversity
International Environment Agreements: party to: Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol, Desertification, Endangered Species, Environmental Modification, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Ozone Layer Protection
signed, but not ratified: Marine Dumping
Nationality: noun: Kuwaiti(s)
adjective: Kuwaiti
Ethnic groups: Kuwaiti 30.4%, other Arab 27.4%, Asian 40.3%, African 1%, other .9% (includes European, North American, South American, and Australian) (2018 est.)
Languages: Arabic (official), English widely spoken
Religions: Muslim (official) 74.6%, Christian 18.2%, other and unspecified 7.2% (2013 est.)
note: data represent the total population; about 69% of the population consists of immigrants
Population: 2,916,467 (July 2017 est.) (July 2018 est.) note: Kuwait's Public Authority for Civil Information estimates the country's total population to be 4,437,590 for 2017, with immigrants accounting for more than 69.5%
25-54 years: 52.3% (male 961,205 /female 563,979)
55-64 years: 5.2% (male 85,146 /female 66,373)
65 years and over: 2.66% (male 35,117 /female 42,392) (2018 est.)
Urbanization: urban population: 100% of total population (2018)
Major urban areas - population: 2.989 million KUWAIT (capital) (2018)
25-54 years: 1.7 male(s)/female
total population: 1.4 male(s)/female (2018 est.)
female: 7 deaths/1,000 live births (2018 est.)
Hospital bed density: 2 beds/1,000 population (2014)
urban: 99% of population
rural: 99% of population
total: 99% of population
HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS: <1000 (2017 est.)
Children under the age of 5 years underweight: 3% (2014)
Education expenditures: n/a
total population: 96%
Unemployment, youth ages 15-24: total: 15.4% male: 9.4% N/A female: 30% N/A (2016 est.)
Country name: conventional long form: State of Kuwait
conventional short form: Kuwait
local long form: Dawlat al Kuwayt
local short form: Al Kuwayt
etymology: the name derives from the capital city, which is from Arabic "al-Kuwayt" a diminutive of "kut" meaning "fortress," possibly a reference to a small castle built on the current location of Kuwait City by the Beni Khaled tribe in the 17th century
Government type: constitutional monarchy (emirate)
Capital: name: Kuwait City
etymology: the name derives from Arabic "al-Kuwayt" a diminutive of "kut" meaning "fortress," possibly a reference to a small castle built on the current location of Kuwait City by the Beni Khaled tribe in the 17th century
Administrative divisions: 6 governorates (muhafazat, singular - muhafazah); Al Ahmadi, Al 'Asimah, Al Farwaniyah, Al Jahra', Hawalli, Mubarak al Kabir
Independence: 19 June 1961 (from the UK)
National holiday: National Day, 25 February (1950)
Constitution: history: approved and promulgated 11 November 1962 amendments: proposed by the amir or supported by at least one-third of the National Assembly; passage requires two-thirds consent by the Assembly membership and promulgation by the amir; constitutional articles on the initiation, approval, and promulgation of general legislation cannot be amended (2016)
Legal system: mixed legal system consisting of English common law, French civil law, and Islamic sharia law
Suffrage: 21 years of age and at least 20-year citizenship
Executive branch: chief of state: Amir SABAH al-Ahmad al-Jabir al-Sabah (since 29 January 2006); Crown Prince NAWAF al-Ahmad al-Jabir al-Sabah
head of government: Prime Minister JABIR AL-MUBARAK al-Hamad al-Sabah (since 30 November 2011); First Deputy Prime Minister NASIR Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah (since 11 December 2017); Deputy Prime Ministers SABAH KHALID al-Hamid al-Sabah (since 13 December 2011), KHALID al-Jarrah al-Sabah (since 4 August 2013), Anas Khalid al-SALEH (since 4 August 2013)
cabinet: Council of Ministers appointed by the prime minister, approved by the amir elections/appointments: amir chosen from within the ruling family, confirmed by the National Assembly; prime minister and deputy prime ministers appointed by the amir; crown prince appointed by the amir and approved by the National Assembly
Legislative branch: description: unicameral National Assembly or Majlis al-Umma (65 seats; 50 members directly elected from 5 multi-seat constituencies by simple majority vote and 15 ex-officio members (cabinet ministers) appointed by the amir; members serve 4-year terms)
elections: last held on 26 November 2016 (next to be held in 2020)
election results: seats won - oppositionists and independents, including populists, Islamists, and liberals 26, pro-government loyalists 24; composition for elected members only - men 49, women 1, percent of women 1.5% note: seats as of May 2019 - oppositionists and independents, including populists, Islamists, and liberals 25, pro-government loyalists 25; composition as of May 2019 for elected members only - men 49, women 1, percent of women 2%
Judicial branch: highest courts: Constitutional Court (consists of 5 judges); Supreme Court or Court of Cassation (organized into several circuits, each with 5 judges) judge selection and term of office: all Kuwaiti judges appointed by the Amir upon recommendation of the Supreme Judicial Council, a consultative body comprised of Kuwaiti judges and Ministry of Justice officials
subordinate courts: High Court of Appeal; Court of First Instance; Summary Court
Political parties and leaders: none; the government does not recognize any political parties or allow their formation, although no formal law bans political parties
International organization participation: ABEDA, AfDB (nonregional member), AFESD, AMF, BDEAC, CAEU, CD, FAO, G-77, GCC, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICC (national committees), ICRM, IDA, IDB, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, IHO, ILO, IMF, IMO, IMSO, Interpol, IOC, IPU, ISO, ITSO, ITU, ITUC (NGOs), LAS, MIGA, NAM, OAPEC, OIC, OPCW, OPEC, Paris Club (associate), PCA, UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNIDO, UNRWA, UN Security Council (temporary), UNWTO, UPU, WCO, WFTU (NGOs), WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO
National symbol(s): golden falcon;
national colors: green, white, red, black
National anthem: name: "Al-Nasheed Al-Watani" (National Anthem)
lyrics/music: Ahmad MUSHARI al-Adwani/Ibrahim Nasir al-SOULA
note: adopted 1978; the anthem is only used on formal occasions
Diplomatic representation in the US: chief of mission: Ambassador SALIM al-Abdallah al-Jabir al-Sabah (since 10 October 2001)
chancery: 2940 Tilden Street NW, Washington, DC 20008
consulate(s) general: New York City consulate(s): Lost Angeles
Diplomatic representation from the US: chief of mission: Ambassador Lawrence R. SILVERMAN (since 5 October 2016)
embassy: P.O. Box 77, Safat 13001
mailing address: P. O. Box 77 Safat 13001 Kuwait; or PSC 1280 APO AE 09880-9000
telephone: [965] 2259-1001
FAX: [965] 2538-6562
Kuwait has a geographically small, but wealthy, relatively open economy with crude oil reserves of about 102 billion barrels - more than 6% of world reserves. Kuwaiti officials plan to increase production to 4 million barrels of oil equivalent per day by 2020. Petroleum accounts for over half of GDP, 92% of export revenues, and 90% of government income. With world oil prices declining, Kuwait realized a budget deficit in 2015 for the first time more than a decade; in 2016, the deficit grew to 16.5% of GDP. Kuwaiti authorities announced cuts to fuel subsidies in August 2016, provoking outrage among the public and National Assembly, and the Amir dissolved the government for the seventh time in ten years. In 2017 the deficit was reduced to 7.2% of GDP, and the government raised $8 billion by issuing international bonds. Despite Kuwait’s dependence on oil, the government has cushioned itself against the impact of lower oil prices, by saving annually at least 10% of government revenue in the Fund for Future Generations. Kuwait has failed to diversify its economy or bolster the private sector, because of a poor business climate, a large public sector that employs about 74% of citizens, and an acrimonious relationship between the National Assembly and the executive branch that has stymied most economic reforms. The Kuwaiti Government has made little progress on its long-term economic development plan first passed in 2010. While the government planned to spend up to $104 billion over four years to diversify the economy, attract more investment, and boost private sector participation in the economy, many of the projects did not materialize because of an uncertain political situation or delays in awarding contracts. To increase non-oil revenues, the Kuwaiti Government in August 2017 approved draft bills supporting a Gulf Cooperation Council-wide value added tax scheduled to take effect in 2018.
GDP - real growth rate: -3.3% (2017 est.) 2.2% (2016 est.) -1% (2015 est.)
Gross national saving: 35.4% of GDP (2017 est.) 32.9% of GDP (2016 est.) 37.1% of GDP (2015 est.) GDP - composition, by end use: household consumption: 43.1% (2017 est.) government consumption: 24.5% (2017 est.) investment in fixed capital: 26.5% (2017 est.) investment in inventories: 3.5% (2017 est.) exports of goods and services: 49.4% (2017 est.) imports of goods and services: -47% (2017 est.) GDP - composition, by sector of origin: agriculture: 0.4% (2017 est.) industry: 58.7% (2017 est.) services: 40.9% (2017 est.)
Agriculture - products: fish
Industries: petroleum, petrochemicals, cement, shipbuilding and repair, water desalination, food processing, construction materials
Labor force: 2.695 million (2017 est.) note: non-Kuwaitis represent about 60% of the labor force
Labor force - by occupation: agriculture: n/a
industry: n/a
services: n/a
Population below poverty line: n/a
Household income or consumption by percentage share: lowest 10%: n/a
highest 10%: n/a
Budget: revenues: 50.5 billion (2017 est.)
expenditures: 62.6 billion (2017 est.)
Taxes and other revenues: 41.8% (of GDP) (2017 est.) Budget surplus (+) or deficit (-): -10% (of GDP) (2017 est.)
Public debt: 20.6% of GDP (2017 est.) 9.9% of GDP (2016 est.)
Fiscal year: 1 April - 31 March
Current account balance: $7.127 billion (2017 est.) -$5.056 billion (2016 est.)
Exports - commodities: oil and refined products, fertilizers
Exports - partners: South Korea 18.3%, China 17.4%, Japan 11.5%, India 11.2%, Singapore 6.3%, US 5.7% (2017)
Imports - commodities: food, construction materials, vehicles and parts, clothing
Imports - partners: China 13.5%, US 13.3%, UAE 9.5%, Saudi Arabia 5.8%, Germany 5.4%, Japan 5%, India 4.7%, Italy 4.5% (2017)
Reserves of foreign exchange and gold: $33.7 billion (31 December 2017 est.) $31.13 billion (31 December 2016 est.)
Stock of direct foreign investment - at home: $12.9 billion (31 December 2017 est.) $12.62 billion (31 December 2016 est.)
Stock of direct foreign investment - abroad: $82.35 billion (31 December 2017 est.) $74.13 billion (31 December 2016 est.)
Exchange rates: Kuwaiti dinars (KD) per US dollar - 0.3041 (2017 est.) 0.3022 (2016 est.) 0.3022 (2015 est.) 0.3009 (2014 est.) 0.2845 (2013 est.)
Electricity - exports: 0 kWh (2016 est.)
Electricity - imports: 0 kWh (2016 est.)
Electricity - from fossil fuels: 100% of total installed capacity (2016 est.)
Electricity - from other renewable sources: 0% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
Crude oil - exports: 479,700 bbl/day (2015 est.)
Crude oil - imports: 0 bbl/day (2015 est.)
Crude oil - proved reserves: 101.5 billion bbl (1 January 2018 est.)
Refined petroleum products - imports: 0 bbl/day (2015 est.)
Natural gas - production: 17.1 billion cu m (2017 est.)
Natural gas - consumption: 21.72 billion cu m (2017 est.)
Natural gas - proved reserves: 1.784 trillion cu m (1 January 2018 est.)
Carbon dioxide emissions from consumption of energy: 106.5 million Mt (2017 est.)
Cellular Phones in use: total subscriptions: 5,136,384
Telephone system: general assessment: the quality of service is excellent; new telephone exchanges provide a large capacity for new subscribers; trunk traffic is carried by microwave radio relay, coaxial cable, and open-wire and fiber-optic cable; a 4G LTE mobile-cellular telephone system operates throughout Kuwai; Internet access is available via 4G LTE connections for fixed and mobile users; high ownership of smart phone in Kuwait; one of the highest mobile penetration rates in the world (2018)
domestic: fixed-line subscriptions are 19 per 100 and mobile-cellular stands at 179 per 100 subscriptions (2018)
international: country code - 965; linked to Bahrain, Qatar, UAE via the Fiber-Optic Gulf (FOG) cable; coaxial cable and microwave radio relay to Saudi Arabia; satellite earth stations - 6 (3 Intelsat - 1 Atlantic Ocean and 2 Indian Ocean, 1 Inmarsat - Atlantic Ocean, and 2 Arabsat)
Broadcast media: state-owned TV broadcaster operates 4 networks and a satellite channel; several private TV broadcasters have emerged; satellite TV available and pan-Arab TV stations are especially popular; state-owned Radio Kuwait broadcasts on a number of channels in Arabic and English; first private radio station emerged in 2005; transmissions of at least 2 international radio broadcasters are available (2019)
Internet country code: .kw
Airports: 7 (2013)
Airports (paved runways): total 4
Airports (unpaved runways): total 3
Pipelines: 261 km gas, 540 km oil, 57 km refined products (2013)
Roadways: total 5,749 km
(2018) paved: 4,887 km (2018)
unpaved: 862 km (2018)
Ports and terminals: major seaport(s): Ash Shu'aybah, Ash Shuwaykh, Az Zawr (Mina' Sa'ud), Mina' 'Abd Allah, Mina' al Ahmadi
Military branches: Kuwaiti Land Forces (KLF), Kuwaiti Navy, Kuwaiti Air Force (Al-Quwwat al-Jawwiya al-Kuwaitiya; includes Kuwaiti Air Defense Force, KADF), Kuwaiti National Guard (KNG) (2013)
Military service age and obligation: 17-21 years of age for voluntary military service; conscription suspended (2012)
Military expenditures: 4.83% of GDP (2015) 3.65% of GDP (2014) 3.27% of GDP (2013) 3.41% of GDP (2012) 3.5% of GDP (2011)
Disputes - International: Kuwait and Saudi Arabia continue negotiating a joint maritime boundary with Iran; no maritime boundary exists with Iraq in the Persian Gulf
Refugees and internally displaced persons:
stateless persons: 92,000 (2018); note - Kuwait's 1959 Nationality Law defined citizens as persons who settled in the country before 1920 and who had maintained normal residence since then; one-third of the population, descendants of Bedouin tribes, missed the window of opportunity to register for nationality rights after Kuwait became independent in 1961 and were classified as bidun (meaning "without"); since the 1980s Kuwait's bidun have progressively lost their rights, including opportunities for employment and education, amid official claims that they are nationals of other countries who have destroyed their identification documents in hopes of gaining Kuwaiti citizenship; Kuwaiti authorities have delayed processing citizenship applications and labeled biduns as "illegal residents," denying them access to civil documentation, such as birth and marriage certificates
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SUBMISSIONS - QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
DATE: 17.04.96 NAME: NONCEBA ZOKWE
CASE: EC0018/96 - EAST LONDON
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DR BORAINE: We invite Mrs Nonceba Beauty Zokwe to and Mampe Zokwe to the witness stand please. I'm not sure if it's afternoon but it's nearly twelve o'clock so I'll say good day. Welcome, we are very glad to see you, I will ask you to please stand.
NONCEBA BEAUTY ZOKWE: (sworn states)
DR BORAINE: Mrs Zokwe, you have suffered twice, not once, but today you have come to talk about your son Sithembile Zokwe, is that right?
MRS ZOKWE: Yes.
MRS ZOKWE: The story that you will tell is yet another, in the long history of tragedies that have visited this country aver many years. You feel this very deeply and we want you to be very relaxed and Dumisa Nsebeza, who may or may not be known to you, but he is a commissioner, and he is going to ask you some questions to help you make your statements. Please be very relaxed and comfortable.
MR NTSEBEZA: Thank you Mr Chair. Thank you Deputy Chair. May I just begin by saying that I need your indulgence to present to you and to those who have come to listen, and countless others who will hear this testimony through the mass media, one of the most bizarre stories of our times, a story which is clearly indicative of state sponsored murder and equally unforgiven failure of justice. Mr Chair, please EAST LONDON HEARING TRC/EASTERN CAPE
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allow me to say it is a story, I have heard so many times because I was one of a group of attorneys when they worked very hard to get this nefarious killing into the open, into the law courts of the land. We failed Mr Chairman. Not for lack of trying, but because the state machinery that represents the machinery your Commission is trying to get a complete picture of was so powerful and far reaching, that some culprits like the murderers of Sithembile, somewhat escaped their day of reckoning.
Chairperson you will hear through the testimony of these witnesses, a weird story of the security police so hell bent and relentless in seeking to snipe out the life of this young man, that when they eventually killed him, in his own home, it was with such unprecedented savagery, such unprecedented brutally, that even a seasoned and an enormously experienced pathologist, the late Dr Jonathan Glackman, coming out of conducting a horrible post mortem, could only say to us attorneys who were waiting, "Well this young man was shot, never stood a chance of survival". Mrs Zonkwe in her own words will tell you how she hopes that the Commission will provide an opportunity for her, not only to be heard, but also for it to use its good offices in establishing the truth, in particular they will want you to establish whose hidden hand it was that made his son's killers kill with impunity, that made them licensed killers and still made it possible for them, even to this day, to stalk the streets of this country as free men, even to this day, Mr Chairperson.
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Mrs Zokwe, I know your story is very long. Remember that we have agreed that if you could tell your story it would take a few days. Is that so? I would request that
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within five minutes, please you must not go beyond that, express how your life, your married life, your children, especially Sithembile, that's the person in question that we're here about, his life and struggle and then you must end up on the day on which you learned about his death. Just five minutes and then we'll ask some questions.
MRS ZOKWE: I want to put my appreciation to this Commission, I am Nonceba Zokwe, a daughter from the Nogaka Family at Inymakwe. I went to school from Sub A to higher primary until up to a teacher's certificate at Blyspoed. That is the certificate I got. As time went on I went to work only at two places, and I met an activist there called Spabalalla Zokwe. I met him, Commissioner, you'll bear with me, I met with him there, it was during those difficult times of struggle, government was oppressing the people. It was removing people from places to places, that was the tendency of that oppressive government.
"Dumisa, I will ask you the permission to take out the name of that person when you greeted as the father of my children", he would say, "the minute that I am not in this house, I am a propagandist of human rights"
He would ride his horse every day morning till night. My husband was fighting for human rights. We had children, the first one was Thobela, the second born was Sibongile, Sithembile was the third and Sbusiso, the last one.
MR NTSEBEZA: Let us have a look at these children Mama. Ntobile Zokwe, was it a boy called Trinity?
MRS ZOKWE: Yes it is a boy called Trinity. When he was in exile he was called Tony.
MR NTSEBEZA: Is it one of the people who escaped the attacks when people were killed in Lesotho in 1982 in the
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so-called SADF raid where people in large numbers died?
MRS ZOKWE: Yes they were together in one room. If you could have looked thoroughly at that picture, he survived alone and the two victims died. That was my first son that one.
MR NTSEBEZA: Now what happened thereafter? He was in Lesotho, from there he went straight to Zimbabwe?
MRS ZOKWE: Yes it's true.
MR NTSEBEZA: From Zimbabwe he went to Australia. Is he back now?
MR NTSEBEZA: After freedom?
MR NTSEBEZA: Now let's have a look at Sithembile, the one you are representing today. Sithembile, he was also involved in the struggle?
MRS ZOKWE: Yes it's so.
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MR NTSEBEZA: He went into exile after passing his matric, he went to Botswana? He came back from Botswana into South Africa. Did he come to you and said to you, "Mum I'm fighting for the freedom of this land", and then he went again to Lesotho, then Angola, then East Germany?
MR NTSEBEZA: Your son disappeared, your second son, when did you hear that he was back in the country?
MRS ZOKWE: His lawyers told me, that's where Dumisa Nsebeza was working, they said, "Here is Sithembile, he was detained in Protea prison in Soweto".
MR NTSEBEZA: What happened thereafter? Did you go to Soweto?
MRS ZOKWE: Yes I went there.
MR NTSEBEZA: You heard that he was arrested in Bophuthatswana.
MRS ZOKWE: Yes that public security told me every time when he addressed them he would say, "You oppressors". And he said, "Mum I was arrested in Bophuthatswana, and I was put into prison here in Soweto, tell my dear friends they will never catch me in one state and take me into prison in another. They must either charge me or release me." He just stood by that fact. He went further to say, "I was raised up, every morning, every afternoon, my family was fighting for their human rights, I want to destroy apartheid".
I had two sons with me from home.
MR NTSEBEZA: When did he leave to Umtata?
MRS ZOKWE: Well from there I asked to write a letter to the police commissioner, so that they can charge Sithembile or release him. After receiving a reply, there was a reply that he's been deported into Transkei.
MR NTSEBEZA: After deporting him to Transkei, did they just leave him there or was he in prison?
MRS ZOKWE: He was in prison.
MR NTSEBEZA: Was he released after you made some enquiries?
MRS ZOKWE: Now let's have a look at Sithembile after he arrived in 1985. It was only two years from his departure in January 1988 that we are referring to today.
MR NTSEBEZA: His stay, how was his stay at home with you.
MRS ZOKWE: He was working at the cellar, taking beer up and down. It was a difficult thing to follow. He was going up and down, in and out the veld because they were saying he's a communist who was born by a communist mother.
MR NTSEBEZA: Who was stating that and what were they asking him?
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MRS ZOKWE: They were asking him about the training that took place in Angola, and in East Germany. They asked him everything and also about the origin and asked him how did they get on to the struggle?
MR NTSEBEZA: It became clear at the time that when he went in and out of jail, it was clear that something was going to happen to him, is that so?
MRS ZOKWE: Yes it is so.
MR NTSEBEZA: I'd like you to explain to the people and give an account of what happened to him before this fateful day came. I want you to start from the time when he was in Butterworth, where there was a combi with dark windows.
MRS ZOKWE: On a Saturday, he helped me to go and buy some groceries at Butterworth. When he was conversing with the others next to the post office there was this car with black tinted windows and he was taken along and detained in Umtata Prison.
MR NTSEBEZA: If Sithembile was not there, with whom was he staying? Who stated something to you which you have not yet said?
MRS ZOKWE: I believe that he could never have escaped this ...(indistinct).
MR NTSEBEZA: What did he say when Sithembile was taken away?
MRS ZOKWE: He said, "My colleague, please tell my mother that I've been taken away".
MR NTSEBEZA: What happened again?
MRS ZOKWE: Thereafter he was released because there was nothing that he was arrested for.
MR NTSEBEZA: What was the aim?
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MRS ZOKWE: I believe that they wanted to kill him.
MR NTSEBEZA: What is the second incident that you can give us an account about, just state what happened?
MRS ZOKWE: This youth would never sit down without doing anything. He would say, "I cannot stay even a half a day, he said he becomes blocked mentally", because he doesn't want to say anything besides the struggle.
there was Miss Mquazima who was their director in the Ciskei agency. She is now in Kingwilliamstown. She came to me now and said, she's employed.
The other day he came and told me that he was employed for the first time. After a time I was given a company car and then I felt that I should pay this off so that it could belong to him. It ended up unchanged and it still remained the company car. On a certain weekend Sithembile was at home, his colleague Thamsha Noncaba is not here. It came to notice that the car in which he was leaving was covered by bullets, it was beyond repairs. This happened at Dadamba Village. It was clear that the people were aiming to kill him.
MR NTSEBEZA: So the person who they were aiming at was Sithembile?
MRS ZOKWE: Yes it was, because they thought it was him who was driving the car, because they knew that he used to drive it.
MR NTSEBEZA: Let's hear the third incident or event.
MRS ZOKWE: Shortly thereafter, Sithembile was supposed to have come back from his place of employment. He didn't come back as we expected. The only thing that we could find was that on a Thursday he didn't come back. I was with Dumisa the lawyer and there was a call from Chicken Lickin, it was from one of my daughters, and told Themba that Sithembile is EAST LONDON HEARING TRC/EASTERN CAPE
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in hospital and that he was injured by bullets. Fortunately, I went to the hospital. I went to the company on a Monday because I had a premonition, because I said I dreamed that this child of mine was looking into death's eyes, and I think this was the second premonition on a Tuesday because I dreamed the same dream again.
So I rushed to the police station at Umtata with Mr Vabasa. We went again to the hospital and we were able to find a statement about him. After that Mr Stofile came in. The police came in and we had already got a statement.
MR NTSEBEZA: Why was he there?
MRS ZOKWE: He was taken from a hotel, he was working with Nklosile Ncoba, his friend, they were taken from the hotel. MR NTSEBEZA: Is that this time when he was grabbed by Sergeant Solom?
MRS ZOKWE: Yes it is.
MR NTSEBEZA: He was at the security branch at the time?
MRS ZOKWE: Yes he was.
MR NTSEBEZA: Did he come to him armed with a revolver?
MR NTSEBEZA: They took him unceremoniously and they removed him and they killed him over the river named Ngolo? They left him thinking that they killed him, is that so?
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MR NTSEBEZA: Who picked him up or identified him?
MRS ZOKWE: I could say it was God and the birds.
MR NTSEBEZA: What happened at that time? I know that you have a statement in connection with this?
MRS ZOKWE: It just happened that coincidentally, after the struggle which was taking place there, he stood up and he went there. He saw the people working on the road, and when
he was there, Mr Dlamini who was there, he came in and tried to help him. When he was still busy this day, we were with the lawyers and then Dlamini came in with a letter which I would never give to anybody. I will take it to court. This letter was bloody and there was written, "My home is at Namakwe, my mother is Maduma. When somebody gets my body, I should not be buried in the fields". It was on the 7th of August.
MR NTSEBEZA: Is it true that when he gave the statement, he says, when he was taken from this car, one of took a machine gun and just shot him point blank?
MRS ZOKWE: Yes it is so. He said he doesn't know how he was able to escape from this.
MR NTSEBEZA: You know even the second time or the following time when he died, there was a so called clerk man, and you were informed that there were wounds on his head that were really the same as he was shot by Ncolo?
MRS ZOKWE: Yes it's that way.
MR NTSEBEZA: Mrs Zokwe, we now proceed to the day in January 1988, that is on the day when Sithembile was killed at his home by the police. Most of the story that happened at your house, we'll hear the rest from your daughter. I want you to relate to us now. Can you please start with the first day you met Sithembile, tell the Commission the things you talked about the time you arrived at your house. You were now being stopped, that you will never enter your house because it was now occupied by the police.
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MRS ZOKWE: On that day Truth Commission, I was from the wholesale, I met him when he was on his way to town. He was together with my grandchildren. You know he was putting them on his shoulders, there was one grand child of mine who EAST LONDON HEARING TRC/EASTERN CAPE
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went with me together to town. This was the third time now, Commissioner, the lawyers have hidden him somewhere, that as after the time I went to Angola. then the lawyers said to me that I was not supposed to know where he was. You know this child was troublesome, he also had this feeling that he wants to reach home, he only came home after Christmas, this was now the first time. He saw me and he gave me a hug, he said "mum, I thank God, because I wanted to speak to you personally, I want to make a will, I want to write a letter that you really brought me into this world, you gave me life and out of that I got education". I want to thank the brain that he had, because after passing his standard 10, he said, "My father was killed by apartheid when I was doing standard 10. Now today if I thank you Mum, I put a crown on your head for helping me while I was in hospital. Police thought there is nothing that I have, nothing left behind, then you forced to take me, you took a risk and you wanted to show that you cared".
MR NTSEBEZA: Was it that time after he was shot by Gozo? Did he go to the brain specialists in East London?
MRS ZOKWE: Yes, the police didn't want to give him a visa to get out. Well it was on that day and he said to me,"Mum these police are not going to save me. I want to tell you something, Mum, please help me, don't disappoint me, accept anything that will happen". He said, "Today these police are not going to save me at all".
MR NTSEBEZA: Was it a message that they are going to kill him? Did he get out everything that he wanted to tell you?
MRS ZOKWE: Well we departed with him and I said to him, wait for me in the house because I want to deliver the groceries and then come back. That's why I was looking for
a girl who could help us. There was a Chicken Lickin outlet that I first went to, there was also a daughter who was a manager at Chicken Lickin, they stopped me and I asked them what's happening now? They said," Sithembile and Tamsanga, have been picked up by the police"
I said," What time?" Sithembile and Tamsanga were together, they were together at school, together in everything, trying to protect human rights, they were in and out of cells together. He was preparing himself because he thought the following day he would be employed and he would settle down. They went into the hair saloon, that is where Noncolo told us everything that had happened.
MR NTSEBEZA: Who is Noncolo, is he the person who was picked up by the police as well?
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MRS ZOKWE: Yes, they pushed them ...(end of tape 12)
(start of tape 13)...Sithembile sat down and the police said to him, "Stand up, we're in a hurry".
MR NTSEBEZA: Is that so.
MRS ZOKWE: Yes we remember that.
MR NTSEBEZA: He said while he was busy trying to stand up one of the policemen pointed a gun at him?
MRS ZOKWE: Yes, that's so. Noncolo ran out of this whole situation, and doesn't know exactly happened thereafter but Noncolo saw them when they left together with Schoolboy.
MR NTSEBEZA: Would you tell us what happened when you got back home?
MRS ZOKWE: My problem was that we were supposed together with my daughter in law, to go and negotiate for the admission of her daughter at school. When I went away from Buttterworth and I learned that they have been taken by the police, I felt that I should take a U-turn and go to the
police instead of going to where I was supposed to. When we went there, this lady was not there, and then again I was concerned that she would be unable to go for employment. When I waited there next to Tsomo, I waited there for a long time. but I couldn't find, yet I was driving my car, I was alone. When I came back, I saw a silhouette next to my house when I got to the gate. I saw also that there were cars next to my place. When I got nearer there were two cars. In my yard just next to the gate there was Mr Tjani who was the leader of the apartheid regime. He was here on my premises. Yes he is a policeman, he is head of the security branch. He said, "Here is this communist mother". I said, "Tjani, I am the government here on these premises, I am the leader and he said,"I am going to kill you." And I said, "The only pain that I know is that when I give it back, and I jumped back over the wall and then I was arrested by these people.
But the people were the members of the community. We struggled again, I again jumped because I wanted to go in front of them. Mr Damoi was the one who was here at my place.
MR NTSEBEZA: No you were going to tell me what happened thereafter.
MRS ZOKWE: No I jumped, and when I jumped, the community members grabbed me again because I was heading forward towards the gun. When I looked around I saw Gobeni and all this happened during the night and it was very dark and we couldn't see exactly what was happening. My place was dark also.
MR NTSEBEZA: What happened, because your house is electrified?
MRS ZOKWE: So I had a generator and the police were controlling the child and saying this generator should not be put on. The child who was operating the generator was grabbed by the police and they said he mustn't.
MR NTSEBEZA: Didn't you hear anything about what had happened?
MRS ZOKWE: No I hadn't heard anything about my son at the time. The third time when I was jumping the wall, I saw somebody, it was a van, we called them Vungu at the time but it was a police van. I asked the child inside what the problem was, why did you hide the information that my child is late. No the policeman came and the child was handcuffed at the back. When they went back, I saw them next to the kitchen, and it was not a few minutes before I heard the sound of a revolver. I said, "I am hurt, because I knew that I had to close my son's eyes because I couldn't do it".
MEMBER OF PANEL: Mr Damoi cried bitterly, because he gave an account of what happened. He says he tried to ask this policeman what they're doing and the people shoved him back and they went away with my son, just next to the kitchen where they killed my son.
Tjani was again there, he said again, "I am going to get rid of you by killing you!" Then I said, "You must do it quick!" Mr Mfaso was also the head of the security and he was the best henchman at the time. He was a trusted henchman who was transferred from Cambridge as he was known as he was the best to kill. He was directed to Sithembile and then I wanted to take this bag which he was carrying and throw it away, but when he came, the van reversed in my yard, it trashed my gate and also the wall of my house and then it went over the wall and it also went over the lawn
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and destroyed my flowers there. We stayed there and we could hear them moving and there were sounds, terrible sounds around the house.
