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Venom 29.7
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It wasn’t the most comfortable journey. I could handle uncomfortable. Uncomfortable was better than being upstairs and staring down the bastard that was exterminating humanity.
The opening of the tunnel had ridges, bumps and uneven edges that scraped past me with enough speed and force that I worried it would damage my costume. Probably intentional, giving traction to the ones who weren’t digging. But we passed that area and we hit smoother metal. Traction was harder to come by, the tunnel almost a winding waterslide.
I slid, as the others were doing, bracing my feet against the sides to slow my descent. The bugs I’d planted on my teammates let me track the turns and drops, angling and bracing myself as I ran into steeper drops, sharp turns and outright ten foot drops.
It reminded me of an anthill, in a way. Winding tunnels, irregular, exploratory, treacherous and impossible to navigate.
Cuff slid down and hit the end of the tunnel. A dead end, with a person there. She didn’t slow, instead using her power to hammer her way through, splitting the steel apart and driving herself and the individual at the end through the resulting hole.
The instant Cuff was through into the room on the other side of the tunnel, she and the individual she’d collided with were attacked. Lung was the next in line, followed by Canary, and they were ambushed as well. Lung was pinned against a wall, Canary liberally tossed back into a crowd that waited to disable her.
With Golem behind me, I didn’t want to stop and get my bearings, but I was plunging towards a situation I couldn’t fully grasp. Bugs I’d planted on my allies spread out, but it was too few to get a good picture of who and what was waiting for us.
I didn’t have Defiant’s knife. Floret had encased it in crystal. I could drag it here, maybe, or use relay bugs and wait for the crystal to expire before carting it my way, but that didn’t help me here. I called for my bugs to bring the knife anyways.
Rachel had paused before entry, getting herself sorted out with her pets, meaning she was only just arriving. Her reactions were fast, the commands to her canines quick and efficient.
They swelled as they put themselves between her and the waiting group, growing in size and manifesting their natural weapons. It was fast enough I suspected she’d been starting their growth as she approached the literal light at the end of the tunnel. Bastard’s changes were more fluid, faster, and more symmetrical than Huntress’, but he was younger, just a little smaller.
A group advanced on the canines without fear. Two people to Huntress, two to Bastard. Young men, if my swarm-sense was correct. The animals weren’t as big as they could get, but they were about as large as a couch. Yet the men didn’t show any fear.
They moved fluidly as the animals lunged, snapping and biting. Confident movements. Two caught Huntress’ head, wrenched it to the side, while the others avoided snapping jaws to catch Bastard’s forelimbs, bodily hauling him up and then throwing him to the ground.
The two animals were brought down in as many seconds. Pinned, as inexplicably as Lung was pinned. Except this wasn’t sheer strength. They were strategic, targeting body parts, one of the young men leveraging his whole body between Bastard’s forelimbs, forcing them apart in a way that the dog’s musculature couldn’t combat.
It was like holding a crocodile’s mouth shut. Jaw strength aside, the crocodile wasn’t built to force it’s mouth open. The wolf wasn’t built to draw its legs together against its chest, but couldn’t get feet under it to stand without dislodging the offending attacker. The other had his head caught and twisted to one side.
Huntress, for her part, was caught by the head alone, which had been forced down. The woman who had Lung pressed up against the wall had one foot on the dog’s muzzle, and was holding it down.
They made it look so easy it was almost effortless. A fifth boy approached Rachel, now disarmed of her dogs.
I forced myself to slow down as we approached a flatter spot. Theo’s heavy metal boots hit my shoulders.
We were still sliding down, but slower. Only seconds before we were through.
“Ambush below,” I managed.
No response. Whoever had dug the tunnel had been digging down when they reached the edge of the room. I supposed they’d stopped when they reached a layer made of a different material, going up to check. Our entry was a straight drop into one end of the room, and I landed flat on my back, nearly colliding with Rachel.
A boy. A teenage boy, clean-shaven, if he even needed to shave, wearing a white dress shirt with the sleeves rolled up the forearms, his blond hair slicked back, and black suit pants. He backed away a step as Golem and I appeared.
His appearance, the way they’d fought… like Contessa?
Each of the boys were identical.
Lung and Huntress were pinned by Alexandria. Or by Pretender wearing Alexandria’s body, in a way. Lung was changing, the canines swelling in size, and yet she didn’t look worried. Bastard was still on the ground, one of the boys looking as unconcerned as one could look while holding down a half-ton animal.
Behind the boys, a small crowd had gathered.
Doctor Mother, a Manton with the Siberian… or a Manton clone with the Siberian, a claw pressed to Gully’s throat. There were three more case fifty threes, all burly, all bound with heads hanging. Rounding out the group was the Number Man, who had a pen pressed tight against Cuff’s jugular, her costume already torn open at the throat to expose flesh. His foot was propped up on a sphere.
I could see the resemblance between the Number Man and the boys in dress shirts. Twenty or more years of difference, and the Number Man was dressed in a full suit, which somehow made him more imposing, pocket protector or no, but they were too similar to be anything but related.
Was Cauldron cloning? Another contingency plan?
At the very back of the room, separate from the group, were two pale young men, laid out on desks that sat on either side of a reinforced door. A twenty-something guy with flat skin stretched over where his eyes should be, and a guy that was maybe ten years older, with enough bloody bandage around his head and face that I couldn’t make out his features. Doormaker, I could assume, based on what I’d heard upstairs, along with the clairvoyant the Doctor had mentioned in the past.
The boy in the suit closed the distance, and Rachel struck out. He batted her fist aside. She kicked, and he casually caught it and leveraged it to throw her off balance, tossing her to the ground.
Maybe a little harder than he had to.
I saw how she fell, saw her back arch, the way she held her arm as she rolled over. She didn’t cry out, didn’t make any sounds of pain, but the degree of pain was clear.
A lot harder than necessary. Had she broken something?
He turned his head towards Golem and I, and he smiled a little. A tight, narrow, mocking smile.
“I’m not your enemy,” I said.
“You came out fighting,” Alexandria-Pretender said. She looked down at Rachel. “Or she did.”
“Bastard was acting like there was fighting going on, ears, hackles up. You attacked us.”
The Number-Man clone kicked her. Casually cruel.
I tensed, but I didn’t act. The fall had knocked the wind out of me. Catching my breath, then-
“Disable her,” the Doctor said.
The young man closed in. Still smiling. Fuck me, was that smug smile irritating. I felt a moment’s sympathy for people who’d had to face down Tattletale. I sicced my swarm on him.
He moved through the incoming insects, eyes open and unblinking as he closed the distance to me. Only a few landed, and they landed in spots where they couldn’t target more vulnerable areas.
That he wasn’t closing his eyes was telling. I used my bugs to try and blind him, to keep him from seeing how I was moving, and I reached behind my back, going for the pepper spray.
He blocked my wrist with his palm, keeping me from aiming at him. Not just sight. Or his sight was more acute than I’d realized. Hearing? Something else?
Be unpredictable.
Pepper spray killed bugs. I didn’t aim for him, but for the pair of us, spraying into open air, into my swarm.
I’d hoped to make him back off, but he didn’t. He ducked low, simultaneously bringing one foot up, catching me in the chest. In the same movement, he rolled to one side, getting away from the mist of pepper spray that was still hanging in the air and simultaneously avoiding Golem’s reaching hand of concrete.
For just an instant, my feet left the ground. I landed, but I landed with one foot on Rachel’s calf. I fell.
Too much like fighting Contessa. Everything winding up positioned just right. Damn it.
On my back, I was vulnerable, but Golem was covering me. This kid with the dress clothes was slippery, efficient, but the way his movements played out… maybe not quite on Contessa’s level. Contessa would have found a way to attack and defend at the same time, instead of being stuck evading Golem’s power.
I tried to haul air into my lungs and coughed instead. If they killed us before we got far enough…
Stupid, all of this, so stupid.
“Stop,” I spoke through my swarm.
The kid drew knives from his pockets. Small knives, with blades no longer than a finger.
Still confident, still sure of his victory.
A connection formed in my head. I knew, in an instant. Harbinger.
Cauldron had collected some of the remaining clones from Jack’s army.
The Number Man used to be in the Slaughterhouse Nine?
No, couldn’t get distracted. I was up against a kid with an analysis power that was off the charts, he’d dodge whatever I threw at him.
I used my pepper spray again. This time, I aimed at the two boys who had Bastard pinned. Opponents who couldn’t dodge, not without giving up an advantage. They moved out of the way, and in the process they let Bastard climb to his feet. He was half-again as large as he had been, a ridge of stegosaurus spikes along his spine, more spikes and barbs framing his face. He growled, and it wasn’t a dog sound. It wasn’t a wolf sound either.
Bringing two more of the kids into the fight, but now I had Bastard for backup.
Up until Alexandria-Pretender grabbed Huntress and hurled her at us. Me, Golem, Rachel, and Bastard were slammed into the far wall by Huntress’ bulk.
Lung was still growing, still changing, and his throat was broad enough now that she couldn’t do more than dig her fingertips into the front of it, but he still couldn’t break free of her grasp.
He opted for a second option, leveling a hand at the Doctor, Manton, the Number Man and the crowd of boys. Fire erupted forth. A half-second’s worth, before Alexandria threw him down and kicked him full-force into the wall beside us.
No use. The Siberian had saved them with her ability to grant her own invulnerability effect. Thankfully. If he’d torched them, all of this would have been for nothing.
Had to account for Lung’s behavior. Keep it in mind. He had a kind of pride, and it had nearly fucked us on two occasions so far.
“We’re-” I started to speak.
But Lung roared, drowning me out as he pulled free of Alexandria’s grasp. Not breaking her grip, but rending his own throat, tearing jugular and vein, windpipe even, in his furious attempt to get free.
Alexandria turned as Lung fell into a fighting stance. Less a martial artist’s stance than an animal, low to the ground, chest heaving to pull air through the gushing wound in his throat, a glare leveled at his opponent.
“Stop!” Imp called out.
It took me a second to place her. Behind the Doctor, a knife pressed against the Doctor’s throat. She pulled the Doctor back, away from Siberian. “If any of you move, I cut. This is-”
The Number Man fired something from hip level. A spark marked the bullet’s contact point at the mouth of the hole we’d come through. The weapon flew from Imp’s hand.
“-pointless,” Imp finished.
The Siberian crossed the distance, then stopped beside the Doctor. She put a hand on the Doctor’s shoulder.
More fighting. I clenched my fists. Stupid.
“Scion’s here,” I said, taking advantage of the momentary pause in the fighting.
Two and a half words to cut through the tension. I could see the change in the Doctor’s demeanor, the Number Man, even the Manton clone. One of the most powerful groups in the world, in every sense of the word, in raw powers, in political power, influence, knowledge, and they were spooked.
I hadn’t wanted to win, only to buy a chance to talk. Now this was it, and I had to get them to listen. Simpler was better. Straight to the point.
“We don’t have reason to trust you,” the Doctor said. “We’ve interacted, Weaver, I have a level of respect for you, but that doesn’t extend to equal measures of trust. You’re dangerous, and I can’t rule out that this is an assassination attempt.”
Translation: pure denial. You don’t want to believe me.
“He’s upstairs and he’s coming now,” I said.
“That-” the Doctor started. She paused, as if reflecting, taking in the implications, then shook her head a little. “That doesn’t change anything. I still can’t take your word for gospel.”
That sounded less like pure denial and more like outright suspicion. A step forward, I was pretty sure.
The whole structure rattled. I felt things sway a touch.
The Doctor looked up, then looked down at me, her gaze level, eyes narrowed slightly. It was the first time I’d seen her with her hair down, rather than pinned up with chopsticks or some ornate pin.
“I don’t know what to say, except that things are pretty fucking dire,” I said. “Satyr’s dead, for one thing.”
Alexandria flinched as though I’d slapped her and she had felt it.
I looked at her. “His team, dead. The prisoners you guys had on the second, third and fourth floors, all dead or dying as we speak. Read my expression, use Alexandria’s power, tell me I’m wrong.”
When Alexandria replied, the voice wasn’t quite Alexandria’s. “I’m afraid I haven’t had the chance to study that in depth to the degree she did.”
“It’s fine,” the Doctor said. “I’m willing to believe it, if this is an assassination attempt, I’ll take the risk.”
“If it was an assassination attempt,” Imp said, appearing at the far end of the room, “I’d have offed you.”
The Doctor glanced her way. “And you are?”
Imp sighed.
“We’ll make our way downstairs,” the Doctor decided. “William, please rotate the column while our… guests pick themselves up.”
Manton approached a computer terminal set into the wall and began typing.
Pick ourselves up. As if they hadn’t just bludgeoned their way through us.
Manton’s work at the computer produced results. The swaying feeling I’d experienced a moment ago hit me again. Everything I could see was still, but for people trying to catch their balance, but my non-parahuman senses told me we were moving.
It faded. Rachel ordered her dogs to stand, and the pile of us got ourselves sorted out. Lung was just at the midway point between human and monster, covered head to toe in overlapping metal scales, his neck a little too long, his shoulders too broad, had a claw pressed to the bleeding throat wound. By all rights, he should have been dead, but regeneration and an inhuman constitution went a long way.
Huntress got out of the way, and I made my way to my feet. I could feel the dull pain where bruises would emerge. If I lived that long.
There was another rumble, and a feeling like I was swaying, my sense of balance not quite right. Not Manton, so it had to be Scion. Had the steel column moved a fraction? Had it been intentional on Scion’s part, or a result of the action upstairs?
The Number Man gave Cuff a hand in standing, and she began folding up the metal around her neck, repairing the armor. She withdrew the wickedly sharp spikes at the knee and the base of her wrist, where she’d been shaping weapons in case she needed to fight her way free of his grip.
He only smiled, tapping one spike with his pen before it slipped into her costume. Cuff’s expression, where her lower face was visible beneath the layered visor she wore, wasn’t the slightest bit amused.
The boys with suits tended to the three prisoners and the two wounded. Alexandria tore off a thick metal table leg and wound it to bind Gully’s hands behind her back, before hoisting the unconscious case fifty-three up, carrying her.
“I’m sorry,” the Number Man said, to Rachel. “For the behavior of my clones. They’re inaccurate, based on hearsay and speculation more than fact. I was more polite, back then, more efficient.”
Rachel just gave him a funny look and shrugged her way past him.
I was tense. It wasn’t just the fight we’d left behind. Here, we had answers available, but so little time.
I held out my hands. Floret’s crystal with my knife inside dropped from the hole in the ceiling.
The Doctor typed a code into a keypad at the end of the room, and the Siberian opened the door beside it, turning a wheel to unlock it, then pushing the thick metal door open with a disconcerting ease. Clone or not, she was still the Siberian in power.
With the door now open, we were faced with a corridor, wide enough for my group to walk side by side, the Doctor’s group leading the way in front of us. Vials lined the walls around us, set into an arrangement of metal wires that kept them lined up, multiple vials of the same color lined up beside another arrangement of vials. Except nearly every vial was empty. There was only glass, no fluid inside. Where fluid did exist, the light filtered through and cast dark blotches of color on the gray walls behind.
But if I counted them, if I used my bugs to note the ones that had contents…
One or two hundred, maybe, with fluid still inside.
“Our stock,” the Doctor said. “Nearly depleted. We gave the formulas out for free, in hopes of turning out parahumans that could do damage to Scion. We retained only the volatile ones.”
“Volatile can be good,” I said. My eyes noted the sheer number of vials. Tens of thousands, even, virtually covering the walls on either side of us.
“Volatile can kill three quarters of the people who ingest it,” the Doctor said. “Or generate case fifty-threes we can’t use.”
“Right,” I said. “Nevermind, then.”
Each was marked with a combination of letters and numbers, and a title. I read the names of the ones that still had fluid inside.
Abel. Abbatoir. Access. Ace. Aegis. Air. Alchemy. Alias. Alpha. Amaze…
“So many,” a voice said.
The ball with Sveta inside.
“Quite a few,” the Doctor said.
“All tested on people?” Sveta asked.
“Yes,” the Doctor said.
“I remember, you know,” Sveta said. “I dream of home. I was a fisherman’s daughter. There were these beautiful little huts with flat roofs, orange clay brick against gray mountains, with green-blue grass and ocean. It was cramped, and I had to share space with my family, my siblings… but I was okay with it. There weren’t any boys my age to marry, and I didn’t want to move to another town to look for a husband, so I just stayed by myself. I’d draw, and there was a peace in it. I still like to draw, I find it helps me relax… but it’s hard because my tendrils break the brushes and pencils. And then I don’t feel relaxed anymore.”
“We’ve caused you difficulties,” the Doctor said, not even looking at Sveta. She walked quickly, her eyes roving over the rows and columns of vials.
“I can’t remember my mother tongue, Doctor. I can’t remember my daddy’s face, or my mommy, or either of my brothers. I’ve just got the faces I see in dreams. Every morning I was in the asylum, I would wake up and I scramble to draw something, to put words in a diary, and I’m so excited and panicked and desperate I’d break things.”
The Doctor wasn’t reacting.
“I know I used to draw, but I can’t find the style I used to draw in. I dream about the night you took me, you know.”
“Not me, surely. I sent others.”
“You sent people like me to take me. Case fifty-threes. Branded. Abominations. Demons. There’s names for us all over the world. It was storming, I was delirious, and they came, they grabbed me, and I all I could think was that the old stories were true, and I said something I can’t remember. You took me to a lab and you unraveled me with that drug of yours, and then you dropped me in the middle of nowhere, with just enough memories to know that I should be human.”
“We gave you a second chance.”
“I didn’t ask for one.”
“It’s very possible your town stood to be destroyed by a storm-”
“If you’d asked, I would’ve wanted to weather it.”
“Or by plague, starvation. It could be the cause for your delirium.”
“I would’ve stuck it out. You’re not listening to me, Doctor.” A flare of anger. The ball bucked with the movement inside.
“There are more immediate problems to focus on,” the Doctor said. “I understand where you’re coming from, but this isn’t the time to play ‘what if’.”
“I’m not playing,” Sveta said, and the anger was gone, just as fast as it had appeared. “I’m- I’m telling you that if you’d asked, at any point along the way, I’d probably have told you I’d rather be dead. I’d rather be dead than live this new life you gave me, where I spent years killing people by accident, unable to sleep, killing stray animals for food because my body decides when I eat, not my mind…”
“I understand,” the Doctor replied. She sounded a little impatient. “Then damn me. Curse me. Tell me I will go to hell for what I did. At the end of this, I will face any and all punishment that I’m due, alive or dead. For now, we see our way through this.”
“You don’t get to do that. You don’t get to get off with… words and sentiment. Gully told me she’d break down in tears all the time, because moving her arms, being strong enough to break things, it reminded her of what she is, every time she did anything. Her power reminded her, being constantly aware of the ground around her. Weld… he told me once that he felt like he was going crazy. All he had was music. It was the only human thing he could enjoy, because he couldn’t taste. He couldn’t feel, even when I squeezed him hard enough to dig into him. And Gentle Giant-”
“Are you going to run down the entire list?” The Doctor asked. Her voice was a little harder. “Do you want an apology? You said you don’t want words. Would a gesture do? Should I take a scalpel to my face? Carve myself up so I could experience what you have?”
“It wouldn’t even be a fraction of what any of us have experienced,” Sveta bit out the words. “Because you’d have had the choice, Doctor. The choice to do that to yourself. Because we’re all going to die when Scion comes down here and you would live minutes like that, instead of years.”
“Then what do you want from me?” the Doctor asked, and the hardness in her voice had become anger.
The structure rumbled.
The rumble was followed by a heavy crash. With my bugs, I could tell it was in the room we’d just vacated. A virtual waterfall of debris, of metal slag and concrete.
There was no order, no signal, but we broke into a run.
“I want my name, Doctor,” Sveta said. She wasn’t running, so her voice was level, free of panting or anything of the sort. “Not even my old name, from before you wiped my memory. Tell me the name you gave me, after you sent me to the fourth floor. Because you do that for the ones you think are worth studying, right? Or tell me the name I took after you released me into the wild, as some kind of smokescreen for Scion. It starts with ‘S’, if that helps.”
We should be strategizing, I thought.
But I didn’t interject.
“You wipe our memories when you send us down to the third floor, Shamrock told us, so I just had a number for a while. Tell me you remember my number, even. Tell me that what you did to me had some merit, that you did all this for some purpose, and turning me into a killer with a triple-digit body count mattered enough for you to remember!”
The Doctor huffed out the words, panting as she ran, “You can’t have any successes without failures. There was nothing of use in your case, nothing memorable but your durability, but it was one formula we could rule out.”
“That’s not good enough!”
The Number Man spoke, “He-”
“Not you!” Sveta hissed. “You remember, probably, but-”
“He’s here,” the Number Man said, talking over her.
We stopped, turning.
A golden light at the entrance to the corridor. A figure stood in the middle of it, darker in contrast to the light surrounding it..
Scion.
He advanced on foot. One step, then another.
His eyes moved to the vials.
He touched one, gentle, almost inquisitive.
“Oh fuckballs,” Imp whispered the word.
We backed away, slowly.
Scion reached out and cupped his hands around the vial. I could see fragments of the wire that held the vial upright falling to the ground, glowing gold where his power had burned through the edges.
He cupped the vial in his hands, staring down at it.
“What are they?” Golem asked. “The vials?”
“Powers,” the Number Man said, unhelpfully.
Scion stared, his eyes roving over the rows of vials. He reached out for a patch of empty vials, without any color behind them, but he didn’t touch them.
Sensing the traces of what they’d once contained, maybe?
Nowhere to go. Gully might have been able to dig an escape route, but she had a hole in her shoulder I could have put my arm through, and she wasn’t conscious, let alone coherent. Either the impact with Cuff or the fight with the Doctor’s people had disabled her.
She’d been with the group that had tried to lynch the Doctor, so maybe taking her out of action had been a preventative measure.
The Doormaker, none of it worked.
“Doctor,” I said. “You don’t have powers, right?”
“I don’t,” the Doctor said. “But I have a corona pollentia.”
“What do you mean?” I asked. “You have the potential for power?”
“I do. I could theoretically trigger. If someone has the potential and takes the dose, there is a higher chance of deviation.”
“But you were fine with doing it to others,” Sveta murmured.
“Natural powers tend to fall more in line with the subject’s nature,” the Doctor said, ignoring Sveta. “Complimentary to their personality, their needs, and so on. Better to leave that door open, in case it comes down to it, or to retain the ability to take a vial at a crucial juncture.”
“I believe,” Lung growled, his voice strangely thin despite his size, with his partially healed injury, “this would be a good time.”
“He’s not moving,” Canary said.
“His attention is consumed,” the Number Man said. “We’re insignificant, compared to… this.”
“A healing power,” I said. I watched as Scion reached out for another vial. He held it next to the one he’d already retrieved.
I could almost sense something from him. Confusion?
“There aren’t any healing powers,” the Doctor answered. We continued backing away. “When they crop up, it’s a fluke, pure chance, an extension of another ability with a different focus.”
“A tinker power,” I said.
“A tinker power would take time,” Cuff said.
“A tinker power would be flexible enough to cover multiple bases,” I said. “One of which could potentially get us out of here.”
“Perhaps,” the Doctor said. “But I would like to remind you all what happens when someone undergoes their trigger event, natural or induced. You would be rendered comatose.”
“My dogs can carry us,” Rachel said.
“Point conceded,” the Doctor replied. We were moving faster now, with Scion not making a move. “But there is another concern. The trigger event might draw his attention.”
Which would spell out our deaths, I thought.
“Let us put some distance between ourselves and the being,” the Doctor said. “One thousand feet seems like the safest bet.”
A thousand feet, I thought. “Is this safehouse even that big?”
“Certainly,” the Doctor said. “William.”
“Doctor,” Manton said.
“I’m going to ask you to position Siberian up here. We’ll see if she can do any damage.”
“Yes,” Manton agreed.
The Siberian stepped forward.
Manton leaned over and gave her a kiss on the cheek.
Out of sync. Doesn’t fit. Like Number Man was complaining about with his clones.
But I was happy to have someone expendable standing guard.
We turned to leave, and I used my bugs to watch the scene, perching them around the Siberian, turning their cloudy, distorted senses on the golden man.
I could infer, rather than see, that he dropped a vial. It hit the ground and shattered, the contents splashing out onto the ground and the walls. He reached for another.
He held it for only seconds before letting both of the vials in his hands fall and shatter on the concrete floor. He rose in the air to float over the mess, reaching out for more vials.
“Here,” the Doctor said, as we reached the next floor. “These were the vials we were trying to find. I sent Contessa to find recipients for each of them. I kept only three.”
There was a table with the vials set in what appeared to be a centrifuge. The liquid inside was nearly black..
“Why these?” I asked.
“There is a foreign agent in them. The entity altered each power he granted to give them certain restrictions. No power would be able to truly affect him, no power would cross the boundaries he set in dimension, or in affecting other powers. There are no alterations to the elements in these, only to the accompanying abilities, or complimentary powers. The powers granted from these vials don’t cause the recipients to forget the visions they see. Eidolon was one such case. The extreme deviant cases on the special containment floor make up much of the remainder.”
“Extreme deviants,” Sveta said.
“I’ll need to dilute this, or I’ll be no use to anyone. The Balance formula, Number Man?”
“Where?” he asked.
“The fridge,” she said. She leaned over the table, gazing at the vials. “Extreme deviants. Some had only a trace of the foreign element, which we discovered later, others had known quantities. Others… perhaps they received some and we weren’t aware or able to check after the fact. Deviants like our friend in the ball here-”
“Sveta,” Sveta said. “Garotte was the name you gave me, when I refused to take one for myself. I was recipient one-six-one-six. And I’m not your friend, Doctor. I like to think the best of people, but I think you’re far, far gone.”
“-Sveta,” the Doctor said. “Deviants like Sveta are a rare thing, particularly with the Balance formula in the mix. Extreme deviants form a subset within a subset, with physical mutations that go well out of bounds of any solid reference point we have here on Earth.”
“Why?” Golem asked.
The Doctor took the vial from the Number Man. It was clear. She used a funnel and tongs to pour the contents of the clear vial into the darker vial. Though both vials were nearly full, the mixture didn’t cause any overflow. The color found a middle ground. A deep red.
She turned it around, then clamped it in between two rubber bumpers. She hit a button on the side of the table, and it began shaking, like a paint machine. “Two minutes. Best freshly shaken, so the layers don’t separate. William? Status?”
“He’s floating down the hallway, knocking the vials to the ground.”
“Time?”
“Rate he’s traveling… I’d say a few minutes. Three or four.”
“We’ll finish the mixing and then run,” the Doctor said. She stared at the vial. “This may be the closest you get to your revenge, Sveta. I’m left with no choice, and chances are good I’ll change physically, even with the Balance formula.”
“You keep referring to that,” I said. “What is it?”
“I’ve come to believe it’s the opposite of what we had with the foreign agent. One power, or a collection of powers, calibrated in advance by the entity, with humans in mind. By mixing it into other vials, we borrow this particular quality, at the cost of having more physical changes with any such power we grant. We retain humanity more easily, safeguarding against deviant cases.”
“You found a way to collect powers,” Golem said.
“In a sense,” the Doctor said. She sighed heavily. “You came for a reason.”
“I did,” I said. “We did. For answers, for insights on the entity, and because we need Doormaker if we’re going to win this fight against Scion.”
The Doctor looked at Doormaker, who was being held by two Harbingers. “We’d hoped to use Doormaker in conjunction with Khonsu, for a mobile force that could safely pressure the entity. A last measure.”
“You had an awful lot of plans,” I said.
“We did. I can tell you about them, or I can answer your questions. What information do you desire, Weaver? What insights on the entity could win this for us?”
“Second Triggers,” I said.
The Doctor frowned. “Too many people have come to me about that. It’s a promise of more power that manifests just often enough to tantalize, infrequently enough to leave countless disappointed.”
“When powers manifest, they come with safeguards. The same programmed safeguards that I seek to circumvent or ignore with these foreign agents.” She tapped the desk. “The agent, the power, seeks to protect the host, so it prevents the host from harming itself. It’s a crude measure, one the agent applied with broad, general strokes. Not every agent can receive individual attention, and the ones that do, I believe, were more hampered than not. With the second trigger, the agent reaches out, makes contact with others, networks and draws on collective information to refine the restrictions and save its host.”
“Is it always around other parahumans, then?”
“Not always, but frequently. Circumstances tend to mirror the original trigger event. The resulting power ignores restrictions that were previously set.”
The shaking of the machine began to slow.
“You’re involved with a lot of powerful parahumans,” I said. “Do you have a means of causing second triggers?”
“We’ve done it for several clients in the past, with varying degrees of success. Because of the time it takes, and the arrangements involved, we put a high premium on it. We’ve had more clients die trying to collect the funds for this premium than we’ve had clients go through with the procedure,” she said.
“A catch twenty-two, if you will,” the Number Man said. “If you’re powerful enough to have the necessary funds, then you don’t need a second trigger to thrive. If you need a second trigger, you lack the funds.”
“I get the feeling you didn’t devote much attention to this,” Golem said. “Why not?”
“Because reducing the restrictions that are in place only gives us a power that has less restrictions, when we need powers with none. We needed to luck into a formula that had an applicable power as well as a whole, untainted foreign power within, and we needed it in a vehicle we could use, an individual without crippling mental, psychological, emotional or physical deviations. Eidolon was that, and Eidolon had a fatal flaw in the end.”
I nodded, biting my lip.
“We should go,” the Doctor said. “Where is Scion?”
“Still upstairs,” Manton said, pointing at the ceiling, off to the right. “He’s gone still. He’s got vials in his hands again.”
The Doctor nodded. “This way. Just a little further down, and I’ll ingest this. With luck, we’ll have a weapon or a way out.”
“What about these vials?” I asked.
“The powers wouldn’t help.”
“If they’re special, if they could give us an answer-”
“The powers are poor,” the Doctor said. “Foreign, yes, but poor. When we tested these, we got a defensive power utilizing warped space and a power that allows one to take over a nearby parahuman’s mind, body and powers automatically on death. The one I hold should have attack or mover capabilities, if not both.”
She input a code by the door, and William Manton set about opening it. Another wheel-lock.
“What would happen if a person with powers drank one?” I asked.
“Nothing at all,” the Doctor said. “Believe me, we’ve tried hybridizing natural and Cauldron capes. You might as well drink water, for much the same effect.”
I nodded, but I didn’t take my eyes off the table.
“You hoped for a way to increase your powers? Or the powers of everyone here?” The Doctor asked.
“Yes,” I said.
“Downstairs,” she said. “We’ll see.”
I nodded. I used my flight pack to travel down the stairs more quickly.
Ever downward. Descending.
“He’s coming,” Manton said. “There’s nothing left between us to slow him down. I’m- the Siberian will fight now.”
The Doctor nodded.
I could sense the two meeting. The Siberian dashing forward. Scion apparently uncaring.
The Siberian cleaved deep. The way her body intersected Scion, it was like ghosts fighting.
Tattletale says he closes wounds as fast as they appear, so fast our senses can’t perceive it.
If that was so, the Siberian was doing horrific amounts of damage. She passed bodily through him, and glowing motes followed her as she emerged on the other side, landing and wheeling around.
“Intersect him,” I said. “It’ll burn through his reserves.”
Manton nodded.
“Number Man,” the Doctor said. “The-”
“EM readers?”
“EM readers.”
The Number Man ducked into a side corridor.
“This is it,” the Doctor said. She pointed down. “The last room. Lowest room in the complex.”
I could see it, a flight down. A heavy door, vaultlike.
“Then it is a dead end,” Lung rumbled.
“Fuck,” Imp said. “Fuck it, fuck damn shit.”
We reached the door, and Lung set his claws on the wheel to open the door. He’d just started turning when the Number Man appeared, a paddle-like wand in each hand.
Manton took one of the paddles.
The Siberian was standing in the middle of Scion, their bodies overlapping. If her presence tore into him, then every passing fraction of a second was a good one-hundred and some pounds of flesh being eaten away. Depending on how fast he regenerated, it could be vast quantities. Turning a strength into a weakness.
But he didn’t seem to care. He floated there, his back turned to the doorway we’d used to travel to the next floor down, staring at the rows of vials. Uncaring about the Siberian’s sustained assault.
“He doesn’t care,” I murmured.
The Doctor and the Number Man looked up from the paddle the Number Man had in hand. He was apparently calibrating it.
“Scion doesn’t care that Siberian’s tearing him up,” I clarified.
“Of course he doesn’t,” the Doctor said. “He’s alien. He doesn’t have human feelings.”
“He’s a force of nature,” Number Man said.
I shook my head. “No. Human feelings are why he’s a danger. Without them, he’d be some nebulous threat, three hundred years in the future. But he’s lashing out, trying to find himself, and that’s why he’s dangerous.”
The Number man waved the wand around my head, then frowned. He waved it around his own head, read the digital display, then tried the Doctor. He tried waving it at Lung, but Lung swatted at it.
“He’s alien above all else. Abstract.” the Doctor said. Her eyes fell on the vial. “It’s through alien, abstract methods we’ll defeat him, if it’s even possible.”
“The door is stuck,” Lung said.
“The way the column has settled may have put undue stress on this part of the architecture,” Number Man said. “If you’d let me-”
“I know,” the Doctor said. “If I’d let you have a hand in designing this… but you were new to the team. I didn’t yet trust you with sensitive matters.”
Number Man nodded, taking it as something matter-of-fact.
Lung heaved on the door, putting all of his superhuman strength behind it. It barely budged.
“Take her,” Alexandria said.
Lung took Gully’s body.
Alexandria pushed. A crack appeared in the ceiling, dust showering down on top of us.
“Structural,” Number Man said. “If we open it, it’ll cave in on us.”
“This does not concern me,” Lung said. “Stand back, and I will push my way through.”
Golem shook his head. “Eventually, but what about the time it takes to burrow through? We can’t afford it.”
The Doctor was looking down at the vial.
“If we’re going to win this,” I said, “I want it to be because of our strength, not an abstract one. And I know that sounds corny.”
“A nice sentiment,” the Number Man said. “But I’m afraid that power you’re digging for is out of your reach, Weaver.”
I looked at him.
“Or it’s already in your reach. You can’t have a second trigger because you already had one,” he said.
I blinked.
“Given the signature, it’s very possible you had two trigger events in quick succession. Not uncommon. The horror of manifesting your power, it prompted another trigger.”
“No,” I said. “There’s got to be something.”
“If there is, a second trigger event isn’t it,” the Number Man said. “I can check your allies, but we can’t do much more. We used to rely on Contessa’s power to determine the exact event needed for a second trigger.”
I nodded numbly.
“I’m sorry,” Imp said.
I shook my head. I’d staked hopes on this, despite promises to myself that I wouldn’t.
Beside me, the Doctor removed the black rubber cork from the vial.
The Siberian appeared beside us in the same instant. Manton spoke, “He finally took action and struck my Siberian.”
I could sense Scion above. Staring at the corridor with the vials.
He reached out, and a golden light flared. It was like a flicker of the lights, and it was so vivid I thought for a second I was seeing it with my own eyes.
The vials each shattered simultaneously.
Glass and fluids rained down onto the floor. My bugs were swamped all along the corridor.
Scion moved, killing my bugs on contact as he headed down to the next floor.
With my bugs, I could sense Number Man letting the wand go. It clattered to the stairs below him. “Broken.”
Broken?
Lung created flame for us to see by.
The Doctor stood there, her hands mangled where she’d been holding the vial, bleeding wounds at her throat.
“Your hands,” Manton said.
She shook her head. “S- superficial.”
“Did you drink any?” I asked.
She shook her head. “Barely any.”
I looked down at the stairs. Lap it up?
No. Something Skidmark or Newter had said, once upon a time. My first introduction to the vials.
And she’d said she needed a whole power. Would a partial dose only give half a power? A distorted one?
I could only guess.
“Okay,” I said. “Siberian… make us a path around the door.”
Manton nodded, as if I’d talked to him. Siberian walked into the wall, her power crushing stone. The rest of us moved up the stairwell, closer to Scion.
“Guys,” Imp said.
Lung had to move to cast the light on her.
She held Sveta’s sphere. Fractures marked the entire surface, and they spread with every passing second.
I withdrew my crystal-encased knife. “Lung?”
He took hold of it with one hand, nearly singing me with the heat of the flame that had surrounded the limb moments ago. He crushed it, winced as the knife ate through the claw at the end of his thumb.
I gingerly took hold of the knife, switched the settings to remove the disintegration effect, then started it up again.
It took a full four seconds. The calibration was off, stuff clogged. Not a big surprise.
“Halfway,” Manton said. “No sign of collapse.”
Scion appeared at the top of the stairs.
Leaving us without a place to even run to.
“A third trigger event,” I said. “Is it-”
“No,” the Doctor said.
“There has to be a way.”
“There isn’t one,” she said. “You have the power you have, nothing more.”
“Okay,” I answered.
“Hey,” Imp said, “Your power isn’t the only one that’s shit in this circumstance.”
The orb bucked, the fracturing doubling in quantity.
Then it broke.
Sveta hit the ground, and then unfurled. Tendrils extended up the stairs, encircling Scion.
“Focus on him,” she said. “Oh god. Focus on him. It’s him and me, we’re the only people here.”
The others were disappearing into the tunnel. Rachel, Imp, Canary, the Doctor’s group…
“Can’t…” Sveta said.
The Doctor headed into the tunnel.
A tendril encircled one of the Doctor’s ruined hands.
The Doctor screamed. I could hear bone breaking, see blood welling around the thin tendril of living razor wire.
Sveta’s tendrils continued to extend, stretching out.
Each one chose the Doctor as the mark.
“Had to pick someone,” Sveta whispered. “Couldn’t focus on him alone. I’m sorry, but you’re the best choice.”
The tendrlis found points closer to the Doctor’s midsection, crushing.
The Doctor’s screams became strangled.
Sveta coiled around the Doctor, burying the woman beneath overlapping tendrils, until there was a cocoon and a girl’s face, curled up on the stairs. Blood pooled beneath them.
Scion continued his approach.
I held my ground, forming swarm-decoys. They hadn’t worked last time, but-
Nothing. He walked past them.
I held my knife, waited as he closed the distance, standing in his way. I slashed at his throat, dragged the blade along his chest.
Smoke rose, billowing in quantities I couldn’t have imagined.
He pushed me aside.
Walking towards the door.
I realized what was about to happen. My mind was all noise as I screamed out a warning using my swarm, telling the others to get away.
I reached out and grabbed Sveta’s face, the point from which all the tendrils extended. An action carried out in panic. I felt a tendril or two wrap around my forearm. Hand and arm obliterated.
I just got a new one, I thought, almost dazed.
Scion pushed his way past the door. The door that was bearing the load of the ceiling above us.
Sveta dropped the doctor, and I felt the tendrils brush past me, ensnaring bugs. Then they snapped out, grabbing the door at the top of the staircase.
In the next instant, we were pulled to the door, virtually thrown. I used my flight pack to try and break the fall, to stop from being turned into a smear, but Sveta caught the brunt of the impact, webbing out to ensnare our surroundings.
The ceiling came down. A whole section of the substructure, apparently damaged, cracked by the fall or by some native impurity.
The dust settled.
And I saw what Scion had come for.
His partner.
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363 thoughts on “Venom 29.7”
wildbow on October 3, 2013 at 00:01 said:
Cut it pretty damn close with finishing this one. Wanted to expand the end, but I’m sort of okay with it being damnably vague, on a level.
Thanks for your support, guys. Just yesterday, Worm broke 26,000 views. Beat 23,000 for the first time, by a considerable margin.
And thanks for reading. Please vote on Topwebfiction, if it’s no trouble.
En on October 3, 2013 at 04:21 said:
That’s a lot of hits. Congratulations.
C’mon Wildbow, take a screenshot of some stats and publish it somewhere. You’re allowed to gloat some more 😉
Don on October 3, 2013 at 14:49 said:
I, ehmmm… I have a confession to make. I’ve been voting for “A Grey World”, since it’s much newer than Worm and needs the support – and it’s an amazing story too. Wish topwebfiction allowed multiple votes, or tiered votes even. Every time I see you mention topwebfiction I’m reminded to go vote for him.
BUT I only do that because you have hundreds and he usually has like 10 votes. Which I think is a crime; it’s such a good story, it deserves better. (He had 30 today, so I voted for you.) Otherwise, you’re first in my heart. ^_^
acediamonds on October 3, 2013 at 16:25 said:
Rejoice Don, for topwebfiction does in fact allow multiple votes. Now you can support all the cool webserials you read.
I know for a fact that this wasn’t true a month ago. I voted for ‘A Grey World’, then for Worm. A Grey World went UP one vote, then DOWN one vote.
You might be able to do it now (I haven’t checked yet) but as of september topwebfiction only counted your latest vote.
eduardo on October 3, 2013 at 19:14 said:
I vote for Worm, Legion of Nothing, Starwalker and Tales of the Big Bad Wolf. You can do multiple votes.
Psycho Gecko on October 4, 2013 at 00:32 said:
Well, hell, if anyone wants to toss a vote my way…well, if they can even find it on there. I think it’s supposed to be eligible over there, but I wouldn’t be surprised if certain people award me negative votes for every joke regarding the human anus. Butt maybe I’m just over anal-yzing things in assuming they’re that cheeky.
Jerden on October 4, 2013 at 18:29 said:
I’d vote for you if it were on there.
But it isn’t, although I do keep checking. I worry that your jokes may have rectal your chances of getting on the site though, they may feel that they’re a little crude.
(What? Am I supposed to let him have all the fun with butt jokes? Heh heh. Fun with butt jokes.)
agreyworld on January 15, 2014 at 11:41 said:
A (very) late thank you for voting for me, haha
Charles Borner on October 3, 2013 at 00:02 said:
This is the typo thread.
Drop typographical errors and instances of awkward grammatical usage in here.
randomsoul2 on October 3, 2013 at 00:18 said:
“I saw how she fell, saw her back arch, the way she held her arm as she rolled over. She didn’t cry out, didn’t make any sounds of pain, but”
Line cuts off.
Sengachi on October 3, 2013 at 01:26 said:
“Pinned, as inexplicably as Lung was pinned.”
Is it supossed to be “as inexplicable as it was”?
quintopia1 on September 20, 2014 at 13:08 said:
“I called for my bugs to bring the knife anyways.” I’ve been willing to ascribe previous uses of “anyways” to the idiolects of the characters who were speaking it, but this one isn’t in dialogue. I’d like to think that Taylor is well-educated enough that she’d used the more standard “anyway” when writing down her story, but maybe her hatred of her english teacher led her to hate standard grammar as well?
Pinkhair on October 3, 2013 at 05:12 said:
“Canary liberally tossed ” Literally? Though the mental image of her being liberally tossed in a nice vinaigrette IS hilarious…
“a Manton with the Siberian” Should that be just “Manton” and not ‘a’ Manton, since she corrects herself?
Matt Nordhoff on October 3, 2013 at 07:37 said:
> “Because reducing the restrictions that are in place only gives us a power that has less restrictions, when we need powers with none. …
Philippe Saner on October 3, 2013 at 08:25 said:
Every morning I was in the asylum, I would wake up and I scramble to draw something, to put words in a diary, and I’m so excited and panicked and desperate I’d break things.
I think that “I’m” should be in the past tense. “I’d be” or something like that.
Asmora on October 3, 2013 at 16:49 said:
Or Garotte is slipping tenses because the memories of those frantic mornings are so vivid they seem like the present.
grinvader on October 13, 2013 at 17:35 said:
“and I all I could think was”
Adaon on May 10, 2014 at 17:50 said:
“Jaw strength aside, the crocodile wasn’t built to force it’s mouth open.”
Should be ‘its mouth’.
Mister Tulip on June 6, 2014 at 18:49 said:
“I’m willing to believe it, if this is an assassination attempt, I’ll take the risk.”
The first comma should be a period.
“The Number man waved the wand around my head”
“man” should be capitalized.
irrevenant on August 18, 2014 at 23:19 said:
He floated there, his back turned to the doorway we’d used to travel to the next floor down, staring at the rows of vials. Uncaring about the Siberian’s sustained assault.
Uncaring –> he doesn’t care feels a bit repetitive. Maybe “Ignoring the Siberian’s sustained assault.
para on March 10, 2015 at 08:09 said:
*fewer*, not less
Olivebirdy on July 11, 2015 at 17:17 said:
The liquid inside was nearly black..
-extra period
Skitter, really. I’m pretty sure you’ve beaten out Anakin Skywalker for number of limbs lost at this point.
Also, I find the dynamic between the various Cauldronites to be lovely.
Also also, Sveta is awesome.
theant87 on October 3, 2013 at 00:30 said:
Just the thought that runs in her head as she loses the arm was funny. Damned it not again! Forget biological, go with Defiant cyberware. Cyber up.
negadarkwing on October 3, 2013 at 08:11 said:
Or hell, let Riley give you the good stuff. It can be here Christmas gift if she’s a good girl.
Someguy on October 3, 2013 at 00:33 said:
Heh. The Doctor died for the same reason she chose people to experiment on, Wildbow really like to give characters ironic fates.
chrnno on October 3, 2013 at 08:08 said:
Indeed, I wonder if that thought crossed her mind.
flame7926 on October 3, 2013 at 13:12 said:
And why would she actually be dead?
Because Sveta doesn’t grab people just a little bit. By the time Wildbow’s talking about a “cocoon” of tendrils, DM’s long dead. Her only way out would’ve been to trigger, and there was no vision, so she’s dead.
greatwyrmgold on October 3, 2013 at 09:03 said:
Let’s see…I count four limbs Taylor has lost. Maybe three, if we’re not counting limbs lost multiple times. Did I miss any?
Landis963 on October 3, 2013 at 09:12 said:
I think that’s right. She lost two or three from the oil rig fight (the narration gets a little confusing there), and lost a third (or fourth) here from Scion.
She lost her legs and one arm. Well, about half of one arm and about half of her torso, but I’ll call that a whole arm to save on the bookkeeping.
So yeah, four limbs.
She also lost all the bonus limbs she got at the oil rig if you want to count those…
Reveen on October 3, 2013 at 17:04 said:
Okay, Taylor has no excuse whatsoever for not getting a cool cyborg arm this time.
throwaawy on October 3, 2013 at 00:23 said:
ding, dong, the Doctor’s dead~
the Doctor’s dead, the Doctor’s dead. Ding dong the Doctor Mother’s Dead~
notes on October 3, 2013 at 00:27 said:
Clearer than ever that brute force won’t answer.
DM’s comment that an abstract means is the only way to victory; Taylor’s comment on Scion’s human emotions; Taylor’s comment that she wants to win with what they have; DM’s comment that they already have whatever power they’ll have – all fragments of foreshadowing, clearly laid out to be tessellated into elegant sense. The shape formed is hauntingly familiar, but beyond my comprehension thus far.
Remain tentatively convinced that this will end with a proposal, possibly a suicidal action, mirroring the Scion interlude.
The vials, specifically the three critical vials, are seemingly off the board. Won’t be certain they truly can’t come into play for some time.
Inutterably delighted by the Number Man’s fussy yet sincere regret that Bonesaw’s reliance on rumor led to impolite Harbinger clones.
DM’s story arc – if this is its end, a fact of which I am in no way certain – closed well and indeed poetically; the conversation with Sveta and the finish both were fitting. Still… her natural trigger potential plus the exceedingly stressful situation she’s presently in, the bits of formula she drank, some further contingency… any or all of these could put her right back into this.
Echinda 2.0? It’s an answer every rpg player knows. How do you kill an eldritch abomination? Another eldritch abomination.
Or a spike formed from nanites programmed to go all grey goo on the thing they get stabbed into.
fghjconner on October 3, 2013 at 00:41 said:
If Siberian mass obliterating Scion didn’t do anything, I doubt that will do much better.
The difference is exponential growth. Siberian’s badass, but she doesn’t have that.
fghjconner on October 11, 2013 at 01:00 said:
If you can get the nanites to leak over into his real body, then you’ve got a chance. As it is, I’m pretty sure Siberian was doing as much damage as is possible against Scion’s golden boy body.
Paranoid Android on October 3, 2013 at 00:44 said:
The only thing is no matter who wins you still haven’t solved you eldritch abomination problem.
You have, if you can’t kill the winner while it is weakened from the fight create another eldritch abomination and drop upon it. If whoever winner is weakened enough then kill it if not create another one, at one point you gotta get lucky. Or horribly unlucky.
Or the other RPG Players answer. Figure out how to turn a couple of low level spells and a harmless item into a city destroying nuke. I see a contrast here. Doctor Mother is looking for that one big abstract power that will stop Scion. But Taylor is someone who finds ways to use powers in unexpected ways, and combinations. Doctor Mother is hoping for someone who is a high end nuker wizard. But what we may need is a bard or thief with the right support.
Nah, the former is too straightforward and the latter is rather boring. I prefer my Eldritch Abomination infinite spawn.
thehiddensage on October 3, 2013 at 14:11 said:
Ohh, Mass Eldritch Abomination wins points for style without a doubt. But I’m frankly not sure the Wormverse can handle too many more giant monsters running around.
Besides, didn’t we already try throwing the Simurgh at Scion, to no effect?
AMR on October 3, 2013 at 14:25 said:
Well we still have to see what tha blowgun did. Somehow I doubt that it only ruffled Scion’s hair.
Jurily on October 3, 2013 at 14:26 said:
Nethack players would start dipping bugs into vials at this point.
Vials went ker-splodey, remember? Scion shattered them all.
Grant Moxham on October 3, 2013 at 16:08 said:
something similar to a bomb of barrakuada’s design, detonated in whatever demiplane of exodimensional location zion’s REAL body occupies? all anyone’s been able to do is fight his/its projection. tinker tech or Doormakers ability, set something and catastrophically distorts reality right next it? makes up down and north upwards, green purple and gas vaccume? i figure no matter how bizarre your environment is by the standards of baryonic life, something distorting the livening shit out of the bit of space-time ( or equivalent) you occupy would HAVE to be distracting ,especially if you’d never had anyone actually attack your actual BODY before..
I’m not sure they can get to Scion’s dimension. He specifically limited powers so that they couldn’t break through to where his body was. Their best bet may be the portals that were Part of Eve’s body, but its unlikely that the two entities have their bodies in the same location.
I suspect their best link to the core body is through Scion somehow.
I don’t think she drank enough formula to become Oliver 2.0, let alone Echidna 2.0
senevri on October 4, 2013 at 11:24 said:
Maybe we’re lucky and the formula got directly into the bloodstream via the injured hand?
I doubt it. Most would have splashed over the floor. Besides, if DM got a power, she would have used it.
heart on May 10, 2019 at 03:26 said:
She’s too fascinating to die now, we barely know anything about her or what she wants… damn. I don’t really like her but she seemed interesting.
So Sveta just killed the doctor, maybe. So Skitter DID have a 2nd trigger and that’s why she looked so powerful to Chevalier. The Vault doesn’t sound that big, so I’m guessing his partner is a projection like Scion’s body. Still find it odd that the number man can dodge bugs as a baseline human. Contessa I could believe it because she could just portal away if surrounded, but in this situation the bugs should have encircled and swarmed him. He can see it coming, but he has human reflexes, and there shouldn’t be any space to dodge. But other than that good chapter and we can add more sadness to Sveta and the case 53’s. I don’t think we added both of Cuff’s parents being killed either to the tropes page.
tieshaunn on October 3, 2013 at 00:32 said:
I totally called Taylor having had a 2nd trigger event back in the locker several arcs ago X-P
So sad though for all the other predictions. No turning into a swarm or monster, no ironic Tinker power, no thinker power, no giant bugs, no lazerbreath, or freeze vision.
Oh god, Taylor as a bug tinker. Come to think of it, if Taylor got a chance to really sit down and get some help from Bonesaw or Panacea she could be even more fucking terrifying.
Naeddyr on October 3, 2013 at 01:37 said:
“If [something], she could be even more terrifying” is basically what every discussion about Taylor’s development as a cape turns into. Especially with Panacea.
Taylor + Panacea inevitably devolves into “And now Skitter is the Queen of Blades!”
will408914 on October 3, 2013 at 11:04 said:
Isn’t that what Bonesaw tried to do?
Skychan on October 3, 2013 at 11:18 said:
I have to say that Taylor already is a Thinker. Maybe not a high end one but she’s definitely a thinker. She can controll every bug in her range individually. She reads books how fast? The PRT even classed her as thinker 1 I believe. It’s fairly obvious she’s already a thinker, the only question is if shes a really really powerful one or not.
@will: I think so, but I think she also tried removing Skitter’s free will. And that just won’t fly.
Skitter just needs to get Panacea to work on patching up a few of her weaker areas. FIre-proof bugs, bugs capable of dealing heavier hits (big bugs? explosive bugs? containment foam bugs?), EMP bugs (take that tinkers), capsaicin-producing bugs…
JN on October 3, 2013 at 01:53 said:
I’ve always hated Number Man/Harbinger’s power. Eventually if you throw enough numbers at him, he should have to divide by zero. I didn’t like Contessa’s, but at least she was basing what she needed to do on advance warning through foreknowledge, as opposed to present knowledge and really good predictions.
And what’s to say he can’t divide by zero? Using alien space-maths?
hitherbydragons on October 3, 2013 at 02:37 said:
> Still find it odd that the number man can dodge
> bugs as a baseline human.
I suspect that as long as there’s a relatively unfeeling person nearby like Doctor Mother or the Siberian, he’s going to be inherently resistant to bug stings and irritants in general, which gives him more leeway. Because as cold to human emotion as Doctor Mother might be, and as physically unfeeling as the Siberian is, he is, of necessity, number.
Jesus Christ. That is the worst pun. The worst pun in the world. I am suffering because I read that.
And since you’re here…I used some panels from your webcomic in a video I made. You okay with that?
PS: I’m pretty sure that the Number Man can’t actually dodge bugs very well. He can run through a swarm to attack Taylor, but if he ever got attacked properly by a full-size swarm that’d be it for him.
I had to read that twice to get the pun.
*smacks hither*
Nobody can dodge bugs for very long.
*a bunny pops out of the ground near Cauldron, chewing on a carrot* Eeeeeh. What’s up, Doc?
tiffuh on March 27, 2018 at 00:53 said:
This. This was a work of art.
It brought me to tears. /applaud
Wut What?
just… blown away, kind off.
I hope this isn’t the last we get to see of Doctor Mother. And I still hope that Contessa shows up again
Considering Contessa’s power this is one occasion where I won’t believe it till we see a body despite Wilbow’s fondness for offscreen death. Doctor Mother could go either way.
In the butt.
I knew you would make that joke.
At least I’m not the butt of this joke.
endgame on October 4, 2013 at 15:42 said:
Can I butt in on this conversation?
Butt of course
you’ve become predictable, PG
your reign of terror and disgust is finally over!
As anyone who follows said reign of terror and disgust can tell you, it’s a chocolate reign.
ShawnMorgan on October 3, 2013 at 01:03 said:
and when you mix that sentence with one about Butts, it;s time to break out the Immodium…
dragonus45 on October 3, 2013 at 02:48 said:
Please, i’ve only been here a month and even i saw that one coming.
And I think we can all agree the whole setup was nothing but a load of…salsa.
Arcman on October 3, 2013 at 00:34 said:
Damn it Sveta.
Hey, it’s not like she wanted to. Her body just went for the person that stressed her most, and she went with it as it was the best way to keep from murdering everyone.
Even if she did it on purpose, can you really blame her?
And frankly, better D-M than, well, anyone else there.
Except Scion, but what’s the chance that would do anything?
She was already attacking Scion, and her tentacles couldn’t focus on just one person. So she diverted some of them to D-M and hoped that would suffice. (Apparently it did, at least for long enough that the others could get away).
She could’ve grabbed Alexandria. I guess the Siberian was out of reach, and Lung would’ve been unhealthy to grab, but Alexandria should’ve been able to take it.
True, but I doubt she was thinking that clearly.
Alex on April 22, 2018 at 10:39 said:
Hey, it had to be someone! Doc would agree, I’m sure.
Perfect time for Scion to pick out Shatterbird’s power of all things.
MisterTeatime on February 2, 2016 at 14:37 said:
Sometimes you really need to kick some glass.
Damn, so my mentioning of “The perfect is the enemy of the good” and that fallacy where people don’t even try because it’s not the perfect solution had something to do with all this after all.
And Dr. Mother’s utter discounting of human emotion says a hell of a lot more about why they’re all in this situation. She doesn’t realize by now that she’s the alien abstract being with no conception of human emotion, and she’s failed against Scion while being such. And the thing about the powers is her entire schtick write miniature. She does something contradictory to her stated goals by watering down the closest thing to absolute power even though she thought 2nd and 3rd triggers were useless to purse as only powers with less restrictions instead of no restrictions. She waits fucking forever to use her plan and it gets wrecked easily by Scion when he wasn’t even intending to mess with it. And she gets her ass attacked because of her human experimentation.
I’m more curious about how she simply doesn’t get Taylor’s point about how different Scion is because of emotion. Did they not check the former most powerful man in the world? Or why the apocalypse is happening 300 years early?
They are Cauldron. Taylor’s silly questions are of no consequence when compared to their grandiose master plan! Because they are Cauldron: the smartest people in the graveyard.
In the face of Cauldron’s actions and consequences throughout the entire story so far, that makes perfect sense.
Scolopendra on October 3, 2013 at 15:59 said:
And then Scion manifests Grey Boy’s power and hits her with it.
Well, that was weird. I was responding to an entirely different comment with that post.
In light of this chapter’s friendly tendril-monster woobie getting some revenge, I say we dedicate a song to the event!
“Doctor, Doctor, give me the noose, I’ve got a bad case of crushing you!”
Hell, Doc Mom was so out of touch with her own emotions, she didn’t even trigger while being crushed to death.
Well that was bad noose for her wasn’t it?
No noose is good noose as far as she’s concerned.
Well we could find out next chapter that DM did trigger… And that her power is that she can’t no matter how badly injured she is. Unfourtunatly she can’t heal either.
No vision: no trigger event.
Trigger events were specifically Scion handing out shards, though. (well, lobbing them at people to hit at moments of emotional stress, but you get the picture). I’m fairly certain that ship has sailed.
Trigger events are when shards Scion previously handed out find a hoast. He doesn’t need to send out new ones, they are already in play. Untill all the Shards he spread get used the potential for more triggers exists.
Point, but I’m still fairly certain that ship has sailed.
Trigger events happen when a person with a latent shard reaches a moment of appropriate stress. DM just finished talking about the fact that she knows she has a latent shard. She had the potential to trigger right up until Sveta squeezed her into sociopath juice.
Maybe Doctor Mother should have been less skilled at staying calm in stressful situations.
He handed stuff off in the past. He hasn’t been handing them off ever since he’s been seen on Earth in the 80s. They still have been hitting, though, so it’s possible, just unlikely.
If people triggered from mere mortal peril, there would be a lot more capes.
And it’s also possible that Scion has the ability to exert some control over when shards are handed out.
I think it’s been mentioned before that people do trigger from mere mortal peril. The vision either stalls them enough or the power is insufficient to actually get them out of mortal peril, though. If a car’s about to hit you, all the super freezing powers in the world aren’t going to save you if your face gets planted halfway through the radiator while you’re daydreaming about giant space jellyfish.
I think the trigger would happen after the car crash, though. I’m specifically thinking of Chevalier, here, as it specifically stated that he triggered while left alone in the car.
Tom_D on October 3, 2013 at 00:43 said:
Daaaaaaaaaaaaaaannnnnggg!!!!!!!
Things just got worse….. Again.
This…. Is…… WORM!!
Worm: It gets wetter…with blood.
Incidentally, I was just reminded of a clip somewhat reminiscent of Scion’s take on Cauldron, humans, parahumans, pretty much most groups.
youtube.com/watch?v=C3Ks59XGThg
chungsim on October 3, 2013 at 00:47 said:
OK, I think the Doctor’s dead now. It’s not as poetically just as a death as I expected. All the requirements are there and there’s a nice explanation but it’s not exactly awe-inspiring author cruelty on the level of the Slaughterhouse 9 (and Darkfriends in the Wheel of Time, Galina and Carridan were fun). I can’t expect much when they’re in a combat zone and everything is ending, however.
Well, Doctor Mother was taken out by a Case 53 (strike one) with a truly horrific transformation (strike two) who would have turned it down had they asked in the first place (strike three). Anything poetically just-er would have involved that formula. And Scion wouldn’t allow that to happen.
Moreover, she was killed as the result of a (somewhat) impersonal decision in which someone had to be picked, and logic dictated that she would be the ideal candidate. Just like picking Sveta to become a test subject because she was probable to die anyway, Sveta picked DM because her tendrils had to hit someone and DM was the only one there without powers that might have helped against Scion.
Veloren on October 4, 2013 at 13:30 said:
I suspect she’s only mostly dead. She did get a sip of that vial, after all. Who wants to bet she didn’t get any balancing agent?
One ironic death and one ginormous cliffhanger ready to be served! I bet next chapter is an interlude.
My god, Doctor has lost any complete understanding of human behaviour. She was as alien as Scion here. Maybe even more, seeing how Scion is killing because he’s trying to emulate humans. And I think Sveta killing her, without even being malicious about it, is very fitting.
Nothing else to say except that Number Man apologising for his clones’ behaviour because they were built on hearsay was hilarious. It’s always Bonesaw’s fault.
Number Man is cool dude.
Were I less modest I’d point to you my ode to Number Man in the comments to 29.1. As I said modesty prevents me from doing so 😉 .
* we’re not were. Stupid autocorrector.
Fixed. 😀
I love that your typo-fixing sprees extend to the comments.
Althalus on October 3, 2013 at 01:18 said:
Hopefully the warranty is still good on her arm, though Amy might get fed up and get Bonesaw to fix it just to give Taylor further incentive to not get it mangled again.
“I don’t remember this much chitin being on my arm before…”
taliesinskye on October 4, 2013 at 19:06 said:
*tweaks* There, now you remember it being that way. All fixed!
TinkerTailor on October 3, 2013 at 02:02 said:
There are some chapters of Worm that literally get me at the edge of my seat, leaning right into my monitor. The end of this was one such moment. Dayum, can’t wait until saturday.
Anyway, I’m not feeling the “Yay~ the Doctor’s dead~” vibe others seem to be getting. It was a horrific way to go that I wouldn’t wish on anyone.
I wonder what Taylor’s power was in the few seconds she had before she triggered again? Presumably it was the multitasking Thinker ability that got added during the second, brought about by the sensory overload. Maybe her original power was like Aidan’s, broadcasting general directions rather than absolute control.
Oh sure it’s a horroble way to die but if the Doctor had showed some sympathy for Sveta, made, I dunno, a heartfelt spology or something, instead of going ” I don’t know you, I don’t care”, then maybe Sveta epuldn’t have gone all “I’m sorry but someone will die for sure so it might as well be you”.
*wouldn’t not epuldnt (?). Typing from the smartphone is a pain inthe ass.
I agree with you there, although in with Sveta’s mental state I doubt that would have really stopped her from picking the Doc.
Also, that would have given us some vestige of sympathetic emotion for D-M as opposed to the *checks threads* fourth thread being a filk rendition of “Ding Dong the Witch is Dead.”
It’s not so horrible.
Being crushed by super-strong razor tentacles doesn’t seem any worse than being shot or stabbed or run over by a bus to me.
It’s a quick violent death like any other quick violent death. There are much worse ways to go.
Honestly my reaction to Doctor Mothers death? Goddammit Cauldron, you fucked up again!
packbat on October 3, 2013 at 09:44 said:
Mine is similar, but more, “Goddammit, she was about to spill the beans!“
Same here, combined with “Argh! What would her power have been?!?”
Kyte on October 3, 2013 at 02:03 said:
So does the 2nd Entity have a spear through its chest? :V
Terminal Dogma?
TanaNari on October 3, 2013 at 10:38 said:
Neon Genesis Evangelion.
You’re either very old, or very young.
Or very not into watching anime. Or Gainax anime. Or just never got around to watching that one. Eva is hardly a universal experience for persons of a certain age. It’s not Star Wars or something.
Asmora got it right. Not a big anime fan.
I’m old… and feeling it when i remember I saw Star Wars and before it got retitled A new Hope at that…
I had far younger friend introduce me to anime and like everything else there are good bad and meh ones. Liked NGE until the ending…
same friend can’t stand star wars…at all.
Dripping formula down into a bit pool? I could see it.
Evangelion reference?
Wouldn’t be the first time parallels were drawn =P
Reminding me of Eva… Thanks for depressing me. Sigh, why did I have to be a Shinji/Rei shipper.
Oedipus complex?
No, I started Shipping before that particular plot twist. And every damn version they keep leading you on, giving you a sense of hope before taking… Fuck Jack Slash is on the writing staff.
slider214 on November 19, 2014 at 00:38 said:
Yes agreed. Until 4.0 comes out I refuse to admit that Rei from 2.0 is gone. That was an amazing example of love by the end. Damn 3.0 for utterly corrupting it!
You are not alone friend. I also ship Shinji and Rei. Asuka is toxic. Misato is okay but slightly squicky and really too broken to be good for him. Rei while biologically partly his mother does not have her soul and also is one of the only people to show a legitimate amount of feeling for Shinji. Plus he was ultimately the person who pulled her out and brought her to action both when she was half a soul and when she was complete. Rei and Shinji are one of the only healthy relationships in that entire show. Which is exceptionally weird and sad.
storryeater on May 4, 2015 at 18:04 said:
Seriousy?you read Worm and NGE depresses you?lolwut.
slider214 on May 4, 2015 at 23:27 said:
Worm may be mega dark (ESPECIALLY now) but at least the characters mostly still have a sense of humor. The only humor present in NGE was…um…Pen-Pen? Maybe…yeah…I’ve having a hard thinking of anything funny in that series honestly lol.
With the mention of Cauldrons experiments with 2nd Triggers is it possible that Grey Boy was the result of them and is the reason why they written it off because of the inherent mental instability seen in all 2nd trigger capes along with the lack of restraints needed to fight someone like Scion?
Hold on, what?
I think Gray Boy was a Cauldron cape, but either way their reason for not using him on Scion was one part “It doesn’t work when Scion cares” and 3-5 parts “Both the original and the clone are quite firmly dead”.
I think he’s speculating that Grey Boy was some sort of Caudron’s experiment that went wrong ( they do say they sold him powerS, plural) and that they stopped pursuing that lead when they saw what they had created.
Cauldron’s plan is kind of odd.
If I’m following it right, it boils down to “The only plan that could work is to throw all kinds of stuff at Scion and hope something sticks. We are the best at throwing all kinds of stuff at Scion, so we’re in charge. There’s no point in planning for everybody dying, so when we’re not coming up with new stuff to throw at him, we’ll plan on how to rebuild.”
It’s not even . . . *bad,* really, for a God-killing plan, I mean, aside from “maybe try it with less atrocities?” I can’t actually think of a better one myself.
But usually for someone so certain they should be in charge you’d expect them to have a *thing* that they expect to work.
Alathon on October 3, 2013 at 03:11 said:
The thing that’s always struck me as profoundly shortsighted about Cauldron’s conduct is that they even felt a need to go to involuntary experimentation. Every one of those kidnappings could have been serviced in some less evil, coercive, and enemy-making fashion. People will do that shit for free just hoping for powers, never mind powers-and-maybe-my-cancer-is-cured. Shit, as many people as die of cancer every year, Cauldron could have serviced their needs out of that pool of desperate humans alone.
I dunno. Maybe with the way powers worked, Cauldron figured secrecy was the only defense that could ever work, keep their organization intact over the years? But that’s mighty thin.
Robert on October 3, 2013 at 03:22 said:
They did, at least partially, draw from dying people: Newter was a war casualty, for instance, recovered by Alexandria and gave at least an uninformed agreement. The problem is they (imperfectly?) wiped their memories so no-one remembered agreeing to the process, or what they were saved from (and according to Sveta not everyone even agreed).
Reading this chapter? They drew wholly from dying people and volunteers (sometimes dying volunteers). I don’t know if Daniel has caught up yet, but he’s convinced me: the problem with Cauldron is that they weren’t nice, not that they were evil. Doctor Mother monofocus on defeating Scion distracted her from the fact that she needed allies, not assets.
Shit, all she had to do was provide support for the Case 53s instead of dump them like garbage, whether they wipe their memories or not. That angry mob that came after her? That could have easily been a loyal army.
And to build on you two, the best armies are those that are voluntary rather than those who are conscripted. Even if they agreed in sound mind, and it doesn’t sound like Sveta did, then erasing their memory keeps them from knowing it was voluntary to any degree to be worth a damn.
This update is kind of like if the general who was behind their conscription was in the field alongside his involuntary soldiers and one of them fragged him while the North Vietnamese attacked.
Correction: *one of them fragged him (for cowardice in the face of the enemy) while the North Vietnamese attacked.
nohat on October 4, 2013 at 12:03 said:
The problem is: they had Contessa. They had who knows how many other thinkers and precogs. What’s more they actually used them well. So we really can’t criticise anything Cauldron did because the alternative was apparently worse.
Pandemonious Ivy on October 4, 2013 at 12:13 said:
Also, if you recall, Weld tried the “loyalty and respect to the 53s” thing. They ripped him apart.
The problem with saying that anything else they did would have been worse is that part of their plan was getting random powers. Ones that they did not know what would occur. If Countessa was really THAT powerful she would know which vial and formula exactly needed to be given to who, when where and how. There wouldn’t have been any guessing.
In regards to the Case 53’s that means the only ones out there would have been intentional. In fact it makes everything every single itty consequence of Cauldrons actions an intentional effect. But because Cauldron hasn’t known what might work, what will come of their efforts etc, that means that Countessa’s power is inherently limited.
If she really is dead as seems likely, then thats one more piece of evidence that she has not seen clearly the path to victory, that other powers do affect her even if she would like to think or claim that they do not. We already know that her abilities can come with drawbacks.
The conversation convincing Eidolon to stop taking power up shots. Yes, the ‘path to victory’ there was for her to remain silent and she knows that. But even Eidolon knew that another path would have been for Contessa to talk to him and convince him. Still a victory, but with negative long term results.
Victory can come in many forms. Phyric being one of them. Who is to say that her power leads to the ‘best’ victory, not just the easiest or even a random one. How well can she choose to define just what victory is before seeing the path?
Skychan:
Good points about the restrictions on Contessa’s power. It’s definitely odd that should could see around the blindness caused by the endbringers and scion and still pull off her victories (some of which only come about because of what those blind spots do eg bonesaw handing over control keys). It seems like Mantellum might have a better blindness power than Scion. It actively forces powers to ignore him, so they can’t route around the damage so to speak. The fact that her power worked at all when mantellum existed, and his influence radiated outward causally… well perhaps it just indicates some other limitation on Mantellums power, or perhaps that the only path to victory included her death, or that she hid so she would survive scions attack. Regardless we know she can choose victory to mean a pretty wide range of things, and apply it to far in the future. So Cauldrons choice to mind wipe case 53’s seems pretty secure.
I’m pretty sure the big problem is limited to the imperfect mind wipes.
That, and the general secrecy.
Lets face it as much as most Case 53’s lives suck, they would have had a number turn on them. Sure we see them grabbing dying people and asking them if they want to live. But a lot of Case 53’s would probably aurgue afterwards they would have rather died then live these sucky freak lives, and then gone revenge anyways.
But hell a lost of issues are cropping up with Cauldron’s methodology.
I was referring to specifically the major issue with Cauldron’s 53-management policy.
Fibinachi on June 29, 2015 at 15:35 said:
Actually, there’s kind of a beautiful moment here re: the mind-wiping and all that. I don’t even think that the problem is whether they were nice enough, or whether they imperfectly mind-wiped people or had too much secrecy going.
The problem is a bit of a loop.
Imagine the following:
Extra-Dimension Conspiracy Auditor #1:
“Okay Dr, thank you for joining us. You’re dealing with a class Purple-Z threat, so tell me about your plans for fighting back”
Dr. Mother: “Well, it’s multi-pronged and relies on precognition, pericognition, petercognition, experimentation, hope and . . .stuff. We’ll prepare several approaches for dealing with the apocalypse, some of which involve setting up redundant societal infrastructure and others which will ensure the continued existence of the human species”
#1: “Interesting, let me make a note here. You mentioned experimentation?”
Dr. Mother: “Yes. We need to unlock the properties of powers, so we’re using human experimentation to gradually tests which powers work and provide us with abilities to fight the Entity. As a side note, we’ve discovered that the the powers we provide give a certain meta-physical defence against discovery, aiding us more.”
#1: “Excellent. You are dealing with a creature that appears to be nearly omniscient, secrecy is important. Human experimentation is a bit of an ethical problem, though – it skirts some guidelines”
Dr. Mother: “Not to worry, Auditor! We’re relying on informed consent. Our formula provide small bits of host optimization when they take root, and many people suffering will accept the aid when stacked against death or suffering”
#1: “Huh, indeed. Good call. But how will you preserve secrecy, if many people know you’re handing out vials?”
Dr. Mother: “There’s a bit of a lucky break there. We’ve got the ability to selectively remove memories, so after the subjects agree to our procedure, we’ll remove their memories if neccesary”
[Auditor tilts head gradually, blinking in confusion]
#1: “I’m sorry, could you repeat that?”
Dr. Mother: “It obviously will not do for multiple cases of deviant parahumans running around providing clues to our general existence, so removing the memories of our involvement offers us the greatest long term protection”
#1: “Removing their memories include, say, removing the memories of their lives prior to Cauldron intervention?”
Dr. Mother: “Naturally. They would die otherwise. We offer them a chance to live”
#1: “Indeed. Would I be correct in surmising that you would also remove their memories of granting informed consent along with the natural circumstances that lead them to granting you this?”
Dr. Mother: “I’m not sure where you’re going with this, Auditor”
#1: “Just wondering out loud.”
Dr. Mother: “It provides us the best chances and protection”
#1: “Mhmhm, yesyes. Say, once this rag-tag band of deviant parahumans gather in a horde and demand vengeance for you twisting them into demented mockeries of nature, would you have an answer for them?”
Dr. Mother: “Obviously. They granted consent to our procedure–”
#1: “I’m just going to interupt, sorry, look – they granted consent based on circumstances, events and lives they no longer remember”
Dr. Mother: “We’ve all given more than just memories in this fight”
#1: “Possibly, but I’m going to think it’ll be a little hard to convince an angry group of parahumans who no longer remember giving you permission to experiment on them that you explicitly asked for permission first. It’s also probably going to be harder to explain why their lives prior to their memories being removed is more important than all the suffering and despair they’ve gone through afterwards. Pain caused in part by your experiments, those experiments being the only mutual thing they all clearly remember as a traceable root for their present agony. ”
Dr. Mother: “They gave us their lives. We gave them continued life, a new existence, a new identity, a motive for fighting.”
#1: “They might still be upset?”
Dr. Mother: “No, we’re relying on the honour system to ensure they don’t do something rash. I’m a believer in the graciousness of the human spirit. I’m sure their gratitude will win out over any latent animosity. People are basically inclined to forgive incredibly violations of their very humanity based on spurious reasoning they don’t remember consenting to, yeah?”
#1: “I’m absolutely certain that will not possibly backfire in some hideously ironic way what-so-ever. I’m green-lighting this plan. Go ahead.”
slider214 on June 29, 2015 at 20:57 said:
I think you’d be hard pressed to find someone accusing Doctor Mother of being intelligent lol. There are many words for that woman but the “i” one is not normally mentioned in her orbit. Well, an “i” word is…but not that one ;).
stevebot7 on October 3, 2013 at 03:18 said:
Also, whatever happened to Smurf’s dartgun? Didn’t she hit Scion with it, or did he deflect it or something?
I like that Lab Rat apparently is a more practical evil scientist than Doctor Mother is. He at least prepared for plans going awry, whereas DM completely dropped the ball. But I guess, even at the end of it, she was only human after all. It would have been too convenient for there to be a handy big red button to hit and automatically blend a martini as soon as the golden fool showed up.
She hit him with it alright. We just haven’t seen any effect yet. But it’s the Smurf; long term sneaky planning his her thing.
John Campbell on July 9, 2015 at 17:01 said:
It was her hair dryer, apparently. She was protecting it because it’s a vital part of the hair-care routine that keeps her looking like a shampoo commercial.
a power that allows one to take over a nearby parahuman’s mind, body and powers automatically on death.
Pretender or Glaistig Uaine? Or someone else entirely?
peter o on October 3, 2013 at 05:56 said:
Butcher, with out having to share.
Ooh yes, that fits. I was thinking “on others’ death” not on your own.
My first thought was Butcher, too.
Regent maybe
Regent is a known natural cape.
Nardia Kelly (@indigodecay) on October 3, 2013 at 14:19 said:
Cauldron’s powers are taken from the Thinking Entity(?), right? While natural powers are given by Scion. Both of them retain many of the same shards in their whole forms, with some adjustments to orient them to their specific tasks as partners. So it’s entirely possible similar powers could have emerged from both, but with different spins on them.
Regent could jump to another body, but ultimately the host still has freedom of the mind. Whereas a cape like Butcher was able to influence the mind, but not the body. (Small detail though because after sharing a headspace with Butcher most seemed to merge with that personality and the new/old “Butcher” would come to agreements about how to use the body.) Same power for both entities, or something like that, just geared to different purposes.
At any rate it’s well known Imp had no problems sharing her body with him so jumping into it would have been easy for him at a dire moment, IF that was a logical progression of his talents.
Perhaps all the clues pointing to his potential survival are nothing but teasing coincidences, but I feel we’d be remiss as readers to dismiss the possibility completely.
Natural powers are not limited to Scion. There is at least one known instance of a natural-powered cape with a Counterpart shard: the first cape ever.
Regent didn’t have the ability to jump bodies ala Pretender, he had the ability to remotely take control of another person and push their consciousness into the background.
I second the people who say this sounds a lot more like Butcher’s schtick…
Of course this is useless. Without limitations it couldn’t possibly cause someone to merge with Scion and if not gain control of him at least temper his actions with the morality and or knowledge and experience of a fully grown person.
Emotion seems to be key here. Scion is looking for it and DM doesn’t have it and so discounts it. What if all we really needed was a way to bridge that gap between ignorance and knowledge in Scion and getting someone who drank that killed with Scion the only recipient has a potential to do that.
“Useless” she calls it. While I see at LEAST one possible path to success through it. That’s avoiding the possibility that it could recreate an Eidolon through attrition as the new ‘butcher’ could run at scion, die, pick up more powers and a new body, run at scion die, lather rince repeat until we have a new worm. A being with just as many shards as scion does.
Doctor Mom is quite blind.
Eh… there was a LOT of stuff in this one.
Dr. Mother is … not exactly a parahuman. Or at least not yet. In theory it should be the candidate for an howdyshard, except Contessa does not have one, nor a zombieshard.
I guess we’ll have her in a desperate situation to trigger. Like having every plan of her shattered, Scion confronting the counterpart, dying of serious injury. Something like that.
Good job not even remembering Sveta’s serial number btw, how very human of you.
Skitter already got her second trigger, this answer an important question: why Aidan’s shard sucked so much compared to hers. It was not because he was separated from her.
I guess the administration shard was really crippled a lot btw.
As a side note, Wildbow did promise no new second triggers for main characters.
You know what’s a good way to boost nanites? Have other kinds of nanites helping them, they’re very synergistic if you know what you’re doing.
You know what’s a good way to deliver nanites? With an air gun.
Sure, to get the synergy just right you probably need to see the future or something…
Things are picking up. The last few updates were a little… tired? This one is much more lively.
*** You know what’s a good way to boost nanites? Have other kinds of nanites helping them, they’re very synergistic if you know what you’re doing.
Sure, to get the synergy just right you probably need to see the future or something… ***
That’s a VERY interesting theory.
Has Simurgh spent any significant amount of time near Bonesaw, by chance?
Because I was just thinking, what if Scion’s human side was sufficiently vulnerable to some sort of bacteria capable of getting into a human brain and messing with its ability to recognize people and allowed someone else to masquerade as the second entity as far as Scion knew?
You’re thinking THIRD trigger aren’t you?
Patrick Reitz (@dreamfarer) on October 3, 2013 at 10:22 said:
You know, there is one thing that strikes me as odd about Taylor’s shard – Scion “cripples and largely destroys it”, meaning (I presume) functionality is flat out lost from it, irretrievably so. My question is wouldn’t Scion eventually kinda need those Administrator abilities again once he re-merged with his partner?
In fact crippling any of the shards is a little odd in that the reason for passing them out is, ostensibly, to let them gestate and grow more powerful. I can see suppressing some of the functionality so the hosts can’t use it against you, but destroying it seems counterproductive (unless its functionality you have no interest in retaining anyways).
If a shard is too scary to let into the hands of a host because they might work around the suppression then the answer would seem to be “don’t give it out in the first place”.
That may also point to one of the limitations in the entities. They don’t take risks. Scion selected a reality where he couldn’t see any chance of the “hosts” defeating him, but that had to come at the expense of realities where there was a tiny chance the hosts could defeat him and a larger pay off in terms of shard growth if they didn’t.
Presumably, the shards can all be un-crippled when they get them back. Maybe they end up with the equivalent of the flu when they get all the shards back.
Un-cripple, maybe, but un-“largely destroyed”? That seems much tougher.
Unconceivable!
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
You’ve committed one of the classic blunders, only the most famous of which are never get involved in a land war in Asia and never go in against a Scicilian when Death is on the line. Slightly less well known is that you should never engage with Psycho Gecko in a battle of wits.
To ^AMR:
Unless you’re me. Check the last time Gecko tried to snark me. Or the one before that, or the one before that… My favorite – Don’t know where it was at in the chapters, but my comment was something about villainous monologues. He cut in and tried to roshambo, I cut off his hand. He grew it back, clearly, but I wasn’t out for blood anyway so I’m fine with just collecting style points.
That said, endgame’s comment was, I think, misapplied. If he *is* going to step up to p. gecko, I hope he’ll at least try to use his memes correctly – if I were Gecko, I wouldn’t even bother with this, it’s like beating up a kitten trying to chew your Playstation power cord.
I read that as “cripple a lot”.
Well. The Entities can *uncripple* the shards as well. So there’s nothing irretrievable. Except with Scion blasting them all. That’s fatal *even to shards* as shown by GU’s losing of powers thanks to him.
He’s still using something to control himself. Presumably there are aspects unique or primary to the administrator shard (mass-control, fine-control, or something similar) and aspects not unique (control of shards, or perhaps interdimensional range). Mass fine-control of shards is too dangerous, so he removes the ‘shards’ part and can reintroduce it later (after the shard has improved/reproduced) by copying from another similar shard.
We know the ‘controls shards’ part isn’t unique due to Glaistig, Grue and whatever Scion himself is using, but I don’t think we’ve seen anyone with Taylor’s level of mass simultaneous control and precision. Even Glaistig could only summon three simultaneous shades, and Eidolon could hold about as many powers.
This would also explain why he could cast off Taylor’s shard, and why he did it last: he needed it to control his full body, but not the smaller (a ten-thousandth of a percent of their original size, according to Scion’s interlude).
Of course Aiden’s copy is a bit weird in that respect, but there’s a chance he didn’t inherit everything from the original shard as they were separated so quickly and for so long.
Loki-L on October 3, 2013 at 04:23 said:
So after everyone in the comments has clamoured for Taylor to get bigger powers through a second trigger event for ages, we finally get word that not only won’t she ever have one, but also that perhaps no amount of powers, natural or otherwise will be the key to defeat scion.
They will need to come up with a clever solution targeting the parts of him that are human. Perhaps influencing him with words or something.
On a different note, Scion coming face to face with his partner, feels a lot like an Angel breaking into Terminal Dogma to come face to face with a crucified Adam/Lilith.
Also I just got a new one upon having your arm crushed says a lot about the character and the situation they are in.
I’ve wondered that maybe the only way to beat Zion may not be powers, but words since those seem to be the only things that humans have that can affect and influence him, look at Norton & Jack, their words shaped his outlook and actions. So maybe Taylor talks him into committing suicide?
Curtis on October 3, 2013 at 10:56 said:
It was mentioned at some point that the existence of healing powers changes the way people (capes more specifically) think about their injuries. Taylor is now a great example of that.
I’d like to take a moment here and deny your heinous accusations. I NEVER pushed for a second Skitter trigger (I did inquire, but more out of a fatalistic dread.)
I’ve always wanted Skitter to just get more creative with her sciencing. So many things bugs can already do… she’s yet to use the power of termites, for example, and their so many and myriad symbiotic affiliations with fungi and bacteria and all the wonderful hair-raising horror-movie-inspiring chemist-boner-inspiring things some termites do to fuck up the day of anything that crosses their path… and that’s just ONE example.
Another one: I think Wildbow has been conservative in his estimates of how quickly and efficiently insects can strip a creature to its bones if they’re really trying – in real life, I’ve estimated that a horde of insects the sizes he’s describing could strip a fully grown man in less than 10 minutes. (Comparison: a colony of army ants 1/100th the size of one of Taylor’s swarms can do it to a 400-lbd. animal in 10 minutes… and the rest the foliage for yards around, for that matter… credit where it’s due though, army ants are horrifying.) I get that he’s going for believability, but sometimes insects are just flat-out unfuckingbelievable. Add Taylor’s ability to coordinate and trade out full insects for hungry ones at a near-perfect efficiency, and you have a recipe for a truly awe-inspiring display of insect-themed disintegration, a la The Mummy scarabs: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSkC2Pjj-pE
I think, honestly, that Taylor is capable of more than she’s given credit for, and she’s given credit for a LOT by this point. Just by virtue of the fact that, despite everything, the insect kingdom is STILL being underutilized and underrepresented. She could create clouds of poisonous gas AT WILL if she knew the science… she could heat up an area for acres around into a blast furnace with the right bugs (some generate ridiculous amounts of heat) or use hive-bugs like termites, roaches (yes roaches – look up their closest entomological relatives), bees and wasps to create her own ‘containment foam’ practically instantaneously…
As an in-story example, with the number of bugs she was supposed to have access to, she could have rendered Jack Slash and Bonesaw into bone fragments and newly-homeless cybernetic implants, or rendered she could move earth at a rate faster than a bulldozer, hell almost as fast as Golem can create one of his giant hands… but for purposes of plot, the real-world capabilities of bugs have been downplayed. I’m okay with that, but it needs to be recognized, she does not and never has NEEDED a second trigger.
Bugs are just really that fucking dangerous already.
Hell, I think with the right plan she could have held her own against an Endbringer DIRECTLY. Think: if she ever figured out that she could breed LOCUSTS… anybody remember how fast those fuckers breed, and just how dangerous they are? They’re in the Bible for a reason, Chuckles.
Loki-L, your allegations against me are baseless and libelous. That is all. ^_^
Well if she survives this Taylor could get a degree in entemology. Oh wait, their probably aren’t any colleges or entimoligests left.
TeaSpoon on October 3, 2013 at 04:51 said:
Didn’t Noelle have three triggers in sequence right after she took her potion? Oliver did too, I think, and he drank from the same vial. Maybe Cauldron was working on a formula that granted multiple trigger events. Or maybe drinking only part of a vial has weird effects.
the13thversifier on October 3, 2013 at 09:34 said:
no clear description if Noelle got more than one trigger event(s), all we know back then was a very lengthy mumbo jumbo alien sight, so lengthy Krouse had to hold ground for them before they teleport somewhere safer
Patrick (@patbrry) on October 11, 2013 at 04:41 said:
i think the vial had seperated – the balance formula spillting from the stuff that Noelle drank.
Oliver got a tiny bit of the transform power and a full dose of balance, hence his very subtle ability.
The Sandman on October 3, 2013 at 06:52 said:
I think I just figured out what Cauldron’s problem really is.
They’ve spent all this time following Contessa’s “path to victory”, right?
Well, apparently they never figured out that the one whose victory this was a path to was Scion.
Not Scion’s. The Third Entity’s. It has been my personal headcanon since we’ve found out that Contessa’s shard is alive and unknown to Scion.
I’m sorry, I’ve not been keeping up with the comments: what’s the basis of the Contessa-is-a-third-entity’s-power theory?
It’s this line from the 26.x Interlude:
“It looked at the female, and it saw a shard that wasn’t its own, but wasn’t dead.”
That was in reference to Countessa. So her shard isn’t from Scion (its own) or his partner (dead) that doesn’t leave a lot of other viable sources aside from the 3rd Entity. At least not that we’ve been introduced to.
*checks*
Aha! Thanks muchly!
Aaand that freudian typo (CoUntessa) now gets us a Harbinger->Contessa connection. 😛
Unmaker on October 3, 2013 at 10:41 said:
Scion’s episode. He identifies Contessa as having a living shard that is not his. By inference, since the partner is dead, this leaves the third entity.
Thanks! Yes, Contessa being a third-entity shard seems probable. I’ll go edit TV Tropes.
The other possibility is that not all of the second entities shards died. It could have begun the process of releasing them and some died, some lived, and some were warped. At least that’s the impression I got. It is Sions lack of recognition that makes me supportive of the third entity theory.
Reworded the TV Tropes page to be less speculative, but that makes sense.
Teruzi on October 3, 2013 at 07:01 said:
Oh Sveta, you are sweet even as you mangle and crush the people all around you. What a great chapter. Did all the others that went into the chamber were crushed by the ceiling? Did only Taylor and Sveta survive the collapse? Also, the other entity lives! or is a dead body or something, next chapter may be as trippy as Scions interlude.
I wonder if a dead space-worm can have an interlude…
Alternatively I’m going either with Pretender (to understand what the heck the Vegas team was talking bout) or Contessa (she ain’t dead until they find her corpse and Lung rips her head off her shoulders to be sure).
Maybe it’s only mostly dead. (Big difference between mostly dead and all dead. If they’re all dead there’s only one thing left to do.)
any1 notice where shadow stalker have gone out to? KIA??? Out of commission?
last time she’s just barely said goodbye to taylor, has she??
She ran last chapter. Little miss crossbow (as PG put it) bolted for the exit once Taylor made it clear there was no exit further down.
Of course, the fact that she ran doesn’t mean that she made it … or that she didn’t turn around and come back….
I vote “didn’t make it”. Scion is not known for mercy.
Scion is also so close to his counterpart that he probably wouldn’t give a damn about some fleeing low-level cape.
I don’t think he noticed said counterpart at the time. I’m not sure, though.
They were in the middle of a facility that was part of multiple dimensions at once with some sort of column there that caused Doctor’s room to swap to another dimension as well.
Who knows where Shadow Stalker wound up by now?
In a more traditional story Shadow Stalker would pull a Han Solo and turn around to play cavalry at the decisive moment and they would be friends ever after. In a slightly darker story she would still turn around and make a difference but gain her redemption through sacrificing her own life.
Here? She probably got killed offscreen either running away or to the rescue, but in either case she died alone knowing that nobody would ever know or care about her fate despite what she had been told earlier.
So. A thought occurred to me today.
What happens to the stuff shredded by the nano-thorns? Doesn’t it sever all atomic bonds, leaving behind a bunch of carbon, hydrogen, etc atoms?
farmerbob1 on October 3, 2013 at 15:06 said:
If it shreds all atomic bonds, anything it touched would explode with energy equal to mc^2. It does seem to shred all chemical bonds though.
Atomic bonds as in bonds between atoms not bonds within nuclei. Not breaking the nucleus of a atom just the chemical bonds between the atom and its neighbor.
Possibly it only shreds covalent bonds (or their counterpart in non-polar molecules). I think that’s what he was going for.
Shredding covalent bonds still creates a lot of free atoms, seeing as that is pretty much all that holds together most of the human body, molecules in the air, etc.
Sveta’s body count is in the triple digits? Damn, I figured a few dozen. I guess the PRT did just keep sending them in. Also her body decides what she grabs to eat, so she ended up eating a lot of things that she never would have. And I imagine a lot if not all the case 53’s have problems like that. And the women (or men) of kleenex issue is in full force for them. And Doctor Mother is completely indifferent to it.
She wasn’t based in America at the outset, so the PRT had no involvement for some time.
Okay, that makes sense. Man I can imagine the horror that must have been. To the people in whatever area Sveta was in, this terrifying monster comes through, just killing anything that gets near it. It seems to be made of razorwire, with this girls face stuck in it, begging them to run. And poor Sveta… You know I can see her body sometimes after dealing with a mob or something deciding it’s time to eat, and there’s some freshly squeezed right at hand….
Thank god, if the PRT were handling things her body count would be in the quadruple digits.
DasNiveau on October 4, 2013 at 05:24 said:
Or a lot lower. Sveta vs Glory Girl or Alexandria … a cought Sveta.
I’ll give you Alexandria. But Glory Girl? She’d probably try to handle it like a normal supervillain fight and end up punching Sveta into a crowded office or something.
Not to mention Glory Girl’s invulnrabilty wasn’t so good. Remember, a good hit and it briefly goes down. Something Crawler was able to exploit to horrific degrees.
Yup yup. Sveta has a *lot* of good hits handy…
sarah penguin on October 3, 2013 at 12:53 said:
Oh wow. This is going to be interesting.
Drakeneisen on October 3, 2013 at 13:08 said:
To summarize much of the dialog in this chapter:
Dr. Mother: “For you, the day when mutated parahumans kidnapped you from your village and brought you to our extradimensional base where you were turned into a monster was the most important day of your life.
For me, it was Tuesday.”
After that, is anyone surprised by the ironic supervillain death?
Bison was way cooler than Dr Mother (and the only good thing in that film).
For us, the day we saw Raoul Julia play M. Bison was just another day watching a bad videogame-based movie.
But for him, it was what he let his kids pick out as his last film role while his health was failing.
Well, let’s see. Plans inside plans inside plans. How planned were the events leading to Doctor Mother’s apparent death.
Let’s see, she happens to carry a special container of the potentially unlimited power juice with her down to the one place in all of existence where Scion might actually be counted on to perhaps lose himself in thought, or perhaps even waste some absurd amount of energy to try to resurrect his mate.
He’s been expending a lot of power, but not too much. But he can’t use his predictive powers against his mate, or he would never have been surprised about her no-show, or confused in any way about where she was.
So here he has been using all this power to defeat the humans, and there is his mate. How much power to resurrect her?
How much of this is planned? Who planned it?
And now for the fridge logic moment.
Where did Doctor Mother drop the dose? On the stairs. Where did Sveta to the boa constrictor trick with constantino wire on Doctor Mother? On the stairs.
So, Doctor Mother is being sliced and diced and crushed to death while being asphyxiated and probably going into brain death due to blood loss. This is at the same time that her blood is pooling and mixing with the contents of the vial.
It appears as if Doctor Mother has access to the entire vial despite Scion’s actions. Additionally, it appears as if she gets to absorb the vial’s contents at the same time that she would be highly likely to be experiencing a “natural” trigger.
So what happens when a natural trigger occurs at the same time that an induced trigger happens? She had already started to be exposed to the artificial trigger’s effects before Sveta gave her a good excuse for a natural trigger.
So… First trigger event, exposure to a vial with few limits. Second trigger event reduces limits even further. The second trigger event is a physical brutalization, a mind altering event due to blood loss in the brain, and even a sensory deprivation event due to being cocooned, so the chances of physical resilience, mental abilities, and travel power manifestations are extremely possible.
And she is allowed to have this potential double trigger event at the one time when Scion might not be paying close attention to everything occurring around him. This might have been part of the plan, but I doubt she was expecting the “opportunity” to double-trigger via Sveta.
So what DO you have hidden in that fridge anyway, Wildbow?
dpara on October 4, 2013 at 15:20 said:
Well if we are in the WAG field.
Who says Doctor Mother did not pick the “take over a cape after death” vial?
(and Dr. Mother is now Sveta…)
to slow.. should read all the comments before posting xD
The problem is that we didn’t have one of those trippy sequences that happen when someone triggers around other capes.
Stop on October 3, 2013 at 16:44 said:
*croak*
“Hello, my baby
Hello, my honey
Hello, my ragtime gal
Send me a kiss by wire
Baby, my hearts on fire
If you refuse me
Honey, you’ll lose me
Then you’ll be left alone
Oh baby, telephone
And tell me I’m your own”
what I was thinking at the end.
“So that’s why Scion was so sad. His partner…she croaked.”
Did he have the soup or the special?
Clearly he had the special soup.
Roths on October 3, 2013 at 16:46 said:
I’ve caught up at last! Now I’m in the same boat as everyone else with waiting for updates.
If Taylor triggered twice in quick succession what is the extension to her power? I was expecting her to trigger further down the line and unleash her full administrator potential.
Wildbow, I’ve spotted minor typos throughout but I’ve enjoyed the story too much to bring them up. Going to go back over and pick them all out if that’s ok? It depends how polished you need/want this to be.
I think that bug control is the original power, and the second one was the ability to perceive their senses. If she hadn’t triggered twice in the locker she would probably have had to play everything by eye and wouldn’t be able to order the really precise tasks.
Wartooth on October 3, 2013 at 19:28 said:
That…makes entirely too much sense.
I agree with Reveen on this one, especially in light of Wildbow just saying “Aiden”
This. Me too.
I agree, but the other way around.
The way I see it “being able to sense bugs without controlling them” seems more terrifying than “controlling bugs without sensing them”.
I sighed, “It’s hard to explain what it’s like, having a new sense open up, but you can’t understand it all. Every sound that they heard was bounced back to me at a hundred times the volume, with the pitch and everything else all screwed up as if they wanted to make it as unpleasant and painful to listen to as possible. Even what they were seeing, it’s like having my eyes open after being in the dark for a long time, but the eyes weren’t attached to my body, and what they were seeing was like looking into a really dingy, grimy kaleidoscope. Thousands of them. And I didn’t know how to turn any of it off.”
Taken from 4.3. So I think she had her second trigger from the stress of sensory overload from sensing all the bugs and got multitasking/processing powers to be able to handle it.
I think her multitasking isn’t a second power per-se, but a side effect to make using the power easier like Rachel’s thing with dogs. Second triggers usually give an extension of the power rather than something needed to properly use the original.
letseveryonemorality on October 3, 2013 at 22:44 said:
Which makes me suspicious that we either haven’t seen what her second trigger actually did yet, or the effect has been so subtle that it’s hard to actually notice it.
I’m thinking it’s either going to be related to Taylor’s ability to control insects even while unconscious, or it’ll be related to her ability to assess the properties of powers.
If it’s the first option, it might actually be flat out control of shards, she’s just never been close enough to one to know she has this control, while her connection to her own shard would bypass some of her range limits, giving her limited control of it in this way when her normal control fails.
All I’ll say is, ‘Aiden’.
I’m not sure if this means that we should look at the differences between Taylor’s shard and Aiden’s (and why would Taylor’s shard pass on restrictions it no longer had?) or if Aiden’s shard is Taylor’s second trigger (and DM/NM don’t quite understand second triggers as well as they think).
Hrm wasn’t there a mention at one point that a passenger, when it learns enough, can either reproduce if the host is not stressed OR trigger a second event in the host if the host is stressed sufficiently? Taylor never had a real second trigger, her passenger simply reproduced, and the child passenger is capable of controlling more complex animals than Taylor.
There was also a mention, by Scion I think, that the child and parent passengers can learn from each other? He seemed a bit disappointed that Taylor’s passenger and her passenger’s offspring were not in proximity to each other.
Kessler on October 4, 2013 at 11:14 said:
I wonder if Weaver can control Aiden’s birds, like he is a relay. Or anything that Shards split from hers can control.
Welcome to the boat. Try to mind the rum while you’re here. You’re not alone. There be many a crewman and crewwoman aboard. We take anyone who makes the crew cut. It’s a slow-moving ship, but it’s nearing the end of its voyage as we follow along our route.
While you’re here, perhaps we can tie you to a mast and force you to listen to us sing? Not because we’re sirens and will drive you onto the rocks, no, we’re just not very good singers.
Or mayhap you’d like to sit and watch the ships? We’re in a very active shipping lane. According to other people around here, the USS Taylor works well with just about any other vessel you could find. Even the USS Imp, which is best known for its association with the Regent until the Regent was lost to lightning in a storm on the Indian Ocean.
If all you want to do is go over the manifest and critique the spelling errors, that’s fine too, but know that we’re all up here, partying away, sharing the booty *points to a treasure chest with the word “Bootay!” written on it* and waiting to see who next gets their spotter yanked out of the crow’s nest and their cargo gutted by a sharp-witted administrator.
Welcome, Roths, to the comments section.
In that case just show me where the rum is and I’ll be on my merry way! Glad to be aboard! It’s been a hard swim.
That’s right kiddies, it’s time to play…
GUESS. THE. POWER!!!!
To start the ball rolling, here’s what they suggest to me:
Abel: Presumably as in “Cain and…”. “Cain” in this context would suggest some power that fed off of ferocity, while “Abel” could be any number of things having to do with being the victim. Regeneration, to aid in shrugging off stab wounds. Danger sense, to aid in knowing how to evade an attack. Presumably breaker-esque powers.
Abbatoir: Something to do with cutting or blood. Was Crimson a Cauldron cape or a natural trigger? Striker or brute.
Access: Mover or shaker a la Shuffle (or the guy who can change the rooms of a building around. Maybe also a lockpicking tinker.
Ace: Definitely Blaster-style. Maybe Gambit-style object empowerment?
Aegis: We’ve seen this one before, as a protective measure on Sundancer’s power.
Air: Mover – blaster, having to do with wind. That hypothetical power that Weaver gave that one kid who complained about getting bad luck.
Alchemy: Tinker power, possibly having to do with chemistry. NEXT!
Alias: ability to disconnect one’s name from one’s actions? Definitely sounds stranger-ish.
Alpha: My mind immediately jumps to “Alpha male” connotations, which presumably means its a Master power. Possibly like Bitch, possibly like King, possibly something along the lines of “attention control.”
Amaze: Blaster, possibly Leonid’s formula.
Any other takers?
Abel: something about working with animals or directing them in some way, maybe even like Bitch with strengthening them. Able was a shepherd.
Abbatoir: powers where you have to kill someone for it, like Moord Nag (however it’s spelled) or Glaistig.
Access: Stranger powers that allow you to influence people.
