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Getting familiar with your Bassoon
Assembly/Care
Get Ready to Play
Bass and Tenor Clef
First Tones
Finger Technique/Charts
Practicing/Resources/Exercises
Switch to Bassoon
A Guide for band students
About this Website:
Website Creator: Jeff Weaver
Jeff Weaver is a music educator in Victoria, B.C., Canada. He is currently the band director
at Oak Bay High School and the president of the BC Music Educators Association.
Thank you to the following people who have helped me develop this site!!
Cindy Romphf photography, Trisha Weaver, Vicky Weaver editing.
Website Resources:
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bassoon
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Spencer, William. "The Art of Bassoon Playing". Summy-Birchard Company, 1958
Weissenborn, Julius and ed. Fred Bettoney. "Method for Bassoon. New Enlarged Ed". Carl Fischer, 1940.
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National Museum "Battle for Kyiv in 1943"
До музейного комплексу входять (карта – схема)
Museum Administration
Експозиції
Main Exhibition
Open air exhibition of battle vehicles
Експозиція «Твої сини Україно»
Тимчасові виставки
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Welcome to the website of National museum-preserve ‘Battle for Kyiv in 1943’ – one of the leading military history museums in Ukraine specialising on the history of theWorld War II. Our museum constantly draws attention of numerous visitors from home and abroad, being one of the popular landmarks of Kyiv region and an inherent part of Ukrainian capital’s historical past. At this website you will find all the information needed for your visit to the museum, learn about the exhibitions, history of Kyiv liberation, about people, creating this history and about modern events in the East of Ukraine. The museum’s collection is continually enriched by new exhibits from the times of WWII and pieces reflecting modern actions in ATO zone. The museum receives these exhibits from numerous search parties, Kyiv region volunteers and ‘Black Tulip’ mission, that was formed by activists from ‘Union ‘People’s Memory’ NGO. In September, 2014 the museum’s directorate with the support of Kyiv regional state administration’s direction for culture, nationalities and religions decided to pass BRDM-2 and BTR-60 military vehicles from the museum’s open air exhibition to ATO zone. On May 6, 2015 a common permanent exhibition ‘Your sons, Ukraine!’ dedicated to ATO heroes was opened in the museum. The exhibits were provided by ‘Union ‘People’s Memory’ NGO, ‘With open heart to future’ charity foundation and volunteers. On October 28, 2014 – on the 70th anniversary of Kyiv liberation – the monument ‘To the Unknown Soldier’ was inaugurated in the museum. Every year our museum hosts events honouring the memory of battle for Dnipro heroes, different meetings and museum holidays involving the general public. Since the museum’s opening it was visited by more than 8 million guests from almost 100 countries. Among them were state presidents, high-rank officers, political and public activists. The museum has become an inherent part of Ukrainian historical and cultural heritage and achieved a wide popularity in home and abroad. An audioguide for smartphones and tablets was also developed. We are always happy to welcome our guests and ready to provide different excursions in the museum’s buildings and in open air.
The Director of the Museum
Honoured worker of Culture of Ukraine
Ivan Vikovan
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Movies, Superheroes, Villains
By PatrickG01 May 17, 2018 May 17, 2018
NOTE: This post is all spoilers all the way down. If you’re one of the six people who hasn’t seen Avengers: Infinity War, you probably ought to click the “back” arrow and nope on out of here. Come on back after you’ve seen it.
“We’re now in the Endgame.”
Infinity War spoilers and speculation follow…
Okay. I’m going to discuss this on three levels to unpack where we’re going. Competitive/game strategy, narrative themes, and filming choices.
I have been predicting for several years now that this film HAD to end with Thanos winning and annihilating half the life in the universe. Why? Because those are the established stakes with Thanos. In a story that basically centers on playing God, you have the potential to have a worst case or best case scenario play out for someone.
When constructing a story, especially a visual or acted out story or simply when “breaking story” on a script, you identify the moments you need to hit. “Need” is subjective. But you identify the things you can do in a given moment that would be hard to do later. Are you doing a TV show where an actor is leaving? The strongest choice is probably going to be to get the biggest performance you can on their way out, maybe something you would never do if they were staying. In this case, the moment you can do with god powers in play is to have Thanos win and snuff out billions of lives. Why? Because you have the means to fix it in a story with omnipotent weapons.
On to strategy: Dr. Strange has played out 14 million versions of the battle. He’s identified one where they win. He gives up the gem willingly. This is a key point. He’s not giving it up because he loves Tony Stark; the movie makes that abundantly clear that he doesn’t like Tony Stark and that he would let Tony or Peter die to save the universe. That’s explicit dialogue, people. So when Strange says, “We’re now in the endgame,” he’s talking Endgame. Chess. Giving Thanos the Gauntlet and allowing him to wipe out half the universe gives the heroes advantage.
He’s talking Endgame. Chess. There are several key elements of Endgame in chess. You can’t just enter into Endgame strategies until the right pieces are in position. At that point, several key things happen. The Kings tend to go from a defensive posture (flanked by allies) towards the center of the board. Sacrificing major pieces to save pawns becomes a part of the strategy. Much of Endgame theory in chess is about either extracting a win from an unwinnable scenario or forcing stalemate. Strange’s death is a sacrificial Bishop move. (By the way, this is consistent with how Strange beats Dormammu in his own film.) From there, the focus tends to be on aggressive use of kings in the center of the board (which we get when Thanos “comes out” from behind his followers, switching from a defensive posture) and allows himself to get to the center of the board.
So we move from here assuming that allowing Thanos to complete the gauntlet and collect the time and mind stones — the way that he does at the time that he does — and wipe out half the life in the universe? We assume that this is actually the weakest strategic move for Thanos to make and that it creates an opening for the heroes that will result in half the life in the universe NOT being dead. (Half the universe being dead is clearly, explicitly a thing which Strange clearly does NOT want so allowing Thanos to do it means that the WAY Strange lets him win is subject to undoing. Strange is creating a vulnerability against Thanos.)
So sliding just a bit into narrative, what advantage do the heroes manage to get from all of their efforts throughout the film, from Tony, Peter, and the Guardians’ actions through Gamora’s resistance against Thanos or Thor and Rocket building the weapon to T’Challa, Steve, Wanda, and Vision’s moving around the board?
The advantage is that they delay Thanos enough that he is not able to get the last stone. He fails to get the mind stone. And then he uses the time stone to turn back time to get it. This is key. If we assume the heroes’ action in the film have any meaning, we have to assume that it is reflected in the concession they force Thanos to extract that he would not have to make otherwise. The big thing that the heroes’ actions ALL contribute to is that Thanos is delayed JUST ENOUGH that he actually loses in a standard sense and has to use the time stone (remember: the one Dr. Strange knows best) in order to win.
The key to Thanos’ defeat must lie in the fact that he was forced to use the time stone to complete the gauntlet. And completing the gauntlet in any other way would fail to create the necessary opening to defeat him. Meaning that it somehow positions Thanos on weaker ground that he was delayed enough that he had to use the time stone and that he used the time stone at all.
This was the strategy analysis. Next up are narrative themes and filming considerations, where I unpack what has to happen next…
Okay, on to themes and how Infinity War is basically the horror movie SAW (which I’ve never seen but which I’m comfortable enough that I know the premise of to make this analogy).
There is a sledgehammer subtlety theme throughout this film.
“Could you explicitly murder someone you love to get what you want?”
It’s right there. It’s central to every arc in the film. I feel as though I have to illuminate it to make my case, though.
Because the radical thesis of this movie (which is really a movie starring Thanos and which I’m sure will be echoed and inverted in the next film) is that, yes, you should murder your loved ones.
That’s why I kind of have to walk you through the recurrence of this theme. Because this isn’t just a standard pro-murder movie. Unlike Starship Troopers, which advocates killing some kind of faceless other that you hate, or Fight Club, which advocates murdering your own ego, this movie adopts the non-Hallmark friendly theme (probably unique among almost all Disney movies) that proactively and literally killing someone you love is a good thing and that not doing so makes you a loser. And is therefore explicitly about fascism and how romance is both necessary to the rise of fascism and the death of romance is necessary to the success of fascism.
Also, to be extra subtle (sarcasm), it has a LITERAL NAZI GHOST standing in between a paper-thin allegory for the twin towers of the World Trade Center TELLING YOU that this is the theme of the movie. It is no fluke that this is the Red Skull. It’s not that this was the only actor they could get. They actually RECAST the Red Skull specifically so they could have a Nazi ghost standing in between the World Trade Center towers telling you that killing your loves ones is a source of fun and profit. (Although “fun is not something one considers when bringing balance to the universe”, yeah, yeah. And I THINK that line was only in the trailer and not the movie.)
Loki is presented with a choice. Give up the stone or your brother dies. He starts off ready to choose his brother dying. (Because he’s Loki.) He backs down from this choice. He loses. Winning would require killing his brother.
Thor and Gamora and Starlord have a verbal contest about which of them has been forced to kill more loved ones. Again, the winner of this discussion is the one who’s killed the most loved ones.
Tony is forced to choose between his life with Pepper and being Iron Man. It’s something we’ve seen before but they made an extra effort to get Gwyneth Paltrow in the movie to foreground this choice. More on this later but it’s an explicit choice by the filmmakers, like the Red Skull appearance.
Thor warns Rocket that the kind of weapon he’d want would drive him insane and destroy his mind. Rocket: “Is it weird that I kind of want it more now?” Thor: “A little.” Same theme.
Gamora asks Star Lord to kill her and kisses him when he agrees to. He does not follow through later and we get another loss for the heroes because of it. He also costs the heroes another chance at a win when he finds out Gamora died and engages Thanos rather than dispassionately let the plan work.
A big explicit use of this theme: Thanos literally murders his daughter Gamora to get the soul stone because a Nazi ghost told him to. A soul for a soul.
Dr. Strange, as I outlined above, sacrifices his stone and his duty, which is precious to him, because it secures victory.
The creatures Thanos’ servants use literally commit suicide to breach the force field.
T’Challa opens the wall, exposing his beloved country (Wakanda FOREVER) to ruin in order to gain a tactical advantage by forcing the creatures through a choke point.
Thanos does his master plan exposition, talking about how his own people died because they were unwilling to implement his plan of killing half your own people at random as a strategy for dealing with resource scarcity. And the theme here is that it would have worked and that failing to murder what you love led to death.
Wanda murders her lover Vision to try and save the universe. Worth noting: this is the first time that murdering your loved ones is not portrayed as the best strategy. And it’s heart wrenching. This is a turning point.
The turning point.
Tony — who has paternal concern for Peter and tries to protect him — watches Peter die. Again, Wanda killing Vision marked a turning point. Having the blood of your loved ones on your hands is suddenly neither cool nor effective in the context of the movie.
Trust me, for now, that I’m not suggesting that I (or Kevin Feige or the Brothers Russo) actually believe it is a good thing to literally or figuratively murder your loved ones. However, this movie (part one of two) has introduced a series of arguments in favor of it. In doing so, it’s making some really deep statements… so let’s unpack what those are and what those mean for the next film.
At the core of the “kill your loved ones” IDEA is whether we are what we DO or we are what we BE. DOING. BEING. ACTION. THOUGHT.
In film and storytelling in the United States, this is expressed on the side of action in the writers’ motto “show, don’t tell” (which was popularized by the Iowa Writers’ Workshop in the United States). Also, Hemingway. Also, modernist art as a movement. Also, CBS network exec William S. Paley for whom the Paley Center for Media is named.
And, also, what you may not realize is that all of these things have something in common. They were all used as agents of the CIA for propaganda. This isn’t some conspiracy theory. It’s cold, hard, declassified fact. Also that the CIA was co-founded by Nazi defectors after WWII who fundamentally shaped the philosophy of the intelligence agency. We had a different intelligence apparatus with a different MO in the United States prior to that and, after WWII, invited the Nazis to run our intelligence and domestic propaganda efforts (along with our moon program).
The Soviets did the same thing. We didn’t just split Germany in two after the war but both sides took in and gave leadership roles to actual German Nazis who were pivotal in both sides of the Cold War. I think most people know that we did this with scientists. I think fewer people realize we had Nazis running and assembling intelligence agencies and propaganda efforts and in charge of literally trying to shape popular art like dime store fiction and sitcoms and the artwork displayed in office lobbies.
But this isn’t strictly about Nazis except that we had a LITERAL NAZI in this movie.
This is Sparta vs. Athens, Greece vs. Rome, The Roman Republic vs. Caesar. The Enlightenment vs. Kings. Napoleon and Cromwell vs. the chaos of revolution. Friedman’s economics vs. Keynes’.
One side says, “The pen is mightier than the sword.” Or “This isn’t who we are as people” (even when it IS what “we” DO as people.
The other side has its own expressions:
– Fortune favors the bold.
– Actions speak louder than words.
– Money Talks, Bullshit Walks
– Show, Don’t Tell
– Show Them Who You Are
– Don’t Be An Art History Major
– Dating A Broke Artist Is Fun Until You Have Bills To Pay/Want To Have Kids
This is basically a rift at the center of western civilization and thought. The Nazis and assertive powers take one side while the more academic philosophers take the other. It also totally informs how you see Hamlet, and if you hear someone say it’s a story about an indecisive guy who doesn’t act, then that’s literally a pro-fascist propaganda line.
Don’t feel bad. I’ve used some of these too.