MR NTSEBEZA: Were you still hopeful that your child was still available.
MRS ZOKWE: Yes, I was hopeful that he was still alive, that he was just being arrested but I had this feeling that something terrible was happening to my son. And the other thing that I could remember was that he said, "Mother, please bear, you must endure whatever is going to take place". Zoli Lesangoni was the other one who came here, who said, "You must not come. Mr Madikizela said I must get away and break ties with Sithembile because he is dangerous".
MR NTSEBEZA: Madikizela, was he a policeman?
MRS ZOKWE: Yes he was a security police officer.
MR NTSEBEZA: Who was Zoli Lesangoni?
MRS ZOKWE: It was Sithembile's friend and he was also killed at the time.
MR NTSEBEZA: You know, we want to hear this very well, who was Zoli Lesangoni? Did he come to your place and say, the police said, especially Madikizela, they said, he must break ties with his friend because they know that Sithembile Zokwe is going to die very soon and they said also, his days are numbered.
MR NTSEBEZA: I can understand and listen very well that Zoli Lesangoni was also killed after they said, his days were numbered.
MR NTSEBEZA: At this moment they came in and this van came EAST LONDON HEARING TRC/EASTERN CAPE
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into your yard. Did you get into your house?
MRS ZOKWE: Instead of coming in, Tjani was here with his squad, as head of this brutality, I saw that this is beyond my powers. I said to him, "Between you and me, you know very well that the truth will come out one day, you know very well that it will happen". He said, "Your son is injured, you must go to the police", and he went and boarded the car and I followed them in mine.
MR NTSEBEZA: Do you know what time it was?
MRS ZOKWE: It was past twelve midnight. I went to the garage, I forgot something, when I went to my car, Mluleki, my next door neighbour, jumped, this Mr Damoi who witnessed the killing, he came in, we went to the garage together. I came around again, we waited and waited and waited at home but I felt that we should go and go to Mr Sangoni and check if our children are there, Sangoni and my son Sithembile. When I got there Sangoni's wife was there and she said, Temba was at Umtata. I told them that Temba is dead and I said they must inform the lawyer, Dumisane.
When we went to the hospital, we went there and we were told that there was nobody with that name. We went back again to Sangoni's place and I was informed that I should talk top Zilindile. They told me to go back home. I said we want to talk to the police. At my place I also have a policeman who is a lieutenant. We knew that each time we have a problem we'll consult with this person.
MR NTSEBEZA: Are you referring to Lieutenant Zokwe?
MRS ZOKWE: Yes i'm referring to him because I wanted him to be aware of what was happening, and then he said that he is coming in the morning and told me that he has learned about what has happened.
MR NTSEBEZA: Did you go back home?
MRS ZOKWE: Yes I did.
MR NTSEBEZA: Did you go into the house in which Sithembile went to and in which he was arrested?
MR NTSEBEZA: No I didn't go that same, I don't want to tell lies, I didn't go the same day, there was something, I was weak and unable to do anything. The people who were around me were giving me support and they tried to give me whatever I needed. There was nobody to support me, because usually the community traditionally supports the family when it's happening. I was with my grandchildren.
MR NTSEBEZA: Did you go the following day?
MRS ZOKWE: Yes I did go the following day.
MR NTSEBEZA: Can you tell us what happened there, just shortly please, explain what happened on that day.
MRS ZOKWE: The first time, there is a half door and then there's a passage. I did not know what happened to the tiles, because there was supposed to be a coffee table. But you could see that there was a struggle which had happened the day before. We went to the passage. When we arrived there I could see a plastic and I could see that there was some burning which has taken place there. When we got inside, I could see it is where Sithembile and the other one were taken.I could see that they were taken there in that room. There was wardrobe just behind the door, there were also suitcases on top of this wardrobe, but when we came in, all these suitcases were all on the floor and they had bullet holes. There were two suitcases, they are still there. Everything was in tatters having been destroyed by the bullets that were shot at the suitcases.
Underneath this wardrobe, as it was very close to the
bed, there was what looked like blood. It was just a big dot and would need a lot of water to be washed away. Now on the other side, there was a hole in the concrete or just dust from the concrete. There was a leather jacket and a few things in the wardrobe that I cannot remember any more in that wardrobe. They were all burned close to ash. Now we entered into the house there were mugs close to the door. I don't know why they were there. There was another spot on the wall, you know the curtain is still there even today, it was really torn apart. There's a built in wardrobe from the bathroom into the passage. There were holes and holes, spots and spots, we don't know what really happened, even the handles were broken.
MR NTSEBEZA: When you estimate, how many were there given in the report by the people who were investigating this?
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MRS ZOKWE: I have forgotten about the number of the bullet holes, but what I can remember is that when the experts came in, they looked around and tried to see any clues and we could find five bullet shells.
MR NTSEBEZA: Was it the bullets of the small revolvers or the big rifles?
MRS ZOKWE: Yes it was bullets from rifles.
MR NTSEBEZA: There was a report from the doctor, we want to rush through now.
MRS ZOKWE: Can I please take a few minutes and say something? The lawyers came in on the following day, Zaluba and Vabasa, they came in. One of the children who was there cried a lot because he was there when this happened. He gave the statement over. When we got there at the lawyers' offices, Schoolboy, in other words Tamsanga, who was a friend to my son, cried bitterly and said, "I have come".
They said that he must come and explained what has happene
d, because he wanted to give an account of what has taken place because he learned it from the people in the taxi.
The lawyers wanted to phone the security officers. Tamsanga was the one who was called in by the security, so the lawyers said they must come and tell why they wanted him. A statement was taken from the schoolboy, there was also a reporter from one of the newspapers. the journalist took the schoolboy and they went to my daughter at the hair saloon. At the same time there was a call from London, and they were taking statements of what has happened, and that when he came back this journalist, we could find that they have taken a lot of information from us.
MR NTSEBEZA: Let's go back to where we started again. We want to hear what your grandchild had witnessed on that fateful day. When did you see your late son?
MRS ZOKWE: I tried my best together with my lawyers that we should go and see where the child was. The security officers were questioned by the lawyers about this. The all denied knowledge of anything. They also said we must wait, when they investigate they will find out what has happened. There was a prosecutor who told us that there was a body which was found and at it was identified as that of Sithembile. It was in the mortuary.
We went with my lawyers and family members to this mortuary and we saw and identified him as being my son. the child was on a stretcher at the time, he was all smiles in his death. The sermon which he used to preach to us, he would tell us that, you must never crumble the apartheid when you are angry.
When I got there Sithembile's face was full of smiles,
although he was dead. What i realised that part of the top of his shirt was torn off. When we were still looking around there, we were trying to get information from the security officers again, I noticed something on the right side of his head and I realised that something was oozing from the wound. When I came forward and tried to pull on this , it came out with part of the brain. The person who was just behind me couldn't handle this and he broke down. You know I was proud because I knew why my child had died.
MR NTSEBEZA: This hole which was on the right hand side, is it the one that was referred to that when you looked you could see through this hole through the head?
MR NTSEBEZA: Was this also confirmed by the doctor who made the diagnosis about the child's death?
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"It was apparently an exit wound in the middle of the dorsal, low down on the left side of the head in the tember or cubical region. Posterior and distal to the ear the ear there is a lacerated wound in which many tiny bone fragments and brain substance could be identified. This is related to a wound on the right side, about 10 cm proximal and slightly anterior to the right pinna. Probing these wounds, a definable track through the brain was readily determined."
Mama Zokwe, yes we know that this story can be related and it would take days and days trying to get what happened to your son. These people who killed Sithembile, are they known.
MRS ZOKWE: Yes they are known.
MR NTSEBEZA: Who are they?
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MRS ZOKWE: It's Tjani and Kumengu.
MR NTSEBEZA: Were they arrested?
MRS ZOKWE: Yes they were arrested.
MR NTSEBEZA: What happened thereafter?
MRS ZOKWE: Something happened, some mystery Happened while they were in prison. We were given an assurance that they will never be released. They will never be bailed out. Not long thereafter, the policemen from my family Lieutenant Zokwe has never set a foot at my house, I only saw him through the window walking outside and he just sent a child into the shop to call me. This person never washed his hands. Well he didn't want to come closer. I went to see him and I greeted him and he said, "I'm here to tell you that the police have escaped".
MR NTSEBEZA: Are you referring to the two policemen who were to be charged? The policemen who killed Sithembile?
MRS ZOKWE: Yes my son came to tell me that the police have escaped from the cells. I cried and he repeated this time and time again, and I said to him, "Thankyou very much. There is one thing that you didn't do, you buried this child but you never washed your hands, what you should do is to take a dish and wash your hands".
MR NTSEBEZA: What did he say?
MRS ZOKWE: He said, "The police escaped". And I asked him, "what did Holomisa say?" Holomisa was now in charge. The investigative officer who was in charge was killed, then this was taken by Holomisa and his government. He was now laughing at me. Who was Holomisa after all to be involved in such difficult cases?
MR NTSEBEZA: Who is this Kumengu actually? On the day of the coup d'etat, the time Holomisa was taken off, was
Kumengu one of those people?
MR NTSEBEZA: Kumengu was one of those people, the same Kumengu who killed your son?
MR NTSEBEZA: Where is he now?
MRS ZOKWE: He is still alive.
MR NTSEBEZA: Well did he resign from work after they were forgiven for the coup? What happened, did he confess to having taken part in killing your son?
MRS ZOKWE: No what happened, these are the two cases, two separate cases, a coup d'etat case and the killing of Sibusisu. These are two different cases. He is still free.
MR NTSEBEZA: In other words you are here today to tell us or ask that maybe, if you can express your heartfelt feelings to this Commission, when should this really stop, this thing of killing people and then going free? Would you like the Commission to do something about that?
I will not ask any further questions from this witness, I will call the grand daughter after lunch. Thank you Mama.
PANEL MEMBER: Thank you Mrs Zokwe, where is Tjani, you mentioned two people, Tjani and Kumengu.
MRS ZOKWE: I'm not quite sure what happened to Tjani, but Commission, I'd like to mention that Tjani was also detained, but I do not know what happened thereafter?
PANEL MEMBER: Thank you.
ARCHBISHOP TUTU: Thank you very much. We have nothing to say further. We cannot express oh but a thousand ...(indistinct) to tell the pain that is being born by you as a family. Let us stand. We'll be coming back at two.
(end of side A of tape 13).
(Side B starts but no record of swearing in of witness)
DR BORAINE: Mr Nsebeza, will guide you through your story of what happened on that fateful day, thank you.
MR NTSEBEZA: Thank you Mr Chairman. Mandi are you going to speak English or Xhosa? You must be very slow and your relaxed. The interpreters were complaining that your mum was very fast. They tried their best but they couldn't. The other thing is that she was speaking in a difficult tense. Now Mandi I am really trying, I want to find out. Can you remember that day. I would like your heart to be very quiet, your mother has already said everything that I think should really be heard by this Commission, your's is just to explain. Can you please explain the arrival of these people on that day? You have already indicated that you are a grandchild to Mrs Zokwe.
MS MANDI ZOKWE: Yes.
MR NTSEBEZA: You are from Namakwe, are you staying there at this moment?
MR NTSEBEZA: It was on a Monday, is that so?
MR NTSEBEZA: While you were sitting? If I am mistaken you must tell me that I am. You were peeping through a window and you saw two cars, one of those cars was a Cressida and the other one was a Sierra? You didn't see the number plates, is that so?
MR NTSEBEZA: This Cressida was from Ncobo area, XB. Is Sithembile your uncle? Did you see him on that day?
MS MANDI ZOKWE: Yes I saw him. Yes he came out of one of those cars. He was handcuffed with his hands at the back.
Two policemen, there were many, but two of them escorted him into the house. They were carrying rifles, all of them, and they were ready to start shooting any time.
MR NTSEBEZA: Can you remember how many were there.
MS MANDI ZOKWE: The time I saw them there were four, but every time they would come in numbers.
MR NTSEBEZA: You say they were armed, heavily armed?
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MR NTSEBEZA: If you say he was handcuffed at the back, can you demonstrate to this house how he was handcuffed?
MS MANDI ZOKWE: Yes it was right at the back.
MR NTSEBEZA: They went into the house, where were you at that time?
MS MANDI ZOKWE: I was at the shop peeping through the window.
MR NTSEBEZA: Did they go into the house?
MS MANDI ZOKWE: Yes they went into the house, people in the shop went outside. I was alone in the shop.
MR NTSEBEZA: Did they buy the things they wanted to buy or were they going outside to have a look?
MS MANDI ZOKWE: No they went outside because they realised the police were heavily armed, so they went to see what was happening. They went out and left me alone. But I didn't go out, I was used to the police, I wasn't even scared of them because they would come every time they wanted to. They are killers, they are dogs. I'm saying this because we used to call them by that name and I'm still using the name, dogs.
Well I went out of the shop and I heard a gun shot. I tried to lock the house but the second shot went off. There were policemen outside, guarding the house. They were
ready. At the time of the gunshot, they were looking around. They thought he would come out running so that they can shoot him instantly. Well I left the shop and I locked it, and I went to the next door neighbours, no people were there. Well I waited there, gunshots went on and on and on. It wasn't only a single gunshot, it was a series of them. It sounded like a machine gun, but they didn't want anyone to come nearer to the yard.
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I'm not going to say granny, I call my grandmum Pepi. During that time Pepi was not at home. There were younger children at home.
MR NTSEBEZA: Did these people say anything to you?
MS MANDI ZOKWE: No they were not talking to anybody.
MR NTSEBEZA: Do you remember the time?
MS MANDI ZOKWE: When they arrived it was about half past three. I think it was in the evening half past five to six, Pepi came back from where she was, the police were still at home and they didn't allow her to get into the house. So we sat, all of us outside. I think I've indicated in my statement what clothes they were wearing. I don't think if they can be put here now I can identify them, because at the time I was very young, 14 years. This whole thing happened, she wanted to hear what was happening. I went to start the generator and on my return I used the front door.
The kitchen door was closed, but I could feel that there was a cold wind and I went into the kitchen to close the door and from there I was walking down the passage o the room, but I can't remember exactly what room, I was going to.
MR NTSEBEZA: Now tell me, Pepi's room is just opposite yours?
MS MANDI ZOKWE: Yes it's opposite mine. Well I went into my room and opened the door. When opening the door everything was full of bullet holes. The bed that I sleep on was full of blood, underneath and the wardrobe had fallen on the bed. I didn't get in, I waited for Pepi because she was following the police.
The following day she woke up to find out his whereabouts. The police came back. They wanted me to write the statement and they said I must go to the police station. Well I left with them, they took the statement, that was he first time, I never gave any oath for that statement, I don't know what was written in it, I was still a minor and they made me write a statement without any older person being with me.
MR NTSEBEZA: Who took you?
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MS MANDI ZOKWE: To me it was just a game, this thing of writing a statement, because that statement cannot be taken as I never gave any information to it. While I was in town, Pepi arrived together with Mr Sangweni, to fetch us, and we went to the funeral parlour, where they found him. They were told that he was shot and his brain was damaged.
There were statements that appeared in the newspapers immediately after that time. One of those statements appeared in a paper called Sunday Tribune. That was on January 7 1988. The other statement was in the Daily Despatch on the 14th of January 1988.
MR NTSEBEZA: I want to show you these statements. Can you please read only the headlines? Start with the Daily Despatch. Do you know Gawe, he was the major general at the police in Umtata?
MS MANDI ZOKWE: Yes that's so.
MR NTSEBEZA: Do you remember that the police tried to say to you that they killed him because he blasted a bomb.
MS MANDI ZOKWE: Yes they said, they said this blast was a hand grenade.
MR NTSEBEZA: Was it not a surprise that a person can blast a bomb and come out alive?
MS MANDI ZOKWE: That thing really surprised me, because I told them I'm the only person who cleans the house, I never came to see anything that was surprising in the house. The second thing that surprised me a lot, they said, he blasted a handgrenade but I told them, the way I saw the damage caused by a handgrenade on TV, it's a different thing from what I saw here. You can't mention that a handgrenade was set off her and conditions still be in good order. I think it was a plan that they derived.
MR NTSEBEZA: Aren't you surprised that he blasted a handgrenade, at the same time his hands were handcuffed?
MS MANDI ZOKWE: This thing really surprised me.
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MR NTSEBEZA: Were you not surprised that a handgrenade was set off and then they survived without any hurt?
MS MANDI ZOKWE: I was really surprised.
MR NTSEBEZA: What does the heading say?
MS MANDI ZOKWE: Man slain in hail of 55 bullets.
MR NTSEBEZA: I 'm sure you can remember that. It was the report of the doctor who made the examination to the body of the late Sithembile?
MS MANDI ZOKWE: Yes it is so.
MR NTSEBEZA: What picture do you have of your uncle? Do you still remember as a person who was handcuffed.
MS MANDI ZOKWE: Yes I have that picture. I believe that when they came, I think that they killed him cold bloodedly
because he was handcuffed at the time. I cannot believe that there is a soldier of the MK who could just be taken and just be placed there without being killed by the police at the time.
MR NTSEBEZA: During your testimony, we would like you to make any appeal to the Commissioner. What do feel could be the most important thing to you?
MS MANDI ZOKWE: Firstly I'd like to find out who is the person who removed his brain after shooting him and filled the skull with plastic and papers, and secondly that person should state how he could do that horrible thing.
Secondly I would to find out if the police still have his photographs, I would request them to bring them back.
Thirdly, in the statement you can see that it was reflected there was an autobiography which he wrote himself, and they took it away, we would like that somebody who has taken it to bring it because it doesn't belong to him. It is our family's and his children's property.
MR NTSEBEZA: Is there anything else that you would like to request?
MS MANDI ZOKWE: Yes I would to know how the policemen could escape from the cells? Again I would like to know. when they escaped, to whom they referred when they said, they cannot be arrested alone. We would like that to be investigated.
Fifthly, I would like to know about the woman security officer and another mail security officer who was found to have a tape recorder in her breast. We would like to see and to borrow that tape recorder.
Lastly, probably, I will forgive, but I am certain I would never forget, because our lives were destroyed. My
grand mother Pepi's , her children, Sibele. But I believe that I'm still alive, life will go on, I don't know, but again I would like to thank Dr Solombela, because he is the one who took Pepi before the funeral and gave her the treatment that she deserved because Pepi would be highly affected by the atrocities which were done by the police. She was the person about which we were to think that she was to follow our uncle.
The other thing that I would like to take place is, there is a child who is Mandlhagazi, that child is Sithembile's daughter. He asked, there are people who call her Zoleka, and there are others who say she is Mandhlagazi.
She wants to know what is her actual name, and today I would like her to know that she is Mandlhagazi. She was known as Zoleka, because her father, when he came back from Lesotho, we changed the name and we did not want her to know that she is the same child, because we were afraid the police would do something to her.
Lastly, I'm very proud of Pepi, I'm certain that those policemen who were brutal to her can see that she is still alive. Their behaviour never affected her. Thank you very much.
PANEL MEMBER: I don't have a question, but I want to say to Mrs Zokwe that you have seen the condition that you were in, the time you were explaining the conditions and the damage at your house and the body of your son. We've seen everything and we are hopeless, but I must indicate that you power the way you were behaving, I want to ask you, where did you get this strength, so that other people as well may know that in times of trouble, there has to be strength?
MRS ZOKWE: I would like to say it depends on the way in
which the person was brought up. My home was a traditional home. There were eight boys and six girls at my home, we were all rich at the time.I have a picture of what happened and I was affected by the way in which our culture has been changed and become Westernised. Every time we used have a traditional meal where you'd have the mixture of the mealies and sour milk, and we would share this together. Unfortunately, when I got married, among my in-laws there were people who would buy a bag of sweets, and everybody who passed this home would get some sweets, everybody would share this bag, because nobody was regarded as a stranger in this house. My in-laws were so kind and considerate, and this I believe brought luck and good fortune in the family. Another thing, my husband was the person who was very supportive, he was also a disciplinarian, he was a moralist and I believe that he had influence on me. We had an example of the brave people, the heros, the people who fell down as heros. When I saw this and saw these models, I could see that I would get strength from those and if I could see that those people could survive the struggle, I was also saying, if they could survive it, then I can survive the struggle.
I would like to thank you, I know the sacrifices that I've been through, I've endured and tolerated all the prosecution and the persecution that I was receiving. All these atrocities gave me strength. I'm proud, very proud as a woman, I would like to say I think it is my womanhood which brought this strength. I'm brave because I'm looking at the models of other women. My mother was an administrator, she was a manager in our home, and I was also looking up at her as a model. She was also a very good model, that is the way in which I was given support at home
and I transferred this to my generation, and I believe that it would be transferred from generation to generation. I think that tomorrow you'll have to decide for yourself, who you are and what you will be tomorrow.
I've got my strength from this background that I'm telling you about. I'd like to say, maybe I'm a bit irrelevant, but I'd like to say, I know, I could write a book about my son. This is not even a quarter of what I've said, this narration that I've given to you people, I would like to say the Commission should please give me even if it is an hour to be able to express my feelings, to give a narration of what happened again.
After I was widowed, it was a place for the policemen, they came day in and day out, asking me petty questions and I could not answer some of them. When I was at home the other day, I went to get stock for my shop. I have long reeds in my yard, where I used to hide, they used there, I can quote many of them. I used to hide them there in my reeds on my premises. When the doctor Silombela started to suffer from arthritis, I said I cannot go to that home because I was expected to go but I still said I'll never leave this place, I won't leave this place, will go away and buy another house when my children come back. I know I've I've rescued many of them, many children from Cape Town, from Johannesburg, at all places where my children whose peer groups were coming from all places and they got refuge at my place. I don't know whether I've answered your question. Thank you.
ARCHBISHOP TUTU: Thank you very much both of you. I've said already before we went for lunch that we are very grateful for what you've done for us.
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Author: justinglenndavis
Music, Website, Interactive, Virtual, Gorillaz, Plastic Beach
Gorillaz. Known now to all as less of a pop phenomenon and more of pop royalty. The British-based virtual band has been on the cutting edge of multimedia musical innovation since the turn of the century. Gorillaz were formed in 1998 by musician Damon Albarn (Blur), and visual artist Jamie Hewlett. The band’s four members are fictional animated characters with their own unique and dramatic back-stories. The introduction of this revolutionary form of art came to the British and American public with huge success. The introduction of nuanced fictional characters with dark and electronic music has added a fourth dimension to the musical universe of the two dimensional band.
The Power of the Live Performance
Author: Zack F.
live music, music industry, the best live performances
Click Read More to see Videos of some Great Live Performances
In a time when the music industry is constantly worrying about, questioning and adapting to changes in the way that people acquire and listen to music, there is one thing that hasn’t changed. The power and draw of a great live performance.
Bands like Nine Inch Nails and Radiohead don’t need to fear declining physical album sales because of two things: 1) these bands are leading the way by adapting to the digital age of music and 2) These bands know that they have a team of fans that will fight snow and storm to get to their live shows.
These bands have established their reputation by writing great music and putting on shows that draw crowds in. Whether they incorporate leaps in live music technology—like on the last Nine Inch Nails Tour where there was a sheet of lights that would switched on and off in reaction to the movements by the members of the band—or if they strip back the flashiness and allow their songs to communicate in a simple and humble manner. The key is create an atmosphere that will connect with the fans and get them excited.
Live music is incredibly powerful—seeing the strain and the emotion that a musician puts into the music can take a song from enjoyable to meaningful. Live music can inspire people, change ones day, change the way one feels and, by doing so, change lives. When one watches a live performance by a great band, there is a feeling like nothing else that overtakes a person. If you haven’t felt the shiver that runs down ones spine or a wave of happiness that makes you want to move then you have been going to the wrong performances. (Also, there are some great videos about the power of music at whymusicmatters.org I suggest the video about Willie Johnson)
So what is my entirely unprofessional and terribly biased advice to the music industry and to musicians in general. It’s the same advice I would give to any business: focus on doing what you do well. In the case Musicians: focus on writing and playing your music well. Allow your music to connect with your fans during your live performances and your fans will take care of marketing and buying the music, tickets and merchandise.
That said, I wanted to share a few of my favorite live performances as models.
Click Read More to see Videos of these Live Performances
A Guide to Creating iPhone Apps for Bands
Author: brendan
iPhone, iPhone app
Creating iPhone apps for bands is starting to catch on. It started out with the big-budget artists (like Pink) cranking out the custom applications that probably included a hefty price tag, but now there are many solutions for “middle class” bands to develop their own apps. I will review and compare four cost-effective solutions for getting an iPhone app developed for your band.
The four companies I will be talking about are: iLike, Mobile Roadie, MobBase, and Phizuu.
Click “Read More” to get the scoop on the best company to build your app…
Slightly Generous
Oniracom, Music, live music, Heal the Ocean, i went hungry, Environmentalism, Slightly Stoopid, g. love
Slightly Stoopid has had a long and successful career and they have never forgotten to give back. They have been ambassadors for I Went Hungry by donating to their cause and more recently they are heading down to Florida to show their support for Save My Oceans.
This is from their newsletter:
On Saturday March 27, Slightly Stoopid is heading south to Gainesville, FL to play a special show at The University of FL on Flavet Field, brought to you by Save My Oceans. This show is FREE and open to the public! Our boy G. Love & Special Sauce will kick off the show.
The SAVE MY OCEANS TOUR is part of Participant Media’s Social Action campaign for OCEANS, which recently launched online at http://www.savemyoceans.com, and is designed to provide information about the various issues currently affecting our oceans as well as solutions and actions that people can take every day, from supporting national oceans policy to modifications in the types of fish they eat or household cleaning products they use.
We at Oniracom have had a long partnership with Heal The Ocean and like to partner with like minded people, groups and organizations so its great to see our clients Silverback Mangement (Slightly Stoopid) and G. Love and Special Sauce backing this great cause.
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Electrifying 3D CONCERT EXPERIENCE - PHISH 3D Â RELEASED NATIONWIDE APRIL 30th
Author: jacobtell
Phish, 3D Film, Psychedelic
It is no secret at Oniracom that I am quite the Phish phanatic (for better or worse). With that said, how can I allow this news to slip past our blog?
The first 3D concert film experience, Phish 3D, features the boys (Trey, Mike, Page & Fishman) at their aptly named 8th one-band-music-festival, Festival 8. This event took place over 3 days of Halloween weekend 2009 and includes a famous stunt of the bands’—performing a ‘costume album’ from front to back—this time they covered the Rolling Stones’ Exile on Main St. I’m allowing this bit of press release and trailer speak for itself, although I do wonder if movie theaters will hire security, or turn a blind eye to any funny smells within the darkened theaters?
Phish 3D, a 3D concert experience, is opening nationwide on Friday, April 30th for an exclusive one week run. The more than two hour movie, presented by Action 3D Productions in association with Network LIVE and Cinedigm Digital Cinema Corp., highlights Phish’s Festival 8, a three-day, eight-set, 16-hour concert in the Southern California desert.
In advance of the nationwide roll-out, exclusive preview screenings will be shown in nine cities—Boston; Burlington, VT; Chicago; Denver; Houston; Los Angeles; New York; Raleigh/Durham, NC; and Washington, D.C.—on April 20th. In addition to experiencing this special screening, fans in attendance will take home a Phish 3D movie poster. The fully immersive music and visual experience, featuring state-of-the-art 3D technology, gives viewers the sense that they are not only at the event, but on stage with the band that Entertainment Weekly has called “the biggest cult band in America.†Phish 3D features fan favorites, never before seen cover songs, and intimate footage of the band backstage and in rehearsals.
Filmed in October 2009 at the band’s Festival 8, more than 40,000 devoted fans watched as Phish combined two of their most beloved traditions — the multi-day festival and the Halloween album “costume.† The band’s highly anticipated “musical costumes” are concerts involving the performance of an entire album by another artist—in this case, Phish covered the Rolling Stones’ album Exile on Main St. Phish 3D also features songs from the band’s first ever full-length acoustic set, as well as performances taken from the six additional sets.
The Two Kinds of Website Design in 2010
Author: Waybright
Minimalist Site Design, Design Trends, Web Design in 2010, Website Design, Handmade Websites
Part of my job at Oniracom is staying on top of web design trends. This of course means that it is my official duty to cruise around the internet with no particular aim but to see what is out there. It’s a difficult job, but someone has to do it.
I was keeping my eyes on the website designs that have come out this year, when I started to realize something. These websites have some very common threads. The organizer in me decided that I must find a way to group them all.
As I started grouping them, I realized that web design right now can be boiled down to two major kinds of design and 5 styles.
Click “Read More” to see how it is done.
Learn Ben Folds Song Writing Secrets!
Author: jimmy
Music, Live Music, Ben Folds, Chatroulette
During a recent show in Charlotte, Ben Folds pioneered a new element into his live show - spontaneous song writing inspired by people met via Chatroulette.com.
For those of you who don’t know what Chatroulette is, it’s a website that pairs random strangers for webcam-based conversations. Visitors to the website randomly begin an online chat (video, audio and text) with another visitor. At any point, either user may leave the current chat by initiating another random connection.
Folds placed his computer on his piano, hooked it up to the big screen and proceeded to let the games begin. What followed was comedic bliss and great musicianship in it’s finest form. Check it out!
Brand You!
Social Media, Marketing, Apple, How To, Branding
Last Friday I had a great opportunity to listen to Jay Matheson from Apple Computer speak at our local City College about personal branding. As a small business owner, I never turn down these special moments to learn, no matter how versed I believe I may be in a particular field. We can always learn more information, or see familiar information from new perspectives. Please Read More…
En Route to SXSW
Oniracom, SXSW
I’m sitting at the airport gate right now waiting for my flight out to LAX, then I’m on my way to Austin for SXSW. Luckily there is wireless at my gate so I can go through the massive list of panels, shows, talks, keynotes, and booths at the festival to decide where I want to go and who I want to meet. I already have a couple plans to meet up with some cool like-minded companies as Oniracom (like TopSpin and CultureJam), see some of our clients play (Rogue Wave, The Middle East, The Northern Crowns, Christa Borden), and meet up with some companies we already have the pleasure to work with (Justin.TV, TAO, and Luck Media). It’s going to be a busy 4 days to say the least, but I’m excited to take it all in.
Here are the panels I’m most excited about:
1) Your Fans Are Your Livelihood
How can artists and labels use new technologies and services to sell directly to consumers, retain more of the sale price and build relationships with fans? Services are emerging which offer the framework to go direct. Learn what the new intermediaries can and can’t do for you and your fans.
This one caught my interest immediately because it is moderated by Glenn Peoples (Senior Editorial Analyst at Billboard). I’ve been following Glenn’s writing on the state of the music industry since before I started working in the industry. There are a ton of people who write about the music industry, but this guy is the top of the top. Highly recommended. I really look forward to meeting him.
Click “Read More….” to read the rest!
No Social Media for American Idol Contests
social media, american idol
One of the biggest advantages to being a contestant on American Idol? Building a strong online fan base to take with you once the show is over. 15 minutes of fame turns into a potential career if you can grow (and keep) your fan base.
However, American Idol has stomped on this growth by not allowing American Idol contestants to maintain their individual social media pages, as it is taking traffic away from the American Idol page.
The following excerpt is from The Wall Street Journal:
Want to tweet personal “feel better†messages to Crystal Bowersox? Too bad — your time has passed.
As of roughly 6 p.m. ET on March 3, all Twitter, Facebook and MySpace followers of individual “American Idol†contestants were sent the same message: “Thanks so much for following me/joining my Fan Page! All my updates from now on will be on our Official American Idol 9 Contestant Page, please become a fan there to read all my updates throughout the season!â€
That means that for 20 contestants, they all share one Twitter, one Facebook, and one Myspace. It’s pretty unlikely that they would give passwords out to each of the contestants, so any tweets coming “from the singers” are probably highly moderated, if not completely fabricated.
