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Cruise weddings are big business
By Donna Tunney
Saying 'I do'
The following sample package was taken from the choices offered through Norwegian Cruise Line’s “Wedding Aisles” program, for an onboard ceremony while the ship is in port at St. Lucia, including an onboard reception for 25 people.
• Coordination with onboard planner
• Priority check-in for bridal couple and guests
• Refreshments in couple’s stateroom
• Ceremony venue
• Officiant and vows
• Prerecorded ceremony music
• Bouquet and boutonniere
• Cake for two
• Bottle of sparkling wine
• Keepsake certificate
• Total: $1,875 (plus St. Lucia marriage license, $465)
• Wedding cake to serve all guests: $137.50
• One-hour cocktail reception with cold hors d’oeuvres and open bar: $725
• Sparkling wine toast: $137.50
• Sit-down luncheon, four courses with wine: $1,200
• DJ for two hours: $600
• Photographer for one hour, including photos: $649
• Total: $3,449
• Grand total: $5,789
With thousands of couples tying the knot on cruise ships or during port calls every year, wedding packages are a boon for agents and cruise lines alike.
Retailers booking group space for the happy couples’ family and friends can earn big commissions, while the lines rake in revenue from ceremonies, receptions and other events related to the nuptials.
Carnival Cruise Lines spokesman Vance Gulliksen said that 2,400 weddings are held each year across the line’s fleet, and he added that several enhancements to Carnival’s wedding programs are in the works.
Norwegian Cruise Line typically hosts some 300 weddings each year, according to AnneMarie Matthews, vice president for public relations, who said the line plans to ramp up its marketing of wedding options in 2012.
Royal Caribbean International sells 800 weddings each year, and it also plans to boost marketing efforts.
There is little mystery about why the cruise lines are enthusiastic about at-sea nuptials. Even an arguably low-frills wedding package that Travel Weekly created on paper for a group of 25, based on one line’s amenity choices, totaled nearly $6,000 (see sidebar).
Beyond the Big Three, other cruise lines are also getting in on the act. Cunard, eager to make its foray into this lucrative niche, decided earlier this fall to pull the registry of its three ships from England, where a law prohibits marriage ceremonies at sea, and reflag the vessels in Bermuda, where no such law exists.
Cunard President Peter Shanks said the line decided to reflag because it was “missing out on the big business of weddings.” Cunard’s ships will offer wedding packages starting next spring; details about the program are expected before the end of the year.
The vendor strategy
The big mass-market and premium cruise lines outsource their wedding-planning services to specialist vendors. Among the largest providers is the Wedding Experience, a Miami-based company that markets a wide array of wedding packages for most of the major lines. According to Wedding Experience, it is the exclusive vendor to Royal Caribbean, Celebrity, Princess, Norwegian Cruise Line and Azamara Club Cruises.
Other vendors in the weddings market include Royal Ocean Events, which handles all of Holland America Line’s packages; A Wedding for You; and Island Dream Weddings. Carnival Cruise Lines said it uses a combination of vendors, based on the location of the wedding.
There’s no commission for agents on any of the wedding packages. In fact, the purchase of a package is handled separately from the booking of the cruise. In most cases, onboard accommodations for the bridal couple and any guests sailing with them must be booked and deposited before the wedding planning can begin.
And agent Loris Fusco, of Montrose Travel in Montrose, Calif., said that none of the cruise lines will reserve a wedding date until the full cost of the event has been paid for.
Potential pitfalls
Agents who have helped clients book their weddings through a third-party vendor say it can be a mixed blessing.
The great thing about it is that the vendor makes all the arrangements for the nuptials and any reception or party afterward. The risky thing about it is that the vendor makes all the arrangements for the nuptials and any reception or party afterward.
In other words, the agent typically has no control over the actual events, whether they are being held shoreside during a port call or on a ship, and that can be frustrating if anything goes wrong.
“There can be problems when you turn the show over to someone else,” Fusco said. “The Wedding Experience is easy to work with in many respects. They know what they’re doing, but they’re cookie-cutter. If it’s in the package, it’s in the package. The bigger problem for the bride, and the agent, is having no control once the couple gets on the ship.”
Each ship has an onboard staff coordinator who serves as liaison to the bridal couple, attending to the details of the event and troubleshooting potential problems. But even the coordinator can sometimes disappoint.
“Whoever that designated staff person is could drop the ball on your bride,” said Fusco, who books about four cruise weddings each year.
In addition to the cruise line’s coordinator, the wedding vendor typically provides a representative who boards the ship if a wedding is being held on embarkation day, or who attends a shoreside ceremony.
According to Valerie Brizuela Mahon, marketing director for the Wedding Experience, the majority of shipboard weddings are held on embarkation day because the cruise lines allow nonsailing wedding guests to board the ship for a few hours.
Angela DeDomenico, who owns a Cruise Planners/American Express franchise in Boca Raton, Fla., and books upward of 25 cruise weddings each year, has learned not to leave anything to chance. Either she or one of her staff sails with each wedding party booked through her agency.
“I’d say that for the most part, 80% of my weddings go off smoothly,” DeDomenico said. “Sometimes there are little hiccups, and sometimes there are big problems.”
She recalled one wedding that never happened at all: “My clients were supposed to get married shoreside when the ship called in St. Thomas. All the arrangements were made, everything was done, and then the ship was rerouted to avoid a hurricane.”
It was a September cruise, and DeDomenico said she had urged the bride to choose a different month to avoid hurricane season. But the client was adamant about wanting a September ceremony.
Then there was the time she booked a large wedding group on a ship that the cruise line later decided to charter during her clients’ wedding dates.
“It was six months before the sailing, but by that time everybody had already bought their air tickets, got their vacation time off, etc.,” she said. “The line gave us some choices for other dates, and the bride had to decide. Luckily in this case it was a shipboard wedding, so we didn’t have all kinds of land arrangements that would’ve had to be changed.”
Fusco has had her share of headaches, too, but they’ve been mostly due to snafus and obstacles once her bridal clients boarded their ship.
For example, in one wedding at sea, Fusco’s client was told by the vendor that she’d get a note from the cruise line’s onboard coordinator setting up a time to meet, look at the wedding location and discuss details.
“Well, three days into the cruise and still no sign of any coordinator,” Fusco recalled. “My client finally stopped a crew member in a hallway and said, ‘Hey, I’m getting married here in a few days, and I’m supposed to be meeting with a coordinator, but I don’t know who it is.’ Turns out the person she happened to approach was the coordinator. ‘Oh, that’s me,’ he said. She found him by accident.”
But there were other problems, as well.
The bride had arranged for each of her guests to receive flowers in their staterooms that they could wear to the reception if they wanted to, but not all of the flowers were delivered. At the reception, a miscommunication led the ship’s wait staff to believe that only guests wearing flowers should be served.
“People were being denied drinks because they weren’t wearing their flowers,” Fusco said. “And the ship’s staff never set up chairs, either, so the family of the bride ended up doing that.”
Ever since that experience, she said, the agents at Montrose make it a practice to go on the ship on embarkation day to meet with the bridal couple and the ship’s coordinator.
A package deal
Wedding packages can offer a mind-boggling array of amenities (from menu and drink options to music, photographers and flowers) and add-on events (such as Celebrity Cruises’ optional Bridesmaids’ Party or Cigar and Cognac Party). That’s why, Fusco said, it’s crucial to thoroughly qualify clients before making any recommendations about which cruise line, cruise ship or package the couple should consider.
A typical basic package onboard a ship will include the officiant (in some cases the ship’s captain), a bouquet for the bride and boutonniere for the groom, a photographer (for one hour), cake and champagne for two and perhaps flowers in the stateroom.
Then come the optional add-ons: a bigger cake, more champagne, a cocktail party, a buffet dinner, a sit-down dinner and myriad other items.
“Obviously, if you have guests you must provide more cake and champagne,” Fusco said. “And usually the bride and groom will buy a sit-down luncheon or dinner. Pricing depends on the cruise line and the number of people.”
A review of each line’s offerings reveals that shoreside weddings, either on a beach or at another scenic venue, typically incur extra charges. In addition to group transportation, each destination charges marriage license fees, which can add hundreds of dollars to the tab.
For instance, on St. Maarten the license costs $685. On St. Kitts it’s $395, and on Aruba it costs $300.
Clients also usually are asked to pay a planning or consulting fee to the agent who books the group onto a cruise and qualifies the bride and groom so that they can be matched up with an appropriate cruise line and/or shoreside venue.
Fusco charges a flat fee of $300, while DeDomenico will sometimes levy a per-person or perhaps an hourly fee based on what services she needs to provide.
“I had one bride who, during the length of the cruise, wanted each of her guests to be seated at her table for dinner one of the nights,” she recalled. “So I had to arrange all of that with seating cards. She also had gifts for all of her guests, which were stored in my cabin and which I delivered to the guests, so that all takes a lot of my time.”
Not all agents are comfortable working with a third-party vendor when it comes to their clients’ big day. DeDomenico is one of them, so sometimes she works outside the box.
“Do we need a third party involved? I don’t think so,” said DeDomenico, who considers herself a special-events planner. “The cruise lines already have group events people, and they help to choose rooms, food, etc.”