The question is whether it is better TO DO or TO BE. And at the extreme, it is seen as better to let go of what you ARE and what you THINK to enhance your material presence in the world.
Or, as we say about musicians, to “sell out”.
If you kill the thing you love to get what you want then you are making the statement that what you WANT is more important than what you ARE. It’s DOING over BEING.
And this gets us around to evil. And Nazis.
Nazis are deeply romantic on one level (also, Communists — the tyrannical version of socialism — could be similar). You have these beautiful ideals about prosperity and culture. Nazis LOVED Wagnerian opera. It’s ROMANTIC. But when push comes to shove, all those romantic notions go out the window if they get in the way of GETTING YOURS and HAVING THE OUTCOME YOU WANT and PROSPERITY.
If you choose prosperity over “the dream”, you choose action and material power over all that gooey romance and love stuff.
It’s also echoed when people say things like, “I loved horses as a hobby until I got a job that involved horses.” That thing that makes you miserable is probably all the moving parts of the job that don’t actually involve your love for horses, when the ACTIONS become more important than the CONCEPT.
And this gets us down to a fundamental meditation on evil. The Judeo-Christian tradition says, “Avarice is the root of all evil.” (Sometimes translated as “love of money” but that’s a weaksauce translation.)
Avarice. What is it? Well, it’s basically wanting something to the point where you no longer want it and still chasing after it. It’s loving something so intensely that you want or need it more than you actually care for it.
And that is what Thanos is doing in this film and what this movie keeps pushing — UNTIL you hit the climax and you see Wanda kill Vision and STILL not save the world. Until you see Tony’s mentorship of Peter end with Peter disintegrating. You do all the work, you sell your soul, and you still don’t get what you want — because somebody else wants it more.
And that’s hollow.
And that puts us in a position to do a deep dive into where Infinity War has to go from here.
Okay. Thanos’ moral argument is hollow. Because if you have to become a monster to get what you want then you never really get what you want. Being has to trump doing. Losing is better than winning if you can cling to love.
If you kill what you love to get what you want, you’re like the dog with a bone who sees a dog with a bone reflected in the lake… and drops the bone trying to get the reflection’s bone… and then neither the dog nor its reflection has a bone. You get what you want MAYBE (Wanda didn’t) but you’re no longer YOU.
And this is key to understanding where the story has to go.
Thanos won. Victory is hollow.
Strange giving up the time stone and half the universe dying must somehow strategically mean that Thanos will lose and that half the universe won’t be dead.
Most importantly, the fact that Thanos had to use the Time Stone to get the Mind Stone from Vision (because everybody delayed Thanos, because of the order he got the gems in, etc.) must be the reason that Thanos loses in the next movie.
And the solution has to involve both a sacrifice born of love — and a sacrifice born of love that morally refutes Thanos philsophically.
And am I saying Feige and the Russos necessarily hashed this all out explicitly the way I am? No. But it’s where the intuitive work leads.
So my take is this:
Thanos using time manipulation to get a gem-introduced time manipulation as a weapon that could be used in this struggle.
The heroes now know where all the gems were hidden.
The heroes can theoretically go back in time to retrieve the stones from where they were before Thanos got them. This will either erase Thanos getting the gauntlet or allow the creation of a second gauntlet that can be used against Thanos’ gauntlet. And then whoever has the gauntlet can snap their fingers and undo whatever damage to history that messing with time like this causes.
There are several possible mechanisms for the time travel. It could be a literal machine Tony and Shuri cook up. It could be something brought by Captain Marvel (played by Brie Larson in the upcoming movie which leads into Avengers 4 and is set in the 1990s). Personally, I think Dr. Strange pulled a trick. We saw him mess with time and probability a lot in that fight. My thought is a fairly simple cheat: The Dr. Strange who gave Thanos the time stone was from, say, 24 hours in the future. Which means there is a Dr. Strange who STILL HAS the time stone for 24 hours. And he can use that to time travel. Which makes Thanos’ Gauntlet somewhat imperfect in that regard because it relies on Strange having 24 hours to use the stone himself before handing it over and Strange can use those 24 hours to further mess with time and try to prevent himself from ever giving Thanos the stone.
Having The Red Skull and Pepper Potts around probably points to the next movie actually revisiting and altering scenes from the last 10 years of Marvel movies.
This also lines up with random changes like Thor’s short hair, Cap’s beard, Black Widow’s blonde hair. The point is that so you can easily distinguish the present versions from past versions. (Also, to sell more merch.)
The (unrevealed) name of the next movie is probably Avengers Forever, the most famous time travel Avengers story about a team assembled from different time periods of the team’s history.
But getting the soul gem has to have a cost for the person who retrieves it. You have to “give up what you love”, a “soul for a soul”.
And that cost is baked into the theme here. Loved ones and especially lovers sacrificing one another. Infinity War was about that. And the sequel is about someone giving up the thing they love not by throwing them off a cliff or shooting their lover in the head.
It will come from self-sacrifice.
Tony Stark will go to Vormir in the past. Where he will be asked to give up what he loves to receive the stone. A soul for a soul.
And that will mean an action that calls off his marriage and ends his relationship forever with Pepper Potts. And he doesn’t have to throw her off a cliff. Maybe all he has to do is make sure that he never met her.
And in selflessly giving up that love, he gets the final stone needed to assemble the gauntlet.
And with two gauntlets in play, you have the kind of chess that Dr. Strange specializes at: Endgame strategy. The two kings face off and you either have an underdog victory or a stalemate.
And the universe gets rewoven without the stones.
And I have a thought or two on where that could lead but I’ll save that for awhile.
Okay. I’ll offer just a taste of what that could mean. This is all just my speculation.
Without the stones ever having existed:
Asgard (and Loki and Odin) are reborn.
Dr. Strange goes back to studying under the Ancient One, who is alive.
A lonely Tony Stark looks to young Peter Parker as his legacy, knowing he will never have a child of his own. He leaves Peter a special package with a new suit.
The Guardians meet under somewhat different circumstances but still band together. Peter and Gamora have a dance.
Wanda and Pietro work out a living on the streets of Sokovia. They’ve been genetically altered by Wolfgang von Strucker but without a stone. She’s sad and doesn’t know why but something makes her smile and she also doesn’t know why.
Cut to Wakanda, where T’Challa oversees Shuri and Dr. Banner, who are making a synthetic lifeform for the first time. His name will be The Vision.
And Steve Rogers — Captain America — never descends into that iceberg to save the world from the Tesseract. He lives to a ripe old age with his friend Bucky and his true love Peggy at his side. She dies… and he dies shortly afterwards, thankful for the years they spent together.
And at his funeral, we see many of our characters gathered to pay tribute to Captain America, a man who lived a full life and died of old age.
And the funeral turns into a wake. Stan Lee can be spotted in the crowd blowing his nose with a handkerchief, which lightens the mood.
And Nick Fury arrives with an offer for the people gathered there. Because the world will always need Avengers.
For me, if I were writing this, a big scene would be cutting to a sepia-toned apartment in Brooklyn where a vinyl record is playing. Maybe some Ella Fitzgerald.
And we see aged Steve Rogers bringing aged Peggy Carter breakfast on a tray. Or a shield. And he walks into the room. And we see the tray spill. And we see him trying to wake her. And the record skips. And we see him crying and holding her hand. And the record skips. And we see that she’s died smiling. And the record skips. And we see him clutch his chest. And the record skips. And we see him smiling too, unmoving, eyes open.
And the record plays on, seguing into Captain America’s funeral and the scratching old record fades into a fanfare version of the song.
If we’re just gonna engage in speculation to the point of fanfic.
And the hell with it, the song is “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” and in between seeing dead Steve at dead Peggy’s side, it cuts through all the other stuff I mentioned. Because what better song to use to smash cut to a restored Asgard and lots of silent slo-mo scenes of people not being dead and falling in love.
Somewhere over the rainbow. Smash cut to Asgard. C’mon. I feel like we’ve earned that pun.
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May 17, 2018 at 10:36 am 2 years ago
It’s obvious a lot of thought went into this. I had never thought of the endgame referring to chess, but not that’s it’s been pointed out it’s so obvious I’m actually a little embarrassed I didn’t make the connection. I also need another viewing now to check out the Tower imagery with the Skull. (Which was a gasp out loud moment for me).
I’m pretty sure the time stone will have something to do with “fixing” things, and I probably agree that the Vision thing is a turning point, but I’m not sure that’s the fatal weakness. I mean, if it was the delay that makes things possible, wouldn’t there have been more a delay if he hadn’t turned over the time stone immediately? Or doesn’t Thanos plan fail if he never gets the time stone, since he’d be out that one AND the mind stone? Seems like everything theorized here would work better if they didn’t just hand over the time stone. But they need to find a way that it’s going to be better to have handed it over, and that is really the hinging tricky point they have in the next film.
I’m sure Dr. Strange is going to play a big part, but I don’t think he’ll be battling with the time stone. As you said, he’s a bishop, not a king. Iron Man and Cap are your players that will ultimately make it happen. Whatever it is. And Thor probably with the killing blow.
I can’t see them going too much into infinite battles and time hopping because it might throw off a general audience. Though we’re bound to get some of that with the set pics of things like Cap in an older costume. http://www.adventuresinpoortaste.com/2018/01/10/leaked-avengers-4-set-photos-reveal-captain-america-in-original-costume/ And this is definitely the best, and most fitting, guess on a title for the next film with “Avengers Forever” which works on all sorts of levels.
The commentary on the link between romance and fascism was beautifully worded. And the theme of sacrifice, being a Thanos story, hits very close. However I wouldn’t say the heroes failed at it. Beyond the Scarlet Witch, Star Lord actually does bend to Gamora’s wishes and tries to kill her. He pulls the trigger. Thanos just turns the blast into bubbles. He even says he like him after, because he was willing to sacrifice what he loved too.
Then the second half goes a bit off the rails a bit, from thoughtful film analysis to weird conspiracy theories. Almost NWO level stuff, with Nazis forming and founding everything. At first I thought it was some commentary on Winter Soldier, then I realized you were serious. Certainly the governments rounded up Nazis of science and gave them free passes if they contributed to the arms and space race and such, but founded the CIA? You say it’s not conspiracy, but fact, but…citation please?
And the end stuff is fun fanwank, and would probably make a cool Elseworlds story, but the idea that they’re going to reboot everything in their whole universe seems to be a really low percentage proposition. I mean we can’t even get DC to reboot their cinematic universe, and that one is a mess. Why would Marvel destroy the status quo of what’s working enormously well?
Frank Hablawi
Great analysis of the film, and a worthy counter-point to those that feel the stakes were lessened with an eventual “fix” or that the film’s message of sacrifice and brutal love is disappointing.
I’m actually going to submit this as a semi-rebuttal to the Tor.com article “It’s Time to Talk About Marvel’s Gamora Problem”
https://www.tor.com/2018/05/17/its-time-to-talk-about-marvels-gamora-problem/
Eh, it seems that article is all about how it made him feel. And it’s hard to argue feelings. He’s wrong about love in a couple of aspects. That one can’t love something and do awful things (even awful things to it. (Did Hitler love anyone?) Or that the Soul Stone is not judging it on what the individual loves most, not how great that love is compared to others. Or that the Soul Stone is even moral. He doesn’t seem to get the abusive mentality. (Which if anything I’ve read in spots from actual abused people it reflects things too well).
He also makes the point that you could never kill anything if you truly loved it, which I guess paints Star Lord and Scarlet Witch in a really bad light since they did just that in the movie.
But again, it’s not a case of picking out all the things he says about the movie that are inaccurate, because it won’t change how he feels about it. Can’t argue with emotion.
Ben McClure
Interesting. I don’t agree with it all, but lots of interesting things to think about. I think the endgame move by Dr. Strange must include making sure that Tony is alive; that seems to be the critical move on his part–saving Tony even after saying he wouldn’t, and even though it means losing to the Time Stone.
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Even as Egypt wrestles with dwindling water from its only major source, the Nile, it pushes farmers to grow more to supply the country's costly subsidised food programme. The two goals, farmers and experts say, are at odds with one another.
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A Labour Majority, Not a Labour/SNP Coalition
It's been a very bad week for the PM. His reputation has taken a beating in the media all because he refuses to debate face-to-face with Ed Miliband. The problem is, if you're trying to make an election all about personalities - as the Tories have been doing - then it's generally not a good idea to put yours through the wringer, especially when it's your team's prime asset. What then to do? The Tories have got nothing to say on policy, having chosen an entirely negative and counter-productive programme. The only option is to find new mud to throw, and they think it's been found: Labour might do a deal with the SNP.
I find my time for Ed Balls fast diminishing these days (more on that after the election), but he was right to rule out a formal coalition with the Scottish nationalists back when it was first mooted. Ed on the other hand has neither ruled it in nor out, so Dave has pounced. He has argued that a Lab/SNP deal would be the general election's worst outcome. "You could end up with an alliance between the people who want to bankrupt Britain and the people who want to break up Britain" says the man currently overseeing soaring government borrowing, and whose cowardice saw responsibility for saving the union ceded to the previous prime minister. That there's not much stomach in the Labour Party for a deal, and I suspect the same is true of the SNP as well, this offers a space for more scaremongering. I can see it now, Labour willing to swap nukes and the union for nice ministerial salaries.