So much for honest, spontaneous updates. If I cared about American Idol, I would be pretty upset. Right now I’m just upset that all of their social media pages are hideous. Where’s the design?
Thoughts for YouTube’s Future
Oniracom, New Media, YouTube, Advertising, Partnership
The following post was written by reknown producer and industry thinker Sjoerd (Sjoko) Koppert. Besides working with bands such as The Who, Pink Floyd, ABBA, Janis Joplin, Frank Zappa, Beach Boys, Yes, and Lynyrd Skynrd, he also orchestrated the launch of FedEx in Europe and the Middle East in 1986 while on a personal break from the music industry. He is well-known for being an insightful and forward thinker for the music industry, as he has constantly adapted his strategies to maintain success in an ever-changing business.
Oniracom is currently working with Sjoko on two original music series, produced in high quality to be premiered on the web before moving to television and film. (More on that soon!) Here’s a snippet on some of Sjoko’s thoughts for YouTube future in their fast maturing market. Enjoy:
Points for thought
After launching FedEx in Europe in ‘86 I attended my first “official” FedEx board meeting in Memphis and caused a lot of consternation. When asked my opinion about the state of the corporation my response was: “Dangerous. You are a single product company in a fast maturing market.” To say this remark caused consternation would be a severe understatement. After all, I was addressing a board that had only ever experienced and accommodated growth. But my statement was truth based on fact and before long they recognized that they had to take serious action in order to preserve their market position.
Today I see a very similar situation with YouTube. They are a single product (delivery platform) company, a market leader in a maturing market. Alternative delivery platforms are developing and growing. Just in recent weeks we have seen developments. Hulu is moving from being just another delivery platform to content development (Article). AOL is moving from content provider to include delivery platform (Article). Shifts have also been spotted from companies such as Yahoo (Article) and MSN/Bing (Article). History has shown that this market movement is to accelerate. As such, a company like YouTube will have to make strategic moves in order to preserve and built its market position.
Currently, we are awaiting YouTube’s response to a request for a more “fixed rate” schedule of advertisements for two original series. This is a move away from their Google based advertising platform. Our request to YouTube is based on our concept research, our proven capability to deliver and the interest in the shows from corporate sponsors.
Our contact with sponsors is due to my history with marketing / advertising / sponsorships, but our core activity is content development. I am a producer first and foremost and a marketing / development person as a necessity. No question YouTube can handle sponsorship / product placement and have the people in place to do so. The latter is one of the reasons I requested for a YouTube person to be part of our “closing team” when finalizing major sponsorship deals. It helps us and comforts our corporate sponsors.
And here comes today’s key question:
YouTube is considering a strategic decision in changing their manner of advertising. Should they perhaps consider a different strategy and partner in the production of shows?
Personally I think of YouTube as a partner anyway, be it an “initial delivery partner” only. I would not have any objections to them becoming involved financially. Yes we would forego a percentage of our long-term revenue, but I do think they have much to offer to counterbalance that. I would value your opinions.
In evaluating the above, please consider that currently our production entity owns both shows and YouTube is the initial delivery platform. After YouTube the shows will go to television and after that other alternative platforms (DVD etc.). In other words, there will be a large ongoing residual value. Naturally we would have to share the revenue with YouTube should they partner us in producing the content.
Do you think this would benefit both parties? Or do you think YouTube should stay away from production and revenue share? I welcome your opinions!
Sjoerd Koppert
Oniracom Interviewed on Make It Work’s “Jeremy’s Desktop”
Oniracom, Technology, Development, How To, Webinar, Make It Work, Jeremy's Desktop
What makes a good website? How do you start building a website? Learn all this and more this week on Jeremy’s Desktop.
Join Jeremy and the guys from Oniracom to find out what you need to make your website a smashing success. Oniracom is the company responsible for the websites of Jack Johnson, John Legend, Matt Costa and countless other music sensations. We’ll get the scoop from them on how they go about creating these works of art – from the story board to content dissemination. See what these experts say are the 3 things every website must have.
About Oniracom
What makes a good website? How do you start building a website? Join Jeremy and the guys from Oniracom to learn what you need to make your website a smashing success. Oniracom is the company responsible for the websites of Jack Johnson, John Legend, Matt Costa and countless other music sensations. We’ll get the scoop from them on how they go about creating these works of art – from the story board to content dissemination. See what these experts say are the 3 things every website must have.
Fast-Forward 17 minutes…
Listen to This: New Matt Costa Track “Permanent Vacation”
Oniracom, Development, Matt Costa, Widget
Oniracom built this free MP3 widget for Matt Costa. We got a bit of press in the OC Weekly too!
​Visit MattCosta.com right now for your chance to download new song, “Permanent Vacation,” from the Huntington Beach Brushfire artist. But don’t think you don’t have to put (a little) work into it—by either posting on Facebook, tweeting or joining the Costa mailing list, you can get the track for totally free.
While it’s definitely a deviation from the usual ultra pleasant Costa M.O. we’re all used to—sunshine, Astairs, roses, et al—the track may just be a pleasant surprise for you fans out there waiting for fresh material. Hope you like the Doors. And reverb.
Oniracom Facebook Fan Page
facebook, oniracom
That’s right… We finally created a Facebook Page for Oniracom!
We’ll be posting little updates about new sites, widgets, campaigns, and cool client news. Become a fan!
Oniracom
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How to Faux Tile A Concrete Floor
Oniracom’s Michael Jackson Tribute
Legendary Reggae Group The Wailers Join “Solutions for Dreamers: Season 3”
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Oniracom is a group of Music Industry Specialists for the Web who present a unique perspective on the entertainment industry by working closely with Artists, Management, Labels, Booking Agents, Media Outlets and other Tech Companies. We have a birds eye perspective on every aspect of the music industry and report what we see, hear, think, and do.
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2014 College Football Season Preview Notes: ACC
Last season the Atlantic Coast Conference produced college football’s National Champion. After an offseason full of changes and player turnover, the success of the conference in 2014 may hinge on Florida State’s ability to play like a champion. Here are my preseason notes on the ACC.
ACC Atlantic
Team: Andre Williams is gone. 3-year starting QB Chase Rettig is gone – not that he was amazing, but it’s still a big transition. Former Florida QB Tyler Murphy takes over. He has SEC talent, but what has he done, really? They’re trying to sell this as a “new look BC” but the truth is this is a rebuilding year for a team that wasn’t that good to begin with. A successful season would be if they can hang with the likes of Syracuse, Louisville, NC State.
Schedule: Tough. FSU and VA Tech on the road. Clemson and Louisville at home. OOC games vs. USC and Colorado State (both at home). Tough Coastal draw against VA Tech and Pitt. A 3-win season is entirely possible. It will be a struggle to get back to a bowl game.
Team: I like Cole Stoudt. He looked good in support of Tajh Boyd, but being the starting QB is a whole different ballgame. Supposedly they have a freshmen QB named Dashaun Watson who is an athletic freak. To me that sets them up for a QB controversy somewhere during the season, and that is not a good thing. Clemson suffered big losses on offense with Boyd, Watkins, Martavius Bryant, and RB Roderick McDowell. Now they’ve lost RB Zac Brooks for the year to injury. The defense returns some studs, including DE Vic Beasley, and should be as good or better than last year. To me this team simply lost too much on offense, and will undergo a rebuilding process this season. This is a slight possibility that the loss of Boyd could result in a more pro-style offense which would work better against good teams like FSU. But, if I’m a Clemson fan, I would mentally prepare myself for a frustrating year.
Schedule: 2 of first 3 games are at Georgia (in primetime on national TV) and at FSU (presumably also in primetime on national TV). They end the year with South Carolina at home. In-between the schedule is favorable with UNC/NC State/Cuse/Louisville all coming to Death Valley. Ceiling is 10-2 but something like 7-5 is very possible.
Team: First, repeating as champ is nearly impossible. Secondly, this team lost a lot. People focus on Jameis for obvious reasons but he’s not the only reason they won the championship. They’re losing Freeman, Wilder, and Benjamin (huge losses) on offense, plus a lot of D including Jernigan, Joyner, Brooks, and more. This is NOT the same team as last year, even though they’ll still be extremely good. Regardless, they’re the favorite in the ACC and one of the top-tier teams in America. A likely candidate for the playoff.
Schedule: Manageable, but tougher than last year due to a lack of cupcake games. (Only cupcake is week 2 against Citadel, although Wake Forest might qualify at this point.) They open the season against Oklahoma State, and Notre Dame comes to Tallahassee in October. They host Clemson in September, although that doesn’t hold as much weight after the past two years. Watch out for upsets at NC State, at Louisville, at Miami, and vs. a probably-improved Florida.
Team: Logic says they’ll take a step back after departure of Bridgewater and Strong. But Petrino’s a good coach, he built this team, and Strong left him with good players and recruits. Petrino is putting an emphasis on speed – WR DeVante Parker ran the fastest 40 time in school history. Louisville needs to replace some talent, but they should be competitive if not good.
Schedule: Not bad. Season opens at home vs. Miami. October is toughest month with games at Clemson, vs. NC State, and vs. FSU. They play at Notre Dame in November.
Team: Coach Dan Doren did a good job at N. Illinois, then came to NC State last year and went 3-9. Rebuilding, or just not ready for a power conference? We’ll find out this year. They have the highest team GPA they’ve ever had which means they’ll probably suck on the field. Jacoby Brissett will start at QB, another transfer from Florida. Jeff Driskel is a decent quarterback, but he’s not so good that I would rush to get the guys who backed him up. The Wolfpack lost a lot on D, but their D wasn’t very good, so that might be a positive. One season preview I read on these guys said they have one of the toughest schedules in the country, and I think they have a pretty easy schedule, so maybe I’m not the best to judge them. I don’t expect much out of this team despite a manageable slate of games.
Schedule: As easy as you can get in this conference. 3 cupcakes and South Florida to start the season. Home vs. FSU. Away games at Clemson, Louisville, Cuse, UNC.
Team: There’s no way to tell, since I’m from Syracuse and everything I hear is filtered through a bias. I think a bowl appearance would be reasonable this season.
Schedule: Average. Villanova, Central Michigan, and Maryland before a big game against Notre Dame in September. Louisville, FSU, Duke, NC State at home. Clemson, Pitt on the road.
Team: New coach from the MAC. MAC coaches are always a smart hire when you’re a bad power conference team, and Clawson did a nice job at Bowling Green. I like this hire, but the team has work to do. Their new QB is a converted WR, which never works out well. It’s Wake – until they do something they’re not worth discussing any further.
Schedule: 4 automatic losses (FSU, Clemson, Louisville, VA Tech) and only 1 automatic win (Gardner-Webb). They could be underdogs in 11 of 12 games.
ACC Atlantic thoughts:
Well clearly it is FSU’s to win, but the Seminoles’ path will be at least a little more challenging than last year’s cakewalk. Clemson and Louisville are both major question marks due to a plethora of new faces. How those teams fare will determine the competitiveness of this conference and whether FSU walks or fights through to the title game. Wake Forest finishes last. Everything in-between is up for grabs.
ACC Coastal
Team: Connette transferred so Duke is down to one QB now, Boone. That’s probably better as rotating QBs doesn’t work (even though it sorta worked for them last year). One of their RBs is gone but another, Josh Sneed, returns. WR Jameson Crowder returns. They key pieces are there. With their favorable schedule, they have a chance to repeat as division champs. They’ve had a couple big injuries but this is similar to the same team that impressed me last year. The only negative I can offer is that they’re Duke. They haven’t earned the benefit of the doubt when it comes to sustained success.
Schedule: Open season against Elon, then Troy. Are those teams or guys? They should be 4-0 going into Miami on 9/27. Toughest games are at Miami, at Pitt, at Cuse, vs. UNC, vs. VA Tech.
Team: If they remain a one-dimensional team, as they’ve been, the schedule is going to wear them down (see below). I will say, for a team that can’t pass at all, they fare pretty well. They lost a bunch of guys because of transfer, health, and discipline reasons, on top of the ones who graduated. They lost their top two rushers (and again, all they do is run the ball). QB Vad Lee returns and he’s ready for his three pass attempts per game. I think they’re in trouble. Paul Johnson better get his resume ready.
Schedule: Open with 3 winnable games. From that point on it’s solid ACC teams week after week. They don’t play FSU, but they do end the year at Georgia, so they’ve still got that really tough game. It’s not that this is a tough schedule by national standards, but it will be challenging for a team like Georgia Tech that doesn’t have great talent and will need to play to their top potential every week to win. They’re questionable to make a bowl game.
Team: QB up in the air – Jake Heaps? He struggled at Kansas. Good luck at Miami. Duke Johnson is back. They were an average team last year whose ranking was inflated up until the FSU game. USA Today ranks them as preseason #49. I think they can do a little better than that, but not much. With the strength (a.k.a. weakness) of the Coastal division there’s no reason they can’t compete for the division crown.
Schedule: Challenging. Open vs. Louisville. At Nebraska week 4. Home vs. Cincinnati in October. Conference includes home games vs. FSU, Duke, UNC, Pitt, and at VA Tech.
Team: Some people are bullish on this team. They have talent as always. Ranked #23 in preseason Coaches’ Poll. Young roster without many seniors. QB Marquis Williams was decent but not great after taking over for Bryn Renner in the second half of last season. They’ll be competitive, but I need to see something more from this team before I give them a shot at the conference, even the division.
Schedule: Decent. San Diego State and East Carolina out of conference could be spoilers. Clemson, Notre Dame, Miami, Duke on the road. VA Tech, Pitt, NC State at home.
Team: Various sources rank them between #35-60 to start the season. One person picked them to make the CFB playoff. New QB Chad Voytik supposedly a dual threat a la Russell Wilson (let’s calm down with that talk). RB James Connor was decent last year, a traditional Pitt tough running back. They could compete for the Coastal, but any praise higher than that would be a shot in the dark, not an evidence-based analysis.
Schedule: Winnable games early, although Iowa on 9/20 should present a challenge. Conference schedule is favorable with toughest games vs. VA Tech, vs. Duke, at UNC, at Miami. No top tier opponents on this schedule.
Team: I’d put them second- or third-last in the ACC and last in the Coastal. Not going to waste time with in-depth analysis, sorry Cavs fans.
Schedule: OOC schedule includes UCLA, BYU, and Kent State. Good luck with that. At FSU, at VA Tech, at Duke. Home vs. Pitt, UNC, Miami. Not their year.
Team: New year, same VA Tech. I never liked Logan Thomas and think whoever they replace him with will be better for the team. I like them to bounce back from their recent mediocrity and have a strong year, even compete for the Coastal crown.
Schedule: Tough OOC. Week 2 at Ohio State, then East Carolina at home. Their conference schedule is very manageable with no FSU and Miami at home. They’re set up nicely for a division title run.
ACC Coastal thoughts:
It’s a complete toss-up with Duke, Miami, VA Tech, even UNC and Pitt all having a shot. I don’t like Georgia Tech because they’re too one-dimensional and I think their running game will take a step back due to lost players and teams loading up the box. Virginia is the only team I think has no shot. At gunpoint I’ll predict a division win for Virginia Tech in a classic 8-4 season chock-full of ugly, slow, turnover-laden Beamerball.
ACC overall thoughts:
The conference is Florida State’s to lose.
I’ll take VA Tech to win a tightly-contested Coastal division, just edging out Duke and Miami.
Overall, I think this season presents a step backward for this conference’s top teams. FSU has nowhere to go but down, while Clemson, Louisville, and Miami will have trouble matching solid 2013 seasons. When all is said and done, I think the ACC will be the 4th or 5th best power conference in 2014. This of course will be erased by the success of FSU. I predict the Seminoles will lose one game but end the regular season ranked in the top 3. I’ve got them in the playoff. No other team in the conference has a legitimate chance at the playoff, in fact, I wouldn’t put anyone besides FSU in the top 10.
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Slice and SOMPO Release First On-Demand Insurance Product in Asia on ICS
New pay-per-use travel product brings together advanced financial services, payments, and insurance platforms in Thailand’s cashless society.
NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Slice Labs Inc. (Slice), the first on-demand insurance platform and Sompo Holdings (Asia) Pte. Ltd. (SOMPO) – part of top international insurer Sompo Holdings, have released an enhanced version of the travel insurance product, TravelJoy, in Thailand using social distribution through LINE LIFF Platform making on-demand trip protection services available to 44 million LINE users in the country.
“SOMPO’s partnership with Slice and relationship with LINE blend a common commitment to introduce more convenient and user-friendly digital services that best aid Thailand’s increasingly cashless society,” commented Patrick Chin, Head of Digital and Branding, Asia Pacific at SOMPO. “We believe in meeting customers where they are at with innovative technologies that support their lifestyles. Slice ICS is an incredible asset that has positioned SOMPO to develop and implement a progressive product solution within a short timeframe.”
Sompo Insurance Thailand (Sompo Thailand) CEO, Chayanna Siripirom echoed, “More than 90% of Thailand’s mobile internet users are using LINE commercially and socially. Now that TravelJoy is made available on our very own LINE OA, we can offer better services and solutions to our customers, as well as reach out to a larger market.”
The joint travel insurance product, TravelJoy, will include life and medical, flight delay/cancellation, and baggage/belongings coverage. As part of the offering, Slice ICS will integrate with pan-Asian payments provider, 2C2P, that serves 620 million banked and unbanked Southeast Asia customers. Available in English and Thai, the Slice and SOMPO TravelJoy is purchased via Sompo Thailand LINE Official Account on the LINE platform in under three minutes and costs ₿500 (Thai baht) (USD16) per average customer.
“This is the type of ecosystem example where advanced financial services, payments, and insurance products are setting a global example for how to reinvent customer experiences,” said Tim Attia, CEO of Slice Labs. “Asia is known for pushing the envelope much earlier in adopting new technologies compared to other countries around the world. This makes our vision for ecosystems powered by on-demand insurance a great option for the region and not a customer experience that is decades in the future.”
About Sompo Holdings (Asia):
Based in Singapore, Sompo Holdings (Asia) Pte. Ltd. is the holding company for its Asia Pacific entities, except Japan and is part of Sompo Holdings headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. With more than 70 years of trusted presence in Asia , our business spreads across 14 markets with over 4,000 employees in the region. We are now the Top 10 Largest Non-Life Insurance Companies in Indonesia and Malaysia, and we have forged strategic partnerships to access a wider network of resources and distribution.
Learn more about SOMPO by visiting www.sompo-asia.com.
About Slice:
Slice Labs Inc. is the insurance engine behind tomorrow’s cloud-based, on-demand digital services ecosystems for the new economy. Through the Slice Labs Insurance Cloud Services (ICS) platform, Slice Labs is enabling insurers, technology companies, and other service providers to build truly intelligent and intuitive, pay-as-you-go digital insurance products protecting the insured anytime and anywhere. To stay up to date with Slice, visit https://www.slice.is and follow @SliceLabs on Twitter.
For SOMPO:
Candida Lee
Branding & CX Lead, Asia Pacific
Sompo Holdings (Asia) Pte. Ltd.
media@sompo-asia.com
For Slice:
Emily Kosick
Slice Labs Inc.
pr@slice.is
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Ombudsman suspends 6 poll execs over P690-M folders By Charlie V. Manalo 07/30/2010
Ombudsman suspends 6 poll execs over P690-M folders
By Charlie V. Manalo
The Office of the Ombudsman yesterday placed under preventive suspension six Commission on Elections (Comelec) officials in connection with the canceled awarding of a P690-million contract to OTC Paper Supply for the purchase of the Ballot Secrecy Folders (BSF).
This was an email statement from the Ombdusman’s Office sent to the media.
Ordered placed under preventive suspension for six months without pay were Comelec Executive Director Jose Tolentino Jr.; Bids and Awards Committee (BAC) chairman Maria Lea Alarkon, and BAC members Allen Francis Abaya, Maria Norina Casingal, Martin Niedo and Antonio Santella.
Comelec Chairman Jose Melo said the commissioners, including himself, immediately signed the resolution placing Tolentino as well as all the members of their BAC under a six-month suspension without pay, pending the conduct of a formal inquiry against them.
“Suspension will be effective (Friday),” Melo told reporters at a news briefing yesterday.
According to Melo, except for Commissioner Nicodemo Ferrer, all other poll commissioners agreed to suspend the employees involved in the ballot secrecy folder scandal..... MORE
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SC: Noy’s family-owned sugar mill acted in ‘bad faith’ By Benjamin B. Pulta 07/30/2010
The Supreme Court (SC) has decided a labor case filed by sugar workers against the Central Azucarera de Tarlac (CAT) owned by the family of President Aquino, which decision ruled against the Cojuangco-Aquino clan’s sugar business, saying it acted in bad faith.
In a 10-page decision penned by Associate Justice Antonio Eduardo Nachura, the SC’s Second Division said the sugar mill acted in bad faith in slashing the 13th month pay of its employees and turned down the petition filed by CAT seeking the reversal of the Court of Appeals issued last year.
The appellate court had ordered the firm to revert back to its long-established formula in computing the employees 13th month pay.
The sugar mill cut the workers’ 13th month pay after staging a protest action six years ago. The protest left at least seven sugar workers dead and scores injured.
CAT claimed there had been an error in the computation of the 13th month pay of its employees which it claimed was discovered only by the management when the workers’ union – Central Azucarera de Tarlac
Labor Union — raised a question concerning the computation of their 13th month pay for 2006..... MORE
Fight for Senate panels heats up; floor voting likely By Angie M. Rosales 07/30/2010
The fight for Senate committee chairmanships is far from over as wranglings among senators are still on a high pitch, and unlikely to be resolved through dialogs.
Still fighting tooth and nail over committee chairmanships among senators, the only option left may be through election of the committee chairmen, in which case, the Liberal Party (LP) members may lose out in the voting process, having less members in the Senate.
The matter is seen as not being easily resolved despite assurances by Senate leaders, given that there are senators now alleging that some of their colleagues are out to protect their alleged vested interests in cornering those known “juicy” positions in the upper chamber.
Sources yesterday said this is the issue now being thrown at the ranks of the LP in the Senate who are now being pointed to as the reason for the ruckus in the distribution of committee assignments..... MORE
Querubin, Marine officers to talk on ‘Hello Garci’ scandal By Mario J. Mallari 07/30/2010
Some officers and men of the Philippine Marines are now ready to spill the beans on the alleged manipulation of the 2004 presidential elections won by former President and now Pampanga Rep. Gloria Arroyo by a slight margin over opposition standard-bearer, the late movie actor Fernando Poe Jr.
Marine Commandant Maj. Gen. Juancho Sabban said the Marines will tell the truth should the Truth
Commission, created by President Aquino to look into the alleged wrongdoings of the Arroyo administration, call them to shed light on the alleged widespread manipulation of the 2004 presidential polls.
“If they want the truth, the Marines will give them the truth,” he said.
“Since it’s a creation of the President, our Commander-in-Chief, then they (Marines) are obliged to appear before the commission,” said Sabban, adding “basically, it’s almost an order because the commission was created by our Commander-in-Chief, so following the doctrine of the chain of command, they should appear before the commission.”
In a separate interview at his Camp Aguinaldo quarters, bemedalled Marine Col. Ariel Querubin confirmed that some Marine units were directly involved in manipulating the 2004 elections, particularly in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) where Marines forces were deployed at the time..... MORE
Give truth body a chance, critics told By Mario J. Mallari 07/30/2010
Only those who have something to hide will not cooperate with the yet to be formed “Truth Commission,” Justice Secretary Leila de Lima said yesterday even as she doused fears the body would be used for a political witchhunt.
At a press briefing, De Lima, asked to comment on what some critics say would be a “toothless” body to go after graft and corruption, said the proposed agency would nevertheless be formed through a presidential decree instead of a law.
“Passing a law (to put up a commission) would take time,” De Lima explained, saying the truth agency “would have compulsory powers to compel witnesses to appear.”
“I foresee that only potential respondents would not appear (before it),” she said.
She said the Aquino administration is still studying how to go about penalizing those who ignore its subpoena.
“Let us remember that this proposed Truth Commission is a fact-finding body and its powers would be merely recommendatory. It will not be a body that would adjudge people as guilty or not. What’s important is information and evidence are collected,” she stressed..... MORE
Aquino’s Cabinet in for CA rough sailing 07/30/2010
President Aquino’s appeal to Congress, through the Con-firmation on Appointments (CA) body, to go easy in screening his appointees when they are subjected to confirmation hearings, appeared to have fallen on deaf ears — at least on the part of the senators, some of whom are said to be out to scrutinize, with a fine-toothed comb, even former media practitioners who have been appointed by Aquino to positions with full Cabinet rank.
“Why should we be soft on anyone? We have to screen everybody with the same standards and I will ask the question you are asking me. Were you part of the LP (Liberal Party) campaign?” Sen. Loren Legarda said when asked to comment on the “hiring” of former broadcast journalists and a broadsheet columnist to form part of the so-called “communications group” of Malacañang.
From verified reports, Secretary Sonny Coloma who wrote a column in BusinessWorld and Secretary Ricky Carandang, a newsreader and TV talk show host at the ABS-CBN network, were still functioning as so-called journalists even when they were said to be part of the propaganda campaign of then LP presidential candidate Noynoy Aquino.... MORE
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David, a Type of Christ, Offers Universal Forgiveness
At the conclusion of the last issue of FMS, we encountered one of the most poignant and grieffilled episodes in the Bible: the time when word was brought to King David that his evil and errant—yet much beloved—son, Absalom had been killed in the rebellion which Absalom had mounted against his father. At this point, David is wholly unaware that his own nephew and top general, Joab, had in reality, murdered Absalom, as he hung helplessly from the limbs of a great oak tree.
2 Samuel 19:1 And it was told Joab, Behold, the king weepeth and mourneth for Absalom.
2 And the victory that day was turned into mourning unto all the people: for the people heard say that day how the king was grieved for his son.
3 And the people gat them by stealth that day into the city, as people being ashamed steal away when they flee in battle.
Can you imagine the consternation of David’s armies? The revolt had been squelched; the murderous leader of the rebellion had been executed. The armies felt like exulting in gladness and joy over the victory and yet they can hardly do so when their own leader is wailing over the death of the enemy. They are perplexed.
4 But the king covered his face, and the king cried with a loud voice, O my son Absalom, O Absalom, my son, my son!
Someone needed to be brave enough to confront the king, to jolt him back into reality. Once again, General Joab steps up to the plate to do the dirty and dangerous work of confronting the king. However, recall also that from the very beginning of David’s accession to the throne—indeed, while still running from Saul, that it seemed that nephew Joab had some kind of mysterious power over David which David had never been able to shake off or overcome.
Joab was, in a sense, the Rasputin in David’s palace. Gregory Rasputin was a Russian Orthodox monk, born of peasant stock in 1871 in the Tobolsk province of Siberia. At age 33, he left his wife and family to become a priest-monk. His strange mental (some say “occult”) abilities enabled him to come to the attention of the court of Czar Nicholas II of Russia in the early 1900’s.
Rasputin’s mysterious, spellbinding power was seemingly exercised not only over the Czar, but especially over his wife, Empress Alexandra. The many who opposed Rasputin in the court alleged that he had a very evil influence on both church politics as well as the national and foreign policies followed by Czar Nicholas. Eventually, no appointments to high office were made with his consultation and approval. Consequently, Rasputin was labeled the “mad monk” and he was murdered in December of 1916.
Joab seemed to have this Rasputin-like hold over David. In fact, while David did need jolted back to reality from Joab’s perspective, his (Joab’s) underlying motive was to continue his measure of control over the king. In all the many incidents we have seen in our studies thus far concerning Joab, we can safely state that Joab’s motives were never pure. He sometimes did the right thing, but it was always conveniently in his own personal interests of maintaining power and control. Is it not amazing how God uses certain players on the stage to do the necessary and difficult work, but at the same time, those players have their own agenda (or so they think). As the Scripture saith, there is none righteous, no, not one. Now comes Joab’s rebuke to David.
5 And Joab came into the house to the king, and said, Thou hast shamed this day the faces of all thy servants, which this day have saved thy life, and the lives of thy sons and of thy daughters, and the lives of thy wives, and the lives of thy concubines;
Joab has a good point because, had Absalom been successful, it is quite likely that he would have executed every possible contender for the throne and their families. It would not be the first time. In the book of Judges, chapter 9, is the account of one of the sons of Gideon who murdered all sixty-nine of his brothers and half-brothers for that very same reason (except one who escaped). Joab is making sense here.
6 In that thou lovest thine enemies, and hatest thy friends. For thou hast declared this day, that thou regardest neither princes nor servants: for this day I perceive, that if Absalom had lived, and all we had died this day, then it had pleased thee well.
Pretty strong stuff to be telling the king to his face. It could have been done less offensively, but I think Joab secretly relished this moment of putting it to David. Joab had said: “Thou regardest not princes…” Those would be Absalom’s half-brothers, including Solomon, all of them potential rivals for the throne. Had Absalom won the day, David’s whole family including Solomon and Bathsheba and David himself would have been executed. This was beginning to get through to David now. Joab continues:
7 Now therefore arise, go forth, and speak comfortably [kindly] unto thy servants: for I swear by the LORD, if thou go not forth, there will not tarry one with thee this night: and that will be worse unto thee than all the evil that befell thee from thy youth until now.
It had finally sunk in. Joab is correct, thought David. If I don’t pull out of this depression and take charge over the nation once again, they all will lose faith and trust in me.
8 Then the king arose, and sat in the gate. And they told unto all the people, saying, Behold, the king doth sit in the gate. And all the people came before the king: for Israel had fled every man to his tent.
At this point, David is still on the east side of Jordan in the city of Mahanaim. When it says “all the people came before the king,” it refers to those who had remained loyal and had gone with David and especially those who had fought for him. They come to him to express their continued allegiance to him and to hear the king commend them for their courage in battle and for their faithfulness to him.
“Israel had fled every man to his tent” refers to those—probably the vast majority of the nation—who had fought on the rebels’ side. They are trying to fade back into the woodwork, as it were, in the hopes of avoiding punishment.
There is an additional point to be made concerning Joab’s sharp upbraiding of David. We saw many chapters ago how a man of God, Nathan the prophet, was sent by God to rebuke David concerning his fornication with Bathsheba and the murder of her husband, Uriah.
Then also not too many issues back, we saw in the case of Shimei’s cursing of David, how God sometimes speaks to us through ungodly persons, or people whom we consider to be our enemies. I challenged us to be prepared to hear the voice of God through our enemies. We have another example of that here in the very unscrupulous and unprincipled Joab being the mouthpiece used by God to impel David to cease his non-stop grieving and take charge of the kingdom once again, lest he lose it altogether.
Meanwhile, the elders back in Israel began arguing among themselves, some trying to convince the others that they had better be quick to once more profess allegiance to David in the hope of a merciful attitude from him.
9 And all the people were at strife throughout all the tribes of Israel, saying, The king saved us out of the hand of our enemies, and he delivered us out of the hand of the Philistines; and now he is fled out of the land for Absalom.
10 And Absalom, whom we anointed over us, is dead in battle. Now therefore why speak ye not a word of bringing the king back?
David hears of the petitions for leniency from the northern tribes but David’s first priority was to seek reinstatement among his own tribe of Judah, many of whom had been among the first to side with Absalom. (Recall how I described Absalom’s political rally in Hebron as being akin to a big Texas barbecue combined with a Nuremberg rally.)
11 And king David sent to Zadok and to Abiathar the priests, saying, Speak unto the elders of Judah, saying, Why are ye the last to bring the king back to his house? seeing the speech of all Israel is come to the king, even to his house.
