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SIG P210 Target 9mm
Made In America: Legendarily Accurate Competition Classic
By Mike Cumpston
SIG’s original military Model 210 was introduced in 1949 and shipped with a 50-meter test target with a 5-shot, sub-2″ group, establishing a reputation for stellar accuracy. Variations served the Swiss military until the early 21st Century and created a solid niche market among civilian shooters and collectors.
The current made-in-USA version, the P210 Target arrived on dealer shelves late last year. It features excellent target sights and walnut sport grips reminiscent of the old S&W “Coke bottle” stocks. The fine-line 25 LPI checkering on the frontstrap and triggerguard contribute to the solid purchase afforded by the grips and add to the classy appearance of the pistol. In short, The American P210 Target melds Swiss design with the improved ergonomic features preferred by modern shooters.
Mike’s 1911 GALCO holster fits the P210 Target like a glove. Basic 9mm practice ball
ammo is plentiful at bargain basement prices and fully vetted premium defensive rounds
from the major manufacturers are widely available.
This 25-yard group — shot offhand using both hands — shows the intrinsic potential
of the SIG P210 Target.
Tweaking The Template
Western-inspired changes found on the P210 Target began in 2010 with replacing the heel release with a frame-mounted magazine button and a heavier frame with the German-made Legend series. This incorporated a safety lever that wouldn’t score the frame and a beavertail to eliminate blood-letting from a hammer bite.
An important development in the late-Legend period was moving the thumb safety from grip-front to the much more accessible 1911-like over-grip location. The two 8-round magazines included with the P210 Target are marked “Made In Italy” and also fit the German-made Legend pistols. The P210 Target mags have base pads of additional length to match the sport/target grips.
The American P210 Target is effectively the same size as my Les Baer 1911 TR Special and within a few ounces of it in terms of weight. It has the same 5″ barrel, but overall length from beavertail to muzzle is 1/4″ less. Overall height from the top of rear sight to bottom of grip is the same 6″ as the Baer with a bump-pad magazine installed.
The grips on the P210 Target are wider than those of the Baer and the slide marginally so — though my 1911-blocked Galco belt holster fits it like a glove and conceals it very well with a light cover garment.
In place of the internal matching lugs of the original 210, the raised chamber interfaces with the slide port — a change that’s every bit as precise, yet one that permits more economical production.
After several hundred rounds and some holster carry, the finish on the slide, barrel and frame — in contrast to my experience with the 210 Legend — shows no wear, “high spots” or any other sign the pistol has been fired. The current version of its SIG Nitron finish is via Particle Vapor Deposition (PVD) laid over stainless steel. It’s a high-tech process claiming near-miraculous properties I have not yet been able to disprove.
Here are 2″ 25-yard groups with a pair of state-of-the-art loads. Both are
the better of two groups hand-held over a sandbag.
The SIG P226 X5 is yet another German-made hi-cap competition pistol.
Bench Accuracy
My 25-yard bench shooting was done over a sandbag with a billfold for a butt rest. This imposes certain shooter-specific limitations on overall results. Groups resembled the results I had gotten with the German SIGs — a P226 X5 and a 210 Legend. Five-shot strings comfortably under 2″ were the expectation and I am unable to pronounce any of these pistols “Most Accurate.”
My best effort with the 210 Legend closely resembled their 25-meter sample target and came in at 1.1″. The best P226 X-5 group was 0.95″. The new American 210 laid 5 rounds of Hornady 115-grain Critical Defense into the same 0.95″ center-to-center spread. Groups with the SIG Elite Performance 115-gr. JHP and the Black Hills 115 and 124-gr. +P fell inside 1.1 to 1.2″. All of these groups were “the best-of-two efforts.”
In terms of velocity with the loads I tried, the Critical Defense clocked 1,154 fps, while the 115-gr. Buffalo Bore +P and the SIG Elite were comfortably over 1,300. P210 Target exhibited perfect function with all available loads ranging from generic ball at less than $10 per 50 rounds, to a broad selection of state-of-the-art high performance 9mm loads.
The SIG P210 Legend Limited from 2010 (left) contributed a comfortable beavertail to the
original Swiss design. The high price limited stateside sales. The SIG P226 X5 (right)
and similar pistols are more competition-centered, high-cap models made in Germany.
The slide rails ride inside of the frame, a factor often credited with the fine accuracy. The traditional,
internal barrel/slide lugs have given way to the raised chamber/ejection port interface. It is just as
accurate and more economical to produce.
Field and Target
The trigger on the P210 Target settled in at 3 lbs. 2 oz. after initial lubrication and shooting. There is an initial take-up of a fraction of an inch and a crisp let-off with additional pressure. I (and other shooters) found our first efforts could produce early let-offs, screwing up some of our initial offhand groups. As advertised, however, the match trigger and grips are well suited to either one- or two-handed shooting.
Several of us met at Kenny Hunt’s backyard range and went to work on his falling plate racks. These consist of 8″ circular plates addressed from 15 yards. Using generic 115-gr. ball, we slapped them down at a brisk and even cadence, with shot separation intervals of well under a second. Shooting standing with either one- or two-handed at 25 yards delivers gratifying results on paper.
The SIG 210 started out as a service pistol and the current Target Model does not fall far from that tree. Its utility as a competition tool does not — as is the case with many purpose-built guns — detract from its suitability for general use, including self-protection, small game/varmint shooting or just general recreation.
The American P210 Target shares the same superior quality and workmanship that has defined the Swiss and German pistols, and the ergonomics of safety and mag-release placement, plus the hand-protecting beavertail, are profound improvements over the earlier versions. The metal work is commensurate with the Swiss and German models and the PVD/Nitron treatment is far superior.
Largely due to domestic production and the adoption of the Peter Stahl-like barrel-to-slide locking system, the current P210 Target is available at a much lower price than its predecessors. The Swiss 49/210s now command collectors’ prices and the imported German Legend retailed for $2,200 to $2,800 for the limited-series availability for those who were lucky (or creative) enough to find them at all.
Still, the P210 Target’s MSRP of $1,699 (real world: $1,479-$1,500) plus the per-magazine cost of $120-plus keep it well out of the economy category.
Ken Luikart, a participant in our metal plate shoot is a confirmed SIG enthusiast. He vowed to start looking for a domestic P210 Target and will probably find one as they are listed as available at Cabela’s and via Guns America Internet as well as a number of other outlets. In recent years, I’ve used quite a few upscale 9mms.
This one will stay with me for the long haul.
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If we were to imagine Paros as a person, then that person would be a teacher.
We braved a bit of a tourist-storm at the Mykonos port earlier this day. Have you seen a port filled with people who look like extras from a Korean skincare TV commercial? No? Lucky you. But alas it was a storm that turned out to be mostly blowing towards Santorini, which gave us much needed reprieve but offered us a glimpse of the influencer-packed, straw hat-totting, sundress-flowing typhoon that awaited there later in the trip. There is a kind of charm that is attached to boarding a ferry from one island to another. It offers a glimpse of how people would’ve traveled in older days, offering oneself to the elements just to get from one place to another. Granted the only elements we had to brave here on this relatively large ferry (it was large enough for more than a few pickup trucks to drive into it before swallowing a few hundred tourists), was being bombarded by a song-long commercial of the company who offered the ferry services. That saying, you don’t know what you’re missing out in life if you’ve never sat through a power ballad called ‘Paros Jet’. The name Paros Jet offers quite little opportunity for your imagination to flex on both the intended destination of the vessel, nor the speed it was going to hit to get there. It does reek of insecurity issues though. Wished you were taller? Had longer legs? Six pack? Ryan Gosling’s features? Meh. How about a ferry who wants to be a jet? There you go.
Oh right, the teacher bit. Yes. We got schooled by Paros in the age-old lesson of ‘not judging a book by its cover’, or in our case, ‘not judging a Greek island by the how much it initially looked like a city wrecked by civil war’. I suppose we have little else to blame but our own narrowmindedness. What triggered the impression? Narrow dusty roads, mud-stained buildings, dry and parched landscapes, etc. In another mindset, this would all be framed as ‘charming’ but we’ve just come from what was essentially paradise (when I type this, I am thinking about the beaches in Mykonos, and not the grandads trotting around in speedos when they really should know better) so forgive us while we adjust to suddenly being thrusted into Helm’s Deep. We had to take a 20-minute bus ride from the ferry port of Parikia to the fishing port of Naousa and the journey was about as scenic as the interior of a dilapidated cow carriage. And because buses were less frequent in these parts, they pack them up real tight, like they do back home. Nothing like the whiff of an afternoon armpit to remind you of your motherland. At this very moment, Agios Ioannis, the beach, and dreamy lifeguard seems like a dream and two nightmares away.
We alighted the bus at the Naousa bus station hoping for some reprieve but found little. The roads were caked with dust, the buildings stained yellowish and the kids were playing with Uzis at the back of pickup trucks (just kidding, although they might as well be). Ten minutes into our walk to Despina’s Mare, where we would be hanging our weary sails for the night, we found some reprieve at the skirt-end of the town center of Naousa, with a little more cobblestone walkways, restaurants and buildings that did not look like they’ve just tangoed with a sandstorm. It’s hilarious in hindsight because the path we took to get to our accommodation was just a street away from what is certainly the most charming town centers of this trip, and quite possibly ever, to me. In fact, we would later realise that the bus station was just a short walk down the road from a charming bent of seaside restaurants and a clear sight of the gorgeous aqua-marine Aegean sea. But we saw nothing of the sort as we made our way to Despina’s Mare. It was almost like an anti-Truman Show, where forces were conspiring to keep our sight away from the beauty of the island to teach us a huge slap-of-a-lesson in being judgmental.
Slap One
Despina’s Mare as it turned out, looked delectably comfortable. Not quite like the meat and potatoes accommodation we had to get by with at Mykonos. For one thing, they had a sign here right upfront which helped us not to have to literally sail the seven seas to find it. Despina’s daughter Konstantina greeted us and informed us that there is a nice beach about 10-minutes away on the right by foot up the road and that the main town center of Naousa with its restaurants and bars, also a short 10-minute walk to the left. At this point of time, given how famished we were from the trip from Mykonos and the fact that we had to walk through what was essentially Mogadishu in 1993, we would’ve been okay with a McDonald’s. Actually I kid, my wife would’ve probably started a civil war herself if I had made her eat at a McDonald’s. No, there wasn’t a McDonald’s on Paros. At least I don’t think so.
The room was a sight for dusty eyes. Granted it wasn’t exactly the Waldorf Astoria but it had a large comfortable bed, a spacious restroom where you don’t need to feel like an Argentinian center back planting an elbow on an unsuspecting opponent every time you reach for the shampoo. There were welcome cake and pastries on the table, two spacious side tables with USB plug points and there was going to be breakfast in the morning. As far as we were concerned, it was The Jetsons in 2063 for us. But it wasn’t the slap yet. The spacious bed and breakfast spread was that fraction of second before a slap makes its intended contact, the point when the hand leaves your side, raises to form and prepares to strike hard.
Then we drew the curtains and slid open the door and we were greeted with this sight.
Now that was the first slap.
Slap Two
The walk into town brought us a little more back down to earth. Winding cobblestone roads cramped with messily constructed homes. Not too dissimilar from Mykonos except a lot more poorly curated with many homes looking incredibly cluttered and the roads just a degree grimier. It was like experiencing a Greek island town with a little South East Asian filters on.
Greek towns and villages seem to become more beautiful in relation to how close they are to the sea. Granted most of them are settled near the sea, but the disparity between settlements inland to those near ports can sometimes be quite gob-smacking. There’s of course a very logical reason why this is so. Tourists in these parts tend to flock to seaside towns and so there is more money floating around in them, hence the better amenities and honestly, it’s quite difficult to be ugly when you’re joined to the hip with that sea. But I prefer the more romantic notion, that the Greeks get their lifeblood from the sea and the closer they are to it, the more nourished and alive they seem to be.
Ouzeri Mitsi was our pick for lunch on the first day at Paros. Not because the menu enticed us or because the name of the restaurant sounds like a Greek superhero but because we were famished and it was the first restaurant we came into contact with. Life becomes a lot simpler when you’re faced with food or death decisions. Eating at Ouzeri Mitsi proved a couple of things to us. Firstly that, because the standard of accessible Mediterranean fair and freshness of seafood produce back home is a lot more touch-and-go than go, walking into any random restaurant on any Greek island is generally going to taste pretty decent. And secondly I am never going to eat pastas back home again.
And if I still had lingering grunts about how Paros looks more like the end of a shotgun barrel than a Cyclades paradise then, it gave me a second lesson in not putting my mind’s boots into its own metaphorical mouth by offering us a spectacular view while we chomped on our sumptuous lunch. The only thing inhibiting this view to our left was the sight of a portly man in an unbuttoned white shirt at another table in Ouzeri practically making love to the fish he was eating. I mean it’s one thing to enjoy your food, it’s another to be licking your fingers seductively with an orgasmic look in your eyes. Actually we’re glad we ever laid eyes on him eating. He has basically changed the way we view eating fish forever. That ‘bulus’ back at Acha Curry House is never going to be devoured the same again.
In fact the food in Paros may just be some of the best we had in Greece. The fried calamari in Taverna Glafkos has properly set a standard for all other fried calamaris to contend with for the both of us, and we suspect it will remain so for a while yet. Maybe we were starting at a very low base, but it was amazingly delicious. Not that it was gastronomical science or anything, just baby squids perfectly deep-fried in batter, garnished with pepper and salt and a squeeze of lemon. But the taste was just tantalizing. It provided me just a moment of realisation at just how much rubbish tasteless frozen calamari I’ve been eating all my life back home. There was also this charming little café called what I can only roughly identify as Kafeneio, where they served small plates of Greek dishes. Our favorite was a dish of freshly cut tomatoes, feta and olive oil. It’s a dish that appears so simple that it feels like a restaurant should be ashamed to serve and charge money for it. But yet, it’s a dish that feels almost impossible to replicate back home because it was all down to the natural quality of the tomatoes, the feta and the olive oil. The tomatoes in particular were the stars, sweet and juicy to taste, not at all like the sour bombs we often get back home.
That was the second slap.
Slap Three
Naousa’s town center is not large, but it compensates for its lack of size by being interestingly intricate. We explored them for two days and even on the second day, we were finding little nooks and corners we could tuck into and discover things. Whether it’s little knickknack shops, fun-sized gellatorias or to-go pizza joints, Naousa is like the town that keeps giving. At the heart of its night life is the restaurants around the port. Packed with tourists of all shapes and sizes, the clinking of wine glasses against each other, utensils against dining ware and the sound of indistinct chatter punctuate the serene and calm skies of Paros. It’s noisy sure, but quite unlike the sound a city makes. There are no awful stabs of frustrated honking by motorists, raised frustrated voices against each other and against the city or thumping pop music emanating from departmental stores. This was a more joyous sound. The sound of relaxed revelry, of happiness at conversations and the joy that can really only come from having a meal in a gorgeous island in the middle of the ocean with people you love.
This ‘sound’ was what endeared Paros to me. It felt like nothing I had ever felt before. Suddenly it all made sense. That life can also be a celebration beyond just birthdays, anniversaries and the holidays. That life itself can be a celebration. I’ve always been apathetic about food and celebrations. I generally eat to live and I’ve not had many celebrations since my sixth birthday that was more than just my family going out to a Chinese restaurant and ordering a few dishes to fill our tummies. But suddenly, standing there in the middle of the Naousa port, watching the people there, hearing the ocean cooing behind us, it suddenly all made sense. How food, culture and celebration all came together in a more relatable sense to me. It wasn’t about gifts and fancy outfits. It wasn’t about just enjoying a moment, or a day. But it was about enjoying life itself through these things. Even as I reminisce these things now, I no longer associate Paros to the first impression I have of it – the mud-stained buildings and dusty streets. In fact, those initial memories are fast-fading, replaced by the scent and sounds of the lighter side of Paros.
This was the third slap.
Slap Four
A trip to Greece is always going to be about the beaches. The seafood, sunshine and the facial hair sure, but on top of that list, the beaches. We would eventually work the ‘beach itch’ out of our system during the trip but we were still at the height of it when we were in Paros. After our lunch at Ouzeri Mitsi, we walked another 10-minutes up pass Despina’s Mare and just as Konstantina said, we reached a beach called Agii Anargiri. It’s quite a different experience from the organized beach at Agios Ioannis back in Mykonos. Here, the beach front is just a few steps away from the vehicle road and splayed out in a way that appears unappealing at first because it had patches of uncut grass all around and the sand appears stodgier here. The wonderful thing was that it did not cost us a cent to be here. Just open up your towel over the sand and you’re good to go. Don’t expect any tropical cocktails though.
And while Agii Anargiri may rank as probably the least appealing beach we spent time at in Greece, all you need to do is look sea-ward and everything else no longer matters. Not even the fact that you’re laying your towel just ten steps from where a Prius just zoomed by. The sea is all that matters and when you get into it, besides the fact that you immediately feel like curling inside a microwave oven because of the cold, you feel free and at-one with mother earth. The sea here, as is the case throughout Greece, is gorgeous and being at the center of it, with the sun beating down and the waves gently caressing your chest, you just feel like it’s possible to just close your eyes and lose yourself to the calming elements.
Like the building blocks for a castle in my mind, these little experiences have slowly warmed me more and more to the idea of finding a belonging on a beach. Agios Ioannis in Mykonos was a crucial piece, but so was Kolymbithres beach here in Paros, which we went to on our second day there. We took a short boat ride over to the beach, traversing through unbelievably clear aqua marine waters to get there. The water felt deceptively inviting with its color, like diving head first into Jell-O. But given that we were more or less in the middle of the ocean, my guess is it won’t feel like Jell-O if I decided to plunge in. Given my inability to swim, it will be more like a big fat sack of rice being dumped into the ocean.
Once there, occupants of the boat flooded into the different segments of the beach like ball bearings slipping into the different nooks of a pinball machine, to grab themselves an umbrella for the day. We initially got a paltry one that was two rows from the sea at the first beach front we got to. But my wife had that look. Let me explain the look. It’s basically the look of someone who has been forced to watch a litter of puppies being drowned. Okay, I jest. Let me try again. It’s the look of someone who has been forced to watch a puppy being drowned. Yup. So we moved. You move when your wife has that look. That’s my marriage advice for everyone out there. Free of charge. So move we did, to the next beachfront, where it was almost empty and we had our pick. And score, cause now she looks like a puppy greeting her master at the door or an alcoholic influencer at an open bar. I can never tell which is which.
Some moments of the day flash to mind. The American family and the father with the sardonic wit and two women who we couldn’t distinguish were either his daughter, wife or mother-in-law (yeah I know it doesn’t say anything well about the women in discussion). The wonderful cold hit of fig tequila on lips against the punishing sun. Me getting my leg wedged against two rocks from a slip which threatened to ruin my beach day but papa powered through. The sight of a heavily pregnant but fit woman dancing around the upper regions of the queer rock formations that characterizes Kolymbithres, with not much of a care in the world. I mean why would you when you have the sight of that ocean in front of you? Yet another entry filed under the folder ‘Things a Middle Class Asian Will Never Do’ in my head. My sporadically dipping into the calm, clear sea, watching fishes swim around my frame. It was a wonderful day indeed.
This was the fourth slap.
There’s a unique sense of wonder and romanticism that comes from being a person who was raised in one end of the world, under markedly different conditions than the people here and somehow ending up in this relatively small island in the middle of the Aegean sea, taking in their culture, eating their food, breathing their air and walking on their streets.
Even now as I sit here back in humid and dense KL, typing this, my mind is bathed in endorphins as I think about what it was like to be in Paros. That things are chugging along just as they were when we were there. Despina is still welcoming guests to her abode with her warm smile and hearty breakfasts in the morning. Glafkos is still dishing out delectable calamari and turning away hopeful diners because they are fully booked. The streets are lined with visitors from around the world, baked by the Mediterranean sun but joyful for being in the midst of a gorgeous island getaway. And Lola, the aged and grumpy cat I met somewhere in the town centre of Naousa is hopefully still guarding the entrance of that cute boutique that’s tucked under the stairs. ‘She’s an old lady’, a girl sitting outside the boutique assured me when Lola gave nary an expression to me when I tried to play with her.
Lola the Grump
The same can probably be said of Paros. An old lady of the sea, glistening throughout history from her renowned white marble. She may not be as zesty and sociable as Mykonos or as breathtaking and spectacular as Santorini (as we would soon find out), but she has a charm or two up her understated sleeves yet. It’s not an obvious charm, but once properly unveiled, it can be quite breathtaking. It says a lot, given our initial impression of her, that Paros ended up being our most favorite portion of this Greek sojourn and will probably always hold a special place in me and my wife’s hearts.
Santorini awaits.
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Affordable Housing in Mount Jackson
Shenandoah County, Virginia
Housing Authorities that serve Mount Jackson
Virginia Housing Development Authority Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher (HCV)
Shenandoah County Department of Social Services Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher (HCV)
Guide To Affordable Housing in Mount Jackson, Virginia
There are 0 low income housing apartment communities offering 0 affordable apartments for rent in Mount Jackson, Virginia.
Income Based Apartments in Mount Jackson, Virginia
Mount Jackson features 0 income based apartments. Tenants of income based apartments typically pay no more than 30% of their income towards rent and utilities.
Low Rent Apartments in Mount Jackson, Virginia
There are 0 rent subsidized apartments that do not provide direct rental assistance but remain affordable to low income households in Mount Jackson.
Housing Choice Vouchers in Mount Jackson, Virginia
On average, Section 8 Housing Choice vouchers pay Mount Jackson landlords $0 per month towards rent. The average voucher holder contributes $0 towards rent in Mount Jackson.
The maximum amount a voucher would pay on behalf of a low-income tenant in Mount Jackson, Virginia for a two-bedroom apartment is between $755 and $923.
2020 Mount Jackson, Virginia Fair Market Rents and Housing Choice Voucher Payment Standards
Fair Market Rents can be used to better understand the average housing costs of an area. Fair Market Rents are used by HUD to establish payment and rent standards for federal rental assistance programs like the Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher Program.
One BR
Two BR
Three BR
Four BR
Fair Market Rent
$547 $637 $839 $1,201 $1,394
Payment Standard Range
$492 to $602 $573 to $701 $755 to $923 $1,081 to $1,321 $1,255 to $1,533
Sourced from federal housing data and AffordableHousingOnline.com research.
Mount Jackson, VA Affordable Housing Snapshot
Total Affordable Apartment Properties
Total Low Income Apartments
Total Housing Units with Rental Assistance
Percentage of Housing Units Occupied By Renters
Average Renter Household Size
$35,750 ±$5,415
$776 ±$52
Percentage Of Renters Overburdened
55.25% ± 14.98pp
Population and Household Demographics
Mount Jackson is a City in Shenandoah County, Virginia with a population of 2,253. There are 772 households in the city with an average household size of 2.88 persons. 41.97% of households in Mount Jackson are renters.
Income and Rent Overburden in Mount Jackson
The median gross income for households in Mount Jackson is $35,750 a year, or $2,979 a month. The median rent for the city is $776 a month.
Households who pay more than thirty percent of their gross income are considered to be Rent Overburdened. In Mount Jackson, a household making less than $2,587 a month would be considered overburdened when renting an apartment at or above the median rent. 55.25% of households who rent are overburdened in Mount Jackson.1
Area Median Income In Mount Jackson
Affordable housing program eligibility is always determined by one's income. Each household's income is compared to the incomes of all other households in the area. This is accomplished through a statistic established by the government called the Area Median Income, most often referred to as AMI. The AMI is calculated and published each year by HUD.
HUD often uses an area larger than a city to determine the AMI because HUD anticipates those searching for housing will look beyond individual cities during their housing search. For Mount Jackson, the AMI is calculated from all households within Shenandoah County.
In Mount Jackson, HUD calculates the Area Median Income for a family of four as $63,300
Most affordable housing programs determine eligibility based on the percent of AMI a given household's income is. Among the programs that determine eligibility based on the AMI are Section 8, HOME, LIHTC, Section 515, 202 and 811.
Rental Assistance in Mount Jackson
Rental assistance is a type of housing subsidy that pays for a portion of a renter’s monthly housing costs, including rent and tenant paid utilities. This housing assistance can come in the form of Section 8 Housing Choice Vouchers, project-based Section 8 contracts, public housing, USDA Rental Assistance (in Section 515 properties) as well as HUD Section 202 and 811 properties for elderly and disabled households.
Income Qualifications for Mount Jackson HUD Rental Assistance in Mount Jackson
30% of Median
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AFK Reviews: COBX Masters 2019
Shounak Sengupta
11th, Apr, 2019
The esports scene in India has grown by leaps and bounds since the days of cramped LANs in local cafes and a thriving ecosystem of TOs, orgs and players have been on the forefront of driving the change behind it. It came as little surprise when COBX announced their $200,000 LAN considering that the company has been trying to build their repertoire in esports for a while now. With two of India’s best teams (Signify Dota 2 and Signify CS:GO) having originated under their banner and the financial backing required to pull off an international event, COBX Gaming seems to have gone all in on the COBX Masters, an event designed to put them on the global map as a credible TO and have their names etched in the global esports landscape.
How did the first time TO perform? What were the high points and is there room for improvement? We break down COBX’s performance bit by bit, play by play in an extensive in-depth AFK Gaming report card!
The first conundrum is, of course, more of a moral one - What’s the benchmark we judge the event by? First-time TOs or a $200,000 LAN with international teams and talent? Here I have taken the middle ground, keeping both in mind while prioritising the viewer experience, both on stream and for those at the venue.
For the rating system, we have judged the event based on the following 5 parameters -
Social Media and Marketing
LAN setup and Venue
Esports Integrity
Attraction and Entertainment
Each of these parameters has been broken down into several sub-parameters, with a weighted marking system for each criterion. All parameters are scored out of 10, with 10 being highest or best. We have compiled the scores from each category to arrive at a final score for the event. Do note that this is the first event we have judged on the basis of this system and we plan to do so for all coming LANs that we attend. Therefore the score for COBX Masters will serve as a benchmark for future events and has little value just as a standalone number by itself.
For production, we have judged the event based on the quality of streams, LAN production, talent, content/aesthetics and delays.
The production we experienced on LAN was quite fresh and innovative and props to the organizer for trying something new and executing it quite well. What I’m talking about is the live on-screen stat tracking for each player. It was a neat addition that added value to the viewers and was implemented for both Dota 2 and CS: GO. Design-wise, many of the assets, transitions and default screens did meet the mark as well.
However, the quality of the stream as confirmed by multiple sources was very sub-par, with on-stream audio issues plaguing the viewers. It’s also important to factor in the fact that the production quality on stage on Day 1 was sub par with major delays, awkward observing, glitchy screens and a fair few in-game issues. Day 2 was significantly better thought and we're told it's due to the event staff and management having worked through the night to fix the issues.
The casters for both games were tier 1 talent which was a major plus point and even the panel had some pretty decent names in the list. However, there was a significant gap in communication between the hosts and the production, often leading to comical errors such as this one.
This is some OP production quality. from frikinjay on Vimeo.
Also, and this cannot be said enough is the need for research as hosts, who made bold claims that this was the first multi-game international esports tournament in the country when in fact it wasn’t even the first one at the particular venue itself.
A critical part of running a successful esports event is communication with fans and viewers. Social media plays a critical part in this. Posting timely updates, schedules for the day, building hype leading up to the event, and creating more traction as well as buzz are all essential. On this front ,we judged the event on the frequency of posts, aesthetic look of posts, responsiveness of the team to queries and questions that fans had and timeliness of posts.
Updates and hygiene content via COBX channels were satisfactory but could have done with a bit more punch. There were too few images coming out from the LAN itself which is my one point of concern. Otherwise, most of the updates containing basic information were on time and had relevant information. Pre event updates about match schedules, stream links and more could have been better planned.
The hype leading up to the event could have certainly been worked on along with ticket sales, and it was evident that there was a distinct lack of paying members in the audience.
The LAN setup was undoubtedly the best part of the event and looked extremely crisp and professional. The venue had already established itself as a possible location for esports events with DreamHack Mumbai being hosted there a few months prior. And while the choice was concerning given the problems that DreamHack faced there, it seemed like things stabilized post Day 1 of the COBX Masters.
The stage setup with 3 massive screens made the viewing experience much more immersive while there were additional effects like fire and smoke machines to build hype.
Food and beverages were also priced moderately and were up to the mark. The location was easily accessible and close to major hubs which made commuting relatively easy. However, the one major gripe I have with the event was the lack of VIP seating. Despite having purchased the premium tickets, we discovered that there was no enforcement of rules regarding separate seating area which basically meant that we had paid more than double the normal price for just a few goodies.
Esports integrity is a category where we judge the core esport parameters of an event such as seeding, scheduling, enforcement of rules etc. In this category, COBX Masters were already at a disadvantage because of the concerns of conflict of interest. Having fielded teams in both Dota 2 and CS:GO there were concerns that groups had been seeded to offer these teams an advantage. The evidence suggest that this was not the case and the groups seemed reasonable and fair by our account. However given the situation, the organizers could have publicly revealed the seeding process to allow more transparency.
The format was as comprehensive as the schedule could allow. However, delays on day 1 meant that teams had to play till well past midnight which is never an ideal situation. The major issue, however, was an incident which took place on day 1 that never should have happened in the first place. You can read about it here.
This is an area that needed a lot of work according to me. Given the long wait times, the need for side activities and filler content was obvious but there was none to be found. The one PUBG Mobile section did little to fill the downtime and was mostly a separate event of its own. Even on stage, some of the activities that did take place were quite mundane and slow. The filler content that the teams had shot earlier, consisted of childish games like flipping coins into cups, was cringy, to say the least.
Overall, the event had a few highs but they simply weren't enough to overcome the lows. The biggest disappointment for us was of course, the lack of opportunities for fans to interact with their heroes - the international players and talent. It's truly a moment of catharsis for COBX to bring stalwarts of the esports scene to India. However the opportunities for fans to meet these personalities were almost non existent. One particular attendee that we spoke to was on the verge of tears towards the end of the event when he realized that having purchased a VIP ticket and attending the event all day every day was not enough for him to be able to take a solo picture with his idol - Dendi.
From the perspective of a casual attendee though, day 1 aside, days two and three were worth attending and had some entertaining games as well.
On a personal note, the event had quite a few redeeming factors and I would have loved to see more members of the Indian esports community, but sadly this wasn't the case.
With this being said, I think that COBX has the potential and the resources to be able to pull off such events in the future with a few tweaks of course. I'll be keeping my fingers crossed and looking forward to seeing what they have in store for us next.
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How not to change a curriculum
Niall Reddy
Michael Nassen Smith
One of South Africa's most important universities, the University of Cape Town, recently released a curriculum change framework in response to protests. This is a critique by two alum.
University of Cape Town. Image via Wikimedia Commons.
While the #FeesMustFall and #RhodesMustFall movements have ebbed, the desperately-needed debate on university transformation which they ignited has continued to rage. Its latest flashpoint has been the December 2018 report of the Curriculum Change Working Group (CCWG), which was convened by the University of Cape Town (UCT) to advance a conversation on making curricula more socially relevant. This essay is a response to that report offered from the perspective of former social science students of UCT.
Our own time spent at the university, while not devoid of inspiring moments, left us with an strong sense that it had not kept pace with the kind of transformation that should have been required of it. Cape Liberalism’s hegemony seemed undisturbed, while critical ideas and curricula were confined to the margins and far too little had been done to include black and poor South Africans. We thus reacted with enormous enthusiasm to the emergence of a movement arraigned against institutional racism and calling for the “decolonization” of the campus.
We have, however, become increasingly disturbed at the particular vision of decolonization that has taken hold among influential representatives of that movement. In this view, decolonization collapses quickly into civilizational binaries: conflict is viewed as originating in the inherent oppressiveness of ideas and subjectivities associated with “western modernity,” while solutions turn on promoting ideologies that are authentically “black” or “African.”
The nativist impulses that run through this way of thinking have diverse roots, some tracing to local nationalist traditions, but ironically their main inspiration is an intellectual movement that formed part of the postmodern turn in western universities, known as postcolonialism. Postcolonialism is a notoriously diffuse body of thought, but its central thread is the contention that western discourses, chiefly those linked to the Enlightenment, serve functions of social control and hence cannot be used to either understand or liberate populations that have suffered imperial domination.
Postcolonialism began in comparative literature departments but has spread much further afield, becoming and remaining enormously influential in history and social science. Until recently its influence within South Africa has been marginal, but that looks set to change dramatically in the wake of the student protests. To some extent the student’s affinity for postcolonialism is easy to account for. The theory makes the claim that hierarchies of race and gender are embedded into certain ideologies and bodies of knowledge as a result of their historical origins. Those ideologies continue to function as a major fulcrum of power—legitimating certain views and subjectivities and subtly excluding others.
Postcolonialism thus provides an apparently felicitous tool for understanding the informal and implicit—but nonetheless invidious—forms that racism often assumes at institutions like UCT. Moreover, by directing much of its energy at the symbolic instantiations of racism—as a postcolonial approach would advise—the student movement has become a cause celebré for postcolonial researchers abroad and at home.
Yet like some strands of identity politics, postcolonialism tends to disconnect symbolic and discursive concerns from material realities. This may account for why its diffusion, while widespread, has also been highly uneven—concentrated much more in elite universities. To the extent it has gained traction on poorer campuses, it seems to have done so by co-mingling more heavily with vernacular ideologies like Black Consciousness and Pan-Africanism. But since elite universities have tended to dominate in the coverage and outward representation of student politics—a source of much internal strife—postcolonialism has become disproportionately influential on the way decolonization is being articulated in spaces of power.
Arguably the subordination of the politics of decolonization to the academic agenda of postcolonialism reaches a new extreme in the CCWG report. The working group was given fairly broad terms of reference—to document and take forward existing processes of curriculum change, to provide an “enabling” environment for debate and ultimately to offer a framework to guide ongoing transformation. Official commissions of this kind tend to douse themselves in legalese and to offer findings which, however substantively political, make heavy overtures to objectivity and inclusiveness for all “stakeholders.”
One can’t help but admire the chutzpah with which the CCWG have absolved themselves of those dreary conventions. Their report is nothing short of a full-blooded manifesto for postcolonialism and its particular brand of decolonization.
Its first half is mainly devoted to an abstruse theorization of the historical significance of the student movement and the nature of power at the university, drawing on a set of metaphysical categories like the “coloniality of being” and the “coloniality of power.” This is laid out through a series of lengthy excurses into the theories of postcolonial luminaries like Nelson Moldonarro Torres, Gayatri Spivak and Homi Bhabha. The finer points of this discussion are admittedly hard to appreciate since they are encased within a nearly inscrutable philosophical jargon, but the broad thrust seems familiar enough from postcolonialism’s standard repertoire: UCT is viewed as an institution molded by the “epistemic structures of Empire,” which valorize western modes of thinking while “marginalizing” and “erasing” both the subjects and forms of knowledge perceived to be outside its own canon.
Most of the rest of the report describes the work of the CCWG during its 18-month tenure, which mostly consisted of hosting a set of decolonial fora and seminars by prominent postcolonial academics. It concludes with various recommendations which are really a series of broad injunctions to be more mindful of the power relations embedded in knowledge production at the university.
Needless to say this approach has proved controversial. The report has been met with a fusillade of angry responses, mostly from liberals and conservatives who have intoned against its unregenerate relativism and crude “race-thinking.” Regrettably, critiques that begin from a position of support for progressive transformation at UCT have been much less audible, leaving postcolonialism to fill a growing vacuum on the left of the political space on campuses. We hope here to correct for this.
Since the CCWG report is so forthright about its own ideological commitments, it provides a welcome opportunity to evaluate the role of postcolonial theory in the broader movement for decolonization, particularly its more radical wing. We will argue that its current influence is undeserved—postcolonialism offers neither a realistic means of getting to decolonization nor an appealing vision of what it entails.
The considerable following it has already amassed owes in part to its having successfully posed as the heir of a radical tradition that runs through Biko to anti-colonial leaders like Fanon, Cabral and Du Bois before them. Our first aim is to show that this is largely a fiction: postcolonialism’s real point of origin is firmly western. We make this point not simply to highlight the irony of postcolonialism’s own fetishization of authenticity, but because we think its real biography is rather instructive. Postmodernism, of which postcolonialism is a close offshoot, took root in a period of unremitting defeat and demoralization of the Left, but its own effect was to entrench rather than alleviate that defeat. It acted either to belittle the struggle for radical social change entirely, or to shunt it into fruitless, mostly academic, avenues.
There is every reason to believe that postcolonialism’s effect in South Africa will be similar, certainly if the CCWG report is a reliable bellwether. We will try to show that the CCWG succumbs to a narrow academic tribalism—neglecting the practical support it could have offered to the movement for curriculum change in the name of advancing a misguided theory that mystifies the real causes of institutional racism and material inequalities on campuses and in the wider society.
Postmodernism’s foreign affairs department
Postcolonialism originated as part of the “cultural turn” in social theory, which began in western universities in the 1970s. The essence of this was not simply a flowering of interest in issues of discourse, ideology and culture but a full-blown swing towards these themes in a way that displaced the categories and concerns that had traditionally grounded radical scholarship: chiefly class and capitalism. This movement had various roots but its most significant immediate precursor was the French structuralist school of the 1950s.
Structuralism contended that individuals were mediated from reality by rigid self-referential systems of meaning. It became an early vehicle of culturalist encroachment by promoting the expanded use of linguistics and language-metaphors in the analysis of an ever-broadening array of social institutions. Structuralism gained a beachhead in Marxism through Louis Althusser, who argued somewhat analogously that capitalism obscured its own reality by enmeshing its subjects in ideological systems produced by public and civil institutions—so-called “ideological state apparatuses.”
However, the truly untrammeled plunge into the realms of discourse occurred only after structuralism had morphed into poststructuralism. Structuralists had thought of mediating systems as comprised of relatively fixed elements and quasi-universal properties. Poststructuralists fundamentally doubted this, arguing them to be fluctuating and unstable and hence subject to the vicissitudes of history. At the same time, they also divested themselves of any lingering concerns that discursive systems may rest on or be strongly conditioned by extra-discursive institutions of any kind, whether state apparatuses or relations of production.
These new departures provided a fertile canvass for Michel Foucault’s efforts to re-think the nature of power free from the shibboleths of the old Left. Rather than emanating from the material capacities of states or classes, Foucault came to see power as operating through the medium of knowledge and as diffused throughout society.
Here we have, in the broadest of strokes, the core sociology of postmodernity—a world in which the human subject has no reach outside of the free-floating, power-laden discursive circuits in which she is embroiled. Derrida’s pithy quip, “there is nothing outside the text,” is the most oft-quoted summation of this view. It’s easy to see how it sustains well-known motifs of the broader postmodern movement: incredulity towards “grand narratives,” distrust of totalizing systems, fetish for difference and relativism. While many today may be less willing to go all the way with Derrida, the enduring impact of the cultural turn is the idea—pervasive if not hegemonic across social science in the west—that no social structure, no matter how apparently material, can be analyzed independently of the cognitive frames and alignments of meaning and value adopted by its participating agents.
Anyone with even passing familiarity of recent campus debates should instantly recognize the extent to which postcolonial theories exist as a mere subgenre of these—eminently western—intellectual fashions. In fact postcolonialism is really best understood simply as the application of the core apparatus of postmodernism to a specific socio-geographical setting—or in Terry Eagleton’s more acerbic words, as “little more than [its] foreign affairs department.”
Its start is generally dated to Edward Said’s Orientalism, a professedly Foucauldian investigation of the role of essentializing tropes in the history of western imperialism. The Saidian stream was subsequently enlarged by other tributaries, including the Subaltern Studies group of figures like Partha Chatterjee and Gayatri Spivak. Subaltern’s were influenced by Marxist social history but gave it an avowedly postmodern twist—asserting that the cognitive frames and political strivings of the Eastern masses were unintelligible in the terms of western sociological categories. Moreover, any attempt to apply western conceptual tools to the former colonial world, would be to partake in cultural and intellectual imperialism. Radical scholarship thus turned on reclaiming subaltern “epistemologies” from the South.
All of this is to say that if postcolonialism is to become a new governing ideology for South African higher education, as the CCWG seems to wish, it cannot claim that position by virtue of being any more indigenous than the supposedly colonial ideas it assails. For us its western origins are not problematic as such, since we don’t subscribe to the notion that the provenance of an idea governs its politics—but within the field itself where that notion is axiomatic, it is obviously a sticky subject.
Perhaps this is why postcolonialism tends to narrate its own lineage rather differently. Foucault and Derrida tend to fade out of official histories while center stage is given to a clutch of leading scholar-activists of the anti-colonial movement, such as CLR James, Amilcar Cabral, Walter Rodney and Franz Fanon. The Latin American decolonial school—a subcategory of postcolonialism and an important touchstone for the CCWG—is particularly assertive in claiming this heritage while downplaying connections to French critical theory. Substantively, however, there seems little to distinguish it.
Horseshoe effects in postcolonial thought
The appropriation of these anti-colonial leaders is especially unsettling because postcolonialism has played such a significant role in dislodging from the academy the actual politics and intellectual traditions for which those leaders stood. Postmodernists saw Marxism—to which all of these anti-colonial leaders subscribed in varying degrees—as just another hoary “totalizing narrative,” full of Enlightenment pretension. Their postcolonial siblings accused it of worse—not only of having ineffectively resisted colonialism but of having been secretly complicit with it, a view parroted by the CCWG document.
The origins of this view trace back to Edward Said who used Marx’s early writings on India as evidence of the ability of orientalism to envelop even nominally anti-colonial thinkers. Said’s followers have doubled down, broadening the attack to include the universalist and modernizing forms of nationalism that animated most anti-colonial movements. In a key text of the Subaltern school, Chatterjee indicted India’s early nationalist rulers not only for having failed to break out of the economic orbit of their former colonial power but for having guaranteed that failure by not rupturing with its discursive orbit. Chakrabarty’s Provincializing Europe further emphasizes that Marxist categories are applicable only to the European context, and flounder when approaching the experience of the former colonial world.
This turn against the traditional ideologies of the Left is a natural outgrowth of the culturalist reinterpretation of colonialism, which was also originated, somewhat—unwittingly—by Said. Said’s Orientalism opened with an analysis that unveiled new scale and systematicity to essentializing tropes in western texts, but nonetheless located them within a conventional sociology—showing how ideas of the “Other” arose to rationalize and legitimate acts of conquest. However, at some point in the book, as Sadik Jalal Al Azm, an early critic, put it, the “the stylist and polemicist … runs away with [the] systematic thinker” and an altogether different—and at that time, novel—theory emerged. Said appears to claim that orientalism worked not simply to justify the interests behind colonialism but to incite them in the first place.
Even as he began to inflate its causal significance, Said started to stretch the historical coordinates of orientalism, finding its signature not simply in the modern era of imperialism, but along the whole length of the western canon reaching all the way back to Homer. For the authors of the CCWG, incidentally, Descartes is seen as the main progenitor of civilizational chauvinism in the western mind. They inform us that cogito ergo sum (“I think therefore I am”) is actually best translated as “I conquered, therefore, I am.”
The trouble with all of this, as Al Azm pointed out, is that Said ended up with theory that bore all the hallmarks of an orientalist distortion in the way he himself had defined it. Colonialism had been detached from its materialist predicates, lifted out of the nexus of classes, states and interest groups and presented as the consequence of a certain “bent of mind” which had been beguiling western civilization, unerringly, since its earliest origins.
The critique incensed and clearly unsettled Said though it never really registered on the field he spawned. (See his letter to Al-Azm, available here. The full response he promised was never forthcoming.) His followers have taken this line of thinking to its logical conclusion, effectively re-orientalizing the Global South in negative terms—depicting it as a zone in which so-called western categories—like reason—have no purchase, and where western values—like liberal rights—have no appeal. Although this Othering is given a more positive inflection, in substance, as Vivek Chibber notes, it simply mimics what colonial authorities themselves came to argue, after self-defined “civilizing missions” turned out to be too burdensome and a rationale was needed for abandoning all pretense of spreading democracy or modernity. Postcolonial theory in its more extreme expressions thus succumbs to a horseshoe effect, ending up not far from the ideologies it seeks to reject.
Crude essentialism has featured recurrently in the student protests (see for example #ScienceMustFall) and clearly underlies much of thinking in the CCWG. Post-structuralist jargon has lent it an air of the avant-garde, but in reality, there is nothing subversive and certainly nothing new about it. As Fred Halliday noted in a commentary on the orientalism debate, the recourse to essentializing mythology was hardly a peculiar feature of colonizing powers. It had been a “prerogative of the dominated as much as the dominant” for as long as history could recall. This fact is also the best evidence for why Said and fellow culturalist interpreters of imperialism must simply be wrong. If the tendency to Other were really a sufficient determinant of the tendency to conquer, there would be no way to explain why colonialism turned out to be such a markedly western enterprise. The reality is that no credible theory or body of evidence has ever been supplied for the claim that the history of western conquest can be put down to an ideology or “bent of mind.”
The politics of postcolonialism
The path blazed by postmodernism through the western academy was not a mark of the strength of its ideas. Rather, it is better understood as the outgrowth of a specific political conjuncture—defined by a catastrophic defeat of the labor movement and the Left which dramatically narrowed the horizon for radical social transformation. Postmodernism proved useful in inuring intellectuals to this defeat—allowing them to believe either that the idea of social progress had been delusory to begin with, or that it could yet be achieved in the absence of movements by challenging power at its discursive roots. To its meagre credit, postcolonialism opted broadly for the second of these routes—its theorists generally aspire to inform a radical political agenda even if their ideas have never connected with a movement capable of carrying it out. In Eagleton’s terms it is “a post-revolutionary discourse for a post-revolutionary world.”
South Africa—and much of the rest of the continent for that matter—never participated in the earlier stages of the cultural turn because its own political temporality was so different. Mass movements in that country were gearing up for a final battle with apartheid at the same time that others were being ground down in neoliberalism’s northern advance. The situation today is different: two and a half decades of disappointing Tripartite Alliance rule have discredited traditional Left ideologies among younger South Africans, while the abiding absence of a mass-based opposition has stymied the emergence of a critical intellectual layer. Those of the antiapartheid generation who successfully resisted lucrative posts in government and the private sector are on the way out of the academy, having left few heirs or apprentices. Meanwhile the same corporatization of higher education which elsewhere produced a “systematic alienation of the intellect” has been well underway for decades.
Wahbie Long has already noted how the early seeds of the cultural turn are taking radical politics at UCT in strange and unhelpful directions. Perhaps a better foretaste of what is to come is given by the CCWG report itself—which is especially useful to examine since it provides an instance both of the theory of postcolonialism and of its politics.
The overarching objective of the analytical component of the report seems to be to locate events at UCT within the broad thematic of postcolonialism—showing how Enlightenment discourses work to reproduce colonial-derived hierarchies in the knowledge system. Since the CCWG’s mandate was to produce practical guidelines for curriculum reform one might have expected that this analysis would have a strongly local focus—centering on the specific institutions, norms, discursive practices in operation at UCT which guarantee its placement in the wider field of postcolonial knowledge production. But this isn’t the approach taken. The report opens with a sweeping vista of the world-historical context of the student protests, drawn almost entirely from work of the decolonial scholar Moldonarro Torres, and it never really climbs down from this level of abstraction. In a strongly Foucaldian spirit, it sees the oppressive imprint of Cartesian ideology at work everywhere, penetrating all social relationships and defining all hierarchies at the university. But there is never any real discussion of the actual mechanisms through which these power structures operate. Power is treated as a prerogative of the discourses themselves.
The closest the report gets to locating anything concrete underpinning the colonial episteme is through a discussion of “disciplinarity”—undoubtedly a crucial aspect of the way knowledge production is regulated. But here again the analysis veers almost immediately into a purely philosophical register, before the real-world foundations of disciplinarity can be identified. Consequently, there is no reference made to publishing rules or career structures or any of the other institutions that enshrine disciplinary boundaries. Instead, disciplinarity is seen as arising simply from the impregnation of everything at the “westernized academy” by the ideology of the Enlightenment. On the whole, the report evinces a curious inattentiveness to the particularities of UCT in the name of repeated sweeping generalizations about “coloniality”: an odd outcome for a theoretical approach supposedly founded on hostility to grand narratives.
The consequence of this is that most of the contextual details which would seem necessary for any commission to arrive at practical recommendations for curriculum change are entirely elided. There is no description anywhere in the report of the relevant institutional structures, no account of how curricula decisions are made or what systems govern who gets to make those decisions. Indeed, shockingly, there’s no description of an existing curricula in the report, nor any attempt to flesh out what form a decolonized curricula may take. Considerable space is devoted to explicating the finer points of Homi Bhabha’s ruminations on “liminal third spaces,” but the substantial local scholarship on university reform in the post-Apartheid era is not graced with a single citation. In fact despite its ceaseless declamations against foreign influence on South Africa’s education system, the report manages to rely overwhelmingly on US-based postcolonial scholars while consistently overlooking far more relevant local research.
However wayward the above may appear, it is important to recognize that it is ultimately entirely consistent with what a postcolonial approach would dictate. The main thing the report seems to want to establish is that the problems at UCT need to be apprehended in terms of “ontologies” and “epistemologies,” “the fundamentals of knowledge production.” What is meant by this is never really spelled out, but one can infer that the intention is precisely to deny that the origins of racism and systematic exclusion can be located at the level of institutions, policies or political and economic relationships. Insofar as such things feature—as in the reports on site visits to various departments—they do so merely as secondary manifestations of the transhistorical metaphysics of “coloniality.” More often they simply wash out entirely, much as classes, corporations and state apparatuses did in Said’s initial idealized rendering of colonialism.
This may seem in some ways dismissive, but a more robust engagement with the substance of the report is not really possible since it doesn’t proffer arguments or evidence in any conventional sense—procedures which are presumably too tainted by Cartesianism. It’s theories are thus hard to falsify, but there’s also no particular reason to believe them, certainly when they seem so disconnected from the everyday realities of the university. Reading the report, one is left to seriously question whether the authors actually intended to try and convince anyone. Certainly, if their use of language is any indication, they don’t seem to have cared much for being understood. The obscurantist and frankly elitist jargon of the report is another inconvenient reminder that postcolonialism still belongs more to the world of Derrida than of Rodney or Cabral.
The obvious consequence of this is that, despite the fact that the CCWG recognizes its own position as political, it is unable to offer much that is useful for activists of curriculum reform. It doesn’t simply fail to broaden the appeal of the cause but doesn’t even attempt to do so, nor does it provide any of the practical information that may have helped in framing demands and setting agendas. Most seriously, it has effectively squandered the institutional opening won by the student movement by putting on the table a set of quixotic, toothless recommendations which, even should they be adopted by the Senate, have little hope of making a substantial dent in institutional racism or ideological bias. The list of these recommendations (“read with conscious intent,” “leadership with integrity,” “authentic engagement”) reads more like the chapters of a self-help book than the demands of a militant movement.
Of course, no one was expecting the CCWG to emerge with a full blueprint for curriculum reform, but at the minimum it could have framed its proposals around existing concrete demands that are widely supported—like broadening the space for African languages. Where tangible policies were less easy to specify, the report could have ensured that its recommendations were tied to some commitment of resources or institutional space on UCT’s behalf. Instead, the CCWG has effectively handed administrators a free pass, allowing them to escape with purely verbal commitments to stop spreading “colonial lies” backed up by minimal actual institutional shift.
It is apparent that decolonization means different things to different people but at a baseline it seems to denote a shift towards research and teaching that is relevant to local concerns, rooted in local knowledge producers and transgressive of the usual elitism of the university. In all of these respects the CCWG provides a poor model of decolonized intellectual practice. Perhaps more worrying is that its approach seems feted for a politics that is thoroughly defeatist. By seeing coloniality and racism as “ontologically” inscribed in the primordial matrices of South African society—rather than in concrete institutions, interests and social relationships—it ultimately fails to muster any vaguely practical vision of transformation.
Decolonization for whom?
These acute limitations are directly a result of the postcolonial sociology that informs the document. The idealized, Manichean conception of power on which it rests is simply inadequate for grasping the realities of a modern capitalist society. It results not only in a mystification of the nature of social relations within the university but also in a complete inability to locate the university within a wider social field—in particular to understand how it is shaped by market logics and political forces. Neoliberalism thus receives passing mention in the document but does not seriously reflect in its analysis, despite the seismic effect it has had on higher education.
Creeping marketization of South African universities has led to a thoroughgoing commodification of education that has seen overwhelming emphasis placed on knowledge and graduate production in line with the interests of corporations. Institutional restructuring has followed in the wake of these new imperatives, leading to an inflation of administrative power and increasing application of “efficiency” and performance criteria. Progressive intellectual life is strangled in this environment. Academics and graduate students are forced to compete with one another, closing off the space where collaborative and interdisciplinary scholarship may have once taken place. Returns to higher education have meanwhile grown rapidly since the democratic transition and constitute one of the structural causes of rising inequality.
If decolonization means freeing knowledge production from forces that constrain and disarm it, then any adequate conception will have to account for these dynamics. A genuinely radical conception of decolonization would not simply factor in capitalism but actively critique it—and in the process try to imagine a higher education system that serves something more than simply elite reproduction. The most disappointing thing about postcolonialism’s monopolization of the debate on university reform is that it seems to have so thoroughly impoverished the positive notion of what decolonization ought to entail. Indeed, it is not clear that there is any positive view on offer in the CCWG report—the task of constructing one is made virtually impossible because the bounds of what is (erroneously) seen as colonial ideology are stretched so far—leaving nothing out of which to constitute an alternative. Exactly what “epistemology” or mode of logic we should revert to once reason and the Enlightenment have been routed has never been explained.
Hence the program of decolonization that postcolonialists fall back on typically amounts to no more than promoting “marginalized subjectivities.” As best this consigns decolonization to simply fall in line with a “Left neoliberalism,” becoming a diversity exercise concerned with the appropriate distribution of the benefits of inequality. The celebration of “black” or “African excellence” at the university is an appropriate slogan for this politics. At worst, it means that decolonization will buttress the agenda of an increasingly assertive nationalism driven by disgruntled sections of the black economic and political elite. In an interesting reflection on earlier decolonization efforts elsewhere on the continent, Southall raises a cautionary tale about making allies out of such groups. However willing to inveigh against western influence on their universities, the support extended by post-colonial governments to a critical education system has typically reached a sudden limit once that education system threatens to challenge domestic structures of power.
Using affirmative action policies to actively address centuries of racial oppression in our academic system will be crucial to any serious reform of higher education. But if decolonization is to genuinely serve the cause of just and equitable social order, this cannot be its horizon.
An alternative curriculum change framework should be drawn up—one that would retain the militancy of the CCWG document while not being beholden to the theoretical views propounded by its authors. Doing so should be a priority of progressive students, alumni and academics at UCT.
The enthusiasm for change that sparked #FeesMustFall and the student movement at UCT has not completely dissipated. Yet many progressive students and academics who supported institutional reform and free education when the protests began in 2015 have seen their voice effectively drowned by the monopolization of postcolonialism in fora on curriculum change. A reform agenda that remains beholden to it will only serve to condemn South Africa to repeat the same intellectual trends that have played out in the west over the last several decades, without making our universities any more relevant to challenges confronting our post-apartheid reality. The fight for decolonization needs urgently to be seen in different terms.
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Houston, We Have Liftoff: More Of Le$
With many quick to write off the ‘slow sippin city’ of Houston as just another casualty in a fickle industry, there is a group of lyrical, yes lyrical, savages clamoring to be heard.
Standing firmly within Slim Thug’s influential Boss Hogg Outlawz camp, Le$ has quickly made his own name and gained an impressive following through sheer skill and lyrical prowess.
Having already performed alongside the likes of Dom Kennedy, Mac Miller, Paul Wall, Big K.R.I.T., Slim Thug, and the legendary Bun B just to name a few, Le$ is well on his way to solidifying his own spot in Houston.
Though, if MTV Hive is to believed, he’s already currently one of the five best underground artists in the city. AllHipHop.com checked for more of Breeding Ground's Le$:
AllHipHop.com: When speaking about the growing underground scene in Houston, your name consistently comes into the mix. What first brought you into the game?
Le$: I used to be the guy that said oh I never want to be a rapper. I was in college (University of Houston) for psychology. I used to hang around on campus, and boys would be freestyling and I’m thinking, I can do that sh*t, too. So I did.
AllHipHop.com: Just like that, eh? So what prompted the transition from college student to artist?
Le$: Once I figured out I was actually any good at it, I hustled up the money and bought my own equipment. I liked college, I even considered going to law school after getting my psychology degree, but it was really just a way to get out of Louisiana. Once I officially got into music, I put my all into it.
AllHipHop.com: Louisiana? So you’re not a native Texan?
Le$: Nah I’m originally from N.O., but I’ve been in Houston for over 10 years now, though.
AllHipHop.com: In just four years, you’ve gone on to release over 10 projects on your own, not to mention collaborative efforts. How has the road been getting to this point?
Le$: When I first started out, I was new to this and I was on my own. I’m not from here, and I didn’t know anybody. All I could do was press up my CDs and get my music out. I figured if I handed enough out, word of mouth would get it into the right people’s hand. I just wanted to get my music into as many hands as possible. But sometimes I had to take a break and just work. Crazy thing is, I was actually on a break from music when it ended up in (Party Boy) DJ Mr. Rogers' hands, and then he hit me.
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AllHipHop.com: ...which resulted in your first collaborative project with him, Settle For Le$. Do you feel as if that project was a game changer for you?
Le$: Up until then, I had run into Slim maybe 10-15 times and just kept handing him my music. It definitely gained attention and recognition. Even though Rogers works with Boss Hogg as well, they didn’t just let me walk onto the team. They had heard my sh*t and saw me putting in work. When I was finally made a member of Boss Hogg, I used the name and opportunity they gave me to get my buzz up, but I had to pay dues. I got into the studio, and I put in the work. Now Slim is like a brother. He’s looked out for me, and he definitely still looks out for the city.
AllHipHop.com: You’ve opened for artists like J. Cole, as well as worked with rising artists like BIG K.R.I.T. and Curren$y. What are your thoughts on reaching out for features?
Le$: A lot of sh*t I’ve done is people that I was already, and still am cool with. But in general, I believe in earning everything. I’ve never had to pay for a show or a feature. The best way to get someone to work with you...is to earn it.
AllHipHop.com: You’ve become known for successfully incorporating classic beats into your work. Do you feel as if this is your signature style?
Le$: Some of my projects, like Settle 4 Le$ or Beautiful Struggle, were done over completely original music. While others like Le$ is More was over a lot of classic Texas beats, and Menace was done over a lot of West Coast beats. Anybody can rap over 'what’s hot,' but it’s harder to rap over a classic. I don’t like to sound like anybody but myself, and I think that people gravitate towards my music because it’s something different. I’m original. Anytime someone has said, 'Oh you sound like so and so,' I work on it. I don’t want to sound like anyone but my damn self.
AllHipHop.com: There are many who have dubbed you one of the hardest working new artists out of Houston. In addition to kicking off your first official tour in Texas and an upcoming show with Chief Keef, what do you have planned for the future?
Le$: My latest mixtape, More Le$, is out now. Sh*t, I’m just going to keep working. You have to stay relevant. I don’t mind working hard, because in this game, if you stop, you die.
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IMF Staff papers : Volume 41 No. 2
Primary commodities still account for the bulk of exports in many developing countries. However, real commodity prices have been declining almost continuously since the early 1980s. The appropriate policy response to a terms of trade shock depends importantly on whether the shock is perceived to be temporary or permanent. Our results indicate that the recent weakness in commodity prices is mostly secular, stressing the need for commodity exporting countries to concentrate on export diversification and other structural policies. There is, however, scope for stabilization funds and the use of hedging strategies, since the evidence also suggests commodity prices have become more volatile.
Staff Papers Vol 41 No 2 (June 1994)
Commodity Prices: Cyclical Weakness or Secular Decline?
Export Instability and the External Balance in Developing Countries
The Macroeconomic Determinants of Commodity Prices
Expected Devaluation and Economic Fundamentals
Comparative Advantage, Exchange Rates, and Sectoral Trade Balances of Major Industrial Countries
Money Demand, Bank Credit, and Economic Performance in Former Socialist Economies
Shorter Papers Testing the Credibility of Belgium’s Exchange Rate Policy
The Structural Crisis in the Swedish Economy Role of Labor Markets
IMF Papers on Policy Analysis and Assessment
“ERM Money Supplies and the Transition to EMU,” by Marcel Cassard, Timothy Lane, and Paul R. Masson [94/1]
“Long Memory Processes and Chronic Inflation: Detecting Homogeneous Components in a Linear Rational Expectation Model,” by Fabio Scacciavillani [94/2]
“Money Demand, Bank Credit, and Economic Performance in Former Socialist Economies,” by Guillermo A. Calvo and Manmohan S. Kumar [94/3]
The U.S. Public Debt: Implications for Growth,” by Carlos M. Asilis [94/4]
“Comparative Advantage, Exchange Rates, and G–7 Sectoral Trade Balances,” by Stephen S. Golub [94/5]
“Measuring the Transition: A User’s View on National Accounts in Russia,” by Vincent Koen [94/6]
“Commodity Prices: Cyclical Weakness or Secular Decline?” by Carmen M. Reinhart and Peter Wickham [94/7]
“Export Instability and the External Balance in Developing Countries,” by Atish R. Ghosh and Jonathan D. Ostry [94/8]
“The Macroeconomic Determinants of Commodity Prices,” by Eduardo Borensztein and Carmen M. Reinhart [94/9]
“Shortages Under Free Prices: The Case of Ukraine in 1992,” by Alexander Sundakov, Rolando Ossowski, and Timothy Lane [94/10]
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“The Payments Systems Reforms and Monetary Policy in Emerging Market Economies in Central and Eastern Europe,” by Tomas J. T. Balifio, Juhi Dhawan, and V. Sundararajan [94/13]
“Working Paper Summaries,” compiled by the Editorial Division [94/14]
“Endogenous Time Preference and Endogenous Growth,” by Howell H. Zee [94/15]
“Geography, Trade Patterns, and Economic Policy,” by Carlos M. Asilis and Luis A. Rivera–Batiz [94/16]
“Robustness of Equilibrium Exchange Rate Calculations to Alternative Assumptions and Methodologies,” by Tamim Bayoumi, Peter Clark, Steve Symansky, and Mark Taylor [94/17]
“Withholding Taxes and the Cost of Public Debt,” by Harry Huizinga [94/18]
“Real Exchange Rates and the Prices of Nontradabie Goods,” by Stefano Micossi and Gian Maria Milesi–Ferretti [94/19]
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Emilio Urrutia proud to represent Phuket at ONE: ‘Clash of Legends’
By: James Goyder | February 12, 2019 8:52 am
Emilio Urrutia has been on the scene in Thailand for a while. He first started training in Phuket in 2013 and has been based there permanently for several years, fighting out of the world renowned Tiger Muay Thai camp.
The American has never had an opportunity like the one that awaits him on Saturday before. He’s fighting in the biggest indoor stadium in Bangkok on the ONE: ‘Clash of Legends’ card against Yoshiki Nakahara and needs no motivation for this one,
“I’m pumped. I can’t wait, especially because it’s in Bangkok. It’s going to be special,” he said.
Urrutia hails from the U.S. but has never actually fought there as a pro. All 17 of his fights have taken place in Asia but moving halfway across the world to pursue his fighting dreams has not always been easy,
“Being away from my family, my loved ones and the people I care about has been hard but when they support me that is what gives me the strength to keep training and doing my best, no matter what,” he said.
Tropical training
Like so many people Urrutia was seduced by the idea of training in the tropics. From the moment he first started studying Muay Thai the 32 year old dreamed of one day moving to Phuket,
“They used to make these little video blogs of life on the road, training at Tiger Muay Thai in Phuket. So from the first day that I trained, I always knew that I wanted to get my skill level good enough so that I could go to Thailand and train in Muay Thai. That became my goal from that moment on.”
Urrutia enjoyed his first trip to Phuket so much that he was not particularly enthused about the idea of heading home. An unexpected job offer from the Juggernaut camp in Singapore materialized and the American immediately knew he would not be returning to the U.S. any time soon,
“My time to leave Thailand was coming up and I was already pretty sad that I was about to head home. Then my friend asks me, ‘Do you want to go and teach in Singapore?’ I ended up getting a job teaching at a gym over there. After that, everything took off.”
Rika Ishige and Shannon Wiratchai have both been training at Tiger Muay Thai to prepare for ONE: ‘Clash of Legends’. It means Urrutia will be surrounded by familiar faces when he takes on his Japanese opponent this Saturday,
“We will have the crowd on our side in Bangkok and the whole Tiger Muay Thai team out to support us. I’m honored to share the card with not just my teammates but also my friends in ONE Championship, Rika and Shannon.”
Nakahara is riding a seven fight winning streak that includes wins over two ONE Championship alumni. The Japanese featherweight has not lost a fight in over three years but Urrutia isn’t intimidated by his opponent’s credentials,
“I’ve fought in Bangkok three times before and I’ve never lost here. I’ve been working a lot on my striking as well as my wrestling, I’m 100% physically and mentally and I can only think about beating Nakahara right now,” he said.
Stern test
He has had stints in Singapore but Urrutia has been based in Phuket for the best part of six years. He never expected to spend so much time in Asia, or to earn a contract with ONE Championship but the American has been well rewarded for taking that first trip,
“Thailand is where I started my journey (and) I have never looked back. Everybody thought I was crazy, but it ended up working.”
ONE: ‘Clash of Legends’ on Saturday promises to be another pivotal moment for the American. Nakahara represents a stern test for someone who has lost their last two fights but Urrutia is determined to get back to winning ways and take another step on the journey towards fulfilling his fighting dreams.
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Opinion January 13, 2020 January 13, 2020
Why upset training just doesn’t work
by Mac McClellan
During my 45 years of observing and writing about aviation, pilot upset training is a topic that has waxed and waned. For the past few years the idea of learning how to recover from an extreme attitude is in ascendance. But the reason upset training emphasis falls in and out of favor is because it just doesn’t work.
The typical pilot upset training course takes pilots who fly normal airplanes for transportation reasons and puts them in an aerobatic-capable airplane. Most often the training airplane is something like an unlimited aerobatic piston single such as an Extra. The more costly programs use ex-military jet trainers such as the Czechoslovakian L-39 that was developed for the Eastern Bloc and is now widely available in the U.S.
The trainee pilot gets some basic ground school instructing how to recover from a spin, or how to roll to the closest horizon, even when inverted. Then, in an aerobatic airplane with an aerobatic instructor, the trainee rolls and tumbles through extreme attitudes. And, of course, the flights are always done in visual conditions.
Upset training certainly won’t make you a worse pilot. And the courses can be eye-opening for a pilot who has never flown beyond a 60 degree bank, or 20 or 30 degrees nose up or down. If you’re lucky enough to draw the right instructor, the course can even be fun.
Does training in an L-39 really transfer to a Citation or a Baron?
But what you learn tumbling through the sky in an upset recovery course won’t do any good in real life flying in a business jet, or even a personal piston single.
The reason upset training doesn’t help in the real world is that it’s built on a false premise. That premise is that upsets happen to well trained and careful pilots who are following all procedures. That’s just not true. Upsets are not some aerodynamic phenomenon lurking in the atmosphere to grab pilots following well structured procedures.
To experience an upset a pilot must first lose control of the airplane. Simply replace the term upset with loss of control and the issue becomes more clear.
Advocates of upset training say the careful pilot may lose control because of unforecast or unreported extreme turbulence, or after being surprised by an instrument failure, or maybe because he just wasn’t paying attention in the dark or in the clouds and the airplane went out of control. Or maybe he tried to climb too high for the weight of the airplane and the air temperature and the airplane stalled. Or maybe he poked his nose into a thunderstorm and found extreme turbulence. Or, even more likely, maybe he mishandled an autopilot or flight management system failure and lost control.
However it happens, our upset-trained pilot who loses control of the airplane must, in a second or two after departure from controlled flight, remember how he moved the stick, pushed the rudder, and managed the throttle in that L-39 and recovered. Huh? Our guy is so careless or inattentive, or poorly trained in normal flying, that he lost control, but in the panicked few seconds that follow, he remembers the upset training and responds perfectly. I don’t think so.
Even if unforeseen events were to force your normal category airplane into a spin, what does the upset trained pilot do? During the upset training, recovery from a spin was quick and positive. Rudder to stop rotation, pop in forward stick, and the aerobatic airplane is flying again.
Just about any aerobatic airplane will fly itself out of a spin if the pilot takes hands and feet off the controls. In fact, that was one of the many flying qualities requirements for the U.S. military’s T-6A Texan trainer. It had to demonstrate hands off recovery from even an inverted spin. But is your King Air, or Citation, or Embraer going to recover from a spin even with perfect rudder and stick input? Or your Baron or PC-12? Maybe, but it hasn’t been demonstrated.
Wouldn’t it be much more valuable than upset training to train and practice our basic instrument flying skills? Deal with instrument and equipment failures in high fidelity simulators? And stay out of thunderstorms, and within the safe operating envelope to avoid an upset in the first place? I think so.
But, I can hear you yelling at the computer—what about a wake vortex? You’re right. Flying into a powerful wake vortex has caused a number of pilots to lose control and crash. But essentially all high risk vortex encounters happen close to the ground on takeoff or approach. With so little altitude available, is our upset-trained ace going to roll a business jet through a full 180 degrees or more and not lose more than the altitude available?
It’s one thing to flip an Extra or L-39 through a roll in a couple seconds, but try it in a business jet, or turboprop, with flaps and gear down. In non-aerobatic airplanes it’s going to take an excruciatingly long time to complete a roll, even with the aid of the vortex, and the nose will drop so much no matter how you pull, recovery within hundreds of feet is impossible.