In addition to weddings, she also specializes in organizing music-themed cruises through her website www.musicinmocean.com.
“If I’m orchestrating all of that right now, why do I need a third-party vendor for weddings?” she asked. “It’s just another chance for someone to screw it up.”
Sometimes, DeDomenico said, she will book a wedding party without going through a vendor, particularly when a couple is bringing their own officiant onboard.
“I arrange it just like it was a meeting,” she said. “You book a private lounge for the ceremony, the ship helps with flowers, and you buy a cocktail party. You can set up a private dinner in a specialty restaurant.”
Not all cruise lines offer wedding packages. Smaller lines, such as Windstar, Oceania and Regent Seven Seas , don’t get into the weddings market, but they do sell vow-renewal ceremonies directly to their guests. Windstar, for example, features a package that covers a ceremony by the ship’s captain, a cake, a bottle of wine and a renewal certificate. The package costs $179.
The Wedding Experience was launched in 2000 by managing director Barbara Whitehill, who started out in the business by arranging weddings for just one cruise line.
“She soon realized that her vast network of vendors throughout the world would be beneficial for every cruise line couple,” Mahon said.
Today the firm handles about 4,000 weddings a year. Mahon said it had reached a peak of 6,000 before the recession.
“With the [economic downturn] we took a little bit of a hit,” she said. “People stopped taking vacations, spending went down. Our business dipped in 2008 and 2009, but now it has leveled off.”
She added that she expects demand to ramp up again as the economy improves.
Three of the company’s cruise line clients offer weddings at sea performed by the ship’s captain: Azamara Club Cruises, Princess Cruises and Celebrity Cruises.
“This is due to where their ships are flagged,” Mahon said. “Princess is flagged Bermudian, while Azamara and Celebrity are flagged in Malta. The other lines we handle are flagged Bahamian, whose government does not allow the captain to marry couples.”
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158. Guidelines on HIV self-testing and partner notification
) but is not well established in the general population. This type of epidemic suggests that there are active networks of people with high risk behaviours within the subpopulation. The future course of the epidemic is determined by the nature of the links between subpopulations with a high HIV prevalence and the general population. Numerical proxy: HIV prevalence is consistently over 5% in at least one defined subpopulation but is below 1% in pregnant women attending antenatal clinics. Confirm: to issue (...) Guidelines on HIV self-testing and partner notification SUPPLEMENT GUIDELINES ON HIV TESTING SERVICES DECEMBER 2016 HIV SELF-TESTING AND PARTNER NOTIFICATION SUPPLEMENT TO CONSOLIDATED GUIDELINES ON HIV TESTING SERVICES#Test4HIV SUPPLEMENT GUIDELINES ON DECEMBER 2016 HIV SELF-TESTING AND PARTNER NOTIFICATION SUPPLEMENT TO CONSOLIDATED GUIDELINES ON HIV TESTING SERVICESWHO Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data Guidelines on HIV self-testing and partner notification: supplement to consolidated
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1965 Triumph TR6SC -At Home in the Desert - Cycle World review October 1965
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1965 Triumph T120C Competition Sports
The T120C Competition Sports variant of the unit-engined Triumph Bonneville was produced in very limited numbers during its production period of 1963-65. Just 227 of these machines in total left the Meriden factory, all but 4 (2 to Mexico in 1963, 2 to Canada in 1965) being dispatched to the Triumph Corporation (TriCor), Triumph’s US East Coast distributors.
The unit T120C Competition Sports Bonneville was derived from the pre-unit TR7/B and T120/C scramblers, which in turn were inspired by the 1958 TR6 Trophy and were marketed for the “competition expert who wants top performance”. They shared the same engine as the T120R roadster with slightly lower gearing, were fitted with high pipes, trials tyres and sump guard and equipped with silencers, lights and horn for road use.
Johnson Motors (JoMo), the US West Coast distributors, never received unit-engined T120C Competition Sports Bonnevilles (though they did get the pre-unit versions). Instead they were supplied with the “TT Special”, a stripped down Bonneville without lighting or horn, battery-less ET ignition, bigger carbs and higher compression pistons intended purely for off-road use (though a very large number were converted for use as street bikes).
The TT Special was sometimes referred to as a “West Coast T120C” due to its Johnson Motors origins. However, from April 1963, the TT Special was shipped to TriCor, who from 1964, as the larger of the two distributors, were receiving them in greater numbers than JoMo. There has been a great deal of misinformation about the TT Special propagated across the internet, in books and magazines and it is only recently, following analysis of the Triumph factory records and other sources, that accurate information about the Triumph competition models has become available. In total 3,920 TT Specials were produced between 1963 and 1967 – over 17 times as many as the T120C Competition Sports scrambler!
One common misconception, particularly prevalent in the UK, is that East Coast T120Cs were scramblers with high pipes and West Coast T120Cs were TT Specials. Consequently, there are quite a few T120Cs which left the factory as the more common TT Specials masquerading as T120C Competition Sports with lighting, high pipes and silencers.
One such case is T120C DU21883, which was purchased by British restorer Graham Bowen as a pair of crankcases and a frame with matching numbers and re-imported from Chicago at the turn of the century. Graham, a well-respected restorer, decided it was a Competition Sports scrambler - possibly just because it was an East Coast T120C and therefore (as he may have believed) should have lighting and silencers. He restored it accordingly, to his usual high standard. We now know East Coast T120Cs came in two flavours: either as stripped down TT Special race bikes or Competition Sports scramblers. The TriCor brochure for 1965 clearly depicts a Bonneville TT Special (as shown under the "Brochures" tab on this site). The same brochure lists the Competition Sports variant as another optiion, but without a photo. The 1964 TriCor brochure (also shown on this site) depicts both the TT Special and the Competition Sports scrambler. The implication is very clear: both variants of the T120C - scrambler with lighting and mufflers and stripped down TT racer - were available on the East Coast in 1964 and 1965. Both variants were in fact also available from 1963 via TriCor, though only the Competition Sports is shown in the brochure for that year (see under "Brochures"). While the TT Special is not listed in the brochure, there is evidence in the factory records that TriCor received 50 of these "West Coast T120Cs".
The Triumph factory records for 1965, as in other years, can be ambiguous at times and there are sometimes inaccuracies. However, compiling the data from all 3 records into a spreadsheet, as I have done, enables it to be more easily analysed and trends readily spotted. One key fact is that before engine number DU15500, engine built 3 November 1964, there were no order numbers for T120Cs in 1965 - other than a handful in the first batch of the model year, in August 1964, numbered 7288. This appears to designate a T120R, and there is a loose note in the engine assembly record listing 8 T120Cs which were converted to T120R spec, and vice versa. It's unclear why this happened, but it is recorded. The early T120Cs built at the start of the model year were just given an order number of "TRI CORP" or "JOMO". DU15500 has an entry beside it in the engine assembly record of "ET 17T TACHOS" - ET ignition, 17T gearbox sprocket and batteryless AC magneto ignition with Energy Transfer (ET) coils: the basic spec denoting a TT Special race machine. These, like DU15500, were largely given order number 8014 or 8145. described in the assembly record as "T120C ET" and despatched as "T120TT". I think it's pretty clear that these machines were TT Specials. 775 left the factory in 1965.
Graham Bowen's machine, DU21883 was described in the assembly record as a "T120C ET" and despatched as a "T120TT", in the middle of a batch of 195 similar specified machines, order number 8145. There were in total 5 batches of machines built in 1965 which left the factory as "T120TT", for both East and West Coast distributors: in August 1964 (150 machines); November 1964 (152); December 1964 (51); February 1965 (227); and April/May 1965 (195). 775 TT Specials in total. Graham Bowen's T120C, DU21883, was one of them.
Prior to the larger batches of machines despatched as "T120C TT" or "T120TT" there were smaller batches of around 13 - 20 machines which were despatched as "T120C" (instead of "T120C/TT" or "T120TT"). Notes in the engine assembly record of "18T" identified them as having 18T gearbox sprockets - unique among the Bonneville to the Competition Sports models (see copy of of 1963 and 1964 TriCor brochures under the "Brochures" tab - there are no specifications given for the T120C Competition Sports in the 1965 brochure though it is listed as a available. The US supplement to Parts Catalogue No. 3 indicates that the East Coast T120C - the Bonneville Scrambler - should have the 18T gearbox sprocket too.
These bikes were shipped to TriCor only, with order numbers 8027, 8028 or 8029, in August 1964 (13), December 1964 (20), February 1965 (16), and April 1965 (20). A possible 2 more were shipped to Canada in July 1965. In total, just 71 at most T120C Competition Sports scramblers left the Triumph factory in 1965. My analysis of the records indicates 67 were built in 1963 and 60 in 1964: 198 Competition Sports scramblers built in total, making them the rarest of the unit Bonnevilles.
The evidence contained in the factory records makes it extremely unlikely that Graham Bowen's award-winning T120C left the factory in its current guise. Without any provenance there is absolutely no way that a claim can be made that it was ever a Compeition Sports scrambler. Instead it would have had ET ignition, no lighting and underslung TT pipes. A stunning bike, nonetheless, but without the rarity of the Competition Sports variant. In its current guise, no matter how good it looks, it is no more than a replica.