12 Ye are my brethren, ye are my bones and my flesh: wherefore then are ye the last to bring back the king?
Well, you can imagine the fear and reluctance on the part of the elders of Judah who had been part of the rebellion. They were deathly scared that if they approached David, that he would have them executed for treason, as in fact, they truly deserved. No wonder they are so slow to make the first move. So it was David who took the initiative. He sent the high priests Zadok and Abiathar to carry the word of conciliation to the rebels. I use that word “conciliation” deliberately. In our CD/tape series of lectures on biblical universal reconciliation, we learned that there was a very important distinction between “conciliation” and “reconciliation.” We found a number of places in the New Testament where it was mistranslated as “reconciliation” and it should have been “conciliation.” The importance of that distinction is too involved to discuss here. (The 12-CD or audiotape album is available for $40 ppd. Ask for album A-104, Universal Reconciliation.)
Just as God takes the initiative and conciliates sinners by sending them word that the work of salvation has been done, so David here takes the initiative and tells the fearful Judahite rebels that their sin of treason has been forgiven. David sent this word through his ambassadors, Zadok and Abiathar. Essentially, the two high priests were saying to the rebels of Judah that the king is wondering what is taking you so long to invite him back again as your king. Thus, David had mercy on the rebels. He forgave them one and all. He allowed them all back into his good graces once again. We could say that here David practiced universal reconciliation! Please understand that there is nothing perfect in the type and shadow here. On the practical level, David is clearly doing the wise thing politically in almost every one of these cases, except that of General Amasa. (More later on him.) Nevertheless, the shadow of universal reconciliation is evident.
Through the course of those audio lecture studies on universal reconciliation some years back, we understand now how this incident is a type of its extension to all creation. David extended his conciliation to his own family first in the person of his nephew Amasa; then to his entire tribe of Judah, and then to Shimei the Benjamite and finally to all Israel. In our studies on universal reconciliation, we learned how God conciliates Israel first, then all Adam’s race, and finally extends it to all creation. Each in its own order. Each in its own proper time. (We set this forth in our book, Sacred Secrets of the Sovereignty of God, $24 ppd.) All the foregoing is on the corporate level of fulfillment.
On the personal level, the pattern holds likewise, because it is in our individual, spiritual lives where God takes the initiative with us. Like the Judahites, we are all rebellious sinners. We are all ashamed. We have all “slunk” back to our tents, trying to stay out of the way of an angry God. That is precisely how many churches have taught us to see Him; i.e., almost exclusively as an angry God. Hellfire and eternal torture await you, if you are not good enough. But God our King and our Father sends word to us by His High Priest, Jesus, that we can be reconciled with Him. It is an act of pure mercy. Just as the rebels of Judah and Israel deserved death, so do we all as sinners before God. But our heavenly Father extends His grace and forgiveness through Christ to one and all. We simply need to accept it. After that, we as God’s Israel people become ambassadors for Christ (2 Cor. 5:20).
One man in particular, though, David’s nephew, Amasa, might have been particularly fearful. Remember, he was Absalom’s cousin, and Absalom had made him his top general in the rebellion. But look at how David extends the olive branch of peace to him. David is still instructing his ambassadors, Zadok and Abiathar, on what to say.
13 And say ye to Amasa, Art thou not of my bone, and of my flesh? God do so to me, and more also, if thou be not captain of the host before me continually in the room of Joab.
My, oh my! What is happening here? What a bold and surprising move! Not only is David telling Amasa that he will not be put to death for treason, but that he is being promoted right to the top post in David’s military command structure, replacing General Joab. In our nation, it is the equivalent of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff being summarily sacked and replaced—a humiliating blow to Joab. In the natural realm, this was not a wise move on David’s part. You see, David had had just about all he could take of the domineering Joab—despite the fact that we have seen that not everything Joab did to the displeasure of David was necessarily wrong. Some of it was just plain dirty work that somebody needed to do. Nonetheless, David uses this as a means to demote Joab and hopefully rid himself of his Rasputin.
But here is a very key question: Did David wait to make his offer until the rebel general, Amasa, came forth in repentance to him? No, he did not. Again, we notice that it was David taking the initiative. Therefore, from a types and shadows perspective, we can see from the case of this unconditional forgiveness of General Amasa how a person can be a leader in the fight against God, and yet be rewarded with one of the highest positions of leadership in the kingdom. A high-ranking overcomer, if you will. That is quite astonishing!
Someone might think that is quite a stretch, but yet in the New Testament, we have a very prominent example of exactly that in the case of the apostle Paul. Saul—before he became Paul—was a fierce enemy of God. He did not come down to the altar voluntarily and sign a pledge card, did he? No, “God knocked him off his high horse” on the road to Damascus. But by the end of Paul’s life, it is quite clear that Paul himself believed that God would reward him with a better resurrection, the high calling of the overcomers.
And so the obvious little lesson here—but yet so very important—is that no matter how terrible a sinner one has been, there is a merciful Father waiting for you to accept the conciliation. But not only that, He is a Father who just might want to bless your socks off once you do accept it. What a gracious God we serve! As the next verse tells us, David’s message of forgiveness and conciliation was very well received by the people of Judah.
14 And he bowed [turned] the heart of all the men of Judah, even as the heart of one man; so that they sent this word unto the king, Return thou, and all thy servants.
What effect did David’s universal mercy and forgiveness have upon all the rebels of Judah? Their hearts were all turned back to him with one accord. Their fears were dissolved. They felt nothing but overwhelming love for their king. Can you not see that picture applied eventually to all mankind? God’s grace, mercy and love will overwhelm everyone’s rebellious will. What a King we have in Jesus! What a Father-God!
2 Samuel 19: 15 So the king returned, and came to Jordan. And Judah came to Gilgal, to go to meet the king, to conduct the king over Jordan.
There is another theme which is evident here in the types and shadows. Biblically speaking, the Jordan river is a symbol for death. Crossing the Jordan typifies passing through death’s door. … Oh, by the way, there a television show called Crossing Jordan. I watched it once or twice because the name was so fascinating. It centers around a woman doctor named Jordan who works as a coroner. In other words, this show, centered around death, is called Crossing Jordan. Do you think the producers did that on purpose? What a coincidence...or not!
In any case, here we have a death and resurrection theme because David is coming back across Jordan. Would this perhaps be a type of the second coming of Christ in some ways? Probably, but it is certainly evident that it saw some fulfillments in the first coming of Christ. We will pursue that thought later. As David and his retinue arrive at the Jordan river, look who shows up. It’s Shimei, the professional curser, stone-thrower and dirt-kicker! Remember him doing those things to David as he was crossing Jordan to flee from Absalom?
(To be continued.)
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The Chronicle of the Three Kingdoms
Best threads of the SGYYS, for your viewing pleasure.
by Gabriel » Fri Jan 13, 2006 6:50 pm
Here for your viewing pleasure, I present The Chonicle of the Three Kingdoms by Achilles Fang. I heard it was rare, so I decided to enlighten you all by writing it out for you. You all should be happy, and offer me many thanks . Unfortunetly though, the book is only from AD 220 - AD 245, but there's still alot of information there.
There are a few things(like ranks and names) that I haven't quite gotten yet, so any help would be appreciated.
Dong Zhou edit: Completed version, thanks to Jordon, here
Last edited by Gabriel on Tue May 23, 2006 8:22 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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First Year of Huang Chu (220 A.D.)
1. Spring, first month (Feb. 22 - Mar. 21). King Wu (i.e. Cao Cao) arrived in Luo Yang, where he died on the day Mar. 15.
2. The late King new men well, and was a good judge of them. It was difficult to dazzle him by false display. He recognized men of talent and promoted them, irrespective of humble origin; employing them according to their abilities, in each case he made the best use of them. In the face of enemy ranks he remained clam and unperturbed, as if he had no thought of battle; but seizing his oppurtunity, he would strike for victory in exuberant spirits. In acknowledging and rewarding service he was not one to begrudge a thousand gold pieces, but to those without merit who sought to profit from his largesse he would not give a single cash. In enforcement of laws he was strict and unrelenting, always putting the transgressors to death; sometimes he shed tears as he looked at them, but he would never grant a pardon. By nature he was temperate and frugal, not giving to pomp and adornment. For all these reasons he was able to bring low the numerous powerful men of his time, and to conquer well-nigh the whole empire.
3. At this time the Crown Prince of Wei (Cao Pi) was at Ye. The army was in a state of unrest, and Cao Cao's officials wanted to keep his death a secret and not hold funeral rites. However, the Admonisher Jia Kui considered that the secrecy in the matter was out of the question, so mourning was begun.
4. Some one said that the chief administrators of cities should all be dismissed and replaced entirely by the natives of Jiao and P'ei. The Prefect of Wei-jun, Xu Xuan of Kuang-ling, said in a loud voice, "At present far and near are united, every one cherishing loyalty. Why should the natives of Jiao and P'ei exclusively be employed, thereby disheartening those who have serving the royal house for so long?" The proposal was then rejected.
5. The troops of Qingzhou deserted thier barracks, beating battle-drums. Numerous officials maintained that they ought to be restrained, and suppressed by force of arms if they proved recalcitrant. Jia Kui disapproved. Eventually circular letters, or passports, were issued to the troops authorizing them to obtain provisions wherever they might be.
6. The Lord of Yen-ling, Cao Zhang, came to Luo Yang from Chang An. He asked Jia Kui where the state seal of the late King was. Jia Kui said stiffly, "The kingdom has an heir apparent. The seal of the late King is not a thing your Lordship should inquire about."
7. When knews of the King's death reached Ye, the Crown Prince lamented him unceasingly. The Grand Chamberlain to the Crown Price, Sima Fu, remonstrated with him: "With the death of the King, the whole empire depends on your Highness. You ought to think of your ancestors above and the myriad states below. Must you emulate the filial piety of a mere commoner?" Finally the Crown Prince desisted, saying, "You are right in your advice."
8. At this time, the officials of the Wei court had just heard of the King's death. Gathered in groups, they all lamented and did not keep to the court procession. Sima Fu reprimanded them: "Now the the King is dead, we ought to pay our respects to his successor as early as possible, for the stabilization of the myriad states. Must we indulge in weeping only?" He then dimissed all of the officals from court, appointed plalace guards, and attended to the buisness of the funeral. Sima Fu was a younger brother of Sima Yi.
9. The myriad officials held the opinion that before the Crown Prince acceded to the royal throne of Wei, there must be an edict from the Han Emperor. The State Sectretary, Chen Jiao said, " The King having died away from his domain, the whole empire has fallen into panic. It behooves the Crown Prince to moderate his mourning and ascend the throne, so that far and near may be calmed. Futhermore, the late King's favorite son is beside his corpse at Luo Yang; if anything untoward occurs, the foundation of the state itself will be endangered." Thereupon the officials were appointed and ceremonials provided for the enthronement, all being completed in a single day. On the following day the Crown Prince, by command of the Queen Dowager, ascended the royal throne and issued general amnesty.
10. Soon thereafter, the Han Emperor sent the Supervisor of Works, Hua Xin, with an edict empowering him to confer on the Crown Prince the seal of Premier of Han and seal of King of Wei, and to appoint him Governor of Jizhou.
11. The Queen of Wei was then given the title Queen Dowager.
12. The reign title of the Han was altered to Yen-k'ang.
13. Second month. On the day Feb. 22, the sun was eclipsed.
14. One the day Apr. 6, the Monitor Jia Xu was appointed to be Grand Marshal; the Supervisor of Works Hua Xin to be Premier; and the Attorney General Wang Lang to be Supervisor of Works.
15. On the day Apr. 11, King Wu was buried in the mausolem of Kao-ling.
16. The King's younger brothers, the Lord of Yen-ling Cao Zhang and others, all proceeded to their own territories.
by Gabriel » Fri Jan 13, 2006 10:09 pm
Continued.....
17. The Overseer of a Fuedal Domain to Lord of Lin-tzu, Kuan Chun, with the intention of pleasing the throne, memorialized that the Lord of Lin-tzu Cao Zhi, in a drunken state, had acted irreverently and contemptuously towards the throne, threatening to lay hands on the King's emissary. The King degraded Cao Zhi to be lord of An-hsiang. He put to death the Anti-Espionage Officer of the Right P'ei-Kuo and his younger brother the Assistant Chamberlain Ding Yi, and all male members of their families; both were partisans of Cao Zhi.
18. Yu Huan comments:
" There is a saying, 'A poor man is thrifty without be taught; a lowly man is respectful without being taught.' This does not mean that their natures are different from those of others; they become what they are through circumstance. Such indeed is the force of necessity, never to be contradicted. Had Cao Cao in his time curbed the ambition of (his sons) Cao Zhi, could the latter, worthy man that he was, have become presumptuous and arrogant? Even Cao Zhang, with all his resentment, did not come to anything. How, then, could a man like Cao Zhi ever cause any trouble? What a pity that Yang Xiu was put to death because of his association with him, and Ding Yi got himself and his family exterminated through partisanship toward him. Whenever I read Cao Zhi's elegant and beautiful writings, they seem to me divinely inspired. I can understand well why Cao Cao favored him."
19. The King for the first time appointed Chamberlains and Junior Chamberlains, four of each. He also decreed that no eunuch should ever be appointed to offices higher then Director of the various palace bureaus; this regulation was inscribed on a metal tablet and placed for safe keeping in the Stone Chamber.
20. At this time the Grand Chamberlain and Chamberlains were to be selected. The King's retinue and his attendents from former days insinuated to the official in charge that he should select from among their number and not from other officials. Sima Fu said, "Even Yao and Shun had to have able miniters such as Ji and Qi. Since the new King has but lent talents and worthy character in the empire at large; in spite of our efforts, they perhaps may not be drawn to offer their service. Why take this oppurtunity of transition to recommend each? If those who are given official appointments cannot fulfill their duties, there is no glory for them in being appointed." In the end the officials in question were elected from various circles.
21. The State Secretary Chen Qun, alleging that the Celestial Court (i.e., the court of the Han), in it's selection of officials failed to recruit men of talents, instituted the Regulation for Rating all Officials into Nine Grades. In each province and each prefecture, an Equitable Rectifier was to be appoitned to take charge of selection of officials; the post was to be filled by a man of ability and insight in the province or prefecture in question. He was to assess the qualifications of men and grade them into nine ranks.
22. Summer, fifth month. On the day June 21, the Han Emperor conferred the posthumous appelation of August King on the King's grandfather the Grand Marshal and that of August Queen on his consort Ding.
23. The King appointed the Prefect of An Ding Tsou Ch'i to be Provincial Governer of Liangzhou. In the prefecture of Xi Ping a certain Chü Yen, in league with neighboring prefectures, rebelled and refused to accept Tsou Ch'i. In the prefecture of Chang-yeh Chang Chin seized the Prefect Tu T'ung and refused to accept the Prefect Hsin Chi, both rebels proclaiming themselves Prefects; thus they acted in concert with Chü Yen. In the prefecture of Wu-wei, Three Tribes of the Hu Barbarians appealed for help to the Prefect of Chin-ch'eng and Commissioner for the protection of the Qiang tribe, Su Tse, a native of Fu-feng. Su Tse was about to send him reinforcements; but the people of the prefecture were all of the opinion that, as the rebels were very powerful at that moment, heavier forces than his would be needed. At that time the geneals Hao Zhao and Wei P'ing had been garrisoning Chin-ch'eng for some time, but the King had commanded them not to cross the Yellow River to the west.
Su Tse then called an assembly of higher functionaries of the prefecture as well as Hao Zhao, etc...., and the chiefs of the Qiang tribe. He addressed them thus: " Powerful as they are at this moment, the rebels have joined hands but recently; possibly some of them have rallied through the coercion and not out of sympathy or conviction. If we take advantage of this heterogeneity and strike at them, the good will seperate from the bad, and once segregated, will come back to us, increasing our forces and decreasing theirs. By taking this course we not only will have more troops but also will redouble out spirits; when we lauch an attack, we shall be certain to destroy the enemy at one stroke. On the other hand, if we wait for the arrival of larger forces, much time will be wasted; meanwhile the good, unable to come back to us, will gradually coalesce with the bad; once the good and the bad are united, it will be difficult for us to seperate them. To be sure, there is the King's order to be taken into consideration. But we may disobey it to cope with the present emergency. Let us take the responsibility on our sholders."
Hao Zhao and the others agreed with him. He sent troops to reinforce the garrison at Wu-wei, so that the Three Tribes of the Hu barbarians were made to surrender. He then joined forces with Wu-ch'iu Hsing to attack Chang Chin at Chang-yeh. Hearing of this, Chu Yen with three thousand foot and horse came to see Su Tse; he gave forth that he had come to reinforce the latter's army, but his real intention was to attack him in his own camp. Su Tse inveigled him into his camp and killed him, after which he proclaimed the event throughout the army. The followers of the rebel took flight in all directions.
In the end Su Tse joined forces with various troops in laying seige to the city of Chang-yeh, and succeeded in capturing it. He killed Chang Chin; Huang Hua took fright and surrendered. Thus the region west of the Yellow River was pacified.
by Gabriel » Sat Jan 14, 2006 12:56 am
24. Some time ago, when the Prefect of Tun-huang Ma Ai died in his post, the people of the prefecture elected the Provincial Secretary for Personnel Chang Kung to act as Prefectural Chancellor. Chang Kung then sent his son Chang Chiu to court to convey his request for prompt appointment of a new Prefect. Meanwhile Huang Hua and Chang Chin rebelled and wanted the garrison at Tun-huang to join forces with them. They seized Chang Chiu and threatened him with drawn sword, but Chang Chiu would not go back to Tun-huang. He sent a letter secretly to his father Chang Kung: "You, sir, have been presevering in your duty at Tun-huang and are well known for your loyalty. Why should you become a turncoat because of the adversity in which I happen to find myself? Formerly Yo Yang had to eat his own son and Li T'ung brought his family to extermination. Can an official devoted to the weal of the land ever think of his wife and children? Large reinforcements will come soon. All you have to do is hearten your troops and continue to resist. I beg you not to let your paternal affection for me become cause for my grief in the netherworld."
Upon receiving this, Chang Kung led his troops forth to attack Chiu-ch'uan. He also had two hundred of his crack cavalry and the officials of the prefecture preceed eastward by way of the northern pass of Chiu-ch'uan to welcome the newly appointed Prefect Yin Feng. Huang Hua wished to come to Chang Chin's help, but he had to keep an eye in Chang Kung's troops, who might attack his rear; for this reason he was not in a position to do so and in the end surrendered. Chang Chiu did not suffer and harm, and Yin Feng was enabled to take his post in the prefecture. The King conferred the titular rank of Kuan-nei Lord on Chang Kung.
25. Sixth month. One the day Aug. 12, the King with his army started on a tour of inspection in the south.
26. Autumn, seventh month (Aug. 17 - Sept. 14). Sun Quan sent an envoy to offer tribute to the Wei court.
27. Meng Da, a general of Shu, had been garrisoning Shang-yong. But discord arose between him and the Commandant of the Auxiliary Corps Liu Feng, who encroached on his right. At the head of more then four thousand soldiers under his command Meng Da came and surrendered to Wei.
Meng Da had an imposing appearence and a fine mind; the King made very much of him, sharing his carrige with him. He conferred on Meng Da the title of Chamberlain and the military rank of General for Establishing Prowess, and efeoffed him Village Lord of P'ing-yang. Having merged the three prefectures of Fang-ling, Shang-yong and Hsi-ch'eng into a single prefecture, Hsin-ch'eng, he appointed Meng Da to be it's prefect, thereby entrusting him with the management of the southwestern region of the kingdom.
28. The Chancellor on the March Liu Ye said on this occasion: "Meng Da is an adventurer at heart; he is proud of his talent and fond of scheming. He certainly is not one to feel grateful and cherish loyalty. Hsin-ch'eng is so situated, adjacent to the domains of Sun Quan and Liu Bei, that should he cause any trouble, our state will suffer." The King paid no heed to him.
29. The King ordered the General of the Forces for Southern Expedition Xiahou Shang and the General of the Right Corps Xu Huang to cooperate with Meng Da in a campaign against Liu Feng. The Prefect of Shang-yong, Shen Dan rose against Liu Feng and gave himself over to Wei. Liu Feng suffered defeat and returned to Cheng Du, capital of Shu.
Now, Liu Feng was originally a son of a certain K'ou of Lo-hou. The King of Han-zhong Liu Bei, when he first came to Jing-zhou, had no heir, and so had adopted him as his son. Zhuge Liang feared that Liu Feng, a man of strong will and character, might not remain tractable after the death of his adoptive father, so he now advised the King of Han-zhong to do away with him. Thereupon Liu Feng was ordered to commit suicide.
30. Yang P'u, King of the Di barbarians in Wu-du, together with his tribesmen, pledged allegiance to the King of Wei.
31. On the day Sept. 9 the King and his army halted at Ch'iao. In the eastern part of the town he invited his army as well as the elders of Ch'iao to a grand feast, at which musical and sundry other entertainments were given, and officials and the common people toasted the King. The feast lasted till sunset.
by Liu Yuante » Sat Jan 14, 2006 2:09 am
I wonder if there are any copyright issues that this might violate...
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by Gabriel » Sat Jan 14, 2006 2:25 am
Hey, I was thinking the exact same thing... Should I continue?
by iamnick » Sat Jan 14, 2006 3:52 am
if u decide not to and to delete these, can u at least give us a little bit of a warning?
iamnick
by DynastyWarriors6 » Sat Jan 14, 2006 4:40 am
Very well done, but watch your back with copyright issues.
DynastyWarriors6
Re: The Chronicle of the Three Kingdoms
by Lexus Fiend » Sat Jan 14, 2006 3:31 pm
Liang Shuo wrote: Here for your viewing pleasure, I present The Chonicle of the Three Kingdoms by Achilles Fang. I heard was rare, so I decided to enlighten you all by writing it out for you. You all should be happy, and offer me many thanks . Unfortunetly though, the book is only from AD 220 - AD 245, but there's still alot of information there.
Perhaps I'm out of the loop, but I am not familiar with, and don't believe I have heard of these particular Chronicles before. Is there any background you (or anyone else for that matter) can give on it, such as any information about this Achilles Fang and it's historical accuracy? Is it just basically historical information put into this easy to read format for recordkeeping purposes, or is it more of a literary/non-fiction/entertainment type thing (for severe lack of a better term)?
Oh, and thanks and stuff Hopefully you will be able to post more without trouble because I'd like to continue on with it.
-Devin aka LuckyD
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"Street smarts on the level of a Harvard degree."
Lexus Fiend
by Gabriel » Sat Jan 14, 2006 5:18 pm
I don't know much on Achilles himself, but I do believe his works are historical. So I would say it's the first, "historical information put into this easy to read format" and since there are no objections I shall continue.
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SAA strike leaves hundreds stranded at Victoria Falls Airport
A strike by South African Airways cabin crew has left hundreds of passengers stranded at Victoria Falls International Airport.
The passengers who were booked for the Tuesday flight could not travel and were booked at a local hotel while some have been transferred to a British Airways flight this afternoon.
More passengers are still stranded as the flight failed to accommodate all the passengers.
Source: SAA strike leaves hundreds stranded at Victoria Falls Airport (27/04/17)
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Labels: tourism alert, victoria falls, victoria falls airport, zimbabwe
Tourist arrivals to reach 2,2 million by year end
TOURIST arrivals in Zimbabwe are estimated to reach over 2,2 million by the close of 2017, a development in line with global trends projecting tourism to be the fastest growing economic sector internationally, an executive has said.
BY MTHANDAZO NYONI
In emailed responses to NewsDay, Zimbabwe Tourism Authority (ZTA) chief executive, Karikoga Kaseke, said the local tourism industry was expected to continue growing despite numerous challenges besetting it.
“The tourism industry in Zimbabwe is expected to continue growing in line with global trends, which project that tourism will continue to be the fastest growing economic sector internationally. Arrivals in Zimbabwe are estimated to reach over 2,2 million by the close of 2017 and over 2,5 million by 2020, assuming the current conditions will continue to obtain,” he said.
"However, it should be noted that history has shown that the tourism sector tends to be affected negatively by the election year. As such, it is our hope that prospects for 2018 will remain positive despite it being an election year.”
Zmbabwe will hold general elections next year.
Kaseke said although the tourism sector has faced a number of challenges in recent years, the sector has been resilient.
For instance, in 2016, the country received 2 167 686 tourist arrivals, 5% up from 2 056 588 received in 2015, he said.
He said the sector also generated an estimated $819 million in revenue in 2016 and is estimated to contribute 10,9% to the gross domestic product.
Kaseke lamented that numerous police check points and roadblocks have for a long time tarnished the country’s image, as they project a negative security situation.
“These roadblocks have also resulted in highly prejudicing and inconveniencing the tourists. These have also been raised under Ease of Doing Business reform initiatives in tourism,” he said.
Kaseke said Zimbabwe was largely a driving destination and, as such, good roads were necessary. Apart from the Plumtree-Mutare Highway, Kaseke said other roads — particularly Beitbridge-Harare — need to be rebuilt.
"Because of the bad state of this road, Zimbabwe lost a huge market of self-drive tourists from South Africa who are now preferring Botswana and Namibia. The high levels of carnage on our roads now termed “death traps” inhibit travel by both domestic and international tourists,” he said.
Source: Tourist arrivals to reach 2,2 million by year end (18/04/17)
Labels: tourism insights, zimbabwe
Vic Falls hotels occupancy rate up
Leonard Ncube in Victoria Falls
The occupancy rate for most major hotels in Victoria Falls is about 80 percent during this Easter holiday compared to 70 percent last year.
The Hospitality Association of Zimbabwe (HAZ) however said occupancy by local visitors had fallen to 15 percent from 22 percent last year.
The fall in local visitors has been attributed to macro-economic challenges that include access to cash.
The Government, through the Zimbabwe Tourism Authority (ZTA) has been pushing for the “Know Your Zimbabwe” campaign, which seeks to promote domestic tourism.
HAZ and Employers Association for Tourism and Safari Operators (EATSO) said they hoped more local travellers will visit the resort town taking advantage of the new look Victoria Falls International Airport.
HAZ Victoria Falls chapter chairman Mr Chris Svovah said:
“The occupancy rate for most major hotels has gone up from 70 percent in 2016 to 80 percent this year for the Easter period. This is a result of new look airport, which has seen more airlines flying directly to Victoria Falls.
“This trajectory should continue and we expect Kenya Airways from Nairobi and Airlink from Cape Town, South Africa to join other airlines that are flying directly to Victoria Falls,” said Mr Svovah.
He said another reason for renewed interest in visiting Victoria Falls was the re-launched KAZA Univisa, which facilitates entry to tourists from 65 countries using a single facility.
Mr Svovah however said the challenge was to promote domestic tourism which he said has traditionally been the backbone of the tourism sector.
He urged tourism players to come up with attractive promotional packages to attract locals to visit resort areas through the ‘Know Your Zimbabwe” campaign.
EATSO president Mr Clement Mukwasi said the introduction of an evening flight by fastjet would attract more locals into Victoria Falls.
“We are confident the introduction of evening flights from Harare will be a game changer because that’s something that domestic tourists have always been crying for. The new evening flight will come in handy for visitors from Harare who constitute the majority of domestic fly-in tourists to Victoria Falls while those from Bulawayo drive because distance is shorter,” he said.
Mr Mukwasi said the majority of domestic tourists this Easter are Zimbabweans with relatives based in the Diaspora and also church people coming for conferences.
He called upon public transporters to embrace plastic money to enable locals to travel.
Source: Vic Falls hotels occupancy rate up (17/4/17)
Labels: tourism insights, victoria falls, zimbabwe
Shearwater News April 2017
THE PIONEERING SPIRIT
SHEARWATER ADVENTURES NEWSLETTER APRIL 2017
CHAIRMAN'S COMMENTS
Welcome to this years’ first edition of the Pioneering Spirit. Overall 2016 was a good year not only for Shearwater but Victoria Falls in general. Shearwater continued with its rolling investment programme in new activities, our accommodation facility, and the upgrading and innovation of existing activities and services. But it was also reassuring to see so many other companies doing likewise with new enterprises springing up in town – it’s all indicative of the spirit of genuine optimism that abounds in the area, and bodes well for an even better 2017.
As planned our brand new camping and chalet site opened in December 2016 – and it has been exceptionally well received. It was after much thought that a slight modification was made to the original name of Shearwater Village – christening it instead Shearwater Explorers Village. This is intended to promote the Village as a basecamp from which guests can truly encounter their inner adventurer and embark upon personal voyages of discovery: whether adrenaline fuelled rafting and bungee jumping, the serenity of sunset cruises or the exhilaration of wildlife adventures.
At time of writing It is with great delight we can report excellent levels of rainfall so far this year – always an enormous welcome for indigenous wildlife and landscape, and perhaps yet another indication of a great year ahead.
WATER: GET THE LOW & HIGH - DOWN
Having had the best rains for many years, allow us to elaborate on it’s implications.
Nothing seems to be as conflicting as to the pros and cons of high or low water – particularly when it is a boon for some and a bane for others, and can get a little confusing when you also have to factor in rainy/dry season, summer/winter. To explain:
Weather in Zimbabwe is great all year round with sunshine guaranteed almost daily. However rainy season is over the warmer summer/autumn period mid Nov- mid April (but temperatures always a balmy 25-35+). It is the winter months (May-August) when you get guaranteed clear sunshine all day and no rain, with a bit if chill in the evening (July-August only).
• HIGHWATER (end January – April) as it suggests is when water levels in the Zambezi are higher following rainy season. There can be a slight delay from the start of rainy season (end November), to levels being considered HIGH, this is because despite what can be heavy rains in December, it generally takes until the end of January for levels to have increased sufficiently to be considered high.
• PROS: The benefit of HIGH water, is that the Falls themselves are more spectacular with huge volumes of the Zambezi cascading into the gorge – probably peaking around April/May. This is great for those whose main focus is to see the falls (though visibility can sometimes be periodically obscured there is so much precipitation) – so the very best viewing is from the air on a ‘’Flight of Angels’’ helicopter trip when you can appreciate the full magnitude .
• CONS: The downside to highwater, is that with so much water volume, rapids get washed out, so the whitewater rafting can be reduced and ultimately curtailed (though at worst only for possibly a month – sometimes (as last year) it runs 365 days).
• LOW WATER (August-January). Though the rain stops around mid April, it takes some months for the water levels of the Zambezi to be considered low.
• PROS. Perfect white-water rafting and canoeing conditions. With water volumes lower, the rapids run much faster and with far greater turbulence over a greater distance. This is when you can do the best one day white-water rafting on the planet – 25 km covering 19 rapids (mostly grade 5). Canoe trips on the upper Zambezi are also far more manageable at low water – and a truly rewarding activity taking in the banks of the Zambezi, hippo pods, basking crocodiles, occasional elephants and birds of every type and variety.
What some find a little counterintuitive, Victoria Falls is at its wettest during the summer/autumn months of Nov-April, and at its driest over the winter/spring months of May-October (with October the hottest and driest).
It’s not just rafting and viewing the falls of course that is effected by rainfall, it has a huge impact on the local environment – as soon as it hits in volume, the parched landscape just explodes into vast oceans of greenery. Let’s not forget what makes our glorious part of the world extraordinarily unique is it remains one of the few destinations on earth, where there is still natural and abundant wildlife. Great rains are just – great, for the wildlife. But again it is mixed blessings. The rain makes the landscape all the more verdant and beautiful – but does make it harder to spot game due to ‘’foliage camouflage’’ and because the game no longer has to concentrate around small watering holes and the few areas of natural food provision. In contrast during the driest months, the landscape is parched and unyielding – but Shearwater game drives are at their most rewarding and day trips to Chobe fantastic for watching Elephant swim and all manner of teeming game, looking to get relief at the waters edge.
So in conclusion HIGH/LOW – it’s horses for courses, each to their own, one man’s meat is another man’s poison etc – best thing to do is come at least twice for both seasons.