A distillation of conservative fears can be found in this execrable piece by Allan Massie. The SNP directed a "braying nationalist mob" outside BBC offices, believe in high spending and high taxes, want to scrap nuclear weapons, and the worst crime of all - they do not "respect property rights". This is Scotland North Korean-stylee under Kim Jong Sturgeon. What's worse, seat stacking arithmetic means these policies can swoop far south of the Gretna Green demilitarised zone well before Scotland consciously uncouples itself and sails off into the North Atlantic.
Massie does have one point, and this is something Dave's banking on. Among many other things, UKIP is also kneejerk English nationalism clinging on to made-up traditions and a past that never existed. Both would be boosted by a sense of grievance that Scottish nationalists are dictating policy. Never mind that Scotland was the proving ground for the poll tax, and saw its oil money frittered away by Thatcher and Major in huge tax cuts for the rich. This is an opportunity for UKIP and the Tories both, and this is one scrap in the gutter Farage and Dave's successor will be happy to have. There will be no anti-Scottish bandwagon they won't chase after. That's for the future. In the mean time Dave's going to be playing the nudge, nudge, wink, wink game of Labour's parliamentary strings getting pulled from Edinburgh.
However, where the right have put a minus some on the left have stuck a big fat plus. Some outside the Labour Party see Dave's worst outcome morph into the least worst eventuality. The logic is simple. The SNP will keep Labour honest. While the latter offers austerity lite, as a condition for support - whether as a formal coalition or confidence and supply - one assumes the SNP will live up to their rhetoric and demand the ridiculous and counter-productive programme of cuts be abandoned. Sounds attractive, doesn't it? Doubters might point to the record of Alex Salmond as first minister, which was neoliberal with a few bits added on. However, the SNP is different now for two reasons. Nicola Sturgeon, by all accounts, is a genuine centre left type. Another time and place she could quite easily have been a Scottish Labour leader, were she not also a nationalist. There is also the SNP surge. Right now we are living through what I think is the highest tide of Scottish nationalism. After next year's Holyrood elections the tide will start flowing out again. In the mean time, the SNP is stuffed to the rafters with tens of thousands of new members of a left-wing bent. In many ways, just as UKIP are a Tory home from home, so the SNP has become something of a camp for ex-Labourists. They are just as volatile as their counterparts down in England and Wales, and will cause their leadership trouble should they "sell-out". Sturgeon therefore has incentive to match her policy commitments to her oratory.
The problem is getting the outcome of a SNP-supported Labour government is actually quite tricky. In the first place, many of the people I've seen advocating this "option" mainly live in England and aren't prepared to vote for Labour themselves. Not having the courage to support your favoured option at the ballot box is not a good start. The second point is to be careful what you wish for. Ignoring the silliness of a grand coalition, if Labour are forced into backroom understandings with other parties because the SNP have gobbled up loads of Scottish seats, what's to make you think the SNP will be first in the queue? Do not forget that the odious LibDems will still be in Westminster contention. If Labour doesn't get a majority, the yellows will be more than happy to prop up another Tory administration. Failing that, it won't be difficult for them to put a "left" face on again and try and cosy up to the PLP with confidence and supply. Vote anti-austerity and get austerity-lite.
Something else might happen instead. The SNP threat could wag the Labour dog. Suppose Labour retains enough Scottish seats to push it over the majority threshold. To prepare for Holyrood 2016, and rebuild its withered base across the country requires a turn away from policies that kick its supporters in the teeth. The Tories never make this mistake, and it's high time our party learned not to do it too. There is a possibility, especially if not-all-that-unlikely personnel changes are made post-election, that a different course is chartered to head off threats from the SNP, UKIP, and Greens. The Tories have no hesitation fitting their programme around their immediate needs, even if it could damage British capital as a whole. The difference being that if we do what is necessary, the conditions of life for millions of people improves along with our future political prospects.
That is why a Labour majority is the best outcome at the general election.
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Speedy said...
"I can see it now, Labour willing to swap nukes and the union for nice ministerial salaries."
Sturgeon has already said she will not die in a ditch over Trident, so the deal is done.
Ironically, in policy terms, i am one of those lefties who agree the SNP is more left than Labour, so that's not a bad thing.
However, it will also be the death of the Union, in one way or another. Watching Wolf Hall DVD today - it is interesting to see how such momentous events occurred in almost pedestrian fashion, by increments. And so it has been with the break up of Britain since 1997. Base electoral advantage (like Henry 8th's lust), blinkered ideology and arrogance leading to a fractured society, and maybe worse.
David Timoney said...
You point out that Alex Salmond pursued a neoliberal policy as first minister but suggest that Nicola Sturgeon is "a genuine centre left type". It's worth recalling that Salmond was a member of the avowedly socialist 79 Group and was expelled from the SNP as a result in the 80s. Mind you, Tony Blair was still claiming to be a socialist in those days too.
You should also bear in mind that the 55:45 result of the independence referendum was due to the large number of Labour supporters attracted to "yes" being outweighed by the even larger number of SNP supporters who quietly voted "no" to protect their pensions and other financial interests. Also, remember that the secular shift in Scottish politics has not been the SNP eating Labour support, but the SNP substituting for the Tories. The Scottish Conservative vote has not evaporated.
Labour and the SNP will cut a deal, if one is feasible, because they are not that far apart ideologically, though they will each accentuate certain policy differences for emblematic reasons. The bottom line is that they're both right-of-centre these days.
Iain Roberts said...
"[Cameron's] cowardice saw responsibility for saving the union ceded to the previous prime minister"
Cameron may be evil but he's not entirely stupid. For an Old Etonian aristocrat to lecture Scots on how they should stay in the Union would be counterproductive. He gave a few speeches in the referendum campaign, because as Prime Minister he had to; but it was only sensible for him to keep a low profile and leave most of the job to actual Scots.
BTW, the Socialist Party Scotland have severed links with Solidarity because Sheridan's outfit has called on Scots to vote SNP in May. There has also been a split in the Socialist Appeal group with the majority moving with the leadership to join the Scottish Socialist Party while those who have left remain within the Labour Party.
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Chilam Cheung hot favourite to win TV King title
Chilam Cheung is rumoured to be a hot favourite for the TV King title at the coming 2013 TVB Anniversary Awards on 16 December 2013.
Chilam and TVB have enjoyed a close working relationship. Starring as the popular Captain Cool in Triumph in the Skies 2 <衝上雲霄II>, TVB reportedly has offered to sign him under the TV station. Although the contract was not sealed eventually, Chilam and TVB still maintains a good relationship and he has also accepted to film a movie version of Triumph in the Skies 2 next year. In addition, Chilam is very likely to film another drama for TVB next year.
To boost the popularity of Chilam, TVB has recently released a programme on Our Chilam Cheung <我們的張智霖> on its cable TV and will re-broadcast his 2003 drama, Point of No Return <西關大少> shortly.
Being a non-contractual artiste of TVB, many were also surprised that Chilam had been invited to attend the Malaysia’s Astro on Demand television awards on 1 December 2013. The Astro awards has been considered an indicator of TVB Anniversary Awards, and Chilam’s attendance has caused speculation that he may win the TV King title at both the Astro awards and the TVB Anniversary Awards.
Chilam has confirmed his attendance at the Astro awards. “I will attend the Astro awards because I am having a concert in Malaysia on 30 November 2013. Hence, I will extend my stay for another day.”
Chilam has also said that he would most likely film another drama for TVB next year.
Asked about the rumour of him clinching the TV King title, Chilam said “I welcome all the awards, but I will just take it in stride.”
Responding that TVB has treated him well despite not being a contractual artiste, Chilam responded tactfully, “If this is true, it proves that they [TVB] are fair. (Aren’t you not afraid that others will gossip that you trade a drama for an award?) There is nothing to trade. I filmed a drama every year before and no award was given to me too. Haha!”
Unlike Chilam, Francis Ng who also stars in Triumph in the Skies 2 has not been invited to attend the Astro awards. Francis sends his blessings to Chilam and said, “I wish Chilam good luck! Actually, not many awards ceremonies invite me. This shows that I need to work harder.”
Asked about his chances of winning the TV King title, Francis said, “I feel that my chances are low, but TVB is like my school. I will still return to film a drama for them.”
Source: Oriental Daily
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Helping you find the Nonprofits to Know
By Jeff Achen
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Have you heard about Minnesota Community Foundation and The Saint Paul Foundation’s new web video series, Nonprofits to Know™? Like the work of Charities Review Council, the Foundations’ Nonprofits to Know™ series shines a spotlight on reputable nonprofits that are having a real impact in their communities.
Each 3-4 minute Nonprofits to Know™ video focuses on a nonprofit that is doing extraordinary work in Minnesota. The teams from the Foundations’ grants and program, development, and marketing and communications departments collaborate to identify the nonprofits we will feature. Charities Review Council has partnered with the Foundations to spread the word about these videos and will also use email and social media point out which featured nonprofits have completed the Accountability Wizard review process.
Here is the Nonprofits to Know™ video for the Project for Pride in Living, a Meets Standards organization:
When we create a video about a nonprofit, we see it as a great tool for the nonprofit to use in its own capacity building. We encourage each featured nonprofit to distribute the video through social media, email and its own website. The Foundations also help to distribute the video—posting it on our YouTube channel, creating links to it on our website and via social media, and emailing links to individuals in our network that we think would like to learn more about the work of the particular nonprofit. We’re also proud to be posting these videos complete with closed captioning for the hearing impaired.
Clearly, the nonprofits benefit from the video series—many of which have wanted to create videos but have been budget constrained to do so. But we believe that our Foundations also benefit from this initiative. The Nonprofits to Know™ series help us demonstrate our expertise in identifying nonprofits doing great work in the community, and we believe the videos help us create partnerships with donors, nonprofits and community leaders who want to do innovative and extraordinary work.
Here are other reviewed organizations that also have a Nonprofits to Know™ video:
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Sonic Talk
Couple of notes regarding the Sonics:
1. Rumors persist that the Sonics are pursuing recently traded Marcus Banks from the T-Wolves in exchange for Flip Murray and/or Reggie Evans. Banks is a 6’2” PG/SG (mostly PG), drafted out of UNLV by the Grizzlies – oddly enough – between two guys named Collison and Ridnour in 2003. He’s been a reserve for his career (if you can call 2 ½ years a career), but he does offer some strength that Frodo lacks. Basically, with Banks you’re getting more rebounds, steals, fouls, and free throw attempts, and you’re giving up assists and a small bit of shooting. Neither Frodo nor Banks are outstanding shooters, although Banks should get some credit for improving his FT shooting this season. Banks has sat on the bench for the majority of the year in Boston, only getting serious minutes for a 3-week span in mid-December to early January. Would he help the Sonics? Well, probably not any more than resident mystery man Rick Brunson.
2. Should be an interesting matchup tonight, as the Blazers take a 4-15 road record into Key Arena. Juan Dixon has really come on strong in the last month, regularly scoring 20 points and putting up a 43% 3-pt mark for the month of January, as well as a 50% mark overall. Obviously, he’s not going to keep up that rate, but I’m not expecting Ray Allen to put an end to it. One other item to note: Steve Blake and Luke Ridnour will stage a “World’s Grittiest Man” competition at halftime. Celebrity judges include Chris Corchiani and John Stockton.
3. Welcome back, Nate.
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Will they score 200 100?
With the high-scoring Sonics taking on the no-defense Mavs tonight, will we see a repeat of Sunday's shoot-out against the Suns? Who knows, but after a couple of impressive wins on the road, including last night's smackdown of the "Jazz" (there is no Jazz in Utah, people!), there's sure to be a lot more people watching this one than Sunday's game.
Since the game is on TNT, and I'm not blessed with "fancy cable", I shall be listening to the game on the radio, while watching the highly-anticipated 100th episode of Smallville (Someone close to Clark will die tonight! Please don't let it be Chloe!)
Check out the Sonics Insider preview.
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You Can't Handle The Truth
You've GOT to be kidding me...
No, AK1984, I don't mean Paul Pierce. I mean this:
SONICS SELECT ENTERCOM SEATTLE AS NEW RADIO PARTNER
Seattle, WA (January 24th, 2006) - The Seattle SuperSonics organization today announced its signing of a multi-year agreement with Entercom Seattle. All Sonics games will be broadcast on 770KTTH starting in the 2006-07 season.
read the whole release here
Talk about culture clash. "KTTH - The Truth 770" boasts a broadcast lineup of conservative media giants--Rush Limbaugh, Bill O'Reilly, Michael Medved and others who pine for the days of "traditional values." What those are, I have no idea, but I think it was last practiced in the 1950s. Anyway, from what I gather, The Truth is targeted at what is commonly known as a "Red State" audience.
Meanwhile, the Sonics are a professional basketball team in the National Basketball Association. You know, that sports league where "all" the players wear tattoos and corn-rows, smoke pot and star in hip-hop videos with big-booty women--things that definitely play better to a "Blue State" crowd (yes, lawd!). Traditional values are about as relevant to modern b-ball culture as short-shorts and the two-handed set shot.
So it's safe to say that these two cultures and their values don't overlap in too many places--well, except for when Danny Fortson is talking about homosexuality or something. But you can't tell me that shacking up with Rush was the Sonics' best option.