The behavior of vortex wakes and how to avoid them is well understood. If we follow wake avoidance guidance the odds of a vortex encounter are very low.
In a Citabria, recovery from an upset is pretty simple, but what about on short final?
As in all things aviation, wake avoidance is not absolutely perfect. The most recent fatal crash blamed on a wake I recall happened to a Baron pilot taking off at Memphis several years ago. The Baron had just lifted off when it flipped inverted in clear air and light winds. Investigators determined the cause was a wake from an airplane that had departed well beyond the time and distance parameters that would have normally made its wake a threat. The wake cause seems improbable, but there is no other reason for the loss of control. And there is no reason to believe that any level of pilot skill by the Baron pilot could have avoided the crash at such a low altitude after liftoff.
OK, but what about that Air France Airbus crew over the Atlantic, at night, in an area of very active thunderstorms where the crew lost all three airspeed inputs because, investigators determine, the pitot tubes all froze over?
That overstressed crew still had attitude information, altitude data, and ground speed information. But it was a black night in who-knows-what kind of turbulence with the crew advisory system (CAS) messages scrolling by faster than the tape out of an IRS examiner’s adding machine. The CAS messages were accompanied by aural beeps and buzzes, and no doubt spoken warning words from the system.
Could they have maintained control without any airspeed indication if they had been upset trained? Probably, if the confusion and stress hadn’t been so high. The cockpit workload would have been so over-the-top in such a situation that managing it would take lots of luck, as well as lots of skill. If you think you can’t be overloaded in an airplane, just get in a Level D sim with an instructor determined to give you more emergencies, failures, and complex approach procedures than you can handle. Overload can and will happen to any of us.
Instead of flying mild aerobatics in an L-39, there is a technical solution that could have saved the day for that Airbus crew over the Atlantic. It’s synthetic airspeed. The onboard systems knew the altitude, air temperature, groundspeed, ground track, magnetic heading, and—until just seconds before the pitots froze—wind direction and velocity. Given those data, a sharp private pilot student could work backwards with his E6B to come up with a very close estimate of indicated airspeed. The computer power found even in most piston singles could do the same thing if properly programmed.
With a close approximation of indicated airspeed/Mach, the Air France crew almost certainly would have avoided the deep stall that doomed them. They had all been trained to lower the nose to recover from a stall since their earliest days as student pilots, so it wasn’t more training that was required, upset or otherwise. They simply needed life-saving airspeed information the onboard computers could have produced.
An upset training course can certainly make any of us more precise pilots, and probably more cautious pilots. Enhancing stick and rudder skills is always a good thing. But as a solution to loss of control in flight the upset training just isn’t it. Avoiding the loss of control is what matters in every case, just as avoiding flying into the ground is of paramount importance. And the more we train and practice maintaining safe margins, the safer all of our flying will be, whether we have flown inverted or performed a roll, or not.
Mac McClellan
When people ask Mac McClellan what he does for a living, he replies, “I fly airplanes and write about them. And I’m one of the most fortunate people in the world to have been able to make a career of doing what I love.” Mac has been a pilot for more than 45 years, an aviation writer for more than 40 and has been lucky enough to get to fly just about every type of personal and business airplane in production from the 1970s onward. He was on the Flying Magazine staff for 35 years and editor-in-chief for 20 of those years. He has private pilot privileges in single-engine airplanes, commercial pilot in helicopters and ATP in airplanes with more than one engine. He holds several business jet type ratings and has logged more than 10,000 hours. His first airplane was a Cessna 140 and for the past 27 years he has owned a Baron 58 flying it more than 5,000 hours to cover the aviation industry. And now he is a part-time corporate pilot flying a King Air 350.
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John Royce says:
It seems the author has either jumped to some pretty big and inaccurate conclusions, or witnessed some pretty shocking UPRT training..
Given the blatantly wrong idea that “most aerobatic aeroplanes will recover from a spin themselves” (can’t think of a single aeros monoplane that would) the former would seem to be the case…..
Here in EASA land we are a month into mandatory Upset Prevention and Recovery Training prior to initial type ratings, and it is becoming clear that after 20 or so students completing the short course, the watering down of PPL/CPL syllabi to remove spinning and minimise time in more usual attitudes has come home to roost.
Whilst the bureaucrats are partly to blame, many grass roots instructors are equally poorly equipped to be exposed to, never mind deal with, abnormal G loads and extreme uncommanded pitch and bank angles. A case of the partially sighted leading the blind… Perhaps UPRT should be extended to pre FlC requirements?
FCL 745 dictates that prevention is the emphasis in theoretical training, with recovery a big but not exhaustive part of the practical flying side. Simple exposure to the sort of upsets which most students have never experienced, may well minimise pilot freeze and cognitive impairment in a future real life scenario – a reoccurring theme in many accidents.
Practical experimenting with the aerodynamics at work – aircraft stability, changes to lift vector etc is something often never undertaken before, and the theory long since forgotten after ATPL exams. Such exercises really do tie everything together in the student mind for possibly the first time in their journey to commercial flying.
And such understanding equips the pilot to deal with upsets much quicker and with a much more balanced and procedural approach. Perhaps it makes a difference of seconds from upset to stabilised flight – but in many accident reports it is clear that seconds were the difference between life and death.
Of course such flights are carried out on aircraft certified to deal with student errors and more dramatic upsets, but a good training provider will keep recovery SOPs inside heavy jet load tolerances, utilise MCC procedures, and with general procedures in line with transport aircraft wherever possible (to use the author’s example of AA447 pilots “they would just follow training from initial flight training days automatically and push the nose down” then the logic continues that such a reflex would have resulted in a large immediate thrust increase. It may be standard on SEP trainers, but we all know such a reflex is asking for a secondary stall in most airliners. So early training isn’t a lot of use.
The author is of course absolutely correct on two points. Any stick and rudder time is useful. And it is tremendous fun!
M Winger says:
Huh (as you said in your column)?
First, I agree with John in this matter, but maybe for a few other reasons.
The introductory flight to what you call “upset training” (geeze, new tech talk, so is there a difference?) would mostly be performed in a Citabria due to its availability. Next, as a peruse the article you seem to be all over the aviation/weather spectrum with so many tails of woe scaring the heck out of all of us.
I get it. You want us aware of the potential of being prepared for the whatever, but so much for the apparent little time you have for this report.
Clearly the story, training, and consideration is warranted for the experience of possible learning of inverted flight conditions, so John R. thanks!
Interesting! Im a new pilot (PPL) I have less than 100hrs on my books. So I’m not going to pretend to speak with some false bravado of aviation experience or wisdom. That said! I did do (my choice as my CFI had offered it) spin training and upset training in a Cessna 150. NO I didn’t do loopy loops or barrel roles or massive G load turns like one would in an L39. But we did pull some G’s and more than doubled our stall speeds in those high bank and extraordinary steep turns!
WHY? it was simple for me. I demanded the training though uncomfortable as it initially was, I fly my wife and kids around! Sure I or even maybe a super skilled pilot couldn’t recover close the ground on some of the mentioned incidents above. BUT I sure knew what it felt like to stall at high speeds I better understood how and when its likely to happen! I also got a better understanding about flying by the seat of your pants (translating what those forces pushing your butt around in the seat mean).
Maybe my experience wasn’t “true upset” training. but I feel it was life saving training!
Brent Dolphin says:
With AF447 I don’t think there was any amount of other training that would have saved the aircraft. The most junior pilot was PIC and the other pilot present did not know the junior pilot was holding the stick back the entire time, even at “go around” thrust. When the captain came in he knew within moments what was happening as he could see both sticks. (Airbus dos not mirror stick movements from one side to the other). The stall warning also kept blaring which should be a good indicator you are in a deep stall with 20* nose up at full thrust and losing altitude.
To best understand, read the CVR transcript. It is very chilling.
I agree that upset recovery is probably not useful in an emergency when people are already stressed (unless you practice it in commercial aircraft all the time) but it is a good eye opener on how to analyze a situation, and it is good fun. On a side note, we did it under the hood also.
Bob H says:
BD: “With AF447 I don’t think there was any amount of other training that would have saved the aircraft…..The stall warning also kept blaring which should be a good indicator you are in a deep stall with 20* nose up at full thrust and losing altitude.”
What you are suggesting is that professional pilots can’t be trained to recognize a stall condition and take appropriate action. The captain was indeed taking appropriate action. It was the 1st officer who was in a white knuckle panic unable to provide correct inputs. Simulator training certainly could have improved the 1st officer’s performance. In addition, to Mac’s point, better “other training” could have prevented the conditions that led to the upset in the first place.
Bob, what I am suggesting is that the junior of the three pilots here would have had a considerable amount of training already and stall recovery is one of the basics covered after only a few hours of training. Another few runs through a HF simulator would not have made him a better pilot. The stall warning had been active for nearly a minute and the first officer had told him to release the back pressure. Some people just don’t have the ability to take appropriate action when things aren’t in the checklist.
I would also say that if there were an indicator on each side of what each pilot was doing with the stick, the FO would have been able to double check whether the JO did release back pressure as he had been instructed.
Also, what Dave said on over reliance on technology and automation.
George, the stall warning went on for 54 seconds* and stopped as the captain came back to the flight deck and even without the warning he recognized right away what was happening.
The FO did push the side stick forward a couple times, but the FBW on an airbus averages the inputs so when the JO was still puling back the system averaged the inputs to neutral.
*From Flightglobal.com
“While the stall alarm sounded continuously for 54s the captain, urgently called back from a rest break, re-entered the cockpit just as it ceased. The warnings then became intermittent, owing to A330 logic that cuts out the alarm if airspeeds become invalid.”
The big question in the flight is why did Bonin pull back on the side stick to climb when the autopilot disconnected.
Dave M says:
If you listen to the the AF tapes and see the FDR simulation you can actually see the junior FO had the side stick pitching the nose up and initiated a climb. The plane did climb to prob its max alt for the current weight with max thrust and then went into a deep stall. It had a nose up indication to about 10000 feet. The CA did not notice this until that point where he finally said from the Jumpseat to pitch down. The first problem is the CA (PIC) left for his required break right before the aircraft entered the severe weather conditions – Very Poor PIC decision making. The senior FO that took his place was an office working pilot who was on the flight to get current. His failure was to not take control until 10000 feet and try to recover which left limited alt and he had to pull the nose back up when the ground prox warning system started alerting. This goes back to basic aerodynamics, basic piloting skills and lack of understanding. Over reliance on automation, poor primary training and very poor CA (PIC) decision making is what lead to this disaster.
George Haeh says:
In AF447, the stall warning halted when the airspeed went below the threshold set by the software (you don’t need the stall warning blaring during taxi). I recall from the BEA report that two nose down inputs stopped when the stall warning came on as the lower limit of the stall warning band was reached.
As for vortices aka rotors, I encountered one downwind of a ridge at 300′ AGL as revealed by one of the flight recorders in my glider. The shear in a vortex can be as much as twice the wind speed.
I have a running argument with instructors (except in a full aerobatic course) that advocate holding pro spin controls until one full rotation has been completed as it builds the wrong muscle memory.
That muscle memory might have you smacking the ground halfway through your first (actually last) rotation spinning out of a turn to final.
Staying alive in a mishandled or disrupted turn to final requires catching the wing drop before the spin is allowed to develop further.
YARS (Tom Yarsley) says:
Mac is absolutely correct.
This is why mandatory spin training is of NO use in a situation in which a pilot has his/her head so far up his/her butt, that s/he UNINTENTIONALLY stalls/spins an aircraft in a base-to-final turn. NONE.
THAT neat trick would require the flipping of a skull switch that has two labeled positions: Moron and Genius. Somebody please tell me, as soon as you locate that switch.
ChrisBow Piloto says:
That switch is there and I have watched it get flipped. The moron part usually happens because of distraction and the genius part wakes up when they realize what is going on. With proper training, a person can completely make that switch in less than a second.
I can agree that full spin training in a highly aerobatic airplane might have limited benefit for many pilots, but, spin entry (and avoidance/prevention) is extremely important, and upset training can be beneficial for all.
The stall/spin on base-to-final example is not a spin (there’s too little altitude available to spin before hitting the ground), it is a spin entry. Good training, even beginning at pre-solo stage, should impress upon the pilot the rapid roll to inverted from a skidding stall and how to avoid it. As the DPE before my ATP checkride said, “it is IMPOSSIBLE to spin in a slip” (before I get a thousand WTFs, when you stall in a slip the up-wing, the same side with rudder displaced, stalls/drops allowing time to recover. If you continue to hold the rudder after the wing drops, then you transition from slip into a skid). Always remember excess rudder into the down wing = bad! Act like a wing walker and step on the “Up” wing.
What’s great about upset training for all pilots? It can reduce the startle factor. It can reinforce proper rudder technique. And it can reinforce the need to unload first and then roll (break the stall first. After all, stall speed at zero G is zero knots in all airplanes).
Having just completed Upset Recovery Training, I agree with Eric and I believe that the events of AF447 demonstrate the thesis behind such training quite well. FO was panicked and clutch reflex kicked in resulting in his holding the stick back.
Mother Nature and our fight or flight reflexes are not always compatible with aviation. I agree with Eric that Upset Recover Training can help with recognizing the psycho-dynamics of the moment and taking actions appropriate to recovery which include the counterintuitive unloading of the elevator.
Upset recovery training can be fun (was in my case) and I think has made me a better stick and rudder pilot in GA aircraft. I’m a lot more comfortable on the vertical plane looking at terra firma spinning towards me, but, that’s with the knowledge that I’m in an airplane that is equipped to do that. I’m not so certain I’d be comfortable doing it in a Phenom.
Like any training, there are limits to utility some of which diminish over time with latency. Am I glad I took it? Yes. Is it a magic bullet? No? Does it all add up to making me a better pilot and more aware of my situation? I think so but at the end of the day, the objective is to avoid those circumstances which create the risk of an upset that has to be recovered from . If you fail in this regard, you increase your risks dramatically.
Since the Air France accident has been the focus of most of the comments, I guess I’ll start there. One of the many causal factors that came out of the accident investigation was a near complete lack of knowledge and understanding of the loss of reliable airspeed emergency checklist. Apparently this training (at the time) was only seen once during initial qualification training. This checklist was never called for, nor any of the steps taken. The loss of reliable airspeed is what led to the myriad of failure annunciations the pilots had to deal with when the computers lost a basic, but critically important input to determine and control the aircraft’s flight path.
Another causal factor is the Airbus responds to the last stick input given, regardless of which stick gave the input. While the relief captain had been pushing forward to recover from the stall, the first officer in his panicked state had repeatedly input aft stick, keeping the aircraft in a stalled condition all the way down to the ocean. There’s no direct connection or feedback between the captain’s and first officer’s stick, so the relief captain had no idea his nose down input had been overridden by the first officer.
The current statistics bear out that the avoidance style of training will not prevent loss of control-inflight (LOC-I) accidents from occurring. The vast majority of transport category accidents in recent history have been caused by stalling the aircraft (nearly 40%), followed by flight control and disorientation respectively (combined altogether, roughly 60% of all transport category accidents). As such, government agencies and industry got together and studied the problem at length.
The new mantra is avoid, recognize, and recover. The recover piece had long been ignored as being unnecessary for highly trained professional pilots, with all the focus put on avoidance and some on recognition. But the statistics show in recent accidents that pilots were not recognizing upsets properly NOR taking the appropriate corrective action. This demonstrated in blood the avoidance and “properly trained” pilot model was not working and needed to be addressed.
The Extended Envelope Training (EET) at my airline now consists of academics where you refresh on swept wing aircraft aerodynamics at low and high altitude, stall characteristics (low & high), upset recovery (low & high), and a review of several recent LOC-I accidents to discuss whether or not the crew took the proper action following the avoid, recognize, and recover model as a guide to the discussion.
This is followed up with a lesson in a Level D simulator where you prebrief a shortened version of the academics to refresh and reinforce, focusing on how to implement of the recovery techniques discussed in class in our particular aircraft. You go into the sim with a partner, both getting hands-on training as the pilot flying utilizing the recovery techniques to proficiency in several configurations in the low and high altitude regimes to see the differences in aircraft response, then swapping midpoint so you also get exposure to the roll the pilot monitoring is supposed to play during an upset, supporting the pilot flying during the recovery. The AoA and G-loading is displayed for the pilot during the maneuvers, and the instructor shows the student the V/G plot to show them where their recovery fell in regard to the flight envelope, repeating recoveries as necessary to get them safely within the aircraft structural limits. This is fantastic and fun training.
As much as I like Mr. Mac and some of the things he’s written over the years, this piece ignores the current accident statistics and opines the training is basically useless. There are examples where this training has saved lives, and data that shows when pilots are only trained to avoid upsets, they’re left untrained and unprepared when an upset occurs, resulting in accidents and deaths. Training to “avoid only“ doesn’t account for the fact that sometimes the environment deals you a bad situation no matter how professional you are as a pilot, and ignores the fact that professional pilots are humans that make mistakes that put them into an upset situations, without any training to recover. And that’s where Mr. Mac is patently wrong in his opinion.
John Zimmerman says:
I’m headed to FlightSafety this fall to complete their UPRT course in the PC-12 simulator (the airplane I fly most often). I’ll be interested to see how this goes. Here’s my bias: I generally agree with Mac that flying an L-39 or an Extra doesn’t do much for recovering from an upset in a big airplane. Fun, yes. Good for basic stick and rudder skills, yes. But not a lot of transfer to a Pilatus (or whatever).
However, I’ve heard from multiple Pilatus pilots that doing a UPRT course in the simulator–a full motion sim that’s the same model as the airplane you fly, with actual test data from the manufacturer–is a different animal. Maybe UPRT isn’t good or bad by itself, it just depends on how it’s done.
So I’m a skeptic but I’m cautiously optimistic about doing it in the sim. I’ll report back on this.
Mac MCCLELLAN says:
Every year during the recurrent training required by FAR 61.58 for pilots of airplanes that require a crew of more than one pilot, or are turbojet powered, we have done a form of upset training in the simulator.
The way it usually works is the sim instructor tells you to cover your eyes and then he–or your sim partner–maneuvers the sim into an unusual attitude. The most effective instructors not only toss the sim around, they run the pitch trim. Many jets have a “clacker” that sounds when the trim is in motion so you can hear that, but you don’t know if the trim is running nose up, or nose down. And all of this is done in simulated IMC conditions, not visual.
Then, after the airplane is in some extreme attitude, your told to look up and recover. Obviously, the airplane is going to be either gaining speed like crazy nose down in some extreme bank angle, or pointed up and very near a stall. And it is probably wildly out of trim so the stick forces can be confusing. So it’s pull or push, and chop power or add all of it immediately. And then try to get the wing level. Best to do all of that at once.
The best instructors I’ve had in more than 40 years of doing this also dick around with the instruments in front of you. Used to be either the attitude indicator, or airspeed, but now it’s the PFD that they would fail. So when you look up you may see everything level, but with radical airspeed and vertical speed. Or, maybe you see nothing but red flags. Easier. Either way you need to look across the cockpit and compare the displays, and then look at the standby instruments to break a possible tie.
I know that some airlines or training programs have taken the unusual attitude sim training to extremes, such as recovering from inverted or at least beyond 90 degree banks. Or maybe even a fully developed stall. I haven’t done those, only the unusual and rapidly changing attitude that required immediate action to recover.
Whatever you think of sim training, I have found this part of recurrent training more realistic to transportation type flying than the aerobatic training I have done in aerobatic airplanes.
Mac Mc
RichR says:
Done this both ways…military TACAIR in full motion simulator where large flight test $$ were spent to accurately emulate post stall/spin flight modes with training supplemented by routine TACAIR maneuvering flights (intentional stall/spins prohibited). Now operating on the shoestring end flying ex-mil primary trainer thru routine acro. Full motion sims are great for this, but I doubt that TACAIR type flight test programs have been applied to validating transport aircraft post stall or extreme maneuvering behaviors…so I’d assume commercial sims are an approximation in this regime, good for developing procedural emphasis, but may also have, like upset trainer airframes, significant behavioral inaccuracies. Whether you spend to get “Upset Training” or upset training with your local CFI or buddy with a C150, there’s a lot to be said for getting used to using entire control throw and experiencing post stall deck angles, breaks, and windscreens full of sky or ground to remove panic from the initial response. I routinely bring PICs flying who are uncomfortable in these situations, we brief, fly and learn/confirm the world does not end beyond 45 AOB or 20 pitch (these are on my dime, I’m not pushing product). With all the mandated hours now required for ATP, it certainly seems like an opportunity to take the time to add in more maneuvering training.
On avoiding upset situations…with reliance on autopilots, when “George” runs out of airspeed/programming and PIC was distracted with laptop or pax, what kind of scenario comes next?…even the “responsible pilot” may end up here.
In AF mishap, besides pilot performance, it highlights many man/machine interface issues that should be addressed or avoided in design stage.
Enderson Rafael says:
The AF447 is a very complex scenario. From lack of system understanding, including lack of procedures application (eg: unreliable airspeed memory items) to design flaws, it has much to do with the MAXs crashes actually (with a big load on training instead of design, opposite to what the media in general says). The industry incorporated the high altitude stalls training since then, focusing on regaining control instead of altitude. And as suggested, new airliners such as the B787 and A350, have the synthetic speed feature (AoA generated speed, GPS generated altitude), although primarily the memory items (pitch and power), remain the same. The speed info is gonna be used much later, after you’ve got it flying safely.
The other thing that upset recovery training cannot replicate (whether conducted in an airplane or simulator) is the “startle factor”. Initial reactions to any situation are critical, but if the brain cannot rapidly analyse the problem, the aircraft may run out of altitude and/or airspeed before a solution is implemented.
This is an interesting discussion.
Having embarked on my journey as a UPRT Instructor at my airline I’d like to pitch in with some of reasons I believe what we are doing is valuable.
From my research and learnings in our course the majority of Air transport category aircraft that have had a stalling event did not recognise they were actually stalled.
That fact alone leads us down the road of appropriate startle effect training with the first point being Recognition.
I mean seriously ……..what is the rush. A stick shaker is not actually a stall …….aircraft dependant it’s a percentage above the wing actually stalling.
If you do nothing else other recognise the problem and take a breath you can at least over come the Startle and recover appropriately with enough height loss to keep the G load to a minimum.
Another example of an upset is a Vmo over speed. I see pilots recover an over speed by chopping the power , pulling back on the stick to remove the clacker and get out of the red.
Again ……what’s the rush. It’s Vmo not Vne. The wings won’t rip off and if you take a breath, figure out what you need to do and then again Gently do it.
I see great value on changing the way Industry teaches upsets. This needs to happen at the highest level and more importantly at the beginning of any career in aviation.
My thoughts for what it’s worth.
You reinforce my point. Look for Vmo in an Extra? It’s not there. Upset recovery practice in a Level D sim is very useful. Flopping around in VMC in an aerobatic airplane fun, but not useful in transport flying.
Mac’s last point is the most important: maintain safe margins. For example, flying the traffic pattern at 1.3 Vso, coordinated turns and a maximum bank angle of 30 degrees will make a stall/spin accident impossible in most of the airplanes we fly.
Warren Webb Jr says:
I know from flying with countless pilots of all ratings, including even other cfi’s and part 135 pilots, that there has been a massive failure to teach a simple pitch reference which is illustrated in Figure 3-8 on page 3-9 of the FAA Airplane Flying Handbook. The proper visual pitch reference is a point on the glareshield usually directly above the attitude indicator (in all cases it’s the point directly in front of the pilot’s or co-pilot’s nose). That point works exactly the same as the pitch dot on the attitude indicator staying vertically stationary when the aircraft is rolled – in a descent on base it’s about 8 inches below the horizon. Roll into the turn on final, keep that point the same 8 inches below the horizon, and let the banked lifting force of the wing turn the airplane in a normal manner. Instead what I think happens is the pilot (usually making a late aggressive turn) not only rolls aggressively but uses back pressure to increase the rate of turn while fixating toward the runway resulting in the stall. That point on the glareshield, if it had been observed, would have probably gone up to or above the horizon indicating the pilot lost awareness of the pitch position and simply stalled the airplane.
I agree very much with maintaining safety margins, but limiting the bank angle, which I’ve heard other cfi’s recommend, may be problematic. It may not produce the turning performance desired resulting in the pilot using back pressure to tighten the turn which can lead directly to the stall. An appropriate pilot can do this test at a safe altitude. Establish a descent simulating configuration and speed normally used on base (approximately 70 kts in a C172). Note the distance of the glareshield pitch reference point below the horizon. Chop power and roll into a 60 degree bank in either direction making absolutely sure the pitch reference point stays at least the same distance below the horizon and that no airspeed is lost. Guaranteed there will be no stall. The C172R indicated stall speed with a 60 degree bank would be about 50 kts in level flight, even less in the descent, so there’s the good safety margin.
I’m not saying any pilot can or should roll into just any bank angle base to final. My point is that generally the REAL PROBLEM is losing awareness of the pitch position (and airspeed I might add) and applying excessive or any back pressure which raises the nose from the proper descent position. If there is any undesired sink at any point of the descent do the normal – an increase in power as needed to hold airspeed with a simultaneous increase in pitch (ex: from -6 to -4 on the attitude indicator) as needed to hold glideslope.
“Chop power and roll into a 60 degree bank”. Erase the ‘chop power’. Inadvertently added.
I can not speak to how airliners react in stall/spin/ upset situations having never flown one, or even a simulator for one.
I will also state that an Extras or similar high performance aerobatic have absurdly quick control response.
What I can speak to is that the biz jets and turbo prop aircraft I have flown all respond at least as quickly to control inputs as aerobatic trainers on the lower end of the spectrum such as Citabrias, Stearmans, etc. It seems to me that training using both low performance aircraft and advanced sims should provide the best all around upset training.
When you push the nose up in an inverted recovery to upright and are hanging from your belts it is an very uncomfortable feeling. Practicing it will ingrain it.
As for spin training, if you have not experienced what an airplane feels like right as it departs you will never be able to recognize it and prevent it from happening. I certainly agree that upset/spin training should not take place solely vfr, however partial panel work is a viable option in many trainers.
I respect your experience and most of this article, but your assumption that a plot trained in upset recovery will not know what to do quickly after an upset due to negligence is completely wrong. I have experienced this in firefighter training and driving and I have friends who talk about this type of thing in the military. It becomes muscle memory and will happen like a reflex (assuming they have done it a few times, which may also be a false assumption). It is amazing how quickly a well trained human can go from being oblivious to a situation to being in complete control of it.
Jack Stovall says:
Upset recovery practiced in a C150 Aerobat, Aerobatic Bonanza, and the like are excellent airplanes to get upset training because they are exactly like airplanes that people fly every day. Upset recovery is more about spin prevention than spin recovery and this can be practiced in these type airplanes more safely than in standard category airplanes. You can also legally put the student in many unusual attitudes including inverted and teach them how to recover. It’s not about going out and flying common aerobatic maneuvers but about showing how to get out of situations you might inadvertently find yourself in during your day to day flying. It makes you more confident and knowledgeable as a pilot just as IMC practice and landing practice do only more so. The key is to FLY AND STAY PROFICIENT!
Paul Bergman says:
I agree Jack! I did the upset training at BruceAir in Seattle in an Extra300L. Did I know in advance what to do? Yes! My surprise was just how easy it is to start a spin and how quickly it can flip over the plane.
I now understand some of the areas that pilots are not trained in sufficiently to recognize/not get into the situation that has the potential to spin, i.e., just how close many pilots come to a departure stall or a landing stall by simply not understanding the ‘don’t s’ and recognize them early on before soloing.
I am working on a presentation for pilots that is an eye opener and not really discussed that much, or from my particular viewpoint.
I just got Rich Stowell’s book, Stall/Spin Awareness, but have not read past the first few pages just yet. I’ll see if he touches on the exact thinking I will use for prevention training & awareness.
I am an Advanced Ground & Instrument Ground Instructor.
Rodrigo Guerra says:
Recovery from unusual attitudes may not be as efficient as we’d like, but it is no waste of time at all, since it develops confidence regarding where the limits of the airplane are and develops the sensitivity to perceive their closeness, while bringing prevention into focus, in real flying. It does not replace appropriate flight planning and does not compensate for recklessness in any level, so the main point for safety in aviation is still staying ahead of unforeseen events.
I’m just ashamed of the seemingly superiority mr McClellan apparently thinks he has in relation to pilots who got involved, or even killed in accidents that may have been prevented somehow (maybe with an upset recovery training, but unquestionably Some further training). Disdain and contempt for those from whose accidents we try to learn from are at least objectionable. I hope you really never find yourself in any kind of upset, mister.
The idea that upset training doesn’t work is absurd. I have two very close friends that are alive today because the training they received in extra 300 enabled them to recover a king air 300. It is true that many pilots will go an entire career without loosing control of an airplane. But if more pilots had upset recovery training then we would see less fatal accidents due to loss of control. I have personally seen pilots in a simulator loose control of a 737 in a rudder hard over on final as has killed many people. I have also seen the same situation with a pilot that has had upset training with no knowledge of the event about to happen safely recover the 737 sim after a rudder hard over. How many lives would upset recovery training have to save before you would feel that it worked?
Hi Jeremy,
There is only one specific data point of how upset training played a role in an accident that I am aware of. And that’s not a positive one.
It was the American Airbus A300 out of JFK in November of 2001. The airplane crashed because the vertical fin broke off. The NTSB found the probable cause of the fin failure to be the pilot flying’s aggressive and overuse of the rudder in response to the turbulence and minor upset caused by hitting the wake of a 747.
The pilot had been through his airline’s upset training that emphasized use of rudder in recovery from unusual attitudes, something one would do in a light airplane or aerobatic airplane.
What many of us learned from that investigation is that–despite what we had been taught all of our flying lives–full and abrupt use of flight controls can break the airframe even when flying below maneuvering speed, as this pilot was. The reason is that the certification rules deal with the loads of only a full application of the flight control, and then returning it to neutral. The pilot of the Airbus moved the rudder aggressively in both directions which took the structure outside of the certification load envelope and the fin broke off.
To be fair, this was a syllabus failure to recognize/train to airframe limits, not a failure of upset training.
JWS says:
Note the progression in the article and the author’s response to it. First ‘upset training is trash’, then ‘upset training in aerobatic airplanes is trash’ to ‘upset training for multi-million dollar airplanes is trash’ to ‘upset training in million-dollar simulators for multi-million dollar airplanes might be okay’. No data were used to support his initial blanket declaration, in part perhaps, because saves as a result of such training don’t make news. Like the one which saved me.
Unfortunately, this article is being widely distributed by Sporty’s eNews to be read mostly by normal people, not ATP rated turbine drivers. IMO, the potential for lost lives as a result cannot be dismissed.
One of the items I have remembered from my upset training (and reinforced in instrument and commercial training) is to level the wings before pulling or pushing. Less chance of over g’ing and exceeding design limit margins.
Heres a comment from a basic CPSEL pilot and upset training. Instead of my instructor putting the plane into a unusual attitude, he would have me under the hood, head down, eyes closed but still on the controls. In other words, I put the plane into an unusual attitude rather than him doing so. After a time, I’d be instructed to look up, recover and maintain normal flight. Sometimes, over that timeperiod, he would fail an instrument (the guy loved post it notes) and I’d have to recover partial panel without knowing it until I got my eyes back on the panel. Three lessons learned. Vertigo strikes quickly and brutally and most of the time YOU put the plane into an unusual attitude by YOUR inputs, not a second party aboard. And its a machine and machines have failures.
Most interesting conversations. My two cents: AF447 lost airspeed and air data information. Was not attitude information fully available? The cockpit confusion overwhelmed them. The pilot flying failed to release the control. I always thought attitude plus power equals performance. It would seem all they had to do was put the airplane in level flight attitude and trim the engines for cruise power. UPSET training would have certainly ingrained better basic flying skills. I guess Monday morning stuff is always easy.. but the one thing missing was the 3 cell mag light to convince the guy flying to release the control.
Sparky says:
One of the first comments posted was that they didn’t think any airplane would recover from spins hands off. The T-34 and the T-2 both Navy trainers would both recover from a spin hands off.
I did with both of those planes.
The T-2 would also do upright and inverted spins and a Lomcovok. Fleet pilots in all the tactical airplanes, F-14 A-6 EA-6B A-7 F-18 would do a flight or two in the T-2 and practice spin recovery using the prescribed spin recover for the fleet airplane they flew and it always worked in the T-2. Experience from the fleet pilots who had this training did reduce the number of loss of control mishaps, but it didn’t eliminate them. startle factor and the loss of control too low (typically below 10,000′ AGL) to allow for a safe recovery.
Perhaps the acro airplanes are too close to neutral stability to effect a hands of spin recovery. I suspect the spin certified Cessnas will recover hands off from a spin too.
I don’t believe Transport Category airplanes are required to do a full stall even in certification so any simulator training is based on computer modeling of what is likely to happen and not real world flight test data. And if they did stall the plane in flight test any modeling of Incipient spin and post stall gyrations are merely best guess.
A swept wing airplane is a whole different animal at the stall AOA.
One of the Navy Planes I flew (EA-6B Prowler) was never successfully spun and recovered during flight test. The procedures had you with two hands neutral controls feet off the rudder pedals with stick slightly forward wait until you identify that you are in a fully developed spin and then the anti spin controls are opposite rudder, stick full aft and into the direction of the turn hold for 3 seconds and neutralize the controls with stick forward of neutral.
It was all done on instruments and you had the benefit of an AOA display to see if you were below stall AOA.
…or maybe the secret was flying with (good) ECMOs knowing they’d whack you upside the helmet with their knee board! 🙂
Pablo C. Branco says:
WOW! I am SHOCKED. This is probably the most ignorant article about flying I have ever read. Sadly and surprisingly, published on an outlet I (used to) respect. I am in awe that McClellan thinks this way being such an experienced aviator (or is he?) and that AirFacts would even publish this.
It is just not about “teaching people to recover from a spin” – this article is looking at this very narrowly. Upset Recovery training is about teaching people how to be comfortable in an airplane (ANY airplane!) in any attitude and know what to do from there. Arguments like “only pilots who made mistakes put themselves in upsets” are not only incorrect, but shortsighted. We all, at some point, made mistakes as pilots. Some of us knew how to correct from them. This article advocates that if you simply NEVER make a mistake, you will never need to recover from them – well, go ahead and throw the first stone if you’re a pilot and never made a mistake.
The best remedy to create enough awareness to make better pilots at AVOIDING situations is to actually cross those lines in a safe and controlled environment that only UPRT can provide and that would be a major benefit for, for example, base to final stalls. It happens because pilots can’t identify it is coming, but what if they have seen it before? Then, they will recognize it. And avoid it. Some things just can’t be learnt from reading books and watching documentaries!
I’m sad to say but this article advocates AGAINST safety in flying.
Its not just about “teaching how to recover from a spin” – it is about teaching people how to fly better and be safer. If you haven’t been to an UPRT school, do it, then come read this article again and see if you still agree with it. I am most certainly happy I have; more than once!
SYLVAIN DE WEERDT says:
THE AEROBATIC TRAINING IN THE BELGIAN AIRFORCE ON SV4C AT EBTN HAS GIVEN ME VERY POSITIVE RESULTS IN MY AVIATION CIVILIAN AND MILITARY CARIERE
Kenny P says:
Yay, it’s my turn, and my opinion of why the training is of little value is somewhat different. I have a friend who spent thousands of dollars on tactical training with firearms. He wants to protect his family, and he learned all kinds of stuff—four years ago. He’s forgotten most of it, I’m sure, because he has no way to continually practice. And one cannot be vigilant every second of the day.
My take on the whole deal (even though I carry a pistol) is that my family and I are better served by avoiding such situations where I may need my training. Same with my flying: avoid the situations that cause upset. As Mac says, it ain’t rocket surgery.
There may come, in everyone’s life, a situation that cannot be foreseen. At that moment, your fate may be sealed, or you may have a slight opportunity to get the cards to fall in your favor. Me? I don’t worry about that situation. I’ll deal with it if and when it comes.
For the record, I’ve spun a 150 and my Skyhawk numerous times. There is plenty of warning that needs to be ignored before either rolls over on its back.
I took Rich Stowell’s “EMT” course – twice, actually – many years ago. In my opinion, it was VERY helpful. Two things stand out: firstly, if the airplane is grossly out of shape, I don’t freak out and freeze; I’ve seen that attitude before. It is hard to appreciate how traumatic it is for a pilot who’s never, say, spun to experience it the first time, and especially if unexpected. The second thing is somewhat specific: we (at altitude, of course) performed several turn-to-final-skidding upsets. The thing I remember most was not how violent it was, but how GENTLE. I was expecting the upset, but didn’t realize we were in “trouble” until we were spinning. The wing just gently dropped, and when I tried to pick it up with aileron, it dropped more, until we were in a spin. There is no recovery if you are on base-to-final; you are dead. Since that day, I’ve been a Nazi about having the ball centered in the pattern. I often fly with low-time pilots – and I always tell them, “If that ball is not centered in the pattern, I will yell at you. Count on it.”
J Dubb says:
I’ve often wondered why it would not be better to simply not use the rudder in the pattern. Then every turn will be a slip, which is inherently stall resistant
George Catalano says:
McClellan – I am shocked you actually wrote this article. Maybe you were out of subjects matters to write about so figured why not kick the hornets nest…..???
In the present aviation world we pump out hundreds of button pushing new pilots that can barely negotiate a cross wind, use their rudder pedals for a foot rests and get the sweats when they are passed a 30 degree bank. Basic aerobatic training and upset training can do nothing but good for these young and old pilots alike.
Sure there is a disconnect between flying a T-34 upside down and a 737 – but if you have ever been to driving a school where they teach you how to get control of an ‘out of control’ car, you can connect the dots here. Upset training teaches you to understand aerodynamics better by feeling the edges of the flight envelopes. Seeing unusual attitudes in a controlled and safe environment so that the brain can process the visual and physical parameters of what is happening.
I’ve been flying a long time and learned back in the mid 1970’s, so unfortunately I’m in the camp that would require tail wheel training, spin training and some basic aerobatics. I have taught many students aerobatics and everyone of them have had the same takeaway – it helps them be a better and safer pilot….end of story.
Joe H says:
If you have never been somewhere and one day you suddenly arrive you may not recognize where you are.
Gennaro says:
If we don’t have a sound reason that explains why an airplane fly’s we certainly cannot expect pilots to agree on upset training. I lean toward agreement with Mac. For me the principal benifit of upset training would be that it is fun.
atpfirefly says:
I would suggest that this article is over reaching on the subject of UPRT. It certainly opens the door to many and varied opinions. The main thing I have found that relates more to upset training than any other is the fact that the pilot who goes through this type of training has a sort of epiphany in terms of encountering something other than a steep turn or spin. Spin training starts the process of instilling more comfort for a pilot in their confidence to control the aircraft and UPRT takes the process to a completely different level in terms of confidence in their own abilities to have “been there, done that”. Pilots are all different, but the one thing that seems to help immensely is simple exposure to the unusual attitudes associated with UPRT…it instills a level of confidence in the pilot that would otherwise not be there. I have done many sessions in Level D sims related to unusual attitude recovery, every session was an education relative to that specific type and how it can bite you and what you need to do to recover. After “Sully” landed on the Potomac, that gave the Sim instructors the idea to put everyone through a dual power failure in the corporate jets. It was an interesting exercise and made the pilots aware that a dual failure didn’t necessarily lead to a complete disaster. The comments related to “car control” training, more crosswind training, and tailwind training ALL have their places in the training environment. I participated in some ab initio training programs for some Airlines, some of those programs grabbed applicants off of college campuses and were “guaranteed jobs”….no aptitude required. These types of individuals in many cases didn’t even have driving licenses. For them, every bit of training they can be exposed to is badly needed. These particular pilots, in most cases, have never seen anything beyond a steep turn and they truly have “never been there, or done that” in terms of a real upset. Anything more than a steep turn and they are lost in terms of what to do or how to even approach a recovery. AF447 is in fact the perfect example, the co-pilot was holding full aft stick with no idea what he was doing. I personally was extremely fortunate to have towed and taught in gliders as I started my career. This meant that early on, I dealt with tailwheel aircraft (Super Cubs) in formation flying, cross winds, and many engineless landings. What I didn’t realize until later was that I distinctly had a leg up on aircraft control over other pilots who I now had the chance to compare myself against in two pilot cockpits. It was nothing I did specifically, but incidentally, to acquiring better aircraft control over many pilots I flew with. The main thrust of these comments is that since I was fortunate to have had that background, I was able to appreciate the fact that this type of flying and training definitely has it’s advantages. The article written here didn’t include comments from pilots who expressed their thoughts of their abilities before and after UPRT training. Those comparison comments would be where the true value of UPRT training lies I would think.
Jim C. says:
I’m a single engine piston instrument rated and current pilot with 2100 hours. I’ve never flown a turbine and am not ever planning to, so I have to ask a pretty basic question. I understand that in some transport category aircraft one pilot can pull backward on his/her stick and the other can push full forward. The aircraft then “splits” the elevators, one up, one down. In my uninformed opinion, this seems like a knuckled headed way to design an airplane so there must be some reason why you’d want to twist the tail in some obscure condition. In addition to AAF447 I believe this was also a factor in the crash of an Egyptian airliner years ago where it was speculated one of the pilots was suicidal, fighting the inputs of the other pilot. Doesn’t it make more sense to couple the control yokes together so that you instantly know what the other pilot is trying to do and at least have a chance of figuring out if you have a panicked or suicidal individual working against your control inputs?
And I’m willing to give Mac a pass here. Perhaps what he’s saying here is politically incorrect to aerobatic instructors and flight schools, but he’s not saying upset training is counterproductive. He’s just calling a spade a spade based on his flying experience and doesn’t feel the extra time and expense translates to a useful advantage in the real life aircraft you’ll be flying. And nope, in 2100 hours of IFR flying in real conditions with lotsa bumps I haven’t lost control. Yet. But I think I’ll be ready when it happens and am always thinking, “What if…?”
This article shows to me the total lack of credibility of many aviation sites and the way many ‘pilots’ jump into the fray spewing ‘knowledge’ that is grossly incorrect.
I am a proponent of UPRT and for many reasons. Pilot training today, on the whole, is very inadequate. They rush the students through and graduate them on the other side with barely minimal skills. UPRT should be taught if only to expose the ‘pilot’ to the entire envelope of a planes capability – and beyond – so that they are able to gain the self-confidence that they CAN recover the airplane should the unexpected happen. That can be done in a variety of aircraft and the more advanced aircraft a pilot seeks to fly, the more advanced the trainer should be.
There are some misinformations stated about the Air France accident – yes the FO was flying and he was relatively inexperienced (as MANY are these days) yet the FO was (at least some of the time) following published and trained Airbus procedures – hold the side stick full aft and let the computers save you (One of the many things I do not like about the Airbus philosophy). At that point in time Airbus taught that the illustrious Airbus could not stall because of their innovative ‘laws’ of protection (what a joke). But they did not take their training so far as to teach that when the ‘laws’ all go away the pilot is left with ‘an airplane’ – FLY IT. But, alas, the pilots were dumbed down to believe the computer would save them. It didn’t. The captain, upon returning to the cockpit amidst the horror of the event, immediately recognized the situation and the errors of the FO flying… but too late.
Yes, pilots need to learn the basic skills and stay out of the upsets in the first place. However, pilots should also be trained in UPRT to explore the entire envelope of an aircrafts capabilities to be proficient in controlling the aircraft whenever and for whatever is thrown at them – by themselves or because of someone else. It just makes sense.
Jacques Perrault says:
I will limit my comments to spin training. I was trained in Canada alomst 50 years ago, when incipient spin training was part of the curriculum. Not only did one understand how the airplane got into it (and what to do to get out of it) but the actual situation was extremely powerful to burn this to memory and act as a deterrent to avoid it.
Stephen Phoenix says:
Actually, I think one of the bigger deficiencies in training, to prevent or recover from LOC, is in stall training. Early on we show and teach stall recoveries in something like a 172. The students learn and get their license and they are “safe from stalls”. They have seen stalls only at the forward edge of the CG envelope at light weight. Think the airplane handles a bit differently at max weight and aft CG? The time to find out is not after an engine failure turning crosswind in a loaded airplane. I think simulators are perhaps ideal for this type of training.
John Raby says:
I still remember Thrust and Attitude equals performance. In the AF accident both attitude displays and thrust read outs were available. Pretty simple really. Not enough focus on basic skills and maintaining a truly professional attitude to our work.
Jack Morris says:
This is part of a transcript from a PBS NOVA investigation of AF447. What this program suggests is that seasoned airline pilots should know about certain power and pitch combinations that will permit an airline without airspeed indicators to fly in a safe and stable attitude.
The entire transcript is available at this link:
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/space/crash-flight-447.html
What follows is an excerpt where they used a SIM to create the abnormal AF447 flight situation and then the simple solution to rectify it. Seems to me that every transport pilot should know this principle and when to use it.
NARRATOR: As they edge around the storm, Alder triggers the critical moment of Flight 447: he fails all three airspeed indicators.
SIMULATOR CO-PILOT: Okay, we have NAV ADR 1 fault. We have unreliable airspeed.
NARRATOR: The automatic flight control systems shut down.
SIMULATOR CO-PILOT: We’re flying with no auto-pilot or auto-thrust.
SIMULATOR CAPTAIN: Okay. Autopilot’s off. I have control.
SIMULATOR CO-PILOT: You have control.
NARRATOR: If their actual airspeed rises or falls by as little as 10 knots, they could suffer a catastrophic loss of control. But the pilot uses standard procedures, learned in training. He moves the throttle levers to set thrust at exactly 85 percent.
SIMULATOR CAPTAIN: And I’m selecting…I’ve got 85 percent set.
NARRATOR: Then, he raises the elevators to pitch the nose up at precisely five degrees. With engines at 85 percent power, and five degrees upward pitch, the aircraft should always settle at the same safe speed.
MARTIN ALDER: It’s quite possible to fly the aircraft to actually quite high standards of accuracy, something in the region of about five knots or so of the, of the desired target speed would be quite achievable for most crews.
NARRATOR: Without airspeed indicators, pitch-and-power is a pilot’s lifeline. These pilots ignore any fault messages until they are safely in control.
SIMULATOR CAPTAIN: I’ve got five degrees on the standby, four degrees on the other.
MARTIN ALDER: Flying the airplane is the prime objective. No matter how attractive the messages might be to anybody on the flight deck, you both concentrate in ensuring that the person who should be flying the airplane is flying it, and flying it in the manner which is safe.
SIMULATOR CAPTAIN: Okay, so we’ve got what I think is basic control of the attitude, we’re bumping a little bit with the weather, but, generally, that’s safe.
NARRATOR: With no reliable airspeed indicators, maintaining pitch and power can get t
them to the nearest airport. The emergency is over.
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Thanks Jack. Good description of the basics. Ironically light aircraft can be better situated as their basic autopilots can maintain pitch and or altitude by simple analog inputs not reliant on ADIRU type devices.
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OK, Jim Prentice really loves Alberta … but can Alberta love Jim Prentice?
Posted on May 22, 2014, 12:51 am
Jim Prentice officially announcing his candidacy yesterday. Is it just me, or is there the faintest air of Joe Clark about the man? Below left: Mr. Prentice surrounded by some of the usual suspects in Edmonton yesterday, from a photo snatched from the PC Party’s Twitter feed. Below right: Alison Redford back in October 2012 – compare and contrast to find some familiar faces in the background…
Banker, lawyer and former federal cabinet minister Jim Prentice launched his leisurely jog to the leadership of the province’s Progressive Conservative Party and the job of Alberta Premier No. 16 yesterday morning by telling anyone who happened to be listening that “I love this place and I think I have a duty to make it better.”
“I’m running because I believe Alberta has before it right now an opportunity to achieve great things,” Mr. Prentice also told the small crowd of party faithful and hopeful PC MLAs who showed up at the old Alberta Hotel in Edmonton, now the headquarters of CKUA Radio. “It’s going to take discipline and it’s going to take focus, but we will do this.”
Details to follow, I guess.
Actually, Mr. Prentice has been launching his campaign every day for days now. The difference was that this was the official official launch. Apparently he officially launched it a second time later in the day in Calgary.
So I have a confession to make and a theory to propose about Mr. Prentice’s seemingly inevitable coronation – at the moment he’s the only candidate in the race who has actually completed his paperwork – and the things that will follow.
The confession is that I got it wrong when I concluded Mr. Prentice would never run here in Alberta because that would end his chances of fulfilling his real ambition, to become prime minister of Canada.
Mea culpa. It will finish his chances of becoming PM, of course. But I guess he did the math and realized that, at 57, he never would get another chance to be a first minister otherwise anyway – which suggests he knows more about the incumbent’s plans than we do, which, under the circumstances, would make a lot of sense.
My theory is that Mr. Prentice may actually be what Albertans, the ones willing to sign a Tory card anyway, were looking for when they chose Ed Stelmach and were disappointed, and then chose Alison Redford and were really disappointed. But if so – and here’s the theoretical part – Tory hopes and Tory vanity notwithstanding, they’re not likely to do the same thing a third time.
Now wouldn’t that be ironic – if Albertans finally got the kind of Tory leader they were pining for, and then voted his butt out of office for the sins of his predecessors? As noted, I’ve been wrong before. So we’ll see about that part, I guess.
While we wait, we can think about Mr. Prentice’s official introduction to Albertans yesterday. Watched on the small screen, it was pretty underwhelming. He said all the right things and he said them very nicely. He was wearing a beautifully tailored dark suit and a nice yellow tie. He had a great haircut and a persuasive manner that made me think a little bit of former PC prime minister Joe Clark, only not as goofy.
But somehow the whole thing added up to something less than the sum of its parts.
In addition to telling Albertans the reassuringly blue-collar story of how hard he worked in the mines as a student, how hard his mom worked at home and how hard his dad, once a pro hockey player, also worked – all completely true, I have no doubt – Mr. Prentice set out five general themes he plans to campaign on:
He’ll stick to conservative financial principles
He’ll restore public trust and put an end to entitlements
He’ll maximize the value of Alberta’s resources
He’ll make the province an environmental leader
He’ll make darn sure we have the highest quality of life imaginable.
Oh, and he said he’d shrink the cabinet – just like Ms. Redford and Mr. Stelmach before him. (Premier pro tem Dave Hancock has just left Ms. Redford’s cabinet pretty much in place, which was probably part of the deal that made him premier for long enough to get into the history books.)
Well, good luck to Mr. Prentice with all of that!
Anyway, he was a little thin on the details of how he make these sometimes contradictory things happen, especially when, on some of them, he’s not really going to have the enthusiastic co-operation of many members of his own caucus and party.
In fairness, this reticence is to be expected. For one thing, it’s early in the campaign. For another, there’s enough bad stuff going around nowadays about his party under its previous leader that he’ll need to low-bridge pretty assiduously to avoid tough questions on the campaign trail. Better, maybe, just to sound upbeat and enthusiastic, and hope for a reprieve!
Between the lines, Mr. Prentice also tried to respond to the Wildrose Party’s successful effort to paint him as a nice but weak guy who won’t be able to stand up to the members of his own caucus.
He got stuck with this image while his brain trust dawdled around for weeks suggesting he might run, or he might not. Now that he is running, the opposition may have already fixed the way Albertans will see him. Then again, maybe no one but the chattering class is paying attention, in which case maybe the Tories guessed right.
Regardless, it was interesting to note that some of the same dubious actors who rushed to Alison Redford’s side on the night she was chosen back in 2012 were back with Mr. Prentice yesterday.
It wouldn’t be quite fair to say of Mr. Prentice’s pleasant but uninspiring performance – as Gertrude Stein said of her hometown Oakland, California – that “there is no there there.”
But it was nevertheless telling that media coverage chose to emphasize his professions of love for Alberta and lofty – if largely meaningless – promises.
So, yes, there is something there …
The question (seeing as we’re quoting the late Ms. Stein today) is, Will it be enough, when it comes to the third PC leader and premier in a single year, to keep Alberta voters from concluding a rose is a rose is a rose?
This post also appears on Rabble.ca.
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4 Comments to: OK, Jim Prentice really loves Alberta … but can Alberta love Jim Prentice?
Your list was worded much better than the sloppy thing his campaign put out.
Writers should be taught; writers shouldn’t “discover”.
CuJoYYC
“Is it just me, or is there the faintest air of Joe Clark about the man?”
Nope. I instantly saw the same thing before reading even one word.
Martin Levenson
David, I too thought Prentice would be keeping his powder dry for a run at the leadership of the CPC. He’s done such a good job at NOT being associated with the current cabal that he could have run as an “outsider”…while still having the connections and “pull” associated with being an “insider”. However, I think Prentice now recognizes that the Reform/Alliance wing of the CPC is NOT going away, and that someone from the old PC party doesn’t have much chance of getting their support as leader.
I STILL think Mr. Harper will resign before the next election, with sufficient time to elect a new party leader and benefit from the attendent publicity. Mr. Harper must recognize that he has become a liability to the CPC if they hope to retain power.
I’m curious as to how Mr. Harper will reconcile his quite overt support for the Wild Rose Party with his presumed support for one of his former Cabinet ministers.
theo nelson
Mr. Prentice’s announcement made me immediately wonder if he is going this way because he feels the federal Conservatives do not have a snow ball’s chance in warmer climes of forming the next government.
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Robert Russell Bennett (June 15, 1894 – August 18, 1981) was an American composer and arranger, best known for his orchestration of many well-known Broadway and Hollywood musicals by other composers such as Irving Berlin, George Gershwin, Jerome Kern, Cole Porter, and Richard Rodgers. In 1957 and 2008, Bennett received Tony Awards recognizing his orchestrations for Broadway shows. Early in his career, he was often billed as Russell Bennett.
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George Gershwin: Porgy and Bess (1951 Columbia Masterworks recording reissued on Naxos Historical) AND Selections, Highlights, Excerpts (Recorded in 1950) sung by Robert Merrill and Rise Stevens Import, Original.
A Summertime
B A Woman Is A Sometime Thing
C Gone, Gone, Gone
D My Man's Gone Now
E I Got Plenty O' Nuttin'
F Bess, You Is My Woman Now
G It Ain't Necessarily So
H Where Is My Bess
Made By – RCA Victor Company, Ltd.
Baritone Vocals – Robert Merrill
Choir – The Robert Shaw Chorale
Composed By – Gershwin*
Conductor – Robert Russell Bennett, Robert Shaw
Illustration – Barnes
Mezzo-soprano Vocals – Risë Stevens
Music By – Gershwin*
Orchestra – RCA Victor Orchestra*
Highlights from Porgy And Bess
LM-1124 Gershwin* / Risë Stevens Mezzo-Soprano Robert Merrill Baritone Robert Shaw Conductor The Robert Shaw Chorale, Robert Russell Bennett Conductor RCA Victor Orchestra* Gershwin* / Risë Stevens Mezzo-Soprano Robert Merrill Baritone Robert Shaw Conductor The Robert Shaw Chorale, Robert Russell Bennett Conductor RCA Victor Orchestra* - Porgy And Bess (LP, Album, Ind) RCA Victor Red Seal LM-1124 US 1951
LM-1124 Gershwin*, Risë Stevens, Robert Merrill, The Robert Shaw Chorale, Robert Russell Bennett Gershwin*, Risë Stevens, Robert Merrill, The Robert Shaw Chorale, Robert Russell Bennett - Porgy And Bess (LP, Album) RCA Victor Red Seal LM-1124 Canada 1951
LM-1124, LM 1124 Gershwin* / Risë Stevens Mezzo-Soprano Robert Merrill Baritone Robert Shaw Conductor The Robert Shaw Chorale, Robert Russell Bennett Conductor RCA Victor Orchestra* Gershwin* / Risë Stevens Mezzo-Soprano Robert Merrill Baritone Robert Shaw Conductor The Robert Shaw Chorale, Robert Russell Bennett Conductor RCA Victor Orchestra* - Porgy And Bess (LP, Album, RE, Mar) RCA Victor Red Seal, RCA Victor LM-1124, LM 1124 US 1955
LM-1124-C Gershwin*, Risë Stevens, Robert Merrill, The Robert Shaw Chorale, Robert Russell Bennett Gershwin*, Risë Stevens, Robert Merrill, The Robert Shaw Chorale, Robert Russell Bennett - Porgy And Bess (LP) RCA Victor Red Seal LM-1124-C Germany 1951
LM-1124 Gershwin*, Risë Stevens, Robert Merrill, The Robert Shaw Chorale, Robert Russell Bennett Gershwin*, Risë Stevens, Robert Merrill, The Robert Shaw Chorale, Robert Russell Bennett - Porgy And Bess (LP, Album, RE) RCA Victor Red Seal LM-1124 US 1955
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When it comes to buying a car most customers don’t primarily attach importance to speed because fast cars are obviously expensive. However some of them still do some research on fast cars and try to stand updated about them. In this Blog I’m going to present you, people who don’t necessarily investigate fast cars, top 10 currently the fastest cars in the World. Before we get into that, the speed unit I’m going to be using is kilometers per hour but keep mind miles per hour is going to be shown on the screen too.10: Number 10. We got the Tesla Roadster. This car was revealed as a surprise at the end of the Tesla Semi unveiling. Roadster features the most impressive specifications sheet of any EV which means electronic vehicle by the way. Tesla Roadster’s maximum speed is claimed to be 402 kilometers per hour but that is not the only feature making it a great car. Roadster is in a class of it’s own with it’s acceleration. According to the tests it can go from 0 to 97 kilometers per hour in 1.9 seconds and it can go from 0 to 161 kilometers per hour in just 4.2 seconds. It also offers a 998 kilometer range on a single charge. When it comes to its price The Tesla Roadster is expected to retail for 200 000 dollars as a base price and it is said to be coming out at 2020
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Doug Gottlieb’s Opinion on Andrew Luck’s Retirement is Like Doug’s Career – Stupid and Boring
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Andrew Luck's retirement was no doubt surprising to the NFL community and fans alike. The reaction of some, to the retirement makes us all look bad. I know that many people will read this and go to the same old knee jerk, playbook comments. They'll say he signed up for it, they will say he makes millions.
I would counter that by saying if he signed up for it, he can check out when he wants. I would also say that a person making a decision regarding their health has nothing to do with the money they make.
Andrew Luck retired because his body could not take the unusual beating of an NFL season one more time. This is a physical toll most human beings could not imagine. Those of us who never played NFL football (almost everyone on Earth) have no right to say he should do it again.
He retired on Saturday and I am just writing about this now because I thought the story would settle down and we could move onto the part where we look back on his career and appreciate the athlete that he was. That hasn't happened, instead there have been pundits and fans alike saying one thing dumber than the next.
Stupid Doug Gottleib tweeted this:
Troy Aikman thankfully fired back at that nonsense with this:
I've always hated Doug, he's an ass clown with boring opinions. I can only guess that this was his attempt to be edgy and it comes off as stupid so I'm glad a guy that played in the NFL called him on it. These kinds of garbage opinions by fans and talking heads has been everywhere since Saturday. Most of the people who do this kind of things are internet trolls who do this all the time but some are people who pretend to actually care about football. If you really cared about football, you'd be able to appreciate a guy who played with a punctured kidney. Andrew Luck was never my favorite player, in fact I never liked him but I respect him and the way he played the game. He played like a warrior and he has every right to leave whenever he wants.
P.S. Doug Gottlieb sucks at softball and is a bit of a cry baby about it. The first time I played in the Bernie Williams Charity Softball game at the Ridgefield Playhouse, Doug was on Bernie's team. Doug went 0-for-THE DAY and throws a softball like it's a pineapple. I know he played college basketball, so I'm not sure how it's even possible that an athlete of that caliber can throw a ball like he's using someone else's limb. Here's my quote Doug: "Throwing a baseball the way you do is oh so millennial." Doug won't remember me so I'll just tell you DOUG that I was the dude that went 4-4 and had the walk off hit to win the game and beat your team.
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The Wikileaks phenomenon is probably the most important development in the history of modern journalism, and perhaps modern politics. The Wikileaks drops of the hacked Podesta gmail account, the leaked Stratfor emails, and the hacked Hillary Clinton private-server emails, have altered the plotted course of the globalist New World Order. These leaks of, lets face it, the *cold hard truth*, have been the primary informational driver of what has become the anti-globalist Trump Revolution. This latest election in the United States was not merely a democratic election, it was the fruiting season of a *WORLDWIDE* Revolution against the globalist New World Order; an ‘order’ in which a Hillary Clinton Presidency was to have been the crowning event. Brexit is a symptom of this same process emerging. This Revolution was sown the day of the September 11th 2001 false-flag terror attacks, when the globalist New World Order chose to catalyze a worldwide Hegelian dialectic, which they have now failed to consolidate. Instead of surfing this dialectic to victory, the NWO have instead catalyzed a grassroots Revolution within which they will no longer be able to craft global policy whilst retaining their silk glove.
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Another major scandal is beginning to sound from Washington D.C. known as #Pizzagate on the internet. It has come to light thanks to Wikileaks, but only because of the carelessness of the Clinton family and their (and Obama’s) closest political ‘connoisseurs’, ‘progressive’ operatives known as the Podesta brothers (John and Tony): both of whom like to regularly cook, eat, and supply to their friends and patrons, ‘secret pizza’. In my opinion this scandal involves a trans-Atlantic – probably world-wide – elite pedophile network, which seems to be in the shadow zone of George Soros. It seeks to compromise and then own top personalities, political or otherwise, entrapping them as servants to a covert globalist agenda – a synarchy. It is important therefore to take into consideration the sometimes subtle revelations contained within the Wikileaks Hillary Clinton private email-server dumps. Before I get into #Pizzagate, I must first explicate the content of a February 2011 WikiLeaks email (#5680) obtained from Hillary Clinton’s totally insecure and illegal, homebrew server, in which Hillary was executing Secretary of State business regarding the overthrow of Moammar Qaddafi. The sender of the email, Jake Sullivan – at that time Director of Policy Planning in Obama’s Whitehouse – refers, in diplomatic speak, to something known officially as the “Owl/Minerva Rule”:
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From: Sullivan, Jacob J
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Sent: Saturday, February 26,
2011 02:44 PM
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Subject: Latest
Do you think the last paragraph violates the owl/minerva rule?
They are fine with the last paragraph.
STATEMENT BY SECRETARY CLINTON Holding the Qaddafi Government Accountable
The United States strongly condemns the ongoing violence and human rights violations committed by the government of Libya against its own people. As President Obama said, these actions violate international norms and every standard of common decency. They must stop.
We are moving quickly on a series of steps to hold the Libyan government accountable for its violation of human rights and to mobilize a strong response from the international community.
Last night the United States took action to limit the ability of senior officials of the Qaddafi regime to travel. As Secretary of State, I signed an order directing the Department to revoke U.S. visas held by these officials, others responsible for human rights violations in Libya, and their immediate family members. As a matter of policy, new visa applications will be denied.
This step followed President Obama’s Executive Order freezing assets and imposing financial sanctions on members of the regime responsible for abuses against their own people and the suspension of the very limited defense trade we have had with Libya, including pending sales of spare military parts and other licenses allowing private companies to sell military equipment there.
The United States is also working with our friends and partners to mobilize a strong and unified response from the international community to hold accountable the perpetrators of these unacceptable violations of universal human rights. This afternoon I continued close consultations with our European allies, including EU High Representative Catherine Ashton. Negotiations are underway at the United Nations Security Council on a resolution that would impose new sanctions and restrictions. On Monday, I will meet with a number of counterparts in Geneva and address the UN Human Rights Council, which on Friday recommended suspending Libya’s membership. We are also working with partners to determine how to provide humanitarian assistance to those in need. Consistent with the President’s guidance, we will continue to look at the full range of options to hold the Libyan government accountable and support the Libyan people.
We have always said that the Qaddafi government’s future is a matter for the Libyan people to decide, and they have made themselves clear. When a leader’s only means of staying in power is to use mass violence against his own people, he has lost the legitimacy to rule and needs to do what is right for his country by leaving, and the sooner the better. Moammar Qaddafi has lost the confidence of his people and he should go without further bloodshed and violence. The Libyan people deserve a government that is responsive to their aspirations and that protects their universally recognized human rights.
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QUESTION: Can you think of why that last paragraph was so significant?
We all know now that the Obama Administration, in lock-step with the European Union, actually fomented what has now become a vicious Libyan civil war being fought between at least three different socio-political and sectarian interest groups. They first armed CIA groomed ‘rebel groups’ (hired mercenaries and/or terrorists) with standard NATO issue weapons, provided them with funding, and provided them with international PR/media cover. The later cover story regarding the anti-Mohammad YouTube video trailer for The Innocence of Muslims film, and its supposed causation of the murder of Ambassador Chris Stevens on September 11th 2012, is probably one of the most pathetic cover stories ever devised for a deliberate arms running witness cleanup. This whole affair since 2011 is a clear-cut Operation Gladio style NATO regime change operation. The Obama Whitehouse with Hillary Clinton acting as Secretary of State had brought United States foreign policy to a new all-time low, by plunging a Libya which had the highest Human Development Index rating on the continent of Africa, sadly, into a failed state experiencing sectarian and gangland anarchy.
But why did Obama and Clinton – who are both compromised and under the influence of Machiavellian billionaire kingmaker George Soros – deliberately remove Qaddafi in the first place? The answer to this question is quite simple: The European Union, having thus far failed to secure access to alternative natural gas energy supplies independent of Russia, needed to clear away regional upstart nationalist regimes (self-interest patriots), in order to secure much needed energy resource competition; this is standard New World Order NATO policy. This is why Vladimir Putin was so vocal about Qaddafi’s violent ouster, and also why Putin has stood firmly in support of Bashar Al Assad’s Syrian regime. Libya has natural gas resources of its own, including vital access to the already developed Greenstream Pipeline route connecting up to Sicily and then along the spine of Italy, right into the core of industrial Europe. Italian imports provide an essential pipeline corridor for potential natural gas imports from central African nations like Nigeria via Niger and Algeria or Libya. This also keeps the otherwise impoverished Italian E.U. third-wheel satisfied.
The pipelines and geography of Libya provide a highly desirable network route required to diversify North and Central African pipeline infrastructure so far too heavily reliant on Algerian cooperation. The Sudanese gas fields are also accessible through Libya, not to mention possibly providing an alternative route other than Iraq and Syria into Europe for the GCC piped natural gas. In order to get this GCC natural gas into Libya however, it would require a submarine Red Sea link and otherwise undesirable Egyptian cooperation, or else some kind of an engineering miracle to connect Sudan up with Saudi Arabia near Jeddah. Note that the attempted Obama assisted Muslim Brotherhood takeover of Egypt by Morsi, was a heavily Qatar supported operation. France also has its paws all over these areas of Africa, including the natural resource deals brokered by heavy corruption or outright theft in the wake of regime changes. Qaddafi was also promoting a gold backed Dinar to act as a solid reserve currency for Africa, in competition with the USD and Euro. On the other side of the Med, Syria’s Assad blocks E.U. pipeline access to Qatar’s massive offshore natural gas field – explained previously (Nabucco+some).
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NOTE: Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) is the largest fossil fuel company in Nigeria – a subsidiary of *Royal Dutch Shell* exploiting the Niger Delta reserves – which operates over 6,000 kilometres (3,700 mi) of pipelines and flowlines, 87 flowstations, 8 natural gas plants and more than 1,000 producing wells. SPDC’s role in the Shell Nigeria family is typically confined to the physical production and extraction of petroleum. It is an operator of the joint venture, which composed of Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (55%), Shell (30%; Anglo-Dutch), Total S.A. (10%; French) and Eni (5%; Italian), makes it a pre-eminent African-E.U. concern with no U.S. interests. Until relatively recently it operated largely onshore, on dry land, or in the mangrove swamp. The Trans-Saharan Pipeline has not yet been built due to regional security issues, but the Shell-Total-Eni consortium has expressed much interest in working with Algeria, Niger, and Nigeria on the project. A permanent European military presence in the region due to ‘terrorism’, may provide the cover required to force an agreement on the issue. In the meantime, the Libyan natural gas reserves which are already online through Greenstream, can provide extra capacity to help displace Gazprom dominance in the E.U. Energy Market.
Ever wonder why the Clinton Foundation was so close recently to the Gulf Cooperation Council regimes? It is actually because Hillary works directly for George Soros, relying mostly on his Open Society ‘activist’ (brown shirt) front networks, and his financial cooperation with biased advocacy fiefdoms such as David Brock’s Orwellian involvement in founding Media Matters and CTR. Soros prefers to spend most of his advocacy dollars using his own organizations, rather than directly donating to Democratic Party campaigns and Super PAC’s, though he still managed to cough up nearly $10 million in direct donations for Hillary’s 2016 Presidential campaign – one of her largest donors, as always. George Soros, in turn, works primarily in the interest of other E.U. oligarchs and their pro-MENA integration schemes, and their vehemently anti-Russian geopolitical forays. Such “stateless statesmen” have hijacked U.S. Foreign Policy to serve a trans-Atlantic, primarily E.U-centric, New World Order, which has decided to sacrifice European peoples on the altar of ‘diversity’ to secure elite wordwide wealth networking possibilities with foreign authoritarian regimes; the main price of these self serving manoeuvres, being, that Islamic Sharia law will be allowed to infiltrate western cultural zones.