Graham's bike has just collected an award as "Best British Bike" in the October 2015 Stafford show. Prior to this it has featured in "Real Classic" magazine and the book "Triumph Bonneville - Portrait of a Legend" by James Mann and Mick Duckworth. Both contain what might generously be described as "misleading information". The Mann/Duckworth book contains the following gem: "This Bonneville T120C road-legal street scrambler is as supplied through Triumph's Eastern headquarters and marketed as the TT Special, although from 1966 that name would apply to a T120C minus road equipment". This is absolute, complete nonsense and is essentially re-writing history. The TT Special, from its conception by JoMo in 1963 and its sale on the East Coast from April 1963 onwards was only ever available as a stripped-down off-road racer "minus road equipment" (just look at the factory brochures). The T120C Competition Sports street scrambler, which Graham Bowen's masquerades as, was introduced in 1960 in pre-unit form and in 1963 in unit form: it was an entirely different variant.
Sadly, I note that Graham's Competition Sports replica now appears in a 2016 calendar purporting to be a Competition Sports. It would be best if this bike were converted into TT Special spec, as that is how it would have left the factory. This would make it much more authentic. While many more TT Specials than Bonneville Scramblers were built, the 1965 ones are still a rare model, particularly given the fact that many of these bikes were used for racing and subsequently have not survived in one piece
As mentioned above, TT Specials were in fact distributed to both East and West Coasts from April 1963, with very minor differences in specification – principally types of mudguard and seat covers. T120C Competition Sports scramblers were only supplied to the East Coast, in very limited numbers indeed. The only way to differentiate between a TT Special and a T120C Competition Sports - in the absence of original photographs and verified provenance - is by reference to the factory records.
My genuine T120C Competition Sports shown in the photos was imported from the US in early 2015, following purchase from its second owner who had bought it in 1966, and is thought to be the only genuine 1965 example in the UK. It was very original apart from high bars, some extra chroming and a bad paint job and has now undergone extensive refurbishment by Triumph restoration guru Terry Macdonald to get it back on the road in its original condition (photographed prior to addition of decals and front tank styling strips). It has most of its original, unrestored parts (wheel rims, forks, seat, many cadmium plated nuts and bolts and its original Triumph stove enamelled frame).
After initial refurbishment, including addition of Boyer electronic ignition and resleeved carbs, it was MOT'd and put back on the road. It ran well - other than the occasional grinding of gears. Once, when changing down from 3rd to 2nd, it sounded as if the gearbox was about to explode. Clearly, there was something very wrong with the 'box.
Back to Terry's and up on the ramp, gearbox cover off, close inspection revealed a half inch crack in the gearbox casing which was seeping oil. Pulling out the gears revealed that at some point something catastrophic had occurred - possibly the clutch end nut had come loose - resulting in the virtual explosion of the gearbox. All the cogs were badly damaged and the mainshaft was bent - it was a wonder that the gears had ever engaged at all. The damaged gears had simply been bashed back into place, leaving the machine in a state unfit for use and which could have resulted in an accident.
The bike was advertised for sale by a small bike shop in Arvada, Colorado, who'd passed me on to the owner since 1966 - an old fella by the name of "Bill" who sounded genuine on the phone and told me how he'd had it since he was at college in Georgia, and gave me some history on the bike. He'd bought it while at college in Georgia and then, having married and raised a family, the bike had accompanied him around the States, seeing little use but always being well kept. "JC" said he'd started the bike up but hadn't ridden it - which should have rung warning bells. Once he had my money, he suddenly went very quiet and stopped answering emails... "Caveat emptor" is very much the byword here - in my experience, and any motorcycle re-imported from the States needs to be stripped down to the last nut and bolt and rebuilt. It's very much a gamble - no matter how good a machine might look or how convincing the vendor's sales pitch, you never know what's gone on inside it. The additional work required to replace the gearbox in its entirety, and further engine work necessary which came to light when it was stripped down, has cost me around £2000. Still in credit though - the vendor didn't know what it was he had in his hands, or the rarity of the Bonneville Scrambler, and gearbox problems aside, this is still a wonderful and very original and rare Triumph.
Terry Macdonald has now replaced all components of the gearbox, the barrel had been rebored to +40 and new 9:1 LF Harris rods and pistons fitted. All bearings and oil seals have been replaced and the bike is now back together and running beautifully (although I am feeling decidedly lighter of pocket!) I would have had to rebuild the engine and gearbox at some stage and it was better having it done earlier rather than later (or so I tell myself!). The engine had been poorly rebuilt at some stage in its past using some low quality parts such as pistons, and the con rods weren't in good shape having been bashed about by someone. Now it's all sorted and ready for the road or trail and I'm looking forward to putting it through its paces in the (relative) wilds of the Peak District.
In the photo above the bike isn't quite in its finished state - it's missing transfers and styling strips. These finishing touches have now been applied.
A couple of people have remarked that the slotted headlight ears are incorrect and were introduced for 1966. Initially I took their word for it and started looking around for some earlier ones. However, I have been corresponding with a guy in America who owns a Trophy TR6SR, built in May 1965 (my scrambler was built December 1964). He bought the bike off his neighbour who bought it new when he was an architectural student, collecting it from Meriden (he had previously ordered a 500 via TriCor but they didn't have any available when he arrived and handed him the Trophy - with a letter of apology, which I have seen!) in May 1965. He then rode it around Europe before shipping it home to Pennysylvania. He kept all receipts and original paperwork.
The new owner has many photos of his bike before he restored it and it's very original. It has the slotted ears like mine, supposedly not introduced until 1966. There are no receipts for these and the previous owner is sure that they were never replaced. In the Replacement Parts Catalogue No. 2, for the 1964 model year, the headlamp ears are part numbers H1646/H1647; in Parts Catalogue No. 3 for 1965 they are H1887/H1888. Likewise in Parts Catalogue No. 4 for 1966. Based on the above, I think it's evident that the slotted ears were in fact introduced for the 1965 model year and not the 1966 one as some people maintain, amd those on mine are correct (which is good news, as the earlier ones are rare as the the proverbial!)
Standard T120R non-folding footrests (F6069/F5910) as fitted to my T120C are also correct, according to the US Supplement for Parts Catalogue No. 3, a copy of which is included in David Gaylin's "Triumph Bonneville & TR6 Motorcycle Restoration Guide" (essentiial reading for anyone restoring or interested in the history of these bikes). The folding type, F6653/F6654, were only fitted to the TT Special, as required by the AMA for off-road racing.
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Germany rejects Erdogan's "Nazi era" comparison
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A spokesman for German Chancellor Angela Merkel calls for calm, as diplomatic row between Turkey and Germany escalates over ban on Turkish rallies in German towns.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan makes a speech during a Women's Day rally in Istanbul, Turkey, March 5, 2017. (TRT World and Agencies)
German Chancellor Angela Merkel called for calm on Monday in an escalating dispute with Turkey, a day after President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's comparison of current German policies to the Nazi era.
German authorities withdrew permission for two meetings in German cities last week that were part of the Turkish government's campaign to win the Turkish community's support for next month's referendum on the constitution in Turkey.
Merkel's spokesman, Steffen Seibert, rejected Erdogan's statement saying, "We firmly reject any comparisons between the policies of the democratic Federal Republic of Germany and the Nazi times."
TRT World's Oliver Whitfield-Miocic has more.
There are nearly 4 million people of Turkish origin living in Germany, of which about 1.5 million are Turkish citizens eligible to vote in the April referendum.
The two countries' foreign ministers are expected to meet next week over the dispute.
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Nov. 22, 2019 / 2:16 PM
Iowa courts reinterprets 'stand your ground' law in reversing murder conviction
Ed Adamczyk
An Iowa Supreme Court ruling on Friday limited the state's "stand your ground" law, providing convicted murderer Miguel Baltazar a new trial. Photo courtesy of Iowa courts
Nov. 22 (UPI) -- A man convicted of murder will get a new trial after the Iowa Supreme Court ruled on Friday that a change to a "stand your ground" law does not protect those involved in criminal activity.
The 2018 murder conviction of Miguel Baltazar for the 2017 shooting of Jeffrey Mercado in Des Moines was reversed and remanded for a new trial. In an 11-page ruling, the court said the jury should have been better instructed in the language of Chapter 704 of the Iowa law, enacted a month earlier, which includes a revision to justification of self-defense. In his trial, Baltazar relied on self-defense as a motive for the shooting of Mercado.
"Prior to the legislation, the state could rebut a claim of justification by proving, 'an alternative course of action was available to the defendant,'" the court said in its ruling. "The 2017 legislation deleted the 'alternative course of action' language from the Iowa code and added language saying, 'A person who is not engaged in illegal activity has no duty to retreat from any place where the person is lawfully present before using force.' The amendments to justification took effect July 1, 2017, prior to the July 28 shooting at issue here. The amendments clearly allow the justification defense, regardless of whether an alternative course of action was available."
Since the new version of the law was never presented to the jury, the court said that Baltzar's counsel "breached an essential duty in failing to object when the older version of the justification instruction was given" in court.