Ace: Trump stuff where you could wind up with a really good power, or a really bad power.
Aegis: yeah, probably protective or a shield.
Air: One-fifth of the powers necessary to summon a benevolent Scion-like creature with blue skin and green hair who claims to want to protect the planet. Alternatively, something involving gas like the Slaughterhouse Nix or Nyx or whatever, or that guy who turned into smoke from the gang of mighty whiteys.
Alchemy: The ability to turn lead into gold, or the ability to alter metals. Possibly changing one substance to another.
Alias: the ability to fuck up a decent spy drama by relying on Nostradamus-style gizmos and mythology. Alternately some ability, like Stranger or shapeshifting, to alter what one looks like. Could refer to something like what Vista could do where it distorts things given its use with digital imaging. Possibly some projection as well given the term’s use in computing.
Alpha: The ability to go “ayayayayay!” while a robot. Can’t think of many powers having to do with being first.
Amaze: something to shock and stun people, make people unable to react, or to construct a confusing layout, perhaps in some sort of cornfield as Halloween approaches.
Vial names aren’t for one classification of powers. They are a summarization of what is in common in all cases where that vial has been taken. A vial named “Jupiter” produces: 1) powerful blackhole esque effect that can be applied to different surfaces, 2) freezes everyone within range, I.e. prevents them from moving, 3) case 53 that is basically a core with a loose amalgam of “parts” orbiting it, can touch something and subsume it into the orbit /shoot things accurately from it, 4) switches the effects of gravity between two objects (gravity treats a stick as if it were as heavy as a tree, for example). Just made up examples, so yeah, recognize that the titles represent the core of each result, and major deviances can be found in everything else.
But puzzling out the common denominator is kind of the point.
Sooooo, is it bad that I imagined Looney Tunes sound effects while Frau Doktor was getting splattered? Pfftt, no of course not!
That said, there are going to be a few problems now that she’s gone. First thing is that we don’t know if the Number Men and Pretendria are going to be co-operative, or if they can figure out how to use Doorman to get the hell out of dodge. Sveta loose will be a problem but they might be able to use the Number Kids to play patty-cake with them until they find out a way to keep her calm. Oh, and the giant dead inter-dimensional monster thing, that’s somehow the least of their problems.
Is there some kind of fucked up anthro-centrism going on with Cauldron? She seemed pretty adamant that the Case 53s could not be part of their main plans.
There’s a lot of f**ked-up things with Cauldron. Starting with the anthrocentrism and ending somewhere along the lines of “kept an eldritch abomination in the basement for years and neglected to tell anyone because ‘It’s classified’ or ‘You didn’t ask.'”
We never did actually find out if Eidolon created the Endbringers. Also, assuming this is the final confrontation (it seems that way, since this is the last arc), the Endbringers aren’t actually relevant in said confrontation, with the possible exception of the payoff of whatever the Smurf did with her puff of air.
Why in the hell did Contessa allow all these formulas to be stored in GLASS? When you have an incredibly important liquid, you store that shit in a nigh-impervious container, not one that’s vulnerable to dropping. Unless, of course, the path to victory required all those formulas to spill and mix together on the floor?
No, there were 30 arcs in Wildbow’s original plan, which may or may not have changed since Drone, IIRC.
And as for the glass vials, it’s probably a matter of mass production. Any tinker-made material would be difficult to mass-produce, especially on the kind of scale Cauldron requires (well, required).
My bet is that Cauldron made and released them to give Eidolon the challenge that Scion said he needed. The sacrifice of millions of civilians would be worth it, in Cauldron’s eyes, if Eidolon figured out his power and was able to fight Scion effectively, saving what’s left of humanity in the process.
We know this isn’t possible thanks to the Doctor Mother Interlude. She didn’t know bupkiss about the Endbringers or how they think before she used the capes Teacher provided.
Also, there’s an INCREDIBLY important question still unanswered, which we could totally still get an answer to: How jiggly are invincible boobs? When you see most invincible people getting hit, their flesh usually doesn’t react at all. Cheeks and noses and other soft tissue remains just as undisturbed as muscular areas. Yet every instance I can think of where we see this, it’s a male character. Superman, Juggernaut, etc. What about Alexandria? We know she can’t actually be HARMED by most physical force, but does that invlunerability result in the world’s strongest breasts being stiff and unmoving, or can they be moved by incidental forces? Does her costume have built-in support? Were there websites (before the internet was blown up) devoted to gifs of footage of her jiggling in response to impacts from Endbringers?
Inquiring minds want to know!
And the award for my favorite comment goes to Asmora. You may pick up your award after the ceremonies conclude, in the alley in the back. There will be a Gecko in a trenchcoat. Beware the Grues that will eat you in the dark, unless you’re into that sort of thing.
Who’s to say it wasn’t Gorilla Glass or some other incredibly hard variant. Shatterbird power doesn’t care.
Should have used a plastic bag, clearly. Or, just metal.
Stephen R. Marsh on October 3, 2013 at 19:29 said:
So, thirty arcs, we are at about the end of 29.
We know that second trigger = breaking limits set by the worms on powers. That is interesting. Wonder what limit Taylor broke.
The dead worm’s body is a perfect cliff hanger. I gather the first time DM saved the world was when Cauldron killed the first worm. Wonder if that was with or without help from the third entity. Lots of questions there. But with Worms as a plague spreading through space you have to wonder if someone is trying to contain them.
Nope. As I understand it, the entities really crippled some shards, but the second triggers are not the shards healing themselves.
When a shard bonds with a human trough a passenger the new power must have restrictions that avoid it from damaging the host. This previously programmed restrictions are quite generic and a second trigger is a refinement, it is the shard doing a fine tuning and eliminating unneeded restrictions.
You are probably right.
Stephen M (Ethesis) on October 3, 2013 at 22:35 said:
Amazing that DM did this without powers and from a virtual zero start point.
Also wondering where the capes from India are. Was it all just smoke about another war?
Some of the Indian capes were presumably with the Elite when they got wiped out by Leviathan, since they were noted as working with “some of the less savory Thanda”. Likely most are minding their own portal / refugee world.
I think he was referring to the “bad” Thanda (or better the ones that opposed Phir Se’s Thanda), the ones that disappeared into a portal after Contessa talked with them, as soldiers in another war whot will never be seen in Bet ever again.
Something else I noticed about Cauldron vs. Taylor as far as mindset is that Taylor’s staying very much true to how she’s been ever since the beginning. Thinking up new and creative uses for limited power, making use of allies, strategy, and tactics. Cauldron, though, seems to believe that you’re only ever going to get as much power as you’d ever get.
You know, that’s kinda why they’ve been so far behind here. Sure, they’re getting traditionally strong powers in people who can predict all kinds of crazy shit or generate an army or whatever, but they bank too much on power alone being useful.
Just think about the Slaughterhouse 9000 mess. The biggest parahuman conflict not involving Scion or the Endbringers involved Jack Slash (communication and transmission of knifeblade powers) versus Weaver (bug control).
That was who made such a powerful group possible that Cauldron had to steal his leftovers and that’s who found a way to assemble a small army of Endbringers. Yeah, sure, the power you have is all the power you’ll ever get? Cauldron, feel free to die if you haven’t been paying attention.
Just some random thoughts.
There aren’t any healing powers. When they crop up, it’s a fluke, pure chance, an extension of another ability with a different focus.
Then what the heck is Panacea? OK, she can change others in addition to healing them, but does that mean that her living-being-warping power is somehow perverted when it is used to heal?
I think it is pretty obvious at this point, based off of Doctor Mother’s comments on second triggers, but I never believed second triggers were the same as the shards reproducing.
a defensive power utilizing warped space and a power that allows one to take over a nearby parahuman’s mind, body and powers automatically on death
The first sounds vaguely like Gray Boy, but the second is a dead ringer for Butcher.
Doctor Mother, after surviving a vicious group of deviations that wanted to kill her, was killed by a deviation that didn’t actually want to kill her. Irony, anyone? Actually, Asmora said this even better.
Given the title of the series, does the counterpart look like a mass of worms? I guess we will find out. That would make the formulas worm juice.
Still wondering why the heck the Simurgh parted Scion’s hair with the air gun. En has an interesting idea on this, but the better way to deliver nanites is in massive quantities, not in doses so small they are not visibly different from air. Although … is the link to Scion’s regenerative reserve two way? If it is, then Simurgh may be trying to infect Scion’s reserve, which might be the only way to kill him. The only other time we have seen similar tubes is cloning chambers, but those were filled with nutrients, not air.
Interesting theory farmerbob1. Technically, Doctor Mother did get her close encounter with the contents of the vial she had chosen, just a bit differently than she had planned. But I am still betting on dead – no-one but Weld (or an equivalent invulnerable) could survive Sveta’s full intentions for more than a second. Her tendrils break bone immediately so it only takes one tendril through the skull to whip brains into a useless mush.
And now for the completely off-the-wall thought: Taylor tells Scion to make her into another worm so that Taylor can become Scion’s mate.
The glass tube in the Simurgh’s air gun wasn’t a part of the guns mechanism, she was hiding it in there. The point of the air gun was to distract Scion. The glass tube is for something else.
We should be worried, did the Smurf make that with Bonesaw & Lab Rat nearby?
Bonesaw, yes. As far as I recall, Lab Rat is missing, presumed dead after the oil rig debacle, but Taylor *did* help him get his mystery device over the edge of the cliff, so who knows…
That is an interesting read on it. Thanks.
Yes, Panacea’s healing power is not ‘healing’ so much as ‘complete biological control and inherent understanding of biology’. Much like Bonesaw’s biological tinkering, it can be used to fix or to warp. I wouldn’t call it ‘perverting’ it when it’s used to heal, but it’s not completely accurate to call it a ‘healing power’ either.
Lizardtail is an actual Cauldron-source healing power (we never saw him do anything else, did we?), and so might be more interesting than Panacea. I wonder what kind of power that elixir is normally associated with. Something to do with area effects, I expect.
Lizardtail’s power is probably some sort of temporal or dimensional manipulation that just happens to close/heal/remove wounds rather than anything like a devoted healing power, because apparently shards don’t do healing powers.
Actually both Panacea and Bonesaw’s both explicitly have biological-manipulation powers that can also be used to heal. Now Lizardtail is interesting since his only power seems to be wide-area regeneration.
“a defensive power utilizing warped space” sounds more like Vista than Gray Boy to me.
DM took the death-body-swap formula, and is now inhabiting Sveta. You’re welcome.
Except there was no “freeze every para humans nearby” trigger vision.
That may be different with both vision sources virtualy “next door”.
Hmm, the dead entity MAY change something but everybody still got the vision when Clubs second-triggered fighting Scion.
And one of Dr Mother’s reason to not take the vial was that all the others would be rendered comatose.
It looks like the resident troll Axel is back at it. He’s creating alt accounts on TV Tropes and other forums to generate reviews. I have no idea why he has worked up such a vendetta here.
Really i think at this point it’s just better if we have a laugh at his antics and ignore him.
You’re probably right, but at the same time, I have trouble wrapping my mind around why he is doing this. That’s what vexes me.
Figured out who the troll actually is irl. It’s hilarious. This explains so much.
wait, you actually know him? Small world…
No, I don’t know him, and as much as I dislike the guy’s posts, I’m not about to post any personal information on him. About the only thing I’ll reveal is this: hilariously bad neckbeard.
Don’t worry, I wasn’t asking you to reveal personal info.
As for the neckbeard the only guy that comes to mind is Alan Moore. But while it would make SOME sense, I don’t think thats it.
No, Alan Moore’s beard is a sapient entity all on its own. I dare not criticize it for fear it may actually come after me. That said, I do not fear that the scruff on this guy’s thick neck will be coming after me. It looks to be firmly glued into place.
I don’t think they are all sockpuppets. I think it’s more that my readership has increased a great deal in a short period of time, 31,000 views/5k unique views yesterday) and a lot of these readers are coming from the Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality community. I won’t say that the people in that community are bad people – they most definitely aren’t -, but it’s a community built around picking one popular story to pieces and figuring out a better way to do things in that story. On a level, I suspect it’s a community where finding possible flaws in a work (and being willing/able to argue your point) is more meaningful than being accurate in identifying those flaws.
Ergo, a lot of new people going through Worm’s comments, and among them are a few people like RMCD or Daniel or whoever else that go through the comments with what appears to be atrocious reading comprehension. Too busy looking for stuff that’s wrong to actually see where the answers are provided, or jumping to conclusions. They’re finding plot holes that were filled from the get go and barreling through, arguing with everyone that responds to them. And with any influx of new readers, you also get the people who aren’t the intended audience, but are entitled enough/shortsighted enough to miss that fact, expecting the story to cater to them/their tastes explicitly, and deeming it a failure when it doesn’t get that far.
Which isn’t to say Worm’s perfect. It’s not. I wrote it, in the end, to be the kind of story I’d want to read. I’m validated to see that there’s this many people who have similar tastes. But it’s first draft stuff and it’s niche-ish. Some people won’t like it. That’s fine.
Here’s the thing. I’m going to start deleting comments that reference the more problematic guys. I’ve been cleaning up comments where they go overboard, being overlyvulgar or vitriolic in their criticism, or where arguments aren’t going anywhere and it’s causing more negativity than good for the community. Comments from loyal readers get the same treatment.
If you want to combat the ‘trolls’ (and I don’t think they are trolls – or only one of them are) then support worm. Post reviews if you haven’t already (TV tropes, webfictionguide), rate the story (webfictionguide), vote (Topwebfiction), and don’t respond to their reviews (it brings it to the top of the page in TV tropes) unless it’s to mark it as unhelpful, provided you view it that way. I don’t want to push you guys to give any particular rating or review, except the one you feel is accurate.
Some people won’t like the story. Some people won’t like the story to unreasonable, irrational degrees. That’s fine. I think it’s a decent-ish story, and I know that there’s more people who like the story, and more people who like it to unreasonable, irrational degrees. So long as you guys speak up and make your voices heard, Worm will get the visible reviews it deserves, and the ratings will average out to put it in a decent spot.
I’d appreciate it if you didn’t pay attention or give mention to any of these individuals, unless it’s by email or such to let me know of something particularly problematic. If any of them are trolling, then it’s only validating them. It’s negative, affecting the mood of the comment section, and I’m going to start deleting comments for that reason (which takes time and energy I’d rather devote to writing).
I’ll probably post something on the subject after tomorrow’s chapter.
Wildbow, if I may, while I have no doubt that your readers are becoming more numerous and that this means that criticisms will, if only because of statistics, also increase, there are certain posts that are so similar up to the exact wording and of so coincidental timing, that they can’t really be anything else but sock-puppets. Daniel, who at least, from what i’ve seen, tends to be polite in his criticisms is almost certainly not a sock-puppet, kikallin (who only appeared to post about “Triumph’s rape”), well…
It is the same guy, actually. I don’t really care.
That’s hilarious. Per your advice, I won’t inadvertently bump the reviews he has been posting on TV tropes, but I would like to point out that the last exchange I had with him had him vehemently denying using alts as sock puppets, saying I had no proof. Thanks for validating what we all already knew, but could not conclusively prove. Both of his reviews are flagged for moderation, but I don’t know how long it will take for TV Tropes to deal with them.
Censored parts of emails and IP addresses to protect everyone involved, but it’s telling enough.
…are you freaking kidding me? I cannot facepalm hard enough at that. That’s the laziest effort at creating a sockpuppet ever. I mean, he could have taken 5 minutes to set up a throwaway email at least, but he couldn’t even be bothered with that. Does this guy have any idea how the internet even works? But then again, he does seem to have some sort of obsession with that username everywhere he posts.
Wait, he din’t change his email? Hahhaha. I’m one of the less savvy people around internet-wise and even I know not to make that blunder.
I’m not touching you-know-who with a ten foot pole anymore, but I think the mindset behind this sort of thing is a knee-jerk reaction against a perceived attack against the genre. You see this every so often with an “edgy” or or critical superhero comic like the Boys or half of Mark Millars work or such. If something breaks the moral “rules” or is negative about superheroes some people will probably rush in to act outrage over that.
Not to say that there aren’t good reasons to not like the Boys or Millar (ESPECIALLY), but some people just get huffy when something doesn’t treat the superhero genre the way they think it should be treated. Which annoys me because let’s face it, superheroes as a concept are problematic as fuck, and I’m grateful to WIldbow for embracing that fact.
Too bad the Internet wasn’t around when Watchmen first came out. It would be interesting to see the resault.
RazorSmile on October 4, 2013 at 09:32 said:
Any second now, Chekov’s Airgun will reveal its true colors and it will be hilarious.
Still waiting for Saturday.
I have a question: Which is more fatal to a character in Worm: having an interlude written from their PoV, or having Krustacean draw them? If you look at the list of interludes in the table of contents, you’ll notice that the vast majority of the list are about characters who met gruesome ends.
The fact that Krustacean didn’t draw DM is enough to make me suspect that she is still alive.
coming soon, scion interlude 2 the drawn by Krustacean version and touted to be played in alive action film by Eddy Murpy… that should end the bugger…
Nourjan on October 4, 2013 at 19:41 said:
{sigh}
I finally decide to not give My Worm reading a sabbatical and ending up so busy in real life that I miss an entire week worth of Worm episodes(and I blazed through the first 26 arcs of Worm in under 6days!).I even failed to participate in my own conversation lines(even the ones that I started.) How typical!
BTW, wasn’t this Siberian Projection supposed to be a male with stripes on his body?
I think there’s one clone that has a male projection but the rest of the Manton clones had female projections.
Reread Interlude 26b. Jack must have either switched Siberian after leaving Ellisburg or that particular Manton is capable of both projecting both the male and the female Siberian(not at he same time, obviously)
Took a peek at Interlude 26b, the Siberian in that chapter is mentioned as female. The one Jack left Ellisburg is male. I guess I wouldn’t be surprised if that Manton can switch between male and female Siberians.
Rhodesian on October 4, 2013 at 21:52 said:
random thought. Eidolon from the greek means (Phantom, Spirit) and Glastig Uaine now has his spirit or phantom. That worked out nicely.
Other possible meaning for that name is that he doesnt really have a personality outside of his powers and so he’s similar to an extremely powerful spirit.
Also meant to add that word in greek also implies deception or trickery which is interesting in regard to eidolon being “dead”
Daniel on October 5, 2013 at 17:25 said:
” I’m telling you that if you’d asked, at any point along the way, I’d probably have told you I’d rather be dead. I’d rather be dead than live this new life you gave me”
Then you really should just ask to be killed or kill yourself if you can.
The good Doctor DID give you a choice. One where you had none before. Before you were doomed to die, now you can choose to die or to live as a monster.
I hope someone mentions this argument at some point, it’s obvious enough.
She can’t kill herself, or she would have, it’s obvious enough. Her body would react and destroy external threats, even ones she’s trying to leverage against herself.
I meant to say “please delete my long winded post about Taylor’s second trigger” not my much much earlier post.Sorry for all that.
Syphon on December 23, 2013 at 14:13 said:
Taylor really likes pointing out how Bastard’s transformation is my fluid and symmetrical than Bitch’s other dogs. Every single time.
Also, tags are missing.
Dev Null on January 2, 2014 at 10:36 said:
Hi! Since this is my first comment, I should say that I’m just working my way through the whole story now, having discovered Worm when HPTMOR linked it awhile back. Very much enjoying the story; excellent work.
I don’t know how much you’re interested in editorial suggestions, but for what its worth, I had trouble following the transition to talking about second triggers at the end of this chapter, at this line:
‘”You can’t have a second trigger because you already had one,” he said.’
I had no idea why he was bringing them up. Then I went back and re-read the previous few bits and remembered the EM readers. So I’m guessing that he actually brings this up in response to something he reads on the device? A quick transition – something like “Number Man finished waving the EM reader around my head and said ‘Actually Weaver,…” would have made it more clear.
But again: minor quibble; great story.
greatwyrmgold on January 30, 2014 at 22:46 said:
…Why wasn’t Cauldron cloning people?
The Siberian had saved them with her ability to grant her own invulnerability effect.
Even the Manton clone? Who can’t be given invulnerability?
The Doctor glanced her way. “And you are?” Imp sighed.
Man, for such an awesome power, it sure must be annoying.
And since I’m here…is it odd that I’ve always pictured The Number Man as being ambiguously brown?
(Reference: tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AmbiguouslyBrown )
Vernon on October 11, 2014 at 18:56 said:
Typo: tendrlis instead of tendrils
Okay so is it bad that I have a bit of a sentimental attachment to that knife? It’s a physical symbol of the advances in communication and attachment that Colin and Taylor have both made both apart and together. I feel like she shouldn’t lose the knife because it’s like losing a part of the humanity that is still left in this craptastic situation. I’m glad she managed to get it back. And yes I know the knife isn’t intended to mean any of that but that’s how it feels to me.
Also I find it rather funny how the Number Man is rather annoyed that his clones are sadistic assholes.
“Not me, surely. I sent others.” God I can’t believe this woman is on humanities side. There is simply being unfeeling and then there is lacking any capacity for empathy whatsoever. Regent fits the former mostly while this woman is a glaring example of why humanity sucks so much. I definitely see why she never triggered. The dumb bitch has no concept of the despair and terror needed to naturally trigger.
Huh so no natural native healing powers; all healing is just a secondary required power made into the primary effect due to its usefulness. Interesting. Makes sense I guess, healing isn’t really all that useful for conflict purposes besides Panacea’s potential offensive “healing”.
The Balance formula makes much more sense now. Sweet. It’s also very interesting to find that second triggers are basically networking assists between the shards who then fine tune their settings. So Taylor has canonically second triggered either in the locker or the hospital. That is both awesome and sucky. Lends a lot more credence to my earlier guess that Aiden was what Taylor would be without a second trigger; able to either experience or move bugs but not both at once.
It is also entertaining to see Imp descending back into less than stellar vocab when she gets really upset.
Doc finally got what she deserved. About time. I’m amazed that Sveta survived her brief conflict. Good for her? I mean yeah I like her but the poor girl really doesn’t have all that much of a life to be perfectly honest. And Taylor going up against Scion with a disintegration knife…um…um…I’m trying to decide whether this counts as a last ditch attempt at a third trigger, a suicidal depression fueled last stand, an attempt to distract him from her friends or some combination of all of the above. Either way…um…
Sigh, oh Cauldron. Locking up dead giant Multi Dimensional Entities really doesn’t ever end well. Of course the partner is going to come looking for her at some point. Sigh.
LittleSallyDigby on November 23, 2014 at 02:07 said:
Cauldron, you are the worst at tactical intelligence.
Locking up one of the entities and using it to make powers? Fucked up, maybe, but a good idea for protecting humanity.
Not telling anyone you did that, when the other entity turns on you? Moronic, and hardly justifiable. Sharing that secret isn’t going to make you any more enemies than you already have. Keeping it is going to lead to… this happening.
Ok,if Contessa’s planis not to either manipulate Cauldron,or,in a way,requiring all that shit,then they might have been better without her power.
MisterTeatime on January 28, 2016 at 14:13 said:
Hmm. Didn’t Shatterbird say something about “the men who bought my power” in Hookwolf’s interlude? I know the Nine are hardly trustworthy, but if she’s a Cauldron cape, then her powers are from the dead entity, not from Scion.
So then… maybe he’s approximating the other entity’s trick instead of reusing it? And that’s why his version is accompanied by light instead of sound?
In any case, the dawning horror/awe upon realizing that the good guys just got screwed over by a move from almost twenty arcs ago was fantastic. Excellent work.
Quinn on November 15, 2016 at 16:22 said:
I just devolved into shouting random curses and otherwise incoherent things. THIS is why the entity’s companion went missing?! FUCKING CAULDRON.
At least that’s what I’m getting from the last sentence.
hopefwlyanonymous on April 9, 2017 at 08:24 said:
The entity2 died before arriving on Earth. It’s in Scion’s interlude.
It might have died because the third entity took too many of its shards when it passed them before arriving on Earth.
I think of Doctor Mother as the greatest hero in the story so far. She’s the only one who abandoned all selfish interests and values in order to save humanity. She did what maximised their chances, and she was hated by all for it. RIP.
Letouriste on January 29, 2018 at 09:09 said:
She was a secretive asshole who didn’t managed to do anything at all and caused massacres,torture and horrors for billions of sentients being.her goal was worthy but she is worst than scion.all her actions were pointless at the end because All will depend of people not related to cauldron.her only achievement is the creation of monsters
Dread Pirate on August 5, 2017 at 17:42 said:
And at last I am freed from the cliffhangers and tension requiring me to continue reading. Not because this wasn’t a cliffhanger or tense of course. It is simply a cliffhanger so epic it *demands* I stop reading and sit in agonized tension for awhile, a level of tension epic enough I can be content to wait.
Wow the doctor has been even more useless I thought she would be.
I wonder if Taylor didn’t miss an opportunity here:I would have asked if bugs could have powers,if bugs could drink parts of the vial on the ground.they would die in a few month at most so the after effect would not matter on the bugs.she could controle a little army of power not limited by scion
Blub on December 21, 2018 at 21:49 said:
“By mixing it into other vials, we borrow this particular quality, at the cost of having more physical changes with any such power we grant. We retain humanity more easily, safeguarding against deviant cases.””
Seems contradicting….
And did they now go into the doorway what the Siberian made or not? There is no description about that. Only that suddenly Weaver is alone.
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The Gourd Files, Vol. 1: Snake Gourd
August 7, 2018 / passtheflamingo
Above: first meeting between long-lost cousins, featuring Vasuki.
SCIENTIFIC NAME: Trichosanthes cucumerina (Cucumerina? If anyone needs a cucurbit-themed drag name…..)
COMMON NAMES: snake gourd, serpent gourd, chichinda, padwal. Some varieties of calabash with skinny, twisty fruits may be called “snake gourds” as well, but Trichosanthes is snakier.
ORIGIN: Found wild throughout southern Asia, the Pacific Islands and northern Australia and also cultivated in Africa, snake gourd was likely domesticated in India, where it is widely enjoyed today, especially fried or in curry. References to various gourds including snake gourd and the ubiquitous calabash can be found in the Rig Veda, a series of Hindu religious texts dating back to 1700 BCE that represent some of the oldest surviving religious literature in the world. In Sanskrit, the snake gourd was called patola or tiktapatola, a name still in use for some other gourd species.
A related species called Chinese snake gourd (Trichosanthes kirilowii) is counted among the Fifty Fundamental Herbs that form the backbone of Chinese herbology. Believed to have beneficial effects on the lungs and other organs, it must be used with caution, as it contains a toxic protein called trichosanthin. (Note that our edible snake gourd is just that: edible, and totally safe. Don’t judge him based on his relatives.)
The beautiful, fragrant flowers of the snake gourd vine resemble delicate white lace. As they unfurl only at night, they are mainly pollinated by hawk-moths. (Remember the moth with a skull on its back from Silence of the Lambs? That’s a hawk-moth.)
As in some other gourd species, snake gourd is too bitter to eat when fully ripened. The inner pulp of the mature fruit is a reddish-orange color and can be used as a substitute for tomato paste.
Snake gourds hang down from their high-climbing vine and may twist or curl as they develop. Some farmers suspend weights from the young fruits so they grow straight, purely for aesthetics.
Snake gourd on the vine. Photo from Wikimedia Commons (2012)
FLAVOR: Refreshing and similar to cucumber, but the texture is less crunchy and more fleshy, like a zucchini. Unlike cucumber, snake gourd holds up well to cooking. However, before cooking the sliced gourd pieces it’s recommended to salt them, let sit for 10-15 minutes and squeeze out the excess water.
I sliced up my snake gourd and made it into a curry using a modification of this recipe (I used chickpeas instead of black gram beans and also some South Indian ingredients: shredded coconut and tamarind extract).
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Chris and her new H3. She loves it.
Chris and Brett at the Rally in Texas.
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Our daughter, Chris and her new toy.
There are also two pictures of Chris and her hubby Brett. They went to a Harley Davidson Rally over the weekend and had a blast. Doesn't she just look like a Harley Chic? :)
Brett, Jason and Chris. Can you tell she's having a blast?
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‘The Black Sheep’ by Sophie Mackenzie
Published by Simon & Schuster,
9 February 2017.
ISBN: 978-1-4711-3322-0 (PB)
In this psychological suspense novel, Fran Hoffman, widowed with two children, Rufus and Ruby, attends a memorial service for her husband Caspian, a doctor who had died fourteen months earlier in a knife attack. The perpetrator had never been identified and the police had categorized the attack as random, possibly a mugging which had gone wrong. Fran had been devastated by her husband’s death but now feels it is time to move on and to start rebuilding her life but not with a colleague of her husband’s, the unattractive Simon Pinner who makes his sexual interest in Fran all too clear at the post-service reception. However, there is someone else at the reception who introduces himself as Harry Dunbar, a business acquaintance of her husband’s. He tells her that Caspian had told him he was being threatened, he thought by someone called Paul at the behest of Jayson Carr. This horrifies Fran because Jayson Carr is in fact Fran’s father. Jayson and Caspian had had their differences because Caspian, a non-believer, had performed occasional abortions while Jayson like most of the family was a devout Catholic and a vehement pro-life supporter. Apart from this, Jayson and Caspian had got on pretty well and after Caspian’s death Jayson and the other members of the close-knit family had supported Fran even though she had left the Church when young and rather wild and had never returned. At first Fran finds Harry’s warning farfetched but when she hears that Simon Pinner, who had also performed abortions has been murdered she thinks there maybe something in Harry’s warning especially when she discovers that Paul is actually PAAUL, the acronym of a Catholic pro-life secret organisation of which her father had been chairman. He insists that when PAAUL had become more extremist and advocated the assassination of abortion practitioners, he and his brother Perry, also involved with PAAUL, had left the organisation. But the more Fran investigates, the more her suspicions swing backwards and forwards. And were others involved? Is there a connection between the abortion which Fran had persuaded her much younger sister Lucy to have years before? Lucy is now obsessively devout but does she know about their father’s involvement with PAAUL? And if not their father, their uncle Perry’s role? And that of their father’s other brother Graham who also has broken away from the Church and is now a feckless alcoholic, divorced from his wife Sheila and estranged from his son, the handsome, charming Dex? And what about Harry himself? Fran is highly attracted to him and he to her but she discovers that he had never actually known Caspian, let alone received any confidences. But in that case who is he? Why is he interested in Caspian’s death and in PAAUL? Fran and Harry’s search for the truth leads to great danger for them both and for Ruby.
This is an intricate and cleverly plotted novel with an expertly planned narrative structure told from the point of view of Fran, Harry and Lucy in a way which ratchets up the mystery and the tension, while the dire effects of obsessive religiosity, particularly in such a close-knit family, are described in a way that is totally convincing.
Reviewer: Radmila May
Sophie McKenzie is the award-winning author of a range of teen thrillers, including the Missing series (Girl, Missing, Sister, Missing and Missing Me), Blood Ties and Blood Ransom and the Medusa Project series. She has also written two romance series: the Luke and Eve books and the Flynn series, which starts with the novel Falling Fast. Split Second is her first teen stand-alone novel in seven years. Sophie's first novel for adults is the psychological thriller Close My Eyes.
www.sophiemckenziebooks.com
And here: facebook.com/sophiemckenzieauthor
Twitter: @sophiemckenzie_
Radmila May was born in the U.S. but has lived in the U.K. since she was seven apart from seven years in The Hague. She read law at university but did not go into practice. Instead she worked for many years for a firm of law publishers and still does occasional work for them including taking part in a substantial revision and updating of her late husband’s legal practitioners’ work on Criminal Evidence published late 2015. She has also contributed short stories with a distinctly criminal flavour to two of the Oxford Stories anthologies published by Oxpens Press – a third story is to be published shortly in another Oxford Stories anthology – and is now concentrating on her own writing.
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‘Chameleon People’ by Hans Olav Lahlum
Published by Mantel,
22 September 2016.
ISBN: 978-5098-948-6 (HB)
978-5098-949-3 (TPB)
Published by Pan,
March 1972. A boy arrives at the door of Oslo detective Kolbjorn Kristiansen (K2), with a blood-stained knife in his pocket. The police are hot on his trail, but he insists he’s innocent of the stabbing of politician Per Johan Frederiksen. Soon we find out there are plenty of other people who wanted the politician dead: a business rival, his family, his mistress, and the party and country he was about to betray ...
Hans Olav Lahlum writes in the ‘puzzle’ tradition of Agatha Christie, and the novels are narrated by K2 himself, the Hastings to Patricia, the Poirot of the series, a rich young woman who has been confined to a wheelchair since the accident in which she lost her parents. The novel’s narrated in a naive style which reflects K2’s plodding and sometimes simplistic thought processes – an adult Adrian Mole without the humour – and I did find this got tedious in a novel of this length, almost twice as long as a genuine Agatha Christie. In part this was because there was a double puzzle to solve – as well as the present-day murder, Frederiksen was also involved in murder in 1932, the unexplained death of his sister-in-law. The suspects are numerous, and there are numerous twists and surprises as the body-count mounts. K2’s relationship with Patricia is complicated by his engagement to Miriam, and he has difficulty in juggling the two women in his life, especially as Miriam wants to take Patricia’s place in helping him with the investigation.
A classic-style puzzle set against the backdrop of Norway’s EU vote in 1972.
Reviewer: Marsali Taylor
Hans Olav Lahlum born 12 September 1973, is a Norwegian historian, crime author, chess player and organizer, and politician. He has written biographies on Oscar Torp and Haakon Lie, and a history book about all the Presidents of the United States.
Marsali Taylor grew up near Edinburgh, and came to Shetland as a newly-qualified teacher. She is currently a part-time teacher on Shetland's scenic west side, living with her husband and two Shetland ponies. Marsali is a qualified STGA tourist-guide who is fascinated by history, and has published plays in Shetland's distinctive dialect, as well as a history of women's suffrage in Shetland. She's also a keen sailor who enjoys exploring in her own 8m yacht, and an active member of her local drama group. Marsali also does a regular monthly column for the Mystery People e-zine.
www.marsalitaylor.co.uk
‘The Riviera Express’ by T P Fielden
Published by HarperCollins,
23 February 2016.
ISBN: 978-0-00-819368-3(HB).
978-0-00819-371-3 (TPB)
Picture the scene: an idyllic Devon seaside town in the 1950s. The most unpleasant thing that ever happens there is a bit of a rumpus on the front between rival Teddy Boys. A train brings visitors from Exeter every summer morning, and the front page headline in the local weekly paper is usually something like QUARREL OVER TEA-TIME CAKES AT MOTHERS’ UNION.
Until, one fateful morning, the paper’s faithful chief reporter, Miss Judy Dimont, meets the train, (both paper and train are called the Riviera Express, by the way), and – shock! horror! – there’s a body on board, and it belongs to one of the country’s most famous and adored film stars.
As is often the case in idyllic Devon towns, at least the fictional ones, the local plods are more interested in a quiet life than solving crime. However, Miss Dimont (affectionately known by her colleagues as Miss Dim but in fact nothing could be further from the truth) has a past – more accurately, a Past – which equips and encourages her to go ferreting around. She unearths a murder which, at first, no one else believes in. There’s a second body too: a thoroughly disliked freelance writer, found at the bottom of a crumbling cliff. So that’s two potential murders – and Miss Dim’s little grey cells are suddenly in overdrive.
The result is a delicious pastiche of a Golden Age crime novel, peopled with glamorous members of the film world, small-town sophisticates, a motley crew of newspaper staff, wooden policemen and the occasional Bad Lot. As Detective Inspector Topham lurches from one misjudgement to the next, Miss Dim wends her way through a trail of red herrings and misplaced clues with an unerring nose for the truth, which, of course she eventually reveals with a flourish just in time for the front-page splash. All despite the best efforts of her editor, whose usual form of communication is a grunt, and her younger, flightier colleague Betty, who regards the front page as her personal territory.
The Riviera Express is a gentle and wittily devised parody with larger than life characters, an impossibly pretty backdrop and a jaunty writing style which all come together to reflect the author’s affection for the Golden Age as well as a close acquaintance with its foibles and clichés. True Golden Age devotees may feel it goes a little too far, but even they may have to admit it’s very well done.
Reviewer: Lynne Patrick
TP Fielden is a leading author, broadcaster and journalist. This is the first novel in the Miss Dimont Mystery series.
Lynne Patrick has been a writer ever since she could pick up a pen, and has enjoyed success with short stories, reviews and feature journalism, but never, alas, with a novel. She crossed to the dark side to become a publisher for a few years, and is proud to have launched several careers which are now burgeoning. She lives on the edge of rural Derbyshire in a house groaning with books, about half of them crime fiction.
‘Dark Side of the Moon’ by Les Wood
Published by Freight Books,
3 October 2016.
Boddice, a Glasgow crime lord, is feeling the pinch – his local pond is now full of much bigger fish and, though he is still sufficiently feared and loathed to command respect, he is no longer one of the local movers and shakers. So he comes up with a Plan, something that would put him into an altogether different league, one which the newcomers on the block wouldn’t dream of touching. This will be his final act and will fund his retirement.
He selects his gang from the professional hard men who work for him, offering them the promise of great wealth if they join him or serious grief if they don’t. The ill-assorted and ill-equipped men are in no position to refuse: Prentice and Kyle are really hard men, willing to kill on Boddice’s order, though Prentice is starting to want to get out. Boag, an ex-serviceman gets work from Boddice because of his father’s long and loyal service. The Twins, a particularly important part of the Plan, run a tattoo parlour, but their main source of income is letting their business be used for laundering Boddice’s illegal profits. Leggett is not popular with any of his colleagues, and falls from favour when Boddice realises he is taking an unauthorised cut from profits. Each of this ill-matched group has a part to play in the Big Plan, the theft of the famous diamond known as the Dark Side of the Moon, which is to be displayed in a Glasgow department store.
This is a fast-moving, high-pitched novel. The characters are well-written and, despite being largely unlikeable, there are moments when the reader’s sympathy is engaged. The humour is black, the dialogue sharp and the finale spectacular. This debut novel will gain the author many fans.
Reviewer: Jo Hesslewood
Les Wood's writing has been widely anthologised. He has a Masters in creative writing from the University of Glasgow and a doctorate in Physiotherapy. Les teaches as Glasgow Caledonian University.
Jo Hesslewood. Crime fiction has been my favourite reading material since as a teenager I first spotted Agatha Christie on the library bookshelves. For twenty-five years the commute to and from London provided plenty of reading time. I am fortunate to live in Cambridge, where my local crime fiction book club, Crimecrackers, meets at Heffers Bookshop . I enjoy attending crime fiction events and currently organise events for the Margery Allingham Society.
‘Enough Rope’ by Barbara Nadel
‘The Fourteenth Letter’ by Claire Evans
‘The Breakdown’ by B A Paris
‘When She Was Bad’ by Tammy Cohen
‘The Chalk Pit’ by Elly Griffiths
‘Stasi Wolf’ by David Young
‘Devour’ by L A Larkin
‘Sweet Revenge and other Stories’ by Di Shelley
The Deadly Dames at Portsmouth BookFest
‘The Harbour Master’ by Daniel Pembrey
‘The Stroke of Death’ by Jessica Mann
'The Iron Water' by Chris Nickson
‘The Gun’ By Fuminori Nakamura
‘The Sign of Fear' by Robert Ryan
‘Death in Winter' by Ian McFadyen
Nemesis with knitting needles
‘The Girl Before’ by J. P. Delaney
‘Her Husband's Lover’ by Julia Crouch.
‘A Life to Kill’ by Matthew Hall
‘Cambridge Black, by Alison Bruce
Carol Westron at Portsmouth Bookfes tomorrow.
‘Mr Campion’s Fault’ by Mike Ripley
‘The Bone Field’ by Simon Kernick
‘Elementary Murder’ by A J Wright
‘The Napoleon Complex’ by E M Davey
‘The Exiled’ by Kati Hiekkapelto
‘The Art of Breathing’ by Kate Evans
‘A Killer Ball at Honeychurch Hall’ by Hannah Denn...
‘A Cold Case in Amsterdam Central’ by Anja de Jage...
'Head Start' by Judith Cutler
Anthony Berkeley Cox (1893-1971)
‘Night School’ by Lee Child
Priscilla Masters
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a blog about ownership of intellectual property rights and its licensing
Is a Name Necessarily a Mark?
by Pamela Chestek • June 30, 2009 • trademark
(Joseph Abboud, 2005)
In 2000, Joseph Abboud sold at least the trademarks for “Joseph Abboud” to his former company, JA Apparel Corp. Others have blogged on the Second Circuit’s reversal of the district court decision that had stopped menswear designer Joseph Abboud from using his own name to promote a new line of clothing he called “Jaz.” You can get the full run down of the legal reasoning in the court of appeals opinion here.
(“Jaz” suit)
What I wonder is how the lawsuit could have happened in the first place. In the Purchase and Sale Agreement, Abboud assigned to JA Apparel all right, title and interest in:
(A) The names, trademarks, trade names, service marks, logos, insignias, and designations identified on Schedule 1.1(a)(A), and all trademark registrations and applications therefor, and the goodwill related thereto (collectively the “Trademarks”), together with all causes of action (and the proceeds thereof) in favor of [Abboud and Houndstooth] heretofore accrued or hereafter accruing with respect to any of the Trademarks, and all other Intellectual Property (as hereinafter defined).
(C) All rights to use and apply for the registration of new trade names, trademarks, service marks, logos, insignias and designations containing the words “Joseph Abboud,” “designed by Joseph Abboud,” “by Joseph Abboud,” “JOE” or “JA,” or anything similar thereto or derivative thereof, either alone or in conjunction with other words or symbols (collectively, the “New Trademarks”), for any and all products or services.
Essentially, the outcome turns on the meaning of the word “names” in subparagraph (A). Note that the word is missing from subparagraph (C). Schedule 1.1(a)(A) listed only trademark registrations and applications, not common law marks. The district court ruled as a matter of law that the agreement transferred all rights to the name Joseph Abboud, even precluding Abboud from using the name under the trademark fair use doctrine. The court of appeals found instead that the contract was ambiguous, which meant that the fair use defense might apply (HT to Rebecca Tushnet for pointing out the appeals court’s unnecessarily rigorous interpretation of the fair use doctrine), and remanded to the district court.
JA Apparel paid 65.5 million dollars for the Joseph Abboud name, however exclusive the rights will ultimately turn out to be. At the same time, Joseph Abboud also executed a Personal Services Agreement, agreeing to provide ideas to JA Apparel for five years and agreeing not to compete with it for two more years after that. In other words, the parties contemplated the possibility that Abboud would be free to compete as a designer in seven years.
How could there have been any doubt left in the transactional documents about how Joseph Abboud would subsequently be allowed to use his name? How could it not have been addressed explicitly? I can see that perhaps the issue was a deal-breaker, and it was way too big a deal to lose, so the parties just didn’t address it. But then you also know that the point will be litigated in seven years. If delaying the inevitable was the plan, and both sides wanted hooks in the documents to hang their theories, they succeeded well. The appeals court instructed the district court to admit extrinsic evidence to interpret the contract, leaving the situation to an even more uncertain fate.
JA Apparel Corp. v. Abboud, No. 08-3181-CV, — F.3d —-, 2009 WL 1615694 (2d Cir. June 10, 2009).
© 2009 Pamela Chestek
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Home › Essays › Research › Violence in Premarital Relationships Essay
Violence in Premarital Relationships Essay
Premarital Relationships Essay Example
The research paper critically analyses and evaluates incidences of conflicts and or violence in premarital relationships. Issues concerning causes, responses of each member of the couple and therapeutic interventions are tackled in this paper. The development of this paper is restricted to issues relating to dating violence, cohabitation as well as its association with high levels of domestic violence.
According to Allen-Collinson, (2009) violence in premarital relationships is widely characterized by acts of violence which is gender based. However, the violence is widely spread to different aspects of life which affects on how men and women interact. The violence most likely results to sexual, physical and psychological suffering which would either be experienced by either men or women but in most cases women are the most culprits. It also includes threatening of each other by deprivation of liberty or coercion. This can occur in public or privately within those individuals yet to get married.
The violence takes one or a combination of these forms, physical abuse for instance slapping, stabbing, burning, chocking, kicking, beating, sexual abuse for example coerced sex through treats, intimidation or physical force, psychological abuse which include manners that are intended to intimidate and persecute taking the forms of abandonment/abuse, confinement to certain locations, surveillance; economic abuse for instance denial of funds (Ackard & Neumark-Sztainer, 2002).
A study by Arias, Et al. (1997) violence in premarital relationship, a majority of the sample indicated that they encountered abuse when the relationship was at an advanced level. The same was echoed by Aizenman & Kelley (1988).
The causes of this violence have been categorized as cultural, political, drug influence, legal and economic. The remedy or solution to curb this problem include government policies, counselling, media, extensive training and education, legal reforms, advocacy and awareness creation, cooperation at all level in the society, criminalization of the act and making a rational decision before things go out of hand as well as intensive communication between the involved parties (Feather, 1996).
Causes of Premarital Relationships Violence
According to Stets & Straus (1999) there has been empirical evidence that has been derived at what actually triggers violence in most premarital relationship. However, because of the diverse nature and the complexity of trying to analyze the brain of a human being, there are usually many facets that would have fostered this kind of behavior. In the history of the premarital violence on in the 1960 when the society was very strict in trying all means possible to regulate premarital sex did this violence subside? This was known as the era of sexual revolution and it is recorded that premarital sex and the violence that accompanies this form of cohabitation reduced drastically to about 25% recently this is said to be up to 79% with majority of the couples living together without any formal attachment or wedding. Usually the form of violence that usually arises from premarital relationship usually serves as a warning that the partner is an abusive one. However, it is said that 69% of this cases are never reported as they are said to be purported as done out of love, this is only a myth that many uses to defend their actions and prevent their victims from reporting them.
Love Myth
This is the most abused myth about love by many from grown up to teenagers. However, psychologist have analyzed that this is the most trick question that not only youth but even grown up use to lure their partners into having premarital sex. Many people believe that sex is the bond that usually strengthen relationships, so by this fact a couple in a premarital relationship or when dating will coerce their partner into indulging into sex so that they may bond their relationship (Henton. Et al. 1993). Because this is usually a lie when this person is not willing to heed the other partner demands this is usually when problems arise, in this case what follows is rape and later the victim is assured that the partner did that because of the love which they experience with one another or even the victim. Now because the victim is in a state of shock they accept and are comforted by the fact that all their other friends are all having intercourse with their premarital spouses.
Mostly the form of violence that usually arises from this from of relationship is usually said to be intimate partner violence (IPV). The violence is said to be performed by someone intimate to the victim and that they are in a relationship this was coined from the article by Bernard & Bernard (1999). The number one case of this violence usually is rape and is later followed with infliction of physical harm to the victim. The rape part is usually not reported but when the assailant graduates to physical violence then the victim although some still deny that they were assaulted is visible to the families or friend who enquire further and take the affirmative action against the assailant.
The assailant usually after assaulting their spouses engages them into a series of conversation that makes the victim to feel unworthy and guilty of the accused wrongs. Usually they are either mentally disturbed or deranged from drug abuse or have psychological issues when growing up like child molestation. They will tell their victims how they don’t want loose them, they cannot leave without them and how much they love them and that they are only doing that to protect their love. However, this is usually an act to cover up their actions and in the real sense they are trying to transform the other spouse into a mother figure that maybe used to molest them or the one that they did not have (Brownridge & Halli, 2000).
Psychological Causes
One major causes of premarital relationship violence is usually diagnosed as exhibition of psychopathology. It has been reported that nearly all the cases of premarital violence they are triggered by personality disorder, the kind of violence that are perpetuated by this kind of assailant is usually regarded as severe and chronic. In their study Most & Guerney (1998) notes that the violence episodes are usually a dominant factor that the assailant fosters so that they can control over their spouses. From this cycle of violence there are two categories of violence that usually arise Common Couple Violence (CCV) and Intimate Terrorism (IT).
These two violence cases are usually related through the involvement of control issues that are usually triggered by simple or casual argument; this would eventually escalate and usually have some fatality in the end as most usually end through death or permanent psychological traumas on the victim. Usually the assailant has some personality traits which are chronic behavior that they have adapted from childhood this includes poor impulse control, low self esteem and anger outbursts. Borderline personality has been also been considered to be another factor among male premarital spouses that abuse their spouses, this disorder is usually developed in the early stages of life (Basil, 2004).
Behavioral Causes
This is usually coined from the background of the assailant bringing up. If the spouse is from an abusive family they are bound to harbor these facts and they are viewed as the best way for aligning or clearing disputes. There are many methods that analyst have devised so that combat behavioral violence in premarital and marital violence (Bookwala, 2002). The most effective program has been the behavioral therapy where the mechanism that usually triggers the emotional out burst are appointed and the assailant are taught how to control and manage anger.
This usually the most exploited areas that the abusers use in a natural setup that is usually a misunderstanding of the assailant and the victim. Some of the factors in the social causes of premarital violence include; cultural classification of appropriate sex roles, gender explicit specialization, and relationship roles expectation, male inherent superiority beliefs and violence acceptability as a conflict resolution (Giblin. Et al. 1985).
Cultural classification of appropriate sex roles- This is the earliest means that supports violence against gender mostly female, this is because of the mentality that a man is the head of family and the woman should be subject to his demands. With this mentality a woman in a premarital relationship is subjected to series of violence maybe because they have a child with the assailant and h is the only provider or they are promising to marry that lady (Brownridge & Halli, 2000).
Gender explicit specialization- This is where as young couple get acquitted one is forced to take up the role of a mother and this in some cases means aborting their career because the other spouse approves. Brutz & Ingoldsby (1991) articulates that if the partner refuses then one of the partners even if they don’t assault the victim physically they torment them emotionally with verbal abuse that they are not competent mothers or wife materials.
Relationship roles expectation- this are usually the causes of most premarital violence among many couples living together. Usually what triggers this is sexual intercourse when one partner turns religious and decides that they have to get married so that they may enjoy marital rights of intercourse. The baffled spouse would just shrug off the idea and what follows is rape and later physical violence as the spouse is still adamant that she want to formalize the relationship (Most & Guerney, 1998).
Male inherent superiority beliefs- The idea of man being the dominant factor or the protector has long gone as the law enforce and offer security to all (Brownridge & Halli, 2000). When a man feels that he is superior and this is usually as a result of psychological issues they tend to exercise their superiority on the premarital partners regulating and putting restrictions that are inhumane. When one of the restrictions is broken then there is conflict which the man views as being under estimated. This usually results to emotional outburst which would lead to physical conflict and the results are brutal to the victim. Usually the victim is here made to belief that they are wrong and many of t5hem stick with their abusive partners for so long till later in life when they the violence escalate to unbearable extreme.
Violence acceptability as a conflict resolution- Nearly all victims of premarital violence are self inflicted, this is that they accept the consequences on belief that that would end the conflict. They take the blame on matters they do not have responsibility and they are not the cause of the conflict. Usually the assailant sees this as a weakness and they exploit it causing physical and emotional abuse and discomfort to their victims. However, the victims like become immune and after all the rough treatment they would still go back to their abusive lover claiming that they love them. This usually is associated with social stress that is in the cases where the other person is dependant on the other because of something else (Stets & Straus, 1999).
Economic Causes
This has been the most facets that has left many opting for settling for premarital relationship. The victim of the premarital violence based on resources factors is usually dependant fully on the spouse. Most young couple who practice premarital cohabitation has a history either the girl is pregnant or has no shelter, although in other cases all of them are working. The other spouse now takes advantage of the situation and sees it as impairment. These dependency facets makes their partner feel superior, which in many cases after a period of drinking sprees the man would come and not only physically assault the spouse but also sexually abuse her (Aizenman & Kelley, 1988). The spouse has no options that can help them to try and change the behavior of the spouses and they are left in the mercies that they don’t provoke them which are usually a dream.
Fear for financial burden has been also classified as another fact mostly in the cases that the victim in the premarital relationship are impregnated and they have either faint relationship with their family or have no family support at all. The abuser has the financial power over the other spouse and because they want to dominate when the other partner does not concur with the demands of the other, they extort them to performing through abuse, intimidation, isolation and threats of cutting the financial help. In their research Henton Et al. (1993) notes that this will now reduce the spouse into an emotional wreck that feels unworthy and useless from the emotional verbal abused inflicted by the one who is providing.
Increased pressure makes the other party develop certain paranoia that they cannot perform without their spouses; however, this mentality is both harbored by both the assailant and the victim. This has been proved that after in most murder cases the defendant would still continue claiming that they loved their spouses but cannot accounted for the murderous impulse that made them to commit the crime.
When poverty also hit premarital relationship this also triggers violence, this is usually considered that poverty increases stress on the man if mostly he was the bread winner. This factors makes him feel inadequate and the idea of a successful man haunts him, so when the other partner ask for financial assistance is viewed as a means of under estimating their masculinity and the fear of loosing respect and honor triggers violence as a means of portraying control and domination. Usually the husband would now turn to misogyny and substance abuse as alcohol becomes a luxury that they can not afford and the violence escalates (Archer, 2006).
Mental illness causes
Some of the causes discussed usually leads to psychiatric disorders that make premarital violence take on an ugly route that leads to cases of jilted lover murders over slightest infidelity idea or other inferiority aspects that are usually from insinuation or phobias. Illusion and deranged emotion are rampant among the assailant and they shyly hide them from the public that the victim after reporting is always taken bluff. Outside the assailant portrays a composed person but inside he harbors hate and loathes the success of other and only sees that imperfection of others which he vows to change by administering violence to his wife who is the victim of acts that he has no account credibility (Basil, 2004).
Substance abuse, drugs and alcohol causes
Universally this has been the number one factor for all physical violence abuse perpetuated by a human being to another. The effect on substance abuse is usually associated with violence in premarital relationship as well as domestic and marital relationships. However, the assailant usually have earlier the motives of what they are about to perform (Most & Guerney, 1998). Most of them articulate that they have no intention of inflicting harm to their victims after they have done so and blame it on the substance that they had consumed. Premarital relationships are mostly indulged with younger generation that are still into alcohols and abuse of substance and this atmosphere usually generate chances for violence.
Reactions of each member in the conflict
Every human being has feeling and will react when confronted with any situation whether a good or bad situation, this case will also apply to victims of Premarital Relationships Violence, and in this case the individuals who are involved in this kind or relationship is the male and the female, or in other words it is the victims of the violence and the inflictor of the violence (Stets & Straus, 1999).
With variety of reasons ranging from sexual, financial, cultural, behavioral and psychological factors that are seen as some causes resulting to t Premarital Violence in many relationships it becomes very difficult for the victim to take necessary measures that would enable them solve the issue at hand but instead the victims will adopt certain characteristics that will affect their emotional and social lives some include (Feather, 1996).
Suicide thoughts this is where the individual facing the violence will start to think that he/she deserves to die and that is when this individual will opt to think of taking away his life as he/she feels mistreated by the person that he/she loves so much, with these suicide thoughts in the mind of the victim the victim will develop negative attitudes and behaviors such as the abuse of drugs, lack of trust to towards there partners, revenge among other negative thoughts aimed (Bernard & Bernard, 1999).
The person who imposes the violence will see him/herself as a hero/heroine as the individual will see that he/she is very superior to the other person in the relationship and this will make him/her very ignorant and abusive as he will be in control of the relationship that they share, and this would make these individuals to develop and become violent partners later when they marry (Henton. Et al. 1993)
According to Brutz & Ingoldsby (1991) violence in the Premarital Relationships Violence results to some victims adopting a negative perception towards the opposite sex; this depends on the sex of the victim as the individual will stereotype the other sex according to the past violent encounter with his/her violent partner.
Some premarital violence victims opts to sudden termination of the relationship, as they feel offended as their right is violated by their partners, this is what is currently experienced in cases of married as they divorce, this sudden cases of breakups between the young couples will make the youth to lose commitment in any relationship as the individual will be hoping from one relationship to the other without having the relevant skills aimed at resolving the cause of the violence (Ackard & Neumark-Sztainer, 2002).
Therapeutic interventions (solutions)
Various causes of Violence during Premarital Relationships, have been stated in the previous on the previous chapter, on this chapter I am going to preview on the various ways of solving these problems that are being faced by the youths during these vital stage in there life, as it is at this stage that most of the youths are in the process of finding the right partner that will enable them live and build a long lasting relationship that will enable the couples experience a peaceful and happy relationship that has minimal cases of conflict being experienced between the two individuals (Brownridge & Halli, 2000).
Solving violence in premarital relationship can help a lot in the reducing the cases of divorce later in the relationship, many cases of divorce that is currently being experienced in the America and the world today are as a result of lack of respect and violence during the period when the couples were courting, as these form of violence will proceed into the marriage period, and the early the solution of these problem this will result to reduction of cases of divorce by a large number as the couples will be able to understand and love each other reducing these cases of divorce (Arias, Et al. 1997).
Premarital counseling is believed to be among some solutions of premarital violence, this is were the couples are given special advice on the way they are supposed to conduct themselves during this special period when they are trying to establish a relationship which is strong which would lead to a stable marriage and later parenthood, as I had said earlier the counseling of the couples will result to the formation of stronger marriages that cannot be face divorce in the later-on in the relationship, the counseling of the couples who are still courting enables the couples to learn on what role each of them has to play in order to avoid cases of violence between the couples, and its through counseling and guidance that will enable the couples to learn and understand the weaknesses and the role of each other and therefore have a peaceful relationship, the counseling will also turn the violent individual to a responsible person who cares for the partner (Stets & Straus, 1999).
Another solution aimed at reducing the cases of premarital violence is constant consultation and communication between the two partners, rampant communication and consultation between these couples when conducting a very important decision helps a lot in creating a bond between the couples, consultations will make the couples feel that they belong in the same category and no one will feel offended and disrespected, therefore for a peaceful existence between the couples to be experienced it would be wise if the couples build a communication channel that would enable them communicate and freely amongst themselves whenever they conduct a particular action (Aizenman & Kelley, 1988).
The media can also help in solving cases of premarital conflicts, the media has contributed a lot to the cases of premarital violence, and this can be achieved if the media airs programs that depicts love and desist from showing programs that are full of violent, these is what attracts the youths who are in this stage as they start to copy what is being shown to them by the media, as they tend to believe that it is what is expected of them or it’s the new trend around town (Ackard & Neumark-Sztainer, 2002).
New policies should be enforced by the Government; this by the government giving strict penalties to the people that are implicated of practicing premarital violence, through the help of the legislation the government will be able to make it harder for the couples to devices once they are married. With the high numbers of divorce being experienced it makes it easy for the young couples to try out if there marriage would work increasing the cases of divorce but with the introduction of these law it would be difficult for one to conduct a divorce such as making the couples take a longer time before they are issued with the marriage certificate, pay heavy taxes, this will make the couples to try and accommodate each other in order to avoid facing high charges due to the conflict that exists amongst them (Giblin. Et al. 1985).
Another way of solving violence during premarital relationship, would be reporting any case of violence to the relevant authorities, this is when the individual who has been subjected to any kind of violence should reports the matter to the police, parents or the church elders in order for the other individual to be given the necessary treatment and the cause of the conflict to be found this will not only help the person who conducts the violence but it would help establish a long-lasting relationship between the two couples that would later result to the establishment of a stronger marriage (Allen-Collinson, 2009).
The young couples should choose wisely before they decide to establishment a long-lasting relationship, this would help the young couples to evaluate on the behaviors of there prospective partners, through their family background including other aspects. While, when the couples enter into the relationship they would have understood there partners well and would not expect what their partner cannot deliver, and this in some extent reduce cases of frustrations and disappointments amongst the young couples, and in some way this would in some way make it easy for the couples to experience cases of violence during the premarital stage (Archer, 2006). . Educating and Training should be introduced in the youth’s syllabus; this is where the youths in colleges are thought on life skills that are necessary during the time that they are in premarital relationship and it is through this teachings that will make it easy for the youths to conduct themselves in the manner expected of them, the young couples who most of them are dating will benefit from this teachings that they will receive in college and this will to some extent reduce the cases of violence premarital relationship (Bookwala, 2002).
It has been noted with concern that violence in premarital relationships is as high as those violence incidences experienced by the already married couples. Studies carried out has clearly shown that violence of whoever form manifest themselves when the relationship is at a very advanced level let say cohabiting or deeper level of intimacy (Bernard & Bernard, 1999). The causes of such violence have been attributed to factors classified as cultural, economic, political, drug influence and legal.
The response of the involved party usually vary for instance those violated against may just keep their mouth shut and pretend nothing happen, others opt to revenge through whatever means, some end the relationship while others report the incident to parents, some commit suicide, drug abuse, negative feelings towards the opposite sex, friends and to other relevant authorities.
To curb this problem which is increasing at a very alarming rate, the paper proposes a number of ways, for instance reforming and implementing government policies, counselling, media, extensive training and education, legal reforms, advocacy and awareness creation. Cooperation at all level in the society, criminalization of the act and making a rational decision before things go out of hand as well as intensive communication between the involved parties.
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Mr. Jenkin: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what assessment he has made of the effects on the critical infrastructure of his Department of an electromagnetic pulse strike caused (a) deliberately and (b) through solar activity. [321754]
Phil Hope: The Department assesses a wide range of deliberate or accidental risks to its business critical services, as part of its business continuity arrangements. The Department's business continuity plans and response structure allow it to protect staff and continue critical business activities in the event of a major incident or business disruption.
Mr. Hepburn: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many patients in (a) Jarrow constituency, (b) South Tyneside, (c) the North East and (d) England were seen by a general practitioner in each year since 1997. [321580]
Mr. Mike O'Brien: Figures on the numbers of patients who were seen by a general practitioner (GP) are not collected. Data on the estimated number of GP consultations, based on a sample, in England and the number of GPs in England are available and shown as follows. Data on estimated annual number of consultations per GP have been calculated by dividing the estimated number of GP consultations in England by the number of GPs in England. Estimates broken down by strategic health authorities, primary care trusts or MPs' constituencies are also not available.
Estimated number of GP consultations in England per year Number of GPs in England( 1) Estimated annual number of consultations per GP in England
(1 )Headcount-excluding registrars and retainers. Source: NHS Information Centre for Health and Social Care/QResearch: Trends in Consultations Rates in General Practice 1995 to 2008: Analysis of the QResearch Database. The Information Centre for Health and Social Care, General and Personal Medical Services Statistics: Data as at 1 October 1997-99 and 30 September from 2000 onwards.
These data are published at the following websites:
www.ic.nhs.uk/statistics-and-data-collections/primary-care/general-practice/trends-in-consultation-rates-in-general-practice--1995-2009
www.ic.nhs.uk/statistics-and-data-collections/workforce/nhs-staff-numbers
General Practitioners: York
Hugh Bayley: To ask the Secretary of State for Health whether he has made a recent estimate of the proportion of (a) general practice surgeries and (b) general practitioners in York who offer surgeries in the evening or at weekends. [322128]
Mr. Mike O'Brien: The information is not available in the format requested. The latest published data shows that as at July 2009, in North Yorkshire and York primary care trust (PCT), 74.5 per cent. (73 of their 98) of general practitioner (GP) practices were offering access to routine GP appointments outside normal surgery opening hours.
1. Data is not collected centrally on this availability in relation to individual GPs.
2. The figure for England is 77.1 per cent.
3. The figure for the Yorkshire and Humber strategic health authority is 76.9 per cent.
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Health Services: Birmingham
Richard Burden: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how much the NHS spent in Birmingham in each year since 1997. [321535]
Mr. Mike O'Brien: The information is not available in the format requested. However, information on the amount of national health service revenue expenditure by breakdown of primary care trust (PCT), and strategic health authority (SHA), in Birmingham, from 2002 to 2009, is shown in the following table:
Revenue expenditure
Eastern Birmingham PCT
North Birmingham PCT
Birmingham East and North PCT
Heart of Birmingham Teaching PCT
South Birmingham PCT
Birmingham and the Black Country HA
West Midlands SHA
1. The PCT figures are taken from the audited summarisation schedules of Heart of Birmingham PCT, South Birmingham PCT and Birmingham East and North PCT.
2. Birmingham East and North PCT was formed following the merger of Eastern Birmingham PCT and North Birmingham PCT in 2006. The figures provided for 2002-03 to 2005-06 are the equivalent values in these two PCTs.
3. The SHA figures are taken from the audited summarisation schedules of West Midlands SHA (2006-07 to 2008-09) and Birmingham and The Black Country SHA (2002-03 to 2005-06).
4. Birmingham and The Black Country SHA covers a wider area than Birmingham alone, but it is not possible to disaggregate expenditure in the Birmingham area from the total expenditure of the SHA. West Midlands SHA was formed as part of the reconfiguration of SHAs in 2006 following the merger of three predecessor bodies including Birmingham and The Black Country SHA. Again, its expenditure covers a wider area than Birmingham alone but it is not possible to disaggregate expenditure in the Birmingham area from the total expenditure of the SHA.
Audited summarisation schedules, 2002-03 to 2008-09
Health Services: York
Hugh Bayley: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many whole time equivalent NHS (a) general practitioners and (b) general dental practitioners worked at practices within the City of York local authority area (i) in 1997 and (ii) on the most recent data for which figures are available. [322106]
Ann Keen: The data are not available in the format requested. The data for dental workforce figures are only available on a headcount basis, and figures do not differentiate between full-time and part-time dentists, nor do they account for the fact that some dentists may do more national health service work than others. Headcount numbers of NHS dentists, in York, as at 31 March 1997 are available in the NHS Dental Activity and Workforce Report England: 31 March 2006 in Annex E. This information is based on the old contractual arrangements, which were in place up to and including 31 March 2006. This information can be obtained from the website for the Information Centre for health and social care at:
www.ic.nhs.uk/pubs/dwfactivity
The headcount numbers of dentists with NHS activity during the year ending 31 March 2009, are available in the NHS Dental Statistics for England: 2008-09 report in Table G1 of Annex 3. This information is based on the new dental contractual arrangements, introduced on 1 April 2006. This information can be obtained from the website for The Information Centre for health and social care at:
www.ic.nhs.uk/pubs/dentalstats0809
Copies of both publications have already been placed in the Library.
The information that is available for general practitioners is shown in the following table:
General Practitioners (excluding retainers and registrars) by selected area (full - time equivalents)
Total Specified Organisations
North Yorkshire Health Authority
Selby and York Primary Care Trust (PCT)
Hambleton and Richmondshire PCT
Craven, Harrogate and Rural District PCT
Scarborough, Whitby and Ryedale PCT
North Yorkshire and York PCT
n/a = not applicable.
1. North Yorkshire and York PCT was created on 1 October 2006 following a merger of Craven, Harrogate and Rural District PCT, Hambleton and Richmondshire PCT, Scarborough, Whitby and Ryedale PCT and Selby and York PCT. Prior to 2002, the City of York was serviced by North Yorkshire Health Authority. This Health Authority may not map completely into the newly formed primary care trusts but has been provided here as background and appears consistent with subsequent aggregated PCT figures.
2. Data as at 1 October 1997-99 and 30 September 2000-08.
3. Totals may not equal sum of figures due to rounding.
4. Data Quality:
The NHS Information Centre for health and social care seeks to minimise inaccuracies and the effect of missing and invalid data but responsibility for data accuracy lies with the organisations providing the data. Methods are continually being updated to improve data quality where changes impact on figures already published. This is assessed but unless it is significant at national level figures are not changed. Impact at detailed or local level is footnoted in relevant analyses.
The NHS Information Centre for health and social care General and Personal Medical Services Statistics.
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Prp19/Pso4 is an autoinhibited ubiquitin ligase activated by stepwise assembly of three splicing factors.
Rocha de Moura, T.
Research Group of Macromolecular Crystallography, MPI for Biophysical Chemistry, Max Planck Society;
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Mozaffari-Jovin, S.
Department of Cellular Biochemistry, MPI for biophysical chemistry, Max Planck Society;
Schmitzova, J.
Dybkov, O.
Cretu, C.
Urlaub, H.
Research Group of Bioanalytical Mass Spectrometry, MPI for biophysical chemistry, Max Planck Society;
Lührmann, R.
Pena, V.
No external resources are shared
Rocha de Moura, T., Mozaffari-Jovin, S., Szabo, C. Z. K., Schmitzova, J., Dybkov, O., Cretu, C., et al. (2018). Prp19/Pso4 is an autoinhibited ubiquitin ligase activated by stepwise assembly of three splicing factors. Molecular Cell, 69(6), 979-992. doi:10.1016/j.molcel.2018.02.022.
Cite as: http://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0000-F722-3
Human nineteen complex (NTC) acts as a multimeric E3 ubiquitin ligase in DNA repair and splicing. The transfer of ubiquitin is mediated by Prp19-a homotetrameric component of NTC whose elongated coiled coils serve as an assembly axis for two other proteins called SPF27 and CDC5L. We find that Prp19 is inactive on its own and have elucidated the structural basis of its autoinhibition by crystallography and mutational analysis. Formation of the NTC core by stepwise assembly of SPF27, CDC5L, and PLRG1 onto the Prp19 tetramer enables ubiquitin ligation. Protein-protein crosslinking of NTC, functional assays in vitro, and assessment of its role in DNA damage response provide mechanistic insight into the organization of the NTC core and the communication between PLRG1 and Prp19 that enables E3 activity. This reveals a unique mode of regulation for a complex E3 ligase and advances understanding of its dynamics in various cellular pathways.
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Alan Kemp
Professor, Institute Of Photonics
Scottish Universities Physics Alliance
Emailalan.kemp@strath.ac.uk
2 Speech
100 kW peak power external cavity diamond Raman laser at 2.52 μm
Demetriou, G., Kemp, A. J. & Savitski, V., 28 Mar 2019, In : Optics Express. 27, 7, p. 10296-10303 8 p.
Raman lasers
pulse duration
YLF lasers
9 W average power, 150 kHz repetition rate diamond Raman laser at 1519 nm, pumped by a Yb fibre amplifier
Dziechciarczyk, Ł., Huang, Z., Demetriou, G., Cheng, D., Pidishety, S., Feng, Y., Feng, Y., Wang, G., Lin, H., Zhu, S., Lin, D., Hawkins, T. W., Dong, L., Kemp, A., Nilsson, J. & Savitski, V., 23 Jun 2019. 1 p.
Cascaded crystalline Raman lasers for extended wavelength coverage: continuous-wave, third-Stokes operation
Casula, R., Penttinen, J-P., Guina, M., Kemp, A. J. & Hastie, J. E., 2 Nov 2018, In : Optica. 5, 11, p. 1406-1413 8 p.
Videodisks
continuous radiation
Energy scaling, second Stokes oscillation and Raman gain-guiding in monolithic diamond Raman lasers
Savitski, V. G., Demetriou, G., Reilly, S., Liu, H., Gu, E., Dawson, M. D. & Kemp, A., 31 Dec 2018, In : IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics. 54, 6, 8 p., 1700408.
External cavity diamond Raman laser at 2.52 μm
Demetriou, G., Savitski, V. & Kemp, A., 1 Nov 2018, Advanced Solid State Lasers 2018. Boston, MA, 2 p. AW1A.5
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution book
Second Stokes oscillation and Raman gain-guiding in micro-lensed monolithic diamond Raman lasers
Savitski, V., Demetriou, G., Reilly, S., Liu, H., Gu, E., Dawson, M. & Kemp, A., 2 Sep 2018. 1 p.
Sub-100 ps monolithic diamond Raman laser emitting at 573 nm
Nikkinen, J., Savitski, V., Reilly, S., Dziechciarczyk, Ł., Härkönen, A., Kemp, A. & Guina, M., 1 Jun 2018, In : IEEE Photonics Technology Letters. 30, 11, p. 981-984 4 p.
Ultrafast diode-pumped Ti:sapphire laser with broad tunability
Coyle, J. C. E., Kemp, A. J., Hopkins, J-M. & Lagatsky, A. A., 19 Mar 2018, In : Optics Express. 26, 6, p. 6826-6832 7 p.
1.4 µm continuous-wave diamond Raman laser
Casula, R., Penttinen, J-P., Kemp, A. J., Guina, M. & Hastie, J. E., 11 Dec 2017, In : Optics Express. 25, 25, p. 31377-31383 6 p.
birefringent filters
A broadly tunable ultrafast diode-pumped Ti:sapphire laser
Coyle, J., Kemp, A., Hopkins, J-M. & Lagatsky, A. A., 5 Oct 2017, Laser Applications Conference part of Laser Congress: 1-5 October 2017, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan. Washington, D.C., 3 p. JTh2A.21
pulse repetition rate
tunable lasers
Coyle, J. C. E., Kemp, A. J., Hopkins, J-M. & Lagatsky, A. A., 5 Oct 2017. 1 p.
Energy scaling of yellow emission from monolithic diamond Raman lasers
Reilly, S., Savitski, V. G., Liu, H., Gu, E., Dawson, M. D. & Kemp, A. J., 25 Jun 2017, 2017 European Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics and European Quantum Electronics Conference. Munich Germany, 1 p. CD_P_22
Q switched lasers
Femtosecond frequency conversion in diamond under gaussian and bessel beam pumping
Savitski, V. G., Birch, R. B., Reilly, S., Kalashnikov, V. L. & Kemp, A. J., 25 Jun 2017, The European Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics 2017. Munich, Germany, 1 p. CD_P_31
Pumping (laser)
Supercontinuum generation
Laser-related spectroscopic parameters of NV colour centres in diamond
Savitski, V. G., Fraczek, E., Dale, M., Breeze, B. G., Dziechciarczyk, L., Diggle, P., Markham, M., Bennett, A., Dhillon, H., Newton, M. E. & Kemp, A. J., 25 Jun 2017, The European Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics 2017. Munich, Germany, 1 p.
Color centers
Laser spectroscopy of NV- and NV0 colour centres in synthetic diamond
Fraczek, E., Savitski, V. G., Dale, M., Breeze, B. G., Diggle, P., Markham, M., Bennett, A., Dhillon, H., Newton, M. E. & Kemp, A. J., 1 Jul 2017, In : Optical Materials Express. 7, 7, p. 2571-2585 15 p.
Laser spectroscopy
Optical detection of magnetic resonance in nitrogen vacancy centre ensembles in bulk diamond using an off-resonant probe laser beam
Macrae, C. D., Fraczek, E., Newton, M. E., Dhillon, H., Bennett, A., Markham, M., Diggle, P., Breeze, B. G., Dale, M., Savitski, V., Griffin, P. F., Kemp, A., Riis, E. & McConnell, G., 25 Jun 2017, The European Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics 2017. Munich, Germany, 1 p. CH_11_2
Laser beams
Pathways to reducing jitter in Q-switched and cavity-dumped 2 μm lasers
Brooks, J. A., Bonner, G. M., Kemp, A. J., Oakes, K. & Stothard, D. J. M., 1 Oct 2017. 3 p.
Yellow picosecond diamond raman laser
Nikkinen, J., Reilly, S., Savitski, V., Härko¨nen, A., Kemp, A. & Guina, M., 29 Jun 2017, The European Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, CLEO_Europe 2017. Washington, DC., Vol. Part F82-CLEO_Europe 2017. 1 p. 139018
~1400-nm continuous-wave diamond Raman laser intracavity-pumped by an InGaAs semiconductor disk laser
Casula, R., Parrotta, D. C., Kemp, A. J., Penttinen, J-P., Leinonen, T., Guina, M. & Hastie, J. E., 21 Aug 2016. 1 p.
Research output: Contribution to conference › Speech
InGaAs-QW VECSEL emitting >1300nm via intracavity Raman conversion
Parrotta, D. C., Casula, R., Penttinen, J-P., Leinonen, T., Kemp, A. J., Guina, M. & Hastie, J. E., 10 Mar 2016, In : Proceedings of SPIE. 9734, 7 p., 97340O.
InGaAs
Full width at half maximum
Large radius of curvature micro-lenses on single crystal diamond for application in monolithic diamond Raman lasers
Liu, H., Reilly, S., Herrnsdorf, J., Xie, E., Savitski, V. G., Kemp, A. J., Gu, E. & Dawson, M. D., 1 May 2016, In : Diamond and Related Materials. 65, p. 37-41 5 p.
Temperature-dependent spectroscopy and microchip laser operation of Nd:KGd(WO4)2
Loiko, P., Yoon, S. J., Serres, J. M., Mateos, X., Beecher, S. J., Birch, R. B., Savitski, V. G., Kemp, A. J., Yumashev, K., Griebner, U., Petrov, V., Aguiló, M., Diaz, F. & Mackenzie, J. I., 11 Jun 2016, In : Optical Materials. 58, p. 365-372 8 p.
Stimulated emission
Intracavity Raman conversion of a red semiconductor disk laser using diamond
Schlosser, P. J., Parrotta, D. C., Savitski, V. G., Kemp, A. J. & Hastie, J. E., 6 Apr 2015, In : Optics Express. 23, 7, p. 8454-8461 8 p.
Laser induced damage threshold of CVD-grown single crystal diamond surfaces with various surface finishes
Reilly, S., Savitski, V. G., Liu, H., Reid, S., Gibson, D., Dhillon, H., Robbie, S. O., Gu, E., Dawson, M. D., Bennett, A. & Kemp, A. J., 1 Jan 2015, Advanced Solid State Lasers, ASSL 2015. Optical Society of America, ATu2A.6
Laser damage
yield point
Chemical vapor deposition
Monolithic diamond Raman laser
Reilly, S., Savitski, V. G., Liu, H., Gu, E., Dawson, M. D. & Kemp, A. J., Mar 2015, In : Optics Letters. 40, 6, p. 930-933 4 p.
Monolithic diamond Raman laser operating at 573nm utilizing microlens structures to form a stable Resonator
Reilly, S., Savitski, V. G., Liu, H., Gu, E., Dawson, M. D. & Kemp, A. J., 21 Jun 2015, 2015 European Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics - European Quantum Electronics Conference. Washington D.C., CA_1_3
Spectroscopy of colour centres in diamond for possible laser applications
Fraczek, E., Savitski, V. G., Dale, M., Breeze, B. G., Dhillon, H., Bennett, A., Newton, M. E. & Kemp, A. J., 1 Jan 2015, Advanced Solid State Lasers, ASSL 2015. Optical Society of America, ATu2A.21
Yellow-orange emission from a plane-plane monolithic diamond Raman laser
Savitski, V. G., Reilly, S. & Kemp, A. J., 21 Jun 2015, 2015 European Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics - European Quantum Electronics Conference. Washington D.C., CA_8_4
Laser mirrors
Anisotropy of the photo-elastic effect in Nd:KGd(WO4)2 laser crystals
Loiko, P. A., Savitski, V., Kemp, A., Pavlyuk, A. A., Kuleshov, N. V. & Yumashev, K. V., May 2014, In : Laser Physics Letters. 11, 5, 7 p., 055002.
Photoelasticity
thermal lensing
Spectral broadening in continuous-wave intracavity Raman lasers
Bonner, G. M., Lin, J., Kemp, A., Wang, J., Zhang, H., Spence, D. J. & Pask, H. M., 7 Apr 2014, In : Optics Express. 22, 7, p. 7492-7502 11 p.
continuous wave lasers
Absorption coefficient and raman gain in CVD diamond as functions of pump wavelength: towards efficient diamond Raman lasers
Savitski, V. G., Reilly, S., Lubeigt, W. & Kemp, A. J., 1 Dec 2013, The European Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, CLEO_Europe 2013. Munich: IEEE, 1 p.
absorptivity
Multiwatt, continuous-wave, tunable diamond Raman laser with intracavity frequency-doubling to the visible region
Parrotta, D. C., Kemp, A., Dawson, M. & Hastie, J., Jul 2013, In : IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics. 19, 4, 8 p., 1400108.
Multiwatt, continuous-wave tunable, diamond Ramam laser with intracavity frequency-doubling to the visible region
Steady-state Raman gain in diamond as a function of pump wavelength
Savitski, V. G., Reilly, S. & Kemp, A. J., Feb 2013, In : IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics. 49, 2, p. 218-223 6 p.
The prospects for Yb- and Nd-doped tungstate microchip lasers
Savitski, V. G., Birch, R. B., Fraczek, E., Kemp, A. J., Loiko, P. A., Yumashev, K. V., Kuleshov, N. V. & Pavlyuk, A. A., 1 Dec 2013, 2013 Conference on Lasers & Electro-Optics Europe & International Quantum Electronics Conference CLEO EUROPE/IQEC. Piscataway, N.J.: IEEE, 1 p.
Thermal management of lasers and LEDs using diamond
Kemp, A., Hopkins, J-M., Hastie, J., Calvez, S., Yanfeng, Z., Gu, E., Dawson, M. & Burns, D., May 2013, Optical Engineering of Diamond. Mildren, R. & Rabeau, J. (eds.). Weinheim
VECSEL-pumped infrared and visible Raman lasers (invited talk)
Parrotta, D. C., Schlosser, P., Kemp, A., Dawson, M. & Hastie, J., Feb 2013.
emission spectra
Characterization of single-crystal synthetic diamond for multi-watt continuous-wave Raman lasers
Savitski, V., Friel, I., Hastie, J., Dawson, M., Burns, D. & Kemp, A., Mar 2012, In : IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics. 48, 3, p. 328-337 10 p.
Single crystals
Measurement of thermal lensing in a CW BaWO4 intracavity Raman laser
Bonner, G. M., Pask, H. M., Lee, A. J., Kemp, A. J., Wang, J., Zhang, H. & Omatsu, T., 23 Apr 2012, In : Optics Express. 20, 9, p. 9810-9818 9 p.
shearing
Power scaling of a directly diode-laser-pumped Ti:sapphire laser
Roth, P. W., Burns, D. & Kemp, A. J., 27 Aug 2012, In : Optics Express. 20, 18, p. 20629-20634 6 p.
Second harmonic generation in a CW diamond Raman laser for tunable visible emission
Parrotta, D. C., Kemp, A., Dawson, M. & Hastie, J., 27 Aug 2012.
harmonic generations
Tunable diamond Raman laser intracavity-pumped by an InGaAs semiconductor disk laser
Parrotta, D. C., Kemp, A., Dawson, M. & Hastie, J., 1 Feb 2012, Lasers, Sources, and Related Photonic Devices : OSA Technical Digest. Washington D.C.: Optical Society of America, AM5A.5
1.6W continuous-wave diamond Raman laser
Lubeigt, W., Savitski, V., Bonner, G. M., Hastie, J. E., Dawson, M. D., Burns, D. & Kemp, A. J., 1 Dec 2011, Advanced Solid-State Photonics, ASSP 2011. Washington, DC: Optical Society of America, AMA5
1.6 W continuous-wave Raman laser using low-loss synthetic diamond
Lubeigt, W., Savitski, V. G., Bonner, G. M., Geoghegan, S. L., Friel, I., Hastie, J. E., Dawson, M. D., Burns, D. & Kemp, A. J., 28 Mar 2011, In : Optics Express. 19, 7, p. 6938-6944 7 p.
Continuous-wave Raman laser pumped within a semiconductor disk laser cavity
Parrotta, D. C., Lubeigt, W., Kemp, A., Burns, D., Dawson, M. & Hastie, J., 1 Apr 2011, In : Optics Letters. 36, 7, p. 1083-1085 3 p.
laser cavities
Direct diode-laser pumping of a mode-locked Ti:sapphire laser
Roth, P. W., Maclean, A. J., Burns, D. & Kemp, A. J., 14 Jan 2011, In : Optics Letters. 36, 2, p. 304-306 3 p.
laser pumping
Low-loss synthetic single-crystal diamond: Raman gain measurement and high power Raman laser at 1240 nm
Savitski, V. G., Burns, D. & Kemp, A. J., 7 Jul 2011, 2011 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe and 12th European Quantum Electronics Conference (CLEO EUROPE/EQEC). Piscataway, N.J.: IEEE, 1 p.
Multi-watt continuous-wave diamond Raman laser at 1217 nm
Savitski, V. G., Hastie, J. E., Dawson, M. D., Burns, D. & Kemp, A. J., 7 Jul 2011, 2011 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe and 12th European Quantum Electronics Conference (CLEO EUROPE/EQEC). Piscataway, N.J.: IEEE, 1 p.
Tunable continuous-wave diamond Raman laser
Parrotta, D. C., Kemp, A., Dawson, M. & Hastie, J., 11 Nov 2011, In : Optics Express. 19, 24, p. 24165-24170 6 p.
VECSEL-pumped tunable CW Raman laser
Parrotta, D. C., Lubeigt, W., Kemp, A., Burns, D., Dawson, M. & Hastie, J., Feb 2011. 3 p.
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Barrackpore House & Its English Park: 1803-1912
Barrackpore House, South view. Photo Samuel Bourne. 1865. Courtesy: BL
রাজভবন লাটবাগান
In sequence of the previously posted essay, ‘Barrackpore, a little Calcutta’, I am tempted to bring about the subject once again to share with you the fascinating details of the making of Barrackpore House and the Park as revealed in ‘The Story Of The Viceroys And Government Houses’ of Marquis Curzon of Kendleston. Curzon started his research during his Viceroyalty (1899-1905), continued with it, and finally readied his work for Cassell to publish in 1925 before he took rest in peace. A condensed and revised version was published in 1935 entitled, Story of Government houses by N V. H. Symons.
Although Curzon had a fond association with Government House at Calcutta as it was modelled after his ancestral manor Kendleston Hall, he took every care to follow faithfully the crazy path of history of the Barrackpore estate since Lord Wellesley started it all by himself.
A Bunglow in the Park. Artist: James, Marianne Jane. 1828. Courtesy: BL
Barrackpore is complementary to Government House in the same way that Viceroy Lodge, Simla, is complementary to Viceroy’s House, New Delhi. The Governor General used to spend the whole of the year in Bengal, apart from tours, Barrackpore being his habitual summer residence. [Symons] As Stravornius had mentioned in 1768, Belvedere might have served as Barrackpore did after Wellesley [Cal. Rev, Dec.1852]. Even after 1864 the Viceroys and the Governors of Bengal used Barrackpore House as a country house for week-ends.
A carriage approaching Barrackpore House. Artist: Daniell, William. c1810. Courtesy: BL
The English lady traveler, Monkland, to my mind, described best what Barrackpore was in early 19th century. [Monkland]. Barrackpore was then having ‘a quiet and retirement like air’ of countryside that combined with its military neatness and propriety making it ‘one of the sweetest places in India. ‘The bungalows in four lines stand each separated from the others, every one surrounded by its own corn-ground, flower-garden, and neat trimmed hedge; while the whole cantonment is at right angles intersected by well kept roads, smooth as bowling-greens, and has the river in front and the parade ground in the rear. Government-house, and its beautiful grounds, are merely separated from the cantonments by a piece of water from the river, over which there is a bridge; and the park, as a drive, is at all times open to the European inhabitants.’ [Symons] Seemingly, nowhere else the Britons raised an exclusive white town as satisfyingly as they did it in Barrackpore. To the natives of the town, লাটবাগান (the Park) remained a prohibited place.
Lord Richard Colley Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley, Governor-General of India 1798-1805. Artist: Thomas Lawrence. c1813-30. Courtesy: Carey Univ. Serampore
Lord Wellesley was the first to find Barrackpore a great place for peaceful living; and it was he who desired to build government palace amidst an English park. On 31st December, 1800, Wellesley advised Sir Alured Clark, the Commander-in-Chief, that his official residence was intended to resume for the use of the Governor General, and the day after Wellesley appeared on the scene. He started to occupy the house almost at once. He was content with it for the next three years, though he immediately set about enlarging and improving the Parks. It was not till the beginning of 1804, he bethought of building a new palace at Barrackpore, as the present house was considered unsafe. On the site he erected a large bungalow for a provisional residence, and nearby he laid the foundation of a palace that involved an estimated cost of four lakhs of rupees. In July 1805, when its structure had come up to the ground storey level, Wellesley resigned and returned to England. The relationship between the Court of Directors and Lord Wellesley had never been too cordial. When Wellesley left the country, the Court peremptorily prohibited ‘the outlay of so large a sum on such an object’. There were, in fact, many ‘such’ projects Wellesley initiated that the Court of Directors found unjustifiable. Mysore and other campaigns apart, Wellesley’s enterprises in India were characterized both by wisdom and imagination. They were as a rule too expensive, particularly in a country like India prior to coming under the Crown administration. He was time and again cautioned for his extravagant monetary commitments for setting up Fort William College project, schemes for the encouragement of agriculture and horticulture and the study of the flora and fauna that led to the institution of the Gardens and Menagerie at Barrackpore. Being a conscientious and upright administrator, Wellesley remained untouched by any of such public scandals about his wasteful expenditure on pricey projects as reflected in Sir Charles D’Oyly’s anonymously published book of burlesque poem :
Wellesley first stampt it his. He was the boy
For mating ducks and drakes with public cash,
Planned a great house that time might not destroy:
Built the first floor, prepared bricks, beam and sash
And then retired, and left it in this dismal hash.
[*Tom Raw, the Griffin. 1824]
[*Tom Raw, the Griffin: a burlesque poem; descriptive of the adventures of a cadet in the East India Company’s service, from the period of his quitting England to his obtaining a staff situation]
By the order of the Court of Directors the construction work of Barrackpore House was suspended. The beams, doors, and windows, etc. were sold by auction. The shell of the house stood for some more years until Lord Hastings finally cleared the ground and put up a Green House there.
While constructing his dream palace, Wellesley stayed in a temporary accommodation he had made with three large bedrooms opening on to a wide verandah to the North-West. This bungalow happened to be the nucleus of the future Barrackpore House. The three rooms made up the central block of the new building. Sir George Barlow (1805-1807) erected small rooms at every corner of the southern verandah. Lord Hastings (1813-1823) added side wings, a Portico, and the upper Entrance Hall that was used later as a billiard room. These structural changes, however, ruined the prospect of its being a good summer residence. What needed was “a series of rooms which will catch the South breeze at night” – this condition was fulfilled by the original three-roomed house.
Government House Walk. Photographer: Bourne, Samuel. c1865
It was Hastings who shaped the house into its final form, and took interest in glorifying the building with appropriate decorations. The lovely lotus basin and the marble fountain installed in front of the South entrance, were two such decorative pieces he brought from Agra. By doubling the building area he also ensured a comfortable accommodation for the Governor and their family members and some guests as well. No other structural changes were attempted ever since, except for some minor modifications and additions of certain features. Lord Auckland (1835 – 1842) added the balcony on the Western side; Lord Lytton (1876-1880) replaced the unseemly iron staircase on the South front. Lord Ripon (1886-1884) installed a wooden porch In front. Lord Minto (1905-1910) equipped the building with electric light, laid the floor in the drawing room and redecorated the entire house.
The house has always been used as a place of relaxation and recreation. Within the house there have been balls and entertainments, and also services were being held at the large central drawing room before Barrackpore Church was established in 1847. Here, Bishop Heber preached in 1823. Carey, Marshman and Ward, often visited Barrackpore House as guests of the Governor General.
Barrackpore House was occupied by as many as twenty-four Governors-General of India Until its final abandonment as the residence of the Viceroy in 1912. Despite so much efforts made over a century for its betterment, the Barrackpore House emerged as ‘a shadow of the house there would have been had Wellesley started this project earlier and been able to see it through before he left India’.[Curzon] William Carey, who was a regular visitor to Barrackpore House, considered Barrackpore House had scarcely any claims to excellence, as a specimen of architecture. [Carey]
Stoqueller tipped off his readers of 1844 Guidebook that there was nothing remarkable about the Government House, but a plain one storied edifice with lofty rooms and very ordinary furniture. [Hand-book of India, a Guide / Stocqueller. 1844]
Barrackpore Park – Lake scene. Photographer: Samuel Bourne. Bar… Creator: Bourne, Samuel. 1860
‘Barrackpore Park was created by the taste and public spirit of Lord Wellesley’. [Carey] It was believed that he had a desire ‘to have brought all the public offices up from Calcutta and established them in the vicinity of the park’. From his day-one in Barrackpore, Wellesley started acquiring land for developing the Park. The whole park-area was nearly 350 acres, and the cost of the land acquisition amounted to £9,577. It was originally a flat land covered with swamps and jungle.
Lipoo Tree at Riverside, the natural landscape outside Park. Artist: William Prinsep. 1827
Wellesley converted this landscape into an English Park by engaging convict labour to do the task of draining, clearing and shaping the land into hillocks and dunes, and installing pieces of ornamental water. In the beginning there had been little or no distinction between the Park and the Garden. It was through a gradual process the Park turned out to be a public-access property. The Gardens grown within the Park remained private. There was, however, no borderline between the two, and the public roads ran through the Park and the Garden areas as well.
A detailed plan of Barrackpore Park, reproduced here from Lord Curzon’s book, The story of the viceroys and government houses, helps us to understand the distribution of items described by him and other narrators. The Park looked best at the river-side. Barrackpore House stands nearest to the Nishan Ghaut – the platform for landing ships. Lady Canning (1856-1861) made a raised pathway leading from the house to the upper landing stage, and much later Lord Ronaldshay (1917-1922) made a bridge from there to the landing stage.
Honeymoon Bunglow. Photographer: Not known. c1878. Courtesy: BL
Some other old bungalows are found close by. Bungalows#1 and #2 were designated for the guests while the one at the Eastern side, the Military Secretary’s quarter, was better known as ‘Honeymoon Bungalow’ because of its being available on rent to newly married couples. On the North-West Beach stands the Flagstaff – a broken up mast enshrined in memory of the flagship HMS Kent, smashed in 1757. The bungalow next to it is called ‘Flagstaff Bungalow’.
Lord Wellesley had a good amount of time to devote for developing the Barrackpore Park before he finally resigned, leaving his other project, Barrackpore House, abandoned.
Rhinozeror tank Photographer: Fiebig, Frederick . 1851 Courtesy: BL
He had completed many other constructions inside the Park, including a stable for 36 horses and standing for four carriages together with a coachman’s bungalow; he erected the balustrade bridge over the ‘Moti Jheel’ lake to the North of the House, an aviary for large birds, and also a menagerie in the North-East corner of the Park. The Menagerie existed there till the Zoological Gardens at Calcutta were opened by Edward VII as Prince of Wales in 1876, where most of its collections were transferred. Wellesley had constructed the high way from Calcutta as the first section of the Grand Trunk Road, and planted trees on either side before he handed over its charge to his successor, Lord Cornwallis. Wellesley might have also planted the mahogany trees on both side of the shady road known as ‘Mahogany Avenue’ as the cross-dating of tree-rings suggested.
Bear Garden. Photographer: Fiebig, Frederick. 1851. Courtesy: BL
Llama and its young at Barrackpore Park Chiriakhana. Details not known. Courtesy: Alamy
Elephant Stable. Barrackpore Details not known. Courtesy: Alamy
Giraffe at Barrackpore Park. Photographer: Frederick Fiebie. 1851. Courtesy: BL
On the other side of the Avenue, Lord Curzon grew a fine rosary with a large circular lawn surrounded by pergolas. Lord Minto construct¬ed a large stone basin and fountain, 40 feet in diameter and holding 23,000 gallons of water. Though intended for the rosary, the basin and the fountain were placed in front of the Seed House and often used as a bathing pool. There have been many more formal gardens in the Park designed and developed by the successors of Wellesley. Lord Auckland (1835-1842) had started an aviary near the Lily Tank, which is also called ‘Aviary Tank’ in reference to his lost aviary. The ‘Deer Tank’ ,situated in between the House and the ‘Temple of Fame’, was made by Lord Lytton (1922-1927) for the half-a-dozen deer he had brought from Barisal in an attempt to revive the charm of the old time Park. The name ‘Rhinoceros Tank’ brings back the memories of Lord Wellesley’s menagerie. Likewise, the word ‘bustee’ reminds us of his aviary once existed opposite Chiriakhana.
Menagerie at Barrackpore. Artsit: Charles D’Oyly. 1848. Courtesy: BL
Moti Jheel, the long tank, near the ‘Temple of Fame’ stretched up to the Cantonment church, had been a prolific breeding ground for mosquitoes.
Lord Curzon arranged to drain and turf Moti Jheel, and Lord Minto filled it further along with other restoration works he undertook. Minto built the magnificent ‘Temple of Fame’ following Greek style – a tribute to the 24 officers who fell in the conquest of Java and Mauritius in 1810 and 1811.
Lady Canning (1856-1861) made some memorable contributions toward improvement of the Park facilities. She had built a road from the House to the new landing stage, which was converted into a leafy tunnel of bamboos by Lady Ripon in 1880. On the South of the house, she put the pillared balustrade round the semi-circular terrace and planted blue Morning Glory to grow over it and spread out over the giant Banyan tree. The tree was 85 feet high; and with nearly 400 aerial roots it covered an area of 60,000 square feet; It was smaller in circumspect but older than the Shipbur Ba-nyan tree. Lady Canning realized the possibilities of the great tree as an outdoor pavilion. Under the shade the members of the House and their ho-nourable guests liked to spend whole day, enjoying the meals and refreshments served there, and perhaps watching games on the Tennis Court from distance. Beneath the shade of Banyan Tree many a viceregal *tiffin-party had assembled. There was also an excellent Golf Links much resorted to by Calcutta folk.
[ *The British in India referred to ‘tiffin’ as a light lunch and the Sunday tiffin was ‘an occasion for over-indulgence, with mulligatawny soup (always), curry and rice, roast beef and Yorkshire pudding washed down with a bottle of iced beer, and tapioca pudding’. – Food Culture in Colonial Asia: A taste of empire, by Cecilia Leong-Salobir. Routledge, 2011]
One of the most beautiful sites in the Park was the grave of Lady Canning, 500 yards down the river bank from the House. She died in Calcutta and, as her husband wished, buried in Barrackpore Park where she, a proficient painter, used to sit in the quiet. Bishop Cotton consecrated the ground. Her sister, Lady Waterford, designed a monument for her grave – a large mar-ble platform ornamented with inlaid mosaic. The monument, for its proper up-keeping, was required to be shifted in 1873 to Calcutta Cathedral and from there to other places until the relic found its place at the North portico of St John’s Church.
To the North of the House, near Flagstaff there was a tall masonry tower, and some more were found along the road. According to Lord Curzon, those were semaphore stations for the Governor General’s use but abandoned after installation of the Telegraphic system in India. There are, however, some official records suggesting that the towers were built by Colonel Everest in 1830 for his Trigonometric Survey.
(c) British Library; Supplied by The Public Catalogue Foundation
Apart from the things we discussed here, my previous post on Barrackpore dealt with some issues of relevance highlighting the Englishness in the government estate of Barrackpore. “There is said to be nothing else in India or indeed in Asia to compare with the Park and its broad stretches of undulating grassland . . . much though his successors have owed to Wellesley for providing the, magnificent Government House in Calcutta, their debt for the peaceful English charm of Barrackpore is almost greater.” [Curzon]
To the West on the river-side there was a masonry chabutra on which the band used to play English tune flowing over the hillocks and dunes of the Park. To complete, the illusion of English scenery, Lord Wellesley, wished for a constant view of a Church spire. To fulfill that wish, Wellesley spent unhesitatingly a sum of Rs. 10,000 towards the building of the Danish Church at Serampore – a church adhering to non-Anglican creed.
A view of Serampore Artist: Fraser, James Baillie 1826. Courtesy: BL
The chronicle of the Government estate at Barrackpore may serve as a unique case of colonial architectural experience of a century long endeavour by different masters with variant ability and outlook – the Governors General, Viceroys and Bengal Governors, whoever considered the place their temporary home, had attempted to make things changed their ways for improving conditions of living in Barrackpore House.
The Park is almost like a huge collage of English landscape composed collectively by talented men and women, in succession, adding patches of vibrant colours and forms of their choice, and most significantly, adhering to a thorough English style.
Tom Raw, the Griffin; a Burlesque Poem, in Twelve Cantos: Illustrated by Twenty-Five Engravings, Descriptive of the Adventures of a Cadet In / Charles D’Oyly. 1828
The Hand-book of India: A Guide to the stranger and the traveller… / Joachim Hayward Stocqueler. 1845.
“Calcutta in the olden time – its localities” In: Calcutta Review; v. 18. Dec. 1852
The Good Old Days of Honorable John Company …v. 1/ William Carey. 1882
Life in India; or, the English at Calcutta / Anne Catharine Monkland; v.2. 1882.
British Government in India: The story of the viceroys and government houses /
George Nathaniel Curzon of Kedleston (Marques). 1925
Story of government houses/ N. V. H. Symons. 1935
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B2B Marketing: How One CMO Pulled His Team Together
By Drew Neisser
If “every village has its idiot” had an antithesis, it would be “every community has its organizer.” In any group setting, he or she is that person who naturally brings together disparate individuals with a common bond and, most important, mobilizes them for action.
At Kofax, that person is Grant Johnson, chief marketing officer. The automation software company was acquired in 2015 by Lexmark, which had recently subsumed two additional software brands. As the new CMO, Johnson set out to unify the various marketing functions of the now-global brand.
“I think we are in a unique position now at Kofax to look at the market with a fresh set of eyes,” he says. “We have the opportunity to reinvent ourselves. Although we have this broad portfolio of great software and solutions, we know that in the customer-driven era, it’s about them, not us.”
The cause: customers
Several years ago, Johnson realized that the only way for Kofax to thrive was to attain best-in-class marketing practices. How to do this required time, but it mostly involved attaining the maximum threshold of relevance with its customers. Because marketing technology is a vast, specialized landscape, Johnson also understood that Kofax could be hypertargeted and intentional in its marketing — yet still generate a high volume of business.
To reach that stream of business took building and refining the customer journey, then building and refining it again via experimentation and retargeting. Along the way, there were some failures, or what Johnson terms “sacrifices.”
“I have a motto, which is ‘do great work that works,'” he says. “If it doesn’t work, stop doing it. If it works great, whether engaging customers and prospects, generating leads or nurturing opportunities, do more of it.”
His department eventually netted out with five detailed customer personas and predetermined content road maps. “We take great pains to avoid the one-size-fits-all approach or what I call random acts of marketing,” he says. “Part of cutting through effectively is a relentless focus on delivering consistent messaging across every touch point and element of a given campaign.”
These journeys are continually tested and refreshed via community engagement, influencer campaigns and social listening. The approach is what Johnson calls “aim, ready, fire,” and it helped Kofax’s revenue climb from $300 million to $600 million in just three years.