There is a reason that Soros’ private constellation of off-shore ’Quantum Funds’ are not incorporated in New York City from where Soros operates his subversive and financial Empire, or in Delaware where most American tax avoidance shell corporations are registered, but rather in the Netherlands Antilles island of Curaçao. While Delaware companies are suitable for tax avoidance purposes, they are not at all suitable as secrecy jurisdictions insulated from U.S. intelligence, law enforcement, and other government agencies. Curaçao, Cayman Islands, and Turks and Caicos, however, are far better for the purposes of secrecy, which is why, for instance, the Vatican City IOR and APSA also heavily utilize the Cayman Islands and Turks and Caicos. Curaçao is a quasi E.U. jurisdiction under the Sovereignty of the Royal family of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands; the perennial Royal patron of the Bilderberg Group pedophile confabs. The Bilderberg Group represents the legacy financial players behind the NATO powers, but it is internally split between a traditionally Anglo-American coterie (ie, Pilgrims Society), and a Continental European coterie (ie, Le Cercle and, notably, Opus Dei and various other Catholic power players). The sadistic Belgian satanic pedophile ring which came to light during investigations into the infamous Dutroux Affair of the 1990’s, which was shut down by the highest levels of the judiciary and government in Belgium, was most definitely connected via the Belgian aristocracy to many elite personalities attached to Biderberg and its sub-groupings such as Le Cercle.
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– William Colby. Former CIA Director, Le Cercle member, and Opus Dei sympathizer, giving advice to his friend Senator John DeCamp, urging him to cease his investigation into the Franklin child abuse affair and to write a book about his experiences (‘The Franklin Coverup’, 2nd edition, foreword).
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BREAKING NEWSDriver ejected in fatal 18-wheeler crash on North Fwy, deputies say
El Chapo's new home: a jail that held mobsters, terrorists
Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman is escorted to a helicopter in Mexico City following his capture overnight in the beach resort town of Mazatlan in 2014.
AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo, File
By Jake Pearson & Larry Neumeister
NEW YORK CITY -- In the heart of bustling lower Manhattan sits one of the country's most secure federal lockups - and the new home of Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman.
If you're viewing on our ABC13 news app, tap on the photo above to see more images.
Guzman, who pleaded not guilty on Friday to charges he ran one of the world's biggest drug-trafficking operations, can expect to be kept in a special unit inside the drab 12-story Metropolitan Correctional Center, where such other high-profile, high-risk inmates as Gambino crime family boss John Gotti and several former close associates of Osama bin Laden awaited trial.
"It's got extra security above and beyond what you would have in a restricted housing area," second only to the super-maximum security prison in Florence, Colorado, said Catherine Linaweaver, who served as the lockup's warden for 15 months before retiring in 2014. "There is no other unit in the Bureau of Prisons like the high-security unit in New York."
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Video shows El Chapo's extradition
New video shows Mexican drug lord Jaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman learning he'll be extradited to the United States.
To authorities, it's a setting befitting a man who twice escaped from maximum-security Mexican prisons. Federal prosecutors wrote in a court filing that "it is difficult to imagine another person with a greater risk of fleeing prosecution" than Guzman.
The jail is sandwiched between federal prosecutors' offices and two federal courthouses and is protected by steel barricades that can stop a 7 1/2-ton truck. Cameras capable of reading a newspaper a block away are trained on the area.
Inmates can be transported to court through corridors linked to both courthouses, though Guzman will be ferried to and from court in Brooklyn, a potentially risky job for the U.S. Marshals Service.
In the 10th-floor Special Housing Unit, known by its acronym, the SHU, pronounced like "the shoe," around a dozen prisoners spend 23 hours a day in 20-by-12-foot cells, prohibited from communicating with one another. Meals are eaten in cells, and exercise is in a recreation area specifically for these inmates.
RELATED: El Chapo enters guilty plea
Drug lord "El Chapo" extradited to the US
Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman entered a not-guilty plea through his court-appointed lawyer to drug trafficking and other charges and will be held without bail in a jail that has handled terror suspects and mobsters.
To reduce the risk that a wealthy inmate such as Guzman might try to corrupt jail staff, the number of jailers who have access to him will likely be limited and each will undergo extra screenings by top jail officials, Linaweaver said.
The special unit's strict confinement drew criticism in 2011 from the human rights group Amnesty International, which expressed concern that the sparse cells, exercise restrictions and isolation "amount to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment."
The jail saw an audacious escape attempt in 1982, when two armed people in a hijacked sightseeing helicopter tried to pluck an inmate off a roof. Four years earlier, three prisoners broke out by cutting through window bars.
Security there was tightened significantly after Mamdouh Mahmud Salim, described as a right-hand man to bin Laden and awaiting trial in a terrorism case, used a sharpened comb to stab a guard on Nov. 1, 2000. Salim, who later apologized for the stabbing, is serving a life sentence.
Twins hold key to case against drug lord El Chapo
The long-awaited American prosecution of narco-lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman will take place in New York, but the star witnesses are expected to be a pair of brothers from Chicago who betrayed him, the I-Team has learned.
Guzman's case doesn't mark the first time federal authorities have grappled with how to hang onto a member of his Sinaloa drug cartel.
Authorities expressed concern that the cartel might attempt to break a son of one of Guzman's cartel partners out of a federal lockup in Chicago in 2011. Of particular concern in that case: A fenced rooftop recreation center officials feared could make a defendant susceptible to sniper fire.
The son was moved to a more secure facility.
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Chicago witness targeted by El Chapo cartel hustled to secure location
El Chapo henchman in Chicago aimed to 'split head' of witness
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Note says wife didn't kill man found in Utah freezer
TOOELE, Utah -- Detectives have found a notarized letter they believe was written by a man whose body had been in a freezer in a Utah apartment for a decade that says his wife did not kill him, authorities said.
The note discovered Monday appears to have been written by Paul Edward Mathers, 69, whose body was found inside a freezer last month after police found his wife dead of natural causes in the apartment in the small city of Tooele near Salt Lake City.
But handwriting experts have not verified Mathers' signature and the woman who notarized the letter dated December 2008 told police she did not read it before stamping and signing it, Tooele police Sgt. Jeremy Hansen said.
Investigators are looking into the possibility that the couple devised the scheme together before he died or that the woman forged the letter, but they are waiting on evidence that includes medical and financial records, Hansen said. Additional contents of the letter have not yet been released.
Investigators previously said they were looking at whether Mathers' wife, Jeanne Souron-Mathers, 75, wanted to keep collecting her husband's Social Security and Veteran's Affairs checks after he had died.
Hansen said the investigation has determined so far that she could have received more than $177,000 in Veteran Affairs benefits after her husband died.
The letter marks the latest development in an investigation that began Nov. 22 when officers went to the apartment because the woman had not been seen in two weeks.
While searching for clues on how long the woman had been dead, detectives opened the chest-style freezer and saw what officers described in a warrant as "a large mass wrapped in black plastic."
When they tore up the plastic, they found the man's body.
The medical examiner used fingerprints to identify the frozen body and has said it is likely he died between February 2009 and March 2009, police said.
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Theses and Dissertations All Schools
The roles of Brca1 in DNA damage repair during mouse spermatogenesis
Xu, Xiaoling
Furth, Priscilla A.
Germline mutations of the breast cancer associated gene 1 (BRCA1 ) predispose women to breast and ovarian cancers. In mice, loss of function mutations of Brca1 results in recessive lethality during gestation. Analysis of these mutant embryos revealed that Brca1 plays essential roles in maintaining genomic integrity. However the mechanisms underlying these defects remain to be illustrated. To further define the processes through which BRCA1 maintains genomic integrity, meiosis in mutant mice that are homozygous for a targeted deletion of Brca1 exon 11 (Brca1Delta11/Delta11) was studied. Brca1Delta11/Delta11 embryos died at early gestation, but survived to adulthood if either one or both wild type p53 alleles were also mutated. This study showed that all Brca1Delta11/Delta11 p53+/- and Brca1 Delta11/Delta11p53-/- males were infertile and females exhibited decreased fertility. Mutant males had significantly reduced testicular size and contain no spermatozoa even though mutant testes contained spermatogonia, stem cells, and early stage primary spermatocytes; in their seminiferous tubes. Chromosomal analyses on the spermatocytes indicated that mutant homologous chromosomes paired and advanced to the pachytene stage, however mutant mice were unable to form chiasma, and no spermatocytes developed to the diplotene stage. The block of spermatogenesis occurred right after homologous chromosome pairing at meiosis I. Brca1-Delta11 mutation decreased the frequency of Mlh1 foci formation at crossover sites, affected Rad51 foci formation, and interfered with the relocalization of gamma-H2AX from sites of DNA double strand breaks to the XY body during spermatogenesis. The expression levels of a number of genes that are involved in DNA damage repair were reduced including helicase and silent information regulatory proteins. Termination of spermatogenesis at pachytene stage was accompanied by increased rates of apoptosis. cDNA microarray analyses demonstrated changes in expression of genes involved in both p53-dependent and -independent apoptotic pathways. In conclusion, this study revealed an essential role for Brca1 in meiotic recombination repair and regulation of genetic exchange of homologous chromosomes during spermatogenesis. Loss of Brca1 function led to the accumulation of DNA damage, genomic instability, activation of both p53-dependent and -independent apoptotic pathways and, eventually, failure of spermatogenesis.
University of Maryland, Baltimore. Molecular Medicine. Ph.D. 2002
Biology, Molecular
Biology, Cell
Genes, BRCA1
Germ-Line Mutation
Spermatogenesis--genetics
Theses and Dissertations School of Medicine
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Critical perspectives on the spatial futures of Israel-Palestine
Resisting Spaciocide
Alessandro Petti
Jeff Halper
Yazid Anani
Farhat Muhawi
© 2011 ahmad. All rights reserved.
Weaponized Architecture: A Discussion with Léopold Lambert
28 Dec Filed under Critical Speculation, Spatial Analysis. Tagged academia, architecture, design, interview, resistance, spatial struggle, urbanism. Bookmark the permalink. Post a comment. Leave a Trackback (URL).
The following is an interview with Léopold Lambert (@TheFunambulist_), author of ‘Weaponized Architecture: The Impossibility of Innocence’ (published by dpr-barcelona), a new publication that offers an analysis of Israel’s architecture of colonization in the context of global trends in architecture and urbanism, and uses architectural design as a tool to highlight and subvert the spatial constraints imposed on Palestinians living in the West Bank. In addition to the print version of the book, a mobile version is available for free download, with integrated Augmented Reality content.
This interview is published on arenaofspeculation.org to coincide with the release of the book. A ‘sister’ interview will also be published in the coming days on We Make Money Not Art.
Fictitious representation of the power of the line in the physical world as well as an attempt to use it as a weapon: the line here becomes porous and hosts in its “thickness” a three-dimensional labyrinth whose control has escaped from its creator. Page extracted from the graphic novel Lost in the Line (2010) (Léopold Lambert/DPR-Barcelona, 2011)
Ahmad Barclay: Your book takes a novel approach in juxtaposing Israeli colonial practices with trends of global capitalism in the privatization and commodification of public space, and the surveillance and control of populations. How did you come to focus on Israel-Palestine in your research? Did you start from this specific place, or was it your research that brought you here?
Léopold Lambert: I resolutely oriented my research in a very general realm as I wanted to make a point about something absolutely inherent to architecture, which is that architecture is never politically innocent whether it has been conceived as a political weapon or not. I thought that many research studies had been made around this thesis but was always disappointed to see that architecture was always considered at a symbolic level or that its weaponization needed to be activated somehow. What I wanted to really insist on is the fact that architecture is violent in essence –the act of transforming lines into walls etc.- and that the conditioning and use of this violence was the political act inherently involved.
At some point in my work, when I needed to move towards something more specific I had to face a dilemma: Either to go with the most extreme situation of such “weaponization” or, on the contrary, to choose an architectural typology that would have, at first sight, appeared as benign, like a type of house for example, but which would have had to eventually be envisioned as another embodiment of a political structure. In the end, my emotions chose for me as I feel strongly connected to the Palestinian struggle against the daily injustice which they suffer.
Metaphorical map of the West Bank/East Jerusalem as an archipelago. Islands are embodied by Area A and B, the sea consists in territory controlled by the Israeli Army (+ Jordan on the extreme East) and reefs represent the Israeli civil colonies. (Léopold Lambert/DPR-Barcelona, 2011)
Ahmad Barclay: The academic world in architecture seems to have a fascination at present with the spatial mechanisms that successive Israeli governments – and various non-governmental groups – have adopted in colonizing and cementing control over Palestinian lands. Without doubt, the writings of Eyal Weizman have been instrumental in stoking this interest. However, common to many of these derivative works is a ‘sanitisation’ that diminishes the injustice and absurdity of many of the physical and pseudo-legal devices he describes, and specifically how their efficacy relies upon an ‘obedient’ population conditioned by a crude underlying threat of violence.
By removing this perspective, such academic work has the potential to simply embed the perceived rootedness and unassailability of Israeli power structures, diminishing the position of collective agency in resisting and overturning an ongoing process of dispossession. In your work, you talk explicitly about ‘disobedient architecture’, implying parallels with ‘civil disobedience’ and grassroots social struggle. Would you expand on this concept of ‘disobedient architecture’, and where it takes its inspiration from?
Léopold Lambert: Disobedience appears when there is a discrepancy between a personal or collective ethics and the transcendental content of the law. When it is really understood and experienced as such, disobedience becomes something beyond the notion of choice, it is a necessity, despite an awareness of the mechanisms of enforcement of the law.
The architectural project I designed for this book is a Palestinian building built in what the Oslo Accords defines as Area C near Salfit. Such a disobedient scenario was created in the frame of the definition I just gave. The legal conditions applied to this project’s territorial context (Area C) have been clearly conceived as a colonial/apartheid apparatus that consolidate the power of one ethnic group over another. The consequence in terms of architecture of such a legal context is the impossibility for the Palestinians to build on the majority of their land. It therefore becomes a necessity to disobey the colonial law, firstly in order to benefit from the actual object that was prohibited by the unjust law, but also to express the violence of such a law through the violence of disobeying it.
Hebron is the unfortunate most illustrative example of the oppressive power of architecture. The Palestinian market street, which has seen many of its merchants evicted from their shops constitutes a dangerous corridor surmounted by an Israeli settlement inhabited by the most violent part of the Orthodox Jewish population. The net seen on the photograph has been set-up in order to avoid the various objects thrown by this settlement’s windows and roof to hurt the Palestinian population. (Léopold Lambert/DPR-Barcelona, 2011)
Ahmad Barclay: I found a lot of interest in your effort to define precedents for “resistive architectures” globally, within spheres that you define as “legality, “unexpected legality”, and illegality”. Here, the definition of ‘legality’ is obviously prescribed by the dominant political power, but – as your analysis implies – there is a need to understand such forces in order to effectively resist them. On this point, would you expand on this terminology and the precedents you have come across where “illegal” or “unexpectedly legal” spatial actions – whether permanent or temporary – have been instrumental in highlighting unjust laws, or have actually been influential in bringing about a positive change in such laws?
Léopold Lambert: Just like Gandhi probably understood that the way of non-violence was the most appropriate means of fighting the Indian cause, I think that those three attitudes should be carefully chosen depending on the institutional framework of one’s action. The three examples I give in the book are those of Teddy Cruz, Santiago Cirugeda and Max Rameau. While Teddy Cruz negotiates with the local institutions for the implementation of an architecture beneficial to the population along the US/Mexican border, Max Rameau illegally requisitions land dedicated to financial speculations to allow poor families to live on while organizing a profitable negotiation with the neighbourhood. Santiago Cirugeda stands in between those two attitudes. In fact, he dedicates an important part of his work to a deep knowledge of the local urban code –in his case, in Seville- in order to set up in what I called, “an unexpected legality”, projects which trigger a sense of community within a given neighbourhood. This legality is indeed unexpected as they “play” with the law by unfolding itself in its ambiguity.
In the case of Palestinians, just like in any other example of colonization, they have been submitted to an absolute and militarized imposition of a transcendental legal system. It is therefore legitimate to resist this law by simply disobeying it as we were talking about in the last question. In a conversation I had with Raja Shehadeh, as a lawyer, he was however arguing that we also need to infiltrate the Occupier’s Law (title of a book he wrote) in order to act on it from the inside. This is also the attitude of some Palestinian citizens of Israel, like Haneen Zoabi or Azmi Bishara who have been elected to the Knesset and are (or were) trying to act at the very root of the creation of this same law. I think that it is an extremely interesting problem: do you accept to act within the structure of an oppressive order in order to change it but risk to ratifying it, or do you fundamentally refuse to compromise at any level with this same structure.
I think that architects are confronted with the exact same question continuously. Do you accept to design a prison thinking that you might be able to improve a little bit the prisoners’ life conditions or do you simply refuse it? Furthermore, in the latter situation, does that mean that you would then accept to design, an office building, a retail, a school, or any building which would require the eviction of people from the site? I don’t pretend in any way to have an answer to this question, but I think that we have to be very much aware of it.
Representation of the architectural project Weaponized Architecture in Area C near Salfit (West Bank). From far, the building looks like a fragile Bedouin encampment when in fact, the layer of tents hides a solid and effective Qasr (قصر) (Léopold Lambert/DPR-Barcelona, 2011)
Ahmad Barclay: I feel that it is important to contrast your theoretical design proposal with the many acts of ‘illegal’ construction continually taking place in defiance of Israeli restrictions, not only in Area C of the West Bank and in East Jerusalem, but also within Israel itself. A recent action saw residents of Bil’in begin to construct a series of communal buildings on ‘Area C’ land, reclaimed following the long delayed re-routing of the separation barrier around the village.
Alongside such concrete acts of defiance, the apparent deference in your project to the invisible and legally defunct Oslo-era lines between Areas A, B and C seems somehow timid. As you explain, it was not your intention to present a utopian vision, and while it would be problematic to overstep your position as an outside observer, did you consider more extreme interventions in the course of your design process, or did you consciously reject such approaches?
Léopold Lambert: The very principle of colonization, or of apartheid consists, I believe, in the invasion of daily life and its reorganization on the administrative level. In that matter, I am convinced that very localized actions based on this modified daily life –like Raja Shehadeh’s walks in Ramallah’s hills for example- can be considered as much more subversive than other actions that register themselves in a traditional radical repertoire. The project I designed is, in fact, introducing an intervention in the daily life of people who decide to accomplish their work on a land which has been administratively confiscated from them. Their production –I am talking more specifically of the farmers- is also liberated from colonial control in a similar way to the Indian independent production of salt in 1930, liberated from the British tax.
If I may comment on your question, I did not write that I did not want to present a “utopian vision”; what I wrote is that architecture, in my opinion, can only intervene in the resistive struggle rather than what we now commonly called “a solution”.
The Qasr (قصر) is composed by three layers: An upper layer of tents camouflages the building as well as provides shade to it. A surface layer claims a piece of territory via a shotcrete uneven terrain which is used as a small agricultural platform. The last layer is subterranean; it can be used as a storage for agricultural goods as well as a shared shelter for the farmers and the Bedouins. (Léopold Lambert/DPR-Barcelona, 2011)
Ahmad Barclay: There were elements of your final conclusion that appeared slightly ambiguous. You speak of the obvious need for political change in tandem with spatial transformation. However, I didn’t follow your characterisation of ‘resistance’ as an act of the present, and your stated desire to ‘disregard’ past and future in your project: “The architecture developed in this book thus ignores everything from the past just as much as the future. It … disregards the debate of a “one state solution” which qualifies the current Israeli policies as an apartheid, as well as a “two state solution,” which qualifies them as a form of colonization. Resistance is always conjugated in the present and so is this project.”
I couldn’t help but think that this misconstrues the nature of ‘resistance’ and ‘steadfastness’ (sumud) in Palestine, which is almost entirely predicated on challenging a historic and ongoing process of displacement and dispossession, and where acts of defiance (or ‘disobedience’) tend to be informed very much by both past experience and future possibility. For example, we could look at the simple act of ‘staying put’, which endures in many cases in spite of sustained economic and legal pressures, as well as threats to security. Such acts can be understood only in the context of a repeated experience of Israeli-enforced displacement since 1948, and can only be justified by a belief that in time the present political situation can – and will – make way for restorative justice. Could you perhaps clarify this idea of taking the present as a subject of study in isolation?
Léopold Lambert: I realize that I should define what I call resistance here as I understand your legitimate confusion. Resistance, as I use it, consists in one’s embrace for the antagonism that splits apart a given order and one’s personal or collective ethics. Resistance then implies the creation of or participation in actions that take part within this same antagonism as the necessary expression of one’s political manifesto. The metaphor I have in my mind every time I think about it is the image of two hands somehow managing to pull apart an elasticized material, thus creating a hole within it for a certain time before letting it close in on itself again. For a brief instant, a territory of emancipation would have existed and liberated the bodies present on it. Once this instant is over for an internal reason (conflict, reproduction of systems of domination, competition etc.) or an external one (suppression), we need to work on the next one.
What I meant by stating that resistance only conjugates in the present consists in the fact that it registers in time as an action that is self-sufficient and that can be fully understood only as long as it is being effectuated.
The two populations, farmers and Bedouins, both victims of the Israeli colonial apparatuses have to negotiate together to share this space that attempts to physically accommodate their two different ways of life, culture and production. (Léopold Lambert/DPR-Barcelona, 2011)
Ahmad Barclay: At least to some extent, your book seems to be written for two parallel audiences; an academic architectural one, and an activist one. What would you hope that each of these audiences will take from your work?
Léopold Lambert: It is difficult to answer this question as I don’t feel that I wrote this book for a particular audience; but you are right, it is something that is always there in filigree. I guess that, just like for the blog I edit, I start from a traditional academic architectural audience as you pointed out, and then try to reach a broader audience of people who are interested in questioning the act of creation in general and to think of its political implication more specifically. I would like architects to understand that no line they trace can possibly be innocent –which explains the subtitle of the book: The Impossibility of Innocence.
As for a broader audience that you define as being activist, I think that I have to be very humble here since I don’t think that my documentation work in Palestine constitutes something new in any way. However, I did compile a small inventory of architectural colonial apparatuses in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, mostly with my own photographs in order to illustrate how ubiquitous is the Israeli control over daily life in the occupied territories. I don’t think that the word activist comes alone. Depending on your job, your skills, your passion, your social background, etc. you always try to “activate” something in a given field or issue. That is the thing that I have been experiencing here in New York with Occupy Wall Street for which we all came with our small sphere of knowledge and political involvement to constitute a common struggle. In my case, I resolutely try to act with architecture in a realm which goes much beyond architecture. That is what I tried to do with these texts and this architectural project. The effect/affect that I hope from there, is as much the observation that one cannot escape from the politics, as the realization that embracing this political act empowers you in the public debate.
More specifically to the Palestinian struggle, unfortunately, too many things about the enforcement of International Law on Israel, depend on a strict problem of information. In that matter, I think that we are many who cannot stand any longer on the face of continuous disinformation, observed on a daily basis in the European and American press. In front of these news behemoths we need to constitute a multitude of alternative channels of information that try to be as independent as possible from the economic forces which orient the content. I hope that this is a little bit what we managed to do through this conversation.
Léopold Lambert is a French architect currently working in New York. In addition of being a designer, he is the editor of the blog The Funambulist which attempts to approach architecture via indirect means such as literature, philosophy, cinema, politics etc.
For more on ‘Weaponized Architecture: The Impossibility of Innocence’, please visit the dpr-barcelona website. Léopold also produced a blog cataloging the evolution of the project itself. Highlights include his interview with Raja Shehadeh, founder of Al-Haq and author of Palestinian Walks
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Alex Bowman, Nationwide agree to contract extensions with Hendrick
Jim Utter
Alex Bowman and sponsor Nationwide have agreed to contract extensions with Hendrick Motorsports.
HMS announced on Thursday that Nationwide has agreed to increase its primary sponsorship of Bowman’s No. 88 Chevrolet to 20 races per year through the 2020 season. HMS and Bowman, 25, also agreed to a one-year extension of his contract to coincide with the sponsorship extension.
Nationwide joined Hendrick as a corporate partner in 2014 and was majority sponsor of the No. 88 Chevrolet with driver Dale Earnhardt Jr. from 2015 through 2017. This season, Nationwide is the 19-race sponsor of the team as Bowman took over for Earnhardt.
“We have such a strong partnership with Nationwide,” Rick Hendrick, owner of Hendrick Motorsports, said in a statement. “From doing great things in the community with Nationwide Children’s Hospital to driving significant value back to their business, it’s truly impressive to see how they consistently make the maximum impact with their racing program.
“Alex has the talent to win races and compete for championships. He and Greg (Ives, crew chief) are clicking, and we have a lot of confidence in what they will accomplish together. From our driver and team to our sponsors, we have an exciting No. 88 program that’s set for the foreseeable future.”
In his first full season at HMS, Bowman won the pole for the 60th running of the Daytona 500 and has eight top-10 finishes through 21. He has finished 11th or better in five of his last six starts, including a career-best third last weekend at Pocono.
Bowman is 15th in the series standings and in position to make the 2018 Cup series playoffs with five races remaining they begin.
“Having this kind of support is incredible,” Bowman said. “From Nationwide and our other partners to Mr. Hendrick, Greg and all my teammates, I feel very fortunate to be in such an awesome position.
“We have an opportunity to have a lot of success together. To hear a sponsor like Nationwide and a team like Hendrick Motorsports say I’m their guy gives me a ton of confidence and motivation to go out there and deliver results.”
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Couple receive devastating bushfire news at mum's funeral, as fire death toll rises
A NSW couple have returned home from a family member’s funeral only to find their house burnt down.
Steve and Sharon Jackson told the Nine Network they were at a funeral for Mr Jackson’s mum when they received a number of fire alerts.
Ms Jackson told the program she rushed home with the couple’s eldest son to find the house south of Sydney had gone up in flames.
Sharon and Steve Jackson rushed from the funeral of Mr Jackson's mum to find their house on fire. Source: A Current Affair/ Nine Network
She said she let the animals out and noticed the back paddock was on fire. Three fire trucks arrived but it was “too late”, she said.
“Everything’s gone,” Mr Jackson said.
When asked where the family plan on living, Ms Jackson said “we have no idea”.
“We live in the unknown. I’ve never been through anything like this before so I have no idea what to do,” she said.
“This has always been full of love and laughter - and it’s gone.”
The Jackson family home was completely destroyed. Source: A Current Affair/ Nine Network
More than 100 fires burning across NSW
The NSW Rural Fire Service are hoping to just get through Saturday without lives being lost as they battle over 100 fires in extreme conditions.
Residents are being warned to be prepared to leave their homes early while holiday makers have been urged to reconsider their travel plans.
There is fear that the Princes Highway south of Nowra could be closed because of several fires in the region including the Currowan blaze.
A catastrophic fire danger has been declared for greater Sydney, the Illawarra and Shoalhaven regions and southern ranges where several significant fires are burning, including some of which are out of control.
A firefighter tries to battle the Green Wattle Creek Fire near Tahmoor. Source: AAP
RFS deputy commissioner Rob Rogers said authorities were particularly worried about the Gosper Mountain fire in the Wollemi National Park which was on Saturday morning upgraded to an 'emergency warning' level.
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"Areas around Kurrajong Heights, Bowen Mountain, Bilpin and where that fire gets to around Kurrajong Heights, when the southerly change starts pushing that fire north, we're worried about the impact of areas there," Mr Rogers said.
On Saturday morning, there were 111 fires burning across the state with high temperatures and winds and low humidity forecast.
The RFS said they were also concerned about the Grose Valley fire in the Blue Mountains, warning that it could hit Blackheath.
A house on fire in Buxton, NSW.
The Green Wattle Creek fire in the Southern Highlands is expected to affect areas in Bargo, Balmoral, Hill Top, Pheasants Nest, Colo Vale and could run all the way down to Mittagong.
Over 200 additional trucks from the NSW Fire and Rescue Service and RFS have been allocated on Saturday and residents are being urged to be prepared to leave.
"If you're somewhere you have to go down a single road, you're in a very heavily vegetated area, then our message is think very carefully about staying in that area," Mr Rogers said.
"And maybe, not necessarily evacuate, but go somewhere else in the heat, go to the beach, go to a shopping centre, go somewhere that's not bushfire prone.
"Firefighters will do their best to look after your house but we just want to get through the day with lives in tact."
Two lives claimed in South Australia
A second person has been confirmed dead after South Australia's day of devastating bushfires which led to 15 homes being destroyed along with other buildings and significant losses to stock and crops.
Premier Steven Marshall says a person died in the Charleston area of the Adelaide Hills where the most significant fire continues to burn.
It follows the death of a man in a road crash at Lameroo, which sparked a fire there while noted SA horse trainer John Glatz is in the Royal Adelaide Hospital with significant burns suffered while trying to protect his Adelaide Hills property at Woodside.
As well as the 15 homes destroyed across SA, 28 other buildings have also been lost along with 16 cars.
Crews douse flames at a home in the Adelaide Hills. Source: AAP
"My fear is this is only the tip of the iceberg. We haven't had a chance to get back in to assess the damage," Mr Marshall said.
"We know that in addition to the buildings and vehicles lost there are very significant losses in terms of livestock, animals, crops, vineyards.
"It is going to be a real scene of devastation, especially for those people in the Adelaide Hills who have been most affected."
Authorities have also confirmed that 23 firefighters and several police have suffered injuries, including one firefighter who remains in hospital in a serious condition.
Three Country Fire Service trucks were also destroyed.
Police have confirmed they are currently checking on the welfare of 90 to 100 people across the various fire grounds.
On Friday's day of catastrophic conditions more than 100 fires broke out before midday and have since destroyed about 40,000 hectares.
The remaining fires of most concern are the blaze in the Adelaide Hills and one burning along the north coast of Kangaroo Island.
Both are uncontrolled with fire crews and water bombers working to protect assets and establish control lines.
They believe both fires will continue to burn for several days.
Watch and act warnings remain in place though Country Fire Service chief officer Mark Jones said there was always the potential for those to be upgraded to emergency level should conditions deteriorate or the fire activity escalate.
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Amazon to Developers: Let's See What You Can Do With Echo's Alexa
By Stephanie Mlot
26 Jun 2015, 2:08 a.m.
Now that the Amazon Echo is available without an invite, Amazon is opening up the technology behind Alexa, the voice that powers its smart speaker.
Going forward, developers can integrate Alexa into their own hardware devices or build new experiences for Alexa.
The Alexa Skills Kit (ASK) APIs will let developers "integrate existing Web services with Alexa or, in just a few hours, they can build entirely new experiences designed around voice," Amazon said.
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"[W]e're making the Alexa Skills Kit available to any developer, maker, or general hobbyist that wants to invent on behalf of customers, creating new skills and capabilities," said Greg Hart, vice president of Amazon Echo and Alexa Voice Services.
Say you want to find out what your kid's school is serving for lunch each day, or quickly change your fantasy baseball lineup. Developers could program Alexa to respond to "Alex, ask Fantasy Baseball to change my lineup and start Felix Hernandez today."
Similarly, Alexa Voice Services (AVS)—the same one powering Amazon Echo—is now available for free to third-party hardware makers. Just as you can tell your Echo speaker to play rock music, or ask it how tall Mount Everest is, developers can embed Alexa into products like a Wi-Fi alarm clock, a car, a movie ticket machine, or a TV to allow consumers to interact with it.
To drum up interest, Amazon will invest up to US$100 million in those who want to create new voice-activated experiences.
The Alexa Fund launched today with seven initial investments: Orange Chef, Scout Alarm, Garageio, Toymail, Dragon Innovation, MARA, and Mojio. Each focuses on a different service, from cooking and home security to toys and exercise.
"Experiences designed around the human voice will fundamentally improve the way people use technology," Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos said in a statement. "With the Alexa Fund, we want to empower people to explore the boundaries of voice technology. We're eager to see what they come up with."
Participants will receive more than just some extra cash: Amazon will help move them from concept to consumer, offering hands-on development support, placement at Amazon showcase events, and more. Funding decisions will be based on the potential for new voice technology uses, and should tap into ASK or AVS.
Amazon unveiled its cylindrical, voice-controlled, always-connected speaker in November 2014. Measuring 9.25 inches tall, Echo has seven microphones and uses far-field voice-recognition technology, so it can hear you even when music is playing.
Echo was initially only available to those with an invite. But it arrived for everyone this week for US$179.99 and should ship July 14.
For more, see PCMag's review of the Amazon Echo and the slideshow above.
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September 23, 2018 at 8:11 am · Filed under Arts, Buffalo, mindfulness, Vancouver
I’ve been here many hundreds of times, across the water from Vancouver’s Science World, yet apparently I have never been fully here, as in ‘YOU ARE HERE’. How did I miss this great sign?!
My teacher and friend Robert Creeley titled at least eight of his poems “Here.” It was the title of one of his very last published poems:
Up a hill and down again.
Around and in –
Out was what it was all about
but now it’s done.
At the end was the beginning,
just like it said or someone did.
Keep looking, keep looking,
And here is one from “Hello,” a book from Creeley’s mid-career:
Since I can’t
kill anyone
I’d better
sit still.
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September 10, 2018 at 5:09 pm · Filed under Arts, Vancouver
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This quite moved me:
In 1980 [Arthur] Ashe retired after thriving in an era when on-court behavior was starting to get out of control, thanks to men like Ilie Nastase, Jimmy Connors and John McEnroe. Because of them, his reputation for sportsmanship and gentlemanly composure stood out. That reputation played a large part in his selection as America’s Davis Cup captain. He oversaw a team led by McEnroe, who was earning his “superbrat” nickname and would send Ashe into one of the most turbulent moments of his career.
In 1981, in Cincinnati, the Americans were playing against a strong Argentine team when McEnroe — who’d already embarrassed Ashe in other matches — got into a war of words with the great José Luis Clerc and loudly cursed at him for all to hear. Ashe said: “I thought I might punch John. I have never punched anyone in my life, but I was truly on the brink of hitting him.” Yet the consummate sportsman went light on McEnroe, giving him just a stern warning.
Some, at the time, felt Ashe had compromised his principles to placate his best player, but there was something deeper going on. The two men were opposites, but Ashe, who’d had it in him since childhood that he had to behave perfectly on the court, also had a sort of envy of McEnroe’s way. Later in life Ashe wrote: “Far from seeing John as an alien, I think I may have known him … as a reflection of an intimate part of myself. This sense of McEnroe as embodying feelings I could only repress, or as a kind of darker angel to my own tightly restrained spirit, may explain why I always hesitated to interfere with his rages even when he was excessive. … At some level … John was expressing my own rage, as I could never express it; and I perhaps was even grateful to him for doing so.”
He also once remarked, “I’ve got to admit that for a long time I’ve had this urge to walk out on Centre Court at Wimbledon and for just one match act like McEnroe.”
That said, he knew McEnroe would not have been able to act like that if he were black.
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BMW markets new 6-series with celebrity 'Alter Egos' film series
Julie Alvin
BMW will promote the restyled 6-series with short films that focus on actors such as Kevin Bacon.
Carmakers have long used celebrity spokespeople to help sell cars, and BMW is taking this concept a step further with its "Alter Egos" film series, starring Donna Karan, Ed Norton and Kevin Bacon, among others.
The series marks the launch of the redesigned BMW 6-series.
Distributed on the Plum Television and Online network and shown at the Hampton Film Festival, the films tell the stories of the celebrities and the dichotomy of their public and private personas, showing that there is more to them than meets the eye. This message also applies to the 6-series, in that below its stylish exterior is an abundance of power and advanced technology.
The new 6-series is based on the same underpinnings as the latest 5-series and has a long list of tech features, such as rear-wheel steering and damper control.
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Here’s What Cybersecurity Data Breaches Cost in 2017
January 3, 2018 /in IT Process Automation, Security Incident Response Automation /by Gabby Nizri
Welcome to 2018! As we usher in a new year, it can be helpful to take a look back at what occurred over the past 12 months, particularly in terms of cybersecurity. Recognizing what threats are out there and having an accurate understanding of what those risks could potentially cost your business can help you better prepare for and prevent such events from impacting your organization in the future. To gain some insight in this area, we turned to the 2017 Cost of Data Breach Study. Here’s a synopsis of what the study uncovered.
The annual study was conducted by IBM Security and Ponemon Institute, polling 63 U.S. organizations covering 16 different industry sectors. At a glance, the numbers look like the following:
Average number of breached records: 28,512
Average total cost of data breach: $7.35 million (up from $7.01 million)
Increase in total cost of data breach: 5%
Average cost per lost or stolen record: $225 (up from $221)
Increase in cost per lost or stolen record: 2%
How is the cost of a data breach calculated?
One of the biggest takeaways from this year’s study was the various factors that are used to calculate the cost of a data breach. Some are obvious, others are more obtuse. Here’s what organizations should take into consideration when evaluating risk:
Size of breach and/or number of records lost or stolen
Time required to identify and contain a breach (this number decreasing, thanks in large part to organizations investing in intelligent cybersecurity technologies)
Detection and escalation costs (including costs associated with investigations, assessments, audits and communication management)
Post-breach costs, including the expense of notifying victims and appropriate authorities as well as legal expenditures
Churn rate (loss of customers due to reputational damage following a data breach)
Some of the factors that are recommended for reducing these costs include the use of cybersecurity analytics as well as recruiting and retaining experienced, knowledgeable personnel. Implementing strategies and advanced technologies that can limit the number of records lost or stolen can also help organizations lower costs and mitigate risks.
Additional Noteworthy Findings
Narrowing down the 23-page report, here are a few of the most pertinent findings:
Both the individual and total average cost of data breaches for an organization have reached record highs
The amount of abnormal churn (i.e. loss of customers outside of normal course of business) is also on the rise
Heavily regulated industries experience higher data breach costs (particularly health care and financial services)
Detection and escalation costs are at a record high
Malicious or criminal attacks remain the primary cause of data breach (and the most costly)
Extensive use of mobile platforms has increased cybersecurity risk
Costs associated with lost business continue to increase
The use of intelligent cybersecurity analytics reduces the per capita cost of a breach
More money is being spent on indirect cybersecurity costs than direct ones. These costs include the time employees spend on notifications of data breaches as well as incident investigations/remediation efforts.
And, a point that’s so important it’s worth mentioning again: the time it takes to identify and contain a data breach has a tremendous impact on the costs associated with such breaches. In this year’s study, it took an average of 206 days for organizations to detect an incident and another 55 days to contain it. For mean time to identify (MTTI) of fewer than 100 days, the average cost associated was $5.99 million. For MTTI greater than 100 days, however, that cost increases significantly to $8.70 million. Likewise, costs associated with mean time to contain (MTTC) rose from $5.87 million (less than 30 days) to $8.83 million (30 days or more).
The overall conclusion from these facts and figures is that cybersecurity continues to be an incredibly costly risk to organizations. To mitigate this risk (and the hefty costs associated with it), business leaders must take a proactive approach, developing strategies and leveraging advanced incident response technology to stay a step ahead of hackers. Intelligent automation powered by AI and machine learning can provide this level of security.
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S is for Silence
A Kinsey Millhone Novel
The latest repackage in Sue Grafton's #1 New York Times bestselling series.
Cases don't get much colder than that of Violet Sullivan, who disappeared from her rural California town in 1953, leaving behind an abusive husband and a seven-year-old named Daisy. But P.I. Kinsey Millhone has promised Daisy she'll try her best to locate Violet, dead or alive. Kinsey tries to pick up a trail by speaking to those who remember her-and perhaps were more involved in her life than they let on.
But the trail could lead her somewhere very dangerous. Because the case may have gone cold, but some peoples' feelings about Violet Sullivan still run as hot as ever...
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY OCT 10, 2005
Kinsey Millhone has kept her appeal by being distinctive and sympathetic without craving center stage. While some mysteries that provide the PI's shoe size or most despised food create a forced and intrusive intimacy, a master like Grafton makes the relationship relaxed and reassuring. Millhone's life is modest and familiar, though her love life, now featuring police detective Cheney Phillips, tends to be oddly remote. This 19th entry (after 2004's R Is for Ricochet) adopts a new convention: Millhone's customary intelligent and occasionally self-deprecating first-person reportage is interrupted by vignettes from the days surrounding the Fourth of July, 34 years earlier, when a hot-blooded young woman named Violet Sullivan disappeared. Violet's daughter, Daisy, who was seven at the time, hires Millhone to discover her mother's true fate. Violet had toyed with every man in town at one time or another, so there's no shortage of scandalous secrets and possible suspects. Constant revelations concerning several absorbing characters allow a terrific tension to build. However, the utterly illogical and oddly abrupt ending undermines what is otherwise one of the stronger offerings in this iconic series. One million first printing; Literary Guild, BOMC and Mystery Guild main selection.
Ireke Onuma , 05/31/2019
Silence's My First Sue novel
First time reading her novel. I enjoyed it. At least it got me guessing all through. Motives were just every where. But whodunit? Great mystery. Highly recommended.
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S for Silence
Should have known the culprit seemed to be a silent bystander. Tom Padgett was a surprise.
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Couldn't put it down
Couldn't put it down. What more can you ask from a book?
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Overwatch > VideoJun 7, 2017 6:00 pm CT
D.Va goes full Gremlins on Solider 76 in parody video
Before we get to this hilarious video from the folks at 64 Bits, you need to already know about the “Gremlin D.Va” meme. In Overwatch, D.Va is (among many other things) a professional StarCraft player. The Gremlin D.Va meme basically says, “Okay, if she’s a pro gamer, let’s dogpile on all the gamer stereotypes at once” and takes it to ridiculous comedic effect. So instead of the cool, poised D.Va we’re familiar from matches where she blows you up with her MEKA and takes a selfie of it while you die, you get something else — a tiny, angry, chips-and-super-high-caffeine-soda-consuming rage gamer.
In much of the fan art for this characterization of D.Va, she’s paired with Soldier: 76, because he’s essentially thrust into the role of ‘Dad’ — or ‘Grandad’ — for many Overwatch characters in the fandom. Look, Overwatch has built up its own mythos in just one year, you need to learn to accept it.
Anyway, this video takes all those fan stereotypes, merges them with tropes from classic horror and action movies, and then drops a mech on them. See for yourself below:
…Poor McCree.
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Mark Carney has been named as the new governor of the Bank of England by Chancellor George Osborne. (BBC News)
Mr Carney, the governor of the Canadian central bank, will serve for five years and will hold new regulatory powers over banks.
He was a surprise choice for the head of the UK's central bank and had previously ruled himself out.
The post is seen as one of the most important positions in the stewardship of the UK economy.
Current governor Sir Mervyn King steps down from the post next June.
Sir Mervyn said Mr Carney represented "a new generation of leadership for the Bank of England, and is an outstanding choice to succeed me".
'Critical time'
Mr Osborne told Parliament that Mr Carney, 47, would bring the "strong leadership and external experience the Bank needs" and added that the Canadian would apply for British citizenship.
He said Mr Carney was acknowledged as "the outstanding central banker of his generation".
During Mr Carney's five years as governor in Canada, Mr Osborne said he was "acknowledged to have weathered the economic storm better than any other major Western economy".
Mr Carney said he was "honoured to accept this important and demanding role" at a "critical time for the British, European and global economies".
He will serve in his current post until May next year. Mr Carney said he was "not without ties" to the UK - his wife is a dual national of the UK and Canada.
Shadow chancellor Ed Balls welcomed the incoming governor as a "good choice, good judgement".
Andrew Tyrie, chairman of the Treasury Select Committee, told the BBC that Mr Carney "ticks all the boxes" but added that his committee would question him on matters such as how he will approach macro-prudential stability and what his views on quantitative easing are.
The British Chambers of Commerce said it hoped that the new governor would "focus relentlessly on supporting business growth across the UK - not just in the Square Mile".
The CBI said Mr Carney's "strong track record as the Canadian central bank governor and extensive experience in international financial regulation mean that he is well positioned to guide Britain through challenging economic times".
Pay package
The term for a Bank governor is eight years. But the chancellor told Parliament that Mr Carney indicated he intended to serve for five years and to stand down at the end of June 2018.
"Mr Osborne was keen to get his preferred central governor, because Mr Carney was widely perceived to have all the bits: he is admired by monetary economists, regulators and - allegedly - his staff (or to put it another way, he is an unusual economist and central banker, in that he is seen as a half-decent manager)," the BBC's business editor Robert Peston said.
The governor of the Bank chairs the monetary policy committee, which has responsibility for setting interest rates in the UK.
Following the government's decision to scrap the Financial Services Authority and hand some of its responsibilities to the Bank, the governor will also oversee important regulatory powers as well.
Other candidates for the post included Bank deputy governor Paul Tucker, FSA chairman Lord Turner, Sir John Vickers, who led the government's recent review into breaking up the banks, and Santander bank's UK chairman Lord Burns.
Mr Tucker, who has spent most of his career with the Bank, was seen by many as the favourite for the job.
The BBC understands that Mr Carney will be offered a total pay package of about £624,000 a year.
Sir Mervyn's salary is £305,000 a year, but he receives much more generous pension contributions making his total pay and pension package worth about £519,000.
Mr Osborne also announced the re-appointment of Charlie Bean as Bank of England deputy governor for monetary stability for a further year until the end of June 2014.
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Good choice.
That's an increadible step forward, even for a rather progressive European country like the UK. I can't think of any nation where such a choice would be even considered!
There is hope that the next wave of globalization will be free exchange of people, after free exchanges of goods - but it will probably take another 100 years until a European could lead the Chinese central bank or Chinese workers can freely come to Europe to work...
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Everynowhere Post time: 2012-11-27 20:20
That's an increadible step forward, even for a rather progressive European country like the UK. I ca ...
The post of the head of a country's central bank is usually reserved for compatriots only. In Britain there is no such law, hence they could hire a very competent guy. This does not apply for other countries.
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satsu_jin Post time: 2012-11-27 21:54
The post of the head of a country's central bank is usually reserved for compatriots only. In Brit ...
Well the Commonwealth Realms are the next best thing. Similar business environments, regulatory systems and culture.
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9/11 was an inside job.
No second plane.It was a bomb.Bomb in the other building.
You KNOW without a doubt the videos are fake,right ?!
Planes don't meld into steel and concrete buildings.They crash into them !!!!!!!
It's amazing how the building ate the plane !!!
Imagine those fragile wings cutting slots in massive steel columns !!!!!
How STUPID can they think the people are to believe that crap ??!!
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Lined & Unlined
A filing cabinet on the internet by Rob Giampietro
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30/30: Ads for Alfieri & Lacroix by Franco Grignani
Launched in 1896, the Milan-based printer of Alfieri & Lacroix found its truest leader in Dario Morani, a pharmacist and sportswriter who joined as general manager one year after it was purchased from its founders by Antonio Crespi in 1924. In addition to Morani, Crespi hired his former military school classmate Antonio Boggeri, a musician and photographer, to work alongside him. The time was deeply formative for Boggeri and by 1933 he had opened the legendary Studio Boggeri, a design office that employed Bruno Monguzzi, Bruno Munari, Max Huber, Walter Ballmer, Enzo Mari, Bob Noorda, Albe Steiner, and many others. From the beginning, Alfieri & Lacroix pioneered a then-new form of printing known as zincography, or photogravure. The method was ideal for Boggeri’s evolving style, which mixed tones and rhythms like music and layered images atop images like filmic montage. The deeply synthetic and persuasive style suited both commerce and Fascist propaganda. While Morani abstained from joining the Fascist party and was placed under constant surveillance, Alfieri & Lacroix printed travel guides to Libya and even an illustrated edition of Benito Mussolini’s Voci D’Italia alongside children’s’ books and orchestra posters.
In the postwar years, Morani needed to restore the printing house’s status as a high-quality commercial firm that remained technologically cutting-edge, and he turned to another Studio Boggeri alumni to help: Franco Grignani. Trained in architecture and reared in Futurism, Grignani took Boggeri’s methods and built on them. Where Boggeri made planes, Grignani made worlds. His twisting, liquid forms blur, stretch, knot, and puddle in space, and then fuse back to the flat plane on which they sit. A few of these posters date from 1960 and their formal experimentation culminates in Grignani’s most famous commercial work, the pseudonymously-created Woolmark logo from 1964, which debuted in London in the moment of Bridget Riley’s paintings (Riley was an art director at J. Walter Thompson until 1962) and Mary Quant’s fashions, along with the birth of psychedelia. Often rendered on black, Grignani’s compositions are variously evocative of the photographic negative, the projected image, and the illuminated imagery of the computer screen. By 1970, a photo-driven montague technique that started as a way of mobilizing the masses by synthesizing a coherent utopian ideal was being used by Grignani to evoke a shattered, dystopian dread in his covers for Philip K. Dick’s Time out of Joint and Ray Bradbury’s The Day It Rained Forever.
Commissioned by Alexander Tochilovsky, Director of the Herb Lubalin Center of Design and Typography, for the exhibition “Thirty: 1985–2015,” in which 30 critics reflect on 30 pieces from the collection for the Center’s 30th Anniversary.
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Restaurant Menu Labeling Complicated
May 27, 2015 | The Health Beat
by Carolyn O’Neil, MS, RDN
The countdown to provide calorie counts and other nutrition information for menu items is in full swing for more than 250,000 restaurant locations nationwide. Faced with a December deadline set by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) restaurant chains with more than 20 outlets are busily crunching the numbers to provide nutrition facts on their menus, websites and in-store signage.
“Menu labeling is the biggest advance in providing nutrition information to consumers since the law that required Nutrition Facts labels on packaged foods was implemented 20 years ago,” said Margo G. Wootan, nutrition policy director for The Center for Science in the Public Interest.
In addition to calories, written information on total fat, saturated fat, trans fat, cholesterol, sodium, carbohydrates, sugar, fiber and protein must be available upon consumer request. The intent of the new law is to guide diners toward healthier choices on the menu.
Joy Dubost, registered dietitian with the National Restaurant Association says, “Many restaurant patrons have stated that menu labeling is important to them when dining out, and we also know that based on trend data consumers are demanding more healthful options.”
Nutrition by the Numbers
Seeing the facts right up front can help diners avoid calorie bombs or at least be forewarned of the waistline busting cost of indulgent dishes and drinks.
“What I like about the new legislation is that it holds restaurants accountable,” says registered dietitian Nicole King of the website Healthy Dining Finder.com.
How do restaurants come up with the nutrition numbers? The FDA allows several methods including the use of software programs based on nutrient data bases designed to calculate nutritional analysis for recipes, using nutritional information already calculated for recipes in published cookbooks or the more costly but most accurate laboratory analysis of individual items. King says, “And restaurants have to show their work when they provide documentation to the FDA so it’s clear what method was used.” From doing the math to making sense of ways to best present the nutrition numbers on menus, registered dietitians are finding opportunities to consult with restaurant companies. Some national restaurants groups employ full time dietitians for many services including marketing and menu planning. Many others are enlisting the professional services of dietitians as part time and project based consultants to help them follow the new federal regulations for nutrition menu labeling. For the restaurant consumer it’s a win-win of taste and health.
It’s Complicated
Presenting the information to consumers is not always a simple task. Take a pizza restaurant for example. How do they list the nutrition numbers for all of the combinations of toppings and different kinds of crusts? King says, “It’s complex and cumbersome.”
Staff training is part of the new labeling law too to ensure that cooks follow the recipes. A liberal hand with the salt or mayonnaise in the kitchen will mean the numbers on the menu won’t match the dish being served.
“We have to remember this is hand crafted food not made to specs such as an Oreo where every cookie is exactly the same size. There are going to be slight variations,” says King.
Other challenges behind the scenes are happening behind the bar. From pina coladas to cosmopolitans, alcoholic beverages are included in the menu labeling law even though they weren’t part of the packaged foods labeling laws. That’s why you don’t see calorie counts on a bottle of vodka. “The alcohol piece was not regulated at all. But now cocktail menus have to list nutrition information,” says King. So now when you say ‘make mine a double’ don’t forget to double the calories too.
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Plant-Based Eating: The Path to a Healthy, Sustainable Diet
May 7, 2015 | The Health Beat
Sharon Palmer, RDN
Eat more plants. That’s the simple advice coming from everyone’s lips, from best-selling authors like Michael Pollan to the U.S. Department of Agriculture in the latest version of the Dietary Guidelines for Americans. For the first time, the nutrition establishment, including the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics and registered dietitians, researchers, and academics in the field of nutrition are in agreement that the diet prescription for optimal health and well-being is one that focuses on whole plants. Scientific research is accumulating on the health benefits of a plant-based eating style, which include the reduced risk of cardiovascular disease, diabetes, Alzheimer’s disease, cancer, and obesity. Throw in the environmental benefits, such as fewer resources required to produce food, and a plant-based diet seems like the clear winner in the race for defining the optimal diet for today, as well as the future.
Plant-based Eating on the Rise
Plant-based diets, such as veganism, have grown in popularity, thanks to the attention from stars like Oprah, who requested her entire staff to go vegan for one week on her television show last year; Alicia Silverstone, actress, vegan and author of The Kind Diet; and Ellen Degeneres, the popular talk show host who enthusiastically supports a vegan diet. Yet, plant-based diets are very personal and unique, covering a wide range of dietary preferences and observances. The definition of a plant-based diet is one that focuses on plants, which leaves room for a spectrum of choices, including vegan (no animal foods), lacto-ovo vegetarian (no animal flesh, but allows for dairy and eggs), pescatarian (no animal flesh, except for fish and seafood), and semi-vegetarian (small amounts of animal foods). Adding to the mix is today’s generation of plant-based omnivores—those that are not interested in giving up animal foods completely, but recognize the health and environmental advantages of reducing their animal food intake.
You can thank the Meatless Monday program for fueling the idea that everyone—not just vegetarians—should eat less meat and more plants. Their message is sweet and simple: You and the planet can benefit by eating less meat, so just shun it one day a week. Why not Monday? Countless organizations, restaurants, schools, and hospitals have jumped onto the Meatless Monday bandwagon to celebrate this simple concept. While the number of vegans and vegetarians is still relatively low—about 5% of U.S. adults are vegetarians, and about half of those are vegans—16% now report eating no animal flesh at more than half of their meals, according to a recent Vegetarian Resource Group poll.
Plants Provide Optimal Health for Humans
Getting back to our roots by eating more whole plants in their natural form has a multitude of benefits for humans. Since the beginning of time, we’ve enjoyed a unique relationship with the plants that surrounded us. From the first time our early ancestors plucked wild seeds, grasses, herbs, grains, and fruits and saved them in pouches for the future, they realized that these powerful plants had the ability to nourish and sustain them. Just like humans evolved over time to better suit their environment and survive threats, so did plants. These remarkable, living plants built up defenses against forms of pestilence, such as the harmful effects of UV radiation, disease, and predators. Plants developed thousands of phytochemicals, such as flavonoids and phenols, often concentrating them in the colorful outer skins of their fruits. These compounds provided a self-defense system that ensured the species survived the test of time. Today, scientists know that we have a symbiotic relationship with the plants that nurtured us over the melenia. We plucked their fruits, feasted on their nourishing properties, and spit out their seeds, thus helping the plant to propagate and survive. This simple act helped to ensure the survival of both humans and plants, but we got something else in the bargain besides sheer calories to fuel our bodies. All of those defensive compounds in the plants seem to confer similar properties to humans when they eat them.
It’s only been in the last few decades that scientists have begun to understand how the thousands of bioactive compounds found in plants, from resveratrol in grape skins to anthocyanins in blueberries, protect health. These compounds, which are often the pigment responsible for the plant’s brilliant color, offer a range of antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, and unique therapeutic benefits. Both oxidative stress, the damaging effects of free radicals on body cells, and chronic inflammation, when the body’s natural defense mechanism is triggered and doesn’t “shut off”, are at the root of today’s modern day chronic disease killers, such as cancer and heart disease. Indeed, study after study has linked consuming plant foods—rich in antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties—with lower disease risk. And beyond that, particular plants and plant compounds have special activities. For example, lutein and zeaxanthin found in yellow and orange vegetables like corn and orange peppers protect against advanced macular degeneration, the number one cause of age-related blindness in older people. And tomatoes, rich in the ruby red pigment lycopene, show promise in the prevention of prostate cancer.
It’s important to note that the benefits found in plant foods are related to eating the whole food in its unique, complex form—fiber, vitamins, minerals, phytochemicals, and all. A synergy is found among all of these nutrients in plant foods; when the nutrients are isolated and consumed individually in the form of a supplement, we don’t gain the same benefits. Something special happens when we eat the plant food in its whole form, whether we chew a kernel of whole grain with its bran coating, endosperm and germ, or bite into a fresh strawberry and savor its skin, flesh, juice and seeds. Unfortunately, our diets have grown distant from the whole plant foods that sustained us; today we often feast on processed foods that are unrecognizable from their plant origins. The health benefits found in a plant-based diet are not attached to a diet filled with such refined, carbohydrates such as sugars, oils, and white flour—all technically plant foods.
Most traditional diets around the world, from the Mediterranean to Asia to South America, are based on plants. In many less developed countries, where people still eat their traditional, plant-based diets, chronic disease rates are very low. But when people move away from these countries to the U.S. and switch to a Western diet, characterized with the inclusion of large amounts of meat, saturated fat, processed foods, and salt and low amounts of whole plant foods, they begin to experience a surge in chronic disease rates. This has been observed in many populations; probably never as famously as in the Pima Indians of Mexico, who enjoy very low rates of obesity and diabetes in their native environment, but once the Pimas leave their homeland for the U.S. and consume a Western diet, they are rewarded with obesity and one of the highest rates of type 2 diabetes in the world.
Our Meat Lover’s Society
Americans love their meat; a large steak sizzling on the barbeque is practically a national icon. The problem is the size of that steak has swelled over the years, according to surveys. Many steakhouse menus proudly offer a 16-ounce cut—a full pound of meat—and call their 8-ounce portion the “petite” serving. This oversized attitude toward meat also pervades American home-style cooking, where we plan our meals based on what animal protein will star at the center of the plate. An 8-ounce steak may be an ordinary dinner in America, but it’s considered obscene in many parts of the world, where it would be the appropriate amount to feed an entire family for a meal or even a week. According to the National Cancer Institute, the U.S. consumes meat at more than three times the global average.
Our meat obsession wasn’t always so grand—the last century was marked with periods of economic hardship and food scarcity during which meat was considered precious. A small piece went into a pot of soup or beans for flavor and the best cut was reserved for Sunday dinners. Meat consumption has most assuredly risen over the years—it’s doubled between 1909 and 2007. Across the world, meat consumption is typically an indicator of economic wealth: As income levels rise, so does meat consumption. Despite a current shift toward higher poultry consumption in the U.S., red meat—including beef, veal, pork, and lamb—is still the clear winner, representing 58% of the meat we consume. Americans are eating on average eight ounces of meat per person every day.
So, what’s the big problem with eating so much meat? Several well-designed studies indicate that a high-meat diet—especially red meat and processed meat, such as bacon and hot dogs—is likely to cause health problems down the road, such as the increased risk of heart disease, type 2 diabetes, certain types of cancer, and metabolic syndrome—the clustering of several risk factors that put you at high risk for type 2 diabetes and heart disease (Circulation, 2010; American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 2009; PLoS Med, 2007). The negative effects of this type of diet could be caused in part by the presence of carcinogenic compounds in cooked and processed meats and by the absence of health-protective plants in this style of eating. In fact, researchers from the National Cancer Institute report that, given the plausible scientific evidence linking red and processed meats to cancer and chronic disease risk, it might be time for health experts to start working on bringing our levels of meat intake down.
At the same time, research supports a number of bonuses from taking on a vegetarian diet. In a position paper published by the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, in which an independent and systematic review of all the research on vegetarian-based diets was evaluated, the organization concluded that well-planned vegetarian diets are completely healthful and nutritionally adequate for people throughout all stages of life and that they have a number of health advantages, including lower blood cholesterol levels, lower risk of heart disease, lower blood pressure levels, and lower risk of hypertension and type 2 diabetes. In addition, vegetarians tend to have a lower body weight and lower overall cancer rates, lower intakes of saturated fat and cholesterol, and higher levels of dietary fiber, magnesium, potassium, vitamins C and E, folate, carotenoids, flavonoids, and other phytochemicals.
A Healthier Diet for the Planet
There’s no doubt that our human ancestry withstood the test of time thanks to its hunter-gatherer traditions. While we typically conjure up images of cavemen brandishing hand-crafted spears in pursuit of wild beasts, archaeologists like to remind us that early humans were probably prey more often than predator. Plants were a much safer source of nourishment and early humans gathered an abundance of plant materials along their pursuit for survival. Our early ancestors certainly relied upon animal foods such as game, fowl, and fish to supplement their plant food diets, but today’s world is vastly different. The animal foods they consumed were wild, lean and rich in omega-3 fatty acids, but today’s meat supply is based on a modern system of confined animal feeding operations. In a CAFO, animals are pressed together so tightly they can barely move, where they will live short, miserable lives, caked in manure and fed a grain diet laced with antibiotics they were never meant to eat—all for the purpose of providing cheap meat to the masses.
Today, we consume billions of pounds of animal products, contributing to inhumane animal practices and the use of large amounts of chemical pesticides and fertilizers to produce animal feed, as well as large volumes of water and fuel to take animals to market. Byproducts of animal food production include greenhouse gas emissions, toxic manure lagoons, deforestation, and pollution of groundwater, rivers, streams, and oceans.
You can make a serious impact on your carbon footprint by eating fewer animal foods, according to several studies. Italian researchers performed a life-cycle assessment to evaluate the cradle-to-grave environmental impact of several dietary patterns (European Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 2006.) They discovered that an organic vegan diet had the smallest environmental impact, while a conventionally farmed diet that included meat had the greatest impact on the environment—and the more meat consumed, the greater the eco-impact. Additionally, beef was the food with the single greatest impact on the environment; other high-impacting foods included cheese, fish and milk. In essence, animals make inefficient “food production machines,” using up lots of feed, water, and fossil fuels to turn plants into protein, said the scientists. To produce 1 calorie from beef requires 40 calories of fossil fuels, whereas producing 1 calorie from grains requires only 2.2 calories of fuel. Thus, plant-based diets can play an important role in preserving environmental resources and in reducing hunger in poor nations.
According to a recent analysis conducted by CleanMetrics for the public advocacy organization Environmental Working Group, greenhouse gas emissions generated by conventionally raising lamb, beef, cheese, pork, and farmed salmon—from growing the animals’ food to disposing of the unused food—far exceed those from other food choices like lentils and beans. EWG found that eating less meat can significantly reduce your carbon footprint. If you ate one less burger a week for a year; it would be the equivalent of driving 320 miles less. And if your four-person family took steak off the menu one day a week for a year, it’s like taking your car off the road for almost three months. If everyone in the U.S. ate no meat or cheese for just one day a week, it would be like taking 7.6 million cars off the road.
Sure, our country is facing runaway obesity rates, but keep in mind that one billion people around the world don’t even have enough food to eat—a fact that will become even tougher to deal with in 2050, when nine billion people will fill the planet. Let’s face it: Our current agricultural practices and diet patterns are unsustainable. But environmental experts agree on one important principal that could increase the world sustainability of food for the long haul: Growing animal feed on prime croplands, no matter how efficiently, is a drain on the human food supply. Dedicating croplands to direct human food production could boost calories produced per person by nearly 50%, according to a recent report from researchers from Canada, the United States, Sweden, and Germany (Nature, 2011).
When you put the evidence altogether, the argument is quite compelling. While our dietary past focused on balancing a plate with animal protein at its center, today’s plate should be focused on a variety of whole plant foods—whole grains, beans, lentils, peas, nuts, seeds, vegetables, and fruits. This diet paradigm should help ensure the health of both humans and the planet for years to come.
Sharon is an award-winning nutrition expert and author of The Plant-Powered Diet and Plant-Powered for Life (The Experiment). She also serves as editor of Environmental Nutrition, writes for her blog The Plant-Powered Blog, and is a judge for the James Beard Awards. Living in the chaparral hills overlooking Los Angeles with her family, she speaks on plant-based nutrition frequently.
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RD Urban Legends: The Craziest Stories Ever Told
As dietitians, we all hear crazy stories from our patients about the things they’ve been told regarding their health. Sometimes the things they say are so disturbing, we bottle them up inside and try, with all our might, to pretend like we never heard them say it. But, others are funny enough that we have to share with everyone around us! We’ve been compiling some of the favorites that we’ve heard from other dietitians so that we can share them with you here on the blog. Have you heard any of these?
“Bananas are the worst food you can eat because they have an enzyme in them that makes you fat!”
“I heard it’s not healthy to shake salt on my food, so I spoon it on instead.”
“I thought it’s not good for you to have fruit after 2 pm?”
Patient in a wheelchair, with 2 below-knee amputations was sucking down packets of mayo in the hospital cafeteria, telling people freely “I have diabetes and can’t eat carbs”.
This is not from patient, but from a pharmacist (not a technician either) “About 6-8 years ago, when we all were learning about Lipitor interaction and cautioned to not consume grapefruits.”The pharmacist said to not have grapefruit, but you can have grapefruit juice because juice is not the same thing.”
“Well I’m probably not going to lose much weight now because it’s winter time. Your metabolism slows down because your body has to preserve the fat because it’s cold.”
Anything that begins with the phrase “But I heard on Dr. Oz…..”
“Clear colored soda doesn’t have any calories”
I had an MD tell me (on TV!) that eating a potato will “make you fat”
.”Don’t combine fruit with proteins when eating. When you do this the fruit stays in your stomach longer and rots. Always eat fruit by itself.”
And the #1 urban legend goes to this gem of wisdom…
I replace all sugar in my recipes with brown sugar instead”, with the person thinking this now made them a whole grain
Because we all know that if it’s brown, it’s a whole grain… right? Thank you to everyone who shared your best RD Urban Legends with us! We got a kick out of reading all of them! Do you have any stories to add to this list? If so, please share them in the comments below or email us at info@ncescatalog.com. We could all use a good laugh today!
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For National Nutrition Month: 5 Reasons to Love (& Sometimes Hate) Your Dietitian
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March is such a big month for RD’s! Not only is it National Nutrition Month, the only month of the year that nutrition gets a big spotlight, it also hosts RD Day. So, in honor of such a big month for our profession and nutrition community, here’s a list of five reasons you should love (but will sometimes hate) your dietitian! When you’re done, take a minute to share your reason in the comments and to share this with all of your favorite RD’s too!
5) We’ll be your biggest fan and provide support when you need it most.
4) We often get to cook and/or workout for fun… and get paid for it.
3) We’re more likely to give chocolate, fruit & wine as gifts than anyone else you know.
2) We get giddy when we see new fruits and veggies in the store and will buy one just to try it!
1) Forget Iron Chef… we can whip out a healthy meal with as little as five ingredients. Anytime, Anywhere!
Happy National Nutrition Month and RD Day on March 11th, 2015!
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Ukrainian power utility Ukrenergo was back in the news as the top trending cybercrime target after researchers analyzed new samples of a destructive malware, dubbed “Win32/Industroyer,” which they said was likely used in the December 2016 attack against the Ukrainian power grid.
“Industroyer is a particularly dangerous threat, since it is capable of controlling electricity substation switches and circuit breakers directly,” ESET researchers wrote. “To do so, it uses industrial communication protocols used worldwide in power supply infrastructure, transportation control systems, and other critical infrastructure systems (such as water and gas).”
The Industroyer malware uses four payload components designed to gain control of switches and circuit breakers, with each component targeting a particular communication protocol: IEC 60870-5-101, IEC 60870-5-104, IEC 61850, and OLE for Process Control Data Access (OPC DA). The malware is notable as it “is capable of doing significant harm to electric power systems and could also be refitted to target other types of critical infrastructure.”
Hackers may have hidden in Ukrenergo’s IT network undetected for six months before carrying out their December 2016 attack, which led to a power blackout in Kiev that lasted a little over an hour. Although it’s not confirmed, it is “highly probable” that Industroyer was used in that incident. The Ukrenergo attack occurred a year after a similar attack against Prykarpattyaoblenergo, which caused approximately 230,000 people to lose power. Researchers have warned that both of those incidents in Ukraine could be tests for potential attacks against Western countries’ critical infrastructure facilities in the future.
Other trending cybercrime events from the week include:
FIN10 targeted mining companies and casinos: A financially-motivated hacking group known as FIN10 spent at least three years infiltrating computers at several unnamed Canadian mining companies and casinos, stealing sensitive data, and then holding it for ransom. According to researchers, the attacks targeted sensitive files such as corporate records, private communications, and customer information, and the ransom demands ranged between 100 and 500 bitcoin. The hackers were also able to essentially shut off the production systems of some mines or casinos that did not comply, making them unable to operate for a period of time.
Updates on previously disclosed attacks: The attackers behind the 2015 attack against TV5Monde conducted reconnaissance inside the TV5Monde network for three months before launching a sabotage operation that knocked multiple channels offline and compromised multiple social media accounts. France’s national cybersecurity agency said that the attackers used a compromised third-party account that allowed them to connect to the TV5Monde VPN and that once they were inside the network they used one of two camera-control servers as a beachhead for privilege escalation. The agency also noted that the attackers were able to create their own admin-level account in Active Directory and used the IT department’s wiki to gain information. GameStop is notifying an undisclosed number of online customers that their payment card details were stolen between August 10, 2016 and February 9, 2017. The breach was acknowledged by GameStop in April, but the company only recently began notifying affected customers. Cowboys Casino in Alberta said that data stolen from a breach last year has been posted online and that the hackers are threatening to post more data next week. WikiLeaks’ latest dump of CIA documents is CherryBlossum, a project that is focused on compromising wireless networking device.
Universities targeted: Southern Oregon University said it sent $1.9 million to a malicious actor impersonating Andersen Construction, a contractor that is working on the McNeal Pavilion and Student Recreation Center construction project. University College London said that a major ransomware attack occurred on June 14 and disrupted access to a number of users’ personal and shared drives for several days after UCL users visited a compromised website. Ulster University in Northern Ireland was infected with ransomware that affected a “significant number of file shares” due to a “zero day attack.” The initial attack occurred on June 14, and the university said it believes they are will be in a position to restore the file share service by late morning on June 19.