SHEARWATER EXPLORERS VILLAGE
On Dec 20th the site of the Shearwater Explorers Village, as is often the case with such things, looked just that – a site, a building one. With guests due from Dec 23 and a full house for the Vic Falls Carnival over New Year, it was a little twitchy, but we always took reassurance from the best contractors in the business, who never wavered over completion in time. Sure enough our first guests came, followed by the carnival ravers, followed by the first of our series groups. Not a heartbeat missed, not a toilet failing to flush, not a shower without hot water – every bit of infrastructure passed the test with flying colours.
Feedback has been phenomenal. A Shearwater core value is to ‘’exceed expectations’’ – and this seems to have been achieved by a wide margin. It has always been, and continues, to be promoted as - affordable accommodation. Guests however have been simply effusive about the exceptional standard of the chalets to which they can book or upgrade – clinically clean, crisp linen on the beds, fantastic air conditioning, lovely tiled shower/wet room. Campsites are bespoke for the purpose – tailor made for overland trucks to pull in to a bay for 20+ - with shaded slabs for camping, covered dining area, kitchen, braii, charging points, fantastic ablutions. For those without their own tents, the village offers fully equipped dome tents, with camp beds, linen and side table.
What seems to be the most serendipitous aspect for all guests though is the boutique nature of the communal reception, bar and restaurant area. It is great for chilling in comfort and style, catching up with friends back home on the complimentary wifi, taking a dip in the lovely pool or enjoying delicious food or refreshing drinks from the fabulous Explorers Café and bar.
SHEARWATER EXPLORERS VILLAGE - camping from $15pp, Chalets from $60pp (inc breakfast).
BOTSWANA OVERNIGHT BUSH EXPERIENCES
Shearwater has long been at the forefront of organising fantastic trips to the unique Chobe river and game reserve in Botswana. This extraordinary area is special in every sense. It is the very geographical fingertip of the slender territory known as the ‘Caprivi Strip’ – the boundary of 4 iconic African countries: Botswana, Namibia, Zambia and Zimbabwe. It is also the confluence of 2 unique African rivers: The Chobe, and The mighty Zambezi. It was always destined therefore to be home to some of the most pristine wilderness and exceptional wildlife on the continent. Shearwater is now providing the greatest of all opportunities to experience this natural phenomenon at its best – as nature intended. A Chobe overnight trip encompasses the quite superb river safari, an afternoon game drive in the world class Chobe national park – followed by a night under the stars in the surrounds of the African bush at its superlative best. Its the greatest way to not just see nature, but to really FEEL it, smell it and hear it in all its glory.
SHEARWATER SESSIONS – UPDATE
Live music continues to play a highly important role in ensuring the best vibe in town when it comes to dining out in the evening. Shearwater Café is fast becoming a de facto automatic choice for those that want to enjoy great food, great atmosphere, fantastic entertainment and really catch the pulse of the town going about its daily routine. To add to our existing roster of musicians we have recently added Alistair – interesting character- originally from Bulawayo, Al is an ex Royal Marine turned Bob Dylanesque troubadour who is an exceptional entertainer blending humour with craft performing anything from Hendrix covers to songs about the Beitbridge border! A genuine Zim only gem. We have also had Andy Sax – a professional musician from the UK (Plan B’s touring Sax player for those in the know) – who literally blew us away with his astonishing Sax playing, and cant wait to have him back.
Shearwater is delighted to continue with its diverse commitment to various issues and projects. The company provided the entire investment to re house the antiquated Craft market into a purpose built weather proof construction, complete with a new ablution block for all vendors and brand new sign. The new craft market is now open and prospering, in what is a great innovation for the community. As below, Shearwater was the principal donor in the construction of the Elefence – a highly laudable project. We are currently investigating innovative ways to initiate a campaign of anti litter signs throughout the Victoria Falls Municipality as we seek to establish The Victoria Falls as one of the greenest spots on the planet.
It is with great delight that we can report the fence for dumpsite has been erected. For those unaware we had a serious problem with Elephants eating plastic from the municipality dumpsite – and in the worst case, dying as a result of asphyxiation. It fell to the business community and residents to raise the necessary funds. Shearwater committed 50% of the funds needed. Many locals contributed wherever they could, but 2 in particular went above and beyond. Guy Cockcroft for organising Elefence Festival – putting in a huge amount of work and not only raising significant funds, but also giving Vic Falls the Woodstock/Glastonbury vibe for great day for all residents. Tony Peel from Vic Falls Guide rallied fund raising support via a golf day, took it upon himself to work with Environment Africa raising awareness, chairing meetings and ensuring delivery of the electric fence – and then also marshalling volunteers to ensure it all works and Elephants are deterred – it does and they are. The best example of community in action we can think of.
KAZA COMES BACK
It is with great joy and relish that we welcome back the Kaza visa – the African Shengen! Basically this allows visitors to pay $50 for one visa which allows them limitless travel between Zambia and Zimbabwe for 30 days – exactly the same cost of a visa to one of these countries. A great triumph for common sense tourism strategy, allowing visitors easier access to so much more of what is on offer.
IS IT A BIRD? – NO IT’S A PLANE
We widely reported the prospects of the new airport would present – and now they are becoming reality. In recent months new airlines and aircraft have committed to Vic Falls:
1. Ethiopian Airways is starting to fly directly into Vic Falls as of 6th March 2017. Their flight will be directly from Abu Dhabi, into VFA, then Gaborone on their way back to Abu Dhabi.
2. Kenyan Airways will start offering direct flights into VFA as follows:
a. Nairobi to VFA
b. VFA to Cape Town
3. As of 1st of March 2017, South African Airways is now operating an Airbus A330-200, with a capacity of 222 passengers.
View the Shearwater website
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Massive corruption unearthed at National Parks
There is suspected high level corruption at the national parks allegedly committed by some board officials names supplied amid calls by stakeholders for a probe to be instituted to further expose those who are involved.
A source close to the goings on said the corrupt activities involves a Mrs Mupamhanga a depute chair of the board the wife of Justin Mupamhanga a senior Government official in the President Robert Mugabe's office.
He said also the Chair of the Conservation committee Cephas Mudenda who is allegedly part of the racket is related to the speaker of parliament Jacob Mudenda and is former National Parks employee.
"National Parks has not yet paid workers salaries for the past four months while ranger field allowances has not yet been paid for the past 5 years," said the close source.
"When the board was ushered in the office workers were very happy thinking that things will change for the better but alas it is changing to the worse. The new Board have leased 19 lodges at Zambezi camp in Victoria falls for peanuts to George Pangeti former Parks Board Chair person. Pangeti is a front man for Mark Bosh a South African."
He said the lodges which were generating income for National Parks of about $300 000 annually are being leased by Pangeti effective 1 April 2017 for $60 000,00 per annum.
"They will not employ the current staff but will employ their own workers. They were given the lodges as they are for just $60 000, 00 per year. The front man for the Board Vice Chair is Councillor Muleya a Parks employee who is ward 19 concillor," he said.
"Pangeti company promised to construct a school at Zambezi and the ceremony was officiated by Minister Muchinguri in September 2016 but there is nothing taking place at the construction site. Councillor Muleya misinformed the Minister and the Minister fall to the trickery of Muleya and Mrs Mupamhanga. Apart from the 19 lodges given for a song Pangeti has three other sites in the National Park and is paying peanuts. The lodges were given without going to tender and the lease period is 25 years."
He said that's corruption at its best. What is the logic of leasing 19 lodges for $60 000,00 when the Lodges generated over $300 000,00.
"Thats corruption. Why was it was not given through tender as per procedures," he said.
"The Board members are more of National Parks Director who go to National Parks on a daily basis for them to get allowance. When travelling on business trip they want to fly in business class when the ranger is not getting salary. Pangeti has been given other areas in Matusadonha National Park, Mana Pools. The park is being evaded by foreigners please highlight this if you need more information will avail or send me your number for more information."
The efforts to get comment from the authorities and those concerned in the alleged corruption were fruitless.
Source: Massive corruption unearthed at National Parks (01/04/17)
More: $3 million rhino horns missing at ZimParks (15/5/17)
Parks boss still on suspension (5/1/17)
Zimbabwe national parks boss suspended in probe over missing rhino horn (29/6/16)
Labels: corruption, national parks, rhino horn, zimbabwe
ZRA delegates tour Batoka Dam site
Leonard Ncube in Livingstone, Zambia
THE proposed Batoka Gorge Hydro-Electric Scheme (BGHES) which is expected to generate 2 400 megawatts of electricity will boost power generation at the Kariba Hydropower Station as it will help increase water levels and storage, a top Zambezi River Authority (ZRA) engineer has said.
Tendering for the $4 billion project is expected to start before the end of the year with implementation set for next year, once the feasibility study is completed.
Yesterday, ZRA officials led delegates, mostly potential investors who attended the BGHES investors’ conference in Livingstone on Thursday, on a tour of the dam site.
The site of the dam wall has been pegged on either side of the river while the two power stations will be about 700 metres downstream.
Briefing delegates, ZRA engineers, led by the chief executive officer Engineer Munyaradzi Munodawafa said the Kariba Dam has potential to match generation levels at Cabora Bassa in Mozambique once the Batoka project is implemented.
“The Batoka power station will help boost Kariba Dam power generation as the dam will naturally increase storage downstream. The Batoka Dam will slow down water speed hence increase water levels in the Kariba Dam,” said Mr Munodawafa.
Engineers said this would boost Kariba Dam generation capacity to about 1 200MW from about 750MW.
Eng Munodawafa added: “That’s the beauty of conjecture operations. We will have a situation whereby power generation will be increased and this is how Cabora Bassa manages to have more electricity because the dam relies on Kariba Dam upstream which slows water flow and enhances higher levels and storage downstream.”
Low water levels at the Kariba Dam have over the years led to acute electricity shortage resulting in load shedding as authorities capped generation capacity at Kariba Hydropower Station at below 750MW.
Eng Munodawafa said while the BGHES will take about five years to complete, generation of power will start as soon as construction starts.
“Generation will not wait for the dam to be completed but will start as soon as water levels rise when building of the dam wall starts,” he said.
Engineers said the dam wall will be 180 metres high while the length will be 300 metres, adding that any height above 180 metres would flood upstream up to Victoria Falls by 90 metres.
A bridge will also be constructed downstream as part of the project to facilitate access by construction vehicles as well as enhance ease of travel between Zimbabwe and Zambia thereafter.
African Development Bank vice president Mr Amadou Hott and representatives from Ernst and Young were some of the notable development partners who visited the site.
Zambia Minister of Energy Mr David Mabumba said implementation of the project was critical to both countries who can export excess power while also supplying citizens who have suffered a lot due to power deficit.
Source: ZRA delegates tour Batoka Dam site (1/4/17)
Labels: batoka gorge, dams, development, victoria falls, zambezi, zambia, zimbabwe
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Rare Gone with the Wind Screen Test
By Kendra+ July 14, 2011
First, I wanted to extend a huge thanks to everyone who participated in the Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier Appreciation Blogathon over the weekend. I was so impressed with the consistent quality of the posts across the board. You all are a bunch of fabulous writers! We had posts about everything from people who knew Vivien Leigh to why people should stop calling Laurence Olivier a hammy screen actor, and everything in between. I was really glad to see posts about films which aren’t mentioned as often when discussing Vivien Leigh or Laurence Olivier, such as Sleuth, As You Like It and Sidewalks of London. Well done, everyone!
Second, now that I’m in California for a spell, I have a little bit of time to make some actual site updates. First up is some rare video footage of a wardrobe test from Gone with the Wind. It was submitted to vivandlarry.com by Chris, who says that the lady on the left is Margaret Talichett, the former wife of director William Wyler. Talichett tested for the part of Scarlett O’Hara, and then tested as one of the sisters (I’m guessing Carreen, what do you think?). The footage comes from the 1986 documentary Directed By William Wyler.
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Rebecca Screentests: Vivien Leigh Hair & Make-up
By Kendra+ May 3, 2010
Hair and make-up tests for Alfred Hitchcock’s Rebecca. Vivien Leigh was tested with Margaret Sullivan and Anne Baxter. I left the commentary by film historian Leonard J. Luff in the video because I think it’s interesting.
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Rebecca Screentests: Vivien Leigh & Laurence Olivier
After wrapping Gone with the Wind, Vivien Leigh determinedly screen tested for the role of “I” in Alfred Hitchcok’s Rebecca. It seems her motive had more to do with working opposite Olivier than any specific interest in the role itself or the film. SHe did two screen tests, one opposite Laurence Olivier and another opposite Alan Marshal. Comparing the two yields interesting results. While in the Marshal screentest, she is a veritable Scarlett O’Hara, in this one she seems much more subdued and quietly passionate.
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Rebecca Screentests: Vivien Leigh & Alan Marshal
Laurence Olivier was not the only leading man whom Vivien Leigh tested opposite for the role of “I” in Alfred Hitchcock’s Rebecca (1940). Here she is with actor Alan Marshal reading the part of Max DeWinter.
On a boat with Natalie Wood and Laurence Olivier
Interview with Laurence Olivier author Margarida Araya
The Extraordinary Emma Hamilton
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Twitter Explains Why Donald Trump’s Threatening Tweets Don’t Break Its Rules
September 26, 2017 10:25 am|Comments (0)
Twitter has responded to people who criticized it for not taking down President Donald Trump’s bellicose tweet about North Korea, which led the country to claim he had declared war on it. The tweet was too newsworthy to take down, the social media platform said.
The tweet, which Trump posted on Saturday, followed a speech to the United Nations General Assembly by North Korean foreign minister Ri Yong Ho.
Ri said it was “inevitable” that his country would fire missiles at the U.S. mainland. In response, Trump tweeted: “Just heard Foreign Minister of North Korea speak at U.N. If he echoes thoughts of Little Rocket Man, they won’t be around much longer!”
Twitter’s terms of service claim the company does not “tolerate behavior that crosses the line into abuse, including behavior that harasses, intimidates, or uses fear to silence another user’s voice.” Many people have wondered why, given the nature of Trump’s Twitter activity, this rule hasn’t led to his suspension from the platform.
In a thread late Monday, Twitter’s policy team addressed the question. The team insisted that it holds “all accounts to the same rules,” but pointed out the factors it takes into account when assessing violations.
“Among the considerations is ‘newsworthiness’ and whether a tweet is of public interest,” the policy team wrote. “This has long been internal policy and we’ll soon update our public-facing rules to reflect this.”
“We need to do better on this, and will,” the team added.
Twitter has a longstanding problem with abuse that many see as contributing to its stagnant user growth. It has brought in several new measures this year to address the issue, such as making it harder for abusive tweets to reach the eyes of their targets, and banning more people for their trollish behavior.
The U.S. administration has strongly denied that Trump’s Saturday tweet was a declaration of war, with White House spokesperson Sarah Sanders calling the assertion “absurd.”
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YouTube Threatening To Block Radiohead, Adele And Jack White Music Videos
July 22, 2017 3:45 pm|Comments (0)
YouTube won’t stand for any kind of resistance. The site, which recently announced that it will launch its own paid streaming music service, is threatening various record labels by saying it will remove videos affiliated with these groups. Artists involved in this dispute include Radiohead, Adele, Jack White, Arctic Monkeys and Vampire Weekend. According to […]
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Home Featured Stories In the Heights
The musical “In The Heights,” by Lin Manuel-Miranda, premiered in July of 2005 and on Broadway in March of 2008. It was nominated for 13 Tony awards and won four, including Best Musical, Best Original Score and Best Choreography.
The Pierce Theatre Department had the enviable trouble of more performers than roles.
“It was almost too difficult to cast because we had so much talent,” Vaaz said. “We have a double cast because we did not want to turn the talent away.
“In the Heights” opens Friday, April 26, at 8 p.m., at the Performing Arts Building Mainstage. The play will run April 27 and 28 and May 2-5 with the times varying.
For tickets go to brownpapertickets.com.
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Best of 2015: Part 2 - Folk/Cabaret/Avant pop/Orchestral
Welcome to Part 2 of my Best of 2015 review.
If you're a regular listener to the show, you'll know that folk music in all its forms is a staple of the playlists. And that's where we pick up here with another 22 great tunes. And as usual, it's fascinating to watch and hear what other strands make their way in - lounge, orchestral, whatever.
Once again enjoy, and see you all on the other side in 2016.
1. Alela Diane & Ryan Francesconi – Shapeless (from the album Cold moon, Believe Recordings)
A glorious winter entry to start, a collaboration between two fascinating artists in their own right.
Like many in this list, it takes folk music and stretches it out until it’s transparent. In this case, classical, choral and tribal music are just a few of the ancestors visible behind Francesconi’s riveting fingerpicked guitar and Diane’s wonderfully pure and clear-eye…
Best of 2015: Part 1 - Kosmische/Instrumental/Soundtrack/Jazz/Dance
That time of year again when we take stock. It's good to take stock, be thankful for what you have, mourn what you miss, make plans for the future, rekindle memories.
Musical memories are obviously pretty specific, conjuring up a place, a time, the people you were with, or maybe just how the music made you feel. It can even seem like music transports us back to a more innocent time. Last January really does seem like a long time ago and some of this list dates back that far. Musical memories are always personal and often completely private.
This list is the first part of a four-part (probably) series. I'm a bit of a hoarder so lists tend to be long. But everything here is treasured by me. I'm calling it Kosmische/Instrumental/Soundtrack/Jazz/Dance. As usual, tags are somewhat arbitrary but let's go with those. And the tunes are in no particular order. I'm aiming for the second part of the review sometime between Christmas and New Year's if you're a di…
Patrick Freeman – Butterfly
Of the numerous delights on the debut album by Patrick Freeman, Cherry blossom fall, there is one that jumps out from the crowd.
‘Butterfly’ catches a current of some of Brian Wilson’s South Seas experiments courtesy of a sublime steel guitar turn from David Murphy (John Blek & The Rats, The Lost Brothers).
In another context, this would be the upper echelons of country music. Here, with a cavernous reverb and flanked by a pitter patter drum machine and glorious vibe synths, it approaches the realms of vintage exotica, your Eden Ahbez for example, dipping and diving into some intriguing psychedelic side roads.
The song is perfectly reined in, letting the production do the work. The album was recorded with Brendan Fennessy of O Emperor at their Big Skin studio and it constitutes another impressive addition to that studio’s growing discography.
Beguiling is a word.
Cherry Blossom Fall by Patrick Freeman
Playlist 382 - Dec 15 2015
The last show of the year and a bit of a mixum gatherum. Some musical highlights of 2015 sprinkled throughout, a few pieces of winter music and a few new releases.
The winter music was Lost Idol, a wonderful mix of medieval choral and 21st century beats. And Jóhann Jóhannsson, the soundtrack to his own film End of summer about a trip to the Arctic, a suitably glacial and haunting piece.
Best of 2015 included JR Green rollicking away fabulously, Low simmering magnificently, Alela Diane & Ryan Francesconi meditating compellingly, Deerhunter psyching beautifully, Julia Holter well she's just brilliantly daft as a brush.
New music from TEEN, new album coming from them in the spring, and Tess Parks, uncompromising psych pop.
Two more great cuts from the Creation Records Box Set out on Cherry Red, The Loft & Primal Scream from 1985, great to hear those.
More on the Best of 2015 coming on the blog over the next few weeks. The next show is Jan 5th.
Happy Holidays …
Lee Hazlewood – The very special world of Lee Hazlewood (reissue, Light in the Attic)
The wonderful Light in the Attic Records has been pursuing a raft of Lee Hazlewood reissues in recent years and what a beautiful thing that is.
This winter saw the reissue of his three MGM records from the mid 1960s. In the wake of ‘These boots are made for walkin’’, the smash hit in early 1966 written by Lee for Nancy Sinatra, LH was given the run of the studio with his pick of the cream of session talent. This was what came to be known as the ‘Wrecking Crew’ and the personnel on these albums includes such greats as Glen Campbell, Chuck Berghofer, Hal Blaine, Carol Kaye, Al Casey and Larry Knechtel.
There’s a whole bunch of treasures on all three albums (Its cause and cure and Something special are the others) but I would have to say that LH hit a particularly rich seam on the first one, The Very Special World of Lee Hazlewood. In fact, the first half of the album alone contains at least four all time classics in the genre LH invented, that strain of world weary, sumptuous ba…
Anderson – Patterns (Anderson Songs)
A Dubliner with a great line in Nilsson-esque songwriting (there’s a lot of that going around this month) and winning melodies.
One of the most appealing things about this album is the lyrics, full of sincerity but thankfully without that dreaded earnestness and just as thankfully without any tiresome obliqueness. An opening line of “I get up in the morning, try to feel some sense of worth” could be a recipe for disaster in other hands. Here on the title track it’s paired with a lovely sprightly arrangement of upbeat acoustic guitar, twinkling piano and chirping strings for a genuinely touching effect. By the time he gets to “every song’s a souvenir for somebody to take”, if you’re anything like me you’ll be totally won over.
He follows up with the wonderful ‘Things we have in common’, another lyric of self-doubt pulled up by its bootstraps by swirling strings and a chugging bassline. Plus self-doubt is all well and good but it’s given great dimension with songwriting (and ana…
Steve Warner – Steve Warner (reissue, Earth Records)
Another lovely reissue by Earth, this time from the Melbourne 1970s folk artist Steve Warner.
That name didn’t make much of a mark this side of the world at the time. However, this is an album that would sit comfortably alongside such classic singer songwriters as Harry Nilsson or Randy Newman.
Warner uses a variety of styles but the most successful one based on this album is the lush piano ballad.
The opener ‘Summer’ has a lovely winsome quality, the sweet piano arpeggios augmented by slightly kooky mellotron synth and a searching lyric with perfectly plaintive delivery.
‘Rainfall’ is an instrumental beauty with a bit of a prog rock feel – there’s even a film music style intro – plangent piano chords giving way to a descending guitar riff (soft distortion and all) and synth choir.
‘We’ll go on’ has a hint of that 70s crooner Peter Skellern, although deeper and a little stranger, plaintive and pleading with a magnificent, twisting chord sequence, not sure whether it…
Playlist 381 - Dec 8 2015
A few wonky Christmas numbers at the top of the show this week. Tex Ritter giving Santa a bit of western swing, The Three Suns bringing some excellent cheese (thank you Trunk Records) and Astrocolour taking a more laid back, Air-ish approach to some classics of the season.
Then a bunch of stuff that will be featuring in my Best of 2015 -
The Drink, glorious twisting guitar shapes
Field Music, horns on top of superior prog pop
The Chills, heartlifting jangle pop
Lee Hazlewood, a reissue but an absolute treasue of this year
Robert Forster, elegaic, poetic, playful, wonderful.
And Anderson (below), an Irish singer songwriter of substance and class. I like the way his jacket fits.
More on these pages.
Dec 8 2015 w Xmas Tunes, Field Music, The Drink, The Chills, Polar Bear, Anderson, Robert Forster++ by The Underground Of Happiness on Mixcloud
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Mikael Tariverdiev – Film Music (Earth Records)
A wonderful discovery courtesy of Stephen Coates of The Real Tuesday Weld and Earth Records.
Mikael Tariverdiev is a household name in Russia, thanks to his prolific output as a classical composer in general, but also for his work in tv and film. However, I’m guessing even the most conscientious cinephile from this part of the world might not have heard of him (and of course that’s what curators and labels are for).
This handsome triple album collection compiles his film work, in particular three main soundtracks from the 1960s – Goodbye Boys, Snow Over Leningrad and I am a tree.
Jazz predominates, a lovely smoky Russian take on the form – a spectrum from slow blues piano to ragtime tunes to furious jams with wailing sax solos. There’s also a hint of the French jazz style, and chanson here and there – that giveaway dampened guitar strumming and brushed snare. The brilliant ‘Waltz from The Last Thief’ uses accordion and marimba, to intoxicating effect. There are shades (a for…
Just the way it fell but a bit of a 1980s theme this week. The new Creation Records box set is out on Cherry Red and I was lucky enough to get my hands on a copy (thanks Ricky). It covers 1983 and 1984, the first two years of the label, and how great it is to hear gems like The Pastels & The Loft. Cardiacs are also being reissued, from 1984, and The Go Betweens from the same year, well we don't need an excuse.
Also some winter themes -
Laura Cannell, arresting
Laura Cannell remixed by Lutine, haunting
C Duncan, fantastic misty dream pop
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Home Arts & Entertainment Rowan March Profs Spotlight highlights music, poetry and comedy
Rowan March Profs Spotlight highlights music, poetry and comedy
Dylan Maslowski
Bringing a range of poetry, comedy and music to the Profs Place stage, the Profs Spotlight event returned this past Monday, right at the cusp of Spring Break.
Showcasing new performers and returning faces alike, this event highlighted the diverse array of talents here at Rowan University.
First to the stage was freshman mechanical engineering Robert Kallok, known by his stage name “Bobcat.”
“My personal influences are Weezer, Radiohead, Coheed & Cambria, a lot of prog-rock influence. I’m trying to incorporate a lot more Rage Against the Machine influence,” Kallok said, noting some of the strange guitar tones and progressive rock style that comes from these bands.
His set list consisted of a handful of original pieces, as well as a cover of Weezer’s “The World Has Turned And Left Me Here.”
Kallok had humble beginnings with his guitar.
“When I was in seventh grade I just had a guitar and I made my friend teach me how to play it. The instrument came first – then the music,” he said.
Returning for her third appearance at Profs Spotlight was freshman law and justice major Brianna Roland.
Roland, a slam poet, presented two pieces, one titled “Military,” influenced by the recent political climate and the other “Alzheimer’s,” which she wrote in dedication to her grandfather, who died from the disease this past January.
“I normally try to make poems I’m not experienced in like in different characters,” said Roland, noting the perspectives that were given in both of her pieces.
Roland noted that when she listened to rap when she was younger that it wasn’t the rhythm she was attracted to, it was the poetry itself.
Another first timer to the Profs Spotlight stage was improvisational comedian and junior computer science major Michael Matthews, “M&M” for short.
He cited Tinder as his biggest inspiration. Matthews challenged himself with a variety of improvised pick up lines, given to him by audience members.
“I just felt when I was using pick up lines it went pretty well,” Matthews said after the event. “You try to stretch your creativity and find the world play within words.”
Returning once more to the Profs Spotlight stage was sophomore opera singing major Steve Solkela.
A fan favorite, Solkela performed a range of original polka tunes as a one man band, complete with accordion and bass drum in tow.
Solkela’s inspiration is Bobby Aro, a Finnish musician. After the show, he joked that he is Aro reincarnated.
“Musicians should be able to do something that people can’t, that one man band is something I wouldn’t have been able to do unless I trained my multi-tasking skills every day. I wanna be more impressive than any musician I’ve ever met, and I’ve got a lot more to do yet,” he said.
Other performers included comedian and impressionist Sean O’Malley and guitarist and songwriter Dave Alprandi.
O’Malley, who competed in last year’s “Laugh Off,” brought his comedy routine to the pit, before treating the audience to his arsenal of impressions which ranged from Stitch from Disney’s “Lilo and Stitch” to the titular characters of “Rick & Morty.”
“Every story that I tell is 100% true – at least in some sense,” O’Malley said.
Alprandi, the final performer of the night is a sophomore accounting major by trade, but his musical influences are all across the board. He performed a handful of original songs as well as covers of John Mayer’s “Gravity” and Ed Sheeran’s “Shape of You.”
“Growing up I listened to a lot of contemporary jazzy stuff, and when I was a teenager it was more pop Fall Out Boy and Panic! at the Disco stuff. I’m kind of influenced by all genres,” he said.
The next Profs Spotlight will be held on April 3. Anyone interested in performing can contact the Chamberlain Student Center’s Graduate Coordinator of Marketing & Special Events Jenn Margiloff at margil27@rowan.edu.
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Roland Burris will be sworn in by the end of the week
It is being reported, now confirmed by Durbin and Reid that the Senate will accept Burris' credentials and this damn saga is OVER.
The Roland Burris saga is over, as Democratic Senate leaders have accepted his credentials and will swear him in as the junior senator from Illinois by the end of this week.
The decision ends an embarrassing chapter in Democratic politics and allows the Senate to move on after the Burris spectacle dominated the opening week of the 111th Congress.
In a statement issued after a 45-minute meeting between Senate officials and Burris’ lawyers, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) said Burris is now the senator-designate from Illinois after the secretary of the Senate approved his latest credentials.
“The secretary of the Senate has determined that the new credentials presented today on behalf of Mr. Burris now satisfy Senate rules and validate his appointment to the vacant Illinois Senate seat,” the statement said. “In addition, as we requested, Mr. Burris has provided sworn testimony before the Illinois House Committee on Impeachment regarding the circumstances of his appointment.”
“We have spoken to Mr. Burris to let him know that he is now the senator-designate from Illinois and as such, will be accorded all the rights and privileges of a senator-elect.
“Accordingly, barring objections from Senate Republicans, we expect Senator-designee Burris to be sworn in and formally seated later this week. We are working with him and the office of the vice president to determine the date and time of the swearing-in,” the statement said.
I mean, really, the senate could not have this DRAGGED OUT during the Inaugural Celebrations around D.C.
Finally, this has been a pr NIGHTMARE for Harry Reid and Dick Durbin. Again, seating Burris takes this media spectacle OFF the table and relegates Blago's mess more locally than nationally.
It is about time someone in D.C. put on their "smart hats", for real.
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Studio sketches more success in animation ‘hotspot’ of Vancouver
November 2, 2018Industry News, Media, Uncategorized
East Van’s Atomic Cartoons has grown to 450 staff from 20 since 2016
Laura Kane · CBC News
Jennifer Twiner McCarron remembers when daycare staff took bets on when her daughter would finally stop wearing sparkly princess dresses.
So the CEO of Vancouver’s Thunderbird Entertainment and its Atomic Cartoons subsidiary could definitely relate to the co-authors of Princesses Wear Pants — NBC anchor Savannah Guthrie and parent educator Allison Oppenheim.
Both had young daughters who also went through a princess phase. While they worried about their girls aspiring to be princesses, they also wanted to let them embrace what they enjoyed, Twiner McCarron said.
“The moral for the book for them started from: It’s OK to embrace your pink and sparkly side and be feminine, but it’s also more important what you do than what you look like,” she said.
“That’s the part about wearing your pants. It’s OK to be a princess, but sometimes you’ve got to put your pants on and get things done.”
Female leader
Atomic Cartoons is now producing a Princesses Wear Pants animated series that follows the adventures of courageous go-getter — and occasional trouser-wearer — Princess Penelope Pineapple. Drew Barrymore’s Flower Films is among the executive producers.
It’s the latest achievement for Atomic Cartoons, which Twiner McCarron has helmed since 2016 and helped grow to 450 staff from 20. She recently also became CEO of Thunderbird Entertainment, which produced Blade Runner 2049 and Kim’s Convenience.
The theme of Princesses Wear Pants resonated with her as a female leader in an industry where men still dominate in top positions. She’s an active member of Women in Animation, which aims to increase female representation in the business.
She advises young women: “If a new door of responsibility opens, just try to walk through it. What’s the worst thing that could happen? It doesn’t work out? That’s OK, you pick yourself up and you do something else.”
‘Hotspot’ for animation
Atomic Cartoons is based in a sprawling mural-covered building in East Vancouver. The city is a “hotspot” for visual effects and animation, said Twiner McCarron, sitting in her tiny office adorned with Halloween decorations.
Vancouver is a world leader with about 60 visual effects and animation studios. And Netflix and other streaming services have boosted demand for content, helping British Columbia become Canada’s top spot for film and TV production last year, according to figures from the Canadian Media Producers Association.
“There’s so much of a need for content because people also consume it so quickly,” said Twiner McCarron. “Before, as it applies to animation, you were vying for those five primetime spots on Saturday morning, so it was much more competitive.”
Now, she said, children’s programming has not only become more ubiquitous, it’s also gotten faster-paced. Disney’s Bambi, a favourite of hers when she was growing up, nearly put her kids to sleep, she said.