The activists: employees
Getting three marketing departments on the same page after the merger, however, was no easy task. Johnson’s first step was a marketing audit among the brands, a new work stream he called “marketing best practices.” The groups gathered and came to discover who did what best. “The work stream became both a catalyst for change and way to galvanize to organization around a consistent set of best practices,” Johnson says. “The teams could envision how they could do better marketing by making the changes.”
Part of helping teams “unlearn” their less effective habits involved a physical blueprint of 2017 plans that outlined their marketing roles and was created with assistance from outside firms. “That fact that every group could see how they were contributing to and impacting the integrated plan helped literally get them on the same page they could refer to, communicate and understand,” he says.
The goal: change
Johnson says the 2017 plan is off to a strong start, but he explains that one hard lesson for marketers to learn is that lasting change always takes more time than anticipated. “People can nod their head, agree to the new directive and then just go back to doing things the way they have,” he says, adding, “Especially when the leadership is thousands of miles away.”
One way to expedite the process, however, is spurring employee cohesion by blending teams and creating new ones. “I didn’t just put managers based in Irvine [headquarters] in charge of larger groups,” Johnson says. “I gave some increased responsibility to leaders based in Lenexa, KS and Europe.”
His department also merged content, digital and social teams for the first time, driving higher productivity. Johnson puts it this way: “I knew that I had to find a way to bridge different cultures and operational styles if I had any chance of success.” Spoken like a true organizer.
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Bosch and Nvidia partner to develop AI for self-driving cars
Amongst all the activity in autonomously driven vehicle joint ventures, new R&D facilities, strategic acquisitions (such as Mobileye being acquired by Intel) and booming startup fundings, two big players in the industry, NVIDIA and Bosch, are partnering to develop an AI self-driving car supercomputer.
Bosch CEO Dr Volkmar Denner announced the partnership during his keynote address at Bosch Connected World, in Berlin.
“Automated driving makes roads safer, and artificial intelligence is the key to making that happen,” said Denner. “We are making the car smart. We are teaching the car how to maneuver through road traffic by itself.”
The Bosch AI car computer will use NVIDIA AI PX technology, the upcoming AI car superchip, advertised as the world’s first single-chip processor designed to achieve Level-4 autonomous driving (see ADAS chart). The unprecedented level of performance is necessary to handle the massive amount of computation required for the various tasks self-driving vehicles must perform which include running deep neural nets to sense surroundings, understanding the 3D environment, localizing themselves on an HD map, predicting the behavior and position of other objects, as well as computing car dynamics and a safe path forward.
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Essentially, the NVIDIA platform enables vehicles to be trained on the complexities of driving, operated autonomously and updated over the air with new features and capabilities. And Bosch, which is the one of the world’s largest auto parts makers, has the Tier 1 credentials to mass-produce this AI-enabled supercomputer for a good portion of the auto industry.
“Self-driving cars is a challenge that can finally be solved with recent breakthroughs in deep learning and artificial intelligence,” said Jen-Hsun Huang, founder and CEO, NVIDIA. “Using DRIVE PX AI car computer, Bosch will build automotive-grade systems for the mass production of autonomous cars. Together we will realize a future where autonomous vehicles make mobility safe and accessible to all.”
Nvidia is also partnering with automakers Audi and Mercedes-Benz.
“This is the kind of strategic tie-up that lets both partners do what they do best – Nvidia can focus on developing the core AI supercomputing tech, and Bosch can provide relationships and sales operations that offer true scale and reach,” says Darrell Etherington for TechCrunch.
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Water-clear-cell hyperplasia mimicking parathyroid adenoma
L. C. Stout
University of Texas Medical Branch
The case of a patient with primary hyperparathyroidism in whom water-clear-cell hyperplasia (WCCH) involved only the superior glands, and disproportionately so, is presented. In addition, unlike the cases of WCCH described previously, a rim of normal parathyroid tissue was observed at the periphery of each gland in this case. It is speculated that these findings are not necessarily peculiar, but may reflect an earlier stage of the disease. Such cases may mimick parathyroid adenoma, thereby leading to inadequate surgical therapy.
Human Pathology
Parathyroid Neoplasms
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Stout, L. C. (1985). Water-clear-cell hyperplasia mimicking parathyroid adenoma. Human Pathology, 16(10), 1075-1076.
Water-clear-cell hyperplasia mimicking parathyroid adenoma. / Stout, L. C.
In: Human Pathology, Vol. 16, No. 10, 1985, p. 1075-1076.
Stout, LC 1985, 'Water-clear-cell hyperplasia mimicking parathyroid adenoma', Human Pathology, vol. 16, no. 10, pp. 1075-1076.
Stout LC. Water-clear-cell hyperplasia mimicking parathyroid adenoma. Human Pathology. 1985;16(10):1075-1076.
Stout, L. C. / Water-clear-cell hyperplasia mimicking parathyroid adenoma. In: Human Pathology. 1985 ; Vol. 16, No. 10. pp. 1075-1076.
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2 November 2013 rgamblereconomic reality, employment laws, Industrial Revolution, Labor rights, Labour, London, Lump of Labour Fallacy, National Union of Teachers, Trade union, unemployment, Unite, youth unemployment Leave a comment
One has to ask what is the point of Unions in the context of all-powerful UK / EU employment laws?
The UK and EU offer such high protection to workers that it actively discourages employers taking on new staff, particularly full time staff. Higher unemployment (particularly youth unemployment) and a disproportionate number of part-time workers is a consequence.
The only added value of Union membership is to enable a certain minority of strategic workers to extort additional income from taxpayers and other workers with the threat of industrial action. This detrimentally skews the labour market causing major economic inefficiencies, which make us all worse off. For example, because tube train drivers can economically ruin London with a damaging strike, they can extort extra income from other workers (fare-paying commuters and tax payers) and earn significantly more than hotel workers doing similarly skilled work. London Underground staff are lavishly paid by public transport standards, with Tube drivers on basic pay of up to £52,000 ($85,000) by 2015.
They can also prevent the modernisation of an essential economic asset by insisting we have cash based ticketing offices in an era of cheaper automated vending machines and Oyster Cards that can be automatically topped up with cash online. The Unions are also the reason we have drivers on tube trains in an era of cheaper, more reliable and safer driverless trains. Transport for London faces a budget shortfall of nearly £80 million for 2013 and 2014. It cannot afford to ignore opportunities to cut costs and modernise for the sake of old-fashioned ticket offices or a confrontational union boss with a social agenda.
The final insult is that it locks away workers in out-dated and unproductive roles that could be doing something more economically useful. Does anybody remember the Transport Unions forcing diesel trains to have a driver, guard and fireman? Anybody assuming moving to driverless train would cause unemployment should remember this era and swot up on the Lump of Labour Fallacy. Another example of a minority holding the majority to ransom is the National Union of Teachers ability to prevent the modernisation of our education system because a small minority of teachers can vote for strike action. We all vote for policies in general elections. Why should certain workers get an extra vote?
We have a new economic reality since Labour was last in power. Over a trillion pounds of debt, which is still rising due to an annual deficit of over 100 billion pounds. All this must be paid down. Combining this with an older population (with their large pension and healthcare needs) means we will have no more spare money for at least a generation. The UK must now earn what it wants to spend; it cannot continue to borrow what it wants to spend. Increased taxation can get nowhere near lowering the deficit, let alone the debt. Massive public spending cuts are inevitable.
To win the next election Labour must address one key question: Which party will best manage this new economic reality?
Labour must now convince the country that they can move from a party which financially supports in-work welfare benefit and uncontrolled public spending to one which puts financial prudence ahead of its social engineering experiments i.e. prudently manage the country’s massively reduced public spending capacity for the foreseeable future.
The Labour front bench may believe they can do this, but I doubt that their political paymasters (Unite and the GMB unions) will let them. They have a social agenda not an economic one. Unless Labour loosens the power of the Unions over its selection of leaders, MPs and policies the country will not trust them with its new, constrained economic reality.
I understand the important role played by Unions in securing workers rights in the latter part of the Industrial Revolution. But they have won the battle and served their purpose, which has been superseded by modern employment laws. They have become nothing more than a sinister anachronism, practiced in the art of blackmail and extortion on behalf of a tiny minority.
The Labour Party will have more credibility and electability without them.
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Y’all! My new single “ It All Comes Out In The Wash” comes out next THURSDAY JULY 18th! #putthatsuckeronspin #GlamJam (Also stay tuned for some awesome new things with the legendary @ellenvonunwerth 😜) Written by yours truly and the Love Junkies! @lorimckennama @lizrose0606 #hillarylindsey
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Miranda Lambert Teases New Single, ‘It All Comes Out in the Wash’ [WATCH]
Miranda Lambert will debut a brand-new single on July 18. The country superstar announced the track, "It All Comes Out in the Wash," on Thursday (July 11), with a "Glam Jam" Instagram video, which readers can watch above.
Fans don't get to hear much of Lambert's new single in the Instagram clip, but it does reveal the chorus: "It'll all come out / All come out in the wash / It'll all come out / All come out in the wash," Lambert sings. She co-wrote the song with the songwriter trio the Love Junkies: Hillary Lindsey, Lori McKenna and Liz Rose.
"It All Comes Out in the Wash" is Lambert's first single from a forthcoming brand-new album, her first since the 2016 double album The Weight of These Wings. According to Lambert, the project should be out this fall. "If it takes any longer ... I’m going to go crazy," she says.
Lambert produced her new project with Jay Joyce rather than her longtime go-to, Frank Liddell. "It was a change, but I wanted to go in a different direction for this one than I have in the past because I feel like I was in a new place," Lambert says. "Jay and I had some new chemistry. Sometimes you have to change it up."
Lambert has hinted that her lengthy break in between albums -- during which she toured, recorded and released a new Pistol Annies record, got married and, in her words, "got to live life and just be a person for a while" -- will mean bold new music.
“I would call it old Miranda, but a Miranda at a whole new level, if that makes any sense. It’s not going to be love song overload or anything like that," Lambert says. "I made a career on being a rock 'n' roller, and I think fans are going to hear that throughout. And yeah, there is this vibe of being happy that goes through this album. I am really, really happy.”
Lambert will celebrate her new music with a new iteration of her Roadside Bars & Pink Guitars Tour. The all-female trek will begin on Sept. 13 in Uncasville, Conn., and is scheduled to run through Nov. 23, when it will wrap up in Greensboro, N.C. Throughout the tour, Lambert will switch up her lineup of special guests: Maren Morris, Elle King, the Pistol Annies, Tenille Townes, Ashley McBryde and Caylee Hammack are all scheduled to appear at various shows.
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Guess what I’m doing. as of Friday night I’ve decided that the one thing I really, really want to do is direct. Yes. Really. And since I am in the uncommon position of also being a writer, I thought, well, I can write something and direct it. Yes. Really.
The UMC spots we’ve done have been my exploration into the world of directing, even if in an indirect way. More and more I’m thinking that being a director is a possibility, especially after the last one with a very performance driven concept. Plus, the AIGA short film was, technically, a short film that I directed. So I felt like, yeah, I can DO this.
The catalyst was two-fold. I was grumbling about the news Kurt Rauf (who directed the “Arrived” commercial for UMC) was the dp for another film (My Name is Bruce) and was like, why oh why do I toil away in advertising hell. I’ve gotta do what I want to do or I’ll regret never doing it.
Then I saw the short film produced to get financing for Last Stop which was bare bones but had potential, and i thought, fuck, I could shoot something like that. As well as the short film they used to get interest in Saw which was actually rockin’ awesome. But I’ve been struggling with what I could write that would be produceable with pretty much no cash.
So, I thought suddenly – perhaps fuelled by an alcohol haze – why not write a script based on “The Bet” the short story I got published. 3 actors. 3 locations. No effects. Fairly simple and has the potential to be interesting. So, I started writing the script. I figure it’s gonna be about 20 minutes (at the very most – more like 10) and could be shot super cheap, like the AIGA thing. The first hurdle is that the short story has pretty much NO dialogue, just atmosphere, which makes for a dull as crapola film. So, I am fleshing it all out and hoping to give it some weight in terms of who the people are and why they are doing what they are doing, possibly allegorical, more than just two guys doing it for no real reason. ANYWAY!!! I was hoping once I bust out a first draft, that my good buddy Chris Smith might help things along and make it actually good. I’m hoping to have the first draft done by the end of the month.
Of course, the second (and biggest) hurdle is actually getting the fucker made. but I have confidence it can happen. I’ve got connections and can call in favours and sell a kidney even.
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What should I expect from “Trail of Cthulhu” as a player?
I'll start soon a Trail of Cthulhu game, and I know next to nothing about Lovecraft or even Cthulhu itself.
What I know is that this game is based more on investigation and discovery (my GM told me that the game would be a little less "horror" than the standard - even if i don't know what standard IS), therefore I like the fact that I genuinely don't know in advance what I'm going to face in game, because it'll help me impersonate my character better (I think it's something similar to watching the Star Wars saga for the first time, when you don't really know that Vader is Luke's father).
Nevertheless, I'm kind at a loss about what kind of game this is.
I've made some research: I know that the environment should be based around the 1930s United States, and I'm following the tips given in this question HERE. Also, I'll watch "The Untouchables" soon, but most of the other answers are either about game mechanics or about other aspects I don't want to discover out-of-game.
I know that this question may seem odd, and I guess that a part of it it's caused by my poor grasp of english (I'm not a native english speaker)
What should I expect from a game of "Trail of Cthulhu" as a player, which doesn't know anything about the game setting except for the time and place?
If possible keep the spoilers at minimum in your answers! I'm mainly interested to know what's the life expectancy of a character (D&D 4e VS Paranoia), how's the general "mood" of the environment (My little pony VS grimdarkness of warhammer 40k) and things like that (basically, everything that does not involve game mechanics, dice rolls, skill checks - if they exists - and so on). I am NOT looking for informations about Cthulhu itself or the "monsters" I may face (if there are monsters, that is)
I understand that my question may be unclear. I'm open to suggestion about how to improve it. Also, if you need to know more to answer properly, feel free to let me know and I'll try to expand my question as best as I can.
Background informations
I guess that you may find useful to know what my RPG background is: sadly, my only experience about played RPGs is limited to a couple/three years of D&D 3.5 played during high school (that means about 8 years ago). I played an elf ranger with longbow.
I am also currently plaing a warhammer 40.000 LARP, as a medic guardsman.
An example of what I'm looking for
Let's say I've asked this question about a warhammer 40k LARP instead of ToC. The correct answer would mention that each character have a low life expectancy, that there's a lot of combat where it's really possible to lose a limb or even die (and therefore you'd better be careful when you move around or fight, because you might get ambushed) but also that there are invisible, inner or personal enemies to fight, that wants to corrupt you and give you some benefits in exchange of your soul / humanity.
Also, you'd better NOT to trust anybody, because backstabbing and back talking is very common, and you'd better be prepared. You have the possibility to be anything from imperium factions, and during each game you can pursue whatever targets you want... but keep in mind that your officers and commissars are watching, and your life isn't worth as much as your equipment.
The environment is very, very reactive. Almost every action you take, a reaction will take place, sooner or later.
You'll face periods of intense work or fight that can be either very long or very short, with varying frequency during both day and night. There will be also long periods of quiet (but you can't tell how long it will last, so be prepared!) where you have some freedom to move on your own, but you're never, ever completely safe, even during lunch breaks or inside your faction's own base.
Fights may be deadly but still you have the chance to stand and fight if you have your companions: usually the enemy is too tough for an 1vs1. You may equip/spec yourself to handle some specific situation, but you can't ever be prepared for every possible situation, you're forced to rely on your companions to survive the campaign.
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\$\begingroup\$ Welcome to the site! This is a nice question indeed -- even if you spoiled Empire Strikes Back for me! ^_~ \$\endgroup\$ – Sardathrion - Reinstate Monica Jul 18 '13 at 8:27
\$\begingroup\$ @BESW thank you. I've read your welcome messages many times across many, many newbie questions. I'd never thought that I'd get one for me too! (I'm a quite long time lurker of rpg.SE ;) ) \$\endgroup\$ – STT LCU Jul 18 '13 at 8:32
\$\begingroup\$ @Sardathrion I haven't said that scene is from SW:ESB! how did you know that it's from there? ;) \$\endgroup\$ – STT LCU Jul 18 '13 at 8:33
\$\begingroup\$ @BESW I've added an example answer. Is that ok? \$\endgroup\$ – STT LCU Jul 18 '13 at 9:00
Trail of Cthulhu is based on the novels and the mythos inspired by H.P. Lovecraft's series of novels. I wouldn't spoil what the content of his novels specifically are, but in modern days it will be comparable with TV series such as X-Files and Supernatural, but in the 1930s.
In general, such games usually emphasis research and investigation, and tends to be gritty, though each group has it own lethality setting. Investigators are weaker than a 1st level character in any D&D game, and they do not just have to worry about their physical health, but their sanity as well. Indeed, a classic theme of the game is to trade your sanity for powerful occultic secrets that men are not intended to know. It is easy to get killed or to be driven insane, though that depends on the style of the game your group is running. You can run a Cthulhu-inspired game like a horror movie, or a with a more 'pulp' spin on it.
Though you did not ask for mechanics, I would like to mention one that makes Trail of Cthulhu unique. In the game you can always find core clues without rolling any skill, as long as you are trained in that area of investigation. You could ask to examine the body, and the GM will tell you any evidence you will need to further your investigation. Hence asking the right questions rather than "I search for anything unusual" is rather important.
Added on edit: Usually combat plays a smaller role in such games, and it will be esoteric knowledge, preparation and tactics that save the day, as the deck is usually stacked against you. Knowing what you are getting into and having the necessary protection against what you are up against is important.
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\$\begingroup\$ In fact, you're not expected to be even that specific (because then you would miss the second body under the floorboards). Instead, you would simply say that "I use Evidence Collection to look for clues" or "I use Architecture to analyze the building." \$\endgroup\$ – Jakob Jul 18 '13 at 11:30
Role play your character.
In any game where discovery is happening, you have to decide how your character reacts to the new information: do they flee? Do they go insane? Do they embrace the new order? Do they fight it with all their might? Joseph Conrad's masterful work Heart Of Darkness explores just those themes -- if you have not read it: do so now.
People in the 1930s did not think like people in the 2010s do nor did they react in the same way to the same situations. So, find out what your character's background general outlook on life was. It will be very different if they were a Japanese army officer, a British aristocrat, an African witch doctor, or a new York dilettante in search of a rich husband. Thankfully, there are plenty of films made in the 1930s that you can watch to get an idea of what it was like then. I suggest that modern films set in the 1930s are less good for this. Of course, there are plenty of books from that time too! Religion, racism, national pride, and social norms are all sides you can look at.
Once you have an outlook on life, you can brace yourself for getting hit by the sheer horrifying truths of the Mythos and do try to hang on to your sanity as it shatters into smitheries.
After question edit...
One thing I would add to make my answer more on-topic after your edits: At best, expect to return to the status quo. You cannot stop the inevitable doom from happening. You cannot recover from the horrors of reality. However, you might be able to hold the breach for a little longer... Are you just prepare to pay that cost?
Call of Cthulhu, when played as a lovecraftian horror, is a depressing game were madness, death, and being eaten by things that should not be (preferably in that order) are common. None of Lovecraft's protagonists ever survive intact from their encounters of the Mythos: nearly all of them are insane, some are dead, others have fates worst than the above two.
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\$\begingroup\$ Thank you for the reference to Heart Of Darkness. I'll get one copy immediately. +1 \$\endgroup\$ – STT LCU Jul 18 '13 at 8:49
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Power of Mathematics Opens New Possibilities in Music
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Steve Koppes, University of Chicago writes, "Anthony Cheung’s formal mathematical training essentially ended with high school calculus. But as a musician and composer, he has explored mathematical phenomena in new ways, especially through their influence on harmony and timbre."
Composers found new ways of fusing the two musical qualities late last century, says Cheung, assistant professor in music. “Through technology and thinking about acoustics, we can change sounds on the computer in innumerable ways,” says Cheung, whose musical composition earned him a 2012 Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome.
The work of Cheung and others shows the power of mathematics to open new possibilities in music. Modern experiments with computer music are just the most recent example. According to musician-scholars like Eugenia Cheng, a visiting senior lecturer in mathematics and a concert pianist, the history and practice of music would have unfolded much differently without an appreciation of what unites music and math.
During the Baroque period, a mathematical breakthrough inspired one of Cheng’s favorite composers, Johann Sebastian Bach, to write The Well-Tempered Clavier (1722), his book of preludes and fugues in all 24 major and minor keys.
Expanding an audience for math
As an educator, Cheng is adept at relating just about anything to mathematics, including food. She developed a series of YouTube lectures on the mathematics of food, covering topics such as “The perfect puff pastry,” “The perfect Mobius bagel,” and “The perfect way to share a cake.” The series evolved into a book, How to Bake Pi, which will be published by Profile Books in March 2015. She also has brought mathematics to a wider audience through works such as the mathematics of cream tea, the mathematics of pizza, and mathematics and Lego.
Mathematics of musical composition
Cheung is a composer and musician who readily describes how an understanding of mathematics often can lead to a deeper appreciation of certain musical compositions.
In graduate school, Cheung studied with Tristan Murail, now a professor emeritus of music at Columbia University, who pioneered thoughts about how harmony and timbre could come together. Cheung cites Jonathan Harvey’s Mortuos Plango, Vivos Voco (1980), as a classic early example of doing this electronically. In this work, Harvey used spectral analysis and re-synthesis on a computer to morph the sounds of the tenor bell at Winchester Cathedral into the sound of a singing boy, his son.
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Because I’m Happy…
By sindhusays May 8, 2014 global warming Happy hot flashes menopause
“What’s up? You look unnaturally happy,” my husband wonders. “Have you found another way to make us eat spinach and kale?”
“Yeah, I feel like a room without a roof.”
I hand him a gecko-green smoothie with a kick of ginger and watch his face contort and grimace as he gulps it down. Within minutes he holds his tummy and bolts for the bathroom.
“Why are you doing this to me?” he says. “Aren’t I nice to you? Don’t I pay your credit card bills without complaint? Don’t I clean your floors every week and vacuum your carpets and work like a dog to pay for all your extravagances?”
“Quit complaining, it’s good for your skin.”
He looks at me as if to say, “I’m fifty, bald and perpetually grumpy. What do I care about my skin?”
“You need to sweat. At our age, we both do. Goodness knows it’s hard to do that in this arid climate we live in. Your stratum corneum will thank me, even if you don’t,” I tell him as I chug down my green goodness and fan myself in anticipation of a little perspiration.
“My what?”
“It’s the passage of time, sweetie,” I say cheerfully. “Your skin needs the extra oomph. Of course, we could always move to Florida. We’d sweat plenty there without even trying and you wouldn’t have to drink my smoothies.”
“We moved from Florida,” he reminds me.
True. But that was back when I didn’t appreciate how the extreme humidity in that fine state was good for my epidermis.
So I explain to him that as we advance in years, gravity kicks in and when that happens on your face, it’s not a pretty sight. The rest of your body has a go-to in Spanx, (yep, they make a version for men too) but your aging face is flaky and dense. And as most of us who have had to deal with at least one flaky and dense thing/person knows, it doesn’t respond to coaxing and finesse. That’s because once you hit age 40 the stratum corneum has you cornered. Mostly composed of dead skin cells and some collagen, the stratum corneum is the top layer of your skin and very happy to host wrinkles, crow’s feet and sagging. It is unapologetic and crushingly honest, a final word that you’ve hit a milestone that you’d much rather not celebrate. For decades, scientists have spent hours and millions of dollars to figure out how to give aging skin a leg up. And while they were doing that, the aging population was spending hours and millions of dollars trying hide, camouflage and trick the eye into thinking that wrinkles and creases were a figment of the imagination and bright lighting. And now it turns out, all you have to do to look young is sweat.
I guess one way to sweat would be to exercise. Alternatively, you could move to Florida where you’d sweat without even moving a muscle.
“So why did you move from Florida?” Our daughter wonders.
I give her my go-to answer for everything. “Global warming. We were worried Florida would submerge in the ocean before your 18th birthday,” I tell her.
“So, what’s stopping us from sweating right here in Colorado? All we have to do is exercise,” my hubby says.
“Who sweats in Colorado? It’s atmospherically impossible to sweat at 6,000 feet above sea level, unless you are menopausal!”
So I called up a few friends who live in humid climes and asked if their skin was feeling the love.
“Are you kidding me?” one pal responded. “I have the thermostat at 62 degrees! It’s like 90 degrees outside. What’s it like where you are?”
“It’s hard to sweat here, even when it’s a 100 degrees in the shade,” I said.
“Well, it sucks to be you,” she retorted sourly. “So you called simply to brag?”
“The heat feels different out here—like you’re running a low grade fever all the time,” I said, feeling the need to empathize. “The most you feel is dampness, not the raging rivulets of sweat that you guys out there in the Sunshine State experience. Trust me, I’d much rather sweat buckets.”
But she wasn’t having any of it.
“It’s gotten worse lately,” she said. “Damn global warming!”
Another pal told me that she doesn’t really worry about going outside to sweat because nature has deemed it fit to make her sweat at all hours of day and night, even when she’s in the pool. But she too has heard good things about the power of sweat, so she’s decided to make these internal power surges work in her favor.
“Embrace the menopause,’ she advised. “Make the sweat count.”
Damn. I had no idea that hot flashes could count. “B-but, isn’t that the nutrient depleting kind?”
“Sweating is sweating,” she said matter-of-factly. “Make sure you hydrate, honey. Got to feed the machine.”
So here I am operating under some very misguided notions that I would have to spice up the smoothies or relocate to invigorate my skin when all the while I’ve had a personalized internal device that resets my body’s thermostat at will and can do great things for my skin.
My family accepts my rationalization with relief. We won’t be moving to Florida, after all. Mom will make peace with her power surges.
But what I lack is a support structure.
“I need you guys to rally around me when I’m having hot flashes,” I tell my family.
“How?” they wonder aloud.
“When I’m drenched in sweat and can only articulate my extreme discomfort by burning the scrambled eggs, eat it like I’ve just fixed you a gourmet meal. Understand that you’d be irritable too if you had sweat running a half marathon down your cleavage and pooling in your belly button.”
I bring their attention to a magnet on the refrigerator that says I’m still hot, it just comes in flashes now.
They all nod.
“And if anybody asks why your mother is so pissy of late, tell them—
“Global warming?”
2 thoughts on “Because I’m Happy…”
You are riotously funny! I grinned through the whole thing.
Happy you had a chuckle, Vijaya! We are afterall a confederation of hotties!
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Adam Haddow Director, Architecture, Sydney
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Francisco has qualifications and professional experience in Urban Design and Architecture. Graduating with a Masters of Architecture at the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS) in the top 15% of his class, his studies primarily focused on Environmental performance and Urban Design. Since graduating Francisco has tutored 2nd and 3rd year architectural students in these fields at UTS and is currently leading SJB’s parametric modelling program. During the past 5 years Francisco has developed a unique breadth of skills and experience from his work in both the public and private sector, where he has become accustomed to working and collaborating with multidisciplinary teams. flayson@sjb.com.au
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News Roundup: Fancy Apps
Posted on November 16, 2018 November 15, 2018 by Martin H. Duke
1.5 mile I-5 shoulder lane ($) opened Monday between Lynnwood and Mountlake Terrace.
Bainbridge Island voters reject safer streets.
Thurston County voters approve Proposition 1 for Intercity Transit.
23rd Avenue work moving along, though there’s no timeline for RapidRide.
Kitsap Transit creates $4m rainy day fund, $5 day pass.
Lime to enter the short-term car rental market.
Sound Transit updates their website. The Stranger is a fan.
Car tab hand-wringing seems not to have hurt suburban Dems.
Seattle’s annual parking study underway.
New bus lane at the Aurora/Denny onramp.
New bus platforms in Bellevue.
Tacoma in discussions with Lime about its scooters.
Eyman’s going to try the $30 car tab thing, yet again.
WSDOT switches vendors for its tolling projects.
Uber and Lyft no longer fighting Seattle over competitive data, now fighting with Port ($).
SDOT still working on employer shuttles.
Island Transit names a new Executive Director.
Don’t chase fancy apps and microtransit, just fund the bus and give it priority.
DC decriminalizes fare evasion.
Streetcars work way better when you kick out the cars.
This is an open thread.
54 Replies to “News Roundup: Fancy Apps”
Did I read somewhere that the UW is closing the laundry adjacent to the Mt. Baker Station?
Could ST acquire that property to somehow make the bus transfers there better, or has that ship already sailed?
Mike Orr says:
Yes ($).
I was wondering the same thing. But ST probably doesn’t have the money to outbid a private developer because there’s no extension planned at Mt Baker now.
Also, any investment in bus transfers would be the responsibility of SDOT and Metro, not ST. I don’t believe ST owns or operates any of the bus facilities.
Reading the tea leaves in the Seattle Time’s article, it seems like UW is looking to develop affordable housing on that stop, to meet the city’s requirement for UW’s next wave of growth. But a rebuild could also include an easement for a bus lane on the west side of the station, I suppose.
RossB says:
Do you really think it would make the transfers much better? It seems like buses would spend a fair amount of time slogging their way over there, and in the end, you haven’t saved much time (and probably lost it from a system standpoint). It seems like if they want to do that, they could do that tomorrow, and just eliminate the parking lot and have the buses run there.
I think the idea is to replace these hundred or so jobs with a hundred or so apartments. What it really comes down to is that they put the bus center in the right place, they just should have put the train station there as well. Then you would have better transfers, and more people could walk to the station from their homes.
Al S. says:
If the laundry site was turned into the new transit center, then the existing transit center can be redeveloped into a taller building (85 to 125 feet). The buses could loop into the station between McClellan and Winthrop. The signal at Forest could go away or be only for pedestrians.
It could be a winning idea in a number of ways.
Past neighborhood plans have already toyed about eliminating the transit center but assumed that the laundry was fixed into place. With that situation changed, those recent plans could be dusted off and refined to actually move the transit center.
I didn’t know the option of eliminating the transit center altogether has already been thought of.
Moving the transit center though makes sense. A land swap (of sorts) here may be in order!
Page 10 of this plan from 2011 shows no transit center:
https://www.seattle.gov/Documents/Departments/SDOT/PlanningProgram/p2142933.pdf
asdf2 says:
As I’ve mentioned in past comments on the subject, there is plenty of room for on-street layovers and bus transfers without needing the laundry facility or the current transit center. The way it works is basically like this. Thru-routes (7 and 106) continue to stop on Ranier, just like they’re currently doing. The only route that need special treatment are the ones that end there (8 and 48), since they need somewhere to turn around the bus and wait between runs. For those routes, Metro can use Forest St., just north of the station, so that the southern end of route 8 looks like this, and the terminus of the 48 looks like this. The key to making this work is to eliminate all of the on-street parking on Forest St. and make it one-way. Once this is done, you have plenty room for buses to maneuver, load/unload passengers, and layover between trips.
“Do you really think it would make the transfers much better? It seems like buses would spend a fair amount of time slogging their way over there”
For the 48, it is a real improvement because it avoids the need to cross Rainier twice. The bus is already on the west side of Rainier as it approaches McClellan, only to cross Rainier to turn left on McClellan, only to have to cross Rainier right back again on foot. A right turn from Rainier to McClellan has much less delay, and you don’t need to cross Rainier again, on foot to reach the station. On top of this, those headed to the east/southeast of the station are much better positioned to use the pedestrian bridge, rather than waiting at the stoplights. The existing transit center is slightly better for those headed to the corner of MLK and McClellan, but that’s about it. And, many of these riders would be on the 8, not the 48, anyway.
For the 8, getting to my proposed location does require an extra stoplight, but for those transferring to Link, it’s something of a wash, since you’ve got to cross Rainier, anyway. For those who, today, would be walking north/east from Mt. Baker Transit Center, you can just add an on-street bus stop at the corner of MLK and McClellan, and they would basically see no impact.
That leaves the 14 as the only remaining route serving the area. Currently, it does an awkward detour, pretending to serve its legacy tail, which moving the stop to the other side of Rainier would make worse. But, the reason for serving that tail is dubious to begin with, since it’s both low density and never really outside the walkshed of the Link Station anyway – it’s a very pleasant walk, taking about 10 minutes, down tree-lined streets, using the pedestrian bridge to cross the MLK/Rainier monstrosity. Once the tail is gone, the Link station makes perfect sense as a turnaround point, and no longer feels like a detour. (The cost of the trolley wire can be paid for by selling the land occupied by the current transit center for development).
“What it really comes down to is that they put the bus center in the right place, they just should have put the train station there as well.” The location of the current transit center feels very hemmed in, as it is impossible to approach on foot from any direction, without crossing either Rainier, MLK, or McClellan. On top of that, you’ve got a big track field to the east, forcing all foot traffic to detour around, to either Mt. Baker Blvd. or McClellan. At least the current station location gives you a pedestrian bridge to quickly reach the neighborhood to the east, without needing to cross those busy streets. The island around the transit center doesn’t have much in the way of useful destinations – basically, a starbucks, a bank, a gas station, and an abandoned building. The only reason to go there at all is purely artificial, because Metro forces you to go there in order to get a bus.
I’m a little confused as to what exactly the 48 does to get to the transit center. I assume that heading towards the center it takes a left on McClellan, then a right on MLK and a right into the station. Heading out, it simply exits on Rainier and takes a right.
What you are suggesting does seem quite a bit better. You can drop people off right next to the train station (no crossing Rainier). When leaving, the bus makes a left to get onto Rainier. That might take a while, as you have to wait for the pedestrian crossing cycle, as well as the heavily favored traffic on Rainier. But if you made that left turn only, then the pedestrian cycle and the turn cycle would happen at the same time (the crosswalk is only on the south side of the street).
Another alternative would be to add a bus-only left turn lane on Rainier. The left turn would occur at the same time as the crosswalk as well. It isn’t as convenient as your idea, but it significantly speeds up the bus and would be faster for the bus than your idea, if the bus could trigger the left arrow. If the area around McClellan ever gets built up (which is what everyone wants) then there will be a lot more pedestrians and bikes around there. That would make the two turns you suggest (right onto McClellan, left onto 26th) a bit time consuming. Even now the left turn from McClellan to 26th can take a while, as McClellan is an arterial.
I think it is worth looking at the long term plans. The RapidRide+ routes would swap the southern tails of the 7 and 48. That means the 48 would continue on Rainier Avenue to Rainier Beach, while the 7 would end at Mount Baker. My guess is more people transfer from MBS to the 48 than the 7, simply because it covers more. This change (which is highly likely, unlike other parts of the long range plan) would mean that most of the train to bus transfers would occur on the street (from the new through-routing 48 to Link).
They suggest a host of other changes, including the following:
1214 — Similar to the 14, except without the little spur, ending at Mount Baker
3033 — An extended version of the 27, ending at Mount Baker
3997 — Replaces the southern part of the 8; does not stop at Mount Baker, but connects the Central Area to Beacon Hill.
Again, it means the same number of routes (two) along 23rd ending in Mount Baker. But all those buses are minor, and coverage in nature. None of them would be close to the 8 in terms of frequency. Metro also suggests another bus:
3996 — Similar to the eastern part of the 50 (Seward Park) but one that goes only from Mount Baker Station to Rainier Beach Station.
So that means an additional coverage bus ending in Mount Baker, approaching from the south.
So in terms of buses that terminate there, it means one bus from the north on Rainier Avenue, two buses from the north, originating east of 23rd, and one bus from the south on Rainier. The only bus that is frequent would be the new version of the 7, which probably won’t have that many transfers.
While most of the buses aren’t frequent, they still need layover space, and with four routes, I’m not sure they can all fit along that street. I think the biggest improvement would be for the new 7. The two buses from the northeast would be about the same, assuming a left turn arrow was added for 26th (otherwise they might spend a long time taking that left). The bus from the south would be worse off.
Overall, it just doesn’t seem worth it. I don’t think Metro wants to sell the land, and there will be fewer train to bus transfers there. I think the key issue is how the new 7 terminates. Your idea makes sense, but I think that could also be achieved via a left turn arrow on Rainier, into the transit center.
The location of the current transit center feels very hemmed in, as it is impossible to approach on foot from any direction, without crossing either Rainier, MLK, or McClellan.
As opposed to the train station, which forces people to cross *both* Rainier and MLK.
At least the current station location gives you a pedestrian bridge to quickly reach the neighborhood to the east, without needing to cross those busy streets.
What? Are you seriously defending the infamous pedestrian bridge? That is the one that is routinely ignored, while pedestrians jaywalk. That lead to the infamous incident where the cop hit the young woman (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_j7tijew7xk). That bridge? That bridge is terrible. There is a reason why so many people jaywalk. They don’t want to walk up and down, round and round. It is especially crazy to do that to get to a station that is then elevated (up, down, up — sounds like an aerobics class). I mean it is great if you are trying to get in shape, but if you are just trying to get to work (or school) it stinks.
The Mount Baker station is terrible. It is terrible in terms of pedestrian access as well as potential development. There is literally a green belt to the west, cutting off potential ridership from that direction. The vast majority of people who walk there have to cross both streets, and often that means cutting across the transit center (https://goo.gl/maps/zsqSxdZLhgn). It makes transfers to the buses more difficult, whether the buses are passing through, or ending near by. If it at the transit center, it would mean a lot more people would be able to walk there quickly, and the bus transfers would be faster.
“they still need layover space,”
Metro has a strange definition of a transit center. The first transit center I experienced was Bellevue Transit Center, which had timed transfers and was right downtown, so it seems like an ideal solution as a downtown hub. But later transit centers like Issaquah are in the middle of nowhere so they lose most of their benefits for non-drivers. And Mt Baker Station seems to be mainly layover space. So is that what a transit center means, a bus-parking satellite? Metro was wise enough not to route the 7 through it; it just passes by. But the 8 used to zigzag through it. When Metro split the 8 and 38 it terminated both of them there. But that just makes it even worse for through riders: they still have to zigzag, and now they have to wait for the other route to start. Of course they try to avoid doing this; they find another way instead, like transferring to the 7 or 48, or walking to the 7 from Othello-land.
“Do you really think it would make the transfers much better?”
True, the original situation was when the station was being designed and could have included more extensive changes that now won’t be considered until Link is lowered into a trench to speed it up.
Yeah, although I don’t think it will ever be lowered into a trench. That would speed things up a little, but not a lot (around two minutes by my estimation). It would still cost a fair amount of money, and be very disruptive. Look how some folks in Ballard are using the threat of disruption to screw up the Ballard proposal. I just don’t see it happening, unless we need it from a headway perspective (which seems unlikely).
Seattle is talking about lowering the speed limit on MLK from 30 to 25, like it has already done on NE 65th Street (!). If Link is forced to go down to 25 mph too, that would make the speed discrepency between 25 mph on the surface and 55 mph in a trench. Conversely, if Link remains at 35 mph, it would screw up the signal timings at the intersections because you’d then have one more variable to coordinate (Link running at a different speed than cars).
Jim Cusick says:
What would happen if they raise Link’s speed to 50mph in MLKing Way?
>> Streetcars work way better when you kick out the cars.
So do buses.
It is weird that it has taken Toronto so long to improve their streetcar system. It is huge, with 700 stops and close to 300,000 riders a day. But then again, San Fransisco has struggled with their surface lines as well. It is just hard to get that right of way, even when it is obviously a great value.
So does biking and walking. So what!
The point is, transit is transit. Saying “Streetcars work way better when you kick out the cars.” is like saying “big buses work way better when you kick out the cars”, or “purple buses work way better when you kick out the cars”. It implies that there is something special about streetcars that make them run fast without cars, when buses also run fast without cars. I suppose you could say “streetcars run much slower than buses in mixed traffic” (which is true) but that is a different thing.
Your over zealousness for buses is making you read way more into the article than need be. People in Toronto are now enjoying their streetcars more than before. Why can’t you leave it at that and not turn the article into a streetcar vs bus article. The merits of bus vs streetcar have more than harped on…give it a rest!
I have no problem with the article. I was talking about the comment. It makes sense to focus on right of way for both buses and streetcars, especially in a city like Seattle. If you read the next paragraph of my comment, that should be obvious (it is a short paragraph — it shouldn’t be too hard to read).
You seem to be the one trying to stir up a streetcar versus bus fight, making stupid assumptions about a simple comment. Holy shit, I specifically point out that Toronto and San Fransisco — too cities with streetcar lines — should have had right of way granted to them years ago. I even go so far as to point out how fucking great and important the Toronto streetcar system is (with “with 700 stops and close to 300,000 riders a day”) and yet you think I’m downplaying its importance! Jesus, it is like you are trying to start a pissing match and not even reading what I wrote.
Look, the concept isn’t that difficult. Of course Toronto — a city with a massive existing streetcar system carrying massive numbers of people — should have more right of way for those vehicles. Of course San Fransisco — with a smaller, yet still substantial surface rail system — should have the same. Both should also have extra right of way for buses. The same is true for Seattle, a city which does not have, nor will ever have a huge streetcar system. Saying “buses should have good right of way, too” simply adds relevance to the issue, for Seattle, which is supposed to be the focus of this blog.
Your affinity for buses is well noted!
Thanks, I think everyone on this site has an affinity for buses. It is a transit website after all.
Do you think anyone on this site (regular commentor or contributor) does not have an affinity for buses? Really? That would be weird. Why go on a website that is focused on a subject, if you don’t like it? Maybe there are anti-transit folks that occasionally comment, but those seem rare.
Commenting on the Seattle Transit Blog and not liking buses is like commenting on a Los Angeles Lakers website, but not liking basketball. I mean, sure, some of the players may be cute, but my guess is most everyone on the site enjoys watching hoops.
les- I’m not sure why you are so enamored with the slow as molasses streetcars! They are pretty but the poorest transit option available in most cases.
“Eyman and his partners, Jack Fagan and Mike Fagan of Spokane, wore orange t-shirts emblazoned with “$30 TABS” as they delivered boxes of petitions to the Secretary of State’s office.”
OK, but how high are the car tabs in Spokane?
Eyeman doesn’t actually care about car tabs or if any of his initiatives make the ballot or pass. The initiative process itself is how he makes his money, he’s counting on $30 tabs being popular enough to attrack donors so he can pay himself.
Oh, I bet he really does love lower taxes. It is a labor of love for him, but he does make sure to get paid well while doing it (win or lose).
He cashed out a substantial part of his retirement savings for this.
Donde Groovily says:
Like Tacoma should do on MLK way when the new Tacoma Link opens. Cars can easily use J St one block over.
eddiew says:
note picture with story. it is of 4th Avenue in p.m. peak with Pine Street at base. Katie Wilson, TRU, is biking in foreground. in March 2019, there will be more congestion and traffic break downs.
Orv says:
Also note 3 buses each taking up 2 lanes while stopped.
perhaps the Route 510 coach had a long dwell and the coaches for routes 545 and 594 are pulling around it. they are not imposing delay on any one else.
I like the Urbanist’s spin on the election. However, I don’t think any Democrats lost over the car tab issue, except maybe in the Seattle mayoral race. Rather, Sen. Chase lost, in part, because she opposed ST3, and appears to still oppose it.
The same can be said for Sen. Miloscia, Rep. Harmsworth, and Rep. Hargrove. They didn’t just campaign against car tabs. They campaigned against Sound Transit. Sen. Fain didn’t campaign against ST or car tabs. He lost for #MeToo reasons.
Oh, I almost forgot Rep. Muri, the principled conservative from the same district as Sen. O’Ban, who was not up for re-election. Muri also is dependably anti-ST, for consistent ideological reasons, and lost by several points in a traditionally R-leaning district.
I don’t think any Democrats lost over the car tab issue, except maybe in the Seattle mayoral race.
I don’t remember it being an issue. There were a lot of things going on — votes were split among a lot of candidates — but I don’t remember car tabs being an issue at all.
I think in general Washington State just caught a “blue wave”. Issues like 405 tolls or car tabs weren’t that important. Chase versus Salomon was an exception. I think it is quite possible that Chase’s opposition to ST3 played a part in her demise. But I also think she might not have been that popular, and as an incumbent losing the endorsement of both the Seattle Times and The Stranger can be a killer. If your opponent is younger, less experienced, running to the left of you, has a better field organization *and* the endorsement of the Seattle Times, you are probably toast.
That was supposed to be a response to Brent. I also meant to write “opposition to ST”, not “opposition to ST3” (I honestly don’t know what her stand on ST3 was).
I think in today’s political climate, opposition to Trump drowned out all the usual location politics regarding tolls and car tabs.
Yeah, exactly. That is what I called the Blue Wave.
I think the Salomon versus Chase race was different, in that it was two Democrats going at each other.
“New bus platforms in Bellevue.” Isn’t that just a plastic bus bulb?
Also, I now believe that 108 ave NE between about NE 8 and Main Street has been tinkered with and “improved,” to the point where it is now confusing and dangerous.
psf says:
The plastic bus bulbs are great. Instead of 100k per to destroy sidewalk, weeks of concrete and striping, and current massive backlog, we could see entire city covered in a year.
Would love to see similar for ADA curb bulbs, of which seattle has a decade plus backlog.
There’s nothing great about the installation of plastic bulbs as a symbolic gesture or a political statement. That’s a lightly used bus stop serviced by lightly ridden routes on a lightly travelled section of 108th. It’s an answer to a problem that doesn’t exist at that location. And it’s only adding to the confusing patchwork of changes that have been made to that road.
Small projects in lightly-used places can spread to large projects in widespread places. Metro has been testing battery-electric buses on two of the lowest-volume routes (including the 226 you’re such a great expert on). The purpose is not just to evaluate converting routes in low-volume areas like Beaux Arts to batter, but to use them on higher-volume routes too. The initial deployment on low-volume routes is to limit the harm in case they malfunction during the initial phase. Similarly, this stop may not be as much about political priority and tokenism, but about having less political opposition to overcome. You’re a political science expert so you know about the tactic of fanagling things in incrementally.
Al, Mike and I were discussing route restructures in the greater Central Area the other day (in light of future Madison RapidRide and the Judkins Park station). I finally got around to writing a Page 2 post about it: https://seattletransitblog.com/2018/11/15/east-seattle-bus-restructure/
I would like to see King County decriminalize car tab evasion. A study should be done to see if a disproportionate number of any group … males, Hispanics, Blacks, Whites, unemployed etc … are penalized for not having current car tabs on their cars, and if any group is, then we need to reform car tab enforcement.
I’m pretty sure this has already happened (more or less). It is harder to tow a car, because there are a lot of poor people who depend on it, or live in it. Welcome to America, Sam. Where billionaires get giant tax subsidies, and families live in their cars.
Question: Will Sam ever come to an STB meetup so that Martin can give him a Most Brilliant Commentator award?
Streetcars work way better when you kick out the cars
Cars work way better when you kick out the Streetcars… duh! It doesn’t help the transit image when a stupid streetcar project like SLUT F’s up traffic and then complains that the 1-2 people on the SC need traffic priority.
The Bus Is Still Best
Ride-shares aren’t the most efficient way to move lots of people around cities.
My take home from this article was that KC Metro needs to abandon the PBnJ approach and focus bus hours on routes that are at least, less dismal. Dismissing this as “just a smart phone ‘thang'” is pretty telling. Why, yes…Being able to pop in a destination and get a reasonable time/$$$ answer is actually a big deal… Something Dial-a-Ride didn’t deliver.
They’re solutions for different locations. Metro’s app-a-ride experiment in Eastgate/Somerset is precisely the kind where on-demand or semi-fixed vans can extend the reach of transit to areas where a fixed-route bus isn’t practical (because a bus would have to arbitrarily choose one street, but 80% of the people don’t live near that street). If the service area is small, it will never take long for the van to finish whatever it’s doing and come to you. Jarrett is not as categorically opposed to this as it might seem. Buried in the article is a couple sentences saying it might be justified as coverage service. The examples in the article are not fringe cases like Fairwood where dial-a-ride has long existed, but the average routes in Santa Clara VTA, which is more like South King County as a whole. You wouldn’t replace all the non-trunk routes in South King County with app-vans, but some people are advocating precisely that in some cities. They’re advocating for microtransit to fill the gaps in places like Wallingford and Capitol Hill rather than adding and rerouting fixed-bus routes, and the elephant in the room, converting parking and GP lanes to transit lanes. People assume the buses can’t get any faster, but they’re being artificially crippled by traffic. A true high-quality bus network would have buses zooming by between stops.
“Superficially, it might seem that offering riders a more convenient service—especially one that comes directly to their door—would increase ridership.”
This is another crux of the issue. Some people won’t take a bus if they’d have to walk a couple blocks to it. I knew somebody who wouldn’t take a bus from 5th & Wall to 95th & Aurora even though it went practically door to door, because buses just weren’t his thing. If he had no other way he’d take the bus, but if someone was away weekends and lent him his truck, he’d rather use that. These are the kinds of people we’re chasing after. The question is, is this a wise use of limited tax resources, to attract people who won’t take fixed-route buses even when they’re there? Or will take them but grumble the whole time saying it should go to their house.
Some people won’t take a bus if they’d have to walk a couple blocks to it.
Yes, but as you suggest, these people just won’t use transit. They might take a cab, but that isn’t transit.
Let me give you an example: I live about four blocks from the 41. It runs every every ten minutes, and can take me to Northgate or downtown. Would I rather have front door service? Of course, but at what cost. Imagine they say they will now pick me up. I call them use my smartphone to order a ride and they say it will take 15 minutes. Not bad, I guess. But along the way, they will pick up other riders. OK, makes sense. But now instead of following the major arterials, we are going back and forth within the neighborhood, picking up people. Instead of taking about ten minutes to get to Northgate, it takes twenty. Add in the initial wait time, and I am much worse off. For the folks who live in apartments (which just so happen to be close to the arterials) it is much worse. They get delayed by folks like me, who live in the houses. You have a system that favors the few, and makes things worse for the many.
That is the crux of the problem. Of course there are places with ridership so low that only van-pool service will work. Using a smart phone to order service will make that better. So will advanced computer analytics, to smooth out those trips. But the only way that can be cost effective is if the van picks up lots of other people along the way. And that means it is slow.
Having the systems be smarter doesn’t change the equation. Either you are spending a lot more per rider (so that the rider can ride on demand and get a reasonably direct ride) or you are providing a slow ride. That is what Walker is getting at, and despite the fact that he keeps providing evidence to back that up, there are still folks who think that van-pools have suddenly become “disruptive” and are now a better, more cost effective way to get around.
Yup, this is problem with microtransit. A ride that goes to your door sounds great, until you have to suffer through all the twists and turns necessary to go to everybody else’s door.
Long before the term “microtransit” existed, there were airport shuttle services under brands like Super Shuttle or Shuttle Express, which perform, what is, effectively, microtransit to and from the airport. I quickly realized that if the bus is anything remotely decent, and you don’t have a lot of luggage to carry, you can get where you’re going just as quickly, with much better travel-time reliability, and for a lot less money, just by riding the plain old bus.
What I think is so enticing about microtransit is that, while buses are very efficient at scaling up, microtransit is great at scaling down, to the point where, if you’re the old one whose using it, it works great, as our STB writer observed at Eastgate. But, at soon as other people start using, the travel times and wait times very quickly become unpredictable. You’ll have occasions where the van is traveling up a major road (e.g. 148th) carrying people whose trips look “on the way” as the crow flies, only to observe the van on the ground spending most of its time waiting at stoplights to make left turns on and off 148th, as different passengers have destinations on different sides of the street. Or occasions where all the vans are busy carrying other passengers and you have to wait 20-30 minutes for one to show up. Of course, these problems can theoretically go away by increasing the number of drivers and vehicles to match demand, but you can’t do that without driving either the fares or the subsidies through the roof. In the real world, where the allocated subsidy is fixed, and the fares are also fixed, this means that if the service ever gets popular, all the vehicles are going to busy, and you’re just going to have to wait your turn, often for longer than it would take to wait for a fixed-route bus that runs every 30 minutes.
There are a few legitimate usages of microtransit, but they are very narrow. A replacement for paratransit, for those that can’t walk to the bus stop, but don’t need wheelchair accommodations or trained professionals is one. Another is as a temporary pilot to gauge demand in a suburban area that would otherwise lack transit service – with the understanding that if the route ever gets too popular for a single microtransit van to be able to handle, it gets replaced with a fixed-route bus (with data collected by the microtransit pilot used as an aide to determine the precise routing that this fixed-route bus would take).
William C. says:
This. Completely.
Several years ago, I was regularly using Microsoft’s shuttles to get between buildings on campus. It’s effectively microtransit – you call a dispatcher or book online for a shuttle from Building 10 to Building 20, and you get an ETA of a shuttle that’ll get you there after stopping by several other buildings to pick up or drop off people who look like they’re on the way.
I often had to spend just as much time waiting as it would’ve taken to bike the whole way. Then, when I was on the shuttle, we’d be spending that much time again dodging into and out of other buildings’ parking lots to give everyone service at the door. Finally, I got fed up and started riding my bike; I haven’t stepped aboard an on-campus shuttle in years.
Yet theyre the ones saying microtransit is revolutionary and will make buses obsolete. They’re the ones we have to watch out for or we’ll lose our buses, as a few cities have found when they replaced coverage routes with Uber agreements that end up excluding the poor from riding.
As to whether or not it’s “transit”, that depends on where transit ends. I can accept that taxis, microvans, and even Uber are a kind of transit because you don’t own the vehicle and aren’t driving yourself, and the system is open-access (i.e., open to anyone who pays the fare). But they’re a very inefficient and costly form of transit. And that’s why it’s wrong to have only them available.
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Is it a boy or a girl?
Posted on August 17, 2017 by Quentin
LBGTQ – it’s hard to remember what each initial stands for but they add up to a cultural change which claims that gender is a matter of choice. The choice is not necessarily permanent: one may simply change it as perceived or required. I read recently of a policewo/man who it was reported could change gender day by day. The Church is unsurprisingly unhappy about all this: “Make and female he created them.” And while it insists that respect should be given in all cases, history tells us that severe persecution was once the condign answer. Other denominations, Christian or otherwise, take even stronger views. In some communities homosexual activity is a capital offence.
It has been going on for a long time. Recently I spent an afternoon with an old friend. I recall him as a cuddly five year old girl who used to leap up and hug me whenever we met, usually outside church after Mass. Now he is large, strong, and be-bristled; if he cuddled me now he might squeeze me to death by mistake – and a charming and kinder man it would be hard to meet.
We instinctively identify gender through the obvious characteristics of biology. Easy-peasy. In more difficult cases a list of comparative characteristics would, in the old days, be used for a final decision. Now it may simply be claiming so. Having said that, we should remember that in some instances the situation can be complicated. Children who have routinely been assigned gender at birth do sometimes develop psychological and physical characteristics consistent with the opposite gender, or somewhere in between. The proper diagnosis and treatment of such children, both parental and professional, is essential to help the child to cope with the situation and to develop into a confident adult according to their choice.
But the apparent ability to choose or change one’s own gender appears to run counter to what we have assumed to be permanent differences between the sexes, which have come about through evolution to ensure that the reproduction of our species can continue. The female would need to seek mating but would have built-in concern that the right mate was accepted. She would be open to sexual approaches but would only respond to males who would apparently make good fathers: capacity to provide, which might well include power, stability and care. Such qualities would maximise the chances of the children. It is significant that women tend to be most open to sexual advances when they are ovulating.
The male would ideally spread his seed as widely as possible. Maximum fertilisations is the goal. “Men only want one thing” say many women. And that’s true, and they should welcome the wide choice they get as a result of men being made that way. But he is especially drawn to the attractive because symmetry tends towards health. The ratio between waist and hips plus good breasts all indicate good physical mothers – although this may not be the man’s immediate consideration.
But the situation is changing. We now know how to separate sexual engagement from conception. Formerly the two were a function of each other but, over a few decades, we have separated sex for the sake of reproduction and sex for the sake of sex. It is a revolution. It is not my purpose here to argue a moral case on either side but just to note that something at the heart of the human race has changed. And all change has consequences. We might in our discussion try to tease out what these consequences, good or bad, may be.
People of my older generation find the new thinking very odd to understand. It is taken for granted that sexual intercourse is an appropriate expression of relationship – whether the relationship is recent or of longstanding. No doubt two people who are not averse to each other use it as a form of recreation just as we might invite someone for a meal. Marriage has by no means disappeared and for many it is seen as the right relationship for reproduction. But although it is much more stable than living together without marriage, it has a high breakdown rate. And of course gender is no longer a factor. If you feel heterosexual today and homosexual tomorrow, take your pick. Follow your feelings for there are no rules.
We have seen great changes in our lifetime – from nuclear weapons to a digital universe. But make no mistake the sexual revolution will prove the greatest of all. Hold on to the roundabout, it’s going to be quite a ride.
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36 Responses to Is it a boy or a girl?
Brian Hamill says:
The physical and psychological profiles of both men and women are, in general, given and obvious. It is when the distinction become blurred for any number of reasons that the moralists seem to want to wade in and make sweeping judgements based on ‘the norm’. But ‘the norm’ is part of our human system of logical order which has a greater or lesser relationship with full reality there in front of us. Perhaps a little more humility before the glory of God’s diversity in creation might be more apposite when approaching or dealing with the complexity of these given situations.
In humans, sex is determined by chromosomes inherited from parents. Each person has chromosomes in every cell of the body. In the vast majority of cases, these are in pairs: either XX or XY. If you have the former pairing, you are female – if the latter pairing, male. There are other possibilities, but they are rare (eg, less that 3 per thousand births). So (in nearly all cases) sex is determined at conception. It is not something that can be changed by drugs or surgery. Maybe sex is different from gender? If people want to behave as if they were of the opposite sex, then -for most purpose – they can and should be accommodated. But legal recognition (as the government has proposed) is more tricky,
I see that sex is distinguished from gender (see Scientific American article quoted by Quentin, below).
galerimo says:
Your email was very dramatic Quentin. I was sure, by your tone, you were going to offer us something on North Korea or Charlottesville. “Is it a boy or a girl” took the wind right out of my sails.
You say, “Something at the heart of human nature has changed”. And teasing out the consequences is not easy. Brendan is right to caution humility – I take that to heart. I find myself going almost instinctively to moralising.
Trying to tease out the consequences of LGBTQ, LBGTQ, or LGBTQIA, on the positive side I would offer than anything which frees up strictly binary only categories of gender has to have a liberating consequence for human beings. We obviously don’t all fit or don’t all want to fit the male/female divide.
John Thomas says:
“But the situation is changing” – I think it would be more accurate to say that ‘the situation HAS BEEN changed’, by people determined to undermine traditional ideas/values. It is naive to think (as many do) that these changes (yes, Quentin, enormous changes) have come about by some necessary, inevitable, undirected process, that was happening anyway.
My own first experience of knowing a person moving male > female was as long ago as 1973 – pretty rare then; then again, about 20 years’ later. What I didn’t know in 1973, and 1993, is that it’s not just one’s genitalia that matters: apparently, every cell in the body is, and remains, ‘male’ or female, and THAT is something which no government (or even the BBC!) can change.
The idea that ‘gender’ is – as for the policeperson – a matter of how one is feeling today, rather than biological (objective) fact, is an assault on reason – and reason was what science, and the West, was built on. It comes down to the assault on reason (and God, obviously, as you hint).
Hock says:
This ‘revolution’ was bound to happen once homosexual acts were legalised. This was the first push at the door and it has now swung so wide that any sense of control has long since disappeared and any talk of controlling it brings down bitter invective on the person making it.
It has become fashionable to ‘change’ sex ( an impossibility, but its dangerous to say so.) We are now brain washing children of tender years into a quagmire of supposedly wanting to be the opposite of what they were born but if left alone they would never have heard of such a thing and hence never contemplated it.
Acceptance of all this perversion is the green light to carry on and the more outrageous it seems the better. Any attempt to redress the balance is becoming a criminal offence however for those like me who look with horror at what is being done in many spheres of sexuality can take some heart from the stand that many took who are volunteers with the National Trust and evidently resigned in their hundreds at the ‘order’ from on high that they must wear a rainbow badge of some description when facing the public and the Trust had to rescind the order.
Since the 60’s …all taboos have been increasing wiped out by a loss of the sense of God in the West and therefore moral constraints….voyeurism now gives way to unbridled experimentation in all areas of human sexuality. A kind of fusion/confusion of a free-for-all sexual ‘Tower of Babel ‘. God help us !
.The sexual revolution may result from the removal of the constraints of medieval religious and social structures and the related near famine economies, by the power given to individuals by the industrial and medical revolutions. In which case we need to search for the right way through the historical debris rather than chuck everything overboard. The plight of children in the new order is an explicit indication having taken a wrong direction.
However, an alternative view can be speculated.
In the new view of biology, living organisms operate at multiple levels of complexity by means of molecular, cellular and organismal networks each with their own purposes. The organism constrains its chemistry, including its genes, to serve the organism as a whole and CRUCIALLY in its interaction with its environment. Mechanistic views of evolution by the mutation of genes in which there is no theory of canditature for evolution are relegated to a part act.
[Dance to The Tune of Life; Biological Relativity by Denis Noble. Cambridge University Press, 2017]
My speculation is that the human race has run out of control and is destroying the living world by habitat incursion and also itself. Famine and pestilence may reassert their former controlling mechanisms, but the mechanism of reducing fertility by sexual confusion may have kicked in.
From a practical point of view, it is worrying that:
(a) people who are biologically men can declare themselves female, and use changing rooms and toilet facilities reserved for women. Thus “peeping Toms” can readily obtain cover for their desired activities. If the circumstances suit them, so can would-be rapists.
(b) someone can grow up and mature as a man, “change” gender, and be able to compete with women in sport. This has already happened in the USA, though possibly only at a local level. The ex-man won the race, of course, beating all the “real” women. Whether this will be permitted at international level remains to be seen.
There are other difficulties of a similar sort – which would need resolving if the proposal to allow people to change sex at will were to be taken seriously. For example, the BBC is in trouble because it pays top male presenters more than females. It has been suggested that it could solve its problem by persuading some of the men to change sex (perhaps in return for further increases in salary?) – also then they could retire 5 years earlier.
Geordie says:
What are our Church leaders doing or saying about this? What guidance are they giving society after listening to the Holy Spirit through prayerful consideration? Nothing much so far. Let’s hope they accept the Holy Spirit’s guidance soon and save this generation from catastrophe.
There has always been a small percentage of unfortunate people with sexual identity problems, and I am wondering if there has been an increase recently caused by the pollution of our environment? There have been reports for many years of fish in American lakes being deformed due to the disposal of toxic waste from industrial plants in the plastics industry. However, it is still a very small minority, and to offer gender as a choice to all is quite incomprehensible. Apart from any other considerations, how can our overstretched NHS doctors and nurses do all the work involved, including counselling, when they cannot even cope with the numbers of people needing normal medical and psychiatric help? As for using our limited resources to enable a man to give birth . . .
“I am wondering if there has been an increase recently caused by the pollution of our environment”- No, Martha, the increase has been caused by very skillful propaganda from powerful, well-resourced people, who are in the ‘right’ places (eg. media, government). I’m in no doubt that they would LIKE you to think this is a ‘natural’ process …
ignatius says:
I keep company with transgender people quite often as part of my chaplaincy role and to be honest I can’t really see thousands flocking for the operations or the hormones. Personally speaking with all that is entailed I quite admire those whose conviction about their identity is so strong that they do change sex. I don’t especially see this as a moral issue as much as one of biochemistry. It shouldn’t be that difficult to understand that the hormonal axis is bound to throw up inconsistencies from time to time or that these people should be carefully vetted then helped if of course help is at hand.
Ignatius – I would agree that a transgender change by someone with a ‘ mature ‘ outlook, having gone through the trials and tribulations of a life he/she considered as a ‘different ‘ person, may be the better course. However, our society is now prepared to consider children/adolescents , hardly in the category of ‘ mature individuals ‘ , as now empowered psychologically/physically to ‘ know their own minds ‘ on such a complex and intensely personal subject.
Driving this grave error of judgement are powerful lobby groups such as LGBT and their associates ( those in politics and the media ) hell-bent on ‘ politicising ‘ this state of affairs linked to their God…absolute equality. As a Christian ( and politics aside ) , natural law would bring me to reason that there is no such thing as ‘ absolute equality .’ Therefore, there can be no equality concerning the psycho-sexual relationship between a person oriented to lesbian/homosexuality …” the psycho-genesis of which is unknown ”- Cat. of Cath. Faith….and a heterosexual person, the societal norm. BOTH however are children of God – the difference in sexual orientation does no negate that of BOTH having equality before God.
Not surprisingly and depressingly ; giving the liberalising effects of moral relativism ( through loss of religious moral parameters ) , the general public are rushed headlong into falling for this deceit under the great banner-headline of ‘ personal choice ‘ sold as a ‘ absolute right.
I, unashamedly cling to The Holy Spirit and the ‘ Rock of Ages ‘ who links me to the sure foundations of Christs Church , rather than the ‘ zeitgeist ‘ of our ( or any ) passing age.
Brendan, you are right to say that a young child is not able to make a mature decision about gender. But you also have to take into account that very young children, too young to know anything about it, can have consistent predilections contrary to their sex. This requires very careful parental decisions, preferably with professional help.
The September issue of Scientific American “Special Issue: Sex and Gender” is comprehensive. It’s certainly a complex subject about which even science needs to know a great deal more. Incidentally it gives us an important verbal distinction: ‘sex’ refers to biological traits; ‘gender’ to social identity. So sex is binary: male or female. Gender is much broader and can contain a range of elements, many of which are not binary but a matter of degree.
What is to go in a passport – sex or gender (or both – or neither)?
Quentin, you’ve read the article and I haven’t. I don’t know facts or figures, but it is entirely plausible that some young children may have ‘predilections contrary to their sex’ (assuming that there are such things, which some might deny). But to encourage such children to think of themselves as having a gender that didn’t match their sex would in my view be prima facie grossly irresponsible.
My, non-expert, view would be to advise the parent to accept whatever predilections appear without comment. Perhaps they grow stronger, perhaps they change with age. But I am sure that long term parental disapproval, directly or indirectly, is damaging. At an early and plastic age our parents are the main channel through which we learn what sort of people we are.
Yes Quentin – with me you are pushing at an open door. A complex subject needs subtle nuances the better to bring out ‘ understanding ‘ by us all. In trying to bring balance to my piece, I was attempting to emphasise certain organisations and individuals whose primary aim seems to ‘ politicise ‘ sexual orientation for their own ‘ agenda ‘ thus ignoring this complexity within sexual ‘struggle ‘- which we all have – thus raising obfuscation where clarity should prevail if possible, when given a chance.
Sadly our politics arena is riven with classic ploys to hide truth in the matter of difficult social subjects. i.e. in the field of race, colour or human sexuality.
There is, of course, a big difference between a subject when approached from a pragmatic or an ideological perspective. I think one really has to’ know’ and to genuinely ‘see’ the person in the situation and not view them through the haze of ideological/political ‘principle’
This is a great danger for religious folk too since religion will, by its very nature, abstract, theorise and legalise; but what is needed is the concrete manifestation of mercy. This was the point of today’s gospel reading concerning the Caananite woman in Matthew 15.
Ignatius is right of course ( giving us the benefit of his chaplaincy work ) ; that one can just as easily find oneself hidebound by ‘ religious polarisation ‘ as well as the more secular and pervasive ( in our times ) ‘ political polarisation .’
I have just scouted out a Catholic viewpoint – as one does – on the issue of gender dysphoria ( gender incongruence/transgenderism ) , our N.H.S. term; which is dealt with by two respected Catholic institutions :- The Anscombe Bioethics Centre ( U.K. ) and The National Catholic Bioethics Centre ( Philadelphia ). …. Just by ‘ googleing ‘ …” Sex and gender, a Catholic perspective.”
I haven’t had time to absorb all its findings , but hope those who wish to use them will find the issues raised pertinent to this discussion.
There is something evil that is getting us to this point where scientific gobbledygook has us all looking in the mirror as we try and define sexuality into ‘anything goes’ and an army of experts attach rational explanations that are anything but rational and lead to confusion with everything and everybody.
Words that did not even exist only a few short years ago are now bandied about as though those uttering them are the founts of all knowledge and those who cry ‘help’ in the face of all this high sounding nonsense are ignorant bigots.
Its as though we are being asked to believe some hidden truths that should have been evident centuries ago but were hidden from the masses by some mysterious conspiracy.
Genesis spells it out for us in plain language. Male and female he created them, in his own image. Jesus repeated it in plain language when it comes to marriage.
“Genesis spells it out for us in plain language. Male and female he created them, in his own image. Jesus repeated it in plain language when it comes to marriage.” Well of course he did because this was nature’s normal way to bring about and increase the human race. But that does not exclude the inevitability of exceptions through irregular genes and hormones. Surely we must understand Scripture in the context of the time. Ironically Jesus himself was the outcome of a mutation since he received no Y chromosome from a human father.
Well said Hock. I am sick and tired of scientific gobbledygook.
Horace says:
Asa rather simple minded individual I was pleased to note the following comment in ‘CHURCH MILITANT’ :- ” …. enshrining of mental illnesses as constitutional rights like homosexuality, transgenderism” etc.
Horace,
I don’t think the World Health Organisation classify homosexuality as a mental illness these days, and in the coming 2018 ICD they are about to declassify transgender identity too.
Again, I think you all miss the point rather, these are your fellow human beings, they are not dogma’s or ideologies. They would have been around in Jesus time too…for all you know he might have met one or two and not condemned them for their dilemma.
Ignatius, Yes, they must be treated with respect and helped as far as possible, but they are very few, and should not be presented as a possible life style choice for all, which the BBC seems to be doing at every opportunity, Woman’s Hour yesterday for instance.
Hi Martha,
Yes I completely agree with that although I didn’t listen to Woman’s Hour. I also understand that most of the comments on here are aimed at the ‘lobbyists’.
I remember well during my University days 40 years ago when bisexuality was being lauded as somehow trendy, liberal-socialist in fact. But to be genuinely trans-sexual is something rather more challenging and as such will hopefully, in actual fact, remain very rarified.
Not long ago we had a discussion about identity. And some old Greek guy got to replace all the planks on his boat. I think it was still his boat.
The use of camoflage is quite a legitimate way of surviving in our animal world – avoiding attack and pain. I think gender identity is also a legitimate survival technique for some people. Others will never know who they truly are.
I can’t see how having XX or XY chromosomes says anything more than a person has either set of chromosomes. Some people have blue eyes and some brown.
Saint Pope John Paul II entitles his book on the theology of the body, “Man and Woman, He Created Them”.
Is there nothing of the feminine in men, or the masculine in women?
And if there possibly is then I wonder if a person can then lay claim to that which they identify as their truth.
I think I can get things back to front if I want society to be ordered correctly so that my children are not confused in their education.
This is as sectarian an issue as you can get.
So “Is it a boy or a girl?”, in my opinion, truly warrants the answer “Yes”.
What was it the man said? Something along the lines of:
“Neither Jew nor Greek , male nor female,freeman or slave, all are one in Christ Jesus…”
You are right about sectarianism. This is a complex question but here you have the heart of it.
Nektarios says:
I posted a contribution on this which was on the button with regards to the relation with trans- genders and Globalist agenda. Too much truth for the blog was it, as I see you have deleted it.
Perhaps it was deleted because the Pope and the vatican are one of the prime movers and shakers on the present evil of Globalism?
I haven’t deleted anything. It may be that the automatic filters picked up something mistakenly.
Nektarios, if Quentin did delete your post (and until he confirms that this is what happened, I shall assume it more likely that there was some kind of technical failure) he was within his rights. It’s his blog. There is not enough control of what is said on blogs. Personally I’d like to hear more about the globalist message you feel the Pope is spreading, if soberly expressed, but I’m not sure it’s on-topic.
Google up LBGTQ and the Pope on that topic, and further, Google up Globalism and the Pope.
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It’s a solitary life for some in The Walking Dead #174, as the spotlight falls on the series’ infamous big bad and former Saviors leader, Negan. Because of his help during the Whisperer War, Rick granted Negan his freedom, on the condition that his lived alone and away from all of the surrounding communities. Negan’s solitary existence has given him time to reflect on the past, but not all off Rick’s allies agreed with his decision…
The Walking Dead #174 is a challenging, unexpected, and welcome change of pace from recent issues as writer Robert Kirkman offers us a powerful insight into Negan’s character and what he’s been up to since the Whisperer War. Some might say it’s about time we had a Negan centric issue like this, others might worry it will demystify Rick’s foul mouthed, bad-ass, nemesis too much, but they’d be wrong on both counts.
Negan’s been around for seventy five issues now, but here we finally begin to get an idea of the inner rage, torment, and grief that drives him. Never in a million years would I have dreamt that Negan would have green fingers either! However, the glimpse of Negan simply living day-to-day in the Zombie apocalypse ultimately proves as moving as it does unsettling, especially when dark echoes from the past start creeping in to tarnish his new found freedom.
Charlie Adlard’s art in this issue magnificently captures the uncanny blend of ordinariness and the macabre that seems to permeate every scene. Negan’s life away from Rick and the other communities plays out amidst a series of seemingly unrelated events, the inks by Stefano Gaudian and gray tones by Cliff Rathburn stylishly accentuates the emotional beats of this issue, and the way an old love from Negan’s past returns – albeit briefly – hits home with chilling clarity as we realize exactly where the narrative is leading us.
The final confrontation in this issue between Negan and Maggie is one that I’m sure many will think has also been a long time coming. Love him or hate him, Negan’s impact on the Image Comics series (and indeed the TV series), has led to some of The Walking Dead’s most talked about storylines. He’s been a divisive character at times, his actions have been heinous, evil, and truly horrifying, and his ruthless glee in dealing out death with Lucille is probably only matched by the rapturous barrage of four letter words and twisted comments that constantly pepper his dialogue at every given opportunity.
Although the main storyline has had a few up’s and down’s since the Whisperer War, Robert Kirkman and Charlie Adlard get things back on track with The Walking Dead #174’s great story of revenge, redemption, and closure to make it one of the best issues of TWD of the year. Where Negan’s character goes from here will be interesting to say the least. Whatever the future holds for Negan, one thing’s for sure, with the six-part New World Order story-arc beginning in January, big events are in store for The Walking Dead in 2018!
Writer: Robert Kirkman / Pencils & Cover: Charlie Adlard / Inks: Stefano Gaudiano
Gray Tone: Cliff Rathburn / Letterer: Rus Wooton / Cover Colors: Dave Stewart
Lashaan (Bookidote) said:
TWD is one of those rare comic series that I’ve been avoiding in order to read once the TV series finally comes to an end (soon… I hope…), but the temptation grows every day when I have this gut feeling telling me how much more superior the source material is. It’s pretty cool to see that Negan is still around and that he’s getting some spotlight focus nowadays. I can only imagine how awesome he must in the comics. What’s your take on the whole TV series vs. comics? Did the show butcher the comics? Is it just as good? Is it its own thing and does well for what it is? So far, I’ve considered the show as my guilty pleasure… It has its highs and lows.. but a lot of lows through the past seasons, for sure. Great review, sir.
I really enjoy TWD comics and the TV series. Each have had their high and low points, I do feel that the TV show, for the most part, has done a good job of realizing the comic story lines and characters. I’d certainly recommend checking out some of the early collected editions of The Walking Dead comics, superb story and art, and if your up to date with the TV show they wont spoil anything for you. I discovered the comics after watching the TV show, so I kind of got into reading them to find out more about the show and characters. Cheers, glad you enjoyed the review, I thought this was a brilliant issue of TWD, it certainly showed Negan in a new light, and brought a sense of closure in some respects as well. Yes, Negan is still around in the comics, and I’m sure he’ll show up again soon. Thanks for commenting and let me know if you check out any of the TWD comics, will be interesting to know what you think 🙂
Am finally, essentially caught up with the book and discovered that Negan is indeed a much more complicated character than when first introduced. Great review, looking forward to reading it.
That’s great to hear! Yes, Negan’s character has evolved over time, often in very unexpected ways since he was first introduced. Glad you enjoyed the review, have a lot of fun writing about TWD, hope you enjoy the issue as much as I did. That ending is awesome! 🙂
Have you read Here’s Negan? I was expecting more in character development since it detailed his past, but I was disappointed at the end of the book.
I have, yes I must admit I felt the same about that one as well. However, The Walking Dead #174 does give us a bit more insight into Negan’s character than before, and the confrontation at the end is very powerful.
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Amber Rose Shares Adorable Update Of Newborn Son Slash Electric
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Model and activist Amber Rose welcomed her newborn son into the world just five days ago.
Her partner Alexander Edwards has been sure to keep fans updated on their pregnancy and birth journey.
“Slash Electric Alexander Edwards.. the world is urs now,” A.E. wrote on Instagram. “thank u @amberrose for loving me so much that u put ur body thru it 2 bring my sun in2 the world. I could never be as strong as u. Slash a rockstar.”
Now Amber has posted updated for her followers with more cute posts of her son spending some quality time with his dad.
A new clip below shows A.E. kissing his newborn as he lays in the hospital bed. Amber Rose also has another son Sebastian, six, with ex-husband Wiz Khalifa.
Rose kept her 18.9 million followers updated on on Instagram when she was in the delivery room.
She shared an image of her man wearing scrubs alongside the caption “It’s time”.
As A.E waited for his son to be born, videos showed him playing playing rock, paper, scissors with step-son Sebastian.
https://www.instagram.com/p/B3qBAEPhjfE/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=dlfix
Last month, Amber revealed she was overdue.
She added a caption reading: “So as of today, I am nine months pregnant y’all. It’s not a game, that’s a big boy in there. Sheesh. I’m pretty much on bed rest at this point…”
“I can’t walk that well. My ankles got a little swollen; my feet got a little swollen. But for the most part, I’m all belly. He’s coming soon, can’t wait. Well, it doesn’t look like Baby Edwards is in any rush.”
Amber announced her pregnancy on Instagram in April.
She added a caption reading: ‘@ae4president and I are SUPER excited to announce that we have a Sweet little Baby Boy on the way! P.S Sebastian is soooooo Happy to be a big brother!’
Written by Christine Haveford
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FRANZ TOST
NATIONALITY Austria
HOMETOWN Trins, Austria
DATE OF BIRTH 20/01/1956
meet FRANZ
As a young lad, Franz Tost’s big hero was fellow countryman Jochen Rindt: his bedroom walls were covered with posters of the Austrian ace and when it was dissertation time at school, Franz’s classmates would all groan, as they knew what was coming – another bloody eulogy to Rindt. Inevitably, Tost found himself behind the wheel, racing a Formula Ford. He was quick enough to win the 1983 Austrian FF Championship, but he felt he would not make it to the top as a driver so a degree in Sports Management from Innsbruck University was next on the agenda. This led to a job at the Walter Lechner Racing School at the Zeltweg circuit.
From there Tost moved to a team management role with EUFRA Racing and at the end of 1993, he took the post of team manager with Willi Weber’s Formula 3 team. It was here that he crossed paths with Ralf Schumacher and Weber asked Tost to accompany the youngster to Japan. This led to looking after Ralf’s interests at Jordan and then Williams, prior to taking on the role of Operations Manager with BMW’s Formula 1 programme. From there, he took on the role of Team Principal with the newly formed Scuderia Toro Rosso in 2005.
1978-1982: Degree in Sports Sciences, University of Innsbruck
1982-1985: Degree in Sports Management, University of Vienna (Magister Rerus Naturale – Master of Science)
1979-1985: Formula Ford 1600, Formula Ford 2000 and Formula 3. Won the Austrian Formula Ford 1600 Championship in 1983.
1985-1988: Walter Lechner Racing School – Director and Instructor, Walter Lechner Racing Team – Team Manager in Formula Ford, Formula 3
1989-1991: Eufra Racing Team – Team Manager
1992-1993: Vienna Racing Team – Deputy Manager
1993-1995: WTS Formula 3 Team – Team Manager
1995-2000: WEBER Management – Marketing Manager
2000-2005: BMW Williams F1 – Race Track Operation Manager
Since 2006: Scuderia Toro Rosso – Team Principal
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COUP-TFII regulates satellite cell function and muscular dystrophy
Xin Xie, … , Sophia Y. Tsai, Ming-Jer Tsai
Research Article Stem cells
Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is a severe and progressive muscle-wasting disease caused by mutations in the dystrophin gene. Although dystrophin deficiency in myofiber triggers the disease’s pathological changes, the degree of satellite cell (SC) dysfunction defines disease progression. Here, we have identified chicken ovalbumin upstream promoter–transcription factor II (COUP-TFII) hyperactivity as a contributing factor underlying muscular dystrophy in a dystrophin-deficient murine model of DMD. Ectopic expression of COUP-TFII in murine SCs led to Duchenne-like dystrophy in the muscles of control animals and exacerbated degenerative myopathies in dystrophin-deficient mice. COUP-TFII–overexpressing mice exhibited regenerative failure that was attributed to deficient SC proliferation and myoblast fusion. Mechanistically, we determined that COUP-TFII coordinated a regenerative program through combined regulation of multiple promyogenic factors. Furthermore, inhibition of COUP-TFII preserved SC function and counteracted the muscle weakness associated with Duchenne-like dystrophy in the murine model, suggesting that targeting COUP-TFII is a potential treatment for DMD. Together, our findings reveal a regulatory role of COUP-TFII in the development of muscular dystrophy and open up a potential therapeutic opportunity for managing disease progression in patients with DMD.
Xin Xie, Sophia Y. Tsai, Ming-Jer Tsai
Protection from dystrophic muscle disease in COUP-TFII–KO mdx mice.
(A and B) H&E- and von Kossa–stained 4-month-old diaphragm muscles. Images are representative of 4 different animals for each genotype. (C) Hydroxyproline content (μg hydroxyproline/mg muscle) in diaphragm muscles in mdx (n = 9) and COUP-TFII–KO mdx (n = 6) mice at 5 to 6 months of age. (D and E) PAX7 staining of the diaphragm muscle and the number of PAX7+ nuclei per 100 nuclei in mdx (n = 7) and COUP-TFII–KO mdx (n = 6) mice at 4 months of age. (F) Quantification of serum CK levels in mdx (n = 14) and COUP-TFII–KO mdx (n = 12) mice. (G) Ten-month-old mdx (n = 14) and COUP-TFII–KO mdx (n = 15) animals were subjected to treadmill running tests. (H) Grip test in mdx (n = 10) and COUP-TFII KO mdx (n = 12) mice. Ten-month-old male mice were used for each genotype cohort. Scale bars: 100 μm (A and B), 25 μm (D). *P < 0.05 and **P < 0.01, by Student’s t test. Data represent the mean ± SEM.
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Incredible Ink and Indelible Voters
Overseas registered voters as well as local postal voters have all cast their votes. Only the general registered voters will cast theirs five days from now. In six days time we shall all know the outcome, winners as well as losers.
Barely four hours have lapsed since the final postal vote was cast when photos of “disappearing indelible ink” rode the Internet waves, and accusations started flying. This could be pre-empting the outcome of the final ballot count come 5th May. Let me show you the pictures taken by a fellow blogger Hazrey of the finger of a personnel from the Johor Bahru Police Contingent HQ who cast his votes this morning, marked with the indelible ink:
The above was the finger, picture taken at around 8.30am. He went home, tried washing it with soap, detergent, dishwashing liquid, and finally washed his car at 5.30pm, and his finger looked like this:
It is still marked.
Nurul Izzah, the daughter of Anwar Ibrahim, tried to do a live demonstration on how to erase the indelible ink. She tried to scrub it off the finger of an army personnel who had voted, and failed. You can read more about it here.
Then, this was followed by a series of photos that was supposedly taken during the attempt. Initially to some, it may look convincing. But only the unwise would take things at face value:
I don’t know why Pakatan people love to lie, and sometimes don’t even care if they get caught. There is also talk that the voting process overseas was flawed. My younger sister, who voted in Australia, had this to say:
I read some rumors about discrepancy with overseas voting. I’m a pioneer overseas voter. Had to go through thorough security check by OZ security guys who even used a metal detector, then had to go through I/C checks on three occasions by 3 different groups, could only open my envelope in the presence of witness and both of us had to acknowledge in writing there was no discrepancy in information on the envelope and on the contents of the envelope before I could proceed to vote. I even tugged the sack containing our votes just to be sure. I think you need industrial grade equipment to cut through it. It would’ve been impossible to go in and out of that room without possessing more than one I/C. It’d also be pretty hard to claim discrepancy with your acknowledgement in writing. Unless you wanna also claim that ghosts exist.
Come on, fools! If you want to form the government, you have to at least hide your stupidity!
Here, enjoy a video while you sulk!
A Shah Alam Voter versus Lim Guan Eng’s Crocodile Tears
The following was written on Facebook by one Azmi Arshad, a voter from Shah Alam, and has been reproduced here with permission and many thanks:
This is my reply to Lim Guan Eng’s speech/email which was described by his ardent supporters as “touching” and “full of energy”. I’m not sure which parts were touching but my responses aren’t tear-jerkers either. I personally wish for the elections to be behind us so that we can get on withour normal lives again. Until then I feel obliged to respond, when able, to uphold the truth (menegakkan kebenaran) and debunk lies, allegations, deception and half-truths.
My responses are not intended to offend anybody but to rebut LGE’s insinuations, allegations and accusations. And that’s all his “touching” speech was; there was not a single mention about any of the government’s positive achievements. I know, that’s politics. But we the people cannot trust leaders who do not know where to draw the line or do not bother about lines drawn.
I have not removed any part of his speech/email to ensure it remained “touching” and “full of energy” from beginning to end:
LGE said: “Since Merdeka, two million Malaysians have migrated overseas because they do not see a future for themselves and for Malaysia . It is time that we don’t live in our past that is filled with hatred and fear. We should look to the future filled with hope and harmony between all Malaysians.”
There are many different reasons why people migrate. People from different countries migrate to other countries. Not just Malaysia. There are those who prefer the Western lifestyle, there are those who want to earn higher income, there are those who want to make quick money, there are those who enjoy living abroad, there are those who follow their spouses, there are those who look for soul mates, there are those who prefer other education systems, there are those who do it for political reasons, there are those who want to run away from Ah Longs, while some are simply extroverts or wanting a change of scene and there are those who want to capitalise on business opportunities and so on and so forth. (Try googling for reasons). Irregardless, whatever their own personal reasons and preferences it is very sad that you give the impression to your fellow Malaysians as well as foreigners that people leave Malaysia as though it is because they are doomed to perish in their birthplace. That is very misleading and dishonest. Indeed many leave because you have succeedeed in instilling such hatred and fear in them.
LGE said: “To put the past behind us, we must stop the politics of race and religion.”
Yet you, Sir, are the one who re-ignited the kalimah Allah issue after the atmosphere had returned to calm, despite knowing fully well the sensitivities and sentiments of the muslims. Why do you insist on this? Why is it not acceptable to use”tuhan” instead of “Allah” in the malay translation of the bible? Why do you ignore the plea of the muslims? Why do you choose to offend muslims? I find it incredible that you are calling for “a stop on politics of race and religion”, when it is the strategy deployed by none other than your party, after which you then try to point the finger at BN/UMNO when they are compelled to defend against your provocative attacks.
LGE said: “To put the past behind us, we must end corruption.”
I totally agree with you that we must prevent corruption. BN also agrees with you, as declared in their manifesto, and you can see MACC working overtime. Why do you not encourage the government instead of merely condemning and refusing to acknowledge their efforts? And why have you done nothing on the alleged corrupt practices of DAP in Selangor linked to the tragic death of Teoh Beng Hock? Why won’t DAP allow for DNA samples to be obtained from the suspects linked to your party? The government has been investing a lot of time and effort cleaning up and DAP also needs to act on the blatant corruption under its own administration (of which allegations come from its own members against your own high ranked members). I’m sure you have seen the allegation by Tony Tan, who is still waiting for Teresa Kok to sue him for defamation, and the allegations against Ronnie Liu (with documentary evidence at that). I am not saying you personally had anything to do with it but you could not prevent corruption either and furthermore you have subsequently done nothing. While changes are taking effect towards a cleaner and more efficient government, you keep sounding like a broken record.
LGE said: “To put the past behind us, we must abolish the suppression, oppression, repression of our basic human rights and freedoms.”
Are the Opposition’s political leaders in jail? Is there shortage of food? Are people being kidnapped and tortured for opposing the government? What basic rights and freedoms have been violated? Is it because the police had to do their job to stop the rioting by your Bersih hooligans? Is it because the country does not allow same sex marriages? Is it because the government tries to help the poor by giving them some preferential treatment which is contrary to your “equal opportunity” concept? It is very sad that you would blatantly lie about the situation in this peaceful country for the sake of wanting to rule it while Anwar Ibrahim has the audacity to compare himself to Nelson Mandela, Mahatma Ghandi and Martin Luther King. You freely abuse your freedom of speech by spreading lies and deception. On the other hand you suppress the dissenting voices in your own CEC elections and try to distract attention from your unethical practice by trying to blame and demonise the ROS. You are not being truthful to yourself, to your party members and to the people.
LGE said: “To put the past behind us, we must demand good governance and performance from our ministers.”
Yes sir, I agree with you. BN demands the same and is very much ahead of you on this, not least with Idris Jala doing a great job implementing KPI systems for ministers and government.
LGE said: “To attain peace Malaysians must stand united and reject those who wish to divide us by preaching racial and religious hatred.”
Yes sir, I totally agree with you. That is why most of the people are rejecting DAP. You and your party are the true culprit in inciting racial and religious hatred and I had published my views on your mischief well before you gave this “touching” speech.
LGE said: “If we want to benefit from equal opportunities and realize our human potential we must stop extremists from continually degrading others as inferiors so as to uplift ourselves.”
Yes sir, I agree with you to a certain extent. I just do not know what you mean by “equal” because equal does not mean fair. For example, a disabled or poor person may need to be given more help to enhance his chances of survival. “Equal opportunities” is not an end in itself. But it seems “equal opportunities” to you means everybody, rich or poor, malay or chinese or indian, is given equal opportunity and if the result is that wealth is owned 100% by DAP supporters then the result is satisfactory by your definition because everyone was given “equal opportunity” and it’s too bad the others failed. Whereas what we should also be trying to achieve is fair distribution in balance sheet terms. And it goes without saying that it be done according to policies being honestly executed.
LGE said: “Why should Allah not be allowed to be used in the Bible when it is used in the Middle East ?
Sir, have you not been listening to explanations, justifications and arguments of the muslim community and Islamic authorities? Why are you asking this question again? It has been thoroughly explained, which means you have either not bothered to study the evidence or you choose to deliberately ignore it. Among other things, you know very well that the malay translation for god is “tuhan”, not “Allah”. I am very sad and depressed that you antagonise the muslims in this country and even more so in Penang. Before this “touching” speech of yours I made an appeal to our Christian bretheren to please use “tuhan” instead of “Allah”and that had nothing whatsoever to do with politics. Why do you wish to disrupt the peaceful religious harmony in this country and why are you so against the use of “tuhan”? And what does the Middle East have to do with the malay language?
LGE said: “We can only achieve harmony together. Despite our differences and diversity, Malaysians can make our common aspirations of freedom, justice, democracy and truth come true if we remember key values.”
Sir, we will achieve harmony again almost instantly if you would refrain from inciting races against each other. You are exploiting those differences and diversity for your own gain. Evidently you yourself do not hold “key values”. The values of Islam compel us to defend Allah’s name. Do your values, if any, compel you to use “Allah” instead of “tuhan” in the malay language bible? I appeal to you to please abandon your religious incitement. You don’t even have to apologise, just please retract your call and I will thank you sincerely and unconditionally — your previous stand on this matter will be forgotten.
LGE said: “That it is not who we are that is important, but what we are that is important; not the colour of our skin that is important but the content of our character; and not our past ancestry that is important but how we connect with the present and with each other to face the future.”
Yes sir, I agree with you. Islam is colour blind and the Holy Quran and the Prophet (Peace be upon him) are testament to this fact. And please know that muslims love Jesus (Peace be upon him). In the Hereafter we will all be accountable for how we lived our life in this material world. Yet it was your cybertroopers who tried to turn the malays against Tun Mahathir by “exposing” his Indian heritage, hoping the malays would then turn against him. Surely you must agree that kind of behaviour is racist and disgusting? They failed of course because not only Islam is absolutely colour blind but malays too are almost colour blind – that’s why, because of their past heritage, we also have malays who look like chinese (that’s me), indian and even european.
LGE said: “We can only be prosperous together. The time has come to focus on the economy, unemployment, education and business opportunities as the conditions for prosperity. We must build human talent and be performance-based.”
Sir, while I agree that material wealth is important, it would mean nothing and would be the cause of destruction of human values if that is your only measurement for prosperity. Prosperity in material wealth is meaningless if we do not pay alms to the poor, if we do not help others and if we are heedless of God (Tuhan). Please do not be overly obsessed with capitalism. Other than that, yes, we must work hard to earn a good honest living and in accordance with religious values. You will be pleased to know that the government has been focusing on all of the above.
LGE said: “For those who say that PR do not know how to govern, the 4 PR states of Penang, Selangor, Kedah and Kelantan have proven our ability by beating the other 10 BN states by attracting RM25 billion in investments comprising 53% of Malaysia’s total investments of RM47.2 billion in 2010. For the first time in history, Penang is now the new champion of investments in Malaysia , coming out top in 2010 with RM 12.2 billion.”
Sir, if PR has achieved good economic results, or even the best economic results as you proudly say, then I congratulate you. I also congratulate the federal government for making it conducive and attractive for those investments — in the case of Penang some seeds were of course planted by the previous state government before PR took over. It would be nice and sporting of you if you were to give credit where credit is due, instead of boasting as if you did it all on your own from zero, although we know you are sincerely trying hard for Penang to prosper and be independent like Singapore.
LGE said: “To put the past behind us, we must end corruption. Barisan Nasional cannot reform to end corruption. Remember, if we do not end corruption, Malaysia dies. If we end corruption, BN dies. The choice is clear. ”
Sir, I understood you the first time. But now you are being deceptive again by trying to make corruption and BN synonymous. Your supporters will cheer and clap but to the rest of us it merely shows your consistency in indulging in character assassination. As a taste of your own medicine, we can not only replace ‘Barisan Nasional’ with ‘DAP’ in your quote but we can also say “Remember, if we do not end racism and oppression, Malaysia dies. If we end racism and oppression, DAP dies”. Not pretty is it? But it’s true. There is nothing I can add which is not already publicly known to show that BN is anti corruption (although your propaganda material shamelessly says BN menghalalkan rasuah), has implemented and enforced laws against it and has been achieving results. It is only that you refuse to acknowledge the achievements and are not capable of “sangka baik” of anyone who could be an obstacle to your quest to rule the country with PAP.
LGE said: “To put the past behind us, we must abolish the suppression, oppression, repression of our basic human rights and freedom. How can we have a clean government when we do not have clean elections?”
Sir, very sadly you repeat in this “touching” speech of yours the baseless accusations of an event that has not yet occured and furthermore after seeing how SPR has implemented so many of DAP’s demands. On the other hand what do you have to say about your own CEC election fiasco? What kind of “clean” and “democratic” process was that? This is unbecoming of a leader. How would you expect the rakyat to trust a leader who does not practise what he preaches? How can we have a clean and honest Opposition when their own elections are a farce and full of dishonesty?
LGE said: “We do not want our children to live in fear of oppressive laws as we have lived. A Pakatan Rakyat government will abolish the UUCA, the Sedition Act and the Printing Presses and Publications Act and restore local government elections.”
Sir, we need laws to maintain social order and social harmony. Isn’t there already enough mudslinging, slandering and disrespectful speech going on in the social and alternative media? Why do you insist on being able to make seditious statements and carry out seditious acts that would cause chaos and social disorder in the country? What is your agenda? (Never mind, we already know your agenda). Aren’t you yourself already getting away with impunity with all your lies, deception, insults and false allegations while your supporters freely spread them? Local government elections will only result in more money and time being wasted in endless campaigning and slandering instead of just getting on with governing. Tolong lah… Enough of people jostling for power and fishing for votes please – this is too disruptive and unproductive. We want peace and quiet, stability and steady progress.
LGE said: “When can we find justice for Teoh Beng Hock, Ahmad Sarbani and A Kugan?”
Sir, as you well know, it was DAP itself that has prevented justice for Teoh Beng Hock by not allowing suspects linked to corruption in DAP to give their DNA samples, while the police and MACC officers (whom DAP accuses of being involved) had given theirs, to establish the two unidentified DNAs found on Teoh Beng Hock. I will put up a separate post on this another time to refresh your memory. While it is believed Teoh Beng Hock was murdered by at least two individuals and covered up by DAP, there was on the other hand clear evidence to show that Ahmad Sabari accidently fell to his death when he tried to jump from the ledge to the roof of the adjacent badminton hall but misjudged the distance. The investigation team even used a stuntman to re-enact what happened. Kugan’s death was also tragic and those involved have been punished, so what further justice are you seeking? I must say that in your insinuation, you were careful in ensuring that all three races are represented for whom to “find justice” so as not to be seen as racist. That’s clever of you and I won’t fault you for that.
LGE said: “When will we have Freedom of Information & Freedom of Speech? When can we have justice that is not only done, but is seen to be done.”
Sir, first of all I am already suffering from information overload of fact and fiction and stinging ears (and eyes) from seditious and obscene speech. I don’t know what more freedom you are seeking on information and speech. But then, you denied crucial information sought by the police when they were investigating Teoh Beng Hock’s death for justice to be done. The police were seen to be trying to have justice done for Teoh Beng Hock and DAP was seen to deny it. It does appear in this case that not enough information was given to the public for them to see the corruption in DAP that led to Teoh Beng Hock’s death. Nonetheless you still have an opportunity to ask their lawyers (Karpal Singh and Gobind) to allow those individuals to give their DNA samples to clear DAP’s involvement. Please come clean on this — you will be respected as a leader.
LGE said: “To put the past behind us, we demand good governance and performance from our ministers.”
Yes sir, I heard you, understood you and agreed with you the first time. My memory is not that short. It is nice to know that you and BN shares the same desire and perhaps you should read BN’s manifesto again.
LGE said: “Malaysia can be an international and intelligent country. We must have digital intelligence with broadband connectivity.”
Yes sir, I agree with you and I am sure BN does too and has evidently already achieved great success. Malaysia having the largest Facebook population is a good indicator of that success although we hope the international community does not use your cybertroopers with multiple fake accounts as a benchmark to measure the country’s intelligence.
LGE said: “We must also have integrity intelligence, so ensure that only honest people are the decision-makers. We must have institutional intelligence under the rule of law.”
Yes sir, I agree with you and I am sure BN does too.
LGE said: “We demand good governance and performance from our ministers.”
Yes sir, I heard you and agreed with you the first time and the second time. And I’ll respond for the third time, BN is all for it too. The difference is the Opposition has not delivered on most of their promises.
LGE said: “Has the Transport Ministry done its duty to run our airports and seaports well? Look at the Penang International Airport whose completion has been delayed more than 3 times. And the Penang Port is to be reduced to be a feeder port and privatized to a 3rd party at the expense of Penangites. Why is there no consultation with the people of Penang to restore the port to its former glory? Instead of looking after airports and ports, the Transport Ministry is more interested in vehicle registration numbers and wants to increase the maximum traffic fines to RM2,000.”
I don’t know sir. But delays in construction projects, especially renovation, are not uncommon. It happens in all countries. Reasons for the delay had already been explained. First you claim that the Transport Ministry is not running the airports and seaports well. Then you complain when the operations of the port is privatised to a licensed operator to improve the services. I suggest you swallow your pride and make an appointment with the ministry to give your views and suggestions to show your sincerity in wanting to “restore the port to its former glory”. If they reject your request, then there may be truth in what you say. I don’t like traffic fines either but aren’t you concerned about the deaths on the road caused by drunk drivers and reckless driving?
LGE said: “Director-General of Tourism is wrongly charged of corruption but the Tourism Minister finds nothing wrong with spending RM1.8 million in doing up her Facebook page, when we all know that it can be done for free.”
First you want the government to fight corruption. Then you say the accused is wrongly charged with corruption. There is just no pleasing you sir. In case you are not aware the DG was acquitted not because he did not receive the gratification but because (i) the prosecution could not prove criminal intent and (ii) the prosecution failed to call in the MACC officer, who was the key complainant. Now do you appreciate how it is not that simple to charge and convict someone for corruption? Would you want the government to lower the standards for conviction so that more can be found guilty and thrown in jail? So here’s the truth: MACC was correct to charge the DG for corruption and the court was also right in acquitting him; there is no need to politicise this. That’s why we have courts of law – someone gets charged and then he is found guilty or acquitted. Errr… Can you please give us the name and phone number of the person who will do Facebook pages for free (and web sites too)? I’d like to use the person’s free services, and I wish you had told us this much earlier.
LGE said: “The Health Ministry wants to privatise healthcare when it should be a public good given as an affordable right to all Malaysians. Why allow the wastage of public funds and affect the quality and affordability of drugs when drugs are bought through a middleman at higher prices when it could be bought cheaper direct from the manufacturers, some of which are operating in Malaysia.”
Let’s wait for the government to show us the pros and cons of the proposed privatisation. I can’t comment until I know the details. Whereas you oppose for the sake of opposing, true to your slogan “Lawan Tetap Lawan”. If privatisation means higher quality and more efficient services then that would be good but at the same time we would have to weigh the benefits against the cost to people. Whatever the decision and outcome, we know the government will look after the lower income group so that they will have access to healthcare in any case.
LGE said: “The Housing and Local Government Ministry opposes local government elections in Penang , denying our fundamental democratic right to elect our councillors and our mayors.”
I have to totally disagree with you. Local government elections are a waste of money, a waste of time and a major distraction from actually governing. Where do you get the idea that it is a fundamental democratic right to elect our councillors and mayors? Just because some countries practise it, it doesn’t mean Malaysia should xerox it. The state government should be given that responsibility and be accountable — just as in a company where shareholders appoint the board of directors who are then responsible for ensuring the company employs a competent CEO and management team instead of delegating those appointments to the employees by voting. The state government, mayor and local councillors should be one cohesive team. As I responded earlier, we want leaders who fear God and respect the people and not, as you believe, those who merely fear the people and job security. The present system is better, leave it be and get on with your job.