Some of KTTH's sister stations--710 KIRO, 99.9 KISW, 103.7 The Mountain and 107.7 The End--attract that core, prototypically-Seattle crowd of upper-middle class liberal-weenies (ahem) who form the bulk of the Supes' following. Why not relocate to one of those stations? Key Arena is packed with the yuppies, butt-rockers, modern-rockers, and aging hippies that listen to these stations... all that's missing are the baggy-pants KUBE 93 types (KJR's sister station).
My only guess is that, just like Commissioner Stern's dress code, the Sonics' foray into Bush-league radio is some kind of attempt to broaden their appeal to Red-Staters. Or conversely, KTTH could be trying to pull some of those heathen Sonics fans into their righteous flock. Good luck with that, guys. If that works, maybe they'll start playing Young Jeezy at NASCAR races and having Big & Rich sing at the NBA All-Star Ga--oh wait.
But whatever. At least I won't have to turn my AM dial, or turn my radio on at all, to get my KC fix. Kevin Calabro is still in the picture (har):
Nineteen-year-veteran Sonics play-by-play announcer Kevin Calabro will continue to handle the television play-by-play duties on Sonics television partner FSN Northwest. The Sonics will add broadcast talent to handle the radio responsibilities. Calabro will remain the primary play-by-play broadcast talent for radio-only regular-season games and Sonics playoff games.
"The Sonics will add broadcast talent to handle the radio responsibilities," eh? May I be the first to suggest, then, a dynamic duo of Rush and Dennis Miller? If folks like me aren't tuning in, then hell, take this right-wing radio thing all the way.
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No Ron for Supes
Ron Artest is headed for Sacramento in exchange for Peja Stojakovic. Ordinarily, this wouldn't merit much attention on a Sonic site, with the exception of the people who thought the Sonics had a chance of landing Artest.
However, it does merit some notice in the sense that this deal may have been holding up other deals. Artest was rumored to be heading a number of places, and now that he is confirmed to land in Sacto, that frees up those other teams to begin trading.
Basically, the first two paragraphs are a long-winded way to say that Reggie, Flip, and the Potato may be heading for new homes soon.
Update - As of 3:45, Artest has nixed the deal. Thanks to B-Con for pointing out my whole story was moot. In other news, Ron Artest has decided he no longer wishes to be an American citizen, claiming the U.S. is no longer a playoff contender and fails to utilize his unique skills. President Bush is exploring options of trading Artest to Brazil for "one of them hot-lookin' chicks."
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Download This!
If you, like most of us, were busy watching the Seahawks on Sunday and missed the epic double-overtime Suns/Sonics game, you can download the video from Google for $3.95.
Goodbye, Mr. Glass
Reggie Evans has apparently asked permission to be traded, Frank Hughes of the TNT reports. Evans' name has been linked previously with the Nets and Nuggets, with the Sonics receiving (My Name Is) Earl Watson and Mark (No Nickname) Jackson from the teams in return.
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It figures.
On a night when everyone was watching the Seahawks seal a Superbowl berth or Kobe going off for 81 (!), the Sonics and Suns played the most exciting game in the NBA in years.
PHOENIX (AP) -- It was an unofficial turn-back-the-clock night in Phoenix, to the days when everybody in the NBA loved to run and shoot, and nobody played much defense.
Ray Allen made a 30-footer at the second-overtime buzzer to break the NBA record for most combined 3-pointers in a game, giving the Seattle SuperSonics a 152-149 victory over the Phoenix Suns on Sunday night in the league's highest-scoring game in 11 years.
"When I was open, I just knew it was time to make a shot," Allen said.
The teams combined for 32 3-pointers, breaking the mark of 31 set by Toronto and Philadelphia on March 13, 2005. The 301 points were the most in a game since Dallas beat Houston 156-147 in two overtimes on April 11, 1995, according to the Elias Sports Bureau.
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Karma for Seattle?
You can rev up all the lame jokes about the Sonics and Earl Watson, because according to the NY Post, Chucky Atkins is headed for Memphis, which means they (Memphis) are out of the "Earl Sweepstakes," such as it was, which means the Sonics could be Watson's next destination.
Does it really make any difference, though? Well, according to 82games.com, it might. Watson is the top-ranked Denver player in +/-, and, unlike Frodo, he can play a lick of defense. While Watson's and Ridnour's PERs are remarkably similar on offense, when they grab their shorts and assume the position on defense, dissimilar results emerge. Ridnour allows an eFG of 56%, while Watson's is a paltry 41%, a massive difference.
Now, I'm not saying Earl Watson is going to take us to the promised land, but he would be a heck of a step in the right direction. For his salary info, you can click here. Most trade scenarios involve combinations of Mr. Glass, the Potato, and Flip Murray being dealt to Denver, with some including 3-way deals involving the T-Wolves, who apparently covet Evans and Murray.
This is what it has come to, Sonic fans. From Warriors coach Mike Montgomery, after yesterday's game between Golden State and Seattle:
"This is one we had to have. (The players) knew that. I knew that."
That sound you hear is the remainder of the air being let out of last year's balloons. Somebody notify the autorities, because we have now become the team that mediocre teams expect to beat. The team that if the Warriors had not beaten, Monty would have had to explain why. The team that was getting 9 points against the flippin' Golden State Warriors.
Folks, it just doesn't get much worse than this. Unless Ray Allen was resting in a hyperbaric chamber filled with Michael Jordan's mojo while enduring his 3-game suspension, we have no chance at even being on the "bubble" for the playoffs, let alone making them.
Game Day: Warriors
The Sonics take on another team in a bit of a slide this afternoon: The Warriors. G-State has dropped five in a row in the New Year, pulling them down out of the playoff race into 10th place (welcome to the club, fellas).
Anyway, the Sonics stand a chance for a victory this afternoon, but I'm not laying any money on it.
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Probably my favorite gift of the holiday season came from my brother; a VHS tape of the 1988-89 Sonics season. There they were, in all their glory: Ellis, X-Man, Derrick, Soul Glow, Sedale, Alton Lister, Nate, John Lucis, OP, Russ Scoene ... unbelievable.
But what really struck me in watching the video was the point guard talent on that squad. Take a look:
1. Nate McMillan (4,893 career assists)
2. John Lucas (6,454)
3. Avery Johnson (5,846)
4. Sedale Threatt (3,613)
That's more than 20,000 assists - on one team! Amazing, really.
All of which leads me to a request. Does anyone out there know how I can transfer the VHS tape to my computer, so we can upload random bits of the footage? I'm sure I'm not the only one who'd like to see Hakeem take on Michael Cage in a one-punch fight (you've got to see it to believe it), or Derrick McKey throw down over Manute Bol (again, see to believe).
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Game Night: Love the Glove
Seattle’s all-time greatest player returns home tonight as the Sonics match up with Gary Payton and the Miami Heat. The Glove is now merely a Mitten, but he’s still likely to be the first guy ever drafted by the Sonics to make it in the Hall of Fame (unless you count this guy, and that's just mean).
Anyway, the Heat are rounding into shape under new coach Pat Riley. Antoine Walker has moved into the reserve SF role nicely, JW and Payton make a nice PG combination, and Shaq appears to be finding his legs. Combine Shaq’s improving ankle and Seattle’s dearth of big men, and we could be looking at a big night from the big fella.
It’s still not known whether Sugar Ray will be in the starting lineup, but let’s assume he’s not, meaning The Omen gets his fourth start of the season. Ordinarily, this would be a disaster, but even more of disaster would be trying to watch Ray Allen guard Dwayne Wade. Quite frankly, I think I’ll take Wilkins’ D and marginal O over Sugar Ray’s marginal D and superstar O in this case.
Last year, much was made of the Sonics’ statistical staff noticing that Wade favored going in a particular direction when he had the ball, enabling the Supes to hold him to 39% shooting in their two matchups (both of which the Sonics won). Can the same statistical insight benefit Seattle again? Somehow, I think DW will have figured a way to get off.
Of course, the big question – as mentioned at sonicscentral.com – is how many fouls the Frenchie/Swifty combo will rack up guarding the Big Diesel? Can we be approaching the rare double-6? Will there be a Potato sighting? Is the question mark button still work on my keyboard after this paragraph?
Bottom Line: Heat 101 – Sonics 90
Bonus Prediction: Gary Payton's Line: 15 points, 7 assists
(Update: Ray Allen is out for 3 games, while Keyon "The Menance" Dooling was tagged with a 5-game suspension. You can read the Times' version here.)
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Caught on Tape!
Here is the laugh-out-loud funny video of the Smackdown in Seattle last night (courtesy of ESPN). Check out Dooling's daring attempt to sneak into the Sonics locker room to lie in wait for Ray-Ray. He's like a ninja or something!
It brings back fond memories of the epic Xavier McDaniel vs. Wes Mathews fight in the 1980's. Remember that picture of X-man choking the life out of Mathews (which Nussbaum had lamenated on his Pee-Chee in high-school) and Mathews' famous "Your bald head is mine!" quote?
Sigh. You know your team is struggling when the highlight of the season is a 10-second slap-fight.
Berserker!
"You shall soon feel my wrath, Mr. Dooling!"
Don't mess with Ray-Ray.
After receiving one too many hard fouls from Keyon Dooling, Ray Allen turned into Chuck Norris, putting the beat-down on Key-Doo. The fight spilled into the stands and looked eerily like last year's Artest Fest. Luckily, this is Seattle and we are all pussies, so the fisticuffs ended quickly.
Inspired by Raging Ray, the Sonics went on to beat the Magic 113-104, leading by as many as 20 points in the second half.
Rashard Lewis carried the team with 45 points, while Lil' Frodo chipped in with 23 points, including 4-4 from three-point range.
Magic trick for struggling Supes?
The stumbling Sonics, losers of four out of their last five games, take on the equally stumbly Magic, who have also lost four of five, at 7pm tonight at the Key. Something’s gotta give, folks!
Check out the preview at Supersonics.com
A Duhon Deal?
Hoopshype is full of Sonics rumors today, from the return of Krautzy to the Sonics bench, to the ongoing Earl Watson story. Longtime Supersonicsoulster "B_con" points out an interesting story about Chris Duhon coming to Seattle for The Potato and a stiff to be named later.
So, do you think this would be a good deal for the Supes, or do you have a better idea? The floor is open for debate.
(And please, for the love of God, no Danny Fortson for Paul Pierce trades!)
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Game Night: Pistons
While all eyes are on Rick Sund, the Sonics’ GM explains in this article that there won’t be any moves for at least two to three weeks, until Coach Hill has had a chance to take a look at his new rotation.
Hill also tossed in this beautiful swipe at The Magician, “You can't rotate 10 or 12 guys. You've got to have 8 1/2, nine guys max. And maybe Robert (Swift's) that half guy. And Robert's got to play.”
Amen, Bob. I can’t count how many times I anguished over the chaotic substitution pattern Weiss used during his reign. Of course, if the Sonics lose five in a row, Hill may be changing his tune. Losing tends to spoil one’s plans.
Anyway, the Sonics are, as they say up in Canada, “in tough” against the Pistons in Detroit tonight. One big fear is who will guard Chauncey Billups – because Ridnour is going to have a hell of a time defending him when he posts up. Oh, and there’s the question of getting rebounds when you’ve got Frenchie going up against Big Ben, and Radman trying to box out Rasheed Wallace. Oh, and can Sugar Ray put any stops to Rip Hamilton? Yikes.
Folks, the Bob Hill era may be experiencing its first slaughter tonight. That’s okay, though, because even Phil Jackson couldn’t help the Sonics tonight. But there’s no need to worry, Sonic fans, because right after the Pistons it’s a trip to the Big Apple for a matchup with Isaiah and his Big-Money All Stars!
The Bob Hill era starts NOW!
Bob Hill will try to resisitate the struggling Sonics tonight as the team faces off against the Chicago Bulls at 5:30.
In case you missed it, Art Thiel wrote an interesting article about the new coach to get you prepared for the Hill Era.
Goodbye Cleaves, hello Watson?
The house cleaning has begun.
A day after firing head coach Bob Weiss, the Sonics released point guard Mateen "Meat" Cleaves.
Could this be a precursor to a trade (possibly involving former Sonic Earl "The Hurl" Watson), or does new coach Bob Hill just want to show everyone who's boss by axing a popular player? Maybe it's a little bit of both, how should I know? I just work here for God's sake, get off my back! (Runs off to cry in men's room.)
Dear Bob
I really wanted this to work out. Honest. After Nate and Dwayne left, and Phil Jackson and Larry Brown signed on with other teams, and Paul Silas didn’t want to come here, you were my top choice to coach the Sonics.
After another humiliating blowout loss last night, however, it’s clearly time for you to go. Nothing personal. You’re a great guy. Everyone loves your card tricks. You just can’t coach worth a crap.
I know it wasn’t all your fault. AD and Garbage Bag left. Vlad’s a bitch. Every team’s got problems, Bob. Great coaches figure out ways to make it work (see last season).
You’ve always been a team player, Bob, so now it’s time to take one for the team. You know Wally and Rick won’t fire you. Not their style. Quit now, before the entire season goes down the tube. I know you’ll end up on your feet, Bob. You’ve always got that modeling career to fall back on.
Paul Merrill
H.R. Dept, Supersonicsoul.com
p.s. Do you know where we can reach Paul Silas?
(UPDATE: Dag, that was quick! Bob Weiss was officially canned today. If I knew the Sonics would grant my every wish, I would've asked them to bring back the Wheedle too!)