“The cutting is a lot faster. We used to do a 22-minute show and 325 shots seemed like a lot. Now we’ll do a 22-minute show with 500 shots,” she said, adding that episodes lasting seven or 11 minutes are becoming common too.
‘Vancouver’s hard, as we all know’
While Vancouver’s industry is booming, the city has a well-documented downside: wildly unaffordable housing. Atomic Cartoons is set to open its next office in Ottawa, a more attractive locale to young employees who want to lay down roots and start families.
“Where do young people want to be and thrive? Vancouver’s hard, as we all know,” Twiner McCarron said. “It’s an expensive city. Ottawa has art, culture, politics, it’s the capital of Canada, great schools and it’s affordable still.”
Looking ahead, the CEO plans to continue to find great books to transform into shows. She often chats with librarians to find out what kids are reading, and recently inked a deal to turn Max Brallier’s Eerie Elementary into a live-action show.
She aims to create content that makes the world a better place — even in small ways.
“What’s the value of my work? We are essentially helping parents cook dinner quietly,” she said with a laugh. “But at least they can put some stuff on that’s quality and … has good values and messaging.”
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Visit Our Original Bikes
Where are our original bikes?
Glad you asked. We've heard this same question ever since we revealed our new rides (courtesy of 4theoutdoors.com) and we're pleased to say we still have them and they have found a wonderful temporary home.
The idea of selling Tinkerbelle and Tarzan (the names for our original R1100GS and F650GS) was as ridiculous as it was impossible. C'mon, how could we possibly entertain the idea of parting with two stunning machines that after 450,000 miles have literally become part of who we are today!
From first buying these to wonderful machines, and clocking up those first miles, through years of pre-trip modifications and then a decade of on the road upgrades and adventures, our original BMW motorcycles have become part of our family. My mum (Simon) still refers to them as the 'Grand-kids'. I'd asked her once, why she called them this, she looked at my and pouted and said with a smile, they are your kids, besides, you love them and they're expensive, so really, they're just like real kids.
I'd argue both machines have their own personalities and I know for sure they've both earned the retirement they're currently enjoying. When we agreed the offer of our new bikes, we knew we were going to have mixed emotions about parting from Tink's and Tarzan and we knew they needed to go somewhere they'd be appreciated and cared for, until such time we can ship them back to Europe or find a permanent home.
Bob Henig owns one of the best BMW Motorcycle museum's Lisa and I have ever been into and we were thrilled when Bob, called us personally to offer them a place among his collection. Sat inside Bob's Vintage Motorcycle Museum, our bikes are surrounded by decades of BMW Motorcycling history and prestige. In a purpose built, and recently refurbished two-story complex, our bikes are parked with pride of place on the ground floor and there for you to enjoy.
If you fancy a day out or would just like to get up close and personal with two of the most recognizable adventure bikes on the planet, then calls BOB's BMW and let them know you want to drop by. The entrance is free and you'll be surprised and impressed with the collection of BMW Motorrad machines and memorabilia in the museum.
For more info read on below:
From Bob.
The Vintage BMW Motorcycle Museum is open most Saturday mornings and by appointment. All tours meet at Bob’s BMW and then typically head over to the museum around 10:00 am as a small group.
To make an appointment to visit the museum, call Bob at 301-497-8949 x218 or send an email to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
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The Museum is provided FREE of cost to the public, courtesy of Bob’s BMW. It is fun for all ages (responsible children only please**), non-motorcyclists, and riders of ALL makes and models.
NOW BIGGER THAN EVER! Explore 3,500 square feet of BMW history showcasing over 65 vintage and classic BMW motorcycles and side cars, memorabilia, art and much, much more! One visit won’t be enough…with so much to see you will discover something new with every visit!
The history of BMW Motorrad comes to life as you walk through Bob’s BMW stunning collection of BMW motorcycles, such as factory original BMWs from as far back as 1925; never before ridden BMWs from decades and decades ago, such as a 30+ year old “Slash 5”; adventure BMWs ridden around the world (and then some!), one with over 600,000 miles; and BMWs ridden by legends like Gary Nixon that made motorcycle history, and so much more!
*Please note that only the ground floor level is wheelchair accessible. We are happy to offer assistance for anyone who might need help with the single, wide staircase leading to about 60% of the displays.
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Operation Fiela strikes fear in the hearts of foreign nationals
by African Times
Mashaba adopts stern approach to weed out criminals.
GIFT NDOLWANE
THE hardline approach by authorities against foreign nationals, coupled with operations by police to weed out criminals has pitted the local government with civil society, even sex workers and sent shockwaves among migrants in the South African economic powerhouse of Gauteng.
A series of raids in the central business districts (CBD) of the City of Gold (Johannesburg), has evoked memories of decades ago when foreign nationals, mostly Zimbabweans, Nigerians, Mozambicans and Malawians, used to play cat and mouse with the men and women in blue.
With the launch of the Operation Fiela, an initiative that sees police joined by officials from various agencies and government departments, including Defence and Home Affairs, Johannesburg Mayor Herman Mashaba has had his way.
In 2017, Mashaba instituted a court bid to force the Home Affairs to take action against undocumented immigrants and general lawlessness in Johannesburg and its outlines.
While a date is yet to be issued on the court roll, the launch of the Operation Fiela has come as a major boost to his hardline stance.
Since the Democratic Alliance (DA) took Johannesburg metro from the African National Congress (ANC) in 2016, there has been a shift towards harsher treatment of immigrants.
In 2017 some of Mashaba’s utterances, widely viewed as xenophobic and anti-foreign, were blamed for the wave of violence against foreign nationals.
The violations, which saw some foreign nationals killed and their property burned down, spread to the capital Pretoria targeting mainly Nigerians, Zimbabweans, Mozambicans, Malawaians, Solamis, Ethiopians, Pakistanis, among others.
Foreign nationals in Johannesburg are thus panicking at the prospects of deportations with the launch of the current crackdown.
Zimbabwean Nickson Dube (36) is reminded of the heady days when law enforcers pounced on foreigners, bundled them into the blue-and-white vans following which they would be sent to the western Lindela Repatriation Centre before deportation.
“I remember around 2006 -7 every time I saw police vehicle the only thing on my mind was to tactically walk to the other direction without showing any passerby that I am running away,” recalled Dube.
The unsettling possibility of deportations is amplified by thousands, if not millions around the country.
While the Operation Fiela is targeting dilapidated properties and criminal hideouts across the city, according to Minister of Police Fikile Mbalula, the operation has seen illegal migrants being caught in the crossfire.
Monica Ndlovu (41) from Soweto south of Johannesburg had heard from friends and relatives in the inner city life had become unbearable.
“Ngizwe nje abantu baseHillbrow bethi lezinsuku kunzima,” she said in the Zimbabwean Ndebele dialect, which is related to the local Zulu.
It loosely translates to, “I heard from people in Hillbrow that is so hard these days.”
Civic groups working to protect the rights of migrants last week held a meeting with City of Johannesburg officials to get clarification on the recent operation, only to be told the city had no part in the crackdown.
“We met officials from the Mayor’s office last week, they said the Office of the Mayor is not involved in Operation Fiela,” said Ngqabutho Mabhena, general secretary of the Zimbabwe Communist Party (ZCP).
Marc Gbaffou African Diaspora Forum (ADF) Chairman, described the Operational Fiela as a populist agenda by the Ministry of Police.
In an interview with CAJ News, Gbaffou said the organisation’s offices in Johannesburg had been inundated by calls from “terrified” individuals.
“There have so many human rights abuses suffered by women and children who had their doors broken down in the middle of the night. Some of their valuable properties were destroyed,” said Gbaffou.
“Communities have agreed to fight crime side by side with their African brothers. It is bad when crime fighting campaigns are used to target foreigners,” added Gbaffou.
The Sex Workers Education and Advocacy Taskforce (SWEAT), Sisonke Gender Justice and National Movement of Sex Workers in South Africa condemned the raids.
“Police raids, which are labeled as efforts to get rid of the drugs in communities are nothing but publicity stunts that perpetuate stigma and discrimination against sex workers and foreign nationals,” Lesego Tlhwale SWEAT Media Advocacy Officer, noted.
Tlhwale said sex workers in particular, regularly found themselves in the crossfire of community anger about crime.
“And when this happens, sex workers are often targeted and victimised by the police, as they are often associated with drug use, abuse and trafficking.”
She said the trend was noted when similar raids were carried out in February last year in Rosettenville and Pretoria where sex workers and foreign nationals were victimised, displaced and their properties torched.
The fiery Mbalula said objectives of Operation Fiela are to stamp out crime in areas criminals had declared “No go” areas.
He said those targeted would include gangs and some undocumented foreign nationals.
“Operations must restore community faith in police. Communities have developed a tendency of protecting criminals by not providing information on crimes or suspects and also by attacking the police. Our aim is to win back our communities and deal with the illegal acts of vigilantism,” the minister said.
There were no immediate comment from Nigerian Union South Africa (NUSA) chairman, chief Emeka Johnson at the time of going to press. – CAJ News
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Data on child well-being: How does the nation measure up?
Understanding how our youth are faring is an important aspect of not only reinforcing, but also strengthening the supports that afterschool provides. Two separate reports released this summer delved into the state of child well-being across the country, measuring our nation’s progress over...
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To elevate equity, diversity, and inclusion, go deeper into your quality standards
By Femi Vance, researcher at American Institutes for Research, Board President for the California School-Age Consortium, Field Consultant for the National Summer Learning Association, and editor of Changemakers! Equity and Access in Out-of-School Time Programs. Implementing high-quality...
Evaluating afterschool: The evaluation basics, part III
The Afterschool Alliance is pleased to present the tenth installment of our "Evaluating afterschool" blog series, which answers some of the common questions asked about program evaluation and highlights program evaluation best practices. Be sure to take a look at earlier posts of the...
Evaluating afterschool: The evaluation basics, part I
The Afterschool Alliance is pleased to present the eighth installment of our "Evaluating afterschool" blog series, which answers some of the common questions asked about program evaluation and highlights program evaluation best practices. Be sure to take a look at earlier posts of...
New report on building data-driven afterschool systems within cities
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Data sharing with afterschool leads to student success
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Mapping afterschool in New Mexico
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Afterschool, community partners featured in Aspen Institute’s "Nation At Hope" report
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The prevalence of adverse childhood experiences
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New issue brief showcasing afterschool promoting civic engagement
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Reaching 90 percent high school graduation rate by 2020
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New polling shows America is for afterschool
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A new infographic released by RAND draws our attention to the key benefits of public funding for afterschool and summer learning programs. Based on their 2017 research report The Value of Out-of-School Programs, which we covered here last year, the infographic reflects the evident need for...
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Alaska Airlines to Launch Portland-Honolulu Service in September
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Alaska Airlines is launching year-round, daily service between Portland, Oregon and Honolulu on September 20.
Honolulu will be the second destination in Hawaii to be served by Alaska Airlines from Portland. The airline already flies between Portland and Kahului, Maui.
“We’re excited to provide our Portland customers with additional nonstop service to the Hawaiian Islands,” says Joe Sprague, Alaska’s vice president of marketing. “With its beautiful beaches, historic sites and endless sunshine, Honolulu is a great complement to our existing Portland-Maui nonstop service. Including these new flights, Alaska Airlines and Horizon Air will serve the Portland market with 90 daily departures ― more than twice [as many as] any other airline.”
From September 20, Alaska Airlines’ new Portland-Honolulu flight will leave Portland International Airport (PDX) at 7:25 a.m. and reach Honolulu International Airport (HNL) at 10:25 a.m. The return flighbt is timed to depart HNL at 11:25 a.m. and arrive back at PDX at 8:10 p..m. (All times are based on local time zones.)
Alaska Airlines operates Boeing 737-800s throughout its network and uses the model for nearly all of its flights between the U.S. mainland and Hawaii
The new flights are available for booking from April 15, at alaskaair.com or by calling 1-800-ALASKAAIR (1-800-252-7522 or TTY/TDD line 1-800-392-0228). They are timed for convenient connections to and from Alaska Airlines’ and Horizon Air’s destinations in Alaska, Idaho, Oregon and Washington.
Alaska will operate its Portland-Honolulu service with Boeing 737-800s accommodating 16 passengers in first class and 141 in the main cabin. Special Hawaiian-themed service includes Mauna Loa macadamia nuts and a complimentary Mai Tai or POG juice, as well as Hawaiian-themed meal-for-purchase options for $6. Inflight service includes Alaska Airlines’ digEplayer, a personal entertainment system offering a variety of movies, television shows, music and other features.
Alaska Airlines Vacations offers a line of vacation packages for travel to the islands of Oahu, Kauai, Maui and the Big Island of Hawaii. Packages include air transportation, hotel accommodations, ground transportation and tours. For more information about Alaska Airlines Vacations, visit alaskaair.com/vacations.
Sister airlines Alaska Airlines and Horizon Air say that, together, they offer more nonstop flights (serving 27 different destinations), more daily flights (89) and more California service (39 flights daily to 13 California destinations) from Portland International Airport than any other carrier.
Alaska Airlines89 Boeing 737-800195 Hawaii60 HNL34 Honolulu38 Honolulu International Airport38 PDX39 Portland International Airport38 Portland OR43
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III. Induction of Clinical Disease in Volunteers Inoculated withRickettsia quintana Propagated on Blood Agar*,†
J. W. Vinson, G. Varela, C. Molina-Pasquel
Affiliations: 1 Department of Microbiology, Harvard University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, and Instituto de Salubridad y Enfermedades Tropicales, México 17, D.F.
Source: The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Volume 18, Issue 5, 1 Sep 1969, p. 713 - 722
A Mexican strain of Rickettsia quintana isolated directly on blood agar from a volunteer trench-fever patient and passaged exclusively on this medium induced typical clinical trench fever in two of three volunteers. The etiology of their infection was established by xenodiagnosis as well as by recovery of the rickettsiae from their blood directly on blood agar. The recovered microorganisms produced typical extracellular infection in lice after intrarectal inoculation. The numbers of rickettsiae circulating in the peripheral blood of the two infected volunteers at various intervals after onset of disease were quantified. Both infected volunteers had antibodies in low titer, which reacted with a complement-fixing antigen prepared from a European strain of R. quintana cultivated on blood agar. The experiments established that the microorganisms propagated on cell-free media from the blood of trench-fever patients were R. quintana.
Copyright © 1969 by The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
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WRT 101
EAPP COMMUNICATION ACROSS CONTEXTS I
TINELLI L
F 10:25AM - 11:40AM
This course is designed to help undergraduate non-native speakers of English improve their English oral communication and listening skills in preparation for social interactions at the university. Students will practice speaking at greater length and faster speed by developing fluency, grammatical accuracy, complexity of sentence structures, and vocabulary. In addition, students will practice listening actively to peers, summarizing, paraphrasing, and repeating key information from native speakers of English. The course will also cover such techniques as asking follow-up questions, using socialization strategies, adapting to cultural differences, practicing small talk, and making formal and informal introductions. Class work will take place in and out of the classroom with the collaboration of native and non-native speakers of English in formal and informal settings. Significant class time will be devoted to English pronunciation.
BUILDING: WEGMN | ROOM: 1005
PREREQUISITES: A C or better in WRT 101: EAPP Communication across Contexts I is required to proceed to WRT 102: EAPP Communication across Contexts II. EAPP Program permission required for non-EAPP Program students.
SLOAN G
BUILDING: LCHAS | ROOM: 182
EAPP SPEAKING & LISTENING II
BAYNE M
F 11:50AM - 1:05PM
This course builds upon the lessons from WRT 101: EAPP Communication across Contexts I, and it is designed to help undergraduate non-native speakers of English improve their English oral communication and listening skills in preparation for academic and social interactions. Students will practice taking notes, summarizing, repeating, and critiquing key information from recorded lectures and presentations – with an emphasis on the discourse most prevalent in undergraduate university courses. Students will also practice communicating in different academic, social, and cultural contexts as they engage in classroom conversation, debates, interviews, speaking to formal audiences, and giving academic presentations in English. Class work will take place in and out of the classroom with the collaboration of native and non-native speakers of English in formal and informal settings.
BUILDING: HYLAN | ROOM: 307
PREREQUISITES: C or better in WRT 101: EAPP Communication across Contexts I, or permission of EAPP Program for non-EAPP Program students. WRT 102 is an integrated course that supports WRT 104: EAPP Research, Reading, and Writing coursework.
F 12:30PM - 1:45PM
BUILDING: RRLIB | ROOM: G108
EAPP CRITICAL READING, REASONING, AND WRITING
TR 2:00PM - 4:40PM
WRT 103 is an introduction to critical reading and writing skills. Lessons will center on the analysis of varied readings and on using writing as a tool for critical thinking and reflection. Students will be introduced to concepts of rhetorical analysis and the use of logic, as well as the roles of audience and purpose in shaping the organization, style and argumentative strategies of their own papers. In addition, students will build writing fluency and self-expression through freewriting and in-class writing. Collaboration is an important part of learning; therefore, students will work together as they learn to critique their own work and the work of their peers. Attention will be given to writing beyond the classroom, such as communicating with faculty and others campus programs and departments.
BUILDING: RRLIB | ROOM: 304E
PREREQUISITES: A C or better is required to proceed to WRT 104, EAPP Research, Reading, and Writing. EAPP Program permission required for non-EAPP Program students.
MW 9:00AM - 11:40AM
BUILDING: RRLIB | ROOM: G138N
EAPP RESEARCH,READING&WRIT
WRT 104 extends the critical reading and writing skills learned in WRT 103: EAPP Critical Reading, Reasoning, and Writing to the act of research. Research may include traditional library sources and academic journals, but it may also include primary research such as fieldwork, surveys, and interviews. A variety of texts will be analyzed and discussed in preparation for constructing extended argumentative essays and a final argumentative research paper. Reading and responding critically to texts will be practiced. Students will learn to incorporate source material into research writing and integrate one's ideas with those from other texts. Collaboration is an important part of learning; therefore, students will work together as they learn to critique their work and the work of peers. Attention will be given to writing beyond the classroom, such as communicating with faculty and staff across the college.
PREREQUISITES: C or better in WRT 103: EAPP Critical Reading, Research, and Writing, or permission of EAPP Program for non-EAPP Program students.
EAPP RESEARCH, READING, AND WRITING
TR 11:05AM - 1:45PM
EAPP RESEARCH,RDNG AND WRIT
TR 9:40AM - 12:20PM
LOY E
TR 11:05AM - 12:20PM
Though the original “Choose Your Own Adventure” book series is no longer in print, interactive storytelling flourishes today in a range of multimedia platforms, from cinema to gaming to new books. What makes interactivity such an essential trait of 21st-century media? How does interactivity complicate traditional forms of storytelling while innovating for the future? In this course, students will learn the practices of research and writing by exploring such questions in an academic context. By engaging with scholars and ideas at the border between narrative and game studies, like Espen Aarseth and his formulation of “ergodic literature,” we will use the tools of writing to explore the relationship between media design and storytelling in texts like Black Mirror: Bandersnatch (Netflix) and The Stanley Parable (PC). Using tools like peer-feedback, reflection, and revision, student work will culminate with a final 8-10 page argumentative research paper that integrates course themes with individual interests.
Language, Identity, and Power
COYNE J
MW 11:50AM - 1:05PM
This class explores the relationship between language, identity, and power. We will consider how culturally specific metaphors―metaphors about family, politics, and gender―shape our perceptions about the legitimacy of certain forms of power. Considering the link between dialect and racial identity, we’ll explore why some dialects, like African American English, are considered inferior to Standard English, and if there is evidence to support such views. And lastly, we’ll examine the nature of academic language and authority, and explore ways of using academic language without losing our own voices in the process. To pursue these questions, you will need to understand how language works as a formal system, a historical process, and a source of cultural identity. We’ll read authors such as George Lakoff, John McWhorter, and Gloria Anzaldua. You will write a few short papers and an 8-10 page argumentative research paper. The writing process will involve drafting, revision, peer response, and self-reflection.
Excellent Sheep? Rhetoric, Reality, and Representations of "College"
MURPHY G
TR 9:40AM - 10:55AM
Before coming to UR, you had an idea of what college would be like. You also received representations of college that mediated your expectations. This course uses common genres of academic writing to raise questions about college. What does it mean? What is it good for? Why are you here? In books like Excellent Sheep, media like Dear White People, and research, we see college as an object of discourse and a site that produces it. We examine representations of college, how each constructs its object, and how construction affects lived experience. We unpack race, class, and gender as reflecting and relating to identity formation in college. Our main object of analysis is the language used to describe college; we review the impact of descriptions as much as the experience itself. We consider how audience and purpose shape the organization and strategy of text. You become critical writers via peer and instructor feedback, revision, editing, reflection, and completion of an 8-10 page argumentative research paper.
BUILDING: DEWEY | ROOM: 4162
Where We Come From: Hometowns and Why (or Whether) They Matter in 2020
ARBOGAST A
MW 2:00PM - 3:15PM
The author Jayne Phillips once wrote: “Towns change; they grow or diminish, but hometowns remain as we left them.” What is it about the concept of a “hometown” that transcends its physical location and characteristics? What role (if any) do hometowns play in our lives and how is that changing as the world grows more interconnected? This course will use writing to explore these and other related questions. Students will consult scholars, but also examine the ways in which hometowns are represented in the broader culture, from country songs like Montgomery Gentry’s “Where I Come From” to the ever-popular “hometown” episodes of ABC’s popular reality show The Bachelor. Writing in a variety of modes and styles, students will investigate the broad concept of hometowns, as well as the ways in which hometowns have or have not affected their lives. Peer response and reflective writing will help students find and refine their writing voices and the course will culminate in an 8-10 page argumentative research paper.
What Do People Do All Day?: Careers in America
SCHMIED TOWSL
How is American culture and history shaped by work? How does one's work and search for a career affect individual identity development? What makes "work" into a career? Through popular culture examples including children's books (eg. Richard Scarry's, What do People do all day) films (eg. Billy Elliot, Office Space, Social Network), and theoretical readings from labor history, sociology, and psychology, this class will explore the definition of work in American culture broadly as well as in individual stories. By engaging students in a constructive learning process including class discussions, critical reading, and formal and informal writing assignments this course will introduce students to academic writing. Writing assignments include short analytical essays and one 8-10 page argumentative research paper. The focus of this course is the writing process and will involve drafting, peer response, self-assessment and revision.
BUILDING: LATT | ROOM: 413
Monsters and Modernity: Then and Now
SKWIAT M
Monsters have and continue to hold a powerful effect on our thoughts and imaginations. Yet, what exactly is a monster? What do they tell us about the contemporary setting they grew out of and why do they continue to thrive today? Can they be manifestations of ourselves and society or are they otherworldly and inhuman? Through discussion, group work, and writing we will interrogate the monster in all of its different guises. There will be short analytical assignments, peer response and an 8-10 page argumentative research paper to explore your own interests relating to monsters. The scope of our inquiry will be expansive, encompassing a number of different approaches from psychology and science to literature and film with critical readings from Sigmund Freud and Stephen Jay Gould. Select works may include: The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Night of the Living Dead, The Haunting of Hill House, Michael Jackson’s Thriller, and Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight. Warning: Contains disturbing content.
BUILDING: MEL | ROOM: 206
Life in the Digital Age
STAUFFER A
TR 12:30PM - 1:45PM
This course seeks to understand the effects of social media on individuals, communities, and society at large. In this class, we will explore several questions: What role does digital technology play in contemporary society? How is digital technology changing our identities and behaviors? What are the possible social and political implications of digital technology? We will analyze these questions using writing, critical reading, and discussion, drawing from authors like Sherry Turkle, Dustin Kidd, Malcolm Gladwell, and Mark Zuckerberg, as well as texts ranging from social theory and journalism to fiction and film. Students will take part in informal writing, peer response, writer reflection, and revision. The course will culminate in an 8-10 page argumentative research paper.
BUILDING: GRGEN | ROOM: 110
Impacts of Engineering
Advancements in engineering affect almost every aspect of our society, but what is the nature of this impact? How do engineering solutions influence the social, cultural, and environmental contexts within which they are implemented? Students will explore questions such as these by using writing as a tool for inquiry, discovery, and knowledge construction. In constructing new knowledge, students will also learn how to navigate ethical issues around proper attribution of ideas, as this is important to both writers and engineers. Class discussions, readings, and informal assignments will work together to inform the drafting and revision of two short argumentative essays, an 8-10 page research paper, and a multimodal composition for a public audience. Through peer response and self-assessment, students will learn how to effectively communicate with a variety of audiences.
EXPRESSION AT LARGE: THE ARTS IN THE 21ST CENTURY
MORRICE O
Through the rise of social media platforms, new opportunities for highly visible expression have disseminated throughout the masses. But how have these developments in media influenced visual arts and writing? As Instagram photographers, blog poets, YouTube musicians, and the like are integrated in common discourse, this course will explore the dynamics between social media and creative expression to address how the arts have transformed in this new age--if at all. To explore this we will draw upon a variety of media, which may include critical works from Debord, digital manhwa, Tyler Green’s Modern Art Notes podcast, multimedia collectives like Button Poetry, and a multitude of scholarly articles. We’ll investigate these materials and ideas through writing and discussion, focusing on reflection, peer feedback, and revision as we explore technology and the arts in this new age through several short critical papers, and an 8-10 page argumentative research paper. This class discusses graphic content.
A Thousand Faces, One Story? Heroic Journeys
HANNUM D
How does a monomyth, a single narrative structure about the stages of a “hero’s journey,” help us understand the journeys of heroes and heroines throughout history, or our own lives? Could that story structure become a restrictive model, blinding us to important cultural differences or skewing our way of seeing the world and our places in it? In this class, students will explore these and related questions about the “hero’s journey” as a way of developing as college-level writers and thinkers. They will encounter a number of texts about heroic journeys, including High Noon and Wonder Woman. They will then join in the scholarly discussion about these texts and the issues they raise about our understandings of the monomyth, composing a series of informal responses and short formal assignments leading up to an 8-10pp argumentative research paper. The class will emphasize all aspects of the writing process, including peer and instructor feedback, revision, and self-reflection.
The Truth is Out There: Conspiracy Theories and Alternative Facts
WHITEBELL L
MW 12:30PM - 1:45PM
Did the CIA order the assassination of John F. Kennedy? Were the 9/11 attacks really a series of planned, controlled detonations? And is it true that the Apollo moon landings were staged in a Hollywood studio? In this class we will analyze well-known conspiracy theories through news articles, radio broadcasts and scholarly sources, and consider how they help us to explore concepts like knowledge, power and a fear of the unknown. Critical reading assignments and the process of writing and revising will help to inspire discussion and develop knowledge as we share and test out ideas and arguments. Throughout the course, students will have the chance to engage in self-reflection and peer feedback as they draft and revise short writing assignments, an 8-10 page argumentative research paper and a multimodal project.
Writing About Food
KELLER K
Food. Everyone eats it, many write about it. And while some questions about food can only be answered by eating it, this course will primarily explore evaluative questions about food that we can answer in writing, such as: What is food? Are there objective facts about taste? Can food belong to a culture? Are there foods we should not eat? Which laws about food are best? Writing about food will facilitate our becoming better writers while sharpening our skills in argumentation and critical thinking. We will learn from scientists, artists, chefs, anthropologists, philosophers, as well as experiences of tasting and creating food with our class. Course texts are primarily scholarly articles but also include magazines, podcasts, blogs, videos, and social media. Assignments include in-class writing, formal and informal writing assignments, and an audio podcast. The formal assignments, including an 8-10 page argumentative research paper, will undergo revision, reflection, and peer review.
20th Century Storytelling: Art, Language, and Document in the Age of Information
SADANIANTZ N
With nonstop news coverage and relentless scientific measurement, the contemporary era has established itself as grounded in fact—obsessed with information. Amidst the growth of data, what has become the place of art? Is there space for story, value in ambiguity? Formal innovations of 20th Century artists like Beckett and Godard will foreground language’s construction and how fragmentation might invite inquiry. Students will probe literary, theatrical, and cinematic materials with short analytical papers, aided by self-reflection, peer feedback, and revision. An 8-10 page argumentative research paper and final adaptation project will provide opportunities to demonstrate and expand awareness of the process by which dialogue – academic, artistic, personal – unfolds. As we come to experience storytelling in terms of questions rather than answers, we will be enabled to investigate and appreciate how a communicator and an audience reach towards each other, and not just for the sake of the information between them.
Creativity, Innovation, and Imagination
MALLOY D
Humans have long been fascinated by the process of creating works of art, writing prose and music, or developing innovative solutions to complex business, scientific, and technological problems. Although unrelated by topic, they share the common theme of harnessing the power of creativity, innovation, and imagination. But what is creativity? Who has it? And who really needs it? In this course, we’ll write about questions surrounding creativity, innovation, and imagination through the lens of multiple perspectives – from the arts to engineering. Through readings, TedTalks, and podcasts by Sir Ken Robinson, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Elizabeth Gilbert, and others, we’ll look for interdisciplinary themes in creativity. We’ll also use writing to explore how others have used the creative process – from The Beatles to Steve Jobs. Formal papers will be developed through a process of self-reflection, peer review, and revision, as you work toward your 8-10 page research paper on a topic of your choice.
Contemporary Social Movements: Exploring Social and Political Change
O'DONNELL R
Why are people moved to join social movements and work toward political change? What do movements themselves reveal about the kind of world we want to live in? In exploring these questions, we will draw from contemporary writing on new social movements from Angela Davis and Arundhati Roy and others, and consider a variety of texts that deal with local and global expressions of dissent, including documentary films and personal testimonies. Our collective inquiry will connect concepts from movement practices in several short essays as we learn about effective writing through drafting, revision, peer response, and self-reflection. Our work will culminate in an 8-10 page argumentative research paper, which will demonstrate student ability to engage in critical conversation around contemporary social movements. Please be aware that this course contains content that explores violence and may be upsetting. Please feel free to contact the instructor for more information.
Human, All Too Human: Transformation
SIMON M
CRISPR now allows us to edit the genome, GMOs are rampant, and bioengineering is a burgeoning field that raises questions about the ethical and imaginative dimensions of manipulating one’s environment. What’s at stake for human beings as they manipulate their environment? What are the ideals that motivate a desire to control one’s environment? “Is Nature,” as Philip Pauly asks “raw material to be transformed by the power of the biologist?” What are the psychological and social roots of the human desire for perfectability? Students will explore these questions through discussions, informal writing, and formal papers. We will be looking at foundational Western myths such as the Genesis and Gilgamesh tales, science fiction, scholarly articles concerning issues in Bioengineering and psychology, and shows like Black Mirror. Formal papers will be developed through a process of reflection, peer feedback, and revision, preparing students for a final, 8-10 page argumentative research paper.
Being Homo Sapiens: The Brain, The Mind, The Heart and Full Catastrophe
WANG S
We call ourselves Homo sapiens sapiens: a knowing species. But how does the human consciousness work? Why does the mind also wander afield and go on autopilot, as noted by neuroscience, behavioral medicine, and meditative traditions? In catastrophe, how might mindfulness of our behaviors reveal important information about the individuals and the species? We will consider these questions by exploring poetry by writers from Rumi to Mary Oliver to Derek Walcott and films such as Ghost in the Shell and The Matrix. Other readings probe how the brain, mind, and heart work subtly to create realities—realities as fleeting as they can be profound and consequential. We invite everyone to join our interdisciplinary inquiry while cultivating academic writing skills through discussion, formal and informal writing, peer review, revision, writer reflection, and a final argumentative research paper.
Is Rational Moral Disagreement Possible?