Other notable incidents: A database containing the personal information of 6 million users of online survey site CashCrate was stolen by hackers due to an apparent compromise of third-party forum software. A developer at Tata Consultancy Service in India posted the source code and internal documents for a number of unnamed financial institutions to a public GitHub repository. Italy’s data protection authority said that Wind Tre, the country’s biggest mobile operator in terms of mobile SIMs, must notify customers of a March 20 data breach that affected 5,118 customers. A hacker pleaded guilty to the 2014 theft of hundreds of user accounts from a U.S. military communications system, an intrusion that the Department of Defense said cost $628,000 to fix.
SurfWatch Labs collected data on many different companies tied to cybercrime over the past week. Some of those “newly seen” targets, meaning they either appeared in SurfWatch Labs’ data for the first time or else reappeared after being absent for several weeks, are shown in the chart below.
Cyber Risk Trends From the Past Week
New York’s attorney general Eric Schneiderman announced last Thursday that CoPilot Provider Support Services must pay $130,000 in penalties as well as reform its legal compliance program over violations related to delayed notification of a breach.
According to the attorney general, an October 2015 data breach of CoPilot’s website administration interface, PHPMyAdmin, allowed an unauthorized user to download reimbursement-related records for 221,178 patients, including their names, genders, dates of birth, addresses, phone numbers, and medical insurance card information. However, CoPilot did not begin formally notifying affected consumers until January 2017, more than a year after the incident occurred — an “unacceptable” violation of New York law.
“Although CoPilot asserted that the delay in providing notice was due to an ongoing investigation by law enforcement, the FBI never determined that consumer notification would compromise the investigation, and never instructed CoPilot to delay victim notifications,” New York’s attorney general wrote. “General Business Law § 899-aa requires companies to provide notice of a breach as soon as possible, and a company cannot presume delayed notification is warranted just because a law enforcement agency is investigating.”
In January, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office for Civil Rights (OCR) issued a $475,000 fine to Presence Health for similar reasons. OCR said that it was the agency’s first HIPAA settlement based on the untimely reporting of a breach of unsecured protected health information and that the settlement amount “balanced the need to emphasize the importance of timely breach reporting with the desire not to disincentive breach reporting altogether.”
That regulatory scrutiny may get more intense with the enforcement of the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) next year. The GDPR requires companies notify the appropriate authorities of a breach within 72 hours of discovery if that company collects, stores, or processes personal data for people residing in the EU. As SearchSecurity noted last month, that could force a change for the better when it comes to prompt breach notification by companies since the monetary penalties associated with violating the GDPR are much harsher than the current regulations.
Author: Jeff Peters
SurfWatch Labs editor and host of SurfWatch Labs Cyber Chat podcast. Focused on using threat intelligence and data visualization in order to bring cybercrime to life and help make organizations safer. View all posts by Jeff Peters
Author Jeff PetersPosted on June 19, 2017 Categories Weekly Cyber Risk RoundupTags breach notification, CoPilot Provider Support Services, Healthcare, industroyer, Presence Health, Ukrenergo, Utilities
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Legendary satirist P. J. O’Rourke is interviewed by NPR’s Peter Sagal (host of Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me) about P. J.’s new book on the 2016 Presidential election, aptly titled How the Hell Did This Happen?: P. J. O’Rourke (8:00 pm, $15-$45, 92nd Street Y’s Buttenwieser Hall at 1395 Lexington Avenue, between 91st and 92nd Streets)…
…or enjoy a monthly wild pun competition hosted by father-daughter duo Fred Firestone and Jo Firestone (staff writer for Jimmy Fallon; radio host of WFMU’s Dr. Gameshow, live-on-stage host of The Unexpectashow and The Incredible Game Show Showcase, co-author with Fred of #1 bestselling Punderdome: A Card Game for Pun Lovers), with 18 audience members competing in Punderdome 3000 (8:00 pm, $10—sold out of advance seats, but there’ll be 150 tickets at the door; Brooklyn’s Littlefield at 622 Degraw Street; take R subway to Union Street)
More recommendations for the best in New York City comedy tonight (in chronological order, with top picks noted and shows over $10 marked with $) include:
6:45 pm ($7): A one-woman show by Susan Jeremy inspired by the life of jazz musician Billy Tipton, who in the 1950s had a wife and son but was secretly a woman, with sound design by Tim Shellenbaum and direction by Cheryl King (creator of Stage Left Studio) at The PIT Loft (154 West 29th Street): She Was a Great Dad
[TOP PICK] [$] 7:00 pm ($5 plus 2-item food/drink min.): Broadway, TV, and film star Colin Quinn (Trainwreck, comedy national treasure) hones material for a one-man show at The Fat Black Pussycat Lounge (130 West 3rd Street): Colin Quinn: Law Abiding Criminals
[TOP PICK] 7:00 pm-11:00 pm ($7 for the whole evening): In this 4-hour extravaganza, eight singing & dancing improv groups at The Magnet make up musicals based on audience suggestions (preceded by a free improv jam at 6:00 pm that gives you a chance to perform with some of these sharp talents): Magnet Musical Megawatt
7:00 pm ($7): Improv groups watch clips of music videos and then make up scenes showing how those videos came to be made at The PIT Underground: Re-Making the Video
7:00 pm ($7): Improv group That’s Dinner makes up an entire movie that never existed based on a suggestion from the audience at The PIT Mainstage: That’s Dinner and a Movie
[TOP PICK] [$] 7:30 pm, 9:30 pm, and 11:30 pm ($12 plus 2-item food/drink min.): Some of the finest stand-ups in the country spread among three shows at Comedy Cellar (117 MacDougal Street, between 3rd Street & Minetta Lane): Comedy Cellar Tuesday
[TOP PICK] 8:00 pm [$] ($27, which includes a copy of the book): W. Kamau Bell (star of CNN’s United Shades of America) celebrates the release of his book The Awkward Thoughts of W. Kamau Bell with bestselling author Chuck Klosterman at 149 7th Street, i.e., Brooklyn’s The Bell House (no relation): W. Kamau Bell Book Release Show
[TOP PICK] 8:00 pm pm ($8):”A comedy show about truth,” with Alexandra Song (writer for Jimmy Fallon), Elna Baker (brilliant storyteller, and bestselling author of comedic book The New York Regional Mormon Singles Halloween Dance; NPR’s This American Life; writer for Glamour, Elle; for sample tales, please click here), Dylan Marron (Ridgefield Middle School Talent Nite, Seriously.tv, Welcome to Night Vale podcast), Catherine Cohen (co-host of It’s a Guy Thing), Dr. Helen Fisher, and Patti Harrison performing at Brooklyn’s BRIC Arts/Media House (647 Fulton Street; take 2/3/4/5 subway to Nevins Street or B/D/N/Q/R/W subway to DeKalb Avenue) hosted by Blythe Roberson (The Onion, McSweeney’s) & Madelyn Freed: The Scientists
[TOP PICK] 8:00 pm ($20): Improvisors drinking beer make up scenes based on audience suggestions. Performers are systematically eliminated by audience voting (i.e., your votes) until only one player remains. Tonight’s superb improvisors are Tracy Mull, Rachel Rosenthal, Kevin Laibson, Rory Scholl, Jon Bander, Lorraine Cink, Devin Heater, and Joshua Eakright performing at the Highline Ballroom (431 West 16th Street) hosted by Jim Robinson (Second City): BeerProv
[TOP PICK] [FREE; plus FREE DRAFT BEER 8:00-8:30!] 8:00 pm: Dan St. Germain (enormously likeable and rapidly rising star who has several TV shows in the works; Jimmy Fallon, Conan O’Brien, Comedy Central Half-Hour Special, The Electric Company, MTV, VH1; staff writer for CBS’ Superior Donuts), Alingon Mitra (Stephen Colbert, Conan O’Brien, The Daily Show, Last Comic Standing), Jess Salomon, and Kendall Farrell perform stand-up at Brooklyn’s Two Boots Pizza Williamsburg (558 Driggs Avenue) hosted by Lucas Connolly, David Piccolomini, and Jake Fromm: Ambush Comedy
[TOP PICK] [FREE] 8:00 pm: Comics creators join super-hosts Alex Zalben, Justin Tyler, and Pete LePage in a lively & hilarious discussion about four-color pop culture at The PIT Loft (154 West 29th Street), with giveaways of comics and gift certificates: Comic Book Club
8:00 pm ($7): A monthly show about obsessions with pop culture, with tonight’s topic Dads with Jeremy J. King, Alexis Pereira, and Julia Whitehouse performing at UCB East hosted by Damian Bellino & Anne Rodeman: So Into It: A Fanatic Variety Show
[FREE] 8:00 pm: Dan St. Germain (tentative “surprise” guest; Jimmy Fallon, Conan O’Brien, Comedy Central Half-Hour Special, The Electric Company, MTV, VH1; staff writer for CBS’ Superior Donuts), Dina Hashem (Comedy Central’s Roast Battle, Seeso’s Night Train), Yamaneika Saunders (Last Comic Standing, Comedy Central Roast Battle), Subhah Agarwal (Comedy Central, TruTV, Fusion), Ester Steinberg, and Ryan Schutt perform stand-up at Brooklyn’s Bar Schimmi (54 North 11th Street) hosted by Ryan Reszelbach: Creative Rezistance Comedy
8:00 pm ($10): Sketch and improv comics “create a brand new show in only one week, and then perform improvised sketches based off of your suggestions, just like The Second City used to do” at The PIT Mainstage: Old School Sketch Show
8:00 pm ($5): UCB house groups Some Kid and Moose make up scenes using the long improv form called The Harold at the UCB Chelsea theatre (see also 9:30 pm): Harold Night, Part 1
[FREE, plus FREE BEER] 8:00 pm: Enjoy a comfy seat and a free beer while you watch comedy at The Creek’s downstairs lounge in Queens’ Long Island City: Couch Cave Live
[TOP PICK] [$] 8:30 pm ($20 plus 2-item food/drink min.): A stand-up with numerous appearances on David Letterman, Jay Leno, and Louie, and who’s also an Emmy-nominated comedy writer and talk show host, headlines at The Fat Black Pussycat Lounge (130 West 3rd Street): Nick DiPaolo
[TOP PICK] [FREE] 8:30 pm: Conner O’Malley (staff writer/performer for Seth Meyers; Louie, Broad City), Marina Franklin (Trainwreck, Louie, Jay Leno, Last Comic Standing, Chappelle’s Show), Corinne Fisher (co-host of popular podcast Guys We Fucked), Bardia Salimi, and Sefa Castanet perform stand-up hosted by Joe Pera (hilarious and genius deadpan stand-up; killer set on Seth Meyers; Conan O’Brien, Comedy Central, Adult Swim; for a very special one-minute set at Carolines, please click here; for Joe’s Kaufman awards submissions, please click here and here), Charles Gould (Comedy Central), and Dan Licata (The Chris Gethard Show) at Brooklyn’s NY Distilling Company (79 Richardson Street; take L subway to Lorimer Street): Dan + Joe + Charles’ Show
[FREE] 8:30 pm (reserve your free spots by clicking here): Typically terrific stand-ups (for the line-up, usually posted by 1:00 pm, please click here) performing at The Irish Exit (978 Second Avenue, off 52nd Street, in the back room) produced every Tuesday by Mark Normand, Matt Ruby, Gary Vider, and Sachi Ezura: Hot Soup
[FREE] 8:30 pm: Christian Finnegan (co-star of A&E’s Black and White; Conan O’Brien; three Comedy Central specials, Netflix special The Fun Part; TBS, VH1, MSNBC, Chappelle’s Show, The Today Show), Chris Gersbeck (co-host of Everythign Is Dumbn, and Bunk Bed and Murray Povich open mics), Sarah Kennedy, and three audience volunteers (maybe you) tell stories about favorite songs on this month’s theme I Can’t Make You Love Me: Unrequited and then karaoke-sing them—while wearing pajamas—at Astoria Queens’ QED: A Place to Show & Tell (27-16 23rd Avenue) hosted by Jenn Wehrung, Coree Spencer, and/or Sharron Paul: The Jammy Jam
[TOP PICK] 9:00ish pm ($10): Michelle Wolf (star stand-up who’s also a star writer/correspondent for The Daily Show; previously staff writer & performer for Seth Meyers), Pete Lee (David Letterman, Comedy Central Half Hour, Last Comic Standing), Liz Miele (David Letterman, Conan O’Brien, Comedy Central, Damaged, comedy album Mind Over Melee), Jordan Carlos (HBO’s Girls, Comedy Central’s Broad City and The Nightly Show, Showtime, MTV’s Guy Code, Guy Court, VH1, Adult Swim), and more performing at The Slipper Room (167 Orchard Street) hosted by Seth Herzog (long-time Jimmy Fallon staff comic; NBC’s 30 Rock, Comedy Central’s @midnight, VH1’s Best Week Ever, CBS): Sweet
[$] 9:00 pm ($15): In this musical written & directed by Elias Rubin, the 3rd graders of TV series The Magic Schoolbus have grown up and are enjoying their last day of high school…when their former teacher Ms. Frizzle abruptly reappears to take them on an out-of-this-world adventure at The PIT Mainstage: The Edge of the Universe: A Magic School Bus Musical Parody
[TOP PICK] 9:30 pm ($7): The razor-sharp writers of Late Night with Seth Meyers—who include such brilliant stage comics as John Lutz and Connor O’Malley—share with you their rejected jokes and sketches at at the UCB East theatre: Seth Meyers Writers: Late Night Trash Can
9:30 pm ($7): Sketch group Mountain Rapids Soda performs a play in which oddball characters trapped together out on the high seas must uncover a killer in their midst at The PIT Mainstage: Boat Show Expo: A Murder Mystery
9:30 pm ($5): UCB house groups Ice Cold Bev and Mermaids make up scenes using the long improv form called The Harold at the UCB Chelsea theatre (see also 8:00 pm): Harold Night, Part 2
10:00 pm ($7): Improv and stand-up (details not announced) “dumped here for your pleasure” at The PIT Underground: Dump
11:00 pm ($5): Going beyond the classic Harold, group Fluffty performs whatever type of long form improv it likes at the UCB East theatre: Harold on the Run
Tuesday Open Mics & Jams
5:00 pm ($5): Two-hour open-mic for 20 stand-ups performing for 5 minutes each, with sign-up online here, at the Stand Up NY Comedy Club (236 West 78th Street): Stand Up NY Open Mic
[FREE] 6:00 pm: In this free Magnet show, audience members can join in with veteran musical improvisors to make up stories in song on the spot: Musical Magnet Mixer
6:00 pm ($5 for both comics and audience members): Open mic stand-up providing 5-7 minutes per comic, running 2 1/2 hours. Arrive 30 minutes before the show to get on the signup sheet. This is a fine opportunity to perform at the only comedy club in the East Village: Eastville Comedy Club Open Mic
[FREE] 6:00 pm: Open mic for comedy of all types providing 2 minutes for each performer (with sign-up starting at 6:00) at Queens LIC’s The Creek upstairs theatre hosted by Tim Unkenholz: Butt Factory
[TOP PICK] [FREE] 8:00 pm: This weekly two-hour open mic storytelling show allows each performer 6 minutes to tell a compelling and funny tale at Queens LIC’s The Creek upstairs theatre hosted by Jake Hart and a guest co-host: The Dump
[FREE] 9:00 pm: Weekly open mic for any kind of act (with sign-up starting at 8:30) at Brooklyn’s Little Skips (941 Willoughby Avenue) hosted by Joe Crow Ryan: Tuesday Night Open Mic
[FREE] 11:00 pm: Weekly walk-in open mic stand-up providing 3 minutes for each comic whose name is pulled from a bucket at Queens LIC’s The Creek upstairs theatre hosted by Michelle Slonim: Rapid Fire
11:00 pm ($5): Ten stand-ups whose names are drawn from a “golden bowl of destiny” will be given stage time, along with a few invited stand-ups, at The PIT Underground hosted by Will Purpura: Bring It
11:00 pm ($3): A chance for you to get on stage and improvise with PIT faculty at The PIT Loft (154 West 29th Street): Tuesday After Class: Slow Jam
For many more shows, please click the following links to top NYC comedy venues:
Upright Citizens Brigade Chelsea (307 West 26th Street): 150-seater; one of the most respected comedy theatres in the world; especially strong on improv, sketch, solo shows, and one-act comedic plays; shows free-$10
Upright Citizens Brigade East (153 East 3rd Street): 99-seater; a top comedy venue that focuses more than sister theatre UCB Chelsea on stand-up and screenings, and on experimental shows taking big risks; shows free-$10
The PIT Striker (Upstairs) Theatre (123 East 24th Street): 88-seater; a top venue that’s a powerful rival of UCB, and often surpasses UCB when blending comedy with music and/or theatricality; shows free-$20
The PIT Underground (Downstairs) Theatre (123 East 24th Street): 40-seater; often more quirky & experimental than upstairs Striker; shows free-$10
The PIT Loft (154 West 29th Street): 50-seater; not at the level of its two sister PIT theatres, but evolving; shows free-$10
The Magnet (254 West 29th Street): 60-seat theatre; strong on improv, musical improv, sketch, and energy; shows $5-$10
The Annoyance Theatre (367 Bedford Ave. in Brooklyn; J/M/Z to Marcy or L to Lorimer): 50-seat theatre; spinning off from Chicago’s Annoyance Theatre, brings a fiercely fresh, experimental approach to improv and sketch; shows free-$10
The Creek and the Cave (Queens’ Long Island City): 40-seat theatre upstairs, 25 downstairs; virtually all shows free
Union Hall (702 Union Street in Brooklyn; R to Union Street): 50-seat theatre; shows $5-$20
Littlefield (622 Degraw Street in Brooklyn; R to Union Street): 100-seat theatre; shows $5-${20
Bell House (149 7th Street in Brooklyn; R to 9th Street or F/G to Fourth Ave.): 200-seat theatre; shows $10-$25
QED: A Place to Show & Tell (27-16 23rd Avenue in Astoria Queens; N/Q to Ditmars Boulevard): 40-seat theatre; shows free-$10
Comedy Cellar (117 MacDougal Street): Among the finest daily stand-up lineups in the world; 2-item min.
Village Underground (130 West 3rd Street): Comedy Cellar’s larger sister venue, just around the corner with the same top comics; 2-item min.
The Stand (239 Third Avenue): Recent competitor to Comedy Cellar; no drink min.—support this policy!
Carolines Comedy Club (1626 Broadway): Focuses on the world’s top headliners, who perform hour-long sets; 2-drink min.
Gotham Comedy Club (208 West 23rd Street): Headliners on weekends, specialty & lineup shows weekdays; 2-drink min.
Eastville Comedy Club (85 East 4th Street): Strong weekend lineups; no cover using code HyReviews; 2-drink min.
Greenwich Village Comedy Club (99 MacDougal Street): Convenient if Comedy Cellar’s sold out; no cover using code HyReviews; 2-drink min.
Comic Strip Live (1568 Second Avenue, off 81st): Upper East Side club with typically solid lineups; 2-drink min.
Stand Up NY (236 West 78th Street, off Broadway): Upper West Side club with typically solid lineups; 2-drink min.
The Standing Room (4738 Vernon Blvd., by #7 train; Queens LIC club): No drink min.—support this policy!
From legendary NYC comedy site Brooklyn Vegan: Thank God for Hy Bender’s religiously updated show bible BestNewYorkComedy.com…It must be exhausting keeping that monster of a website alive. It is your daily comedy itinerary and it scares me how on top of his shit this guy is.
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By Rafael Guerrero / April 27, 2011
Mural Puts Recycling Into Focus
At first glance, the new mural at the Fountain Day School in West Hollywood looks like a pair of innocent eyes gazing into the sky in search of guidance. A closer look reveals what the eyes are composed of: old toys, milk crates, copper wire, broken baby strollers and other recycled materials.
A new mural in West Hollywood combines a public art project and the recycling of discarded household materials. (photo courtesy of Richard Settle)
The mural, “Through the Eyes of a Child,” was unveiled on April 21 to both observe Earth Day and to provide a new piece of art for the residents of West Hollywood.
“It was a very convenient location and interesting piece of art for the city,” said Andrew Campbell, of the West Hollywood Arts and Cultural Affairs Commission. “This is a wonderful way to increase the art available to the public on the eastside of the city.”
Artist Tom Deininger, a dedicated environmentalist who educates others about consumer wastefulness and resource overuse through his art, created the piece modeled after the eyes of his newborn child. The budget for the piece was $15,000 including the artist’s fees.
“It’s very intriguing how it’s done,” Campbell said. “There seems to be an emotion with the eyes and the school serves as a great place for it.”
The project was presented to the Arts and Cultural Affairs Commission more than eight months ago by Lonnie Lardner, an art consultant for Creative Voltage, Los Angeles.
“I thought that displaying this mural would showcase West Hollywood’s position as being a green city,” Lardner said. “Plus the city really loves their art. Other cities do it, but West Hollywood really believes and loves the art. It was an honor to work with them.”
Lardner showed the commission some of Deininger’s artwork to give them an idea of how the mural would be constructed. Once the commission approved the plan, the process of acquiring the materials was initiated.
During a two-month period, parents and students of Fountain Day School were asked to bring in old toys, baby strollers, dolls, bottle caps, garden hoses and other materials that would otherwise end up in landfills. Bins were placed at the school for the items and Lardner picked up the materials and delivered them to a local studio where Deininger worked on the piece with two other individuals.
Deininger, who is based in Rhode Island, came out to work on the mural two weeks ago and had it finished just in time for Earth Day.
“It’s really amazing because he never knows what materials he will be working with,” Lardner said. “There is no paint on these eyes. Every piece adds to the color and even tricks the eyes because of how they are constructed.”
Each eye weighs 125 pounds and every piece is screwed in to keep them in place and prevent any damage from inclement weather.
“There are thousands of screws holding the mural together,” Lardner said.
Lardner added that local residents have already expressed pride that they had input in creating the artwork.
“One mom walked by and pointed to a piece and said, ‘that’s our old baby stroller,’” Lardner said. “Parents have been very enthusiastic about the mural. It’s like the families created it themselves.”
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“Some women faced the prospect of their family being notified.”
Good Lord, Baylor.
“A number of victims were told that if they made a report of rape, their parents would be informed of the details of where they were and what they were doing,” said Chad Dunn, a Houston attorney who represents six women who have sued Baylor under the anonymous identification of Jane Doe.
I’m having a hard time deciding which of Baylor’s and Penn State’s administrations were the more despicable.
Filed under Baylor Is Sensitive To Women's Issues, Crime and Punishment
“I got fired. He doesn’t need to hear from me. He needs to hear from the people who were successful.”
Ray Goff, bless his heart.
T-minus one to preseason camp
David Paschall asks some obvious questions here, but I think we may have just found out what the biggest one is as we head into tomorrow.
Today, in comparisons you weren’t expecting
Greg McElroy has just caused me to re-evaluate my mental image of Jacob Eason.
“I do think Eason from an arm talent standpoint might be as talented as anybody in the entire country,” McElroy said. “The guy that I think only rivals him in arm talent alone is Jeremy Johnson at Auburn…”
Oof. Maybe bringing Eason along slowly isn’t such a bad idea after all.
“They take care of themselves first, and us last.”
If Mark Emmert should ever part ways with the NCAA, this looks like the perfect career opportunity for him.
Amateurism is the best.
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Sometimes, it’s not that complicated.
Here’s a solid look over at Ole Miss blog Red Cup Rebellion at the NCAA rule that might wind up hanging Hugh Freeze. But in the end, you don’t really need to know the details. You just need to know his conclusion.
At the end of the day, the NCAA can do whatever the hell it wants.
Purty much.
July 29, 2016 · 10:04 AM
“I will now pull for South Carolina to win every game but one…”
Thanks for everything, Columbia.
Although, it seems like Spurrier kinda quit pulling for South Carolina last season, now that I think about it.
Reminder: For $100,000, Spurrier became ambassador for South Carolina in January. Now he's ambassador for Florida. https://t.co/e9uohB0P9M
— Jon Solomon (@JonSolomonCBS) July 29, 2016
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Themes in 1 Samuel 16:12
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Anointing » In consecration » David
Beauty » Instances of » David
Bible stories for children » The anointing of the young shepherd
Christian ministers » Influential in public affairs » Designate kings
Church and state » Ecclesiastical power superior to civil » Withdraws support and anoints a successor
David » Israel's versatile king » Beautiful
Eyes » Frequently fair
the First-born » Instances of superseded » David's brothers
Israel » David » Annointed » King
Jesse » Samuel visits, under divine command, to select a successor to saul from his sons
King » Divinely authorized
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Kings » Who reigned over all israel » saul
Kings » God anoints
But Abishai son of Zeruiah said, Shall not Shimei be put to death for this, because he cursed the Lord's anointed?
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And invite Jesse to the sacrifice, and I will show you what you shall do; and you shall anoint for Me the one I name to you.
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Anointing Kings
1 Samuel 16:12-13
Jesse sent and brought him. David had a healthy reddish complexion and beautiful eyes, and was fine-looking. The Lord said [to Samuel], Arise, anoint him; this is he. Then Samuel took the horn of oil and anointed David in the midst of his brothers; and the Spirit of the Lord came mightily upon David from that day forward. And Samuel arose and went to Ramah.
2 Samuel 2:4
And the men of Judah came and there they anointed David king over the house of Judah. They told David, The men of Jabesh-gilead buried Saul.
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So all the elders of Israel came to the king at Hebron, and King David made a covenant with them [there] before the Lord, and they anointed [him] king over Israel.
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Then Nathan said to David, You are the man! Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: I anointed you king of Israel, and I delivered you out of the hand of Saul.
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So all the elders of Israel came to the king at Hebron, and David made a covenant with them there before the Lord, and they anointed [him] king over Israel, according to the word of the Lord through Samuel.
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Jesse sent and brought him. David had a healthy reddish complexion and beautiful eyes, and was fine-looking. The Lord said [to Samuel], Arise, anoint him; this is he.
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One of the young men said, I have seen a son of Jesse the Bethlehemite who plays skillfully, a valiant man, a man of war, prudent in speech and eloquent, an attractive person; and the Lord is with him.
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1 Samuel 16:1-14
The Lord said to Samuel, How long will you mourn for Saul, seeing I have rejected him from reigning over Israel? Fill your horn with oil; I will send you to Jesse the Bethlehemite. For I have provided for Myself a king among his sons. Samuel said, How can I go? If Saul hears it, he will kill me. And the Lord said, Take a heifer with you and say, I have come to sacrifice to the Lord. And invite Jesse to the sacrifice, and I will show you what you shall do; and you shall anoint for Me the one I name to you. read more.
And Samuel did what the Lord said, and came to Bethlehem. And the elders of the town trembled at his coming and said, Have you come peaceably? And he said, Peaceably; I have come to sacrifice to the Lord. Consecrate yourselves and come with me to the sacrifice. And he consecrated Jesse and his sons and called them to the sacrifice. When they had come, he looked on Eliab [the eldest son] and said, Surely the Lord's anointed is before Him. But the Lord said to Samuel, Look not on his appearance or at the height of his stature, for I have rejected him. For the Lord sees not as man sees; for man looks on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart. Then Jesse called Abinadab and made him pass before Samuel. But Samuel said, Neither has the Lord chosen this one. Then Jesse made Shammah pass by. Samuel said, Nor has the Lord chosen him. Jesse made seven of his sons pass before Samuel. And Samuel said to Jesse, The Lord has not chosen any of these. Then [he] said to Jesse, Are all your sons here? [Jesse] said, There is yet the youngest; he is tending the sheep. Samuel said to Jesse, Send for him; for we will not sit down to eat until he is here. Jesse sent and brought him. David had a healthy reddish complexion and beautiful eyes, and was fine-looking. The Lord said [to Samuel], Arise, anoint him; this is he. Then Samuel took the horn of oil and anointed David in the midst of his brothers; and the Spirit of the Lord came mightily upon David from that day forward. And Samuel arose and went to Ramah. But the Spirit of the Lord departed from Saul, and an evil spirit from the Lord tormented and troubled him.
Then Samuel took the vial of oil and poured it on Saul's head and kissed him and said, Has not the Lord anointed you to be prince over His heritage Israel?
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Now a day before Saul came, the Lord had revealed to Samuel in his ear, Tomorrow about this time I will send you a man from the land of Benjamin, and you shall anoint him to be leader over My people Israel; and he shall save them out of the hand of the Philistines. For I have looked upon the distress of My people, because their cry has come to Me.
And Samuel did what the Lord said, and came to Bethlehem. And the elders of the town trembled at his coming and said, Have you come peaceably? And he said, Peaceably; I have come to sacrifice to the Lord. Consecrate yourselves and come with me to the sacrifice. And he consecrated Jesse and his sons and called them to the sacrifice. When they had come, he looked on Eliab [the eldest son] and said, Surely the Lord's anointed is before Him. But the Lord said to Samuel, Look not on his appearance or at the height of his stature, for I have rejected him. For the Lord sees not as man sees; for man looks on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart. Then Jesse called Abinadab and made him pass before Samuel. But Samuel said, Neither has the Lord chosen this one. Then Jesse made Shammah pass by. Samuel said, Nor has the Lord chosen him. Jesse made seven of his sons pass before Samuel. And Samuel said to Jesse, The Lord has not chosen any of these. Then [he] said to Jesse, Are all your sons here? [Jesse] said, There is yet the youngest; he is tending the sheep. Samuel said to Jesse, Send for him; for we will not sit down to eat until he is here. Jesse sent and brought him. David had a healthy reddish complexion and beautiful eyes, and was fine-looking. The Lord said [to Samuel], Arise, anoint him; this is he. Then Samuel took the horn of oil and anointed David in the midst of his brothers; and the Spirit of the Lord came mightily upon David from that day forward. And Samuel arose and went to Ramah.
In the seventh year Jehoiada [the priest, Jehosheba's husband] sent for the captains over hundreds of the Carites and of the guards or runners and brought them to him to the house of the Lord and made a covenant with them and took an oath from them in the house of the Lord and showed them the king's [hidden] son. And he commanded them, saying, This is the thing you shall do: a third of you who come in on the Sabbath shall keep watch of the king's house, A third shall be at the gate Sur, and a third at the gate behind the guard. So you shall keep watch of the palace [from three places] and be a barrier. read more.
And two divisions of all you who should go off duty on the Sabbath shall keep the watch of the house of the Lord to [protect] the king. You shall surround the [little] king, every man with his weapons in his hand. And let anyone who breaks through the ranks be put to death. You be with the king when he goes out and when he comes in. The captains over the hundreds did all that Jehoiada the priest commanded; and they took every man his men who were to come on duty on the Sabbath with those who should go off duty on the Sabbath, and came to Jehoiada the priest. To the captains over hundreds the priest gave the spears and shields that had been King David's, which were in the house of the Lord. And the guards stood, every man with his weapons in his hand, from the right corner to the left corner of the temple area, along by the altar [in the court] and the temple proper. And Jehoiada brought out the king's son and put the crown on him and gave him the Testimony [the Mosaic Law]; and they proclaimed him king and anointed him, and they clapped their hands and said, Long live the king!
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And Elisha the prophet called one of the sons of the prophets and said to him, Gird up your loins, take this flask of oil in your hand, and go to Ramoth-gilead. When you arrive, look there for Jehu son of Jehoshaphat son of Nimshi; and go in and have him arise from among his brethren and lead him to an inner chamber. Then take the cruse of oil and pour it on his head and say, Thus says the Lord: I have anointed you king over Israel. Then open the door and flee; do not tarry. read more.
So the young man, the young prophet, went to Ramoth-gilead. And when he came, the captains of the army were sitting outside; and he said, I have a message for you, O captain. Jehu said, To which of us? And he said, To you, O captain. And Jehu arose, and they went into the house. And the prophet poured the oil on Jehu's head and said to him, Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: I have anointed you king over the people of the Lord, even over Israel. You shall strike down the house of Ahab your master, that I may avenge the blood of My servants the prophets and of all the servants of the Lord [who have died] at the hands of Jezebel. For the whole house of Ahab shall perish, and I will cut off from Ahab every male, bond or free, in Israel. I will make the house of Ahab like the house of Jeroboam son of Nebat and like the house of Baasha son of Ahijah. And the dogs shall eat Jezebel in the portion of Jezreel, and none shall bury her. And he opened the door and fled. When Jehu came out to the servants of his master, one said to him, Is all well? Why did this mad fellow come to you? And he said to them, You know that class of man and what he would say. And they said, That is false; tell us now. And he said, Thus and thus he spoke to me, saying, Thus says the Lord: I have anointed you king over Israel. Then they hastily took every man his garment and put it [for a cushion] under Jehu on the top of the [outside] stairs, and blew with trumpets, saying, Jehu is king! So Jehu son of Jehoshaphat, the son of Nimshi, conspired against Joram [to dethrone and slay him]. Now Joram was holding Ramoth-gilead, he and all Israel, against Hazael king of Syria, But King Joram had returned to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds which the Syrians had given him when he fought with Hazael king of Syria. And Jehu said, If this is your mind, let no one make his escape from the city [Ramoth-gilead] to go and tell it in Jezreel [the capital]. So Jehu rode in a chariot and went to Jezreel, for Joram lay there. And Ahaziah king of Judah had come down to see Joram. A watchman on the tower in Jezreel spied the company of Jehu as he came, and said, I see a company. And Joram said, Send a horseman to meet them and have him ask, Do you come in peace? So one on horseback went to meet him and said, Thus says the king: Is it peace? And Jehu said, What have you to do with peace? Rein in behind me. And the watchman reported, The messenger came to them, but he does not return. Then Joram sent out a second man on horseback, who came to them and said, Thus says the king: Is it peace? Jehu replied, What have you to do with peace? Ride behind me. And the watchman reported, He came to them, but does not return; also the driving is like the driving of Jehu son of Nimshi, for he drives furiously. Joram said, Make ready. When his chariot was made ready, Joram king of Israel and Ahaziah king of Judah went out, each in his chariot. Thus they went out to meet Jehu and met him in the field of Naboth the Jezreelite. When Joram saw Jehu, he said, Is it peace, Jehu? And he answered, How can peace exist as long as the fornications of your mother Jezebel and her witchcrafts are so many? Then Joram reined about and fled, and he said to Ahaziah, Treachery, Ahaziah! But Jehu drew his bow with his full strength and shot Joram between his shoulders; and the arrow went out through his heart, and he sank down in his chariot. Then said Jehu to Bidkar his captain, Take [Joram] up and cast him in the plot of Naboth the Jezreelite's field; for remember how, when I and you rode together after Ahab his father, the Lord uttered this prophecy against him: As surely as I saw yesterday the blood of Naboth and the blood of his sons, says the Lord, I will repay you on this plot of ground, says the Lord. Now therefore, take and cast Joram into the plot of ground [of Naboth], as the word of the Lord said.
When they had come, he looked on Eliab [the eldest son] and said, Surely the Lord's anointed is before Him. But the Lord said to Samuel, Look not on his appearance or at the height of his stature, for I have rejected him. For the Lord sees not as man sees; for man looks on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart. Then Jesse called Abinadab and made him pass before Samuel. But Samuel said, Neither has the Lord chosen this one. read more.
Then Jesse made Shammah pass by. Samuel said, Nor has the Lord chosen him. Jesse made seven of his sons pass before Samuel. And Samuel said to Jesse, The Lord has not chosen any of these. Then [he] said to Jesse, Are all your sons here? [Jesse] said, There is yet the youngest; he is tending the sheep. Samuel said to Jesse, Send for him; for we will not sit down to eat until he is here. Jesse sent and brought him. David had a healthy reddish complexion and beautiful eyes, and was fine-looking. The Lord said [to Samuel], Arise, anoint him; this is he.
Then [he] said to Jesse, Are all your sons here? [Jesse] said, There is yet the youngest; he is tending the sheep. Samuel said to Jesse, Send for him; for we will not sit down to eat until he is here. Jesse sent and brought him. David had a healthy reddish complexion and beautiful eyes, and was fine-looking. The Lord said [to Samuel], Arise, anoint him; this is he. Then Samuel took the horn of oil and anointed David in the midst of his brothers; and the Spirit of the Lord came mightily upon David from that day forward. And Samuel arose and went to Ramah.
You shall surely set as king over you him whom the Lord your God will choose. One from among your brethren you shall set as king over you; you may not set a foreigner, who is not your brother, over you.
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He changes the times and the seasons; He removes kings and sets up kings. He gives wisdom to the wise and knowledge to those who have understanding!
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You, O king, are king of the [earthly] kings to whom the God of heaven has given the kingdom, the power, the might, and the glory.
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This sentence is by the decree of the [heavenly] watchers and the decision is by the word of the holy ones, to the intent that the living may know that the Most High [God] rules the kingdom of mankind and gives it to whomever He will and sets over it the humblest and lowliest of men.
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But when his heart was lifted up and his mind and spirit were hardened so that he dealt proudly, he was deposed from his kingly throne and his glory was taken from him;
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They set up kings, but not from Me [therefore without My blessing]; they have made princes or removed them [without consulting Me; therefore], I knew and recognized [them] not. With their silver and their gold they made idols for themselves, that they [the silver and the gold] may be destroyed.
Tomorrow about this time I will send you a man from the land of Benjamin, and you shall anoint him to be leader over My people Israel; and he shall save them out of the hand of the Philistines. For I have looked upon the distress of My people, because their cry has come to Me. When Samuel saw Saul, the Lord told him, There is the man of whom I told you. He shall have authority over My people.
He shall build a house for My Name and [the symbol of My] Presence. He shall be My son, and I will be his father; and I will establish his royal throne over Israel forever.
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Then Hiram king of Tyre replied in writing sent to Solomon, Because the Lord loves His people, He has made you king over them. Hiram said also, Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, Who made heaven and earth, Who has given to David the king a wise son, endued with prudence and understanding, who should build a house for the Lord and a royal palace as his capitol.
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I have given you a king in My anger, and I have taken him away in My wrath.
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Tomorrow about this time I will send you a man from the land of Benjamin, and you shall anoint him to be leader over My people Israel; and he shall save them out of the hand of the Philistines. For I have looked upon the distress of My people, because their cry has come to Me.
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When you come to the land which the Lord your God gives you and you possess it and live there, and then say, We will set a king over us like all the nations that are about us, You shall surely set as king over you him whom the Lord your God will choose. One from among your brethren you shall set as king over you; you may not set a foreigner, who is not your brother, over you.
All the people went to Gilgal and there they made Saul king before the Lord. And there they sacrificed peace offerings before the Lord, and there Saul and all the men of Israel rejoiced greatly. And Samuel said to all Israel, I have listened to you in all that you have said to me and have made a king over you. And now, behold, the king walks before you. And I am old and gray, and behold, my sons are with you. And I have walked before you from my childhood to this day. read more.
Here I am; testify against me before the Lord and Saul His anointed. Whose ox or donkey have I taken? Or whom have I defrauded or oppressed? Or from whose hand have I received any bribe to blind my eyes? Tell me and I will restore it to you. And they said, You have not defrauded us or oppressed us or taken anything from any man's hand. And Samuel said to them, The Lord is witness against you, and His anointed is witness this day, that you have not found anything in my hand. And they answered, He is witness. And Samuel said to the people, It is the Lord Who appointed Moses and Aaron and brought your fathers up out of Egypt. Now present yourselves, that I may plead with you before the Lord concerning all the righteous acts of the Lord which He did for you and for your fathers. When Jacob and his sons had come into Egypt [and the Egyptians oppressed them], and your fathers cried to the Lord, then the Lord sent Moses and Aaron, who brought forth your fathers out of Egypt and made them dwell in this place. But when they forgot the Lord their God, He sold them into the hand of Sisera, commander of Hazor's army, and into the hands of the Philistines and of the king of Moab, and they fought those foes. And they cried to the Lord, saying, We have sinned because we have forsaken the Lord and have served the Baals and the Ashtaroth; but now deliver us from the hands of our enemies, and we will serve You. And the Lord sent Jerubbaal and Barak and Jephthah and Samuel, and He delivered you out of the hands of your enemies on every side, and you dwelt safely. But when you saw that Nahash king of the Ammonites came against you, you said to me, No! A king shall reign over us -- "when the Lord your God was your King! Now see the king whom you have chosen and for whom you have asked; behold, the Lord has set a king over you. If you will revere and fear the Lord and serve Him and hearken to His voice and not rebel against His commandment, and if both you and your king will follow the Lord your God, it will be good! But if you will not hearken to the Lord's voice, but rebel against His commandment, then the hand of the Lord will be against you, as it was against your fathers. So stand still and see this great thing the Lord will do before your eyes now. Is it not wheat harvest today? I will call to the Lord and He will send thunder and rain; then you shall know and see that your wickedness is great which you have done in the sight of the Lord in asking for a king for yourselves. So Samuel called to the Lord, and He sent thunder and rain that day; and all the people greatly feared the Lord and Samuel. And [they] all said to Samuel, Pray for your servants to the Lord your God, that we may not die, for we have added to all our sins this evil -- "to ask for a king. And Samuel said to the people, Fear not. You have indeed done all this evil; yet turn not aside from following the Lord, but serve Him with all your heart. And turn not aside after vain and worthless things which cannot profit or deliver you, for they are empty and futile. The Lord will not forsake His people for His great name's sake, for it has pleased Him to make you a people for Himself. Moreover, as for me, far be it from me that I should sin against the Lord by ceasing to pray for you; but I will instruct you in the good and right way. Only fear the Lord and serve Him faithfully with all your heart; for consider how great are the things He has done for you. But if you still do wickedly, both you and your king shall be swept away. Saul was [forty] years old when he began to reign; and when he had reigned two years over Israel, Saul chose 3,000 men of Israel; 2,000 were with [him] in Michmash and the hill country of Bethel, and 1,000 with Jonathan in Gibeah of Benjamin. The rest of the men he sent away, each one to his home. Jonathan smote the Philistine garrison at Geba, and the Philistines heard of it. And Saul blew the trumpet throughout all the land, saying, Let the Hebrews hear! All Israel heard that Saul had defeated the Philistine garrison and also that Israel had become an abomination to the Philistines. And the people were called out to join Saul at Gilgal. And the Philistines gathered to fight with Israel, 30,000 chariots and 6,000 horsemen and troops like sand on the seashore in multitude. They came up and encamped at Michmash, east of Beth-aven. When the men of Israel saw that they were in a tight situation -- "for their troops were hard pressed -- "they hid in caves, holes, rocks, tombs, and pits or cisterns. Some Hebrews had gone over the Jordan to the land of Gad and Gilead. As for Saul, he was still in Gilgal, and all the people followed him trembling. Saul waited seven days, according to the set time Samuel had appointed. But Samuel had not come to Gilgal, and the people were scattering from Saul. So Saul said, Bring me the burnt offering and the peace offerings. And he offered the burnt offering [which he was forbidden to do]. And just as he finished offering the burnt offering, behold, Samuel came! Saul went out to meet and greet him. Samuel said, What have you done? Saul said, Because I saw that the people were scattering from me, and that you did not come within the days appointed, and that the Philistines were assembled at Michmash, I thought, The Philistines will come down now upon me to Gilgal, and I have not made supplication to the Lord. So I forced myself to offer a burnt offering. And Samuel said to Saul, You have done foolishly! You have not kept the commandment of the Lord your God which He commanded you; for the Lord would have established your kingdom over Israel forever; But now your kingdom shall not continue; the Lord has sought out [David] a man after His own heart, and the Lord has commanded him to be prince and ruler over His people, because you have not kept what the Lord commanded you. And Samuel went up from Gilgal to Gibeah of Benjamin. And Saul numbered the people that were left with him, [only] about 600. Saul and Jonathan his son and the people with them remained in Gibeah of Benjamin, but the Philistines encamped at Michmash. And raiders came out of the Philistine camp in three companies; one company turned toward Ophrah, to the land of Shual, Another turned toward Beth-horon, and another toward the border overlooking the Valley of Zeboim toward the wilderness. Now there was no metal worker to be found throughout all the land of Israel, for the Philistines said, Lest the Hebrews make swords or spears. But each of the Israelites had to go down to the Philistines to get his plowshare, mattock, axe, or sickle sharpened. And the price for plowshares and mattocks was a pim, and a third of a shekel for axes and for setting goads [with resulting blunt edges on the sickles, mattocks, forks, axes, and goads.] So on the day of battle neither sword nor spear was found in the hand of any of the men who were with Saul and Jonathan; but Saul and Jonathan his son had them. And the garrison of the Philistines went out to the pass of Michmash. One day Jonathan son of Saul said to his armor-bearer, Come, let us go over to the Philistine garrison on the other side. But he did not tell his father. Saul was remaining in the outskirts of Gibeah under a pomegranate tree in Migron; and with him were about 600 men, And Ahijah son of Ahitub, Ichabod's brother, the son of Phinehas, the son of Eli, the Lord's priest in Shiloh, was wearing the ephod. And the people did not know that Jonathan was gone. Between the passes by which Jonathan sought to go over to the Philistine garrison there was a rocky crag on the one side and a rocky crag on the other side; one was named Bozez, and the other Seneh. The one crag rose on the north in front of Michmash, and the other on the south in front of Geba. And Jonathan said to his young armor-bearer, Come, and let us go over to the garrison of these uncircumcised; it may be that the Lord will work for us. For there is nothing to prevent the Lord from saving by many or by few. And his armor-bearer said to him, Do all that is in your mind; I am with you in whatever you think [best]. Jonathan said, We will pass over to these men and we will let them see us. If they say to us, Wait until we come to you, then we will stand still in our place and will not go up to them. But if they say, Come up to us, we will go up, for the Lord has delivered them into our hand, and this will be our sign. So both of them let the Philistine garrison see them. And the Philistines said, Behold, the Hebrews are coming out of the holes where they have hidden themselves. The garrison men said to Jonathan and his armor-bearer, Come up to us and we will show you a thing. Jonathan said to his armor-bearer, Come up after me, for the Lord has given them into Israel's hand. Then Jonathan climbed up on his hands and feet, his armor-bearer after him; and the enemy fell before Jonathan, and his armor-bearer killed them after him. And that first slaughter which Jonathan and his armor-bearer made was about twenty men within about a half acre of land [which a yoke of oxen might plow]. And there was trembling and panic in the [Philistine] camp, in the field, and among all the men; the garrison, and even the raiders trembled; the earth quaked, and it became a terror from God. Saul's watchmen in Gibeah of Benjamin looked, and behold, the multitude melted away and went hither and thither. Then Saul said to the men with him, Number and see who is gone from us. When they numbered, behold, Jonathan and his armor-bearer were missing. Saul said to Ahijah, Bring here the ark of God -- "for at that time the ark of God was with the children of Israel. While Saul talked to the priest, the tumult in the Philistine camp kept increasing. Then Saul said to the priest, Withdraw your hand. Then Saul and all the people with him rallied and went into the battle, and behold, every [Philistine's] sword was against his fellow in wild confusion. Moreover, the Hebrews who were with the Philistines before that time, who went up with them into the camp from the country round about, even they also turned to be with the Israelites who were with Saul and Jonathan. Likewise, all the men of Israel who had hid themselves in the hill country of Ephraim, when they heard that the Philistines fled, they also went after them in hot pursuit in the battle. So the Lord delivered Israel that day, and the battle passed beyond Beth-aven. But the men of Israel were distressed that day, for Saul had caused them to take an oath, saying, Cursed be the man who eats any food before evening and until I have taken vengeance on my enemies. So none of the men tasted any food. And all the people of the land came to a wood, and there was honey on the ground. When the men entered the wood, behold, the honey was dripping, but no man tasted it, for the men feared the oath. But Jonathan had not heard when his father charged the people with the oath. So he dipped the end of the rod in his hand into a honeycomb and put it to his mouth, and his [weary] eyes brightened. Then one of the men told him, Your father strictly charged the men with an oath, saying, Cursed be the man who eats any food today. And the people were exhausted and faint. Then Jonathan said, My father has troubled the land. See how my eyes have brightened because I tasted a little of this honey. How much better if the men had eaten freely today of the spoil of their enemies which they found! For now the slaughter of the Philistines has not been great. They smote the Philistines that day from Michmash to Aijalon. And the people were very faint. [When night came and the oath expired] the men flew upon the spoil. They took sheep, oxen, and calves, slew them on the ground, and ate them [raw] with the blood. Then Saul was told, Behold, the men are sinning against the Lord by eating with the blood. And he said, You have transgressed; roll a great stone to me here. Saul said, Disperse yourselves among the people and tell them, Bring me every man his ox or his sheep, and butcher them here and eat; and sin not against the Lord by eating the blood. So all the men brought each one his ox that night and butchered it there. And Saul built an altar to the Lord; it was the first altar he built to the Lord. Then Saul said, Let us go down after the Philistines by night and seize and plunder them until daylight, and let us not leave a man of them. They said, Do whatever seems good to you. Then the priest said, Let us draw near here to God. And Saul asked counsel of God, Shall I go down after the Philistines? Will You deliver them into the hand of Israel? But He did not answer him that day. Then Saul said, Draw near, all the chiefs of the people, and let us see how this sin [causing God's silence] arose today. For as the Lord lives, Who delivers Israel, though it be in Jonathan my son, he shall surely die. But not a man among all the people answered him. Then he said to all Israel, You be on one side; and I and Jonathan my son will be on the other side. The people said to Saul, Do what seems good to you. Therefore Saul said to the Lord, the God of Israel, Give a perfect lot and show the right. And Saul and Jonathan were taken [by lot], but the other men went free. Saul said, Cast lots between me and Jonathan my son. And Jonathan was taken. Saul said to Jonathan, Tell me what you have done. And Jonathan said, I tasted a little honey with the end of the rod that was in my hand. And behold, I must die. Saul answered, May God do so, and more also, for you shall surely die, Jonathan. But the people said to Saul, Shall Jonathan, who has wrought this great deliverance to Israel, die? God forbid! As the Lord lives, there shall not one hair of his head perish, for he has wrought this great deliverance with God this day. So the people rescued Jonathan, and he did not die. Then Saul ceased pursuing the Philistines, and they went to their own place. When Saul took over the kingdom of Israel, he fought against all his enemies on every side: Moab, the Ammonites, Edom, the kings of Zobah, and the Philistines. Wherever he turned, he made it worse for them. He did valiantly and smote the Amalekites, and delivered Israel out of the hands of those who plundered them. Now Saul's sons were Jonathan, Ishvi, and Malchi-shua; and the names of his two daughters were, of the firstborn, Merab; and of the younger, Michal. The name of Saul's wife was Ahinoam daughter of Ahimaaz. The commander of his army was Abner son of Ner, Saul's uncle. Kish the father of Saul and Ner the father of Abner were sons of Abiel. There was severe war against the Philistines all the days of Saul, and whenever Saul saw any mighty or [outstandingly] courageous man, he attached him to himself. Samuel told Saul, The Lord sent me to anoint you king over His people Israel. Now listen and heed the words of the Lord. Thus says the Lord of hosts, I have considered and will punish what Amalek did to Israel, how he set himself against him in the way when [Israel] came out of Egypt. Now go and smite Amalek and utterly destroy all they have; do not spare them, but kill both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and donkey. So Saul assembled the men and numbered them at Telaim -- "200,000 men on foot and 10,000 men of Judah. And Saul came to the city of Amalek and laid wait in the valley. Saul warned the Kenites, Go, depart, get down from among the Amalekites, lest I destroy you with them; for you showed kindness to all the Israelites when they came up out of Egypt. So the Kenites departed from among the Amalekites. Saul smote the Amalekites from Havilah as far as Shur, which is east of Egypt. And he took Agag king of the Amalekites alive, though he utterly destroyed all the rest of the people with the sword. Saul and the people spared Agag and the best of the sheep, oxen, fatlings, lambs, and all that was good, and would not utterly destroy them; but all that was undesirable or worthless they destroyed utterly. Then the word of the Lord came to Samuel, saying, I regret making Saul king, for he has turned back from following Me and has not performed My commands. And Samuel was grieved and angry [with Saul], and he cried to the Lord all night. When Samuel rose early to meet Saul in the morning, he was told, Saul came to Carmel, and behold, he set up for himself a monument or trophy [of his victory] and passed on and went down to Gilgal. And Samuel came to Saul, and Saul said to him, Blessed are you of the Lord. I have performed what the Lord ordered. And Samuel said, What then means this bleating of the sheep in my ears, and the lowing of the oxen which I hear? Saul said, They have brought them from the Amalekites; for the people spared the best of the sheep and oxen to sacrifice to the Lord your God, but the rest we have utterly destroyed. Then Samuel said to Saul, Stop! I will tell you what the Lord said to me tonight. Saul said to him, Say on. Samuel said, When you were small in your own sight, were you not made the head of the tribes of Israel, and the Lord anointed you king over Israel? And the Lord sent you on a mission and said, Go, utterly destroy the sinners, the Amalekites; and fight against them until they are consumed. Why then did you not obey the voice of the Lord, but swooped down upon the plunder and did evil in the Lord's sight? Saul said to Samuel, Yes, I have obeyed the voice of the Lord and have gone the way which the Lord sent me, and have brought Agag king of Amalek and have utterly destroyed the Amalekites. But the people took from the spoil sheep and oxen, the chief of the things to be utterly destroyed, to sacrifice to the Lord your God in Gilgal. Samuel said, Has the Lord as great a delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices as in obeying the voice of the Lord? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams. For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as idolatry and teraphim (household good luck images). Because you have rejected the word of the Lord, He also has rejected you from being king. And Saul said to Samuel, I have sinned; for I have transgressed the commandment of the Lord and your words, because I feared the people and obeyed their voice. Now, I pray you, pardon my sin and go back with me, that I may worship the Lord. And Samuel said to Saul, I will not return with you; for you have rejected the word of the Lord, and the Lord has rejected you from being king over Israel. And as Samuel turned to go away, Saul seized the skirt of Samuel's mantle, and it tore. And Samuel said to him, The Lord has torn the kingdom of Israel from you this day and has given it to a neighbor of yours who is better than you. And also the Strength of Israel will not lie or repent; for He is not a man, that He should repent. Saul said, I have sinned; yet honor me now, I pray you, before the elders of my people and before Israel, and return with me, that I may worship the Lord your God. So Samuel turned back after Saul, and Saul worshiped the Lord. Then Samuel said, Bring here to me Agag king of the Amalekites. And Agag came to him cheerfully. And Agag said, Surely the bitterness of death is past. Samuel said, As your sword has made women childless, so shall your mother be childless among women. And Samuel hewed Agag in pieces before the Lord in Gilgal. Then Samuel went to Ramah, but Saul went up to his house in Gibeah of Saul. And Samuel came no more to see Saul until the day of his death, though Samuel grieved over Saul. And the Lord repented that He had made Saul king over Israel. The Lord said to Samuel, How long will you mourn for Saul, seeing I have rejected him from reigning over Israel? Fill your horn with oil; I will send you to Jesse the Bethlehemite. For I have provided for Myself a king among his sons. Samuel said, How can I go? If Saul hears it, he will kill me. And the Lord said, Take a heifer with you and say, I have come to sacrifice to the Lord. And invite Jesse to the sacrifice, and I will show you what you shall do; and you shall anoint for Me the one I name to you. And Samuel did what the Lord said, and came to Bethlehem. And the elders of the town trembled at his coming and said, Have you come peaceably? And he said, Peaceably; I have come to sacrifice to the Lord. Consecrate yourselves and come with me to the sacrifice. And he consecrated Jesse and his sons and called them to the sacrifice. When they had come, he looked on Eliab [the eldest son] and said, Surely the Lord's anointed is before Him. But the Lord said to Samuel, Look not on his appearance or at the height of his stature, for I have rejected him. For the Lord sees not as man sees; for man looks on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart. Then Jesse called Abinadab and made him pass before Samuel. But Samuel said, Neither has the Lord chosen this one. Then Jesse made Shammah pass by. Samuel said, Nor has the Lord chosen him. Jesse made seven of his sons pass before Samuel. And Samuel said to Jesse, The Lord has not chosen any of these. Then [he] said to Jesse, Are all your sons here? [Jesse] said, There is yet the youngest; he is tending the sheep. Samuel said to Jesse, Send for him; for we will not sit down to eat until he is here. Jesse sent and brought him. David had a healthy reddish complexion and beautiful eyes, and was fine-looking. The Lord said [to Samuel], Arise, anoint him; this is he. Then Samuel took the horn of oil and anointed David in the midst of his brothers; and the Spirit of the Lord came mightily upon David from that day forward. And Samuel arose and went to Ramah. But the Spirit of the Lord departed from Saul, and an evil spirit from the Lord tormented and troubled him. Saul's servants said to him, Behold, an evil spirit from God torments you. Let our lord now command your servants here before you to find a man who plays skillfully on the lyre; and when the evil spirit from God is upon you, he will play it, and you will be well. Saul told his servants, Find me a man who plays well and bring him to me. One of the young men said, I have seen a son of Jesse the Bethlehemite who plays skillfully, a valiant man, a man of war, prudent in speech and eloquent, an attractive person; and the Lord is with him. So Saul sent messengers to Jesse and said, Send me David your son, who is with the sheep. And Jesse took a donkey loaded with bread, a skin of wine, and a kid and sent them by David his son to Saul. And David came to Saul and served him. Saul became very fond of him, and he became his armor-bearer. Saul sent to Jesse, saying, Let David remain in my service, for he pleases me. And when the evil spirit from God was upon Saul, David took a lyre and played it; so Saul was refreshed and became well, and the evil spirit left him. Now the Philistines gathered their armies for battle and were assembled at Socoh, which belongs to Judah, and encamped between Socoh and Azekah in Ephes-dammim. Saul and the men of Israel were encamped in the Valley of Elah and drew up in battle array against the Philistines. And the Philistines stood on a mountain on one side and Israel stood on a mountain on the other side, with the valley between them. And a champion went out of the camp of the Philistines named Goliath of Gath, whose height was six cubits and a span [almost ten feet]. And he had a bronze helmet on his head and wore a coat of mail, and the coat weighed 5,000 shekels of bronze. He had bronze shin armor on his legs and a bronze javelin across his shoulders. And the shaft of his spear was like a weaver's beam; his spear's head weighed 600 shekels of iron. And a shield bearer went before him. Goliath stood and shouted to the ranks of Israel, Why have you come out to draw up for battle? Am I not a Philistine, and are you not servants of Saul? Choose a man for yourselves and let him come down to me. If he is able to fight with me and kill me, then we will be your servants; but if I prevail against him and kill him, then you shall be our servants and serve us. And the Philistine said, I defy the ranks of Israel this day; give me a man, that we may fight together. When Saul and all Israel heard those words of the Philistine, they were dismayed and greatly afraid. David was the son of an Ephrathite of Bethlehem in Judah named Jesse, who had eight sons. [Jesse] in the days of Saul was old, advanced in years. [His] three eldest sons had followed Saul into battle. Their names were Eliab the firstborn; next, Abinadab; and third, Shammah. David was the youngest. The three eldest followed Saul, But David went back and forth from Saul to feed his father's sheep at Bethlehem. The Philistine came out morning and evening, presenting himself for forty days. And Jesse said to David his son, Take for your brothers an ephah of this parched grain and these ten loaves and carry them quickly to your brothers at the camp. Also take these ten cheeses to the commander of their thousand. See how your brothers fare and bring some token from them. Now Saul and the brothers and all the men of Israel were in the Valley of Elah, fighting with the Philistines. So David rose up early next morning, left the sheep with a keeper, took the provisions, and went, as Jesse had commanded him. And he came to the encampment as the host going forth to the battleground shouted the battle cry. And Israel and the Philistines put the battle in array, army against army. David left his packages in the care of the baggage keeper and ran into the ranks and came and greeted his brothers. As they talked, behold, Goliath, the champion, the Philistine of Gath, came forth from the Philistine ranks and spoke the same words as before, and David heard him. And all the men of Israel, when they saw the man, fled from him, terrified. And the Israelites said, Have you seen this man who has come out? Surely he has come out to defy Israel; and the man who kills him the king will enrich with great riches, and will give him his daughter and make his father's house free [from taxes and service] in Israel. And David said to the men standing by him, What shall be done for the man who kills this Philistine and takes away the reproach from Israel? For who is this uncircumcised Philistine that he should defy the armies of the living God? And the [men] told him, Thus shall it be done for the man who kills him. Now Eliab his eldest brother heard what he said to the men; and Eliab's anger was kindled against David and he said, Why did you come here? With whom have you left those few sheep in the wilderness? I know your presumption and evilness of heart; for you came down that you might see the battle. And David said, What have I done now? Was it not a harmless question? And David turned away from Eliab to another and he asked the same question, and again the men gave him the same answer. When David's words were heard, they were repeated to Saul, and he sent for him. David said to Saul, Let no man's heart fail because of this Philistine; your servant will go out and fight with him. And Saul said to David, You are not able to go to fight against this Philistine. You are only an adolescent, and he has been a warrior from his youth. And David said to Saul, Your servant kept his father's sheep. And when there came a lion or again a bear and took a lamb out of the flock, I went out after it and smote it and delivered the lamb out of its mouth; and when it arose against me, I caught it by its beard and smote it and killed it. Your servant killed both the lion and the bear; and this uncircumcised Philistine shall be like one of them, for he has defied the armies of the living God! David said, The Lord Who delivered me out of the paw of the lion and out of the paw of the bear, He will deliver me out of the hand of this Philistine. And Saul said to David, Go, and the Lord be with you! Then Saul clothed David with his armor; he put a bronze helmet on his head and clothed him with a coat of mail. And David girded his sword over his armor. Then he tried to go, but could not, for he was not used to it. And David said to Saul, I cannot go with these, for I am not used to them. And David took them off. Then he took his staff in his hand and chose five smooth stones out of the brook and put them in his shepherd's [lunch] bag [a whole kid's skin slung from his shoulder], in his pouch, and his sling was in his hand, and he drew near the Philistine. The Philistine came on and drew near to David, the man who bore the shield going before him. And when the Philistine looked around and saw David, he scorned and despised him, for he was but an adolescent, with a healthy reddish color and a fair face. And the Philistine said to David, Am I a dog, that you should come to me with sticks? And the Philistine cursed David by his gods. The Philistine said to David, Come to me, and I will give your flesh to the birds of the air and the beasts of the field. Then said David to the Philistine, You come to me with a sword, a spear, and a javelin, but I come to you in the name of the Lord of hosts, the God of the ranks of Israel, Whom you have defied. This day the Lord will deliver you into my hand, and I will smite you and cut off your head. And I will give the corpses of the army of the Philistines this day to the birds of the air and the wild beasts of the earth, that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel. And all this assembly shall know that the Lord saves not with sword and spear; for the battle is the Lord's, and He will give you into our hands. When the Philistine came forward to meet David, David ran quickly toward the battle line to meet the Philistine. David put his hand into his bag and took out a stone and slung it, and it struck the Philistine, sinking into his forehead, and he fell on his face to the earth. So David prevailed over the Philistine with a sling and with a stone, and struck down the Philistine and slew him. But no sword was in David's hand. So he ran and stood over the Philistine, took his sword and drew it out of its sheath, and killed him, and cut off his head with it. When the Philistines saw that their mighty champion was dead, they fled. And the men of Israel and Judah rose with a shout and pursued the Philistines as far as Gath and the gates of Ekron. So the wounded Philistines fell along the way from Shaaraim as far as Gath and Ekron. The Israelites returned from their pursuit of the Philistines and plundered their tents. David took the head of the Philistine and brought it to Jerusalem, but he put his armor in his tent. When Saul saw David go out against the Philistine, he said to Abner, the captain of the host, Abner, whose son is this youth? And Abner said, As your soul lives, O king, I cannot tell. And the king said, Inquire whose son the stripling is. When David returned from killing Goliath the Philistine, Abner brought him before Saul with the head of the Philistine in his hand. And Saul said to him, Whose son are you, young man? And David answered, I am the son of your servant Jesse of Bethlehem. When David had finished speaking to Saul, the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own life. Saul took David that day and would not let him return to his father's house. Then Jonathan made a covenant with David, because he loved him as his own life. And Jonathan stripped himself of the robe that was on him and gave it to David, and his armor, even his sword, his bow, and his girdle. And David went out wherever Saul sent him, and he prospered and behaved himself wisely; and Saul set him over the men of war. And it was satisfactory both to the people and to Saul's servants. As they were coming home, when David returned from killing the Philistine, the women came out of all the Israelite towns, singing and dancing, to meet King Saul with timbrels, songs of joy, and instruments of music. And the women responded as they laughed and frolicked, saying, Saul has slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands. And Saul was very angry, for the saying displeased him; and he said, They have ascribed to David ten thousands, but to me they have ascribed only thousands. What more can he have but the kingdom? And Saul [jealously] eyed David from that day forward. The next day an evil spirit from God came mightily upon Saul, and he raved [madly] in his house, while David played [the lyre] with his hand, as at other times; and there was a javelin in Saul's hand. And Saul cast the javelin, for he thought, I will pin David to the wall. And David evaded him twice. Saul was afraid of David, because the Lord was with him but had departed from Saul. So Saul removed David from him and made him his commander over a thousand; and he went out and came in before the people. David acted wisely in all his ways and succeeded, and the Lord was with him. When Saul saw how capable and successful David was, he stood in awe of him. But all Israel and Judah loved David, for he went out and came in before them. Saul said to David, My elder daughter Merab I will give you as wife; only serve me courageously and fight the Lord's battles. For Saul thought, Let not my hand, but the Philistines' hand, be upon him. David said to Saul, Who am I, and what is my life or my father's family in Israel, that I should be the king's son-in-law? But at the time when Merab, Saul's daughter, should have been given to David, she was given to Adriel the Meholathite as wife. Now Michal, Saul's daughter, loved David; and they told Saul, and it pleased him. Saul thought, I will give her to him that she may be a snare to him and that the hand of the Philistines may be against him. So Saul said to David a second time, You shall now be my son-in-law. And Saul commanded his servants to speak to David privately and say, The king delights in you, and all his servants love you; now then, become [his] son-in-law. Saul's servants told those words to David. David said, Does it seem to you a light thing to be a king's son-in-law, seeing I am a poor man and lightly esteemed? And the servants of Saul told him what David said. Saul said, Say this to David, The king wants no dowry but a hundred foreskins of the Philistines, to avenge himself of the king's enemies. But Saul thought to make David fall by the Philistines' hands. When his servants told David these words, it pleased [him] well to become the king's son-in-law. Before the days expired, David went, he and his men, and slew two hundred Philistine men, and brought their foreskins and gave them in full number to the king, that he might become the king's son-in-law. And Saul gave him Michal his daughter as wife. When Saul saw and knew that the Lord was with David and that Michal [his] daughter loved him, Saul was still more afraid of David; and Saul became David's constant enemy. Then the Philistine princes came out to battle, and when they did so, David had more success and behaved himself more wisely than all Saul's servants, so that his name was very dear and highly esteemed. Now Saul told Jonathan his son and all his servants that they must kill David. But Jonathan, Saul's son, delighted much in David, and he told David, Saul my father is seeking to kill you. Now therefore, take heed to yourself in the morning, and stay in a secret place and hide yourself. And I will go out and stand beside my father in the field where you are; and I will converse with my father about you and if I learn anything, I will tell you. And Jonathan spoke well of David to Saul his father and said to him, Let not the king sin against his servant David, for he has not sinned against you, and his deeds have been of good service to you. For he took his life in his hands and slew the Philistine, and the Lord wrought a great deliverance for all Israel; you saw it and rejoiced. Why then will you sin against innocent blood and kill David without a cause? Saul heeded Jonathan and swore, As the Lord lives, David shall not be slain. So Jonathan called David and told him all these things. And Jonathan brought David to Saul, and he was in his presence as in times past. Then there was war again, and David went out and fought with the Philistines, and made a great slaughter among them and they fled before him. Then an evil spirit from the Lord came upon Saul as he sat in his house with his spear in his hand; and David was playing [the lyre] with his hand. Saul sought to pin David to the wall with the spear, but he slipped away, so that Saul struck the spear into the wall. Then David fled and escaped that night. Saul sent messengers that night to David's house to watch him, that he might kill him in the morning. But Michal, David's wife, told him, If you do not save your life tonight, tomorrow you will be killed. So Michal let David down through the window, and he fled and escaped. And Michal took the teraph (household good luck image) and laid it in the bed, put a pillow of goats' hair at its head, and covered it with a bedspread. And when Saul sent messengers to take David, she said, He is sick. Then Saul sent the messengers again to see David, saying, Bring him up to me in the bed, that I may slay him. And when the messengers came in, behold, there was an image in the bed, with a pillow of goats' hair at its head. Saul said to Michal, Why have you deceived me so and sent away my enemy so that he has escaped? Michal answered Saul, He said to me, Let me go. Why should I kill you? So David fled and escaped and came to Samuel at Ramah and told him all that Saul had done to him. And he and Samuel went and dwelt in Naioth. And it was told Saul, Behold, David is at Naioth in Ramah. And Saul sent messengers to take David; and when they saw the company of the prophets prophesying, and Samuel standing as appointed head over them, the Spirit of God came upon the messengers of Saul and they also prophesied. When it was told Saul, he sent other messengers, and they also prophesied. And Saul sent messengers again the third time, and they also prophesied. Then Saul himself went to Ramah and came to a great well that is in Secu; and he asked, Where are Samuel and David? And he was told, They are at Naioth in Ramah. So he went on to Naioth in Ramah; and the Spirit of God came upon him also, and as he went on he prophesied until he came to Naioth in Ramah. He took off his royal robes and prophesied before Samuel and lay down stripped thus all that day and night. So they say, Is Saul also among the prophets? David fled from Naioth in Ramah and came and said to Jonathan, What have I done? Of what am I guilty? What is my sin before your father, that he seeks my life? Jonathan said, God forbid! You shall not die. My father does nothing great or small but what he tells me. And why should [he] hide this thing from me? It is not so. But David replied, Your father certainly knows that I have found favor in your eyes, and he thinks, Let not Jonathan know this, lest he be grieved. But truly as the Lord lives and as your soul lives, there is but a step between me and death. Then Jonathan said to David, Whatever you desire, I will do for you. David said to Jonathan, Tomorrow is the New Moon [festival], and I should not fail to sit at the table with the king; but let me go, that I may hide myself in the field till the third day at evening. If your father misses me at all, then say, David earnestly asked leave of me that he might run to Bethlehem, his city, for there is a yearly sacrifice there for all the family. If he says, All right, then it will be well with your servant; but if he is angry, then be sure that evil is determined by him. Therefore deal kindly with your servant, for you have brought [me] into a covenant of the Lord with you. But if there is guilt in me, kill me yourself; for why should you bring me to your father? And Jonathan said, Far be it from you! If I knew that evil was determined for you by my father, would I not tell you? Then said David to Jonathan, Who will tell me if your father answers you roughly? Jonathan said, Come, let us go into the field. So they went into the field. Jonathan said to David, The Lord, the God of Israel, be witness. When I have sounded out my father about this time tomorrow, or the third day, behold, if he is well inclined toward David, and I do not send and let you know it, The Lord do so, and much more, to Jonathan. But if it please my father to do you harm, then I will disclose it to you and send you away, that you may go in safety. And may the Lord be with you as He has been with my father. While I am still alive you shall not only show me the loving-kindness of the Lord, so that I die not, But also you shall not cut off your kindness from my house forever -- "no, not even when the Lord has cut off every enemy of David from the face of the earth. So Jonathan made a covenant with the house of David, saying, And the Lord will require that this covenant be kept at the hands of David's enemies. And Jonathan caused David to