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Javier Montenegro, ‘Young Leaders of Research Groups’ award from the RSEQ
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The CiQUS researcher receives the award of the Specialized Group on Biological Chemistry of the Spanish Royal Society of Chemistry for his leading research in the study of transport through biological membranes using supramolecular chemistry, becoming a reference among the international chemistry community despite his short scientific career.
‘Supraporous’, new international project lead by CiQUS researcher Javier Montenegro
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The research laboratories from the University of Santiago de Compostela (USC) will host an ambitious project financed with a total of about half a million euros involving agencies from four different countries. The project goal is to revolutionize the field of porous materials with nanometric control.
One CSIC group has incorporated into the Cancer Area at CIMUS
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Recently, CIMUS (the Molecular Medicine and Chronic Diseases Research Centre) has added a new group to its Cancer Area thanks to an agreement signed between the University of Santiago de Compostela (USC) and the Spanish Higher Council for Scientific Research (CSIC).
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Trump’s Ham-Handed Policy
President Trump’s Ham-Handed Foreign Policy
While Wolverton’s cartoon is just another of his Leftwing insults to our President, there is some accuracy to this particular imagery. President Trump’s foreign policy is bold, brash, and quite ham-handed in comparison to the status quo that came into being after the end of WW2.
But 60+ years of that status quo has achieved very little. Indeed, the only great strides made in the realm of geopolitics were the result of what were at the time declared be ham-handed actions and policies, e.g., President Reagan’s handling the USSR which helped in their resultant fall.
So, ham-handed? Certainly by what has become traditional standards. But President Trump’s foreign policy has already seen positive results despite best efforts of the Democrats and their propaganda corps.
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This entry was posted on Wednesday, May 22nd, 2019 at 4:54 pm and is filed under Politics. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
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Dem’s Shithole Fishing
Dem’s Shithole Fishing For Votes & Tax Dollars
Be assured of one thing, My Fellow Americans; the Democrat politicians at both state and federal levels are not so enamored with immigration, legal or otherwise, out of any sense of compassion for these foreigners – especially the ones from the world’s shitholes. No, they’re just fishing for votes and tax dollars just as they always are.
It’s Not About Voter Fraud
This is not to say that these Dems are trying to- or expecting to get noncitizens to vote for them. No, thankfully, that sort of voter fraud is statistically nonexistent.
No, the primary sort of votes the Dems are fishing for is Electoral College votes and seats – hence, votes – in the US House of Representatives. Truthfully, if they want to stay even marginally relevant in the post-2020 future, they have to keep fishing for immigrants. Americans and long-term foreign residents are fleeing the Blue States. The only thing allowing these states to mitigate the effects of this is through foreign immigrants like New York and California do.
But, of course, these Dem politicians are also looking for votes for themselves from their Liberal and Progressive constituencies, constituencies that have proven to be both rabidly fanatical on non-White immigration and prone to extreme responses to perceived waffling on this issue at all.
Well, this is true of White Democrats at least. The Congressional Black Caucus is a bit more specific in their support for immigration from shithole countries.
And, of course, Tax Money
It’s really just simple math – arithmetic really – much of the taxpayers’ monies distributed to the several states is done so based upon population either directly or indirectly. Given that the Dems’ bailiwicks would be in a rather steep population decline, they need immigrants, legal or otherwise, to bolster those numbers, lest they lose out.
And, lest we either forget or simply turn a blind eye, immigrants, mostly illegals, provide the labor force for many businesses that thrive in the urban zones where Democrats also flourish. That brings in state level tax dollars and resultant clout into these Democrat politicians grasp. A perfect example of this being the plethora of nail salons in and around NYC which are owned by Asian legal immigrants who, in turn, “hire” illegal immigrants – some of whom are victims of human trafficking – and keep them essentially enslaved and living in squalid conditions. Another example would be the various sweatshops that proliferate in urban, i.e., Democrat, zones such as NYC or Chicago.
These industries, some of whom can only be competitive against foreign companies through enacting the same horrid conditions as the sweatshops in the Third World, all provide taxes to the states. Frankly, given that, it’s not even surprising that Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz (D-FL 23), former Chair of the DNC, said that illegal immigrants were the backbone of the economy.
Yes, do always remember that, whenever a Democrat politician makes a strong statement in favor of increased immigration, it’s not about compassion; it’s about and only about, self-interest and the interests of the Democrat Party professionals.
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The Deep State Is Real
The Deep State is real. It is a body of people, made up of influential members of the government beaucracy, the senior military staff, and parts of top-level finance and industry, who are involved in the largely unreported and uncountable manipulation or control of government policy. It is not a conspiracy theory, despite what the anti-Trump Lamestream Enemedia so raucously claims. It’s a long-established and proven fact or, at least, the political science is settled on this matter and the debate over its existence is over.
Three fine books on this Deep State, Shadow Government, State Within a State, or Double Government are: What Washington Get Wrong by Jennifer Bachner and Benjamin Ginsberg, The Deep State: The Fall of the Constitution and the Rise of a Shadow Government by Mike Lofgren, and National Security and Double Government by Michael J. Glennon.
Each year unelected federal administrators write thousands of regulations possessing the force of law. What do these civil servants know about the American people whom they ostensibly serve? Not much, according to this enlightening and disturbing study.
The authors surveyed federal agency officials, congressional and White House staffers, and employees of various and sundry policy-making organizations about their attitudes toward- and knowledge of the public. They found a gaping chasm between what D.C. officials assume they know about average Americans and the actual opinions and attitudes of those average Americans.
In a nutshell, the Deep State as longtime Republican party insider, Mike Lofgren describes it is a combination of elected and appointed members of the legislative and executive branches; and corporate insiders, especially the military-industrial complex, Wall Street, and Silicon Valley. Together, fueled by enormous amounts of money, they effectively control the country, regardless of which party is in power or the wishes of the electorate.
Drawing on insights gleaned over three decades on Capitol Hill, much of it on the Budget Committee, Lofgren paints a gripping portrait of the dismal swamp on the Potomac that our government has become.
National security policy in the United States has remained largely constant from the Bush Administration to the Obama Administration. This continuity can be explained by the “double government” theory of 19th-century scholar of the English Constitution, Walter Bagehot. As applied to the United States, Bagehot’s theory suggests that US national security policy is defined by the network of unelected executive officials who manage the departments and agencies responsible for protecting US national security and who, responding to structural incentives embedded in the US political system, operate largely removed from the public’s view and from constitutional constraints.
The public may in large believe that the constitutionally-established institutions control the laws and public policy, but that belief is both unfounded and mistaken. Judicial review is negligible; congressional oversight is dysfunctional; and presidential control is normally nominal at best. People and whole organizations that were created and staffed without the People’s input treat politicians of all sorts as individual impediments that will in most cases be highly temporary.
To put it in perspective one way, in 2014, 3,291 pages of new laws were passed by Congress – the sole branch of government with the constitutional authority to make law – and signed by the President. During this same period, unelected bureaucrats at dozens of federal departments and agencies issued 79,066 pages of new and updated regulations. Hence, unelected and only marginally accountable bureaucrats enacted approximately 24 times the pages of regulations that operate by and large with the full force of law that Congress enacted actual laws.
To put it in perspective in another way, for years since 9/11, the CIA has kept and utilized a fully armed fleet of drones, mostly Predators and Reapers. They have literally made an unknown number of lethal strikes in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen, and elsewhere. I say an unknown number because any such strikes by the CIA are classified as Title 50 covert actions and the government cannot by law provide any information about how the CIA conducts targeted killings. Even the majority of Congress is disallowed oversight or complete analysis of these operations.
Frankly, if they weren’t deranged and damaged, the hypocrisy of the Liberals and Progressives over the existence and their current denial of existence would be equally maddening and amusing. Have they not spent whole generations complaining about Big Oil, Wall Street, Big Ag, the Military-Industrial Complex, and Big Ag essentially owning the government no matter who is elected to office? Have the American people not had to hear them rant about the Koch brothers and ALEC since 2008?
It seems to me that they’ve been complaining about the Deep State for decades. They just didn’t use or know the right term to use for it. But now that Pres. Trump and the American people complain about it, their mindless rejection and cognitive dissonance forces them to deny it and what they’ve been ranting about and against for at least the last half century.
No, the Deep State is quite real. It’s not just some conspiracy theory and it’s not something that President Trump and/or White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon cooked up, though they did drag the actual term out of the “hallowed” halls of academia and into the light of day. The government is more than what you see. It’s roots run both deep and far and are largely hidden from sight. Or, said another way dearer to my heart, Prof. Glennon ‘s Madisonian Institutions that we see are just like mushrooms; they’re just the visible, fruiting body but the rhizomes make up the bulk of the fungus, do most of the work of keeping it alive, and are perpetually hidden from sight.
Being real, however, doesn’t automatically means that they constitute a subterranean web of common and nefarious purpose. One, the various groups don’t normally have a common purpose with each other. Two, whether or not any of those purposes are truly nefarious is a matter of supposition, perspective, and one’s value judgements.
At the end of each and every day, these bureaucrats have their own interests just like the rest of is. They want to keep their jobs, above all. They wouldn’t have gone into the bureaucracy in the first place if job security wasn’t of tantamount importance to them. They will whenever possible act in ways to ensure that job security and will ally themselves with anyone and any policy which they perceive to enhance it. They will also work against and ally with those who also against whatever might infringe upon their job security.
And that brings us to President Trump. Part of his platform was to “drain the swamp” that is the federal government. Pres. Trump even issued two significant Executive Orders (EO 13771 and EO 13777) which focus this draining squarely upon the various agencies who employ these unelected bureaucrats. Such act directly threaten those people’s job security. Hence, it’s hardly unreasonable that would they be and act as they could against him as they could.
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Realpolitiks of Bergdahl
Across the world and especially in America there’s a great deal of both outrage and confusion over Obama choosing to exchange five very high-level Taliban commanders in Gitmo for the deserter and probable defector, Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl. What I believe that most people don’t understand is that there was a well thought out political reason for Obama deciding to make this deal with the Devil.
Obama wasn’t negotiating with terrorists. He was legitimizing the Taliban as an enemy power with national / governmental standing – and the Taliban know this.
You Have The Watches. We Have The Time
The celebrations raging across the Taliban-controlled areas of Afghanistan aren’t just because of release of the prisoners; they’re because of what the prisoners’ release signifies. It’s a very geopolitically significant victory for the Taliban and is the harbinger of an even greater victory for them – Afghanistan.
Obama has chosen to surrender Afghanistan by the end of this year, knowing that President Hamid Karzai’s government won’t survive more than 2 years after that. Taking this very noticeable step in recognizing and legitimizing the Taliban was a necessary step towards his goal since the Taliban will shortly be once again Afghanistan’s titular government.
NOTE: Any and all central governments in Afghanistan at titular in nature. Terrain and tribal structures conspire to make many areas essentially autonomous.
On top of that, I’m sure Obama wants as orderly as possible withdrawal of our troops, preferably with a coincidental reduction in Taliban attacks. Making both a significant concession to the Taliban and a first step towards “rapprochement” with them greatly increases the chances of this happening and his avoiding a repeat of our flight from Vietnam.
That, Ladies and Gentlemen, is my opinion of the realpolitiks of Obama’s trading 5 Taliban senior commanders for Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl.
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Putin On The Ritz
In almost every generation a leader emerges among the nations, quasi-nations, and pseudo-nations of the world. In our time that leader is Russia’s Vladimir Putin. As an American, this is both hard for me to admit and something that I cannot find to be a positive thing for my nation. That, however, doesn’t make it any less true and refusing to accept that truth would be even worse for America.
Vladimir Putin – The World’s Leader
The one thing that truly sets President Vladimir Putin apart from the rest of world’s, and especially America’s, politicians is that he is a leader of men and they, especially Obama, are merely politicians. Putin commands respect and gets it, they do neither.
Putin decides what he wants to do and he does it in half a day, right? He decided he had to go to their parliament. He went to their parliament. He got permission in 15 minutes … but he makes a decision and he executes it quickly. Then everybody reacts. That’s what you call a leader. President Obama, he’s got to think about it. He’s got to go over it again. He’s got to talk to more people about it.
— Rudy Giuliani
Mr. Giuliani is, quite sadly, completely correct. Of all the people on the world’s stage Putin is the man who is most the leader and who is most worthy of respect in that role. The key words in this are “Leader” and “Respect.” Those do not respectively equate to “Friend” or “Approval.”
Putin is neither friend nor ally to America and is, at a bare minimum, an adversary of Europe. There is little of his foreign policy that is not contrary to the West’s perceived best interests and even less of his domestic policies that the majority of the West’s peoples find acceptable.
Therein lies the problem. The greatest and most worthy of respect leader of this time is one that is not on our side. Nor do we have, singularly or collectively, such leaders as can effectively balk him with anything resembling ease. As the victors write the history books, this could well end up with us “on the wrong side of history.”
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Best of Marques – top 5 classic Bentley Motors cars
Bentley Motors as a marque has its roots firmly planted in British motor racing history. Tales of Bentley Boy wins at Brooklands or Le Mans and the famous ‘Blue Train’ race are motoring folklore gold dust.
Over the last eight decades Bentley Motors have become better known for luxury performance saloons than for sports cars and racing victories but since Volkswagen ownership, the marque has come full-circle, taking to the racetrack once-again, winning at La Sarthe and tempting enthusiasts with visions of possible future Bentley super cars.