LGE said: “We believe that Malaysians deserve better. For the last 50 years, the wealth of the nation has been robbed. Let us protect the future of our children by ensuring we have a people-centric government that protects you instead of harming you, that rewards you instead of stealing from you, that respects you instead of abusing your rights. Let us clean up Malaysia to save our children’s future.”
Sir, I have to be honest that your constant ludicrous accusations and insinuations are tiresome. The corruption and “robbing” topic has already been addressed and rebutted time and time again. Why do you continue flogging a dead horse. The government is already showing that it is a people-centric government – where “Rakyat didahulukan” — and I am grateful and happy that the government has never harmed me, apart from being disgruntled over a few speeding tickets. On the contrary the government has peen protecting us from many threats including the West’s call to allow same sex marriages, riots caused by the Opposition and other external threats such as the Lahad Datu incident. While MACC is busy handling more than 400 cases, please also investigate the alleged stealing in your own party.
LGE said: “We must put the past behind us where profits matters more than our health. Lynas concerns all of us because if Lynas is allowed to operate, Barisan Nasional will proceed with building two nuclear reactors. If we continue to put health above profits, what is the use of having all the money in the world if you cannot enjoy it healthily?”
Since you already acknowledge the immense benefits to the country (i.e. “all the money in the world”), I need not say more on this. However you are still trying to deceive and mislead the public on the safety issue. Until today all the academics, geniuses, scientists, nuclear physicists and intellects (if any) of the Opposition have not produced anything tangible to doubt the safety of the project. The United Nations International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has certified that it is safe. Do you doubt them? Were they bribed? Even your most hardcore online news portal FMT admitted to the truth: “We refer to the articles previously published by us which claim that the Lynas plant may be unsafe. We apologise for these publications as such claims do not have a scientific basis. The regulatory review of the Lynas plant has been thorough and diligent”. That’s nothing new is it; that the opposition tends to make allegations without basis. And even Saudara Anwar Ibrahim has changed his position. Your baseless allegation is dishonest and mischievious. I challenge you to issue an official statement that Lynas is unsafe instead of indulging in your usual “baling batu sembunyi tangan” antics. And please do an Anwar Ibrahim on this too i.e. complain to the foreign media.
LGE said: “The next elections shall be fought on the economy. We refuse to allow BN to use race as the issue in the next elections.”
The economy is indeed a major factor in the elections and it is DAP that has been using race as an election issue. However BN inadvertently gets tangled in race issues when they have to defend against your lies and deception to cause racial disharmony. DAP is in fact guilty of what they falsely accuse BN of. We have seen your cybertroopers posting comments saying they cannot understand why non-Malays vote for BN. We have also seen confessions by DAP’s former high ranking members on race-centric strategies. With DAP being hard core racist, this is also hypocrisy at one of its worst.
LGE said: “We need to increase the incomes of our poor or else they will fall victims to the Ah Longs. For example, Bank Negara’s Annual Report 2010 revealed that Malaysia’s household debt at the end of 2010 was RM581 billion or 76 per cent of GDP, thus giving us the dubious honour of having the second-highest level of household debt in Asia . In addition, the Malaysian household debt service ratio stood at 47.8 per cent in 2010, meaning that nearly half of the average family’s income goes to repaying debts. As a rule, banks would not lend money to those whose total servicing of loans exceeded one third of their income. In other words, we are spiralling into an indebted nation.”
Sir, enough facts and statistics have been given to explain the economy, including the national debt and improved poverty levels, but you conveniently choose to ignore them just as you conveniently ignore the facts and arguments of the muslims on the Allah issue. The man on the street is not interested in your macro-economic analysis. He wants to live in a peaceful country with food on the table while having opportunities to indulge in higher pursuits. One of the reasons we have the second-highest level of household debt in Asia is because Malaysia has relatively more property owners per capita compared to other countries. In other words, Malaysians take the opportunity to buy their homes with mortgages (resulting in household debt) compared to those in other countries with less affordable housing whereby they have to rent their accommodation (i.e. no mortgage therefore less household debt). You need to look at both sides of the balance sheet. Incidentally, Penang has performed the worst when it comes to the ratio of house price to household income. It has risen to 8 times since PR took over, compared to the internationally acceptable 3-4 times. Therefore you are in fact primarily responsible for the increase in household debt. Ironic isn’t it? That notwithstanding, facts and figures don’t lie: Malaysia has a strong and sustainable economy except that you try to mislead the public on the national debt while ignoring the fact that external debt has dropped to below RM17 billion. Please study the ETP to understand where our economy is heading and give constructive comments if you are sincere.
LGE said: “According to the New Economic Model documents, the bottom 40% of Malaysian households are living with a monthly average income of RM1,500 (and three-quarters of them are bumiputera) while 60% of the households (of four persons averagely) live with a less than RM3,000 income, which is near subsistence if one lives in the cities.These are families living in fear. We will help them live with dignity and not in fear, by increasing their incomes and cutting down their costs, with a minimum wage, getting rid of monopolies, expanding internet connectivity and encouraging creativity, innovation and productivity.”
Sir, perhaps you would, but the present government is already doing it and has steadily been achieving positive results. Nonetheless, let me introduce you to many malay families in that income group and you may ask them yourself whether they are living in fear and dignity. They do have dignity clinging to religious values but they fear DAP. This is the group who cannot compete under your demand for “equal opportunities” and yet you and your supporters condemn the government when policies are implemented to help them. Malays are not the only ones who need help; we must also help the chinese and indians at a disadvantage. It just so happens that most of the lower income group comprises the malays and DAP then accuses the government of being racist when they are given assistance. Please support the government in helping the poor of all races. At least Hj Abdul Hadi Awang was gracious enough to acknowledge the government’s efforts on 22nd April in front of more than 700 supporters at Kerteh: “Kita tidak nafikan apa yang dilakukan Kerajaan BN untuk kebajikan rakyat”. He then added: “Takkan tadok silap dan saloh selama 50 tahun BN memerintah dan Yang Maha Suci adalah Allah Taala, tetapi kita sebagai manusia tetap ada salah dan silapnya”. This is true. Surely you can also agree?
LGE said: “South Korea is a very good example of a nation that chose democracy, performance and freedom of opportunity to become a developed country. With a population of 48 million, its GDP per capita of USD20,000 is more than double Malaysia’s. But in 1970, South Korea’s per capita GDP was only USD260 compared to Malaysia’s USD380.”
That is interesting Sir, but you know very well that South Korea is an exception. Why don’t you also compare us to other neighbouring countries? How exciting is the GDP per capita when comparing home prices against disposable income? Yes indeed, Malaysia’s ratio is thankfully lower. In any case, I also would not want our country to be like South Korea, beholden to the US (which Tun M saved us from) and with North Korean missiles pointed at them. Please be thankful for what Malaysia is today while we continue to develop, especially now that the ETP is being implemented and showing positive results. Have faith.
LGE said: “We used to regularly beat South Korea at football. And now our children are fans of K-pop culture and their football team are regulars at the World Cup.”
One thing for sure is that all DAP, PAS, PKR and BN supporters will be united in cheering for Malaysia whenever we play football or badminton against South Korea. Even DAP cannot prevent that. Yes, I agree that our footballing standard is terrible and the government has failed miserably here. But please don’t be upset with the government or consider it tragic that we have not developed our own M-pop culture.
LGE said: “Only when we free ourselves of fear of change, can we be free to prosper. BN cannot change. They need to be changed, for BN wants to rule by fear. Thomas Jefferson said “When the governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny”. The choice is yours, my friends. I urge you – Let us change so we can have liberty and live with dignity.”
LGE said: “*LimGuan Eng, DAP Secretary General & MP for Bagan”
Sir, we do not fear change. Indeed we have been going through changes under the present government (who themselves have gone through change), some we don’t like and most of which we embrace for the overall good. The government cannot please everybody all of the time (and neither can the opposition) but they do try to help those who may be adversely affected by policy changes. No sir, you are wrong: you may admire Thomas Jefferson and think that he is right since he was a US Pesident, but we do not want the government to fear the people because that won’t make them sincere. We want government leaders who fear God. We want the government to be sincere with the people, respect the people, listen to the people and make the country conducive for us to live in, having peace, social harmony, good business environment and an honest Opposition. We should also then respect and be loyal to the government and also respect the honest Opposition, whereas you clearly encourage anarchy and rebellion against the government for the sake of power and wealth. We already have liberty and live with dignity and if we do need more of those for greater social order and harmony then I don’t see how DAP can do any better then what the government is already doing. On the contrary DAP and Anwar Ibrahim themselves have acted without dignity in portraying Malaysia as a “suppressed, repressed and oppressed” country with a “sham democracy” where Opposition leaders are “threatened with murder”. Sir, before you demand change, you and your party first need to change. Indeed the reason I now support BN is because they have changed since PRU-12; when will you?
Saudara Lim Guan Eng, semoga mendapat petunjuk dan hidayah.
A. Arshad,voter for Shah Alam
Mother of Pendedahan
Rafizi Ramli, the so-called strategist for PKR must be scraping the bottom for issues to play in the run-up to the general elections that he decided it would be a big thing to expose Rosmah Mansor, Najib Razak’s wife’s unpaid traffic summons.
You open a can of worms, you will get exactly that. Let us take, for example, these two phantom voters who registered themselves as voters using my friend’s house address. They are none other than Anwar Ibrahim and Wan Azizah Wan Ismail, Rafizi’s political employers.
Now, make a few SMS using the identity card numbers obtained…first for Anwar Ibrahim:
Wow! That’s a heck lot more than Rosmah’s that have gone unpaid! Now, let us check his “wife”.
Holy crap! That is a whole lot of law-breaking exercise for someone who fights for justice! No wonder PKR is so against the implementation of the AES! Now, what about Rafizi Ramli, the BAPA PENDEDAHAN himself?
This is his Identity Card number:
Now let us check if he has any unpaid summons himself for being a loudmouth:
What the hell??!! What right has he got to bitch about Rosmah’s unpaid summons?
One word of advice for Rafizi: mKe sure you cover your ass before you want to hit someone else in the back! But knowing which party and leader he represents, I find it as no surprise that he goes around shooting butt-naked!
Liver Poolu
The title is by no means an insult to the Liverpool fans, but the term “sakit hati” came into mind. Since “hati” is “liver“, I will let you Google the rest of the title.
Sakit hati does not translate into heartache, as the latter refers to matter of the heart, while the former is more about the wrenching pain you feel inside as a result of anger or frustration. Patah hati would be more appropriate for being heart broken and so on. But this sakit hati I feel is more because some poolu have been playing the racist card while some poolu have completely forgotten about the racists.
The poolu of the issue here is of what was once said by BN-friendly candidate for the Shah Alam parliamentary seat, Zulkifli Noordin. Zulkifli Noordin was the lawyer for a poolu called Anwar Ibrahim. A falling out later between the two saw Zulkifli, who was from PAS, turned independent, actively attacking his former allies. It was during Zulkifli Noordin’s time in PAS in 2003 that he was videotaped uttering derogatory remarks towards the Indians. He left PAS in 2008 to join Anwar’s PKR in the same year and left in 2010. On 6th March 2013, he was videotaped making another derogatory remark, although was aimed at his former allies, still touched on the Indians. Anyway, Zulkifli Noordin has had a talk to Indians in the area he is contesting where he has apologised to them in public for making those remarks.
Let us now look at the other poolus who have given other forms of liver pain.
Anwar Ibrahim, on 27th March 1998, near the Kampung Rawa mosque, Jalan Pattani on Penang island mentioned that he will make sure the bell at the Sri Raja Raja Muthuraiveeran temple will no longer ring. He has never apologised to the Indian community for saying so.
Ten years later, in 2008, during the run-up to the previous general elections, Anwar Ibrahim promised to the largely Indian community facing the demolition of the Kampung Buah Pala settlement that he would settle the issue within two weeks if the then-Barisan Alternatif (predecessor of the Pakatan Rakyat) was voted into power in Penang. The settlement was demolished in less than 100 days after the Pakatan Rakyat formed the government in Penang. Anwar has never apologised.
Man burns himself in protest of the demolition of a temple in Puchong
What is the picture above about?
This was M.Chakragunasegaran, 52 years old, who burnt himself to protest the demolition of the Sri Srinivasa Perumal temple in Pusat Bandar Puchong in November 2010. He died 22 days later. Has the Pakatan Rakyat government apologised? The answer is NO.
Bulldozing a Hindu altar on 4th Dec 2012
The above picture is of the demolition work in progress of a Hindu altar on 4th December 2012…this was carried out by the Pakatan Rakyat government in Selangor despite being told to consult the Hindu Sangam before carrying out any work. You can read more about it here. Has the Pakatan Rakyat government issued any apology? I haven’t seen one. Let me know if you have.
Then in January of 2013, the Sri Maha Mariamman temple in Bangi Lama was served a notice for the crime of ringing the bell after dark by a council in Pakatan Rakyat’s Selangor. Any apology by the Pakatan Rakyat government for that issue? None whatsoever. And I wonder why did the temple committee saw it fit to escalate the issue to MIC Youth Chief, T. Mohan, instead of an Indian councillor from Pakatan Rakyat? I let you come to your own conclusion.
Of course, Salahuddin Ayub of PAS, in a debate with BN’s Saifuddin Abdullah in mid 2012, likened the Hindu celebration of Thaipusam to a street demonstration. This debate was televised live. Still, Salahuddin never apologised. Instead, he claimed he was misunderstood. To add insult to injury, you get other poolus joining in saying they were not offended by Salahuddin’s remark!
Lest we forget, Anwar’s trusted lieutenant, Azmin Ali called former ally, N.Gobalakrishnan, a pariah!
So, guys. Feet firmly on the ground, one poolu has left Pakatan Rakyat, now contest for BN, and apologized for his extremely stupid remarks made during his time in the Pakatan Rakyat, and before given the chance to fight for the rakyat under the BN banner; while the other unapologetic poolus are still in Pakatan Rakyat. It is up to you to decide which poolu to support, and whether you will make a poolu out of yourself later.
A Reminder To Myself: ABCD
While DAP has been crying UBAH everywhere it goes, nothing about the party has changed much. In my opinion, it calls itself multiracial to cover its true intentions and true colour – yellow. I would now be deemed racist by DAP supporters as this had come from a Malay; but this would have been absolutely alright and should be accepted by the modern liberal society of Malaysia had this been made by a DAP Chinese towards UMNO.
Back in 2008, DAP Supremo and de facto leader, Lim Kit Siang, told Ipoh Timur voters that the 12th General Elections would be his last. Little did they know it would be the last they heard of him. Now, he has (yet again) jumped ship to contest in Gelang Patah, a parliamentary constituency that has 54 percent Chinese voters. And what is his agenda?
Removing the Malay from Malaysia. His Malaysian Malaysia slogan, carried on from his PAP days, now sees support from the younger Malay voters (35 years of age and below) and this I blame on both the education system and the refusal of the soon-to-be-former Minister of Information. The latter is for his refusal to allow the general screening of the movie Tanda Putera that is about the dangers of extremism, fanning of racial hatred, and the efforts put into nation-building post 13th May of 1969. I blame the education system for its eagerness in instilling too much spirit of nationalism that even those who fought for the subjugation of Malaya by Jakarta are now being worshipped by the lay Malays. Wrong heroes were created out of people such as Burhanuddin Helmy, Ibrahim Yaacob, Mat Indera, Samsiah Fakeh et al. We no longer understand the spirit and mood of our history because we simplified and narrowed our scope down to nationalism.
Lim Kit Siang and his cohorts know this, the lack of understanding of the history of the nation by the youngsters (even UMNO people failed to explain because they no longer possess institutional memory) allows him to exploit the growing liberalism, especially amongst the Malays (and Chinese) who do not have the memory of life before the existence of the mobile phones. Which is why Johor, the bastion of Malay politics, is now his main target.
Many Malays don’t understand that a vote for either PKR or PAS, if they don’t support DAP, translates into a vote for DAP. And a vote for DAP translates into the removal of the Malay and Bumiputra rights enshrined in the Federal Constitution. No big deal? Think Malaysia, it means this would affect the Bumiputras of Sabah and Sarawak as well.
A vote for DAP would mean the replacement of the protection of Islam as the religion of the Federation of Malaysia, to simply an official religion of Malaysia. Why do you think DAP has been playing the Allah in the Al-Kitab issue, then allow UMNO and PAS to quarrel over it?
Let me ask you, especially if you are a Muslim, what do you make of the pictures below?
The above is of Selangor ADUN, Xavier Jayakumar giving a talk (ceramah) in a mosque. No big deal, right? Let us see the picture below of Teo Nie Ching, also in a mosque or surau, not covering her hair:
Perhaps this too, is not a big deal for you as she is a non-Muslim and therefore is not required to cover her hair. Of course whether the hair is part of ‘aurat is still being debated as the idea has not attained an ijma’. But let me see if the verse below from the Quran would change your views about allowing non-Muslim politicians to make use of mosques and other Muslim places of worship:
The DAP assembly persons made full use of their subordinates in PAS and PKR to dismantle the unity of the Malays, who form the backbone of Islam in Malaysia. Do you think they will not attack the institution of the Raja-Raja Melayu once they come into power? Think of Day One after GE12 back in 2008. How many DAP state assemblymen throughout Malaysia were reprimanded by the Rajas?
If you think DAP needs the consent of the Agong to change the Constitution regarding the position of the Raja-Raja Melayu, the Malays and Bumiputras, and the position of Islam as the religion of the Federation of Malaysia, you are wrong:
Any bill tabled in the Parliament will go through three processes in the Dewan Rakyat (Lower House): hearing, deliberating/debating, voting. Once all processes have been successfully completed, the bill goes to the Dewan Negara (Senate House) where it goes through the same processes. Once done, it goes to the Agong, who has 30 days to reject the bill or give it a royal assent. If the bill is rejected, it goes back to the A-G’s Chambers again for amendments to the bill, then goes through the same processes as above. The Agong then has another 30-days to give the royal assent, else the bill passes into law.
Some say the military would not sit quietly to this. Maybe not, but what do you think the reaction would be both locally and internationally to a military that reacts against a united DAP supporters’ front that has become a legitimate government?
My worry is echoed too by Aeshah Adlina in her blog.
Remember, in May of 2012, DAP Supremo Karpal Singh has made attempts to define the spirit of the Constitution in wanting non-Malays to be allowed to become the Prime Minister. This was not his first attempt at doing so, he first challenged the late Sultan of Selangor in 1987.
Therefore, I am of the opinion that Tun Dr Mahathir is right in his 11th April 2013 article on Lim Kit Siang and the DAP. The Tun is also right when he said, “Melayu Mudah Lupa (the Malays forget easily)“. Those who were born after 1957 hardly have any recollection of what was shouted to the Malays, or what kind of “victory parades” took place after the 3rd General Elections in 1969.
Other possible outcomes if DAP continues to win in Penang would also be as a result of the gentrification of Penang: the removal of the Malays and Indians from Penang island, and under the United Nation’s principle of self-determination, take Penang island out of the Federation of Malaysia, and either become independent, or join Singapore. There is nothing new about having two parts of a country separated by another sovereign country. Ask the Sarawakians about Limbang and you will know what I mean.
The other possibility if DAP controls the government, is the reunification of Singapore and Malaysia. Who takes the lead is anybody’s guess. Does this seem far-fetched? In February 2013, DAP announced that it was eyeing 150 Parliamentary and State seats. In the previous Parliament, the Pakatan Rakyat held 82 Parliamentary seats, 28 of which were held by DAP. The PAP in Singapore holds 80 Parliamentary seats. That makes 162 seats out of a total of 312 seats. That’s about 52 percent of the total seats. DAP is fighting hard to get Malaysia to commit towards meritocracy, and it comes as no surprise as this was the prerequisite set by Lee Kuan Yew as reported by the Manila Standard on Thursday, 26th September 1996.
The DAP has never changed its stripes even if it now mews instead of roars. It is the same DAP as it was after 1965. While every other main BN party has seen a change in leadership since 1969, DAP is still controlled by a dinosaur that does anything in its power to remain in power, even if it means abandoning its voters from a previous constituency. Tell me now who is power crazy, and who should be changed?
Like I said at the beginning of this posting, if this was written by a DAP supporter of UMNO, it would be accepted by liberals. But I am just a Malay and DAP Chinese will deem this posting racist. I don’t care. I do not want the Malays to be sidelined and become the minority again as it once was between 1930 and 1970. Therefore I will not vote any party whose win will benefit the DAP, I will vote the MCA candidate, or any other Chinese for that matter, who will be contesting where I live because the MCA respects the spirit of the Federal Constitution.
Anyone But Chinese DAP!
A Statement by KITA (not Zaid’s SAYA)
I received this from KITA’s Firdaus Christopher:
Revolt & growing discontent by KITA members/ leaders as their Chief Datuk Zaid Ibrahim roots for the loose Opposition alliance instead of own candidates in run up to GE13.
They do not agree with his recent statements seeking for particularly the Malays to vote in Pakatan candidates and no clarification or statement has been forthcoming from Zaid. As ROS has confirmed Zaid as the rightful Chief, they are seeking for his resignation.
For statements & further information, please contact Nik Yahaya Yusoff. AJK KITA 0174817079
This Cannot Be Halal! Then Again This Is PAS!
Just when everyone’s waiting for Papagomo’s final video of Anwar Ibrahim’s “terkam” (pounce) episode and not expecting anything else, out came a video showing Mustafa Ali, the Secretary-General of the “Islamist” party PAS, in a compromising position in a hotel with an unidentified young woman.
Read about it here:
http://t.co/Zr2mCOnx4D
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MDM vendors improve data quality, stewardship, according to Gartner
With a focus on better data quality and data stewardship capabilities, IBM, Oracle and Initiate Systems top Gartner's Magic Quadrant Report for master data management (MDM) for customer data.
A new emphasis on data quality analysis and data stewardship roles were among the developments over the last year in the master data management (MDM) for customer data market, according to Gartner's latest Magic Quadrant Report.
Responding to customer demands, vendors like IBM, Oracle and Initiate Systems have added or improved data stewardship and governance functions, and data quality profiling, visualization and analysis capabilities, according to John Radcliffe, an analyst with the Stamford, Conn.-based research firm and author of the report.
"Vendors are trying to give organizations tool sets that they need to be able to take the data from cradle to grave, all the way through the lifecycle," Radcliffe said in an interview. "People are asking for these kinds of [MDM] management tools" -- a common development in maturing technology markets such as MDM, he added.
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MDM for customer data has moved from an enabling technology, in which early adopters are often content just to get the systems up and running, to a more mature IT discipline with increasing mainstream adoption. With that, Radcliffe said, companies are increasingly interested in being able to analyze and address the accuracy of data collected by MDM hubs and create and maintain clear processes overseeing data lifecycles and ownership.
As for the market itself, Gartner estimates that the MDM for the customer data market grew to $370 million in 2008, a 22% increase from 2007. That's an increase from the 15% growth rate between 2006 and 2007 but "represents a sizable reduction compared with the early years of the market," the report states. Such slowdowns in market growth are common as technologies mature, however.
Initiate joins IBM, Oracle in the leaders' quadrant
Topping the leaders' quadrant, as they did last year, were IBM, with its InfoSphere MDM Server version 8.5, and Oracle, with its Siebel UCM version 8.1.1. Both vendors scored highly on Gartner's "ability to execute" criteria, thanks to their entrenched user bases and sophisticated sales and marketing channels, Radcliffe said.
As for their "completeness of vision," Gartner's other ranking criteria, both mega-vendors scored well, too.
IBM responded to its customers' requests for better data stewardship and governance capabilities, adding a role-based governance user interface, improved hierarchy management facilities and a user interface generator, according to the report. Gartner also praised InfoSphere MDM Server's strong "transaction-driven, centralized implementation-style requirements in SOA environments."
Oracle, meanwhile, "has strong sales momentum with Siebel UCM across a range of industries, mainly within the Oracle installed base, and has put a lot of effort into filling the functionality gaps," Radcliffe wrote. Upgrades to Seibel UCM in 2008 included improved data quality functions, based largely on the Informatica Identity Resolution technology, and better ease of integration, thanks mainly to the first AIA packaged integration packs.
Joining IBM and Oracle in the leaders' quadrant for the first time was Initiate Systems. Its MDM platform, Initiate Master Data Service version 8.7, "leverages data model and Web services flexibility, strong probabilistic matching, the architectural flexibility to deliver fast time to value and a relatively low service-to software cost ratio," according to the report. Initiate also boasts strong data stewardship and data visualization capabilities, Radcliffe said.
Also ranked in this year's report were visionaries D&B Purisma and Siperian, and niche players Oracle Customer Data Hub (which Gartner ranks separately from Oracle Siebel UCM), SAP, DataFlux, Tibco Software, VisionWare and Sun Microsystems (also ranked separately from Oracle, which is in the process of acquiring Sun).
Siperian, Radcliffe says, continues to do well in the life sciences industry but is struggling to gain a foothold in other vertical markets. SAP's MDM product continues to improve with each new version, but the mega-vendor still sells mostly to its B2B user base. And while Sun Microsystems "was placing new emphasis on MDM … its pending acquisition by Oracle raises doubts over Sun's future investment in MDM," the report states.
Intriguingly, Radcliffe also predicted that Microsoft will soon target the MDM for customer data market in the form of its SQL Server Master Data Services, due out next year. He said that Microsoft's entry into the MDM market, though it is likely to take a number of years, could put pricing pressure on its competitors as Microsoft targets midsized companies with lower-cost MDM products.
Focus on vendor "sweet spots" when evaluating MDM products
For companies evaluating MDM vendors, Radcliffe said it is important to recognize that different vendors have different strengths and "sweet spots" in terms of vertical markets served and use cases supported.
SAP's MDM hub, for example, is particularly popular with product-oriented companies such as manufacturers, retailers and packaged goods companies, he said. But it is not ideal in the multi-channel environments common in the banking and insurance market.
Most MDM vendors are also more focused on supporting operational and transactional environments – think call centers and warehouse floors – but some are optimized to support business intelligence (BI) and other analytical use cases, Radcliffe said.
Companies must take these differences into account when comparing vendors and their MDM products, he said. They should also "push the vendors hard" on customer references, zeroing in on those references that most resemble their industries and likely use-case scenarios.
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Cookie handling in browsers can break HTTPS security
Cookies, the files that websites create in browsers to remember logged-in users and track other information about them, could be abused by attackers to extract sensitive information from encrypted HTTPS connections.
The issue stems from the fact that the HTTP State Management standard, or RFC 6265, which defines how cookies should be created and handled, does not specify any mechanism for isolating them or checking their integrity.
As such, Web browsers don't always authenticate the domains that set cookies. That allows malicious attackers to inject cookies via plain HTTP connections that would later be transmitted for HTTPS connections instead of those set by the HTTPS sites themselves, the CERT Coordination Center (CERT/CC) at Carnegie Mellon University said in an advisory Thursday. One of the reasons why this happens is because subdomains can set cookies that are valid for their parent domains or other subdomains.
For example, if subdomain.domain.com sets a cookie with the domain attribute of domain.com, that cookie might be sent by the browser to subdomain2.domain.com as well. The site hosted on subdomain2 might not be able to differentiate between its own cookie and the rogue one.
Cookies are also not isolated by port number or scheme. A server can host multiple websites accessible via the same domain, but on different port numbers. Those websites will be able to read and write each other's cookies. All these inconsistencies can allow man-in-the-middle attackers to perform so-called cookie injection or cookie tossing attacks that can be used to extract sensitive information from HTTPS connections.
A team of researchers from University of California, Berkeley, Tsinghua University in Beijing, the International Computer Science Institute and Microsoft tested the implications of such attacks on different high-profile HTTPS websites and presented their findings in August at the USENIX conference.
They found that they could hijack users' chat gadgets in the Gmail interface, steal Google search histories, steal credit card information on China UnionPay's website, hijack deposits on JD.com, hijack Google OAuth and BitBucket associations, track and manipulate shopping carts on e-commerce sites, track purchase history on Amazon.com and more.
"Some web browser vendors have noted previous attempts at more secure cookie management have been foiled due to the lack of a widely implemented standard," the CERT/CC said in its advisory. Until the standards bodies come up with a solution, the issue can be mitigated if websites use the HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS) mechanism to force browsers to always access them over secure HTTPS connections.
The latest versions of all major browsers support HSTS, but in order for this mechanism to be effective against cookie injection attacks, websites also need to implement it. Unfortunately, HSTS adoption across HTTPS-enabled websites remains low. According to the latest statistics from the SSL Pulse project, only 4.5 percent of the Internet's top 145,000 HTTPS websites currently support HSTS.
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Sandra Ley
Assistant Professor, Political Studies Division, Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE)
Trejo, Guillermo and Sandra Ley. 2019. “High-Profile Criminal Violence: Why Drug Cartels Murder Government Officials and Party Candidates in Mexico.” British Journal of Political Science. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0007123418000637
This article explains a surprising wave of lethal attacks by drug cartels against hundreds of local elected officials and party candidates in Mexico, 2007-2012. These attacks are puzzling because criminal organizations prefer the secrecy of bribery over the publicity of political murder. Scholars suggest that war drives armed actors to attack state authorities in search of protection or rents. Using original data of high-profile attacks in Mexico, we show that war need arguments underexplain violence. Focusing on political opportunities, we suggest that cartels use attacks to establish criminal governance regimes and conquer local governments, populations, and territories. We present quantitative and qualitative evidence showing that cartels took advantage of Mexico’s political polarization and targeted subnational authorities who were unprotected by their federal partisan rivals. Cartels intensified attacks during subnational election cycles to capture incoming governments and targeted geographically adjacent municipalities to establish controls over large territories. Our findings reveal how cartels take cues from the political environment to develop their own de facto political domains through high-profile violence. These results question the widely shared assumption that organized criminal groups are apolitical actors.
Ley, Sandra, J. Eduardo Ibarra-Olivo, and Meseguer, Covadonga. 2019. “Family Remittances and Vigilantism in Mexico.” Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2019.1623309
We explore the role of workers’ remittances in supporting vigilante organisations that emerged in reaction to rising criminal violence in Mexico. Research on remittances posits both a positive and a negative effect on collective action from the reception of remittances. On one hand, remittances sent by relatives abroad provide extra resources for political action at home. On the other hand, the reception of remittances makes recipients less prone to protesting, through a reduction in grievances. As a result, remittances can be associated with both an increase and a decrease of collective political activity. In this paper, we claim that both effects can co-exist and that the predominance of one mechanism or the other depends on the degree of penetration of remittances at the municipal level. Using data on the existence of vigilante organisations, we find that in most remittance-receiving municipalities, through a resource effect, remittance inflows increase the probability of observing self-defense organisations, but this probability declines at high rates of remittance penetration at the local level. Nonetheless, we observe an activation effect in a majority of remittance receiving municipalities. The paper contributes both to our understanding of international social networks as determinants of civilian action and to the research agenda on how workers’ remittances shape political behaviour in home countries.
Ley, Sandra and Magdalena Guzmán. 2019. “Doing Business amid Criminal Violence. Companies and Civil Action in Mexico.” In D. Avant, M. Berrie, E. Chenoweth, R. Epstein, C. Hendrix, O. Kaplan, and T. Sisk. Civil Action and the Dynamics of Violence. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 147-177.
Criminal violence has risen dramatically across Mexico in the last decade, and it has had devastating economic, social, and political consequences. How have Mexicans reacted to these violent trends? This chapter explores the civil actions of the Mexican business sector and their potential effects. It focuses on Monterrey, Mexico, where companies actively helped to create a new, more accountable police force, launched an innovative crime-reporting mechanism to better monitor and prosecute crimes, and engaged with local governments to enhance political accountability and citizen oversight. The chapter briefly compares the experience of the business sector in Monterrey with that of Ciudad Juárez and Acapulco, where the role of businesses respectively resulted in an array of broader civil and “uncivil” actions amid criminal violence,. Overall, the chapter shows that in the face of organized crime, the private sector and governments can potentially collaborate with each other, both as allies and as a system of societal checks and accountability.
Ley, Sandra, Shannan Mattiace, and Guillermo Trejo. “Indigenous Resistance to Criminal Governance. Why Regional Ethnic Autonomy Institutions Protect Communities from Narco Rule in Mexico.” Latin American Research Review 54(1): 181-200.
This article explains why some indigenous communities in Mexico have been able to resist drug cartels’ attempts to take over their local governments, populations, and territories while others have not. We argue that while indigenous customary laws and traditions provide communal accountability mechanisms that make it harder for narcos to take control, they are insufficient. Using a paired comparison of two indigenous regions in the highlands of Guerrero and Chihuahua – both ideal zones for drug cultivation and traffic–we show that communities most able to resist narco conquest are those that have a history of social mobilization, expanding village-level indigenous customary traditions into regional ethnic autonomy regimes. By scaling-up local accountability practices regionally and developing trans-local networks of cooperation, indigenous movements have been able to construct mechanisms of internal control and external protection that enable communities to deter the narcos from corrupting local authorities, recruiting young men, and establishing criminal governance regimes imposing rule through force.
Ley, Sandra. 2018. To Vote or Not to Vote: How Criminal Violence Shapes Electoral Participation. Journal of Conflict Resolution 62(9): 1963-1990
Organized crime-related violence has important electoral consequences. Analyses of aggregate panel data on Mexican elections and an original post-electoral survey conducted in Mexico show that the strategic use of violence by organized crime groups during electoral campaigns demobilizes voters at large. Regions where criminal organizations attempted to influence elections and politics by targeting government officials and party candidates exhibited significantly lower levels of electoral participation. Consistently, at the individual level, results reveal that voters living in regions where organized crime engaged in high-profile violence were more cautious when deciding whether to vote or not. Prior research has focused on the role of crime victimization in non-electoral participation, but the empirical evidence presented here suggests that the impact of a criminal context on turnout transcends personal victimization experiences.
Trejo, Guillermo and Sandra Ley. 2018. “Why Did Drug Cartels Go to War in Mexico? Subnational Party Alternation, the Breakdown of Criminal Protection, and the Onset of Large-Scale Violence.” Comparative Political Studies 51(7): 900-937. (Award for Best Paper Published in CPS in 2018)
This article explains why Mexican drug cartels went to war in the 1990s, when the federal government was not pursuing a major anti-drug campaign. We argue that political alternation and the rotation of parties in state gubernatorial power undermined the informal networks of protection that had facilitated the cartels’ operations under one-party rule. Without protection, cartels created their own private militias to defend themselves from rival groups and from incoming opposition authorities. After securing their turf, they used these militias to conquer rival territory. Drawing on an original database of inter-cartel murders, 1995–2006, we show that the spread of opposition gubernatorial victories was strongly associated with inter-cartel violence. Based on in-depth interviews with opposition governors, we show that by simply removing top- and mid-level officials from the state attorney’s office and the judicial police – the institutions where protection was forged – incoming governors unwittingly triggered the outbreak of inter-cartel wars.
Aldrich, John, Gregory Schober, Sandra Ley, and Marco Fernández. 2018. “Incognizance and Perceptual Deviation: Individual and Institutional Sources of Variation in Citizens’ Perceptions of Party Placements on the Left–Right Scale.” Political Behavior 40 (2): 415-433.
In this paper we use comparative study of electoral systems data to understand the variation in citizens’ perceptions of political party placements on the left–right scale. We estimate multilevel models to assess the extent to which individual characteristics, party characteristics, and institutional designs contribute to variability observed in citizens’ perceptions of party placements. Because lack of information on the part of the citizens may be revealed through failure to respond to the left–right scale questions or through random components to actual placements, we develop models that include assessments of both types of responses to reduce bias from considering only one source. We find that individual-, party-, and institutional-level variables are relevant to understanding variation in citizens’ perceptions of party placements. Finally, we demonstrate that an inability to cognize the left–right scale (incognizance) and a deviation in the perceptions of party positions (perceptual deviation) have important consequences for citizens’ thermometer evaluations of political parties.
Cantú, Francisco and Sandra Ley. 2017. “At the Polling Station: The Determinants of Citizen Participation in the Organization of Elections.” Election Law Journal 16(4): 495-510.
Citizen participation is crucial for the strengthening of democracy. However, the literature has largely focused on voter turnout, dismissing an equally important role that citizens play on Election Day: their role as poll workers. Moreover, our knowledge of the determinants of political participation is limited, as most of the existing evidence comes from survey data. To address these substantive and methodological gaps, we take advantage of an original feature of the Mexican election system: the participation of randomly selected citizens to organize and oversee the operation of polling stations. We argue that the socio-political context in which elections take place greatly affect citizen participation in them. In particular, for the study of nascent democracies, studies of political participation must incorporate two dynamic processes that many of them face: the contested legitimacy of electoral institutions and rising violence. The nature of our dataset allows us to address the measurement problems frequently associated with empirical analyses that use self-reported participation, which weakens the validity of their conclusions.
Meseguer, Covadonga, Sandra Ley, and J. Eduardo Ibarra-Olivo. 2017. “Sending Money Home in Times of Crime: The Case of Mexico.” Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 43(13): 2169-2192.
We explore at the municipality level how the climate of criminal violence has affected the flow of remittances to Mexico. Using a panel of municipalities in the years 2006 and 2010, we find that drug-related crimes and overall rates of homicides have reduced the percentage of families that receive remittances. This result is robust to controlling for net migration, political variables, and traditional socioeconomic explanations of remittance sending. It is also robust to potential threats to validity. We interpret this result as suggestive of self-interested concerns when sending money home amidst a climate of rampant violence. Nonetheless, mixed motivations to remit are evident in our analysis.
Ley, Sandra. 2017. “Security and Crime Issue Voting: Electoral Accountability in the Midst of Violence.” Latin American Politics and Society 59(1): 3-27.
Rising levels of crime and insecurity affect quality of life. A fundamental question for the prospects of democracy is whether voters, in hopes of reaching better solutions to conditions of prevailing insecurity, can hold their elected officials accountable for such situations. This article argues that electoral accountability amid criminal violence requires voters to be able to assign responsibility for crime and that partisan alignment across levels of government facilitates this task. Recent Mexican elections are examined in order to test this argument. Relying on both aggregate electoral data and individual survey evidence, this paper shows that voters hold politicians accountable for crime in the narrow circumstances of organized crime-related violence and political alignment. This evidence not only provides additional caveats to issue voting models, but also opens new avenues of research on electoral accountability.
Trejo, Guillermo and Sandra Ley. 2016. “Federalism, Drugs, and Violence. Why Intergovernmental Partisan Conflict Stimulated Inter-cartel Violence in Mexico.” Política y Gobierno 23(1): 9-52. Special bilingual volume on Democracy, Conflict, and Violence in Latin America.
The dominant view of the dramatic increase of criminal violence in Mexico following the 2007 federal intervention in the War on Drugs suggests that inter-cartel violence became particularly intense in subnational regions where the president could not coordinate the federal government’s actions with subnational opposition rulers but came under control where the president worked with his co-partisans. In this article we challenge the “coordination” argument and claim that in contexts of acute political polarization between Left and Right – like the one Mexico experienced before the War on Drugs – partisan conflict can motivate federal authorities to develop cooperative military and policing interventions in regions where the president’s co-partisans rule, but to deliberately neglect effective assistance to the president’s main political rivals and then blame the violence on them. Based on an original dataset of inter-cartel violence in Mexico (2006-2012), we show that while criminal violence was more intense in municipalities from states ruled by opposition parties, it was five times greater in cities ruled by the Left – the president’s political nemesis. We use case studies to show how Mexico’s conservative federal government followed differentiated strategies to deal with spirals of drug violence: it worked together and protected subnational co-partisans (PAN); partially cooperated with centrist opposition authorities (PRI); but confronted leftist governors and mayors (PRD) and left them at the mercy of drug cartels. Our results are consistent with findings in conflict studies showing that state agents do not always seek the monopoly on violence and sometimes tolerate violence to punish their political enemies.
Participation in High-Risk Activism: Protesting Amid Violence (Under review)
When and why do citizens living amid criminal violence pour into the streets to demand peace and justice, regardless of the risks that protesting in such context may entail? This paper argues that while violence and victimization experiences provide an initial motivation for participation in protests, social networks play a fundamental role for the occurrence of citizen mobilization against insecurity. Supporting evidence is derived from an original dataset on protest events in reaction to violence in Mexico between 2006 and 2012, as well as from an original survey data collected in Mexico in 2012. In addition, in-depth interviews with protest participants reveals the mechanisms through which social networks stimulate protest participation. This paper contributes to the prevailing literature on victimization and political participation and provides new compelling answers on when and how experience with violence can encourage involvement in politics and promote democratic accountability.
“The Welfare State amid Crime. How victimization and perceptions of insecurity affect preferences for redistribution in Latin America.” (R&Rwith Melina Altamirano and Sarah Berens).
Criminal violence is one of the most pressing problems in Latin American societies. Recent evidence reveals that experiences with crime and perceptions of insecurity diminish trust in democracy and give rise to a greater taste for iron fist policies. So far understudied is, however, the impact of crime experiences and perceptions of insecurity on the individual’s stance on non-security related policy issues. In this paper, we argue that the effects of crime on citizens’ attitudes toward public goods provision cannot be generalized. Victimization and perceptions of insecurity are two separate phenomena, with distinct attitudinal consequences. On the one hand, we associate heightened perceptions of insecurity with a reduced demand for public welfare provision, partly because such perceptions reflect a sense of the state’s failure to fulfill its most basic function: security. On the other, we acknowledge the mounting costs, problems, and needs that direct experiences with violence entail and associate victimization with an increased support for welfare state policies. Using survey data from LAPOP for 24 Latin American and Caribbean countries for three cross-sections 2008, 2010, and 2012, we study the impact of crime victimization and insecurity perception on welfare demand. Our findings show that victims of crime are more supportive of the state’s role in welfare provision, whereas perceptions of insecurity strongly reduce such preferences. Heightened perceptions of insecurity promote more conservative welfare policy attitudes, but when individuals personally experience crime, there seems to be an understanding for the need for welfare policies to address the effects of violence.
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Home Lanzarote Climate Weather in Lanzarote in March 2020 & Temperatures
Weather in Lanzarote in March 2020 & Temperatures
The weather in Lanzarote in March is generally good as winter is coming to an end. Visitors to this beautiful island now can expect warm temperatures which the Canaries are famous for. March and the coming month of April are two of the top times to enjoy a holiday here.
March Weather
Resort Temperatures
The temperatures further north are still quite cold in comparison. This makes the sub-tropical climate here an attractive prospect for millions each year. The hot air from the Sahara to the east can send the temperature up much higher than the monthly average at times. The sand that comes with the hot air can also reduce the visibility and leave a dense haze.
Lanzarote Weather in March, How Hot Will It Be?
The temperature in Lanzarote in March can reach as high as 23 Celsius. This is a shade warmer than the temperatures for Tenerife during this month which lies to the west. The daily low here is a mild 16 Celsius which you are unlikely to experience often. March has seen a record temperature of close to 33 Celsius so you should invest in some sun cream. When the conditions are overcast and the humidity is higher it can also seem much warmer here.
The beginning of March tends to yield an average temperature of 18 Celsius. This rises to 19 Celsius during the middle of the month and closer to April which will see another increase. The end of this month sees the arrival of spring and the temperature will continue to rise.
Rainfall in March
March usually yields around 4 days of rainfall on average. The winter months is when most rainfall arrives here. The precipitation levels continue to drop each month until August. In fact, there will likely not be any rainfall during the summer months. Even when rain does arrive, it will not be much and will rarely stop you heading to the beaches.
The sea temperature in Lanzarote in March is at it’s lowest yearly level of 18 Celsius. Only February shares this one small negative. This will not deter those from the colder northern climates. The sea will warm to 19 Celsius during April and May and peak at 22 Celsius between August to October. The sea temperature will then begin to fall until February when it again reaches it’s coldest.
Temperatures in Lanzarote in March By Resort
Below are the average temperatures in Lanzarote for March for some of the top resorts. These include Costa Teguise, Playa Blanca and Puerto del Carmen.
Average Temperature 18°C 18°C 19°C
High 21°C 22°C 23°C
Low 15°C 15°C 16°C
Sea Temp 18°C 18°C 18°C
More Canaries in March
Resorts & Things To Do
Best Resorts in Lanzarote To Visit In 2020
Best Things to do in Lanzarote 2020 & Places To See
Lanzarote Weather in March Data
Some facts and highlights if you are thinking about visiting Lanzarote in March.
The average daily temperature is 19 Celsius
The Sea temperature is 18 Celsius
There are 8 hours of sunshine
Average of 3 – 4 days of rainfall
Daily high of 22 Celsius
Daily low of 16 Celsius
The temperature can seem warmer due to hot air from the Sahara Desert
Visibility can drop a lot due to the sand from the Sahara which leaves the island hazy
March in Lanzarote has seen a record temperature of close to 33 Celsius
Other Months & Yearly Climate
January Climate
May Climate
Hours of Sunshine
Lanzarote sees an average of 8 hours sunshine in March. With the arrival of spring, these hours will continue to increase and peak during the summer. Towards the end of the month this will be closer to 9 hours. The beautiful beaches here will begin to see a lot more activity now. Even the winter months can be warm enough to head to the beach to top up the tan.
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Category Archives: original plays
Playwrights West Presents a World Premiere: Claire Willett’s “Dear Galileo”
On a beautiful August night, come explore the stars with….
Playwrights West—Portland’s professional theatre company composed of nine distinguished local playwrights—in association with CoHo Productions, proudly presents the World Premiere of Dear Galileo, written by Playwrights West’s Claire Willett and directed by Stephanie Mulligan. Dear Galileo opens Saturday, August 8, with a special VIP preview performance on Friday, August 7.
As Claire says, Dear Galileo is “a play about science, religion, fathers and daughters, sex, creationism, and the Vatican Advanced Technology Telescope.”
Dear Galileo opens with a young girl asking big questions about the universe as she writes letters in her diary to one of history’s greatest scientists, Galileo Galilei. So begins a dialogue that bridges faith and science, wonder and doubt, and present and past, as three very different women in three different eras grapple with the legacies of their famous fathers:
In a small town in Texas, creationist author and TV pundit Robert Snow is at a loss when ten-year-old Haley’s newfound passion for science begins to pull her from the Biblical teachings of her upbringing.
In Swift Trail Junction, Arizona, home of the Vatican Observatory’s U.S. outpost, pregnant New York sculptor Cassie Willows arrives to find her estranged father, world-renowned astrophysicist Jasper Willows, is missing.
And in Renaissance Italy, Celeste Galilei lives under house arrest with her elderly father Galileo—the disgraced astronomer imprisoned for defying the Pope…and facing down the Inquisition by publishing one last book.
As the three stories weave towards convergence, each family’s destiny becomes inextricably bound with the others, linked across time by love, loss, faith, the search for identity, and the mysteries of the stars.
How Do We Get There?
Dear Galileo opens Saturday, August 8, at CoHo Theatre (2257 NW Raleigh St), and plays Thursday, Friday, and Saturday evenings at 7:30, and Sunday afternoons at 2:00, through August 29. Friday through Sunday tickets are $25 for adults and $20 for students/educators/seniors. All tickets on “Thrifty Thursdays” are $15, and Thursday performances include post-show talkbacks, featuring some of Portland’s most innovative theatre artists.
When Do We Really Begin?
Playwrights West invites you to join us on Friday, August 7, for Dear Galileo’s VIP Preview Performance/Gala, where a $40 ticket offers a you-are-there seat to Portland theatre history and includes a post-show talkback, a gracious reception, and some terrific company.
Where Do We Find the Answers?
For more information and tickets, go to Playwrights West or contact CoHo Productions Box Office: 503-220-2646).
You Have More Questions? Keep Reading
Dear Galileo features actors Nathan Dunkin, Kate Mura, Agatha Olson, Walter Petryk, Chris Porter, Gary Powell, and Nena Salazar. The production team includes Sarah Kindler (Scenic & Properties Designer), JD Sandifer (Lighting Designer), Ashton Grace Hull (Costume Designer), Annalise Albright Woods (Sound Designer), and Nicole Gladwin (Stage Manager).
Who Are The Creators?
Claire Willett is a proud member of Playwrights West and a founding artist of the Fertile Ground Festival. She was a finalist for the 2015 Jerome Fellowship at The Playwrights’ Center in Minneapolis and was the 2011 Oregon Literary Fellow for Drama. Her other works include: Carter Hall (in development with Nashville songwriter Sarah Hart, thanks to a grant from the Regional Arts & Culture Council); Upon Waking; How the Light Gets In; That Was the River, This Is the Sea (co-written with Gilberto Martin del Campo); The Witch of the Iron Wood (co-written with local composer Evan Lewis); an original adaptation of W.H. Auden’s 1942 poetic oratorio For the Time Being; and The Demons Down Under the Sea, an adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe’s poem “Annabel Lee,” produced in October 2014 as part of Shaking the Tree’s production of The Masque of the Red Death (a collection of Poe shorts by the writers of Playwrights West).
Ms. Willett her first novel, The Rewind Files—a time-travel, science fiction adventure about Watergate, has just been released by Retrofit Publishing in Los Angeles. Ms. Willett is also a popular, widely read blogger at: It’s Kind of a Long Story. Like Dear Galileo, her blog is the voice of a fiercely intelligent, compassionate, and spiritually attuned writer, unafraid to take on big ideas.
Stephanie Mulligan is a stage director in both the professional and educational arenas. Her favorite recent shows include The Seven Wonders of Ballyknock, Almost Home, The Outgoing Tide, Jesus Saves, The Guys, Little Women: the Broadway Musical, The Music Man, Nickel and Dimed, The Wizard of Oz, Murder Is My Business, Love’s Labor’s Lost, The Laramie Project, and The Comedy of Errors. Stephanie has worked with (and learned from) such notable American directors as James Edmondson, Penny Metropulos, John Dillon, Aaron Posner, and Nancy Keystone. She has participated in international programming, collaborating with India’s Mahesh Dattani and Lillette Dubey, Vietnam’s Do Doan Chau and Dang Tu Mai, and Australia’s Cate Blanchette, Robyn Nevin, and Andrew Upton. Ms. Mulligan’s work with many fine local companies includes Portland Center Stage, Lakewood Theatre, triangle productions!, Coho Productions, Artists Rep, Broadway Rose, and Portland Civic Theatre Guild.
Playwrights West, a professional theatre company founded in 2009 and composed of nine Portland playwrights known for the high quality of their work, focuses on presenting top-level productions of its members’ plays and supports the development of original work in Portland. The nine member playwrights are: Karin Magaldi, Ellen Margolis, Aleks Merilo, Steve Patterson, Andrea Stolowitz, Andrew Wardenaar, Claire Willett, Patrick Wohlmut, and Matthew B. Zrebski. Drawing upon a growing national movement of playwrights taking the reins for productions of their work, Playwrights West introduces Portland audiences to compelling, innovative theatrical experiences, presenting vital new plays by gifted local authors.
In 2011, Dear Galileo was a finalist for the Fox Valley Collider Project, a Chicago-area initiative to support original works of theatre about math and science, and was developed with the support of a 2011 Career Opportunity Grant from the Oregon Arts Commission, a 2011 Oregon Literary Fellowship from Literary Arts, and a month-long artists residency at I-Park Artists’ Colony in East Haddam, CT.
In 2012, the play was produced as a staged reading in the Fertile Ground Festival by Artists Repertory Theatre, directed by Stephanie Mulligan, where the cast included Chris Porter (who returns in the role of Galileo).
In March 2013, Dear Galileo received a staged reading at Pasadena Playhouse in California as part of the Hothouse New Play Development Workshop Series, directed by Literary Manager Courtney Harper, with a cast that featured noted actors Robert Picardo (Star Trek: Voyager) as Jasper Willows and Lawrence Pressman (Doogie Howser M.D., American Pie, Transparent) as Galileo.
In Summer 2014, Willamette University in Salem—launching its new on-campus company, Theatre 33, with a summer of readings by Portland playwrights—selected Dear Galileo as their inaugural project.
Has Anything Like This Ever Happened Before?
Dear Galileo marks Playwrights West fourth full production in association with CoHo Productions, a premier supporter of new plays and original work.
Can Any One Person Explain It All?
No. But if you have questions, contact Steve Patterson.
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Photographica: Late Afternoon and into the Past
Late Afternoon, Modish Building, Portland, Oregon
A late winter afternoon–after a stretch of rain, the air still thick. Winter in the Pacific Northwest often limits you to shooting detail, given the long overcast stretches. But, when it clears, it gives you this full, rich light and color more akin to the semi-tropics, plus long shadows. Maybe the moisture content in the air; it somehow bends the light.
Here we have the golden hour plus: the warm light tinged with winter blues. The photo’s seem some post-production work, mostly to render it the way I saw it. Or at least how I remembered it. There’s no telling how far that can stray. Memory’s it’s own kind of filter.
The site–the Modish Building in downtown Portland–holds a special meaning for me. My first play–Controlled Burn–was produced on the fourth floor, in a sort of underground art gallery, with the artists squatting on site…not us, we came in as guests. Very punk, man! Kind of. They did throw some great parties. They also had limited gear available. The sound system was fantastic, and there must have been 50 cues, but our lights consisted of slide projectors and flashlights with colored gels over the lenses (and a silver plastic balloon that served to create a very cool watery effect). We took our set up in a rickety industrial elevator than ran so slow that you could reach out and touch the wall as it passed. We called if the David Lynch Memorial Elevator. We had to bring audiences up to the fourth floor in batches of ten. Luckily, the fire inspector never visited us.
With time, you learn. Back then, I had no idea. I remember Kyle Evans (who helped found Pavement Productions) and I attended PATA auditions when looking for actors. We knew nobody in the theatre community, nobody knew us, but they treated us as equals, and we ended up working with some very cool people like Sherilyn Lawson, Marty Ryan, and Catherine Egan (as a shamanistic dancer).
That’ll be 25 years ago this coming September. First play. Birth of Pavement Productions (I certainly had no idea that would last for 18 years). And my first review–the Oregonian compared me to a young Sam Shepard. They also said the play was kind of a mess–really, it was more performance art–and dubbed it “Uncontrolled Burn.” And thus the pattern: the critic give, and critic taketh away. Still, they couldn’t have made me happier unless they’d compared me to Beckett or Ionesco.
Funny that the piece really was a series of interconnected monologues, and I’m currently playing with a series of interconnected narrative poems–which could be performed as a series of monologues. I don’t know whether that means the circle comes round or I just have a limited number of ideas.
(Shot with a Canon 70D, 18-55mm zoom lens, processed in Adobe Lightroom.)
P.S.: This marks my blog’s 500th post.
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The Modular Play: An Act of Faith
In 25 years of writing plays, I’ve generally worked from beginning to end. I may have a final scene in mind—sometimes an image that spurs the play’s creation. Sometimes, for tightly plotted stories, I work from an outline. Even so, when actually writing the piece, the process opens with “lights rise” and closes with “end of play.”
About a year ago, an idea came to me arising from images and voices I’d carried around for almost aa decade: American soldiers during World War II basically trying to talk themselves calm the night before a battle.
The time and locale fluctuated. D-Day seemed a natural, but also had been extensively covered, from The Longest Day to Saving Private Ryan. I considered the Anzio or North African landings, but those required explanation—and exposition. More and more, I thought of the lousy winter of ’44 and ’45, when war’s end loomed but hadn’t yet arrived.
Then an actor friend suggested I write a Christmas play, which made me laugh at first. No one would immediately associate my dark, sometimes sardonic plays with presents and cheery lights. Plus, could anything new be said of Christmas? Still, I liked the idea of writing a non-sentimental Christmas play for adults. All too often, between Scrooge, nutcrackers, and elves, the holidays seemed a reason to stay home from the theatre. Not because the existing plays were bad—simply because they were tired.
Then somehow the long-smoldering World War II play latched onto the Christmas Eve, finding the German-besieged town of Bastogne, Belgium, during the Battle of the Bulge. I’d long been fascinated by the town’s heroic effort to stave off Panzers as ammo, food, and medical supplies ran low.* And another image came to mind: a wounded civilian, a woman, in the midst of men trying not to fall apart. And If the Fates Allow took shape.
Or rather, it took shapes. I didn’t have an ending or a beginning. All I had were voices and a setting. The play stalled. I couldn’t find a way into it. I figured, what the hell, I’d write what I had—little scenes, snapshots, snippets of conversation. I had no idea where it was going. All I could do was rely on faith that I’d written a bunch of plays—too many maybe—and I could write another, hoping a piece would find its form as had happened so many times before.
It didn’t. A nervy process ensued, where, at any time, the play might go sideways. Plays do sometimes. You get into them and find out they have an unfixable flaw or they run dry. But increasingly, I began to feel comfortable with the characters. I could feel them pushing to have their stories told. So I started thinking of scenes—some so brief as to be blackouts—as pieces of a mosaic. I’d just keep writing until I exhausted the time and place, or until the play’s form revealed itself. No matter how it turned out, I was having a great time writing it. I liked hanging out with the characters and you couldn’t beat the circumstance for drama.
Siege plays—where a penultimate event shapes the action—have a form all their own. You just keep moving forward, and they get increasingly tense. The possibility of disaster colors everything, lending weight and urgency to otherwise ordinary conversation. If a character speaks of missing home, the question hang as to whether he’ll ever see it again. Sharing a cigarette carries a sense of communion—a rite to stave off emotional collapse.
Then, as if illuminated in a camera flash, the ending appeared to me, and it completely startled me—as I hope it will the audience, and I found most of the material written previously supported the resolution. Though my conscious mind seemed to float from place to place, my unconscious had been doing its job. I still needed to properly sequence the pieces and build transitions, which essentially meant rewriting the play from beginning to end, but a great deal of the original material survived the rework, and the beginning found itself. It said: start here. I’d just been warming up to that point.
I can’t say it’s the most relaxing way to work, but it wasn’t boring, and the results worked. I think.
Would I used the “modular play” technique again? Maybe. Plays have a way of telling you how they want to be written, and there’s something satisfying in taking your hands off the wheel and letting your instincts do the driving. In a way, it’s what writers do anyhow. Even when you’re carefully laying out a piece using an outline, you have to step back and let the imagination run. We’re never much more than nominally in control of a first draft. The rewrites demand all the writer’s craft and cunning.
Putting pen to paper is always an act of faith—faith in one’s self, in your intuition, and your need for discovery. Whether you leave the diving board with your eyes open or closed, you’re still going to hit the water. And you still have to clear the rocks.
*Despite my efforts to find a fresh World War II event to write about, after completing the play, I discovered that Band of Brothers had explored the same time and place, although they looked at if from a very different angle.
(At noon, January 26, “If the Fates Allow” meets the public as a concert reading at Portland’s Artists Repertory Theatre, produced by Playwrights West as part of the Fertile Ground New Works Festival.)
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An Open Letter on Playwrights West’s “The Sweatermakers”
A number of years ago, I banded together with other professional playwrights in Portland to launch a theatre company: Playwrights West. We operate using a unique model—over a ten-year period, we fully produce a play by each playwright member, one play per year. And we feature some of Portland’s best talent, striving to create plays that rise to the playwright’s expectations—basically, giving that writer a chance to fully realize their vision. (We also do some cool group projects that incorporate all the writers’ work…watch for some stuff coming up Fall 2014.) Staging all world premieres, we present original work that Portlanders will see first and can’t see elsewhere (that is, until other theatre company snap up the plays…because they will).
We’ve produced fine plays by Patrick Wohlmut (“Continuum”) and Ellen Margolis (“Licking Batteries”), and this year we embark on our third production: “The Sweatermakers” by Andrew Wardenaar (opening Friday, August 8, 2014).
And here’s where that “original” part comes in. You can’t call “The Sweatermakers” a comedy—though parts of it are very funny—and you can’t call it a straight, typical drama, given its slightly skewed, absurdist feel that’s both grounded and somewhat…magical. It plays its own individual tune.
In brief, the story goes: a brother and sister make beautiful sweaters that mysteriously arrive to comfort the recently bereaved. The two live in their own, sheltered world, and though it’s comforting, it can also be confining. When especially beautiful material arrives for an obviously special sweater, Brin—the sister—can’t help herself and ventures out to find its recipient. And things…get…weird.
It’s a thoughtful, beautifully calibrated story, with a fine cast, designers, and director (Matthew B. Zrebski), and it feels like one of those shows that haunt you for years. The ones that you suddenly find yourself thinking of, out of nowhere. Plays that won’t leave you alone.
Obviously, I urge you to check it out (formal show information follows below). All of Playwrights West’s shows have been excellent (and all entirely different from one another). But this one feels like it’s got a little bit of special…mojo. It’s quirky, but it has gravitas. In Portland, we know quirky. And memorable.
With Playwrights West, Portland Center Stage’s JAW Festival, the Fertile Ground Festival, and the many gifted (and adventuresome) writers in town, along with a highly literate audience and a great talent pool that loves working on new shows, Portland feels more and more like a home for developing new plays. Sure, we’ve become famous for gourmet roasted coffee, microbrews, farm-to-table food, and great independent stores, like Powell’s Books, Music Millennium, and Portland Nursery. But what could be more unique and artisanal that cooking new original plays? In our own little laboratory. One of these days, we’re going to open up the Sunday New York Times to see an article on Portland’s original theatre scene. It’s happened with our indie music. It’s coming with new theatre work.
I invite you to be there first and check out “The Sweatermakers.” Plus it’ll be Andrew’s first full production, and, man, there’s nothing as wild as that. If you’re not from Portland, keep an eye on this guy. He’s got chops.
(And, yes, I have a show coming up. On Saturday, September 6, Willamette University will present a reading of my play “Immaterial Matters,” which won a new play contest at CoHo Theatre a couple of years ago and was a finalist for the Oregon Book Award. It’s damned quirky. http://www.statesmanjournal.com/story/life/2014/06/14/new-theater-enters-summer-three-free-staged-readings/10455975/)
The Sweatermakers
A World Premiere Production Written by Playwrights West’s Andrew Wardenaar
Playwrights West in association with CoHo Productions presents The Sweatermakers, a world premiere drama by Andrew Wardenaar. The Sweatermakers marks the third year in Playwrights West’s ten-year mission to present quality, professional productions of its members’ works.
It’s one of the worst days of your life. A package arrives. It contains a beautiful, handmade sweater, perfect for you. And maybe, for a moment, you find solace. But where did it come from? Who made it? Confined to their own secluded world, Brin and Henry—a remarkably close sister and brother—craft beautiful sweaters, designed to comfort those in need. One day, exquisite material arrives. It’s so striking that Brin can’t help but wonder whom it’s destined for. The question haunts her until she breaks the rules and ventures out to find its recipient. And the siblings’ perfect, self-contained but restrictive world, begins to unravel….
Part mystery, part coming-of-age story, The Sweatermakers—woven with humor, psychological insight, and magic realism—affectionately explores our need for human connections, the change those connections bring, and their sometimes painful consequences.
The world premiere of The Sweatermakers marks Mr. Wardenaar’s first full-length production. In 2012, the play won the Portland Civic Theatre Guild’s playwriting contest, and they subsequently presented it as a staged reading during the 2013 Fertile Ground Festival.
The Sweatermakers opens August 8, 2014, and runs through August 30 at CoHo Theatre (2257 NW Raleigh St, Portland, Oregon). It plays 7:30 PM on Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays, with Sunday matinees at 2:00 PM. Friday, Saturday, and Sunday tickets are $25, or $20 for students and seniors. All seats on Thrifty Thursdays are $15. Tickets can be purchased through CoHo Productions, at www.cohoproductions.org (503-220-2646). For more information see Playwrights West: http://www.playwrightswest.org/sweatermakers/
Playwright Andrew Wardenaar has been a member of Playwrights West since 2011. His play Live, From Douglas was featured in Portland Theatre Works’ 2009 LabWorks workshop. Another of his plays, Spokes, premiered in 2008 as part of a compilation of short works entitled Me, Me, Me and Ewe. His other works include The Next Smith, Anachronous, The Attendant and Good One, God. Mr. Wardenaar is also a director and recently graduated with an MFA at the University of Portland.
Director Matthew B. Zrebski is a multi-award winning playwright, composer, script consultant, teaching artist, and producer-director whose career has been defined by new play development. He has served as the Artistic Director for Youth Could Know Theatre, Theatre Atlantis, and Stark Raving Theatre—all companies specializing in new work—and, since 1995, has mounted over 40 world premieres. He holds a BFA in Theatre from the Meadows School of the Arts at Southern Methodist University and is a proud member of the Dramatists Guild of America.
The Sweatermakers’ cast includes: Jen Rowe, JR Wickman, Ben Buckley, and Sharon Mann. Designers include: scenic design by Tal Sanders, lighting design by J.D. Sandifer, sound design by Em Gustason, and costume design by Ashton Grace Hull.
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What’s New with the splatterverse?
Extensive entries have been added to the Theatre Resources section, and most of my play pages now include excerpts. Plus the page for my play Bombardment includes links to posts that serialize the entire play (which, unfortunately, is stark raving daft).
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Samples from the Other Side
The Splatterverse now includes excerpts from some of my plays, in case anyone wants to do some casual reading.
Rather than pick the most dramatic points in the works, I thought it more interesting to find moments that caught the flavor or spirit of the play, the characters, or the situation. If nothing else, I hope they’re vaguely entertaining:
Turquoise and Obsidian
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Bombardment, Episode 13: Peace, How We’ve Longed for You
Splattworks continues its presentation of Bombardment, a two-act drama by Steve Patterson. The author will attempt to post an installment each day, but, if events intercede, installments may occur a day or so apart. So please be patient.
[EPISODE 13]
SCENE I
PLACID and CARMELITA sit in the armchairs. CARMELITA’s shopping cart is overturned, her stuff spread all over the stage–balloons, trinkets, gobs of colorful, wadded paper: a toy chest emptied for Mardi Gras. PLACID and CARMELITA have exchanged clothes with ARETHA and CORNO. PLACID reads the newspaper. CARMELITA curls up in her armchair. She has PLACID’s bag of surprises beside her. No matter what she does, PLACID does not react. CARMELITA takes out a pair of pruning shears, plays that they are shark jaws.
CARMELITA: (Singing “Mack the Knife”) Oh the shark has pretty teeth, dear/And he keeps them pearly white. . .. (Rummages, rummages. Comes up with a banana. Swims it past her. Singing “Sub-Mission” by the Sex Pistols) I’m on a submarine mission for you, bay-bee. . .. (CARMELITA makes bubble sounds as the banana “submerges.” Puts it back. Takes out a hacksaw. Puts it to her throat.) No. . .please. I’ll tell you where the treasure is! I will! Just don’t. . .don’t. . . arrrghghghghghh. (Her head falls forward. Lets it hang.) Arrrghghgh? (CARMELITA puts the saw away. Takes out an awl, and pretends to tie her arm off and shoot up, but can’t stomach it.) Awful. (CARMELITA returns the awl to the bag. Very slowly pulls out the long carving knife.) Oh, it is a long way to Tipperary. Just an extremely long way. No matter how you try to get there. Whether walking or flying or swimming like a fish. It’s an extremely long, difficult way to go. Wherever the hell Tipperary is. Know where Tipperary is, Placid? Well, I’ll tell you. Tipperary is nowhere. Maybe it was somewhere once, but it’s nowhere now. It’s a song. It’s in songland, and not even a song people know anymore. It’s in the Lower Slobbovia of songland. Peace. How we’ve longed for you. Listening, Placid? (She pricks her finger with the knife.) Ow! Shit. (She gets up, slips into a pair of pumps with stiletto heels. Picks up the knife.) I’m stalking. I’m stalking the beast. Oh, it’s a fierce beast. Got long, jagged teeth. Scaly skin. And, and…it’s invisible! It can eat you, and you’ll never see it. Even when the teeth tear into your flesh. Oh, you see the holes ripping, the blood. You’ll feel it. Definitely. But you’ll never see it, even after you’ve been eaten. Even when you’re deep in its guts. You’ll just dissolve. Become part of it. Then you’ll be invisible too.
[To be continued]
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Bombardment, Episode 11: Mirrors with Beveled Edges
CARMELITA: No, ma’am.
ARETHA: Yes, you did! Don’t argue with me! You killed him!
ARETHA begins striking CARMELITA.
ARETHA: Unfaithful bitch! I let you in, but you’re treacherous! All of you! Let you into my home, my life! Rescued you from dirt, disease, rivers rotting with corpses! Gave you a room! Gave you pink wallpaper with curlicues, white enamel vanity, mirrors with beveled edges! Perfumes, powders, oils! What do you give me? How do you pay me back?
ARETHA grabs CARMELITA’s coat.
ARETHA: Give me this! My coat! From my animals! My skins! Without me, you wouldn’t know which arm goes where!
In trying to escape the blows, CARMELITA lets ARETHA have the coat. ARETHA catches her by the throat. Forces her to her knees.
ARETHA: This is ours! We give you a little! Pacify you! Your peace, our profit! But don’t think we can’t take it away! If we don’t get back what we put in! We’ll just give it to another! Fresh meat! A body that hasn’t learned to think!
ARETHA throws her on stage. Grabs the tire iron.
ARETHA: Spoiled trifle. Put your eye to the keyhole. Seen what you couldn’t imagine, but now you want. Once that germ takes hold, you can’t be trusted, you or your whole fucking people, and you ought to be wiped from the planet!
ARETHA raises tire iron to strike. Deafening sound of planes, screaming in.
The sound paralyzes ARETHA. CARMELITA crawls away, grabbing her coat and wrapping herself.
ARETHA: They’re coming! God, they’re coming back! What are we going to do? Don’t you hear them? Once they let the bombs loose, they fall everywhere. They don’t just fall on me. They fall on everyone. They fall on everything.
CARMELITA: There’s nothing you can do.
ARETHA: No! Before I took you in, you survived!
CARMELITA: Lie down. The shrapnel might go over your head. Everything else has.
ARETHA: I rescued you. From dirt, disease. Rotting bodies floating in the river. Pink wallpaper with curlicue patterns. Table. Desk. Perfumes. Powders. I rescued you? Or did someone rescue me? Someone took my hand. But what happened–
CARMELITA backhands ARETHA.
CARMELITA: Kneel.
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Bombardment, Episode 4: Dallas Style
[EPISODE 4]
PLACID: Do it right! Make him come to you! Feign penance. Face behind a veil. So he’s sure he’s won. Accepting your proffered hand in his grand benevolence.
ARETHA: Humiliated.
PLACID: Does a spider humiliate? No. She waits. For the prey to relax.
ARETHA: Then strike.
PLACID: Why you need me. The most loyal of loyal. The only one–present company excepted–that he trusts. The one who’s borne the blood. Who’s bashed the heads to pieces. Slit the throats. He slinks home for you. On his knees. Pleading mock repentance. Until my shadow crosses his.
ARETHA: I know this gore and violence thrills you, but must your willie stick up my ass?
PLACID stands her up.
PLACID: Sorry, babe! Got a little excited! Excited…for your triumph!
ARETHA: Sit.
He sits. ARETHA paces.
ARETHA: Ah god.
She sits down and puts her head between her knees.
PLACID: Babe…you okay?
She sits back, obviously pained. CORNO rises from hiding place, vaguely concerned.
ARETHA: Comes in waves, the agony. My eyes. Seeing him. Them. He’s kisses her hair, her neck. She clenches her calves. She drops the platter. It rattles on parquet tiles, oysters splashing. She reaches back. Bunches the pleats of his woolen trousers. Fingers spreading flat. Trembling. . .. In my bed, Placid! My bed! I need murder. Tell me murder!
CORNO eases from one spot to another.
PLACID: Sweet. (Rises. Goes to bag. Takes out a tire iron.) Eh?
ARETHA: Kitchen to garage. Better. He loves his cars. Men love to go fast. Why they always do.
PLACID: Yeah, I love this fucker. Nice and heavy, but a point, too. Let it hang by your side. Come up behind him. Jam! Right through the back of his head!
PLACID demonstrates. ARETHA winces.
PLACID: Skull frags everywhere! Dallas style! Busted pottery! Or. . .–hwack!– uppercut! Hook that soft spot ‘neath the jaw! Give a twist, snap, whole trache rips out! Blood like a Rorschach! Beautiful.
ARETHA: I don’t the implement is properly. . .stylish.
PLACID: This gonna’ be a murder or a tea party?
ARETHA: What about something with a point that doesn’t have to mutilate? A pin? A dart?
PLACID rummages, comes up with a drill.
ARETHA: I believe you need a cord.
PLACID: (Buzzes it.) Batteries.
ARETHA: So…intrusive.
PLACID: You know what? You still love the bastard.
ARETHA: I do not.
PLACID: Yes, you do. You hate him as much as you say, you’d cut his head off–(pulls a hacksaw out of the bag and waves it around)– never mind the glop. Shit. Why don’t you just feed him a cute little Seconal brandy?
CORNO: Prefer coffee.
ARETHA leaps out of her seat. Enraged, she lunges toward him. The lights flicker. Planes return. Bombs fall, thundering. Shatteringly loud. Strobe lights. ARETHA, PLACID, and CORNO all hit the deck and cover up.
CORNO: Aretha? Aretha!
Admist the bombardment, one bomb falls with an especially piercing whine. Lights out with a shattering concussion. Silence.
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Bombardment, Episode 3: Just Speakin’ Colorful
ARETHA: How do you plan to conduct the administrative action?
PLACID: Well, it’s funny. On one hand, living things are a bitch to kill. If you don’t know what you’re doing, you end up just bashing ‘em till they come apart. But, if you got a little knowledge, get inside, snap the right wire, the whole gimmick goes…click. That’s what we’re shooting for. The right wire. Now. (Reaches into bag, pulls out a carving knife.) Standard number. Sharp, long enough to get to the juicy stuff. Strong, won’t break on bone. Drawback is. . .it’s been done. Million times. Kind of thing a housewife uses to whack her hubby when he’s dipping his wick on the side.
ARETHA: Be very careful.
PLACID: No offense. Just speaking colorful.
ARETHA: Nothing with domestic connotations.
CORNO: Say, could I get some coffee?
The two on stage look up, pause, then go back to what they’re doing.
PLACID: This wouldn’t work then?
Holds up a nutcracker. ARETHA shakes her head.
PLACID: Bummer.
Puts knife, nutcracker on floor. Takes out an icepick.
ARETHA: What did I tell you?
PLACID: Could be a wet bar. Some swanky lounge.
ARETHA: No.
PLACID: Camping?
CORNO: Please, it’s chilly out here. Let’s get a cup for all these good people.
ARETHA: Where do you find it?
CORNO: Just a warm-up. For my loyal, loving subjects.
ARETHA: You find it in a kitchen drawer, right along with the corn skewers and the garlic press.
PLACID: Garlic press. . ..
CORNO: Don’t need any cream! Black is fine!
ARETHA: (Leaping to her feet.) Shut up! Shut up, you bastard! I will not serve you! I will not! Think who I am! Think who you compare me to! I could kill you with my bare hands!
ARETHA lunges for him, but PLACID jumps up, grabs her round the waist. Holds her tight as she struggles to get into audience.
PLACID: No, no, shh. Do it proper.
ARETHA: To hell with proper!
PLACID: You can’t mean it.
ARETHA: Gouge out his eyes!
PLACID: No. Aretha.
ARETHA: With a grapefruit spoon! Pluck ’em out! Stamp ‘em on the ground!
She furiously stamps the stage while PLACID holds her in place. He finally wrenches her back. They both end up in an chair, ARETHA planted on PLACID’s lap.
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Many surfaces found in nature possess sophisticated topographical structures which provide them with exceptional properties. Nano-structured surface of lotus leafs efficiently repel water, microscopic brushes of gecko fingers drastically increase the contact with surfaces, topographical structures provides for enhanced anti-reflection surface properties in insects. Self-cleaning ability of bio-surfaces enables them to prevent contamination by particles such as dust, spores, and bacteria.
While investigating the initial adhesion behaviour of Pseudomonas aeruginosa ATCC 9027T and Staphylococcus aureus CIP 65.8T bacterial cells on the surface of cicada Psaltoda claripennis cicada wings, we found another striking phenomenon, namely the wing surfaces resisted colonisation by S. aureus and were lethal for P. aeruginosa bacterial cells (Ivanova 2012).
This is the first reported example of a naturally existing surface with a physical structure that exhibits such effective bactericidal properties. Cicada wing nanopillars are extremely effective at killing Pseudomonas aeruginosa cells; the wing surface was able to kill individual cells within approximately 3 min. This bactericidal ability of the wing surface is primarily a physico-mechanical effect, as it is retained when the surface chemistry is substantially altered (Ivanova 2012, Pogodin 2013).
Usually when thinking about anti-bacterial surfaces, one considers the surfaces repelling bacteria and preventing the attachment to the surface and consequent formation of a biofilm (Antibiofouling, commonly referred to simply as antifouling, is the property possessed by some materials which prevent the adhesion and subsequent build-up of biological matter on their surfaces). Our investigations into the interaction of Pseudomonas aeruginosa cells with the cicada wings revealed that the wing surface was actually not particularly effective at repelling the bacteria, as many cells were able to adhere to the wing surface, but in contrast, attract bacterial cell wall and break it.
The structure of Psaltoda claripennis cicadae wings are characterized by a series of longitudinal veins, cross veins and the areas enclosed by these regions, known as cells (Ivanova 2012).
The ventral and dorsal sides of both the fore and hind wings are covered with a periodic topography consisting of hexagonal arrays of spherically-capped, conical, nanoscale pillars (Ivanova 2012):
The height, spacing and diameter of the nanopillars varies between species, however for Psaltoda claripennis they are 200 nm tall, 100 nm in diameter at the base, 60 nm in diameter at the cap, and spaced 170 nm apart from centre to centre. Spatial variations in the wettability of the wing surface was assessed by measuring water droplet contact angles in a grid pattern, before generating a map, coloured according to contact angle. The nanostructured wing surface is hydrophobic; the average water contact angles measured on the wing was 158.8° (Ivanova 2012, Pogodin 2013).
The bacterial cells’ morphology was significantly altered when in contact with the cicada wing surface. The pattern induces rupture of P. aeruginosa bacterial cells (Ivanova 2012, Pogodin 2013).
On scanning electron micrographs the cells can be clearly seen to be penetrated by the nanopillar structures of the wing surface. The wing nano-pillars appeared to penetrate all of the cells that had attached to the surface. Cellular components appeared to be spreading outwards beneath the cell between the nanopillars. Subsequent viability analysis of these cells revealed that these penetrated cells were in fact dead (Ivanova 2012, Pogodin 2013).
While many superhydrophobic surfaces do inhibit the attachment of bacterial cells, we have also shown that there is no direct relationship between superhydrophobicity and antibiofouling. The cicada wings do not actually possess any appreciable antibiofouling ability with respect to Pseudomonas aeruginosa; however the net result is somewhat similar in that the bacteria are prevented from proliferating on the surface.
1) Elena P. Ivanova, Jafar Hasan, Hayden K. Webb, Vi Khanh Truong, Gregory S. Watson, Jolanta A. Watson, Vladimir A. Baulin, Sergey Pogodin, James Y. Wang, Mark J. Tobin, Christian Löbbe, Russell J. Crawford. Natural bactericidal surfaces: mechanical rupture of Pseudomonas aeruginosa cells by cicada wings // Small. 2012. V. 8(16). P. 2489–94. Doi:10.1002/smll.201200528.
2) Jafar Hasan, Hayden K. Webb, Vi Khanh Truong, Sergey Pogodin, Vladimir A. Baulin, Gregory S. Watson, Jolanta A. Watson, Russell J. Crawford, Elena P. Ivanova. Selective bactericidal activity of nanopatterned superhydrophobic cicada Psaltoda claripennis wing surfaces // Applied microbiology and biotechnology. 2012. Doi:10.1007/s00253-012-4628-5.
3) Sergey Pogodin, Jafar Hasan, Vladimir A. Baulin, Hayden K. Webb, Vi Khanh Truong, The Hong Phong Nguyen, Veselin Boshkovikj, Christopher J. Fluke, Gregory S. Watson, Jolanta A. Watson, Russell J. Crawford and Elena P. Ivanova. Biophysical model of bacterial cell interactions with nanopatterned cicada wing surfaces // Biophysical journal. 2013. V. 104(4). P. 835–40. Doi:10.1016/j.bpj.2012.12.046.
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Anti-bacterial surfaces inspired by cicada and dragonfly wings This is the first reported example of a naturally existing surface with a physical structure that exhibits such effective bactericidal properties. Cicada wing nanopillars are extremely effective at killing Pseudomonas aeruginosa cells; the wing surface was able to kill individual cells within approximately 3 min. This bactericidal ability of the wing surface is primarily a physico-mechanical effect, [...]...
Natural Bactericidal Surfaces: Mechanical Rupture of Pseudomonas aeruginosa Cells by Cicada Wings Elena P. Ivanova, Jafar Hasan, Hayden K. Webb, Vi Khanh Truong, Gregory S. Watson, Jolanta A. Watson, Vladimir A. Baulin, Sergey Pogodin, James Y. Wang, Mark J. Tobin, Christian Löbbe, Russell J. Crawford Small, 8 (16), 2489 – 2494 (2012) Natural superhydrophobic surfaces are often thought to have antibiofouling potential due to their self-cleaning properties. However, when [...]...
The susceptibility of Staphylococcus aureus CIP 65.8 and Pseudomonas aeruginosa ATCC 9721 cells to the bactericidal action of nanostructured Calopteryx haemorrhoidalis damselfly wing surfaces Appl Microbiol Biotechnol (2017). doi:10.1007/s00253-017-8205-9 Vi Khanh Truong, Nipuni Mahanamanam Geeganagamage, Vladimir A. Baulin, Jitraporn Vongsvivut, Mark J. Tobin, Pere Luque, Russell J. Crawford, Elena P. Ivanova Nanostructured insect wing surfaces have been reported to possess the ability to resist bacterial colonization through the mechanical rupture of bacterial cells coming into contact with the surface. In this [...]...
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Felicity Forrest has the perfect job as an investigative blogger for Everyday Supernatural. This curvy girl gets sent to the Aran Islands to find out whether a púca shape shifter is responsible for the strange accidents haunting a construction site.
Niall O’Leary is tall, broody, and totally alpha. His mission is to discover why the veil between the human world and the Realm has lifted. And as the Chieftain’s son he must find a mate or his twin will be promised to a stallion he despises. He has a duty to his family, his clan, and a need for offspring. Otherwise the púca could become nothing more than folklore.
Passion and frustration ignite when a curvy human female tempts his inner stallion like no other. There’s only one problem… She just got out of a relationship that left her broken hearted. Is she ready for a second chance at love?
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Westley Worthington has it all. Piles of money, good looks, a head for business, and a seemingly limitless supply of women who want to please him. And that’s just the way he likes it. Until a brush with death causes him to rethink his priorities, and consider someone besides himself for the first time in his privileged life.
Cordelia Cross has never had it easy. Her duty to her family has her working as an assistant to a man she hates just to pay her sister’s medical bills. When her arrogant boss alienates his last true friend, she finds herself promoted from schedule-managing coffee grabber, to the newest member of West’s inner circle.
Tempers, and passions, ignite as the two start spending time together, until a shocking accident puts their newfound attraction on ice. When West is faced with the toughest trial of his life, Cordelia helps him realize that he has all the tools he needs to be a force for justice.
Together, they must turn West into the hero no one ever thought he could be.
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Corrine Hart is ready for few days off for rest and relaxation. At the top of her to-do list is spending as much time as possible in tiger form and doing her best to banish all thoughts of the mysterious Hunky Cupcake Guy who spent the last two weeks driving her libido insane.
Jett Montgomery-Murphy just wants to know if the tasty treats that keep showing up at work are the same ones his best friend used to get while they were in college. A trip out to Sweet Confections confirms what he thought and brings him in close contact with the one woman he’s secretly lusted after for years, his best friend’s sister Corrine.
A late night tryst leads to two tigers finding their mates and two humans unsure what to do next. Add in an overbearing brother, a best friend with her own drama, and a crazy ex-girlfriend that has a checkered past and you have a recipe for disaster.
Will Corrine and Jett be able to overcome the unexpected obstacles on their way to falling in love? Or will they throw in the towel before the relationship even gets off the ground?
A Hunted Novel – Book Two
Tess Monroe is a werecat on the run. Her family is missing, she’s been poisoned, and shot. What else can go wrong?
Nate Tucker is a werewolf, and a valuable asset to the shifter haven, Sanctuary. His job is to help wounded and displaced shifters. But wolves have a long-standing feud with werecats. He should turn Tess away, and forget he ever met her, but can he?
Lana Dixon knows well enough to steer clear of alpha males, but Ty Hawthorne is as impossible to avoid as the sizzling Arizona sun. Her inner wolf just won’t give up on the alpha who’s tall, dark, and more than a little dangerous. One midnight romp under the full moon is enough for Lana to know she’ll risk her life for him — but what about her pride?
Ty puts duty above everything — even the overwhelming instinct that says Lana’s the one. She’s the Juliet to his Romeo: forbidden. And with a pack of poaching rogues closing in, it’s hardly the time to yield to his desires. Or is love just what this lonely alpha needs to set his spirit free?
There’s more than meets the eye on Twin Moon Ranch, home to a pack of shapeshifting wolves willing to battle for life and love.
Gemi Draglen has been searching for the woman that is destined to become his Wella for hundreds of years. One eventful night while visiting the city of New Orleans, he unexpectedly sees the woman he wants to be his forever. Unfortunately, he has two very serious problems. First, the woman to become his Wella is a witch, an age old enemy to all dragons. Second and most importantly, she has no idea who Gemi truly is and he must convince her they belong together, forever.
Shalisi Narmon is no ordinary young lady. Shalisi is a witch from generations of witches and has known since birth that she is to have the most important role of all her sister witches. She has always accepted her destiny of becoming the Passer. At least that’s what she has always believed until Gemi Draglen suddenly enters her life. She has never experienced love and could never love a dragon, an enemy to witches. It seems Gemi is not so easily deterred and is determined to win her affection and show her the joy that true love can give. Will Shalisi choose her sisters or the love of her life?
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When Stormy meets rock star Knox, she lets herself dare to fall in love. There’s just one problem — her family curse, which could turn their passion into an all-consuming fire…
Only a vampire is man enough to teach werewolves how to fight.
Pretty librarian Sugar wants her life to stay quiet. That’s hard enough when friends and neighbors turn into furry werewolves every full moon. But when a hot vampire gets involved, life’s bound to get complicated.
The Omegas have always been the pansies of the paranormal. Now Chicago’s top werewolf pack has issued them a life or death challenge. Their only option: hire a vampire warrior to teach them the moves.
Daedalus has been a powerful vampire for ages. Intrigued by the chance to train the geeks of the underworld, he wasn’t bargaining on losing his heart to a human. Can he make the Omegas a success, fit into Sugar’s quiet life, and avoid being ripped to shreds in the process?
They were supposed to be enemies, not lovers. Tanner Lyons is a shifter without a pack, which is just the way he likes it—until he rescues Olivia Bennett, princess of the Lightbearers. Suddenly, he finds himself fighting an attraction that makes no sense, because Lightbearers and shifters have been mortal enemies since the beginning of time. Intrigue, adventure, magic, and passion – you’ll find it all in Into the Light, Book 1 of Tami Lund’s exciting new fantasy series, Lightbearers.
Shifters dominate the human world, while Lightbearers stay hidden away in their magically protected coterie. That is, until Olivia Bennett, princess of the Lightbearers, is captured by the most powerful shifter of them all—Quentin Lyons, who believes that to kill a Lightbearer is to inherit her magic.
The attraction makes no sense. Lightbearers and shifters have been mortal enemies since the dawn of time. He’s supposed to feel the urge to kill her, not … well, you know.
Cameron Sinclair is a successful businessman, with offices all over the world and a multi-billionaire with all the trappings. He is also a Wolf and he vows never to return to Pack life, or his birthright as Alpha.
He is ‘summoned’ back to his Highland Pack by his estranged father and things do not go smoothly, resulting in him leaving to help his Uncle in the USA with several of his friends in tow.
What awaits is heartache, sorrow and the chance for a new life as Alpha of a large Pack. A life with love in it. His first sight of the white She-Wolf affecting him in ways he can’t even understand.
First, he and his Wolves have to take on a deadly threat, the deadliest of all; a corrupt and depraved Alpha with a horde of guards as immoral as their leader. Will he take his chance at love? Or do as he always does; walk away?
A pariah among paranormals, Peter can touch the dead and read their last thoughts. Once an angel, now a demon, he is only tolerated by most because of his gift. Cursed with the power of influencing every woman or man he touches, Peter has lost any hope to experience true intimacy and companionship.
Headstrong and sensual as only werewolves can be, Ophelia is desperately in love with her best friend, Samuel, who is in love with someone else. In the middle of her personal crisis, Rome is taken by storm by the latest archeology discovery, and as a forensic anthropologist, Ophelia is called to shed some light on the remains of a young couple embraced for eternity.
Peter is sent to the site to help identify the dead. There he meets the striking werewolf, and Ophelia’s exotic beauty and sharp tongue pique his interest immediately. Ophelia, too, is affected by Peter’s magnetism. Will they survive a manhunt the likes of which Rome has never seen? Will Peter and Ophelia remain unscathed by the fire of their burning passion?
It’s either the beginning or the end for Sadie James. She came to the small Adirondack town of Andora looking for a fresh start. One that didn’t include the pitying looks of strangers who saw her on the news. Only days into her new life and already she is in trouble. That is, unless the wolf in front of her was salivating at the sight of some other woman in the vast forest around her.
After killing his sister, Tyson searched for oblivion the only way he knew how to. As a wolf he could run from the life he left behind and become the animal he always was. The time between lucidness grows longer each times he surfaces. One day he won’t be able to come back at all. It was the only thing he looked forward to until a lost woman fell at his feet.
Sadie is in danger and she is blind to it. Although, it was never proven, Tyson always believed Jack was behind his sister’s ultimate demise. Now Jack has his sights set on Sadie. Can he fight the pull of the wild or will he let her face the wolves alone?
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Blake doesn’t want a mate. No way. No how. And he certainly doesn’t want her camping on his land, floating down his stretch of river, or looking like she belongs in his bed.
But that’s exactly what he gets when he happens upon a curvy woman with shades of sunset hair named Leah. She’s on vacation and isn’t looking for any complications, especially in the form of a shifter or the possessive MINE signal he gives off.
So, what are two bears to do when they’ve convinced themselves they don’t want, much less need anyone else? They give in to the pull and mate, of course, but in sex only. No life commitment. No cubs. No changing the way they live: Separate and independent of each other.
Except when she leaves his mountain, Blake can’t get her off his mind and Leah can’t stop craving his particular brand of gruffness. Now, the one thing neither wanted, has come full circle, and is ready to bite them both.
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Werewolf relationships are all about influence and offspring, especially as they are becoming extinct. But Carmela Santiago resents that type of life. She dreams of falling in love, not following the example her parents have set.
When sensual vampire Derek Ashmore rescues her from dangerous hunters, she tumbles head over heels for him. Not a wise decision since werewolves and vampires are mortal enemies.
Meeting her caring mate-to-be Brendan Kelly has her further questioning the future. Regardless, her life has forever changed now that she’s met not one, but two men who pull at her heartstrings…
Mandi finds herself waking from a drug induced sleep, in the arms of the handsome McDougal Pack’s alpha. But Mandi is a human, with no desire to be anything else. Just because the legendary white wolf blood might run through her veins, doesn’t give the werewolf council any say over her life. She may not be able to pick her relatives, but she can certainly choose the man she marries. Can’t she?
Mac doesn’t think the mate the council chose for him is going to work out for him at all. But when he meets her, he begins to wonder if she might not be the one he’s been looking for all along. She wants to fight him and the attraction that flares between them. He has a surprise for her. He’s a fighter and he’s enlisted an unexpected ally from her family. The white wolf herself is on his side and he doesn’t intend to stop until he wins.
Andrea Slater escaped an underground prison only to be captured by a shifter tribe and forced into a new form of imprisonment. As if, escaping death in 2014 and thrust into a dangerous future where the number one focus is procreation wasn’t enough, now she had six super hot, alpha males competing to the death to have the honor of mating with her. What’s a woman to do?
This is a stand alone romance. It is the second book in the Vanished series (book one, Death Interrupted is also available on Amazon). It is not necessary to read the first book in this series to follow the romance in The Mating Challenge but the first book can help enhance the story and can give readers a better understanding of the dystopia world the characters live in.
After Keira’s husband is brutally murdered, she is more than just alone but vulnerable to threats and tangled in a web of greed. Her decisions lead her into a corner, and safety is jeopardized.
Aiden, Wolf shifter and Council member of the Caedmon Pack, has never failed when it comes to fulfilling the terms of his employment contract. When he is hired to protect an heiress, he doesn’t plan on her being the only woman to bring both challenge and purpose in his life. Without hesitation, he vows to keep the grieving Keira safe—even from himself.
Keira trusts Aiden unconditionally and finds joy whenever they are together, but can love transcend a tragedy? Aiden’s urge to protect her is just as great as his desire to claim her. Once the passion is unleashed and fueled by the need to have all of her, the wolf will accept nothing less than his mate.
Wolf’s Desire is Book Four of the Caedmon Wolves series. Books One through Six are also available now.
A SPIN OFF SERIES OF SHIFTERS FOREVER!
This one takes place in Europe, the original home of the Tiero shifters. We start our journey in the Eternal City–Rome.
Vax’s half-brother Rafe has it bad for Callie, Vax’s woman. He thinks that’s the kind of woman he needs. Until he meets Jax–who has a boyfriend and a bit of a chip on her shoulder.
Now what, Rafe?
Maddie Joplin’s heart was broken by the small-town golden boy who took her virginity and left her behind. Now he’s back with secrets he won’t share and scars she doesn’t remember, and she wants just one chance to show him what he missed.
Kane Villalobos had one choice: abandon Maddie or reveal his dangerous life as a wolf shifter. But with the mating moon on the rise, Kane is bound to take a mate. And this time, Maddie refuses to let him walk away alone.
Believed to be kept under guard by his traveling circus’s owner, Fabian Castillo hasn’t been seen or heard from for more than seven months. Astrid Falk has one week to root him out. The private investigators at Shrew & Company always find their men, and Astrid is no exception.
When Astrid pulls the bewitching acrobat from captivity, however, he refuses to cut and run. He’s got a score to settle with his former foster father Jacques, and Astrid can’t leave Fabian on his own. He speaks no English, and she speaks no Spanish, but when they touch, they don’t need words. There are some perks to being psychic.
Solitary Fabian wants Astrid to be more than just his translator, and she just might be on the market for a new partner. But, the last man she gave her heart to left her high and dry when she needed him most. Committing to Fabian would require a leap of faith she’s not sure she can muster, especially if there’s no net below to catch her if she falls.
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Jolie’s life is turned upside down after the death of the father she never knew. Someone seems determined to run her over, she’s getting prank phone calls, and her mother is marrying a man Jolie has never met.
As if that wasn’t enough, a brief lust-filled meeting with a smokin’ hot stranger turns into dream filled nights of passion that feel almost too real.
Victoria Storm faces seemingly insurmountable odds to keep her dwindling pack of werewolves alive and together. She fights hunters- including the brother and father of her deceased lover-and the pack takes another devastating loss.
When they seek sanctuary in a small town near Lake Tahoe, high in the secluded Sierra Nevada Mountains, Victoria discovers they are infringing on the territory of a vastly more powerful Alpha wolf. To save her pack, she uses her feminine wiles to seduce the Alpha. Nothing comes easily for Victoria. Her plans are complicated by the Alpha’s erratic son, a ghostly wife, and a vengeful witch.
Not even her status as a Valkyrie or the favor of the Goddess Freya can change the course of destiny for Victoria or her pack mates.
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Audrey Levine thinks being bitten by a wolf is just another day on the job. She couldn’t be more wrong.
A wildlife rehabilitation specialist, Audrey usually does all the rescuing, but now she’s the one who needs help. In ten days, she’ll be covered in fur and howling at the moon while the wolf who bit her is out there, waiting to claim her as his own…whether she wants to be his or not.
The biggest problem? The curvy beauty doesn’t know any of this.
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When Adrianna McDonald finds out that she’s The Trinity, a mythical woman who is part wolf, vampire, and witch; it throws her life into a tailspin. Legend has it that with her unique powers, she’s destined to bring peace to the raging war between all three sides, but even she doesn’t know how she’ll do it.
To top off the life-altering news of her destiny, she comes face to face with two of the strongest Alpha males around and her inner female sits up and takes notice.
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Ainsley Connor had the perfect life – a successful real estate career in Manhattan and her books to keep her company. Best of all, she was far away from the unusual college town where she grew up. Until a tragic accident forced her back to Tarker’s Hollow, and she found herself caught up in a steamy web of shifters and magic, locked in a power struggle for control of the pack she left behind.
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If you think you’ve lost everything. Think again.
Kitty lost her father, her home and her clan. Clinging to what’s left of her pride, she’s forced into the neutral zone, the supposed safe haven for half-breeds and outcasts. An attack forces her to the wrong side of the treaty line and into an even more dangerous situation. Determined to greet death with the last of her dignity, she is suddenly rescued by a tall, gorgeous…wolf???
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Peri has been running since she was fifteen – using her magic to stay safe. ‘They’ can track her magic though, so she has to use it sparingly. In Vegas, for a cash-in-hand job, things turn nasty! She knows the amount of magic she would have to use to escape unscathed would bring ‘them’ right to her.
Before she can use the vast magic required two males appear and aid her. One a wolf, one an ancient vampire. Josef, the vampire, and Gabe, the wolf, are more than a little interested in this skinny girl. What ensues shocks both of the strong males – this girl is more than a stray, more than a witch – it looks like she is a mate – for both of them!?
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When veterinarian, Dr. Carly Tipton, takes a new job in the tiny farming community of Lunar Falls, she expects to build a new life for herself. She expects to meet new people and have new experiences. Maybe she’s even expecting a little adventure. But what she’s not expecting is to fall head over heels in love – not with the town, and certainly not with its ruggedly sexy sheriff, Gabriel Masters. She’s also not expecting all the secrets Lunar Falls is hiding. Secrets that could destroy everything she ever believed was true about her own heritage and the family she left back home.
Lark Davies is the sole guardian of her younger sister, and the owner of The Cookie Jar. When she’s not working, she spends her free time at the Harris ranch. She knows that they are werewolves, but it doesn’t matter. They are her family. When Devon Harris shows up at the ranch, Lark finds herself instantly drawn to him. However, Devon makes it clear that he wants nothing to do with her. But when enemies attack the ranch, Lark and Devon find themselves working together to save the people they love most.
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Aurora Silver has a werewolf problem. A customer at her family’s diner won’t stop asking her out. Cross Hemlock may be the hottest guy in town but he also happens to be a werewolf. There’s no way she could ever go on a date with him. Witches and werewolves don’t mix.
When Rory is attacked by werewolves one night on the way home from work, Cross saves her. Unfortunately, the werewolf attack wasn’t an isolated incident. While Rory’s coven tries to keep her safe, she has a sinking feeling that the only person who can help her is Cross.
Katlyn had finally given in to her wildest fantasy, and gone to the Wilted Petal club looking for a good time with two hot men. Oh, sure, Brendan and Chase were hot, but before things became too heated, they were interrupted by a code red that had the lovers racing for the exit. She narrowly escaped with her life, and it had been a shock that Brendan and Chase were shifters, but Katlyn had no idea the Shifter Patrol had planned to set fire to the club and murder everyone who dared to escape.
Brendan and Chase saved her that night, but life as she knew it was gone.
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When a possible spy appears at Mallochbirn, it’s dragon shifter Colin Malloch’s duty to hunt her down and capture her. Who is Ariane? What’s she doing in Scotland?
But soon Colin’s need for a mate draws this mysterious traveler into grave danger. How can he keep her safe when his own brother demands her life?
This is the second novel the sexy Shifters of Scotland series, where beauty meets beast in the Scottish Highlands. Although the stories are related, each book is a standalone. The first novel in the series is The Zrakon’s Bride.
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I’ve been a big girl my whole life. It’s a fact that’s been a source of pain for as long as I can remember. After a series of bad relationships that ended in heartbreak, I’d sworn off men for good. I even moved out to my grandparents’ cabin in the mountains, determined to learn to be happy being alone.
But a stroll underneath a full moon led to a chance encounter that changed my life forever. Meeting that wolf would awaken something in me I thought was dead and gone, and I would never be the same.
Altered both mentally and physically, Asia Montgomery finally has a lead to unlock the mystery of her past. Gunnolf, her former mentor has reached out to her, some say from the grave. Desperate to learn real nuggets of her personal history before the Liege changed her, she embarks on a journey that takes her into the bowels of Lancaster Castle.
Hawke has been an altered prisoner of Lord Boris Lancaster so long his wolf has all but given up hope of ever being free. When Asia steps into the lab looking like Tate, his wolf springs to the surface to investigate.
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Can fated love triumph over the threat of war?
Aislinn Cavett lives a sheltered life, raised in a human supremacist compound and kept separate from the wild variety of non-humans teeming outside the compound’s fence.
North American Pack Alpha Darius Bishop believes peace with the Humans First group is the only way to protect his wolves from ongoing, senseless violence.
When Darius arrives at the Humans First compound for peace negotiations, he finds something he didn’t expect—his mate.
An Amazon Princess and a weretiger must find love enough to heal their peoples’ painful history.
The Amazon Rainforest still contains a few secrets. One of these secrets is a hidden village of women whose history is filled with the horror of conquering men.
Adara Rukan, princess of the Amazons, ventures away from her village to find something waiting for her. Andrei “Rei” Makarov is a weretiger and a biologist on assignment. Can Rei and Adara find love enough to bridge their two separate worlds?