swear again by his love for him, for Jonathan loved him as he loved his own life. Then Jonathan said to David, Tomorrow is the New Moon festival; and you will be missed, for your seat will be empty. On the third day you will go quickly and come to the place where you hid yourself when the matter was in hand, and remain by the stone Ezel. And I will shoot three arrows on the side of it, as though I shot at a mark. And I will send a lad, saying, Go, find the arrows. If I expressly say to the lad, Look, the arrows are on this side of you, take them -- "then you are to come, for it is safe for you and there is no danger, as the Lord lives. But if I say to the youth, Look, the arrows are beyond you -- "then go, for the Lord has sent you away. And as touching the matter of which you and I have spoken, behold, the Lord is between you and me forever. So David hid himself in the field, and when the New Moon [festival] came, the king sat down to eat food. The king sat, as at other times, on his seat by the wall, and Jonathan sat opposite, and Abner sat by Saul's side, but David's place was empty. Yet Saul said nothing that day, for he thought, Something has befallen him and he is not clean -- "surely he is not clean. But on the morrow, the second day after the new moon, David's place was empty; and Saul said to Jonathan his son, Why has not the son of Jesse come to the meal, either yesterday or today? And Jonathan answered, David earnestly asked leave of me to go to Bethlehem. He said, Let me go, I pray, for our family holds a sacrifice in the city and my brother commanded me to be there. Now, if I have found favor in your eyes, let me get away and see my brothers. That is why he has not come to the king's table. Then Saul's anger was kindled against Jonathan and he said to him, You son of a perverse, rebellious woman, do not I know that you have chosen the son of Jesse to your own shame and to the shame of your mother who bore you? For as long as the son of Jesse lives upon the earth, you shall not be established nor shall your kingdom. So now send and bring him to me, for he shall surely die. Jonathan answered Saul his father, Why should he be killed? What has he done? But Saul cast his spear at him to smite him, by which Jonathan knew that his father had determined to kill David. So Jonathan arose from the table in fierce anger, and ate no food that second day of the month, for he grieved for David because his father had disgraced him. In the morning Jonathan went out into the field at the time appointed with David, and a little lad was with him. And he said to his lad, Run, find the arrows which I shoot. And as the lad ran, he shot an arrow beyond him. When the lad came to the place where Jonathan had shot the arrow, Jonathan called to [him], Is not the arrow beyond you? And Jonathan cried after the lad, Make speed, haste, stay not! The lad gathered up the arrow and came to his master. But the lad knew nothing; only Jonathan and David knew the matter. Jonathan gave his weapons to his lad and told him, Go, carry them to the city. And as soon as the lad was gone, David arose from beside the heap of stones and fell on his face to the ground and bowed himself three times. And they kissed one another and wept with one another until David got control of himself. And Jonathan told David, Go in peace, forasmuch as we have sworn to each other in the name of the Lord, saying, The Lord shall be between me and you, and between my descendants and yours forever. And Jonathan arose and departed into the city. Then David went to Nob, to Ahimelech the priest; and Ahimelech was afraid at meeting David, and said to him, Why are you alone and no man with you? David said to Ahimelech the priest, The king has charged me with a matter and has told me, Let no man know anything of the mission on which I send you and with what I have charged you. I have appointed the young men to a certain place. Now what do you have on hand? Give me five loaves of bread, or whatever you may have. And the priest answered David, There is no common bread on hand, but there is hallowed bread -- "if the young men have kept themselves at least from women. And David told the priest, Truly women have been kept from us in these three days since I came out, and the food bags and utensils of the young men are clean, and although the bread will be used in a secular way, it will be set apart in the clean bags. So the priest gave him holy bread, for there was no bread there but the showbread which was taken from before the Lord to put hot bread in its place the day when it was taken away. Now a certain man of Saul's servants was there that day, detained before the Lord; his name was Doeg the Edomite, the chief of Saul's herdsmen. David said to Ahimelech, Do you have at hand a sword or spear? The king's business required haste, and I brought neither my sword nor my weapons with me. The priest said, The sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom you slew in the Valley of Elah, see, it is here wrapped in a cloth behind the ephod; if you will take that, do so, for there is no other here. And David said, There is none like that; give it to me. David arose and fled that day from Saul and went to Achish king of Gath. The servants of Achish said to him, Is not this David, the king of the land? Did they not sing one to another of him in their dances: Saul has slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands? David took these words to heart and was much afraid of Achish king of Gath. And he changed his behavior before them, and pretended to be insane in their [Philistine] hands, and scribbled on the gate doors, and drooled on his beard. Then said Achish to his servants, You see the man is mad. Why then have you brought him to me? Have I need of madmen, that you bring this fellow to play the madman in my presence? Shall this fellow come into my house? So David departed and escaped to the cave of Adullam: and when his brothers and all his father's house heard it, they went down there to him. And everyone in distress or in debt or discontented gathered to him, and he became a commander over them. And there were with him about 400 men. And David went from there to Mizpah of Moab; and he said to the king of Moab, Let my father [of Moabite descent] and my mother, I pray you, come out [of Judah] and be with you till I know what God will do for me. And he brought them before the king of Moab, and they dwelt with him all the while that David was in the stronghold [in Moab]. Then the prophet Gad said to David, Do not remain in the stronghold; leave, and get into the land of Judah. So David left and went into the forest of Hareth. Saul heard that David was discovered, and the men that were with him. Saul was sitting in Gibeah under the tamarisk tree on the height, his spear in his hand and all his servants standing about him. Saul said to his servants who stood about him, Hear now, you Benjamites! Will the son of Jesse give every one of you fields and vineyards and make you all commanders of thousands and hundreds, That all of you have conspired against me? No one discloses to me when my son makes a league with the son of Jesse. None of you is sorry for me or discloses that my son has stirred up my servant against me to lie in wait, as he does this day? Then Doeg the Edomite, who stood with Saul's servants, said, I saw the son of Jesse come to Nob, to Ahimelech son of Ahitub. And [Ahimelech] inquired of the Lord for him, and gave him provisions and the sword of Goliath the Philistine. Then the king sent to call Ahimelech the priest, the son of Ahitub, and all his father's house, the priests who were at Nob, and they all came to the king. Saul said, Hear now, you son of Ahitub. He replied, Here I am, my lord. Saul said to him, Why have you conspired against me, you and the son of Jesse, giving him bread and a sword and inquiring of God for him, so he could rise against me to lie in wait, as he does this day? Then Ahimelech answered the king, And who is so faithful among all your servants as David, who is the king's son-in-law, and is taken into your council and honored in your house? Have I only today begun inquiring of God for him? No! Let not the king impute any wrong to his servant or to all the house of my father, for your servant has known nothing of all this, little or much. [Saul] said, You shall surely die, Ahimelech, you and all your father's house. And the king said to the guard that stood about him, Turn and slay the Lord's priests, because their hand also is with David and because they knew that he fled and did not disclose it to me. But the servants of the king would not put forth their hands against the Lord's priests. The king said to Doeg, You turn and fall upon the priests. And Doeg the Edomite turned and attacked the priests and slew that day eighty-five persons who wore the priest's linen ephod. And Nob, the city of the priests, he smote with the sword; both men and women, children and sucklings, oxen and donkeys and sheep, he put to the sword. And one of the sons of Ahimelech son of Ahitub named Abiathar escaped and fled after David. And Abiathar told David that Saul had slain the Lord's priests. David said to Abiathar, I knew that day, when Doeg the Edomite was there, that he would surely tell Saul. I have occasioned the death of all your father's house. Stay with me, fear not; for he who seeks my life seeks your life. But with me you shall be safeguarded. Then they told David, Behold, the Philistines are fighting against Keilah and are robbing the threshing floors. So David inquired of the Lord, Shall I go and attack these Philistines? And the Lord said to David, Go, smite the Philistines and save Keilah. David's men said to him, Behold, we are afraid here in Judah. How much more, then, if we come to Keilah against the armies of the Philistines? Then David inquired of the Lord again. And the Lord answered him, Arise, go down to Keilah, for I will deliver the Philistines into your hand. So David and his men went to Keilah and fought the Philistines with a great slaughter and brought away their cattle. So David delivered the people of Keilah. When Abiathar son of Ahimelech fled to David at Keilah, he came with an ephod in his hand. Now it was told Saul that David had come to Keilah. Saul said, God has delivered him into my hand, for he is shut in by going into a town that has gates and bars. Saul summoned all the men for war, to go to Keilah to besiege David and his men. David knew that Saul was plotting evil against him; and he said to Abiathar the priest, Bring the ephod here. Then David said, O Lord, the God of Israel, Your servant has surely heard that Saul intends to come and destroy the city of Keilah on my account. Will the men of Keilah deliver me into his hand? Will Saul come down, as Your servant has heard? O Lord, God of Israel, I beseech You, tell Your servant. And the Lord said, He will come down. Then David asked, Will the men of Keilah deliver me and my men into Saul's hand? The Lord said, They will deliver you up. Then David and his men, about 600, arose and left Keilah, going wherever they could go. When Saul was told that David had escaped from Keilah, he gave up going there. David remained in the wilderness strongholds in the hill country of the Wilderness of Ziph. Saul sought him every day, but God did not give him into his hands. David saw that Saul had come out to seek his life. David was in the Wilderness of Ziph in the wood [at Horesh]. And Jonathan, Saul's son, rose and went into the wood to David [at Horesh] and strengthened his hand in God. He said to him, Fear not; the hand of Saul my father shall not find you. You shall be king over Israel, and I shall be next to you. Saul my father knows that too. And the two of them made a covenant before the Lord. And David remained in the wood [at Horesh], and Jonathan went to his house. Then the Ziphites came to Saul at Gibeah, saying, Does not David hide himself with us in strongholds in the wood [at Horesh], on the hill of Hachilah, which is south of Jeshimon? Now come down, O king, according to all your heart's desire to come down, and our part shall be to deliver him into the king's hands. And Saul said, The Lord bless you, for you have compassion on me. Go, make yet more sure; and know and see where his haunt is and who has seen him there; for I am told he deals very craftily. See and take note of all his hiding places and come back to me with the certain facts, and I will go with you. If he is in the land, I will search him out among all the thousands of Judah. So they arose and went to Ziph ahead of Saul. Now David and his men were in the Wilderness of Maon, in the Arabah south of Jeshimon. Saul and his men went to seek him. And David was told; so he went down to the rock in the Wilderness of Maon and stayed. When Saul heard that, he pursued David in the Wilderness of Maon. And Saul went on one side of the mountain, and David and his men on the other side of the mountain. And David made haste to get away for fear of Saul, for Saul and his men were surrounding [him] and his men to capture them. But a messenger came to Saul, saying, Make haste and come, for the Philistines have made a raid on the land. So Saul returned from pursuing David and went against the Philistines. So they called that place the Rock of Escape. David went up from there and dwelt in the strongholds of En-gedi. When Saul returned from following the Philistines, he was told, Behold, David is in the Wilderness of En-gedi. Then Saul took 3,000 chosen men out of all Israel and went to seek David and his men among the Rocks of the Wild Goats. He came to the sheepfolds on the way, where there was a cave, and Saul went in to relieve himself. Now David and his men were sitting in the cave's innermost recesses. David's men said to him, Behold the day of which the Lord said to you, Behold, I will deliver your enemy into your hands and you shall do to him as seems good to you. Then David arose [in the darkness] and stealthily cut off the skirt of Saul's robe. Afterward, David's heart smote him because he had cut off Saul's skirt. He said to his men, The Lord forbid that I should do this to my master, the Lord's anointed, to put my hand out against him, when he is the anointed of the Lord. So David checked his men with these words and did not let them rise against Saul. But Saul rose up and left the cave and went on his way. David also arose afterward and went out of the cave and called after Saul, saying, My lord the king! And when Saul looked behind him, David bowed with his face to the earth and did obeisance. And David said to Saul, Why do you listen to the words of men who say, David seeks to do you harm? Behold, your eyes have seen how the Lord gave you today into my hands in the cave. Some told me to kill you, but I spared you; I said, I will not put forth my hand against my lord, for he is the Lord's anointed. See, my father, see the skirt of your robe in my hand! Since I cut off the skirt of your robe and did not kill you, you know and see that there is no evil or treason in my hands. I have not sinned against you, yet you hunt my life to take it. May the Lord judge between me and you, and may the Lord avenge me upon you, but my hand shall not be upon you. As the proverb of the ancients says, Out of the wicked comes forth wickedness; but my hand shall not be against you. After whom has the king of Israel come out? After whom do you pursue? After a dead dog? After a flea? May the Lord be judge and judge between me and you, and see and plead my cause, and deliver me out of your hands. When David had said this to Saul, Saul said, Is this your voice, my son David? And Saul lifted up his voice and wept. He said to David, You are more upright in God's eyes than I, for you have repaid me good, but I have rewarded you evil. You have declared today how you have dealt well with me; for when the Lord gave me into your hand, you did not kill me. For if a man finds his enemy, will he let him go away unharmed? Therefore may the Lord reward you with good for what you have done for me this day. And now, behold, I well know that you shall surely be king and that the kingdom of Israel shall be established in your hands. Swear now therefore to me by the Lord that you will not cut off my descendants after me and that you will not destroy my name out of my father's house. David gave Saul his oath; and Saul went home, but David and his men went up to the stronghold. Now Samuel died, and all the Israelites assembled and mourned for him, and buried him at his house in Ramah. David arose and went to the Wilderness of Paran. A very rich man was in Maon, whose possessions and business were in Carmel. He had 3,000 sheep and 1,000 goats, and he was shearing his sheep in Carmel. The man's name was Nabal and his wife's name was Abigail; she was a woman of good understanding, and beautiful. But the man was rough and evil in his doings; he was a Calebite. David heard in the wilderness that Nabal was shearing his sheep. And David sent out ten young men and said to [them], Go up to Carmel to Nabal and greet him in my name; And salute him thus: Peace be to you and to your house and to all that you have. I have heard that you have shearers. Now your shepherds have been with us and we did them no harm, and they missed nothing all the time they were in Carmel. Ask your young men and they will tell you. Therefore let my young men find favor in your sight, for we come at an opportune time. I pray you, give whatever you have at hand to your servants and to your son David. And when David's young men came, they said all this to Nabal in the name of David, and then paused. And Nabal answered David's servants and said, Who is David? Who is the son of Jesse? There are many servants nowadays who are each breaking away from his master. Shall I then take my bread and my water, and my meat that I have killed for my shearers, and give it to men when I do not know where they belong? So David's young men turned away, and came and told him all that was said. And David said to his men, Every man gird on his sword. And they did so, and David also girded on his sword; and there went up after David about 400 men, and 200 remained with the baggage. But one of Nabal's young men told Abigail, Nabal's wife, Behold, David sent messengers out of the wilderness to salute our master, and he railed at them. But David's men were very good to us, and we were not harmed, nor did we miss anything as long as we went with them, when we were in the fields. They were a wall to us night and day, all the time we were with them keeping the sheep. So know this and consider what you will do, for evil is determined against our master and all his house. For he is such a wicked man that one cannot speak to him. Then Abigail made haste and took 200 loaves, two skins of wine, five sheep already dressed, five measures of parched grain, 100 clusters of raisins, and 200 cakes of figs, and laid them on donkeys. And she said to her servants, Go on before me; behold, I come after you. But she did not tell her husband Nabal. As she rode on her donkey, she came down hidden by the mountain, and behold, David and his men came down opposite her, and she met them. Now David had said, Surely in vain have I protected all that this fellow has in the wilderness, so that nothing was missed of all that belonged to him; and he has repaid me evil for good. May God do so, and more also, to David if I leave of all who belong to him one male alive by morning. When Abigail saw David, she hastened and lighted off the donkey, and fell before David on her face and did obeisance. Kneeling at his feet she said, Upon me alone let this guilt be, my lord. And let your handmaid, I pray you, speak in your presence, and hear the words of your handmaid. Let not my lord, I pray you, regard this foolish and wicked fellow Nabal, for as his name is, so is he -- "Nabal [foolish, wicked] is his name, and folly is with him. But I, your handmaid, did not see my lord's young men whom you sent. So now, my lord, as the Lord lives and as your soul lives, seeing that the Lord has prevented you from bloodguiltiness and from avenging yourself with your own hand, now let your enemies and those who seek to do evil to my lord be as Nabal. And now this gift, which your handmaid has brought my lord, let it be given to the young men who follow my lord. Forgive, I pray you, the trespass of your handmaid, for the Lord will certainly make my lord a sure house, because my lord is fighting the Lord's battles, and evil has not been found in you all your days. Though man is risen up to pursue you and to seek your life, yet the life of my lord shall be bound in the living bundle with the Lord your God. And the lives of your enemies -- "them shall He sling out as out of the center of a sling. And when the Lord has done to my lord according to all the good that He has promised concerning you and has made you ruler over Israel, This shall be no staggering grief to you or cause for pangs of conscience to my lord, either that you have shed blood without cause or that my lord has avenged himself. And when the Lord has dealt well with my lord, then [ earnestly] remember your handmaid. And David said to Abigail, Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, Who sent you this day to meet me. And blessed be your discretion and advice, and blessed be you who have kept me today from bloodguiltiness and from avenging myself with my own hand. For as the Lord, the God of Israel, lives, Who has prevented me from hurting you, if you had not hurried and come to meet me, surely by morning there would not have been left so much as one male to Nabal. So David accepted what she had brought him and said to her, Go up in peace to your house. See, I have hearkened to your voice and have granted your petition. And Abigail came to Nabal, and behold, he was holding a feast in his house like the feast of a king. And [his] heart was merry, for he was very drunk; so she told him nothing at all until the morning light. But in the morning, when the wine was gone out of Nabal, and his wife told him these things, his heart died within him and he became [paralyzed, helpless as] a stone. And about ten days after that, the Lord smote Nabal and he died. When David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, Blessed be the Lord, Who has pleaded the cause of my reproach at the hand of Nabal, and kept His servant from evil. For the Lord has returned the wickedness of Nabal upon his own head. And David sent and communed with Abigail, to take her to him as his wife. And when the servants of David had come to Abigail at Carmel, they said to her, David sent us to you to take you to him to be his wife. And she arose and bowed herself to the earth and said, Behold, let your handmaid be a servant to wash the feet of the servants of my lord. And Abigail hastened and arose and rode on a donkey, with five of her maids who followed her, and she went after the messengers of David and became his wife. David also took Ahinoam of Jezreel, and they both became his wives. Saul had given Michal his daughter, David's wife, to Phalti son of Laish, who was of Gallim. The Ziphites came to Saul at Gibeah, saying, Does not David hide himself on the hill of Hachilah, east of Jeshimon? So Saul arose and went down to the Wilderness of Ziph, with 3,000 chosen men of Israel, to seek David [there]. Saul encamped on the hill of Hachilah, which is beside the road east of Jeshimon. But David remained in the wilderness. And when he saw that Saul came after him into the wilderness, David sent out spies and learned that Saul had actually come. David arose and came to the place where Saul had encamped, and saw where Saul lay with Abner son of Ner, commander of his army; and Saul was lying in the encampment, with the army encamped around him. Then David said to Ahimelech the Hittite and to Abishai son of Zeruiah, brother of Joab, Who will go down with me into the camp of Saul? And Abishai said, I will go down with you. So David and Abishai went to the army by night, and there Saul lay sleeping within the encampment with his spear stuck in the ground at his head; and Abner and the army lay round about him. Then said Abishai to David, God has given your enemy into your hands this day. Now therefore let me smite him to the earth at once with one stroke of the spear, and I will not strike him twice. David said to Abishai, Do not destroy him; for who can raise his hand against the Lord's anointed and be guiltless? David said, As the Lord lives, [He] will smite him; or his day will come to die or he will go down in battle and perish. The Lord forbid that I should raise my hand against the Lord's anointed; but take now the spear that is at his head and the bottle of water, and let us go. So David took the spear and the bottle of water from Saul's head, and they got away. And no man saw or knew or wakened, for they were all asleep, because a deep sleep from the Lord had fallen upon them. Then David went over to the other side and stood on the top of the mountain afar off, a great space being between them. David called to the army and Abner son of Ner, Will you answer, Abner? Abner replied, Who are you, calling [and disturbing] the king? David said to Abner, Are you not a valiant man? Who is like you in Israel? Why then have you not guarded your lord the king? For one of the people came in [to your camp] to destroy the king your lord. This thing is not good that you have done. As the Lord lives, you deserve to die, because you have not guarded your master, the Lord's anointed. And now see where the king's spear is and the bottle of water that was at his head. And Saul knew David's voice and said, Is this your voice, my son David? And David said, My voice, my lord O king! And David said, Why does my lord thus pursue his servant? What have I done? Or what evil is in my hand [tonight]? Now therefore, I pray you, let my lord the king hear the words of his servant. If the Lord has stirred you up against me, let Him accept an offering; but if it is men, may they be cursed before the Lord, for they have driven me out this day that I should have no share in the inheritance of the Lord, saying, Go, serve other gods. Now therefore, let not my blood fall to the earth away from the presence of the Lord; for the king of Israel is come out to seek one flea, as when one hunts a partridge in the mountains. Then said Saul, I have sinned. Return, my son David, for I will no more do you harm, because my life was precious in your eyes this day. Behold, I have played the fool and have erred exceedingly. David answered, See the king's spear! Let one of the young men come and get it. The Lord rewards every man for his righteousness and his faithfulness; for the Lord delivered you into my hands today, but I would not stretch forth my hand against the Lord's anointed. And behold, as your life was precious today in my sight, so let my life be precious in the sight of the Lord, and let Him deliver me out of all tribulation. Then Saul said to David, May you be blessed, my son David; you will both do mightily and surely prevail. So David went on his way, and Saul returned to his place. But David said in his heart, I shall now perish one day by the hand of Saul. There is nothing better for me than that I should escape into the land of the Philistines. Then Saul will despair of seeking me any more within the borders of Israel, and I shall escape out of his hand. So David arose and went over with the 600 men who were with him to Achish son of Maoch, king of Gath. And David dwelt with Achish at Gath, he and his men, every man with his household, and David with his two wives, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess and Abigail the Carmelitess, Nabal's widow. When it was told Saul that David had fled to Gath, he sought for him no more. And David said to Achish, If I have now found favor in your eyes, let me be given a place to dwell in some country town; for why should your servant live in the royal city with you? Then Achish gave David the town of Ziklag that day. Therefore Ziklag belongs to the kings of Judah to this day. The time David dwelt in the Philistines' country was a year and four months. Now David and his men went up and made attacks on the Geshurites, Girzites, and Amalekites [enemies of Israel Joshua had failed to exterminate]. For from of old those nations inhabited the land, as one goes to Shur even to the land of Egypt. And David smote the land and left neither man nor woman alive, and took away the sheep, oxen, donkeys, camels, and the apparel, and returned to Achish. Achish would ask, Against whom have you made a raid today? And David would reply, Against the South (Negeb) of Judah, or of the Jerahmeelites, or of the Kenites. And David saved neither man nor woman alive to bring tidings to Gath, thinking, Lest they should say about us, So did David, and so will he do as long as he dwells in the Philistines' country. And Achish believed David, saying, He has made his people Israel utterly abhor him; so he shall be my servant always. In those days the Philistines gathered their forces for war against Israel. Achish said to David, Understand that you and your men shall go with me to battle. David said to Achish, All right, you shall know what your servant can do. Achish said to David, Therefore I will make you my bodyguard always. Now Samuel was dead, and all Israel had mourned for him and buried him in Ramah, his own city. And Saul had put the mediums and the wizards out of the land. And the Philistines assembled and came and encamped at Shunem; and Saul gathered all Israel and they encamped at Gilboa. When Saul saw the Philistine host, he was afraid; his heart trembled greatly. When Saul inquired of the Lord, He refused to answer him, either by dreams or by Urim [a symbol worn by the priest when seeking the will of God for Israel] or by the prophets. Then Saul said to his servants, Find me a woman who is a medium [between the living and the dead], that I may go and inquire of her. His servants said, Behold, there is a woman who is a medium at Endor. So Saul disguised himself, put on other raiment, and he and two men with him went and came to the woman at night. He said to her, Perceive for me by the familiar spirit and bring up for me the dead person whom I shall name to you. The woman said, See here, you know what Saul has done, how he has cut off those who are mediums and wizards out of the land. Why then do you lay a trap for my life to cause my death? And Saul swore to her by the Lord, saying, As the Lord lives, there shall no punishment come to you for this. The woman said, Whom shall I bring up for you? He said, Bring up Samuel for me. And when the woman saw Samuel, she screamed and she said to Saul, Why have you deceived me? For you are Saul! The king said to her, Be not afraid; what do you see? The woman said to Saul, I see a god [terrifying superhuman being] coming up out of the earth! He said to her, In what form is he? And she said, An old man comes up, covered with a mantle. And Saul perceived that it was Samuel, and he stooped with his face to the ground and made obeisance. And Samuel said to Saul, Why have you disturbed me to bring me up? Saul answered, I am bitterly distressed; for the Philistines make war against me, and God has departed from me and answers me no more, either by prophets or by dreams. Therefore I have called you, that you may make known to me what I should do. Samuel said, Why then do you ask me, seeing that the Lord has turned from you and has become your enemy? The Lord has done to you as He said through me He would do; for [He] has torn the kingdom out of your hands and given it to your neighbor David. Because you did not obey the voice of the Lord or execute His fierce wrath upon Amalek, therefore the Lord has done this thing to you this day. Moreover, the Lord will also give Israel with you into the hands of the Philistines, and tomorrow you and your sons shall be with me [among the dead]. The Lord also will give the army of Israel into the hands of the Philistines. Then immediately Saul fell full length upon the earth floor [of the medium's house], and was exceedingly afraid because of Samuel's words. There was no strength in him, for he had eaten nothing all day and all night. The woman came to Saul, and seeing that he was greatly troubled, she said to him, Behold, your handmaid has obeyed you, and I have put my life in my hands and have listened to what you said to me. So now, I pray you, listen also to the voice of your handmaid and let me set a morsel of food before you, and eat, so you may have strength when you go on your way. But he said, I will not eat. But his servants, together with the woman, urged him, and he heeded their words. So he arose from the ground and sat upon the bed. The woman had a fat calf in the house; she hurried and killed it, and took flour, kneaded it, and baked unleavened bread. Then she brought it before Saul and his servants, and they ate. Then they rose up and went away that night. Now the Philistines gathered all their forces at Aphek, and the Israelites encamped by the fountain in Jezreel. As the Philistine lords were passing on by hundreds and by thousands, and David and his men were in the rear with Achish, The Philistine princes said, What are these Hebrews doing here? Achish said to the Philistine princes, Is not this David, the servant of Saul king of Israel, who has been with me these days and years, and I have found no fault in him since he deserted to me to this day? And the Philistine princes were angry with Achish and they said to him, Make this fellow return, that he may go again to his place where you have assigned him, and let him not go down with us to battle, lest in the battle he become an adversary to us. For how could David reconcile himself to his master? Would it not be with the heads of the men here? Is not this David, of whom they sang to one another in dances, Saul slew his thousands, and David his ten thousands? Then Achish called David and said to him, As surely as the Lord lives, you have been honest and upright, and for you to go out and come in with me in the army is good in my sight; for I have found no evil in you from the day of your coming to me to this day. Yet the lords do not approve of you. So return now and go peaceably, so as not to displease the Philistine lords. David said to Achish, But what have I done? And what have you found in your servant as long as I have been with you to this day, that I may not go and fight against the enemies of my lord the king? And Achish said to David, I know that you are as blameless in my sight as an angel of God; nevertheless the princes of the Philistines have said, He shall not go up with us to the battle. So now rise up early in the morning, with your master's servants who have come with you, and as soon as you are up and have light, depart. So David and his men rose up early in the morning to return to the land of the Philistines. But the Philistines went up to Jezreel [to fight against Israel]. Now when David and his men came home to Ziklag on the third day, they found that the Amalekites had made a raid on the South (the Negeb) and on Ziklag, and had struck Ziklag and burned it with fire, And had taken the women and all who were there, both great and small, captive. They killed no one, but carried them off and went on their way. So David and his men came to the town, and behold, it was burned, and their wives and sons and daughters were taken captive. Then David and the men with him lifted up their voices and wept until they had no more strength to weep. David's two wives also had been taken captive, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess and Abigail, the widow of Nabal the Carmelite. David was greatly distressed, for the men spoke of stoning him because the souls of them all were bitterly grieved, each man for his sons and daughters. But David encouraged and strengthened himself in the Lord his God. David said to Abiathar the priest, Ahimelech's son, I pray you, bring me the ephod. And Abiathar brought him the ephod. And David inquired of the Lord, saying, Shall I pursue this troop? Shall I overtake them? The Lord answered him, Pursue, for you shall surely overtake them and without fail recover all. So David went, he and the 600 men with him, and came to the brook Besor; there those remained who were left behind. But David pursued, he and 400 men, for 200 stayed behind who were too exhausted and faint to cross the brook Besor. They found an Egyptian in the field and brought him to David, and gave him bread and he ate, and water to drink, And a piece of a cake of figs and two clusters of raisins; and when he had eaten, his spirit returned to him, for he had eaten no food or drunk any water for three days and three nights. And David said to him, To whom do you belong? And from where have you come? He said, I am a young man of Egypt, servant to an Amalekite; and my master left me because three days ago I fell sick. We had made a raid on the South (Negeb) of the Cherethites and upon that which belongs to Judah and upon the South (Negeb) of Caleb. And we burned Ziklag with fire. And David said to him, Can you take me down to this band? And he said, Swear to me by God that you will neither kill me nor deliver me into the hands of my master, and I will bring you down to this band. And when he had brought David down, behold, the raiders were spread abroad over all the land, eating and drinking and dancing because of all the great spoil they had taken from the land of the Philistines and from the land of Judah. And David smote them from twilight even to the evening of the next day, and not a man of them escaped, except 400 youths who rode camels and fled. David recovered all that the Amalekites had taken and rescued his two wives. Nothing was missing, small or great, sons or daughters, spoil or anything that had been taken; David recovered all. Also David captured all the flocks and herds [which the enemy had], and the people drove those animals before him and said, This is David's spoil. And David came to the 200 men who were so exhausted and faint that they could not follow [him] and had been left at the brook Besor [with the baggage]. They came to meet David and those with him, and when he came near to the men, he saluted them. Then all the wicked and base men who went with David said, Because they did not go with us, we will give them nothing of the spoil we have recovered, except that every man may lead away his wife and children and depart. David said, You shall not do so, my brethren, with what the Lord has given us. He has preserved us and has delivered into our hands the troop that came against us. Who would listen to you in this matter? For as is the share of him who goes into the battle, so shall his share be who stays by the baggage. They shall share alike. And from that day to this he made it a statute and ordinance for Israel. When David came to Ziklag, he sent part of the spoil to the elders of Judah, his friends, saying, Here is a gift for you of the spoil of the enemies of the Lord: For those in Bethel, Ramoth of the Negeb, Jattir, Aroer, Siphmoth, Eshtemoa, Racal, the cities of the Jerahmeelites, the cities of the Kenites, Hormah, Bor-ashan, Athach, Hebron, and for those in all the places David and his men had habitually haunted. Now the Philistines fought against Israel; and the men of Israel fled before [them] and fell slain on Mount Gilboa. And the Philistines pursued Saul and his sons, and slew Jonathan and Abinadab and Malchi-shua, Saul's sons. The battle went heavily against Saul, and the archers severely wounded him. Saul said to his armor-bearer, Draw your sword and thrust me through, lest these uncircumcised come and thrust me through and abuse and mock me. But his armor-bearer would not, for he was terrified. So Saul took a sword and fell upon it. When his armor-bearer saw that Saul was dead, he likewise fell upon his sword and died with him. So Saul, his three sons, his armor-bearer, and all his men died that day together. And when the men of Israel on the other side of the valley and beyond the Jordan saw that the Israelites had fled and that Saul and his sons were dead, they forsook the cities and fled; and the Philistines came and dwelt in them. The next day, when the Philistines came to strip the slain, they found Saul and his three sons fallen on Mount Gilboa. They cut off Saul's head and stripped off his armor and sent them round about the land of the Philistines to publish it in the house of their idols and among the people. And they put Saul's armor in the house of the Ashtaroth [the idols representing the female deities Ashtoreth and Asherah], and they fastened his body to the wall of Beth-shan. 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UFC 245: What if Covington were a better heel?
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LAS VEGAS – You have to wonder how crowds would react to Colby Covington if he was better at being the bad guy.
There are lots of people who rightfully hate him and his entire Trump-loving, Twitter-trolling, lowest common denominator shtick as it is. He’s earned their derision.
But Covington is also easier to ignore than he’d probably like.
Has he really broken into the mainstream sports world’s consciousness? Has anyone ever written an article about Covington that didn’t explicitly acknowledge that he can’t quite pull off the bad guy persona he’s been trying so hard to sell?
When he took the stage for a “Fighter Panel” on Wednesday in front of a crowd of fans at the MGM Grand to promote his fight against welterweight champion Kamaru Usman, he was met with tepid applause.
There were no boos, though. For a guy who talks as much as Covington does about how he loves being hated, that’s got to be disappointing.
His entire public persona is built on the idea that he’s the most hated man in MMA, after all.
“I enjoy (the hatred). My entire life I’ve had doubters,” Covington said Thursday from UFC 245 media day. “They never thought I’d be here. They never thought I’d wrestle in college, they never thought I’d wrestle in high school on the varsity team, and I just keep proving them wrong. The more haters and people who tell me I can’t do something, that just inspires me and motivates me more to prove them wrong.”
That may sound like it’s just your typical ‘athlete portraying themselves like an underdog’ storytelling, but it came in the middle of a media scrum that saw Covington accuse UFC fans and staff of cheating on their wives and their taxes while wearing a Make America Great Again hat and recounting an ugly incident where he called Brazilians ‘filthy animals’ in a post-fight interview in Sao Paulo.
The guy has been doing his best to get under peoples’ skin for years now. He once livestreamed himself searching for UFC president Dana White to do some off-site negotiating at the Palms Casino. When he actually did run into him, the UFC boss wasn’t happy. The livestream ended almost instantly.
That incident was illustrative of the strangeness that comes with following Covington. It was a dumb thing to do, but the second he was actually confronted with being face-to-face with White, he knew to turn the camera off.
Covington talks and talks, but there’s no question in anybody’s mind that it’s all for show. He was around the UFC for a couple of years before he took on the troll persona. He generally seemed like a nice enough guy.
But he wasn’t exactly on a rapid rise to the top of the welterweight division, despite winning his first three fights in the UFC. It was only when the UFC threatened to cut him that Covington decided to take on this more brash, offensive persona.
He’s admitted as much this week, and that didn’t sit well with Usman.
“He’s now telling you guys that ‘Hey, this is just a gimmick,’” the welterweight champion said. “This guy knows. This guy knows what’s happening. Four times, he’s been offered this fight and he’s turned it down, so he knows.
“Right now, he’s trying to find an exit. He’s trying to find a way out. ‘Hey guys, don’t hate me when I get killed on Saturday. Please don’t hate me, I was just putting on an act to entertain you guys.’ No, if you are (about) that life, you’ve got to stay about it.”
That might be the most interesting question about Covington. Does he want to move past this persona he’s created and just go back to being a regular fighter so that he doesn’t have to constantly search for the most controversial thing to say?
Life would probably be easier, although it’s unlikely that he’ll just suddenly be forgiven for all the terrible things he’s said. He’s crossed many lines, and whether or not that was lucrative shouldn’t excuse his abhorrent behaviour.
So does he want to move on? On some level, he must.
Being the bad guy has brought him lots of attention, both good and bad. On Saturday, he’ll compete in the biggest fight of his life and has the chance to fulfill a lifelong dream and become a UFC champion. He’ll probably even get a shoutout from the President of the United States at some point this weekend.
When you listen to Covington speak, though, it’s hard to shake the feeling that deep down, he’d like to be greeted by cheers, not boos.
“I think my family would like it, I know my mom would,” Covington said. “She’s had some sleepless night, worried about my safety. They wanted to kill me in Brazil, they had a bounty on my head. To be liked, I know it would make my family happy and the babyface turn would be cool, but I’m not looking to make friends here, I’m looking to make money.”
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Don’t be surprised if Germaine de Randamie starts slow against Amanda Nunes.
It would be crazy to try to do anything else.
Nunes, after all, has taken out just about every great women’s fighter in UFC history, and she’s proven she doesn’t need much time to finish most of them.
It took her 51 seconds to KO Cristiane ‘Cyborg’ Justino.
It took her 48 seconds to finish Ronda Rousey.
She needed just over three minutes to get done with Miesha Tate, and a little more than four to put Holly Holm away.
So when de Randamie challenges Nunes for the women’s bantamweight title at UFC 245 on Saturday night, don’t be surprised if she’s patient.
“There’s no rush, I’ve got 25 minutes,” de Randamie said. “It would be stupid and ignorant and arrogant if I run in. I have 25 minutes, I’ll take my time.”
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Legislators from both parties unveil the ‘Cloria Brown Highway’ Lindbergh sign
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Pictured above, from left: Rep. Jim Murphy, R-Oakville, and Sen. Scott Sifton, D-Affton, unveil the Cloria Brown Memorial Highway sign during a dedication ceremony at St. Johns Evangelical United Church of Christ Oct. 17. Brown, who represented parts of South County in the Missouri House, died in March 2018 after battling cancer. Photo by Erin Achenbach.
The legacy of the late state Rep. Cloria Brown will live on after a stretch of Lindbergh Boulevard from Interstate 55 to Lin Ferry Drive was dubbed the “Cloria Brown Memorial Highway.”
A new sign indicating the memorial highway was unveiled Oct. 17 during a dedication ceremony at St. Johns Evangelical Church of Christ, where Brown is buried overlooking the road now named after her.
Dignitaries speaking about Brown at the event included Lt. Gov. Mike Kehoe, Sen. Scott Sifton, D-Affton, and Rep. Jim Murphy, R-Oakville, Brown’s successor in the Legislature who introduced the legislation during the 2019 General Assembly to dedicate a portion of Lindbergh Boulevard in her honor.
The legislation passed through the Missouri House and Senate unanimously, and was the first bill to pass during the 100th legislative session. Sifton sponsored the bill in the Senate.
“Cloria told me, ‘Just remember one thing. The people you serve are the people you serve. You don’t serve your party, you don’t serve your fellow legislators. You serve the people of this district.’ And you know, that was Cloria. She cared more about the people because she honestly believed it was an honor to serve,” said Murphy at the dedication. “Cloria Brown will be missed, but she will never be forgotten.”
Brown was first elected in 2010 to represent the 94th District, which includes Green Park, part of Lemay and part of Oakville. She lost the seat after one term to Democrat Vicki Englund in 2013 but won it once again in 2014 and held onto it for two terms until her death in March 2018 after battling cancer.
The late representative from Lemay was known for helping lead the way in the state’s fight against human trafficking, as well as aiding Bosnian refugees in St. Louis County. In fact, despite being on medical leave during the 2018 legislative session, she managed to get former Gov. Eric Greitens and the Legislature to pass a bill that would require posters with a sex-trafficking hotline number to hang in certain businesses. Greitens signed the bill into law in March 2018.
“I can tell you that Rep. Brown was incredibly passionate about her core issues that she ran and got elected on,” said Kehoe in his remarks. “This (the Cloria Brown Memorial Highway bill) was the fastest, least debated bill that ever has went through in my eight years.”
Brown was a staunch Republican but was known for working with legislators across the aisle, especially on issues affecting South County and especially with Sifton.
“I am very fortunate to have known Rep. Brown as a fellow community activist, as a colleague and most of all as a friend. We both shared a love for this community and for serving it,” said Sifton, who was first elected to the Missouri House of Representatives in 2010 alongside Brown. “She was absolutely everywhere in her district. The Lemay Child and Family Center, the Lemay Housing Partnership, the Chamber of Commerce for Lemay and Affton and South County…. Every time you turned around, she was there. And not just her commitment and tenacity but her willingness to speak for the people that she represented… I was very lucky to know her.”
Brown is buried in the cemetery at St. Johns.
Her grave overlooks the area of South Lindbergh dedicated in her honor, with a tombstone featuring an elephant representing her avid Republican politics.
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Film producer Harvey Weinstein exits following a hearing in his sexual assault case at New York State Supreme Court in New York, December 6, 2019. (REUTERS/Lucas Jackson -/File Photo)
Movie mogul Harvey Weinstein is bemoaning the destruction of his Hollywood legacy after he was “eviscerated” over allegations of sexual misconduct.
The disgraced producer will stand trial for multiple counts of predatory sexual assault, one of criminal sexual act in the first degree, and one each of first-degree rape and third-degree rape in New York City in January.
He has pleaded not guilty to all charges, and now, in his first interview in over a year, the 67 year old is complaining about feeling “like the forgotten man.”
In a chat with the New York Post, Weinstein argues he should be applauded for his decades of work with women – even though more than 80 females have since come forward with claims of inappropriate behaviour against him.
“I made more movies directed by women and about women than any filmmaker, and I’m talking about 30 years ago,” he said. “I’m not talking about now when it’s vogue. I did it first! I pioneered it!”
And Weinstein is bitter about how quickly his career fell apart: “It all got eviscerated because of what happened,” he vented. “My work has been forgotten.”
“I want this city to recognize who I was instead of what I’ve become,” he added.
Weinstein, who declined to directly address the sexual misconduct allegations, explained he was breaking his silence to dispute reports suggesting he had been faking his back injury, which required him to use a walker in court last week.
He underwent spinal surgery to treat an injury to his vertebrae sustained in an August car accident, and spent Friday recuperating at New York-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center.
“This was a major operation,” he insisted.
Weinstein’s public comments emerge days after his bail was increased to US$5 million after a judge ruled there was no excuse for violations of his electronic monitoring agreement.
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Home Search and Rescue Coast Guard Air Station Borinquen crew rescues injured man from shoreline rocks
Coast Guard Air Station Borinquen crew rescues injured man from shoreline rocks
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The crew of a Coast Guard Air Station Borinquen MH-65 Dolphin helicopter transfers a rescued man to Emergency Medical Service personnel at Air Station Borinquen Dec. 11, 2019. (U.S. Coast Guard photo).
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — The crew of a Coast Guard Air Station Borinquen MH-65 Dolphin helicopter rescued an injured man from the shoreline rocks and high surf at Domes Beach Wednesday afternoon in Rincon, Puerto Rico.
Rescued is a U.S. citizen tourist from Wisconsin, in his early 20’s, who reportedly fell from the rocks into the water. Despite the strong surf breaking over the rocks and sustaining multiple scrapes, bruises and struggled breathing, the man was able to climb back onto the rocks until he was rescued.
“This was a challenging case due to the confined area of where the survivor fell coupled with the crashing swell on the rocks,” said Lt. Carlos Gonzalez, Air Station Borinquen MH-65 Dolphin co-pilot for the rescue. “Our rescue swimmer with the assistance of local EMS personnel did an outstanding job of assessing the situation and assisting with getting the survivor to a higher level of medical care.”
Watchstanders at Coast Guard Sector San Juan were able to speak to a bystander on scene who reported the incident via a 911 call. Watchstanders directed the launch a Coast Guard MH-65 Dolphin helicopter from Air Station Borinquen, notified Puerto Rico Police Joint Forces of Rapid Action, Puerto Rico Emergency Management Agency and the Rincon Municipal Police of the developing situation and issued an Urgent Marine Information Broadcast to alert nearby vessel traffic of the distress.
Emergency Medical Service responders on scene located the injured person on the rocks but were unable to safely remove him due to the breaking surf and the unknown extent of the survivor’s injuries. The Coast Guard rescue helicopter arrived on scene shortly thereafter and deployed the aircraft rescue swimmer, who made his way around the jagged edge rocks and high surf to reach and assess the man’s condition.
The rescue swimmer secured the man utilizing a rescue harness and they were hoisted together aboard the Coast Guard aircraft. The survivor was transported to Air Station Borinquen, where he was received by awaiting Emergency Medical Service personnel, who transported him to a local hospital to receive further medical assistance.
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Six people injured after car driven into crowd in West Yorkshire
The crash took place on Bradford Road in Cleckheaton. (Google)
Six people were injured after an Audi was driven into a crowd in Cleckheaton, West Yorkshire in the early hours of Sunday.
One man sustained life threatening injuries and a further five men were rushed to hospital following the collision in Cleckheaton at around 12.37am.
Two people remain in hospital and three others since been discharged.
Police are now appealing for help tracing the driver of a red Audi which ploughed into the group on Bradford Road.
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A 49-year-old man was later arrested on suspicion of attempted murder and remains in custody.
Earlier in the evening, there is believed to have been an altercation between the driver of the vehicle and some of the injured parties.
Detective Chief Superintendent Pat Twiggs, said: "This is clearly a very serious incident and one which has caused understandable concern in the community.
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"We have been conducting enquiries throughout the night and have spoken to a number of witnesses.
"I would appeal for anyone who has information and has yet to speak to officers to please get in touch.
"I would also appeal for anyone who has any dashcam footage of the incident to contact our officers.
"I would also ask for anyone who has CCTV in the local area which may have captured the incident or the red Audi driving in the area to contact officers as soon as possible.
"A scene remains in place while our enquiries continue."
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American Actress Ari Graynor Bio, Net Worth, Movies, Marriage, Age, Height, Relationship
Rob Williams Published On Sun Mar 03 2019 Modified On Sun Mar 03 2019
Facts of Ari Geltman Graynor
Full Name Ari Geltman Graynor
Birth Name Ari Graynor, Ari
Birth City Boston, MA
Father Name Greg Graynor
Mother Name Joani Geltman
Date of Birth April 27,1983
Body and Relation Status of Ari Geltman Graynor
What is Ari Geltman Graynor marital status ? Single
The American actress, Ari Graynor is well known for her roles in the television series Bad Teacher and The Sopranos. She has played in numerous popular series such as Brooklyn Boy and The Little Dog Laughed. Besides, she has appeared in feature films including Mystic River and Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist.
Ari Graynor’s Biography
Graynor was born in Boston, MA, on April 27, 1983, under the birth sign, Taurus, to parents Joani Geltman (mother) and Greg Graynor (father).
His father is of Polish and Roman Catholic background and later converted to Judaism, while, his mom is from a Jewish family. He holds an American nationality and belongs to a white ethnic group.
Talking about the education, Ari completed her education at private school, Buckingham Browne & Nichols, in Cambridge. Later, she graduated from the Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut.
Ari Graynor’s Age And Body Statistics
Body Measurements: As an actress, Graynor has maintained her body in perfect shape with the measurement of 34-25-34 inches.
Age: As of 2019, she is at the age of 35.
Height: She stands at an average height of 5 feet 5 inches or 165 cm.
Weight: Her weight is 53 kg or 117 lbs.
Eyes Color: She has an attractive hazel eye which defines her personality as self-conscious.
Hair Color: Her hair color is blonde.
Dress Size: She wears 6 (US) or 36 (EU) dress size.
Shoe Size: She wears 7 (US) or 37.5 (EU) shoe size.
Ari Graynor’s Relationship History: Is She Married?
The talented actress has been linked with several handsome Hollywood celebrities in her life.
In 2006, she was in a relationship with American actor, Johnny Galecki. Galecki is known for his role as a geek scientist, Leonard Hofstadter in the popular sitcom The Big Bang Theory. The couple briefly dated for a year and ended their relationship.
In 2008, Ari started dating American Pie star, Eddie Kaye Thomas. The couple met while working in the romantic comedy-drama movies Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist. After a few years of relationship, they separated in 2012.
As of 2019, she is living a single life and is focused on her career. As per the sources, she is enjoying her life and is not thinking about marriage and relationship.
Ari Graynor’s Net Worth And Career
The beautiful American actress has an estimated net worth of $1 million. She earns a decent sum of money from her successful career. She has worked in several movies and TV shows in her career.
According to Payscale, the average salary of an actress earns $19.85 per hour, so she at least earns over $50 thousand a year, from her career as an actress.
Graynor started her career from a TV series ‘The Sopranos’ in 2001. In 2007, her movie An American Crime released followed by the movie Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist. Also, she appeared in TV series like Bad Teacher.
In addition, She starred in Broadway comedy play Relatively Speaking written by Woody Allen. Also, she works on two projects The Disaster Artist and I’m Dying Up Here, in 2017.
Ari Graynor’s Interesting Facts
Ari loves her puppy like her love life called Titsy.
She can speak the Korean language.
In 2005, she made her Broadway debut as Alison in Brooklyn Boy.
Moreover, she went to prom with a grandson of Ethel Kennedy.
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Ariel Winter gets real about her body: 'I used to have full-scale meltdowns in bathing suit shops'
By Julia Naughton| 3 years ago
Image: Instagram/arielwinter
The 19-year-old is spreading a message of body love.
Ariel Winter wants everyone to love their beach bodies.
The 19-year-old has opened up to Refinery29 about her journey to self-love and her relationship -- and clapped back at the wider media landscape for misrepresenting her words.
"Y'all I love you but PLEASE pay attention and post my REAL point from my @refinery29 interview!!!" the Modern Family star began in a lengthy caption accompanying one of the shots from the article in question.
"The point was to...help people understand that the beach should be a safe space to go as you please and feel good about yourself no matter what!" she continued.
It's no secret Ariel has a lot to say about self-worth. And the actress clearly wanted to share her own struggle to help others.
"I used to have full-scale meltdowns in bathing suit shops because there was nothing I could find to wear," Ariel she told the publication, reflecting on the time before her 2015 breast reduction. "I always felt like crap about myself. It’s gotten a little better, but it’s still definitely hard."
Her quotes from the body positive interview also made reference to her relationship with 29-year-old Levi Meaden as well as her political views, and have since been picked up by media outlets around the world.
But it seems Ariel isn't happy about it.
Specifically, she's annoyed that publications have run with headlines around the actress defending her living situation with her boyfriend.
"First of all I don't need to defend anything I'm super happy and in love, and I'm not firing at anyone just sharing an opinion after being ASKED!" she wrote.
"Body positivity is important -- not that I live with my boyfriend," Ariel continued before making the plea: "Press -- please read the article and take it for what it is- not what will give you more readers!"
Finally, she signed off on a positive note:
"Let's all be real and represent people how they want to be represented through what they actually say," Ariel wrote, adding, "Rant over. Love yourselves, love others, be yourselves, and be happy."
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Central England Co-op donates 50 winter survival packs to help the homeless in Burton
Central England Co-op has donated 50 warm clothing packs to help homeless people in Burton survive the winter weather.
The retailer has linked up with charity Burton and District YMCA to help those in need during the festive season by providing packs made up of hats and scarves.
The accessories have been bought from Newlife the Charity for Disabled Children, which will also be supported through the donation.
In total, the retailer is donating 200 packs to good causes across its trading estate, so they can be given to people who find themselves without shelter over Christmas.
The Society has also been campaigning to encourage its customers and members to donate to local food banks in the run up to Christmas and to actively support those in the most need at this time of year.
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Hannah Gallimore, Corporate Responsibility Manager at Central England Co-op, said: “These items will go some way to helping homeless people survive the winter months in and around Burton.”
Picture caption: Connie Wan-Docksey, from Burton YMCA, with Central England Co-op colleague Yvonne Adams at Branston Food Store with the 50 winter warm clothing packs for the homeless.
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Home » Business » The origins of Bitcoin: Markets and Pizza Day!
The origins of Bitcoin: Markets and Pizza Day!
Business 9 November 2019
Noah Bradley
This series looks back on the history of Bitcoin. Read part one, two, and three.
Bitcoin was initially designed to be a peer-to-peer digital currency that would help facilitate easier financial transactions around the world. Bitcoin was first introduced in 2008 and, within a year, it was starting to gain traction among a small but growing following. Looking back at what happened in 2010, it’s not difficult to find a few key activities that would go on to shape how the cryptocurrency would start to be received as people tried to understand exactly what the technology was all about.
In February of that year, the first Bitcoin exchange, Bitcoin Market, was introduced. A month later, on March 17, it saw its first trade. It had been primarily accepting PayPal for deposits, but the two entities had a major falling out (some say PayPal scammed the exchange out of its money) and the exchange began to fizzle. It would then be replaced by Mt. Gox, which has its own sordid story.
A few months later, on May 22, the first reported purchase of goods was made using Bitcoin. Laszlo Hanyecz, a crypto miner, purchased two pizzas at a price that, if purchased today for the same BTC amount, would give most people a heart attack. He spent 10,000 BTC for the pies, but that was only worth about $25 at the time. Today, 10,000 coins are worth over $91 million. It’s also thanks to Hanyecz that there is now an official holiday called Bitcoin Pizza Day, an annual celebration of his purchase that sees pizza parlors across the globe busy making pies to celebrate his transaction.
In September, the first block to be solved using spit allocation of a block reward was mined—it was block 79764 and was mined on September 14. That same month, a Bitcoin contributor, Jeff Garzik, gave 10,000 BTC to have the CUDA miner client made open-source. It cost more than the $25 paid by Hanyecz four months earlier. By now, the price had risen, and 10,000 coins were worth about $625.
The first mobile-to-mobile private Bitcoin transaction would take place in December, when 0.42BTC was sent between two wallets. The test went well, but the sender wasn’t willing to risk a lot. 0.42BTC was worth just $0.10.
Also that month, after seeing how Bitcoin had swayed from the original whitepaper on Bitcoin, the man who started it all went silent. On December 13, Satoshi Nakomoto exited from BitcoinTalk for the last time.
2010 saw BTC’s price rise substantially. At the beginning of the year, 10 BTC was worth about $0.20; by December 31, that same amount had increased to $2.90. This was well before Bitcoin really took hold and well in advance of the $100-$20,000 explosion seen two years ago.
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Director Adam McKay Says There Won’t Be an ANCHORMAN 3; Sheds Doubt on STEP BROTHERS 2
by Adam Chitwood February 27, 2014
In a bit of an unprecedented move, Paramount Pictures is releasing Anchorman: The Legend Continues back into theaters this weekend with an entirely different, R-rated cut of the film. This was always the hope of director/co-writer Adam McKay, as the sheer magnitude of footage gleaned from the improvisational-heavy cast made for plenty of alternate jokes and even a full musical number that didn’t make the initial theatrical cut. It’s an exciting one-week engagement, but fans might want to savor the opportunity as McKay has now confirmed that it is highly unlikely that we’ll ever see an Anchorman 3. Moreover, he seems over the idea of sequels entirely, putting the long-hoped-for Step Brothers 2 in doubt. Hit the jump to read on.
While speaking with Empire, McKay says the Anchorman saga has come to an end:
“It’s done. I think that’s it. It was great to do it and it was so fun to work with those guys again, but I think that’s it for Ron Burgundy.”
The filmmaker elaborated a bit more by talking about his desire to tackle original stories, seemingly making the prospect of Step Brothers 2 much less likely:
“No, [Anchorman 2] is the last sequel we’re gonna do. There’s nothing more fun to me than new characters and a new world. And now we’re releasing this alt version, we’re totally satisfied. No Anchorman 3.”
After years of Paramount saying Anchorman 2 just wasn’t financially feasible, McKay, Will Ferrell, and John C. Reilly were actually getting ready to move forward with Step Brothers 2. But then McKay made one last-minute check-in on Anchorman 2 with Paramount before moving forward in earnest on the Step Brothers follow-up, which is when he and the studio struck a compromise that brought Anchorman: The Legend Continues to fruition.
McKay doesn’t outright say Step Brothers 2 is completely off the table, but he seems keen on tackling original material in the near future. As a massive fan of Step Brothers I’m a little bummed, but the McKay/Ferrell/Reilly trio have recently hinted at an all-new project together, so there’s indeed a silver lining.
As for the near future, McKay believes his next film will be Uptown Saturday Night starring Will Smith. He offered a promising update on the project to Empire:
“You never fully know, but [Uptown Saturday Night] is the one I’m putting my chips on for now. We’re working on the rewrite with [screenwriter] Nick Stoller and it’s getting really good. We already did The Other Guys, I didn’t want to go into the traditional buddy film genre, I want it to be something different and I think we found it in the last week.”
Uptown Saturday Night is a remake of the 1971 Bill Cosby/Sidney Poitier comedy, and this version would pair Will Smith with Denzel Washington. Coming off the success of Anchorman 2 (its worldwide gross sits at $169.2 million before the re-release), McKay is likely able to cash-in some chips and this star-studded redo feels like a fascinating opportunity. Hopefully we hear more soon, but for now you can see the new cut of Anchorman 2 in theaters for one week only starting this Friday, February 28th.
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Now Playing:Rockwell Encounters The Darkside of ‘Moon’
Moon (R) 97 min.
For here I am sitting in a tin can
Far above the world
Planet earth is blue
And theres nothing I can do
Though Im past one hundred thousand miles
Im feeling very still
Tell my wife I love her very much she knows
—Space Oddity, David Bowie
Those haunting lyrics to Bowie’s song about a lonesome and isolated astronaut seem to echo in every silent space of Duncan Jones’ new hard-science fiction Moon. And there is a certain sense of symmetry there when you consider that Jones is Bowie’s son and this movie his first directorial debut. What a debut it is too! Starting small and quiet and then gaining momentum slowly and purposefully, Moon tells the story of astronaut Sam Bell (Sam Rockwell), a company man fulfilling the last bit of his three year contract on the lunar surface where he is the only human member of a mining operation. What is it exactly Sam is mining ? Helium-3, a clean fuel source that is abundant on the moon but provides the key for Earth’s energy crisis. Employed by Lunar Industries, Sam’s primary job is to oversee the automated robotic process. As a result, that means Sam’s only crew member is the base’s A.I. system, GERTY (voiced by Kevin Spacy as a cross between Hal 9000 and Robby the Robot).
The film picks up with the final two weeks of Sam’s mission. Sam who has been operating without a direct communication link is craving human interaction and longs to see his wife Tess and their new-born daughter Eve. Then, there is an accident at the mining site and Sam wakes up in the medical lab under GERTY’s supervision. Something is wrong. He believes there is a problem back at the Harvesters, but new word from the company advises that he stay aboard the ship for the remainder of his service. Eventually, Sam makes his way back to the accident site and things get really weird.
There isn’t much more I can say about Moon’s narrative without giving away a few of its myriad suprises. Instead, lets focus on something else; the performance of Sam Rockwell, which is no less than superb and more than deserving of at least an Oscar Nom come next January. Sam Bell has been by himself a very long time and the bright, austere, somewhat shabby surroundings of the moon base are starting to take their toll on his emotional stability. He longs to see his wife but has to settle for video recordings sent to him. He can’t talk to his daughter, instead reaching out to caress the monitor where her image resides. He goes for days without shaving or bathing, lost in a stupor of apathy, hallucinating to better times. GERTY is as close to a friend and a confidant as he can get and he wonders why the live link has never been repaired.
For these early passages Rockwell conveys what it might be like for a man to be separated for years from the things he knows and is familiar with. Bell doesn’t even have the comfort of the planet on which he was born. When Rockwell discovers the wrecked harvester and removes the body he finds inside, the nature of the film changes. Very soon, Sam Bell finds his sanity and the very nature of his existence questioned, re-defined and finally threatened.
Facets of Bell rise to the surface and conflict with one another, and Rockwell meets the challenge of playing not only off Spacey’s sometimes menacing, sometimes friendly computer but off of himself in scenes whose power are difficult to describe without seeing them. Encased within this film and this performance is one of the most compelling explorations of human identity in recent science fiction. Where the plot goes, Rockwell follows, seeking answers and with each new answer, facing a new dilemma that challenges everything he assumes he knew about himself, the corporation he works for, even the family whom he longs to be reunited with. In one touching sequence he sits inside the moon rover and weeps in solitude, longing to return home. Rockwell is a terrific actor but he has never been called on to embody emotional despair this deep. It’s heartbreaking and next to it Spacey’s ambiguous robotic companion becomes a wonderful foil. When GERTY interprets his programming in ways that allow him to act selflessly for Sam and against his own higher directives, we are witnessing the strongest notes of human compassion in the movie.
Hard science fiction is a difficult thing to pull off. It requires attention to detail and scientific logic, but more than that it requires an able hand in identifying human reaction to the world that surrounds us. In MoonJones comes up with a story concerned about the future of mankind and how we will stand as individuals in the face of technology that would render us as just another piece of merchandise or material. It asks big questions about the memories, identity and emotional connections that we make in our lives. In some part it is considering the vastness beyond this sphere and if loneliness is a cosmic condition. However, it does all of this, not with the visually mysterious style of 2001 or the near impenetrable philosophies of Solaris, but with a straight-forward story about a man meeting himself on the surface of Earth’s moon.
Amazing and affecting cinematography make Moon look like a dream crossed with a beamed-down transmission and it feels both technically charged and subliminally anxious. Clint Mansel delivers a score that fits the film’s hallucinatory vibe perfectly. The sets are simple and clean and then later the lower bowels of the space station contain dark secrets wound into the labyrinthine complex. GERTY is basically a large mechanical arm hanging from the ceiling, his one identifier a view-screen with an emoticon on it that changes from smiling, frowning and a confused in between. Rockwell sports a beard in some scenes, is bleeding out like a stuck-pig in others, and towards the finale looks as fit as ever. The movie’s secrets rest in two transmission towers that Sam spies near the Harvester, and his salvation may lie in the team arriving in a few days. It all depends if he can parse the reality of his situation.
What really amazes me about Moon is how original and inspiring it ends up being. This is a film that can stand in the gap with the science fiction greats of its time and hold its head proudly. It moves beyond the concerns of the genre to tell a story that meets us as we are, as human beings, and in the midst of this it sets its story in the last great unconquered dimension of human ambition: space.
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3 Responses to “Now Playing:Rockwell Encounters The Darkside of ‘Moon’”
goregirl July 24, 2009 at 1:13 pm #
A friend of mine seen this at the CineVegas Film Festival and was blown away. I really want to make an effort to get out and see this one on the big screen.
hagiblog July 24, 2009 at 2:32 pm #
I’m only just hearing about this now but I’m instantly intrigued by the sounds of it. I must figure out where to see this one!
R November 1, 2009 at 5:36 pm #
This movie rocks
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City Room | Twitter Patter | @TheRevAl
Twitter Patter | @TheRevAl
By Alexis Mainland
March 5, 2011 1:00 pm March 5, 2011 1:00 pm
Tweeting Since May 2009
Twitter Bio Baptist Minister & Political, Civil Rights, and Social Justice Activist
This weekend’s Sunday Routine column features the Rev. Al Sharpton, a peripatetic New Yorker and Twitter user. Mr. Sharpton, 56, said young members of his staff, along with his daughters, Ashley and Dominique, encouraged him to open a Twitter account two years ago. “Next thing I knew I had almost 10,000 followers and now I have almost 40,000,” he said.
Mr. Sharpton, who travels constantly to fulfill professional obligations, said he uses Twitter to keep his fans apprised of his public appearances. His Twitter feed brims with information on radio broadcast times and locations for speeches and rallies around the country. On weekdays, many of these messages are composed by Mr. Sharpton’s aides, but he taps out two to five personally on weekends, when he’s just as likely to announce that it’s “Time for a good meal” as he is that “We must deal with unfair educational policies.”
Even with just 140 characters at his disposal, Mr. Sharpton said Twitter allowed him to develop a public persona that was more nuanced than a television sound bite. “I can reach people that are unfamiliar or even adversarial with my work” on Twitter, he said. “They begin to understand that I am more than the one-dimensional media image they have of me.” Below, a few recent posts.
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mary r. March 6, 2011 · 1:44 pm
Why didn’t the NYT cover the heroic rescue of two workers in Yonkers by a heroic fire fighter–instead of wasting space on Rev. Al, one of NYC’s biggest scofflaws? Makes no sense at all.
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February 24, 2019 March 4, 2019 clandsbaumpersonalLeave a comment
It always seemed fitting to me that, in order to follow the white rabbit, Alice had to shrink—that she was denied access to another, ostensibly better world until she made herself smaller. The scene itself comes early in the movie, after her tumble down the rabbit hole, when she finds herself stuck in an antechamber facing a locked door. The door tells her she won’t fit: “You’re impassable.” “Impossible?” “Impassable. Nothing is impossible.” So she takes a few sips from a bottle: drink me. In a series of pops—at least, that’s how Disney imagined it in 1951—she shrinks to the size of a mouse—and stops just shy of disappearing completely. (In the words of the sentient door knob, “you almost went out like a light!”) There’s some back-and-forth business with the key, which she’s left on the now-humongous table, but eventually, a miniature Alice walks through the door into Wonderland.
To me, this made sense. After almost two decades of ballet school, in my mind smallness equalled access: the tinier the ballerina, the more likely she was to get the role. Not only was she easier to throw around onstage, a male dancer’s hands circling effortlessly around her pinprick waist, but her slim body was almost always deemed more pleasurable to watch, a tender green stalk undulating in the breeze. I have always been small, always stood out for my smallness. At summer camp I was picked to star in Thumbelina, and I played the titular role with a shy sort of pleasure as the other characters fought over me, each wanting some claim to my beauty and goodness as telegraphed by my diminutive size. (“For you’re no bigger than my thumb,” went the chorus. “Sweet Thumbelina, you’re the one.”) My takeaway: small things are adorable, beautiful, covetable. If you are small enough, everyone will want you.
So I made myself small. I developed an obsession with tiny things—figurines, dioramas, those miniature food videos on BuzzFeed. My cat has never grown past kitten size, and I’m unduly proud of her for it. “Tiny waist!” a former partner exclaimed on one of those sweet early dates, wrapping their (equally small) hands around my middle, accentuated that night by a tight plaid catsuit. I laughed and pretended to be embarrassed, but really I was pleased they’d noticed because it must mean they found me desirable—it must mean they wanted to keep me. I shrunk myself in other ways, too. Where most people have a mental membrane that helps them sort through criticism, absorbing what’s valid and repelling what isn’t, I installed a conveyor belt. I took in everything. I shrunk. The more I cared the worse it became, this subjugating of myself to center the needs of someone else—someone I was sure wouldn’t object to me if I became so small they all but forgot I was there.
Last week, curled in a ball on my therapist’s couch, I disclosed a different kind of shrinking. I couldn’t eat, I told her. According to the bathroom scale, I’d lost 5 pounds in 6 days—alarming for any body, particularly one on the smaller side. And for once, it wasn’t deliberate. Food repulsed me. I’d put down my fork after a bite or two, too nauseated to continue. Breakfasts consisted of a single apple. I put off lunch until 3 p.m. Dinner was several bites of cottage cheese, shoveled into my mouth as I fought my own body to keep it functioning. I’d never felt more exhausted, unfocused, adrift. I asked her, in essence, what the fuck was happening to me, and she explained that loss of appetite is a byproduct of grief: “This is what heartbreak feels like.”
In a way, this was validating: confirmation that my sadness was taking a physical toll. “I’m so devastated I’ve lost 5 pounds,” was an easy way to explain myself to people who asked—to give them some idea of the feeling that stuck to my bones, making it difficult to move. On the other hand, it felt like a betrayal: my heart directing my body to make itself small—so small it might disappear—even as my rational mind objected. After all, if you’re aiming to vanish, starving yourself is one of the least-efficient ways to do it. Over the next week I made a concerted effort to return from the brink, bribing my stubborn body with dark chocolate Kit-Kats (for the record, infinitely better than milk chocolate) and macaroni and cheese; rare hamburgers and silky pieces of salmon. Certainly I still wanted to shrink—it was just that I knew I shouldn’t.
February 7, 2019 clandsbaumpacking, personalLeave a comment
No one told me my parents’ divorce would make me an excellent packer. That detail was absent from the Reddit threads and Tumblr blogs I visited in search of answers, as it was from the literature splayed on the table in the office of the psychotherapist my father brought me and my sister to see. But it was true: in spending every other weekend at Dad’s, I developed a mental checklist that cemented itself in my mind, and hasn’t budged since. The handful of times I forgot a crucial item, forcing Dad to drive all the way back to Mom’s to recover said history book or ballet shoe, ensured I never did so again.