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Hawaii tour helicopter crash: 6 bodies recovered, authorities believe no survivors
Doug Stanglin Joel Shannon
Six bodies been have recovered and authorities believe there are no survivors after a helicopter carrying seven people crashed on the Hawaiian island of Kauai.
Wreckage from the crash was located Friday in Kōke‘e near Nu‘alolo, according to the Kauai Police Department.
Before fog and poor visibility ended recovery efforts Friday, first responders located six bodies, a spokesman for the Kauai Fire Department said during a press conference.
The National Transportation Safety Board said Friday it would send three representatives to investigate the fatal crash.
“First and foremost, our thoughts and prayers are with the families of these passengers,” Kaua‘i Mayor Derek S.K. Kawakami said in a press release.
The wreckage was found in a mountainous area of Kauai, authorities said. Two of the passengers are believed to be minors, the Coast Guard said.
Searchers began looking for the helicopter carrying a pilot and six passengers after it was reported overdue from a tour of Kauai's Na Pali Coast on Thursday evening.
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In its initial response Thursday evening, the Coast Guard sent out a chopper, supported by a Coast Guard cutter, after the tour operator said its helicopter failed to return as expected at 5:21 p.m.
In addition to the military support, search teams included the Kauai Fire Department, Kauai National Guard and commercial helicopter pilots.
Steep terrain, low visibility, choppy seas and rain had complicated the search, the Coast Guard has said.
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Helicopter tours above Kauai are common to view such sites as Jurassic Park Falls, the Hanapepe Valley and Waimea Canyon.
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UniCredit: 2Q16 and 1H16 Group Results
ADJUSTED GROUP NET PROFIT AT €687 M IN 2Q16 (+6.4% Q/Q), WITH ALL DIVISIONS CONTRIBUTING POSITIVELY TO QUARTERLY PERFORMANCE. REPORTED GROUP NET PROFIT AT €916 M
ADJUSTED ROTE AT 6.6% IN 2Q16. REPORTED ROTE AT 8.8%
EXCLUDING DTA IMPACT, CET1 RATIO FULLY LOADED AT 10.33% IN 2Q16 [1] (PRO-FORMA AT 10.53% INCLUDING THE POSITIVE IMPACT OF 10% DISPOSALS OF FINECOBANK AND BANK PEKAO)
CONTINUED REDUCTION OF NET IMPAIRED LOANS TO €36.7 BN WITH COVERAGE RATIO INCREASING TO 52.4% IN 2Q16. NET BAD LOANS RATIO AT 4.0% IN 2Q16 WITH COVERAGE RATIO RISING TO 61.6%
IN CHALLENGING MARKET CONDITIONS, CORE BANK CORE REVENUES (NII & FEES) AT €4.9 BN IN 2Q16 (+1.2% Q/Q) THANKS TO POSITIVE DYNAMICS BETWEEN DIVISIONS WITH CROSS-SELLING UP BY 11% Q/Q AS A RESULT OF A WELL DIVERSIFIED PRODUCT BASE
FOCUS ON COST MANAGEMENT WITH CORE BANK OPERATING EXPENSES DOWN BY C. 3% Y/Y TO €3.2 BN IN 2Q16
CEE, CIB AND COMMERCIAL BANKING ITALY LARGEST CONTRIBUTORS TO NET PROFIT
All divisions contribute positively to quarterly performance with adjusted Group net profit reaching €687 m in 2Q16 which excludes c. €230 m of net non-recurring item: -€216 m of capital gain from the disposal of VISA Europe stake, -€100 m of LLP release, -€96 m of trading gain, +€55 m related to restructuring charges and +€128 m of guarantee fees for DTA conversion in Italy. Adjusted RoTE [1] stands at 6.6% in 2Q16. Reported Group net profit stands at €916 m in 2Q16 (over 100% Q/Q, +75.3% Y/Y) with RoTE at 8.8%. Adjusted Group net profit equal to €1.3 bn in 1H16 [2] (+28.7% H/H) and adjusted RoTE at 6.4%. Reported Group net profit at €1.3 bn in 1H16 (+27.7% H/H) with a RoTE at 6.4%.
Total assets remain stable at €891.5 bn in 2Q16 (-0.1% Q/Q, +1.9% Y/Y). On the asset side, the increase in financial assets & investments (+€10.0 bn Q/Q) and in loans to customers (+€5.9 bn Q/Q) mainly offsets the reduction in loans and receivables with banks (-€17.8 bn Q/Q). On the liabilities side, the reduction in direct funding (-€4.1 bn Q/Q) and in deposits from customers (-€5.5 bn Q/Q) is offset by the increase of financial liabilities held for trading (+€ 8.2 bn Q/Q).
RWA/Total assets ratio is largely stable at 44.8% in 2Q16 (+0.6p.p. Q/Q, -1.6p.p. Y/Y). RWA increase to €399.3 bn in 2Q16 (+€4.9 bn Q/Q, -€6.6 bn Y/Y) as the result of an increase in credit (+€0.6 bn Q/Q) and market RWA (+€5.4 bn Q/Q), partially compensated by a reduction in operational risk (-€1.2 bn Q/Q). In particular, credit RWA growth reflects business volume increase. Market RWA growth is mainly due to the impact of negative interest rates on models.
Asset quality continues to improve in 2Q16 with gross impaired loans declining to €77.1 bn (-2.4% Q/Q, -5.7% Y/Y), on the back of reduced inflows from performing to impaired loans and higher collections, with the net impaired loan ratio down to 7.5% (-0.4p.p. Q/Q, -0.9p.p. Y/Y) and coverage ratio at 52.4% in 2Q16. Gross bad loans decrease to €51.3 bn (-1.4% Q/Q, stable Y/Y) with a coverage ratio of 61.6% (+0.4p.p. Q/Q). Other gross impaired loans further down at €25.8 bn (-4.3% Q/Q, -15.2% Y/Y).
Starting from this quarter, CET1 ratio pro-forma no longer includes the impacts from the full absorption of DTA on goodwill tax redemption and tax losses carried forward and Bank Pekao minority excess capital calculated with 12% threshold [4]. CET1 ratio fully loaded for regulatory purposes stands at 10.33% in 2Q16 [5], pro-forma at 10.53% including 20bp generated by the recent disposals (+8bp from FinecoBank ABB [6] and +12bp from Bank Pekao ABB) and excluding the potential impact of cards processing activities disposal (+12bp). CET1 ratio fully loaded is the result of (i) 2Q16 earnings generation (+23bp Q/Q), (ii) RWA increase (-12bp Q/Q), (iii) AFS (-6bp Q/Q) and (iv) DBO & other (-17bp Q/Q). On a regulatory basis, CET1 ratio transitional stands at 10.51% (+20bp Q/Q, -1bp Y/Y), Tier 1 ratio transitional at 11.30% and Total Capital ratio transitional at 14.02%. On a regulatory basis, Basel 3 Leverage ratio transitional stands at 4.55% and fully loaded at 4.33%.
The CET1 ratio transitional resulting from the European Bank Authority (EBA) 2016 Stress Test would in 2018 stand at 11.57% under the baseline scenario and at 7.12% under the adverse scenario, embedding +98bp and -347bp impact (vs. an un-weighted average impact of +96bp and -427bp within EBA sample)
Funding plan 2016 for €27.6 bn has been executed for about €12.1 bn as end of July.
TLTRO II take-up amounts to €26.6 bn on a consolidated basis [7]. The outstanding amount of TLTRO I was fully reimbursed following the ECB auction in June. Further TLTRO II take-up at the upcoming auctions is being evaluated.
2Q16 KEY FINANCIAL DATA
Net profit: adjusted net profit at €687 m (+6.4% Q/Q, +31.5% Y/Y) and RoTE at 6.6% excluding non-recurring items. Reported net profit at €916 m (over 100% Q/Q, +75.3% Y/Y) and RoTE at 8.8%.
Revenues: €6.1 bn (+12.1% Q/Q, +7.1% Y/Y).