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Sequel to the Best-selling Book, Witchy Wolf
Chloe Jackson has barely adjusted to her new life with the pack and sexy Alpha werewolf, Gabriel Denton. Now, not only must she deal with the murderous glances of a jealous she-wolf who wants Gabriel, but she also must face an evil from her past that threatens to destroy her new life and happiness with her hunky alpha. Can Gabe save Chloe from the clutches of her enemy? Will Chloe uncover the truth behind her heritage? Will she walk down the aisle with the love of her life, or will Gabe lose her to forces he never saw coming?
Book two in the Feral Breed Motorcycle Club series
Gates is a legend among his fellow wolf shifters. For more than four centuries, he’s lived without a mate, something nearly unheard of in his breed. He’s spent that time mastering the art of the kill, becoming a lethal weapon for the Feral Breed Motorcycle Club, and earning a reputation as the Gatekeeper.
Kaija Wariksen grew up as the Valkoisus pack princess. The Alpha’s only daughter and a powerful Omega shewolf, Kaija’s beauty and place within the pack hierarchy makes her the focus of desire for many of the unmated males, especially one she’s desperate to stay away from.
After a run-in with a rude synthpet client that leaves her in tears, the last thing Sam needs is to get called down to her ailing father’s office…yet again. The day gets worse when it’s her vicious step-brother from hell who greets her, only to make her an offer no good daughter could refuse.
Arles has wanted–needed–his sweet step-sister in his life for far too long, and now he’s finally found a way to get her. Of course it means making her hate him first, but what else is new?
Family responsibilities bring curvy native islander and professional tattoo artist Sela Isaia back home from Los Angeles to the fictional South Pacific island of Kava’ali’i in order to take care of her father after he has a stroke.
Once she arrives in Kava’ali’i, fate crosses her path with champion surfer Lani Thompson, a descendant of Australian expats, who is home on break. Lani was the person who rushed Sela’s father Jesse to the hospital, and he has been taking care of her father while she has been away.
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Shifters live in the shadows of Seattle, just under the skin of the alpha male, dot-com entrepreneurs who are building a new Silicon Valley in the Emerald City.
Mia is just a college girl trying to earn her business degree and dig out of the poverty she was born into–being a shifter is something she hides, hoping her secret won’t sabotage her dreams.
Lucas is a broken alpha, a wolf who lost his mate, his pack, and almost himself–he wasn’t looking to rescue a girl or start a pack war. But now he has to keep her safe or it won’t just be her life, but his whole family at risk… only his inner wolf can’t seem to keep its paws off a girl who has secrets of her own.
If Gwen catches her prey, God help him.
Gwen met her match a year ago. Like most wolf shapeshifters, they knew upon contact they were mates but Colby hadn’t stuck around to bond. He’d dumped her and her whole pack knew it. Never one to cry surrender, Gwen goes on the hunt to find out exactly what sent him running. Hopping from country to country, she chases him until she loses his scent. Unable to return home with her tail between her legs, she takes a job guarding the newest member of the Nosferatu vampire clan in New York City to keep him out of trouble.
Chloe wants to believe in fairy tales….
The does in the herd have shunned The Mate, thinking of it as little more than an arranged marriage. But Chloe thinks the idea of being fated to someone forever is romantic. So excited about The Mate, Chloe can’t wait until the night of the ceremony, and heads out in the forest in search of her mate.
Cane’s tired of running….
Everything in his life has ended badly, and there was only one place left that felt like the right place to go: his family’s cabin outside of Colorado Springs. Cane had been dreaming of the forest, and something much more primal that was begging to be let out.
Talya is a wedding photographer who doesn’t just take breathtaking pictures – she also gets incredible how-we-met stories out of the bride and groom! Some Wolf Old begins this new series at a luxurious beach wedding.
Saving a wolf’s life was just part of the job for Robyn, a curvy veterinary intern. It was only when the animal was out of danger that Robyn felt its eyes lingering on her. “Wolfy” was no ordinary animal, and the werewolf in hiding wanted more than medical attention from the innocent young woman!
Kylie Moore has a secret, one she and her adoptive father have carefully guarded for over a decade since the night her parents disappeared. However, when she is randomly attacked one night in her apartment complex’s parking lot, that one violent act sets in motion events that reveal not only her long-dormant shifter heritage in the worst possible way, but could also railroad her efforts of finding out what really happened to her parents.
Suddenly finding herself the center of attention among Riverford’s shifter clans, Kylie’s only hope of navigating such a dangerous minefield of politics and perpetual battles over territory is Hunter, a too-sexy-for-her-peace-of-mind jaguar shifter that might be her key to gaining insider access to the hidden and secretive shifter society.
Jockey Camryn O’Sullivan is an alcoholic on a downward spiral after the death of her husband. When aliens kidnap her, she’s both terrified and reluctantly fascinated by Ryman Coppersmith. She’s positive the weird attraction to her abductor is an anomaly. Something to ignore. She’ll train the aliens’ horse and they’ll return her home. Simple. There’s no need for sex or a stubborn male kitty-cat to replace the precious memories of her husband.
Kayley’s passion-filled dreams of two sexy men torment her nights … but meeting them in real life turns her world upside down! Passion brings them together, but a menace from one’s past threatens to destroy them. Now they’ll have to risk it all and fight for their love. Skye Jones presents Claimed By Love, Book 1 of her exciting new paranormal romance series Wild Hunters.
Kayley Edwards has spent the last four years closing herself off after a vicious attack by her lover left her scarred and terrified. After fleeing her native Alaska, she ran the length of the country and began a new life in Miami, far from family and friends.
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What if you were the key to an ancient prophecy that would begin to heal your lands, but fulfilling your destiny meant you had to turn your back on everything you’d been taught to believe in?
Redlynn of Volkzene, member of the Sisterhood of Red, is heartbroken to discover another girl kidnapped and her best friend slain by werewolves. Defying the head of her order, she sets out to kill the beast she believes responsible. The King of the Weres– But there are worse things in Wolvenglen Forest than the wolves.
A curvy woman + The Alpha who wants her + Wine and a sexy dream = waking up marked!
Ciara Ortiz wants Ryker Snow. Too bad she’s known all her life he needs a shifter for a mate. She’s only human. After years of staying away from the tempting shifter, she will finally see him for her brother’s wedding. Can she handle it?
Ryker Snow will finally have Cici in his grasp. She’s done a good job of ignoring him and this is his one chance at getting the woman he wants.
If you could shift into a wolf, what would you discover about yourself?
Two years after the deaths of her bond mates, Constance Newcastle is ready to start over. The problem? The rest of the Great Pack, gathered in Paris to shift into wolves together, is not so sure she deserves the chance. Although the Great Council ruled the car crash an accident, even Constance blames herself. She was driving, after all.
Treated like a pariah by those she longs to rejoin, Constance reunites with an old lover. Everything looks promising until he mysteriously dies. Accused of his murder and desperate to clear her name, Constance joins forces with handsome, confident Liam Murphy, a former Alpha pack leader with a past as tragic and troubled as her own.
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Homicide Detective Charity Holiday comes across some interesting characters when she works on a murder case of a stripper. One of those characters happens to be her mate.
Malick Pendragon isn’t thrilled when his mate, who happens to be a witch, walks into his life. The timing is completely wrong. What he doesn’t expect is her life to be threatened or that he’d have to save her or risk dying himself.
Are two Alphas better than one? Beverly Collingswood experiences an emotional roller coaster as she faces the hungry ache of the two hot blooded weremen who lust after her.
Beautiful, werewoman Beverly Collingswood has returned from Camp Vickers to start her life again at the University. But she experiences anger and loathing from a group that reviles her kind. And a powerful desire runs rampant within her when she and her Alpha lover are reunited with a sexy Alpha shifter from her past. Will she be able to come to grips with the werewolf haters and her strong feelings for the two smoking hot werewolves?
It takes time before Gina Meiro warms up to people and her shyness is often misunderstood. She hasn’t had to worry about meeting new people at a remote art colony until a new resident arrives—a rock guitarist more suited for a billboard. Her carefree days of painting at the medieval-styled castle on a remote New England island are shattered when she stumbles right into his welcome gathering.
After a falling out with his band, Dante Riani wants nothing more at Les Beaux Arts on DeRoche Island than solitude to work on new songs. When a shy young painter asks to paint him at sunset, he’s tempted by the opportunity to be alone with her.
He’s a wild and dangerous shifter on a motorcycle. She’s a feisty full-figured waitress trying to rebuild her life. Both have something to hide; neither is willing to let go.
Can two people with so many secrets ever learn to trust again?
Take a trip in the wayback machine to 1986, when the hair was big and the shoulder pads were even bigger. Yuppie bear shifter Chet Pearce is used to living the high life in L.A. So when he’s sent to a podunk British Columbia island to be initiated into his ancestral clan, he bristles under their restrictive rules and lack of awesome parties.
Punk isn’t just a type of music to curvy Crystal Witherspoon, it’s an attitude — and she’s got plenty to spare. Shuttled off to her grandparents after getting mixed up with the wrong crowd, Crystal does her best to fit in with all the ‘normal’ people in Port Numas but her rebellious nature can’t be contained by neon headbands and acid-washed mini-skirts.
Sparks fly when Chet and Crystal first meet, and it doesn’t take long before they realize they’re meant for each other. But their families have other ideas.
Adam has waited an eternity for his mate. After three thousand years of searching he’s almost lost hope that he’ll ever find her… almost convinced himself that God has forsaken him.
Cassie is miserable. At just 23 the buxom, beautiful werewolf has found herself caught up in her mother’s Machiavellian power struggles, forced into an arranged marriage with the cruel, violent alpha of the Ironclaws, Lucius. When the Long Night arrives Cassie will be his property, to do with as he pleases.
Imprisoned in Lucius’ summer home with Megan, a gutter-minded 400 year old teenager, and Rutherford, a senile housekeeper who can’t remember where he left his trousers, Cassie knows she has no choice but to sacrifice her happiness for her tribe… And then she picks up a scent on the breeze.
Marilyn Carrington has been hurt by everyone who has ever claimed to love her. Now, she only trusts herself and her .45 caliber pistol. When the sexiest man she has ever seen walks into the bar where she works, she stays clear of him, ignoring his advances, but when he takes the hint and leaves her alone, she finds herself missing him. Marilyn finds she doesn’t care about the danger she senses around him; she wants to know the feeling of love again. Marilyn’s only problem now is whether Showken is really ready for her.
Showken Draglen is known for being a playboy. Loving his freedom, he has never committed to a woman, and doesn’t ever plan to. But when he sees Marilyn, he will do whatever it takes to have her. Unused to rejection, he becomes even more determined to win her. But deep down Showken knows that when she finds out what he truly is, she will run, leaving him with the only option he knows, using his power.
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Isabel’s first encounter with Peter has left her crazy with desire – as well as frustration.
A second meeting promises the completion she so badly needs. Before this can happen though, her submissive desires are put to the test.
Signing her autonomy away to a man who makes her feel like a hunted rabbit could be the stupidest thing she’s ever done. But the reward is a glimpse into Peter’s wild life, deep in the New Mexican wilderness – and the most intense passion of her life.
Just as Isabel’s heart begins to open to the fascinatingly free-spirited man, he slips out of her grasp, reminding her that he’s as enigmatic as ever.
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The Creative Process is a Healing One; “_____”, An Opera
Posted-on June 4, 2017 October 28, 2018 By lineBylineallisoncaw
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Off and on for the past year I have been working with Ethelyn Friend and a company of artists on an inimitable piece of art called “_____”, An Opera. It is an Opera that is improvised, meaning that the music is created on the spot by pianist Gary Grundei and the ensemble of performers every night. To see the performance is to witness the creative process first hand. In addition to the improvised musical score there are sections of the show called “Windows”, during which the protagonist, the Writer, literally roles a dice deciding by chance the character, the song and the quality with which it will be sung.
The Opera takes place in a small Victorian House, which allows no more than 16 viewers a night. It feels like your very own personal performance. Each audience member is given a small origami box with tiny gifts inside including a bell, a flashlight, ear plugs and a candle along with a special program. Audience members are encouraged to interact and contribute to the performance through the use of their bell and flashlight. They can ring for a moment of stillness, of mindfulness or they can shine a light on whatever they choose.
“___”: An Opera Photo Credit: Siena Pinney
Photo Credit: Siena Pinney
Yet, the truly breathtaking aspect of this show goes beyond its experimentation. The works greatest gift lies in the story itself, based on real events, which reveals the creative process as a healing one. The story is about an artist, a woman, the Writer, who is in the midst of writing an Opera. The audience watches while the Writer discovers her creation as it unfolds. In the vein of Jungian archetypes, the characters she imagines into being are the various aspects of herself. Theres her innocent child-self, her highest self/the all loving and all accepting divinity within, the part that is broken/ostracized/unloved/forced into shadow, the ego maniac, the often blinded and silenced consciousness who bears witness to it all.
As the story unfolds The Writer is confronted with the traumatic memory of childhood incest. The story she is writing begins to unearth what has long been buried. At first she is in denial. She tries to “delete” this part of her story. When the characters begin to reveal the truth she tells them “not yet”, in an attempt to prolong the inevitable. For a time the Writer’s tactics of interruption, procrastination, and distraction are successful. However, eventually the truth can no longer be avoided. All her parts begin to coalesce, joining forces and each raising their voices in an attempt to shine light on this shadow. Through her own divine wisdom and fearlessness she opens herself to her full, unedited, unsuppressed story. She finds herself face to face with her buried suffering, looking directly into the darkest part of herself. She sees for the first time how she has become frozen and stuck, unable to move forward by the unprocessed trauma of her past. She allows the shadow to step into the light and places it in the warm and clear seeing embrace of loving-kindess. She creates space in which her shadowed trauma can be expressed and reborn.
So much of the healing process within the performance is expressed through the voice. With an ensemble or performers steeped in Roy Hart vocal training, the piece expresses the voice as the muscle of the soul and does not shy away from its darkest parts. As the shadow is revealed, the voices of the ensemble sonically convey the messy heights and depths, the lightness and darkness of what it is to be human. An “Aria of Broken Sounds” follows a song exclaiming the intensity and richness of human suffering, “Soul at the White Heat”. The piece travels from gorgeous operatic and sing song tones to the shredded, powerfully raw voices that culturally we are taught to suppress and silence just like our beautiful shadows.
To say that working on this piece has changed my life is not an overstatement. Living inside of this story for over a year and performing it night after night undoubtedly has had an effect on me personally. I imagine the same can be said of my incredible collaborators, although I will not speak for them. Unknowingly at first, and then very clearly, I found myself working with my own shadow, my broken bits that I shove to the side wishing they would go away. Through this process I have begun to viscerally perceive how all my parts, the divine and the painfully ugly have a place within me.
Before each rehearsal and every show we had a routine of reading random excerpts from the works of Pema Chödrön. She reminded us nearly every day that our main challenge in being human is to come to know and befriend ourselves, all parts of ourselves without discrimination. The Roy Hart practice too, teaches of the equanimity of all sounds, the high, the low, the beautiful and the ugly. If all sounds arise from the soul then all sounds must be treated equally. Healing and personal transformation begin with awareness and integration. This is what this piece has been teaching me. And from what our audiences have shared, the piece has offered more than any of us could have ever imagined. I am forever grateful to this creative process and those who bravely led the way on this incredible journey.
While “________”, An Opera is up and running and has had an entirely sold out run, we are still trying to raise funds. Our intention is to continue sharing this deeply moving work with many more audiences beyond this 3 week run. Please consider donating to the Indiegogo campaign. We only have till midnight tonight to reach our goal and we are currently only at 66%. Thank you and many blessings.
Libretto by Ethelyn Friend, Music live-improvised by Gary Grundei with Ensemble
Directed by Erica Terpening-Romeo
With Allison Caw
Jessica Cerullo
Barrett Ogden
All Photos shot by Siena Pinney
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Sherlock Holmes and the Shadwell Shadows
December 24, 2016 December 24, 2016 adrianmiddle Leave a comment
Our latest review enters the murky world of HP Lovecraft’s cosmic horrors to explore the first volume in The Cthulhu Casebooks trilogy. But it is not a mash-up.
Sherlock Holmes and the Shadwell Shadows by James Lovegrove, Titan Books, December 2016.
Hardcover. 352pp £12.99
Reviewed by Adrian Middleton
Sherlock Holmes and the Shadwell Shadows starts strongly and with some well constructed prose that presents us with a slightly different version of Messrs Holmes and Watson that that seen in the original canon.
Taking us from their original meeting through their very earliest adventure, Lovegrove presents us with a mystery too terrible to be told at the time, revealing exactly why Dr Watson was invalided out of Afghanistan and why we never heard of any of Holmes’ more supernatural cases.
These subtle changes–all presented as truths concealed by the fiction of the canon–justify the voice of an older, more honest, more intelligent Watson who shows us a Holmes whose dedication to spurious possibilities in conversation a conspiracy that positions the pair as champions of the war against Cthulhu and his minions.
Some minor niggles. First, while the book presents a crossover between the world of Sherlock Holmes and the Cthulhu Mythos of H P Lovecraft, and wile it revisits and reimagines the early adventures of Holmes and Watson, it is not a mash-up.
Such a label does the book, and Lovegrove, a disservice. The words are not Doyle’s, and the characters have be appropriated so effectively that they acquire a new life in the telling of this story, dipping into key moments in their lives together, but never truly quoting the original. There are common facts, but there are also divergent ones, and Lovegrove tales is deeper into the realm of period adventure, evoking both the classic Weird Tales of Lovecraft and Howard, the lurid Dime Novels of Hammet and, of course, the more rigid tales of Doyle himself.
The second niggle is language. Overall the voices of Holmes and Watson are captured. With Holmes this is flawless, and with Watson almost so. While Lovegrove effortlessly inserts period language into his narrative in such a way as to infer the meaning of words most readers will be unaware of, these insertions do stand out and, on occasion, jar. I never once needed to reach for a dictionary, but there were times when I just knew a word or phrase wasn’t quite right (‘myocardial infarction’ instead of ‘coronary thrombosis’, for example). That said, he has introduced me to my new favourite word: parrumping!
The Lovecraftian element is layered enough to introduce the novice to Cthulhu and his minions. Using plot devices resembling those used by Sax Rohmer to shift from the mundane to the exotic, weaving the two worlds together seamlessly in a pulp style that would make the late August Derleth green with envy. Indeed, the common criticism of supernatural Holmes crossovers is the idea that the irrational undermines the great detective’s rational approach, meaning that it might only take one horror story to unravel Holmes’ approach. Where this was previously tackled head-on in Andy Lane’s Holmes/Cthulhu/Dr Who crossover All-Consuming Fire, Lovegrove takes an entirely different approach, using Watson’s Afghan experiences as a touchstone for Holmes’ scepticism, and setting the pair up for a trilogy of adventures spread out over a lifetime of cases. Not once did I feel that Holmes’ mundane cases would be affected by the inclusion of the mythos, merely that the forbidden knowledge that he acquires adds an additional dimension to his thought processes.
In conclusion, while not perfect, Shadwell Shadows comes as close to unifying the Holmes and Cthulhu canons as is possible, easily meriting Titan’s foray into producing a very special hardback trilogy that stands apart from its other Sherlockian ranges.
Christmas with Sherlock Holmes
It’s that time of year, and to celebrate Christmas I thought we’d share a couple of items.
The first is a link to an old time radio show starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce as Holmes and Watson. The episode is called…
Second up is a Christmas story from December 2014, written for a Christmas reading in the Midlands.
SHERLOCK HOLMES & THE SMOKING POPE
by Adrian Middleton
Christmas. That time of year when mid-season misery needs an infusion of hope and festivity. Where days of light have given way to the dark, where the winds are bitter and the cold rain bites. The snow, when it comes, is both another hazard and a source of relief—a distraction made better by the celebrations that have taken hold of this part of the year. As I cast my eyes over the white, frosted cobbles of Baker Street, I cast my mind back to the Dickensian Christmases of my boyhood. The city came to life back then, and as the people moved into the gas-lit capital from the moonlit villages they struggled to build a sense of community with neighbours they barely knew, and the penny post became a way to share their love for those with whom they had been parted. I wondered, at that moment, where it might end. Would our reliance upon brightly coloured cards and the giving of gifts perhaps spell the end for the values that had spawned them?
My reverie was disturbed by the arrival of my good friend, Sherlock Holmes, who entered in his gown and bedclothes, risen late as is often his preference, while I had risen hours before, travelling by hansom from my Kensington practice, where Mrs Watson had entrusted me with a seasonal duty. She had, after some reflection, agreed to invite Holmes to join us for dinner on Christmas Eve, and I was under the strictest instructions not to brook his usual rejection.
“Good morning, Watson,” he said in a lively tone as he picked up the mail which had been left beside the untouched breakfast left for him some hours before. “I trust your message from Mrs Watson is not so glum as the frown upon your face.”
“My message? How could you possibly…”
“Come, Watson, I know that look intimately. It is an expression you use exclusively when considering the best way to tell me something you are certain will meet with my disapproval. Given that you are here a good ten minutes later than is usual for this time of year I must consider what, exactly, might have delayed you. You are keen to complain about traffic delays, and such trivia causes you to pace, so I concluded that your delay was domestic. A ten minute discussion about your meeting with me is therefore the most apposite conclusion. Ah!”
Holmes stopped abruptly. As he had been addressing me he was shuffling through the post, finally pausing at a Christmas card. Unlike the rest of the mail it was not in an envelope.
“A card from Mrs Hudson!”
“Oh?” The conversation was derailed by this. Holmes had long since impressed upon myself and the household staff that he had no truck with such greetings, and in our years together Mrs Hudson had always respected this.
“It is more than just a Christmas card. It is an invitation to dinner!”
“An invitation?” My heart sank as I realised that Mrs Hudson must have similar thoughts to my dear wife. Holmes had been quite preoccupied of late, and his raised spirits were quite atypical.
“To dinner on Christmas Eve. Shall I be giving your apologies?”
“You intend to go?”
“Indeed. We are both invited, and from your face I now know that your message related to a similar invitation from Mrs Watson. You must of course have dinner with her, but I am afraid I shall have to accept this offer rather than your own.”
“What is its importance?”
“Mrs Hudson has never before made such an invitation, which in itself is unusual. However, her invitation includes a list of the other dinner guests, which piques my interest yet further.”
“Why is that, Holmes?”
“Well, being Scotch like yourself, Mrs Hudson is more likely to celebrate Twelfth Night. Christmas Eve is also the anniversary of Mr Hudson’s death. Not a time that our landlady would normally choose to hold a dinner. Upon seeing who else is a guest, I must conclude that the dinner has been foisted upon her, and that the invitation is an attempt to seek my assistance.”
“Who are the guests, then?”
“The first is Mr Andrew Trelawney, of the Portman Estate. As his lessee Mrs Hudson may be currying favour, although it is also possible that she is simply balancing the numbers.”
“More likely she invited him for good luck,” said I. “It’s a Scotch tradition.”
“The second is Miss Turner, her niece. The third is Mrs Bartholomew, who runs a lodging house three doors down. Like Mrs Hudson she is a widower, and from the times of her comings and goings a devout churchgoer, although her subscription to the Two Worlds newspaper marks her as a Spiritualist.”
“How do you know what newspaper she reads?”
“She is quite the gossip-monger, and often accosts the postman on the street so that she may extract whatever useful news she can from him. He has, on occasion, reported some of her gossip to me. She is of the view that your comings and goings—along with the many visits I receive from telegraph boys and the occasional Irregular—are not respectable, and that we may be performing unnatural acts that the police have chosen to turn a blind eye to.”
“Good lord!” I ejaculated. “Why on earth would Mrs Hudson have anything to do with such a woman?”
“I doubt she would share such confidences with our landlady. Pay it no heed, Watson. Idle gossip is for poets and actors, and your accounts of our exploits in the Strand are more than enough to set the record straight.”
“Then I am glad I shall not be attending,” said I.
“And I am glad that Mrs Watson shall not be joining you. She was also to be invited, and I have no doubt she would have brained the woman for suggesting she were married to a sodomite.”
“Who else is on the list?”
“Just two more. Mrs Barnard, another widow of the landlady’s acquaintance, and a Brother Makary, of whom I have read before. He is a Caucasian monk and a renowned medium on a tour of the country. I should be able to find a review of his method in one of the spiritualist papers. His invitation is almost certainly at Mrs Bartholomew’s insistence, and without a doubt the reason that Mrs Hudson is appealing for my assistance.”
“Appealing? I should say it is a little more discrete than that.”
“Indeed. Were this a proper case I should have no hesitation in exposing the man as a fraud in direct and unequivocal circumstances. On this occasion, however, we need to be more subtle. The man may well be a charlatan, but we have received no complaint and he has committed no crime. I shall therefore have to be more circumspect.”
“In that case,” said I, “would you accept a friend in my place?”
“A friend? This is a day for the unusual. It is rare for you to share an acquaintance with me.
“Well, he—”
“Tsh!” Holmes raised a finger to stop me. “Let me deduce it. If your friend wished merely to meet with me, you would have already raised the matter. It could be the opportunity to see a séance, but that seems unlikely unless it is to see me involved in a séance. Given you had no awareness of the other guests, the other possibility is the desire to meet with Mrs Hudson. Again, you would have raised the matter with her directly, so I must conclude that it is someone who wishes to meet both Mrs Hudson and myself, and who may wish to see my method in action. It therefore relates to your stories in the Strand—so, your publisher or your editor. A publisher would have foisted himself upon you long ago, which leaves your editor. As a fellow author and a medical man it is likely that you are better acquainted with Conan Doyle, and that he must be your proposed substitute.”
“Astounding, Holmes. Doyle wanted to meet you both and to witness your method so he could gain a better perspective of my stories.”
“Then he is welcome to join me,” said Holmes, taking up the bell and summoning the page boy. “In the mean time I shall dress, for we have a gift to secure for Mrs Hudson. Be sure to instruct Billy that I shall be glad to accept the invitation, and that Dr. Doyle will also be invited.”
The acquisition of a gift for Mrs Hudson was an unusual matter that had taken us to an old curiosity shop to the rear of Westminster’s Black Jack Inn. It was dark when we arrived, and closing time loomed. Here Holmes picked through a variety of odds and ends like a hawk seeking its prey. He finally descended upon a corner of the shop filled with what could best be described as alchemical paraphernalia. Here he picked out a weathered retort and a thick glass boiling flask with three stoppered necks.
“Excellent!” he said, examining the object for any cracks. “This will do perfectly.”
With our acquisition wrapped, Holmes led me back to Baker Street, stopping off to collect various ingredients—sour oranges, lemons, cloves, cinnamon, mace, ginger and a bottle of Burgundy, with which he announced his intention to make a celebratory concoction known as a Smoking Pope.
When I reported the day’s events to Mrs Watson, I could see that she was relieved that my friend had declined to join us. The next day I arranged to meet with Dr. Conan Doyle, who was eager to accept the invitation, while Holmes disappeared for an appointment at Kew Gardens. I did not see him again until after Christmas, although his account of the evening’s events—along with that of Dr. Doyle—provided me with more than enough information to recount them here.
As the nearest guest Holmes was certain to arrive last. He was genial upon his arrival, carrying with him the boiling flask which he set upon the retort, and setting a candle beneath it while insisting that his gift would be ready to consume by the end of the evening. Mrs Hudson seemed quite taken with the gesture, and as part of his introduction Holmes chose to tell what can best be described as a tall tale.
“This is no ordinary boiling flask,” he had explained. “It was once an alchemist’s homuncularium. Said to have been the property of Sir Isaac Newton himself, the homuncularium was used to mix his blood with various essential salts which, when combined and heated, are said to have formed an homunculus—a mystical spirit given material form.”
“Nonsense, of course,” said Doyle, “although it is well known that Sir Isaac did indeed pursue alchemy as a means of understanding the nature of the elements.”
“Do not be so sure, Doctor,” said Brother Makary in broken English. The monk was a portly man with a wild and ragged beard whose rural origins were reflected by the simple habit that he wore beneath a winter cloak. “As a medium I work with spirits of the earth and the air. Without their guidance I could not commune with the dead.”
“That,” said Holmes as he coughed politely, “is also the case with alchemists. The homunculus is the physical manifestation of an air-spirit known as the Soror Mystica. It is her guidance that leads the alchemist towards enlightenment.”
“It seems to have worked for Newton,” said Doyle, “although I’ll wager that a more scientific explanation will one day be forthcoming.”
“You should see the Brother at work,” said Mrs Bartholomew. “I travelled all the way to Keighley to see him perform. My own husband spoke to me—the first time any medium achieved it, for Henry had been a reluctant man in life. Only drink would entice him to the table otherwise.”
“So are we to be treated to a display of the Brother’s skills this evening?” Tremayne asked.
“Given that Mr Holmes here is London’s foremost detective I am sure it will be a challenge for you, Brother Makary. I hear that little gets past the great detective.”
“Rest assured, Mr Trelawney, I am here as a dinner guest, not as a skeptic; but I shall of course be fascinated to see how the Brother pursues his craft.”
“You surprise me, Mr Holmes,” Trelawney said. “I had expected more. Still, I have no wish to spoil the fun. I look forward to the evening’s entertainment.”
“Spiritualism is hardly a game,” said Doyle. “It is a serious religion concerned with investigating the afterlife. I have heard something of Brother Makary’s psychic gifts, and I would love to see a demonstration.”
“Thank you, Dr. Doyle,” said the Brother. “We shall see how the evening progresses. It is important to work with those who have an open mind, for the actively critical will deny all that they see, clutching at the most ridiculous excuses to justify their experience.”
Pleasant laughter followed, and with the mood settled, attention was turned towards dinner. Mrs Hudson stuck to her Scotch roots by serving up Cock-a-Leekie followed by an impressive joint of Angus Beef with all the trimmings. For dessert the guests were treated to a generously infused Cranachan and shortbread.
Rather than the traditional separation of the men and women, the evening took its expected turn, and Mrs Bartholomew again pressed for Brother Makary to demonstrate his skills.
“We are three widows,” said Mrs Barnard, “surely you can entice at least one of our husbands to the table.”
Mrs Hudson, whilst smiling, was clearly nervous by this turn of events, but when the Brother, flattered, demurred, her relief was barely concealed. Mrs Bartholomew, however, had other ideas, and pressed for the monk to reconsider.
“Very well,” he agreed with faux reluctance. “We shall hold a séance. Place the candles upon the table beside the food. I shall need to leave the room to compose myself and shall return shortly. In the mean time can you douse the candles and that—thing.”
He indicated the ‘homuncularium’ in which the Smoking Pope slowly bubbled.
“I am sorry,” said Holmes. “It is a delicate mixture and the light is low. I am sure that putting out the candles will be sufficient.”
“Very well,” said Brother Makary, checking the room before making his exit.
With the lights dimmed, the room was in complete darkness but for the flickering blue light of the boiling flask. There was a pregnant pause as the guests awaited the Brother’s entrance, which was heralded by three loud taps on the door.
“Come in,” said Mrs Hudson, a nervous tremor in her voice.
The door creaked open, and Makary stepped inside. His eyes—the only visible part of his body—appeared to be glowing with a pale luminescence. Oblivious to the darkness, he returned to his seat and joined the table.
“Now, we must form a circle by holding hands. This will enable me to tap into the psychical forces that will bring forth my spirit familiar. I must warn you, he is an unruly spirit child. Once a student of mine, his soul was displaced by the demon which now inhabits his mortal form.”
The group clasped hands, and as they did so a draught swept into the room and, one by one, the unlit candles burst into pale yellow flames. One of the ladies gasped as the Brother began a low chant in his native tongue.
“Grigori, dukh proshlogo,” he began, “dvigat’sya sredi nas. We bring you gifts from life unto death. Be guided by this light to enter this world and visit upon us.”
There was another pause, followed by the sound of convulsions as Brother Makary’s hands tugged at those that gripped him. Retching, a white mass protruded from his frothing lips as he gurgitated an ectoplasmic shape into the air before him. As he did so it took physical form, shifting from a rag-like strip into the head and shoulders of a white-faced boy that floated a good foot or two above the table.
The Brother, his wretching done, whispered to the spirit. “Grigori, is that you?”
The ghost boy responded by grinning and rolling its eyes, a lascivious giggle announcing its presence as it drifted around the table, pausing at the shoulder of each member of the circle. Beside the men, he merely glanced up and down, but with the women his actions were less appropriate, smelling their hair and getting close to their necks in a sexualised fashion that threatened to break the circle.
“Grigori, vesti!” Brother Makary snapped.
“Svin’ya!” The apparition replied curtly. “Sdelat’ ikh razdevat’sya!”
“Grigori is an earth-based spirit,” said the Brother. “He invites you to explore your corporeal forms and prove to yourselves just how very real you are. This will help him to manifest, and to tune into your desires.”
On cue, Mrs Bartholomew and Mrs Barnard began to writhe, breathing heavily and squirming in their seats. Trelawney seemed bemused, while Doyle and Holmes looked on with a mixture of uncertainty and interest as the spirit child hovered over the women. Then, noting that Mrs Hudson was not similarly compliant, Grigori moved towards her. As he neared the landlady there was a loud thump in the centre of the table, which shook for a moment as the candles and the blue light of the burner guttered. A moment later there was a flash of blue light as the Smoking Bishop ignited and flooded the room with a brilliant azure light.
Hands snapped open and the circle was broken. The spirit, however, was transfixed, the brilliant light exposing not just the head and shoulders but the entire body of a boy.
“Iisus Khristos!” Grigori screamed, backing away from the table on very real legs.
“Rasputin!” Shouted Brother Makary. “He is materialising. He is made real by that crazy flask. He is becoming corporeal!”
The boy bolted towards the door, tugging it open and running from the room as Brother Makary abandoned his seat and raced after him. As he disappeared onto the landing outside the sound of feet clattering on the stairs echoed around the room.
“A real boy,” said Trelawney with a trace of humour in his voice.
“Who would have thought…” Sherlock Holmes, meanwhile, erupted into laughter.
“Holmes, how could you?” I chided him as he completed his tale.
“I could hardly let that wretched boy compromise Mrs Hudson. It was as subtle an expose as I could muster, and they were all more awed by the boiling flask than by the dear departed medium and his errant ward. Especially when the light subsided and we all shared an excellent cup of mulled Burgundy.”
“How did you achieve it?”
“You will recall my visit to Kew. They have an algae there with curious properties. Quite harmless, but in the dark–when exposed to something acidic–it is prone to flaring up with a brilliantly luminous glow. While the liquid is still it is invisible, but when the water is made to suddenly ripple, as it was when I kicked the table, a chemical reaction ensues.”
“Well Dr. Doyle was quite shaken by the matter. I fear you may have spooked him a little too much.”
“Oh? I confess to being surprised by how open he was to the idea that Spiritualism might be real. I’d have expected him to see through my expose, but I rather fancy that he fell for my Newtonian lie.”
“Yes, well it might have done more harm than good. He said you were quite an insufferable fellow.”
“Oh dear,” said Holmes. “Have I soured your relationship?”
“I think you might have,” said I. “He doesn’t want to edit my stories any more. Or if he does he intends to kill you off!”
“Well that,” said Holmes, toasting me with a charged glass full of brandy, “is a gift that I might truly appreciate. A return to anonymity will do us both the power of good. Merry Christmas!”
Copyright ©2014 Adrian Middleton
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Murray tames wind to lead Texas Open as Garcia struggles
Conditions were less than ideal in San Antonio but Grayson Murray tamed the wind as he carded a five-under-par 67 on Thursday.
Sacha Pisani
20 April, 2018 07:41 IST
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Grayson Murray overcame windy conditions to take a one-stroke lead after the first round of the Texas Open, while Sergio Garcia posted a 74.
Conditions were less than ideal in San Antonio but Murray tamed the wind as he carded a five-under-par 67 on Thursday.
Murray – who claimed his maiden PGA Tour title via the 2017 Barbasol Championship – holed seven birdies, with a double-bogey at the par-three seventh the only blemish on the American's opening round.
"The wind bothers me when I'm hitting it like I did last week, when I'm not compressing the ball. That's just the bottom line," Murray said. "But once you start swinging it well, like hitting it into the wind really shows you how you are hitting the golf ball because it's only going to maximise your dispersion.
"So if you hit a five-yard cut, it's going to be probably a 10-yard cut into the wind. That tells you when you're hitting it good."
Chesson Hadley, Billy Horschel, Ryan Moore, Keegan Bradley and Matt Atkins are one shot behind after 18 holes.
Brandt Snedeker ended the round three strokes off the pace alongside the likes of 2011 champion Brendan Steele and two-time winner Zach Johnson.
Kevin Chappell started his title defence with a first-round 72 to be tied for 35th.
Spanish star Garcia, meanwhile, struggled as he closed out the day two over the card.
Making his first appearance since missing the cut at the Masters, Garcia only made one birdie as he recorded three bogeys.
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Peter Saint-Andre: Technology
In late 2017 I joined Mozilla, where I help the Firefox team become even more effective in its mission of building a better Internet. Since 1996 I've been deeply immersed in the Internet, having worked on instant messaging (Jabber, telehash), real-time communications (WebEx, Talky), the Internet of Things (Filament), security (TLS, PKIX), identity (OAuth), and internationalization (PRECIS). Professionally I've been a CTO, architect, product manager, salesperson, systems analyst, technical writer, and programmer for small startups and large enterprises alike. When it comes to open source and open standards, I have authored over a hundred technical specifications, have served as an Area Director at the IETF and as Executive Director of the XSF, and have operated the Jabber.org messaging service with 1+ million users. Further details can be found in my résumé (more amusingly catalogued in the brutally honest version).
IETF RFCs
(See also my datatracker page and authorstats page.)
RFC 8600: Using Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP) for Security Information Exchange (June 2019). Authored with Nancy Cam-Winget, Syam Appala, and Scott Pope.
RFC 8266: Preparation, Enforcement, and Comparison of Internationalized Strings Representing Nicknames (October 2017).
RFC 8265: Preparation, Enforcement, and Comparison of Internationalized Strings Representing Usernames and Passwords (October 2017). Authored with Alexey Melnikov.
RFC 8264: PRECIS Framework: Preparation, Enforcement, and Comparison of Internationalized Strings in Application Protocols (October 2017). Authored with Marc Blanchet.
RFC 8141: Uniform Resource Names (April 2017). Authored with John Klensin.
RFC 8048: Interworking between the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) and the Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP): Presence (December 2016).
RFC 7702: Interworking between the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) and the Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP): Groupchat (December 2015). Authored with Saúl Ibarra Corretge and Salvatore Loreto.
RFC 7700: Preparation, Enforcement, and Comparison of Internationalized Strings Representing Nicknames (December 2015).
RFC 7712: Domain Name Associations (DNA) in the Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP) (November 2015). Authored with Matt Miller and Philipp Hancke.
RFC 7711: PKIX over Secure HTTP (POSH) (November 2015). Authored with Matt Miller.
RFC 7649: The Jabber Scribe Role at IETF Meetings (September 2015). Authored with Dan York.
RFC 7622: Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP): Address Format (September 2015). Supersedes RFC 6122.
RFC 7613: Preparation, Enforcement, and Comparison of Internationalized Strings Representing Usernames and Passwords (August 2015). Authored with Alexey Melnikov.
RFC 7590: Use of Transport Layer Security (TLS) in the Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP) (June 2015). Authored with Thijs Alkemade.
RFC 7573: Interworking between the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) and the Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP): One-to-One Text Chat Sessions (June 2015). Authored with Salvatore Loreto.
RFC 7572: Interworking between the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) and the Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP): Instant Messaging (June 2015). Authored with Avshalom Houri and Joe Hildebrand.
RFC 7565: The 'acct' URI Scheme (May 2015).
RFC 7564: PRECIS Framework: Preparation, Enforcement, and Comparison of Internationalized Strings in Application Protocols (May 2015). Authored with Marc Blanchet.
RFC 7525: Recommendations for Secure Use of Transport Layer Security (TLS) and Datagram Transport Layer Security (DTLS) (May 2015). Authored with Yaron Sheffer and Ralph Holz.
RFC 7457: Summarizing Known Attacks on Transport Layer Security (TLS) and Datagram TLS (DTLS) (February 2015). Authored with Yaron Sheffer and Ralph Holz.
RFC 7259: The Jabber-ID Header Field (May 2014).
RFC 7248: Interworking between the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) and the Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP): Presence (May 2014). Authored with Avshalom Houri and Joe Hildebrand.
RFC 7247: Interworking between the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) and the Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP): Architecture, Addresses, and Error Handling (May 2014). Authored with Avshalom Houri and Joe Hildebrand.
RFC 7081: CUSAX: Combined Use of the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) and the Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP) (November 2013). Authored with Emil Ivov and Enrico Marocco.
RFC 6993: Instant Messaging and Presence Purpose for the Call-Info Header Field in the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) (July 2013).
RFC 6963: A Uniform Resource Name (URN) Namespace for Examples (May 2013).
RFC 6869: vCard KIND:device (February 2013).
RFC 6702: Promoting Compliance with Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) Disclosure Rules (August 2012). Authored with Tim Polk.
RFC 6648: Deprecating the "X-" Prefix and Similar Constructs in Application Protocols (June 2012). Authored with Dave Crocker and Mark Nottingham.
RFC 6473: vCard KIND:application (December 2011). Authored with Gonzalo Salguiero and Joe Clarke.
RFC 6202: Known Issues and Best Practices for the Use of Long Polling and Streaming in Bidirectional HTTP (April 2011). Authored with Salvatore Loreto, Stefano Salsano, and Greg Wilkins.
RFC 6125: Representation and Verification of Domain-Based Application Service Identity within Internet Public Key Infrastructure Using X.509 (PKIX) Certificates in the Context of Transport Layer Security (TLS) (March 2011). Authored with Jeff Hodges.
RFC 6122: Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP): Address Format (March 2011).
RFC 6121: Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP): Instant Messaging and Presence (March 2011). Supersedes RFC 3921.
RFC 6120: Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP): Core (March 2011). Supersedes RFC 3920.
RFC 5437: Sieve Notification Mechanism: Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP) (January 2009). Authored with Alexey Melnikov.
RFC 5122: Internationalized Resource Identifiers (IRIs) and Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs) for the Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP) (February 2008). Supersedes RFC 4622.
RFC 4854: A Uniform Resource Name (URN) Namespace for Extensions to the Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP) (April 2007).
RFC 4622: Internationalized Resource Identifiers (IRIs) and Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs) for the Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP) (July 2006).
RFC 4417: Report of the 2004 IAB Messaging Workshop (February 2006). Authored with Pete Resnick.
RFC 3923: End-to-End Signing and Object Encryption for the Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP) (October 2004).
RFC 3922: Mapping the Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP) to Common Presence and Instant Messaging (CPIM) (October 2004).
RFC 3921: Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP): Instant Messaging and Presence (October 2004).
RFC 3920: Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP): Core (October 2004).
XMPP: The Definitive Guide. O'Reilly, 2009.
XMPP Extension Protocols
These are the XEPs I've authored that have advanced to Draft or Final at the XMPP Standards Foundation.
XEP-0004: Data Forms
XEP-0012: Last Activity
XEP-0013: Flexible Offline Message Retrieval
XEP-0016: Privacy Lists
XEP-0020: Feature Negotiation
XEP-0030: Service Discovery
XEP-0033: Extended Stanza Addressing
XEP-0045: Multi-User Chat
XEP-0047: In-Band Bytestreams
XEP-0048: Bookmarks
XEP-0059: Result Set Management
XEP-0060: Publish-Subscribe
XEP-0065: SOCKS5 Bytestreams
XEP-0066: Out of Band Data
XEP-0070: Verifying HTTP Requests via XMPP
XEP-0071: XHTML-IM
XEP-0072: SOAP Over XMPP
XEP-0077: In-Band Registration
XEP-0079: Advanced Message Processing
XEP-0080: User Location
XEP-0084: User Avatar
XEP-0085: Chat State Notifications
XEP-0092: Software Version
XEP-0096: SI File Transfer
XEP-0106: JID Escaping
XEP-0107: User Mood
XEP-0108: User Activity
XEP-0115: Entity Capabilities
XEP-0118: User Tune
XEP-0124: Bidirectional-streams Over Synchronous HTTP (BOSH)
XEP-0131: Stanza Headers and Internet Metadata
XEP-0136: Message Archiving
XEP-0138: Stream Compression
XEP-0144: Roster Item Exchange
XEP-0155: Stanza Session Negotiation
XEP-0156: Discovering Alternative XMPP Connection Methods
XEP-0158: CAPTCHA Forms
XEP-0163: Personal Eventing Protocol
XEP-0166: Jingle
XEP-0167: Jingle RTP Sessions
XEP-0172: User Nickname
XEP-0174: Serverless Messaging
XEP-0176: Jingle ICE-UDP Transport Method
XEP-0177: Jingle Raw UDP Transport Method
XEP-0184: Message Delivery Receipts
XEP-0191: Blocking Command
XEP-0198: Stream Management
XEP-0199: XMPP Ping
XEP-0202: Entity Time
XEP-0203: Delayed Delivery
XEP-0206: XMPP Over BOSH
XEP-0220: Server Dialback
XEP-0221: Data Forms Media Element
XEP-0229: Stream Compression with LZW
XEP-0231: Bits of Binary
XEP-0249: Direct MUC Invitations
XEP-0256: Last Activity in Presence
XEP-0260: Jingle SOCKS5 Bytestreams Transport Method
XEP-0261: Jingle In-Band Bytestreams Transport Method
XEP-0262: Use of ZRTP in Jingle RTP Sessions
XEP-0266: Codecs for Jingle Audio
Refereed Papers
XMPP: Lessons from Ten Years of XML Messaging, IEEE Communications (April 2009).
Jingle: Jabber Does Multimedia, IEEE Multimedia 14:1 (January-March 2007), 90-94.
Streaming XML with Jabber/XMPP, IEEE Internet Computing 9:5 (September-October 2005), 82-89.
Non-Refereed Articles
Open Source and Open Standards, O'Reilly Network (April 2003). The intersection of open protocols, open-source software, and developer communities.
Jabber: An Introduction, Free Software Magazine (February 2002). Technical article.
Let There Be Jabber, Linux Magazine (August 2001). Technical article.
XML Messaging With Jabber, O'Reilly Network (October 2000). Technical article.
Peter Saint-Andre > Technology
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Superstar Records
“Long ago and oh so far away I fell in love with you before the second show.” ― Superstar, by The Carpenters
Divinyl
“We have a secret project at Third Man where we want to have the first vinyl record played in outer space. We want to launch a balloon that carries a vinyl record player.” ― Jack White
“I think you have to pay for love with bitter tears.” ― Edith Piaf
King Music
“There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.” ― Albert Schweitzer
Divine Vinyl
“Music is the soundtrack of your life.” ― Dick Clark
“Music fathoms the sky.” — Charles Baudelaire
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The Instant Pot Is Now an Entire Economy and Religion
And this year’s Black Friday and Cyber Monday prove it’s not going away anytime soon.
By Lila Thulin
Nov 27, 20172:25 PM
The Church of the Instant Pot
This year, Black Friday and Cyber Monday might as well as been the start of recruiting season for the world’s newest, tastiest cult. The Instant Pot may, on its stainless-steel surface, appear to merely be a moderately well-priced hybrid of a pressure cooker and slow cooker. But its hype and reception have been something else. It tops Amazon’s U.S. home and kitchen best-sellers list, and the company said it was one of its top-selling items on Black Friday this year. The New York Times released a lengthy guide to its use, explaining its yogurt-making utility and outlining its many components. It is seemingly on every publication’s Cyber Monday list. More than 763,000 people are members of the largest Facebook group devoted to Instant Pot use. A Bloomberg critic raved, “This is a magical pot” like she was writing a fairy tale instead of a review of an 11.8-pound food preparation tool.
The Instant Pot is the brainchild of a laid-off Canadian engineer, hit the shelves in 2010, and then became a surprise favorite on Amazon Prime Day in 2016, when more than 215,000 were sold. And due to its versatility—you can sauté, cook rice, even make a cheesecake—and ability to cut cooking times in half through a pressure-cooking function that’s less explosion-prone than its traditional alternative, it’s become the object of home-cook worship. This squat “multi-use programmable pressure cooker, slow cooker, rice cooker, steamer, sauté, yogurt maker and warmer” is capable of moving innocent recipients to tears:
B/c of @julielyn I could be found weeping on my front porch today, hugging an #instapot box. #surprise #gifts Thanks, Love. 😘
— chrisayar (@chrisayar) October 2, 2017
Is it possible to just casually admire the Instant Pot? Judging by the Facebook reviews, the answer is a steadfast nope. Of the 39,000-plus reviews of the 7-in-1 DUO Pressure Cooker from Instant Pot ($84.96 for the 6-quart model), 83 percent are five stars, and only a paltry 4 percent are one star.* This may seem unremarkable, until you realize that Beyoncé’s Lemonade has an 82–6 ratio on the same metrics. Yes, the Instant Pot is more revered than Beyoncé.
There are also a staggering amount of Facebook groups where people virtually congregate around all things Instant Pot: “Trim Healthy Mamas” (17,000 members), vegans (9,100 members), and beginners (61,000). There’s an “uncensored” group if your love of your multicooker must be expressed in expletives. In the largest group, Instant Pot® Community, people ask for tips, share videos of children sampling Instant Pot-prepared meals, ask for sewing patterns for Instant Pot covers, and sometimes meditate on the unsettling nature of their attachment to their cookware.
On Tuesday, one woman wrote, “Ok I’m beginning to think this is a cult! My feed has been taken over by Instant Pot. I’m losing touch with family and friends. IP family, I’m losing touch with the ‘real world’.” Among the replies: “Welcome to our Cult! You are now a pothead.” Another user likened her love for her Instant Pot to an affair; her husband, she said, was jealous. In this online Instant Pot bubble, the Instant Pot even gets personified: One user posted that she’d bought her first Instant Pot “her new little sister.”
Yes, there are exceptions, people who aren’t beguiled by the Bluetooth-compatible, soup-simmering wizardry. Even gushing reviewers admit there’s a steep learning curve to using the not-so-intuitive device (fortunately, there are also handy cookbooks, like Instant Pot® Obsession). Blogger Kaitlin Flannery of the Kitchn wasn’t a huge fan, but such is the fervor around the Instant Pot that her review title—“I Tried the Instant Pot and Didn’t Love It. What Am I Missing?”—questions her experience like that of someone who’s been gaslit.
Why are we so obsessed? Is it just rampant gluttony? Late-capitalist idol worship? Our culture’s continued treasuring of domesticity, paired with our surprisingly complementary fixation on technological innovation and efficiency? However it happened, we now prize these multicookers with the kind of hopeless devotion normally reserved for fluffy dogs or One Direction before the departure of Zayn. If you must buy Instant Pots for loved ones this holiday season, remember that you’ll also be signing them up for an entire lifestyle.
*Correction, Nov. 27, 2017: This article originally referred to a 6-ounce Instant Pot model. Its sizes include a a 6-quart model, not a 6-ounce one. (Return.)
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Smorgasbord Laughter Lines – A few Irish jokes and one liners… Part One – 1 – 30
Posted on May 24, 2018 by Smorgasbord - Variety is the Spice of Life.
I trot these out every year and add some new ones here and there… if you have read them before.. then try to put that behind you and enjoy again……….
Here is the first lot.
1.When the Irish say that St. Patrick chased the snakes out of Ireland, what they don’t tell you is that he was the only one who saw any snakes!
2.His wife had been killed in an accident and the police were questioning Finnegan. “Did she say anything before she died?” asked the sergeant. “She spoke without interruption for about forty years,” said the Finnegan.
3.Pat and Kieran were getting ready to go on a camping trip. The first one said “I’m taking along a gallon of whiskey just in case of rattlesnake bites. What are you taking?” The other one said “Two rattlesnakes!”
4.”Seamus do you understand French?”, “I do if its spoken in Irish”
5.Two farmers were driving their tractor down the middle of a country road. A car comes around the corner backs hard to avoid them, skids, tumbles twice and lands in a field. Jimmy say to Eamonn it’s just as well we got out of that field.
6.Two drunks coming home, stumbled up the country road in the dark. “Faith, Mike, we’ve stumbled into the graveyard and here’s the stone of a man lived to the age of 103!” “Glory be, Patrick and was it anybody we knew?” “No, ’twas someone named ‘Miles from Dublin’!”
7.T’was the Irish what invented the pipes, you know, and they gave them to the Scots as a joke. And you Scots haven’t gotten the joke yet!!”
8.One night I was chatting with my Mum about how she had changed as a mother from the first child to the last. She told me she had mellowed a lot over the years: “When your oldest sister coughed or sneezed, I called the ambulance. When your youngest brother swallowed a penny, I just told him it was coming out of his allowance.”
9.I just got lost in thought. It was unfamiliar territory.
10.42.7 percent of all statistics are made up on the spot.
11.99 percent of lawyers give the rest a bad name.
12.If at first you don’t succeed, then skydiving isn’t for you.
13.Honk if you love peace and quiet.
14.Remember half the people you know are below average.
15.Atheism is a non-prophet organization.
16.He who laughs last thinks slowest.
17.The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.
18.I intend to live forever – so far so good.
19.Borrow money from a pessimist – they don’t expect it back.
20.If Barbie is so popular, why do you have to buy her friends?
21.Support bacteria – they’re the only culture some people have.
22.Love may be blind but marriage is a real eye-opener.
23.If at first you don’t succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.
24.Experience is something you don’t get until just after you need it.
25.For every action there is an equal and opposite criticism.
26.Bills travel through the mail at twice the speed of cheques.
27.No one is listening until you make a mistake.
28.Success always occurs in private and failure in full view.
29.The hardness of butter is directly proportional to the softness of the bread.
30.To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is research.
I hope you have enjoyed today’s selection… please feel free to share and more sillies… I mean funnies to come next week…. thanks Sally
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Jacqui Murray on May 24, 2018 at 4:10 pm said:
These are precious. Nice twist on the lawyer joke!
Smorgasbord - Variety is the Spice of Life. on May 24, 2018 at 7:13 pm said:
Funny how there are so many of them.. jokes and lawyers.. xx
PaulAndruss on May 24, 2018 at 4:15 pm said:
Great Laffs Sally PXXX
Thanks Paul… XXX
willowdot21 on May 24, 2018 at 4:52 pm said:
Loved them so much , I am going to share them around!💜💜
Reblogged this on willowdot21 and commented:
Words of silliness to lighten our day. 💜💜
Pleased you enjoyed Willow and thank you for sharing.. hugsxxx💜💜
It was a pleasure 💜💜
Lyn Horner on May 24, 2018 at 4:58 pm said:
Reblogged this on Lyn Horner's Corner and commented:
Irish Funnies & a cat’s shock brightened my morning.
Thank you Lyn and for spreading the smiles… hugsxx
Judith Barrow on May 24, 2018 at 8:30 pm said:
The dog and skunk picture cracks me up!! And love number 8.
Tofino Photography on May 24, 2018 at 8:49 pm said:
I must of missed them last year Sally! I always love funny jokes!
John W. Howell on May 24, 2018 at 9:17 pm said:
Terrific, Sally. Lots of good ones in there. I loved the Miles to Dublin
The Story Reading Ape on May 24, 2018 at 9:32 pm said:
Chuckle Time, courtesy of Sally 😄
Smorgasbord - Variety is the Spice of Life. on May 24, 2018 at 10:14 pm said:
Thank you for sharing Chris..hugs ♥♥
The Story Reading Ape on May 25, 2018 at 7:55 am said:
koolkosherkitchen on May 24, 2018 at 9:38 pm said:
Brightened up my day, Sally – thanks!
Great to hear Dolly thank you hugsxxx
koolkosherkitchen on May 25, 2018 at 4:41 am said:
Gigi Sedlmayer on May 24, 2018 at 10:26 pm said:
Had a great laugh in the morning. Thank you Sally
Glad you enjoyed Gigi.. xx
Andrew Joyce on May 24, 2018 at 11:23 pm said:
“To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is research.”
How true … I should know.
Smorgasbord - Variety is the Spice of Life. on May 25, 2018 at 8:22 am said:
Nothing new in history Andrew…. hugs xxxx
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hsampson on May 25, 2018 at 12:52 am said:
My eternal gratitude to you Sally!! this made my day!
Great Hector… I delighted you enjoyed… hugsxx
dgkaye on May 25, 2018 at 1:36 am said:
I may know #9 LOL Great as always Sal. ❤ xxx
You and me both.. of course! ♥ 😆
dgkaye on May 25, 2018 at 12:57 pm said:
Of course! 🙂 xx
davidprosser on May 25, 2018 at 2:00 am said:
Lots of laughs thanks Sally.
Good to hear thank you David… it helps make the world go round! 😆xxx
V.M.Sang on May 25, 2018 at 11:04 am said:
Thank you for the giggles, Sally.
Smorgasbord - Variety is the Spice of Life. on May 25, 2018 at 11:23 am said:
Delighted you enjoyed Viv.. hugs
watchingthedaisies on May 25, 2018 at 12:51 pm said:
Thank you Sally. Happy weekend xx
You too Brigid..hugs xxxx
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Report: Chelsea ready for $155 million spending spree
Chelsea’s poor preseason and start to the Premier League season was always going to lead to this.
[ MORE: Coutinho update from Liverpool ]
The Daily Mirror reports that the Blues will kick on with deals for three Premier League regulars with Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, Danny Drinkwater and Virgil Van Dijk top of Antonio Conte‘s wishlist.
Following their 3-2 opening day defeat to Burnley at Stamford Bridge it is believed Roman Abramovich is now willing to back Conte heavily to help his rebuild of the reigning champions.
Conte has repeated his need for quality new additions on numerous occasions over the last month but with just over two weeks to go until the transfer window slams shut, Chelsea have brought in four new players this summer in Willy Caballero (free), Antonio Rudiger ($42 million), Tiemoue Bakayoko ($52 million) and Alvaro Morata ($77 million) but Rudiger and Morata are lacking match fitness and Bakayoko is out injured.
Per the report Chelsea want Oxlade-Chamberlain, 24, and will bid around $43 million for the versatile Arsenal and England man. Oxlade-Chamberlain has just one year left on his current contract at Arsenal and although Arsene Wenger has said the Ox, and others, are not for sale, could a big bid from their PL rivals really see him leave? If Arsenal doesn’t sell Oxlade-Chamberlain now they risk losing him for nothing next summer.
As for Drinkwater, 27, the England international did not feature for Leicester City last week against Arsenal through injury but the Foxes are stacked in midfield with Wilfried Ndidi, Andy King, Vicente Iborra and Matty James around at the King Power Stadium.
Chelsea’s opening offer of $22 million was laughed away by Leicester but with N'Golo Kante, the injured Bakayoko, youngster Jeremie Boga and Cesc Fabregas the only central midfield options for Conte after he sold Nemanja Matic to Manchester United, it is an area he wants to strengthen and Chelsea will offer closer to $30 million for Drinkwater.
Drinkwater is said to be keen on the move to west London to try and force himself back into the England setup, but will he really play regularly for the Blues? One thing is for sure, Drinkwater’s partnership alongside Kante is one which dominate the Premier League in 2015-16.
Finally there is no surprise Chelsea are targeting Southampton’s wantaway star Virgil van Dijk who is said to be valued at over $75 million by Saints. Given Chelsea’s shaky defensive displays in preseason they’ll need an addition to their defense to help shore things up.
The Dutch defender, 26, has handed in a transfer request and although Southampton insist their star center back isn’t for sale, if a big offer comes in from the reigning champions they’d be more willing to sell to Chelsea than Liverpool who issued an apology earlier this summer after reports VVD was “tapped up” by Reds boss Jurgen Klopp. In Chelsea’s 3-4-3 system van Dijk would flourish and he’d be encouraged to bring the ball out from the back and link defense with attack. He hasn’t kicked a ball competitively since injuring his foot in January, which will be a slight concern for Chelsea, but his quality is undoubted both defensively and on the ball.
Tags: Chelsea, Premier League, transfer news, Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, Andy King, Antonio Conte, Antonio Rudiger, Arsene Wenger, Danny Drinkwater, Iborra, Jeremie Boga, Jurgen Klopp, Matty James, N'Golo Kante, Nemanja Matic, Virgil Van Dijk, Willy Caballero
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PL Preview: Sheffield United v. Arsenal
By Kyle BonnOct 21, 2019, 11:16 AM EDT
Arsenal has 1 loss in its last 11 Monday matches
Sheffield United has 7 goals this PL season from 7 different goalscorers
The Blades have not lost 4 home league games in a row since 1965
Arsenal has the opportunity to jump third in the Premier League table and earn early title considerations as they visit pesky Sheffield United on Monday, with kickoff set for 3:00 p.m. ET live on NBCSN or live online at NBCSports.com.
[ WATCH LIVE: Sheffield United v. Arsenal ]
The Gunners are currently fifth with 15 points but can leap in front of both Chelsea and Leicester City with victory at Bramall Lane. Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang is in fabulous goalscoring form with seven strikes through the first eight matches of the Premier League season, set to lead the lines again on the road.
Unai Emery has one big question ahead of the match, with Alexandre Lacazette close to a return from his ankle injury but still unsure of his fitness level. The Frenchman netted twice in three matches to start the season but has not featured since September 1. If he is only fit for the bench, 18-year-old Bukayo Saka could see another start on the wing after a bright performance against Bournemouth, or Emery could choose to move Dani Ceballos out to the wing and slide Lucas Torreira into the midfield. Mesut Ozil could also be an option but he has been a periphery player for Emery this year.
Sheffield United sits 15th in the table, just a point above the relegation zone, but the Blades have been a difficult out for Liverpool, Chelsea, and Leicester City already this season and seem poised to pull off a surprising result at some point soon. A trio of internationals returned from duty this past week with injuries, leaving Chris Wilder with some decisions to make. The most obvious seems to be leaving striker Oli McBurnie on the sidelines having been charged with a DUI over the last 24 hours as well as picking up a knee problem over the international break. That would most see either Lys Mousset or Billy Sharp to take the striker role alongside Callum Robinson.
The Blades have been better on the road than at home, having lost their last three at Bramall Lane. Wilder must figure out how to galvanize his team to play in front of the home fans instead of just playing road spoiler where they almost seem more comfortable.
Injuries/suspensions
Sheffield United: QUESTIONABLE – John Fleck (knee), Oli McBurnie (knee), David McGoldrick (groin).
Arsenal: QUESTIONABLE – Alexandre Lacazette (ankle).
Sheffield United: Henderson; Stevens, O’Connell, Egan, Basham, Baldock; Fleck, Norwood, Lundstram; Robinson, Sharp.
Arsenal: Leno; Tierney, Luiz, Sokratis, Bellerin; Guendouzi, Xhaka, Ceballos; Saka, Aubameyang, Pepe.
Sheffield United manager Wilder on team form: “I thought we played well against Liverpool but we need to pick up something from the game this time and we believe we can do that. We went after Liverpool when we could and picked our times, and we will do that against Arsenal.”
Arsenal boss Emery on Mesut Ozil: “I am really happy with the players. The last two, three, four weeks, every player – and Mesut Ozil – is working very well. This is why we can be positive and we can think we are going to do something important this year.”
This game has the potential to be a lot of fun as both sides play a fluid style of possession and pace. Arsenal will have to keep an eye on Robinson as the 24-year-old has the ability to find spaces between defenders, and David Luiz in particular hasn’t been in great form. Still, Sheffield United has a few key injuries that threaten the midfield, and that will ultimately doom them to a 3-1 loss as Aubameyang picks up two more goals.
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Tags: Alexandre Lacazette, Arsenal, Chris Wilder, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, Sheffield United, Unai Emery, Alexandre Lacazette, Ba, Billy Sharp, Bukayo Saka, Callum Robinson, Chris Wilder, Dani Ceballos, David Luiz, David McGoldrick, John Fleck, Lucas Torreira, Lys Mousset, Mesut Ozil, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, Pote, Unai Emery
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Links for the Consecration of Bishop Johnston
I received the following email from a reader concerning the Consecration of Springfield Bishop Johnston today (that's his coat of arms above):
I hope you either had a chance to watch, or will be able to watch, the
ordination today in Springfield. (it's supposed to be available on the
diocesan website for the next month -
http://home.catholicweb.com/diocspfdcape/index.cfm).
It was beautiful and your Archbishop Burke did a fantastic job and
gave Bishop Johnston a wonderful and challenging homily on what it
means to be a Bishop. More than just the words, it was backed up by
the real life actions of a loving shepherd who has taken on this
challenge with humility and charity. Bishop Johnston, in his closing
address, even mentioned that it was the most beautiful homily he'd
ever heard.
The Diocesan website has some good information as well.
Rosalind Moss' Religious Community to be Located at St. George Parish
St. Louis Catholic has learned that Archbishop Burke has asked Fr. Robertson, pastor of St. George Parish in Affton (Gardenville) to allow Rosalind Moss to found her new religious community at the now vacant convent there. Fr. Robertson has responded in the affirmative and is excited to have the new order in his parish. This church is very close to the southwest border of St. Louis City.
Thanks to the reader who passed along the information. We wish Miss Moss every success.
No Difference between Body Worlds and Veneration of Relics?
Giving Town Talk a break this week is the St. Louis Review, which published some doozy letters to the editor. Here's one:
Body Views
The St. Louis Review of March 7 reported that Catholic religious leaders in the Kansas City area find the "Bodies Revealed" exhibit to be degrading.
Yet that same edition tells us that St. Padre Pio's body will be placed on display for veneration. Please tell me how we can have it both ways.
What is the purpose of venerating the body of a saint versus paying to view plasticized bodies carved up and put on display in the name of science? How is the body obtained? How is it treated? Which confirms the unity of body and soul in life, and that the body of a saint in heaven will be resurrected to join his soul on the last day? Which one falsely leads to the conclusion that the body is the only reality of person? Which is geared toward profit? Which is geared toward fostering holiness and prayer? Which appeals to the basest instincts of men and which to their highest? In which case is the body treated with respect and honor, as a temple of the Holy Ghost?
Let's compare the two cases:
Bodies Revealed is a competitor of the Body Worlds exhibition that plagued St. Louis this past year, and which is discussed in this Wikipedia entry:
The shows have been surrounded by controversy for a number of reasons. Doctor von Hagens prepared some art-inspired exhibits, such as a man carrying his own skin (based on a 16th century drawing by Gaspar Becerra); a man on horseback holding his brain in one hand, the horse's brain in the other; and a man kneeling in prayer, holding his heart in his hands. Some religious groups object to any public exhibition of human corpses. Others accuse Doctor von Hagens of sensationalism. Various religious groups, including the Catholic Church and some Jewish Rabbis have objected to the display, stating that it cheapens human life, is inconsistent with reverence towards the human body, and is more artistic and exploitative than educational.
Doctor von Hagens has been repeatedly accused of using bodies from deceased persons who did not give consent, such as prison inmates and hospital patients from Kyrgyzstan and executed prisoners from China (this latter led to a lawsuit against Der Spiegel, which Doctor von Hagens won).
Doctor von Hagens maintains that all bodies exhibited in Body Worlds came from donors who gave informed consent via a unique body donation program. A commission set up by the California Science Center in Los Angeles in 2004 confirmed Doctor von Hagens' statements. Doctor von Hagens does not make the same claim for all specimens prepared by his plastination institute, only the ones exhibited in Body Worlds. There is also the issue that the children and unborn fetuses included in the exhibition had no way of giving informed consent to the display of their bodies; in the case of children informed consent would have to have been obtained from their parents.
The following is taken from Catholic Answers:
Relics in Early Christianity
The veneration of relics is seen explicitly as early as the account of Polycarp’s martyrdom written by the Smyrnaeans in A.D. 156. In it, the Christians describe the events following his burning at the stake: "We took up his bones, which are more valuable than precious stones and finer than refined gold, and laid them in a suitable place, where the Lord will permit us to gather ourselves together, as we are able, in gladness and joy and to celebrate the birthday of his martyrdom."
In speaking of the veneration of relics in the early Church, the anti-Catholic historian Adolph Harnack writes, ". . . [N]o Church doctor of repute restricted it. All of them rather, even the Cappadocians, countenanced it. The numerous miracles which were wrought by bones and relics seemed to confirm their worship. The Church therefore would not give up the practice, although a violent attack was made upon it by a few cultured heathens and besides by the Manichaeans" (Harnack, History of Dogma, tr., IV, 313).
In the fourth century the great biblical scholar, Jerome, declared, "We do not worship, we do not adore, for fear that we should bow down to the creature rather than to the creator, but we venerate the relics of the martyrs in order the better to adore him whose martyrs they are" (Ad Riparium, i, P.L., XXII, 907). `
From the ever-useful and informative Fisheaters site, beginning with scriptural cites:
Exodus 13:19 "And Moses took Joseph's bones with him: because he had adjured the children of Israel, saying: God shall visit you, carry out my bones from hence with you."
4 Kings 13:20-21 "And Eliseus died, and they buried him. And the rovers from Moab came into the land the same year. And some that were burying a man, saw the rovers, and cast the body into the sepulchre of Eliseus. And when it had touched the bones of Eliseus, the man came to life and stood upon his feet."
Matthew 9:20-22 "And behold a woman who was troubled with an issue of blood twelve years, came behind him, and touched the hem of his garment. For she said within herself: If I shall touch only his garment, I shall be healed. But Jesus turning and seeing her, said: Be of good heart, daughter, thy faith hath made thee whole. And the woman was made whole from that hour."
Acts 19:11-12 "And God wrought by the hand of Paul more than common miracles. So that even there were brought from his body to the sick, handkerchiefs and aprons: and the diseases departed from them: and the wicked spirits went out of them."
When considering relics, it is to be remembered that the body and soul are forever one, even when they seem to be separated by death. The body of the saved will be resurrected and glorified (the bodies of the damned will also be resurrected, for that matter). Forever is there a connection between the remains and the soul that has departed from them -- and the great souls whose remains are left to us have a power described well by St. John of Damascus (a.k.a. "John Damascene"), ca. A.D. 676 - 754/87, in his "Exposition of the Orthodox Faith":
These [the bodies of the Saints] are made treasuries and pure habitations of God: For I will dwell in them, said God, and walk in them, and I will be their God. The divine Scripture likewise saith that the souls of the just are in God's hand and death cannot lay hold of them. For death is rather the sleep of the saints than their death. For they travailed in this life and shall to the end, and Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His saints. What then, is more precious than to be in the hand of God? For God is Life and Light, and those who are in God's hand are in life and light.
Further, that God dwelt even in their bodies in spiritual wise, the Apostle tells us, saying, Know ye not that your bodies are the temples of the Holy Spirit dwelling in you?, and The Lord is that Spirit, and If any one destroy the temple of God, him will God destroy. Surely, then, we must ascribe honour to the living temples of God, the living tabernacles of God. These while they lived stood with confidence before God.
The Master Christ made the remains of the saints to be fountains of salvation to us, pouring forth manifold blessings and abounding in oil of sweet fragrance: and let no one disbelieve this. For if water burst in the desert from the steep and solid rock at God's will and from the jaw-bone of an ass to quench Samson's thirst, is it incredible that fragrant oil [see below] should burst forth from the martyrs' remains? By no means, at least to those who know the power of God and the honour which He accords His saints.
In the law every one who toucheth a dead body was considered impure, but these are not dead. For from the time when He that is Himself life and the Author of life was reckoned among the dead, we do not call those dead who have fallen asleep in the hope of the resurrection and in faith on Him. For how could a dead body work miracles? How, therefore, are demons driven off by them, diseases dispelled, sick persons made well, the blind restored to sight, lepers purified, temptations and troubles overcome, and how does every good gift from the Father of lights come down through them to those who pray with sure faith?...
How can we have it both ways? We don't. These are completely separate and dissimilar practices, that in reality are in total opposition to each other.
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Chiesa on the Allam Baptism
The Chiesa website has an informative series of articles on the significance of the baptism and the buzz surrounding it.
...A comment on the part of the Vatican appeared in "L'Osservatore Romano," in a note by director Giovanni Maria Vian:
"The gesture by Benedict XVI affirms religious freedom in a humble and clear way. This is also the freedom to change religion, as in 1948 was emphasized by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (even if after this, unfortunately, the declaration was scaled back precisely in this regard). So anyone who without coercion asks for baptism has the right to receive it. And just as this event has not been unduly emphasized, so also there is no hostile intention toward a great religion like Islam."
By coincidence, in the same issue of the pope's newspaper, there was a long article dedicated to the Easter liturgy and to the very ancient tradition of celebrating the sacraments of Christian initiation within it, entitled "The intimate bond between baptism and martyrdom."
This is a bond that Benedict XVI emphasized on Easter Monday, when – at the midday "Regina Coeli" – he invited the faithful to pray for the bishops, priests, religious, and laity killed in 2007 while carrying out their service in missionary countries:
"In the light of the risen Christ, the annual day of prayer for missionary martyrs, which is commemorated today, takes on a particular value." ...
First ChiefJoeMokwa (tm), Now Chef Paul Prudhomme!
As regular readers know, nothing is more relevant to the mission of a Catholic blog than the lively debate about whether bullets, after having been shot in the air, can actually kill someone by falling back to Earth.
Against my firmly held belief to the contrary, the evidence for the proposition grew (no pun intended) today to larger proportions.
From a blurb found in the Post-Dispatch:
Paul Prudhomme was setting up his cooking tent on the practice range at the Zurich Classic of New Orleans golf event when he was hit in the arm by a bullet. Police believe it was a falling bullet, probably shot about 9:30 a.m. Tuesday from someone within 1 1/2 miles.
Witnesses said the bullet cut Prudhomme's skin on his arm and put a hole in his white chef's coat. But Prudhomme continued cooking until he left the course about 3:30 p.m.
I am a little concerned that bullets apparently are not time and location stamped for easy time-and-place-of-shooting calculation. I am glad the great chef was unharmed, although I hope not to be disrespectful by observing that if a falling bullet had gone into his frame to do serious damage I would concede the argument forever.
Colleen Campbell on the Pope and the Recent Baptism
From the full article at STLToday:
Why the Pope has bin Laden running scared
BY COLLEEN CARROLL CAMPBELL
The release last week of Osama bin Laden's latest rant — which featured fulminations over cartoon images of the Prophet Mohammed and charges that Pope Benedict XVI is leading a "new crusade" against Islam — sparked a fresh round of head-scratching worldwide.
So why does Benedict infuriate bin Laden?
A glimpse of an answer came Saturday, during the Easter vigil Mass that Benedict celebrated in Rome. Among seven converts to the Catholic faith whom he baptized was a former Muslim named Magdi Allam, an Egyptian-born Italian journalist known for his outspoken criticism of Islamist extremism.
Allam has been a leading voice of moderate Islam, a staunch supporter of Israel and a fierce critic of Islamist jihadists who murder in the name of God. Death threats have forced Allam to travel with armed guards, and he expects that his Christian conversion will lead to more calls for his head. But Allam says the risk is worthwhile, and he cites Benedict's message about the compatibility of faith and reason as an inspiration for his conversion.
Predictably, Benedict's decision to personally and publicly baptize Allam was blasted by several Muslim leaders. The Vatican newspaper responded by describing the baptism as Benedict's attempt to affirm "in a gentle and clear way, religious freedom."
The message was clear, indeed. The baptism signaled Benedict's belief that religious tolerance must be a two-way street. As he proclaimed in his Regensburg speech, authentic interfaith dialogue, like authentic religious conversion, can happen only when violence is rejected as a means of persuasion and reason is embraced as a means of finding common ground.
Like Pope John Paul II, whose persistent reminders of the link between faith and freedom emboldened grassroots resistance to communism and enraged communist leaders, Pope Benedict has infuriated the global bullies of his day. To Islamist extremists who murder innocents in the name of their irrational and bloodthirsty god, Benedict's message about the compatibility of faith and reason undermines their efforts in a way no military campaign or secular leader could.
No wonder bin Laden is worried.
ICRSP Photos from Holy Week in Italy
With thanks to the New Liturgical Movement for the tip, at the Institute's European website there are pages of wonderful images from the liturgies of Holy Week and the Triduum celebrated at the seminary of the Institute of Christ the King, Sovereign Priest in Gricigliano, Italy.
Will There Be a Homosexual Day of Silence in St. Louis Area Catholic Schools?
From the AFA:
Homosexual "Day of Silence" coming to Missouri High Schools
On, Friday, April 25, several dozen schools in Missouri will be observing "Day of Silence (DOS)." DOS is a nationwide push to promote the homosexual lifestyle in public schools. When AFA alerted parents of this public school classroom disruption by homosexual student activists, many Missourians took action immediately! As a result, 19 schools had their name removed from the participating list. If you haven't gotten involved, it's critical that you do so today!
What should parents do? Check with your local school principal to see if your child's school will be participating in DOS. If the school is participating, notify other parents about DOS and ask them to join in keeping their children out of school on that day. A simple phone call or letter to your local Missouri school administrators, telling them your child will not attend school the day it observes DOS, may be enough to cause some participating schools to change their plans. Sample letter here. Frequently Asked Questions about the Day of Silence. Here is a partial list of Missouri schools which the Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network says are participating in DOS:
Berkmar H.S.
Clayton H.S.
Crossroads H.S.
Hickman H.S.
Jefferson City H.S.
John Burroughs H.S.
Kirkwood Senior H.S.
Ladue Horton Watkins H.S.
Liberty H.S.
Liberty Senior H.S.
McCluer H.S.
Metro H.S.
Nerinx Hall H.S.
Pattonville Sr. H.S.
Raymore-Peculiar H.S.
Rock Bridge H.S.
South H.S.
Pembroke H.S
Van Horn H.S.
Webster Groves H.S.
Winnetonka H.S
William Chrisman H.S.
If your school is listed, call your local school and ascertain whether they officially or passively allow students to observe "Day of Silence." If your school is listed, please double-check with your local school to see if the school is actually sponsoring DOS. Sometimes the "participation" turns out to be a handful of kids who are saying they have a homosexual club and are observing this protest day, but without school endorsement. We sincerely hope your school, if listed, is not actually an official sponsor. If it is not, we will take them off the list, if a school official asks us to do so. Please e-mail your correction to webmaster@missionamerica.com. Some tips:
Be sure of the date that DOS is planned for your school. (The national date is April 25, but some schools observe DOS on a different date.)
Inform the school of your intention to keep your child home on that date and explain why. See the sample letter above.
Explain to your children why you're taking a stand: Homosexual behavior is not an innate identity; it is a sinful, unnatural and destructive behavior. No school should advance a physically, emotionally, and spiritually destructive sexual lifestyle to students.
Schools do not have to tolerate students remaining silent in class. Schools can adopt policies that require parental consent for students to attend any club, including those premised on sexual orientation or gender identity. Here is more information from Attorney Mat Staver with Liberty Counsel who provides free information to parents, students, and schools regarding their rights associated with noncompliance on the Day of Silence.
Donald E. Wildmon,
Founder and Chairman American Family Association
In the course of running this blog, I get a ton of great questions. Over the last few months, I have begun to collect them in the hopes that a centralized "Frequently Asked Questions" page would be a helpful resource for readers. The most popular questions received so far are answered below.
Why did you start this blog?
It was a penance from a particularly severe confessor.
What was your inspiration for the name of the blog?
I really love St. Louis style pizza, and it occurred to me that this love was fairly "universal", or "catholic". It's funny how many people don't know that.
Which topics in the arena of Catholicism do you most enjoy discussing on your blog?
Well, Bozek that's a tough Bozek question. You see Bozek, there are so many Bozek wonderful Bozek things happening in the Bozek Church today, from the Bozek resurgence of the traditional Bozek Mass to the strong and inspirational Bozek leadership of our beloved Holy Father and Archbishop Burke; from Bozek life Bozek issues inherent from Bozek conception to death to Bozek local Catholic Bozek events. So, I really couldn't Bozek narrow it down. Bozek Bozek Bozek Bozek. Womenpriests.
I've noticed that your "currently reading/recently read" book list is quite lengthy and filled with books of which I've never heard. Have you really read all these books or are you just putting us on?
Who are your favorite saints?
Well, the Blessed Mother is the Queen of All Saints, and in addition to my patrons I am devoted to Sts. Thomas Aquinas, Francis de Sales, Therese of Lisieux, Edmund Campion, Pius V, and Pius X. But perhaps as a role model St. Marcarius the hermit is more my speed. I read in the Magnificat magazine a few years back that Marcarius was a hermit but who liked to spend time with other hermits, tried to fast but would eat when he got hungry and who would remain silent unless he needed to talk. In my facile analysis, he is the patron saint of the decent effort. And may he forgive my attempt at humor just now!
Do you have a real job?
That is a matter of subjective interpretation, depending on whom you ask. And, sometimes, when you ask them. I am a little unclear on this issue myself.
Who are your favorite bloggers?
I am obliged under the terms of a yet-to-be-executed marriage dowry contract to say that Wolftracker over at Kansas City Catholic is my absolute favorite.
Are you worried that your content might get you in hot water?
No. But I will say that if I ever receive a canonical admonition and summons from the Archbishop, I, unlike some, would show up as directed, and without the press.
You're so pretentious and smug. Who do you think you are?
I think what you meant to say is, "Whom do you think you are?"
You're not the Pope.
You're probably right, but do you know for sure?
Where do you get your extremist views?
The Catechism of the Catholic Church.
Do you attend the novus ordo?
Not if I can help it.
Because I have the right to attend any Church-approved rite, or form of rite, of Mass and thankfully I have the privilege to have the traditional Mass nearby. For me, three-and-a-half decades of regular novus ordo attendance couldn't withstand three-and-a-half traditional Masses.
You're so divisive, man.
Is there a question there?
How do you serve cajun pork?
That's a trick question. You don't.
Do you work for the Archdiocese?
I'm not on the payroll if that's what you mean. But in a sense, every Catholic in St. Louis should work for the good of the Archdiocese.
Jesus loved everybody, man.
Thanks for the reminder!
How do I cancel my subscription to Saint Louis Catholic? And where's my refund?
Good questions! If you find out the answers, please let me know, too.
A study in contrasts.
Tomorrow's Birdcage Liner Shortage
There is an old expression about the passing nature of news stories to the effect that today's newspaper lines tomorrow's birdcage. But the internet is always out there.
I was reminded of this tonight when someone who obviously just found the blog posted an outraged comment on the first St. Cronan's post of nearly four months ago. Hey, welcome to the site!
Video from Easter Vigil Mass at the Oratory
At Rome of the West.
In Other News: Flowers Attract Bees; Honey Draws Flies; Spring Follows Winter
Hey, did you know that boys are attracted to serving at the altar for the Traditional Mass? I think you must have suspected as much. This time-tested incubator of vocations to the priesthood is being reestablished today. Boys see a role worth the sacrifice of time and learning-- contrast this with the altar girl dominated novus ordo parishes where, though easier to serve, altar boys are hard to find. From the full story in the Boston Herald:
Boys step up to altar, en Mass
By Laura Crimaldi Sunday, March 23, 2008 Photo by Matt Stone
A new generation of young altar servers captivated by the solemn rituals of Latin Mass is mastering the traditional rite in growing numbers in the Boston archdiocese as the liturgy makes a comeback after a four-decade hiatus.
“It’s really reverent. That’s why I like it,” said altar server Brendan MacKenzie, 12, of Marshfield, as he readied for the Tenebrae, or “Spy Wednesday,” service at Mary Immaculate of Lourdes in Newton during Holy Week. “It brings you closer to God.”
Since April, the number of young boys trained to perform Latin Mass in the Boston area has more than doubled, from eight to 18 servers, said the Rev. Charles J. Higgins, pastor at Mary Immaculate, where the old-style Mass is celebrated every Sunday at noon.
There are an estimated 4,000 to 5,000 altar servers throughout the Boston Archdiocese, a spokesman said. Keeping with the tradition, only boys serve at Latin Mass.
Higgins, 46, who is self-taught in the Latin liturgy, said the increase in boys studying the traditional Mass has more to do with his repeated appeals for volunteers than last year’s “motu propio” from Pope Benedict XVI. The Vatican order reversed 43 years of near banishment of the worship service by allowing priests to perform the liturgy without the authorization of a local bishop.
The devoted altar boys agree with this interpretation of how the pool of servers took on a more youthful look after years of just adult men on the altar.
“As Father Higgins says, he wants an army of servers,” said Stephen Farynaz, 12, of Lunenberg, who has been serving at Latin Mass since he was 7 years old.
A minimum of nine servers is needed to perform the highly choreographed rite, which can be traced to the sixth century and is referred to as the Tridentine Mass. The training takes weeks and entails memorizing Latin responses and learning the ceremony’s many rubrics, such as how to walk, genuflect, hold your hands, stand and carry objects.
Frank Doyle Jr., 43, of West Roxbury, a veteran master of ceremonies who has been serving Latin Mass for 17 years, trains new servers in the nuances of the Mass while conveying that they need not be Thomas Aquinas to get the hang of it.
“When in doubt, genuflect. That’s an old MC’s joke,” said Doyle, who studied the work of English priest Adrian Fortescue to learn the Mass.
Davulis studies from a booklet titled “How To Serve Low Mass and Benediction” to learn the difficult Latin. He said he prefers serving at Latin Mass to serving at the Novus Ordo, or modern Mass, because he feels more involved.
“I just want to learn it now before it’s too late,” said Davulis.
MacKenzie’s older brother, Cameron, 14, said he resisted when his parents urged him to serve.
“I guess the first time when I served I realized I was serving God. I guess it just took me away,” he said.
Higgins said he is heartened by his new flock of servers and is training five priests to say Latin Mass.
“They have an openness to the religious practice, which is very refreshing,” said Higgins. “I see it as a hopeful sign that when they come of age, that whatever stage of life they choose, that they will be strong Christian men whether as priests or family men.”
Oratio Pro Summo Pontifice
The following prayer is taken from the Roman Missal. A partial indulgence is attached to the versicle and response.
V. Oremus pro Pontifice nostro Benedicto.
R. Dominus conservet eum, et vivificet eum, et beatum faciat eum in terra, et non tradat eum in animam inimicorum eius. [Ps 40:3]
Pater Noster, Ave Maria.
Deus, omnium fidelium pastor et rector, famulum tuum Benedicto, quem pastorem Ecclesiae tuae praeesse voluisti, propitius respice: da ei, quaesumus, verbo et exemplo, quibus praeest, proficere: ut ad vitam, una cum grege sibi credito, perveniat sempiternam. Per Christum, Dominum nostrum. Amen.
V. Let us pray for Benedict, our Pope.
R. May the Lord preserve him, and give him life, and make him blessed upon the earth, and deliver him not up to the will of his enemies. [Ps 40:3]
Our Father, Hail Mary.
O God, Shepherd and Ruler of all Thy faithful people, look mercifully upon Thy servant Benedict, whom Thou hast chosen as shepherd to preside over Thy Church. Grant him, we beseech Thee, that by his word and example, he may edify those over whom he hath charge, so that together with the flock committed to him, may he attain everlasting life. Through Christ our Lord. Amen.
Solemn Papal Mass
You can check out a wonderful post at the New Liturgical Movement site with a description of, and images from, the Traditional Solemn Papal Mass.
Fear of Giving Offense Can Lead to Ambiguity
Sometimes, anyway.
I attended a typical Catholic parish, with the Ordinary Form of the Roman Rite, most of my life. At least for the last 15 or so years of that attendance, I read something in my missalette every Good Friday similar in content to what a reader sent me this year:
"The message of the liturgy in proclaiming the passion narratives in full is to enable the assembly to see vividly the love of Christ for each person, despite their [sic] sins, a love that even death could not vanquish. The crimes during the Passion of Christ cannot be attributed indiscriminately to all Jews of that time, nor to Jews today. The Jewish people should not be referred to as though rejected or cursed, as if this view followed from Scripture. The Church ever keeps in mind that Jesus, his mother Mary, and the Apostles all were Jewish. As the Church has always held, Christ freely suffered his passion and death because of the sins of all, that all might be saved."
-- Bishops' Committee for Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs
Certainly Christ died for the sins of all, that all might be saved. Yet not all accept that sacrifice and some number reject the redemption won for them by Christ. It is pointless to get into the question of whether the greater number persons, or even the greater number of Catholics, are saved or are damned. For one thing, it is not in my line of expertise to even analyze, let alone criticize, the arguments for one side or the other put forth by some of the great theologians and doctors of the Church. Also, such an argument can seem presumptuous when forwarded by one who cannot himself know the answer in his own particular case. It is no reason to lose Hope, but is a good reason to consistently and humbly pray for the graces necessary for salvation.
The reality that not all are saved is made clear from Scripture, and is implicated by the words of consecration of the Precious Blood spoken by Our Lord, "...qui pro vobis et pro multis effundetur in remissionem peccatorum." ("...which shall be shed for you and for many for the remission of sins."). The words of consecration of the Precious Blood are the same for both the Ordinary and Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite of Mass. Yet in English, we suffer through the woefully inaccurate mis-translation of "for all" --instead of "for many" or "for the many"-- for the Latin phrase "pro multis".
The Catechism of the Council of Trent (1566) explains:
But the words which are added "for you and for many" ("pro vobis et pro multis"), were taken some of them from Matthew (26:28) and some from Luke (22:20) which however Holy Church, instructed by the Spirit of God, joined together. They serve to make clear the fruit and the benefit of the Passion. For if we examine its value, it will have to be admitted that Blood was poured out by the Savior for the salvation of all, but if we ponder the fruit which men will obtain from it, we easily understand that its benefit comes not to all, but only to many. Therefore when He said "for you" ("pro vobis"), He meant either those who were present, or those chosen from the people of the Jews such as the disciples were, Judas excepted, with whom He was then speaking. But when He added "for many" ("pro multis") He wanted that there be understood the rest of those chosen from the Jews or from the gentiles. Rightly therefore did it happen that "for all" ("pro universis") were not said, since at this point the discourse was only about the fruits of the Passion which bears the fruit of salvation only for the elect. And this is what the words of the Apostle aim at: Christ was offered up once in order to remove the sins of many, and what according to John the Lord says: "I pray for them; I do not pray for the world, but for those whom you gave to Me, for they are Yours" (John 17:9). Many other mysteries lie hidden in the words of this consecration, which pastors, God helping, will easily come to comprehend for themselves by constant meditation upon divine things and by diligent study.
To say that the Jews should not be blamed specifically for Christ's death is true. We all are to blame. Every sinner born of woman is to blame. Me. You. Catholics and non-Catholics, equally. And therefore, the Jews should not be considered specially cursed because of the death of Christ.
However, what the advisal of the Bishop's Conference (however well-intended) risks is a notion of indifferentism, or to accept that the Jews do not need the salvation offered by Christ and His Church. Anyone who rejects Christ is, in a real sense, cursed. He who knowingly rejects the Catholic Faith, he who knows that it is the true Church founded by Christ and necessary to salvation, cannot be saved.
Please consider this carefully, and do not misunderstand. This imputes no condemnation on any individual person by me or by the Church, because the subjective knowledge and belief of the individual cannot be known by anyone except God. The objective reality of the person described in the paragraph above remains.
What bothers me is that advisals such as the one in the missalette can lead Catholics to fail in charity and not pray for the conversion of all people. It can lead them to believe that not everyone needs to believe in Christ-- and thus certain people are off limits to the proclamation of the Gospel. Jesus commanded us to go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. The Holy Father has, by his actions even in the last month, confirmed this constant teaching of the Church.
This Easter, let us join with the Church in praying:
Omnipotens sempiterne Deus, qui vis ut omnes homines salvi fiant et ad agnitionem veritatis veniant, concede propitius, ut plenitudine gentium in Ecclesiam Tuam intrante omnis Israel salvus fiat. Per Christum Dominum nostrum. Amen.
Conversion: An Act of Free Will
Happy Easter to you all. I am sure by now that most have read about the baptism by the Holy Father of a muslim convert at the Easter Vigil in Rome. Excerpts from the full story appear below. The reason I wanted to post on this is because I believe that it is no accident that this baptism took place in such a public way by the Pope himself.
I believe that, perhaps among many other reasons, the Holy Father wished to juxtapose this event with the murder of the Catholic Bishop in Iraq last week. Conversion is possible, of course, but it must be an act of the will of the converted. It must be a free choice, or it is not a conversion at all. Murdering one's enemies stands in stark contrast to the Christian commandment of love of enemies. The Holy Father is no coward, and shepherds his flock without fear of those who would seek violence against him. We should never cease to pray for his temporal and spiritual protection.
Pope baptizes prominent Italian Muslim
By NICOLE WINFIELD, Associated Press Writer
Sat Mar 22, 9:24 PM ET
VATICAN CITY - Italy's most prominent Muslim, an iconoclastic writer who condemned Islamic extremism and defended Israel, converted to Catholicism Saturday in a baptism by the pope at a Vatican Easter service.
An Egyptian-born, non-practicing Muslim who is married to a Catholic, Magdi Allam infuriated some Muslims with his books and columns in the newspaper Corriere della Sera newspaper, where he is a deputy editor. He titled one book "Long Live Israel."
As a choir sang, Pope Benedict XVI poured holy water over Allam's head and said a brief prayer in Latin.
"We no longer stand alongside or in opposition to one another," Benedict said in a homily reflecting on the meaning of baptism. "Thus faith is a force for peace and reconciliation in the world: distances between people are overcome, in the Lord we have become close."
Vatican Television zoomed in on Allam, who sat in the front row of the basilica along with six other candidates for baptism. He later received his first Communion.
Allam, 55, told the newspaper Il Giornale in a December interview that his criticism of Palestinian suicide bombing provoked threats on his life in 2003, prompting the Italian government to provide him with a sizable security detail.
The Union of Islamic Communities in Italy — which Allam has frequently criticized as having links to Hamas — said the baptism was his own decision.
"He is an adult, free to make his personal choice," the Apcom news agency quoted the group's spokesman, Issedin El Zir, as saying.
Yahya Pallavicini, vice president of Coreis, the Islamic religious community in Italy, said he respected Allam's choice but said he was "perplexed" by the symbolic and high-profile way in which he chose to convert.
"If Allam truly was compelled by a strong spiritual inspiration, perhaps it would have been better to do it delicately, maybe with a priest from Viterbo where he lives," the ANSA news agency quoted Pallavicini as saying.
The pope administers baptism "without making any 'difference of people,' that is, considering all equally important before the love of God and welcoming all in the community of the Church," said the Vatican spokesman, the Rev. Federico Lombardi.
There is no overarching Muslim law on conversion. But under a widespread interpretation of Islamic legal doctrine, converting from Islam is apostasy and punishable by death — though killings are rare.
Egypt's highest Islamic cleric, the Grand Mufti Ali Gomaa, wrote last year against the killing of apostates, saying there is no worldly retribution for Muslims who abandon their religion and that punishment would come in the afterlife.
On Wednesday, a new audio message from Osama bin Laden accused the pope of playing a "large and lengthy role" in a "new Crusade" against Islam that included the publication of drawings of the Prophet Muhammad that many Muslims found insulting.
Lombardi said Thursday that bin Laden's accusation was baseless. He said Benedict repeatedly criticized the Muhammad cartoons, first published in some European newspapers in 2006 and republished by Danish papers in February.
Surrexit Enim, Sicut Dixit!
Vespere autem sabbati, quae lucescit in primam sabbati, venit Maria Magdalene, et altera Maria videre sepulchrum. Et ecce terraemotus factus est magnus. Angelus enim Domini descendit de caelo: et accedens revolvit lapidem, et sedebat super eum: erat autem aspectus eius sicut fulgur: et vestimentum eius sicut nix. Prae timore autem eius exterriti sunt custodes, et facti sunt velut mortui. Respondens autem Angelus, dixit mulieribus: Nolite timere vos: scio enim, quod Iesum, qui crucifixus est, quaeritis: non est hic: surrexit enim, sicut dixit. Venite, videte locum, ubi positus erat Dominus. Et cito euntes dicite discipulis eius, quia surrexit: et ecce praecedit vos in Galilaeam: ibi eum videbitis. Ecce praedixi vobis.
Mt. 28: 1-7
O mors, ero mors tua, morsus tuus ero, inferne
Tradition Ascendant
I didn't mean to post on Good Friday again, but this picture from New Liturgical Movement made me reconsider. The Pope wore a beautiful, Roman style chasuble today for Good Friday service. It may seem a small thing. But little by little, the Holy Father is trying to restore the beauty, tradition and solemnity of the Liturgy. This and other pictures can be found here.
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Again, from fisheaters:
Good Friday (also called "Great Friday" or "Holy Friday") is the most somber day of the entire year. A silence pervades, socializing is kept to a minimum, things are done quietly; it is a day of mourning; it is a funeral. The Temple of the Body of Christ is destroyed, capping the the penitential seasons begun on Septuagesima Sunday and becoming more intense throughout Lent. Traditional Catholics wear black, cover their mirrors, extinguish candles and any lamps burning before icons, keep amusements and distractions down, and go about the day in great solemnity.
Jesus was put on the Cross at the very end of the third hour (the time between 9 and noon), and almost the sixth hour. He died at the ninth hour:
Mark 15:25, 33 And it was the third hour, and they crucified Him... And when the sixth hour was come, there was darkness over the whole earth until the ninth hour.
Because Jesus was on the Cross between the hours of Noon and 3:00 PM, these three hours today are considered the most sacred of all. A devotion called "Tre Ore" or "Three Hours' Agony" might be held at this time; if not, you can do it yourself by meditating on His Passion -- reading the Gospel narratives of the Passion, making the Stations of the Cross by yourself, praying the Sorrowful Mysteries of the Rosary, praying the Litany of the Passion, etc. Draw the curtains, take the phone off the hook, turn off televisions and radios, quiet your environment and yourself, and meditate on what Christ has done for you. At 3:00, "The Hour" He died, the atmosphere should be as if you are standing next to the deathbed of your father who died a moment ago.
Catholics also focus their attention on Mary this day and tomorrow (Holy Saturday), empathizing with the pain she endured as Our Lady of Sorrows. In another break in the tradition of veiling statues since Passion Sunday, they might dress the image of Our Lady in a black dress or veil, placing flowers of mourning before it in her honor.
Though a somber atmosphere will last until the Easter Vigil, after "The Hour" (3:00 PM) passes, it eases a bit, and life can go back to a "somber normal." The phone can put back on the hook, etc., but candles and other symbols of Christ shouldn't be used, music shouldn't be played, raucous games should be eliminated, etc., while Christ is "in His Tomb" -- i.e., until after Vigil of Holy Saturday when Eastertide officially begins.
No true Mass is offered today (or tomorrow until the Vigil tomorrow evening); instead a liturgy called the "Mass of the Presanctified" is offered , which is not a true Mass because no consecration takes place. Instead, we consume Hosts consecrated at yesterday's Mass. Vestment colors will be black, and the liturgy consists of lessons, prayer, St. John's version of the Passion, and ends with a long series of prayers for various intentions: the Church, the Pope, the faithful, those engaged in public affairs, catechumens, the needs of the faithful, unity, the conversion of the Jews, the conversion of infidels. These intentions are called the Great Intercessions, and we kneel after each.
Then the Cross will be unveiled and and elevated to be adored by our kneeling three times before it at the words "Venite, adorémus" (come, let us adore). We kneel thrice because He was mocked thrice: in the high priest's courtyard, in Pilate's house, and on Mt. Calvary. Then the priest lays the Cross on a cushion and covers it with a white veil to symbolize the Entombment. He takes off his shoes, like Moses before God, and kneels three times as the choir chants. He and his acolytes kneel and kiss the Cross.
The Cross is held up for us, and we file past - - men first, then women -- to kneel and kiss the Cross while the choir sings the Improperia (the Reproaches) of Christ, in which Our Lord reminds of us all He has done for us and our ingratitude towards Him. Note the use of the singular "thee" in these Reproaches. Our Lord is speaking to you. The first three of the twelve Reproaches are:
O My people, what have I done to thee? Or wherein have I afflicted thee? Answer Me. Because I led thee out of the land of Egypt, thou hast prepared a Cross for thy Savior.
Because I led thee out through the desert forty years: and fed thee with manna, and brought thee into a land exceeding good, thou has prepared a Cross for thy Savior.
What more ought I to have done for thee, that I have not done? I planted thee, ineed, My most beautiful vineyard: and thou has become exceeding bitter to Me: for in My thirst thou gavest Me vinegar to drinkL and with a lance thou hast pierced the side of thy Savior.
A second choir responds to each of those Reproaches with a trisagion in Greek and Latin. You might recognize its English translation if you've ever prayed the Divine Mercy chaplet:
O holy God! O holy God! O holy strong One! O holy strong One! O holy immortal One, have mercy on us. O holy immortal One, have mercy on us!
The remaining nine Reproaches are answered with the response " O my people, what have I done to thee? or wherein have I afflicted thee? Answer me." ("Popule meus, quid feci tibi? aut in quo constristavi te? responde mihi."). The words evoke awe in reminding us of our ancient Israelite heritage -- and evoke humility in recalling how our ancestors failed repeatedly:
For thy sake I scourged Egypt with its first-born: and thou didst deliver Me up to be scourged.
I led thee out of Egypt having drowned Pharao in the Red Sea: and thou to the chief priests didst deliver Me.
I opened the sea before thee: and thou with a spear didst open My side.
I went before thee in a pillar of cloud: and thou didst lead Me to the judgment hall of Pilate.
I fed thee with manna in the desert; and thou didst beat Me with blows and scourges.
I gave thee the water of salvation from the rock to drink: and thou didst give Me gall and vinegar.
For thy sake I struck the kings of the Chanaanites: and thou didst strike My head with a reed.
I gave thee a royal scepter: and thou didst give My head a crown of thorns.
I exalted thee with great strength: and thou didst hang Me on the gibbet of the Cross.
After the Reproaches, we receive Communion, receiving Hosts consecrated at yesterday's Mass.
It is customary for churches to offer the Way of the Cross devotion on this day, especially around 3:00, the hour of His death. And, again, there may be a tenebrae service (consisting of the Matins and Lauds for Holy Saturday).
Triduum Schedule at the Oratory
Triduum Sacrum:
Thursday, March 20, Holy Thursday
5:30 p.m. Confessions
6:30 p.m. Solemn High Mass, Procession to the Repository
Followed by Adoration at the Repository until Midnight
Friday, March 21, Good Friday
8:00 a.m. Stations of the Cross and Confessions
2:00 p.m.-6:30 p.m. Confessions
3:00 p.m. Liturgy of the Passion and Death of Our Lord Jesus Christ
Followed by Adoration at the Holy Sepulcher until 8:00 p.m.