As I grew older, I learned to derive pleasure from packing very little. There’s something empowering in the notion of traveling light—something reassuring in reminding yourself that the things needed to sustain you are few, that you are efficient, that at any moment you can pick up and leave and want for (almost) nothing. I am proud of myself when I pack light for a trip, not only because it saves me the pain of asking someone else to lift my carry-on into the overhead compartment, but because it means I have streamlined my life into a shape I can handle alone. I feel the same way when I pack a tote or backpack for a day running errands in the city, and remember a snack, my water bottle, a phone charger, an extra battery, a flannel to throw on if (okay, when) I get cold. The trick is never to over-pack, but to have handy anything and everything you might need. To be the best prepared of anyone around you. In this way, you beat the game.
Of course, there’s also something soothing in the process of packing itself: the folding, the rolling, the fitting of items together just so, like a real-world game of Tetris. At this point, my hands do the work automatically—again, a product of so many weekends away. There’s a satisfaction inherent in running through my mental checklist and finding it complete. Even better, over the years I’ve acquired packing accoutrements—suitcases, pouches, laptop sleeves, shoe bags—that are uniformly black and rectangular. They’re arrayed on my bed even now, ready to be zipped and flown to Florida. And I can’t deny that the sight of them pleases something primordial in my core.
In a way, this fondness for packing is an offshoot of my penchant for doing that keeps me functional even when my mind is spinning out. I’ve cried every day this week, overwhelmed by a deep-rooted fear that I am unlovable and unknowable, and each time my hands begin to move of their own accord, washing dishes, doling lentil soup into a Tupperware for lunch, packing or unpacking or re-packing my work or gym bag. The rhythm of these actions propels me forward, casting an aura of functionality around my body while my brain implodes and spirals ever deeper into worst-case scenarios. But when I finally break the surface of reality again, there are the clean dishes, there is the ready lunch, the packed bag, the suitcase filled with everything I’ll need for a few days away. A big part of growing up, I think, is learning to save yourself.
There are times when I crave the opposite: someone to still my hands, pull me close, tell me they know me, they love me, and everything will be fine—that it’s okay to rest for a moment. Another part of growing up is learning to be vulnerable in ways you thought you’d stamped out of yourself: shucking off a self-preservationist instinct in favor of trust. Believing a good thing can last. Relinquishing some control. Packing a little heavier, every now and then.
October 4, 2018 October 4, 2018 clandsbaumbrett kavanaugh, Journalism, personal, politics, sexual assaultLeave a comment
I sucked in a breath, picked up the clunky plastic handset, and dialed. “Hello?” said a faint voice on the other end of the line. I’d known I would freeze up, so I had typed out a script. “Hi, Mr. Ricaña. My name is Claire Landsbaum, and I’m a reporter for the Columbia Missourian. I’m calling because every year the Missourian commemorates M.U. students who have died, and I’m writing a short tribute about your daughter. I know this must be hard for you, but I wanted to give you a chance to tell me a little bit about her.” Clifton Ricaña Sr. listened in silence. Then, through tears, he told me about Christine, who had died in October at 22. “I know she’s doing well,” he told me, as though they’d spoken just yesterday. I repeated the process for three other students, calling friends, relatives, people who’d known them. For months afterward, I thought of the four of them as I walked through campus, their untimely deaths a niggling guilt in the back of my brain.
What saved me from going completely insane were my professors. By nature, much of journalism is a close-up examination of trauma, and these women had fielded their fair share. They talked me through writing the obituaries: what to say, how to say it, what to do. And afterward, they talked me off a ledge of self-destructive remorse. The same was true for students who covered shootings, fires, and floods: tragedy, in the abstract sense, was well-trodden in our seminars, where we learned about things like war-zone reporting and political arrest. I left my undergraduate program with an idea of what covering the conflict in Syria might entail. But I was in no way prepared for Brett Kavanaugh.
The irony, of course, is that even as sexual harassment and assault was glossed over in classrooms, it ran rampant on campus. College is where my #MeToo story unfolded, not once, but several times over. Even before I had finished reading Dr. Christine Blasey Ford’s Washington Post interview, I believed her—her story was both too simple and too familiar not to be true. I’d been to the party; been locked in the upstairs bedroom, even; been pawed at, my protestations ignored, my friends calling my name a floor below. Even before I watched her testify along with most of the country, Ford’s story brought back a sickening wave of memories, like rising bile. “It’s a very difficult time,” Dr. Christine Nicholson, a clinical psychologist, recently told The New York Times. “I’m having people call me after hours when they’re just feeling meltdowns and a sense of hopelessness.”
That was all true: the private crying jags in the bathroom, and the cloying sense not that no one believed, but that no one cared. And worse, the sense that I was professionally obligated to hold it together—to serve as an example for the small team of women writers I work with every day. In a way, we had signed up for this: we’d known about the floods, the fires, and the shootings going in, and had decided that this was what we wanted, anyway. But in other ways, we hadn’t. Who could have predicted that we would come of age in an era that dredged up our long-buried traumas and shoved them into the light? That we’d become both chroniclers of the story, and part of it ourselves? We couldn’t have known. But perhaps we could have been better prepared.
April 29, 2018 April 29, 2018 clandsbaumbar keepers friend, Free writeLeave a comment
“Are you done yet?” Ange shouts from the living room. They’re referring to the incessant scrubbing that sounds like shrieking sheets of corrugated tin rubbing together, which is not far from the truth: I’m massaging a stainless steel baking sheet with a rose-gold scouring pad, working in relentless circles and applying pressure roughly equivalent to half my body weight. They are playing a Battle Royale-style video game in which they try not to die while killing as many other players as possible. In intermittent moments, this requires total silence.
“No,” I say, but pause anyway.
In the quiet, I look down into the sink—the sink that, before starting in on the cookie sheets, I polished to an aggressive silvery shine. My hands are in there, rubbed raw into a pinkish pulp. There are scuffs on my fingernails where bits of the nail plate have chipped off in whiteish shreds. One of my cuticles is bleeding. I can’t quite remember the metal of the pad cutting into my flesh, and even as I watch the blood mix with water and suds, the pain takes a moment to register. It’s as though I blacked out, swept up in an all-consuming cleaning frenzy driven by the discovery of a new substance: Bar Keepers Friend.
I’m neurotically tidy as a rule—a friend once referred to my room as “Pinterest clean.” But I’ve never dabbled in anything as potent as this. Initially skeptical that Bar Keepers Friend could revive our grimy sink, I sprayed it on, scrubbed, and watched with wonder as what must have been years of stains dissolved. This was no Swiffer™ product, no puny off-brand Clorox wipe—both staples in our under-sink collection of cleaning supplies. No, this was something else entirely: a time machine. A way to erase the mistakes of the past. A second chance in a bottle.
I double down, obsessed with my newfound ability to alter history, to reverse it. From the sink I move on to a series of pots, each varnished with a layer of fired-on grit. I’d had them since moving to New York in 2014, and had mutely accepted that they would sink into decrepitude, eventually forcing me to donate them or, worse, to throw them out altogether. Then I dig out our well-used baking sheets, caked dark brown with residue from various roasted vegetables, baked goods, and frozen pizzas. I bear down, at long last comprehending a favorite phrase of my grandfather’s: elbow grease.
I scrub, metal screeches, my cuticle bleeds. I think of everything I’d like to spray with Bar Keepers Friend, the fumes of which I was now inhaling in what I was sure were carcinogenic quantities: the shitty relationships, the wasted summers and heartbreak, the career missteps, the ill-conceived arguments, the pair of perfectly tailored grey wool Céline trousers that I sold at Beacon’s closet two years ago. I scrub harder, forgetting why I started, forgetting even that these particular baking sheets are from the Dollar General down the street. I scrub until they shine, brand-new again, cheating the inevitable.
January 28, 2018 clandsbaumFree writeLeave a comment
We’re sitting in her parents’ car, which is parked in their driveway, which leads up to their perfect dollhouse in East Suburbia, New Jersey. I can’t understand how she sprung from this—the Crate and Barrel catalog with wood floors so clean they make my city sock feet feel guilty. But she did and the contrast, to my feverish mind, makes her even more interesting. We’re well provisioned for our weekend in the woods, but she remembers one more thing and runs in to get it, leaving the driver’s side door wide open.
The car matches the house: new, glossy, and far nicer than anything I’d expected to be driving around middle-of-nowhere Massachusetts. I pair my phone with the Bluetooth speaker system and play the song that I’ve decided is about her: a bubbly 80’s-style synth-heavy cotton-candy pop song called “Because I Love You.” I crank the volume until the neighbors can hear my heart gushing out into the street and train my eyes on the back door, waiting.
Last week, my first-ever acupuncturist described the process like this: most of us walk around all day with our muscles in a painful state of partial contraction. When an acupuncture needle is inserted at the point where certain muscles overlap, they instantly seize up around it, making the contraction complete. Twenty to 30 minutes later when the needle is removed, the muscle is finally able to fully release, and the pain disappears.
I do not, as the saying goes, do needles, so they started slow: one in each ear, wrist, shoulder, and foot. With each insertion I felt a pinch, and then a pressure that gradually dissipated. But the muscles in my left shoulder put up a fight, bunching into a hard lump of subcutaneous taffy that stuck the needle for an instant before it pushed through. “Oh,” I said, looking at the acupuncturist, but they seemed pleased. “No no,” they told me, “that’s what we want.”
“Frankly, we don’t have the right to critique each others’ actions anymore,” she texted me almost a month after we broke up. As though our separation meant that what she did no longer had any impact on me, as though my actions no longer affected her. As though the fork in the road negated the conjoined miles that came before it. As though we’d cleaved each other off as cleanly as a rotating saw through a carcass. But bits of her remained: the way I sometimes slipped up and pronounced the word “little” as “leedle,” and worse, when I tacked a “boy” on at the end. When I read the word “me” substituted for “my,” her favorite dialectic joke. She never returned my favorite black T-shirt, which I remembered every time I wore its twin (two for $5 on Broadway and West 4th). And when I took the B38, I couldn’t pass her stop without my chest tightening. Then, of course, there was the music: whole albums that brought her back with distressing clarity, 50-odd songs she’d given me that I dumped onto their own playlist and banished to the bottom of my Spotify feed. Things I couldn’t touch for fear they’d burn. Half-tensed muscles refusing to unwind.
Wreckage becomes easier to examine with time, and this was no exception. (“There are no new ideas,” writes Audre Lorde. “There are only news ways of making them felt.”) So when Montaigne’s “Because I Love You” inexplicably lodged itself in my head the other week, I held it there to study my own reaction, to see if it was still hot. The chorus scrolling through my head had no effect, so I decided to play the song. It came through my laptop speaker as jaunty as ever, but something was different: the words. I’d never paid them much attention, choosing instead to focus on the besotted chorus. But even that, I soon discovered, was a horror show:
My parents feel that
this is a waste of time
I tell them go away
‘cause everything is just fine
My friends all feel that
I’m different around you
I tell them all that they are wrong
As the song wound on, it got worse:
I tell them we’re okay
I won’t admit that I am blind
I’m carrying us two
It felt like a familiar pet had turned feral and snapped at my fingers. Those summer months tilted on their axis, re-framed.
I plunged the needle in: I went to a party where I knew for a fact she’d be, the same party where all those months ago we’d somehow morphed from fleeting Tinder fly-by’s into firm possibility. I saw her there standing in a corner, but it wasn’t her exactly—she looked different, tilted on her axis, re-framed. I walked past her and spent a few hours on the dance floor, my friends forming a human shield around me. But they needn’t have bothered. By the time I left, the pain was ebbing away.
December 10, 2017 December 10, 2017 clandsbaumLeave a comment
I push the heavy curtains aside to enter the bar but stop short upon taking in the scene: three, maybe four people in a space that could easily fit 100. I’d expected to blend into the crowd—East Village on a Saturday night is notorious for its lack of elbowroom. Instead, faced with the prospect of bouncing from bar to bathroom and back like a forlorn pinball, I do what anyone would: order a beer, climb to the second level (the venue boasts two bars, one on the ground floor and another up a flight of glass stairs) and speak to the first person I find.
“Is it cool if I’m up here?” I ask the guy hunched over a Styrofoam cup of coffee on a leopard-print settee.
“Yeah,” he says, “of course.”
“Long night ahead?” I ask—a nod at the coffee.
“Yeah, and a loooooong night last night.”
Some of his friends are visiting from California, he tells me, and he stayed up way too late—6 a.m.—worrying about one of them, who’d gotten too drunk and popped like a pimple, puking everywhere. He didn’t mind the mess, or even the back rubbing and sandwich-making that came after. He was just concerned for his friend’s well being. See, I’m one of the good guys.
From my perch on a bar stool a couple feet away, I notice that he looks a lot like the best friend of the girl who drove me off a cliff this summer and then moved on. He tells me he’s Mexican, but has recently spent some time in Argentina, in Buenos Aires mostly, with a side trip to Mendoza. He compliments my leather jacket, and I tell him something a friend recently pointed out: that I am exceptionally good at going to a thrift store and spotting the perfect leather jacket for someone who has bemoaned a leather-jacket-shaped hole in their life. I show them the jacket, they try it on, it’s perfect, and they buy it, indirectly memorializing me in the process—my record is 3 for 3.
“Maybe you can find one for me next,” he jokes, fetching his brown suede jacket from behind the bar and shrugging it on to show me his size. He’s showing off. He’s taller than that girl’s best friend, come to think of it, and slightly more debonair, hair slicked to an oily shine.
In case it isn’t obvious, he’s the bartender. The conversation turns to the venue—“it’s really cool,” I say, because it is—and he lets me in on a secret: there’s yet another bar, on a third floor hidden from view. “Come on,” he says, “it’s dead in here. I’ll give you a tour.” He slings the invitation like a brush-off, like he isn’t trying to silo me, to flatter me, to impress, like he doesn’t care whether I agree or equivocate. But I know he does because a minute later he robs me of the choice altogether, starting down the stairs and looking back, expectant: “We have to go outside and around.” I haven’t had the chance to slip in a benign joke about how I’m “so gay, dude” (“Didn’t you notice the short hair? Ha-ha!”) or how I’m seeing someone, or how I’m so glad to have found such an interesting friend to chat with until the show starts. I have not had time to gauge his reaction to said joke, to watch what the flash of his eyes gives away, to perform the sort of mental jiu jitsu that always falls to the more vulnerable party and that, in public a space, ensures our survival. For a beat, I panic. But more people are beginning to file in, I have my pepper-spray keychain, I have gotten so, so much better at saying “no.” I follow.
He takes me out through the curtains again, and then up a side staircase I hadn’t noticed that’s cut off halfway by a metal gate. He presses a buzzer once, twice. The gate swings open. Another set of stairs and we reach another door and I’m glad I’m in front because I push it open it myself, forestalling his chance to do so for me. Did you catch that? The space is incredible: a loft with 20-foot ceilings and furniture straight off the set of Inherent Vice and floor-to-ceiling posters that look like Renoir painted a Lichtenstein. He leaves me to circle the place and walks up to the massive bar, chatting up his co-worker, comforting me with his overt steps away. But a few minutes later he asks me if I want a shot. I say sure, tequila. My unease returns as he pulls down a bottle from the top shelf.
On the way back, he tells me yet another secret: while he lived in Argentina (for three months, he says, the same duration as my own short residence there), he dealt drugs. Again, a throwaway delivery, again a covert attempt to impress, to shock this time, to thrill. I don’t know how to respond, so I laugh. “No way.” He bows his head in mock shame. “I’m not proud . . . everyone’s gotta live.”
After an encore, the two-person band walks offstage to whoops and cheers. They’d gone on late to give the place time to fill up, which it eventually had, albeit with people who were clearly devoted fans. They’d danced, I’d swayed, slightly removed like I imagined was befitting of a concert loner. Now I’m dithering, trying to decide whether to stick around or to begin the trek back to Brooklyn.
Trek, I decide before casting my glance upward, dreading the inevitable goodbye to the bartender, who might then steer the conversation in a variety of uncomfortable directions: a dodged kiss, a request for my number, a pointed, “I hope I’ll see you again.” He’s blocked from view by a line of people who have finally ascended to order drinks, and I realize with a jolt that that means he can’t see me either—I am invisible. I’m free. I owe him nothing. A little parcel of joy explodes inside my chest, and I turn and walk through the curtains without a backward glance.
If you must cry in public
September 28, 2017 clandsbaumcrying in public, personalLeave a comment
Here’s how I know I’m about to cry in public: I touch my bottom lip with my right index finger. It’s an automatic motion, and I’ve noticed that it only happens when my body is about to teeter over the line between fighting the tears and letting them flow, the last futile gesture of resistance. Shh, my finger tells my mouth. Shh, it’s all right – don’t cry. My mouth ignores it.
Here are all the places I’ve cried this week: the obvious ones like on the train, in my cubicle, in my bed on a particularly gray morning; the less obvious ones like on West 16th Street on the way to meet a friend at a bar, in the doorway of an 8th-Avenue apartment complex after running out of that bar when she – there’s always a she, italics – showed up there. In my first-ever cycling class on the stationary bike. At an acoustic show. On the bus to D.C. In Strand. In the hokey movie theater where tourists watch a 15-minute film on the foundation of the U.S. Congress. At the Lincoln Memorial.
On 8th Avenue in particular I drew stares, strangers looking back in confusion at the sound of a muffled sob in the darkness. They searched for the source and focused on me, my forehead pressed into the building like it might soak me up. One of them walked over.
No, I was not. Yes, I would be, eventually. See? I was still together enough to be rational. The foresight reassured her.
“By the way,” she said before retreating, gesturing to my cheek, “You have an eyelash.” Dear reader, I let her retreat before I lost it again.
Here’s what crying is like to me: sneezing. I can feel it build, and I know once it’s done I’ll feel lighter. Still, I put it off with Kate Bush’s “Wuthering Heights” and my mind-numbing Twitter feed and by calling my mom to talk en route. But no matter how much you squint at the sun (does that make you sneeze or stave it off? I forget), it happens, eventually.
Here’s what I have to fix it: wadded coffee-shop napkins, Visine, friends, time.
September 9, 2017 September 9, 2017 clandsbaumanxiety, Free writeLeave a comment
I picked a hole in my forehead last night: leaned into the mirror and pinched my skin between index fingernails until something came out, sebum at first, then the red blossom of blood. First one pore, then two, then three spilled its contents, leaving a triangle pattern just above my left eyebrow that I knew would scab. And I almost moved onto another spot before catching my own eyes in the mirror and saying firmly, “stop.”
It’s the only thing that works. And mostly, I listen.
I backed away from the mirror. Swabbed the blood away with a cotton ball. But my heart was still pounding, my head still felt like a balloon about to burst.
My therapist explained my anxiety like this:
“Your brain is hardwired to perceive everything as a threat because it’s safer – because then, when something happens, it’s braced for it. But that causes overall anxiety because you’re always waiting for something bad to happen. That’s when things like your catastrophic thinking happen – your mind has to create terrible thoughts just in case something goes wrong.”
She’s walked me through this before, but last session I asked to record because I kept forgetting. At the end of the tape, you can hear me ask, “But why?”
It cuts off before she answers, but apparently my doomsday predictions happen thanks to a combination of two things: genetic predisposition and lived experience. The first part makes sense – my mother couldn’t sleep at night unless my sister and I were safely under her roof. The second is more difficult to explain because nothing truly bad has ever happened to me. All five of my grandparents are still alive. My parents are divorced, but doting. My sister is lively and successful. I’m lively and successful. We grew up in suburbia, for fuck’s sake. Anxiety belongs to others – mine is foolish, groundless, absurd. And yet.
I remember being very young, six or seven at most, and convincing myself that my mother would die in a plane crash. (I almost couldn’t type that sentence because, well, what if it’s still true – an aside I have to make because, if I don’t, I’m certain it will be.) She was on a trip somewhere. And I don’t know how a six-year-old child even knew about plane crashes, but there she was in my mind’s eye spiraling downward. I remember curling up in hysterics, half convinced the vision was real, terrified I’d never see her again.
Last weekend, driving back from the middle of nowhere Massachusetts, I became convinced that the person behind the wheel would steer us into a lake. She’d been driving without incident for years, but we passed a body of water on the left, and I could see the wheel slipping through her fingers, plunging us into it with only a few seconds to react. I’d recently watched an online video about how to survive in a sinking car – had come across it on the Facebook page of some innocuous Washington Post-like source – so I knew what I’d do: scream at her to roll down her window just before we hit the water, while jamming my finger onto my own control. We’d swim out as the car hit the lake, losing all our belongings but still – remarkably – alive.
Failing that, I’d grab one of our Swell water bottles and ram it with all my strength into the top corner of my passenger-side window. She’d do the same on the driver’s side, the windows would shatter, and, well, same story. I spun this narrative out in my head for minutes, tweaking it in places until it was a parallel reality. When I finally snapped out of it and told the driver where my mind had gone, we both laughed.
In a recent essay, Katie Heany interviewed Andrea Petersen, the author of On Edge: A Journey Through Anxiety. “When [my anxiety] is really at its height, I call it an isolation chamber,” Petersen told her. “The worry and the visions of catastrophe and the unending monologue of doom can really block out the experience of being with another person.”
At times this rings true, but more often my anxiety is focused on the other person – on what they’re saying or doing that might subtly betray that they don’t really want to be here, don’t really want to be spending time with me. It’s an isolation chamber of a different sort, because voicing these thoughts would mean asking for constant reassurance that they’re not true. And who wants to have to reassure a crying child that her mother is not plunging toward the ocean along with thousands of pounds of fiery jet debris? Who wants to take seriously the possibility of driving into an icy lake, and to seriously convince the passenger it won’t happen? Who wants to tell a lover or a friend that they do like hanging out with her and Jesus fucking Christ will you please stop asking?
Heany’s anxiety, she says, manifests in the weird, frantic way she clutches her hands together. Mine comes out in the soothing, ritual reassurance of ridding my face of imagined dirt, and the tiny scabs on my forehead and cheeks that I dutifully hide with concealer.
June 19, 2017 clandsbaumLeave a comment
“Hi Sarah, this is Claire. Is now still a good time to talk?”
This story is not about that Sarah – it’s about the other Sarah. Well, really it’s about two other Sarah’s. I guess that’s a good place to start: the first thing you have to understand about Sarah is that there’s two of her.
They’re very different, as people go. One is a pale brunette with long wavy hair and dark eyes. She has a nose shaped like the curly part of a snail shell, and I’ve never met her, although we attended the same school at the same time. The other Sarah is pale too, with a round face and light eyes and short dyed-blonde hair that’s always tucked behind her ears, out of the way. The first Sarah is straight; the second Sarah is not. The first Sarah is dating my ex-boyfriend, and the second Sarah is dating my ex-girlfriend.
It’s hard to remember when I became aware of either Sarah, but I know one came first and then the other, like an echo. The first one, the gay one, I learned of last summer, when the girl I was quickly falling for mentioned that she was dating her, too. “This girl” was her first label, usually followed by some complaint. “This girl is introducing me to all her friends.” “This girl is moving a little too fast.” Eventually, she grew a name.
“I broke things off with that girl – with Sarah,” she told me on my fire escape one night. We were sitting side by side, our Dr. Marten boots pressed up against the grille. It was a weeknight, very late. We’d been on several dates, and at the time I think we both anticipated going on more, a string of perfect dates stretching out indefinitely. After she told me about Sarah, we stood up and made out there in the dark, above everything.
Then, I think it was weeks later, although it could’ve been just a couple of days, I met that girl. Sarah was different than I’d imagined her: more boyish, less pretty, more fun. I sang karaoke duets with her to bury my pulsing panic, which built as she and the girl I felt feelings for — feelings, fuck — disappeared to the bar together over and over again. We finally paid and left and I turned around to catch the girl’s eye but she wasn’t there so I raced back into the bar and found her standing in an alcove with Sarah, one arm propped against the doorframe, their faces just inches apart.
I left.
She said goodbye to Sarah and followed. “What’s wrong?” she asked. I could barely hear her over the sound of blood rushing in my ears. “I don’t know,” I said. “I think I’m jealous.”
From then on, I don’t think I was ever un-jealous, even when she asked me to be her girlfriend at a fancy dinner in a fancy jacket with fancy roses and a card; even when she kissed me on the subway; even when she told me how good I was for her, how much she admired me, I’d close my eyes and see her in the door frame, leaning into Sarah. “We never even had sex,” she’d assure me. “And when we kissed she had these, like, saliva ropes…gross, right?” It was gross, but it didn’t help. I wonder about that sometimes: did she get over the saliva ropes?
I learned about the other one through the subtle clues my ex-boyfriend left on social media: a scenic photo he’d tagged her in, a trip they’d taken together, and finally, a picture of her peering into the white light of a window with the caption, “Sarah.” After that the photos came thicker: a picture of her with his best friend’s toddler, photos of them together on weekends, on birthdays, on weekdays.
It wasn’t jealousy, exactly. Instead, I felt like the girl in The Lovely Bones who dies but stays in limbo, watching her loved ones move on. The hole was filled, the transition complete. I was finally superfluous as he’d been for me for months, years maybe. But a thing that’s unnecessary can still be missed. And I do, sometimes. But this Sarah I’m glad for.
I know what you’re thinking, but we didn’t break up over my jealousy — I buried that too deep for her to notice, most of the time. When it did surface, I’d get the same saliva-rope reassurance while she pulled farther and farther away down a tunnel of her own self-reflection. Her texts arrived hours apart, and then days. She stopped kissing me in public, or holding my hand. We went out for brunch with my mother, and she paid, joylessly.
It was the tunnel that finally drove us apart, she at one end and me at another. She’d been doing “a lot of thinking” and realized she couldn’t give me what I needed, wanted, deserved. After all, she’d broken up with her former girlfriend just weeks before we met — we’d moved too quickly. She didn’t mention Sarah.
Sometimes, I imagine myself in a room with the Sarah’s. We’re getting coffee together with a kind of conspiratorial intimacy. We sit down, and we talk about the people who’ve left their imprints on us (me) and who are still leaving them (her, and her). And they ask me for advice. I’m the wise one in this scenario, nothing like my raw and stupid self. So I listen to them, and I smooth their feathers. “He just does that sometimes,” I tell one Sarah. And to the other, “Here’s how to pull her back when she’s far away.” And I know that, if they weren’t both Sarah – if the universe hadn’t been quite as heavy-handed with its symbolism— I wouldn’t bother.
Far away in Texas, Sarah’s voice comes through the phone. “Sure,” she says. “Now is fine.”
Subway, pt. 471
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It’s January, and everyone looks lumpy and strange in their winter coats. I fell in love on the train tonight for the fourth time this week. January looked perfect on her and she had the type of hands that I can’t stop staring at: the knuckly sinewy type that you can practically feel just by looking. I laughed at my book and looked up to see if she’d noticed, and she hadn’t, she was listening to music with her eyes closed. When you fall in train love no one opens their mouths, which is good because I talk kind of crooked and she might’ve said something dumb. Instead I watched her hands and fell more in love and we got off at the same stop but she was faster, up the stairs and out of sight. “I love you,” I screamed at the back of her beanie, in my head.
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Married Again 10 December 2019 Update starts when Sarita watches herself in mirror after getting wet. Sheila looked tensed after coming back from date with Rohan. Sarita sees Sheila and asks her how was her date. Sheila says movie is fine but Sarita realize Sheila wants to tell something. Sheila tells Sarita that Rohan tried to come physically close to Sheila in car.
Sarita feels that there is something wrong with Rohan and he is trying to hide something behind the mask. Rohan is shown gifting gold set to some other girl which Raj gave as a gift for his mother. Sarita wakes up with fever and Raj tells her to rest. Raj also makes natural medicine for Sarita. Kamla tells Raj that they have to go to meet Rohan’s family. Sarita says she wants to go.
Sohan tells the priest to find a very pious date for the marriage. Sarita is tensed and all the more shocked, when she finds Rohan trying to slip his hand towards Shiela, trying to give her a rose, and Shiela awkwardly accepting it. He apologizes for yesterday and says that he wasn’t at fault, as she looked so beautiful that he couldn’t control himself. But this won’t is repeated again. raj finds Sarita tensed and asks about her health, and offers her tea. Sarita thanks him and takes the tea.
The priest tells them that the best date is two and a half months later. sohan is happy, and rohan’s mother says that she’s very happy and wants to get them asap. She asks the priest to find a nearer date. Rohan tells shiela teasingly that he wont be able to wait after 15 days. She is shy. The priest says that there’s a date aftre nine days, but the pious time is just for half an hour, and asks if they would be able to squeeze all the rituals into this half hour. rohan too agrees that there’s no need for all the rituals and they shouldnt discuss it and fix it rightaway. sarita says that its too soon, as its the first daughter’s marriage and they need time to plan it out.
Rohan’s father says that rohan is going for dubai fopr business purposes, and can go to honeymoon there too. His mother too supports it.
Sohan discusses with kamla about the fact that money would be doubles in marriage at such a hasty notice, and is tensed. rohan and his parents are indicating something with their eyes, amongst themselves. Sarita sees their eye talks and wonders what are they hiding. Rohan’s father says that gone are the days when the bride’s family always used to spend money, and now they would share half the cost. sohan instantly agrees to this proposal. sarita wonders why this eagerness.
Rohan’s mother asks to get sweets. A veiled lady comes with sweets. but while giving it to the fatso, she trips and all the sweets fall on the floor. Rohan helps the lady instantly. Kamla begins to reprimand the servant, and asks her salaray to be cut. Rohan’s mother says that they have given manners that they treat servants also like member of the family. Sarita is shocked at such care by rohan. raj asks what happened. sarita says that her saree is stained, and leaves with the excuse of washing it.
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While washing, she feels that there’s a marked difference between the rohan that they met earlier and now, and even the family’s haste in marrying. She decides to find out about the truth anyhow. As she comes out washing her saree, Sarita collides into the supposed servant, and asks her if in such modern times too, she always drapes herself in the veil, and is shocked to find that she’s wearing a costly diamond necklace, unbecoming of the girl’s servant status. she identifies it as the one that they had gifted his mother. She asks the girl if she really is the servant. The servant leaves in discomfort.
Sarita comes and interrupts rohan and the girls, who are going for a tour of the house. the girls leave awkwardly, while sarita says that she wants to talk to him. Sarita says that she wants to see the necklace that they gave to his mother. Rohan asks if there’s a problem. Sarita says that they just wanted to see the design so that it isnt the same for shiela. Rohan says that its in the almirah and he would just get it. Sarita wonders how is that possible. She notices the servant laying out the dishes. Raj comes and asks if sarita is tensed. She begisn to talk, but raj again gets busy in the phone.
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Rohan comes back with the necklace pack, and she opens it and is shocked to find the same necklace inside. He says that mom had said that when shiela came, only then would she wear it in the house. rohan says that she can take it if she wants. sarita says that that wont be required. Rohan leaves to keep the necklace. Sarita says that if the necklace is here, then it wont be in the servant’s neck. She asks the servant for a glass of water, and when she turns around, she is shocked when she finds the servant’s neck empty.
As the servant leaves, kamla comes and reprimands her again for trying to be close to rohan, and trying to break off his relation with shiela, and warns her against it. Sarita tries to make her understand that shiela is like her sister, and she’s trying to help her. she leaves, while kamla fumes.
Sarita thinks that she would have to talk to the servant and clear the matter. she searches around, and finds a servant, who identifies her as Kajri JI. He is tensed and leaves. Sarita thinks why would a servant be addressed as JEE. Sarita says that she would have to find out about Kajri Ji, before shiela’s marriage. Munni comes and tells her to come along.
Outside, The families greet each other, and rohan takes kamla’s and sohan’s blessings. They are scoffing that sarita hasnt come yet. as they go out to leave, rohan gets a call and excuses himself. Sarita is tensed when she finds rohan agitatedly making someone understanhding something, but she isnt able to see the face. Raj comes and takes her along.
Sarita wonders if she should tell raj, as he’s her brother after all, then wonders what would she tell when she doesnt have any proof. Sarita says that she just knows the name, Kajri Jii, and if she’s wrong, then there would a problem. She decides to find some proof first. as she begins to go, she accidentally knocks the diary of raj on the floor, and finds that it contains the qualities of the husband that raj deserves for her. As raj comes and says that she shouldnt read his secrets in his personal diaries. Sarita demands to know as there are no secrets involved in friendship. raj says that there are no secrets involved in any relation.
Raj demands the diary and she gives it to him. He teases around with her not giving her the diary back. finally he gives it to her, and he reads as to what raj is looking for in her future husband. While raj goes on to tell her, as she grows emotional, that that person wone let her cry, and give her the love, respect and trust that she deserves. Raj comes and says that he got her crying yet again, and has only given her ten years of sadness, and goes on to say that he’s very bad, but sarita stops him saying that his friend cant be bad.Married Again 10 December 2019 Update Zee World
Raj says that her friend is very bad, and when his friend, went on to find a husband for her, and thought about her qualities, he realised that the person who marries her is going to be so lucky. And therefore he has to be very cautious while selecting a husband for her. He asks if he made a mistake. Sarita says that all this is wrong, as he doesnt want to have a person like hin in her life. Raj says thats because he has completely failed as a husband, and if he wants an insensitive, and careless person like him.
Married Again 10 December 2019 Update ends as Sarita hugs him saying that she wants a person jsut like him, as only she can see the goodness in him. Raj asks why is she getting so emotional. Sarita says that she is so because he doesnt understand anything, as relations are based on emotions and he doesnt even realise that she loves him. then she is embarassed at what she just confessed while raj is surprised. Raj says that he’s one lucky chap to find an ideal wife like her. The screen freezes on her face.
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The Best New Books of November 2017
Big-name novels and indie press gems await.
by Adam Morgan
In November, we enter the two-month period of the year when people read—and purchase—the most books. Whether we’re flying to visit family, sitting on the couch after a warm meal, or just enjoying a few days off work, November and December bring plenty of extra reading time. Here are the 10 books we’re most thankful for at the Chicago Review of Books.
Catalina by Liska Jacobs
MCD x FSG, November 7
From MCD x FSG: “Elsa Fisher is headed for rock bottom. At least, that’s her plan. She has just been fired from MoMA on the heels of an affair with her married boss, and she retreats to Los Angeles to blow her severance package on whatever it takes to numb the pain. Her abandoned crew of college friends (childhood friend Charlotte and her wayward husband, Jared; and Elsa’s ex-husband, Robby) receive her with open arms, and, thinking she’s on vacation, a plan to celebrate their reunion on a booze-soaked sailing trip to Catalina Island. But Elsa doesn’t want to celebrate. She is lost, lonely, and full of rage, and only wants to sink as low as the drugs and alcohol will take her. On Catalina, her determined unraveling and recklessness expose painful memories and dark desires, putting everyone in the group at risk.”
They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us: Essays
By Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib
Two Dollar Radio, November 7
From Two Dollar Radio: “In an age of confusion, fear, and loss, Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib’s is a voice that matters. Whether he’s attending a Bruce Springsteen concert the day after visiting Michael Brown’s grave, or discussing public displays of affection at a Carly Rae Jepsen show, he writes with a poignancy and magnetism that resonates profoundly. In the wake of the nightclub attacks in Paris, he recalls how he sought refuge as a teenager in music, at shows, and wonders whether the next generation of young Muslims will not be afforded that opportunity now. While discussing the everyday threat to the lives of black Americans, Willis-Abdurraqib recounts the first time he was ordered to the ground by police officers: for attempting to enter his own car. In essays that have been published by the New York Times, MTV, and Pitchfork, among others—along with original, previously unreleased essays—Willis-Abdurraqib uses music and culture as a lens through which to view our world, so that we might better understand ourselves, and in so doing proves himself a bellwether for our times.”
Steal the Stars by Nat Cassidy
and Mac Rogers
Tor Books, November 7
From Tor Books: “Forbidden love, a crashed UFO, an alien body, and a dangerous heist: A noir science fiction novel based on the dramatic podcast by the award-winning Mac Rogers. Dakota “Dak” Prentiss guards the biggest secret in the world. They call it “Moss.” It’s your standard grey alien from innumerable abduction stories. Moss still sits at what looks like the controls of the spaceship it crash-landed twenty-five years ago. A secret military base was built around the crash site to study both Moss and the dangerous technology it brought to Earth. The day Matt Salem joins her security team, Dak’s whole world changes. It’s love at first sight—which is a problem, since they both signed ironclad contracts before joining the base security team, vowing not to fraternize with other military personnel. If they run away, they’ll be hunted for the secret they know. So Dak and Matt decide to escape to a better life on the wings of an incredibly dangerous plan: They’re going to steal the alien body they’ve been guarding and sell the secret of its existence. And they can’t afford a single mistake.”
Mean by Myriam Gurba
Coffee House Press, November 7
From Coffee House Press: “Gurba grows up queer, chicana, and take no prisoners. Her story is a revelation, a delight, and an eye-opener. True crime, memoir, and ghost story, Mean is the bold and hilarious tale of Myriam Gurba’s coming of age as a queer, mixed-race Chicana. Blending radical formal fluidity and caustic humor, Gurba takes on sexual violence, small towns, and race, turning what might be tragic into piercing, revealing comedy. This is a confident, intoxicating, brassy book that takes the cost of sexual assault, racism, misogyny, and homophobia deadly seriously.”
Oathbringer by Brandon Sanderson
Tor Books, November 14
From Tor Books: “In Oathbringer, the third volume of the New York Times bestselling Stormlight Archive, the War of Reckoning comes to a sudden and destructive close as a new, far greater threat appears on the field of battle, kindled by the deadly Everstorm. Dalinar and the Alethi forces take refuge in the legendary tower city of Urithiru, once home to the lost Knights Radiant. There, he and the newly raised Radiants must explore the mysteries of the legendary city to understand and train their powers. In doing so they must also face long-lost truths that could upend everything they think they know. Humanity faces a new Desolation, and with the return of the Voidbringers, an enemy as great in number as in their thirst for vengeance, the world of Roshar will never be the same. Unless the nations unite behind Dalinar, putting aside his blood-soaked past, even the restoration of the Knights Radiant will not prevent the end of civilization.”
Strangers in Budapest by Jessica Keener
Algonquin Books, November 14
From Algonquin Books: “Budapest: gorgeous city of secrets, with ties to a shadowy, bloody past. It is to this enigmatic European capital that a young American couple, Annie and Will, move from Boston with their infant son shortly after the fall of the Communist regime. For Annie, it is an effort to escape the ghosts that haunt her past, and Will wants simply to seize the chance to build a new future for his family. Eight months after their move, their efforts to assimilate are thrown into turmoil when they receive a message from friends in the US asking that they check up on an elderly man, a fiercely independent Jewish American WWII veteran who helped free Hungarian Jews from a Nazi prison camp. They soon learn that the man, Edward Weiss, has come to Hungary to exact revenge on someone he is convinced seduced, married, and then murdered his daughter. Annie, unable to resist anyone’s call for help, recklessly joins in the old man’s plan to track down his former son-in-law and confront him, while Will, pragmatic and cautious by nature, insists they have nothing to do with Weiss and his vendetta. What Annie does not anticipate is that in helping Edward she will become enmeshed in a dark and deadly conflict that will end in tragedy and a stunning loss of innocence.”
Future Home of the Living God
Harper Books, November 14
From Harper: “The world as we know it is ending. Evolution has reversed itself, affecting every living creature on earth. Science cannot stop the world from running backwards, as woman after woman gives birth to infants that appear to be primitive species of humans. Thirty-two-year-old Cedar Hawk Songmaker, adopted daughter of a pair of big-hearted, open-minded Minneapolis liberals, is as disturbed and uncertain as the rest of America around her. But for Cedar, this change is profound and deeply personal. She is four months pregnant. Though she wants to tell the adoptive parents who raised her from infancy, Cedar first feels compelled to find her birth mother, Mary Potts, an Ojibwe living on the reservation, to understand both her and her baby’s origins. As Cedar goes back to her own biological beginnings, society around her begins to disintegrate, fueled by a swelling panic about the end of humanity. There are rumors of martial law, of Congress confining pregnant women. Of a registry, and rewards for those who turn these wanted women in. Flickering through the chaos are signs of increasing repression: a shaken Cedar witnesses a family wrenched apart when police violently drag a mother from her husband and child in a parking lot. The streets of her neighborhood have been renamed with Bible verses. A stranger answers the phone when she calls her adoptive parents, who have vanished without a trace. It will take all Cedar has to avoid the prying eyes of potential informants and keep her baby safe.”
Mother of All Pigs by Malu Halasa
Unnamed Press, November 14
From Unnamed Press: “The Sabas family lives in a small Jordanian town that for centuries has been descended upon by all manner of invader, the latest a scourge of disconcerting Evangelical tourists. The border town relies on a blackmarket trade of clothes, trinkets , and appliances — the quality of which depends entirely on who’s fighting — but the conflict in nearby Syria has the place even more on edge than usual. Meanwhile, the Sabas home is ruled by women — Mother Fadhma, Laila, Samira, and now, Muna, a niece visiting from America for the first time — and it is brimming with regrets and desires. Clandestine pasts in love, politics, even espionage, threaten the delicate balance of order in the household, as generations clash. The family’s ostensible patriarch — Laila’s husband Hussein — enjoys no such secrets, not in his family or in town, where Hussein is known as the Levant’s only pig butcher, dealing in chops, sausages, and hams, much to the chagrin of his observant neighbors. When a long-lost soldier from Hussein’s military past arrives, the Sabas clan must decide whether to protect or expose him, bringing long-simmering rivalries and injustices to the surface. Enchanting and fearless, Halasa’s prose intertwines the lives of three generations of women as they navigate the often stifling, sometimes absurd realities of everyday life in the Middle East.”
Balcony in the Forest by Julien Gracq
Translated by Richard Howard
NYRB Classics, November 21
From NYRB: “It is the fall of 1939, and Lieutenant Grange and his men are living in a chalet above a concrete bunker deep in the Ardennes forest, charged with defending the French-Belgian border against the Germans in a war that seems unreal, distant, and unlikely. Far more immediate is the earthy life of the forest itself and the deep sensations of childhood it recalls from Grange’s memory. Ostensibly readying for war, Grange instead spends his time observing the change in seasons, falling in love with a young free-spirited widow, and contemplating the absurd stasis of his present condition. This novel of long takes, dream states, and little dramatic action culminates abruptly in battle, an event that is as much the real incursion of the German army into France as it is the sudden intrusion of death into the suspended disbelief of life. Richard Howard’s skilled translation captures the fairy-tale otherworldliness and existential dread of this unusual, elusive novel (first published in 1958) by the supreme prose stylist Julien Gracq.”
Djinn City by Saad Z. Hossain
From Unnamed Press: “Djinns live among us, and they aren’t happy about it — but Saad Hossain’s humor, acerbic wit, and infectious storytelling will make everything alright! Indelbed is a lonely kid living in a crumbling mansion in the super dense, super chaotic third world capital Of Bangladesh. His father, Dr. Kaikobad, is the black sheep of their clan, the once illustrious Khan Rahman family. A drunken loutish widower, he refuses to allow Indelbed go to school, and the only thing Indelbed knows about his mother is the official cause of her early demise: ‘Death by Indelbed.’ But When Dr. Kaikobad falls into a supernatural coma, Indelbed and his older cousin, the wise-cracking slacker Rais, learn that Indelbed’s dad was in fact a magician—and a trusted emissary to the djinn world. And the Djinns, as it turns out, are displeased. A ‘hunt’ has been announced, and ten year-old Indelbed is the prey. Still reeling from the fact that genies actually exist, Indelbed finds himself on the run. Soon, the boys are at the center of a great Djinn controversy, one tied to the continuing fallout from an ancient war, with ramifications for the future of life as we know it. Saad Z. Hossain updates the supernatural creatures Of Arabian mythology—a superior but by no means perfect species pushed to the brink by the staggering ineptitude of the human race.”
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Adam Morgan is the editor-in-chief of the Chicago Review of Books who writes about place, books, and the arts for The Paris Review, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, Chicago magazine, and elsewhere. He now lives in Charlotte, NC.
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Major Sandboxie News: Sandboxie is now a free tool with plans to transition it to an open source tool
Sophos is excited to announce that we are making Sandboxie a free tool, with plans to transition it to an open source tool.
This new evolution of Sandboxie is one we are enthusiastic about, but that does not mean this was an easy decision to make. Sandboxie has never been a significant component of Sophos’ business, and we have been exploring options for its future for a while.
Frankly, the easiest and least costly decision for Sophos would have been to simply end of life Sandboxie. However, we love the technology too much to see it fade away. More importantly, we love the Sandboxie community too much to do that. The Sandboxie user base represents some of the most passionate, forward thinking, and knowledgeable members of the security community and we didn’t want to let you down.
After thoughtful consideration we decided that the best way to keep Sandboxie going was to give it back to its users – transitioning it to an open source tool. We will release more information about the open source project as we continue to work on the details.
Until the open source transition is completed we have decided to make Sandboxie completely free. We have included a FAQ below with more information. We will continue to update this post as additional details become available.
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Sandboxie currently uses a license key to activate and grant access to premium features only available to paid customers (as opposed to those using a free version). We have modified the code and have released an updated free version that does not restrict any features. In other words, the new free license will have access to all the features previously only available to paid customers.
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Regardless of how much time might be left on your existing Sandboxie license, in order to receive the latest updates customers with currently valid license keys will also need to install the latest unrestricted free version . This will ensure you have access to all Sandboxie features and are using the most up-to-date version of the product.
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Simply download the unrestricted, free version. No current or previous license is required.
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What license agreement will apply to my existing, paid licenses? Will the same agreement apply to the unrestricted, free version that will be made available?
The license agreement under which you originally obtained the paid licenses to Sandboxie will continue to apply to those paid licenses until the expiration of the applicable license term. A new license agreement will apply to licenses of the new unrestricted, free version of Sandboxie made available for download.
An update EULA can be found here: https://www.sandboxie.com/EndUserLicenseAgreement
Will customer support still be available?
As part of our transition to a free and potentially open source product, Sandboxie support will become community based. The community will include developers directly involved with Sandboxie.
Seth Geftic
You can find the download links to download on https://www.sandboxie.com
tec tec
How long will the license server continue to work?
I currently have to stay on 5.28 and would re-enter the license key on the last day to have another 180 days.
Very good new! Hopefully this will mean many more years of Sandboxie.
soccerfan
In reply to Seth Geftic:
For XP users, will a free version of 5.22 (the last version for XP) also be released
with modified code that does not check for a license or restrict any features?
Akhilesh@Sophos
In reply to tec tec:
There are no plans to remove the license server in the foreseeable future. However, please update to the latest version to ensure your usage is not interrupted.
In reply to soccerfan:
There are no planes to create a free version for XP.
Vivaldo Sagese
Thank you for making Sandboxie open source, or at least for announcing you will. I guess if you won't maintain it anymore this is the best solution.
About the new update, is it just to remove the paid limitations or is there any other fix?
sand boxie2
First of all, thank you for the news Seth!
It's great to hear that sandboxie is going open source and it's a very generous gift to the community.
Sandboxie isn't the first thing Sophos has released for free for example their Sophos UTM Home Edition firewall which has been going for many years.
Sophos could have easily retired this at any time and with windows 10 updates are known to break things including sandboxie, it would have meant a very quick End of Life for the product.
So thankyou Sophos for your (admittedly long) announcement and heres to many more years of sandboxie!
In reply to Vivaldo Sagese:
Pedro López
In reply to Redacted:
All of you who think that Sandboxie goes open source are good news have considered who is going to continue developing it?
I doubt any Sophos team will do any work on it. If that happens... then what?
Do you know the abilities required to update a tool like Sandboxie? Do you think any average coder will be able to keep it up to date when a Windows update breaks something or a software stops working sandboxed?
Guys able to do such work earn lot of money and I doubt (I hope I'm wrong) anyone will want to do it for free.
So this announcement is, and again I hope to be wrong, the end of Sandboxie.
In reply to Akhilesh@Sophos:
Hello Akhilesh,
because of the problems with IE11 on Windos 7 I am back from the 5.30 to the 5.28.
https://community.sophos.com/products/sandboxie/f/forum/112574/5-30-breaks-internet-explorer-11-on-windows-7-x64-5-28-works
Is this fixed in 5.31.4?
In reply to Pedro López:
Let's face it, if Sophos thought it was worth continuing to develop Sandboxie, they wouldn't have discontinued it. Yes, this is the end of Sandboxie, but I'm still happy to know that knowledge won't be lost, whatever the code is actually worth. Even though right now it's just an announcement.
Said that, people do much more impressive things for free, like entire OSes, not to mention that most of the web runs on open source software. It doesn't have to be for free though, I'm willing to pay again for a product like Sandboxie.
And how many time take those impressive things for free to be done? Years!
Are you going to wait patiently for months when a software you use stop working?
Ronen (one person) used to create bug fixes in a matter of days or weeks. When the software was acquired by a company, what happened? Things went better or worst? Now imagine the software being developed by people that don't have any urgence to get things fixed.
Bite Me1
11 Sep 2019 1:45 AM
If Sandboxie had made money, Sophos would not be dumping it. This explains why there has been such poor support and little development for the last 3 years. So now the community is supposed to fix their own bugs. And yes, it will require experts. They will need to be kernel developers, know much windows internals, have the proper Microsoft driver signing tools, willing to work for free, a website for posting releases, etc. And it breaks every time a new Windows 10 build is released.
Perhaps these future Sandboxie developers will chime in on this thread and tell us of their plans to continue Sandboxie.
In reply to Bite Me1:
They will need to be kernel developers, know much windows internals, have the proper Microsoft driver signing tools, willing to work for free
Exactly, and you don't find that kind of people on every corner.
Not to mention the amount of time required to study and understand all the ins and outs of Sandboxie's code.
Sandboxie going open source have almost all chances to be the end of the software.
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Compact Review: St. Lucia’s Matter
Andy Stone February 23, 2016 Review
St. Lucia – Matter
Rating: 73/100
What’s your favorite candy? Imagine the taste in your mind’s mouth (if you can have a mind’s eye, you can definitely have a mind’s mouth). Imagine having unlimited access to that candy. It’d be sweet for a while because candy is delicious and sugar highs are fun but how long can you go before getting sick to your stomach or collapsing from post-sugar rush nap-olepsy? Welcome to St. Lucia’s sophomore album Matter, a synthy sugar rush of ear candy that approaches the brink of pop overindulgence.
Don’t get me wrong, Matter is a really fun record to listen to. St. Lucia aka Jean-Phillip Grobler has a real gift for synthesizer arrangements and soaring pop hooks. Tracks like “Home” and “Always” are sunny anthems that might have been huge hits if only they were born 30 years earlier. Despite the overwhelming influence of 80s pop, Grobler manages to keep his songwriting and production crisp enough to sound contemporary. “Dancing On Glass” and “Physical” hit the sweet spot between old and new with sharp vocal samples complimenting pounding synth bass arpeggios and breezy choruses.
As much as I can appreciate the blending of 80s pop tropes and modern flourishes, “Help Me Run Away” (cowritten with Jack Antonoff) is easily the most impressive song on the album and it’s pure 80s. Much of Matter seems comfortably accessible, if not borderline generic, but “Help Me Run Away” aims for more. It’s Grobler’s most compelling and enjoyable display of vision and execution but it also seems a bit like an outlier on Matter. This record struggles to balance the excessively saccharine with the substantial and perhaps that’s why the grandiose arrangements and cathartic climax of “Help Me Run Away” stand out so much. Grobler’s music sounds joyfully infectious on every track, but “Help Me Run Away” has a unique self awareness that simultaneously parodies and worships the 80s influences.
With their hand crafted approach to 80s leaning pop, Matter makes for an easy comparison to Carly Rae Jepsen’s 2015 cult hit EMOTION. While Jepsen was equally reliant on 80s influences, she infused a wider range of sounds and imbued them with greater depth. St. Lucia’s 80s nostalgia is more narrow in both scope and tone that’s exactly why, despite their superficial similarities, Matter can sound disposable while EMOTION sounds indispensable.
This album was introduced to me when my buddy sent me a link to Matter and enthusiastically proclaimed: “I’m only one track in, but the new St. Lucia is so far up your alley it’s almost comical.” He wasn’t wrong. I love crafty synth pop and Matter is a record I’ve had a lot of fun listening to over the past month since its release. Six months or a year from now, Matter might still be in my rotation. It might not. Either way, Matter is a really enjoyable record that delivers an ecstatic, if unsustainable, synth pop sugar high.
Top Tracks: “Help Me Run Away”, “Home”, “Rescue Me”
2016, carly rae jepsen, emotion, matter, st. lucia
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New Curling Stones!
With our sucessful 2018-2019 season, the Bozeman Curling Club board decided it was time to invest in new set of stones to replace the older metal handled stones that we purchased from Bozeman Parks and Rec. Those stones were intended for outdoor use and were somewhat mismatched (if you played leage on Sheet 1 you should have noticed the two black stones that were noticeably different and slower than the other stones in the set).
Once the decision was made, Ryan Anderson negotiated a deal with George of Philips Stone and Rink Supply (formerly Dakota Curling Supplies) of Langdon, ND to trade in these old rocks for stones of beautiful Red Trefor granite quarried in Wales + new handles (Olympic Red and Yellow) with markings of sheet and number. The new stones were lightly used by their former owners, which was a club in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
To get the stones here, Ryan and Pat Anderson loaded the 1344 lbs of the old rocks, hauling them to Langon, ND and hauled back the new rocks for an 1800 mile, 4 day round trip. We all need to give Ryan and Pat a hearty cheer of thanks. Thanks!
The price of the new stones was $366 ea + diesel, but we were able to get $200 ea for the old stones and handles, so the final cost to the club is very reasonable.
I am sure we are all looking forward to playing with our new stones this coming fall season. League starts on the first Sunday in November!
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The Dragon Who Wanted to Fly
January 27, 2018 / briefsalvage
Liam’s older sister, Riley stood in front of the hallway mirror putting wind-polish on the scales of her long, blue tail. She was proud of how the wind-polish made her dragon scales shine.
Liam stood next to her holding the small jar of polish where she could reach it.
Riley and her friends were going to flying practice. Liam wished he could go, too. He picked up Riley’s bright red cap with blue letters and yellow wings on the front and looked at it. When he went to flying school he would have one, too. He wished he could go today. He decided to ask.
Before he could open his mouth, Riley grabbed her cap from his hand and said, “I need to get my lunch bag.”
She put the cap on as she dashed to the kitchen.
Liam moved to the front of the mirror. He dipped one finger into the jar of polish and rubbed it on his own, short tail. He moved his tail up and down and back and forth admiring how shiny his scales looked.
Riley returned with the zipper bag their mother had packed for her lunch. When she saw Liam, she started to laugh.
“What are you doing with my polish?” she asked.
Liam dropped his head and said, “I thought you might let me go with you.”
“You’re too small,” she answered and took the polish jar from his hand.
“I could just watch you fly,” he said. Liam stepped away from the mirror and looked at his sister hopefully.
“You can’t come with me,” Riley said.
The baby dragon sighed by didn’t move away.
“Stop staring at me,” she shouted. “It isn’t my fault that your wings are too little.”
Liam started to cry. Riley was right. His wings were too little.”
Riley rolled her eyes and put the lid on the polish-jar. She set it carefully on the hallway shelf then turned back to him.
“I’m sorry I shouted,” Riley said gently. “Maybe you can come with me next year. When I get home from practice later, we can play fire-breathing together.”
She hugged her little brother and said, “I don’t want to be late for the bus.”
Liam sighed as she ran from the room.
He climbed onto the couch by the front room window and watched as Riley and her friends hurried down the sidewalk to the bus stop. The bus had open space inside of it and rails for small dragons to hold. But Riley and her friends flew up to the dragon perches on the top of the bus.
When the bus drove away Liam went to his cushion in the corner of his bedroom, turned in a circle to fluff the pillow just right then plopped down. He curled up with his chin resting on the base of his tail.
He was lonely. He closed his eyes tightly and pretended to be asleep.
“Maybe next year will come soon,” he thought to himself. “Next year I will be bigger. My wings will be gigantic!”
Later that day, when the bus dropped Riley off after flying class, she came running into the house calling out his name. “Liam! Liam!”
The baby dragon rose to his feet and shuffled slowly into the living room.
Riley had a large smile on her face. “This is for you,” she said and held out a cap.
Liam blinked his eyes and looked at it. It was bright red with blue letters on the front.
“It looks like the hat you wear to school,” Liam said.
“It is,” she answered. “Only it’s yours.”
She took the cap and placed it on his head. It was a too large, but she tilted it over one of his budding horns.
“Perfect,” she declared. She pointed one of her claws at the cap and read it for him. “Dragon School of Aviation”
Liam smiled and ran to the hallway mirror so that he could see himself.
“Perfect,” he agreed.
“That’s not all,” Riley said. “Next week, you can come with us. The flying teacher says that we can carry you in a carriage basket so that you can see what flying is like.”
“How will I get to the top of the bus?” Liam asked worriedly.
“You can ride inside,” his sister answered.
“By myself?” Liam asked.
Riley flicked one claw-finger along side her face and thought for a minute.
“We can pull you up with our tails,” she said. “That way you can sit with us.”
Liam looked back into the mirror at his hat and grinned happily.
The following week there were two zippered bags on the kitchen counter, and Riley helped him put wind-polish on his scales.
The flying teacher was a large, brown and red dragon. He held a clip board that he often clicked with one claw nail.
“Line up. Line up,” the flying teacher called out. “I know that all of you will be nice to our new student, Liam.”
With that the teacher walked over to a shed. When he came back out he handed a pair of goggles and a long spy-glass to Liam.
Riley helped her brother put on the goggles and showed him how to work the spyglass.
The teacher went back into the shed. He returned with a carriage basket that had long, bright ribbons tied along the edges.
“Liam will be your Navigator,” the teacher said. “While all of you are busy staying in the air, he will be using his spy glass to see all around you for any signs of danger. Who can tell me what dangers a flying dragon might face?”
“Hunters,” one student said.
“Bigger robber dragons,” another student said.
“Flash storms that come on suddenly,” a third student offered.
The teacher nodded. “As your Navigator, Liam will be responsible for watching out for all those things and more. Let’s get going.”
Liam looked around at the student dragons. He thought that they did not look happy about him being there. Except for Riley. She smiled at him.
“Two times around the field for warm up.” the flying teacher called out.
When they were ready to fly the third time, he said, “Each of you to pick up one of the ribbons. All of you lift it at the same time. Fly around the field holding it.”
The students leaped into the air. They flapped as hard as they could, but the basket did not come up off the ground.
BLEEEEEE! The teacher blew his whistle at them. They stopped trying to fly and gathered on the ground to listen to his instructions.
“You have to be able to lift it higher than buildings or trees so that no one gets hurt,” the teacher told him. “Keep trying. You’ll get there. Keep trying.”
The students tried four more times before the carriage-basket lifted. The teacher signaled for them to keep flying with it and turned to Liam.
“You are not going to up in the basket today,” he said.
Liam dropped his head sadly.
“When you come next week, you will, though,” he added.
Liam’s face brightened.
The teacher took Liam over to the exercise area and talked to him about how to keep his balance in the air. Then he told Liam to stand on a long board with a ball underneath it. Every time Liam fell off, the teacher made him try again.
By the time practice ended, Liam was very tired. Since he was too tired to ride on the top of the bus, Riley rode inside the bus with him on the way home.
At practice the next week, the dragons were able to lift the carriage basket right away.
They flew around the field twice carrying it easily.
It was time for Liam to ride in the carriage basket. Liam was so nervous he almost started to shake.
Riley called out, “Hurry up.”
He looked at his sister in embarrassment. She stood with the other dragons, holding her ribbon. All the student dragons were smiling at him. He swallowed to hide his fear then quickly climbed into the basket. He held the spyglass under one front leg. Straightening his shoulders, he pulled his goggles over his eyes.
The student flapped and flapped and the carriage basket tipped to one side. Liam shifted the other way and it leveled off.
Suddenly, they were flying, straight and true. Really and truly flying!
The air stung his face, but his goggles protected his eyes.
The wind-polish his sister put on his scales helped the wind slide over them.
As they flew higher, things on the ground looked smaller and smaller.
Suddenly, his left wing twitched. He thought he imagined it. Then his right wing twitched. Then both wings twitched. He opened them as wide as his little wings would go. The wind rushed across the webbing.
He looked up and saw that the dragon team was watching him.
All at once they lifted their heads and roared. Liam lifted his head to roar, but instead, coughed. He coughed one more time. Then he was roaring right along with everyone else.
As he finished roaring, Liam saw something out of the corner of his eye. Pushing his goggles to his forehead, he set the spy glass against one eye. He twisted it into focus.
In the distance he saw another young dragon, about the same age as Riley, spinning toward the ground. One wing was hurt.
Liam roared at his teammates and pointed. Together they turned the carriage basket and headed to the desperate dragon.
On the practice field, the flying teacher scratched his head in confusion. He shouted, “What are doing? Stay in your own area.”
They heard the teacher, but went on.
When the carriage basket team reached the injured dragon, Riley dropped her ribbon. She wrapped her tail around him, and she pulled him into the basket. It tipped to one side as she dragon dropped beside her brother, so Liam shifted his weight to keep the basket level.
Riley grabbed her ribbon again, and they flew back to the practice field. When they landed, the teacher helped the injured dragon out and told him on the ground.
“What happened?” the teacher asked.
“I flew too low,” the student dragon said. “My wing ripped on tree branches. When I flew back up, it tore all the way apart.”
“You should have landed right away,” the teacher said. He peered closely at the torn wing and hissed kindly. “Rest here. I will get help.”
The dragons on Liam’s flying team, stood around the hurt dragon. Some asked him questions. Some walked a little bit away and sit down to wait.
After being so excited and working so hard to save the dragon, Liam felt lost. He did not know what to do next. He thought he should do something, but he did not know what.
He picked up his spyglass, adjusted his goggles, and started to walk back the starting field.
Behind him his sister called out, “Liam! Liam, wait.”
He turned around and saw all the dragons and the flying teacher looking at him.
“Good work, Navigator,” the teacher said, smiling.
Liam adjusted his aviator cap. He flapped both his little wings.
“No big deal,” he said, grinning.
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Nadal fit and ready for hardcourt challenge at U.S. Open
NEW YORK – Rafa Nadal was forced out of the U.S. Open last year in the semi-finals with a knee injury but the in-form Spaniard on Friday declared himself fit and ready for the punishing hardcourts at Flushing Meadows.
Nadal’s hopes of defending his 2017 U.S. Open title last year were crushed when his chronic knee issues forced him to retire while trailing Juan Martin del Potro 7-6(3) 6-2 after a number of long and gruelling matches.
Yet Nadal, whose U.S. Open tune-up this year featured a victory in Montreal, where he earned a record-extending 35th ATP Masters 1000 title, arrives at the year’s final Grand Slam feeling much better about his health.
“My feeling on the knees are better this year than last year. Last year the problem was I played three or four very, very long matches. That’s tough,” Nadal said during a U.S. Open Media Day inside Louis Armstrong Stadium.
“I hope to be ready for it. I think I am playing well. I am practising the right way during these days. Of course, winning in Montreal helps. I am ready for the action.”
Those are encouraging words for Nadal, who last year showed signs of distress almost from the start of his semi-final as he limped noticeably, grimaced with every sudden move and called for the trainer during a changeover in the second set.
The 33-year-old Spaniard, who cited fatigue as his reason for skipping a U.S. Open warm-up in Cincinnati after winning in Montreal, said he has been focussed on arriving in New York and adapting to the conditions.
Nadal, who would move to within one Grand Slam of Roger Federer’s all-time record 20 with a triumph in New York, said he has practised well all week and is brimming with confidence.
“My last events have been win Rome, win in Roland Garros, semi-finals in Wimbledon, and winning Montreal,” said Nadal.
“That’s a positive feeling, positive memory on my mind. That helps for the confidence, helps for the positive feelings.”
(Reporting by Frank Pingue; Editing by Toby Davis)
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‘Free lunch lottery’ as Scotland’s children go back to school
Campaigners call for government to deliver on promise of free school lunches
Pupils starting school this week face a ‘free lunch lottery’, and not the free meals promised by the Scottish Government and local authorities, say school meals campaigners. Council leaders and Ministers had committed to roll out free school lunches to all P1 to P3 pupils from this week, but only one council, West Dunbartonshire, looks set to deliver. Elsewhere a postcode lottery of school lunch entitlement is emerging as councils and Ministers backtrack on the commitment. Some councils plan to target schools in disadvantaged areas, some to prioritize P1 pupils and others not to introduce a universal approach to school lunches at all.
Campaigners say a universal approach to healthy free school lunches can play a vital role in boosting children’s health and education, as well as relieving the pressure on hard pressed family budgets. They are calling on local authorities and Scottish Ministers to work together to deliver the free school lunch promise by the start of the next school year.
John Dickie, head of the Child Poverty Action Group in Scotland and a leading member of the Scottish Free School Meals Campaign, said;
“It’s a huge blow that local authorities and Ministers have failed to deliver on their school lunch promise. However it’s never too late and council leaders and Ministers now need to work together to deliver free school lunches to all P1 to P3 pupils by the start of the next school year. Public finances may be under severe pressure but so are our children and families. It is they that need to be prioritized in all spending decisions.”
Poverty Alliance Director, Peter Kelly, added his voice to the call, saying;
“Free school lunches for all P1 to P3 pupils are a key plank in national anti-poverty strategy. Failure to deliver undermines progress to tackle poverty at a time when an increasing number of families are facing real financial hardship.”
Marion Davis, Policy Manager at One Parent Families Scotland, another member of the Free School Meals Campaign, added;
“Free healthy school meals can play a vital role in tackling health inequalities, boosting children’s readiness to learn and tackling poverty by freeing up much needed resources in hard pressed family budgets. It really is time for councils and the Scottish Government to deliver on their promise”.
John Dickie, Head of CPAG in Scotland, on 0141 552 3656 or 07795 340 61802
A universal approach to free school meals in primary school is supported by a massive cross section of Scottish society, including children and families charities such as Children 1st, Save the Children, Action for Children (NCH), Children in Scotland and One Parents Families Scotland; trade unions and professional associations including the STUC, EIS, Association of Headteachers and Deputes Teachers (AHDS), RCN (Scotland), Scottish Women’s Convention, Unison; anti-poverty groups such as the Poverty Alliance; faith groups including members of the Scottish Churches Social Inclusion Network and the Church and Society Council of the Church of Scotland; health boards and academics
Evaluation of the Scottish pilot free school meal programme for P1 to P3 pupils (http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Resource/Doc/236867/0064986.pdf )shows that universal provision massively boosts take up of healthy school meals as well as relieving pressure on family budgets:
take up of free school meals increased from 53% to 75%
amongst children already entitled to free school meals take-up also rose (by up to 8.5 percentage points)
“..the trial…impacted positively on the home environment of pupils,” and, “.. the simple benefit of increasing disposable income was particularly evident amongst parents with more than one child.”
Press release Scotland
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Places To Visit In Colombo
I would describe Sri Lanka as a Jewel shaped country that stands in the Indian Ocean. Colombo is the former capital of Sri Lanka and also the largest city which offers a number of festivals, historic moments, shopping, fine dining, beaches, events and lot more. There are numerous exciting places to visit in Colombo and things to do in Colombo to make your trip a complete enjoyable package.
1. National Museum in Colombo
If you have a keen desire for architecture, and a history lover then national museum must be the first place to visit. This is the biggest museum located in the island nation and was established in the year 1877. The museum has exhibits of many personalized and best collections of the famed Kandyan dynasty rulers.
2. Dehiwala Zoo in Colombo
When discussing the tourist places in Colombo, the Dehiwala zoo or the National Zoological garden was one which was developed during 1936 in order to protect a wide range of birds and wild animals. Do not forget to watch the astonishing performances of chimpanzees, elephants and sea lions.
3. Kelaniya Raja Maha Vihara In Colombo
This is a significant place to see in Colombo, which is the Buddhist temple and people believed that Buddha preached here for nearly 2000 years. There an awesome carving of the reclining Buddha and this place is important for the annual Perahera during the month of January.
4. The Viharamahadevi Park in Colombo
One of the Colombo attractions is the Viharamahadevi Park is located just nearby the national museum. The natural history museum and national art gallery are considered the largest park. They are famed for their water channels, flowering trees, and fountains. The other end of the park has a pristine white domed town hall.
How To Reach Colombo
Colombo is next to Sri Lanka’s international airport called Katunayake. There are regular buses from the airport, which leads to Colombo. Also, Colombo has a good network of public transportation, which are buses and trains. Three wheelers and taxis are also available in Colombo.
Best Time To Visit Colombo
Colombo has a fairly temperate climate throughout the year and hence traveling can be planned anytime during the year. Monsoon season where heavy rainfall occurs from October-January and may-august can be avoided.
Colombo places to visit can be exciting and enjoyable for tourists and would make their trip an exciting one.
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5 Key Takeaways From ESTO 2018
August 21, 2018 Amrita Gurney
Braving the Arizona sun in mid-summer might raise a few eyebrows, but for those that attended ESTO 2018 the destination and venue could not have been more perfect.
Between the pool at the JW Marriott Phoenix Desert Ridge Resort & Spa and the conference happening within, CrowdRiff’s third visit to ESTO was a perfect balance of productivity and relaxation. The only downside of the event is that were so many concurrent sessions that looked interesting, so I was only able to attend a fraction.