Total costs: €3.3 bn (stable Q/Q, -4.3% Y/Y), cost/income ratio of 53.6% (-6.5p.p. Q/Q, -6.3p.p. Y/Y)
Asset Quality: LLP at €914 m (+20.9% Q/Q, +0.1% Y/Y), cost of risk at 75bp (+12bp Q/Q, -1bp Y/Y); net impaired loan ratio at 7.5% (-0.4p.p. Q/Q, -0.9p.p. Y/Y) and coverage ratio at 52.4%; net bad loan ratio at 4.0% and coverage ratio at 61.6%
Capital adequacy: CET1 ratio fully loaded for regulatory purposes at 10.33%, pro-forma at 10.53%. On a regulatory basis, CET1 ratio transitional at 10.51%, Tier 1 ratio transitional at 11.30% and Total Capital ratio transitional at 14.02%; leverage ratio transitional at 4.55% and fully loaded at 4.33%
CORE BANK
Net profit: adjusted net profit at €1.1 bn and RoAC [8] at 11.9%. Reported net profit at €1.2 bn (+69.8% Q/Q, +51.5% Y/Y) and RoAC at 13.4%
Revenues: €6.2 bn (+13.0% Q/Q, +8.5% Y/Y)
Total costs: €3.2 bn (+1.7% Q/Q, -2.9% Y/Y), cost/income ratio at 52.3% (-5.8p.p. Q/Q, -6.1p.p. Y/Y)
Asset Quality: LLP at €513 m (+24.1% Q/Q, -13.9% Y/Y), cost of risk at 45bp (+7.9bp Q/Q, -9.4bp Y/Y)
1H16 KEY FINANCIAL DATA
Net profit: adjusted net profit at €1.3 bn (+28.7% H/H) and RoTE at 6.4%. Reported net profit at €1.3 bn (+27.7% H/H) and RoTE at 6.4%
Revenues: €11.6 bn (+1.1% H/H)
Total costs: €6.6 bn (-4.0% H/H) with a cost/income ratio of 56.6% (-3.0p.p. H/H)
Asset Quality: LLP at €1.7 bn (-11.8% H/H), cost of risk at 69bp (-10bp H/H)
Net profit: adjusted net profit at c. €2.1 bn and ROAC at 11.2%. Reported net profit at €2.0 bn (+16.8% H/H) and ROAC at 10.7%
Asset Quality: LLP at €926 m (-20.9% H/H), cost of risk at 41bp (-13bp H/H)
[1] In 2Q16, CET1 ratio fully loaded for regulatory purposes at 10.33% does not includes the effects related to (i) the full absorption of DTA on goodwill tax redemption and tax losses carried forward and (ii) Bank Pekao minority excess capital calculated with 12% threshold.
[2] RoTE = annualized net profit / average tangible equity (excluding AT1).
[3] Adjusted for: 2Q16 non-recurring items (one-off trading gain, disposal of Visa Europe stake, restructuring charges, guarantee fees for DTA conversion in Italy and LLP release); 1Q16 non-recurring items (net additional impact of DBO in Austria and Strategic Plan integration costs in Italy).
[4] Pro-forma items equal to 40bp as of March 2016 and 43bp as of June 2016. In 1Q16, CET1 ratio fully loaded pro-forma at 10.85%, excluding 40 bp pro-forma at 10.45%.
[5] Within CET1 components, 1H16 net profit is fully recognised in own funds without any dividend deduction for FY16 in line with the decision taken by the Board of Directors on August 3, 2016. The dividend policy for 2016 and for the following years will be re-discussed while reviewing the strategic plan.
[6] Accelerated Book Building.
[7] €18.2 bn have been taken in Italy, €7.0 bn in Germany, €1.0 bn in Austria and €0.4 bn in Czech Republic & Slovakia.
[8] RoAC = annualized net profit/ Allocated capital. Allocated capital is calculated as 10% of RWA, including deductions for shortfall and securitization.
[9] Contribution from macro hedging strategy on non-naturally hedged sight deposits in 2Q16 at €376 m (€373 m in 1Q16 and €368 m in 2Q15).
[10] Including mix effect.
[11] Include dividends, equity investments and balance of other operating income / expenses. Turkey contribution based on a divisional view.
[12] Net of expenses recovery and indirect costs.
[13] Referring to the contributions to: (i) Single Resolution Fund of c. €5 m, (ii) guarantee fees for DTA conversion of c. €184 m in Italy, (iii) bank levies of c. €64 m (of which €32 m in Austria, €28 m in Poland and €4 m in CEE) and (iv) Deposit Guarantee Scheme of c. €47 m (of which €13 m in CEE, €19 m in Germany and €15 m in Poland).
[14] Perimeter of impaired exposures hereby shown as per BankIT Circular 272 is substantially equivalent to the perimeter of EBA Non Performing Exposures (NPE).
[15] For CEE, changes at current FX.
[16] Source: Dealogic Loanware, per 6 July 2016. Period: 1 January - 30 June 2016.
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Men Bleaching Their Hair Is the New Beard
by Hannah Ewens and Emma Garland
12 April 2018, 10:06pm
Blonde dudes all. Beard image: Beth Dixson / Alamy Stock Photo; Blonde men, from left to right: Kevin Mazur/Getty; Christopher Peterson/Getty; Vivien Killilea/Getty; Venturelli/Getty
This article originally appeared on VICE UK.
In the late 2000s, something happened with full-on beards. Bon Iver released an album, and, shortly after, everyone lost their boyfriends and sons to craft booze fetishism, raw denim, and barber shops with old-school tattoo-style branding. And we—people who like men—got a little twinge. Oooh, we thought, beards.
Arriving off the back of indie's five-matchsticks-in-a-pea-coat look, beards signaled a great return to "real man aesthetics," but with a sensitivity fitting the new millennial man. This was a woodcutter who would take you roughly in a field and talk about his relationship with your mom afterward. Suddenly, we were forced to look at men with fresh eyes. Those we had not previously payed attention to became alluring; those who were already hot became hotter. It was new, exciting.
It was also a trick.
After a few months, it became apparent that nine times out of ten, the beard was just a substitute for a personality, like berets or being really into weed. As the curtain dropped, so too did the mass sexual appeal of the beard.
We are sad to report that the same phenomenon is taking place now, but with bleached hair.
Let’s be clear: We're not talking about, for example, Troye Sivan's recent transformation into a full Botticellian cherub. We're not talking about anybody who successfully dyes their hair and also looks after it. We're talking about men who have never heard of toner box-bleaching their hair to appear somewhere between Boris Johnson and Billie Joe Armstrong circa 1995. On the Dulux color chart, it places somewhere between "Citron Sunrise" and "That Alarmingly Bright Shade of Yellow Mom Painted the Kitchen While Menopausal."
It’s difficult to get to the patchy roots of the trend’s beginnings, but generally, it seems to be a convolution of several things.
I) Ryan Gosling doing some skids on a motorcycle and walking around, swole, in a ripped Metallica T-shirt in The Place Beyond the Pines.
II) Yet another recurring symptom of 90s nostalgia. Remember how everyone from Justin Timberlake to Brad Pitt had peroxide hair with the roots coming through, and it made sense at the time because the general dress code was "CBA + something denim?" It's a throwback to that from the neck up, adopted by men wearing hundreds of dollars worth of streetwear. This is where the true insult comes in, really: If you have £500 [about $700] to drop on a full resale Palace tracksuit, you can have your hair done in a salon by a professional. It is yet another example of (mostly) straight guys shooting for something objectively good and absolutely fucking it by doing the bare minimum. See also: men who claim to be into skincare because they own precisely one (one.) tube of Bulldog moisturizer.
III) Bleach London.
Who's Doing It?
Right Wingers
This trend has enjoyed much recent longevity within the megalomaniac community—think, Donald Trump, Milo Yiannopoulos, and Julian Assange—which suggests a definite undercurrent of status symbolism involved. It’s a simple way of sticking out, good or bad reasons be fucked.
Trendy Assholes
Recent perpetrators include: Zayn Malik in what was a truly astonishing take on HypeBeast-era Colonel Sanders, Adam Levine, Professor Green, every single Soundcloud rapper, uncelebrated VICE journalist Emma Garland, and tons of other people in our office (sorry, guys).
Athletes began, in greater numbers, to join the Goslings, Biebers, and Kanyes of the world around 2015 and 2016, thus elevating bleach from "bold or subversive fashion statement" to "go-to option for anyone who doesn’t know what to do with their hair."
Fuckboys
This is the only characteristic most embracers of the trend have in common. Like, if the Vans Old Skools meme panned up, it would reveal three boys with bleached hair and also probably some type of nose piercing. Just as the full beard before it went mainstream, and in doing so shed all indicators to do with interests or personality, bleached hair now says very little about someone besides: would describe themselves as "fashionable," possibly going gray.
"My wife loves it!" – Adam Levine, 2018
Approximate Date Until We're All Over It
This trend—as with all trends—can survive only through the will of the thirsty. Ultimately, it's only a thing because enough of us have validated it, so it stands to reason that only we can change the tide. Thirst giveth and thirst taketh away.
We suspect that summer, 2018, will be a turning point. Every park or village green will be, like a French Impressionist painting, dotted with varying shades of blond crops. By the end of the year, every publishing house in London will be commissioning hardback editions called stuff like Bleach Boys, Bleach of London, and London Bleach Style, full of the same guys standing against colored roller shutters in black or white T-shirts, with little fact files. In years to come, fashion archives will declare that post-2000 fashion became a kaleidoscope, a free for all, a liberal pick 'n’ mix from any decade, but for one uniform hair color.
So convinced of this are we that we contacted WGSN, the trend forecasting and analysis site, to test the theory. "Short, shaved, curtains, even dreads; any style goes, and the adoption of the color has segued from a casual dip-dye to a full-head of bleach within a year, hinting that 2018 is set to be the year this look goes mainstream," replied Emma Grace Bailey, the WGSN Beauty Editor. Plot twist: They also think "blond is just the beginning" and that primary colors are coming. So, there's that to look forward to.
Did beards ever die, though? No, they did not. They did, however, return to being the sole interest of those who were predisposed to enjoying them in the first place. This will inevitably be the fate of bleached hair. Once the novelty wears off, bleached hair will revert once again to the confines of its core audience—horny idiots magnetically drawn to anything that connotes "anger problems" or "issues with mom" due to their own unexamined emotional problems. Us, basically.