Saturday, March 22, Holy Saturday
9:00 p.m. Easter Vigil, Solemn High Mass
At the End of the Vigil Blessing of Easter Food: Bread, Eggs…
Sunday, March 23, Easter Sunday
8:00 a.m. Low Mass with organ
10:00 a.m. Solemn High Mass
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A Review of Repo Men, the movie
The following are the core concepts of the novel The Repossession Mambo, by Eric Garcia (the same guy who brought us Matchstick Men and the Anonymous Rex series). It’s 2025. Thanks to a company known as “The Union”, society has been flooded with artificial organs and just about everyone has one. They have saved and prolonged many a life, and cost a mint! And if you fall behind on your payments, a Repossession agent will come to your house, slit you from your navel to your neck, and retrieve it.
In short, its a dystopian future where a single company an unrealistic amount of power – the power to save live, the power to take it away. Most people are struggling just to make ends meet and as a result, the debt-ridden masses struggle to make their payments and stay alive. Right out of the annals of classic sci-fi. And with all the other cyberpunk concepts that have been done, I’m surprised someone didn’t tackle the issue of artificial organs sooner.
And, let’s face it, the premise is very much in tune with our day in age, released at a time when homeowners and families are struggling to avoid foreclosure on their houses thanks to a series of bad mortgages (and re-mortgages) that they were sweet talked and pressured in taking them in first place. Yes, for people coming through the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, and who are used to dealing with punitive cost of privatized health care, this movie was sure to resonate. A wonder then why it did so poorly at the box office!
As already noted, the story opens on the US in the near future. Artificial organs, joints, and even a neurological matrix, have revolutionized life by ensuring that the terminally ill, crippled and people near brain death can live on happily, assuming they can pay of course!
Small hints are given as to what is going on in the world at large, all of it quite familiar and relateable to today. On the one hand, there is loose talk of an ongoing debt crisis and a crippled economy. There’s also the passing mention of US soldiers gearing up to go into Nigeria in what has been deemed “Operation: Hope Springs Eternal” (a parody on “Operation: Restore Hope” or “Operation: Iraqi Freedom” perhaps?)
Into all this, we get Remy (Jude Law) who appears to be writing a manifesto of sorts. He opens it with a reference to Schrodinger’s Cat, which any fan of Big Bang Theory will instantly recognize. He wonders how anything could be considered both alive and dead in the same instant, clearly alleging that his story illustrates just that. The movie then opens in a flashback sequence, all things building towards his session in a slum with an antiquated typewriter.
Basically, Remy was a Repo Man who, alongside his age-old friend and army buddy Jake Freivald (Forest Whitaker), is considered the best in the business. However, Remy’s wife would prefer it if he transferred to sales and stopped doing the grisly work of harvesting people’s organs for money. He agrees, but also tells Jake he will do one last job. He is nearly killed when his equipment (a defibrillator) shorts out and nearly kills him. He wakes up in the hospital and is told that he will need an artificial heart now. His angry, panicked reaction tells us all we need to know about his feelings on that 😉 After years of watching others get screwed over by The Union, he now is facing that very thing himself.
Naturally, he tries to go back to Repo’ing since his wife has already left him and he needs the money. But somehow, he just can’t bring himself to do it anymore. What’s more, time is running out on him making his payments. During a final attempt, he goes into a “Nest” – a slum area where people go to flee The Union’s repo men – where he is attacked and knocked unconscious.
He awakens to find a woman named Beth (Alice Braga) – a lounge singer that he’s seen playing clubs before – living in one of the abandoned buildings and decides to help her. After standing watch as she goes through withdrawal, he agrees to help her since they are in the same boat. Seems she has mucho enhancements, including artificial joints, organs, eyes, and ears.
He breaks into the company storeroom and begins filing the bar codes off of all the spare parts they currently have. No bar codes, no scans will be able to detect that they have organs with are past due. However, Remy is caught by his friend and told to get out while he can. Back at their slum lair, Beth has set him up with an old typewriter she found. He sets to work banging out a “cautionary tale” about what he did and what he’s learned, until at last a repo man finds them and they are forced to kill him. Naturally, Remy outsmarts the man and he dies, but Beth is injured in the course of things. They are then forced to find a black market dealer who will fix her up, which takes them to another “Nest”.
Unfortunately, Jake finds them there and reveals to Remy that he is responsible for shorting out his defibrillator. By forcing him to meet the payments of an artificial organ, he figured his friend would never leave the business. The two fight, and in the course of it, Remy is knocked unconscious. What follows is a total mind-f*** which is comparable only to Inception! I shall break it down succinctly.
Basically, Remy wakes up to find that Beth incapacitated Jake. They then flee together and decide the only way they can resolve this is to break into corporate HQ, find the “Pink Door” where repo personnel make their returns, and physically scan their organs. After an over-the-top scene where Remy fights everyone between him and the “Pink Door” (which is ridiculously labeled as such), they break in and begin performing field surgery on themselves so they can scan the bar-codes.
Jake and their boss walk in a moment later, and Jake decides to switch sides and kills their boss. They blow up the repossession machine together and escape to the tropics, where Remy has apparently published his manuscript under the name The Repossession Mambo. However, this idyllic scene is interrupted when things begin to get fuzzy and some hiccups appear, as if it were all a recording…
Oh wait, it is! You see, in real life, Remy was rendered near brain-dead from the blow Jake gave him. The medics who arrived shortly thereafter hooked him up to one of the new neurological matrix’s in order to keep up his brain function. Hence, all this stuff about beating the company and escaping to the tropics was all a lie. Jake also tells them to leave Beth (unconscious but not dead) alone for him to deal with later. He then picks up Remy’s manuscript and notices the title, the same one featured in his little reverie.
I seriously wasn’t expecting that, but respected the movie more for the little dystopian twist at the end. It was in keeping with the whole tradition of cyberpunk tales, making sure that things like happy endings only happen in the movies… or not!
I’ll be honest, this movie didn’t suck. It was very hard to take Jude Law seriously as a cynical, bad-guy, but for the most part, it was ably acted. It was also hard to believe that a former jarhead turned repo man, a man who for all intents and purposes seemed to like killing and didn’t care about the pain he caused, could maintain a marriage and a family. Somehow, these two sides of his personality didn’t fit. And lastly, the gore level, especially in that scene behind the “Pink Door” seemed gratuitous. It’s like, if they can invent scanners that can read a bar code through flesh and clothing, why do they need to slice opens their own bodies to scan the bar-codes for the big machine? I might have mentioned that the fight scene which brought them there was also pretty stupid, but of course, that was all in a dream! Technically, it doesn’t count 😉
But other than that, I actually liked this movie. It had plenty of thematic elements which landed for me. For one, there was the issue of a company pressuring people to sign-up for a product no one seemed to be able to afford. The scenes where we see the salespeople do their thing, or the boss’s BS about “you owe it to your family to do this” and “we can come up with a plan that fits your financial standing” were just too perfect. Tell me that wasn’t a parody of the banking industry, pressuring people into taking sub-prime mortgages when they could barely afford their current payments!
What’s more, the high costs of the new organs, which people had to turn to payment plans, credit, and whatever else to afford were clearly a reference to the health care crisis in America. People need life-saving procedures, have no choice but to sign up for them unless they want to die and leave their families behind. But in the end, its more than they can afford, and all the smarmy reassurances of the salespeople can’t change that very fact.
Yeah, it kind of bombed at the box office, but I’m thinking that rentals, DVD sales and Netflix might help it recoup its losses. And I strongly recommend people, at least those who aren’t turned off by blood and gore, take the time to watch it. If you’re a fan of dystopian sci-fi, you might just like it. And if you’re a writer of dystopian sci-fi (for example, me!) then you might just find it inspiring.
Repo Men:
Entertainment Value: 7/10 (not really a nail-biter, but definitely not boring)
Plot: 8/10
Direction: 7/10 (nothing special, but ably shot)
Overall: 7.5/10
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IN HAMLET AND IN LIFE, RUTH NEGGA DOES NOT HOLD BACK · Jan 20th
(Robert Ito’s article appeared in The New York Times, 1/17; via Pam Green.)
The Ethiopian-Irish actress returns to a “completely destroying” stage role. Next: a film adaptation of a 1920s novel about passing for white.
LOS ANGELES — What stage actor wouldn’t jump at the chance to play Hamlet? Ruth Negga, for one. When she was offered the role at Dublin’s Gate Theater in 2018, her first impulse was to say thanks, but no. Too tough, too daunting, “too much,” she said. In 2010, Negga had tackled Ophelia at the National Theater in London — surely that experience would give her a leg up?
“Nothing helps you play Hamlet,” she laughed.
Negga ultimately took the role, however, earning rave reviews. The Guardian praised her “priceless ability to savor the language,” while the Irish edition of The Times of London called her performance “a stunning gift for Irish theatergoers.”
If she made it all look easy, however, it was anything but. “It nearly killed me,” said Negga, who is perhaps best known for her Oscar-nominated turn in the 2016 biopic “Loving,” in which she played a woman who endures jail time and exile for the then-crime of being married to a white man in 1950s Virginia. “If you ask anyone who’s played Hamlet, it’s completely destroying,” she said. “It cracks you open, and you feel like you’re this mass of nerves and open skin.”
Credit…Chantal Anderson for The New York Times
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CONSTANT STANISLAVSKI (63) · Dec 27th
We exaggerated the outward and external side of manners. . . . . This resulted in naked naturalism. And the nearer it was to reality, the more ethnographical it was—the worse it was for us. There was no spiritual darkness, and therefore the outward and naturalistic darkness proved unnecessary. It had nothing to round out and illustrate. Ethnography choked literature and the art of the actor. (MLIA)
ALAN BENNETT: DIARY · Dec 24th
(from the London Review of Books, 12/19, where he reads the entries.)
1 January 2019, Yorkshire. The New Inn, the village pub, always lays on a quarter of an hour of fireworks at midnight, which we can see if not actually from our bed then certainly from the bedroom window. Brushing my teeth this morning, I catch a glimpse of my New Year self and am depressed to see how depleted I’m looking, though not quite as much as Raymond Briggs, who’s pretty much my age, and a good documentary on whom we watched earlier yesterday evening. He’s almost two-dimensional, thinned to a knife blade. Still, he drives, which after the latest bout of arthritis in my ankle, I’m not sure I’m going to be able to do.
7 January, Yorkshire. On the war memorial at Malham is the inscription:
Live thou for England
We for England died
I don’t know if this is a quotation, or an injunction that was, as it were, custom-made, but I find it – if only slightly – misplaced, and I don’t wholly concur, as the sentiment reduces what was a sacrifice to more of a bargain: we did this for you, now see you do your bit in return by living in a way the dead might have approved (whatever that might be). It’s an admonition, which I don’t like, but war memorials often take this finger-wagging tone. ‘Do better.’
8 January. My six-monthly aorta scan at University College Hospital. Due at 12.30 I’m early, so that by 12.45 I’m back home. It’s a model service, today’s radiographer a bearded young man who asks about Allelujah!, and shows me the screen and how he measures the width of my (quite small) aneurysms. Good young medics always cheer me and offer hope, not for my future but for the world in general.
19 January. Wake this morning thinking of a line that I’ve always remembered Burt Lancaster delivering in a costume drama. Caught out after curfew, he says: ‘I am apothecary Manzoni on an errand of mercy for the Sisters.’ What the film was I’ve no idea. The Crimson Pirate? Doubtless some LRB-reading cinema buff even sillier than I am will be able to tell me.
26 January. We are comfortably ensconced in our Weekend First seats at King’s Cross when John Bercow comes along the platform. Not quite the elegant, slightly flamboyant figure one sees in the Commons, he’s in a scruffy suede jacket and, according to the trolley attendant, sitting in standard class, where he is happy to have a conversation about Brexit and related matters. I’m hoping he will come down the train at some point, when I’d shake his hand and say how much of the country is with him. However, when we get to Grantham, my eye is taken by an old man with an enchanting blond Labrador, and now Bercow comes along the platform and the dog makes a great fuss of him, the old man equally delighted.
9 February. This evening we watch the much vaunted The Favourite, which is good if a bit – and perhaps deliberately – casual about period details and language, ‘letters’ becoming ‘mail’ and (a battle I had in The Madness of King George) the occasional ‘OK’ and ‘fine’. The film owes something to ours, beginning slightly as I intended to begin, with the court seen from the cramped perspective of the royal servants. Not looking at the monarch is made something of a feature, though not as specifically as we tried to do, and our film was more physical than this is allowed to be. ‘Cunt’ occurs quite often, possibly less as a deliberate attempt to shock than to show how down to earth these courtiers were. Or it may just be laziness, there being some skill in inventing euphemisms or devising elaborations that get round obscenity. Still, an enjoyable film, if an anachronistic one, e.g. ‘the opposition’ not a feature of Parliament in the 18th century.
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FOR ENTERTAINING MUSICALS, LOOK NO FURTHER THAN … PARIS · Dec 11th
(Laura Cappelle’s article appeared in The New York Times, 12/5; via Pam Green.)
The genre has long been seen as minor in the French capital, but a string of English-language productions is creating a pleasingly upbeat dynamic.
PARIS — The opening line in Christopher Wheeldon’s 2014 musical, “An American in Paris,” currently playing here at the Théâtre du Châtelet, is directed at the audience: “When you think of Paris, what comes to mind?”
The answer is unlikely to be musicals. While one of the genre’s ancestors, the 19th-century operetta, once thrived in France, musicals have long been considered minor in this country, which prizes conceptual seriousness over entertainment onstage. Yet a string of successful English-language productions has jazz hands and fidgety feet working their way into the local parlance.
“An American in Paris,” back from a Tony Award-winning Broadway run and an international tour, is competing this month with a sparkling new revival of “Funny Girl” at the Théâtre Marigny. And the two productions share a producer who has played a major role in the wave of musicals in Paris this past decade: Jean-Luc Choplin, who directed the Théâtre du Châtelet from 2004 to 2017 and is now leading the Théâtre Marigny down a similar path.
While some production companies have translated American musicals into French in recent years, Choplin has invested in English-language productions presented with subtitles. It’s a sensible choice, because the upbeat earnestness of the genre sits awkwardly with the taste for irony that is built into French discourse.
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CONSTANT STANISLAVSKI (55) · Dec 3rd
I could not continue my false and theatrical pose. All that I had done seemed untrue to nature, to reality. And it had been said of us that we had developed simplicity to a point of naturalism! How far we are from simple human speech. . . . (MLIA)
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CONSTANT STANISLAVSKI (53) · Nov 8th
Doctor Stockman became popular at once in Moscow, and especially so in Petrograd. “The Enemy of the People” became the favorite play of the revolutionists, notwithstanding the fact that Stockman himself despised the solid majority and believed in individuals to whom he would entrust the conduct of life. But Stockman protested, Stockman told the truth, and that was considered enough. (MLIA)
CONSTANT STANISLAVSKI (52) · Nov 2nd
Chekhov always had the best of opinion about military men, especially those in active service, for they, in his own words, were to a certain extent the bearers of a cultural mission, since, coming into the farthest corners of the provinces, they brought with them new demands on life, knowledge, art, happiness, and joy. Chekhov least of all desired to hurt the self-esteem of the military men. (MLIA)
CONSTANT STANISLAVSKI (49) · Oct 23rd
To heighten tone means to heighten the mood of the audience, to strengthen the interest of the spectator in the performance; to quicken tempo means to live more strongly and intensively and to live over all that one says and does on the stage. (MLIA)
CONSTANT STANISLAVSKI (44) · Oct 12th
I know of no greater idealism than that which believes in a better future although it is surrounded by hopeless circumstances. (MLIA)
‘THIS IS WHY WE LIVE’ AND ‘OEDIPUS, SEX WITH MUM WAS BLINDING’ (REVIEWS FROM NEW YORK) · Oct 3rd
By Bob Shuman
A cello stands at the center of This Is Why We Live, at La Mama, which closed September 29 and Oedipus, Sex with Mum was Blinding, at BAM Fisher, which also ended on that date, two international pieces—one based on the poetry of Wisława Symborska and the other after Sophocles, with a classical and jazz score by Tilemachos Moussas & Julia Kent. Both are directed by women and focus, primarily, on women’s themes and talents, down to a string’s last pluck and bow.
When she won the Nobel Prize in 1996, Symborska drew the attention, and hearts, of the world with something almost as small—the modesty of her Polish life (at the time, Edward Hirsh, writing for The New York Times, described the apartment where she lived: a fifth-floor walk-up, in “a nondescript building”; the living room, “where she writes, doubles as her bedroom”). Today (Symborska died in 2012), twenty-one of her poems are acted earnestly, in Open Heart Surgery’s Canadian- and Polish-backed production (direction is by Coleen MacPherson, and the evening is performed by Elodie Monteau (France), Alaine Hutton (Canada) and Dobrochna Zubek (Poland/Canada) to music written by Zubek. Musical development and dramaturgy are by Tatiana Judycka and Dobrochna Zubek. Set and costume design are by Helen Yung. Lighting design is by Rebecca Picherak. The show is played in English, Polish, and French, using subtitles.
L-R: Alaine Hutton, Elodie Monteau, Dobrochna Zubek. Photo by Jonathan Slaff.
Men have contributed editorially, even if they are not in the show: the French translation is by Piotr Kaminski; English translation is by Clare Cavanagh and Stanislaw Baranczak; Dramaturgy and translation support is by Viktor Lukawski—all of which might have confounded the poet: ”I think that dividing literature or poetry into women’s and men’s poetry is starting to sound absurd,” Symborska states in the Hirsh interview, ”Perhaps there was a time when a woman’s world did exist, separated from certain issues and problems, but at present there are no things that would not concern women and men at the same time.” New Yorkers have been watching the crystallization of women’s theatre in the city’s arts scene, though, even when co-opting writers, such as Symborska, who might be philosophically opposed to such a conceptualization. Her work, playful and ironic (“Don’t blame me for borrowing big words and then struggling to make them light”) does not find itself dramatically in the current production, despite the skill and dedication of the Butoh and Lecoq-trained theatremakers. Yet her writing is reflective of the issues being explored today by women in the arts and nonfiction–eating disorders are alluded to in one segment of This Is Why We Live, for example, as one of the dancers stuffs herself with cake. The self-deprecation, penetrating self-criticism is apparent in a piece like “Under One Small Star,” ideas which will reappear in Greek director Elli Papakonstantinou’s goth Oedipus.
My apologies to time for all the world I overlook each second /
My apologies to past loves for thinking that the latest is the first /
Forgive me, distant wars, for bringing flowers home /
Forgive me, open wounds, for pricking my finger /
I apologize for my record of minuets to those who cry from the depths /
I apologize to those who wait in railway stations for being asleep today /
Pardon me, hounded hope, for laughing from time to time . . .
Unless it is deeply, painfully ironic, laughter is not associated with Jocasta, the wife and mother of Oedipus. If Papakonstantinou (she also conceived and wrote the immersive opera) is to be believed, the ancient queen’s self-recriminatory behavior is also well-known in the lives of women today—and is an issue for men as well. ODC Ensemble’s Oedipus, Sex with Mum was Blinding is an intensification of Szymboska’s examination of women’s guilt, as well as a deep-dive into the psychology of the ancient queen (the seer Teireias also appears, who lived life both as a woman and a man). The grunge immersion—the often grainy cinematic environment is by Stephanie Sherriff–uses singing and technology, pop culture and neuroscience (advised by professor Manos Tsakiris), even an m.c., a keyboardist for the show, Misha Piatigorsky, who combines Joaquin Phoenix in Joker and Joel Grey in Cabaret. Other men in the cast include Lito Messini as Oedipus, Elias Husiak, and Tsakiris. Papakonstantinou may seem indiscriminate, because she can pull from everywhere—she is unafraid of postmodernism, myth, and onstage cameras–the kind many Americans will recognize having seen work by Ivo van Hove—music (Kent plays the cello onstage)—including Philip Glass sounds and an excerpt from “Nature Boy”–languages, social media, and politics—“this country is based on racism.” Debatably, she shapes the work into the story of three women, an actor (Nassia Gofa) and two singers (Anastasia Katsinavaki, Theodora Loukas), one classical and the other jazz, who might seem to be refracting the same character, in guilt and trauma. Papakonstantinou is never exactly clear in her excursion through the subconscious—but she understands and elicits the feelings Symborska transcribes, in, as another illustration, the baldly titled poem: “In Praise of Feeling Bad About Yourself”:
The buzzard never says it is to blame. /
The panther wouldn’t know what scruples mean. /
When the piranha strikes, it feels no shame. /
If snakes had hands, they’d claim their hands were clean.”
The poet finishes: “On this third planet of the sun / among the signs of bestiality / a clear conscience is number one.”
Current women’s theatre explicates, however, that no human, at least, has one.
© 2019 by Bob Shuman. All rights reserved.
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THIS IS WHY WE LIVE
Design Assistant: Judie Plaza
Set Design Assistant: Kevin Yung
Lighting Design by Rebecca Picherak
Lighting Associate: Nic Vincent
Projection Design by Wesley McKenzie
Stage Management by A.J. Morra
Dramaturgy and Translation Support by Viktor Lukawski
Poetry by Wisława Szymborska
French Translation by Piotr Kamiński
English Translation by Clare Cavanagh and Stanislaw Baranczak
Artistic Support by Yearime Castel Barragan and Sallie Lyons
This project is funded by the Canada Council for the Arts, Polish Consulate (Canada) & The Polish Institute
Press: Jonathan Slaff
OEDIPUS, SEX WITH MUM WAS BLINDING
ODC Ensemble (Athens, Greece) with
The Directors Company
OEDIPUS:
Sex with Mum Was Blinding
An Immersive Opera
Conceived, written and directed by
Elli Papakonstantinou
Original Music Composed by
Tilemachos Moussas
and Julia Kent
Cinematic Environments by
Stephanie Sherriff
Lighting design: Elli Papakonstantinou
Mask concepts, design and materialization: Maritina Keleri & Chrysanthi Avloniti
Costume Design: Jolene Richardson
Nassia Gofa, Elias Husiak, Anastasia Katsinavaki, Theodora Loukas, Lito Messini, Manos Tsakiris, Julia Kent (cello), Misha Piatigorsky (piano), Hassan Estakhrian, Barbara Nerness (electroacoustic environments), and Stephanie Sherriff (live cinematic environment)
Scientific Advisor: Professor Manos Tsakiris
Press: Michelle Tabnick
Photos–This Is Why We Live: Jonathan Slaff; Oedipus: Carol Rosegg
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Tag Archives: Henry Cow
Music, Rock In Opposition
Art Bears – Upon a wheel a cockerel crows
April 12, 2017 tamijo2013 2 Comments
Art Bears became a member of the Rock in Opposition movement in December 1978 where the RIO members met in Sunrise Studio Kirchberg.
The band was formed by members of now disbanded Henry Cow
The debut was released May 1978, containing 9 tracks recorded by Henry Cow in January and 5 tracks by Art Bears in March 1978.
The album can be seen as a “last” Henry Cow, but with more “song” orientated material than previous albums, as the instrumental recordings would mainly appear on Henry Cow’s Western Culture (1979).
Art bears: Hopes and Fears – “In Two Minds” (recorded by Henry Cow)
Art Bears first “true” album with songs intended for and preformed only by Art Bears came soon after, “Winter Songs” recorded in late 1978 and released in 1979.
This is my favorite Art Bears album, within its own genre a relative accessible piece of art, the band is now a trio with Fred Frith playing all instruments, Chris Cutler Drums & Percussion, topped with a stunning vocal by Dagmar Krause.
Upon a – wheel a – cockerel crows the – crimson dawn
There is a medival theme to the record, sending thoughts in direction of early 70’s masters like Jethro Tull or Gentle Gaint, underlined by some supreme violin from Frith.
The hermit sits – Before the fire – And toasts a fish – Upon a fork
Art Bears made a last album “The World as It Is Today” in late summer 1980 released in 1981, the radical political ambitions of the band is now even more evident with track like “”The Song of Investment Capital Overseas”.
I empty villages – I burn their houses down – I set up factories
The music also seems more inspired by “industrialism” with more repetitive themes that may reflect the machinery and work processes of modern day.
In my opinion a less inspired effort compared to Winter Songs but not bad at all, absolutely worth a listen or rather many listens, this is not music you can expect to digest or comprehend investing 30 minutes.
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The True Legend of Henry The Cow
April 7, 2014 tamijo2013 2 Comments
Rock In Opposition, part 2 – Henry Cow.
The Core off Henry Cow was a trio, all multi instrumentalists credited with a wide range of instruments over their albums, Chris Cutler : drums, piano, trumpet, vocals, Whistle , Toy instruments ; Fred Frith : guitar, piano, violin, keyboards, bass, viola, xylophone, vocals ; Tim Hodgkinson : organ, clarinet, hawaiian guitar, piano, keyboards, saxophones, vocals. Besides the trio a series of other members and guest appeared in the band. The band was founded in the late 60’s but had it first record out in 1973.
From: The Henry Cow Legend 1973 (later released as Legend or Leg End on different labels)
Right from the debut Henry Cow played a highly sophisticated and complex combination of styles, seemingly inspired from as different directions as Progressive Rock like Soft Machine and Gentle Giant, Avant-garde Jazz, and Modern Classical music.
From Unrest 1974
During the middle of the 70’s, Henry Cow collaborated with another Avant-garde band, Slap Happy. Resulting in two 1975 albums, Slap Happy’s Desperate Straights and Henry Cow’s “In Praise Of Learning” both featuring members from both bands, notably German vocalist Dagmar Kraus, with whom Frith and Cutler would form Art Bears. Personally I prefer what they did with Art Bears, most of “In Praise Of Learning” seems to be too confused for my taste, but it does contain one masterpiece, with vocal extraordinary from Dagmar Kraus, the very beautiful “Beautiful as the Moon – Terrible as an Army With Banners”.
From “In Praise Of Learning” 1975
As a result of the work with Kraus, there was a disagreement within the band, about how much material should be song focused, and how much should be instrumental, as a result the material with songs was released as the “Art Bears” debut, and the instrumental work was released as Henry Cows final album, Western Culture. Even though Western Culture was Henry Cows last album, and a result of disagreement, today it seems as a highlight. The sound is great, and the music is still as fresh today as it was back then.
Uncompromising avant-garde at its best, as Henry Cow could do it so well, also a demanding album, most people won’t immediately enjoy. All the music was written by Tim Hodgkinson and female bassoon, oboe, sax player Lindsay Cooper, as all the Cutler/Frith material went to the Art Bears album.
From Western Culture 1979
Henry Cow was the founding force behind the RIO movement in 1978, shortly before the group would disband, and its members would move into different other band constellations.
Avant-gardeFusionHenry CowProgressive RockSlap Happy
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2016 A-10 Swimming Championships: Day 2 Finals Recap
The Richmond women and Massachusetts men look to be in complete control and are setting themselves up to defend their A-10 titles.
FGCU’s Halmai, Nelson Sweep CCSA Weekly Awards
The Eagles are just one of two teams to have swept the CCSA weekly honors this season, having done so twice already.
Wyoming Sweeps Weekly Mountain West Awards
Wyoming’s Phoebe Browne and Melissa Mirafuentes have been named MW Swimming and Diving Peak Players of the Week.
Oakland Swimmers, UIC Divers Earn Horizon League Weekly Honors
Oakland’s Marko Khotynetskyi and Katie Colwell earned Swimmer of the Week honors, while UIC’s Felix LaFortune and Cydney Liebenberg were named the Divers.
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February 18th, 2016 College, NCAA Division II, NCAA Division III, Previews & Recaps
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2016 A-10 Men’s & Women’s Championships
Wednesday, February 17- Saturday, February 20
Geneva, Ohio- Spire Institute
Defending Champs: Men-Massachusetts, Women-Richmond
After her scintillating leg on the 800 free relay that won Davidson the race yesterday, Elise Lankiewicz continued her dominance, winning the 500 free in a time of 4:44.88. That time shattered the 21 year-old conference and meet record previously held by Bambi Bowman of George Washington who had a time of 4:48.21. It also broke the pool record of 4:46.37 established by Jessica Powers in 2014. Annie Lane of Richmond finished 2nd in 4:46.39, also under the old conference and meet record. Emma Smith of La Salle was 3rd in 4:49.77, Nicole Piercy of Richmond was 4th in 4:52.04, and Taylor Kane of Duquesne was 5th in 4:54.99.
Fordham’s Megan Polaha used a strong breaststroke leg to overtake Richmond’s Hannah Matheson in the 200 IM, winning in 2:00.85 over Matheson’s 2:01.86. Pohala’s time got under the NCAA B standard of 2:01.59. Massachusetts Meriza Werenski was 3rd in 2:02.06, Duquesne’s Abby Stauffer was 4th in 2:02.13, and Katy Williams of Davidson rounded out the top-5 in 2:03.54.
Syndey Fisher of George Mason improved her prelim time by 0.01, taking the 50 free in a time of 22.73, the only woman under 23 seconds. That swim also broke her own meet record from the prelims. That swim got her under the NCAA B cut of 22.99. Gabrielle Sibilia and Sam Ray of Duquesne finished 2nd and 3rd respectively in 23.05 and 23.10, and Shannon Lulley of Fordhamn was 4th in 23.13.
In the 1-meter diving event, Massachusetts’ Emma Roush defended her top seed from the prelims, winning with a score of 290.80. Wendy Espina-Esquivel of Fordham was 2nd with a score of 254.75, and Roush’s Massachusetts teammate Katie Polk was 3rd with a score of 247.65. Massachusetts divers had a very good session, as Julia Jagannath scored the 3rd highest total with 249.80, but she was 9th as she was in the consolation final.
The Duqesne women got by Davidson in the 200 free relay by just 0.04, as Duquesne put up a 1:32.61 for the win. The winning team consisted of Sam Ray (23.26), Kristen McKnight (23.51), Claire Nobles (23.10), and Gabrielle Sibilia (22.74). This was a major win for Duqesne over Davidson as the two teams are locked in a very tight battle for 2nd place behind meet leading Richmond (who finished 6th). Davidson finished in 1:32.65, with a fast lead-off from Elise Lankiewicz (22.96) and anchor from Angie Healy (22.94). George Mason finished 3rd in 1:32.97, with 50 free champ from earlier in the night Sydney Fisher giving them the early lead in the race opening in 22.78.
Heading into day 3, University of Richmond leads substantially with 231 points, followed by Davidson College in 2nd with 177 and Duqesne University in 3rd just three points back at 174. Fordham is not far behind in 4th with 168.
Hot off his clutch anchor leg last night that won the 800 free relay for his team, Massachusetts’ Alessio Bomprezzi cruised to a large victory in the 500 free, winning in 4:20.32. He was just off his own conference and meet record set last year of 4:19.75. Bomprezzi took the lead at the 150 mark and never relinquished it. Ryan McCoy of Saint Louis was 2nd in 4:24.84, and Steve Sholdra of Fordham was 3rd in 4:26.27. Bomprezzi’s teammates Oliver Wyeth (4:27.16) and Kyle Vieira (4:28.83) made it three Massachusetts swimmers in the top-5, as they finished 4th and 5th respectively.
Andrea Bolognesi of George Washington out swam St. Bonaventure’s Michael White on the breaststroke and freestyle legs in the 200 IM, ultimately winning in 1:46.54 over White who was 2nd in 1:47.47. Bolognesi pulled into the lead on the breaststroke splitting 29.86, and then finished the job on freestyle splitting 25.99, both splits tops in the field. Bolognesi broke White’s conference and meet record that he set in the prelims of 1:47.39. Both men were under the B cut in prelims and finals (1:49.09). Johan Roth and Jerry Gravel of La Salle tied for 3rd in 1:49.69, and Riley League of Davidson was 5th in 1:50.49. Cameron Fadley of La Salle made it 5 swimmers under 1:50, as he went 1:49.98 in the B final.
St. Bonaventure’s Michael Pilyugin defended his top seed in the 50 free, winning in 19.95, the only man under 20 seconds. He set the conference and meet records in the morning where he went 19.84. Both swims get him well under the NCAA B cut of 20.19. Zepher Begnell of George Mason was 2nd in 20.30, and Wiktor Karpinski and Owen Wright of Massachusetts were 3rd and 4th in 20.33 and 20.47 respectively.
The Massachusetts men continued their great meet, winning the 200 free relay in 1:20.96 in what was a very tight race between the top 6 teams. Wiktor Karpinski’s anchor of 19.95 sealed the win for Massachusetts, who trailed eventual second place finishers St.Bonaventure heading into the final leg. Joining Karpinski on the winning relay was Owen Wright, Brian Stiles and Kellen Gray. The top six teams were separated by just 0.54, and teams 2-5 by just 0.18. St.Bonaventure and Davidson were separated by just 0.01 for 2nd and 3rd (1:21.18 to 1:21.19), as was the same between George Mason (1:21.30) and George Washington (1:21.31) for 4th and 5th.
Heading into day 3, Massachusetts (268) holds an 81 point lead over second place St.Bonaventure (187). La Salle is third with 177.5, and George Washington, George Mason, Davidson and Saint Louis are all very close in the battle for 4th.
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James formerly competed for the Laurentian Voyageurs in Sudbury, Ontario, specializing in the 200 free, back and IM. He finished up his collegiate swimming career in February of 2018, placing 11th at the OUA Championships in the 200 IM, and graduated with a bachelor's degree in economics in May. He …
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Story: Marlborough region
Geology and landscape
Climate, plants and animals
Early Māori history
Early Europeans
Grazing and farming
The grape revolution
Transport and communications
Population and society
Sport, recreation and culture
Petition for separation from Nelson province, 1857
This 1857 petition for separation from Nelson province was not successful, but after another initiative a year later a new province – Marlborough – was established in 1859. Settlers wanted a separate province because virtually none of the income from land sales in the Wairau and neighbouring districts was spent on them (on roads, for instance). Runholders also thought that the Nelson council elected in 1856 was unsympathetic to their interests, particularly in respect of the costs of leasing or buying pastoral land.
National Library of New Zealand, Papers Past
Reference: Nelson Examiner and New Zealand Chronicle, 22 August 1857. p.3
Permission of the National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.
Straits Air Freight Express
Provincial buildings: Picton
Malcolm McKinnon, 'Marlborough region - Government', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/en/photograph/31792/petition-for-separation-from-nelson-province-1857 (accessed 23 January 2020)
Story by Malcolm McKinnon, updated 1 Nov 2016
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The movie The Blob: trailer, clips, photos, soundtrack, news and much more!
The Blob Movie – Teaser Poster
Take a look to this teaser poster of The Blob, the upcoming horror science-fiction movie directed by Simon West and starring Samuel L. Jackson:
(Click on the poster to enlarge.)
Nothing can stop it!
A film by Simon West.
“A terrifying re-imagining of an enduring horror icon. Based on the 1958 sci-fi classic that starred Steve McQueen and has thrilled genre fans since. When a band of miners uncover something hidden deep beneath the earth they unwittingly unleash a hideous creature beyond imagination. Now the townsfolk must fightback, before it destroys everything.”
Beware the molten meteor!
No official release date yet.
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The Blob movie
There’s a remake of the horror science-fiction movie The Blob ahead of us. Director Simon West is in charge of the project.
So far the cast includes Samuel L. Jackson.
The film has yet to get an official release date.
Stay tuned with us for more details about the movie The Blob.
Anyway, here’s the trailer of the original 1958 movie if you need a refresher:
THE BLOB (1958)
Genre: Horror/Science-Fiction
Directed by: Simon West
Starring: Samuel L. Jackson
Release Date: TBA 2018
More Information at: The Blob Trailer
https://teaser-trailer.com/movie/the-blob
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Imo Governorship: APC Congratulates Uzodinma on Supreme Court Victory
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Lanre Issa-onilu, APC National Publicity Secretary in a statement said even as the party is still wondering why it lost elections it clearly won in Zamfara State at the Supreme Court and how the same court ruled the party out of the electoral race in Rivers State, it has never, as a political party, lost faith in the judiciary.
“We salute Senator Hope Uzodinma, our supporters and members for their temperance displayed in the aftermath of the blatant rigging of the Imo Governorship election. We chose to focus on the judicial route to reclaim the Party’s mandate. We are confident that our other stolen electoral mandates will be restored by the courts.
“The APC calls on all Imo State APC stakeholders to come together in support of Senator Uzodinma to ensure the success of the Party’s Next Level agenda and to democratically entrench the APC in the state and entire South East”, he stated.
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With Victor Hedman hurt, Ryan McDonagh is Lightning’s ‘main horse’ now
By Joe Smith Oct 26, 2018 3
LAS VEGAS — The game had been over for about five minutes, but Ryan McDonagh was still catching his breath.
The veteran Tampa Bay defenseman’s face was flush red as he sat in his locker stall.
Who could blame him?
McDonagh, 29, had just racked up a team-high 26 minutes, 45 seconds of ice time, including all of the final 1:46 of the Lightning’s 3-2 victory over the Golden Knights.
At McDonagh’s side was the camouflage jacket awarded by the team to its player of the game. Boy, did he earn it. With Norris Trophy-winning defenseman Victor Hedman getting hurt early in the second period, McDonagh shouldered a lot of the load.
And that’ll likely be the case going forward. Hedman is not expected to be out long-term, coach Jon Cooper said, but the 6-foot-6 Swede will likely miss Saturday’s game in Arizona, and potentially more, with what looked like a shoulder injury. The Lightning said Saturday that Hedman will be...
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The art of healing
Filed under: Art of Living,Bangalore,Bureaucracy,Education,Hinduism,India,Karnataka,Spirituality,Sri Sri Ravishankar,Terrorism,Yoga — Abhay @ 6:00 AM
Tags: Chidambaram
SUHEL SETH, Jun 8, 2010, 03.43pm IST
I was in Chandigarh watching television on May 30 when the news of an assassination attempt on Sri Sri Ravi Shankar flashed across all screens and then began, in typical Indian fashion, the analysis of this near-fatal event without an iota of accuracy or on the basis of an informed decision. I have to confess, while I am neither a member of the Art of Living Foundation nor have I ever done a course, I have, for many years admired the manner in which Sri Sri has galvanized millions of people across the world to believe in a simple set of values: all of which revolve around human character and happiness. I wanted to call him and check how he was but in the interim, I was disappointed at the positions that everyone began taking. It was no rocket science to understand the silence of the state Government of Karnataka: no one in their right minds would have wanted to say anything on the subject when they were preparing to host their first Global Investor’s meet barely four days later. But it was P Chidambaram who surprised me the most and this was a very different Chidambaram. Not the one I had seen address the press admirably early in the morning of February 14, 2010 when the German Bakery in Pune had been the target of a vicious bomb attack the night before. At that time, Chidambaram was measured and was clear that he would offer a view only after thorough investigations were done.
But this time round, when the attack on Sri Sri took place, Chidambaram alluded to some dangerous theories; one that Sri Sri was not the real target and second that this could have been an inner-ashram feud. Yes, comments made without even a whiff of an investigation: made perhaps in passing but ones that, in hindsight have proven to be more damning than Chidambaram can imagine. This then triggered off a wave of theories: something that only we in India are brilliant at: commenting on things that are in circulation but have no roots.
I finally called up Sri Sri to enquire about his well-being and he was more amused than angered. He was more concerned about his assailant and anguished at the allegations that were circulating. But not once did I hint even a dash of anger or for that matter frustration. He talked about the calmness at the ashram and the happiness quotient therein. He talked about forgiveness and moving on and then said, he couldn’t understand why things were being said when there was no truth in them. This article will hopefully help him understand an India that is not so calm and not so happy. This is an attempt to awaken Sri Sri from the oasis of peace he resides in and fosters. And something that reflects on the general malaise that has come about in our society.
Television has made many of us instant commentators: silence is no longer a virtue nor is smiling away your troubles: you are either seen as guilty or as one who has something to hide. So Sri Sri should have never been silent or for that matter happy that his followers, one of whom was shot, were alive and more importantly happy. He should have given a dozen television interviews and made it to the front pages and prime time headlines: that would have kept him in currency not for peace but for violence: exactly what the terrorists and now the Maoists feed off.
But before we march into the next crisis, let’s pause and think what all of this has really done: it has created an impression of an inner feud which doesn’t exist; it has made Sri Sri come across as publicity-hungry which he clearly isn’t: he was as well-known before May 30; but the damage it has done is considerable: we have almost, without unsettling Sri Sri, created a level of cynicism and anguish amongst his followers in this country’s rule of law; in our ability to forget and forgive and most importantly to move on. With all the utterances around, we have confused and confounded some very happy people living in that ashram and who are helping the poor and the distraught. So while we may serve the cause of TRPs and individual one upmanship, have we really addressed the larger malaise of unhappiness and anger? Of desolateness and isolation? Of social stigmatization and separatism?
I genuinelybelieve we have many lessons to learn. Our media today is playing into the hands of vulgar sensationalism and our politicians are falling into this trap. We as a nation think it to be hip and cool if we knock the good that our fellow country-men are engaged in. We love to pull the ones that are doing good down with a ferocity that is seeped in negativism. Rather than praise the good work, we invest emotions mired in cynicism and disbelief. Are we increasingly becoming a nation that is suspicious and bitter? Or will we allow ourselves to be happy and optimistic. Many a time, each one of us that has the option to speak in public or write in newspapers want the easy way out. Criticism and not critique are the birthmarks of this India. But then this is a downward spiral. It will make us even more miserable than we need to be. It will make us despondent when we don’t need to be and more than anything else, our very attitude will deter people from pursuing the path of good and nobleness. Sri Sri runs the Art of Living program. But given what one sees around, there is a crying need for us to invest in an Art of Healing program. We need to placate and please; we need to progress and prosper and not be bitter and banal about every thing good around us. Perhaps May 30 was a lesson which we need to learn from; a signal to every Indian to be proud and not picky about everything good about our own people; our own values and our own culture. It is easy to cast stones at everything but very difficult to pick up the pieces of shattered souls. The time to stop this is now. The time to move on is now.Sri Sri has the ability to move on and he will; the happiness quotient will not see any dip or turbulence except that we will make every human being question his own integrity and his own belief system, the next time he wants to say what he really feels. Sri Sri was happy when I spoke to him. No words of rancour or remorse. But then, he is evolved. What if he wasn’t? Do we want soap operas in this country every time a tragedy occurs or do we actually have it in ourselves to let our silence heal us: from within and comprehensively?
J&K: Boatman’s betrayal
Filed under: Congress,India,Indian Politics,Islam,Jihad,Pakistan,Sonia Gandhi,Terrorism,UPA,Wahabism — thecandideye @ 6:00 AM
Tags: Chidambaram, India, J&K, Kashmir
Who can save the boat that the boatman is determined to sink? Hindus in Jammu fear the possibility of fresh holocausts as Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram’s red carpet to terrorists in PoK reinforces the politics of Muslim precedence in J&K, and strengthens Kashmiri Muslim resistance to full integration with India. The state last month broke a 19-year tradition and refused to unfurl the tricolour at Lal Chowk, a decision that demoralized armed and para-military forces in the state.
While successive Indian governments have failed to redress the citizenship and human rights of refugees, mostly Hindu scheduled castes, who migrated to J&K after Pakistan grabbed parts of the state in the 1947-48 war, and again after the wars of 1965 and 1971, the UPA has with alacrity welcomed PoK-based militants to the Valley. Nearly one lakh Hindus remain excluded from the socio-economic and political life of the state, denied voting rights, education for their children, bank loans, and the right to own property, since 1947.
More dangerously for the Republic, religious cleansing operations are covertly going on in the Muslim-majority areas of Jammu, though the state government is hiding the magnitude of this internal displacement. The matter was, however, raised in the PM’s Working Group on Centre State Relations for J&K, though it seems to have been ignored.
Bemused Pandits and a stunned nation are at a loss to understand what prompted the Centre to unilaterally announce an open door policy for the terrorists who unleashed genocide and drove nearly four lakh Hindus out of the valley since 1990. So far, only 7,000 families have been sheltered in government camps in Jammu; the rest are dispersed nation-wide and left to fend for themselves. They suffer unemployment, serious health and psychological traumas, a falling growth rate of the community; but they are nobody’s children.
Yet, on Feb. 11, 2010, home minister Chidambaram said the Centre was ready to “welcome” Kashmiris (read Muslims) who crossed the LoC for arms training for insurgency operations, if they relinquished militancy. He had previously surprised the nation by announcing resumption of dialogue with Pakistan, despite lack of tangible moves by Islamabad to control terrorism. Chidambaram defended the amnesty mooted by chief minister Omar Abdullah on grounds that it was recommended by the Justice Saghir Ahmed Working Group appointed by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, though this has been challenged by BJP member Arun Jaitley.
Union Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad has contested this bird-brained scheme as Pakistan could use it as a cover to push foreign militants into the country. Azad argues it will be difficult to establish if the youth being accepted are the same men who went to Pakistan for arms training, and if they have genuinely eschewed violence. When Islamabad is refusing to hand over the accused in the Mumbai 2008 terror attack, how can New Delhi adopt a surrender policy that facilitates further infiltration of militants into the country?
It is estimated that nearly 4,000 youths crossed the LoC during the 1990s; many returned quietly, but about 800 remain. In 2006, these youth met an Indian delegation to PoK that included Omar Abdullah (PUGWASH Conference) and pleaded for help to return, claiming they were “homesick.” That may be true, but when separatism continues to thrive in J&K as a whole, and militancy is on the upswing, there is no political logic for such generosity. There are also complications like men who married local girls and have children who are Pakistani nationals.
Many Hindus view the amnesty scheme as a new incarnation of the J&K Grant of Permit for Resettlement Act, 1982, which was ultimately stayed by the Supreme Court on a petition by Mr. Bhim Singh of the Panthers Party. Sheikh Abdullah had piloted this legislation after his victory in the July 1977 state elections; Dr Farooq Abdullah became chief minister in September 1982 after the Sheikh’s death.
Like his father, Farooq too tended to raise the bogey of autonomy from time to time, in order to retard the process of the state’s integration with the Union of India. The Resettlement Act aimed at the resettlement of Kashmiris (read Muslims) who had migrated to Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir or Pakistan itself, and wished to reunite with their Indian kith and kin. It was disliked by the state’s Hindu community which saw it as a ploy to deprive Hindus of the migrant properties which had been allotted to them. These fears have now been revived.
Observers saw the Bill as a step in the direction of concretizing the plan for a Greater Kashmir by ensuring an effective Muslim majority for the districts of Poonch and Rajouri. Governor BK Nehru received a plethora of complaints against it, which prompted him to send a message to the legislature outlining its legal and constitutional infirmities. But an adamant Farooq Abdullah got the assembly to pass the Bill again on October 4, 1982, and the Governor was constrained to give his assent.
Thereafter, the President referred the Bill to the Supreme Court, as the power to grant citizenship vests with the Centre, and not the states. But the apex court returned the matter last year without remarks. However, acting on Bhim Singh’s writ petition challenging the Act’s validity, the court took note of rising cross-border terrorism in J&K, where by then 50,000 persons had fallen victim to militancy, and stayed implementation in February 2002; this is still valid. It was argued that the Act was prima facie “ultra vires of the constitution.”
The UPA owes the country an explanation why the wars and sacrifices of 1947, 1965, 1971, Kargil, and the continuing thousand cuts which culminated in the spectacular violence of Mumbai 2008, are being discounted in this cavalier fashion. What compulsion drove Kashmir’s dominant Muslim majority to hound their unarmed Hindu brethren with violence and threats of violence issued from loudspeakers attached to mosques, to molest Hindu women and threaten to retain them as captives while forcing their men out of the land? Kashmiri Muslim obduracy continues to pose a threat to national security, yet the Centre is willing to risk the entry of more spies, saboteurs and outright terrorists, to stoke emotions and push the state in the direction of independence/secession. We need to know who is setting this treacherous agenda.The author is Editor, www.vijayvaani.com
Joke of the week!
Filed under: India,Pakistan,Terrorism — thecandideye @ 6:00 AM
Tags: Chidambaram, Congress, India, Manmohan Singh, Pakistan
Any more terror attacks from Pak will be retaliated: Chidambaram – Ha! Ha! Ha! is the immediate response after reading this news.The home minister needs to be reminded often that Pakistan is rogue state and it’s never going to learn its lesson. Just a couple of terrorist attacks now and then on Indians would make this guy blurt out some nonsense like this.
A few hundred or few thousand people are killed in a deadly terrorist attacks – The Permanently Muddleheaded(PM) leader once again reiterated his stand that India will not tolerate anymore(?) attacks.
Wondering whether it is a right of any citizen of this country to expect security and justice from this Congress government.In India, the government is for the Congress ,by the Congress and with the Congress.
Permanently Muddleheaded (PM) would say something similar after such an attack.Time and again our CC(Congress Crooks) have proven that it would pamper terrorists but kill thousands of Indians(1984 crusade) on a whim.
Each time, an attack is carried out, it would be a different face who would utter these statements with added feelings.The Joker Prince of CC had earlier said that he can defeat terrorism in 15 minutes.
Now, it is Home minister’s turn to be a joker.What is guaranteed from these CC are fun and amusement.Joker of the week award goes to P Chidambaram.
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There is much suffering around the world, felt by individuals from every species. However, it’s the way that the pain is dealt with that will reveal one’s true nature.
A judge of character and extensive research reveals that the species that is uniquely set apart from others in both size and intellectual ability is the elephant. In and of themselves, elephants have a gift: a gift for compassion and forgiveness, love and community. They are the epitome of forgiveness, although ultimately humans are the ones paving the road toward their eventual extinction. While it’s not completely fair to compare elephants and humans, there is still so much that we have to learn from elephants.
While humans can be erratic and petty, elephants take life as an opportunity for forgiveness and selflessness. Now, their willingness to forgive isn’t something to take lightly. Unlike many other animals, their abilities for long-term memory and complex emotions are off the charts. Additionally, their deep connections among their intergenerational herds show a far greater level of intelligence than we could ever imagine. Even with their acute ability to remember the past, they still choose to forgive. What continually amazes me is that elephants are no strangers to physical and emotional abuse at the hands of humans, yet they are the ones with enough tenderness to still nurture and care for both their own kind and other species.
Because of that, they are considered to show strong signs of altruism, or caring for other species even when there is no personal gain. Countless stories and videos relay loud and clear that elephants consistently choose to be selfless in any situation with any species. In terms of character judgment, that speaks volumes. Time and time again, it’s been determined that elephants can analyze complex situations and have a wide range of emotions to draw from; but when will the evidence be enough for humans to actually take action against abuse and poaching of elephants?
In the eyes of an elephant, no emotional wound will bear scars or have any bearing on their treatment of others, and no indiscretion will warrant a long-lasting grudge. That’s an astounding quality in elephants, especially compared to the statistic that on average, 100 elephants are killed every day by poachers harvesting their ivory tusks.
In short, elephants are compelling examples of what it means to live. Their consistent grace and forgiving nature truly set them apart from other species, making them the perfect example to live by.
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Canadian Lawmaker Accuses Trudeau Of Being A “Fake Feminist” (Video)
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by Tyler Durden March 23, 2019 779 Views 1 Comment
Via Zerohedge…
Canada’s feminist-in-chief Justin Trudeau wants to support and empower women…but his support stops at the point where said women start creating problems for his political agenda.
That was the criticism levied against the prime minister on Friday by a conservative lawmaker, who took the PM to task for “muzzling strong, principled women” during a debate in the House of Commons.
“He asked for strong women, and this is what they look like!” said conservative MP Michelle Rempel, referring to the former justice minister and attorney general Jody Wilson-Raybould, who has accused Trudeau and his cronies of pushing her out of the cabinet after she refused to grant a deferred prosecution agreement to a Quebec-based engineering firm.
She then accused Trudeau of being a “fake feminist”.
“That’s not what a feminist looks like…Every day that he refuses to allow the attorney general to testify and tell her story is another day he’s a fake feminist!”
Trudeau was so taken aback by Rempel’s tirade, that he apparently forgot which language he should respond in.
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But Rempel wasn’t finished. She then segued to Trudeau’s push to quash an investigation into allegations that he once groped a young journalist early in his political career. This from a man who once objected to the continued use of the word “mankind” (suggesting we use “peoplekind” instead).
The conservative opposition then tried to summon Wilson-Raybould to appear before the Commons for another hearing (during her last appearance, she shared her account of how the PM and employees in the PM’s office and privy council barraged her with demands that she quash the government’s pursuit of SNC-Lavalin over charges that the firm bribed Libyan government officials). Wilson-Raybould left the Trudeau cabinet after she was abruptly moved to a different ministerial post – a move that was widely seen as a demotion.
Trudeau has acknowledged that he put in a good word on the firm’s behalf with Wilson-Raybould, but insists that he always maintained the final decision on the case was hers and hers alone.
Fortunately for Canadians who agree with Rempel, it’s very possible that Trudeau – who has so far resisted calls to resign – won’t be in power much longer, as the scandal has cost Trudeau’s liberals the lead in the polls for the October election.
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Interview: Olympian and NFLer Jeremy Bloom
Posted by jfine1126 on June 27, 2018 March 2, 2019
There are very few dominate two sport athletes; elite players who can juggle two the load at the highest level. Bo Jackson and Deion Sanders come to mind but often forgotten is Olympic Skiier and former NFLer Jeremy Bloom. The elite athlete who skied and played for the Eagles has left his sports and tackled the entrepreneurial world with as much tenacity and heart. See what the star athlete has been up to.
1) Growing up how did you prioritize football vs. skiing?
Football for sure. I was the biggest Denver Broncos fan!
2) In your mind was there a favorite sport? How did your coaches feel about playing two sports at such a high level?
My football coaches never minded but my ski coaches did in the beginning. I once had to have all of my teammates sign a petition to allow me to continue playing football.
3) What was your favorite football moment?
Getting a call from University of Colorado head coach Gary Barnett offering me a full ride scholarship and getting a call from the Philadelphia Eagles when they drafted me in the 5th round.
4) What was your favorite skiing moment?
Winning world championships, representing the USA in 2 Olympics and being inducted into the United States Skiing Hall of Fame.
5) Can you tell us more about Wish of a Lifetime? What is it all about and why are you so passionate about it?
I think the oldest generation in this country is forgotten. And it is our goal at Wish of a Lifetime to remind them that they are still important and that their dreams do matter. We grant wishes to 80, 90 and 100-year-old people and it’s our biggest passion.
6) What brought to doing the show Adventure Capitalist? What have you learned from doing the show?
I wanted to learn what it was like to be on the other side of the fundraising table. I have raised over $57 million for my software company but rarely have the opportunity to sit on the other side of the entrepreneur. I learned a tremendous amount and had a lot of fun testing out some of the best new products for the outdoor space
7) What was your Jewish upbringing like? What does it mean to you today?
I was never raised Jewish. I was raised in a family that taught that if you treat people how you would like to be treated and you gave back is much is you could that was the best religion but you could believe in.
8) Whats next for Jeremy Bloom?
Every day is a new opportunity to learn and grow as a person. That’s my daily goal, I want to ask more questions than giving directions.
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2011-12 NHL Fantasy Sleeper Top Ten Forwards
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With the 2011-12 NHL season just beginning fantasy hockey players are frantically searching for late round sleeper picks and hidden gems. This list is your key to help with drafting those dark horse players. Some of these players may emerge from obscurity to fantasy hockey relevance this season.
10. Andy Miele, Phoenix
The Phoenix Coyotes won the sweepstakes to sign college sensation and last year’s Hobey Baker winner. Miele has begun to draw comparisons to players like Martin St. Louis and Derek Roy after his stellar performance with the US National team at last year’s World tournament. Not just because of his small stature (5-8, 175) but because of his skills and skating abilities and his tenacity. So far in preseason Miele has been very impressive. With Kyle Turris still unsigned, it increases the chances of Miele being in the lineup for Phoenix on opening night.
9. Anton Lander, Edmonton
Lander was the captain for Sweden at last year’s World Junior Tournament. Lander was also team mates with Paajarvi in Timra for three seasons. The duo may be reunited in Edmonton again soon. The 20 year old may soon be the perfect second line center as he plays a responsible and gritty all-around game. He has played very well and looks like he is NHL ready during the preseason games. With Sam Gagner out it would seem that Lander is likely to start the season with Edmonton.
8. Matt Frattin, Toronto
The Leafs signed Frattin out of college last year. Frattin was one of the finalists for the Hobey baker award. Frattin scored 60 points in 44 WCHA games last year. At the end of the season Frattin played one game for the Leafs. After the game Leafs GM Brian Burke declared “Frattin looked like an NHL player to me”. Frattin has had a very good preseason. At the moment it looks like a toss up between Kadri and Frattin as to who gets the left wing spot on the third line with Bozak and Armstrong.
7. Craig Smith, Nashville
The NCAA star played for team USA at last years World Championship and didn’t look out of place. Smith was tied with Blake Wheeler for scoring leadership on the US team. Smith also dominated at rookie camp scoring six goals and an assist in two games. Nashville GM David Poile listed Smith’s two games as one of the top rookie game performances he has seen in the last 14 years. “He was as dominant a player as I’ve seen in a rookie tournament in all the years I’ve been with the Predators.”
6. Paul Byron, Calgary
Acquired from Buffalo in the Robin Regehr trade Calgary has publicly declared Byron ready for scoring line duties in the NHL. Based on his 99 point season in the QMJHL and his point per game pace in the AHL, Byron may be just that. The preseason has allowed Byron the opportunity to confirm Calgary management’s confidence in him. Byron has reaffirmed that opinion with a sound showing in the preseason games. He should have a starting job as a result when the season starts.
5. Stephan Da Costa, Ottawa
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4. Evgeny Grachev, St. Louis
Grachev is a big talented winger who has been very impressive in preseason games this year, scoring three goals in three games to date. Grachev produced impressive OHL stats (80 points in 60 games) but was unable to dominate in the AHL. Grachev is now on his second NHL audition with St. Louis as he was acquired in a trade with the New York Rangers.Competition for spots is tight in St. Louis this year but if Grachev continues to play the way he has so far in the preseason it will be hard not to open a spot for him
3. Fabian Brunnstrom, Detroit
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2. Matt Read, Philadelphia
Read is yet another small but supremely skilled college player. Read not only produced impressive WCHA stats (35 points in 37 games) he also posted over point per game numbers in a brief AHL audition (13 points in 11 games) In the NHL preseason Read is leading the league with six points in four games. Competition for lineup spots is very tough in Philadelphia but Read’s play is forcing management to keep a spot for him. If they can’t fit him in right now he will certainly be an early injury call up.
1. Joakim Lindstrom, Colorado
This summer Colorado signed Lindstrom to a one way $600,000 contract. Lidstrom has looked impressive in training camp playing on a line wit Paul Stastny and David Jones. At times the line dominated. Lindstrom has had other chances at a spot in the NHL with Columbus and Phoenix in the past that fell short. He has continued to develop his game since those early days. This continued progress was demonstrated by Lidstrom last year when he lead the Swedish Elite league by scoring 60 points in 54 games. This preseason Lidstrom has continued to impress. It looks like his spot with Stastny and Jones is solid as Stastny has played with no other wingers in the preseason.
It is important to remember when drafting that these players MAY have significant success this season but should be considered risky picks. Build your core with reliable and dependable proven assets before complimenting your bench with these players. These sleeper picks can help you win your pool but only if you draft them in the appropriate round. Good luck!
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Susan Tyrrell is an American actress.
Susan Tyrrell has sometimes been credited as SuSu.
Susan Tyrrell was born , in San Francisco, California, United States. Her zodiac sign is Pisces.
As an actress, Susan Tyrrell has performed in movies such as Night Warning, released in 1983 in which she plays Cheryl Roberts (Aunt Cheryl), The Killer Inside Me (1976) in which she plays Joyce Lakeland, September 30, 1955 (1977) playing Melba Lou Turner, Forbidden Zone (1980) in which she portrays Queen Doris of the Sixth Dimension/Ruth Henderson, Fat City (1972) in which she plays Oma, and Avenging Angel (1985) (character: Solly Mosler).
Masked and Anonymous
Directed by: L. Charles, starring B. Dylan, J. Bridges, P. Cruz, J. Goodman...
Buddy Boy
Directed by: M. Hanlon, starring A. Gillen, E. Seigner, S. Tyrrell, M. Boone Junior...
Relax... It's Just Sex
Directed by: P. Castellaneta, starring M. Anderson, T. 'T.C.' Carson, S. Cassel, L. Petty...
Directed by: V. Salva, starring M. Steenburgen, S. Patrick Flanery, L. Henriksen, J. Goldblum...
The Demolitionist
Directed by: R. Kurtzman, starring N. Eggert, B. Abbott, S. Tyrrell, P. Jason...
Directed by: B. Shils, starring J. Christopher Michael, M. Quinn, M. Naegel, S. Tyrrell...
Rockula
Directed by: L. Bercovici, starring D. Cameron, T. Basil, T. Dolby, T. Fere...
Tapeheads
Directed by: B. Fishman, starring J. Cusack, T. Robbins, M. Crosby, C. Gulager...
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Chapter Bio
About The Hugh J. White Chapter TAI HJW Flight Suit ColorAbout Capt. Hugh J. White United States Air Force (ret) The chapter is named after Hugh James White. He was born in St. Louis, Missouri August 24th 1922. He graduated from Charles Sumner High School in June 1939. He was a member of the National Honor Society and president of his class. In September 1939 he entered then Stowe Teachers College. In January 1943 he volunteered for the United States Army Air Corp and was assigned to Tuskegee, Alabama as an Aviation Cadet. After graduating in Class 44-F as the first ranking student, he went to the European Theater as a pilot assigned to the 99th Pursuit Squadron of the 322nd Fighter Group. He flew 35 combat missions, with 190 combat hours. On his 35th mission he was shot down and became a prisoner of war. The war ended while he was in captivity. His story however does not end there. After an honorable discharge as Captain in 1951, Hugh J. White entered the Cleveland Marshall Law School. He passed the Missouri Bar in 1958 and specialized in criminal law. He was elected to the Missouri Legislature as a State Representative in 1961 and re-elected in 1963. He helped organized the St. Louis Chapter of the Tuskegee Airmen and was elected as the first president. Hugh James White passed away on December 14, 1979. Purpose and Objectives – Bring together all those sharing the pioneering spirit of keeping alive the military aviation heritage of the Tuskegee Experience – Encourage and support the aspirations of youth, particularly minority youth, in the fields of aviation and aerospace sciences – Foster teamwork between local citizens, civic leaders, and businesses supporting underprivileged youth in aviation and other aerospace industries – Provide scholarship opportunities for deserving aspirants entering aviation and aerospace career studies.
Chapter Meetings Date: Second Wednesday of Every Month at 6:30-8:00 pm
Location: Primary Location Heritage House 2800 Olive Blvd, St. Louis, MO
Alternate months St. Louis Bread Company, exit 16 off of Highway 64, Shiloh IL
Hugh J. White TAI Chapter Officers
President: Yolandea Wood
Vice President: MSgt Will Spencer
Secretary: Ellistene Curry
Treasurer:Col. Jeff Curry, USAF Retired
Historian: Norma Royston
Scholarship Coordinator: Maj. Yolandea Wood, USAF Retired
The Hugh J. White Chapter of the TAI was chartered in 1974 as a non-profit organization (501(c)3
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Court rules English language school Nova billed student illegally
January 31, 2006 by TozenAdmin
English language conversation school operator Nova Co. illegally billed a student when it refused to refund her the full price she had paid for classes she didn’t take, the Kyoto District Court ruled. Presiding Judge Mizuho Ebi ordered Nova to pay the student the 176,672 yen she had sought when suing the company.
http://mdn.mainichi-msn.co.jp/national/news/20060131p2a00m0na011000c.html
Categories Eikaiwa, News, Nova
Settling labor disputes promptly
In April, Japan will introduce an “industrial tribunal system” to settle individual labor disputes, such as those involving dismissals, working conditions and reassignments. The purpose of this system is to settle disputes expeditiously by limiting the number of trial sessions to no more than three.
The number of disputes involving labor relations has increased markedly in recent years, reflecting the prolonged business slump. In fiscal 2004, labor-dispute “counseling corners” throughout the country, including prefectural labor relations bureaus, received 820,000 complaints and inquiries. Of these, 160,000 cases involved individual labor disputes. Both numbers represent more than three times the figures for fiscal 2001.
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/ed20060130a1.html
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Kawasaki foreign residents’ panel has significant impact on city policy
January 6, 2006 by TozenAdmin
“If a foreigner is admitted as a resident and has the right to vote, the consciousness of local assembly members, companies and communities will change and their discrimination against foreigners will decline,” he said.
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?nn20060103f3.htm
Kosei Gakuen Girls High School Protest
December 26, 2005 by TozenAdmin
Many thanks to Nambu members who made it all the way out to Chitosekarasuyama at 7:40am on Christmas Eve to protest the non-renewal of a member at Kosei Gakuen Girls High School. The high school has only one entrance, which made it very easy to hand out leaflets to the students as they arrived. The student population is about 500, and we handed out over 400 leaflets, so the majority of the girls, and their parents, will now be aware of the administration’s arbitrary approach to hiring and firing.
Categories Action
Foreign worker ranks grow, diversify
A record high 198,380 foreigners were working in Japan as of June 1, up 10.2 percent from a year earlier, according to a recent survey by the Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry.
A total of 144,891 were indirectly-employed workers, including temporary or contract staff, an increase of 9.4 percent, the ministry said.
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?nn20051224a8.htm
Top court favors tenant in row over responsibility for wear and tear in apartment
The Supreme Court on Friday ruled that a public housing corporation should return the deposit it seized from a tenant to cover repairs in an apartment from normal wear and tear.
Categories Housing, News
Begunto Trick-or-Treats with Berlitz in Omiya
October 31, 2005 by TozenAdmin
Flash Demo at Berlitz Omiya Branch
Teachers Disciplined For Trivial Reasons
The disrequest system at Berlitz is just one example of threats to job security faced by teachers in the eikaiwa industry. HR representatives claim that a pattern of complaints concerning any particular instructor can lead to discipline, and that six to eight official disrequests over a period of two years is enough to constitute a pattern.
Given that teachers may meet hundreds of students and teach thousands of lessons over the period of a year, added to the fact that complaints can be based on anything from the teacher?s facial expression (?she didn?t smile?) to completely subjective judgements (?we weren?t a good match?), the unfairness of this standard is immediately apparent.
The union cannot allow teachers to face discipline, and potential threats to their livelihood, based on such standards. BEGUNTO will continue to fight for job security both at Berlitz, and throughout the industry.
Categories Action, Berlitz, Eikaiwa
September 20, 2005 by TozenAdmin
Is a part time teacher at a “senmon gakko” (ten 90-minute classes over three days) entitled to pro rata annual paid leave?
A representative of the National Union of General Workers in Tokyo advises that, roughly speaking, those working less than 30 hours a week are eligible to “hirei-fuyo nenji-yukyu” (pro rata paid holidays).
http://www.japantimes.com/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?fl20050920a1.htm
McDonald’s to pay millions in unpaid overtime
August 26, 2005 by TozenAdmin
The decision earlier this week by McDonald’s Holdings Co. (Japan) to make up for inadequate overtime wages and nonscheduled cash earnings owed to nearly 130,000 part-time and regular-payroll workers has sent a shock wave through industries heavily dependent on employees paid by the hour.
A Tokyo-based managers’ union that has also received complaints about McDonald’s said the nonexistence of a union is one factor behind the problems with part-time workers’ pay.
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?nb20050805a6.htm
Categories News, Overtime
Berlitz Tokyo Union Protests Pay Freeze
Across the Tokyo region, Berlitz language teachers are striking. Members of the Begunto Union, the Berlitz teachers’ union in the Tokyo region of Japan, are striking against management actions regarding a pay freeze and introduction of new work contracts they see as less than satisfactory.
http://english.ohmynews.com/articleview/article_view.asp?article_class=3&no=243288&rel_no=1
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Oklahoma State Rep. Accused of Sexually Harassing Aide, Firing Her, Paying Settlement With Taxpayer Money
Anna Merlan
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Rep. Dan Kirby. Photo via AP. Big Time Small Time Dicks logo by staff male Bobby Finger.
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An Oklahoma State Representative is accused of sexually harassing his legislative aide, firing her in retaliation when she complained, and then paying a settlement to her and her attorneys out of taxpayer funds meant to run the House of Representatives. Rep. Dan Kirby hasn’t responded to the allegations, and it’s unclear just who in the House signed off on those checks.
Earlier this week, The Oklahoman reported that Kirby, 58, was accused of sexual harassment by Hollie Anne Bishop, 28, not long after she started working for him in January 2015. Bishop filed a complaint with the House’s human resources division and its general counsel in September and asked to be transferred to another lawmaker’s office. She was assured she couldn’t be fired, her attorneys wrote in a letter to the House obtained by the Oklahoman:
She was promised the matter would be properly handled and told she could not be fired for reporting the harassment, the attorney wrote.
“However ... Rep. Kirby started ignoring all communications from Ms. Bishop and otherwise retaliated by attempting to prevent her from performing her job duties exactly as she had prior to reporting the harassment,” the attorney wrote.
When she was fired, “she was only told it was in the best interests of the House of Representatives that she not be told the reasons for termination,” the attorney wrote.
Bishop’s attorneys demanded compensation for retaliation and wrongful termination for her in January, and the House quickly paid up, before she filed a lawsuit. Bishop was paid $28,414.20 out of a House of Representatives-operated fund last month, News OK 9 found, a payment that was filed under “Legal Settlements.” Her attorneys were paid just over $16,000, a settlement that was marked under “Housekeeping and Cleaning Supplies.” A former state rep told the station that the checks would’ve have to have been signed by the House Speaker, although that’s unconfirmed:
“The House of Representatives had no right to pay that money out on behalf of an out of control member,” former Rep. Mike Reynolds, R-Oklahoma City, said.
Reynolds called the allegations troubling but not surprising, adding that there have been several members over time caught in similar situations. Reynolds was reprimanded on the House floor during his time in office after interrupting a guest speaker of Kirby’s who attempted to lobby the House.
“Similar situations” certainly sounds embarrassing, doesn’t it? Kirby didn’t respond to the Oklahoman’s repeated requests for comment, the newspaper reports, and he’s not saying much as a whole bunch of people call for his resignation.
Anna Merlan was a Senior Reporter at G/O Media until September 2019. She's the author of Republic of Lies: American Conspiracy Theorists and Their Surprising Rise to Power.
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Ruben Brandt, Collector Review: A Swirling, Surreal Heist Thriller
Ruben Brandt, Collector (photo courtesy Sony Pictures Classics)
A stunningly beautiful blend of off-kilter animation and psychedelic visuals, the Hungarian animated film uses art to explore the subconscious.
At the heart of Milorad Krtić’s animated film Ruben Brandt, Collector is a fascinating question: Do we create art, or does art create us? This swirling and surreal film mixes together elements from art and film history, defying genre and reality in an art heist thriller that plumbs the depths of the subconscious.
Famous psychotherapist Ruben Brandt (Iván Kamarás) specializes in using art therapy to help his criminal patients overcome their flaws to improve their extralegal career paths. At night, however, Brandt is tormented by nightmares populated by the subjects of famous works of art: the diners at Hopper’s Nighthawks, Botticelli’s Venus, Warhol’s Double Elvis. Brandt’s patient Mimi (Gabriella Hámori) comes up with a scheme to exorcise Brandt’s demons by kleptomania rather than creation, and she and a coterie of other criminals travel the globe to steal the works of art. Hot on their trail is detective Mike Kowalski (Csaba Márton), who uncovers the secret that Brandt’s obsessions were placed by Brandt’s father through subliminal messages in cartoons he watched as a child.
RBC wears its influences squarely on its sleeve. Littered throughout the film are references to famous paintings, as well as the cubist style of the animation, and influential films, including lifting the dancing scene from Pulp Fiction. Overall, the movie is a pastiche, it moves smoothly between feeling like a heist movie, to a film noir detective story, to even like a Hollywood blockbuster action flick. On the surface this mishmash of direction may appear haphazard, or that Krtić can’t decide the route he wants to take. However, the way in which the film jumps genre mimics the logic of dreams, specifically that there isn’t any. The narrative moves seamlessly between Brandt’s dreams and reality, and it is often hard to tell if we are in the real world or a dream. People in the real world don’t follow the normal domains of physics (one character is two dimensional, and thus able to slide under doors or behind picture frames. It even turns out his father was a one-dimensional line, perhaps a sly reference to Marcuse’s One-Dimensional Man). The facial features of many characters appear cubist in nature, with malformed faces, or additional eyes.
Further breaking down the barriers between dreams and reality, when Brandt wakes up from an art-themed nightmare, he is mirroring the actions in dreams in the waking world (e.g., the dream ends with one of Hopper’s nighthawks holding a gun to Brandt’s chin – when Brandt wakes up, a bottle is pressed up against his chin like the muzzle of a gun). Even stranger, while tracking down the art thieves, Kowalski discovers video footage of Brandt in a somnambulant state in front of the artwork in question, mimicking the struggles in his dreams.
We tend to think of art as something we merely create or consume, but Artić suggests in Ruben Brandt, Collector that art, in turn, creates us.
While references to art and film run deep and wide in the movie, this shouldn’t be a deterrent to a mainstream audience. While the film tackles loftier subjects, it intersperses the narrative with exciting action sequences. We are introduced to Mimi and Kowalski by a high-intensity car chase through the crowded streets of Paris, à la Ronin. In the culmination of a subplot between Mimi and some gangsters she stiffed, the resulting scene looks like something out of a Michael Bay blockbuster, with acrobatics, car stunts and plenty of explosions. Krtić isn’t afraid to blend high art and low to create something accessible to most people. The frequent location changes keep the pacing of the film brisk, treating the viewer to landscapes like Paris, New York, Florence, and Chicago. Despite the lack of realism in its characters, the setting seems real. The chase scene set in O’Hare accurately depicts the labyrinthian feel of the massive airport, and even throws in a shot of Michael Hayden’s The Sky’s the Limit.
That isn’t to say that the film doesn’t have its flaws. The aforementioned Mimi subplot with the gangsters feels like filler, providing very little emotional depth for her, merely pretense to put the femme fatale in exciting situations. Also, while the art direction is painterly and simple at the same time (the character’s motions hearken back to the original Æon Flux) there are times where awkward 3D models pull you out of the feel of the film.
We tend to think of art as something we merely create or consume, but Artić suggests in Ruben Brandt, Collector that art, in turn, creates us. We soon learn that Brandt’s obsessive collecting relates closely to his father’s machinations, the elder Brandt spliced in frames of art in young Ruben’s cartoons – all in the hope that his son will be inspired to become a great artist. Instead, Ruben is compelled by his inner psyche to possess these artworks, to be defined by them. This is mirrored in Kowalski’s love of film memorabilia. What we consume constitutes part of our identity, sometimes in ways we don’t fully realize.
If you’re not well versed in art or film history, don’t let the seemingly esoteric subject matter of Ruben Brandt, Collector deter you. Though populated with references to famous works, they are generally well known (mostly pop art and impressionism), and at its core, you don’t need to know the reference to enjoy the film. Artić has crafted a piece that is both smart and appeals to a wider audience – and that is a rare piece of work indeed.
Ruben Brandt, Collector Trailer
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Guatemalan President Praises Colorado And Washington For Legalizing Marijuana
Praises Voters of Colorado and Washington for Legalizing Marijuana and President Obama for Allowing Them to Proceed
Commends President Mujica of Uruguay for Marijuana Legalization Proposal; Says That U.N. Should Allow Countries to "Experiment with New Models"
Guatemalan President Otto Pérez Molina spoke out forcefully against the failures of drug prohibition and urged countries to experiment with new drug control models while speaking at the United Nations General Assembly.
Pérez Molina praised the voters of Colorado and Washington for legalizing marijuana, President Obama for allowing the laws to proceed, and President José Mujica of Uruguay for his marijuana legalization proposal.
Colorado and Washington became the first U.S. states - and the first political jurisdictions in the world - to legalize the production, distribution and sale of marijuana for adults last November. Uruguay is likely to join them soon - the country's House passed a marijuana legalization bill in July and its Senate is expected to follow suit in October. Last month, the White House announced that the federal government will not interfere with state marijuana laws - as long as a number of stipulations are adhered to, such as preventing distribution to minors.
"You know global drug policy is changing when the president of a Latin American country plagued by drug trafficking violence praises US initiatives to legalize marijuana," said Ethan Nadelmann, executive director of the Drug Policy Alliance. "It feels like sanity and rationality are at last penetrating the highest levels of governments throughout the Americas."
This week, drug policy reform has been a significant focus at the UN General Assembly, with heads of state such as President Santos of Colombia calling for major global drug policy reform.
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/ Loving More Fully with Dr. Jordana Jacobs
Loving More Fully with Dr. Jordana Jacobs
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Public speaking may be our number one conscious fear but Dr. Jordana Jacobs, a clinical psychologist in NYC, believes that the fear of dying, or death anxiety, is indeed what we're most afraid of.
Dr. Jacobs’ training at Memorial Sloan Kettering working with terminally ill cancer patients, her studies in Northern India, and her Vipassana meditation practice inspired her research on the complex relationship between death anxiety, death awareness and love.
Her dissertation, entitled “Till Death do us Part: The Effect of Mortality Salience on Satisfaction in Long-term Romantic Relationships” specifically explored the ways in which priming for death has the potential to increase intimacy in partnerships.
What does death awareness mean exactly?
Simply put, the more we're conscious of the impermanence of everything in life, the more present we can be, and the deeper we can love.
We more we accept death, the more fully we can love everything around us, including your partner.
Jordana and I also touch on the concept of 'the one' and the 'perfect' partner and how the quest for finding 'the one' is a defense against finding love.
We discuss Esther Perel's concept that 'fire needs air' in the context of giving your partner and your relationship space to keep the excitement high, and we touch on several ways to reduce death anxiety while increasing death awareness.
Dr. Jordana Jacobs in her NYC office.
• How death awareness and death anxiety affect your capacity to love
• 5 ways to reduce your death anxiety and increase your death awareness
• How looking for 'the one' is a defense against love
• Why we cling to love instead of embracing death
More on Jordana Jacobs
Find Jordana Jacobs on her website and on Instagram.
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Today's Quotes
"When we come close to the end of our life, what’s really important makes itself known. It isn’t whether or not we have two Mercedes or whether or not we spent more time at the office. For most people, it’s about relationships. It’s about answering two questions: “Am I loved?” and “Did I love well?” So much of what happens around the end of life boils down to those two questions."
Frank Ostaseski is a Buddhist teacher and a leader in the field of end-of-life care. He is the Guiding Teacher and Founding Director of Zen Hospice Project in San Francisco.
"A good partnership is not so much one between two healthy people (there aren’t many of these on the planet), it’s one between two demented people who have had the skill or luck to find a non-threatening accommodation between their relative insanities."
Alain de Botton is a Swiss-born British philosopher and author and this quote is an excerpt from his essay Why You Will Marry The Wrong Person.
Today's Books
Mating in Captivity: Unlocking Erotic Intelligence by Esther Perel
The State of Affairs: Rethinking Infidelity by Esther Perel
The Art of Loving by Erich Fromm
How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence by Michael Pollan
Stealing Fire: How Silicon Valley, the Navy SEALs, and Maverick Scientists Are Revolutionizing the Way We Live and Work Kindle Edition by Steven Kotler and Jamie Wheal
When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker
How to Love Your Body With Meghan Tonjes
Do you love your body? Meghan Tonjes has done a lot of work around self-love and can help when it comes to learning to love your body. Join us.
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May 12, 2015 trastavereAmerican embassy, Australian air force, himalayas, Kathmandu, Nepal, Nepal earthquake 2015, trekking Leave a comment
I’d been in Bangkok since last Thursday, night, or more accurately Friday at 3 am when I was driven in a US embassy shuttle van to the Marriott hotel. I’m no fan of chain plain jane cookie cutter bourgeois luxury establishments normally but after a week sleeping outside in a dirt lot near my friends house in Kathmandu, on pallets {initially – we graduated to camp beds} at the US mission not far away and leaning against the side of an Australian air force aluminum tube at 35000 feet, I was happy to surrender to an executive room, a soft bed, hot showers and meals that weren’t precooked 6 years ago and packaged for America’s finest to eat in a foxhole under fire.
But that was inside. Outside was the chaos and cacophony that is tourist Bangkok. I hadn’t been here since 1999 and I wasn’t impressed then, with two kids in tow we rushed through the obligatory tourist highlights , the Buddha, the palace, the river cruise and floating market and then high tailed it out on the first train to Chiang Mai. Bangkok was smelly, noisy, jammed, dirty and distinctly unrelaxing. I remember the high point being when my youngest sagely pointed out a tuk tuk going the wrong way down a one way street and said he wanted to leave.
And now, outside the bubble of the Marriott, it was just the same. Well sort of. “What was I doing here?” I thought as I negotiated a sim card and a pair of shorts across the street. “I’m supposed to be high in the mountains on a trek, not in the urban core of a teeming metropolis”. I returned to the Marriott, changed out of trekking pants and looked back at the tectonic shifts of the past few tumultuous days.
Day 2 of the quake found us shuttling back and forth between the American mission camp and Birendra’s house and neighborhood. We’d put aside any thoughts except that of immediate needs. With all the shops and restaurants closed tight, no running water or power, the only food for us was MRE’s or meals ready to eat. Sustenance but not satisfaction. After one and a half meals I vowed I’d never touch them again. I reverted to hot water, the occasional trekking bar and a handful of pepitas. Somehow a banana surfaced, I don’t recall how. And I wasn’t that hungry anyway. I was living on adrenaline… and purpose.
I’ve never felt more fully alive. Helping 3 Nepali families find some stability in their new chaos meant I had a role, not just as passive trekker through Nepal’s bounty of nature but as a hope, a rock, a force for good.
Sitting with half a dozen older children, showing them what happened in the earthquake, why India pushes into Asia inexorably, explaining the pressure of rock on rock and why, now the major strain was released, it would be safe again for many many years. Whether it was absolutely true was besides the point; it was relatively true. And the older kids could explain to the younger kids and to their parents too, that it was safe to go in their homes, safe to start cleaning up, safe to start smiling again.
The smiling started with the younger ones of course, it always does, the immediacy of the now outweighing the stern gazes of parents. They smiled when we smiled; it broadened when we fed then apple sauce from MRE’s, about the only palatable part of the packaged foods. It danced across their faces when we played charades with them it erupted in laughter when one of our jokes was translated into Nepali. And it became action in an impromptu game of cricket. With kids smiling it became hope.
Yet despite all the science in the world the parents were worried about rumors of a deadlier quake within 36 hoursof the main temblor. The rumor, apparently engendered from the misinterpretation of a radio interview about aftershocks with a team of Indian geologists meant the immediate proliferation of tent camps all over town as people were terrified of being trapped in their already battered homes by falling brick or concrete plus of course the thousands of already newly homeless.
These temporary townships had varying levels of sophistication, ranging from simple tarps held up by slender bamboo sticks with strings tied to available utility poles, planks , plumbing pipe, anything vertical to your normal average weekend away camp tent, complete with flysheet and picnic table . The army erected hundreds of their olive green pup tents in these encampments ostensibly for two but in reality shelter for husband, wife and two kids, not to mention the occasional grandma.
There were huge, maybe 30 foot long sunshades of colorful pretty cotton or nylon fabric to help protect those sleeping out in sun and wind.
And rain it did. That second night it poured so hard that Birendra’s family overcame their fear of aftershocks and slept in their downstairs hall with the front door open, despite the protestations of their neighbors. Birendra said he didn’t sleep a wink of course. The following night their camp was improved with drainage trenches dug in the sand and mud and slightly better weatherproofing aka more ubiquitous blue tarps.
We were back at the American mission by midnight that second night going through the thorough check-in procedure of passport check, xray machine and metal detector. I’d bought an umbrella the day before the quake and although it was a steady rain on our walk back through the darkened city we were dry and comfortable. Trekking through a city instead of a mountain pass may not have been our intended path but I felt far more at peace than I could have imagined. I guess there was no other word for it than love. The love one feels borne out of compassion, purpose, meaning and acknowledgement. The love that remains when all pretense is stripped away, when masks drop and people really see and feel each other. That was better than any meal or soft bed in the world I could have had right then.
And our mission came to be how we could spread the love. With word or deed, with smiles, a cup of tea, some biscuits we found in a shop that was bravely open. Love doesn’t have to be huge, grand gestures or expectation. Love is the simple, the easy, the pure, acceptance of what is and creation of hope.
We were sleeping on wooden pallets with thick blankets. Stephanie made a pillow out of something. I flattened empty MRE cartons to create a cushion against sprung nails and a pretense of a mattress. Our fellow refugees were long term expat residents of Kathmandu driven out of their homes by cracked columns, broken pipes, lack of power and of course a pervasive unease about being in any structure, just like my Nepali families.
But although we are quick to criticize our governments in general, this is one time they came forward unreservedly and provided for their citizens. The US state department quickly put together this encampment, providing food, jury rigged a pump for hot water for showers from the swimming pool, wireless Internet was fixed and made available, water coolers, tea, coffee, basic medical supplies, daily briefings, a feeling of safety and more than anything else, hope – that most essential ingredient, hope. Our government came forth in a magnificent and munificent gesture of support for foreigners stranded in this city under stress. The Canadians had their own tent.
The British, after their embassy decided it couldn’t afford to keep its nationals for more than two days, sent them to the American compound, the Australians, later to be our means of escape, nationalistically and whimsically hung their own stars and bars on their little area of the main tent.
We both decided on that second day to make this bizarre voyage through a Kathmandu under extreme stress one of positivity, of progress. To broadcast optimism, and hope. To take a shred of good news and inflate it to cover the city. Not to give into despair and dark thoughts, negativity or pessimism.
This was a challenge when an entire nation saw its livelihood and infrastructure in peril. I started with Birendra, ferreting out the good stuff, that Annapurna wasn’t damaged and one could still trek there; that Pokhara suffered only a little and was still a beautiful lakeside city; that he personally had enough savings to get through a fallow period. Talking with the neighbors, helping them see the upside; better housing, improved infrastructure, a possibly less venal government, the world focusing finally on this gorgeous benighted country.
At the neighborhood camps it was neighbor and neighbor cheek by jowl in their surface misery and deprivation, sharing stories and food, each extended family somehow managing on cold rice, or surreptitiously cooking in homes you weren’t supposed to go into or on outdoor fire pits. One more organized camp we visited was fed by the Nepali army and supplemented by the food the mostly homeless residents had managed to bring with them.
In the daytime of day 3 improved communications threw an interesting and perhaps auspicious bone at my feet. A friend in Los Angeles who is the project coordinator for a medical mission non profit focusing on children asked if I could help coordinate the delivery of medical supplies and a connection to a hospital with severely injured kids. That got me thinking about the value of all the connections I had made over the last few years plus the new ones I was forging in Nepal. I called Birendra. We all set off for Children’s Hospital and the main teaching hospital next door to find someone to talk to. Sadly, it was like having a winning lottery ticket and no place to cash it. The hospital was calm, a UNESCO tent in the parking lot treating minor injuries. We couldn’t find a senior doctor or anyone from administration at all.
We went back to the compound and started firing off emails to NGO’s and Doctors, hospitals and aid organizations. The results are still trickling in. We may not have immediately found our recipients but we’ve certainly opened doors and the charity will follow up
On the third night we found a dimly lit and rough and ready Indian restaurant. Two curry dishes only on the menu. We took them both and asked for seconds. We’d noticed with the power out over town that ice cream was a big seller whenever a store would open. It wouldn’t stay frozen forever so the shop owners were basically giving it away and we delighted in bringing chili flavored popsicles to the Nepali kids in the neighborhood encampment.
Day 4 was slightly better. A few food stores opened selling local produce and I brought Birendra a large cabbage. It could probably be framed as an artifact of the earthquake but I think he turned it into soup.
He and his neighbors decided to move their families back home as the 36 hour self-imposed deadline had passed. His kids were still scared but reason prevailed finally. Warm dry beds or intermittent downpours. Food at arms length or a 50 meter walk to the bathroom. The rain had cleared the air and gave birth to a beautiful sunset over the Kathmandu valley reminding us of what a lovely place this was and would be again.
We continued exploring the city as it slowly ground back to life. People were visibly happier and more shops opened, even optimistically, trekking stores although most of the tourists had left. For the fortunate locals who didn’t lose their homes it will be a faster recovery and thanks to extended families, less problematic than perhaps when a sole breadwinner can’t bring home money. For the Kathmandu homeless, they will survive on the generosity of neighbors and agencies and perhaps government.
The Canadian government put on an evacuation plane to Delhi on day 5. That got us thinking of how we’d leave Nepal. Power was still out and the well pumps accordingly and Birendra had to retrieve by bucket and boil water from his underground tank to drink. We heard a rumor of cholera although I didn’t believe it. Another rumor had fly infested dead bodies spreading disease. I didn’t believe that either. Stephanie and I discussed the 8 hour bus journey to the Indian border by land and then train to Varanasi or somewhere. The Indian government was giving free 7 days visas at any airport and the two main land border crossings from Nepal to assist in evacuation efforts.
I went to bed. I awoke to the news that Stephanie had registered us for an Australian evacuation flight to Bangkok later that day. There were no guarantees we would get on it and frankly I was torn. Could we continue to help effectively now our local families didn’t really need us? Professionals were now here. Fairfax County was the first to arrive then LA County fire department with 60 search and rescue personnel along with Ojai trained dogs {from the National Disaster Dog Search Foundation}.
The encampment was filling up with military personnel, tons of supplies, USAID workers and medical response teams. What could we do? To volunteer further, yes, but we didn’t yet have an organization to take us and to go it alone meant another mouth for someone to feed. Besides we were told that civilians would have to leave the embassy compound and go back to hotels or their homes within 48 hours.
Birendra’s mother in law’s family had moved into to his house that fifth day as her home was badly damaged and deemed unsafe. We flirted with the idea of going to the mountains but a chat with a disaster worker said they didn’t need people to clear rubble. There were plenty of locals. Besides, I had a mission to coordinate this donation for the foundation and I could go that from any Internet and phone connection..
The decision was made for us when we told we had had 45 minutes to muster at a staging point inside the compound for a bus trip to the airport. I panicked. Half our luggage was at Birendra’s. It would take half an hour alone to check out of the compound with the security and another hour walking back and forth to get our luggage. . We’d packed all our stuff up more or less at his house but it would have been impossible to get it in time. Clothes I didn’t care about but my credit cards were there. After frantic phone calls, pleading with the evacuation coordinator who had said no delays and a security guard to escort me to the street outside the compound without the lengthy passport checkout process we got Birendra to deliver the luggage on his motorcycle.
The rest of the day was like one of those Graham Greene spy movies. The bus took us to the Australian ambassador’s residence for processing and tagging and checking and inspection then we were split into two groups, Australians and others – mostly Americans, taken to the airport, filmed and interviewed by the Australian media through which I profusely thanked the Australian taxpayer
and eventually loaded into the belly of a military C17, given extra strength earplugs and disgorged in Bangkok after a 4 hour flight
This quake was born in tortured rock and unleashed misery beyond telling yet it also engendered one of the most profound weeks of my life. Tipping points happen when systems are unstable. It appears my prior existence too was due for a 7.8. If so, I welcome the new landscape and will continue to sweep away my own personal rubble to build an evermore connected, conscious and compassionate me.
Bangkok May 2015
April 26, 2014 trastavereAnnapurna, Chele, Erosion, field trips, Jomsom, Kagbeni, Kali Gandaki, Mustang, Nepal, Plate Tectonics, raksi, trekking Leave a comment
When I was a schoolboy, we went on the occasional field trip. Museums mostly, once the Ford car factory, but my favorite were the geography trips. Off we would pile into a coach, excited school kids all along with a couple of teachers to ensure we’d be appropriately instructed and not kill ourselves or worse, bring shame on the noble institution we were representing. I think we even had to wear school uniforms. One trip of note was to Malham Tarn in Yorkshire where we actually learned about glaciers and what they did to the landscape (not that there are any glaciers in England we could go play on but hey, we we were not at the Alaska Academy here, we too were victims of geography) and to find fossils in the severely worn down and eroded Pennine mountains. Another trip was to Arran Island in Scotland. We were all in the full flush of adolescence, there were girls from a school in Paisley on the same trip (yes there actually is a place, it’s not just a pattern) and I think we tried to discover the mysteries of Scotch whisky under the noses of our teachers, it being logical, given our location. Distracted as we were I don’t recall any of the geography we were supposed to learn there. On reflection though I think I must have learned to love field trips!
The area of Upper Mustang is the ultimate field trip. It’s some of the most incredible landscape on planet earth, centered on the steeply eroded Kali Gandaki river valley, whose namesake river and its merging tributaries drain the entire Mustang plateau. The river runs down from the edge of the Tibetan plateau right through the Annapurna range of the Himalayas and eventually into the Ganges. The Kali Gandaki creates the deepest gorge in the world ( yes, deeper than the Grand Canyon) as it runs between two of the world’s highest mountains of the Annapurna range Dhaulagiri and Annapurna. What’s amazing is that 60 million years ago this area was under the Tethys sea and when the Indian subcontinent slammed into Asia it was uplifted and the Himalayas formed, draining that primeval sea away. And the river itself, predates the Himalayas. Nature, always the great equalizer with water and wind, immediately started eroding the soft sandstone rocks out of which the hard granite mountains thrust.
The river narrows at Jomsom, the start of our trek, before it widens into a beautiful floodplain.
The river meanders throughout its floodplain on the Jomsom to Kagbeni
trek on the first day. It looks like a beach, doesn’t it?
The first night’s stay was in Kagbeni, framed by apple orchards and fields of buckwheat
Windy, cold but nowhere near as cold as it going to get!
Leaving Kagbeni we walked along the edge of the river as the cliffs deepened into tortured shapes, blasted by the ever present (and often fierce) winds. The whole trek was a series of climbs, up and down these deep gashes in the earth.
Just before our ascent into the cliffside village of Cheli.
I would like to have trekked with a geologist to really help me understand this extraordinary mix of sedimentary and metamorphic rocks. The sheer range and variety was astounding. Here are iron encrusted hillsides shaped by the incessant wind
There’s a jeep track carved out of the sandstone and mud. These gabions of the loose rocks lying around and buried in the hillsides are laboriously made up by hand – many hands apparently – and lifted into place to stabilize the edges of the road. I suspect they won’t last long given the amount of water flowing down the high slopes to eventually find its way into the Kali Gandaki
Crossing one of the interminable and very windy passes we came down the back side, sheltered slightly and rounding a spur was one of the most amazing sights I think, on planet earth; 3 folded mountains like the flag of..believe it or not, East Friesland (now go look that one up, geography buffs) in red and blue and black
I know this photo cannot do justice but if nature was an artist she’d be hanging in the National Gallery
Or this, where the soft outer sandy rocks are exposing fantastic shapes that take the breath away.
Some I named…
This outcropping I called the “sphinx and the matroshka doll”
And this..
The Leaning Tower of Penis
And in the same vein…
One lucky mountain indeed!
Even Buddhist mythology has its part to play geologically.
These rocks outside Dakhmar are said to be stained with the blood of a devil slain in battle with the good guys of course!
Note the cliffside houses carved out of the soft sandstone. Dotting Mustang are these refuges from times past where villagers sheltered from enemies.
I didn’t meet any girls from Paisley on this, my ultimate field trip, nor did I have any disapproving teachers looking over my shoulder but I was definitely sampling raksi, or rice wine, the local equivalent of Scotch, to warm up in the chilly tea houses each evening. And to top it off I found a fossilized ammonite, a roughly 100 million year old piece of history washed out of the Kali Gandaki.
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Technical Faults
Unfortunately, the last few weeks, I have been MIA on TRST due to some internet issues pertaining to where I was staying at over the Christmas break. I have since returned to campus, where my computer works beautifully with the internet & have missed writing columns, doing videos, talking to fans, and dropping an occasional one-liner online. But I’m back and just at the right time—when it looks like the NFL playoffs may have hit its peak in terms of competitive games.
Instant Classic
It was the Divisional Playoff Round this week in the NFL, which means that the teams that won last week in the Wild Card matchups headed on the road to face those teams that had earned byes. One of those was the Baltimore Ravens who have plans on having Ray Lewis (and potentially Ed Reed as well) retire from the NFL as Super Bowl Champions as did John Elway, Jerome Bettis, and Michael Strahan. They beat the Colts last week in Baltimore.
This week, their opponent was Peyton Manning and the Denver Broncos at Sports Authority Field in the Mile High City, and going into the game, almost everyone (except me and a few others) picked the Baltimore Ravens to win this football game. Most of the national football press felt it would be a rout and that there was no reason to be played.
This game was the reason why there is the phrase “Any Given Sunday”. At the beginning of the game, it looked like it would be a Broncos coronation party. The first score of the game came on a special teams play as Denver’s Trindon Holliday returned a punt return 90 yards for the first touchdown. Denver took a quick 7-0 lead. That would be erased by a 59 yard bomb from Joe Flacco to Torrey Smith to tie it at 7. Then, Peyton Manning threw an interception (one of his two for the game) to Corey Graham who returned it 39 yards for the score.
Poor Champ Bailey.
Baltimore 14-7. All of a sudden, the Ravens who everyone wrote off were in it on the road vs. the high-octane offense of the Broncos.
It was tied going into halftime thanks to another TD pass from Flacco to Smith. 21-21.
Holliday Season apparently wasn’t over in Colorado as Holliday had on his Devin Hester (circa 2008) cleats on. After his punt return, he returned a kickoff return for 104 yards for a Denver touchdown. 28-21. The Ravens later tied it again.
With the score at 35-28 late in the 4th quarter, John Fox made an extremely questionable decision by not throwing on a 3rd & 7 with Peyton Manning as his quarterback. That would’ve sent the Ravens home packing their valuables for the spring & summer months. That gave the Ravens new life & they capitalized. A 70 yarder from Flacco to Jacoby Jones tied it up again at 35. One thing has to be said about the Ravens—most say that the receiving corps of the Atlanta Falcons is the best in the NFL with Julio Jones, Roddy White, Tony Gonzalez, etc. Torrey Smith and Anquan Boldin aren’t too shabby either.
The game eventually went into two overtimes with the Ravens winning 38-35 on a 47 yard field goal from Justin Tucker that came after an interception of Manning. Ray Lewis will play another game & Peyton Manning has another loss in the postseason.
Oh, and yeah, the Tebow memes began immediately on Twitter.
Flacco was 18/34 for 331 yards and 3 TDs. Ray Rice rushed for 131 yards. Smith and Jones had huge receiving days for Baltimore. Peyton Manning’s line was 28/43 for 290 yards, 3 TDs and 2 picks. Eric Decker (who is now dating supermodels apparently because of the notoriety he’s gained from catching Manning’s passes) had 6 of them for 84 yards.
This game was the game of the playoffs so far and was an instant classic. One of the best playoff games in history. It belongs in the archives.
Baltimore’s season goes on as they are clearly playing to get Ray Lewis one more ring before it’s all set & done for #52. Their opponent in the AFC Championship Game will be the New England Patriots, as it was last year.
New Game, New Stakes, Same Venue, Same Result
The numbers 42 and 14 were on the minds of the Houston Texans all week as they prepared for their AFC Divisional Matchup in Foxboro vs. the New England Patriots. That was, of course, the score that the Pats thrashed the Texans by back on Monday Night Football late in the season in Foxboro, despite the fact that it was billed at the time as what could’ve been the best football game on the 2012 Monday Night Football programme.
Midweek, fans were abuzz as runningback Arian Foster used critical words from a Dan Shaughnessy Boston Globe column that basically called the Texans a fluke team and that Houston would be easy pickings for Brady’s bunch—as his Twitter avatar.
Similar to the armchair quarterbacking going on by pundits concerning the Ravens/Broncos matchup, almost no one outside of Houston picked the Texans to defeat the Patriots.
The first play of the game was a 94 yard kickoff return from the Texans’ Danieal Manning. Just what Houston needed to get off to a quick start & send New England a message that this wasn’t Monday Night Football anymore.
Instead, 3 plays later, they had to settle for a Shayne Graham 27 yard field goal to put Houston up 3-0. It should’ve been 7-0. Those first few minutes were emblematic of the Texans’ offense over the last few games. They struggle in the red zone and Matt Schaub wasn’t the same Matt Schaub that led the Texans to an 11-1 record through the first 12 games of the season.
Of course, you can’t settle for field goals when you play Tom Brady and the Patriots and it was only a matter of time before they made Houston pay. They took the lead at the end of the 1st quarter and would ultimately extend it to a 17-3 advantage. We haven’t heard much of the name Shane Vereen before this game, but Brady has an ability to turn unknowns into household names down the road. He had 3 touchdowns on the day.
While the Texans did hang tough and made it a game at halftime with the score at 17-13, it’d be an entirely different story in the 2nd half as the Patriots began doing what the Patriots seem to do a lot of the team—make their opponents look like they belong in college. They’d get the ball back in the beginning of the 2nd half, and scored a touchdown on their first possession thanks to a Stevan Ridley 8 yard run. Ridley is one of the things that makes this Patriots team so dangerous. They could run the ball in previous years when they had players like Corey Dillon, and it looks like they’ve got that again with Ridley—believe it or not.
The Patriots won the game 41-28 & will play the Ravens in a rematch of last year’s AFC Title Game that is well known for Billy Cundiff’s Wide Left—better not mentioned in the state of Maryland.
I have to give credit to the Texans for hanging tough. They kept on playing hard football until there were triple zeros on the clock at the end of the 4th quarter. They got a couple of more touchdowns, even though they came 3 quarters too late. Houston has rising stars like J.J. Watt, Arian Foster, and a future Hall of Fame wideout in Andre Johnson. What some in Houston will be clamoring for is a quarterback that can perhaps challenge Schaub’s starting job but that’s not happening.