Here are my top takeaways (and some fun photos!) from ESTO 2018:
1) There’s a New Visual Format in Town
As I shared in our ESTO Learning Lab, the rise of Instagram and Facebook Stories as well as AirBnB Experiences has led to a growing emphasis on creating content that is vertical, brief and temporary. The new format will challenge digital marketers to get more creative when telling visual stories on key social media platforms. For example, a tall building might fit naturally into a vertical format, but a landscape shot will now require some creative panning. It also makes it challenging to repurpose existing b-roll. This more temporary format also favors shorter bursts of content over longer takes. As a result, marketers will be challenged to use both images and videos to tell a big story in smaller pieces.
An Instagram Story from Visit New Orleans
2) It’s As Important to Share Our Failures As It Is Our Successes
One of the reasons why I love ESTO is that it exposes attendees to honest and unfiltered advice, even when the stories behind the lessons are tough to share. In a session titled Flip or Flop Marketing: Unexpected Successes and Unfortunate Misses, attendees were treated to both easy and the hard-learned lessons. After all, so much of what we do as marketers—especially in the travel and tourism industry—is so public, and we don’t always get things right. Hearing those candid stories really helps bring us together as a community, one that learns from each other. Kudos to Tom at Visit Hollywood for sharing their painful story about an unsuccessful rebranding effort. I think every marketer in the room felt their heart sink during his presentation!
3) Brand Building (or Rebuilding) Takes Time
One of the more interesting presentations I happened to catch during my time at ESTO 2018 was delivered by Visit Panama City Beach, a destination in Florida that had struggled to shed its reputation as a spring break party town. Media reports of the annual festivities had tainted the town’s reputation through the remaining 50 weeks of the year, so much so that its city council moved to ban alcohol from its beaches a few years ago. Though the DMO didn’t participate in the decision they moved quickly after it was finalized to rebuild its brand as a family-friendly vacation destination. During the conference representatives explained how they got the local community involved in rebranding the town in stark contrast to its former reputation. It took sustained effort over multiple years, and after nearly three years they are proud to see visitors of all ages enjoying their alcohol-free beach.
Lessons from Visit Panama City Beach
4) Sharing Best Practices in Quickly Evolving Tech Landscape
Technology is a vital part of any marketer’s job, and with the rapid advancement of industry tools it can be difficult to establish best practices before they’re obsolete. One of the reasons why this event is so important to our industry is because it gives digital marketers an opportunity to compare notes on how best to use the new tools at their disposal. Through a series of sessions titled Hacks and How-Tos on Digital Marketing panelists shared some useful tips and tricks that can help maximize their potential. Special shoutout to Chad Hays from Visit Phoenix for his deep dive into how they use CrowdRiff. With over 200 CrowdRiff galleries on their website, Chad shared his logical and manageable workflow to keep content up to date, ensuring that their most viewed content stays fresh and their lower traffic pages aren’t forgotten.
Chad Hays dropping knowledge bombs at #ESTO18
5) The Industry Is Still About People
Despite us all spending more time on our devices than ever before, ESTO ’18 really drove home the importance of maintaining face-to-face relationships. While we have the tools to communicate at a distance there’s really no substitute for in-person conversation. Each session and presentation was informative and inspiring in its own way, but the best part of ESTO for me were the casual conversations you have in the hallways or over a drink with partners, customers and friends. Especially in such a tight-knit industry like ours, it’s important to travel for work, and equally as important to leave a little bit of room to unwind and connect during each adventure.
Shout out to whomever is handling @USTravelESTO’s social. Helpful, engaging others, and funny. This is what social is about. Well played! #esto18.
— Jarrod Lyman (@jarrodlyman) August 14, 2018
ESTO is a must-attend event for our team, and we are already looking forward to next year’s event in Austin, Texas. See you there!
Amrita Gurney is the Vice President of Marketing at CrowdRiff, where she leads a team responsible for brand, content, product marketing and demand generation. Amrita loves contemporary art, museums, drinking tea and travelling (of course!).
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KARSTEN HEUER: A LIFE
SHAPED BY THE Y2Y VISION
By Lynn Martel
Karsten Heuer is known for many things, in particular big journeys across the Canadian landscape. In this in-depth interview with the conservationist, biologist and author, Lynn Martel uncovers what has inspired his journeys, and where they’ve brought him today.
Karsten and Leanne in the Muskwa Kechika protected area complex of northern BC, 1999. Photo by Karsten Heuer.
The idea was simple: Karsten Heuer, a wildlife biologist, wondered how much wilderness was left intact amidst a landscape disrupted by roads, seismic lines and other human development along the Yellowstone to Yukon (Y2Y) corridor. For answers, in 1998 he decided to travel the spine of the Rockies – 3,400 kilometres – on foot, skis and by canoe. He was stalked by bears, barely survived crossing raging rivers, and received death threats from misinformed locals he met along the way.
His landmark journey ended in Watson Lake, Yukon, after travelling 188 days in three separate sections over the course of 18 months. For Heuer – who shared the adventure in his spellbinding book, Walking the Big Wild, and recently wrapped up a term serving as President of the Y2Y Conservation Initiative – hiking Y2Y turned out to be just the beginning.
LM/ What early memories of nature do you cherish?
KH/ My folks immigrated to Canada from Germany just before I was born. Growing up in Calgary, we spent every weekend in Banff or Kananaskis cross-country skiing, hiking or fishing. My dad was a fanatical fisherman – get up at 3 a.m. and hike four kilometres in the dark to a backcountry lake to be there at dawn. Those early mornings – birds singing, mist rising off the lake, the vanilla scent of pines hanging in the air – really stick in my mind. Whenever I see, hear or smell those things now I feel like I’ve returned home.
LM/ What did you study?
KH/ I studied ecology at the University of Calgary. It was a second choice after veterinary medicine- that’s because I was allergic to everything with fur and four feet. I got on with Parks Canada as a student working for a wildlife biologist and pretty much never returned to the city after that.
LM/ How did you first learn about Y2Y?
KH/ Harvey Locke, a Calgary-based environmental lawyer, who co-founded Y2Y, gave a presentation at the Banff Library. It was the mid-1990s and a lot of things were coming together to suggest national parks and other reserves weren’t big enough if we really wanted to save nature. Radio collars were new technology showing us animals like wolves and grizzly bears frequently crossed provincial, state and international borders. Genetic analyses were discerning that the grizzly bears in Yellowstone were becoming inbred because they were trapped on an island. Satellite imagery was beginning to reveal how our protected areas were becoming completely surrounded by roads, clearcuts, seismic lines and other human development. Meanwhile, I was working on a wildlife tracking study around Banff and one of our study animals, a radio-collared wolf, had just gone from Banff to northern Montana to Idaho to BC.
Everything Harvey was talking about – the need to think big and to conserve wildlife corridors from Yellowstone to the Yukon – made perfect sense.
A handful of the 120,000 caribou Karsten and Leanne followed for five months through northern Yukon and Alaska in 2003. Photo by Karsten Heuer.
LM/ What inspired your Y2Y journey?
KH/ Y2Y was such a great idea that I needed to tell others, and do it in as compelling a way as possible. I decided to try and be one of those grizzly bears, wolves or wolverines making the journey; to walk, step-by-step, from Y to Y and see what barriers did and didn’t exist along the way.
LM/ How did you decide on the parameters?
KH/ I wanted to travel a line that a grizzly or wolverine might take, which meant taking the wildest route possible. It turned out to be 3,400 kilometres long, took a year and a half of walking, skiing and paddling, and meant getting food caches into some pretty remote places by bush plane, especially in northern BC.
LM/ How much did you know about long-distance wilderness travel?
KH: Not much! I had to seek advice from seasoned long-distance wilderness travellers. Don Gardner didn’t only tell me how to hang food caches to keep them from the jaws of hungry wolverines, but he came on a multi-day ski trip to place one of those caches. We’ve been great friends ever since.
LM/ What were the journey’s highlights?
KH: There were a lot: seeing bears and wolverines in some of the wildest places in the world, getting to the other side after swimming some pretty big rivers, and meeting some incredibly dedicated conservationists who know and love the places where they live. Perhaps that was the most rewarding aspect of the trip – stopping in communities to give presentations and media interviews along the way, and each time getting a deep education about all the things that made that place special. I remember always heading back to the trailhead to continue walking with a much deeper appreciation for where I was heading and where I’d been.
LM/ What were your biggest challenges?
KH/ We’d hired a publicist to go ahead and set up presentations and media interviews. We were making a pretty big splash by the end of the first year, so much so that some of the resource industry types – Fording Coal and the Forestry Alliance of BC – started mounting an anti-Y2Y campaign full of misinformation. Some of the crowds that showed up for our small town presentations were pretty angry and combative. We had death threats. I had to learn how to communicate effectively in some pretty stressful situations.
LM/ What were your greatest blessings?
KH/ I came to realize that one of my long-time friends, Leanne Allison, who joined me for some of the toughest sections of the journey including the entire second half, would make a pretty good wife. We got married soon after the trip was over and have been soul and trip mates ever since.
One of the dozns of grizzlies Leanne and Karsten encountered while walking from Y to Y. Photo by Karsten Heuer.
LM/ Did you think you’d be an author before your Y2Y journey?
KH/ No. McClelland & Stewart saw an article about the trip in the Globe and Mail just as I was leaving. He called and asked me if I’d ever thought about writing a book. I said no, I was too busy just planning the thing and now I was going to be pretty consumed doing it. He said I should think about it, take good notes about what happened, and call him when I was done. A year and a half later, I did.
LM/ How did Y2Y inspire Being Caribou?
KH/ By the time we’d finished the Y2Y Hike we knew we had a pretty good model for telling a conservation story to a lot of people: we’d done more than 200 presentations, news stories had run in hundreds of North American magazines, papers and on local, regional and national radio and TV. We decided to do it again, only this time we wouldn’t just symbolically walk where the animals might travel – we’d try and follow 120,000 caribou on foot and in real time.
LM/ How did you come to be Y2Y President?
KH/ I was ready for a different kind of challenge and to take what I had learned in town halls and on the trail into the political halls and corporate boardrooms of the Rocky Mountain West. And I loved it.
LM/ What did you feel you could contribute?
KH: I was, and continue to be, passionate about the Y2Y vision and wanted to contribute that passion and energy to specific outcomes on the ground, whether it be building more wildlife overpasses across highways, securing more private land from subdivision and development, and getting more parks and wildlife corridors designated on public lands. I wanted to use my authentic voice and experiences in the region to inspire and motivate others to contribute to the vision for a connected and protected system of wild lands and wild waters in one of the most hopeful landscapes on Earth.
LM/ What did you learn?
KH/ Pacing. If anything, I came out of the start gate a little too hot and keen. I wanted to do too much too quickly and when things didn’t go as quickly as I’d hoped I took it personally. It was a demanding job and I burned out pretty fast. It was a big lesson in setting realistic goals for myself and letting go of things I can’t control.
Karsten Heuer in the Panther River Valley where he’s working to reintroduce bison to Banff National Park, 2015. Photo by Karsten Heuer.
LM/ How did being Y2Y President fit in your life story?
KH/ It felt pretty natural, especially at the beginning. Although it didn’t work out for the long-term I have no regrets. I met and worked with a lot of great and committed people. I learned a lot about political strategy. I got to flex all those communication muscles I grew in those small town community halls during the Y2Y Hike but with more of a platform behind me. And I got to see for myself that this grand vision we’ve all been working on for two decades really is possible. Since I first heard Harvey Locke utter the words “Yellowstone to Yukon” in Banff in 1994, the amount of protected land in the region has nearly doubled, and other conservation designations (some of which function as wildlife corridors) have increased by 30 times.
LM/ Do you see Y2Y playing a role in your future?
KH/ Absolutely. I continue to work for the Y2Y Conservation Initiative formally as a part-time contractor and strategic advisor, and informally as an ambassador. I’ll be a lifelong ambassador. This stretch of mountains where I grew up and still live is in my blood and breath and I’ll die trying to conserve as much of it as I can. Not for my sake but for the wild beauty of self-willed life.
LM/ What’s next?
KH/ I’ve returned to my roots as a wildlife biologist. I’m working a day job to reintroduce a free-roaming herd of Plains bison to Banff National Park. I’m also chipping away at some wildlife corridor projects in the Bow Valley (outside the Park) and a couple of personal writing projects. And Leanne and I are openly talking about dusting off the hiking boots and revisiting much of the Y2Y trip 20 years later – this time with our son.
Author of two books of adventure and nine mountain biographies, Lynn Martel explores the Canadian Rockies backcountry by skis, boots, camera and the written word.
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Mozilla Releases Annual Privacy Guide to Holiday Shopping
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| December 5 2018
The Mozilla Foundation has released the second installation of *Privacy Not included, the organization’s annual privacy guide to internet-connected gifts. The list was started to promote the idea that privacy and security by design can and should be a major selling point.
Mozilla is the non profit organization behind the popular open source Firefox web browser. It released the guide to educate consumers about privacy and tech, by providing a list of connected devices ranked by privacy and security. The list comes out around the holidays to help consumers give great internet-connectable gifts that don’t compromise privacy and security
“It seems both consumers and companies are starting to see the value in connected products that are safe, secure, and private,” said Mozilla on their blog.
The guide reviews 70 products across six categories organized by Mozilla’s proprietary “Creep-O-Meter,” a vote-based system that allows consumers to rank products on a scale of “Not Creepy” to “Super Creepy” based on privacy settings. Each product also has an individualized report, answering such questions as “Can it spy on me?” “What does it know about me?” “Can I control it?” and “What could happen if something goes wrong?”
The Nintendo Switch, a mobile/home gaming hybrid console, enjoys top spot on the “Not Creepy” list this year. The device boasts encryption, automatic security updates, parental controls, and a policy of deleting user data, among other privacy and security features. Google and Amazon’s smart home appliances were not deemed un-creepy, with Google Home, Amazon Echo, and Amazon Dot all garnering a consumer shudder among those who shared their opinion with Mozilla.
At the very bottom of the “Not Creepy” list? The FREDI Baby Monitor, which has an unprotected camera and microphone, no privacy policy, a default password (it’s “123”), and no automatic security updates.
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Rani's 'Hichki' Among Top-Selling Movies Of 2018 In India At Google Play
IANS, 04 Dec, 2018
Rani Mukerji-starrer "Hichki" has found a place in a list of the top five movies sold in India at Google Play Store this year.
Google India on Monday announced this year's top content across apps, games, movies, TV and books on Google Play.
"Black Panther", "Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle", "Justice League", "Deadpool 2" were the other four movies among the top five.
"Drops: Learn 31 new languages" which has been downloaded over 1 million times in just about a year emerged as the best app of 2018, Google India said.
The most loved game among Indian users this year was PUBG Mobile.
Among the books that made it to the top five list were "How to make money in intraday trading" by Ashwani Gujral, "Hands on computer science & IT" by Professor Neelima, "Calling Sehmat" by Harinder Sikka, "Will you still love me?" by Ravinder Singh and "Factfulness: Ten reasons we're wrong about the world - and why things are better than you think" by Hans Rosling.
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681 Re: The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story on Fri Jan 25, 2019 12:25 am
SAG Awards this Sunday! Darren is nominated and Harry Shum is SAG Awards ambassador!
Via Darren Criss Army:
Via Joey Richter’s Instagram Story, January 24, 2019
(Source: instagram.com)
682 SAG (Screen Actors Guild) Awards (January 27, 2019) on Sun Jan 27, 2019 11:42 pm
SAG (Screen Actors Guild) Awards (January 27, 2019)
Congrats to Darren for his SAG Award tonight. Very happy for him!
YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f22Sh3HfH9w
Aw, Love how supportive Jon Jon has been.
“YES!!!!! An Emmy, a Golden Globe and now a SAG award!!! Congratulations my brother @darrencriss !!!”
~ Jon Jon Briones via IG
Look at all the talented people of color in this pic--love seeing these folks together with their respective films and TV shows being so well received and representing their communities! And love seeing Harry and Darren together like the old days!
Fiona Xie, Darren Criss, Harry Shum Jr., Michael B. Jordan, Danai Gurira, and Henry Golding attend PEOPLE’s Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards Gala sponsored by L'Oreal Paris at The Shrine Auditorium on January 27, 2019 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for People Magazine)
Sterling K. Brown, Darren Criss, Michael B. Jordan, Danai Gurira & Lupita Nyong'o at People’s Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards Gala Sponsored by L'Oreal Paris, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Photo: Eric Charbonneau / Shutterstock
Sterling K. Brown, Darren Criss, Michael B. Jordan, Danai Gurira, and Lupita Nyong'o attend PEOPLE’s Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards Gala sponsored by L'Oreal Paris at The Shrine Auditorium on January 27, 2019 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for People Magazine)
Michael B. Jordan & Darren Criss at the SAG Awards
Harry Shum Jr., Henry Golding, Darren Criss & Danai Gurira
Source: “PEOPLE’s SAG Awards Afterparty Was the Place to Be”
Anderson brothers reunion!
“Two hunks deep in conversation.”
Matt Bomer & Darren Criss
~ Jessica Radloff via her IG story
Darren Criss and Ricky Martin attend the 25th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards at The Shrine Auditorium on January 27, 2019 in Los Angeles, California.
(Photos by Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images)
Darren Criss bows to Courtney B. Vance and Angela Bassett as they arrive at the 25th annual Screen Actors Guild Awards at the Shrine Auditorium & Expo Hall, in Los Angeles.
Photo: Jordan Strauss / Invision / AP / Shutterstock
Darren Criss and Laverne Cox attend the 25th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards at The Shrine Auditorium on January 27, 2019 in Los Angeles, California.
(Photo by John Shearer/Getty Images for People Magazine)
Darren Criss attends the 25th annual Screen Actors Guild Awards at The Shrine Auditorium on January 27, 2019 in Los Angeles, California.
(Photo by Sarah Morris/Getty Images)
“Last awards show of the season with this NOMINEE #DARRENCRISS Custom @armani x #SAGAwards #AWerk #ACSVersace”
~ Ashley Weston via IG
Darren & Mia at the 25th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards, Arrivals, Los Angeles, USA, 27 Jan 2019
Photos: Rob Latour / Shutterstock
Photo from the night before (January 26) with Cody and Sara (and Darren)
Nice photobomb, Darren!
Leslie Grossman, Cody Fern and Sara Paulson at the EW pre-SAG Awards party, January 26, 2019
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Darren Criss wins Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie for ‘The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story’ during the 25th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards at The Shrine Auditorium on January 27, 2019 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for Turner/Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images/Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for Turner)
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yongchavezLA: Thank you sooo much, @DarrenCriss and Michael, for making sure you got to us. (He had to go through the SAG photo labyrinth to get to us.) #pinoypride
683 SAG (Screen Actors Guild) Awards (January 27, 2019) on Mon Jan 28, 2019 11:57 pm
I'm glad that Darren did this for his fellow cast members. I'm sure they all appreciate this sweet message of thanks from Darren. And also, I forgot to mention yesterday, that I really thought it was wonderful that Darren thanked all the day actors and guest actors who were a part of ACS Versace, in his speech last night. Well done, Darren. Both messages are very classy, very gracious.
Darren thanking folks involved with ACS Versace after winning the SAG Award, part 1
“ Any @sagaftra actor can attest- it takes a village. I’m so proud to have been part of such a stellar ensemble of performers… Not a single one of which I truly didn’t have a GREAT time with. The cast of @americancrimestoryfx was something truly special. Regardless if I actually had scenes with them or not, these are just SOME of the @sagaftra members that made this such an amazing experience for me, on and off camera. I hope they know that just in saying each of their names, I think fondly on our individual time together and am so grateful for their talent and warmth of spirit.
~ Darren via IG
Aw, love this genuine, sincere message from Mr. R.P. Murphy. I'm so happy for Darren that he has Ryan's support, with Ryan being such a talent, such a visionary. Hope that Darren continues to have opportunities to work with Ryan in the future, and even aside from that, I'm grateful that Ryan shares with the world his projects through which he makes such critical statements about social injustices.
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Don't Miss These 3 Poignant SAG Awards Speeches
Chadwick Boseman, Sandra Oh and Darren Criss delivered odes to representation and solidarity from the SAG Awards.
Source: https://www.colorlines.com/articles/dont-miss-these-3-poignant-sag-awards-speeches
Lovely pic with such talented folks (cast of Crazy Rich Asians, Black Panther, Bohemian Rhapsody, and ACS Versace).
Darren with Harry Shum Jr & Ken Jeong at the SAG Awards.
~ Via Harry’s IG story
So nice to see real friendships built from this project. Edgar is so sweet.
edgarramirez25 ¡Campeón!• Champion! @sagawards #sagawards #acsversace
So nice of Darren to make time for fans. This is so him.
Darren poses for pix with fans after the SAG Awards last night.
(Photos by gotpap/Bauer-Griffin/GC Images)
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Source: instagram.com
jonmchu: Black Panther + Crazy Rich Asians + Bohemian Rhapsody + Versace in ONE EPIC PHOTO
gemma_chan: Class of 2019. #CrazyRichAsians meets #BlackPanther meets #MikeMyers meets #ACSVersace #SAGAwards
684 SAG (Screen Actors Guild) Awards (January 27, 2019) on Wed Jan 30, 2019 1:03 am
darrencriss: Thanks again for inviting me to the party #sagawards, I suppose third time’s the charm. I love getting to celebrate our union and the wonderful work of the @sagaftrafound. Made a lot of fun memories that night, so thanks to @terencepatrick & @gettyentertainment for capturing a bit of it!
darrencrissarmy:
Some of the responses to Ryan’s post about Darren
Via ipwarn (link: http://ipwarn.tumblr.com/post/182360998745 )
These are nice pics of Darren--capturing the joyfulness of the evening.
(Source: miavglitznewz, via miarren-chill-klaine-coliver)
685 Darren's Awards for his work in ACS Versace on Thu Jan 31, 2019 12:43 am
Darren's Awards for his work in ACS Versace
These pics and gifs are just amazing. Darren sweeping The Emmys, Golden Globes, Critics' Choice, and SAG (Screen Actors Guild) awards in his category is amazing!
ashleypweston Emmys. Golden Globes. Critics Choice. SAG Awards. @darrencriss CLEAN SWEEP #AWerk #ACSVERSACE #Emmys #GoldenGlobes #CriticsChoiceAwards #SAGAwards
Via Ashley Weston’s Instagram Story (January 30th, 2019)
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Darren Criss | clean sweep
686 Re: The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story on Sat Feb 02, 2019 12:14 am
Via acsversace-news:
Aw, sweet message from Cody. I'm so glad that working on this project as part of Ryan's work family has changed his life--glad Cody got his big break on ACS Versace.
codyfernsource:
@codyfern: This is one of my favorite pictures ever taken. I love each and every one of these people deeply and I’m filled with pride and joy every time I look at it. We made a family and that family changed my life.
Forbes wrote:
Are Shows About Serial Killers Inherently Offensive?
Is it appropriate to make a show or film about a serial killer? This has been the topic of hot debate lately, as Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil, and Vile has come to Sundance, The Ted Bundy Tapes and You have come to Netflix, and FX’s The Assassination of Gianni Versace racks up awards at the various awards shows this season. Some, like Extremely Wicked and You are vilified for their portrayals (You, it should be noted, is the only one of these films that is based on a fictional person), while Gianni Versace is beloved. What makes it okay, and what makes it offensive? Let’s compare two specific series in order to explore that. You and Gianni Versace.
You premiered on Lifetime in September to relatively little acknowledgment. However, when it moved to Netflix in December (Netflix will be making season 2) the show’s popularity exploded. . . Yet, while many fell somewhat in love with Penn Badgley’s (Gossip Girl) portrayal of charming sociopath Ben Goldberg, many also found the show deeply troubling, and not in a good way. The show came under a barrage of criticism for the way it glorifies its serial killer, promoting his view above all others, especially his female victim Beck (Elizabeth Lail).
So, if these are all the things that make people angry about You, how is Gianni Versace any different? Its serial killer, Andrew Cunanan (Darren Criss), like You, is the show’s protagonist. We spend most of the series with him, following his arc. And yet, it feels different. For one thing, there’s a distance. Rather than the “in his head” approach You takes, you more feel like you’re watching Cunanan go through this journey, rather than experiencing it directly through his eyes. It helps that the show spends enormous amounts of time with Cunanan’s victims, even when Cunanan isn’t with them. It shows us their pasts, their families, their hopes and dreams, their fears. We honestly come to care about them, and we mourn them when they die.
Gianni Versace also doesn’t glorify its serial killer in any way. While it does make attempts to humanize Cunanan at times, and to try to give an explanation for why he is the way he is, and why he kills all those people, the audience is never meant to fall in love with him, or be charmed by him. Cunanan charms many people in the series into doing what he wants, but to the audience, on the outside looking in, we are never fooled. Cunanan’s lies seem over-the-top and ridiculous. We become used to his charade, and are not taken in by it. The characters, as well, one by one become skeptical of Cunanan’s stories, and attempt to distance themselves from him, with disastrous results.
It’s true. Gianni Versace makes a buck off of the pain and suffering Cunanan caused real people (something You, being fictional, has a pass on). However, it does it in such a nuanced and well done way, that it’s hard to be angry or offended. It never glorifies the killings, the killer, or objectifies the victims and their loved ones. It gives the victims a voice, and never hesitates to condemn their killer. You may be about not real people, and so, one might think, “no harm done,” right? But it goes about it all wrong, and in an era when we need stories that give back power to women who are abused, You takes great pleasure in objectifying, torturing, and killing its female lead. So, you be the judge: which show seems inappropriate, and which elevates its subject matter to the point of praise?
Source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/lindamaleh/2019/01/31/are-shows-about-serial-killers-inherently-offensive/#15bf65d2793e
The Assassination of Gianni Versace now available on Netflix UK & Ireland
687 Darren's Awards for his work in ACS Versace on Sun Feb 03, 2019 11:35 pm
Darren Criss in the programs for the 2018 Primetime Emmy Awards, 2019 Golden Globe Awards, 2019 Critics’ Choice Awards, & 2019 SAG Awards.
688 Re: The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story on Fri Feb 22, 2019 1:12 am
The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story WINS the Writers Guild Award for Longform - Adapted
The winners for Excellence in Contemporary TV are Lou Eyrich & Allison Leach, for The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story.
ACS Versace won a Writers Guild Award, Outstanding Script in Long Form Adapted. See Point 1:46:18.
Tom Rob Smith accepting an award for ACS Versace at the Writers Guild Awards East | 20 February 2019
NEW YORK, NY - FEBRUARY 17: Tom Rob Smith attends the 71st Annual Writers Guild Awards New York ceremony at Edison Ballroom on February 17, 2019 in New York City.
Ryan Murphy received the Distinguished Collaborator Award. (He's a trailblazer who fought for representation in Hollywood.)
Kate Walsh, Sarah Paulson Pay Tribute to Karl Lagerfeld at the Costume Designers Guild Awards
The fashionable set arrived at the Costume Designer’s Guild Awards on Tuesday. . .
On stage with Eyrich to present the award to [Ryan] Murphy, Sarah Paulson . . .
Paulson said of Murphy: “He has made an incalculable number of people feel seen, heard, held and celebrated by reminding us that we are so much more connected than we are divided.”
“The very fact that I have this career is a miracle,” said Murphy. “I was starting out in this business in the late 1990s, and it wasn’t easy for me. I was told not to follow my instinct, to be something else. I was too weird, too unusual. It was painful to be discriminated against and not liked because of what I wanted to do, which was very simply to see myself and my experience in life on television. I never saw a triumphant or, at the very least, a complicated gay character on television or in the movies as a child or a teenager. They were always marginalized, punch lines at best. They were beaten for who they were.”
He continued, “Back in 1999 when I first started, I decided I wanted to create representation and, wouldn’t you know it, my very first network argument was over a costume. Leslie Grossman was playing Mary Cherry and wearing a fur coat as a way to sum up her ambition and dreams. The costume is purely made of character, after all. The network executive responded, ‘Change that, we don’t do that on the WB.’ I asked why and he said, 'because [fur coats are] too gay.’ It was then that I began to clean up and pack my office and perhaps leave the cruel world of show business. But they asked me to please stay. I honestly believe that [it’s because] I didn’t back down from that one fight about vision and style that I’m here today.”
source: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/ryan-murphy-kate-walsh-pay-tribute-karl-lagerfeld-at-costume-designers-guild-awards-1188316
via the CDGA’s Instagram Story | 19 February 2019
@teribond: Audience enraptured as Ryan Murphy shares about his early years in Hollywood while being honored as Distinguished Collaborator. He pushed through costume designer becoming a producer! @costumeawards @cdglocal892 #CDGA
BEVERLY HILLS, CA - FEBRUARY 19: Ryan Murphy accepts the Distinguished Collaborator Award from Lou Eyrich and Sarah Paulson onstage during The 21st CDGA (Costume Designers Guild Awards) at The Beverly Hilton Hotel on February 19, 2019 in Beverly Hills, California. (Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images for CDGA)
BEVERLY HILLS, CA - FEBRUARY 19: Ryan Murphy recipient of the Distinguished Collaborator Award, poses withBillie Lourd, Sarah Paulson, Leslie Grossman, and Lou Eyrich during The 21st CDGA (Costume Designers Guild Awards) at The Beverly Hilton Hotel on February 19, 2019 in Beverly Hills, California. (Photo by Amy Sussman/Getty Images for CDGA)
@CostumeAwards: The fabulous Lou Eyrich and Allison Leach strike a pose with their awards after winning Excellence in Contemporary Television for The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story #CDGA #CDG892 : @stefaniekeenan
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21 Re: Darren's Miscellaneous Projects and Events for 2018 on Sun Jan 28, 2018 8:44 am
I don't know Celine Dion but that band seems creepy.
22 Re: Darren's Miscellaneous Projects and Events for 2018 on Sun Jan 28, 2018 1:17 pm
Was there a band at the Clive Davis and Recording Academy Pre-Grammy Gala? haha. Too bad they seemed creepy to you.
23 Clive Davis and Recording Academy Pre-Grammy Gala (1/27/2018) New York on Sun Jan 28, 2018 1:29 pm
From dcriss-archive
Nice pic.
Darren Criss arrives on the red carpet at the Clive Davis and Recording Academy Pre-GRAMMY Gala and GRAMMY Salute to Industry Icons Honoring Jay-Z on January 27 in New York City. Photo by John Angelillo/UPI | Source
She is a co-anchor Fox 5 WNYW's Good Day New York.
rosannascotto: So about last night..fun pictures from #clivedavispregrammyparty ! Thank you @clivejdavis
Eric Podwall is an agent. Paul Shaffer is best known for being David Letterman's musical director and band leader. He is a singer, composer, multi-instrumentalist and an actor and author.
ericpodwall: Had a great time with these two incredible artists watching all the performances last night at the annual Clive Davis Pre-Grammy Party. #grammys #artists #music #friends #talent
24 JVxNJ (January 27, 2018, New York) on Sun Jan 28, 2018 1:43 pm
JVxNJ (January 27, 2018, New York)
This is the launch event of fashion designer John Varvatos designing a collection with Nick Jonas.
Nick Jonas and Darren Criss attend the JVxNJ Launch Event at the Angel Orensanz Foundation on January 27, 2018 in New York City.
Photo by Craig Barritt/Getty Images for John Varvatos
Erich Bergen, Nick Jonas and Darren Criss attend the JVxNJ Launch Event at the Angel Orensanz Foundation on January 27, 2018 in New York City.
The other friend looks like designer Richard Chai.
Darren Criss with Eric Podwall, Sophie Turner, Joe Jonas and another friend
Via ericpodwall IG story, Jan 28 2018
Via John Varvatos’ Instagram Story (January 27th, 2018)
25 Universal Music Group's 2018 After Party for Grammy Awards (January 28, 2018, New York) on Sun Jan 28, 2018 11:13 pm
Universal Music Group's 2018 After Party for Grammy Awards (January 28, 2018, New York)
Darren Criss attends the Universal Music Group’s 2018 After Party for the Grammy Awards presented by American Airlines and Citi on Sunday, Jan. 28, 2018 in New York. (Photo by John Salangsang/Invision for UMG/AP Images)
Are those little rhinestones on his shirt?
Actor Darren Criss attends the Universal Music Group’s 2018 After Party for the Grammy Awards presented by American Airlines and Citi at Spring Studios in New York City on January 28, 2018 in New York City.
26 Clive Davis and Recording Academy Pre-Grammy Gala (1/27/2018) New York on Tue Jan 30, 2018 12:31 am
[UHQ] Darren Criss – 2018 Pre-Grammy Gala in New York (January-27-2018) | Source
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27 Universal Music Group's 2018 After Party for Grammy Awards (January 28, 2018, New York) on Tue Jan 30, 2018 12:37 am
Dua Lipa, Darren Criss & More Live It Up at Universal Music Group’s Grammys 2018 After Party!
Grammys After-Parties: Camila Cabello & More Change Gowns & Celebrate — See Pics
American Crime Story star Darren Criss looked dapper at the party as well.
Darren Criss attends the Universal Music Group’s Grammy after party at Spring Studios on Sunday, Jan. 28, 2018, in New York. (Photo by Scott Roth/Invision/AP)
Darren Criss attends the Universal Music Group’s 2018 After Party to celebrate the Grammy Awards presented by American Airlines and Citi at Spring Studios in New York City on January 28, 2018 in New York City.
28 Todd Snyder fashion show during New York Fashion Week at Pier 59 NYC (February 5, 2018) on Mon Feb 05, 2018 8:30 pm
Todd Snyder fashion show during New York Fashion Week at Pier 59 NYC (February 5, 2018)
Darren in is NYC. At a Todd Synder fashion show. (With Matthew Morrison, Aaron Tveit, Eric West and Tony Marion)
Actor Darren Criss attends the Todd Snyder fashion show during New York Fashion Week at Pier 59 on February 5, 2018 in New York City.
Via Andy Cohen’s Instagram Story (February 5th, 2018)
via dcrss-archive
With Andy Cohen at the Todd Synder fashion show.
29 Todd Snyder fashion show during New York Fashion Week at Pier 59 NYC (February 5, 2018) on Tue Feb 06, 2018 4:41 pm
Darren Criss is seen at the Todd Snyder Fashion Show at Pier 59 Studios on February 5, 2018 in New York City. (Photo by Monica Schipper/Getty Images for TIMEX)
derek_klena: “Spent the night with this crazy group of dapper gents rollin’ deep in our amazing @toddsnyderny Fall/Winter 2018 threads! #mensfashionweek”
the_xmag: “Some dapper gents at Todd Snyder’s Fall 2018 show last evening! #NYMFW @seantracy”
toddsnyderny: Love having my daughters at my show with their favorite Glee Star… Darren Criss
Darren Criss and Todd Snyder backstage at the Todd Snyder February 2018 fashion show during New York Fashion Week: Mens’ at Pier 59 Studios on February 5th | Source
Actor Darren Criss attends the Todd Snyder fashion show during New York Fashion Week: Mens’ at Pier 59 on February 5, 2018 in New York City.
toddsnyderny: Thank you to these wonderful people for making it out to the show last night. #nyfwm
_matthew.morrison_: Great evening at Todd Snyder’s Fall 2018 show #nymfw Love catching up with old friends!
Darren Criss, Andy Cohen & Matthew Morrison attend the Todd Snyder fashion show during New York Fashion Week: Mens’ at Pier 59 on February 5, 2018 in New York City.
Dujour wrote:
Todd Snyder Kicks Off New York Fashion Week: Men’s
Attendees for the Fall 2018 show included Victor Cruz, Andy Cohen, Hasan Minhaj, Matthew Morrison, and Darren Criss
And while this particular front row was a sight to behold in itself—Bravo’s Andy Cohen, for example, buddied up in between The Daily Show’s Hasan Minhaj and The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story’s Darren Criss—it was the young and relentless trumpet player Keyon Harrold who truly stole the show. Grammy-winning artist Harrold and his band fused together jazz, classical, blues, hip hop and rock to form one cohesive, transcending performance during the show. As this season’s sea of tweed and elevated collegiate staples graced the runway, not one foot was left untapped; not one person seemed too ‘cool for school’ when it came to complete immersion into Snyder’s Fall 2018 semester.
Source: http://dujour.com/style/todd-snyder-mens-new-york-fashion-week-fall-2018/
30 Guild of Music Supervisors Awards (February 8, 2018, Los Angeles) on Sat Feb 10, 2018 1:12 am
Guild of Music Supervisors Awards (February 8, 2018, Los Angeles)
Benj Pasek, Julianne Jordan, Julia Michels, and Darren Criss attend the 8th Annual Guild of Music Supervisors Awards at The Theatre at Ace Hotel on February 8, 2018 in Los Angeles, California. (Photos by Rich Polk/Getty Images for Guild of Music Supervisors )
Darren Criss on what do you think it means to the music supervisors to be represented in this way at 8th Annual Guild of Music Supervisors Awards in Los Angeles, CA 2/8/18
Darren Criss and Russell Ziecker speak onstage during the 8th Annual Guild of Music Supervisors Awards at The Theatre at Ace Hotel on February 8, 2018 in Los Angeles, California.
Darren Criss attends the 8th Annual Guild of Music Supervisors Awards at The Theatre at Ace Hotel on February 8, 2018 in Los Angeles, California | Source
Darren Criss attends the 8th Annual Guild of Music Supervisors Awards at The Theatre at Ace Hotel on February 8, 2018 in Los Angeles, California
Amanda Krieg Thomas (music supervisor of ACS Versace), Darren and Benji Pasek.
amandak_thomas: And then we talked about Edges and I got to be a theater nerd again #theatremajor #bigten #edges #musicaltheatre #northwestern #michigan #gmsawards#guildofmusicsupervisors #acsversace #thegreatestshowman #superstars
31 Esquire's Mavericks of Hollywood (February 20, 2018) on Wed Feb 21, 2018 12:37 am
Esquire's Mavericks of Hollywood (February 20, 2018)
esquire: The ever-talented @darrencriss at our 2018 Mavericks of Hollywood party in Los Angeles. [camera emoji] @ungano_agriodimas #ESQMavs
Darren Criss attends the Esquire’s Annual Maverick’s of Hollywood at Sunset Tower on February 20, 2018 in Los Angeles, California.
Via Esquire’s Instagram Story (February 20th, 2018)
Darren Criss, wearing Hugo Boss, attends Esquire’s ‘Mavericks of Hollywood’ Celebration presented by Hugo Boss on February 20, 2018 in Los Angeles, California.
Darren Criss and Esquire Executive Director of Editorial Michael Hainey, both wearing Hugo Boss, attends Esquire’s ‘Mavericks of Hollywood’ Celebration presented by Hugo Boss on February 20, 2018 in Los Angeles, California.
32 GQ and Oliver Peoples Celebrate Timothee Chalamet March Cover Dinner (February 20, 2018, Los Angeles) on Wed Feb 21, 2018 12:50 am
GQ and Oliver Peoples Celebrate Timothee Chalamet March Cover Dinner (February 20, 2018, Los Angeles)
Nice to see Edgar and Darren hanging out together.
Darren Criss, Edgar Ramirez, Jamie Dornan, Armie Hammer and GQ Magazine Editor-In-Chief Jim Nelson attend GQ and Oliver Peoples Celebrate Timothee Chalamet March Cover Dinner at Nomad Los Angeles on February 20, 2018 in Los Angeles, California.
Via GQ’s Instagram Story (February 20th, 2018)
Darren Criss attends GQ and Oliver Peoples Celebrate Timothee Chalamet March Cover Dinner at Nomad Los Angeles on February 20, 2018 in Los Angeles, California. | Source
33 GQ and Oliver Peoples Celebrate Timothee Chalamet March Cover Dinner (February 20, 2018, Los Angeles) on Thu Feb 22, 2018 12:36 am
[UHQ] Darren Criss, Edgar Ramirez, Jamie Dornan and Armie Hammer attend GQ and Oliver Peoples Celebrate Timothee Chalamet March Cover Dinner at Nomad Los Angeles on February 20, 2018 in Los Angeles, California.
I really like the look that Darren and Armie Hammer had, a nice tee under a jacket. Darren's jacket was really nice.
GQ wrote:
All the Things to Wear Under Your Suit Other Than a Button-Down and Tie
Here to demonstrate the multitude of ways you can wear a suit and not look like one? The stylish men who came out to celebrate Timothee Chalamet's GQcover with GQ and Oliver Peoples in Los Angeles last night. While Chalamet rolled up in sneakers and jeans, as 22-year-olds have been known to do, his slightly older actor friends—Darren Criss, Edgar Ramirez, Jamie Dornan, Armie Hammer, and Winston Duke—all dressed up in a dressed-down sort of way. Consider their fits your new guide to business casual, whether you’re 22 or 42. (You can—and should—dress like Mr. Chalamet, meanwhile, when you’re doing all the things that aren’t in your boss’s sightline.)
Source: https://www.gq.com/story/armie-hammer-winston-duke-business-casual-suits
Link to article: http://toofab.com/photos/0d2e52a3-f16d-4674-ddbc-d5fb71aeebab/
34 Esquire's Mavericks of Hollywood (February 20, 2018) on Thu Feb 22, 2018 1:07 am
The second (black and white) pic is stunning.
ungano_agriodimas: @darrencriss of #acsversace for @esquire #esqmavs by @ungano_agriodimas#darrencriss
A few more pics:
sydneysollod: #DarrenCriss at the @esquire #MavericksofHollywood party groomed by #me #sydneysollodgrooming #mensgrooming #Versace #AmericanCrimeStory @thewallgroup
Via OTRC’s Instagram Story (February 21st, 2018)
35 Breitling's Legendary Future Roadshow Dinner (February 22, 2018, NYC) on Thu Feb 22, 2018 11:54 pm
Breitling's Legendary Future Roadshow Dinner (February 22, 2018, NYC)
Breitling is a watch company (haha. That's all I know about them.)
Darren Criss with Armie Hammer and Georges Kern (CEO; Breitling) at the Dinner show of the #LEGENDARYFUTURE Roadshow 2018
Darren Criss, Olivia Munn and Armie Hammer on the red carpet at Breitling’s #LegendaryFuture Roadshow February 22, 2018
I like this black and white pic.
darrencriss: Time to party. Thank you @Breitling for your generosity and for inviting me to celebrate your #LegendaryFuture tonight. #Breitling #Navitimer8
Olivia Munn Joins Darren Criss & Armie Hammer at Breitling Dinner in NYC
Darren Criss looks sharp on the red carpet as he arrives at Breitling’s #LegendaryFuture Roadshow Dinner on Thursday night (February 22) in New York City.
The 31-year-old American Crime Story actor was joined on the red carpet by Olivia Munn who looked stunning in a glittering champagne-colored gown.
Inside the event, Darren and Olivia met up with Call Me By Your Name star Armie Hammer.
Darren Criss on the red carpet at the #LEGENDARYFUTURE Roadshow 2018 New York on February 22, 2018.
Darren Criss with Olivia Munn on the red carpet at the #LEGENDARYFUTURE Roadshow 2018 New York on February 22, 2018.
Darren Criss with Breitling CEO Georges Kern on the red carpet at the #LEGENDARYFUTURE Roadshow 2018 New York on February 22, 2018.
armiehammer: Drinking our way through this awesome @breitling event… #breitling #legendaryfuture #navitimer8 #hashtag
36 Breitling's Legendary Future Roadshow Dinner (February 22, 2018, NYC) on Sun Feb 25, 2018 12:59 am
Darren Criss, Armie Hammer & Georges Kern (Breitling CEO) at Breitling’s ‘Global Roadshow’ event, New York, USA - 22 Feb 2018
A few more pics.
Via Breitling’s Instagram Story (February 22nd, 2018)
Via Kurt Rausch LLC’s Instagram Story (February 22nd, 2018)
enews: This photo is a work of art that we’d like to call, “Visions of Friday.” ( @ArmieHammer)
Darren Criss attends the Breitling ‘Global Roadshow’ event, New York, USA - 22 Feb 2018
37 Georgio Armani Celebrates "The Shape of Water" (March 3, 2018, Los Angeles) on Sun Mar 04, 2018 12:59 am
Georgio Armani Celebrates "The Shape of Water" (March 3, 2018, Los Angeles)
Darren Criss & Ricky Martin with Camilla Belle at the Armani pre-Oscars event, Mar 3, 2018
Via Sebastian Micke’s IG story
Darren Criss at the Armani pre-Oscars party, Mar 3 2018
Darren and Mia on the way to the Armani/Shape of Water pre-Oscars event 3/3/18, via Mia’s Snapchat (miaw.elan)
Darren via Mia’s Snapchat (mia.elan) 3/3/18
Added a few more items:
With Ricky Martin and Guillermo Del Toro.
Via Adrian Dev’s Instagram Story (March 3rd, 2018)
emporioarmani: @DarrenCriss at the #GiorgioArmani event to support the Shape Of Water film on the eve of @TheAcademy Awards #Oscars2018
giorgioarmani: Model @sarasampaio, Alessandra Ambrosio @CamillaBelle @RickyMartin247 @DarrenCriss and Colin Farrell at the #GiorgioArmani event to support the Shape Of Water film on the eve of @TheAcademy Awards #Oscars2018
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38 Elton John AIDS Foundation Academy Awards Viewing Party (March 4, 2018) on Sun Mar 04, 2018 11:22 pm
Elton John AIDS Foundation Academy Awards Viewing Party (March 4, 2018)
Darren Criss attends the 26th annual Elton John AIDS Foundation Academy Awards Viewing Party with cocktails by Clase Azul Tequila at The City of West Hollywood Park on March 4, 2018 in West Hollywood, California.
Great pic--they both look gorgeous! (And they both are looking in the same direction too. )
Darren Criss and Mia Swier attend the 26th annual Elton John AIDS Foundation Academy Awards Viewing Party with cocktails by Clase Azul Tequila at The City of West Hollywood Park on March 4, 2018 in West Hollywood, California.
Love the big smiles!
These are very nice pics--they both look beautiful.
I liked these pics too, even with the watermarks. This one is especially striking.
Darren Criss and Mia Swier attend the Elton John AIDS Foundation Academy Awards Viewing Party, Arrivals, Los Angeles, USA - 04 Mar 2018
Aw, Don Lemon!
Darren Criss, Don Lemon, and Ricky Martin attend the 26th annual Elton John AIDS Foundation Academy Awards Viewing Party sponsored by Bulgari, celebrating EJAF and the 90th Academy Awards at The City of West Hollywood Park on March 4, 2018 in West Hollywood, California
Cute pic, with Gus Kenworthy and Matthew Wilkas.
Glee reunion!
jphinla: Unofficial #GLEE reunion with @leamichele and @darrencriss! #EJAF #Oscars
Glee Reunion again! Will Sherrod, Chris Colfer, Eric Podwell, Seth Green, Ashley Fink.
Via Eric Podwall’s Instagram Story (March 4th, 2018)
Great coordination!
Via Mia Swier’s Snapchat (March 4th, 2018)
Lots of Glee folks! I couldn't make out who was sitting to Ashley's left.
vfhwd: I handed over my takeover duties to Instagram Queen @leamichele to MC our current mini #Glee reunion!
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39 Vanity Fair Oscar Party (March 4, 2018) on Mon Mar 05, 2018 12:35 am
40 Elton John AIDS Foundation Academy Awards Viewing Party (March 4, 2018) on Mon Mar 05, 2018 10:41 pm
mwilkas: “We went to the @vanityfair Oscar party and the @ejaf Oscar party and I’ve never felt fancier. @darrencriss and @sunsetstrippa we love you. @eltonjohn and @davidfurnish thank you for all the amazing work you do!"
He is an actor.
Eloy Mendez & Darren Criss at the Oscars party, Mar 4, 2018
Via eloycito on Instagram: “Really enjoyed hanging out with this guy last nite @darrencriss who is killing it (literally) in #americancrimestoryfx“
They both look dazzling.
miaelanswier:
Darren Criss and Mia Swier are seen arriving to the 26th Annual Elton John AIDS Foundation’s Academy Awards Viewing Party held at West Hollywood Park in Los Angeles, California.
Lea Michele Joins Darren Criss & Chris Colfer at Oscars After-Party!
Lea Michele stuns on the white carpet as she arrives 2018 Elton John AIDS Foundation Academy Awards Viewing Party held at The City of West Hollywood Park on Sunday evening (March 4) in West Hollywood, Calif.
The 31-year-old actress showed off some major skin in a plunging black and gold dress as she was joined at the event by tons of her former co-stars!
Lea was joined at the event by Darren Criss and fiancee Mia Swier, Chris Colfer, and Ashley Fink.
FYI: Lea’s wearing a La Perla dress, Giuseppe Zanotti heels, and Neil Lane jewelry. Darren is wearing an Armani suit and Christian Louboutin shoes. Chris is wearing a Brooks Brothers suit.
Source: http://www.justjaredjr.com/2018/03/05/lea-michele-joins-darren-criss-chris-colfer-at-oscars-after-party/
leamichele: Mini Glee reunion last night
reneemmorrison: What a special night! We had the best table around! Much love to all the fam! I still see you @axemefink & @chriscolfer!! @leamichele Mini Glee reunion last night
Some media coverage:
Billboard wrote:
Lea Michele Posts Adorable 'Glee' Reunion Picture With Darren Criss & Matthew Morrison at Oscars Party
Not all of last night’s excitement took place inside the Oscars – there is also a lot of fun to be had at the various parties during and after the show too. At one of those parties, Lea Michele teamed up with a handful of her fellow Glee alumni to take a reunion photo.
Michele was seated with Matthew Morrison and Darren Criss at Elton John’s Academy Awards viewing party. Criss took over Vanity Fair’s HWD Instagram account on Sunday when Michele grabbed his phone. “Mini GLEE Reunion last night,” Michele captioned the selfie.
Please visit the site to give the article a number of "clicks." Source: https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/8232019/lea-michele-glee-reunion-picture-oscars
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Not all of Sunday’s exciting moments happened at the Oscars. Elton John’s Academy Awards viewing party, which benefits the star’s AIDS foundation, featured a “Glee” reunion.
Darren Criss was taking over Vanity Fair’s HWD account when a familiar face grabbed his phone: Lea Michele. Criss joined “Glee” in Season 2 as Blaine while Michele starred as leading lady Rachel on the Fox comedy.
“Lea’s got a way better Instagram game, so I’m gonna give it to her,” Criss told viewers. After explaining she has “a gift” for the ‘gram (her 4.9 million followers would probably agree), Michele quickly switched into host mode, showing off their table.
“We’re at the Elton John Party and it’s a ‘Glee’ reunion,” she said.
Not only were Criss and Michele seated together, but Kurt actor Chris Colfer and his bestie Ashley Fink (who played Lauren) were also at the table. Matthew Morrison, who portrayed Mr. Schuester, was there as well. Michele and Colfer also presented together on stage during the event.
While it’s rare to have a “Glee” reunion with more than a couple cast members, Michele and Criss have actually reunited several times over the last year. They hit the stage together in Central Park at Elsie Fest, Criss’ music festival focused on Broadway stars. They also performed duets in a few YouTube videos.
Both continue to work with “Glee” showrunner Ryan Murphy. Michele starred in his comedic horror show “Scream Queens” for two seasons after “Glee,” and Criss is currently starring in the acclaimed second season of “American Crime Story.” Criss plays killer Andrew Cunanan in “The Assassination of Gianni Versace,” a role that is expected to earn some recognition from awards shows later this year.
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You couldn’t really do ecology if you didn’t know how to construct even the most basic mathematical model — even a simple regression is a model (the non-random relationship of some variable to another). The good thing about even these simple models is that it is fairly straightforward to interpret the ‘strength’ of the relationship, in other words, how much variation in one thing can be explained by variation in another. Provided the relationship is real (not random), and provided there is at least some indirect causation implied (i.e., it is not just a spurious coincidence), then there are many simple statistics that quantify this strength — in the case of our simple regression, the coefficient of determination (R2) statistic is a usually a good approximation of this.
In the case of more complex multivariate correlation models, then sometimes the coefficient of determination is insufficient, in which case you might need to rely on statistics such as the proportion of deviance explained, or the marginal and/or conditional variance explained.
When you go beyond this correlative model approach and start constructing more mechanistic models that emulate ecological phenomena from the bottom-up, things get a little more complicated when it comes to quantifying the strength of relationships. Perhaps the most well-known category of such mechanistic models is the humble population viability analysis, abbreviated to PVA§.
Let’s take the simple case of a four-parameter population model we could use to project population size over the next 10 years for an endangered species that we’re introducing to a new habitat. We’ll assume that we have the following information: the size of the founding (introduced) population (n), the juvenile survival rate (Sj, proportion juveniles surviving from birth to the first year), the adult survival rate (Sa, the annual rate of surviving adults to year 1 to maximum longevity), and the fertility rate of mature females (m, number of offspring born per female per reproductive cycle). Each one of these parameters has an associated uncertainty (ε) that combines both measurement error and environmental variation.
If we just took the mean value of each of these three demographic rates (survivals and fertility) and project a founding population of n = 10 individuals for 1o years into the future, we would have a single, deterministic estimate of the average outcome of introducing 10 individuals. As we already know, however, the variability, or stochasticity, is more important than the average outcome, because uncertainty in the parameter values (ε) will mean that a non-negligible number of model iterations will result in the extinction of the introduced population. This is something that most conservationists will obviously want to minimise.
So each time we run an iteration of the model, and generally for each breeding interval (most often 1 year at a time), we choose (based on some random-sampling regime) a different value for each parameter. This will give us a distribution of outcomes after the 10-year projection. Let’s say we did 1000 iterations like this; taking the number of times that the population went extinct over these iterations would provide us with an estimate of the population’s extinction probability over that interval. Of course, we would probably also vary the size of the founding population (say, between 10 and 100), to see at what point the extinction probability became acceptably low for managers (i.e., as close to zero as possible), but not unacceptably high that it would be too laborious or expensive to introduce that many individuals. Read the rest of this entry »
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Project Censored – In January 2013, Israel acknowledged that medical authorities have been giving Ethiopian immigrants long-term birth-control injections, often without their knowledge or consent.The Israeli government had previously denied the charges, which were first brought to light by investigative reporter Gal Gabbay in a December 8, 2012, broadcast of Israeli Educational Television’s news program, Vacuum. In January, the Israeli Health Ministry’s director-general, Ron Gamzu, ordered all gynecologists to stop administering the drugs.
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Becoming a B Corp
The number of companies touting B Corporation certification – which ranks the ethics of for-profit companies – is growing. For Toast Ale, getting certified has also been a handy way of getting both staff and investors on board.
When Toast Ale was set up in 2015, it had a clear social mission: to reduce food waste. Its beer is brewed using surplus bread from UK bakeries while its profits are donated to Feedback, a charity that campaigns for a sustainable food supply chain.
Two years into running the business, co-founder and brand officer Louisa Ziane decided it wasn’t enough for Toast to simply tell its customers what it was doing – she wanted an independent party to prove it. She decided that Toast would become a B Corp.
‘It’s good practice to have third-party verification of any claims you’re making,’ Ziane says. ‘The whole point of setting up Toast was to address an environmental problem. But for somebody drinking our beer, they don’t know what we say is what we do. So having a respected organisation ensure this is true [is important].’
For Ziane, the most compelling aspect of becoming a B Corp was the fact it requires organisations to make a legal change. As well as being assessed on their social and environmental impact, B Corps in the UK are required to update their Articles of Association to state that directors are not only operating in the interest of shareholders, but in people and the planet, too. ‘[We now] have a fiduciary duty to make decisions on the basis of that “triple bottom line”.’
B Corp’s unexpected advantages
Becoming a B Corp had some additional unexpected benefits, too. Ziane says the form that Toast had to submit, which quizzes business owners on everything from their supply chain partners to their employment policies, encouraged the founders to think about how the business should operate in the long run.
In order to get extra ‘points’ on the assessment, Toast introduced policies on things such as maternity leave, whistleblowing and employee equity schemes – things startups often don’t think about until they have been around for a while and are much larger. Toast now has a staff handbook too. ‘It felt like we were a real business rather than a little project,’ Ziane adds. ‘It filters through into who we are and into our culture as well.’
Ziane says this is not only good for existing employees: having specific policies in place also makes it easier to sell the company when interviewing potential hires.
It’s been a draw for investors, too, who see B Corp certification as evidence that a certain level of due diligence has been done. When Toast raised £1.4m in May 2018, ‘[our] investors saw it as valuable, because somebody’s been through the entire way [we] do business. It’s like an MOT.’
A six-month journey
Applying for B Corp certification doesn’t have to cost a lot – Toast paid £500, although fees are tied to turnover figures – but the process takes a significant amount of time.
Ziane says it took Toast six months from October 2017 to May 2018, and that she was juggling the application alongside her day-to-day duties. ‘For most tiny businesses [this process] is an addition to either the production functions, or branding and marketing,’ she warns.
Next time, it should be easier. Ziane is plotting Toast’s renewal application (companies are required to re-certify with B Corp every three years) and hopes to score higher on the assessment. ‘We’re already confident [our score will be] significantly higher,’ Ziane says. ‘One of the key things is not just to try and get top marks, but find those areas that are really important anyway for you as a business.’
Breaking down the process
Chris Turner, executive director at B Lab UK, breaks down the benefits of becoming a B Corp.
Setting time aside to fill out an in-depth assessment, gather evidence and formalise business practices may not sound like the best use of time for the founder of a fledgling business.
Chris Turner, executive director at B Lab UK, says it needn’t be so laborious. In fact, he argues, smaller businesses have an advantage over big organisations when it comes to the B Corp application: a smaller team means the information required can only ever be so many degrees away from the founder.
A business planning tool
The questionnaire, which runs through every aspect of how a business operates, is also a powerful tool for entrepreneurs looking for a roadmap to build their business against, regardless of whether or not they go on to pursue certification.
‘Ultimately, the smaller you are the easier it is to design your business around the assessment,’ Turner explains. ‘I’ve run a few startups in my time, and I can honestly say [the assessment], as a framework for mapping out all of the different things you have to think about when you’re creating a business, is incredibly comprehensive.’
According to B Lab, approximately 50,000 businesses have logged in to use the assessment in this way – a huge number compared to those that have gone on to get certified. Turner also challenges the misconception among small business owners that the process is ‘really hard, complicated or inaccessible. ‘It is a long and in-depth assessment, because that’s what gives it its credibility, but actually if you’re a founder you’ve got all the information you need to complete the assessment at your fingertips.’
Green attracts green
It’s estimated that B Corp businesses grow quicker than their non-certified counterparts. In February 2018, year-on-year data showed that UK B Corps grew at a rate of 14% compared to the country’s GDP growth rate of 0.5%, which suggests customers are actively choosing to spend more money with ethical businesses.
Turner notes the benefits extend beyond having an excellent marketing message, though: ‘Making such a clear and consistent commitment to purpose and impact is actually really powerful for not only attracting employees but retaining them as well,’ He adds that ‘as any [founder] knows, the people are the most important aspect of the business.’
Founders seeing dollar signs should be careful, though. If it provides no real strategic benefit for a business, certification can fast become a distracting, laborious process. ‘If you’re going through the motions it probably will become a burden, because you won’t see why you’re doing these things,’ says Turner. ‘It’s designed for businesses that want to model a new way of doing business, that can [hopefully] benefit us all.’
That, Turner says, leads to the key question a business needs to answer before pursuing B Corp certification: ‘Do you think your business is part of the solution?’
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Verbal and Nonverbal Impoliteness in some Egyptian Movies and Series during the Period (from 2005 to 2015) An Analytical Pragmatic Study
The present study aims to show how Culpeper's (1996) impoliteness theory, Andersen's (1999) categorization of nonverbal communication and Bousfield"s (2008) strategies of responding to impoliteness are effective tools in investigating
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Verbal and Nonverbal Impoliteness in some Egyptian Movies and Series during the Period (from 2005 to 2015) An Analytical Pragmatic Study By Hanaa Abdellah Al Sayed Language Instructor, Language & Translation Center Faculty of Arts, Sohag University Abstract The present study aims to show how Culpeper's (1996) impoliteness theory, Andersen's (1999) categorization of nonverbal communication and Bousfield‟s (2008) strategies of responding to impoliteness are effective tools in investigating verbal and nonverbal impoliteness in Adam series and Heyya FawDa ( It is Chaos) movie. It also examines the relation between power and impoliteness. In addition, it indicates the association between intention and impoliteness. The results showed that the interlocutors employed four types of impoliteness strategies in the series. Positive and negative impoliteness were ranked the highest in the series. Their occurrence was equivalent because each type occurred (28) times, with a percentage of (41.4%). With regard to the movie, the inetractants used bald on record impoliteness, positive impoliteness, and negative impoliteness. Positive impoliteness came in the first position; it occurred (21) times with a percentage of (53.8%). In addition, there was a strong connection between impoliteness and power which permit the high-ranked persons to use impoliteness enormously. Moreover, all speakers intended to damage the hearer's face. Furthermore, nonverbal communication played a fundamental role in creating impoliteness in both the series and the movie. Additionally, all types of responses to impolite utterances were used in the series and the movie. Keywords: Impoliteness, nonverbal impoliteness, power, intention. I. Introduction I.1. What is impoliteness? Interlocutors have different styles when they communicate with one another. Some individuals wisely choose their words and employ polite language to make the process of communication run smoothly. Others neglect the word choices and employ impolite language to express their feelings to the recipients. 2 The employment of polite or impolite language is based on people‟s purposes in conducting communication. Th ey use polite language to keep or to save the other‟s face. However, they use impolite language to attack or threaten the other‟s face. In linguistics, people can study polite and impolite language using pragmatics approach. Yule (1996) states that pragmatics is a branch of linguistics which deals with how the meaning is communicated by speakers (or writers) and how it is interpreted by listeners (or readers). It also handles the correlations between the linguistics‟ forms and its users. Moreover, it is concerned with how language is used in real life because the way people use language when communicating is very important. I.2. Objectives of the Study The present study aims to reveal how Culpeper's ( 1996) impoliteness theory, Andersen's (1999) categorizat ion of nonverbal communication and Bousfield‟s (2008) strategies of responding to impoliteness are effective tools in examining verbal and nonverbal impoliteness in Adam series and Heyya FawDa ( It is Chaos ) movie. It also examines the relation between power and impoliteness. In addition, it indicates the association between intention and impoliteness. I.3. Questions of the Study 1. What types of impoliteness strategies do the addressers employ in the movie and the series? 2. How are impoliteness strategies realized in the movie and the series? 3. How do the addressees respond to the speaker's impolite utterances? 4. How do the speaker and the hearer create nonverbal impoliteness? 5. Is there a relation between power and impoliteness? 6. Is there a relation between intention and impoliteness? I.4. Hypotheses of the Study The present study postulates that the addresser employs different strategies of verbal and non-verbal impoliteness. Moreover, there is a strong connection between impoliteness and power which permits the high-ranked persons to use impoliteness strategies deliberately. In addition, the addressee may keep silent or counter face attack offensively or defensively. Nonverbal communication plays a fundamental role in creating impoliteness in both the series and the movie. It either creates nonverbal impoliteness or strengthens the effect of verbal impoliteness. Additionally, 3 impoliteness is successfully conveyed if the speaker (or someone in the producer role) intends face-damage and the hearer (or someone in a receiver role) perceives the speaker‟s (producer‟s) intention to damage face. I.5. Significance of the Study Significance of this study stems from the fact that very few researches have been conducted on verbal and nonverbal impoliteness in Egyptian movies and series. It benefits the researchers and the students of linguistics through developing their knowledge on the strategies of verbal and nonverbal impoliteness. Thus, they can use this study as a reference of impoliteness in their future study. It improves the researcher‟s ability to conduct a qualitative and quantitative research. In addition, it apparently indicates the relation between nonverbal features, especially facial gestures as well as tone, and impoliteness. Consequently, several learners will properly comprehend impoliteness strategies and how they are created. Furthermore, it is a good source of linguistic studies because it addresses verbal and nonverbal impoliteness which has not been extensively investigated. It also provides a platform for further research on impoliteness as it expands the existing literature. II. Review of Literature II.1. Impoliteness Theory Culpeper (1996) utilizes Brown and Levinson‟s model as a departure for his seminal article on impoliteness. Terming impoliteness “the parasite of politeness” (p. 355), Culpeper conceives of impoliteness as the use of intentionally face threatening acts. Culpeper lays out five super strategies that speakers deploy to create impolite utterances. Despite Culpeper‟s (2005) expanded definition of impoliteness as a function of relational work, the difficulty remains just how to categorize specific utterances as polite versus impolite. Holmes and Schnurr (2005) noted that “we can never be totally confident about the ascription of politeness or impoliteness to particular utterances, even for members of our own communities of practice” (p. 122). Hutchby (2008) attempted to rectify this shortcoming in his study of impoliteness in talk-in-interaction. He employed a conversational analytic approach to define impoliteness and to limit himself to only those occasions where the participants publicly orient to an utterance as polite/impolite. He examined interruptions and explicit reports of 4 rudeness in naturally occurring speech-in-interaction and argued that analysts should shift their attention from defining particular linguistic devices that a participant may or may not utilize, and instead examine the ways in which participants themselves orient to the actions or utterances of others as impolite. Locher and Watt's (2008) conception of relational work uses the notion of face, not as reformulated by Brown and Levinson (1987), but as srcinally put forth by Goffman; it is intended to cover not just politeness /impoliteness, but “the entire continuum from polite and appropriate to impolite and inappropriate behavior” (p. 51). Their point of departure is the notion that impoliteness (and politeness) is dependent on the judgments that the participants make during an ongoing interaction in a particular setting. Moreover, these judgments are based on and constructed through the individual‟s history of social practice; i.e. their history of interactions with the interlocutors within their community. Interactants orient to particular norms of behavior that a given social interaction evokes. An impolite utterance has two fundamental characteristics: a breach of the expectations of a given interaction and a negative assessment by the participants according to the norms of a given interaction. Omar and Wahid (2010) explored the role of impoliteness strategy in interactional communication and its function in Harold Pinter's plays: the Dumb Waiter, the Caretaker, and the Homecoming. The results indicated that bald on record and positive impoliteness strategies were the most frequently used strategies. In addition, Pinter employed impoliteness to reveal the life of a modern man who lived in a constant struggle between himself and others to join the high status and gain respect. II.2. Impoliteness and Power Austin (1990) claims that the main variables involved in the decision to save or not to save face are power and intimacy. Thus, impoliteness may occur between intimates and in situations where there is an imbalance of power. “people cannot always be expected to defend their face if threatened since the consequences of this could be more damaging than the face attack in areas such as job security, employment prospects and physical safety” (p. 279). Kuntsi (2012) investigated politeness and impoliteness strategies used by lawyers in the "Dover Trial". Results showed that lawyers used both polite and 5 impolite linguistic strategies when they communicated with their colleagues, the judge and witnesses. Furthermore, polite utterances occurred more than impolite utterances because of the formal setting of the courtroom. Mohammed and Abbas (2016) explored „impoliteness phenomenon‟ in George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion (1913). Furthermore, they highlighted the variation of impoliteness strategies used by the characters. Results showed that the choice of impoliteness strategies differed from one character to another in terms of the social level they belongd to. For example, Higgins, who belonged to a higher social level than Eliza, used bald on record and positive impoliteness strategies rather than other impoliteness strategies to exercise his social power over her and to create a kind of predominant aura around him at her presence. Mirhosseini, Mardanshahi, and Dowlatabadi (2017) analyzed the discourse between two characters (male and female) in the movie of “Mother” by Ali Hatami. Eight extracts of the movie were chosen to investigate impoliteness strategies employed by the male and the female characters. The results indicated that males used more impoliteness strategies than females in their interactions in the movie. The total number rated (58) and the most frequent strategy was positive impoliteness. Moreover, the significant impacts of intonation and self-insulting were ignored in Culpeper‟s model. Furthermore, impoliteness was interwoven with the power of the male speaker. II.3.Impoliteness in Means of Entertainment In his study of impoliteness in the series: The Clampers, Car Wars, Soldiers To Be, Redcaps, Raw Blues and Boiling Point, Bousefield (2008) indicated that the interactant who uttered impoliteness must have been previously provoked by aggressive utterance (intentional or intentional) which damaged his/her negative or positive face. Laitinen (2011) examined verbal and nonverbal impoliteness in the American hospital drama "House M.D". 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Rodney (Balls) Grinter posted a topic in Melbourne Demons
Posting this as a question, based on a proposition. I know this might seem like a somewhat strange and over ambitious given the 2019 that we have just endured, but to me, just stumbling over the line and making finals in 2020 would not represent enough of an improvement or step forward for me to get excited about. In my lifetime, I watched many talent laden MFC teams show loads of promise and even make a grand final or two, but barely any that I have watched have played consistently well enough finish the season in a preimship winning position of being in the upper echelon of the ladder with all it's perks of getting a double change and potential rest weeks at the pointy end. In the 80s, this would have ment a top 3 finish and now a days it's top 4. I follow the MFC aspiring to one day watch them win a premiership. Making finals is simply not enough for me. I've watched the MFC play lots of finals over the last 30 years, notch up some good wins in them. I have seen the MFC play the kind of dominant kind of foot where myself and fellow supporters have rued watching GF's that we though we could have won, but been unable to contend after being bundled out of finals series at critical times. The reality is that for a number of reasons, unless teams finish in the top 4, they don't really have a fighting chance of making, let alone winning a GF. Is finishing top 4 in 2020 a realistic objective? - I think it is. Richmond in 2017 went from 13th to 3rd. In 2018, although we only just stumbled into the finals series, from recollection, we were only a couple of wins off finishing top 4, with very winnable games against Geelong (twice), St Kilda and Port Adelaide that come to mind. I'm really hoping that 2019 was somewhat of an arbitration and this year we have an 'easy' draw to help us - something which probably helped the Tigers in 2017. Our lack of compressiveness in 2019 was hard to watch and down right depressing at times, but in spite of that I wasn't that upset about it, because unless we won the premiership, then it was just another wasted season in the amoung the many that I have a supporter. I know that the team would be silly to publicly overtly state finishing top 4 as being the aim for the home and away season, but I really do hope that's what it is internally when guys like Roos have previously spoke about playing the kind of footy that will make us competitive in finals and push deep into September. Over the coming years as we enter that all important age/experience 'window' within our list, I really hope to see us adopt a new level of maturity, professionalism and ruthlessness that playing finals becomes an expectation and finishing top 4 and playing in premierships is the aim, not just making finals and I don't see why that shouldn't start in 2020.