Also, remember this: It's all over the second Liam Payne gets involved.
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Three Days At The End Of The World (Series)
The Kansas City Royals won the 2015 World Series in New York by playing merciless, relentless, heartbreaking, beautiful baseball. The Mets lost as themselves.
by David Roth
Nov 3 2015, 7:50pm
Photo by Robert Deutsch-USA TODAY Sports
1. It is not immediately clear how one would walk across the Grand Central Parkway. Even just a few minutes before 1 a.m. on a Friday night, it is still a hissing exchange of tracer fire east and west. But there is a way over, an attendant locking a gate at the emptied CitiField lot tells me. You go, okay: you see, like, by the stage—which is brightly lit, still, as ESPN's on-air crew talks in perfect circles about that night's 9-3 Mets win and drunks shout "Timmay!" at the back of Tim Kurkjian's head—and then you go onto Roosevelt Avenue, and keep going to the first traffic light and bang a right. So I do that.
It is a weird walk under the 7's elevated tracks, but an intuitive one: walk towards the big green sign for the Holiday Inn and then, at 114th Street, by the metal sign that says COPPER WANG INC WE HAVE MOVED TO THE NEW ADDRESS, down the low-lying Queens block towards the hotel where people in Matt Harvey jerseys and David Wright jerseys and a half-dozen other remaindered or outdated or more obscure jerseys are gunning cigarettes on the curb and talking themselves into things. Keep going.
Read More: The Mets, Beyond Belief
Ordinarily, Friday night is karaoke night at The Pine, which is just about the only bar in walking distance of CitiField. This is not an ordinary Friday, and so karaoke is canceled. This means that I do not get to hear the version of "Copacabana" that Cowbell Man—a CitiField fixture who is, indeed, a man in a personalized jersey who cruises the concourses banging on a cowbell—performs at these nights. It also means that The Pine's usual karaoke night demographics are swamped. A bar that is usually divided roughly in thirds between flight attendants on LaGuardia overnights, Spanish-speaking people from the neighborhood, and Mets fans who do not want to go home yet is now entirely full of postgaming Mets fans. Among them are some people I know only from Twitter, and who I will be able to identify only because one is dressed as Michael Conforto for Halloween.
The Pine is pretty fucking lit for a hotel bar in far Queens at 1:15 in the morning. The soundtrack is pure 1980's rollerskating jams and there are dozens of baseball caps hung on pegs five rows deep above the bar; I hear more songs by the SOS Band in a span of 15 minutes than I have heard in twice as many years. Baseball bats feature heavily in the decor. Over that soundtrack and the din of a dozen overemphatic conversations, you can hear Cowbell Man getting his picture taken. People line up for the honor in twos and threes, someone else takes the photo, and Cowbell Man rings his bell once, as if to signal that the next customer should step up.
Kevin, a software engineer who lives in Park Slope and who's Conforto costumed down to the baseball pants, comes to The Pine even when he doesn't have tickets. "We basically Googled the nearest sports bar," he says, glove tucked under his arm, of when he first discovered the place. "And it was dreamlike." I give him and his crew some chocolate coins from the press box candy bar, and they give me a Bud bottle from their bucket of beers. I do not argue with the dreamlike part, because I cannot. The Mets have won a World Series game for the first time in 15 years. There is not a better word for it. The Cowbell donks in that goofy way it does from across the room, and the next believers cycle in.
2. People were always going to hug and jump and chant and spill beer and high-five strangers, because it is the World Series, but when things cracked open for the Mets in Game 3, CitiField dissolved. It was an exchange of counterpunches and hard looks—this was the game that began with Noah Syndergaard tucking a pitch under Alcides Escobar's chin, which upset the Royals very much—until a pinch-hitting Juan Uribe poked a hole in its fabric. The Mets scored four runs in the sixth to break the game open, and did it just as the Royals had done to them in the previous two games: just tapping on the accelerator over and over, single, hit-by-pitch, single, fielder's-choice, single, walk, sacrifice fly. On the field level concourse, it was as if the stadium had been flooded with oxygen. I saw grown men with tears in their eyes, and I saw four kids with identical haircuts in Bethpage Football varsity jackets leaping in place and shouting along with a song that, itself, sounded like a bunch of kids in Bethpage Football varsity jackets, shouting.
To some extent, that is just how it goes in late October. But there was a deeper relief to it, the sense not just of fragile belief that had been strategically hidden away finally being let out, but of the possibility that the Mets might be able to play the rest of the series on something like their own terms. Asked after the game about the brushback that started it and the Royals indignant response, Syndergaard answered cooly that "my intent on that pitch was to make them uncomfortable, and I feel like I succeeded in that."
And if this, too, is something like par for the course, there was a deeper resonance here, as well. The Royals win in a number of different ways, but the most singular thing about how they do it—the thing that will be hardest for teams seeking to emulate their example and reverse-engineer what, after their World Series win, looks something like a nascent dynasty—is how incredibly fucking exhausting they are, and how spectacularly uncomfortable they make it to play against them. That night, Mets fans left CitiField singing "Meet The Mets" and looking, mostly, relieved.
A winning busking strategy right here. — David Roth (@david_j_roth)November 2, 2015
I cannot speak for the dozens of Alan Arkin-looking dudes and the kids and the ruddy shouters who left the ballpark grin-singing to beat the band, and it may just be that it is difficult not to smile when singing such a silly song—"it's a really gleeful song," says Heather Cole, a busker who spent eight to ten hours on each game day playing it on a fiddle around the 7 train platform at Grand Central station, "kind of makes you want to cancan." There are many reasons to smile after your baseball team wins a World Series game. But one of those reasons, and probably the most elemental of those reasons, is the belief that the unreason and magic that carried this imperfect Mets team this far actually stood a chance in the colder weather, and against something as implacably reasonable and heavily inevitable as the Royals.
3. After the Mets gave away Game 4 with a series of mistakes—a pitcher left in too long and an easy grounder duffed into shallow right, culminating with Yoenis Cespedes caught way off first in the bottom of the ninth on a humpbacked dorkshot to third for the game's final out—Mets manager Terry Collins said of the Royals, "they truly don't ever stop." He was a grayish pink color as he said it, and his eyes were stuck somewhere in the middle distance between himself and the people arrayed to ask him about the mistakes that he and his team had made.
It is true that the Royals don't ever stop, just as it is also true that they are relentless, as Harold Reynolds said on FOX several hundred times; it is, further, true that they resemble, in the words of a Blue Jays fan I know, "a pack of hyenas." None of this quite seems to get at why or how the Kansas City Royals are the most singularly nerve-wracking World Series champions in recent memory. But Collins seems to be the closest. It is not that the Royals are more talented or luckier than any other team, although they are both of those in the way that all World Series winners are. Neither talent nor luck explains why a one-run lead on the Royals was, this October but also all season long, more stressful than a two-run deficit against most any other team. Neither of those explains why and how the Royals seemed somehow to be authoring the Mets meltdowns that ultimately gave Kansas City the series. Only Collins' statement even comes close.
Okay, okay. — Photo by Brad Penner-USA TODAY Sports
The Royals pitch well and defend well and put the ball in play fantastically well, and all of this has exactly as much to do with how they melted the Mets as Kevin Long's work with Daniel Murphy on hitting inside pitches had to do with his brief ascent to Olympus earlier in the postseason. Which is to say not very much, or at least not nearly enough to explain what happens. The Royals win by doing reasonable baseball things in a reasonable way—they make all the plays they can make, they take the extra bases they can take, they foul off the pitches they can't hit and hit the ones they can—and doing so without let-up or lapse. But this only gets us some of the way there. The other, alchemical thing that they are doing is outside of all that.
Because the Royals truly do not stop, the team they are playing also cannot stop. Because those opponents know that the Royals truly do not stop and will not stop, they know that any mistake—not even big ones, either, but singles that get back to the infield too slowly or bases covered with insufficient dispatch or should-be double plays that are not turned—can undo them. Small flaws in the fabric of the game are enough; drop a stitch and the Royals will pull threads until everything is undone. This can happen at any moment. It can happen, as it did to the Mets three times in five games, even when it appears the work is complete. You go to raise the flag and it unspools at your feet.
4. Of course, "truly do not stop" is a thing that can be said about pretty much any World Series winner. Teams do not proceed reasonably and directly to ticker-tape parades. These players are humans, and the Royals players are kids—Yordano Ventura, when he met the press after Game 3, looked like a 15-year-old in a principal's office; Mike Moustakas did so after Game 4 wearing a digi-camo sweatshirt, shorts over leggings, American-flag socks and flip flops. They are not only not perfect, they are unfinished; they are baseball players. There is nothing about them, really, that suggests that they should be able to not just shut out but command the chaos that is forever trying the locks in October.
And yet, when the games happened, the Royals mastered not just the Mets but the other unconquerable thing that rides over all these games. They air-mailed throws into the seats in infield warm-ups, but not during the games. They fouled off pitch after pitch, and somehow all of them seemed to reach the seats. They stole bases and games, they made every play they could make, and never evinced much doubt or hesitation about any of it.