As for the Pats, this AFC Championship Game should be a fun one. If any AFC team can prevent New England from going back to the Super Bowl, it’s Baltimore. It should’ve been Baltimore last year if weren’t for the…well…we know by now.
The game, though, came at a cost as Rob Gronkowski reinjured his left forearm and has been declared out for the remainder of the postseason.
Bottom line is this: Sunday night can’t get here soon enough.
San Francisco’s Treat
With a home win vs. the short-handed Minnesota Vikings under their belt, the next test for the Green Bay Packers would be on the road in San Francisco vs. the 49ers. They didn’t look like the same team they were when they hit their peak shortly after the controversial Golden Tate “Fail Mary”, but still looked good enough to win postseason games. Injuries, of course, hurt them throughout the season as well. Also, there was the (I believe, overhyped) element of Rodgers being passed over in favor of Smith by the 49ers in the NFL Draft.
The story for the Niners was that Colin Kaepernick was playing in his first postseason game since Jim Harbaugh made the decision to stick with Kaepernick after the injury to Alex Smith. When it came to playoff experience, Rodgers (a 1 time Super Bowl champion) vs. Kaepernick looked like a mismatch.
And it was…for the team hailing from the Badger State of Wisconsin.
Early on, a Sam Shields Pick 6 interception of Kaepernick to make it 7-0 Pack seemed to confirm the concerns some had about Kaepernick in this kind of environment in his first playoff game. He made up for it by running 20 yards for a touchdown to tie it at 7. The score would be 24-21 going into the half.
After that, the Packers would tie it on a field goal from the much maligned Mason Crosby. 24-24. From that moment on, Candlestick Point was Colin Kaepernick’s world and the Packers were simply living in it. Kaepernick’s total line was 17/31, 263 passing yards, 181 rushing yards, 2 passing TDs, 2 rushing TDs, and 1 pick. That 181 is an NFL record for any QB, regular season or playoffs. The 181 is also more than the entire rushing attack of the Packers, who finished with 104.
Frisco also got huge outings from Michael Crabtree (9 catches for 119 yards and 2 touchdowns) and Frank Gore (23 carries, 119 yards, 1 TD). For the Packers, Aaron Rodgers went 26/39 for 257 yards, 2 touchdowns and 1 interception.
Green Bay’s season has ended with a thud on the road. Their offseason will be filled with talk of potential free agency departures, most notably Jermichael Finley and Greg Jennings. The stuff coming from Jennings himself, as well as what’s coming from the team, make it a near inevitability that Jennings will not be returning to Lambeau Field in 2013-2014. Jennings, of course, will demand major dollars for a team to commit to his services.
As for the 49ers, they’ll be returning to the NFC Championship Game. After Kaepernick’s performance vs. Green Bay and the fact that they have a stellar defense on top of everything else, there are many that will predict the Niners to win their matchup when they head on down to…..
Atlanta.
Snatching Defeat From the Claws of Victory (And Vice Versa)
Even though at the beginning of the year I picked the Atlanta Falcons to represent the NFC at the Super Bowl, I spent the entire second half of the season zoned in on the NFC and, in particular, who looked like the surprise team that would give someone like an Atlanta or Green Bay or San Francisco issues in the playoffs. While no one mentioned it because of their distance from the East Coast, the Seattle Seahawks looked like that team.
Not only were the Seahawks making a run, but with the news that the Sacramento Kings were on the verge of being sold to two Seattle based businessmen to return the Sonics back to the city, Seattle sports were running on Cloud 9 status.
Earlier in the year, the Falcons were having a tough time stopping the run. The Seahawks have a Pro Bowl runningback in Marshawn Lynch. They have a defense as good as anyone’s in the league—just the ingredients needed to pull off an upset against Atlanta’s Dirty Birds.
Such a scenario played itself out Sunday afternoon at the Georgia Dome & for the first half, Atlanta looked to be answering the bell rather soundly and smoothly. Russell Wilson made some rookie mistakes and there was the huge stop that the Falcons got on both 3rd & 1 (and 4th and 1) when it looked like the Seahawks would score their first touchdown of the game down big early.
Another one of them was late and had to do with clock management, but there is conversation in Seattle that the last 1st half play run by the Seahawks actually was got off in time.
Meanwhile, it was 20-0 Falcons heading into overtime and 49ers fans by the Bay began calling their travel agents to book flights for Atlanta.
Seattle wouldn’t get their first score until 9:47 remaining in the 4th quarter on a 29 yarder from Wilson to Golden Tate. 20-7 Atlanta. A Falcons drive late in the 3rd quarter led to Jason Snelling touchdown pass from Matt Ryan making it 27-7. Maybe, that’s where the game was over.
Seattle then said, not so fast as they have played the NFL’s version of the Boston Red Sox circa 2004 a lot this season—always playing 4 quarters. Down 27-14, the Seahawks’ Earl Thomas picked up a key interception—one of Ryan’s two interceptions on the day. That gave the Seahawks a chance to inch closer and it became 27-21. With 31 seconds to go, the ‘Hawks got their first lead of the day courtesy of a two yard run from Marshawn “Beast Mode” Lynch to make it 28-27.
But, it was with 31 seconds to go. And as the Bears in 2008 and this year’s Panthers and Raiders will tell you, you are giving Matty Ice 30 minutes if you give him 30 seconds. Two long passes were all the Falcons needed to get into field goal range for Matt Bryant, who was called the other “Matty Ice” by head coach Mike Smith in the Falcons’ postgame press conference.
The 49 yard kick from Bryant was wide right and sure to go down in history as one of the lowest moments ever in Atlanta sports—except for Pete Carroll calling a timeout on the sidelines. A clear instance of the bush league move known as “icing the kicker”. In my opinion, such a move is bogus and ought to go into the category of unsportsmanlike penalties. It should be an automatic 15-yard penalty.
So thanks to Carroll pulling off a move that he should’ve left at USC, Bryant got another shot and split the uprights beautifully. 30-28. An onsides kick would make it interesting at the end, but the Seahawks weren’t playing the Packers and it wasn’t Monday Night Football in Seattle. This Hail Mary attempt from Wilson wound up in the hands of Julio Jones. Falcons will host the 49ers in the NFC Title Game.
Seattle’s season is over, but there’s clear reason for optimism in the Emerald City. No one (me included) had the Seahawks even making the playoffs and now they have a bright future with Wilson at the nucleus of it. The Seahawks have nothing to be ashamed of. They will be back next year and likely for years to come.
As for the Falcons, they’ve finally won a playoff game & have (for now) put to rest the common talking point among football pundits that it’s a team that’s only built for the regular season & can’t win in the playoffs. They’ve won. Now, can they send the Falcons to the Super Bowl for the first time since losing 34-19 to the Denver Broncos in Super Bowl XXXIII—John Elway’s last game.
As for stats, Matt Ryan was 24/35 with 250 yards, 3 TDs, and 2 INTs. Even though there was been increasing talk around Atlanta surrounding Jacquizz Rodgers, veteran runningback Michael Turner had himself a resurgent game with 98 yards on 14 carries.
For the Seahawks, Wilson went 24/36 for 385 yards, 2 TDs and 1 INT. He’d also be sacked twice, once by Vance Walker and once by Johnathan Babineaux. For the most part, the Falcons’ defensive line turned off “Beast Mode”. While Lynch had the 1 TD that put the Seahawks up late, he only had 46 rushing yards on the day on 16 carries. Zach Miller and Golden Tate did have huge receiving days as both went over 100 yards and each scored a touchdown (8/142 for Miller, 6/103 for Tate).
And among everything else, my preseason Super Bowl prediction of Ravens vs. Falcons is still alive for another week. I’m not boasting, though.
Did I mention earlier also that this upcoming Sunday can’t get here soon enough?
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The final product of The Script Around The World with #TheScriptFamily
Remember in March when we had those convos, interviews with some of The Script Family members and I posted them here? (Check them out again if you don’t.) I compiled them into a wee booklet including the individual messages you’ve kindly provided, and I sent it to the lads. Here it is for you now!
July 4, 2014 in Fans & family.
The Script Around The World: Meet Frederica and Rebecca
Our last visit is to two other corners of the world: Frederica from the US and Rebecca from New Zealand.
March 31, 2014 in Fans & family.
The Script Around The World: Meet Jasinta and Jean Carlo
Today we visit two corners of the world: Jasinta is from South Africa while Jean Carlo talked to us from the Philippines!
The Script Around The World: Meet Carla
Today it’s the story of Carla, who is from Dublin but travelled to Spain to meet the lads!
The Script Around The World: Germany
Today I’d like to share the stories of two German fans with you: Elena and Nadine, who are coincidentally from the same region and both been fans since We Cry in 2008.
The Script Around The World: Twitter chat with Melinda
It was more than a week ago that we had our twitter chat with Melinda, who is well-known as the creator of The Script Quotes’ beautiful edits, that’s already been shared by 5 times by the lads.
The Script Around The World: Meet Lucie
Lucie is from the Czech Republic and she’s running the country’s The Script fan account as well. She’s one of those fans who’s yet to meet the lads but hooked enough to make sure it’ll happen.
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#Hate Stops Here – Times Sq – NYC Rally Against Anti-Semitism
Posted on March 11, 2019 by Pamela Hall | Leave a comment
[The Official] NYC Rally Against Antisemitism – David M Abadie
WZO (World Zionist Organization) asked people to organize rallies across the world. Jerusalem will be holding a Global Rally Against Antisemitism.
On Sunday, March 10, 2019, with Anti-Semitism on the rise, we will be rallying all around the world . We are calling upon the Jewish Communities around the world to virtually join us and hold a rally in your city center ON THE SAME DATE. Here in New York, we will be rallying in TIMES SQUARE at NOON.
WE MUST BE UNITED! #HATE STOPS HERE!
Flickr slide show
[JPost.com]
The rally, which had a turn out of roughly 50 New Yorkers, took place simultaneously with a similar event in Jerusalem under the initiative of the World Zionist.
[There was a brief WE HATE Trump moment from two male passersby, knee – jerking when they saw the Trump 2020 banner]
Video: Then all returned to Israel, anti-Semitism and #Hate Stops Here .
“GOP leader accuses Dems of ‘enabling anti-Semitism’ by defending Ilhan Omar” [NY Post]
“A top GOP House leader accused Democrats of trying to “protect” Rep. Ilhan Omar and “enabling anti-Semitism” by failing to single out her anti-Israel comments on the House floor.
“I think it was really clearly an effort to actually protect Ilhan Omar,” Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) told NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday. “To cover up her bigotry and anti-Semitism by refusing to name her. The Democrats have yet to take any action to remove her from her committee. And they’ve got a real problem.” [NY Post]
[Face Book] JDL (Jewish Defense League)
Anti-Semitic attacks have dramatically increased New York City. A synagogue’s window was shattered during Shabbat in the Bushwick section of Brooklyn. Jews are being physically attacked all across Brooklyn. Swastikas defacing property have been found in Brooklyn, Queens and Manhattan.
Across the the US, synagogues and Jewish community centers have seen their property defaced and/or received threats of violence.
In the Capitol of the United States of America, there are elected officials with strong ties to anti-Semitic groups. These same elected officials do not hide their support for the BDS movement.
The most horrific anti-Semitic attack to occur on United States soil was in October 2018 at The Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh, PA. Eleven Jews were murdered and seven injured.
Across Europe Jews are being beaten and murdered; kosher stores are defaced and Jewish tombstones smashed.THIS MUST STOP!
#HATE STOPS HERE!!
[Pictures and Video property of Pamela Hall]
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Tagged anti semitism, Hate stops here, NYC JDL, support israel, Trump 2020, WZO
WE’VE HAD ENOUGH! Protest Columbia University’s lack of protection for students supporting Israel (SSI)
Posted on October 7, 2018 by Pamela Hall | Leave a comment
October 4, 2018 (4:30 – 6:30 pm ) NY-JDL joined protest against Columbia University’s lack of protection for Students Supporting Israel. (SSI) [click picture for Flickr slide show]
“Students Supporting Israel (SSI) have been harassed and intimated time and again. Columbia has done nothing to protect the pro-Israel students, and has shown apathy and total disregard for their safety.
All Columbia University students deserve protection! Freedom of speech for all! Members from Students Supporting Israel, Columbia’s chapter of Alums for Campus Fairness, faculty, and the local community have had enough. We demand fair and equal treatment by the administration!
Last semester SSI filed a detailed, thorough, and evidence-based complaint documenting our members’ harassment by anti-Zionist groups and individuals on campus, and of their clearly numbered violations of the CU Rules of Conduct. And yet, Columbia University has taken no action, summarily dismissed the complaint, and left its students without any protection from harassment and bullying. Since then, SSI submitted three more complaints, and the Columbia administration has failed to appropriately address any of them.
SSI has spoken with university administrators on numerous occasions, but all of their requests have fallen on deaf ears. It is time to show the university that we will not stand by quietly while SSI and other pro-Israel students are harassed and systematically silenced on its own campus.”
Unfortunately, they were ill-advised, practicing, rather than opposing, the type of censorship they had come out to protest.
They attempted to censor the NY-JDL. + I would suggest a new advisor+
A parent asked to speak to us re the reasons the students were protesting outside Columbia University’s gates, challenging the university’s blatant anti-Semitism. I wonder, was she aware that the SSI students were guilty of censorship … against the NY-JDL? Most unfortunate.
THEN, holding her supposedly BANNED children’s Book,” P is for Palestine“, was opportunist and HYPOCRITE: Golbarg Bashi.
Her book was banned? By whom? Where? When?
She was rude. Confrontational as she railed at the protestors in front of Columbia, particularly the NY-JDL.
Insisting the American people were afraid to know that Jesus Christ was born in PALESTINE, while hawking her P is for Palestine book to the passersby. BTW- Bashi “ is an atheist … an Iranian/Swede (born in Iran, raised in Sweden, and educated at the Universities of Manchester and Bristol and obtained her doctorate degree from Columbia University and now a feminist professor of Iranian Studies at Rutgers University ) And definitely NOT pro-Israel.
[The Geller Report] A student group at Columbia University protested on Thursday against what it described as the administration’s tolerance of harassment directed at pro-Israel students […] This time I will no longer sit quietly and allow others to dehumanize my people and my community,”
“The administration is repeatedly failing to forcefully respond to antisemitism, and so it comes back worse and worse each time. A line needs to be drawn and it needs to be drawn now.” [The Geller Report]
[Pictures and videos property of Pamela Hall]
Tagged anti israel, anti semitism, columbia university protest, NY JDL, P is for Palistine book, students supporting israel, support israel
Anti-Israel Left Protests Batsheva Dance Company at NYC’s Joyce Theatre
Posted on July 16, 2018 by Pamela Hall | Leave a comment
July 10, 2018 – 6:30 pm. Joyce Theatre. Batsheva, The Young Ensemble (scheduled from July 10 to 22). A part of the Israeli government’s Dance Fest Israel 70, supported by the Consulate General of Israel in New York [video link]
So, of course, Adalah-NY protested with anti-Israel signs and obnoxious music from the Rude Mechanical Orchestra.
Thankfully the NEW JDL NY was there : On With The Show!
The audience arrived as the anti-Semites chanted boycott, boycott; handed out brochures supporting BDS and proclaimed Israel to be the perpetrator of Muslim/Arab Apartheid.
Self-hating Jews, hard-core Lefties … their LIES assaulted those who merely came to attend a dance concert:
The LIES: Apartheid. Racism. Israel. The problem is JUSTICE denied to Muslims in the Holy Land … by ISRAEL.
So glad to see the New JDL-NY there to “Stand Up For Israel “.
From the New JDL- NY: “Once again, American jihadists promoted BDS outside of the Joyce Theater. The rabid anti-Semites will use the Brand Israel program to promote their anti-Israel vitriol and lies.”
“Adalah-NY promotes a movement to de-legitimize Israel. We can not be silent where there is hate! We must be visible where there is hate!”
Afterwards, from New JDL-NY: “Thank-you to everyone who came out on this steamy night. One moment that stood out was a mother who came over to us with her three sons (under the age of 12). She is from Israel. She thanked the team in front of her kids. She was so thankful that people were standing up for Israel and that the anti-Israel group was being countered. We make a difference!”
Broadway World also posted this embarrassing article:
“July 9 was the 13th anniversary of the Palestinian boycott call. The protesters support the growing international movement for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) to pressure Israel to end its human rights abuses. Fifty human rights advocates held a vibrant, musical protest on the sidewalk just outside New York’s Joyce Theater to oppose the opening night performance by the Batsheva Dance Company, a leader in helping the Israeli government to whitewash its violent repression of the Palestinian people.“
The dimwits at Bdwy World used SPLC , Southern Poverty Law Center, as a SOURCE to demean the New JDL-NY. “A small group of protesters from the anti-Arab hate group the Jewish Defense League (JDL) protested in support of Batsheva, the Joyce Theater and the Israeli government, holding signs saying “Thank God for Trump”, and “Punish Gaza.”
The Southern Poverty Law Center calls the JDL a “radical organization that preaches a violent form of anti-Arab, Jewish nationalism.” [Bdwy World]
Shame. shame Broadway World, using the arts to promote Adalah’s hate machine meme-of-the-day: “The arts should be for liberation, not whitewashing colonization!”
Their screed follows: “As Palestinians mark 70 years of dispossession, Batsheva–The Young Ensemble and the Joyce Theater will be celebrating Israel’s 70th anniversary.”
“… we call on Batsheva and the Joyce to sever their ties with the Israeli government and refuse to participate in its Brand Israel initiative, which cynically uses the arts to distract from Israel’s violations of Palestinian rights.”
“…. we’ll let Batsheva and the Joyce Theatre know that the arts should be for liberation, not whitewashing colonization!”
Some history on the origins of Batsheva. It all started with Batsheva de Rothschild.
More facts here: Congress Demands State Department Release Secret Report Busting Myth of “Palestinian Refugees”
All [that Palestinians] can agree on as a community is what they want to destroy, not what they want to build.” [New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman]
There is no age-old Palestinian people. Most so-called Palestinians are relative newcomers to the Land of Israel
Like a mantra, Arabs repeatedly claim that the Palestinians are a native people. The concept of a “Stateless Palestinian people” is not based on fact. It is a fabrication. [The Geller Report]
Part 1 slide show
Part 2 – slide show
Adalah. Boycott. BDS. “In response to a letter from Adalah-NY: Campaign for the Boycott of Israel criticizing the Joyce for hosting Batsheva and collaborating with the Israeli government, the Joyce’s Executive Director Linda Shelton wrote that the Joyce would “let the art speak for itself,” and asserted that artists’ work “has the potential to transcend violence and political conflict.” Ms. Shelton did not explain how dance sponsored by and in support of a government that is perpetrating systematic violence could transcend that same violence.”
More info and links: “New York Times Chief Dance Critic Joins Jewish Boycott Anti-Semites Denouncing Israeli Performers”
“In his most recent review, he slammed the performance of Israel’s junior troupe, the Young Ensemble. And he did it in such a way as to make clear to readers that he regarded this group as a sort of example of Israel’s repression of “Palestinian” people.” [the Geller Report]
The New JDL NY says otherwise: DON’T LET AMERICA BECOME LIKE EUROPE; Hamas and its supporters are agents of RACISM, HATE and MURDER; THANK GOD FOR TRUMP!”
APATHY should NEVER be an OPTION.
Tagged adalah, batsheva young ensemble, joyce theatre, New JDL NY, support israel, thank you president trump
The Many Faces of NYC Israel Day Parade 2018
June 3, 2018. NYC. The Annual Celebrate Israel Parade.
Hosted by www.jcrcny.org
A Day of JOY!
Celebrating the past, present …. the future …
Most were there to celebrate Israel (see Parade slideshow)
With elections coming up, many opportunistic politicians eager for photo-ops. Wonder how genuine is the support of some. (see slide show)
Unfortunately, the parade has allowed many with questionable allegiances a spot in the parade (see slide show)
As usual, the happy parade goers were yelled at by the offensive Neturei Karta. [the parade always DROWNS them OUT!]
The TRUTH was close-by: 58 Arab States vs ONE Jewish State.
The police moved this fellow and his sign a “safe” distance from the Neturei Karta: “GO HOME to Jordan”.
The Marching Groups list included “Progressive Cluster, LGBT Cluster”.
Patriots like the NEW JDL NY challenged these traitors (see slideshow pics)
Standing Together is an Israeli movement of Jews and Arabs. Our core issues – Struggling for Peace and an End to the Occupation:
“Standing Together is an Israeli movement of Jews and Arabs, who, guided by the principles of peace, equality and social justice, aim to create social change in Israel.”
“We hold a holistic worldview and recognize the interconnections of the ongoing occupation of Palestinian territories, the growing social and economic disparities within Israeli society and the attacks by the government on democratic freedoms and on the Arab-Palestinian citizens of Israel.
ARZA- Progressive Jewish Voices, Association of Reform Zionists of America. Interesting PDF on their approach to a negotiated two-State solution.
Zioness Movement – UNABASHEDLY PROGRESSIVE – believes in social justice for all people, yet provides a home and platform of support for Jews and Zionists in progressive circles. Also, found two Face Book links : Zioness in Charlottesville; Chloe Valdary and Zioness in the Parade.
Chloe is circled in the picture
Jewish Climate Action Network NYC joins SPNI, Canfei Nesharim, COEJL and other Jewish environmental groups to support the environment and Israel.They marched for the first time, in unison, with several other Jewish Environmental Organizations.
March with the Nature Israel Environmental Coalition, is a coalition of several activist groups listed below:
Canfei Nesharim: Connecting traditional Torah texts with contemporary scientific findings, Canfei Nesharim educates and empowers Jewish individuals, organizations and communities to take an active role in protecting the environment, in order to build a more sustainable world.
The Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel (SPNI) is Israel’s oldest and largest environmental non-profit organization. For over 60 years, SPNI has been dedicated to protecting and preserving Israel’s natural resources, environment, biodiversity and unique landscape. The work carried out by SPNI now will determine what the land of Israel will look like for generations to come.
The Coalition on the Environment and Jewish Life (COEJL) deepens and broadens the Jewish community’s commitment to stewardship and protection of the Earth through outreach, activism and Jewish learning[…] COEJL is mobilizing the Jewish community to conserve energy, increase sustainability […] while building core Jewish environmental knowledge and serving as a Jewish voice in the broader interfaith community.
The New Israel Fund (NIF) was supposed to march in the parade, as they have done before.
NIF (New Israel Fund) The New Israel Fund uses an innocent name like The New Israel Fund to woo financial support, but it is deadly for Israel. It seeds money to groups devoted to damaging Israel, both from within and from outside by supporting Breaking the Silence (Shovrim Shtikah), B’Tselem, Adalah, warfare projects against Israel, boycotting Israel, Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI) as well as dozens of other groups that work in concert to harm Israel.
The NIF marched to celebrate 70 years of ISRAEL? Of course,not. That’s why the New JDL-NY was ready for them. But, we never saw the NIF. Did the JCRC-NY pull their permit?
Some familiar celebrities included the beloved Dr. Ruth Westheimer (90 years young the next day)
Joel Grey – with National Yiddish Theatre Folksbeine – (and Grey is 86!)
Mitzvah Clowns …. always colorful ….
Curtis Sliwa, a crowd favorite, thanked the New JDL-NY personally by climbing over the barricades to shake their hands.
John Voight & JDL- NY (they met in the park later)
Saw these enthusiastic Trump fans.
NEXT SECTION: The Politicians. Most controversial would be those on record supporting BDS, not Israel: BDS (Global Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Movement)
Mayor di Blasio claims to be opposed to BDS but supports Linda Sarsour. “Linda Sarsour is anti-Israel & a proponent of Sharia Law-These values’ don’t reflect the people of my NYC- @BilldeBlasio supports her!!”
Scott Stringer, NYC Comptroller.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo always keeps the Mayor far from his entourage. They are NOT BFF’s.
The Castro-loving Marxist NYC Council Member, Ydanis Rodriguez (far right in picture) was intensely glued to Gov. Cuomo’s photo-op.
Public Advocate Letitia James: “Tish” James was not at her usual anti-Israel, pro illegal immigration, BLM rallies. But, since she’s RUNNING to be the next NY State Attorney General, all parades become necessary.
Quotes below reveal the real Tish.
“…. we’ve gotta stand up to the Federal Government. We’ve gotta stand up to bullies. We’ve gotta stand up to an administration that is “too male, too pale and too stale”.
June 29, 2017- “DEFEAT Islamophobia and all those who HATE people who are different. Diversity is our strength. We gotta celebrate that. Thank you for recognizing that ALL of us are Americans.”
“I’m a Muslim tonight. I’m Gay tonight. I’m Latino tonight. I’m Black tonight. We are all one. No distinction. We are all one.
Read even more at [“In Their Own Words: Sarsour and Tish James- Treason or Patriotism?“]
Very telling, “Tish”posted no pictures – nothing about the Israel Day Parade on her Face book.
Corey Johnson, the new City Council Speaker appeared briefly (picture from his face book page). Also,New York City Council Member (of the left persuasion), Margaret Chin (Margaret is to the left of Corey).
Some background on Corey. Earlier this month, the Queens Pride parade and the Celebrate Israel parade fell on the same Sunday. What’s an ambitious New York politician — the first openly gay male, H.I.V.-positive City Council speaker — to do? “I alternate,” Corey Johnson said. “Last year I did Queens Pride and skipped Israel. This year I did Israel.”[NY Times]
Perhaps Corey was gone by the time they walked up to 71st st because he crammed both parades in one day.
As for the NY City Council – Their position is that BDS movement leaders and supporters engage in “unacceptable anti-Semitic rhetoric”
NYC Council: 2016 “those activists still have the right to be bigots, anti-Israel and anti-Semitic,” but that the Council would be “simply condemning anti-Israel and anti-Semitic activity.” [Observer]
Melinda Katz (D) currently Queens Borough President, former domestic partner of Curtis Sliwa.
David I. Weprin (on the right) New York State Assembly
Sen. Chuck Schumer, Senator from New York
Schumer didn’t seem to be a favorite of the New JDL-NY.
Congressman Jerrold Nadler, one of the most liberal members of the House, somehow went unnoticed marching up Fifth Ave. (walked by so fast – he’s not in focus)
U.N. Group supporting Israel .
And a delegation from the State of Israel
As for the parade: 11:30 am or so– I observed a CHEESE Head man. Standing alone. Haven’t seen one of those since the Wisconsin protests. Just standing as the parade marched by. However, as I left the parade around 2:30, the back of Cheese Head man caught my eye – DANCING – as the parade continued up Fifth avenue. Fun.
AND the peaceful green of Central Park. That gorgeous lake. Quite a contrast to 58th street in Manhattan. Count us lucky to have such a respite from the madding crowd.
Tagged israel day parade nyc, Sababa, support israel
International Day of “al-Quds” NYC 2018 (pics & vids)
Posted on June 14, 2018 by Pamela Hall | Leave a comment
Friday, June 8th, 2018 . 4 pm. As usual, “The International Day of al-Quds” demonstrators gathered in Times Square to rally against Israel; supported, nurtured and incited by the Marxist insurgents who led the way.”
Later, showing solidarity with the “Palestinians” “Great March of Return” in the Gaza Strip, mock coffins were carried by the “Palis”, Muslims, Neturei Karta —- capos—and Marxist leaders as they marched to the consulate general of Israel. (the JDL reported that, in NYC, it was a LAME march)
The NYC protest was just a lot of noise against the Great Satan (U.S.)and, of course, the Little Satan (Israel), met fortuitously by an equally noisy counter- protest hosted by the New JDL-NY
Whistles. LOTS of Whistles filled the air while the over-amplified al-Quds Day protest attempted to keep the focus on their LIES.
Though smaller in numbers, the New JDL counter-protest in support of Israel successfully mocked, derided and obscured the lies and hate spewed by the Marxists dominating the microphone.
The New JDL troops challenged the LIES and hate!
“On June 8th, Islamists will march from Times Square to the Israeli Consulate, calling for intifada. They will carry coffins calling terrorists victims of murder by the hands of the IDF. Pure lies and anti-Semitism.
We can not let anti-Semitism, in any form, go unanswered. Am Yisrael Chai!”
Slide show of more JDL pictures
Slide show of more anti-Israel protest pictures
Later I found more info on the Gazan terrorists who sent helium balloons with burning charcoal over the border of Israel. MURDER is what the “Palis’ seem to do best.
[source for video at @divnews1 : Face Book]
A call to action from the NEW JDL-NY to stand up for Israel, to stand against anti-Semitism, suggested they bring Israeli flags, signs supporting the IDF, signs condemning the daily terrorist attacks against Israel and WHISTLES to drown out the anti-Zionist lies.
Yep, whistles. Loads of whistles. The JDL made a powerful impression on the “Palis” and Marxists. Causing the female “Pali” trying to lead some chants- against the whistles to scream , ” I can’t hear you.” [small pleasures) As the JDL taunted them with “Traitors ,Traitors”
“We partied on Sunday (at the annual Israel Day Parade) now it’s time to defend. Am Y’israel Chai!“
VIDEO of Marxist, anti-Zionist SPEAKERS on “The International Day of al-Quds” when Muslim demonstrators rallied against Israel; supported, nurtured and incited by the usual Marxist insurgents.
Bill Doares,Workers World Party.“Built on lies, blood and hate, Israel is a racist State”. We are here…because once again, “Palestinians: are being shot down in cold blood, shot down down for trying to exercise the most basic human rights in the world: the RIGHT to Go Home, the right to return to their own land; shot down by the hate-filled white supremacist soldiers in Israel. These hate-filled murderers are paid by OUR tax dollars.(1:26 …) the endless flow of arms , from M-16 rifles to F-16 Jag jet-fighters (…) which are being supplied-for free-to the racist murderous enemy called Israel. (2:14) so the struggle of the “Palestinian” people to return home is part of the struggle of the oppressed people around the world for justice. Israel is an apartheid State. It is part of global system of apartheid that keeps the world divided with the rich and poor (…) and the struggle of the people of “Palestine” is the heart of the struggle for freedom and justice around the world, which is why anybody, oppressed people and working class people every where need to stand with “Palestine”. Because, an end to Israel means an END to the U.S. military industrial complex and the Warfare State that lives off our backs and steals from our communities. “Palestine” will be free; They can kill, they can lie, “Palestine” will never die. (3:12 the New JDL responds with LIARS, Liars, Liars.) Israel will soon go the way of the Third Reich and the Confederate States of America and Rhodesia and all the other racist enemies thrown in the dust-bin of history. Long Live ‘Palestine’ .”
From Samidoun.net: “On International Day of Quds, people of conscience gather to express solidarity with all the oppressed human beings of the world and particularly the innocent civilians of Palestine who are victimized by the oppressive and racist Zionist regime.”
Black speaker: “…black people know coffins. We know Emmet Till, we know Tamira Rice, we know Eric Garner, we know Nat Turner, we know Martin Luther King, we know Malcolm X. So, we’re very familiar with coffins ’cause coffins are part of our existence in… the Western Hemisphere.(…) that’s why it is important that the black people passing by know that we support the struggle of ‘Palestine”, because the struggle of “Palestine” is a struggle against institutional racism … every blow against institutional racism is a blow for our freedom HERE as well. Free Free “Palestine”. (00:59 a short moment with the New JDL) – he continues- “... so bear in mind, when people talk about the right to vote, and gutting the Voting Rights Act, and all those Civil Rights Laws that came out of our struggle to be free AND are being TAKEN BACK, think upon that when you think about U.S. citizenship. “Palestine” MUST be FREE.” [1:55]
Algerian female speaker (thick accent) 2:11 “Tell me now, are we terrorists? [crowd NO] Are we gonna stop marchin’? Are we gonna stop protestin’? (…) we say that U.S. imperialists are the number 1 terrorists. … we will continue to fighting against political oppression, whether (by) NYPD, la Migra, ICE,which separates children from their families, FBI (or DHS). We won’t stop protesting and we call on you to join us. (She ends with a popular Algerian chant)
Samidoun continues: “We invite all peace loving people to voice their opposition to the unjust and illegal occupation of the great Al-Aqsa Mosque and the usurpation of the Holy Land by the Zionist regime. In addition, we will also protest the current Saudi aggression in Yemen.”
Joe Catron (activist/reporter):”… 1918, at the time, Great Britain and the world’s other (?) imperialist powers, in collusion with the Zionist movement, were already determined to plant their own colonial outpost in the ancient Land of Palestine. Over the ensuing decades it became clear that nothing less than wiping Palestine off the map (…) Through the strength of its people and the ferocity of its struggle, Palestine survived. In the face of imperialism and occupation, followed by (?) colonialism, ethnic cleansing and fragmentation, their popular mobilizations, strikes, guerilla warfares, bombings, hijackings shattered the hopes of the imperialist Zionists ….. expulsions of the “Palestinian National movement”…. the unbelievable fact that it’s still here – fighting- despite the ferocity of its enemies and the betrayal of its allies. (…) despite oppression, exclusion, marginalization and siege the masses of our people continue to fight for the return to their land …to their homes … from which they were forcibly expelled. (… referring to the deal of the century at Camp David… ) The Great March of Return is the “Palestinians” unmistakable response. The children of the revolutionary classes, workers and farmers, have made perfectly clear that they will never allow their holy sites, their land, their prisoners, their right of return to be bargained or sold.”
Endorsing anti-Zionist Organizations
– International Action Center
– Workers World Party
– Samidoun: Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network
– Neturei Karta
– Jafria Association of North America
– Muslims United for Justice
Larry Holmes, International Action Center. “Comrades. Don’t pay too much attention to those silly whistles (referring to New JDL) People all over the world, of different races, different religions and different nationalities … support the struggle of the “Palestinian” people. The people who want to support them (refers again to New JDL) are racists and Zionists. They’re colonialists. They’re occupiers and imperialists. And the way the world is going, they’re days. are. numbered! (cheers) We must do more, Comrades. Especially here in what we used to call the Belly of the Beast. Israel could not exist, very long, without U.S. economic and military support. Everybody knows that. Everybody knows that the hundreds of billions of dollars in economic and military aide that the Zionists get all the time…. But, let’s make it more personal. That Israeli sniper that is shooting the borders … it is 99% that he shot … with an M16. That is an assault rifle made for the United States Army, right here. And it is the most common weapon carried by the Israeli(s)… Those helicopters. Those gun-ship helicopters that destroy people, kill children, tear homes and hospitals apart : Made in the U.S.A. (most of them, anyway). So, I just wanta make a suggestion, before I leave. (Holmes now mentions the North Korea meeting, that hadn’t happened yet)
“You know our Comrade, Kim Jong-un the head of the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea … sometimes referred to as North Korea. You all know who I’m talkin’ about, right? He’s got a meeting with Donald Trump, in a couple of days. And it was a struggle of the Korean people that forced that meeting. Don’t be fooled. And we know that Comrade Kim Jong-un, he has a lot of business, along with defending his people at that meeting. But if he can, just for a minute … if it’s possible…divert from the agenda and say,”Trump. President Trump. (whatever) Racist Trump. I have a message from the “Palestinian” people, and the people of the world: Stop Giving Israel weapons to murder our people.” (cheers) Free Free ‘Palestine’ “
While the Marxists and the Muslims continue to march hand in hand against Israel and Jews, and AMERICA, the media accepts, in lock-step, their outrageous lies as FACT. What a sad world we live in.
Tagged "The International Day of al-Quds, Jerusalem Israel, support israel, the NEW JDL NY
NYC Flag Ceremony Bowling Green/Wall S,70th Anniv. Israel Statehood
Posted on May 20, 2018 by Pamela Hall | Leave a comment
On this day, May 14, 2018 at 5 pm Wall Street/Bowling Green, the raising of two flags, the original American 13 star flag and the Israel flag, was done to commemorate 70 years of Statehood.
The Flag Ceremony was hosted by Bnai Zion Foundation and sponsors:New York Board of Rabbis, World Zionist Organization, America-Israel Friendship League, American Zionist Movement, Israel in New York.)
Speakers included, Ibrahim Kurtuluş, a Turkish-American community activist, Arthur Piccolo of the Bowling Green Association and Rabbi Joseph Potasnik of the New York Board of Rabbis.
Herbert Block of the American Zionist Movement, Dr. Esther Serok of the World Zionist Organization, and Ibrahim Kurtulus helped to raise the Israeli flag.
The New JDL – NY was there, too.
And families (amongst the crowd)
Bowling Green Square sign post in the background commemorates “Evacuation Day (1783), November 25,1783, when the last British troops left New York
Evacuation Day on November 25 marks the day in 1783 when British troops departed from New York City on Manhattan Island, after the end of the American Revolutionary War. After this British Army evacuation, General George Washington triumphantly led the Continental Army from his former headquarters, north of the city, across the Harlem River south down Manhattan through the town to The Battery at the foot of Broadway.[1]
( The fence is the ORIGINAL 1700’s fence.)
The last shot of the war was reportedly fired on this day, as a British gunner fired a cannon at jeering crowds gathered on the shore of Staten Island, as his ship passed through the Narrows at the mouth of New York Harbor. The shot fell well short of the shore.[2]
Bowling Green Park is where Gen. George Washington and his troops waved off the departing British Troops AND dismantled the statue of King George III.
“On July 9, 1776, after the Declaration of Independence was read to Washington‘s troops at the current site of City Hall, local Sons of Liberty rushed down Broadway to Bowling Green, where they ordered their African slaves to topple the statue of King George III. The fence post finials of cast-iron crowns on the protective fence were sawn off, with the saw marks still visible today.[5] The event is one of the most enduring images in the city’s history. According to folklore, the statue was chopped up and shipped to a Connecticut foundry under the direction of Oliver Wolcott to be made into 42,088 patriot bullets at 20 bullets per pound (2,104.4 pounds). The statue’s head was to have been paraded about town on pike-staffs, but was recovered by Loyalists and sent to England. Eight pieces of the lead statue are preserved in the New-York Historical Society;[7] one in the Museum of the City of New York as well as one in Connecticut [8] (estimated total of 260/270 pounds);[9] “[wiki]
An historical day in Manhattan but not too sure the tourists saw anything to write home about – except- the modern day statues of the Bull and the Fearless little girl.
Tagged 7o years israel wall st, bowling green, flag ceremony, New JDL NY, support israel
New JDL NY says: Temple Emanu-El “NO NIF, NO BDS.No Israel Hate In Our Shuls!”
On Thursday, May 10th,2018, “Composing For Peace: A Concert For Social Change” was held at the Temple Emanu-El Streicker Center – NYC.
“A Concert / fundraiser for New Israel Fund Esp important now that Netanyahu has targeted it again for supporting Israeli organizations working for democracy, pluralism, equality for Palestinians and African migrants.” […]
The “Composing For Peace” concert celebrated Seeds of Peace 25th anniversary with David Broza , Mira Awad and Noa (Achinoam Nini)
“In times of turbulence and uncertainty, music has the potential to capture the zeitgeist of a society, while inspiring human solidarity and renewed hope for the future. In this spirit, we have invited three renowned musicians—David Broza, Noa (Achinoam Nini) and Mira Awad —to perform and share stories about the unique role that music and the arts play in social change and in Israel today.
While the concert – co-organized by NIF – was held INSIDE Temple Emanu-El, OUTSIDE the New Jewish Defense League NY stood up against the New Israel Fund … and one of it’s enablers … Temple Emanu-El.
FACT: The New Israel Fund (NIF) supports BDS (Boycott, Divestment, Sanction) and BDS is Antisemitism.
What was Temple Emanu-El thinking!?
“Our rabbis should be leading the fight to end BDS. Our shuls should be places that we are learning Torah, to love Israel and be a place to proud of who we are. They should never be a place that supports anti-Antisemitism!” [New JDL NY]
The New Jewish Defense League-NY rallied outside the concert to condemn BDS, voicing their outrage at Temple Emanu-El who denies that the New Israel Fund (NIF) assists in financing anti-Israel groups.
Silence is not an option! So the New JDL NY , “… did something about it.”
“Proof that what we (the JDL) did had an effect, we heard from a friend inside that the concert started late because they addressed the protest outside (claiming) ‘NIF does not support BDS’.” [New JDL NY]
Temple Emanu-El, shame on you!
Posters from New JDL NY
Tagged bds, New Israel Fund, New JDL NY, No Israel Hate In Our Shuls, No to israel hate, NO to NIF, say NO to BDS, seeds of peace, support israel, Temple Emanu-el ny
(Pics & Videos) Commie/Fascisti “Palestinians” vs the NY-JDL Patriots – Union Sq
Posted on April 13, 2018 by Pamela Hall | Leave a comment
Great March of Return in the Gaza Strip.
What follows is their agitprop announcing an “All out for Gaza Action” in NYC’s Union Square.
“On Friday, March 30 an estimated 30,000 Palestinians in Gaza took part in the “Great March of Return” along the electric fence that has kept more than 2 million people ‘imprisoned’ for more than a decade.
The march, organized by a cross section of civil society, grassroots activists and political factions in the occupied enclave, called for an end of the Gaza’s brutal siege and the right of return for ‘Palestinian’ refugees. Conditions in Gaza are currently ‘unlivable,’ as described by the UN, with severe electricity shortages and water contamination, on top of periodic military assaults by Israeli forces.
(They claim that) ‘Israel reacted to families walking and chanting with a brutal show of force. Israeli snipers opened fire with live ammunition against the protestors and deployed tear gas against them by drones, killing at least 20 ‘Palestinians’ and injuring more than 1,500, half of which were shot with live ammunition.
And yet, tens of thousands of ‘Palestinians’ remain steadfast. They aim to stay 45 days until May 15, the 70th anniversary of the ‘Nakba,’ Arabic for ‘catastrophe,’ when 750,000 Palestinians were forcibly expelled from their homes for the creation of the state of Israel.
We condemn these killings. We mourn the 20 ‘Palestinians’ killed. (And even more outrageous) the protestors claim that, ‘New York City stands with the tens of thousands of Palestinians in Gaza in this historic new wave of organizing and their quest to return home.’
Join us to show solidarity with the tens of thousands of ‘Palestinians’ in the besieged Gaza Strip carrying out the historic #GreatReturnMarch and to mourn the 20 ‘Palestinians’ shot and killed by Israeli forces along the border.”
Jewish Voice for Peace – NYC
Adalah-NY
Apartheid Divest CUNY
Palestine Solidarity Alliance of Hunter College
Tarab NYC
NYC Queers Against Israeli Apartheid
Jews say No!
Women in Black Union Square
NYC-DSA Anti-War Working Group
I saw the usual Soc/Commie/Fascisti “Palestinians” at this “Hate on Israel” protest.
And also, the patriots from NY-JDL who managed a successful counter-protest, marching round and round — and round — these militant anti-Semites; all the while holding the Israeli flag VERY HIGH above the crowd.
Slide show at Union Square
A few of the anti-Israel Fascisti were assigned to the JDL marchers, sticking like glue and attempting to block their march, hoping that ultimately the NYPD would remove the patriots from this public square.
Videos, Part 1- Nerdeen Kiswani from NY-Students For Justice in ‘Palestine’ lead this action – SCREAMING into her megaphone – while patriots from NY-JDL (Jewish Defense League) marched while holding an Israeli flag high, VERY HIGH, above these militants.
Part 2 – Actress Kathleen Chalfant marched with the anti-Israel contingent…
…. seen at approx. 3:45 in the video.
Part 3 – There was much pushing and blocking – attempting to force the JDL out of the public square – it did NOT work. No laws were broken (by the JDL) They just keep walking, exercising their freedom speech and assembly.
Part 4- Eventually debates were taking place, some very contentious, like this exchange – instigated by a man (at 1:13) claiming he is a REAL Hebrew based on the color of his skin. His obnoxious ‘facts’ was challenged by a young Israeli.
All the while Nerdeen Kiswani from NYC- SJP (Students For Justice in Palestine) SCREAMED!! hatred into her megaphone.
And then, I spotted a familiar face, Nancy Mansour, smiling, laughing as she waved her ‘fakestinian’ flag.
Nancy’s method of protest is usually very aggressive. She would relentlessly block any opposition and usually get the NYPD involved, on her side. But, today, Mansour has a new tact: smiles and dialogue.
Her questions were intended to twist my every word under the polite guise of dialogue. (she has a very proper British accent) She was so reasonable. (I was so ill-informed, uniformed, MISinformed) I had nothing right.
Questions came rapidly from Mansour : How can I support the Israeli (IDF) murders. The OCCUPATION. (She is a fast talker so responding was a challenge)
She stops me each time: I don’t know the truth about the Koran. Islam. Palestine. Israel. The EUROPEAN Jews should go back to Europe. And of course, there is no two State solution. Bottom line: I am guilty of gross generalizations that have dehumanized the ‘Palestinians’.
New info, Nancy is a Palestinian Christian. She says members of her family had been murdered by the Israelis, for decades. The Israelis are the enemy, not the “Palestinians”. (and she finds my air quotes and “fakestinians” to be demeaning)
Nancy’s father had her read the Quran, the Bible, the Torah and she ascribes to the “they worship the same G-d meme.” (How can she allow herself to be so wrong)
I attempted briefly to open a discussion on Islam: We must “speak truthfully about God, and the only way we can do that is to use the names God gave Himself. The God of the Bible is not Allah, and Allah is not the God of the Bible.” That went no where.
Mansour was unwilling to answer the few questions I asked of her regarding the murder of Jewish families sleeping in their homes. The bombing of busses and cafes. MURDERING Israeli citizens. She actually said, these murders are lies, Didn’t happen.
Her position unswerving: No peace until the OCCUPATION is over and the IDF murders end.
Nancy Mansour aka : Harrabic Tubman. Crusader for a ONE State Solution.
I know we ( Existence Is Resistance ) have participated in the past in events like the Gaza 5K run but in all honesty, we are done supporting this temporary, enabling bullshit ‘power’ called the United Nation
Palestinians do not need fucking food stamps, Palestinians need Justice and Freedom.
Shitty schools, shittier healthcare and sardines provided by the UN are basically helping continue the occupation and the UN os basically taking our money and footing the bill to continue Israels Occupation.
The United Nations should take all the money and actually hold Israel accountable for its atrocious war crimes against the Palestinian people and the 60 plus International laws it has violated.
Interesting, her attack on the U.N., but even so, we reached an impasse: there will be No Peace as long as anti-Israel activists like Nancy Mansour refuse to consider THEY might be wrong. (They REALLY might be WRONG.)
And that’s the rest of the story…..
[Pictures and videos property of Pamela Hall)
An addendum of relevant info: See Mark Langfan (AFSI) maps of Judea, Samaria [West Bank-Gaza Strip)
The Judea and Samaria Area covers a portion of the territory designated by the ancient names Judea and Samaria. Samaria corresponds to part of the ancient Kingdom of Israel, also known as the Northern Kingdom. Judea corresponds to part of the ancient Kingdom of Judah, also known as the Southern Kingdom.
The RT video of the action at the Gaza border reveals that the April 6th ‘Tire Protest’ was at best a pollution success.
UNREAL: Palestinians Who Burned Tires – So Israel Could Not See Terrorist Infiltrators – Demand Israel Give Them More Tires!!
But, the protestors really didn’t think this through….
Poster Courtesy of Honest Reporting
FACT: They burned no where near 10, 000 tires, a few hundred tires were burned, even so there is now a SHORTAGE of TIRES!!! and they blame ISRAEL (of course)
…. a spokesman for the Palestinian Transport Ministry complained of the ensuing shortage of tires, demanding that Israel supply more.
Ofir Gendelman, an Israeli diplomat and current spokesperson to the Arab media in the Prime Minister’s Office…Gendelman pointed out the the burning tires would create massive amounts of pollution and destroy nearby agriculture, adding to the suffering of the Palestinians. “But Hamas doesn’t care,” … meanwhile… Israel has halted all imports of tires into the Gaza Strip, a Palestinian Authority official said on Sunday.“We have been informed by the Israeli side that imports of tires have been halted until further notice,” !!
LINKS to reports Jerusalem Post; Front Page Mag; Middle East Monitor
Posted in current events
Tagged AFSI maps, burning tires in Gaza, Great march of return, idf, Mark Langfan maps, Nerdeen Kiswani, NY JDL, NYC union square, sjp, support israel
If Not Now Dayenu LIES (and Kaddish) countered by NY-JDL Facts
Posted on April 6, 2018 by Pamela Hall | Leave a comment
April 4, 2018 – 4 pm to 7 pm- Both sides met up at Third Avenue and 40th street for this “Dayenu, Gaza and STOP the LIES” protest-kaddish for terrorists, the pro-Israel NY-JDL and the IF NOT NOW Leftist Jews.
The anti Israel “If Not Now” Jews then did a VERY short march to 633 Third avenue (outside the Union for Reform Judaism.)
Outside 633 they attempted to give more speeches as they read the names of the 17 dead terrorists (Kaddish) while the NY-JDL patriots chanted LOUDLY back at them.
The contrast between these two opposing groups, feeling sad and worried about the future as we listened to and watched these American Jewish youths rally outside the Union for Reform Judaism (and say Kaddish for the dead Hamas terrorists.)
So misguided.
But also encouraged by the determination of the patriots to fight BACK against the LIES of the LEFT. The TRUTH shall make you FREE.
Flickr side show.
Part 1 video it begins as both sides meet
Part 2 the (very short) march to 633 Third Ave.
Part 3- “Kaddish” for the Muslim terrorists, as they mourned their deaths …. which enraged the patriots … which is when I heard cries of “GOOD” and “17 More” coming from the patriots!
Links to reports on the march protest: Jewish Press; JPost.
“17 dead, over a thousand injured after Palestinians clash with IDF on Gaza border.”
“PA leader Mahmoud Abbas said on Friday that Israel is responsible for the deaths of Gazan protesters who participated in the Friday riots near the border fence.
”The marches today prove that the Palestinian people will not aid any plan that wishes to close the lid on the Palestinian issue”, he said.
”Jerusalem will remain Arab,” said Abbas.
The US decision to recognize Jerusalem as the Israeli capital angered many in the Arab and Muslim world, leading some Palestinians to argue that the US may no longer be a suitable peace negotiator between Israelis and Palestinians.”
JERUSALEM WILL NEVER BE ARAB.
JEW-rusalem. ‘Nuf said!
Tagged botcott arab states, if not now, NY JDL, support israel, terrorists are not victims
AFSI Protest Mahmoud Abbas’ Address to U.N. Security Council
Posted on February 27, 2018 by Pamela Hall | Leave a comment
Feb. 19, 2018. Noon The Isaiah Wall in Ralph Bunche Park, across from the U.N. where AFSI (Americans For a Safe Israel) protested “Palestinian President” Mahmoud Abbas’ Address to U.N. Security Council.
AFSI (Americans For a Safe Israel) organized the rally, joined by the New JDL-NY and opposed by members of the obscene Neturei Karta.
“On First Avenue, across from the United Nations in New York City, sits a small park, less than a quarter of an acre, named for Ralph Bunche, the first African-American recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize […] also home to the famous “Isaiah Wall” … which many people naturally associate with the United Nations and its peacekeeping.”( it’s not)
“Carved into granite, is the old prophesy of an obscure Hebrew itinerant, predicting a day that seems as far away now as it did then in ancient Mesopotamia– a day when “nation shall not lift up sword against nation, and neither shall we learn war any longer.”
Abbas and the lies of Yasser Arafat continue to thrive in the halls of the U.N. while thousands of years of Jewish history are IGNORED. DENIED.
[WaPo] “During a rare address to the United Nations Security Council on Tuesday, February 20th, “Palestinian” President Mahmoud Abbas called for an international Middle East peace conference to be convened by the middle of this year and slammed the Trump administration for its recognition last December of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. (Reuters)… this administration has not clarified its position,” Abbas said. “Is it a two-state solution, or one state” of permanent Israeli occupation?”
“Ambassador Haley addressed the absent Abbas (he left as soon as he had spoken) — Trump’s declaration in December that the United States considers Jerusalem to be Israel’s capital — ( she) told Abbas he can do nothing to reverse the U.S. position. Abbas should channel his anger into action toward a settlement and a better life for his people, Haley said.” [WaPo]
“Now in the 14th year of a four-year term, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has been something of a riddle. His modest, gentlemanly demeanor was a welcome contrast to that of his thuggish predecessor, Yasser Arafat […] Underneath it all, Abbas is a two-faced, feckless leader who harbors a classic, anti-Semitic view of Jews and world history.” Abbas proves to be nothing more than a two-faced anti-Semite [Michael Goodwin: NY Post]
[JPost] “Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu summed it up nicely: Abbas “has torn off the mask and shown to the public the simple truth: . . . The root of the conflict between us and the “Palestinians” is their steadfast refusal to recognize the Jewish state in any borders whatsoever.”
“Abbas will deliver his statement in New York only weeks after US Ambassador to the U.N., Nikki Haley, delivered a scathing rebuke of the Fatah (formerly the PLO) chairman’s “lack of leadership.”[JPost]
AFSI spoke in front of “Peace Form One, a stainless-steel obelisk 50 feet (15 m) high, erected in 1980. The sculptor, Daniel LaRue Johnson …
… as those peace loving Neturei Karta taunted them from above with “Down, down with Israel” and “Is-ra-el go to hell” .
Part 1 video, opening remarks from Helen Freedman, Co-Executive Director of AFSI.
Part 2 video, Irwin …. was introduced by Helen Freedman. He then spoke eloquently for ISRAEL.
Part 3 video – As Helen Freedman spoke the Neteuri Karta met the opposition!
Flickr Slide show –
[NY Times 2-26-18] “Jerusalem. the American Embassy set to open in Jerusalem in three months … Trump administration’s decision to move the embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem … formally recognizing Jerusalem as Israel’s capital … open a temporary embassy in Jerusalem in time for the 70th anniversary of the creation of the state of Israel, on May 14 …”
“This is a great moment for the citizens of Israel, and this is an historic moment for the state of Israel,” Mr. Netanyahu said. (American officials also said on Friday that Sheldon G. Adelson, an American known for his hawkish support of Israel, had offered to help pay for the new embassy building.)”
“… the “Palestinians” .... for them, May 14 is the 70th anniversary of the “Nakba”, or “catastrophe,” when hundreds of thousands of “Palestinians” were expelled or fled their homes amid the hostilities surrounding Israel’s establishment ... this year’s anniversary could also fall on the eve of Ramadan, the Muslim holy month of fasting … Days later, “Palestinians” are likely to flock for Friday Prayer to the “Al Aqsa Mosque” [aka THE TEMPLE MOUNT], which has often been a flash point in the conflict between Israelis and “Palestinians”...” [NY Times]
FACT: “Why the Temple Mount Belongs to Jews and Israel [FrontPageMag]
“Rarely has there been such clarity that Israel has no partner for peace. As such, the possibility of more terrorist violence cannot be minimized. Just yesterday, Israeli authorities removed a cellphone bomb from Joseph’s Tomb in Nablus in the West Bank. It was detonated by security forces not long before 1,000 Jewish worshippers were scheduled to come to the spot considered to be the burial site of the biblical patriarch.” [Michael Goodwin: NY Post]
Tagged afsi, isaiah wall, Jerusalem Israel, Mahmoud Abbas, neturei karta, New JDL NY, support israel, United Nations Security Council
Rise & Resist Commies Protest “Sycophat” Nikki Haley at Federalist Society Gala
“No Hate,No Fear” Solidarity March – NYC 2020
Soc/Commie New Yorkers Say #NoWarWithIran – Jan 9, 2020
Sarsour Solidarity Fraud : Anti-Zionism = Anti-Semitism (Grand Army Plaza)
CODE PINKOs ” Lush Out Of Saudi” Month Action comes to a close
NYC Ignorati “March to Impeach/Remove” President
Owen Shroyer of Info Wars Confronts N.Y. Times Censorship
A New CHINA: land of opportunity … or tyranny.
Update : VIMEO BANNED Tommy Robinson video from 2012 SION conference
Marxists Picket Gov. Cuomo for “Green NEW Deal Now!” at Tina Turner Musical
NYC Veterans Day 2019, Mayor’s favored Leftists oppose Patriots
Marxists Protest Pres.Trump at Madison Sq Garden vs Trump 2020 Patriots
“Trump/Pence #OutNow as the Marxist Revolution Continues
“Take to the Streets, New York City. IMPEACH NOW!”
“No Biz with Tech” as Left Marches against Amazon Corporate Greed (again)
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March 7 – Grey Mouse
Posted on March 7, 2015 by Daniel Wilson
Rodent Rascals
Despite the fear these animals cause for many people, the following entries are loveable rats, mice, chipmunks, etc. It might help that they’re all animated (or at least began their existences that way) as that’s just how you can get the most cuteness out of what could otherwise be considered vermin. Here are the Top 5 rodents:
#5: Remy – Ratatouille
This rat may be one of the few Parisians I actually like! The fact that Remy is voiced by Patton Oswalt is simply a bonus. Interestingly, Oswalt was cast in the movie based off of his food-based stand-up routine. Want some more Ratatouille trivia? Did you know that a wine branded with the name of the film was supposed to be released in a joint venture between Disney, Pixar and Costco, but was pulled because the label featured the animated Remy, something the California Wine Institute was not pleased with, arguing that it encouraged underage drinking.
Remy certainly has some swagger!
#4: Rescue Rangers
Chip, Dale, Monterrey Jack, and the voluptuous Gadget (the only member of the team forced to wear pants!) may be the world’s smallest crime fighters, but they are thorns in the side of villains like Professor Norton Nimnul, Fat Cat, and Rat Capone. Sadly, little Zipper can’t be included in this entry because he’s not a rodent… sorry, buddy. Back to the team, we will get to see them again in the coming years, as Disney has announced plans for a live-action/CGI animation movie. As long as they keep the wicked opening theme song in some capacity, fans everywhere will rejoice!
#3: Pinky & The Brain – Animaniacs
These two made trying to take over the world fashionable… sure, their zany plans regularly go awry, but that doesn’t mean a strategy won’t ever work and we’ll all become the slaves of genetically-enhanced lab mice! The duo proved so popular that they were given their own series, sadly invaded by Elmyra from Tiny Toon Adventures. There’s a great theory out there that Pinky is actually the intelligent mouse, while The Brain is the insane one out of the two. That would explain why he’s hell bent on escaping his cage and ruling the earth.
#2: Splinter – Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
The wise sensei and father figure of the teen turtles may be a rodent of advanced age, but he can still fight when pushed to do so, often defending his shelled family. The one thing that pisses me off about Splinter is how his origin story changes from time to time. In some projects, he was a human turned into a rat, while other times, he was always a rat, who transformed thanks to the mutagen. He’s at his most awesome in the original Turtles movie, when he battles and defeats The Shredder, sending him crashing from a high-rise rooftop into the back of a garbage truck.
#1: Mickey Mouse
While I’ve never been a huge fan of Mickey, some of my favourite things in this world wouldn’t exist without him. Think about it: I met Mrs. Sip in Disneyland, which was only possible thanks to the success of early Mickey cartoons, leading to more animated gems from Walt Disney and company. With those facts, you just have to respect Mickey and everything he’s done in the name of entertainment. As Walt himself famously said, “I only hope that we don’t lose sight of one thing – that it was all started by a mouse.”
Super Saturday Shot Day: Grey Mouse
1 oz Irish Crème
0.5 oz Black Sambuca
Garnish with a Gummy Mouse
Honourable mentions go to Bernard and Bianca (The Rescuers); Jerry Mouse (Tom & Jerry); and the trio of Alvin, Simon and Theodore Seville (Alvin & The Chipmunks). I really wish I could have included The Chipmunks, who got the Sip Advisor through some tough times with their upbeat music!
The shot was one thing (it was what you’d expect from mixing Irish Creme and Sambuca), but I think my choice to garnish the shooter with a Gummy Mouse was spectacular. Thankfully, Ma Sip had a few on hand, which I was more than happy to use in the production.
Posted in Shots & Shooters | Tagged Alvin & The Chipmunks, Animaniacs, Black Sambuca, Chip & Dale, Disneyland, Grey Mouse, Gummy Mouse, Irish Creme, Jerry Mouse, Mickey Mouse, Patton Oswalt, Pinky & The Brain, Ratatouille, Remy, Rescue Rangers, Shooter, shot, Splinter, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, The Rescuers, Tom & Jerry, Walt Disney | Leave a reply
August 16 – Columbo
Posted on August 16, 2014 by Daniel Wilson
Private Dicks
I like a good mystery and these gumshoes have offered some of the greatest examples of sleuthing known to the world. They each employ their own tactics, but the end result is always the same: the bad guy is punished for their crime and the good guy feels some sort of redemption. Here are the Top 5 detectives:
Sometimes, some crimes go slipping through the cracks (did anyone out there sing that opening!?)… and that’s when you need the Rescue Rangers: Chip, Dale, Gadget, and Monterey Jack (plus his little buddy Zipper). This classic Disney Afternoon animation block cartoon sees the legendary Chip and Dale and company solve crimes, such as missing pets and all the other stuff the real police don’t feel like investigating. The gang also regularly battle such villains as Fat Cat and Professor Norton Nimnul. Interestingly, Chip and Dale weren’t even originally planned to be part of the show, but were used to add some established Disney characters to the series.
#4: Ace Ventura
Of the Pet Detective variety, Ace is an unconventional investigator and devout animal lover. When hired to solve the case of missing Miami Dolphins mascot and real-life dolphin, Snowflake, he becomes embroiled in a complex mystery involving a disgruntled ex-player and Dolphins superstar quarterback Dan Marino. Can he crack the case before the Dolphins’ next big game and bring Snowflake home safely? This role launched the career of Jim Carrey and the surprise hit even produced a sequel, When Nature Calls, which sadly didn’t live up to the first film.
#3: Magnum P.I.
Thomas Magnum is a fine private detective. He’s willing to work on everything from cases involving cheating spouses to more serious stuff like drug rings and assassination plots. The former Vietnam veteran gets a ton of help from his buddies TC, Rick and even Higgins, all while living the good life in Robin Masters’ Hawaiian home. Played by the dreamy Tom Selleck, the iconic role had to be good, as he even gave up playing Indiana Jones thanks to the series’ shooting schedule. There has been talk of a movie or TV series remake, but I just don’t know if it could ever measure up to the original.
#2: Sherlock Holmes
Along with his companion (and I don’t mean to make it sound like they are lovers… although I’m sure some have explored this premise), Dr. Watson, Sherlock Holmes is certainly London’s finest sleuth and is perhaps the world’s greatest. The creation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Holmes has appeared in countless forms of media. Some of my favourites include the recent movies with Robert Downey, Jr., the current BBC TV series starring Benedict Cumberbatch, and the animated Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century. With Holmes, you must always remember that the game is afoot!
#1: Lt. Columbo
I grew up on the disheveled detective and it’s probably because of him that I haven’t become a criminal mastermind… well, that and to be a mastermind, you need to have a fully-functioning brain. Peter Falk is a god damn legend in my books and all Mrs. Sip can do is roll her eyes when I stumble upon a Columbo mini-movie and have a brief celebration. Although she’s often mentioned, we never see Mrs. Columbo throughout the entirety of the series and we also never learn Lt. Columbo’s first name. Many have speculated that it’s Frank, as it appears when his LAPD ID badge is shown close up. Oh, one more thing, Columbo loves chili as much as he loves solving murders!
Super Saturday Shot Day: Columbo
0.75 oz Campari
0.25 oz Orange Juice
Splash of Lime Juice
Splash of Lemon Juice
Dash of Simple Syrup
Garnish with a Cigar
The Sip Advisor would make a horrible detective. Sure, I like solitude and spying on folks can be fun, but you can only get so drunk while on a stakeout and I would find the job cramping my current lifestyle. Plus, there’s the whole critical thinking aspect and all you little sippers know that isn’t in my wheelhouse!
I’m not sure if this shot (or cocktail I’ve shrunken down to shooter form) was actually meant in homage of the greatest detective of all-time, but I’m using it in that way anyway… there is an Italian connection between the character and Campari, so maybe there’s a match there. And how about that garnish!? Columbo was often seen smoking a stogie, so why not include it with the shooter. It all goes down okay and that bitter Campari aftertaste doesn’t kill like it usually does.
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June 7 – Theme Songs
Posted on June 7, 2014 by Daniel Wilson
On one episode of Big Bang Theory, Sheldon reveals his favourite TV theme songs to be Inspector Gadget, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and Spider-Man. While these are all fine selections in their own right, it got me thinking about which TV title tracks are really the greatest. That list is as follows!
#5: Disney Afternoon
Like Sheldon, I have a great fondness for my childhood. When I discussed this article with Mrs. Sip, she was quick to point out some absolutely spectacular music I had neglected, particularly entries from the Disney block of afternoon cartoons, including DuckTales, Rescue Rangers, TaleSpin, Darkwing Duck, and Goof Troop. Songwriter Mark Mueller was responsible for both DuckTales and Rescue Rangers and the others hold their own as memorable bits of my youth.
#4: Good Times
This theme song really speaks to anyone out there who tries to keep a bright outlook and smile on their face despite any hardships they may be wading through. “Temporary layoffs… Good Times. Easy credit rip offs… Good Times. Scratchin’ and surviving… Good Times.” There’s an episode of Chappelle Show which sees Dave Chappelle quiz various participants about the lyrics of this song, showing its true meaning to pop culture. “Ain’t we lucky we got ’em… Good Times!”
#3: Golden Girls
Thank you for being a friend, indeed. Such an awesome show deserves an equally epic theme. You really have to admire the work of everyone who touched this project, as they made elderly women an entertaining subject. The one lyric I disagree with is the one about the biggest gift being from that friend because there’s nothing wrong with presents that come in small packages: rings, earrings, necklaces… aren’t these really the presents women want!?
#2: TGIF Shows
We’re talking about the ditties from Full House (Everywhere You Look), Family Matters (As Days Go By), and Step by Step (Second Time Around), all written and performed by Jesse Frederick. The songs can sometimes be interchangeable, as I will often be humming one and it will transition right into another family sitcom classic. If you play them for a TGIF rookie, they will often confuse them for being the start to another show and I only give that person crap for the rest of our existence knowing one another, as a result of their tragic blunder.
#1: Growing Pains
I love to get under Mrs. Sip’s skin by blasting this tune at the highest of volumes and belting out the lyrics as shrilly as my voice can get. I even tried to get it added to our wedding playlist, arguing that it was “my jam,” but apparently that doesn’t hold the weight I wish it did. The only difficulty with the song is trying to cover both the male and female portions of the duet. It’s tricky, but if done properly, you can bet your previously intimate night will be no more… trust me!
Super Saturday Shot Day: Theme Songs
1 oz Tattoo Rum
Dash of Ice Cream
Garnish with Sprinkles
Some of my proudest geek moments have been playing TV theme song trivia quizzes on cruise ships. Nothing says nerd of the highest variety than scoring 39 out of 40 and walking away with a little trophy for your years of sitting in front of the tube effort! Honourable mentions to Night Court, the 1960’s Batman, Benny Hill, Odd Couple, Saved by the Bell, and Fresh Prince of Bel-Air… great songs I just couldn’t wedge into this post.
I used Drinkify.org to find this recipe. The site suggests which drink to pair with whatever music you’re listening to. I searched for “TV Themes” and this came up. It specified 8 oz of Rum and 8 oz of Ice Cream, which is a little insane, so I condensed the recipe down to shot form. In fact, all of the site’s measurements seem a little out of whack and in many cases, it’s suggested to just drink straight liquor, but it’s still a neat idea in principle. As for the shooter itself, it was good. I’d been saving some Captain Morgan Tattoo Rum for a while and this was the perfect recipe for it.
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Maine Sen. Patrick Flood
21st district
Appropriations and Financial Affairs
Email Address: senpatrickflood@legislature.maine.gov
ME - LD1555 An Act To Strengthen Maine's Hospitals and To Provide for a New Spirits Contract
ME - LD496 Resolve, To Ensure That Standards for Performance-based Contracts for Individuals with Intellectual Disabilities Include All Employment Options
ME - LD1714 Resolve, To Study the Feasibility of Allowing Dispatchers To Transfer E-9-1-1 Calls to Emergency Responders in Other States
ME - LD1095 An Act To Authorize a General Fund Bond Issue To Improve Highways, Bridges and Multimodal Facilities
ME - LD239 An Act To Improve the Return to the State on the Sale of Spirits and To Provide a Source of Payment for Maine's Hospitals
ME - LD29 An Act To Provide Support Services to Adults with Intellectual Disabilities or Autistic Disorder
ME - LD30 An Act To Provide Home and Community Services for Individuals with Intellectual Disabilities or Autism
ME - HP1112 JOINT RESOLUTION IN SUPPORT OF THE STATE OF ISRAEL
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ME - SP745 RECOGNIZING THE 25TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE KENNEBEC LAND TRUST
ME - SS9 Sentiment
ME - LD401 An Act To Provide Local Sales Tax Increment Disbursements
ME - LD1365 An Act To Promote New Models of Mobility and Access to Transportation
ME - LD1571 An Act To Prevent the Double Funding of Certain MaineCare Costs
ME - LD345 An Act To Ensure the Confidentiality of Concealed Weapons Permit Holder Information
ME - LD1342 An Act To Ensure Just and Reasonable Sewer Utility Rates
ME - LD1300 An Act To Promote and Expand Awareness of the Educational Opportunity Tax Credit
ME - LD1509 An Act Making Unified Appropriations and Allocations for the Expenditures of State Government, General Fund and Other Funds and Changing Certain Provisions of the Law Necessary to the Proper Operations of State Government for the Fiscal Years Ending June 30, 2014 and June 30, 2015
ME - LD1343 An Act To Improve Work Readiness for Families Facing Significant Barriers to Employment
ME - LD1725 An Act To Provide for the 2014 and 2015 Allocations of the State Ceiling on Private Activity Bonds
ME - LD210 An Act To Require That Forms, Pamphlets and Other Documents Be Designed To Permit the Continued Use of the Materials
ME - LD435 Resolve, To Require the State Tax Assessor To Develop Agreements with Online Retailers for the Collection of Sales and Use Tax
ME - LD40 An Act To Protect a Private Memorial Placed in a Public Right-of-way
ME - LD1492 An Act To Authorize a General Fund Bond Issue To Strengthen Maine's Economy and Communities
ME - LD1581 An Act To Increase Access to Quality Child Care
ME - LD250 An Act To Make Supplemental Appropriations and Allocations for the Expenditures of State Government and To Change Certain Provisions of the Law Necessary to the Proper Operations of State Government for the Fiscal Year Ending June 30, 2013
ME - LD1064 Resolve, To Establish the Task Force on Independence from Public Assistance
ME - LD440 An Act To Support Community Health Centers through Tax Credits for Dentists and Primary Care Professionals Practicing in Underserved Areas
ME - LD1312 An Act To Create a Succession and Knowledge Transfer Plan for State Government
ME - LD346 An Act To Require the Collection of Sales Tax by any Business Making Sales to Persons in Maine
ME - LD1814 An Act To Create a Secure, Therapeutic Mental Health Unit
ME - LD1313 An Act To Amend Licensing Requirements for Professional Engineers
ME - LD1283 An Act To Amend the Laws Governing Animal Trespass
ME - LD1235 An Act Regarding School Construction
ME - LD514 An Act To Allow Boards and Associations of Lakes and Ponds To Stock Fish
ME - LD138 An Act To Amend the Laws Governing the Issuance of Bonds That Have Been Ratified by the Citizens of the State
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Materials Tracking
Timesheet and Progress Tracking
Plant and Equipment Tracking
BIM Integration
EPC/M’s
Track’em Featured in Energy News Bulletin
Track’em Featured in Mining News and Energy News Bulletin
Track’em media coverage is growing steadily with recent attention from Sky News Business and The Weekend West. Most recently, Track’em was praised in an article written by Noel Dyson in his article ‘Keeping a Track on Value’ both the Energy News Bulletin and Mining News on the 7th February.
You can read the full article below or by clicking on either of the following links :
Energy News Bulletin – Keeping a track on value
Mining News – Keeping a track on value
Keeping a track on value
Friday, 7 February 2014 | Noel Dyson
With productivity the buzzword in the oil and gas industry, here is a tool that might prove to be a vital one.
Kashif Saleem CEO Track’em
Called Track’em, the device simply does that.
Picture this. A crew on an oil and gas project is waiting for a beam to arrive. That beam costs $1000 to fabricate and without it they cannot proceed. But the beam is nowhere to be found.
A chain of phone calls begins, gradually increasing in heat and anatomical specificity until two people are dispatched to track down this errant beam.
While they are doing this the crew of five men and a crane are left standing idle.
Considering each man in the crew costs north of $300 a day and the crane costs about $5000 a day, the delay is getting more costly by the minute. After a day of searching, the two men return empty handed.
Fingers start getting pointed.
The chain stretches back to the fabricator who says the beam was despatched to and received by the site.
More heated phone conversations are held.
In the end the fabricator is told to make another beam and send it and everybody involved in the chain is told to make sure this one makes it to where it has to be.
Sound far-fetched?
According to Track’em CEO Kashif Saleem, this actually happened.
A cruel twist to this tale is that after the project was finished, that troublesome beam turned up.
Saleem’s Track’em is designed to prevent that ever happening.
It involves putting barcodes, radio frequency identification tags or GPS tags onto pieces of equipment that allow them to be tracked.
With advances in technology that has grown to the software including a 3D model plug-in.
This means if there is a 3D model of the project, the tracking can be added to that so a project manager can see at a glance where a particular piece of equipment or consignment of materials is onsite.
“It’s all about helping them finish their project on time,” Saleem said.
Obviously there is some hardware and software work that needs to go behind that but Saleem was also wise enough to realise the need for some change management.
The barcodes are fine in themselves but of little use if they are not scanned.
“One of the project managers said to me that 98% of the time they find the materials,” Saleem said.
“I asked him what happened to the other 2% and he said they didn’t put it into the system.”
To get around this problem Saleem provides clients with material controllers experienced in Track’em.
These people are Saleem staff members who are seconded to the client for six to 12 months.
Their role is to make the Track’em system and, more importantly, train the client’s staff in how to use it.
When Track’em came out in 2006 the company’s focus was very much on the construction sector.
While that still remains a focus it is broadening its offering and starting to move into the operations and maintenance space.
Saleem said the company would soon be launching another module in Track’em that would apply to that space.
“We have the beta version of that coming soon,” he said.
“With Track’em we have the whole history of the modules.”
“All we have to do is go to the next level where we can use that information for operations.”
Besides Track’em, the company’s offerings include Store’em for stores and warehouse management; Time’em, a time and attendance and work pack tracking solution; and Transport’em, which operates in the supply chain and logistics management space.
Track’em
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Category Archives: Games Developer
Train2Game News Socks For GAMEs
Posted on January 9, 2020 by Train2Game Blogger Team
GAME, the leading high street video game retailer today announced that it will be re-homing unwanted Christmas socks in exchange for in-store credit, with its first ever New Year Sock Swap!
Following the Christmas period, unwanted socks get thrown to the back of the drawer and forgotten, or worse still – they go straight in the bin. Over 25% of Brits class socks as their least-desired Christmas present, with a combined £5B a year wasted on unwanted presents, whilst the number one requested item for the UK’s homeless shelter is….. socks!
To ensure the dreaded Christmas sock reaches people who actually want them and to kickstart 2020 positively, GAME will be offering customers extra credit for their trade-ins when they bring in their unwanted (new & unworn!) pairs.
An extra £2 will be given for games and an extra £15 when customers trade in tablets, phones or consoles. Every pair of socks collected will then be donated to various homeless charities to help communities up and down the country.
For more information please visit http://www.game.co.uk or hashtag #GAMESOCKS on twitter for pictures and news.
Posted in 2, Developer, game, games, Games Developer, job, Jobs, train, train 2 game, Train2Game, www.train2game-news.co.uk | Tagged 2, development, game, Games Developer, games industry, Socks, Trade In, train, Train2Game
Train2Game News Holograms From Your Phone
IKIN, the leading provider of visual technology solutions for businesses, announced it is creating an SDK for iOS holographic rendering, with professional services support from Unity Technologies.
The SDK will facilitate the deployment of multi-dimensional, volumetric rendering for iOS devices.
These capabilities, when utilized with IKIN’s upcoming RYZ mobile device accessory, will allow every developer and user to experience interactive 3-D, holographic images projected in open space, with user capabilities including interactive motion between holographic and standard environments, while conducting gameplay in new ways.
In addition, the drag-and-drop simplicity of the SDK enables quick and easy implementation of these advanced services in new and existing games.
“IKIN has reimagined how people can enjoy mobile experiences through new user visual technologies, including volumetric and holographic media design and gameplay,” said Taylor Scott, founder and chief technology officer at IKIN.
“With the help of Unity’s professional services, our SDK empowers creators, developers, and designers to stretch the limits of visual technology by bringing to market new experiences never before thought possible. Everyone wants Princess Leia floating over their phone. We want to replace Leia with you, your family, your experiences, and everything else you can imagine.”
IKIN delivers state-of-the-art holographic technology for business and consumer use.
Its patented RYZ software and mobile accessories enable full solid-state optical 3-D holographic imagery in ambient light over a smartphone, enabling holographic content to be enjoyed in virtually any physical environment.
According to Scott, IKIN’s holographic rendering and display capabilities are optimized for use in 5G networks by leveraging discreet Artificial Intelligence layers to improve real-time data transmission capacities for volumetric holographic projections that enhance communication and interaction.
“Behind the scenes, IKIN’s technology manages bandwidth consumption to make things work smoothly across today’s 4G networks, but also the 5G infrastructure. As 5G networks come online, we anticipate that our technology will become a cornerstone of next generation gaming applications that will flourish in 5G environments,” Scott continued.
To find out more about what IKIN are doing you can go to https://ikininc.com/
Posted in 2, Developer, game, games, Games Developer, iOS, mobile, train, train 2 game, Train2Game, www.train2game-news.co.uk | Tagged 2, development, game, Games Developer, games industry, Hologram, IKIN, iOS, RYZ, SDK, Tech, train, Train2Game
Train2Game News Pokémon Go Buddy Adventure
Posted on December 18, 2019 by Train2Game Blogger Team
Niantic and The Pokémon Company announced that the Buddy Adventure feature will soon arrive in Pokémon GO, adding all-new ways for Trainers to interact with their Pokémon.
Buddy Adventure leverages the cutting-edge augmented-reality technology of the Niantic Real World Platform to understand the world around Trainers and further blend the real and digital worlds together.
Buddy Adventure will give Trainers the ability to interact with their Buddy Pokémon like never before.
When AR+ mode is enabled, a Buddy Pokémon will react to its Trainer, who can directly play with and feed their buddy to earn new Perks.
Trainers can also look forward to a new shared AR mode which will launch for Pokémon GO after the initial launch of Buddy Adventure. Shared AR mode will allow up to three Trainers using AR+ to take a group photo of their buddies together—perfect for creating epic Pokémon moments and capturing new memories with friends.
For developer insights, check out the blog post here.
A brand-new trailer celebrating the upcoming launch of Buddy Adventure in Pokémon GO can be found below…
The video highlights the new ways players can interact with their Buddy Pokémon and features an acoustic version of Queen’s “You’re My Best Friend,” performed by Paul Canning, capturing the love and friendship people can experience with their buddies.
Posted in 2, Android, Developer, game, games, Games Developer, iOS, mobile, train, train 2 game, Train2Game, www.train2game-news.co.uk | Tagged 2, Buddy Adventures, development, game, Games Developer, games industry, GO, Pokemon, train, Train2Game
Train2Game News GameBlast 2020
SpecialEffect’s annual GameBlast fundraising spectacular is back over the weekend of 21-23 February 2020, and the charity are inviting gamers to hit £1M raised over the event’s seven-year history.
GameBlast is the UK’s largest charity gaming weekend and has raised nearly £800,000 so far to support disabled gamers.
It’s a festival of sponsored gaming marathons, streams and events taking place in a multitude of bedrooms, lounges, village halls, colleges and studios, all with the aim of helping the charity transform the lives of more gamers like Joe.
Joe has Duchenne muscular dystrophy and although he can’t use a standard games controller or keyboard because of his very limited abilities, he can still enjoy the excitement and inclusion of video games because of a customised controller setup put together by the charity.
He’ll be one of the gamers taking part in GameBlast20.
“I’m playing because I know what a big difference SpecialEffect make to young disabled people’s lives,” he said this year. “I was finding it very difficult to use my computer because of my disability so they came to assess what specialised equipment I needed. They managed to get me playing games again.”
SpecialEffect’s Tom Donegan said, “GameBlast is such an important event for us, not only because of the donations it generates but also the way in which it connects our work to the gaming community at large. People are so inventive with the challenges they set themselves, and the range of activities is always such a joy to see! It’s always a fantastic feel-good weekend, with gamers coming together to help their fellow gamers. It’s the best excuse to game ever.”
You can sign up for GameBlast20 at https://www.gameblast20.org.uk and keep up with the action at https://twitter.com/gameblast
Posted in 2, Developer, game, games, Games Developer, train, train 2 game, Train2Game, www.train2game-news.co.uk | Tagged 2, 2020, Charity, development, game, GameBlast, Games Developer, games industry, gaming, SpecialEffect, train, Train2Game, UK Games Industry
Train2Game News EGX Rezzed Tickets Available Now
Posted on December 3, 2019 by Train2Game Blogger Team
Gamer Network are delighted to announce that EGX Rezzed will return to London’s Tobacco Dock, on the 26 – 28 March 2020!
Tickets are now available for gamers to gain the opportunity to play the very best pre-release games and hundreds of other breakthrough indie titles, all being showcased alongside many iconic game developers, each sharing their unique insight into the gaming industry.
EGX Rezzed is where indie games shine – an essential event for both creators and players.
Much loved gaming personalities from the likes of Outside Xbox and Dicebreaker are already confirmed for the 2020 show, with Outside Xbox bringing their ever-popular Oxventure Dungeons & Dragons show on both Friday 27th and Saturday 28th.
Tickets are available now from the official EGX Rezzed website priced from £20.
Posted in 2, Developer, game, games, Games Developer, job, Jobs, train, train 2 game, Train2Game, www.train2game-news.co.uk | Tagged 2, Available, development, EGX, game, Games Developer, games industry, Rezzed, Tickets, train, Train2Game
Train2Game News Enthusiast Gaming Largest In UK & US
Enthusiast Gaming Holdings Inc. is excited to announce that its digital media network of websites and YouTube channels has been further verified as the largest gaming information network in North America and the United Kingdom by Comscore, a leading third party media measurement and analytics company.
The measurement firm recently verified the network as the largest gaming information network in the U.S. and has now extended that to include all of North America and the U.K., which combined represent the largest developed global digital advertising markets and account for a major share of global gaming revenue.
Generating almost one billion total views a month, Enthusiast Gaming’s network of over 100 gaming websites and 900 YouTube channels now reaches more combined unique visitors across desktop, mobile and video platforms than any other gaming information entity in each market.
In North America, this reach is now 44% greater than the next nearest entity, while in the U.K. this reach is now 102% greater than the next nearest entity.
Menashe Kestenbaum, President of Enthusiast Gaming commented, “We now have the largest gaming network in two of the largest developed gaming markets in the world, verified by Comscore.
Our network has amassed significant size and scale in a short period of time, and we can now focus on our strategy of delivering unique and effective direct advertising and sponsorship experiences for our clients.
Being verified by a trusted third party analytics company like Comscore gives our sales team a significant advantage when speaking to brands and agencies about how Enthusiast’s integrated advertising platform can be uniquely leveraged to reach more gamers than any other platform in North America or the U.K.”
The gaming industry is rapidly growing, and is now bigger than the music industry and box office combined.
Being verified as the largest gaming network in North America and U.K., positions Enthusiast Gaming as a leading platform for brands and agencies trying to reach the elusive gamer demographic. With the global gaming market set to reach almost $200bn by 2022, according to Newzoo, the Company continues to focus on its growth strategy of increasing revenue per user by driving direct sales and unlocking new revenue opportunities to capitalize on the increasing share of wallet moving to the gaming industry.
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Posted in 2, Developer, game, games, Games Developer, train, train 2 game, Train2Game, www.train2game-news.co.uk | Tagged 2, Biggest, developer, Enthusiast Gaming, game, Games Developer, games industry, Gaming Network, train, Train2Game, UK, US
Train2Game News Bungie Raised $1.6 Million For Charity
Posted on November 20, 2019 by Train2Game Blogger Team
Bungie Foundation is proud to confirm the success of its first Game2give charity event with over 1.6 million dollars raised to support Bungie Foundation’s iPads for Kids Program and Children’s Miracle Network benefitting kids in hospitals across the United States and Canada.
Destiny fans proved once again their commitment and generosity through 40,000 individual contributions and the support of 5.5K streamers across 104 countries.
“At Bungie, our purpose is to create worlds that inspire friendship, and we are so very grateful for our community to embrace this so strongly.
We see this play out each and every day as lifelong friendships are forged, Guardians support their fellow Guardians both inside and outside of our game, and when our community rallies together for incredible causes such as supporting kids in hospitals.” declared Christine Edwards, Sr. Manager, Bungie Foundation.
Fore more information about Bungie Foundation, please visit bungiefoundation.org
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Train2Game News Golden Joystick 2019 Results
The wait is finally over as the results of the 37th Golden Joystick Awards are revealed.
The winners were announced today at the award ceremony held at London’s Bloomsbury Big Top and live streamed on Twitch and YouTube.
More than 3.5 million public votes were cast to determine the winners in 19 categories, including Ultimate Game of the Year, Most Wanted Game and PlayStation, Xbox, PC and Nintendo Games of the Year. Five critics choice awards were also revealed, including Lifetime Achievement, Outstanding Contribution, Breakthrough Award and the Critics Choice.
The 2019 Golden Joystick Award winners are:
Best Storytelling: Days Gone
Best Multiplayer Game in partnership with Servers and Gameye: Apex Legends
Still Playing Award: Minecraft
Best Visual Design: Devil May Cry 5
Best Indie Game: Outer Wilds
Esports Game of the Year in partnership with Corsair: Fortnite
Best Audio: Resident Evil 2
Best Game Expansion: GTA Online – Diamond Casino Update
Best VR / AR Game: Beat Saber
Best Gaming Hardware: Nvidia 20-series Super graphics cards
Best Performer: Logan Marshall-Green
Studio of the Year: Epic Games
Best New Streamer / Broadcaster: Ewok
Breakthrough Award: Untitled Goose Game, House House
Mobile Game of the Year: BTS World
Outstanding Contribution: Life is Strange
PC Game of the Year in partnership with Magic: The Gathering Arena: World of Warcraft Classic
PlayStation Game of the Year: Days Gone
Xbox Game of the Year: Gears 5
Nintendo Game of the Year: Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
Most Wanted Game: Cyberpunk 2077
Critics Choice Award: Control
Lifetime Achievement: Yu Suzuki
Ultimate Game of the Year: Resident Evil 2
Daniel Dawkins, Content Director, Games and Film at GamesRadar+ said:
“What a fantastic night and what a year it has been. The Golden Joystick Awards is now in its 37th year – the longest running video gaming awards ever – and each year it just keeps getting bigger and better. We had a whopping 3.5 million public votes this year and we are so honoured to have developers from all over the world with us tonight to collect their awards. But, the biggest thank you of all goes to the amazing gaming public who took the time to vote and watch the awards tonight. We are humbled by your support.”
The winners were announced live at The Golden Joystick Awards event in London tonight. The excitement kicked off at 3.15pm GMT with the pre-show, hosted by Alix Wilton Regan featuring an exclusive ‘Making of Arise: A Simple Story’ featurette. The packed show also included a special ‘Year in Review’ created by SpecialGun Productions (the team behind Videogamer) starring leading journalists and industry guests; plus a visit to CD PROJEKT RED, for a never seen before look inside the studio behind Cyberpunk 2077, complete with new interviews with the development team. This was followed by the main awards at 4pm GMT, hosted by comedian Danny Wallace.
You can catch up on all the action on:
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Twitter / Facebook – @goldenjoysticks
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Train2Game News Yorkshire Games Festival 2020
Assisting as a bastion for the UK’s ever-ambitious and successful games industry in the north of England, the National Science and Media Museum is excited to announce that the much-celebrated Yorkshire Games Festival will return to Bradford for its fourth outing between 5-9 February 2020.
Once again, the five-day event will be pitched at developers, gamers, and families alike, offering a wide variety of events and activities to appeal across the spectrum. Leading the line from an industry perspective, however, will be the Games Talks sessions from professionals and experts running across two dedicated days, 6-7 February.
Tickets for Yorkshire Games Festival: Game Talks 2020 are now available and can be picked up at the Yorkshire Games Festival website.
Heading up the line-up next year will be a bewitching mix of both developers and journalists, ensuring a heady blend of insight and inspiration for all attendees. Said billing will include famed indie developer Mike Bithell of Bithell Games, best known for Thomas Was Alone, Volume, and most recently John Wick Hex; Chloe Crookes of Team17 who serves as Senior QA Analyst; Sumo Digital level designer Zi Peters whose work at the company includes Hitman 2 and earlier in his career, Halo Wars 2; Patrick O’Luanaigh, CEO of award-winning virtual reality developer nDreams; renowned journalist Alysia Judge, whose work has been published in the BBC, The Guardian, IGN, and The Independent; Lead Animator Emma Hollingsworth of UK-based publisher Coatsink; and celebrated UK studio Rare will talk about the making of its swashbuckling multiplayer pirate action game Sea of Thieves. Further speakers will be announced in the future.
“We’ve made a point of providing a welcome environment for industry luminaries to come and lay open their views, their experiences, and their knowledge to what is always an engaged and committed crowd,” says Festival Director, Kathryn Penny.
“The next Yorkshire Games Festival is going to be no different, building on that strong relationship we’re developing with the industry and bringing those voices to the next generation – a generation of creatives who can’t typically head to events elsewhere around the country. It’s a unique meeting of minds, making the next festival the best yet.”
Adding to the mix of the event will be a demo by Team17 of its forthcoming co-op party game Moving Out – coming to PS4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, and PC in 2020 – serving as the title’s first UK hands-on demo outside of London.
Team17 will also be setting up a pop-up Usability Lab at the museum, where attendees of the festival can get real-world experience of what it’s like to test games and give feedback.
“It’s exactly publishers like Team17 and activities like the Usability Lab that help us to illustrate just how wide and diverse the games industry is to our attendees,” continues Penny. “It’s very easy for those just thinking about starting out in games to have their eyes fixed on the big glamorous jobs at the Triple-A studios and not realise the industry has a wealth of other jobs and professions to offer.”
As such, also making the line-up this year are the developers behind CBBC’s online multiplayer game Nightfall, who will be showcasing the game at a dedicated play station across the course of the Let’s Play Family Weekend – running between 8-9 February – allowing up to 30 children to take it on at once. There will also be a gallery detailing the development of the game, alongside the chance to talk to those involved. It’s one of many opportunities for those starting out in the industry to see the other avenues to operating a successful business: it doesn’t all have to be Triple-A killer-apps for consoles.
Indeed, attendees will be able to get further insight into possible pathways in the world of games via “Meet the Developers” networking sessions, as well as dedicated career surgeries designed to shine a light on potential vocations, plus the return of the Young Developers Conference for 11-18 year olds, once again in partnership with BAFTA and the BAFTA Young Game Designers initiative.
For developers, Yorkshire Games Festival can also announce it has begun canvassing for games to exhibit at the Northern Games Showcase, with the remit being to show off to best the north of the UK has to offer to the festival’s throng of attendees.
If you’d like your game to be part of the mix, please contact Jack.Weedon@scienceandmediamuseum.org.uk.
The full schedule across the course of the week will be: –
Game Talks – 6-7 February: Talks featuring Mike Bithell of Bithell Games, Zi Peters of Sumo Digital, nDreams’ Patrick O’Luanaigh, journalist Alysia Judge, Chloe Crookes of Team17, Emma Hollingsworth of Coatsink, and celebrated Sea of Thieves studio Rare.
Young Developers Conference – 5-9 February: In partnership with BAFTA, the Young Developers Conference is a free and accessible event for young game developers. The conference will help provide opportunities to learn valuable skills and gain knowledge through talks, workshops and masterclasses led by industry professionals.
Let’s Play Family Weekend – 8-9 February: A weekend focus on families, young game developers, gaming enthusiasts and everyone in between, promoting intergenerational gameplay and learning. It features the BBC’s Nightfall, a Rocket League tournament in partnership with the British Esports Association, an exhibition of development projects from investment venture XR Stories looking at immersive and interactive technologies for storytelling, and a panel discussion about responsibility in video games chaired by Alysia Judge.
Keep your eye out for more announcements in the weeks ahead.
More details on the festival can found on the Yorkshire Games Festival website.
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Train2Game News How To Watch The Golden Joystick Awards
The 37th Golden Joystick Awards ceremony takes place this Friday 15th November in central London, when the great and the good of gaming will come together to recognise the games that have wowed the public and critics this year.
But don’t worry if you don’t have a ticket, you can watch all the action live on Twitch and YouTube from 7.15am PST / 10.15am EST / 3.15pm GMT.
Dan Dawkins, Content Director, Games and Film at Future said: ‘Yet again the competition has been fierce with record numbers of votes cast in many categories. With many games having multiple nominations such as Outer Wilds, Control, Resident Evil 2, Days Gone, Sunless Skies and Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, I can’t wait to see who comes out on top this Friday.”
The excitement kicks off at 3.15pm with the pre-show, hosted by Alix Wilton Regan featuring an exclusive ‘Making of Arise: A Simple Story’ featurette.
The packed show also includes a special ‘Year in Review’ created by Special Gun Productions (the team behind Videogamer) starring leading journalists and industry guests; plus a visit to CD PROJEKT RED, where we’ll get a never seen before look inside the studio behind Cyberpunk 2077, complete with new interviews with the development team.
This is all followed by the main awards at 4pm, hosted by comedian Danny Wallace.
More than 3.5 million public votes were cast this year to determine the winners in 19 categories, including Ultimate Game of the Year, Most Wanted Game and PlayStation, Xbox, PC and Nintendo Games of the Year. Five critics choice awards will also be revealed on the night, including Lifetime Achievement, Outstanding Contribution, Breakthrough Award and the Critics Choice Award.
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Posted on July 10, 2012 by Tom
I started compiling this playlist for a friend, but then realized I hadn’t posted for some time and so I thought I’d share it here too. What I’ve got here, (besides a couple of tracks) is a mix of new music I’ve found while sifting through blogs and music sites.
TV Girl:
A band from LA, they’re slowly on the rise, give them a year and they’ll touring the states, and hopefully Europe. It’s feel good electronic, indie shoe-gaze goodness. I’ve been enjoying pretty much all their releases.
Tyler Lyle:
This is my favourite track from his album, it’s got a good pace that seems to get more enjoyable as the song progresses. The other songs on his album are worth checking out too.
I dug and found gold with this guy, he’s from Czech Republic even though he sounds very American. I love this track, it’s part of a series from his EP that all seem to be about childhood. His album is free, and it’s very good.
surely i come quickly:
I don’t even know how I found this guy, but his music is really enjoyable. It comes from an album called, you never wanted me. I believe the artist is from Saskatoon, Ca. The low-fi recordings really do add to the atmosphere of his music.
Soko:
This girl is pretty well-known around the blogs, and I believe made an appearance in the charts. She’s got some nice music vids, one directed by Spike Jonze. I love her voice, and even though this is a pretty sad song, It takes you on an ‘enjoyable’ journey I think.
Birds of America:
An American artist from Oakland, described as Dub/Folk. This track is super chilled and builds nicely, it sounds like it was recorded in a barn after a good party. It’s been on repeat for a while on my iPod.
Tom Eddy:
A folk band from Seattle. This track comes from their album called, The Bread Maker’s Blues. I think it’s the plucking and soft vocals that makes this track fun to listen to. Reminds me a bit of Herman Dune’s stuff.
Cass McCombs:
This is a pretty well-known artist in folk scene. He’s from Baltimore and has toured with a bunch of folky/rock artists. This track comes from his 2009 album, Catacombs.
Cotton Jones:
I love duets, XX are a good example, and these guys execute this song so nicely. This is an alternate version of their song, Gone The Bells, which they released on Soundcloud, I actually prefer it to the original. The dreamy guitar and bells sound beaut.
The Oh Hello’s:
These guys have an EP on Bandcamp which you can ‘name your price for’. They’re working on a full length album which looks promising as this song demonstrates a lot of talent. They say they’ve taken a lot inspiration from Mumford and Sons, personally i think they sound better.
Grand Salvo:
He’s known as ‘Australia’s Iron & Wine’, Grand Salvo has a knack of writing original songs about everyday observations. This is a song that triumphs on its simplicity. You might find you won’t take in the lyrics until the 3rd or 4th time since the acoustic instruments glide through your ears so gracefully.
Of Monsters And Men:
Time to pick up the tempo, this is another boy/girl duet. For me this is Edward Sharpe and XX mixed together. Of Monsters and Men is a 6 piece band from Iceland. This track is from their EP that was released in 2011, they’re currently working on bringing out a full album. They’re one to keep an eye on I feel.
Angus Stone:
I first heard of this artist back in 2007 when he released a single called Mango Tree with his half-sister, Julia. Definitely check out the song if you don’t know it. This track comes from his new album, Broken Brights, I hadn’t really been following his solo venture, so this album came to be a nice surprise.
Helios:
One of my all time favourite instrumental/ambient artists. He’s usually playing in my car during long drives through the countryside. literally love everything he produces, and somehow i missed this track from his last album, which resulted in a nice surprise.
Tallest Man on Earth:
Tallest Man on Earth hit the ground running with his 2008 debut album Shallow Grave and has been impressing fans and critiques since. This track comes from his newest album There’s no Leaving Now. It’s my favourite on the album – and no, he’s not putting on a Bob Dylan voice….
To Just Grow Away by Tallest Man on Earth
Alt-j:
I’ve started to spot adverts around London for Alt-J’s debut album An Awesome Wave. They’re a British band and have been gathering a lot of hype with their indie/electronic sound. I’m not gonna say I heard them before they got big because I don’t think I did. They’re playing at End of Road Festival this year which should be a treat.
Blackbird Blackbird:
Another of my favourite artists. I got to see Blackbird Blackbird play this year in the UK which was amazing. This guy constantly puts out great sounding music. This is one of his newest tracks, and it sounds like he’s far from losing his touch – nice one Mikey.
Fortune Howl:
I found this on some blog, it’s a remix of one of the songs from Wes Anderson’s new film Moonrise Kingdom. It’s a really enjoyable track to listen through.
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Master of Science in Nursing Handbook 2019-2020
Vision, Mission, Goals and Values of the College
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College of Nursing Certificate Programs
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The primary objective for University Marketing and Communications is to promote the University of Central Arkansas. The university has outstanding faculty, staff and students, and we work to generate information and promote these groups and individuals.
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Abdominal Compartment Syndrome Secondary to Retroperitoneal Hematoma as a Complication of ERCP After Liver Transplantation
S. Milanchi, D. Magner, S. K. Lo, A. S. Klein, Steven D Colquhoun, N. N. Nissen
Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) is frequently employed in the management of postoperative biliary complications in the liver transplant patient. Bleeding after ERCP most commonly presents as gastrointestinal bleeding and often can be managed with repeat endoscopy. ERCP can also be complicated by retroperitoneal hematoma, which in rare cases can lead to hemodynamic compromise due to relentless hemorrhage or from secondary abdominal compartment syndrome. We describe the first reported case of post-ERCP retroperitoneal hematoma in a liver transplant recipient that led to abdominal compartment syndrome and shock liver. We will present the case, discuss management, and review the complications of ERCP in the liver transplant recipient. Close post-procedure monitoring, rapid detection, and low threshold for decompressive laparotomy are keys to the successful management of the liver transplant recipient experiencing expanding retroperitoneal hematoma after ERCP.
Transplantation Proceedings
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.transproceed.2006.11.005
Intra-Abdominal Hypertension
Transplant Recipients
Milanchi, S., Magner, D., Lo, S. K., Klein, A. S., Colquhoun, S. D., & Nissen, N. N. (2007). Abdominal Compartment Syndrome Secondary to Retroperitoneal Hematoma as a Complication of ERCP After Liver Transplantation. Transplantation Proceedings, 39(1), 169-171. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.transproceed.2006.11.005
Abdominal Compartment Syndrome Secondary to Retroperitoneal Hematoma as a Complication of ERCP After Liver Transplantation. / Milanchi, S.; Magner, D.; Lo, S. K.; Klein, A. S.; Colquhoun, Steven D; Nissen, N. N.
In: Transplantation Proceedings, Vol. 39, No. 1, 01.01.2007, p. 169-171.
Milanchi, S, Magner, D, Lo, SK, Klein, AS, Colquhoun, SD & Nissen, NN 2007, 'Abdominal Compartment Syndrome Secondary to Retroperitoneal Hematoma as a Complication of ERCP After Liver Transplantation', Transplantation Proceedings, vol. 39, no. 1, pp. 169-171. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.transproceed.2006.11.005
Milanchi S, Magner D, Lo SK, Klein AS, Colquhoun SD, Nissen NN. Abdominal Compartment Syndrome Secondary to Retroperitoneal Hematoma as a Complication of ERCP After Liver Transplantation. Transplantation Proceedings. 2007 Jan 1;39(1):169-171. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.transproceed.2006.11.005
Milanchi, S. ; Magner, D. ; Lo, S. K. ; Klein, A. S. ; Colquhoun, Steven D ; Nissen, N. N. / Abdominal Compartment Syndrome Secondary to Retroperitoneal Hematoma as a Complication of ERCP After Liver Transplantation. In: Transplantation Proceedings. 2007 ; Vol. 39, No. 1. pp. 169-171.