As part of our Best of Marques blog series, Carphile.co.uk select five of our top 5 classic Bentley cars from the British automotive legend, from concept cars to ground breakers to Le Mans winners.
The Future Classic – Turbo R
The 1980s was a decade when Bentley started making exciting cars again. While the revival started with the Mulsanne, with the Turbo R Bentley took this up a notch, adding grip and handling to straight-line pace.
Bentley engineers re-tuned the suspension and fitted wider tyres to deliver that extra a grip. Which certainly came in handy in a car weighing in at over 2 tonnes and with a 6.7 litre V8, turbocharged V8 under the bonnet.
In 1985 when the Turbo R was released the engine produced 298bhp by the time the final Turbo RT models were made in 1998 the power had swelled to 420bhp, enough to propel the 2,450kg Bentley to a top speed of over 150mph.
Bentley Turbo R
While petrol prices aren’t as low as 1985 (and at 16mpg, the Turbo R certainly likes a sip of unleaded), there is still a lot to love about the car. Best of all, prices for this future classic start at around £10,000.
Buy one while you can – Continental T
Bentley aren’t the kind of company that build hot-rods but with the Continental T (from 1996), they got pretty close.
Bentley Continental T
Whipping 4 inches out of the wheelbase of the regular Continental coupe, this reduced the weight and made the car more agile in the corners. Then they tweaked the engine management system so the Turbocharged 6.7 litre V8 pumped out 400bhp and a whopping 590 Ib ft (this increased to 420bhp and 650Ib ft in 1997 – making it the torquiest production engine in the world at that time).
Hot-rodders would have approved of the Continental T’s turned aluminium dashboard that replaced the wood-trim and evoked the style of racing Bentleys of the 1920s. Under the wheelarches, fatter 18in wheels covered huge 13.4inch ventilated discs, capable of halting this 2.5 ton bruiser up from its 170mph top speed.
Bentley made less than 1000 Continental T back in the late nineties and many abroad. A few years ago they had fallen from their £220,000 new list-price to a more attainable £30,000 but prices have rallied since then, with the very best easily fetching double (or more) so if you’ve always lusted after this sharp-suited Hot Rod, the Bentley Continental T would be a classic Bentley to buy while you still can.
The Superstar – EXP 10 Speed 6
Revealed at the Geneva Motor Show 2015, the Bentley EXP 10 Speed 6 is a two-seat concept car that hints at what a Bentley sports car could look like in the (near) future.
Bentley EXP 10 Speed 6 concept
EXP refers to ‘Experimental’ and while the car remains a concept there are strong rumours that the EXP 10 Speed 6 will make it into production around 2018. This would give Crewe a lighter sports car that could do battle with the likes of the Ferrari 488GTB, Audi R8 and Porsche 911 Turbo and inspire a whole new generation of Bentley boys for the 21st century. At carphile.co.uk we hope these rumours are true as the EXP 10 Speed 6 has all the makings of another Bentley superstar written all over it.
The game changer – S2 Continental
In the case of the Bentley S2 Continental, the cars game changer status was both good and bad.
S2 Continental
Let’s start with the good. It was the first outing for the iconic 6.2 litre aluminium V8, one of the great engines of the 20th century, which replaced the venerable straight 6 and remains in production (although heavily developed over the years) to this day.
On to the bad. The S2 was chassis built in the old-fashioned sense at a time when monocoque construction was really starting to take over. While there’s nothing wrong with that per se and some of the Bentley S2 variants from coach builders like Park Ward, Mulliner and James Young were truly stunning and are highly sought after today, the S2 heralded the twilight years for the great coach building tradition (Park ward had been taken over by Rolls Royce in 1939 and H.J.Mulliner in 1959) a craft/artform that dated back centuries.
The legend – Speed 6
The Bentley Speed 6 was released in 1928, as a sports version of the Bentley 6 1/2 litre saloon.
Woolf Barnato in winning Speed 6 Bentley ‘Old Number 1’, Le Mans 1929
The Speed 6 would go on to become the most successful racing Bentley of all time, winning the Le Mans 24 hour race in 1929 and 1930, in the hands of “Bentley Boys” Woolf Barnato, Tim Birkin, and Glen Kidston. It was a Speed 6 that achieved legendary status as the Blue Train in the famous race.
Carphile news: Bentley celebrate the 85th anniversary of the Blue Train race
While staying in Cannes in 1930, Barnato accepted the wager that he could beat the Blue Train to Calais and be at his club in London before it arrived at its destination. Barnato won the bet, averaging a little over 43mph on pre-motorway roads. The Stuff legends are made of (The Speed 6 of course…we’d like to think Woolf Barnato would agree)
Do you agree with our top 5 Bentley cars? Which five Bentley classic carswould you choose? Please let us know by commenting below.
Derek Stocker says:
Us Bentley buffs certainly like reading about and finding out more on our very much loved cars.
The late Turbo R is my favourite for looks, the sharp edges and square look give it a huge presence and a joy to behold.
They are all so lovely though and I am sure we would all have one of each if space and money were in plentiful supply.
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IAFE comments on the Gilroy Garlic Festival shooting
By News Release | July 31, 2019
The tragic shooting at the Gilroy Garlic Festival is sad news for all of us. The festival was, at one time, a member of IAFE. We, along with our friends from the International Festivals and Events Association (IFEA) are sending prayers and sympathy to all involved. The volunteers and supporters will be hit especially hard by this senseless act of violence.
With permission, we are sharing the following from Steve Schmader, President & CEO of the IFEA:
It is with great sadness and sympathies that we let you all know of yesterday’s mass shooting during the final day of the Gilroy Garlic Festival in Gilroy, California. At this time there are an estimated 12 people injured and 4 fatalities (including the suspect) after a gunman randomly opened fire on those attending the event. A second suspect is still being investigated. As has become unacceptably too common in our country and around the world, we send our deepest sympathies, prayers and support to all those affected – directly and indirectly – by this horrific incident, through friends, families and loved ones.
While no different in terms of the tragedy and loss, this scenario is the first at what we would categorize as a ‘typical’ small(er) town festival/celebration, that a large majority of our industry fits into. It is a category that we would all like to believe is a bit safer and at less risk than the potential larger target events, in bigger cities, with higher media focus surrounding them. It opens up many new and very real considerations that we must now work with our global risk management experts to re-examine and re-address, so that we may maintain the safe havens that we hope all of our events will be for our attendees, volunteers and all stakeholders.
We are in the midst of the peak of fair season, so it is even more critical that all members review emergency plans, security assessments and risk mitigation strategies. This news story from NBC highlights the vulnerabilities our fairs and events face. The new IAFE website, www.fairsandexpos.com, has resources in the library, as well as at www.fairsandexpos.com/event-security (under the MyIAFE tab), which provides invaluable resources from the US Department of Homeland Security.
The IAFE works closely with allied organizations such as the IFEA, IAAPA, IAVM, and OABA to learn and share information that is essential to all in the events sector and we will update our members as we identify resources that will help us all provide a safe environment for our guests.
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The average salary of a federal judge in Russia is higher in two or three times than the average. The Court of Intellectual Rights buys apartments for its employees for tens of millions. On length of service, judges have the right to lifelong maintenance (by the way about pension reform). The privileged position of the judges is justified. But why there are many decisions, which made incompatible with logic? Why raiding (and the capture of not only physical property but also intellectual property) occurs in the judicial walls? And why the judge in fact can not be checked for corruption?
The shortcomings of the judicial system in Russia are seriously worried both by the state and civil society. In any case, the reasons for criticism arise very often. No wonder that a new term of “basmanny justice” appeared in the press as a symbol of the imaginary or real influence of the state. But the judicial reform in modern Russia is of a permanent nature. The next stage was the signing by the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin on July 30 of the law on the creation in Russia of separate appellate and cassation courts of general jurisdiction. Such a structure already exists in the system of arbitration courts. However, how effective is it?
Judge Khakhaleva: “golden wedding”, a fake diploma and raiding
Elena Khakhaleva, the judge of the Krasnodar Regional Court, became famous after the luxurious wedding of her daughter, whose photos and videos were blown up by social networks and the media.
In the summer of 2017, Russia learned that there were a lot of celebrities at the family celebration of the modest judge. For instance, famous singers Nikolai Baskov and Valery Meladze were there. It is especially worth noting that expensive singers Iosif Kobzon and Vera Brezhneva sang for the guests.
As for the gifts of the newlyweds: according to rumors they were given a Bentley car, and the entire celebration cost the family $2 million.
Elena Khakhaleva gave her answer to critics in an interview to Kommersant. She told that she was financed by her ex-husband and father of a daughter who is engaged in business. However, the Krasnodar public figures did not satisfy by the answers, and they continued to dig and soon announced new details of the biography of Elena Khakhaleva. A public group led by Kuban farmer Elena Dryukova questioned the authenticity of the judicial diploma.The public figures conducted an examination of the educational status of the judge and stated that Elena Khakhaleva did not complete the institution listed in her official biography. The investigators revealed all the course of their private investigation, collected press conferences and distributed comments.
Representatives of the court and Elena Vladimirovna did not comment on the situation. The court did not interrupt the silence, even when the media came out with another sensation: Interpol established that the judge of the Krasnodar Territory Court, Elena Khakaleva, did not graduate from the Tbilisi State University and works with a false diploma.
The press service of Interpol reported that “according to the information provided by the Tbilisi State University named after Ivane Javakhishvili there is no data on entering the university and providing qualifications to Elena Vladimirovna Khakhaleva for 1988-1991”.
During the audit it is also became known that Khakhaleva received the status of a judge on the basis of a document that replaces a diploma. There is no university stamp and signatures of officials. This fact means that Judge Khakhaleva, at that time the deputy chairman of the Krasnodar Regional Court, did not have the right to occupy her post. And all decisions made by Elena Vladimirovna are illegitimate.
The 7th Main Directorate of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation in Rostov-on-Don is checking this fact.
Khakhaleva does not give comments and continues to work in the field of justice. At the moment, she appears on the website of the Krasnoyarsk Regional Court as a member of the presidium and chairman of the judicial board of administrative cases.
But a fake diploma is not the only accusation brought against the “golden” judge. Kuban farmer Elena Dryukova directly calls the judge Hakhalev raider.
“Lena Khakhaleva in the regional court offered me to refuse the property share and forget this question. <...> Now I found out that all the raider usurpations in the Kuban, all court decisions were supported by Khakhaleva. ”
Judge Ageyeva: 12 expertises and one business center
The judge of the Arbitration Court of Moscow Lydia Ageeva played a special role in the case of the capture of the business center “Academic” on the Prospectus of the 60th anniversary of the October Revolution in Moscow. Lydia Ageeva for two and a half years did not answer the main question about the authenticity of the signature on the contract, which allowed the owner to change the eight-billion object.
Twelve state experts and a number of private organizations confirmed the ownership of the signature. However, the findings of state institutions did not convince Judge Ageyeva and she sent the original documents for the thirteenth examination to a private organization. And the experts finally made the necessary conclusion: the signature does not belong to the person specified in the contract. The judge decided to refuse to satisfy the claim of the former owner who tried to prove: his partner sold him a share, and it is spelled out in the contract and act.
For two and a half years, Judge Lidia Ageyeva made a decision on the case. All this time, the new “owners” of the business center received $1,2 million monthly. Thus, the unhurried activity of the court allowed to new owner which captured the building to strengthen its financial position during the lengthy proceedings. Her decision legitimized the raider capture of the business center “Academichesky”.
Chairman of the Court Novoselova: conversations in the deliberative room
The Higher Qualification Commission announced a competition for the vacancy of the Chairman of the Court of Intellectual Rights. This post was occupied by Lyudmila Novoselova before.
The Court of Intellectual Rights was established five years ago with a good purpose of bringing order in the field of intellectual property security in the country. The task was noble, but this court became famous for a whole series of “ambiguous” decisions.
One of the most controversial is the case of LLC “Kurortmedservis” against “Iodine technologies and marketing”.
In 2012, Rospatent registered for “Iodine technologies and marketing” ownership of trademarks, “similar to the degree of confusion” with the trademarks of LLC “Kurortmedservis”, which owns exclusive rights.
“Iodine technologies and marketing” began to produce products using these trademarks.
The courts of the lower-ranking took side of the affected entrepreneurs. Even the Federal Antimonopoly Service recognized the company “Iodine technology and Marketing” as guilty of unfair competition against Kurortmedservis.
But everything changed when it came to the Court of Intellectual Rights, headed by Judge Lyudmila Novoselova. The court took side of the company, which produced almost 500,000 packages of dietary supplements under an alien name for the period from 2013 to 2017. It violated the exclusive rights to 12 objects of intellectual property of Kurortmedservice and tried to assign four trademarks.
And again, as in the case with the “Academichesky”, the process dragged on. The examination of the cases on the merits was repeatedly and deliberately carried over, the execution of existing judicial acts obligating “Iodine technologies and marketing” to compensate for the damage was suspended.
As a result, more than six months later, the decision of the Court of Intellectual Rights sent the cases for new consideration to the court of first instance.
During this time, the company-violator was able to transfer 300 million rubles to the accounts of affiliated companies, to conceal signs of possible “cashing” of funds, tax and license violations, to withdraw property. In fact, now we are talking about the controlled bankruptcy of “Iodine technologies and marketing”, which means that it will be impossible to get at least some compensation for the illegal use of trademarks.