They were so reliable, and so reasonable in what they were able to take, that it introduced a strange and merciless ex post facto morality to the Series—everything the Royals did happened because it could not be prevented, which meant every run scored against them had to be perfect, unpreventable. This is harsh, if you are trying to beat the Royals. But this harshness defines the Royals, and the way they turn the small failures that fill out a baseball game into proof of some damning imperfection is a large part of what makes them so exhausting, and so intimidating. On a team like the Mets, which came into the series in a full-on Wile E. Coyote sprint over the chasm of their own plainly visible imperfection—all these misfits on defense and tenuously sustained unsustainabilities everywhere—this created something more than pressure.
What the Mets did to reach the Series felt, even as it was happening, deeply unreasonable. Not in some cosmic or philosophical way, but in a basic baseball sense—most everyone played over the max and over their heads, in ways they never really have before, later into the season than they ever have and at a level they've never visited as anything other than giddy tourists blowing it out on a long weekend. The Royals, by doing everything that they were supposed to do, pretty much all the time, simply kept giving the Mets opportunities to lose.
This, finally, is what made the Royals so scary, and what makes it so easy to imagine that this might be the first World Series title of several for them. They are just so reasonable about taking the chances they're given, and so unyielding about giving them away in return. This can seem hard, if you are on the wrong end of it. If a team can't convert on the fair chance that the Royals give, gents that they are, then it is nobody else's fault. And if the Royals take advantage of the chances given to them—not just the extra outs and extra bases, but the basic slack that exists in the game—that is perfectly reasonable of them to do. That is just how it works.
5. This is not to say that the Royals lack emotion. They do not. A great many of the Royals core stars grew up with each other in the minors; just about every one of them has endured some sort of career setback—not even injury, either, and frequently setbacks of the Just Was Not Very Good For A Season Or Two variety—and the team is clearly stronger and closer for having suffered together. Their belief and their performance of that belief are emotional. But at the same time, the Royals play as the enemy of emotion. The bullpen-management mistakes that Terry Collins kept making at the end of games were the result of malfunctioning intuition; he told himself stories, cut deals with himself, bargained with chaos, tried to get away with things. The Royals do not play this way. Those straggling emotions are their meat.
The people at The Pine and at CitiField were there to believe together, to talk and sing and shout the unbelievable thing they'd witnessed down the stretch into reality. And then the Royals were just more believable, more reasonable. The Royals won the World Series doing what they do: hitting the pitches left for them to hit, in the holes left for them to hit those pitches through; that or at defenders fair and square, who could either make the play or not.
This is what's scariest about the Royals, finally—they do not just punish mistakes. They punish anything that is not perfect, and they find it out as mercilessly as gravity finds out everything that goes up. This is not as cruel as it sounds, or as it can feel if you are on the wrong end of it. It is just the game being played according to the rules, as well as it can possibly be played.
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Top 100 Biggest Games of 2013
Happy New Year everyone! See the Top 100 Biggest Games of 2013 in the overview below. I love making this list every year. Mainly because 2013 is looking to be yet another awesome year for us gamers!
Anticipation without means, is half the fun or so it seems. While you are now looking forward to a great many games, at the end of 2013 we believe the listed 100 titles are the games you will fondly remember playing. Both logical and indeterminable factors taken into account are: Hype, developer potential, nostalgia, recent critical successes, a series’ past sales and average review scores, all counted towards this unbiased Top 100 of big games you can expect to see in 2013.
Please comment to let us know: What are your favorite games of 2013?
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No doubt one of your favorite games is missing*. We want to emphasize this is not our personal opinion, we’ve had to cut about 100+ games from the original overview in editing the past 20 hours. But we’re really happy with how the Top 100 turned out and hope to play all of them this year (all of us at VGB own all systems). If your favorites aren’t high enough in the list we look forward to seeing what your Top 5 looks like in the comments. Release date are listed behind each game’s systems overview. If you’re looking for more info from a certain game, click on its preview link. With that said…
* The long disclaimer about why certain games are/aren’t included:
The following games don’t have a clear launch window yet, are on hold, or aren’t expected to arrive until 2014: The Last Guardian, Agent, Final Fantasy Versus XIII, Half-Life 3, Beyond Good & Evil 2, DOOM 4, Prey 2, Duke Nukem Begins, Cyberpunk 2077, Metal Gear Solid: Ground Zeroes, The Legend of Zelda HD, Dark Souls II, Guillermo Del Toro’s InSane, Tomonobu Itagaki’s Devil’s Third, Warhammer 40,000: Dark Millennium, Persona 5, ObsCure 3, Monster Hunter 4, BioShock Vita, Duke Begins, next Prince of Persia game, next Assassin’s Creed game, Professor Layton vs. Phoenix Wright, Fable 4, Fallout Online, Fallout 4, Thief 4, and The Agency. — Then there’s all the awesome downloadable content releases that I didn’t know where to place. Remakes like HD Collections & Ports were excluded, since the focus is mainly on new releases. We wished to included more iPhone/iPad/handheld titles and more games from Indie developers, but they are often not announced until nearly complete. E3 2013 will also hold surprise announcements we don’t know about yet. What remained is what you see below and while all these games are wildly different, we truly believe these games will all be on par with each other with 8, 9 or 10 out of 10 scores.
Magic: The Gathering – Duels of the Planeswalkers 2013, Tales of Xillia, Dragon Quest X, Etrian Odyssey IV: Legends of the Titan, Fist of the North Star: Ken’s Rage 2, Killer is Dead, WWE Brawl, Total War Rome II, Killzone: Mercenary, Call of Juarez: Gunslinger, The Witness, Shantae and the Pirate’s Curse, Dynasty Warriors 8, Fuse, Wonderbook: Diggs Nightcrawler, Anarchy Reigns, MechWarrior Online, The Walking Dead: Survival Instinct, Monster Hunter 4, Project Draco, Dragon’s Crown, Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2 Plus, Dead or Alive 5 Plus, Kingdom Hearts 1.5 HD Remix, The Witch and The Hundred Knights, Devil Summoner: Soul Hackers, God Mode, TrackMania 2: Stadium, Neverwinter (2013), Rise of the Triad (2013), Bit.Trip Presents Runner 2: Future Legend of Rhythm Alien, Toki Tori 2, Guacamelee, Dust 514, Zeno Clash II, Dungeonland, Spartacus Legends, The Dark Eye: Demonicon, Planetary Annihilation, Shadowrun Returns, Cities in Motion 2, X Rebirth, Routine, Corpse Party 2: Book of Shadows, ARMA 3, World of Warships MMO, Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture, Project CARS, Europa Universalis IV, The War Z, OUTLAST, Among The Sleep, Girl Fight, Ultima Forever: Quest for the Avatar, Warframe, Kingdom Under Fire II, Sacred 3, Survarium, Mistborn: Birthright Video Game, Divinity: Original Sin, Sins of a Dark Age, Sky Legends, Team Meat’s Mew-Genics, The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing, Anarchy Reigns, Demon Tribe, Warrior’s Lair, Warface, Ryse, Matter, Fortnite, Mercenary Ops, Transformers Universe, DARK, Leisure Suit Larry: Reloaded, Double Fine Adventure.
#100. Slender: The Arrival
#99. Carmageddon: Reincarnation
#98. Game & Wario
#97. The Wonderful 101
#96. Phantasy Star Online 2
#95. Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate
#94. Hyperdimension Neptunia Victory
#93. Defiance: The Video Game
#92. Soul Sacrifice
#91. Fire Emblem: Awakening
#90. Dead State
#89. Wasteland 2
#88. Company of Heroes 2
#87. Castlevania: Lords of Shadow – Mirror of Fate
#86. Tearaway
#85. Shinji Mikami’s Project Zwei
#84. Until Dawn
#83. Rain
#82. Puppeteer
#81. The Cave
#80. Yoshi’s Land
#79. Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs
#78. DOTA 2
#77. MLB 13: The Show
#76. Firefall
#75. Yakuza 5
#74. Real Racing 3
#73. Infinity Blade: Dungeons
#72. Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch
#71. Bayonetta 2
#70. XCOM (2013)
#69. Brothers in Arms: Furious 4
#68. Sniper: Ghost Warrior 2
#67. Deadpool: The Video Game
#66. Pro Evolution Soccer 2014
#65. Borderlands 2: Sir Hammerlock’s Big Game Hunt Add-on
#64. Battlefield 3: End Game Add-on
#63. Final Fantasy XIV Online: A Realm Reborn
#62. Remember Me
#61. Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six: Patriots
#60. Tekken X Street Fighter
#59. Army of Two: The Devil’s Cartel
#58. Luigi’s Mansion 2: Dark Moon
#57. Metro: Last Light
#56. Aliens: Colonial Marines
#55. Sly Cooper 4: Thieves in Time
#54. Major League Baseball 2K13
#53. Football Manager 2014
#52. Tiger Woods PGA Tour 14: The Master Historic
#51. The Sims 3: 70’s, 80’s and 90’s Stuff Expansion Pack
#50. LEGO City: Undercover
#49. Pikmin 3
#48. DmC: Devil May Cry
#47. NBA 2K14
#46. Command & Conquer: Generals 2
#45. GRID 2
#44. Wii Fit U
#43. Homefront 2
#42. Lost Planet 3
#41. Dead Island: Riptide
#40. Rayman Legends
#39. SimCity (2013)
#38. Star Trek: The Game
#37. Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2
#36. Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 3
#35. Dr. Kawashima’s Devilish Brain Training: Can You Stay Focused?