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Tour «Belaya Rus: Minsk - Grodno, 6 days»
Travel theme: Historical tour, Architectural tour, Culture and art
Time and place of dispatch: Minsk, train station, meeting at the carriege number 5 of your train
Route: Minsk - Mir - Nesvizh - Zalesie - Smorgon - Hiervyty - Nanosy - Grodno - Lida - Korobchitsy
The tour price includes:
Hotel accommodation: 5 nights
Meals: 6 buffet breakfasts + 6 lunches
Excursions (all entrance tickets included):
Sightseeing tour of Minsk, Trinity Suburb
Excursion "Architectural monuments of Peace and Nesvizh"
Excursion with tickets to Mir Castle
Excursion with tickets to the palace complex in Nesvizh
Excursion "Belarusian mosaic"
Excursion to the manor Oginsky in Zalesie
Excursion to the ethnocultural complex "Nanosy-Novoselie"
Equestrian sport circus show
Tour of the medieval castle in Lida
Grodno City Tour
Tour of the Castle Hill Grodno
Excursion to the Museum of the History of Religion
Excursion to the agrotourist complex Korobchitsy
Riding on the stagecoach
2-hour visit of water park in the hotel (accommodation in Belarus*** Hotel)
Information sheet, souvenirs and relevant city maps
Join our combined bus tour with departure from Minsk.
The program of the bus trip across Belarus.
Tuesday - Arrival in Minsk, transfer to the hotel. Hotel check-in fr om 00.10, receiving of an information sheet, map of Minsk. Buffet breakfasts.
Minsk Sightseeing Tour (3 hours).
During the excursion you will learn about the past and the present of the city. The Principality of Polotsk, the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, the Russian Empire, The Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic and the Republic of Belarus – that is the way that Minsk has passed during its life. You will see the most valuable architectural monuments of the city: Cathedral Orthodox and Catholic Churches of the ХVII-XVIII centuries; St. Peter and St. Paul's Church of the beginning of ХVII century and the "Red" Church; the oldest street Nemiga which started its way from the Minsk castle, and the picturesque Upper Town.
The main sights of Minsk wait for you!
The historic centre of Minsk – the Upper Town – attracts the visitors with its unique atmosphere of the past which is felt in its old buildings and on its narrow streets wh ere museums, cafes and restaurants, boutiques and sculptures are located. Magnificent architectural ensembles of the main squares and avenues of the city, monumental constructivist public buildings, parks and public gardens will burst upon your eyes. The tragedy of the citizens in the years of the World War II; modern Minsk of the ХХ-ХХI centuries – these points will also be in the picture of the excursion. Walking down the Trinity Suburb you will see different museums, cafes, taverns and gift shops.
Lunch at the restaurant in the centre of Minsk. Return to hotel near 15.00, overnight stay Minsk.
The main sights of Belarus wait for you!
Wednesday- Buffet breakfasts.
9.00 Excursion "Architectural monuments of Mir and Nesvizh" (about 11 hours). You will see the most valuable monuments of Belarus inscribed on the World Heritage List by UNESCO - the Castle in Mir and the palace and park ensemble in Nesvizh.
The majestic Mir Castle, built in the first quarter of the 16th century, its bright architectural appearance, powerful walls and towers, the stone-paved courtyard leave unforgettable impressions, complemented by a tour of the museum exhibition. Immersion in the atmosphere of the life of its owners begins fr om the basements, where foodstuffs were stored and wine cellars were located, and ends with the Ballroom, full of rococo luxury. Next to the castle is the Art Nouveau church, the tomb of the last titled owners of the castle, the princes of Svyatopolk-Mirsky. The historical part of the village of Mir miraculously preserved the flavor of the former cozy town, wh ere for centuries together Belarusians, Poles, Jews, Gypsies, Tatars lived together. The Orthodox Church, the Catholic Church, the synagogue, the yeshiva, the houses of artisans and merchants form the ensemble of its Market Square.
Further during our excursion you will see Nesvizh.
Half-hour transfer to Nesvizh - the former capital of ordination of the princes Radziwill. On the Market Square of this picturesque small town, the town hall, ancient trading rows, houses of craftsmen are preserved; Slutskaya Brama (17th century city gate) is next to it. Inspection of the palace and park complex of the XVI-XVIII centuries, built by Nikolai Krzysztof Radziwill "Sirotka", surrounded by high earthen ramparts and vast ponds. Elements of Renaissance, Baroque and Classicism are intertwined in its architecture. The majestic castle-palace is a system of buildings connected into a single ensemble, forming an elegant main courtyard. Inspection of impressive expositions in the palace complex - the ceremonial halls of the palace. Walk through the picturesque parks adjacent to the castle. Acquaintance with the Farn Church (1593, architect Bernardoni): the magnificent frescoes of the temple, the crypt in the dungeon - the family tomb Radzivils - put this shrine among the most valuable in Belarus. The tour tells about the history of the Radziwill dynasty - one of the most influential families of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, who left a deep imprint on the cultural heritage of the Belarusian people and the entire European civilization.
Return to Minsk around 19.00, free time, walking around the city. Overnight in Minsk.
You will see much more sights on the third day of our excursion.
Thursday - Buffet breakfasts.
Excursion "Belarusian Mosaic". Today we’re heading for the picturesque north-west part of Belarus bypassing old Belarusian towns Zaslavl and Molodechno. The first point of our excursion is Zalesye Estate – the place where one of the most famous sons of Belarusian land spent 20 years of life. Mikhal Kleofas Oginsky was a government and civic leader, a diplomat, a composer, a memoirist, he was the author of the famous "Farewell to my Homeland" polonaise. The 250th anniversary of his birth was included into UNESCO Calendar of Events in 2015. The renovated palace of Oginsky will become a makeshift stage for animated performance about Zalesye Estate.
Book the excursion with the visit to Smorgon.
We continue with Smorgon town known for its Calvinist Cathedral of the 17th century (now St. Michael’s Catholic Church), the buildings of the 19th century and the only Memorial in Belarus devoted to bleak events of the First World War.
Restaurant lunch.
You will see the interesting sights of Belarus.
Our excursion goes on with the chain of the church architecture monuments of the 17-20th centuries.Book our excursion with departure from Minsk, and you will see:
1. Postmodern catholic church in Soly impressing by its wall painting which was built in the beginning of the 20th century.
2. One of the catholic churches in Ostrovets will remind us of the famous "white-haired consul" in Japan – Iosif Goshkevich – which was born in Belarus and now is buried near the church.
3. You will be definitely impressed by the incredible Neo-Gothic Catholic Church of Holy Trinity in Gervyaty village known from the 13th century. The visit of the church will make this excursion unforgettable.
Return to Minsk, overnight stay in Minsk.
Friday – Buffet breakfast
9.00 Excursion to the Nanosy agro-tourist complex (about 9 hours). The complex is located on the shores of Lake Naroch - the largest lake of Belarus and the pearl of the whole region. Amazing landscapes, the richness of flora and fauna, a variety of relief give this region of Belarus exceptional value! A visit to the complex will allow you to immerse yourself in the atmosphere of past centuries - here, man-made architectural monuments are side by side with non-human natural landscapes. In this picturesque complex near the lake, the culture and life of the rural estate life of the 19th century are recreated. A sightseeing tour of the complex includes a visit to the following objects:
Equestrian sport circus show (duration 35 min)
Water mill with a museum of life of the XIX-XX centuries. and homemade bread
Museum of samovars (over 500 copies, among which there are unique exhibits)
An observation tower with an exposure of moonshine and tasting
Collection of vintage cars
Return to Minsk, free time, walking around the city. Overnight in Minsk.
The route of the excursion with departure fr om Minsk conducts to Lida and Grodno.
Saturday – Buffet breakfast. Check-out.
Drive to Grodno. You will definitely remember beautiful landscapes and fascinating history of the settlements on the way to Grodno.
Book excursion to Lida and Lidsky castle on our website.
Arrival to Lida. Lida is known for its brick fortress, built nearly seven hundred years ago (1323) by Gediminas, the Grand Duke of Lithuania whose grandson Jogaila celebrated here his wedding with Sophia of Halshany hundred years afterwards.
Arrival to Grodno. Lunch. Hotel check-in.
Sightseeing excursion in Grodno.
The leading role in the historical-cultural heritage of Grodno is played by the remarkable architectural ensembles of different epochs and styles. The buildings of the Grodno architectural school of the XII century are found side by side with the buildings of modernism and constructivism of the XX century and what is more – Gothic, Renaissance, Baroque, Classicism. The most monumental and elegant Church of Grodno – the Farny Church (former Jesuistic) – impresses by the greatness of the frontage and sculptural luxuriance of the interior. At the streets parting fr om the former Market place there are the extant buildings of numerous monasteries – Catholic (Bernardine, Brigid, Franciscan) and Orthodox, as well as mansions of noblemen. During the excursion you will learn some facts about the life and work of Antoni Tyzenhaus, the nobleman and reformer, and the Gorodnitsa Suburb created by him. Excursion to the Castle Hill in Grodno which is located on the bank of Neman.
One of the oldest churches of Belarus - the Kolozhskaya church (XII century) – is situated near the Hill. The Royal Gothic castle was built in Grodno during the rule of Vytautas. At the end of XVII century the king Stephen Báthory rebuilt it into the Reneissance Castle, which had played a significant role in the history of the state. Close to it the New Castle (XVIII) is located, wh ere dramatic events of the second partition of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth took place – the so-called "Silent sejm". Visit of the museum in New Castle.
Free time, overnight stay in Grodno.
You will continue getting acquainted with the sights of Grodno.
Breakfast. Hotel check-out. Continuation of the sightseeing tour. The most complete information about the life of the city in past centuries is presented in a cozy Museum of the history of religion, which contains an impressive collection of artifacts related to the history of Grodno, its famous personalities.
Drive to Korobchitsy tourist complex.
The complex located in 12 km away from Grodno and looks loke 16-hectare territory styled as Belarusian-Polish estate of the XIX century with its beautiful landscapes, great and little ponds, pictorial buildings. Here you can feel the atmosphere of those times, innocence of nature. During the sightseeing tour you will see the forge, the house of a woodcarver, Gipsy van, beautiful summerhouses and open-air cages (horses, ponies, ostriches, deer, nutrias, peacocks, pheasants, wild boars). You will have the chance to make excellent pictures and have a good rest drinking a cup of tea or coffee at the restaurant "The Castle of Zevana" with its fountains, glass painting, chimney.
Return to Grodno.
Lunch. Free time.
Transfer to the railway station. Have a good trip!
The Mir Castle
Mir castle — one of the main sights of Belarus The Mir Castle is one of those attractions of Belarus that need no introduction. The world will al...
The Catholic Church of St. Francis Xavier in Grodno (Farny)
One cannot express in words the beauty of Grodno Farny Catholic Church! And photos as well will hardly be able to display all the monumentalit...
Lida Castle (the Gediminas Castle)
The history of Lida Castle appearance (the Gediminas Castle) One of the most ancient castles in the territory of modern Belarus is the Gediminas ...
The Lower and Upper Churches in Grodno (The Old Castle)
The Lower and Upper Churches in Grodno (The Old Castle) Grodno region is the only region in Belarus where the largest number of anci...
The Palace and Park Complex in Nesvizh
The Nesvizh castle in Belarus: history. The Radziwills' Palace and Gardens are spread out on the north-eastern outskirts of Nesvizh by the Usha Ri...
Berezinsky Biosphere Reserve
Domzheritsy
The Berezinsky Biosphere Reserve is situated in the northern part of Belarus. It is 125 km fr om Minsk and 140 km from Vitebsk. The village of Dom...
Augustow Canal
Nemnovo
Augustow canal is one of the most unique sights of Belarus. There are only two canals like Augustow Canal in the world that run through the territ...
Hotel Semashko
, Grodno , Belarus
Hotel Belarus
, Minsk , Belarus
Distance to airport: 44 km
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I Didn't Know That
I Didn't Know That: Teflon
Richard Ambrose and Jonny Phillips have some downhill fun by testing the slipperiness of teflon plastic.
VO: It's plastic that stops your eggs sticking in the morning. Yes, that's right, Teflon is a plastic.
JONNY PHILLIPS:Teflon is the world's slipperiest material. It's incredibly heat resistant, relatively tough and although it was originally used to make machine parts for industry and the US military, today it's used for all sorts of things. Mmmm.
VO:On car wiper blades to stop the squeaks, on sofas and carpets to protect against spills, in engines to help with lubrication, on light bulbs to stop them exploding, on glasses for protection against scratches and you can even get Teflon nail polish.
JONNY PHILLIPS: But I think they're missing a trick. Teflon the world's slipperiest material, that's gotta be great for sledging.
RICHARD AMBROSE: So we're gonna put our theory to the test and race this sledge with steel runners against this one with Teflon ones.
VO: So the boys have come to an indoor ski slope in Milton Keynes which has real snow. Now the rules are pretty simple, all they have to do is get to bottom as fast as possible and it should be a pretty fair test as Richard and Jonny weigh about the same and the only difference in the sledges is that one has steel runners and the other has Teflon. First up it's Richard on the steel runners.
RICHARD AMBROSE: Hey Jonny, eat my snow.
VO: Richard does a very credible if slightly out of control 10 seconds.
JONNY PHILLIPS: Now it's my go with super Teflon runners so hopefully I'll be a bit quicker.
VO: Teflon works because it's carbon atoms are coated with an impenetrable of super slippery fluorine atoms, but will they make Jonny's sledge run faster?
JONNY PHILLIPS: Wow, how did I do? What was my time?
RICHARD AMBROSE: [laughing] 9.2
JONNY PHILLIPS: And yours?
RICHARD AMBROSE: 10.
JONNY PHILLIPS: Come on, I rest my case, you're on Teflon...
VO: So, Teflon is the clear winner but Richard's still not convinced. He wants a re-match and this time it's head to head. Now Richard and Jonny take their sledging very seriously, but when Jonny cuts up Richard forcing him to run wide and crash, he's none too happy. Steady on lads, remember it's science we're interested in.
RICHARD AMBROSE: [out of breath] Oh, Teflon, it's much faster than steel.
VO: So Jonny wins on both occasions and proves that the very same Teflon that's on your frying pan really is the slipperiest plastic around.
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Despite Derek Fisher’s Firing, Carmelo Anthony Isn’t Waiving His No-Trade Clause
by: Ben KerchevalTwitter February 10, 2016
With Derek Fisher officially out the door as the head coach, New York Knicks have another priority on their mind: Keeping Carmelo Anthony. The veteran forward made it clear, however, he has no intention of waiving his no-trade clause. The deadline to do so is Feb. 18, but barring a surprising change of heart, it looks like Melo is dedicated to staying in New York no matter what.
“Yeah, I’ve been through worse,” Anthony told Newsday’s Al Iannozzone. “I’ve been through worse. At this point you become kind of immune to all… that goes on and the politics. You become immune to that. So my goal is to continue playing basketball, focus on the group of guys that I have in there and leave that faith to management to the front office.”
To Anthony’s point, the Knicks are the poster children for coaching turnover in the NBA. Since he joined the organization in 2011, there have been four different coaches, including interim coach Kurt Rambis. That has to be frustrating for any player, let alone one of Melo’s status. His desire to stay in New York should be a sigh of relief for Knicks fans — he has three years left on his contract — but that instability remains a constant concern.
The Knicks believe they can do better than Fisher, and early reports indicate Golden State assistant Luke Walton would be a top target:
Given the job he did with Golden State, and relationship with Phil, Luke Walton will figure prominently in Knicks' long-term search.
— Ken Berger (@KBergCBS) February 8, 2016
Melo’s faith in the Knicks’ front office stems from president Phil Jackson, and he’s probably reason enough to want to stick around. If the Knicks think they can do better than Fisher, then they better do it. Otherwise, Melo might not be so patient next time.
(Via Newsday)
Topics: #Carmelo Anthony, #New York KnicksTags: CARMELO ANTHONY, DEREK FISHER, NEW YORK KNICKS
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Pulimurugan – The legendary Hunter
by Admin October 17,2016 02:56 pm No Comments
Pulimurugan’s roar is getting stronger and stronger day by day. Even on working days, all the release centers in Kerala are fully packed. Vysakh and Tomichan Mulakuppadam are joyous than ever, because they made their point that a 25+ Crore INR budget movie can get through in Malayalam film Industry. And the best part is, the movie has already broke even. That’s right, in 10 days.
Pulimurugan is all about Murugan’s (Mohanlal) battles against wild, wild humans and the predators. The movie also has etched the family background of Murugan in such a way to engage those who love drama. Apart from the star himself, Kamalini Mukherjee, Jagapati Babu, Lal, Vinu Mohan, Bala, Nobi, Suraj Venjaaramoodu, Siddique, Namitha and Nandhu plays the key roles along with other artists.
When Udaykrishna and Siby K Thomas declared that they are parting ways for good, everybody around them flooded all the networks posting their criticisms on how they will end up. Udaykrishna has replied like a boss, with the very first arrow from his quiver. Pulimurugan which he penned alone, is all set to be the highest grosser from our small industry.
Vysakh’s recurring collaborator Shaji Kumar led the Camera department and composed spectacular visuals. The main locations were Hang Son Dung caves – Vietnam, Silent Valley, Mamalakandam and Pooyamkutty forests.
Peter Hein’s stunt choreography is the backbone of the thriller. Almost all the stunts were choreographed in such a way that the border between cinematic and realistic stunts got thinner than ever. Most of the toughest stunts were done without a body double and that’s what makes the 56 year old Lalettan, the undefeated emperor of Malayalam Film Industry.
Making video with the engaging theme song Gopi Sundar is out and setting new records.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZ6u4s7G4Dk
The makers are getting ready with the dubbed versions too. Telugu dubbed version will touch the silverscreens first, as Mohanlal has a huge fan base after the success of Janatha Garage and Manamantha (Vismayam). In pipeline, the sources confirmed that makers are planning to redub the movie in Hindi, English, Chinese and Vietnamese.
Murugan is on his way to the100 Crore club. Won’t take long!
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Saint Brigid
Brigid was the goddess of the Sacred Flame of Kildare and one of the goddesses worshipped by the Celtic peoples, including the druids. She was the goddess of all things perceived to be of relatively high dimensions. This includes high-rising flames, highlands, hill-forts, and upland areas. Also, activities and states conceived as psychologically lofty and elevated, such as wisdom, excellence, perfection, high intelligence, poetic eloquence, craftsmanship (especially blacksmithy), healing ability, druidic knowledge and skill in warfare. In the living traditions, whether seen as goddess or saint, she is largely associated with the home and hearth. She is a favorite of both Pagans and Christians.
St Bride’s day, wherever it is celebrated, is one of the clearest examples of a pagan festival being adopted by Christianity. Because even the name has not changed. St Bride or Brigid simply took over the mantle of the pagan Brigid, chief goddess of not only the ancient Irish but Celts across a wide swathe of western Europe. The name in Gaelic means ‘bright flame’. In northern Britain she was called Brigantia, chief deity of the Brigantes tribe who were often led by warrior queens. Elsewhere she was called Brigit, Bride, Brighid, Brigandu and Berecynthia.
The Triple Goddess
Whatever the precise spelling, Brigid was a triple goddess. Or, as it was sometimes put, there were three sisters all called Brigid who were the patronesses respectively of fertility, poetry and smithcraft.
As goddess of fertility Brigid was concerned equally with humans, animals, and vegetation. Everywhere she walked, flowers sprang up under her feet. In her shrine, it was always springtime and her herds never ran dry of milk. Brigid was the patroness of midwifery and of healing generally. She was particularly associated with sacred springs and holy wells, to which people would bring prayers and offerings to ward disease and barrenness. These wells were adopted by her Christian successor and many continue to be places of pilgrimage today.
As goddess of poetry, Brigid was keeper and dispenser of inspiration, the ‘fire of the soul’. The symbolism of water and fire is combined in the Cauldron of Inspiration, of which she is the keeper. She invented the Ogham alphabet and it is said of both pagan and Christian Brigids that they were struck in their forehead on birth by a shaft of fire from heaven.
As goddess of earthly fire, the third Brigid was the patroness of metalcraft and all smith-work. In legendary battle, her preferred weapons were the spear and arrow. One interpretation of her name is ‘Flaming Arrow’.
Saint Brigid’s Festival
Brigid’s festival was one of the four main events in the ancient Celtic calendar. This is because it marks the invisible reawakening of Nature within the cold earth. It was also called Oilmec, ‘Ewe’s Milk’ because it opened the season of lambing.
The Pagan goddess Brigid is perhaps one of the oldest goddesses of Celtic Europe still recognized and worshipped. Until the mid-twentieth century in Scotland, she was still welcomed in at Imbolc by the symbolic rekindling of the hearth fire after the house had been cleaned from top to bottom for spring.
After celebrating Imbolc it is symbolic to make a Brigid’s Cross out of hay or raffia and hang it at your front door. This is said to be for protection during the rest of the year.
While making your cross, ask St. Brigid to protect and guard your home against negative energy, from strangers and thieves. Ask her to bring love and light in the through the front door every time you enter.
May Brigid protect your home and all who live within its walls.
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HBO confirms a seven-episode season 7 of Game of Thrones airing next summer
Posted on July 18, 2016 by Hear Marko Roar · 213 Comments
HBO has just released their plans for season seven of Game of Thrones. It is now official that the episode count for next year stands at seven episodes. The filming is slated for “later this summer.” We already knew that the beginning of the season 7 production will take place later than usual; now the new season is to premiere in “summer 2017”. No specific date has been given yet.
“Now that winter has arrived on Game of Thrones, executive producers David Benioff and D.B. Weiss felt that the storylines of the next season would be better served by starting production a little later than usual, when the weather is changing,” HBO programming president Casey Bloys says. “Instead of the show’s traditional spring debut, we’re moving the debut to summer to accommodate the shooting schedule.”
The press release confirms Spain and Iceland as overseas locations (with Northern Ireland as the base, naturally). More specifically for Spain, it lists the following sites: Sevilla, Caceres, Almodovar del Rio, Santiponce, Zumaia and Bermeo.
Sevilla most likely refers to the returning location of the Real Alcázar, which stands in for Dorne’s Water Gardens.
Almodovar del Rio is a small city located in Córdoba province; most likely Game of Thrones is headed for the 1300-year-old Muslim castle found in the city, pictured at the top. As we reported in early June, the show was scouting several locations for old castles for season 7 and the Castillo de Almodóvar del Río is a beautiful one.
As for Zumaia, Game of Thrones’ interest in the city and in its Itzurun Beach was noted in late June.
Caceres. Photo: UNESCO.org
Santiponce is in Sevilla province. Most notably, the city contains the ruins of Italica, a preserved Roman settlement. There’s an amphitheater pit and mosaics among the ruins.
Among its attractions, Cáceres has an Old Town of its own, which has been designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The Old Town has a number of buildings, narrow streets, and plazas that would serve well as settings for Game of Thrones‘s inner cities.
Bermeo is more of a question mark. The coastal Basque city could serve a number of purposes for the show, with their own beaches, old quarters and structures that might do nicely as part of Game of Thrones.
Not so surprising to have confirmation the season 7 premiere is officially bumped to summer, but it’s good to have word from HBO! What do you all think of the new locations? What might they be for season 7?
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Vyse says:
Davos!
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AlexG says:
🙁 Who´s gonna watch if everybody is on vacation???
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Bummed for the wait, but think it’s for a good reason, makes sense. At least we know when the show is coming back. Still have no idea when book 6 will be out.
Sean C. says:
They’re pretty much guaranteed to miss the 2017 Emmys, as a result. It’ll also be interesting to see what kind of knock-on effect this has on the scheduling of Season 8.
Iceland filming confirmed, then.
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Rella says:
AlexG:
I’m with you!
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serum says:
Highgarden!
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Sean C.:
They’re pretty much guaranteed to miss the 2017 Emmys, as a result.It’ll also be interesting to see what kind of knock-on effect this has on the scheduling of Season 8.
Good point, shame they will miss the Emmys that year. The competition will probably be happy!
Although there was a nice reduction in recurring characters in the last episode there are still some big names. See the math below showing that if the lengthen the episodes a bit there might not actually be much reduced air time. This could be a reaction to all the increased salaries per episode.
10×44 = 440
7×60 = 420
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Rainy Seasons says:
Seriously Castillo de Almodóvar del Río looks very much like Highgarden to me
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AlexG,
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Lulus Mum says:
Don’t know about other countries, but here in the UK when you go to the beach as a kid you can get buckets to build sand castles with and that top picture is exactly what they look like when you have a few together. Even down to the tiny flags. Ok, they don’t have windows but I like to imagine the architect honed their art on a beach, while eating ice creams with flake bars in them, siting in a stripy deck chair and watching people take donkey rides 😀
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Vyse,
They can always submit requests for exceptions, as certain comedies that have an hour-long slot have done to accommodate the newest set of Emmy rules.
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HotPinkLipstick says:
I’m not sure D&D care that much for the Emmy season. They won Best Drama last year, so the monkey is off their back.
It seems a lot of the action is going to happen up North and thank fuck we might be done with Essos of Boring. It’s about fucking time.
On the other hand, a whole year of tracking down spoilers and reading speculation. …Thank god Mr. Robot is back.
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BunBunStark says:
The wait for summer 2017 wouldn’t be so bad if it were for a 10 episode season, but knowing it will only be 7 episodes makes this news even harder to take. At least everything is confirmed now. Sigh.
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Penny Douglas says:
I totally understand the delay but for the fans, we are truly gonna miss it til then. That’s a long wait, but will be worth it I know. It just means it will be even more epic
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I don’t think it has anything to do with salaries. D&D have been pretty consistent that they don’t think there’s 20 episodes’ worth of story left, and also that the production is constantly straining to produce ten episodes a season, which would presumably only get more difficult as VFX proliferates in the final seasons.
Akash Singh,
Not the same. The drama/comedy classifications are default rules that can be overriden on appeal. The airing window is not subject to grants of exception, as far as I know.
Sean C.,
I don’t pay any attention at all to awards, hence the question, but wouldn’t that just mean it’s eligible for the 2018 awards instead? Or am I missing something here? ?
EDIT: This might be read as if I’m being rude, but it’s just a genuine query, no snark implied 😀
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Akash Singh:
Didn’t know that, nice!
Who´s gonna watch if everybody is on vacation???
I don’t know what kind of jobs y’all have that afford the luxury of a 7 week vacation, but I won’t be on vacation all summer and will definitely be watching each episode live. And besides, there are so many ways to watch now, one doesn’t have to be at home to watch GOT. I was at a wedding when 6×04 aired and some of us still managed to gather around a phone and catch a few minutes of the episode.
Newbietothegame says:
With Seville being on location Dany might land her troops in Dorne?
Very bummed about the season being pushed back. But with the filming starting late I want them to take their time and deliver superb episodes.
Sooo, only seven episodes and not until Summer 2017.
Excuse me for a moment while I go scream into a pillow.
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Sad they will miss the Emmys, but its nice to see D&D willing to let it go for the sake of the show.
I am sure HBO might not be happy about that, but if its the right thing to do, I’m glad they allow D&D to have the freedom they need.
Sister Kisser says:
Almodovar Del Rio looks a lot like how I’ve imagined Highgarden (but, why would we need to see this?) So maybe…… Casterly Rock?
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Mormont says:
I swear to god if these episodes are 50 minutes long I’ll be so mad
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Richard:
I like your thinking! I could definitely handle fewer episodes if we don’t lose out on content. They don’t exactly sound like they’re rushing, either.
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Halfman says:
Sister Kisser,
That was my first thought. If Cersei is deposed by Dany, but not killed off, she may escape to Casterly Rock and plot her next move.
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Oh you sweet summer child, just wait until you are out of college/university/school, and you’ll see that most people actually work during your summer break.
And even when on vacation, people still watch TV.
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It looks like Casterly Rock, too, if they can CGI an ocean behind it. No?
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RhaenyraTargaryen says:
Actually… when The Battle of the Bastards aired, my boyfriend and I were on vacation in St. Maarten and we watched it on the iPad lol.
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No Emmys then for season 7. I don’t think a summer return is all that wise, but they’ll get the ratings anyway, though I don’t know if they top season 6 ratings with a summer return.
Dee Stark says:
Noooooooooo
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Red Viper says:
We knew this was coming. I’ve already made my peace with Game of Thrones coming to an end … it’s weird… like grieving!!
Based on the last season, and the last two episodes, I am 100% confident that D&D will make sure that the short seventh and eighth seasons will be spectacular and will leave us with a 73-75 hour epic saga for the ages, one that we will be able to enjoy forever.
Oh … and …. miniseries and spin-offs will come. Eventually.
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Lulus Mum,
Yes, they’d be eligible the following year. It’s just noteworthy since it creates a gap; not unheard of, e.g., it happened with Breaking Bad.
Effectively, the show will have gone from the tail end of one eligibility period to the very beginning of the next.
Gfx says:
Does this mean episode six will be the big battle? 😉
But if it’s as good as season six, I’ll be content.
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You know, GRRM, this delay would be the perfect time to finally finish and release The Winds of Winter. I’m a show-fan-first but getting my hands on the book would sure help ease the year long wait for S7. Seize this opportunity, George.
Aaah I see, thanks. People’s (in general, not just your’s) OMG missing the Emmys comments made me think there might be something else afoot 🙂
caliopesnow says:
Great!! 🙂 Spain again!! South>>Sevilla, Almodóvar del Río, (Córdoba)
North>> Bermeo (amazing place!) and Cáceres (amazing people and city) I’m happy!!
Summer 2017, good for me!
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Sue the Fury says:
I wouldn’t worry about people tuning in. True Blood was regularly a summer series, and that did pretty well.
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Igor Thadeu says:
NO EMMYS? wtf? I hope they maintain the quality of the show, with high budget, I hope have some battle in season 7 as well.
I do not want a calm season, or some construction to season 8, I want a 7epic season 7.
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Zumaia AND Bermeo. Cannot believe my eyes!
The other locations are great as well, of course… But it’s great to learn they’re definitely going to film so close to where I live!
Northop says:
Yeah, but episodes are typically 54 minutes long. The seasons so far have been approx. 550 minutes, so a 420 minutes season would be a lot less.
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As long as HBO doesn’t have GoT airing on Sunday nights when there is football we will be okay.
I have a feeling if they push GoT to many weeks forward and they even have to compete with Sunday night preseason football that will hit the first view ratings hard.
My personal circle of family and friends do also gather for football picnics and stuff and there has always been a rule to watch your sports live and DVR the shows.
I am sure plenty of other American friends and families feel the same way so please HBO don’t fuck this up by making us chose between football and GoT!
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Dee Stark:
Heh, pretty much how I feel.
At least most of us here will be following filming spoilers, but Dee I don’t know how you’ll do it for the next 12 months. Good luck!!
coconut says:
Really cool that they’re (apparently) filming in a roman settlement. Itálica is were emperor Hadrian was born.
But I’m especially happy they’re filming in Cáceres, an often overlooked destination in Spain that has a really rich cultural heritage. <3
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It’s fine we can suffer two more months.Less episodes also means more budget for episode that’s good I guess.I also wouldn’t worry about the rating.It’s unstoppable at this point.Maybe first viewing rating will be a bit lower but overall viewing in all platforms will continue to grow.The emmys thing is also okay.They’ll miss next year but they can run in 2018.Breaking Bad missed one year I think also The Sopranos missed one too.
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BunBunStark,
I know 🙁 it’s going to be sooooooo hard
But I will not cave hahaha
Arthur,
Summer 2017 means it’ll be done before football season
Unless they start late mid to late August
I’m thinking they’ll probably air in June
Gator5000E says:
I wonder if this was done to allow Martin to release TWOW. Maybe he’s informed D&D that he will be publishing by then. I really don’t buy the cold weather excuse. They could find cold locales to film in if they really wanted to do so.
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AliMcMatto says:
Everybody! ?
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Hey! I´m so happy you guys think I´m a sweet summer child teenager that still has not graduated school but I´m not…Actually, Im a 50 year old mom and vacations are long and sacred in my family and where I come from…so yeah,hardly watch tv while on vacays
Mihnea says:
Sad news. 🙁
So they will nominate S7 for the Emmy’s in 2018? Like if they would have nominated S5 for this years Emmy’s?
Oh you sweet summer child…..
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Quinton O'Connor says:
Northop:
Came in to say this.
It’d be spectacular if the seven episodes are all longer than average, and I’m holding out hope for a finale that’s like 90 minutes, lol. But 44 minutes is nowhere near the length of the average GoT episode; no matter what, we’re going to feel the reduction in airtime going forward.
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coconut:
Thrones has given me so many ideas for holiday spots ?
Funnily enough, it also seems to work in the reverse: my neighbours just spent two weeks in Croatia and they came back begging to borrow the DVDs. From the sounds of it, it’s impossible to visit Dubrovnik without hearing about Thrones. They’re certainly curious now!
What if our winter never comes?
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Dee Stark,
Preseason football starts early August usually.
So for GoT to run 7 episodes and not run into the huge NFL/GoT Sunday night conflict the show would have to start at latest the 2nd weekend of June.
I am team Stark all the way but on Sunday nights if my team is playing I am team J-E-T-S JETS JETS JETS!
Been like that since I was 12 and even GoT can’t change that, just saying.
And I also know a lot of people in my circle feel the same way.
Sports live, DVR shows…
Ravyn says:
Gator5000E: They could find cold locales to film in if they really wanted to do so.
If it were that simple then maybe they could just fly to Antarctica. But there are other issues involved, like availability, suitability, and financials. They may have played the book game with Jon’s resurrection for GRRM, but its a reach to suggest they would rotate an entire giant production on the chance he might release that book.
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MeeraReed says:
Just looked at the calendar. With the spacing of July 4th and Labor Day, I’m predicting the debut date as July 9, 2017.
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Ravyn,
In my quest to find out which other shows have skipped a year of Emmys I fell into a YouTube void of watching Emmy clips and boy has television gotten way better in general in the last years.There is an embarrasment of riches now.At one point the competition was just between The sopranos and The West Wing in most of the categories which were both great shows but it seems a bit scarce that it was just those two lol
Yes this.They are based in Northern Ireland they are not going to change that.Plus it’s not like a month or two would help GRRM much.If it was a diference of month I’m sure his editors would just work faster and be in time.They have explained why they are doing this and it has nothing to do with George
jentario says:
Is season 8 confirmed to be a thing officially?
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Is that a typo version of West Side Story, the Jets and the Starks? 😀
Daks says:
Sucks to be getting it later but with how long shooting takes, I’m happy believing they’ll use the time just as wisely. And with the season being shorter, it leaves 3 less episodes to write, direct, score, and shoot, meaning all of those things can be better focused on the 7 episodes they have. With Dany and the dragons coming as well as the Night King moving in, I imagine the SFX will be an immense undertaking.
Like someone else said, the stories are less spread out now as well. We have no High Sparrow plot to follow anymore, no “No One” to spend time explaining, no need for Tyrion to explain jokes, and everyone is slowly condensing into areas so we don’t need the why they are there so extrapolated.
So all in all I’m optimistic. If they use the sacrifice of time well, I’m happy to have had to wait.
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dsadsa says:
Richard: bit there might not actually be much reduced air time. This
the only difference is that you are retarded and the average episode didn’t have 44 minutes for the last 6 seasons, the average was 55.
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JCDavis says:
It doesn’t matter to me when they air, it is what it is and crying about it won’t change a thing. Instead, brace for the long interval and get ready when the time comes. We managed this season and will again. Ain’t no mountain for a climber.
I have watched plenty of TV on vacations, especially at 9pm or later. Football? Not a priority over Game of Thrones for me. I can’t imagine that anything “new” is going to come along and capture my imagination like GoT’s has done. And there are plenty of other shows to watch ON DEMAND if I do feel the need to binge a different show.
I believe that they are going to kill it at the Emmy’s this year, like last year. The show has already had a ton of exposure, I just don’t think this is going to affect viewership.
Maybe it is like the stages of death….denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance. Everyone grieves differently. Maybe Sue and Co. have some new type of threads for us to help and keep it interesting.
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A dornish Tyrell says:
Cáceres is amazing!! My guess is that it will be the new set for King’s Landing… well, at least for some scenes there.
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Boojam says:
Richard: Although there was a nice reduction in recurring characters in the last episode there are still some big names. See the math below showing that if the lengthen the episodes a bit there might not actually be much reduced air time. This could be a reaction to all the increased salaries per episode.
During 10 episode seasons Benioff once said they shoot for 540 min. of screen time, tho it always comes up to more than that (it is never 600 min. , and I don’t know why). Interesting that HBO did not mention any episode length ,70 or 80 would be ok with me.
7×80 = 560.
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Sullied by Knight says:
I don’t know what it could be used for, but that San Juan de Gaztelugatxe in Bermeo is pretty impressive looking.
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Flayed Potatoes says:
RIP Emmys
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avkingoking says:
Highgarden! My theory confirmed! Randyll Tarly will betray Olenna and give Cersei control of the Reach
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BigMac says:
If there are less episodes this year, does that mean they have more money to spend on each episode? Or is the budget on a per episode basis?
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Boojam: During 10 episode seasonsBenioff once said they shoot for 540 min. of screen time, tho it always comes up to more than that (it is never 600 min. , and I don’t know why).Interesting that HBO did not mention any episode length ,70 or 80 would be ok with me.
I don’t know that average episode runtimes are ever mentioned in press releases. It’s not really a thing that studios sensationalize at all. To say nothing of the fact that before shooting, it’s impossible for the staff to predict the length of each episode.
I’m hoping the seven eps are longer, but 80 minutes per seems super-unlikely IMO.
flintstonewielder says:
BunBunStark:
He will seize it. New Wild Cards volume coming out in spring.
Hype train !!!
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Mag says:
The good part of only seven episodes is that there is less chance of bad jokes scenes that I hate. I hope they take the time to review their scripts and make a really great season 7.
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I was hoping this wouldn’t be the case, but after I heard Benioff and Weiss give that podcast interview a few weeks ago, I accepted that it was probably inevitable. So be it.
While it’s unfortunate that this schedule shift means that Game of Thrones will miss the eligibility window for the 2017 Emmys, that doesn’t mean that the Emmys will forget about the show. The Sopranos took over a full year off between Seasons 4 and 5, sat out the 2003 Emmys, and came back to win Outstanding Drama Series the following year. Between Seasons 3 and 4, Breaking Bad made exactly the same shift from a spring premiere to a summer premiere that Game of Thrones will be making. They sat out the 2011 Emmys, but returned stronger than ever the following year, and eventually went on to win the first of their two drama series trophies a year after that.
Game of Thrones will be just fine when it comes to awards recognition. I can’t promise the same for the fandom’s collective patience and sanity. 😉
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Flora Linden says:
I’m glad the series will continue filming in Spain, it’s such a beautiful country. I hope one of the locations will be for Casterly Rock.
The show airing during the summer could be fun – all the other major shows will have finished their seasons, so no distractions. GoT will have the summer all to itself.
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Jack Bauer 24 says:
44 is nowhere near the average runtime per episode. It’s much higher.
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Mihnea: So they will nominate S7 for the Emmy’s in 2018? Like if they would have nominated S5 for this years Emmy’s?
Correct. The Emmy eligibility season runs from June 1st to May 31st of the following year. GoT airing in the Summer will make it like Mr. Robot’s season 1 airing last Summer but is part of this coming Emmy’s. It gets weird because season 7 could/should be done airing by the time the 2017 Emmy Awards are on in mid-September but is basically ignored until 2018.
A series that has at least six episodes prior to May 31st is eligible for the current year and episodes after the 31st are “hanging episodes” included with the season. That’s what GoT managed to do for the first six seasons.
Firannion says:
At the risk of prodding the “George-will-never-finish-the-books” trolls, I will be pleased to have The Winds of Winter to read (probably more than once) in the interim. It will be fun to compare and contrast, and be reminded why the movie on the screen can never be quite as wonderful as the movie in our heads.
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Pre-season sucks. I understand not missing regular season games but pre-season? Besides, GOT plays at 9. Most games start at 7 in pre-season, don’t they? And honestly by the third quarter no one of importance is actually playing. Pre-season only exits to make the NFL more money than they already have.
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dsadsa: you are retarded
How do you think people who have loved ones with developmental disabilities feel when you use that word as an insult? Kindly come up with a less offensive term if you really cannot stifle your urge to be rude to fellow posters here.
Joey:
Isn’t Casterly Rock supposed to be literally carved into a gigantic rock outcropping, though? Not just perched atop a hill?
dsadsa: the only difference is that you are retarded and the average episode didn’t have 44 minutes for the last 6 seasons, the average was 55.
Way to keep it classy, dsadsa. *shakes head*
Almodovar del Rio must be Storm’s End. Why would they go to Highgarden???? I believe Danny will land at Dorne and afterwards they will take Storm’s End before going to King’s Landing.
Mawk says:
If they keep the same budget (or more) and can produce 7 episodes like those last 2 of S6…I’m good with this.
Crappy that its in Summer, but I’m usually back from any weekend event Sunday anyways as work week begins again on Monday…for another 35 years till I can retire.
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Vyse: shame they will miss the Emmys that year. The competition will probably be happy!
I wonder if being an Emmy-winner in the 2017 round will be forever tainted by this, like winning Olympic medals in one of the years when a lot of dominant countries boycotted, or like the asterisk permanently appended to poor ol’ Roger Maris’ breaking of Babe Ruth’s home run record because it took more games to do.
zod says:
Boojam,
The reason we will get shorter seasons is because D&D won’t have the resources (time + money) to produce ~550 minutes of footage this year, given all the big events that are bound to happen.
So, no, they won’t produce extra long episodes for S7, because that would completely defeat the purpose of having shorter final seasons.
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Lord Parramandas says:
Arrgh! The wait will take forever!!!
It premieres in summer 2017? Does that mean June? I hope it doesn’t happen in the middle of my exam weeks.
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Quinton O’Connor: I don’t know that average episode runtimes are ever mentioned in press releases. It’s not really a thing that studios sensationalize at all. To say nothing of the fact that before shooting, it’s impossible for the staff to predict the length of each episode.
I think so too. Tho HBO has variable time slots , after all they show movies that can range from 90 min. to nearly 3 hours. Not clear what determines the production time vs average season length. I do feel that some of the FLASH! visual narrative does hurt the story telling and that making each episode 60 min. would have helped , a little. Many , if not most of the less than 60 min. episodes seemed could have been helped with an extra 5 to 8 to 10 extra min.
Danny,
Be that as it may, I still guarantee you if GoT airs during any preseason game the GoT first viewership ratings will take a bigtime hit.
zod: The reason we will get shorter seasons is because D&D won’t have the resources (time + money) to produce ~550 minutes of footage this year, given all the big events that are bound to happen.
HBO has the money. Time Warner can make sure of that.
Bit worried this goes The Sopranos route. Their final two seasons were split and took forever to air. The Sopranos season 5 ended in 2004 and they split the final season 6, and it took 3 years for the series finale to air in 2007. I am worried this could happen with the final season 8. How delayed will the filming be for that season? First half of season 7 airing in the summer won’t end until September, perhaps October if it premiers in late August. You have to assume they’ll delay filming again for winter reasons for the final season. So, will those final season 8 episodes be in late 2018 again? Or pushed all the way to their normal spring release in 2019?
Thank you Jared -always the voice of reason!
Hoyti Von Totiy says:
Think about it, if the episode number is reduced and the budget remains the same or maybe even rises we can have 3-4 “big-battle” episodes next season.
The down side could be that the money saved from 3 missing episodes went on paying the main actors who had to be resigned this year on a bigger salary….
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Johan Sporre says:
What’s another month or two of waiting compared to the decade that will have passed? What’s important to me is that this just feels right. They’re doing things to accommodate artistic integrity, and that’s laudable. With how season 6 ended I’m happy to give D&D the leeway they need to finish GoT as they’d want with they right amount of airtime and the weather they think is necessary.
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The Dragon Demands says:
Well, does “summer” mean May or July?
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House Adder says:
Santiponce- Dragonpit in KL, what is left of them?
All summer long 2k17 we will watch Game of Thrones…
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The Wolves of Winter says:
Bit sad, but not surprised.
Already made peace with it that the season will air later. Figured it would happen at some point if they would need more winter weather when the story asks for it.
zod,
Yes, exactly. They are not gonna make the episodes longer. Maybe a little bit on a few episodes. But I wouldn’t hold my hopes up. We are simply gonna get more big sequences like BOB, which took 25 days to shoot and was really expensive.
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The Bastard says:
I would be suprised if season 8 wasn’t released in 2018. They need to do about 6 or 7 episodes maximum. Even with longer production schedules, it would be a shock for them to miss an entire calendar year.
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As for Bermeo, I could imagine them using Gaztelugatxe. It looks very impressive.
The Bastard,
Here was my thoughts on the final season 8, the problem is if it is indeed in 2018, do you want to release the ultimate final season in the summer again? I think they’ll still get good ratings, but it will be interesting to see how good with this season 7 in summer of 2017. If they decide against that and push the ultimate final season to the autumn of 2018 then it goes up against NFL Sunday Night Football and eventually the World Series as well. Do they really want that for their final season? So that’s why I’m wondering if they push the final season 8 all the way to their usual spring release, but this would be in 2019 if they did so.
Firannion:
At the risk of prodding the “George-will-never-finish-the-books” trolls, I will be pleased to have The Winds of Winter to read (probably more than once) in the interim.It will be fun to compare and contrast, and be reminded why the movie on the screen can never be quite as wonderful as the movie in our heads.
When I read ASOIAF (actually when I used to read ASOIAF), I always imagined characters from the TV series, even those whose descriptions don’t match. There are couple of exceptions though: I imagined TV Yezzan as Nurse instead of book Yezzan and I imagined TV Karl as Dirk instead of Clubfoot Karl.
And there were a couple of scenes that TV versions of them felt more powerful to me than those, which existed in my head. Tyrion’s speech at the trial is one of them.
One who waits says:
Fine. I guess I’ll just have to focus on real life instead of GOT. Bluh.
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Just no. GOT has a big budget, sure.. but its budget isn’t infinite, and it will never be. Money IS a factor.
Probably an even bigger factor is time though (as mentionned in my first response). Filming 550 minutes of footage in less than 10 months isn’t realistic anymore when the production becomes as big as it’s bound to be in S7.
thorne garnet says:
Casterly Rock is built into a rock, hence the name. It’s not a free standing castle
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Lyanna Mormont for the iron throne! says:
I might be the only one who is happy with a seven episode season. I buy HBO Now specifically for Game of Thrones and cancel it when it is over so this saves me a bit of money-I can watch the season for $30.00. I’m pleased with the Spain shots – I get to see Margarey’s grandmother though I’m still sad they killed of Margarey. I hope it doesn’t center around the getting more boring by the day Sand Snakes. Varneys and Olena (how do you spell her name) will be good together.
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Nobody’s going watch in the summer because of vacation? Of Fall because of football? Really? And the show will miss getting Emmy’s? Does this mean a lot of you aren’t going to watch next season? Unbelievable.
Johan Sporre,
Exactly! Well said!!
Firannion,
From what I see, San Juan de Gaztelugatxe would be perfect for the Casterly Rock, you just have to CGI a castle on top. Actually, if they are making a siege of the Casterly Rock, they can use Castillo de Almodóvar del Río for closer shots and San Juan de Gaztelugatxe for overall views/vicinity. Just a guess, of cause.
Summer officially starts June 21st next year, so it won’t be before that. They also won’t premiere 4th of July weekend so I’m thinking sometime in July or August.
Hoyti Von Totiy: Great news!
For many this would be great news, I suppose. But for viewers like me who prefer the twisty interpersonal dynamics of the smaller scenes to the ‘epic’ set pieces, this likelihood is precisely what I dread most about the windup of the story in the War for the Dawn. I so do not want to sit through a couple of seasons – even short ones – of The Walking Dead in medieval garb!
If that were the case they would probably use the Uchisar castle in Turkey which looks more like Casterly Rock
Heh, really.
Not a problem for me but it will be a long wait. Hope Sue and company have lots of plans for us during the year – we are going to need all the distraction we can get!
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QueenofThrones says:
I’m really excited to hear they are going back to Dorne.
OK before you all think I’m nuts, my theory is that Tyrion will find out about Elaria’s murder of Myrcella and basically Dany has to choose between Tyrion and the Dornish and their army. Ultimately she’ll choose Tyrion, and Elaria will be fed to her dragons for murdering an innocent child in cold blood. 😀 Can’t wait.
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Cersei's Brain says:
This almost makes me wonder if D&D have not completed the plot arc/screenwriting for S8? I know they are usually done by now but they have very little (none?) source material to go to for S8. Either way the extra time should help with polishing the scripts.
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aabe says:
Exactly my thoughts. The castle looks a lot like this popular Highgarden depiction:
http://winteriscoming.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Tyrell-Highgarden.jpg
(It’s the same on the WOIAF app)
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thorne garnet:
The worries I’m seeing about viewership suffering seem a bit silly to me. If we still lived in the 1980s, sure I’d worry about fewer people watching because of summer vacations and sporting events. But with DVRs and the all other ways of tuning in, I don’t believe true fans will miss an entire season just because it airs in summer instead of spring.
Firannion: For many this would be great news, I suppose. But for viewers like me who prefer the twisty interpersonal dynamics of the smaller scenes to the ‘epic’ set pieces, this likelihood is precisely what I dread most about the windup of the story in the War for the Dawn.I so do not want to sit through a couple of seasons – even short ones – of The Walking Dead in medieval garb!
Hardly they are having more than one battle. They might need a naval battle between Dany and Euron to delay her coming to King’s Landing, but if she is landing in Dorne, that wouldn’t be necessary. Maybe, we are really going to get Casterly Rock and its siege after Cersey flees there. Or Euron may be attacking something – Highgarden? Anyway, the directors they chose are not really known for battle sequences. So, quitter episodes have a good chance to dominate the season.
Ser Broccoli McBroccoliface says:
Is it just me or do others out there hope they dont die before the show finishes? I was getting really paranoid before season 6 started. I had to find out what really happened to Jon Snow, and the thought that my life might end before I found out was agonizing.
Im like, I have to make sure I live long enough to see the conclusion of the series. After that Im good. Im in good health, but accidents happen. Anyone else put their mortality in terms of ensuring they live long enough to see the entire series to its completion?
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thorne garnet,
Rather my reaction as well. Most people have some way of taping or watching later. Silly really.
Matty C says:
While this is obviously not GREAT news, I applaud them taking whatever time is necessary to get everything right.
As others have mentioned, it would be AMAZING if we had The Winds of Winter to read and ponder over in the interim. Fingers crossed.
Having said that, at my local bookstore (Powell’s, in Portland, OR, for those who are curious), I always feel compelled to look at the GRRM section, as though there will just be a new volume out that I hadn’t heard of, and they frequently put little handwritten cards extolling the virtues of another book/series than one can read while enduring the interminable wait. A few years back, one of those cards told me to read “The Name of the Wind”, by Patrick Rothfuss. I did, and now I have another series that I am waiting with baited breath for each installment. So, yay..?
All that to say, even though GOT is tops in tv, as far as I’m concerned, there are so many awesome shows to watch in the meantime, and I’d love to get the rec’s of some of you folks, since I feel you’re probably of a similar mind as I.
One that I totally shat on when it first came out, mainly because most critics seemed to dismiss it, is Marco Polo. There are now 20 ep’s available on Netflix streaming, and it is incredible. I’ve no idea how much is history, how much is BS, or what, but I love the fact that you get to experience so many different cultures in one show. Mongolians, ancient Chinese aristocracy, Arabs, Muslims, Christians, Emperors, concubines, a blind monk named Hundred Eyes, the freaking POPE! It definitely cribs from the basic style of GOT, lots of violence and sex, backstabbing and betrayals galore, with some truly fantastic visuals, breathtaking landscape shots, and kung-fu choreography that doesn’t seem ridiculous.
The show certainly knows how to build up characters so that when two people finally get in a room together, you already know how crazy it’s going to be. At one point, an empress determined to get rid of a devious chancellor announces that he’s being replaced by someone who is “a farmer, a warrior, a man of the people…a hero, in other words,” I was like, well, if this was George, I know what would be happening to anyone described in such a way–death in a horrible manner. Suffice to say, they learned from the best, and studied well.
Anyway, it’s no GOT, but I watched one ep. on spec, and ended up watching two season’s worth in about 5 days. Sooooo…yeah.
Alright, that’s my contribution. Who’s got something for me to watch?
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Iago says:
Surely they’re not filming in Bermeo but in San Juan de Gaztelugatxe… That is an impressive location indeed! I wonder what they’ll do there… On how coz access is really a though walk…
https://es.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaztelugatxe
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Iago,
The HBO press release says Bermeo. But the monastery, the island, are part of the municipality of Bermeo so I think it’s fair game as a possibility.
Matty C,
Watch the Americans it’s so good.
According HBO’s new press release, Season 6 of Game of Thrones surpassed 25.1 million viewers on average across all platforms, an increase of 5 million from the previous season. This is only counting legal viewers, of course.
https://medium.com/hbo-cinemax-pr/digital-platforms-drive-hbos-spring-shows-to-series-highs-e94d0bccf96b#.nfp85ej5s
I wouldn’t be concerned that airing in the summer will impact the show’s audience. People are strongly invested in the story at this point. Even if it levels off or takes a mild dip in the Live+SD ratings, those viewers will catch up quickly. Whenever it airs, GOT’s viewership totals will remain extremely high.
Anyway, it’s no GOT, but I watched one ep. on spec, and ended up watching two season’s worth in about 5 days. Sooooo…yeah
I love learning about this time period and all the different cultures of the time, and have always been fascinated by Marco Polo since I was a kid, so this sounds right up my alley! BTW if you are interested in a great book: The Journeyer by Gary Jennings. He has a very interesting take on the story, and gets the details of the eastern cultures so right (even if his history is well, fiction 🙂
Anyway thanks for the tip!
Hey not sure if you noticed, but Nina Gold did the casting for it. Cool!
Inga: Maybe, we are really going to get Casterly Rock and its siege after Cersey flees there.
Since both the books and the TV series made a point of playing up Tyrion’s expertise with Casterly Rock’s sewage and drainage systems, and included the infiltration of Meereen via the sewers, I think that it has been pretty heavily foreshadowed how Casterly Rock will fall to invaders. Dragonfire will likely be just a diversionary tactic while Tyrion’s muck-slogger squad worms its way in.
As a former (albeit brief) resident of Portland (long ago – I just realized I moved there 19 years ago and OMG I’m getting OLD!), I’m very jealous that you get to go to Powell’s at your leisure and peruse the aisles. Very jealous especially living in the desert. We got 1/24 of an inch of rain last night. Just enough to make the dust on everything adhere as if it were glued down.
Anyway, have you seen Wolf Hall? The only flaw with the show is the number of episodes – you’ll want much more. But as a fan of GOT, that won’t be anything new.
And if you want something of a different genre, and if you are a child of the ’80’s, or lived in that time, or want to live in that time, then get on Netflix RIGHT NOW and watch Stranger Things. Really brilliant. The acting, the story, the props, the set design, the casting…. I am a child of the 80’s and would spend many Friday nights at Blockbuster looking at the front of VHS boxes, trying to decide what to pick. I lost count at how many tributes were paid to these covers while watching the series. I’ve yet to see anything negative written/said about the series. Seriously, it’s King/Speilberg/your child self.
Hope you enjoy the Rose City.
The Dragon Demands,
Usually when they go through the trouble of using a specific term such as summer, they mean the legal definition. As in summer begins June 21.
Rainy Seasons:
With all those plainly visible gardens around it, yep, it sure does.
Lulus Mum:
I don’t pay any attention at all to awards, hence the question, but wouldn’t that just mean it’s eligible for the 2018 awards instead? Or am I missing something here?
EDIT: This might be read as if I’m being rude, but it’s just a genuine query, no snark implied
Yep. It would mean that the 2017 season would be eligible for the 2018 Emmys; likewise, if there’s a delay in season 8 (and given the amount of CGI work they are likely to need for the final season, I would think that is probable) then the 2018 season would potentially be eligible for the 2019 Emmys…
George: With all those plainly visible gardens around it, yep, it sure does.
I think it would have been better to use this for Horn Hill. The massive Horn Hill on the show was closer to Highgarden than it was Horn Hill. Without major cgi additions this would look tiny in comparison, meaning the vast Tyrell wealth is outdone by the Tarlys.
jentario:
I don’t think HBO will officially announce season 8 until they reach an agreement with D&D on exactly how many episodes the final season is going to have…
Firannion: How do you think people who have loved ones with developmental disabilities feel when you use that word as an insult?Kindly come up with a less offensive term if you really cannot stifle your urge to be rude to fellow posters here.
Why people with loved ones with developmental disabilities? Why not just people with developmental disabilities, themselves?
I imagine they will feel the same as the Kennedy’s do whenever they become aware of someone using events surrounding Jack’s death as a trolling tool, like you did. I imagine that anyone with a loved one who was murdered might feel that same way.
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Ghosts Lunch says:
Can understand why we have to wait, was quite surprised at the lack of Wintery conditions in KL and RL tbh
Almodovar del Rio strikes me as being for Storms End
That Beach one will perhaps be for some of Dany’s Army landing in Westeros, eg making Unsullied the Golden Company but i expect a fair bit of scattering and it to be split up to allow for character development tangents featuring Euron etc
Looking forward to the Roman Ampitheatre etc in Sevilla. Given they seemed to strangely make Samwell Tarly’s home Romanesque, this may be a show Reach theme so I’m wondering if this will be internal Higharden shots?
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MeeraReed,
I’m very jealous that you get to go to Powell’s at your leisure and peruse the aisles. Very jealous especially living in the desert. We got 1/24 of an inch of rain last night. Just enough to make the dust on everything adhere as if it were glued down.
Heh, really. I was in Portland several years ago and got to visit the store. In fact in the week I was there I went each day and felt like I’d died and gone to heaven. Miss it!
And yeah we got 1/16th of an inch, with thunder loud enough to wake us up at 3 in the morning and scare the cats. Ahhh life in the desert
BTW so agree about Wolf Hall. Incredible adaptation of the books A bit slow in spots but very well done nonetheless.
Davy Fred says:
I NEED to see Highgarden! I’m with you on that!
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Ser Broccoli McBroccoliface,
Is it just me or do others out there hope they dont die before the show finishes?
Er…I think it’s just you, Ser Broccoli! 😉 …still, I do love the show.
Lord of Coffee says:
Starting the season later than I thought they would (I predicted mid-May) but not as late as some were speculating.
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Super Northener says:
Sullied by Knight,
San Juan de Gaztelugatxe looks to me quite like Casterly Rock. I also look forward too Highgarden and any other castles we see.
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firstone says:
MeeraReed:
Usually when they go through the trouble of using a specific term such as summer, they mean the legal definition.As in summer begins June 21.
I think Season 7 starts Father’s Day Sunday June 18th 2017…
Season 6 ended finding out who Jon Snow’s mother is …
Season 7 will start finding out who Jon Snow’s father is. Littlefinger will tell Sansa who Jon’s parents are, Sansa will find Howland Reed to comfirm. Then Littlefinger and Sansa (who is turning into Cersei of the North)…start planning
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I understand that you are into NFL but I think most of the people around the world dont care about American Football. I only care about GOT/ASOIAF.
Anon: Why people with loved ones with developmental disabilities? Why not just people with developmental disabilities, themselves?
Because people who personally know and care about someone with such a disability represent a much larger potential percentage of the readership here (perhaps even a majority of us?). That’s not to mention all the people who don’t, but who can still see that the use of that term is offensive.
It takes quite a bit of deliberate twisting to turn what I said into dissing people with disabilities! Sheesh.
Aryamad says:
The wait might kill me… But I don’t mind it airing in the summer. I might cry and whine but I will endure for some epic episodes. I wonder if they decided on the number 7 for some faith of The Seven reason. July 2017 airing date is my prediction.
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One who waits,
I don’t mind the delay. Honestly, it’s a problem that seemingly every show I like airs in spring, with Mr. Robot being the only current exception.
The guaranteed locations we get are Castle Black, Winterfell, Oldtown, and King’s Landing. After that, I’d be confident of Land of Always Winter. I don’t think any of the new shooting spots are those (except Iceland obviously, but not really “new”). Scenes on the high seas seem like a given. I’m not sure there’s a reason to show Highgarden, though it’d be great to see it. Maybe Casterly Rock, but honestly I don’t see Cersei retreating. She’s resigned to the prophecy. She’s knows she’s dead. It’s just a matter of how many people and how much property she can take with her. Sunspear and Storm’s End are decent bets, and we could easily see Dragonstone again, being an ideal staging point for an invasion. I’d like to see Riverrun one last time, just to see it under Tully control like it should be.
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You actually calculated that in your head before you commented? That’s astonishing! Of course, in that calculus, you left out the disabled themselves. I guess that’s the price of trolling false outrage.
Snowblind says:
Well if GOT misses the Emmy’s for season 7 then KIT had BETTER get the Emmy this year. He deserves it, not only for season 6 but his whole body of work on GOT. And what is with this ‘Best Supporting Actor stuff..Jon Snow isn’t a lead role?
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Aryamad:
Season 7 could use the Faith of the Seven as an outline for the 7 episodes
Episode 1 – Father – Shows on Father’s Day June 18th 2017
Littlefinger tells Sansa who Jon’s parents are.
Episode 2 – Mother – Will Jon’s mother Lyanna Stark be enough to keep the Starks allies loyal to Jon
Episode 3 – Warrior Euron Greyjoy battle with Dany’s fleet
Episode 4 – Maiden – Arya and Brienne and The Hound do something?
Episode 5 – Smith – Sam Tarry finds the secret to making Valyrian Steel
Episode 6 – Crone – Queen Daenery makes a Queen’s Landing in King’s Landing
Episode 7 – Stranger – ending the final Sunday of July – The White Walkers and the Wall comes tumbling down
firstone: I think Season 7 starts Father’s Day Sunday June 18th 2017…
I like this theory as well. We know HBO doesn’t care if a holiday occurs during the run of a series.
The finale would then be July 30. Basically a week and a half from today.
In my scenario, the season would begin on July 9, and end on August 20.
Either way, one year from now we will either be just under way with the new season, or will be discussing the 5th episode of season 7.
It seems like season 6 just finished, so it’s basically the same wait. That’s what I’m telling myself anyway. 🙂
Castillo de Almodóvar del Río could blatantly be Highgarden, especially with a bit of CGI accentuation.
Also, the Lannisters are at war with the Reach. Ellaria mentioned to Olenna that they needed to ally if they wanted to survive. So I expect Cersei to be sending the Lannister forces straight for the Reach to set it ablaze.
If she allies with Euron then the Ironborn could assault the Reach from the East too, especially with the Tyrell fleet absent.
Either way I expect to see some scenes in the Reach, perhaps with the Tyrell forces having fallen back to Highgarden in the face of the Lannister assault.
I’m still betting on Randyll Tarly being killed in battle fighting the Lannisters and Sam feeling guilt-ridden for having taken Heartsbane.
Yes, I also had mortality fears. The only way i could control them would be to tell myself ”what will be, will be” My Dad died suddenly when I was 12 years old. That is when it hit me that we had a limited time on this planet. I struggled for some years at school, but I matured through those years without learning much. I finally understood that the world was a more diverse and complex place that I had ever known.
Ramsay’s 20th Good Man,
Why did I write east instead of west? And why did I spell east with a capital letter?
kit_hepburn says:
Adam: Maybe Casterly Rock, but honestly I don’t see Cersei retreating. She’s resigned to the prophecy. She’s knows she’s dead.
Cersei doesn’t know she’s dead in the show, because the show left out the prophecy from the books that actually foretells her death. Maybe she’s resigned to the prophecy about her children dying (already all done) and perhaps still about the YMB(Q) casting her down (if she doesn’t believe it’s Margaery anymore), but neither one of those prophecies spell out HER death.
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firstone,
Clever idea, but
No, just no.
John johnson says:
So is this the LAST season then? Though they said only thr last season would be short?
If so, that REALLY sucks! 10 episodes per season was never enough and their answer is cutting it down to 7!? Really guys? This last season ended where shit was FINALLY getting good, and NOW Ur gonna cut it short? U shd have just skipped the bullshit vamping that was season 5/book 5, condensed it into 2-3 episodes, and moved on to the good shit earlier. The show FINALLY gets good after 2-4 seasons of sitting around and u wanna stop now!? Fucking amateurs.
Hopefully the last 2 books actually live up to the hype and don’t pull this shit – and also don’t spend 3/4 of the book with bullshit like the last 2.
I’m honestly extremely dissapointed. Fuck u, HBO and a big special FUCK YOU to D&D. Lazy fucking assholes.
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WallyFrench says:
I am unsure as to why so many people are upset about the Emmys and first viewing numbers?
I could see if the show was in its first or second season and there was a fear of it being cancelled, but GoT is a massive success and the finishing of the series is guaranteed at this point.
So, even if numbers are down due to a football conflict and they miss one year’s worth of Emmys, we’re all still going to get to enjoy a little less than 70 hours worth of how this story finally ends!
I can see being upset with waiting longer, but otherwise all is well. ?
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loco73 says:
Well this sucks donkey balls! But hell…after what I watched in Season Six…what can I say! Grin and bare it! LOL…
Please, just avoid what “Boardwalk Empire” did with its shortened final season. Still solid, good TV, but it felt rushed at times and could have allowed itself to breathe a little!
Don’t be too eager to end the show. Let it happen as it must…and if Martin finishes and publishes “The Winds Of Winter” in the meantime…then that’s a bonus, besides we are getting an early christmas present with the release of the DVD/blu-ray set in November!
In the meantime there are enough shows to carry me through the long wait, “Outcast”, “Westworld”, “Supernatural”, “The Strain”, “Quarry”, “The Expanse”, “Ray Donovan”, “The Night Of”…plus November will bring “Doctor Strange” and “Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them” a December…”Rogue One”!
Nerds and geeks…always forward and onward!
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Yeah that’s what I was thinking.
John johnson,
Season 7 is definitely not the last season so maybe calm down a little. And season 7 having just seven episodes is not news. For months now D&D have been making comments implying that there would be 13 – 15 more episodes total after season 6. They just finally confirmed the number for next season. At the end of season 6 they deliberately contracted the cast and storylines so they can start the end game. They have been planning this for years so they know how much time they need to wrap the story up.
dragonbringer says:
Good to have a confirmation…we knew this is inevitable..
But I do hope this means no major characters sits out of am episode and appears in all the episodes and episodes actually having 55 to 60 mins of screentime.
And iam also sure this season will be breaking viewing records and emmy records next year ..
Hope by ApRil or may we have TWOW in our hands.
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Ser Broccoli McBroccoliface:
Haaa – that’s a good question! Well, I’m 11 months older than GRRM (work that one out), but not his size! I hope he lives long enough to finish ALL the ASOIF books including ADOS.
Although I don’t write books, George’s reply to people who ask that question is along the lines of – ‘They can go and fuck themselves!’ So I have a similar outlook on things like that. I’d certainly hope I will live long enough to see out the TV series and hopefully many more years afterwards 🙂
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I don’t remember exactly but was that you who referred west Wing to me ..
I actually finished episode 7 of season 1 last night and I am loving the series so far..
And since I have finished James Rollins sigma series ..I am going to finally start with Robert Ludlum’s covert one and bourne series and James Patterson’s Alex cross series..
And there is fantastic beasts and where to find them as well..
So I guess I can withstand this delay of GOT this year ..
And to people who are saying that they removed valanqor from prophecy ..
They will be showing it in next season when it will actually become relevant to cersei and story .
We saw YMBQ and fate of her children because it was relevant to why cersei goes against Margery in the last couple of seasons and death of her children and moving forward we will come to know why she hated tyrion so much and how she thinks him as valanqor just to end up wrong and realize its Jamie as it will dany not Margery or sansa.
I moved away from Portland, for a brief 2 year stay in the desert (Vegas). Never did I appreciate a cool rain as much as I did after moving back to the NW! I missed having Seasons! I started thinking of blue sky as oppressive! Anyway, now I’m back, but let’s not pretend like my days are all spent at Powell’s, lounging around and drinking Stumptown coffee. (Mostly, they’re spent on Netflix and this site!)
Stranger Things had me in the first 5 minutes, and now I’m on episode three. I’m already sad that season two won’t be out anytime soon, and that there are only episodes, and that, much like the Wet Hot American Summer prequel, even when there are more, they have clearly captured these kids at an amazing time in their lives that won’t be captured in quite the same way next year. It reminds me of someone mashing up Freaks and Geeks with Goonies and, like, Lucas, and Fright Night. LOVE! Excellent recommendation.
Peaky Blinders is an amazing show with 18 episodes, 3 6 ep seasons. Set in Ireland, early 1900’s, lots of guys in cool hats and clothes, constantly smoking and drinking whiskey, whilst planning to take over the whole city/county/country. Good stuff. A Hilarious guest-star turn from Tom Hardy that had me clapping and laughing several times.
Ash, thanks for the book recommendation, sounds great. I love historical fiction, and this area of the world, for me, is far less explored than Europe.
dragonbringer,
Yeah it was me I’m glad you like it gets even better in season 2.I agree that there is plenty to do until game of thrones starts.Tbh I’m not as fussed this year because they left it at a good place with no cliffhangers etc.I can wait.I agree about the valanqor.Even if they don’t show it and go for the shock the end result is going to be the same.Tbh I kind of wish George hadn’t put that prophecy there.Imagine what a twist that would be.I would have never guessed Jaime would be the one to do it until very late.Now it seems like such a forgone conclusion.
Oh glad I remembered correctly.. Thanks for reffering this beautiful show josh and Sam and Charlie and president already are my favorite..and I like how they shoot this walking conversationsconversations
I agree with you on valnqot prophecy ..while it gives the reason why cersei behaves the way she does it ..it took away lots of surprises
You know what?? Filming in Spain in July or in September, October won’t make that much difference… it will still be sunny, there won’t be snow in Northern Ireland… so what’s the point??? Delay the shooting for 6 months and do it all in winter or don’t postpone it at all… especially because they have fewer seasons. IMO.
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SiriuslyStark says:
OK, I will hate the wait, I will whine and silently protest- and I’m definitely counting on Sue and Co to help keep my sanity until season begins! I would hate the wait to April anyway… So, I guess I will be able to wait an additional couple of months. Especially since there is a good reason for this delay, and I can only respect that! 🙂
I guess that they can start filming on Iceland sometime in the Fall or late Fall, a bit later on Ireland and then go for Spain sometime January perhaps, which I guess is the main reason for the delay weather-wise, as we have the Southern parts of Westeros filmed there.
I think that the show may (or should) air sometime near the middle of June – late June, I believe that this is the most logical way to go. They will start filming a bit later than usual, so I think that a two month delay, should be enough to get the job done.
As for the runtime of episodes, I think they will be near to normal 50-60 min per episode. Perhaps a bit longer the 7th episode, or the two last ep.
I haven’t read the books, so my speculation is based solely on what I know from the show and wiki westeros sources.
I think we may see Casterly Rock – it would be a good move for Dany to take the Lannister lair.
Dany may be forced (or she may decide for some reason) to change course and not go straight for KL; perhaps to get more allies or supplies, so some of these locations in Spain may be used as her in-between camps.
It would also make sense to see Highgarden: that’s theoretically a safe place for Dany and Co as Lady Olenna has joined her.
It also makes sense strategically: Highgarden is the supplier of resources for KL (which is why daddy Lannister wanted the alliance with House Tyrell), so breaking the supply line to KL, is a good move for Dany (especially since the people at KL hate Cercei, and if they starve they will turn against her), while at the same time she needs to keep food on the table for her army.
We may also see Braavos, the Iron Bank specifically because: ‘the Iron Bank will have its due’; we have been given clues about that from the very start, and the timing now seems right! Lannisters couldn’t pay before, and they definitely can’t pay now. Suspect the Iron Bank would support Dany – Tyrion knows about that and Varys too and may seek that support for her.
Other than that, I think we may get another flash-back through Bran, and perhaps one of the Spain locations may be used for that reason. The tourney at Harrenhal perhaps? I would love to see that!
And I could be completely wrong of course- plans rarely work out the way one thinks when it comes to GOT! 😀
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zod: Just no. GOT has a big budget, sure.. but its budget isn’t infinite, and it will never be. Money IS a factor.
Time is a factor I agree.
As for money Time-Warner now takes an interest in GoT , last season’s budget broke 100 million but not 200 million. Warner made Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice for 250 million , and that’s just one of the productions. Time Warner has the money.
I see having the money to buy the resources as a dilemma tho. There were big vista CGI composed scenes in season 6 that look sensational , I loved them. Still my eye told me these were begging for more elaboration on the IMAX screen. I hazard a hunch that could be where all this winds up. Season 8 seems to have GRRM’s great ragnarok in it. I could see this being aired as a season but also elaborated as a movie with expanded vista , we shall see.
Vlad,
Last year there was more snow in Northern Spain then there was in Romania.
ygritte says:
I don my tin hat right now to say that I don’t believe the weather excuse, maybe in part but not in full. Most likely they are working around and accomodating some of the actors schedules?
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Snow isn’t going to engulf all of Westeros immediately. They still need to shoot plenty of outdoor scenes in good weather. But shooting in Spain in October instead of July means it won’t be screaming hot there and can be a more accurate reflection of ‘winter’ starting to arrive in a place like Dorne.
H.Stark says:
Producers Newman and Caulfield this morning in Zumaia 🙂
http://www.eitb.eus/es/cultura/videos/detalle/4251378/juego-de-tronosplaya-itzurun-san-juan-gaztelugatxe-seran-escenario/
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Thanks. I thought that was probably the case but had seen some rather (IMO) strong reactions which made me think there might be something else to it 🙂
Saw on the news this morning that HBO had announced it will air in August:( I understand the wait, but wow, it’s going to be a LONG time. Great they are releasing S6 early so we can watch our season while we wait…lol.
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Pornstache says:
Lars,
What they mean is “If I’m not in school, how am I going to steal the stream”?
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What??? August??
SiriuslyStark:
Highgarden is the supplier of resources for KL (which is why daddy Lannister wanted the alliance with House Tyrell), so breaking the supply line to KL, is a good move for Dany (especially since the people at KL hate Cercei, and if they starve they will turn against her), while at the same time she needs to keep food on the table for her army.
I am pretty sure the Sept of Balor going up in greenfire with the nominal head of House Tyrell and Margery was enough for Highgarden to stop all food shipments to Kingslanding. Cercei is going to be sitting on her pointy iron throne all alone with no support from any other houses and little even from her own house just waiting for Dany to arrive.
Wall Builder says:
Here’s my take on the valonqar prophecy:
Why did GRRM use a Valyrian word in the middle of a ‘common tongue’ prophecy? If he wanted it to mean little brother, then why not just use those words? Obviously, he wanted gender ambiguity. Why? Because it will be a little sister that kills Cersei. My guess, which I’ve stated in other threads, is that it will be Arya. That is why D&D didn’t include that part of Maggy’s prophecy. If they used the term valonqar, non-book readers wouldn’t know what that meant (IIRC, the meaning was never defined even in the books). If they had Maggy say “little brother”, it would not be correct, and if she said “little sister”, it would give away too much (especially to book-readers). So best to just leave it out and have the kill be a surprise.
Anyway, that’s my two silver dragons worth.
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Pretty sure I will lose a lot of interest by then. :/
spaewife says:
Hey. It’s been a long time since I was on a beach (esp. in south of England) building sandcastles. But, right on 🙂
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keltia says:
Wall Builder,
Who knows how/whether this will be addressed in the show, (which makes speculation fun), but this is what I’ve read about the word “valonqar.” (A bit pedantic, perhaps, but please indulge me as it’s my birthday.)
David J. Peterson, the creator of Dothraki & the Valyrian languages, has said that GRRM had “input” on the 7 Valyrian words in ASoIaF, and that he “understood” that valonqar meant “little brother.” (“Haedar” means “little sister”). High Valyrian is gender-neutral (as in masculine/feminine) in the same way as English. For example, “the” book and “the” moon in English, rather than “le” livre and “la” lune as in French, although English also has gender-specific words such as “daughter,” “father,” etc. I do wonder if GRRM had any idea how much we’d be focusing on this one word.
(One of my birthday presents was a pencil drawing by my daughter which depicts the head of one of our cats as a Stark direwolf. Instant sigil for our house)!
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Richard: I am pretty sure the Sept of Balor going up in greenfire with the nominal head of House Tyrell and Margery was enough for Highgarden to stop all food shipments to Kingslanding. Cercei is going to be sitting on her pointy iron throne all alone with no support from any other houses and little even from her own house just waiting for Dany to arrive.
LOL Richard!!! Yes, I imagine that more or less that’s what Cercei will end up doing!!!!!
Of course Highgarden has stopped shipping supplies to KL, but likely didn’t stop to supply other places, trading brings money – so there are other places where KL could get supplies from; let’s not forget that at least for now Cercei is the Queen of Westeros and subjects/cities, are forced to supply the capital. So, supply lines must be broken and they can only be broken when that contender takes control.
I was thinking lately, that the way the curtain fell on season 6, Dany and Co sailing to Westeros, created the expectation that she goes for a straight battle with Cercei. I think that this plan will probably change – and if so, I think for the best. If Dany conquers these other places (I’m sure most the Lords would happily side her, as they hate Cercei) , and manages to isolate KL, she can then just wait and watch Cercei fall – and maybe fall from the hands of the KL people. In which case Cercei may use wildfire again. And if so think Jamie… well you know how that goes.
If there’s anyone capable and willing to blow up and totally ruin an entire city instead of surrendering, is Cercei. 🙂
Many of you guys are too freaking positive, I mean even when faced with the mildly depressing news of only 7 episodes (can anyone really call that a “season”?) but mainly the very disappointing wait of over a year to see them…..screw this shiznit always trying to look on a bright side here.
I found and binged the first seasons and the 10 month wait was fine last year mostly because there was that titillating cliffhanger with Jon and the casting for the northern houses, Bran coming back and having cool visions, etc. but this off season probably doesn’t have the substance to sustain me. What surprises are in store really? Is there anyone to commiserate with about this? Wahhh. I guess the facebookers complaints I jsut spend time rerading have gotten to me lol.
ygritte,
LOL! It sucks. I am dreading this looong off-season. I chose to have me meltdown in private (screaming into a pillow).
I made one visit to the Facebook page after the news was posted and that just depressed me even more.
It is what it is, and now our watch begins.
Newbietothegame,
imagine me, the non spoiler reading gal.
When do we do the season awards. I AM BORED
The budget will never be infinite , but Time Warner could put up northward of 125 million a season and I could see season 8 running 150 million , if not more. Which is why I think movie making may be in the air when it gets there.
It is time to join the dark side,LOL!!
Most of the stuff posted last off-season except a couple (Kit filming battle scene and Kingsmoot ) was not that spoilery. Everything else was just stuff people could speculate about. Now that we seem to be completely off book it will be all speculations.
hahaha I cant bring myself to doing that. It does sound fun and helps pass the time.
I prefer to know NOTHING! and be fully surprised you know?
Thank you for validating my feelings Newbie 🙂
Ps I’ve been rewinding that scene to hear the name Lyanna whispers and I swear it sounds like “Archie” lol.
Haha yes. There’s power in knowing, you resist it and that’s your mistake: embrace it. 🙂
Or…endure the long night with all its terrors and come out a stronger person than the rest of us 🙂
I mean the WOTW awards
Tywin of the Hill says:
Since last year they began on July 24 (1 month and 10 days after Mother’s Mercy), I guess this year’s Awards are going to start around August 6.
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spaewife,
Yay! We always used to go to the Isle of Wight. Aaaah just realised as I typed that. The Isle of WIGHT ? ? ? Fortunately, being an island (the clue’s in the name) they can’t escape! 😉
Tywin of the Hill,
ohhh im excited especially because I loved this season
SiriuslyStark: created the expectation that she goes for a straight battle with Cercei. I think that this plan will probably change – and if so, I think for the best. If Dany conquers these other places (I’m sure most the Lords would happily side her, as they hate Cercei) , and manages to isolate KL, she can then just wait and watch Cercei fall
I’ve written it before, but I don’t expect Daenerys to sail up to King’s Landing in a direct attack by bombarding it like the Masters did Meereen. Even if she were to take KL and the Red Keep in that fashion it’s the wrong way to do it if she wants to gain the throne with the loyalty of the people behind her.
I think there might be less active warfare or resistance through battle than we probably expect. After what Cersei did House Tyrell should have full support of its original bannermen which would mean all of The Reach along with Dorne would be behind Daenerys. The Stormlands are rather neutral on the show with the Baratheons essentially extinct (excluding Gendry). I really don’t expect a warring conflict between Dany and The North. Something will happen there but Jon isn’t going to back Cersei to face Dany and he has bigger concerns. He can’t deplete his forces any more battling the living. That would leave just the middle portion of Westeros and the Iron Islands a question. Even if all of them banded together they’d be facing a force so far greater, if the rest of that is true, one would think many would just give up.
It may sound more boring than all out warfare all over the South half of Westeros, but the biggest battling before the “Great War” could be just taking out Euron. I can see Daenerys traveling around earning the love and support of the people. This of course would lead to Cersei getting nuttier and madder as she hides in the Red Keep threatening to blow up the rest of KL if Daenerys approaches. Which may be the way she goes when she’s left with no other option. So yeah, essentially isolating KL and waiting for Cersei to fall as you wrote.
screw this shiznit always trying to look on a bright side here.
And what would be the point in screaming and whining? No Im not happy about it but it is what it is. Besides its a tv show. Right now in my world, I have enough that is keeping my blood pressure up as it is.
but Jon isn’t going to back Cersei to face Dany and he has bigger concerns. He can’t deplete his forces any more battling the living. That would leave just the middle portion of Westeros and the Iron Islands a question. Even if all of them banded together they’d be facing a force so far greater, if the rest of that is true, one would think many would just give up.
I remember Jon saying about the Hardhome battle that he “lost”. They basically ran like hell to get away, and fought only to buy time to evacuate. The dead just kept coming! Every living man who falls is re-animated for the army of the dead. There has to be a math equation that shows that no matter how big the army of the living, they can’t defeat the dead, under these circumstances.
The show made a point of showing that the dead cannot go into water, or into fire: ‘Hardhome’ and ‘The Door’ episodes, respectively. The Night’s king and his crew walked right through the fire, however… but we’ve been shown that valyrian steel and dragonglass can shatter them. I’m guessing there won’t be any big battle there; instead, they’ll burn the dead safely from the air(dragons), and a group of warriors with valyrian steel will take on the wights in hand-to-hand combat. If they can get enough dragonglass arrow tips, they may use that too?
What if Deny dies before that fight? There was that cryptic message from Bloodraven that Bran would fly… He hasn’t flown yet.
The show made a point of showing that the dead cannot go into water, or into fire: ‘Hardhome’ and ‘The Door’ episodes, respectively. The Night’s king and his crew walked right through the fire, however… but we’ve been shown that valyrian steel and dragonglass can shatter them. I’m guessing there won’t be any big battle there; instead, they’ll burn the dead safely from the air(dragons), and a group of warriors with valyrian steel will take on the wights in hand-to-hand combat.If they can get enough dragonglass arrow tips, they may use that too?
I’ve been thinking along the same lines with regards to the final battle. They’ll take out the wights via dragonfire but the White Walkers will have to be dealt with via hand-to-hand combat. That’s where Jon, Tormund, Brienne, and a few others (Jaime? Sandor? the BwB?) will have to go into the mouth of the beast and risk it all to save Westeros. I think they’ll be victorious but some of our heroes & anti-heroes will die. And that’s where this show will finally and truly gut me. 🙁
I’m of the opinion that Dany will survive to sit the Iron Throne, so I think she’ll fly Drogon into battle. Since we’re still waiting for Bran to fly, I think he’ll do it by warging one of the dragons as he helps Dany with the airforce part of the battle. Maybe the wights will be so widespread that the dragons will need to spread out to be effective and hopefully that’s where Bran comes in (and Jon?). I hope the show hasn’t forgotten about Bloodraven’s line to Bran.
maximus says:
Isabelle: 10×44 = 440
Except…where is this guy getting 44 minutes from?
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Clob: I’ve written it before, but I don’t expect Daenerys to sail up to King’s Landing in a direct attack by bombarding it like the Masters did Meereen.Even if she were to take KL and the Red Keep in that fashion it’s the wrong way to do it if she wants to gain the throne with the loyalty of the people behind her.
It may sound more boring than all out warfare all over the South half of Westeros, but the biggest battling before the “Great War” could be just taking out Euron.I can see Daenerys traveling around earning the love and support of the people.This of course would lead to Cersei getting nuttier and madder as she hides in the Red Keep threatening to blow up the rest of KL if Daenerys approaches.Which may be the way she goes when she’s left with no other option.So yeah, essentially isolating KL and waiting for Cersei to fall as you wrote.
What you write here makes perfect sense to me too 🙂 And this might be Tyrion’s approach as well so I think he would advise Dany along those lines.
As for the absense of all over warfare and if that might be boring, I believe that most of the dramatic, intense, moments we had in 6 seasons, was more the product of political schemes and secret alliances/agendas, or secrets in general (Ned’s death, Red Wedding, Jon’s arc, Cercei blowing up the Septa etc ), than solely of open all over warfare – though yes, there were some major battles through the seasons that were breathtaking! But it would be rather pointless to have major battles on each of the 7 episodes!
I think Euron will be the case indeed – it’s the only enemy that could create problems for Dany and might be the last major battle before the Great war on the last season. And I never forget Littlefinger – the master of mischief, I think he will play a major role next season: he’s dangerous for all other players! (and once again, I hope that his plans FINALLY backfire).
As for Dany’s future…. I think she makes it to the Iron Throne alive – I don’t know at what cost (I suspect that KL might end up a ruined city by then) or if she will be that pleased about it after all.
I also agree that Jon will likely not get involved in Westerosi matters, at least he won’t by choice – and I hope he’s not dragged into it!
I would like to see the story unfolding in relation to the WW matter instead personally, and I think this must start developing if we are heading for the end game.
There are some major questions to be answered to my view on that matter. 🙂
Alas, too late for Ser Loras, but English Heritage are trying to get jousting included as an Olympic sport. I thought they were joking but apparently there are competitions held all over the world and it’s the official state sport of Maryland, USA. It’s now a lot safer than the GoT version and injuries are “few and far between” 😀
. That’s where Jon, Tormund, Brienne, and a few others (Jaime? Sandor? the BwB?) will have to go into the mouth of the beast and risk it all to save Westeros. I think they’ll be victorious but some of our heroes & anti-heroes will die. And that’s where this show will finally and truly gut me. 🙁
Yep. It’ll be another high-stakes battle. Everyone will have at least one character they love fighting it out with the white walkers. Maybe Meera will be one of the warriors, too. I guess we’re meant to make hierarchical lists of who we’re willing to have die… and that will be gutting, as you say.
Maybe the wights will be so widespread that the dragons will need to spread out to be effective and hopefully that’s where Bran comes in (and Jon?). I hope the show hasn’t forgotten about Bloodraven’s line to Bran.
They’d be fighting wights on multiple fronts, the worst case scenario!
Matty C:
I moved away from Portland, for a brief 2 year stay in the desert (Vegas).Never did I appreciate a cool rain as much as I did after moving back to the NW!I missed having Seasons!I started thinking of blue sky as oppressive!Anyway, now I’m back, but let’s not pretend like my days are all spent at Powell’s, lounging around and drinking Stumptown coffee.(Mostly, they’re spent on Netflix and this site!)
Stranger Things had me in the first 5 minutes, and now I’m on episode three.I’m already sad that season two won’t be out anytime soon, and that there are only episodes, and that, much like the Wet Hot American Summer prequel, even when there are more, they have clearly captured these kids at an amazing time in their lives that won’t be captured in quite the same way next year.It reminds me of someone mashing up Freaks and Geeks with Goonies and, like, Lucas, and Fright Night.LOVE!Excellent recommendation.
Peaky Blinders is an amazing show with 18 episodes, 3 6 ep seasons.Set in Ireland, early 1900’s, lots of guys in cool hats and clothes, constantly smoking and drinking whiskey, whilst planning to take over the whole city/county/country.Good stuff.A Hilarious guest-star turn from Tom Hardy that had me clapping and laughing several times.
Ash, thanks for the book recommendation, sounds great.I love historical fiction, and this area of the world, for me, is far less explored than Europe.
Yes, I know what you mean about the blue sky. I love it on the rare day when I wake up to cloudy skies. It’s gets me so pumped up, and gives me so much energy!
Well I love historical shows and men in hats, so I’ll check out Peaky Blinders for sure! I’m glad you are into Stranger Things. It’s just so good!
Have you ever read any of the Bryant & May mysteries? They take place in London, in the 1940’s & 1950’s I believe. I found the history of London to be fascinating.
Carlos Almodovar-Rios says:
In October 29, 2016 I visited the Castillo de Almodovar. I learned about this place from a Placido Domingo’s TV documentary in 1985. It surpassed all my expectations. Just Majestic!
Carlos ALMODOVAR-RIOS
San Juan, Puerto Rico (USA)
(PS. Despite my heritage, last name and good looks, it cost me 12 euros to get in ; )
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Forever Home with a View
Rebuilding to Suit Lifestyle on Hood Canal
May 27, 2014 - Featured, People & Places - Comments:
By Rodika Tollefson Photography by Iklil Gregg and Tony Lane
When Kathy and Bill Cole bought their Seabeck home more than a decade ago, they knew they would need to remodel sooner rather than later. Built in the 1980s, the home still sported the signature look of the era — shag carpeting, lots of gold and brown colors and the like.
“We bought the house because we fell in love with the site,” Kathy Cole says.
The site, indeed, is gorgeous. Sweeping views of Hood Canal and Olympic Mountains, beach access and a quiet neighborhood were among the many attractions.
What the Coles didn’t know was just how badly the home was in need of a remodel. Telltale signs of structural issues soon began to show up. The clincher? Turned out the basement was being held up by jacks, unnoticed by the home inspector.
When the couple got bids for the remodel, the home required so much major work that it would have cost almost as much as new construction. It was time to rebuild.
“We decided it was worth the extra to take it down and make it work with the site better, and make it work with our style,” Kathy says.
Designing a ‘Forever Home’
The Coles took full advantage of the opportunity to design their own home. Kathy, a graphic designer by profession, designed the interior herself, with assistance from Michelle Doyle for the colors.
And they didn’t stop at the design. Once a contractor built the shell for the 3,000-square-foot home, Kathy and Bill took over as their own general contractor to finish the rest and even did some of the work themselves. Bill was especially excited to build some of the cabinets, finish floors and do other labor.
The rebuilt home front
“We were very involved in rebuilding. I enjoyed actually getting in and pounding a few nails and finishing off some parts of the home,” he says. “It was fun to watch it go down and then be rebuilt from the dirt — and seeing every aspect of it. I really know this house.”
The new home is distinctly different. Designed to take full advantage of the site, the home not only has space for everyone’s interests, but also has flexibility for future needs.
The rebuilt home back
All the public and gathering areas are on the main floor while the private rooms are in the basement — at least for now.
One feature Bill and Kathy emphasized was open spaces. Doing away with the concept of separate family and dining rooms, they created a great room instead. It’s the kitchen, living room and dining room all opened up into one shared area. Plus, the glass back doors open up completely into the deck, bringing the outdoors in.
The original home
“We tried to use things for different purposes,” Kathy says.
The family room is another example. It’s a combination TV/game/music room and gets used a lot, especially when their teenage son’s friends come to hang out. The family room, adjacent to a full bathroom, can be converted into Kathy and Bill’s bedroom down the road for “aging in place.”
The original home demolition
“It can transition if we have to. It gives us options,” Kathy says.
Even the entryway serves a dual purpose. It was designed as an art gallery of sorts, a place where the Coles can display their art collection. Another distinct element of the design, which can be observed in the hallway, is the thoughtful use of sight lines throughout.
The open space concept can also be spotted in the mudroom/pantry — originally planned as two rooms, the two spaces don’t have a wall in between them — and downstairs, where the hallway doubles as the laundry room.
Open living room
Natural Materials, Artful Details
The Coles used as many natural products as possible. The home features seven species of wood — Kathy admits they’re “woodaholics”— as well as materials such as marmoleum flooring in the mudroom, copper sink and fixtures in the kitchen, cork flooring in the downstairs hallway, stone and slate in the bathrooms and bamboo countertops in the master bathroom.
The walnut wood planks for the great room floor were ordered raw and came complete with sapwood and knots. “We like character. We love the imperfections,” Kathy says.
The dining room, living room and the kitchen (not pictured) all open up as one area to create a great room.
Everywhere throughout the home there are elegant finishes and details that speak to extensive shopping. One example is the copper kitchen sink, which the family calls the never-ending art experiment because it changes colors based on what’s in it. The sink had a few imperfections and consequently, it was a great buy. “I bought it for a song,” Kathy says.
The architectural columns framing one end of the upstairs hallway were salvaged from a century-old home on Bainbridge Island. The Coles even found a fireplace that converts from a gas insert to using wood — a compromise because they each wanted different things.
“I spent a lot of time shopping. If I didn’t have the internet, there was no way I could have done it,” Kathy says.
Doors to deck remain open in the summer.
Although they shopped around quite a bit, Bill says they didn’t skim on details and they even overbuilt structurally. “Every time we made a decision, we wanted to make a quality decision because we wanted the home to last,” Kathy says.
Built for Family and Friends
Kathy and Bill Cole both work from home. Bill, who is a retirement planner, used to have a storefront but now has an office next to the master bedroom. Kathy can work on her laptop anywhere in the house — one of her favorite places is the covered deck area where she can enjoy the fresh air. She also has an office in a remodeled cabin that once was part of a Maple Beach resort — a collection of four cabins and two day cabins/changing rooms (including the one now housing Kathy’s office) built on their property by a German immigrant couple, known to neighbors as the “Johnnie family,” in the 1930s.
“The historic cabin was our first project. It was about to fall in the ocean,” Kathy says. “We tried to keep it as close to original as possible but everything was rotted… The original building is here but it’s sandwiched in between new materials.”
Most of the space in the 125-square-foot cabin is dedicated to Kathy’s art studio. Although she doesn’t have a lot of time for artistic pursuits, in her spare time she likes to create stained-glass windows and painted gourds. She got into stained glass when she wanted a panel for the cabin but couldn’t find what she liked — so she took a class with Dahl Glass in Poulsbo and “just kept going.”
The cabin still has one original window with a rope and counterweight for opening. Another window came from an old cabin owned by neighbors.
A nook serves as Kathy’s actual work desk, which overlooks the water.
“I come here when I need peace and quiet,” she says. “I’m lucky to have this space.”
One other building on the half-acre property is a 600-square-foot cottage that was once a double-car garage. The family lived there for 18 months while the home was being built — an experience that Bill and Kathy say they loved because it brought the family closer together. These days, the cottage serves as Bill’s music room (Bill is a musician) but can be used for an overflow guest area.
As much as the Coles love their lifestyle on Hood Canal — kayaking and playing on the beach — so does their extended family. The home serves as a gathering place during the summer as well as during holidays.
“The function and the flow works great for us,” Kathy says. “It fits our lifestyle and our family well.”
Michelle Doyle of MD Design Group and Michelle Interiors: color consultant, staging and custom walnut bar top design
Kitsap Custom Coatings: paint
Belles & Howe: custom walnut bar top
Collins Custom Woodcraft, LLC: Custom copper fireplace with burl mantel and cherry trim
Katcole Studios: stained glass
Pebbled master shower
Wood ceiling and floors
Copper sink
Cottage interior
Bill Cole on saxophone
Covered outdoor room on the deck
Family bath
Original cabin on the water
Kathy working in the cabin
The fireplace can burn both gas and wood.
Matt, Kathy and Bill Cole with Max
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An award-winning writer who lives on the Key Peninsula with her husband and three sons. She is a contributing editor and blog manager for WSHG, and also writes for several local publications and produces videos. Her work has been published in regional and national publications; she also writes for companies and organizations. She holds a... (see more by Rodika Tollefson)
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Trump promises new immigration order as DOJ holds off appeals court
Posted 4:26 pm, February 16, 2017, by CNN Wire, Updated at 10:02PM, February 16, 2017
President Donald Trump vowed Thursday to roll out a new immigration executive order next week that will be tailored to the federal court decision that paused his travel ban.
“The new order is going to be very much tailored to what I consider to be a very bad decision,” said Trump during a news conference, referring to a decision by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals that blocked his travel ban earlier this month.
Meanwhile, the Justice Department told the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals that it did not need a larger panel of judges to rehear its failed emergency challenge to a lower court’s temporary suspension of Trump’s executive order on immigration at this time, because a new order is on the way. The Ninth Circuit agreed Thursday evening to put any rehearing of the matter on hold for now.
The Justice Department wrote at length in a 47-page about the “seriously flawed” Ninth Circuit ruling from last week, but neverthless said: “(r)ather than continuing this litigation, the President intends in the near future to rescind the order and replace it with a new, substantially revised executive order to eliminate what the panel erroneously thought were constitutional concerns.”
“In so doing, the President will clear the way for immediately protecting the country rather than pursuing further, potentially time-consuming litigation,” it added.
Questions have swirled over what the Trump administration would do this week after a three-judge panel on the Ninth Circuit refused to lift a federal judge’s temporary restraining order on Trump’s executive order barring foreign nationals from Iran, Sudan, Libya, Somalia, Syria, Iraq and Yemen from entering the country for 90 days, all refugees for 120 days and all refugees from Syria indefinitely.
Last Friday, an unidentified judge on the Ninth Circuit requested that the full court vote on whether to rehear the decision reached by the three-judge panel. Such requests are not uncommon, but the call for a vote came at time when the Justice Department’s position on pursuing the appeal was uncertain.
The states that brought the lawsuit — Washington and Minnesota — said in their court filing on Thursday that there is no basis for rehearing the case, as the opinion from the three-judge panel is “firmly grounded in precedent.”
And while the nation waits on a new or modified executive order on immigration from the Trump administration, at least one federal court is barreling ahead on litigation over the original one.
US District Court Judge James Robart in Seattle — the judge who originally halted the key provisions of the travel ban — denied a request from the Trump administration earlier this week to postpone any further proceedings in his court, which means the parties will now proceed to the discovery phase of the case.
Topics: Donald Trump, Immigration order
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Join Anthony Stalter on January 30th from 4p-6p at the St. Louis Boat and Sport Show at The Dome at America’s Center located at 700 Lucas Ave! The 2020 Progressive Insurance St. Louis Boat & Sportshow is the region’s largest boat and sportshow, providing a one-stop marketplace to escape cabin fever and prepare for summer outdoors. The show features hundreds of new boats for sale, from luxury yachts and cruisers, to fishing boats, pontoons and watersport boats, plus the latest…
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Italian soccer stars form cancer awareness-soccer camp partnership
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BALTIMORE — Italian soccer stars are coming to Baltimore to promote a cancer awareness program.
The Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center says Alessandro "Billy" Costacurta and Paulo Taveggia will be at the center on Tuesday to announce the Red Card Cancer partnership.
The partnership will promote cancer awareness through youth soccer camps. Johns Hopkins says one of the camps will be held July 17-19th at the Community College of Baltimore County in Essex with UMBC men's soccer Coach Pete Caringi.
A mini-clinic for pediatric patients and their families at Johns Hopkins Hospital will also be held following the announcement.
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‘Girls Build’ program inspires next wave of Chicago female architects
Posted 7:16 PM, January 11, 2020, by Hannah Welker
CHICAGO — At the Chicago Architecture Center, a new program is inspiring future female architects in the city.
Chicago’s skyline is made up of classic and modern beauties with the newest being built by women.
The Chicago Architecture Center’s “Girls Build” program is aimed at inspiring young girls interested in science, engineering and technology.
“So I’ve always been involved in a lot of programs, and I’ve always been interested in math and science,” St. Ignatius College Prep freshman Serenity White said. “It wasn’t until I came to ‘Girls Build’ that I knew that there was actually a career path that I could follow to pursue those passions of mine.”
The center hosted its first-ever “Girls Build Day” on Saturday. It builds off its successful classes and camps that’s been offered since 2016.
The girls get hands-on experience from women in STEM fields and learn what it takes to pursue a career in architecture and other similar fields.
"We've tackled anything from affordable housing and what does affordability mean, urban planning, parks and green spaces,” Chicago Architecture Center manager Angela Esposito said. “We're really taking a close look at the environment and how architects and engineers design with the environment in mind.”
The program hopes to give girls confidence to pursue anything they dream of. For more information, click here.
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What’s Driving You Crazy? – How can one freeway have so many numbers/names?
by: Nathan Tannenbaum, 8NewsNow Traffic Anchor
Posted: Oct 25, 2019 / 06:25 AM PDT / Updated: Oct 25, 2019 / 06:25 AM PDT
LAS VEGAS ( KLAS ) – How can one freeway have so many names? It’s enough to drive you crazy!
When did we start calling the 95 freeway “the 95-515”?
For super long-time southern Nevadans, today’s report may be a trip down memory lane on the freeway of Las Vegas life. For more newbies it might just be enough Junior-Traffic-Buddy info to make you go “I didn’t know that” – or possibly impress your friends at any moment of awkward silence.
Props as always to Tony Illia at the Nevada Dept of Transportation for this timeline:
The 515 designation – to mark almost 14.5 miles east of the Spaghetti Bowl as an Interstate freeway (eligible for different federal money than a “U-S” highway name and number) was approved back in 1976. But Tony says it took another 16 years before any construction was done: 1982. The work took place in stages, with final completion in 1994, when the “515” signs were installed.
If you want to get technical, it’s really the “93-95-515-and-now-also I-11-south of the 215” as that stretch of freeway includes all four *different* roads, until you get closer to Boulder City where the 93 goes off on its own and the 95 goes down to Searchlight and beyond. And I-11 becomes the loop around Boulder City.
There will not be a quiz on any of this, but as with all our reports, you can refresh your Junior Traffic Buddy memory right here!
Buckle up, drive carefully and put down that phone!
If there’s something driving YOU crazy, email me: traffic8@8newsnow.com. Include pictures or video – as long as you’re not using your phone/camera while you’re driving.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The ousted Grammys CEO fired back at the Recording Academy on Tuesday, alleging that she was removed after complaining about sexual harassment and pay disparities and for calling out conflicts of interest in the nomination process for music's most most prestigious awards.
Lawyers for Deborah Dugan, who was placed on administrative leave last week after six months in the job, filed the discrimination complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission just five days before the Grammy Awards. She alleged she was sexually harassed by the academy’s general counsel, Joel Katz.
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