Started in 2013, the Court of Intellectual Rights is now located in buldings that are not actually suitable for the administration of justice. It is located in an ordinary office building that belongs to the company “Promenergo” from the city of Shchyolkovo. The cost of rent exceeds 50 million rubles annually.
On May 31, 2018 the participants in the trial became involuntary listeners of the conversation in elevated tones that took place in the advisory room. It happaned because of the inadequacy of the building to the specifics of the proceedings.
According to the people who was waiting for the court decision in the courtroom, Judge Tatyana Vasilyeva loudly pronounced two sentences addressed to two other judges. “She told you what to do …” and “She will not forgive you for this …”. Such dialogue was described by the participants in the lcourt process when they applied to the police.
So who is the mysterious “she” that dictates to the judges, what decision do they make? After all, only the conscience can dictate to the judges what decision they must make. Did the judges speak in the deliberative room about the conscience?
Or we can assume that the judges could talk about the decree of the chairman. What can make a judge execute unlawful orders of the chairman?
We should note that the judges of this newly formed unit were recruited from the regions.
On the site of state procurement, you can find several tenders for the purchase of real estate for employees of the Court of Intellectual rights. The prices for apartments of the court start from 8 million rubles for the two-roomed flat. The most expensive apartment was bought in 2015 – its price was more than 19 million rubles.
The monetary content of each of the judges fluctuates around 4-5 million rubles a year. Some of them can even afford the purchase of luxury cars, such as, for example, Porshe Caynne that belongs to the Judge Pogadaev.
“Hitrovskoye justice” – raiding of the 21st century
But let’s return to the judicial carousel with a lot of decisions and their cancellation, in which 7 of the 15 judges of the Court of Intellectual Rights (Vasilieva, Kruchinina, Pogadaev, Ukolov, Bulgakov, Snegur, Silaev, Golofayev) took part. In parallel, the process of the bankruptcy of the “Iodine technologies and marketing” in the interests of the joint-stock company “Samaramedprom” was accompanied by the judge of the Arbitration Court of Moscow Anna Safronova and the Samara judges Sergei Boyko and Viktor Aparkin. And the speed of decision-making on the bankruptcy process has grown so much that even skillful lawyers have been struck by the imagination.
Because of these judges it became possible the capture of intellectual property this is completely analog of the capture of property. Because of these judges it became possible the obtain income from the use of someone else’s intellectual property and actually conceal this income with the help of an affiliated company – the company “Samaramedprom”.
The release of products under a foreign trademark as well as the right of ownership can receive money – this is a new raider of the 21st century, intellectual raiding. Invasion companies often go bankrupt in the future, and even in case of recognition of their rightfulness, victims of raiderage can rarely reimburse the lost money.
The scheme of modern raiding is very simple: while the victim seeks protection in court, the raider with the help of managed bankruptcy “transfers” all the income received to affiliated persons, and the judges who must defend, in fact, help the raider implement his plan. The judges do not even requires the adoption of an illegal act, you only need to consider the case as long as possible, sending it from one instance to another, arguing that this is to protect the interests of the victim of the raider.
The Supreme Court judge Vladimir Popov played a special role in this case: he considered the complaint of Kurortmedservice against the ruling of the Court of Intellectual Rights. On April 27 Judge Novoselova held a meeting of the scientific advisory council on the issue on which the decision on “Kurortmedservis” depended, Judge Popov was invited there. And a month later – on May 28 – it was the judge Vladimir Popov who refused to transfer the complaint for revision to the Supreme Court Collegium.
In fact, Popov came to another court to discuss the case, on which he had to make a decision. At the same time, we note that the opportunity to express their position was given only to the Court of Intellectual Rights. But “Kurortmedservis” did not receive such an opportunity – it was not invited to the meeting organized by Novoselova.
So, in what way did the beneficiary of “Iodine technologies and marketing” and Samarammedprom Cyril Naydenov manage to involve in his dirty cases such a large number of respected members of the judicial community? What forces are behind it?
“Iodine technologies and marketing” is the leading producer of alcoholic infusions and, in particular, the infamous “Boyaryshnik”. In addition, according to rumors, Naydenov is supported by the largest multi-profile business structure, which has roots in the Kaluga region and the head office in the “Hitrovka” area, the very symbol of crime in the capital at the turn of the XIX-XX centuries.
In all cases described here, there is data, which indicates the possible interest of the judges in making a certain decision. And, unlike the “basmanny” bias mentioned by us, it is quite commercial – “Hitrovskoe” justice. It’s only law enforcement that can verify whether this is really so.
The lack of proper supervision over the courts leads to the fact that complaints for months are lying in the Supreme Court and awaiting for acceptance or non-acceptance. With an acceptable period of time – two months. The court as a result can make a lawful decision, that’s only during this time the businessman will go bankrupt after the appellate instance, his case will be destroyed, and the employees will remain on the street. After all, sometimes observance of procedural terms is a matter of life and death.
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Darts betting: Wayne Mardle on the World Matchplay
We found out on Sunday that there’s no such thing as a first round good thing says Wayne Mardle as six of the eight favourites were turned over, but our man is back to fight another day with these two selections for Monday.
Even though he didn’t win the Premier League, Dave Chiznall was the star of the show. Week after week he excelled, he seems to have all the attributes to be a champion.
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Dave Chisnall v Jamie Caven
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Jamie Caven will pose problems for Chizzy that’s for sure but, he lacks that extra gear and that consistency that the very best possess.
Dave can roll off leg after leg even when not at his brilliant best, what he does very well is to hit at least one big shot in nearly every leg, a 140 or 180, and that keeps your opponent on their toes and most of the time under pressure.
I’m not suggesting Caven can’t beat Dave, he can, he’s beaten Dave On five occasions previous. There will be times when Chizzy hits the after burners and Jamie may not be able to cope however.
Apart from one semi-final appearance on tour on the whole Jamie hasn’t been in great form and Chizzy as we know is on the up.
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Raymond v Barneveld v Andy Hamilton
Andy Hamilton was the last qualifier in the field at the expense of Mark Webster. The Hammer has been struggling for form of late and I’m sure he will feel under pressure to perform.
What Andy does have in abundance is a fighting spirit and I just can’t foresee him rolling over and allowing RVB to have all his own way.
Raymond himself knows that The hammer will be punching away to to very end. The Dutchman is the massive odds-on favourite but I think this’ll be closer than the odds suggest.
Andy is trying to climb back into the world’s top 16 while Barney is trying to stay there, both are under the cosh just a tad.
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Manufacturing ISM - Don't Get Fooled Again!
So, when the market goes up on bad news, that’s good, right? Tell ya what, those who do not see what’s happening clearly will be fooled – AGAIN – into believing that the economy has bottomed and that equities are going higher. Is that what we believe, that bad news is good news? Do we believe that wealth can come from a printing press and not from the manufacturing of tangible goods?
If you are buying this rally for anything longer than the very short term, then all I can say is, “sold to you.”
U.S. Economy: Manufacturing Shrinks as Orders Hit 60-Year Low
By Shobhana Chandra
Jan. 2 (Bloomberg) -- The decline in U.S. manufacturing deepened in December as demand for such products as cars, appliances and furniture reached the lowest level since at least 1948, signaling further cutbacks in factory jobs and production this year.
The Institute for Supply Management’s factory index fell to 32.4, below economists’ forecasts and the lowest level since 1980, from 36.2 the prior month. Readings less than 50 signal contraction. The group’s new-orders measure reached the lowest level on record and prices slid the most since 1949.
“Every component suggests that the weakness is going to carry over into 2009,” Mark Vitner, a senior economist at Wachovia Corp. in Charlotte, North Carolina, said in a Bloomberg Television interview. “There’s just not a whole lot of new business coming in,” and companies will have a “painful adjustment” as consumers shun spending.
Today’s figures underscore that, with private demand collapsing, manufacturers’ best hope for new business this year may be President-elect Barack Obama’s plans for an unprecedented stimulus package. Obama has pledged an investment program in roads, schools and the U.S. energy network akin to the 1950s- era interstate highway construction boom.
Stocks advanced on the first day of trading in 2009, following the biggest annual drop for the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index in 71 years, on expectations government stimulus efforts will curtail the recession. The S&P index rose 1.4 percent to 916.16 at 11:08 a.m. in New York. Benchmark 10-year Treasury yields rose to 2.25 percent from 2.22 percent late Dec. 31.
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On leaving London
I am writing this sitting in the empty shell of the loft flat in the liminal zone between Highbury and Stoke Newington that has been my home for the past 7½ years, ending today. In just under an hour, a taxi will come to take me to Heathrow, to my one-way flight to Stockholm Arlanda Airport. And so, one chapter will end, and another begin.
After 14⅙ years in London, five of them as a British citizen, I have decided to move on; this has been a decision some time in the making. Part of this is a desire to live somewhere else in Europe, not unlike the desire to live somewhere else that brought me to London, though hastened by uncertainty over how long that door shall remain open. Part, I say only half in jest, is a wish to escape the looming Brexit apocalypse. Though it’s mostly for a change: I have some friends in Stockholm, from previous visits, and an opportunity came up to move there.
Most of my worldly possessions are now on a lorry, somewhere on the continent; it's due to arrive in Stockholm tomorrow. I have been living out of a standard-issue Australian backpacker bag in my 25 square metre flat, now curiously empty.
I remember moving into this flat in February 2011; needing to find a place after a share house in Bethnal Green fell apart, and finding this flat, which was only £50 per month dearer than my room in the house, only realising after moving in that the kebab-shop vent points right at the bedroom windows. The first day, the tiny room ceiling-high with boxes, taking a break from unpacking to have a drink at the Edinburgh Cellars (now just the Cellars), and walking in to hear Visage's “Fade To Grey”; a portentous sign.
I won’t miss the tiny size of the flat, or the place being too hot, too cold or both at once, or the random odours of burnt oil/grilling meat/I dare not think what sporadically coming from the kebab shop downstairs through the brickwork, the occasional eye-stinging clouds of air freshener rising through the chimney-like stairwell and welling under the low ceiling of my flat like a neon-pink mustard gas when someone in the shop decides to do something about the nidor, or not being able to open the windows on one side because of the shop vent outside and the viscerally gritty stench of decades of fermented grease in the very air outside; I can tell you that the windows in that room remained sealed shut.
I will, though, miss the very nice Galician tapas place next to the kebab shop, and sitting outside it on the little piazza in the summer with a book, a beer and a basket of bread. I'll miss the views from my living room window, over the Victorian rooftops of Canonbury, of parts of the London skyline, the skeletons of unfinished luxury apartment towers on the horizon, their red lights like something out of a Simon Stålenhag painting. I will also miss the two cafés within a short bike ride, Mouse & De Lotz and Tina We Salute You, and the people who work there, almost all of them artists or musicians of some sort. And I'll miss being within walking distance of gigs at the Shacklewell or the Dalston Victoria, two former West Indian old-men's pubs colonised by Dalston hipsters and putting on consistently good selections of gigs.
I’ve gotten to know this city, or at least broad slices of it. The myriad numbered bus routes that link it, the cyclists’ ley lines. Favourite pubs and restaurants; the scenes of memorable events: gigs of various sorts, social engagements, the starts of friendships and relationships. A decade and a half of memories, highs and lows that are an inseparable part of my history, inscribed on the canvas that is London; the ancient, many-faceted city that has belonged to countless millions of people throughout its history, amongst them now myself. And the psychogeography of London—the actual, ineffable London of experience, not the fabled, phantasmagorical London of stories and legends—has, in turn, inscribed itself upon my psyche.
I first arrived in London for a visit, in 2002; at the time, the idea of Britain was intertwined with the country’s impressive musical heritage (for me, mostly post-punk through to indiepop; the first record I ever bought was a New Order 7", and I passed through Cure and Smiths phases, having settled at the time on MP3s of Sarah Records 7"s victimlessly pirated through SoulSeek). I moved to London two years later (as now, an opportunity came up, then in the form of a relaxation of working-holiday visa rules). Gradually, through living there, I became disabused of most of my romantic, anglophilic notions, settling into it being an actual place and condition of being, and the real place named London slowly displaced the idea of London, molecule by molecule.
Still, there was, for a long time, a sense of unreality: I am not of London, I thought; I am, like many others here, from somewhere else, and would not be in London forever; in a sense, I was just passing through. I met Londoners (some local, some from elsewhere in the UK), who all had their roots, their social circles, their references and in-jokes; I hovered on the periphery of these charmed circles, making acquaintances, and, more gradually, friends; at first, most were also newcomers, uprooted from elsewhere, but gradually, more Britons joined the mix; in retrospect, I was gradually becoming one of them.
Melbourne, though, was still my hometown, and if asked where I was from, I would answer without hesitation. I kept my 3RRR subscription to this day (for a while, I had a script on the computer in my room grab the streams of programmes, save them to a hard drive, and then play them back, time-delayed, in the morning, in lieu of an alarm clock; at one point, though, the scripts stopped working, and I didn't fix them, though I still tune in from time to time). There was a heavy Melbourne presence in my music collection (though with a leaning to bands I had known before 2004; the more recent “dolewave” indie-rock subgenre passed me by). And it was a joy to meet those from the same milieu and compare notes about the world behind.*
For a while, London, this city impossibly rich with history and myth, was just my present circumstance, one whose surreality I gradually got used to and stopped noticing. Only now, having spent the past week or so saying goodbye to this city, walking the streets of Stoke Newington, acutely aware that soon it would be just another place somewhere else, did the reality sink of London as a former home I might miss, a place of which nostalgic memories might spontaneously bubble up. That as well as a displaced Melburnian, I would also be, to some degree, a displaced Londoner.