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With the tragic events of yesterdays results now well and truly sunk in and many questioning their faith I thought some reflection and confessions might be in order. I get on demonland to connect with fellow sufferers/supporters because quite frankly I don't have too many demon supporting friends. Thats just how it is. grew up that way, went to school that way and its still that way. But you know what, this team got in my blood, got in my soul and became a part of me I can't let go. So I don't care where we are. Im a demon through and through and I believe you guys and girls are too. In the hope that we can all get to know each other a little better and perhaps even get along better I suggest the following for anyone who is game. What I would like to know is the following. 1. How did you start following the Demons? 2. Who was your very first favourite player and why? 3. Best moment as a fan? 4. Worst moment as a fan? 5. Anything else you would like to share? Okay lets see what you got.
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Can Melbourne win a premiership with its current list?
Young Dee posted a topic in Melbourne Demons
After the well-known 2009 draft, myself and I think many others thought that we had built a premiership team. However after a couple of eye opening seasons I think many demonlanders have come to a realisation. Like so many of you I find myself always asking the same question will this current list (with maybe the addition of a couple trades, free agency, draft picks etc) be good enough to win a premiership. I believe we will experience success with the current list but to what extent? Will we be a top 4 team for a number of years without winning a premiership and then have to go through another rebuilding phase? I personally believe we have the talent and resources (players/coaches) to win a premiership but it will rely on the club as a whole to make the most of them (players/resources). I think if we are to succeed it will all begin with a "winning culture". With a winning culture I think players such as Jamar, Jones, Sylvia, Frawley will lift and this will lead to the development of stars (Trengove, Viney, Toumpas). However we need more than this, we need to take advantage of everything we have! With a winning culture/serious football department we need to be able to make players out of our under the radar draft picks: Taggert (pick 36) - desperately in need of midfielders with class and a good kick!, Jetta - another potential midfielder with pace, aggression and a beautiful kick - can play inside and outside while resting up forward, Sam Blease (Pick 17) - Need his pace and confidence in wing to high forward position - need to fix his disposal, Max Gawn (Pick 34) - another who has great potential it just is yet to be harnessed, Dean Kent (Pick 34) - has shown promise and talent could be a great midfield/high forward, James Strauss (Pick 19) - needs to step up and be that medium defender - with run and carry/great kick out of defence, Luke Tapscott (Pick 18) - another which has shown promise but has done little since - I like other have come to question where he fits in on our list - would like him to become like Chappy (a high forward that can go into the midfield (like Sylvia) - I think if this is going to be done he will have to tone down (to become quicker/fitter), Jack Watts (Pick 1) - we all know his weakness'/strengths - needs to get more aggressive and use his supposed talent!, Dom Barry (Pick #) - From reports has show talent, lets not let him become a Jamie Bennel (who I thought was immensely talented but just didn't want to use it). That's 8 players (more than a 1/3 of a team) who you could say are average/fringe players that have the talent to be premiership players. If we can develop/groom 4 or more of these players in to premiership players than I think with the addition of our current top 18, I think we have a chance of winning a premiership! I think our only hope lies in creating the right culture to develop young talent (a winning culture)! If we get to the point of being in finals I think we will all be blown away by the increase in devotion and desire to win (by the whole list). We have recently begun to witness what I believe is the first step to creating a winning culture, the competition for spots on the list (ie. Sellar and Pedersen). Success will only make the club greater! For example look at Nathan Jones or Lynden Dunn (Pick 15) for so long he has been nothing more than a fringe player who has continually made silly decisions but with a change of culture/coach he has been given a position down back which he seems to have cemented despite pressure for that spot (Garland, Watts, Terlich, Gilles etc). And so to cap it up yes I believe we have the potential to become a premiership side but it will require us (club/supporters etc) to take advantage of every resource whether that's turning an under the radar player such as James Strauss into the player that he has the potential to be or using a fringe player such as Pedersen to at the very least create competition for spots. So heres my starting 22: For Round 1 and beyond FB: Watts, Frawley, Stauss CHB: Dunn, McDonald, Jetta C: Blease, Jones, Toumpas CHF: Howe, Dawes, Sylvia FF: Byrnes/Barry (need small fwd), Clark, Byrnes FOLL: Jamar, McKenzie/(Need a Star), Viney INT: Trengove, Grimes, Kent EMER: Tapscott, Sellar, Rodan, Gawn, Taggert + Hogan What do you think? do we have the potential?
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Students living in areas that voted for President Trump faced more bullying after the 2016 election, according to new research released Wednesday.
The study offers some hard evidence that the post-election months were a more fraught time in many schools — backing up the stories of individual teachers and students. But the effects were not spread evenly: In communities favoring Trump, reports of bullying were 18 percent higher than in communities that voted for Hillary Clinton, the study found. Reports of peers being teased or put down because of their race or ethnicity were 9 percent higher in those places.
Overall, 17 percent of students in areas that voted for Clinton reported being bullied, compared to 20 percent of students in areas that voted for Trump.
“We found differences in teasing and bullying rates that were linked to voting preferences, which we didn’t see prior to the 2016 presidential election,” said Francis Huang, an associate professor at the University of Missouri, who conducted the study with University of Virginia professor Dewey Cornell.
Huang and Cornell examined the survey responses of more than 155,000 seventh- and eighth-grade students across Virginia’s 132 school districts. Students were asked if they had been bullied at school and if they had observed harassment of others, including students being targeted due to their race or ethnicity. The data was collected in 2013, 2015, and 2017.
Their conclusions are limited for a few reasons. The surveys don’t say the race or ethnicity of the students being bullied, making it impossible to know how closely the incidents were tied to the derogatory language now-President Trump and his supporters used during the campaign about Mexican immigrants and Muslims, for instance.
And the data, published in the peer-reviewed Educational Researcher, only shows a link between bullying and voting patterns — it doesn’t prove cause and effect.
“Our data show there could be a relationship, but more research is needed to know that,” Huang said. “But what we can say is that bullying continues to be a problem in schools that’s only increased in the eyes of these students.”
There still isn’t much research yet to confirm the depth of such a “Trump effect,” said Deborah Temkin, director of education research for the nonpartisan Child Trends. She previously oversaw federal efforts to combat bullying in the Obama administration.
“This is a really complicated thing to disentangle,” Temkin said. “There can be so many factors into why bullying is happening and without a hyper-controlled study — which is hard to do when you may or may not have a presidential election in the mix — it’s hard to show causation.”
Virginia has taken steps to combat bullying in schools, before and after the election. A law implemented in 2017 requires principals to notify the parent of any student involved in bullying of the status of any investigation within five school days.
While schools do submit harassment data to the federal government every couple of years, the nature of such incidents isn’t made clear in those reports. Moreover, there is no uniform collection of hate crimes or bias incidents in schools by any federal agency, making it a challenge to understand how often students are targeted because of their identity.
A national data set released last year showed that bullying rates held steady in 2017, Temkin noted, adding that researchers should be cautious about assigning blame for any uptick fully to Trump or political rhetoric.
Indeed, Huang and Cornell found that bullying was present throughout the state of Virginia — a battleground state that Clinton won by 5 points.
School officials have publicly expressed concern in recent years about how President Trump’s language and behavior, including his reliance on false claims, may be affecting students’ outlook on what is socially acceptable. That presents new challenges for teachers pushed to address it.
“It is harder to have students behave respectfully toward one another when the nation’s chief role model consistently does the opposite,” Richard Stopol, the president of NYC Outward Bound Schools, wrote last week in the New York Daily News. “Through words and actions, he is profoundly affecting how teachers see their role and influencing both how and what they teach. With those words and actions, he is posing immense challenges that educators across the country are having to reckon with.”
Temkin said the research should push teachers and school administrators to acknowledge that what’s happening in politics doesn’t stay at home with their students.
“We have to be thinking of how the actions of adults transfer onto the behavior of kids as kids are always looking at how adults are acting toward others,” Temkin said. “So yes, more research is needed to see how deep these relationships go, and from what we see here in the study is a sustained need for bullying prevention in schools.”
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Can you will yourself to be more creative?
By Alex Fradera
Surely creativity is about freedom. Dropping your inhibitions – maybe with the help of a few substances – and letting ideas writhe free from the unconscious unfiltered. What to make then of the research showing that creativity is associated with higher levels of executive functioning – the mind’s suite of control processes – which seem to help by inhibiting irrelevant information and combining the rest in novel ways? Does it mean you can use this mental control to make yourself perform more creatively? According to a new study in Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts involving jazz pianists the answer may depend in part on your creative experience.
David Rosen and his team from Drexel University suspected that the need for conscious control may be more acute when creative people are still novices, referencing saxophonist Charlie Parker’s observation that “you’ve got to learn your instrument. Then, you practice, practice, practice. And then, when you finally get up there on the bandstand, forget all that and just wail.”
To test this, the researchers recruited 22 mostly male jazz pianists using their number of completed professional gigs – as few as three and as many as 400 – as a measure of their creative expertise.
After warming up at the keyboard, the musicians attempted to improvise a pre-recorded track “as you normally would in a jazz setting.” After the first take, they were given three more tries. Crucially, before one of these efforts they were told that from now on they should “improvise even more creatively than your past performance(s).”
Could the participants deliberately boost their creativity?
After the experiment, the musicians said they’d taken the instruction to heart: “I tried other things that I wouldn’t normally try”; “I felt totally freed. I felt like I’d been given license to go wherever my mind took me”; “I considered new elements of my performance while improvising with explicit instructions”.
And for performers with fewer gigs behind them, this seemed to help: independent judges rated their improvisations as more proficient, aesthetically appealing, and creative, as compared to equivalent takes with no instructions. But more experienced musicians saw smaller benefits, with the effect for the most experienced players tipping (non-significantly in statistical terms) in the other direction.
These findings add to past research showing that while mental control may be important for creativity, there is also a part to play for automatic, uncontrolled mental processes. For example, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and even brain damage to the frontal regions involved in executive function are both associated with heightened creativity. Mind-wandering and dreaming also seem to produce creative leaps. One explanation is that creativity is an interplay between automatic associative processes and deliberate effortful ones, or Type One and Type Two processes (as per Daniel Kahneman’s terminology). Freedom and control.
Seen in these terms, expert players may, over time, find their own balance of Type One and Two processes when improvising, such that conscious attention can’t easily lead to further improvements. In contrast, those with lower levels of mastery can find it productive to call on creative techniques intentionally or test out variants – “I wonder if I can try dropping different notes from an arpeggio run.” So for those of us not yet at the top of our creative game, making the conscious effort to focus on novel, creative outcomes might be the tactic to take us to new heights.
—All You Need to Do Is Ask? The Exhortation to Be Creative Improves Creative Performance More for Nonexpert Than Expert Jazz Musicians
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You see this in various areas, in that through experience people can actually become ‘stuck’ in their ways, instead of being more open-minded, which in turn lends itself well to creativity.
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Editors' Choice: 2015 Volkswagen Golf GTI
First Drive: 2015 Acura TLX
Editors’ Choice: 2014 Ford Fiesta ST
Still a hot hatch for the people, but price tag can balloon out of reach for many
by Graeme Fletcher | August 7, 2014
Volkswagen debuted a souped-up version of its front-wheel-drive Golf at the Frankfurt Motor Show back in 1975. Hence, the GTI and its legend were born. Now comes the seventh-generation model with an all-new platform.
It is longer, lower and wider, it has 10% more luggage space, it’s 10% stiffer and, in spite of this, the new GTI is 23-kilograms lighter, which helps overall performance. In all else, it remains very familiar — from the fender badges to the cabin. The latter is, however, where things are beginning to change.
Yes, those now-famous tartan seats are still very much alive and kicking and the interior remains true to the driver — supportive seats, a chunky flat-bottomed steering wheel and clean instrumentation all speak to this point. What’s changing is the march upmarket. The test car featured leather seating and VW’s Discover Media navigation system. The latter has a touch-sensitive screen and a proximity sensor. Moving one’s hand toward the screen sees a menu rise up from the bottom of the screen. It is neat, but it’s also a necessity — the screen is small without the icons, it’s cluttered with them. As an aside, the audio system is by none other than Fender, the company made famous by Jimi Hendrix and his liking for the Stratocaster.
Read the full story behind the Editors’ Choice event here
The question heading into the Editors’ Choice was whether the move up the price ladder would affect the GTI’s status as the hot-hatch of choice.
The gen-seven GTI is powered by a 2.0-litre, turbocharged four-cylinder that produces 210 horsepower and, more importantly, 258 pound-feet of torque at just 1,600 rpm. This means that there’s little turbo lag off the line and the urge onward builds very strongly through the mid-range. In the end, it brings a run to 100 kilometres an hour in 6.4 seconds and it accomplished the more important 80 to 120 km/h passing move in 4.5 seconds. Both are strong times by any standard.
The tester’s power was relayed to the road through a very good six-speed twin-clutch transmission. It bumps up and down the gears with incredible speed and it seemed to know what the driver was about to do next. From here, the work ethic reaches the road through substantial P225/40R18 tires. The neat part is everything can be tailored to the tone of the drive. Normal mode is just that, sport mode sharpens the throttle and steering, while individual allows the driver to pick the upgrades. The transmission’s sport mode stretches out the upshifts, which brings more urgency to the drive. The GTI tested also benefited from paddle shifters.
The suspension is taut, but it delivered a nicely damped ride in the city. The variable ratio electric steering also takes a turn for the better. It had a rewarding response to input and, unlike so many electric systems, it delivered the needed feedback, which made the communication between driver and car a clean and clear affair. The uprated brakes are also worth a mention. The track session saw them provide plenty of fade-free performance. Finally, there is a sport mode for the stability control. It gives the driver much more latitude before stepping in and raining on the fun.
So, that’s the techy stuff. The driving proved to be a mixed bag. The GTI’s track performance was good, but the group consensus was that it was too soft to be a real demon — it required the judicial use of trail braking to get the GTI to point into an off-camber, decreasing radius corner with the alacrity demanded by this driver. Without said assistance, it began to understeer in spite of the substantial tire package.
The question is, does this really matter? Again, the consensus was not a whit. On road, the GTI remained the paragon of virtue, driving into corners with precision as it soaked up a rough road without heeling over in the process. It proved to be a very enjoyable experience that made the driver want to go back for more.
The GTI was born to be a rebel with a cause — bring sporting performance to the People. My week with the latest GTI proved it to be one of the strongest all-round sports cars available. If there is a nit, it is that the GTI is beginning to move away from its People’s mandate. While the GTI’s sticker starts at an entirely manageable dollar, adding options see the price tag soar — the base three-door GTI with a six-speed manual gearbox starts at $27,995; the five-door with its options and twin-clutch transmission carried an as tested sticker of $36,085.
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Check out the full results of our Editors’ Choice here
Track Specs
Best lap time 02:37.4
Rank in vote 3
Score in vote 73.5/100
0-100 km/h time 6.5 seconds
Type of vehicle Five-door compact hatchback
Engine 2.0L Turbocharged four-cylinder
Power 201 hp @ 4,300 rpm; 258 lb.-ft. of torque @ 1,600
Transmission Six-speed twin-clutch
Brakes Four-wheel disc with ABS
Tires P225/40R18
Price (base/as tested) $27,995/$36,085
Destination charge $1,395
Natural Resources Canada fuel economy (L/100 km) 9.4 city, 6.9 highway
Standard features Dual-zone automatic climate control, power locks, windows and mirrors, power moonroof, cruise control, tilt/telescopic steering, AM/FM/MP3/satellite Fender sound system with eight speakers and aux inputs, eight-way front seats with power recline, back-up camera, rain-sensing wipers, Bluetooth, smart key with push-button start, bi-xenon headlights and more
Notable options Leather package ($1,095, includes leather seating and 12-way power driver’s seat), Tech package ($695, includes Discover Media navigation system, 5.8-inch touch screen with proximity sensor, CD player and forward collision warning system)
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Binance hacked for 7,000 Bitcoin in "large scale security breach"
Though trading will continue, the $40 million hack means Binance will halt withdrawals and deposits for a week, while performing a security audit.
By Tim Copeland
May 7, 2019 Nov 16, 2019
Binance suffered a large scale security breach late today, according to a statement. Hackers managed to obtain API keys, two-factor-authentication codes and other information. In addition, 7,000 Bitcoin ($40 million) were withdrawn in a single transaction.
The hackers used multiple techniques, including phishing attacks and computer viruses to get at Binance and its hot wallets, where it keeps funds to manage the day-to-day operation of the exchange. The hackers were unable to access the Binance cold storage—the off-line wallets where the majority of funds are kept. Likewise, individual user wallets were not directly affected.
According to the statement: "The hackers had the patience to wait, and execute well-orchestrated actions through multiple seemingly independent accounts at the most opportune time."
The company reported it that maintains an emergency fund for these eventualities, called Safu, which will be used to cover the stolen Bitcoin.
As has become usual in exchange hacks, the break in was announced via an "unscheduled server maintenance" tweet. That alarmed a number of Twitter users, who messaged CEO Changpeng Zhao, wondering if the exchange had been hacked.
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Since the hack was revealed, the price of Binance Coin (BNB) fell eight percent to $19.88 but has since recovered to $21.
Responding to the security breach, CEO at blockchain analytics firm CipherTrace, Dave Jevans, said, "Binance responded quickly to the hack and was very transparent about the ordeal. It is a shining example in the industry of rapid response, full transparency and a solid financial model for reimbursing customers from hacks."
Jevans pointed out it was the second exchange hack using two-factor authentication this week, recommending a more stringent three-factor authentication. However this will be down to exchanges to implement.
Binance said it will undertake a security review to determine what went wrong and what can be fixed. While deposits and withdrawals will remain closed, trading will continue.
[Update May 7 22:16] Added statement regarding Binance Coin and quotations from CipherTrace CEO.
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Quality Attributes for Enterprise Architecture Processes
Enterprise Architecture (EA) is created, maintained, and managed through EA processes. While the quality of these processes is perceived to ultimately impact the realization of benefits from the EA approach, it has been considered in relatively few studies. Specific aspects of EA processes such as EA frameworks have been extensively studied, but there is no common understanding of the attributes that make up EA processes of high quality. In this exploratory case study, data from 14 themed interviews of EA stakeholders is utilized to identify 15 quality attributes for EA processes. These are then supplemented and validated by comparison to the hitherto existing state of research. The results provide a comprehensive framework for understanding EA process quality. They can be used to identify areas for development and define metrics for further improvement of the EA practice, and as a basis for further research.
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This article proposes a Complex Adaptive Architecture (CAA) method to architect an organic enterprise. It presents a complicated concept in a simple 3×3 matrix bonded by three architecture theories and a three-tiered architecture approach. CAA recognizes that SOA and Cloud Computing is a horizontal architecture practice which cannot be accomplished with the traditional top-down approach. The horizontal architecture consists of the discipline of learning from the experience of others, the discipline of engineering of re-use and consolidation, and the discipline to facilitate buy-in from stakeholders. CAA also discovers that the business community is making decisions based on influence relation rather than structural relation. Coherence Architecture theory is based on enterprise influence modeling and coherence modeling for the purpose of supporting enterprise strategic planning and decision-making. The Coherence Architecture consists of the discipline of influence modeling and the discipline of analogical reasoning. CAA embraces continuous change with a three-tiered architecture approach. The initial tier is the Notional Architecture which serves much like a master plan in city planning. The second tier is the Segment Architecture to close the business performance gaps due to change. The third tier is the daily Enterprise Architecture (EA) to enable an agile solution architecture.
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The discipline of Enterprise Architecture (EA) is still relatively immature and incoherent. The discourse is rather fragmented and lacking a shared vocabulary. To shed some light on the situation, some schools of thought on EA have been suggested, each with its distinct concerns and set of assumptions. In this article, we aim to bring more structure and clarity to EA discourse. Not only do we review the identified types and schools of EA, but we also attempt to make sense of the underlying structural and metaphysical underpinnings of the field and to ground EA in theory. As per our analysis, requisite architecture methods and tools are contingent on the level of complexity. In particular, while best practices and linear techniques are applicable in a contained operational scope, they fall severely short in addressing complex problems pertaining to non-linear discontinuities inherent in the increasingly interconnected and global business environment. On the other hand, we view that an ideal scope of an architecture “work system” is bounded by a maximum number of people able to create a shared meaning. Accordingly, we propose that architectural work in an enterprise be divided into three distinct yet interlinked architectures: Technical, Socio-Technical, and Ecosystemic. Each of these architectures is selfregulated, based on different ontological and epistemological assumptions, has its own vertical scope, and requires its own distinct methods and tools.
Enterprise Architecture Valuation and Metrics: A Survey-Based Research Study
Enterprise Architecture (EA) is increasingly being adopted and utilized by all types of organizations (Fri 2007; Jung 2009; Kappelman et al. 2008). Despite its growing popularity, the challenge facing many organizations is how to measure and provide evidence of the value that EA provides to an enterprise (Boster et al. 2000; Plessius et al. 2012). This challenge includes determining the best ways to effectively evaluate and measure the impact EA has on an enterprise. To provide some insight into this problem, this article provides an overview of the means used to measure the value of EA within organizations. This article seeks to accomplish four tasks. First, to demonstrate that EA value measurement is a challenge that needs to be addressed within organizations. Second, to highlight the variety of methods and measures that organizations currently use in their attempts to measure the value of EA. Third, to provide insight into the reported challenges facing organizations involved in the process of measuring the value of EA. Fourth, to propose a conceptual model for EA value measurement that can be utilized by organizations who have implemented EA. To provide support and evidence for all four of these tasks, we present the results from a survey that contains the responses from 276 participants whose job roles and responsibilities directly reflected working in EA within their organizations.
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John Lewis warning over 'Black Friday' online sales
By Amy, Eastpoint Software on 06 January 2015
John Lewis has announced last year's sales figures and it was a bumper year for their 'Black Friday' sale, with the retailer recording it's biggest trading week on record. But they were also down on their Christmas week sales compared to last year.
Sales - YAY! Or maybe not...
The BBC reported that Andy Street, managing director of John Lewis, hoped that Black Friday had reached its peak and questioned how sensible it is to focus so much trade and discounting on that one day.
In essence, he is saying - we sold more on Black Friday, but we had to sell at a discount, and less was bought later on. So essentially they are selling the same amount of stuff overall, but more of it bought at a discount. While it evened itself out this year, logic suggests the trend could lead to a loss in profit.
And it seems that the huge amounts of sales in that weekend did hoover up potential later sales. The Guardian reported that John Lewis had a 14.7% decline for electrical goods in the last shopping week before Christmas, compared to last year. John Lewis were also down 1.4% overall compared to last year, for the week finishing December 27 (with the caveat that last year, the Christmas week sales had one fewer 'clearance sale' days).
However, if you cast the net wider, overall sales in the five weeks to December 27 rose 4.8% compared to last year.
Ecommerce faired well at John Lewis this year. Let's look at some stats:
Online shopping sales up 19%
Of those, 56% were via the click-and-collect service (an increase of 30% from last year)
Online sales were credited for a 7.8% overall sales boost for fashion and beauty
Is Black Friday a good idea?
Black Friday is of course an American idea that has become popular over here - did anyone else feel that this year, it was publicised and hyped more than previous years? Do you think next year will be even more full-on, or this will be a fad that we'll get tired of?
The worry for retailers is that consumers will opt for the discounted Black Friday deals and not buy the full-price items closer to Christmas. But are we really that organised? What do we all think?
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Household Savings Rate in National Accounts and Household Surveys in Japan (Japanese)
Discussion Papers (Japanese), Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry (RIETI)
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The Impact of a Permanent Income Shock on Consumption: Evidence from Japan's 2014 VAT increase
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Estimating the Impacts of Program Benefits: Using Instrumental Variables with Underreported and Imputed Data
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Housing Market and Housing Investment (Japanese)
Female Labor Market, Intra-household Allocation, and Marriage (Japanese)
Compatibility of Jobs and Marriage and Nursery Schools: Evidence from the 2010 Population Census (Japanese)
Short-run Distributional Effects of VAT Rate Change: Evidence from a consumption tax rate increase in Japan
Temporary Housing and Disaster Victim Assistance: Evidence from the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake (Japanese)
Consumption Behavior of Elderly Households and Price Index (Japanese)
Consumption Responses to the Child Allowance (Japanese)
The Intertemporal Substitution and Income Effects of a VAT Rate Increase: Evidence from Japan
Demand Driven Innovation and Uncertainty: Evidence from diffusion of flat panel TV (Japanese)
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Upward bias in the consumer price index under the zero-inflation economy
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If you’ve ever been to ALDI, you’ll know we’re not your average supermarket. We’ve never been satisfied with the status quo, or doing things that others do. By doing things differently, we can provide top quality products at the lowest prices. That’s why we call it Good Different.
While ALDI has been operating internationally for over 50 years, the first Australian store opened its doors in January 2001. Now with over 400 stores successfully operating across ACT, New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria and Western Australia, it's clear that Australian shoppers have adopted our philosophy of great value.
Local Berwick ALDI store
Your local Berwick ALDI at Eden Rise Village stocks a great range of products, including baby care, liquor and personal care. The supermarket has wide variety of top quality imported goods, whilst the company has also worked closely with Australian farmers, producers and manufacturers to source the best Australian grown and made products. ALDI’s proudly Australian made grocery range includes 100% Australian Grown fresh meat, 100% Australian Made laundry range, 100% Australian Grown eggs, 91% Australian Grown fruit and vegetables as well as 93% Australian Made dairy.
The Eden Rise supermarket is also home to ALDI’s famous Weekly Special Buys. In addition to our core range of everyday grocery products, twice a week we offer our customers a range of Special Buys that can include anything from electronics, like LCD TVs and DVD players, to clothing and furniture. A new range of Special Buys comes out every Wednesday and Saturday, and in keeping with our promise of smarter shopping, all our Special Buys offer exceptional quality and value for money.
Stocks are limited, so to ensure you don’t miss out, we recommend visiting ALDI as early as possible when new Special Buys go on sale. Furthermore, all of our items are covered by our 60 day refund policy. That means we’ll refund or replace any item as long as you return it within 60 days of purchase in its original packaging, along with any accessories it came with and your receipt.
See why ALDI has had Australia’s most satisfied shoppers three years in a row at your local ALDI in berwick today!
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Quitting the World of Medicine
11:28am on April 1st, 2019 11:28am on April 1st, 2019
Sometimes we read something that makes us just want to turn our backs on the world of medicine. Sometimes we read two or three medical articles in the same morning and want to throttle medical officials and the corporate interests that stand behind them.
When we read over our morning coffee that police officers busted down the door of an Arizona home to take a toddler with a spiking fever from his parents we can empathize with victims of the Nazi Gestapo who used to do the same kind of things.
Officers pointing guns forced their way into the family’s home in the middle of the night after the Arizona Department of Child Safety called the police for a welfare check on a child with a 100 degree-plus fever and no vaccinations. The parents had ignored a doctor’s recommendation to take their 2-year-old to the hospital, saying their son’s fever had decreased.
The parents, Brooks Bryce and Sarah Beck, say the authorities drastically overreacted. “They treated us like criminals, busting in our door,” Mr Bryce told a local TV station. “I mean, I don’t know what kind of trauma that did to my kids.” Now of course authorities and practitioners defended the invasion.
This morning I got upset reading a vaccine essay by Dr. Joseph Mercola that was, at the end, announced that it was an April Fools joke, a deadly serious essay on how the medical industrial complex could easily take us right back to the type of fascism that Germany got sucked into all those years ago.
To eliminate false vaccine information and protect public health, the U.S. federal government is mandating vaccine reeducation for vaccine deniers and refusers. According to the new law, which will take effect one year from now on April 1, 2020, each vaccine reeducation camp will provide federally sanctioned reeducation on vaccines depending on level of vaccine resistance.
Following successful reeducation, parents will be given a certificate good for re-entry into society. At that point, they will be able to provide per-established and appropriate answers to safety questions about vaccines, and both they and their children will be up to date with all vaccinations.
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At the end of this essay they announced that: While written in jest, some of the details herein are in fact true, or disturbingly close to it, and the article could be suggestive of what we might face in the near future, should we fail to take corrective action to protect and preserve vaccine exemptions, informed consent and medical freedom of choice.
The measles epidemic has medical officials on high alert though everything they say, think in do about measles is built on quicksand. Measles is not a dangerous disease unless it is delayed until later in life where it is them much more dangerous. Second, though Measles is a disease it is not the disease they think and say it is. We know the Measles vaccine is not effective and we know that the only time the subject was given an objective view (by the supreme court of Germany) is was not accepted to be a viral disease treatable by the antiviral vaccine.
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The vaccine wars are heating up again. We see this in theSuper Bowl where the public is under scrutiny for anyone displaying measles symptoms, even though the rash of measles does not show up for four days after exposure. Pharmacies are being monitored for purchases relating to measles, etc. The vaccine industry is making too big a deal of measles, which is strange since there have been no deaths of unvaccinated measles sufferers since 2003. A similar concern appeared after the 2012 Superbowl and was described afterwards as a very minor outbreak.
Do not be terribly surprised if someday laws are passed that will ban the unvaccinated from attending any “events” sporting or otherwise that might expose others to measles, which the older of my readers should have all had as a child. The vaccine did not come out 1963. All the kids in school had measles and passed it around and all of us developed natural immunity. No one died, though we all got the rash and were miserable for a while.
Dr. David Brownstein says, “The hysteria surrounding this outbreak is beyond me. I have seen the articles stating that parents who choose not to vaccinate should be prosecuted. Parents who choose not vaccinate have been accused of child abuse. Measles is a highly infectious disease. It is very common throughout the world. In fact, it is estimated that over 20 million cases of measles occur worldwide on an annual basis. Measles can lead to severe problems including encephalitis and death. However, serious complications from measles are rare in the developed world.”
“Parents who do not vaccinate their children should go to jail,” writes USA Today columnist Alex Berezow, who obviously believes that vaccines are the best thing next to apple pie. He like 80% of the population believes in the false agenda of pediatricians and their supporting organizations like the CDC and FDA.
So April Fools or not Mercola’s article was serious about medical and pharmaceutical terrorism. I ask these medical officials who think their actions are based on caring concern why they are not loudly objecting to G5? What do they think that will do to fetuses and infants? Do they even care?
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“There are few substances which are surrounded by more controversy, and which have at the same time such important and potentially far-reaching public health implications”, the late Professor Henry wrote.
The ACMD, the body tasked to adjudicate the evidence on cannabis, never shared this view and as a result fell foul of the debate. It has taken the sacking of Professor Nutt, the brouhaha and the publicity surrounding it, to pull attention back to the science on cannabis effects; science that he and the ACMD were so slow to assess, so little interested in and so quick to dismiss.
Last week the BBC’s The Report programme asked the question of why on earth the ACMD recommended cannabis’ downgrading in the first place. Labour MP Gwyn Prosser explained. For those arguing in favour, in the pro-liberalism political climate of David Blunket’s accession to the Home Office, “it was all but a done deal, they were pushing at an open door ….” The ACMD was party to that process.
Its first cannabis report (the only one that the ACMD Chair ‘had pleasure in enclosing’ to the Home Secretary), which recommended reclassification to C, was just 22 pages long. As a review of the classification of cannabis preparations, ‘in light of the current scientific evidence’, it was nominal and cursory. It drew not at all on the “large scientific literature on the effects of cannabis on human health and human society” available at the time. Its recommendation was based on drugs use prevalence statistics, speculations about and reports on decriminalisation regimes. Of the 24 references listed, only 4 referred to the scientific literature on effects. Yet when Mary Brett, a biologist and former grammar school head of health education, surveyed it for herself, she found no less than 44 pre 2002 scientific publications on the negative impact of cannabis; evidence of psychosis in cannabis users dating back to 1972. The review skated over the evidence and paid lip service to cannabis harms alone.
Professor Robin Murray’s new research on the causal link between cannabis and schizophrenia was published eight months afterwards. In 2005 Charles Clarke not unreasonably requested the ACMD to examine all the evidence relating to mental health; he directed them to the changed content of cannabis; forensic lab data was already showing that consumption had shifted from imported resin to home grown herb with a much higher THC content and a dangerously altered THC/CBD ratio – ’skunk’ which had become a rite of passage for ever younger teenagers.
The ACMD were quick to express their misgivings. Politicians were ‘pandering to the media’ said Lord Adebowale, a non-scientist ACMD member. He was not convinced there was fresh evidence. Sir Michael Rawlins (then Chairman) also seemed to have closed his mind. At a conference in the April of that year he confirmed he would not be ‘confused’ by the new data. True to his word only 5 pages of the 36 page response dealt with the massive output on the effects of cannabis on mental health, described as a ‘biologically fraught hypothesis’. Cannabis could lead to short lived panic attacks and worsen the symptoms of schizophrenia, it conceded. It could ameliorate them too. It was not a necessary, nor a sufficient, cause for the development of schizophrenia. The evidence for consumption of more potent cannabis was lacking. That was the medicine doled out to the Home Secretary. He took it.
So when Jacqui Smith asked them to look at the evidence again the ACMD were visibly affronted. Sir Michael Rawlins made his discontent public, the 10 minutes slot for cannabis on the agenda collapsed to two. He devoted them to grumbling – saying that he wished they had not been asked. One (non scientific) Council member said afterwards he had no intention of ploughing through the evidence again.
In the meantime the ACMD’s deputy chair had already queered the pitch for a dispassionate review. In full media glare Professor David Nutt had published an article in the Lancet in which he set out to demonstrate, through delphically derived but incomplete polling, a new classification of harms in which alcohol and tobacco emerged more harmful than cannabis and ecstasy. His intention was clear – to invalidate the distinction between licit and illicit substances.
What he ignored (or perhaps pandered to) was the fact that while the excess mortality and healthcare costs associated with the use of tobacco and alcohol are well known, those for cannabis remain largely unknown. He took the lack of comparable definitive evidence on cannabis concerning the population as a lack of evidence of its harm for either individuals or society.
At 56 pages long, the ACMD’s final report referred to more scientific papers than before. But if a precautionary principle was applied it was to the data itself, not to its implications or to their classification recommendation. So cautious were they that they completely ignored the key published British longitudinal data on cannabis use and schizophrenia. They relied instead on a GP data base survey they decided to commission from one of their own members
The analysis they so bizarrely ‘ostracized’ was of a South East London longitudinal cohort covering the period between 1966 and 99 which uniquely allowed for the examination of trends in cannabis use prior to first presentation with schizophrenia. It demonstrated a continuous and statistically significant rise in the incidence of schizophrenia between 1965 and 1997, one which had doubled over the last 3 decades, with the greatest increase in people under 35. It suggested that up to 20% of schizophrenia cases could be cannabis attributable.
The ACMD’s decision to rely exclusively on a survey of its own commissioning which did not specifically look at cannabis use was curious. Presented by one of its own members, Professor Ilana Crome, as unpublished evidence, she reported the annual incidence of diagnosed schizophrenia and psychoses had fallen between 1996 and 2005. Professor Murray dismissed this as invalid: “I have known about this study since its inception and advised the authors that they were unlikely to be able to come up with meaningful results. Firstly, a major problem concerns the diagnoses. In my experience GP diagnoses of psychiatric disorders are not very accurate. Secondly, we do not know how many cases of psychosis are dealt with exclusively by psychiatrists and GPs don’t know.”
His contention is that there is no significant or well done study that has not shown early onset of cannabis use to be associated with psychosis. Since 2002 he points to no less than eight cohort studies all of which show the risk of psychosis to be higher in those that smoke cannabis – a risk that increases by 6 to 7 times for heavy smokers, risks that for adolescents are disturbingly high and that show early users run into greatest problems. Starting by 15 the risk is 4 times higher than starting at 18 – a data trend which suggests the risk multiplies for each year younger.
Yet the ACMD remained adamant that these studies did not meet their bar of ‘proof beyond reasonable doubt’ and that more research was required. Others scientists begged to differ saying the persistent association was robust to methodological challenges.
Whether recently published findings which confirm that THC induces a transient, acute psychotic reaction in psychiatrically well individuals would have persuaded them, is anyone’s guess. Meanwhile the ‘Cannabis Dependency Units’ as psychiatrists describe their first contact schizophrenia wards, continue to take their toll. And while Holland finds its three dedicated residential rehabs for their severest adolescent (13 – 20) cannabis dependents to be insufficient and is building more, to create 600 places, we, in the UK, have none. We leave our stoned and de-motivated youngsters on the streets. For that we can thank the ACMD’s lassitude.
Source: by Kathy Gyngell, UK Centre for Policy Studies 29th November 2009
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Big dream spilleth over
Durango Bantams upset 2 higher seeds to win CAHA Cup crown
By Aaron Unterreiner Herald Sports Editor
Thursday, April 1, 2010 4:43 AM
Bantams assistant coach Derek Raimo, back left, and Pee Wees assistant coach Gunter Steffler, back right, surround their respective state championship and runner-up teams Wednesday at Chapman Hill Ice Rink. The 12- to 14-year-old Bantams (in their home white sweaters) won a state title March 21 at the Pepsi Center in Denver, while the 10- to 12-year-old Pee Wees (blue sweaters) finished second in the Front Range.
STEVE LEWIS/Herald
For Gabe Tonnessen, it clicked about halfway though the regular season.
For Steve Martin, early in the regular season.
For Matthew Mandelski, it clicked when the Durango Bantams upset Colorado's No. 1 seed in the state semifinals to
reach the championship game of the Colorado Amateur Hockey Association (CAHA) Cup.
“No, not really," Mandelski,14, said Monday night when asked if he expected to be a state champion and all-star
goaltender at season's end. “All season throughout, we got better and better, but I really didn't imagine we'd go all
the way to state."
For the second consecutive year, a member of the Durango Area Youth Hockey Association (DAYHA) has laid claim to a
state championship.
Last year, it was an unprecedented title by the 8- to 10-year-old Squirts team, many of which graduated to the
2009-10 Pee Wees.
This year, it was an unprecedented two-team DAYHA run to the Final Four of the CAHA Cup: The 12- to 14-year-old
Bantams were crowned champions, while the 10- to 12-year-old Pee Wees fought back for a courageous runner-up finish
in the state tournament.
“We knew we had a chance, but it was going to be a lot of hard work," Bantams head coach Steve Martin said. “These
kids worked hard all year, and as the season went on, we knew we had a chance to get there. That was the first step."
Hard work produced a Rocky Mountain Youth Hockey League (RMYHL) championship and the second step: a No. 3 seed at the
CAHA Cup on March 19-21 in the Front Range.
On March 19 at the Edge Ice Arena in Littleton, the Bantams held off a furious third-period rally from No. 1 seed
Colorado Springs for a 3-2 semifinal victory. Kyle Truax scored the game's first goal, Cameron Treharne scored the
Bantams' second and third, and Mandelski, protecting a fragile one-goal lead, snuffed Springs' final attacks from
goal.
“They were a lesser team than we thought we'd be facing," said Mandelski, the son of Keith and Mary Mandelski. “But
we underestimated them, then we had to fight 'em off at the end in the final minutes. They wore us down. They had a
big bench, a lot more people. There were a lot of scrambles in front of the net. I had to step up and play my best."
Outmanned by an entire line (17 skaters to 12), the Bantams did just enough to advance, Tonnessen, the team's
14-year-old assistant captain, said.
“They moved the puck really well. They were a really strong team," said Tonnessen, the son of Rick and Kathy
Tonnessen. “Our team played OK … we have a lot of good, strong players … we prevailed."
Prevailed, persevered, then pushed on.
On March 21 at the Pepsi Center in Denver, the Bantams defeated No. 2 seed Northern Colorado Junior Eagles 5-4 in
overtime to win the championship. Durango got goals from Truax (two), Treharne and Danny Cummins in regulation.
“Overtime was really pretty intense," said Mandelski, a 5-9, 140-pound goalie who honed his skills in net with
private tutoring from local adult hockey goaltender Ian Davis and a one-week, goalie-specific hockey camp in Toronto
two years ago. “They kept us in our defensive zone."
After eight minutes of defense in the extra period, Mandelski covered a puck in the crease to force a faceoff. Riley
Quigley won the draw, then Tonnessen followed his big brother's advice: “Skate hard down the middle of the ice," Gabe
said of Jake Tonnessen's words of wisdom.
“Riley found me right off the faceoff," Gabe Tonnessen said.
“Two-on-one. Bang," Mandelski said. “That's how we won the game."
Riley Quigley scored the Bantams' state-winning golden goal with 7 minutes, 16 seconds to play in the fourth period.
“The whole team played a really good game," Tonnessen said.
“All year, we really played good team hockey," said Martin, whose daughter Sara Martin is Tonnessen's counterpart at
assistant captain on the Bantams' championship team. “We spread the puck around. We weren't a team of individuals. It
was extremely encouraging as a coach to see them play as a team."
Coached by Steve Martin and Derek Raimo, managed by Kathy Tonnessen and captained by Mason Johnston, Sara Martin and
Gabe Tonnessen, the Bantams are Cummins, Mandelski, Treharne, Truax, Tyler Coombs, Zach Marqua, Liam Millar, Ezekiel
Soignier and Nick Tarpley.
Coombs, Johnston, Mandelski, Tonnessen and Truax represented Durango and the RMYHL at the all-star Sportsmanship Game
last weekend in Grand Junction.
“One of our goals we set was to make it to state, but winning state, that's tough to set your sights on," the
first-year Bantams coach said.
Martin said he had a pretty good idea that goal could become a reality as early as November, when the Bantams were
playing in a Front Range-heavy and highly competitive tournament in Vail.
“We lost in the semis to the eventual winner … but we came away with the idea that we can play at this level," coach
Martin said.
The Pee Wees, coached by Drew Kensinger, played with that confidence all season long; most of this year's group has
been there, done that - winning DAYHA's first state championship last year as Squirts.
They lost, however, 3-2 to Littleton Pee Wee B Black in this year's state championship game.
Kele Steffler scored a pair of third-period goals for the Durango Pee Wees to make the title shot competitive.
“The game before probably was one of our best games I've ever seen them play," Kensinger said of his Pee Wees. “The
championship game, I think the butterflies kinda got 'em."
Kensinger accredited the Pee Wees' success this season to the team's leadership skills, pointing to captain and coach
Martin's son, Tim Martin, and teammates Rex Stowers, Brad Tarpley and Eric Walker.
Kensinger said he had to pick up his Pee Wees in the locker room after their one-goal championship loss: “'At least
we got here. We made it,'" he told his team. “That got their heads up."
The Pee Wees, coached by Kensinger and Gunter Steffler, managed by Julie Carpenter and captained by Martin are Kele
Steffler, Stowers, Tarpley, Walker, Jake Beekmann, Caleb Carpenter, Trystan Hale, Benji Mickel, Derek Pansze, Sophia
Quick, Kyle Robinette, Devin Steffler, Collin Thorburn and Corinne Truax.
The Bantams, in no need of a pep talk, still are trying to come down after their one-goal championship victory: “It
hasn't really sunk in yet," Gabe Tonnessen said.
“It was worth it," Mandelski said. “It was fun. We've been working for this for a long time."
For Tonnessen, all the fun and hard work came into focus midway through the season.
“We had played half the season, played all the teams, and hadn't really lost," he said.
“We had high hopes at the beginning of the season, but I didn't think we'd be state champions. … We have a really
good team. … It's pretty crazy. It's taking a little while to sink in, which is good."
Tonnessen has a theory for the Bantams' success, too.
“Part of the reason we did so well is this team is pretty good friends," he said. “This whole team really gets along
well with each other and has a lot of fun."
And that, for this year's Bantams, was the final step.
aaron@durangoherald.com
Setting it straight
This article has been updated to reflect that Riley Quigley scored the game-winning goal.
"We spread the puck around. We weren't a team of individuals. It was extremely encouraging
as a coach to see them play as a team."
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Ex-F1 racer Hartley to race in Formula E with Dragon for 2019/20 season
Brendon Hartley | Image: Porsche Newsroom
Brendon Hartley will make his single-seater racing return in Formula E after signing a deal to compete with the Jay Penske-owned Dragon Racing team for the 2019/20 season.
After losing his Formula 1 seat at the end of 2018, Hartley signed a deal to replace Fernando Alonso in the Toyota LMP1 squad for 2020 and will now combine that role with a full season of racing in Formula E as well as supporting the Ferrari F1 team on simulator duties.
The Kiwi, who won both his WEC titles and the 2017 Le Mans race with Porsche, was previously linked to the German manufacturer’s newly formed Formula E team before former Techeetah driver Andre Lotterer was confirmed to partner Neel Jani.
Hartley said, “I’m happy to be taking on a new challenge in Formula E together with Dragon Racing. Formula E is totally different from any other race series I’ve been in, but I am hoping my experience in many categories with energy management will pay dividends and give me a head start as a rookie.”
“I’ve always been a fan of street tracks and FE has some of the wildest I’ve seen. That together with some of the best drivers and manufacturers in the world makes it an exciting place to be.
“I’ve already started working with most of the Dragon team, and I have a strong feeling that we can share some good success together in the coming season.”
Team boss Jay Penske commented, “I am very pleased to have Brendon pilot one of our two entries in season six of the FIA Formula E Championship. Brendon is a real racer. He has a unique combination of experience, intellect, and racecraft that will allow him to maximize the potential of the new Penske EV-4 powertrain.
“Most importantly, he shares our hunger, and our determination to take the fight to the incredible field of major manufacturers this season.”
With Jose Maria Lopez not expected to return, and Maxi Günther now favourite to replace Antonio Felix da Costa at BMW, the identity of Dragon’s second driver is yet to be confirmed although several names have been linked in recent weeks including F2 racer Jordan King.
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Prevention, essential to avoiding up to 25% of occupational accidents
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MEXICO CITY, Mexico. 18th April, 2019 - Accident risks are inherent to human activity, but they are foreseeable and preventable. Having established safety protocols and following them, reduces the risk of occupational accidents. According to data from the Mexican Social Security Institute (“IMSS”), being distracted is the cause of 25 percent of accidents at work.
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British Merchant Navy
The British Merchant Navy, known simply as the Merchant Navy is the maritime register of the United Kingdom, and describes the seagoing commercial interests of UK-registered ships and their crews. Merchant Navy vessels fly the Red Ensign, and are regulated by the Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA).
The Merchant Navy has been in existence for a significant period in British history, owing much of its growth to British imperial expansion. As an entity in itself it can be dated back to the 17th century, where an attempt was made to register all seaman as a source of manpower for the Royal Navy during times of conflict. [ [http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/familyhistory/guide/trade/merchantnavy.htm National Archives of the United Kingdom] ] However the registration of merchant seamen failed, and it was not successfully implemented until 1835. The merchant fleet grew over successive years to become the worlds foremost merchant fleet, benefitting considerably from trade with British possessions in India and the Far East. The lucrative trade in sugar, spices and tea (carried by ships such as the Cutty Sark) helped to solidify this dominance in the 19th century.
:"Main articles: Battle of the Atlantic (1914-1918) and Battle of the Atlantic (1939-1945)."
During the First and Second World Wars, the Merchant Service suffered heavy losses from German U-boat attacks. A policy of unrestricted warfare meant that merchant seamen were also at risk of attack from enemy ships. The tonnage lost to U-boats during the First World War was around 7,759,090 tons, [ [http://www.merchantnavymemorial.com/mtl.htm Merchant Navy Memorial website] ] and around 14,661 merchant seamen lost their lives. In honour of the sacrifice made by merchant seamen during the First World War, King George V granted the title "Merchant Navy" to the service. The Prince of Wales was made the Master of the Merchant Navy. [cite book |last=Hope |first=Ronald |title=A New History of British Shipping |publisher=John Murray (Publishers) Ltd |location=London |year=1990 |isbn=0-7195-4799-7|pages=p.356]
In the Second World War, German U-boats sank nearly 14.7 million tons of allied shipping, [cite book |last=Friel |first=Ian |title=Maritime History of Britain and Ireland |publisher=The British Museum Press |location=London |year=2003 |isbn=0-7141-2718-3|pages=p.245-250] which amounts to 2,828 ships (around two thirds of the total allied tonnage lost). The United Kingdom alone suffered the loss of 11.7 million tons, which is 54% of the total Merchant Navy fleet at the outbreak of the Second World War. 30,000 merchant seamen were killed aboard convoy vessels during the war, but along with the Royal Navy, the convoys successfully imported enough supplies to allow an Allied victory.
In honour of the sacrifices made during the two World Wars, the Merchant Navy lays wreaths of remembrance alongside the armed forces during the annual Remembrance Day service on 11 November. Merchant Navy Day is also celebrated on 3 September.
Despite maintaining its dominant position for considerable time, the decline of the British Empire in the mid-20th century inevitably led to the decline of the merchant fleet. This is shown in the following table, comparing certain vessel types in 1957 and 2008:
As of 2005, the Merchant Navy consists of 429 ships of GRT|1,000|metric|first=yes or over; a total of GRT|9,181,284. This amounts to DWT|9,566,275|metric|first=yes. These vessels can be categorised as follows:
*18 bulk carriers
*55 general cargo ships
*48 chemical tankers
*134 container ships,
*11 liquefied gas carriers
*12 passenger ships
*64 combination passenger/cargo ships
*40 petroleum tankers
*19 refrigerated cargo ships
*25 roll-on/roll-off ships
*3 vehicle carriers.
In addition, UK interests own 446 ships registered in other countries, and 202 foreign-owned ships are registered in the UK. [ [https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/uk.html#Trans CIA World Factbook, confirmed 09.08.2008] ]
Officers past and present
A person hoping to one day become a Captain, or Master, prior to about 1973, had five choices. To attend one of the three elite naval schools from the age of 12, the fixed-base HMS "Conway" and HMS "Worcester" or Pangbourne Nautical College, which would automatically lead to an apprenticeship as a sea-going cadet officer; apply to one of several training programmes elsewhere, or go to sea immediately by applying directly to a merchant shipping company at perhaps the age of 17 (with poor prospects of being accepted without some nautical school or other similar prior education.) Then there would be three years (with prior training or four years without) of seagoing experience aboard ship, in work-clothes and as mates with the deck crew, under the direction of the bo'sun cleaning bilges, chipping paint, polishing brass, cement washing freshwater tanks, and holystoning teak decks, and studying navigation and seamanship on the bridge in uniform, under the direction of an officer, before taking exams to become a second mate. With luck, one could become an "uncertificated" 2nd mate in the last year. The modern route to becoming a Deck or Engineer Officer comprises a total of three years of which at least one is spent at sea and the remainder at a sea college. This training still encompasses all of the traditional trades such as celestial navigation, ship stability, general cargo and seamanship, but now includes training in business, legislation, law, and computerisation for Deck Officers and marine engineering principles, workshop technology, steam propulsion, motor (diesel) propulsion, auxiliaries, mechanics, thermodynamics, engineering drawing, ship construction, marine electrics as well as practical workshop training for Engineering Officers. Training is now undertaken at Warsash Maritime Academy, Shetland School of Nautical Studies, South Tyneside College, Glasgow College of Nautical Studies and Fleetwood Nautical Campus. As well as earning an OOW (Officer of the Watch) certificate, they gain valuable training at sea and a HND or Degree in their chosen discipline. The decrease of Officer recruiting in the past, combined with the huge expansion of trade via shipping is causing a shortage of Officers in the UK, traditionally a major seafaring nation, and as such a scheme called Sea Sense has been launched to raise general awareness of the Merchant Navy in the modern day roles.
Another essential seagoing career was that of the radio officer (or R/O, but usually "sparks"), often, though not exclusively, employed and placed by the Marconi Company or one of a number of similar radio company employers. After the inquiry into the sinking of the "RMS Titanic", and the nearby "SS Californian" which did not render assistance due to their radio being down for the night, it was ordered that round-the-clock watch had to be maintained on all ships over 1600 GT. Most vessels only carried one radio officer, and during the hours he was off-duty, an automatic alarm device monitored the distress frequency. Today, Marconi no longer supplies radio officers to ships at sea, because they are no longer required, due to the development of satellites. Deck officers are now dual trained as GMDSS officers, thereby being able to operate all of the ship's onboard communication systems and ETO (Electro Technical Officer) are trained to fix and maintain the more complex systems.
Comsat launched their first commercial satellite in 1976 and by the mid 1980s satellite communication domes had become a familiar sight at sea. The Global Maritime Distress and Safety System or GMDSS was introduced and by 1 February 1999, all ships had to be fitted, thus bringing to an end the position of radio officer. This has led to a new career path, the recently introduced Electro-Technical Officer (ETO), who is a trained engineer with qualifications to assist the mechanical engineer to maintain vital electronic equipment such as radios and RADARs. ETOs are marine engineers given extra training. Although ETOs are relatively new, many companies are beginning to employ them, (although mechanical engineers are still employed).
Ship crews are of course made up of others, working under the eyes of the officers; the deck crew and bo'sun, responsible for general maintenance, sailing "before the mast", (which, due to exaggerated pitching motion in bad weather, is the least comfortable part of the ship). Other duties aboard ship are performed by the ship's carpenter, the cooks, the stewards, the quartermaster who steers the ship, and the below-decks crew, often referred to as "greasers". Ocean-going vessels with more than 12 passengers are required to have a doctor aboard. For ships of the British Merchant Navy on foreign service, interestingly, it used to be that each of these departments were peopled with ethnically based workers. The deck crew would often be Malay, the quartermasters Filipino, the greasers and stewards Indian, the cooks Indian but from Goa where, being Christian, they could prepare Western style food, and the ship's carpenter ("chippy") would often be Chinese. The officers would be British or Commonwealth, headed by the Captain (or Master, but more often referred to as "the old man"). The Purser was in charge of the ship's stores. Nowadays, ships have turnaround times of less than twenty-four hours instead of several days, due to containerisation, requiring a much smaller crew. The passenger liners that once transported people now ply the oceans for pleasure seekers, cargo ships have switched to containers using efficient shoreside cranes instead of the ship's derricks, and tankers have become monsters.
Sailing on the high seas has a long history, with embedded traditions largely inherited from the days of sail. Because of the ever-present concerns of safety for crew and passengers, the layers of authority are rigid, discipline strict, and mutiny almost unknown. The romantic lure for those "going down to the sea in ships" is less than it was.
Merchant mariners are held in high esteem as a result of their extraordinary losses in times of war. The ships were often "sitting ducks" lined up in the sights of enemy combatants, as some of the following links will help illustrate.
A number of notable Merchant Navy personnel include:
*Arthur Phillip: joined the Merchant Navy in 1751 and 37 years later founded the city of Sydney, Australia.
*Ken Russell: directed films such as "Tommy", "Altered States", and "The Lair of the White Worm".
*Samuel Plimsoll: politician who invented the Plimsoll Line, making merchant vessels safer for crews to work on.
*Kevin McClory: an Irishman who spent fourteen days in a lifeboat and later went on to write the James Bond movies "Never Say Never Again" and "Thunderball".
*Alun Owen: later wrote the screenplay for "A Hard Day's Night".
*Freddie Lennon: a Merchant Navy steward whose son would later found the musical group The Beatles.
*John Prescott: a Merchant Navy steward who became Deputy Prime Minister in 1997 under Tony Blair.
*Fred Blackburn: England footballer.
*Edwin Stratton: founder of "Yoshinkan UK".
*Air Marshal Sir Peter Horsley: Deputy Commander in Chief (Strike Command) from 1973 - 1975. Started work as a deck boy in 1939 aboard the "TSS Cyclops".
Members of the British Merchant Navy have won the Distinguished Service Cross, and Canadian merchant seamen have won the Victoria Cross and the Medal of Honor.
* Equivalent Royal Navy ranks in the Merchant Navy
* Ratings in the Merchant Navy
* Maritime history of the United Kingdom
* The Marine Society
* List of merchant marine capacity by country
* List of maritime colleges
* List of notable mariners
* Lloyd's War Medal for Bravery at Sea
* Marlag und Milag Nord
* Silver Line: History of the fortunes of a typical British shipping company
* Deep Sea Scouts
* Ship transport
* Merchant ship
* Transportation in the United Kingdom
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* [http://www.seafolks.com/ Merchant Navy] Officer's community
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* [http://www.nautilusuk.org/ Nautilus UK]
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ProPakistani gets 8-figure investment round for expansion
07:11 PM | 26 Jul, 2019
LAHORE - ProPakistani , the largest independent publisher in Pakistan and among the top 75 websites in the country, has successfully raised an eight-figure funding round from institutional and angel investors.
Though the exact figure has been kept confidential, the investment places the company’s valuation in the millions of dollars in first investment for the company since its launch in 2008.
Investors in the funding round include The Interactive Group, Eikon7, and two angel investors: Usman Yousuf and Umayr Abbasi.
Over the last decade, ProPakistani has established itself as one of the leading digital publishers in Pakistan . While the publisher's claim to fame was its unrivaled tech and telecom coverage, it has added coverage in multiple niches including auto, sports, finance & business and others over the last few years.
It also launched Lens, a dedicated entertainment section, earlier this year.
In addition to Aamir Attaa and Syed Talal, ProPakistani will add three new members to its Board of Directors: Usman Yousuf, Shayan Mahmud, and Umayr Abbasi.
Usman Yousuf will serve as the Chairperson of the Board.
Aamir Attaa will continue as the Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Syed Talal has been appointed the Chief Content Officer (CCO) and Shayan Mahmud will serve as the company's Chief Brand Officer (CBO).
“It's a moment of great pride for our team and our community and we will remain focused on our core mission to provide value to our readers,” said Aamir Attaa, the founder and CEO of ProPakistani . “We’ve seen unprecedented growth over the last few years and the funding will help us accelerate our expansion plans.”
“With this investment , we’ll focus on expanding our editorial team, building more partnerships and replicating the expertise we possess in tech and telecom across other niches,” said Syed Talal, the Chief Content Officer at ProPakistani . “The support and expertise provided by our investment partners will help us extend our lead as the top digital publisher in Pakistan .”
Usman Yousuf is a UAE based entrepreneur who also works in Pakistan . He works closely with the London Stock Exchange Group in London and Levant to help prepare businesses for public offerings and private placements. Speaking about the decision to invest in ProPakistani ,
Usman Yousuf said, “What makes ProPakistani special is its positioning, the passionate and energetic team, its unique voice for national non-partisan progress, powerful curated content and I could go on and on.
ProPakistani’s equity story almost tells itself and it’s an honor and privilege for me to lead the Investment and the Board. We will work tirelessly to realise ProPakistani’s growth potential and provide the resources to accelerate towards our ambitious national and regional goals. Onwards and upwards!”
Shayan Mahmud is the Managing Partner of Eikon7, a multinational advertising agency focused on digital marketing and currently spread across Eastern Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and Pakistan . He said, “Having had the pleasure of working with ProPakistani in different shapes and forms before - ranging from being an avid reader and client to a partner on projects - playing a part in its future growth as Chief Brand Officer is a real honor for me. I have no doubt that, with the core team in place and the relevant members we’ve brought on board, ProPakistani can be one of Pakistan’s real success stories in the years to come.”
Umayr Abbasi, the Managing Partner at APCO, has extensive experience in the real estate sector and has also worked in the sales and marketing division of multiple organizations in the United Kingdom. He said, “It’s really exciting to be a part of ProPakistani’s story. I believe this business has great potential to become a template for success in the Pakistani start-up ecosystem. With that being said, we’ve got a long way to go to realize that potential and we’re well aware that the real work starts now.”
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Peter Rundel
Xenia Groh-Hu
xh(at)karstenwitt.com
Irene Deffner
id(at)karstenwitt.com
Musical Theater Basel
Heinz Holliger, Zwei Liszt-Transkriptionen
Klaus Huber, Tenebrae
Steffen Wick, Autobiography
Heinz Holliger, (S)irató
Basel Sinfonietta
Peter Rundel, conductor
Marina Khorkova, Fragmente
Anna Korsun, New Work
Georges Aperghis, New Work
Samir Odeh-Tamimi, TIMNA
SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart
Teodoro Anzellotti, accordion
WDR Funkhaus am Wallrafplatz, Cologne
Isabel Mundry, Noli me tangere
Sarah Nemtsov, NUN
Hans Zender, Angst,Wut und Schrecken from the Opera „Chief Joseph“
Dirk Rothbrust, percussion
Neue Vocalsolisten
Ensemble Musikfabrik
Isabel Mundry, composition
Casa da Música Porto
Heiner Goebbels, Surrogate Cities
Orquestra Sinfónica do Porto Casa da Musica
Heiner Goebbels, composition
Worten Digitópia, electronics
Jocelyn B. Smith, mezzo-soprano
David Moss, voice
Hans Zender, 33 Veränderungen über 33 Veränderungen (New Version 2019)
WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln
Hans Zender, composition
Peter Rundel is one of the most sought-after partners for leading European orchestras, owing to the depth of his approach to complex music of various styles and epochs as well as his interpretive creativity.
He is regularly invited to conduct the Bavarian Radio Orchestra, the NDR, WDR and SWR Radio Symphony Orchestras. Recent international guest appearances have included the Helsinki Philharmonic, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Orchestre National de Lille, Orchestre Philharmonique de Luxembourg, Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Orchestra del Teatro dell’Opera Roma, Vienna Symphony Orchestra and the Frankfurt Radio Symphony, as well as to Asia with the Tokyo Metropolitan and Taipei Symphony Ochestras.
After dazzling audiences with the SWR Symphony Orchestra at this summer’s Salzburg Festival, he kicks off the 2019/2020 season conducting international orchestras such as the Orchestra della Toscana, Enescu Philharmonic, the symphony orchestras of the BR and RSB, the Basel Sinfionetta and the OS Porto (with Heiner Goebbels’s Surrogate Cities).
Peter Rundel has conducted the world premieres of opera productions at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Bavarian State Opera, Wiener Festwochen, Gran Teatre del Liceu, Bregenz Festival and Schwetzinger SWR Festspiele, while also collaborating with respected directors such as Peter Konwitschny, Philippe Arlaud, Peter Mussbach, Heiner Goebbels, Carlus Padrissa (La Fura dels Baus) and Willy Decker. His work in opera includes traditional repertoire (Die Zauberflöte at the Deutsche Oper Berlin and König Kandaules, Hansel and Gretel and The Marriage of Figaro at the Volksoper Vienna), as well as groundbreaking contemporary music theatre productions such as Stockhausen’s Donnerstag from LICHT, Massacre by Wolfgang Mitterer, the world premieres of Georg Friedrich Haas‘ Nacht and Bluthaus, Isabel Mundry’s Ein Atemzug – die Odyssee and Emmanuel Nunes’ Das Märchen and La Douce. The spectacular production of Prometheus, which he led at the Ruhrtriennale, was awarded the Carl-Orff-Preis in 2013. In 2016 and 2017, Peter Rundel conducted Louis Andriessen’s De Materie in New York’s Armory Hall and at Teatro Argentino La Plata, a production that he premiered at the Ruhrtriennale in 2014. With the world premiere of Hector Parras's Les Bienveillantes, directed by Calixto Bieito, he gave his first appearance at the Opera Vlaanderen in 2019. In May 2020 he will make his debut at the Zurich Opera House with the premiere of Stefan Wirth’s Mädchen mit dem Perlenohrring.
Born in Friedrichshafen, Germany, Peter Rundel studied violin with Igor Ozim and Ramy Shevelov, as well as conducting with Michael Gielen and Peter Eötvös. From 1984 until 1996 he was a violinist in Ensemble Modern, to which he has enjoyed long associations also as a conductor. He also maintains regular guest appearances with Klangforum Wien, Ensemble Musikfabrik, Collegium Novum Zürich, Ensemble intercontemporain and the Asko|Schönberg Ensemble. Peter Rundel has been artistic director of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra of Flanders and was the founding artistic director of the Kammerakademie Potsdam. In January 2005, he was appointed artistic director of the Remix Ensemble Casa da Música in Porto and has since enjoyed great success with the contemporary music ensemble at important festivals throughout Europe.
Peter Rundel is also deeply committed to the development and promotion of young musical talent. In Porto he founded the Remix Academy for ensemble musicians and conductors. He regularly teaches at international ensemble academies including the London Sinfonietta, the Ulysseus Ensemble at Manifeste Academy in Paris, the Lucerne Festival Acadamy and at Teatro alla Scala Milan, in addition to leading his own masterclasses on conducting in Bavaria.
Peter Rundel has been awarded many prizes for his recordings of 20th century music, including the prestigious Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik (Nono, Prometeo; Kyburz, Ensemble- und Orchesterwerke; Reich, City Life; Furrer, Piano Concerto), the Grand Prix du Disque (Barraqué, complete work), the Echo Klassik (Sprechgesänge with the Ensemble Musikfabrik) and a Grammy Award nomination (Heiner Goebbels, Surrogate Cities).
A highly expressive, masterfully orchestrated work, which at the premiere under the excellent direction of Peter Rundel exerted an inexorable pull – a tour de force performance from the choir and orchestra of the Flemish Opera.
Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Marco Frei, 29.04.2019
A masterpiece to finish: Béla Bartók’s Music for string instruments, percussion and celesta. Finely woven fugues in the strings, intricate rhythms and swift tempi provided another challenge for the orchestra. Thanks to the emotionally inspiring and precise direction of conductor Peter Rundel, the musicians took great delight in a superb performance.
Saarbrücker Zeitung, Helmut Fackler, May 2017
The realisation of this difficult and technically sophisticated score was only possible under the precise musical direction of Rundel.
El País, Blanca Cia, February 2017
The orchestral concert in the Herkulessaal was led by the wonderful Peter Rundel, and featured two world premieres as well as a modern classic.
NMZ – Neue Musikzeitung, Anna Schürmer, February 2017
Never, in the history of criticism, has there been an opening concert of Ars Musica that has generated so much enthusiasm, pleasure and amazement. (...) A stunning experience, receiving a standing ovation from a jubilatory hall; the result of an excellent job by the Brussels Philharmonic under German conductor Peter Rundel.
La Libre, Martine D. Mergeay, November 2016
Peter Rundel leads the technically brilliant Radio Symphony Orchestra and the impressively masterful SWR-Vokalensemble to an emotionally moving interpretation.
Stuttgarter Zeitung, Markus Dippold, November 2015
Flexible, dynamic and conscious of the colours, Rundel honoured the impressionistic persuasiveness [of Ravel’s Daphne et Chloé] with a celebration of beautiful sounds, in which the wind section played a special role.
Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung, Klaus Albrecht, November 2015
The performance by Ensemble musikFabrik, a brilliant contemporary-music group from Germany, conducted by Peter Rundel, in a dazzling staging conceived and directed by Carlus Padrissa, is a triumphant realisation of a challenging work.
The New York Times, Anthony Tommasini, July 2013
Under the emphatic, level-headed direction of Peter Rundel, Xenakis’s score is brought to hundreds of urban listeners, all drawn into the tale in a way they would not have been in a conventional opera house.
Financial Times, Shirley Apthorp, May 2011
The power of the music is shockingly great, it awakens the Greek tragedy in all its essentiality that burrows deep into the blood. (…) Peter Rundel, this magician of new sounds, conducts with swing, verve, energy.
Süddeutsche Zeitung, Reinhard J. Brembeck, May 2011
PROGRAMME SAMPLES
VIVIER plus: (Sacrifice and Salvation)
Messiaen Le Tombeau resplendissant
Wagner Prelude and "Karfreitagszauber" from
Vivier Orion
Tschaikovsky Symphony No.6 (Pathétique) or: Romeo
and Juliet
(franz.) REVOLUTION:
Schumann Ouverture to Hermann und Dorothea
or Schönberg Ode to Napoleon
Beethoven Piano Concerto No.5
Kodaly Háry-János Suite
FAIRY TALES:
Ravel Ma Mère L'Oye
Stravinsky Le Chant du Rossignol (adapted from
Andersen)
Zemlinsky The little Meermaid (adapted from
or Schönberg Pelléas et Mélisande
MYTHS OF NATURE
Stravinsky Scherzo Fantastique (adapted from
Maeterlinck: The Life of Bees)
Debussy Danseuses de Delphes (Prélude No.1...)
or: Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune
Sibelius Tapiola
Stravinsky Le Sacre du Printemps
Beethoven Symphony No.6 Pastorale
INFIDELITY! (or: Women in Fin-de-Siécle Vienna)
Strauss Ouverture to " Die Fledermaus"
Berg Wozzeck- Fragments
or Schoenberg "Erwartung"
SYMPHONIC EXPERIMENTS?
Ives Robert Browning Overture
or: Orchestral Set No. 2
Schubert Unfinished
Nielsen Symphony No. 5
A house of cards: Peter Rundel's love of music theatre
With the world premiere of Hèctor Parra's opera Les Bienveillantes, directed by Calixto Bieito, Peter Rundel makes his debut appearance at the Opera Vlaanderen. A few weeks before the premiere in April, we spoke to him about the new work and his role at the centre of major opera productions....
Peter Rundel and the Remix Ensemble: Ready for New Challenges
There is a good excuse to party in Porto. This year, the Remix Ensemble celebrates 15 years since it was founded and ten years since the soloist ensemble for contemporary music moved into the new breathtaking Casa da Música concert hall. The ensemble’s artistic director, Peter Rundel, tells us the story of its early days and piques our interest in Remix`s latest project: an anniversary tour with a new opera by the Italian composer Francesco Filidei....
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