ANNESLEY K
In our current climate, discussions about controversial moral issues are often either shouted or typed in a comment section, neither of which seems particularly productive. Can these discussions be useful, or should we engage differently? Is it possible to rationally disagree? How can we change each other’s minds on morally charged topics such as voluntary euthanasia or immigration? In this course, we’ll construct and participate in arguments about moral issues through formal and informal writing as well as class discussion. We’ll also discuss connections between relevant literature in philosophy (including from U of R’s own Richard Feldman), political science, and psychology (including work on cognitive biases) in order to write and think about disagreement, how disagreement should inform our opinions, and what good moral discourse might look like. Students will write several argumentative essays, engage in peer feedback, reflection, and revision, and finally write an 8-10 page argumentative research paper.
BUILDING: B&L | ROOM: 315
Comics & Culture
MOHN K
In the US, comics are often relegated to the Sunday Funnies or denigrated as cartoons for children. But images can express ideas that are difficult to articulate in words, and comics can bring these modes together in beautiful and startling ways. But how do comics “work”? Why do we think of comics as kids’ books while most readers are adults? Are there stories that can only be told in comics? To answer these questions, we will engage in scholarly research and analyze exemplary texts including the biographical Holocaust narrative, Maus, and superheroes facing apocalypse in Watchmen. Through reading, writing, and discussion we will explore comics in terms of form and narrative; we’ll look at the specific strengths of comics in relation to other media. Alongside this exploration, students will develop academic writing strategies through reflection, peer response, and revision. Assignments will include an 8-10 page argumentative research paper and will culminate in a multimodal project of their own design.
Culture and Learning
WOODRING S
Apprenticeship, metaphoric narrative, and family traditions are all ways of learning through participation in culture. What kinds of cultural beliefs and values influence not only what is learned, but also how knowledge, skills, and traditions are taught? How are learning methods different or similar across cultures? Are there learning norms across all human cultures? Students will explore answers to questions like these through writing and course content from disciplines such as education, psychology, and anthropology. This course emphasizes the importance of the writing process through the use of writer reflection, peer feedback, and revision. The culmination is an 8 to10 page research paper where students will have the opportunity to not only craft an argument and conduct critical analysis, but also to collect data and report research findings. Students will also prepare and present multimodal projects, highlighting elements from their research through creative (and perhaps even non-traditional) means.
Caption This! - Text and Image in Contemporary Culture
BELJANSKI T
In today’s media culture, memes, Instagram and Snapchat rigorously mix text and image for everyday communication. But what exactly is the relationship between text and image? Are they two distinct modes of communication? What happens when image and text meet each other on paper, on film, on canvas? Through class discussions, peer feedback, reflection, visualization and revision, we will learn how media literacy can help us construct compelling arguments in a variety of academic genres and how ideas can be communicated both textually and visually. To explore intersections of image and text we will, in addition to literature and film, dive also deep into comics, video games and music videos, encountering, for example, David Foster Wallace, Nocturnal Animals, Deadpool and Beyoncé. Learning how to respond to these “new” forms of media will help to become more flexible writers in a culture so focused on the visual. The class will culminate in an 8-10 page argumentative research paper and in a #memecompetition.
What is Human Nature?
Who are we? Why are we here? What, after all, is human nature? As a species, we have long wondered what drives us, what makes us unique, why we are the way we are. In this class, we will examine the question of human nature from various perspectives, including science, religion, philosophy, psychology, sociology, and animal studies. We will analyze these viewpoints using writing, critical reading, and discussion, drawing from authors like Edward O. Wilson, Simone de Beauvoir, Michel Foucault, Charles Darwin, and William James, as well as texts ranging from academic scholarship and popular journalism to fiction and film. Students will take part in informal writing, peer response, writer reflection, and revision. The course will culminate in an 8-10 page argumentative research paper.
Living Together: Exploring the Dynamics between Selfhood and Community
CHO S
“No man is an island.” “It takes two.” These sayings indicate that we rely on relationships with others to define ourselves. But how much does our selfhood depend on our community? Then, what is involved in thinking about self-reliance? Does community have something to do with development of personality? Is the dream of complete self-reliance really possible? In this course, we will explore these questions through readings, discussion, and multiple informal and formal writing assignments. The concepts and disciplines covered are wide-ranging, including literature, philosophy, and psychology. We will engage with various movies, books, and journals which explore the complex dynamics between selfhood and community (e.g. Dostoyevsky, Simone Weil, Lee Chang-dong’s film Oasis, Bob Dylan’s songs). An 8-10 page argumentative research paper will be the culmination of our critical consideration on this topic throughout the semester, supported by peer feedback, self-reflection, and individual paper meetings.
#wanderlust: Travel Writing in the Medieval and Modern World
DAVIES H
In the age of Instagram and Facebook, social media is saturated with accounts of exploration. Every day, we practice travel writing, documenting and sharing our encounters with the remarkable and unexpected. Why do we travel? How do we convey these experiences? In this class, we compare the rhetoric of medieval and modern travel writing in order to consider how the recording of ordinary and extraordinary events has evolved over time. By analyzing Instagram posts, online travel lists, the writings of a fourth-century nun, and medieval encounters with Vikings, we study effective writing and narrative strategies. Academic articles help us understand the content and form of these texts. Students will keep a digital journal of their own adventures and practice writing in shorter assignments across various genres. The course will focus on informal writing, peer response, and self-reflection, culminating in an 8-10 page argumentative research paper.
LOWMAN E
MW 10:25AM - 11:40AM
If you could change the past, would you? Would that change who you are today? Who you'll be tomorrow? In the wide genre of "time warp" stories, characters relive the same day, travel back and forth in time, experience events out of sync & challenge our assumptions about the world, history, and ourselves. But how exactly do these stories work? What makes them so popular? How do they reflect and revise our perspectives? We will explore motives, tools & opportunities involved in constructing time travel narratives from expressions in ancient folklore to modern fiction, film & music. Course texts include scholarly views of time and narrative from philosophy to literature, alongside "Rip Van Winkle," Arrival & The Umbrella Academy comics. Our investigations of time travel rhetoric will unfold as we develop our own rhetorical techniques through discussion, peer response, self-reflection & revision leading to a final 8-10 page argumentative research paper.
Apocalypse Now?
BOWEN E
From novels and movie thrillers to documentaries and newscasts, narratives envisioning our imminent extinction are everywhere. Some might even say it’s a cultural obsession. Yet what do apocalypse narratives do? Do they urge us to find preemptive solutions, or do they invent crises to further personal and political agendas? Do they numb our fears by making catastrophes fodder for entertainment, or do they help us cope with doomsday by imagining how we might survive? Students will find their own answers to these questions as we explore apocalypse scenarios such as climate change, nuclear war, and pandemic in novels, newscasts, films, scholarly articles, and other media. In the process, students will hone writing and rhetorical skills through discussion, peer response, reflection, and revision. Short writing assignments will allow students to explore their own interests in the topic and will help them prepare for the course capstone, an 8-10 page argumentative research paper. Class contains graphic content.
Argumentative Detectives: Learning Writing With Detective Fiction
SENGUPTA O
Detectives construct arguments in order to solve impenetrable mysteries. We find famous sleuths like Sherlock Holmes and Hercule Poirot using discussions with close friends as a tool to perform critical thinking that is rigorous and consistent in order to uncover the truth. Conducting our own deductions through group work, discussion and writing, we will investigate the ways in which detectives prepare convincing arguments. How do they define what constitutes as evidence and what doesn’t? What impact do cultural issues of race, gender and class have on their interpretations? We will explore our own questions about arguments in detective fiction by writing informal responses and short papers, evaluating them through peer review, reflection and revision, and finally develop these questions into an 8-10 page argumentative research paper. Course materials include short stories by Poe, Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie, scholarly articles, and TV adaptations such as Sherlock, Elementary and BBC’s Miss Marple.
BEING HOMO SAPIENS SAPIENS: THE BRAIN, THE MIND, THE HEART AND FULL CATASTROPHE
KINGSLEY J
How do you define love? Express it? Seek it? Mask it? Scholars in neuroscience, economics, and literature approach love as both an ineffable emotion and biological necessity, studying its role in human evolution, advertising, and wish fulfillment. How does love affect how we mediate relationships, recall the past, spend our money, and create a sense of self? Students will explore such questions as a way of developing their own inquiries into love’s place in shaping personal and social identity. Course texts will include a range of scholarly articles; cultural commentary by David Brooks; The New York Times column Modern Love; and, the classic film Titanic. Students will research, write, and reflect in order to develop their own inquiries and enter into a scholarly conversation. Through informal writing, peer response, and revision, students will engage their own and others’ questions in order to develop and support their ideas in shorter assignments and a final 8-10 page argumentative research paper.
Human Happiness
PHILLIPS K
What is happiness? We seek it, talk about it, see it all over the news, but are we all talking about the same thing? Philosophers try to understand the nature of happiness while psychologists are concerned with measuring it, but often these projects are isolated from each other. We will look at various approaches to understanding happiness and use critical reading, writing and discussion to think about how the philosophical and psychological projects are compatible, or not. We will use podcasts, popular media and scholarly articles as a jumping off point for entering these debates. Furthermore, we will focus on how writing principles such as audience and purpose function across disciplines by looking at how different fields have approached questions of happiness. Students will be expected to write several argumentative essays, which will go through a process of peer-response, revision and self-assessment, culminating in an 8-10 page argumentative research paper.
Sorry/Not Sorry: Deconstructing the Public Apology
MCKIE E
What are the limits of community forgiveness? How do we decide who gets a second chance after a public scandal or controversy? In this course, we will analyze various factors that influence media narratives of contrition, atonement, and reconciliation. Through research and writing, we will investigate the ways in which these narratives influence our own perspectives. To that end, this course specifically focuses on writing as a form of communication and inquiry, and argument as a tool that is adaptable to a variety of purposes and audiences. Course materials will come from a diverse body of sources, ranging from academic journals to podcasts like Radiolab. We will engage with these sources in both formal and informal settings, gaining experience in self-reflection, peer feedback, and revision. Students will also have the opportunity to explore a course-related topic of their choice, leading to an 8- to 10-page argumentative research paper. Warning: some source material may contain graphic content.
The Horror of the Graphic Novel
POWELL Z
The limits of knowledge, the bumps in the night, death itself—horror deals with unknowns. But how do graphic novels give form to these unknowns differently than paintings, literature, or film? In comparing these forms, we will read scholarly articles on a range of subjects to consider the following questions: How does horror work? To what extent is horror tied to its own socio-political moment? What does horror tell us about different human activities? Using writing to answer these questions, we will work through rhetorical elements such as audience-based reasoning, genre, rhetorical purpose, language use, and more. Throughout the course, students will experience writing as a process that includes peer feedback, reflection, and revision. To that end, students will compose informal and formal assignments, including an 8–10 page argumentative research paper and a multi-modal project that reflects their inquiry on how and why horror is given particular forms. Warning: class contains graphic and sexual content.
Them’s Fighting Words: Violence and Rhetoric
ZALOOM R
Violence generally occurs when language fails, yet language itself is often the cause of violence in both literature and reality. Through what means does language effectively persuade, defend, or even harm others? How and why does violence materialize across different genres and media? In this class, we will address forms of violence, such as physical, rhetorical, and institutional, and explore language’s role in creating literary and real-life violence. Our encounters with violence in plays, films, and social doctrines will help us understand the repercussions of our own rhetoric. We will learn to develop productive writing processes by analyzing sources and practicing peer feedback, reflection, and revision. After writing three short papers, we will critically investigate our individual interests and interpretations of violence in a final 8-10-page argumentative research paper. Course materials may include works by W. Shakespeare, V. Martin, F. Coppola, and others. WARNING: violent, graphic content.
Dis/Enchantment
ORMSBEE M
There is a common belief that the state of modernity is a thoroughly disenchanted one—that society has replaced a need for magic with cold steel and microchips, and that fantasy is only fit for children. Yet the idea of magic is alive and well in literature, popular culture and public discourse. How does fantasy, whether understood as a genre or as a particular function of the imagination, operate within its contemporary cultural landscape? What is the value of enchantment in our supposedly “disenchanted” world? Students will craft their own answers to these questions in connection with texts depicting various forms of enchantment and the fantastic. Assigned texts may include Shakespeare’s The Tempest, Hiyao Miyazaki’s film Howl’s Moving Castle, and short works of magical realism. Students will develop their critical thinking and writing skills through a series of short assignments, peer feedback, reflection and revision, working towards an 8-10 page argumentative research paper at the end of the semester.
Justice, Equality, and Authority
BARBER Z
How should we live amongst one another? What would a just society look like? In what sense are all humans equal? And how does our use of language influence our thinking about political topics such as these? This course aims to develop an understanding of the basic principles of academic writing by analyzing these political issues and by using academic writing, in turn, as a means to address them. The investigation will span fields such as economics, psychology, political science, and philosophy. To stimulate the process of writing, peer feedback, reflection, and revision, we will engage with texts ranging from Plato’s “Republic” to John Rawls’ modern classic “A Theory of Justice.” The course will culminate with an 8- to 10-page argumentative research paper in which students apply their sharpened skills of analysis to a political issue of their choosing.
Disease & Society
SCHAEFER K
In 2013, health care spending consumed 17 percent of America’s Gross Domestic Product. We as a society must make choices about spending, balancing the desire to achieve the best possible health for everyone with the reality of limited resources. Underlying these decisions are ethical and practical concerns, and any policy requires answers to many questions. For instance, which diseases get the most attention? Are contagious diseases in a different class from heart disease and cancer? When may we infringe on someone’s rights in the name of better health? We will examine these questions, drawing on newspaper articles, TED talks, policy blogs, and scholarly sources that examine the sociological, psychological, economic, ethical, and medical aspects of these questions. You will develop and refine your ideas through critical reading, visual mapping, writing, discussion, peer feedback, reflection, and revision, and share them in the form of several short papers and an 8-10 page argumentative research paper.
Forbidden to Itself: Ethics of Censorship
MCDONALD M
Censorship targets an array of content—sex, violence, political disobedience—but it also takes many forms. How do the cultural situations that motivate censorship differ, say, between a book banned for blasphemy, and a TV show pulled after a public tragedy? Why does it matter who censors, and with what force? Through brief analytical papers, aided by peer feedback, reflection and revision, we will examine censorship in literature, music, visual arts, and digital media since World War II. Referenced works may include selections from William S. Burroughs’ novel Naked Lunch, Louis C.K.’s comedy, and the poet Vanessa Place’s Gone with the Wind tweets. Legal decisions on censorship and scholarly articles on social media restrictions, among other critical frames, will provide cross-disciplinary perspectives. In an 8-10 page argumentative research paper, we will carve out a sustained and reasoned position, however provisional, on the issues that our texts and discussions provoke. Course content may be disturbing.
Villains in Visual Media
DELCOURT S
Why do we sympathize with some villains and not others? Through discussion, group work, and writing, we will study villains, their motivations and their roles in film and graphic novels. We will use academic articles from film studies, the humanities and psychology to frame questions like: What societal values do villains fight for or against? How are class struggles represented by villains? How do race and gender affect our interpretations? We analyze how tropes encourage us to pick a side in their conflicts and use this to interrogate our own perspectives on social issues in pop culture. Course materials will include a James Bond film, Crimson Peak, and Black Panther, among others. We will use peer response, self-reflection and revision in writing three shorter papers and one 8-10 page argumentative research paper to explore your own academic interests relating to villains. Through these papers, we will learn how to form arguments and write to different audiences. Warning: Class contains graphic content.
WRT 105A
Contemplating Mindfulness in Writing and Beyond
What does it mean to be mindful? How does it help during the writing process? What are the practices of a mindful writer? Mindfulness refers to the mental state of directing one’s attention to the present moment, and its benefits expand to a variety of domains, such as emotional well-being and cognition. This course will broadly focus on these benefits while primarily examining the act of being mindful as a writing tool. Students will take part in mindful practices including reflexive writing, focused attention exercises, and light mediation to support the writing process. They will also learn about mindfulness perspectives from Ellen Langer, Jon Kabat-Zinn, and other scholars in the field. This course emphases the importance of argument development through informal and formal writing assignments and contemplative practices, such as writer reflection, peer feedback, and revision. By the end of the course, students will have compiled mindful techniques to use in a variety of writing contexts.
WRT 105B
REASONING AND WRITING IN THE COLLEGE: SECND PART OF THE WRT 105A-WRT 105B SEQUENCE
OTIS J
The second-half of the WRT 105A-WRT 105B sequence, WRT 105B immerses students in the experience of academic writing, with a particular emphasis on analyzing, using, and documenting scholarly and non-scholarly texts. It provides instruction and practice in constructing cogent and compelling arguments, as students draft and revise a proposal and an 8-10 page argumentative research paper. Students will develop and test their ideas through discussion, informal writing, peer critiques and self-assessments. All sections of WRT 105A&B revolve around a theme and include a weekly writing group in which students do the work of writing with immediate support from the course instructor. WRT 105B students who have worked diligently but have not attained a grade of “B-“ or higher may take an incomplete and sign up for the Extension, a weekly workshop and tutorial program that allows students to continue working on their writing, raise their final grades, and satisfy the Primary Writing Requirement.
REASONING AND WRITING IN THE COLLEGE: SECOND PART OF THE WRT 105A-WRT 105B SEQUENCE
GEGG-HARRISON
WRT 105E
Is Identity Destiny?
ZAMAN N
It is often assumed that our environments control who we become. Also prevalent is the notion that we can control the shapes our cultural, national, gendered, even racial identities assume. What possible intersections can exist between such poles? What does the term “identity” mean for you, and how does that meaning compare to how it is defined—and debated—across the disciplines? How does the constant interplay of self-perception and others’ view of ourselves affect our sense of identity? How have Anglophone writers from the last two centuries—like Toni Morrison, Arundhati Roy, Kazuo Ishiguro, Edward Said, Stuart Hall, and Chinua Achebe—used writing to explore the meaning of different identity categories? Using peer-responses and reflections, we, too, shall try to use academic writing as we examine the various debates over this vexed term. Collaborating as an active learning community, we shall invent, draft, revise, and edit four essays, including an 8-10 page argumentative research paper.
Language as a Window Into the Mind
Language lets us share with others thoughts once trapped inside our own mind, but it’s also been argued to shape or constrain those thoughts. Are our minds shaped by the language we speak? Does language make the human mind special? How should we think about developments in AI and machine translation that have brought machines closer to using language? Could these machines have minds, and how would we know? Our interdisciplinary inquiry will consider a wide variety of perspectives — from psychology, linguistics, philosophy, neuroscience, and AI — and also explore how these themes play out in TV, movies, and literature. These discussions and readings will inform the drafting and revision of two short argumentative papers. We’ll draw upon concepts from cognitive science to develop ideas about how to produce effective written arguments that are clear and engaging for readers, and work to ensure each student builds confidence in their role as academic writers.
F 3:25PM - 4:15PM
M 2:00PM - 2:50PM
M 9:00AM - 9:50AM
F 11:50AM - 12:40PM
Workshop in Writing
W 10:25AM - 11:15AM
Offers ongoing practice and instruction in writing and critiquing writing. Students meet weekly with a writing center consultant to work on forms of academic writing relevant to their spring coursework. These forms may include summaries, critical responses, argumentative essays, and lab reports, among others. Students may also choose to revise essays completed in previous semesters or work on other non-fiction projects. Guided by a writing center consultant, students plan, draft and revise their writing, critique each other's work, assess their own writing, and participate in group session on common writing issues. The semester's work will culminate in a final portfolio that features polished essays and an overall self-assessment.
BUILDING: RRLIB | ROOM: G121B
PREREQUISITES: Satisfaction of the primary writing requirement.
T 11:05AM - 11:55AM
Spoken Communication and Peer Tutoring
Prepares selected sophomores, juniors, and eligible first-year students for work as Speaking Fellows. This course focuses not only on the skill of public speaking, but also on peer tutoring and assisting students with their own forms of spoken communication. In this course, we will examine various components of presentations, including effective use of visual aids and professional delivery styles. We will also explore several types of spoken communication for different purposes and audiences, including argumentative and descriptive speeches, interviews, and group presentations. Through analyzing, studying the construction of, and creating and delivering their own presentations, students will improve their own speaking styles and develop the skills necessary to aid their peers in constructing and revising presentations. By the end of the semester, students should be ready to take on their own hours as peer tutors. This course satisfies a requirement for the Citation for Achievement in College Leadership.
WRT 250 (LIN 161)
MODERN ENGLISH GRAMMAR
ARMOSKAITE S
This course is a comprehensive review of the grammar of Modern Standard English. The course will be of interest to those who wish to sharpen their language skills, or to know more about the workings of the English language whether for practical, cognitive or creative ends. Drawing on work in mostly pre-theoretical, descriptive linguistics this course reveals the mechanics of Standard English structure, with occasional detours into the finesse of usage across registers (dialect to slang). Students will learn to develop the ability to see patterns in grammar, as well as its structural possibilities and limits. Assignments will regularly involve reflection on form, usage and speaker judgments. Through a final project, students will investigate some aspect of an English variety available to them. Throughout, students will be working with their data samples of English to explore how speaker choices lead to particular grammatical structures or yield ungrammaticality. Background in linguistics or grammar not needed.
PREREQUISITES: None
CROSSLISTED: LIN 161 (P), WRT 250
WRT 252 (WRT 252)
Principles and Practices of Copyediting
While the term “copyediting” may be associated with journalism or literary fiction, in fact it is a vital component of the publication of almost any textual materials—from scholarly and popular publishing in arts and sciences to corporate and technical communications. So what do copy editors do? Is copyediting simply about enforcing rules of correctness? When is it okay to break those rules, or to allow others to do so, and what guides such decisions? How do copy editors understand and negotiate the relationships and interests of readers, writers, and the publications they work for? How has the information age changed the way copy editors think about and approach textual editing? In this class we will address both the principles and practices of copyediting. Students will learn the principles that guide copy editors, and then put these principles into use in a workshop setting, practicing copyediting in a variety of contexts, including digital communications.
PREREQUISITES: Completion of the Primary Writing Requirement.
CROSSLISTED: ENG 136, WRT 252 (P)
Writing in a Digital World
The purpose of writing in a digital world is to engage with a broader community around a topic of interest and contribute to public knowledge. In this course, students are invited to dig deeply into a question of interest, write for a public audience, and use the Internet as an archive of information waiting to be discovered, analyzed, and written about. Students can draw on pre-existing research interests from their majors or develop a line of inquiry stemming from class discussions, writing, and research. In order to gain experience writing to a range of readers, students will engage in a writing process informed by peer review, self-assessment, and revision. Shorter writing assignments will help students develop and refine ideas as they transform texts for different audiences. The final research project will be multimodal, published for a public audience, and should demonstrate your ability to think critically about a topic and effectively communicate that knowledge to a range of readers.
CROSSLISTED: DMS 250, ENG 288, WRT 261 (P)
What Do You Mean I Can't Do That? Learning to Write Like an "Insider" in Your Discipline(s)
Drawing on the concepts of discourse community and rhetorical genre analysis (e.g., Bazerman, Berkenhotter & Huckin, Swales), this course investigates ways of understanding the choices writers make when communicating about the natural, social, or applied sciences, with the goal of better understanding how to read and write as an ‘insider’ in your chosen discipline. You will develop a technical vocabulary and set of skills that allow you to describe recurring patterns and writer choices within those patterns. Using these tools, and talking to experts in your chosen discipline(s), you will investigate disciplinary and interdisciplinary boundaries, how writers convey meaning in different situations, and why they make the writing choices they do. Through a final research project of your choice, you will practice using what you have learned to communicate the results of your own research. This course is especially suitable for dual-major students, or those heading to graduate or health professions schools.
CROSSLISTED: BIO 274W, WRT 262 (P)
Translation: Interpreting & Adapting
This course takes up translation process as an object of study. How do translators work? What opportunities and constraints are present for freelance, specialist, or professional translators? To what extent do translators not only transmit but actively create knowledge and build community via their work of interpreting and adapting? We’ll explore a range of potentially high-stakes cases involving textual, audiovisual, and multimodal renditions of a source text. These may include translating an ad or museum label; subbing a TED Talk or performance; dubbing in anime or games; interpreting for business, medical, or other purposes. Along with course readings and short experimental translations, students will work with our paraprofessional consultants and community partners in SW Rochester to craft final projects that provide a meaningful extension of course learning to real-world issues (Counts toward the Citation in Community-Engaged Scholarship; see Authentically Urban, Virtually Global: Southwest Rochester).
CROSSLISTED: ENG 289, LTS 263, WRT 263 (P)
WRT 264 (DMS 200W)
This course centers around the creation of a digital portfolio. While students will design portfolios that highlight the most exciting media based projects they have worked on in their educational and professional career so far, most of the course work will be looking forward, developing new skills in our field. We will focus on how to research in digital media, create new work from that research and how to best present work in our field after it is completed. This is a writing intensive class, so students will be expected to complete 25 pages of writing by the end of the semester. Variously, we will look at and write about career development, portfolio design, collaboration and research techniques within digital media. The final project is a digital portfolio and reflection. THE CLASS IS CURRENTLY CLOSED AND NO LONGER ACCEPTING STUDENTS FOR THE WAIT LIST.
PREREQUISITES: Permission of instructor required for non-DMS major
CROSSLISTED: DMS 200W (P), WRT 264
Legal Writing and Analysis
In this course, students will develop an understanding of practical legal writing and legal analysis. Students will examine the relationship between common law and statutory construction as they develop core legal writing competencies. Through problem-based learning, students will learn to distinguish pertinent case facts, applicable law, and possible outcomes for legal problems in a real-world, community context. With a focus on analysis of cases and statutes, students will develop a series of legal communications, such as client letters/emails, legal memoranda, and legal documents which are grounded in an argument and based on law and facts. This course may be used as a cognate course for the Legal Studies minor.
PREREQUISITES: Completion of the Primary Writing Requirement
WRT 268 (REL 165)
Black Preaching and Sacred Rhetoric
MARSHALL C
Preaching uses religious rhetoric in communal contexts in order to share and perhaps persuade congregants into various Biblical interpretations. This course provides an overview of histories and contexts of Black preaching while exploring argument, arrangement, invention, delivery and style as preachers/pastors make claims of God, suffering and liberation. This course will be interactive, consisting of presentations, discussions, lectures and a field trip to a local Black church to witness firsthand preaching traditions. We will learn about varying preaching methods (Proctor, Mitchell, Rufus, Womanist…) across varying denominations (African Methodist Episcopal, COGIC, Apostolic…)—of which—made clear stances on whether enslaved Africans were allowed to worship amongst White people—subsequently, banning preaching for Black people. From an outlawed performance to a lauded communication art form, Black preaching provides insight to Black religiosity and American religious history.
CROSSLISTED: AAS 171, GSW 165, REL 165 (P), WRT 268
BIOLOGY: Communicating Your Professional Identity
T 3:25PM - 4:40PM
This interactive course teaches “real life” communication skills and strategies that help students present their best professional selves and develop a fulfilling career. Students will explore and articulate their internship, career and graduate school goals for distinct audiences and purposes as they develop a professional communication portfolio of materials such as resumes, cover letters, statements of purpose, electronic communications, elevator pitches, project descriptions and abstracts, and online profiles (i.e., LinkedIn). Students will revise and refine their written and spoken work across the semester based on feedback from peers, instructors, and alumni. By the semester’s end, students will have gained extensive experience with the communication skills expected in today’s competitive environment. The class can be used to fulfill 1 of the 2 required Upper-Level Writing experiences in biology, and is suitable for junior and senior year biology majors. NOTE: every other class will take place online.
COMMNCTNG YOUR PROF IDENTITY
This interactive course teaches "real life" communication skills and strategies that help students present their best professional selves and develop a fulfilling career. Students will explore and articulate their internship, career and graduate school goals for distinct audiences and purposes as they develop a professional communication portfolio of materials such as resumes, cover letters, statements of purpose, electronic communications, elevator pitches, project descriptions and abstracts, and online profiles. Students will revise and refine their written and spoken work across the semester based on feedback from peers, instructors, and alumni. By the semester’s end, students will have gained extensive experience with the communication skills expected in today’s competitive environment. This course is suitable for second-semester sophomores and juniors in the Hajim School; all others require permission of the instructor.
T 12:30PM - 1:45PM
BUILDING: TODD | ROOM: 202
R 9:40AM - 10:55AM
KEITH J
W 2:00PM - 3:15PM
LEE R
JONES L
HERNANDEZ K
T 9:40AM - 10:55AM
ENGINEERING: Communicating Your Professional Identity
FERRUZZA K
WRT 274 (PSY 274W)
COMM YOUR PROF PSYCH ID
This interactive course teaches "real life" communication skills and strategies that help students present their best professional selves and develop a fulfilling career. Students will explore and articulate their internship, career and graduate school goals for distinct audiences and purposes as they develop a professional communication portfolio of materials such as resumes, cover letters, statements of purpose, electronic communications, elevator pitches, project descriptions and abstracts, and online profiles (i.e., LinkedIn). Students will revise and refine their written and spoken work across the semester based on feedback from peers, instructors, and alumni. By the semester’s end, students will have gained extensive experience with the communication skills expected in today’s competitive environment. The class can be used to fulfill 1 of 2 required Upper-Level Writing experiences in psychology, and is suitable for junior and senior psychology majors; all others require instructor permission.
CROSSLISTED: PSY 274W (P), WRT 274
LAW, POLICY, AND SOCIAL GOOD: Communicating Your Professional Identity
R 3:25PM - 4:40PM
This interactive course teaches "real life" communication skills and strategies that help students present their best professional selves and develop a fulfilling career. Students will explore and articulate their internship, career and graduate school goals for distinct audiences and purposes as they develop a professional communication portfolio of materials such as resumes, cover letters, application essays, electronic communications, elevator pitches, project descriptions and abstracts, and online profiles (e.g., LinkedIn). Students will revise and refine their written and spoken work across the semester based on feedback from peers, instructors, and alumni. By the semester’s end, students will have gained extensive experience with the communication skills expected in today’s competitive environment. Two-credit course; cannot be used to satisfy any requirements for the major or minor in Political Science or International Relations.
CROSSLISTED: IR 299, PSC 299, WRT 276 (P)
COMMUNICATING YOUR PROFESSIONAL IDENTITY (Cross Disciplinary)
This interactive course teaches “real life” communication skills and strategies that help students present their best professional selves and develop a fulfilling career. Students will explore and articulate their internship, career and graduate school goals for distinct audiences and purposes as they develop a professional communication portfolio of materials such as resumes, cover letters, statements of purpose, electronic communications, elevator pitches, project descriptions and abstracts, and online profiles (i.e., LinkedIn). Students will revise and refine their written and spoken work across the semester based on feedback from peers, instructors, and alumni. By the semester’s end, students will have gained extensive experience with the communication skills expected in today’s competitive environment. This course is suitable for second-semester sophomores, juniors and first-semester seniors; all others require permission of the instructor. All majors welcome.
PUBLIC HEALTH: Communicating Your Professional Identity
This interactive course teaches "real life" communication skills and strategies that help students present their best professional selves and develop a fulfilling career. Students will explore and articulate their internship, career and graduate school goals for distinct audiences and purposes as they develop a professional communication portfolio of materials such as resumes, cover letters, statements of purpose, electronic communications, elevator pitches, project descriptions and abstracts, and online profiles (i.e., Linkedln). Students will revise and refine their written and spoken work across the semester based on feedback from peers, instructors, and alumni. By the semester's end, students will have gained extensive experience with the communication skills expected in today's competitive environment. The class is suitable for juniors and seniors.
Research Methods, Writing Studies
This course is designed for students who wish to pursue research in writing studies; it offers students the opportunity to establish or advance their understanding of qualitative, quantitative and mixed methods research. Students will learn how to evaluate the validity and reliability of studies and identify fitting methods to address research questions. Class sessions will guide students through the process of designing a research project that might be implemented with the guidance of a Writing Studies faculty member in future semesters.
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Jail And Imprisonment
Police, prison, arrest, incarceration, state sponsored punishment, etc...