* At this point, you may be wondering what sort of accent I speak with. While my accent was never broadly “Australian” in the manner of, say, Crocodile Dundee, and a mild Australian accent is not that different from a mild Estuary English accent, I am told that I do sound more British; on my last visit to Melbourne, an elderly family friend remarked that “you sound like a pom”. However, people in Britain sometimes notice a telltale hint of an Australian accent in my speech.
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Posted by: Rory Mon Nov 5 16:05:49 2018
Best of luck, acb - can't say I blame you. Stockholm should be a fascinating place to sit out the Brexpocalypse.
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Spring in Woods Hole
David Remsen
If you want to find signs of autumn in Woods Hole, look up. Summer lingers here and it's held deep in the ground and the sea; a warm reservoir of sun and long days slowly released back to the sky. Autumn announces itself early from above if you know where to look. On the street where my mother lives and I spent much of my youth there is a Norway maple that raises the alarm in early September. While the other trees are as green and full as June, this tree sports a crest of leaves tipped in yellow and orange and a few bare branches poking into the air. Autumn creeps in on high pressure Northwest winds in September. You can feel it on Stoney Beach after Labor Day when the beach, which spent the summer in the calm lee of the sou'westerlys, finds itself in the face of a distinctly Canadian wind that is crisp and assaults our thin clothes. Autumn arrives and summer abandons us from above, wheeling off in a rush of wings and a slowly retreating sun.
To find spring look toward your feet or better yet, lie down with your nose nearly touching the ground. I find it in late February when, under a skin of ice in an old irrigation drain, I see little blue copepods jerking through the water, straining out the first of the tiny water plants emerging in the light. Spring pushes up through the ground on calm sunny days in March. A small set of snowbells makes its appearance on the lawn next to the radio station which, unknowingly, has sheltered this patch of ground from north and east and given it a southwesterly exposure.
Soon enough spring peepers will emerge from wherever it is they spend the winter, cold and silent and neither dead nor alive. The verbals pools, should I venture over some night soon, will be soupy with life. Swirling and mad with a confusing array of predators and prey, I know I hit a special night when I see the big pink-red fairy shrimp rowing through the dark tannic waters. No fish would ever pass up something so catchable and tasty and so they only live where fish cannot. Such places are rare around here but they do exist and are worth knowing about.
Walmart came to town some years ago and occupies the south end of what used to be (and may still be) called the Falmouth Mall. You have to descend a longish slope from the main road to get to the lot and Mall beyond. To the right is a stand of wet woodland, composed of mostly willow and smaller, shrubby trees but containing oak and maple in small numbers. This woodland is wedged between the mall and Spring Bars road and is a remnant of the sort of wet woodland that was common in Falmouth even just a few decades ago. It's small as far as wild places are concerned but its notable because it's been slowly surrounded by development and provides a small refuge in the middle of town. Fortunately, there are still quite a few of these refugia but rather than notable, they used to be the norm. This one is special because every spring it provides a stage for a dance that has been occurring every year here on the Cape for at least the past 16,000 years or shortly after the Cape was deposited here back in our pre-history. The WalMart parking lot provides the lighting for this stage and the curtain goes up around dusk with shows starting sometime in Mid-March. The actor is a red-flushed woodcock and he is looking for a mate.
If you are expecting a large showy bird like a heron or an osprey to leap from the bushes you will be disappointed. While woodcocks are closely related to long bill and long-legged shorebirds, a life ashore has reduced their legs to short stubs that leave them close to the ground where they remain invisible for 99% of the year. If you draw up to the edge of the lot and look for him you will likely not see him. Roll down your window, turn down the radio and listen and you may hear him. His call is best described as 'nasal' and sound like a mechanical buzzing "peeent". He does this over and over out on the open grassland between the parking lot and the woods. You may see him as he does his 'peent'ing because he moves around in a sort of dance. Eventually, however, he embodies the very name of the season he celebrates and he springs into the air. He ascends in a spiral and his wings make a twittering sound. Now you can see him in the light as he circles higher and higher going up between the lot and the large radio tower. You can hear him long after you lose sight of him as he rises higher even then the tower, the twittering increasing in pace and frequency. At the peak of his climb he adds notes to his musical performance and then the twittering sound becomes jerky and descends in pitch as down he comes, desperately hoping his audience includes at least one lustful female woodcock. Suddenly he goes quiet and if you are watchful you may see him silently glide back to nearly the same spot from which he left. Wait a moment or two more and he starts again: "peeent" This show will be repeated over and over again for an hour or two in the evening and sometimes, again before dawn. It's a springtime show and the run iOS over when he finds a mate (or two or three) and when nesting starts in April, the curtain closes for the year.
Woodcock numbers drop approximately 1% every year, as they have done every year since the 1960s. While once fairly common, they are disappearing and I wonder how many of us would notice or even care. This little patch of nondescript woodland is under the radar for most anyone on their way to the mall. It's a green drop cloth for the osprey that nest in the tower and the only people I can imagine ever take notice might be the odd naturalist now and again and perhaps, small children, who like to explore places that adults overlook. Or at least used to before electronic screens presented a more immediate view of the world.
The chances are that this small patch of woods will shrink or disappear in the next decades as the towns on the Cape continue to grow as people arrive to experience the Cape Cod life. Perhaps it's the world beyond the waters edge that characterizes the place for many. I confess as much for myself but that is only as part of a larger sense of place and of home that I get, not from the cars and roads and buildings, but of the seasons and the soil, the air and the sea. My total experience every year with woodcocks from all places may amount to perhaps 30 minutes. But every time I drive to the mall down the ramp to the lot I look to the right at the woodland and I think of those birds. And every spring I hope they will still be there to come out and dance on the grass and give those who will stop and listen, a show 20 thousand years in the running.
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President cuts all ties with Rajapaksas
President Maithripala Sirisena has decided to totally distance himself from all members of the Rajapaksa clan now and in the future, informed sources said.
The President had given this assurance to 40 UNP backbenchers in Parliament, at talks he had with them last week, the source said.
The President had also informed the UNP MPs to be wary of any MP from the two main parties who was having secret deals with the Rajapaksa clan.
President Sirisena has assured them that under no circumstance would he allow the mandate given to him by the people at the last presidential election to be usurped by any politician for his/her own political survival.
The President had told them that intentions by anyone to topple the current administration would remain a pipedream because the government would continue until the end of its mandated term in office.
He had also said that 2017 would be a triumphant year for the country.
The UNP MPs had urged the President to rein in certain vocal SLFP MPs in the government as some of their recent utterances in public have proved to be impediments to the smooth functioning of the government.
The President had however, assured the UNP MPs that he would monitor such MPs and try to advice them against such conduct. He also told the UNP MPs that he would in no way involve himself in any moves made by Gotabaya Rajapaksa, the former Defence Secretary, who has made known his intention to engage in party politics.
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Inspiring stories in Xiguo Village
By Liu Fang, Zhu Shan Source:China Tibet News 2019年09月18日 09:44
The 62-year-old Zala is a village doctor who has been practicing medicine for decades and has won praises for his exquisite medical skills. [ChinaTibetNews/Drapa Wangchen]
"There are many young villagers who were delivered by me," Zala says, "nowadays, with advanced medical conditions and convenient transportation, local residents do not need to walk so far to get medical care."
Photo shows Zala treating a villager. [ChinaTibetNews/Drapa Wangchen]
He has been a barefoot doctor at first, and won praises for his excellent medical skills. Now, he is an experienced Tibetan doctor and has won the title of "National Excellent Village Doctor". His mission is not completed yet. "More and more young people want to study medicine. All I can do is to teach them what I learned for years." Zala says.
Like Chozin, another entrepreneur is an elderly woman -- Drolkar, who has a pleasant personality. Her signature smile never changed. She lives alone after her husband passing away years ago. Local young people often come to take care of her daily life spontaneously. "When I was young I worked well and went to Xigaze for work. Now, I am getting old and my health condition doesn't allow me to do that. But I don't want to be a burden of my dear fellows. I need to do something." when she talks about this, her eyes are flashed with tears. Then, she wipes them with hands.
In order to let Drolkar spend her remaining years in comfort, village cadres usually take turns to go to her house talking with her. Drolkar still wants to do something, and finally has managed to grow vegetables in her courtyard. "I have enough vegetables to eat and can share these to my neighbors." Drolkar says. Her small courtyard is full of vegetables, such as potatoes and cabbages.
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California Coastal Estate
When we first visited our client's property, a gently rolling, eight-acre parcel in a coastal region of Northern California, we were inspired by its pastoral beauty. Dotted with stately oaks, and nestled against a backdrop of verdant mountainside, the site and the locale reminded us of the hills of rural Tuscany.
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Longfellow Drive
The Longfellow Drive residence draws inspiration from the beloved rural architecture of California.
Roxbury Residence
A dramatic reinvention of an existing estate in Beverly Hills, the Roxbury Residence pays homage to the gracious villas of rural Italy.
Hermosa Beach House
This home, inspired by the architecture of the coastal Mediterranean regions, is a unique layering of elements: the romance of classic rural European style, blended with modern planning and the easy-going beach lifestyle.
Located on a hilltop in coastal Manhattan Beach, this Spanish Revival estate synthesizes a rich Southern California architectural legacy with a contemporary lifestyle. Our approach was clear and simple: envision an estate that was honest to its context, embodies the heart of an immediate family, and becomes a home for extended family members and friends alike.
Pacific Palisades Residence
This residence drew inspiration from the architecture of the rural American South, particularly the great Greek Revival homes of the early 19th century.
35th and The Strand
This residence emerges clearly from a lineage of finely detailed, exuberant coastal houses of the American Northeast, yet the language of the architecture here has been fine-tuned for the California climate and lifestyle.
Howland Canal
Our design for the property embraces references to the original “builder’s craftsman” cottages of the early developments here, but using that architectural language to tell a story about modern lifestyle near the Southern California Beach.
Marlboro Road
A thorough immersion into the lifestyle of our clients, and a careful study of locale and site resulted in a residence thoughtfully connected to the rich tradition of the California Spanish Colonial Revival.
8th Street Residence
Perched atop the “Hill Section” of Manhattan Beach, this bright and airy house enjoys sweeping views of the Palos Verdes Peninsula, the Channel Islands and blue Pacific Ocean.
Santa Monica Beach House
Located in a compact historic district immediately adjacent to the beach in west Santa Monica, this charming cottage is typical of the original houses in this seaside neighborhood. Our challenge was to bring the original delightful architecture back to life, and to amend the features of the house to reflect more modern tastes and lifestyle.
At KAA Design Group, we approach our new projects by looking at the property as a canvas. A house and its gardens are not viewed as discrete elements, but rather as an integrated and seamless melding of indoor and outdoor spaces, places, and vistas.
Cascading gently down the hillside to the beach below, this home takes its inspiration from the coastal regions along both the Mediterranean and the Mexican Riviera.
House for a Numismatist
Our client's passion for American history, and the coinage of the American Revolution led him to a fascination with Thomas Jefferson, and ultimately, to a keen appreciation of neoclassical architecture.
Casa Adosada - A Design For Habitat For Humanity
Casa Adosada provides for Habitat for Humanity a single-family residential type that occupies a place in the rich and venerable continuum of the Spanish Colonial Revival in California.
Traditional beach cottages and modern conceptions about the relationship between indoors and outdoors influenced the direction of the design. Although the language of architecture is firmly rooted in traditions of coastal estates of New England, there was an intentional break from the past when it came to the more contemporary plan layout and use of space.
Mi Sueño
The house known as "Mi Sueño", or "My Dream", was once the grand dame of the Pasadena Arroyo. Mi Sueño was a masterful re-interpretation of Spanish Baroque and Spanish Colonial architecture, conceived by famed architect Bertram Goodhue while he was the lead designer for the 1915 Panama-California Exposition, located in San Diego's Balboa Park.
Crescent Drive
The challenges of this property were apparent from the first visit to the site. The flat portion of the parcel was occupied by an undistinguished 1950's vintage house, and the rest of the land sloped steeply to the east into a small canyon, seemingly unusable. But the view was extraordinary!
Delfern Drive
This Holmby Hills estate features a beautiful existing Tuscan style main residence, accessory structures and gardens. Though well maintained, the property had lost much of its distinguished character over the years and our task was to rediscover the traditional charm that once existed there.
Selfridge Drive
It was the client’s love of a casual, outdoor living and his desire to create a home that evoked memories of classic midwestern farmhouses and barn structures that inspired this rustic residence. The site, a rambling yet gently sloping two-acre parcel with 270-degree views of the Pacific Ocean at the north end of Malibu created the perfect backdrop to build.
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Our design philosophy is predicated on deep, meaningful connections between the house and the land. Southern California is blessed with a nurturing environment that provides extraordinary opportunities for true indoor-outdoor living. The homes we design fulfill that promise with beauty and joy.
The Mediterranean in Southern California
Architecture inspired by great traditions of the Mediterranean region has a long, rich history in California. The fruits of this long lineage flavor the character of our cities and dot the surrounding hillsides. At KAA Design, we have often found the Mediterranean architectures to be a perfect fit for our clients wishing to build here.
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