Central theme[edit]
Christmas In The Big House - sung from the perspective of an inmate ("big house" is slang for jail)
Hidden Track - "I'm under house arrest in the hidden track!"
John Postal copes with life out of jail
Let's Go To Jail
Louisiana - The narrator is imprisoned under an unknown capturer's blanket
Music Jail, Pt. 1 & 2
No Cops - "We've nailed down the latch so meet our demands"
No One Knows My Plan
Out Of Jail
Briefly mentioned[edit]
Birds Fly - "This good luck charm hanging off my arm was left here by the police"
Brain Problem Situation - "In the drunk tank / We're in the drunk tank"
Chip The CHiP - "Life in prison would be better than the teeth / Of the CHiP"
Crushed By Dust - "We are prisoners"
Dark And Metric - "Not a night spent in jail, parrot on my arm"
The Fellowship Of Hell - "Prison guards ain't free"
Flo Wheeler - "You can't do the time, therefore you didn't do the crime"
Half A Boy - "I wish that I could land in jail"
Hate The Villanelle - "Curses, these verses are my prison cell"
Hearing Aid - "The electric chair's not good enough"
Hillbilly Drummer Girl - "Morning in the drunk tank"
I Love You For Psychological Reasons - "Mumbling failure in jail..."
I'm Your Boyfriend Now (Demo) - "And I know that the restraining order wasn't meant to be"
It's Not My Birthday - "So I'm rattlin' the bars around this drink tank"
Lucky Ball & Chain - "I've lost my lucky ball and chain" etc.
Old Pine Box - "They tried the handcuffs but they won't lock"
Purple Toupee - "Ten years later they were sharing the same cell"
Return To The Planet Of The Apes - "The time when they put me in jail, I did not appreciate the jail time that I did on the Planet of the Apes"
The Shadow Government - "I doth protest, citizen's arrest; Now my body's in his trunk"
Snowball In Hell - "A jailer trapped in his cell"
Sold My Mind To The Kremlin - "Trapped in this thing that I can’t get away from"
Whence That Wince - "Oh, daddy isn't stirring since my mama's been in stir"
Whistling In The Dark - "And hit my head on the wall of the jail"
Words Are Like - "A prison guard"
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September 24, 2010 In Ad networks, Advertising, Behavioral Targeting, Display Advertising, Marketing, Online Advertising, Online Marketing, Research By Tony Winders
Study highlights efficacy of display advertising
This week comScore and ValueClick Media released a white paper I co-authored titled “When Money Moves to Digital, Where Should It Go? Identifying the right media-placement strategies for digital display.” The study was based on over 100 campaigns run on the ValueClick Media network and used comScore’s Action Lift reporting methodology to evaluate the impact of various display placement and pricing strategies on site visitation and search behavior .
Read the press release. Download the paper.
While cross-media and search vs. display has been studied previously, to our knowledge this is the first quantitative analysis of the view-through effectiveness of various display placement strategies (Audience Targeting, Contextual Targeting, Retargeting) and pricing options (Premium/CPM, Efficiency/CPC). And while the study is by no means exhaustive, and may even raise more questions than it answers, it validates the efficacy of display advertising and provides direction on which placement strategies to deploy to drive advertiser performance, whether measured by brand or direct response metrics.
Here are a few of the key findings:
Retargeting works extremely well and should be considered for both direct response and branding initiatives
Some placements create new traffic while others find audiences that are already engaged with the subject
Marketers in different industries take advantage of the strategies differently
All multi-strategy marketers increased site visitation above the norm
Advertisers who used three or more placement strategies tended to have one metric in which they disproportionately beat the norm
While the study was exclusively on placements across the ValueClick Media network, it was not sponsored research, but rather done in partnership with comScore. Regardless, the campaigns were all sold and delivered on a single network, so a different network or analysis across an entire campaign may have shown different results.
That said, the data tells an interesting story about ValueClick Media. Most surprising to me was the lift, however small, driven by the RON baseline, something we attribute to the impact data and optimization is increasingly having on the ability to predict the performance of every impression — a huge validation of our technology. Contextual pricing probably skewed high due to inclusion of campaigns run on our more exclusive vertical networks. And the data suggests we just may be undervaluing our audience targeting and retargeting inventory.
Laurie Sullivan did a great job of recapping the results of the paper in her MediaPost article published today. I will be presenting the research with Anne Hunter on Tuesday at the IAB MIXX conference in NY. Our workshop is up against sponsored content from Google/AdMob, Yahoo! and AOL, so I’m eager to see what audience we attract. Whoever comes, I’m looking forward to seeing everyone during Advertising Week in NY!
July 24, 2010 In Ad networks, Advertising, Behavioral Targeting, Data, Los Angeles, Marketing Automation, Online Advertising, Online Marketing By Tony Winders
Fixing Advertising Los Angeles | July 2010
Rarely does a panel discussion achieve an optimal mix of education, entertainment and controversy the way the Fixing Advertising session did on Monday night in Los Angeles. The education series, sponsored by Dapper, has now made its way to every major U.S. media market in an effort to not only make sense of the fragmented display advertising landscape, but to actually do something about it. Bravo!
Credit for the effective cadence and tone of the session goes to Pete Kim, General Manager of Yahoo! SmartAds, who clearly being qualified to serve on the panel himself had the audience on the edge of their seats just by knowing just when to dial up and down the intensity. He began by asking the audience what level of discussion they wanted to hear, which was promptly met with shouts of “deep dive” and “hard core!” And the panel did not disappoint.
So what is being done to “fix” advertising? Kim began the conversation by asking the panel to articulate what’s broken — and everyone had an opinion about given the theme of the evening.
According to Zack Coelius of Triggit, advertising is broken because it’s fragmented. It’s broken when it costs 20 to 30 percent of the media budget just to plan, buy and manage the process, especially when you don’t know where your ads are going and when you don’t have control over the buy.
Frank Adante of Rubicon echoed his sentiment from the publisher perspective, explaining how the sell side is fragmented too. Finding the money is difficult, he says, when an estimated two million advertisers are buying from one thousand sources and at least 500 sales teams worldwide. Not to mention the difficulties presented by multiple billing, collections, reporting systems. The solution, he suggests, is a central platform for selling and the need for automation.
According to Jon Aizen of Dapper, people enjoy the web and get great value, but they don’t like display ads, which cover 10-20% of the visual real estate. After all, banners haven’t changed much since 1994. Advertisers actually have sometthing people want, but the advertising isn’t reflective of their offering, which Dapper hopes to change by matching visitors to relevant content.
Amy Lehman of United Online made a compelling case for how expensive it is to manage campaign reporting, metrics and attribution and how insane it is that we have not dealt with this as an industry already. Furthermore, she said, the industry is “beyond commodotized” and we make enable fragmentation which only makes it harder on ourselves. Ultimately, according to Lehman, most facets of the fragmented ecosystem (analytics, rich media, creative optimization, ad verification, etc.) belong resident in the ad server.
As automation of these processes takes hold, will jobs actually be eliminated? Probably not, since machines can’t do creative or strategy, but more junior level roles centered around manually running reports and managing pivot tables may evaborate, or at least their jobs will change, as the industry continues its rapid trend toward automation. According to Adante, automation is partly the cause of the fragmentation, referencing how a huge SEM/SEO services industry was built upon the backs of the major search engines.
Jon Aizen spoke about page saturation, consumer immunity (banner blindness). Unlike how a half page ad in print is half the cost of a full page, more ads on the page online are sold at the same rate, thus creating banner blindness. In Aizen’s view, sometimes it is more prudent to know when not to serve an ad. He also claims display units are too small and not intrusive enough. After all, when was the last time a banner ad made you laugh or cry?
The days of arbitrage models where middlemen add no value are over. If Terrence Kawaja’s now infamous GCA Savvian fragmentation slide is an indicator of some future consolidation, the Kim asks “by whom?” According to Coelius, “it’s going to be a going out of business process, not a buying process.” For those vendors who help to add insight and extract real value for advertisers, however, the outcome may certainly be acquisition by those larger media players and agencies who must continue acquiring such technology to compete long term.
Partly justifying the need for so much data and analytics is how much more multi-dimensional and dynamic display is compared to search. The mere fact that campaigns are distributed among thousands of sites in and of itself is complex. Then add in the critical creative component, which according to Michael Baker, a recent DataXu study found was the single most important factor in driving conversions, followed by consumer and context.
Being hosted at The Rubicon Project, Adante diligently represented the voice of publishers, whose role in all of this cannot be overlooked. According to some, a publisher backlash related to how networks use their data is looming, but there shouldn’t be any at all if publishers are simply paid for each impression based on what it is worth to the advertiser, which is what DSPs and sophisticated ad networks are set up to do.
Best quotes of the evening:
“We’re trying to kill online advertising and replace it with content.” – Jon Aizen
“Arbitrage just needs to die.” – Zach Coelius
“These little buy and sell side technologies are like plaque in the teeth of Google.” – Michael Baker
From left to right: Amy Lehman, SVP Advertising, United Online; Zach Coelius, Founder & CEO, Triggit; Frank Addante, Founder & CEO, The Rubicon Project; Jon Aizen, COO & Co-Founder, Dapper; Peter Kim, General Manager of Yahoo! SmartAds; Michael Baker, CEO, DataXu, James Beriker, CEO, Dapper.
July 3, 2010 In Ad networks, Advertising, Behavioral Targeting, Brand Marketing, Online Advertising, Online Marketing, Research By Tony Winders
A way forward for brands online: Audience Measurement 5.0
I’m no researcher, but in recent years have acquired an appreciation for the role of research in audience targeting and measurement as well as its effectiveness in B2B marketing. Last week I had a rare opportunity to rub elbows with some of the digital media industry’s top research experts during the Advertising Research Foundation’s Audience Measurement 5.0 conference in New York. As part of the “Media Smackdown” track, I was there to co-present new research on “Media Placement Strategy and its Impact on Online Ad Effectiveness” with Anne Hunter, VP of advertising effectiveness at comScore.
Notwithstanding how excited I was to participate in the conference and introduce the research ValueClick Media and comScore will release in the coming weeks, I took the opportunity to revisit my own understanding of the state of online measurement and targeting. The main question on my mind: how far away are we from seeing brands invest more heavily in digital, which today accounts for a disproportionate +/- six percent of total media spending? Through my conversations, I reaffirmed my understanding of what’s possible today, and I got fairly consistent feedback on where things need to go in order to move us toward the measurement and targeting capabilities necessary to give brand advertisers the confidence to spend more online.
Randy Cohen, founder and CEO of Advertiser Perceptions, reinforced what comScore suggested in its 2008 “Whither the Click” research, when he reminded me that “we’re chasing the wrong metric in performance.” The real money, he says, is in upper funnel measurement and our ability to prove that online advertising is capable of moving consumers into the consideration set for a particular brand. More succinctly put, he suggests “return on ad spend is a metric, but what matters most is return on brand.” Although he predicts innovative vendors will partner to deliver breakthroughs in audience targeting and measurement brands can embrace, like most people I spoke with, he doubts a single metric for brand engagement is realistic.
A related theme shared throughout the week and captured best in my conversation with Jack Myers, is the need to move ROI measurement beyond online sales impact and brand lift studies and into better accountability for its impact on offline sales. While offline sales impact studies have shown proven lift from online campaigns, they are expensive and fall short of brand marketers’ true desire: to target ads on the basis of offline shopping behavior.
The ability to target based on offline sales data was first explored by Yahoo Consumer Direct (with Nielsen/Homescan) in 2003 and improvements can surely be expected through a more recent announcement of a joint venture between IRI and Nielsen. It is unclear yet how this will impact comScore’s relationship with IRI. comScore has partnerships with other offline data providers, including dunnhumbyUSA, Polk and others, which until recently existed primarily for the purpose of measuring offline sales impacts as a result of online advertising. But the more interesting development for comScore is its introduction of Audience Advantage, which combines offline data with comScore panel data and a look-alike modeling methodology to allow networks and portals to “pre-score” media for its propensity to identify consumers who have exhibited similar behavior to those who purchased particular products offline.
While Consumer Direct and Audience Advantage, with their look-alike models have been around for awhile, third party data sources for online behavioral targeting have emerged as a key component of the display advertising landscape over the past two years. To the extent these providers can deliver specific audiences who have exhibited a recent behavior with any scale, it would stand to reason that this would be the more effective targeting method – perhaps worthy of a future comparison by an innovating brand. Whatever approach is best, there are actionable brand targeting and measurement solutions emerging, which when proven, promoted, refined and repeated will be a boon for display advertising online.
My most entertaining conversation of the week, and perhaps the most insightful, was with Andy Fisher, EVP Global Data and Analytics Director for Starcom, who suggested that brands really do want to spend more online, if nothing else because they know their future job security depends on digital. If only we could demonstrate for them a clear reason to do so. Brands, he said, want to know who they are reaching. Not just what audience segment performed well for a particular metric, but the specific individuals reached by a campaign. To support this ideal, measurement and ratings vendors should strive to report on granular audience delivery metrics, much in the way they do for media measurement today. One shortcoming, it seems is the lack of a common taxonomy for measuring behavioral audience segments. Even if there were, the user profile data it would rely upon lives in the proprietary databases of advertisers and media companies, each with their slightly different description of the same users and valid reasons for not wanting to share the data freely.
I was unable to find anyone to argue in favor of context over audience, however, as our study with comScore will demonstrate, what strategy to deploy is highly dependent upon price, reach and each marketer’s specific objectives – and deploying multiple strategies may be most effective. To that end, one of the more interesting point made by Mr. Fisher was how in television, media equates to audience because all of the creative is delivered against the same media at the same time, making it easier to measure and scale. Whereas the distributed nature of online carries with it many more complexities because of the requirement to reach and measure audiences across several media placement options. I’m sure I am oversimplifying this thought and hope he will elaborate.
Another concept that arose from a guided luncheon discussion led by Ms. Hunter and reiterated by Joanne Burns, EVP of marketing, research and new media at Twentieth Television, was the need for research and marketing to work more integrally together. When speaking with brands, in fact, Robert McLoughlin, director strategic insights at AOL said his approach is to first ask “what is your research goal” and only then dig deeper into the typical line of questioning related to marketing objectives.
Although I’m sure gaps remain in my understanding of what’s possible and where things are headed, I came away from Audience Measurement 5.0 much more confidence that the metrics CPG and other brand-oriented advertisers demand is on the horizon, if not here already. Regardless, I can assure you there is an army of intelligent marketers, publishers, analysts, scientists and researchers working to ensure online advertising isn’t relegated to being exclusively a direct response medium.
September 22, 2009 In Ad networks, Advertising, Brand Marketing, Creative, Online Advertising, Online Marketing, Search Engine Marketing, Search Engine Optimization, Technology, Vertical Networks By Tony Winders
Advertising Week 2009 – Day One
Advertising Week is underway in New York and as vibrant as ever, with more events to attend and more people to meet than could be accomplished in the span of an entire career, let alone a single week. Highlights from day one included editorial coverage of Moms Media announcement and lots of interest from both publishers and advertisers. Based on initial feedback, it seems like pretty good timing to launch a vertical ad network aimed at reaching moms online.
Great ValueClick Media workshop panel on “How Leading Advertisers Use Ad Networks to Achieve Brand Marketing Objectives.” A BIG THANK YOU to Doug Chavez of Del Monte Foods, Erin Hunter of comScore, Steve Ustaris of Studiocom and Chris Arens of Catalyst:SF.
It was great seeing everyone on ValueClick Media’s NY team — what an impressive group of veteran online advertising professionals. Thanks also to IAB MIXX and OMMA Global conferences for all of your hard work in hosting two first class intustry events…if only you would do it together again!
Morning keynote #1
Along with the theme of “Fueling Advertising’s Creative Revolution,” Adobe SVP Global Marketing Ann Lewnes posed a challenge for all stakeholders in the online advertising ecosystem:
Media – Create experiences that leverage the medium and crack the nut on monetization.
Agency – Evangelize the medium and proactively push the boundaries of what is possible.
Clients – Be open to exploring more options and encourage your companies to overcome resistance
Flash Platform Services – Gigya partnership and tracking widgets — “thinking outside the rectangle.”
Augmented Reality – offline/online integration – cool demo of a direct mail piece, which when held in front of a webcam creates a 3D online experience. Holds interesting possibilities for making offline content more creative online.
Vision for Omniture integration and the ability to track creative executions through to monetization – sounds like a bright future for Flash cookies to me.
Adaptive Layout Technologies – Times Reader 2.0 flash player demo – adapts content to any size screen, ads also adapt automatically to content. Tools for developers create desktop apps using Flash/HTML
Keynote #2
Microsoft – Yusuf Mehdi, SVP Online Services spoke of “Misses, homeruns and game changers” and Microsoft’s view of the future.
I’m not sure if it’s an internal product mantra or something Mr. Mehdi devised for today’s session, but was inspired by these sound principles, which referenced as he presented Project Natal and Bing:
1) Be Authentic – Million Dollar Home Page
2) Be opportunistic and responsive – Ashton Kutcher
3) Relentless measurement and optimization – Zappos.com
4) Be social – Starbucks
5) Ads are content – Burger King “Freak Out”
The Bing demo was useful/relevant and served as a reminder that despite the bazillions spent on making me aware of the brand I have yet to type it into a browser (note to self: check out Bing!).
Bing is trying to deliver unmet needs in search and provide more intuitive results considering:
Imprecise Results – 25% of clicks lead to ‘back’
Refinement – 42% of sessions need refinement
Lengthy tasks – 50% of time spent on long queries
Demo included cool visual search demo with examples including female senators, U.S. government line of succession, handbags and cameras. Also impressive, though not elaborated on were some impressive reporting features for advertisers based on H/M/L usage.
Project Natal – Next generation of computing and how humans interact with computers. Xbox human controller will be first. Think Wii but without a controller. This much I could get my head around, until he introduced the “Dag” (aka Digital Assitant Guide) a creepy Max Hedroom-like video avatar who was all too happy to pull up meeting notes or dial up a video conference, but was unbelievable that he would add much value to my computing experience. Don’t get me wrong. Overall, it was the most impressive, innovative, well-executed and entertaining demo I’ve seen in a long time — just slightly ahead of its time.
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ARTSOME Exhibition
Group show "Artists' Film International" runs through April 19 at Project 88, Mumbai, India
Karen Mirza & Brad Butler, The Unreliable Narrator, 2014, HD video and sound, 16 minutes 50 seconds
Project 88 is pleased to announce the opening exhibition of Artists’ Film International. Organized annually since 2009 by Whitechapel Gallery (London), Artists' Film International showcases artists working with film, video and animation, selected by 17 partner organizations around the world and presented over the course of a year at each venue. Pallavi Paul represents Project 88 in the third edition of it’s collaboration and her selection comprises Karen Mirza and Brad Butler’s The Unreliable Narrator, Srdjan Keca’s Museum of Revolution, Vahap Avsar’s Road to Arguvan, Tanya Busse and Emilija Skarnulyte’s, Hollow Earth. To think about conflict in the contemporary prompts us to ask the question- who or what is in conflict today? Derived from Latin words con (together) and fligere (to strike), we get confligere or ‘conflict’ - to ‘strike together’ or ‘stuck together fighting’. To strike could be to launch a sudden attack, but it could also be a refusal to act as a mark of protest. A strike could also be a phenomenon spilling out of human control, like an epidemic or a natural calamity. That which perhaps stays relevant in all readings of what conflict could be is the idea of the collective. Whether it was the metal workers of South Africa in 2014 who led a successful historic strike against powerful corporations, or Syrian refugees forced to flee to the edges of alien cities, the siege on Tunisia’s National Museum or the deserted mills of Lower Parel pregnant with the possibilities of disuse- the distinct destinies of many lives find themselves intertwined within an uncertain pulsating future. The impulse to breakaway together is perhaps stronger than ever. The films in this selection are an instance of such a collective. Karen Mirza and Brad Butler’s The Unreliable Narrator masterfully combines the questions of memory, perspective, documents and imagination. Traveling into the 26/11 attacks on Mumbai, the film uses the vision of surveillance cameras, a Bombay Film Camera, an intercepted satellite phone call to produce a robust image of not only the ‘unreliable narrator’ but also the unreliable listener. Another response to the tension between precision and invention is The Museum of Revolution, by Srdjan Keca, which looks inside a building that according to its architect was “made to safeguard the truth about us”. Architect and artist Vjenceslav Richter undertook this massive project in socialist Yugoslavia to showcase and revel in national history. The project was eventually abandoned and what remained was a dilapidated concrete specter, now inhabited by the homeless and marginalized. In creating a poetic impression of the lives being lived in the labyrinths of this crumbled dream, we are never pushed to choose simply between reclamation and despair. Vahap Avsar’s, Road to Arguvan, too looks at ruination, but as a violent force; a two-minute portrait of a chasm like crack that Avsar encountered on his trip to Maltaya. As the camera skims along this road we see a television embedded into a massive crack. Perhaps the possible witnesses of this violence have also fallen prey to it. Or have fled leaving behind even its images. The work mobilizes the geological to look into the troubled political history of Anatolia. Finally the geological also becomes a site of the contest of violence, ambition and plundering in Tanya Busse and Emilija Skarnulyte’s Hollow Earth. Set in the circumpolar North, the film looks at the ways in which this layered, frozen landscape is negotiated by vision. Further, what is the relationship between visibility and resources? A combination of scientific observations, archival footage and evocative camera work, the film raises several questions about the ways in which this frozen ‘elsewhere’ is changing, with the echoes of the world that surround it.
The exhibition runs through April 19, 2015.
Venue: Project 88 gallery
Address: BMP Building, Ground Floor, N.A. Sawant Marg, Colaba, Mumbai - 400 005
Nearest Transport: Sassoon Dock Bus Stop
ARTSOME
"ENCOUNTERS 2012-2015" opens on April 30 at Tarq, Mumbai, India
Artsome 101 Decoding Contemporary Photographers concluding discussion session on April 11 at Gallery Wonderwall, New Delhi, India
"IMRAN QURESHI & AISHA KHALID" opens on April 17 at Nature Morte, New Delhi, India
"Waiting for Eternity" opens on April 5 at Apparao Galleries & Sandy's, Chennai, Indiax
Solo show by Praneet Soi "Srinagar" opens on April 10 at Experimenter, Kolkata, India
"Cadence and Counterpoint: Documenting Santal Musical Traditions" opens on April 16 at National Museum, New Delhi, India
"Photography in Transition" with Rahaab Allana and "BIND: a photography oriented collective" on 11 April at Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Mumbai City Museum, Mumbai, India
Solo show by Susanta Mandal "HARD COPY" opens on April 17 at Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi, India
ART BRUSSELS 2015 opens on April 25 at Place de Belgique, Brussels, Belgium
Group show "the doorstep" opens on April 22 at Jhaveri Contemporary, Mumbai, India
"Artsome 101: Decoding Contemporary Photographers" begins on April 6
Solo show by Raghu Rai "Trees" opens on April 14 at Art Alive Gallery, New Delhi, India
Solo show by Karl Blossfeldt "Art Forms in Nature" opens on April 24 at Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi, India
Sebastian Cortes in conversation with Rosalyn D'Mello on April 23 at Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Mumbai City Museum, Mumbai, India
Solo show by Vivan Sundaram "Making Strange: Gagawaka + Postmortem" opens on April 19 at The Fowler Museum, California, USA
Solo show by Sarnath Banerjee "New Drawings" runs through April 11 at Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan, Mumbai, India
Group show "A Requiem, A Prayer, A Song" opens on April 14 at Aakriti Art gallery, Kolkata, India
Solo show by Ashish Avikunthak "Deathlessness: a retrospective of works, 1997 - 2013" opens on April 11 at Apeejay Arts, New Delhi, India
Solo show by Leiko Ikemura on April 24 at Galerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke, Mumbai, India
Spring Auction 2015 on April 26 at The Claridges, New Delhi, India
Group show "TRIPTYCH - a visual ode to travel" opens on April 10 at Gallery Art & Soul, Mumbai, India
Solo show by Thukral & Tagra "Games People Play" opens on April 19 at Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Mumbai City Museum, Mumbai, India
Group show "CONSTRUCTS | CONSTRUCTIONS" opens on April 23 at Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, New Delhi, India
Solo show by Anindita Dutta "Everything Ends and Everything Matters" opens on April 10 at Latitude 28, New Delhi, India
Group show "ADORNING" opens on April 16 at Apparao Galleries, Chennai, India
Group show "BARAMASA" opens on April 16 at Apparao Galleries and The Leela Palace, Chennai, India
Lecture on "The Goddess and the Buffalo: Art, Mythology and Ritual of Goddess Worship in India" by Dr. Jyotindra Jain on April 18 at Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Mumbai City Museum, Mumbai, India
Solo show by Neha Choksi "Minds To Lose" opens on April 30 at Hayward Gallery Project Space, London, UK
Solo show by Surendran Nair "Spatial Arrangements of Colours, Lines, Forms and Desires" opens on April 17 at Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai, India
Solo show by Mahesh Baliga "Passages from Reclusive Conversations" opens on April 23 at Project 88, Mumbai, India
Solo show by Nityan Unnikrishnan "Transparent Things" opens on April 24 at Chatterjee & Lal Gallery, Mumbai, India
Shoaib Mahmood solo show "Break The Shape and Kill The Shine" opens on April 22 at Art Chowk
Group show "The Art of Chess" opens on April 28 at Apparao Galleries, Chennai, India
Lecture on "Artists, Ethnography and Archive: Art History and Its Discontents in the Age of Globalization" by Professor. Parul Dave-Mukherji on April 25 at Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Mumbai City Museum, Mumbai, India
"NGMA shows: Reel Series" everyday film screenings opens on April 18 at National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA), New Delhi, India
"Activating Space: A Sculptural Enquiry" runs through May 15 at Khoj Studios, New Delhi, India
"GALLERY COLLECTION" opens on April 30 at Delhi Art Gallery, New Delhi, India
"One and one make eleven: Contemporary Art from India" opens on April 23 at Kunsthaus Langenthal, Langenthal, Switzerland
"Shades Of Summer" runs through June 29 at Hilton Garden Inn Hotel, Saket District Centre, New Delhi, India
"Shades Of Summer" runs through June 29 at Art Laureate, New Delhi, India
"In the Hands of Lorenzo Quinn" opens on April 20 at Gallery Odyssey, Mumbai, India
"View From The Window" opens on 7th April at Apparao Galleries, New Delhi, India
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ASEAN STOCK WATCH Asean Affairs 10 December 2010
ASEAN Move to New Highs
Shayne Heffernan
www.livetradingnews.com
ASEAN is pressing on new highs this week and tomorrow that trend will continue. US stocks wavered between small gains and losses Thursday as data providing mixed readings on the US economy failed to send the market in a clear direction.
Ebeling Heffernan have upgraded the 2011 growth target for Palm Oil.
So far Palm oil has rallied 36 percent this year, headed for its second straight annual advance, on optimism that rising demand in China may strain global supplies curbed by rain and drought in producing nations.
Global demand for eight vegetable oils will exceed output for the first time in eight years in 2010- 2011 and China’s import reliance is at “an alarming level,” Oil World said in a Nov. 19 report.
Heavy rains caused by a La Nina weather event have reduced oil-palm yields in Indonesia and Malaysia, the top producers. La Nina has also caused drought that curbed South American planting of soybeans, threatening global edible oil supplies and driving prices higher. Malaysia’s production dropped 1 percent to 14.3 million tons in the first 10 months of the year, according to data from the nation’s palm oil board.
February-delivery futures rose as much as 1.3 percent to 3,640 ringgit, a 29-month high, and traded at 3,617 ringgit at 12:13 p.m. on the Malaysia Derivatives Exchange.
China, the biggest user of commodities, has pledged to control prices by cracking down on the use of bank credit to speculate in agricultural markets and by selling soybeans and vegetable oil from state reserves.
The biggest buyer of soybeans is expected to import 57 million tons in the year from Oct. 1, up 13 percent from a year ago, the U.S. Department of Agriculture data show. Imports may exceed 14.2 million tons from October through December, up 4 million tons from a year earlier, Oil World said this week.
The Indonesian Stock Exchange (IDX) is among the best performing stock markets in Asia this year. The benchmark Jakarta Composite Index (JCI) has grown about 45 percent so far this year as foreign investors continued to pump funds into the Southeast Asia’s biggest economy. On Wednesday, the index rose 1.28 percent to close at its new record high of 3,769.99.
Estimates are that US$60 trillion was seeking to be invested at present, $48 trillion of which is owned by European and US’ investors.
Indonesia’s 6.5 percent benchmark interest rate has attracted foreign investors to invest in both debt and capital markets. About Rp 115.3 trillion of foreign funds have entered the nation’s stock and debt markets so far this year, a condition that has worried regulators due to fears over a sudden reversal that could hamper economic activities.
Tigor M. Siahaan, Citi’s country business manager, estimated Wednesday Moody’s would soon upgrade Indonesia’s sovereign rating to a level below the investment grade in line with the improvement of the country’s economic performance. “Moody’s was here last week talking to the government. So in several weeks we expect them to come up with an upgrade,” he told attendees at the same seminar.
Meanwhile BNP Paribas said Indonesia’s benchmark index may increase 20 percent within a year on an expected upgrade on the country’s sovereign debt rating. “Despite outperforming its peers in the region this year, we do not believe that the benefits of the re-rating have been fully priced in,” analyst Elvira Tjandrawinata told Bloomberg. “Other catalysts could include a continued pick up in investment, which would feed consumption, making it stronger and sustainable,” Elvira said.
The Indonesian stock market hit an all-time closing high on Wednesday, led by banking shares and helped by foreign buying, but other Southeast Asian markets ended mixed on concerns over eurozone debt and Chinese monetary tightening. Indonesia, the region's best performer this year, jumped 1.3 percent to close at 3,769.99, surpassing the previous peak hit on November 10.
Singapore gained 0.3 percent to a near-three-week high and Malaysia rose 0.6 percent to its highest since November 11, both in high volume compared with their 90-day average. The Philippines gained 0.6 percent. Thailand, the region's second-best performer in 2010, lost 1.5 percent, while Vietnam fell 1.7 percent, both to one-week lows.
Concern over eurozone debt problems, further tension on the Korean peninsula and fears of monetary tightening in China kept investors on the sidelines on Wednesday, analysts said. Despite volatility due to global economic concerns and rising currencies, investors are still turning to the region when they want to find risky assets with valuations that remain attractive.
"With the exception of Indonesia, all the Southeast Asian countries continue to be at PE deficits relative to Western counterparts at a time when growth here continues to be at a great premium," said Rob Sivitilli, J.P. Morgan's head of corporate finance and M&A for Southeast Asia. Indonesia is trading at 15.2 times this year's projected earnings, below all-Asia's 13.3 and more expensive than most of the other regional markets. Thailand is trading at 12.6, lower than the 14 of Singapore, 13.8 of Malaysia and the Philippines' 13.5, Thomson Reuters StarMine data show.
Jakarta attracted $21.8 million in inflows on Wednesday, with banking shares in demand, led by a 20 percent gain in Bank CIMB Niaga and a 2.3 percent rise in Bank Central Asia. In Bangkok, banking and energy shares led the fall after the country's top industrial conglomerate, Siam Cement, said it would sell a 15.59 percent stake in the country's top olefins maker, PTT Chemical, for 33 billion baht ($1.10 billion).
"We saw poor sentiment from selling in PTT Chemical, which came under pressure due to the share sale offer at a lower-than-market price," said Parin Kitchaotornpitak, senior analyst at Far East Securities. However, the Thai market enjoyed $58.7 million in foreign inflows on Wednesday, extending net offshore buying to over $292 million in the past six sessions.
Shayne Heffernan brings more than 25 years of trading experience in Asia and hands on experience in Venture Capital, he has been involved in several start ups that have seen market capitalization over US$500m and 1 that reach a peak market cap of US$15billion. He has managed and overseen start-ups in Mining, Shipping, Technology and Financial Services.
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