#34. WWE 14
#33. Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell: Blacklist
#32. Skylanders (2013)
#31. Just Dance 5
#30. Beyond: Two Souls
Sales Previous Developed Game: 2 Million
System: PS3
Developer: Quantic Dream
Genre: Action-Adventure, Interactive Movie
#29. Watch Dogs
Sales Previous Developed Game: 7+ Million
System: Xbox 360, PS3, PC
Developer: Ubisoft Montreal, Ubisoft Reflections
Genre: Open World Action-Adventure, Stealth
#28. The Walking Dead: The Game – Season 2
Info: The Walking Dead: The Game – Season 2 Announcement
Sales Previous Season: 1.2 Million
System: PC, Mac, Xbox 360, PS3, Mobile
Developer: Telltale Games
Genre: Point-and-click Adventure
#27. Crysis 3
Sales Previous Game: 3+ Million
System: PC, Xbox 360, PS3
Developer: Crytek Frankfurt, Crytek UK
#26. South Park: The Stick of Truth
Developer: Obsidian Entertainment, Trey Parker, Matt Stone
The Top 100 Biggest Video Games of 2013 continues on Page 2 with #25 onwards!
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classical-music review Sept. 25, 2018
Opera Review: The Met Brings Back Samson et Dalila, With Just Enough Fromage
From the Met’s Sampson et Delila, which opened last night. Photo: Ken Howard/Metropolitan Opera
To describe the Metropolitan Opera’s season-opening production of Saint-Saëns’s Samson et Dalila as gaudy, cheesy, and silly is a compliment, not a complaint. The director, Darko Tresnjak, embraces the work’s orientalist camp and labors mightily to save it from self-importance. The staging steers clear of biblical Gaza or any attempts at political timeliness and heads straight for the exotic sci-fi aesthetic of the 1950s and ’60s. Samson has a superpowerful mullet, Dalila a sunken den, lit in shades of mauve and teal.
Set designer Alexander Dodge veils the stage not with a curtain but with a mesh screen hanging from a rounded arch. Once that goes up, perforated screens and circular openings proliferate: high-tech allusions to traditional Arab latticework and Moorish arches, placing the action in a never-never Middle East. The opera is lopsided, as a friend pointed out, because being a Philistine is so much more fun, especially in Tresnjak’s production. They get the spiky crowns and blood-orange robes, orgies, some Arabian snake-charmer music, an idol the size of a Saddam Hussein statue, and a dance troupe with spray-on-gilt and the best buttocks in Gaza. The Jews get solemnity, resentment, and baggy white garb.
This story of clashing peoples demands big sets, big voices, a crowd of singers, a corps of dancers, and unlimited quantities of glitter. The Met supplied them all without apparently breaking a sweat. The company’s new music director, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, doesn’t report to the podium until a new La Traviata in December, so opening-night duties fell to Sir Mark Elder, who led a vigorous and supple performance. The orchestra and chorus shone with reliable brilliance. And yet all this machinery depends on the two stars, Roberto Alagna and Elīna Garanča, who carry the opera’s payload of romance.
Alagna’s Samson is a mopey kind of Avenger, davening through the first act, mooning over Delilah in the second, and moaning about his downfall in the third. He is at his best in Act Two, when his still-seductive voice intertwines with Garanča’s Dalila. He takes only occasional breaks for spasms of pious regret, which he signals with awkward twists of his torso or by resting his brow against a piece of scenery. Alagna was never an especially versatile singer, and here sad Samson, lovestruck Samson, and wrathful Samson all sound pretty much the same. But then if you’re looking for deep characterization, you’re at the wrong opera, anyway. Alagna gets through it by doing what he has been doing, often superbly, for 30 years: laying down his voice in a smooth, sweet line of lemon crème. On opening night, the squeeze bottle ran dry towards the end of the opera, and his last utterance sounded more like a cough than a righteous roar, but for most of the evening he was at ease making tones of unflappable tenderness.
Garanča tries harder to be a tough Dalila, the Philistine Mata Hari who beds, shears, and lords it over her musclebound dupe of a lover. But she puts her pagan scheming aside long enough to caress the central love scene with her seamless, high-gloss mezzo-soprano. Spectacle drops away, and the stage is cleared of extras, dancers, priests, and guards, leaving just a tenor and a mezzo who, for reasons unknown, feel that neither can live without the other. And for those ten minutes of vocal beauty, that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
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DNR patrols for invasive species across the state this weekend
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Posted: Sat 6:55 PM, Jul 02, 2011 |
Updated: Sat 10:33 PM, Jul 02, 2011
EAU CLAIRE (WEAU) Boaters and anglers at nearly 90 Wisconsin lakes and rivers are being greeted at boat landings by Department of Natural Resources wardens this weekend.
The goal of the boat landing blitz is to stop the spread of invasive species, says the DNR.
The DNR says the invasive species with nasty names like Asian Carp, Eurasian Water Milfoil, Rusty Crawfish and Zebra Muscles, hitched a ride to the U.S. on freighters traveling from Europe and Asia.
The DNR says the species made its way from the ocean into the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River, where they are now reeking havoc on natural aquatic habitats.
WEAU 13 News spoke to DNR Deputy Conservation Warden Justin Wershofen on Saturday at the boat launch to the Chippewa River in Eau Claire’s Riverview Park.
Wershofen is one of dozens of wardens checking boats around the state this weekend.
“We’re making sure everyone has a clean boat and a dry boat when they’re done recreating for the day, making sure no one is transporting any plants or fish or aquatic organisms across our roadways,” Wershofen said.
Wershofen said the invasion is also threatening Wisconsin’s economy.
“The invasives tend to take over an area very quickly and reduce the amount of water that can be recreated, whether it be fishing or general boating,” Wershofen said.
And although Asian Carp hasn’t swum up into the Chippewa Valley yet, the threat looms with the fish already being spotted in the Mississippi River.
“We always have to control it before it gets out of hand. But we’re at a risk because of our close proximity to the Mississippi. We do have a lot of boat travelers between our bodies of water from the Mississippi,” Wershofen said.
Claire Foltz of Eau Claire said she’s helped clean up the invaders on Lake Wissota and wishes other boaters would take the threat more seriously.
“I think people need to be more diligent about cleaning their boats when they get out of the water. I think some people are aware of it. I hope everyone cares about it,” Foltz said.
Wershofen said boaters can get fined more than $200 for transporting or launching a boat with invasive species on it.
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Haeusler's Group general manager Justin MacFarlane.
The front of the new Haeusler’s building.
MACHINERY DEALERSHIP Haeusler’s reached a milestone on April 2 as the business held the opening of its new Shepparton location.
Having moved further north of Shepparton at the end of last year, director Martin Haeusler said it was evident that a bigger business space was needed.
“We saw the business would grow once we put the right things into it and we knew that where we were would not suffice into the future,” he said.
“We always knew that the business would grow, so that’s why we purchased the land back then (in 2003) and now we’ve hit the fruition of the project and our dream was to get the place built and we’ve finally got it built.”
Mr Haeusler said while John Deere made up the most of its product line, the company also sold Kuhn, Goldacres, Gason and Wacker Nueson products.
“It’s all about the customer,” he said.
“That’s why we’re here. If we can engage with the customer and service them a lot better (it’s a positive) because they are the most important thing to us.”
Speaking at the opening, John Deere Australia and New Zealand managing director Peter Wanckel said technology was a game-changer for the industry.
“We are continuing to build and develop products but what we are really excited about are the new technologies that we are bringing to the market, which just provides more opportunity for farmers to become more productive and efficient in their operations,” he said.
Haeusler’s Shepparton is now located at 375 Goulburn Valley Hwy, Shepparton North.
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Kenilworth's own world squash star honoured with mural
Kenilworth’s Sarah-Jane Perry has been honoured with the creation of a new mural charting her career on the squash court.
The current world number seven was on hand to unveil the mural on the wall of the squash courts at the University of Warwick’s Sports and Wellness Hub
It tracks Perry’s career to date, from when she picked up a racket for the first time in 1995 up to winning silver at the Commonwealth Games in 2018 and achieving her highest world ranking of six.
Born in Birmingham, she has lived in Kenilworth since she was eight and is also a University of Warwick alumni.
After arriving in Kenilworth, she met Steve Townsend, who is now head squash coach at Warwick and has coached her for 18 years.
Perry, who didn’t know about the mural plans, says she is honoured and hopes it will help to inspire the next generation of Warwickshire squash players.
“It was a huge surprise, I had absolutely no idea but it’s pretty awesome and I feel honoured,” she said.
“I’ve had an unusual route into professional sport, with coming through university, but hopefully this can inspire more people to keep working and follow their sporting path.
“This area is really strong from a sporting perspective - you can see the talent that is coming out of Warwickshire and the wider Midlands.
“I’m proud to be part of the community here and to have my name up on the wall in the courts is really special.
“It’s an absolutely fantastic facility here, I train twice a week. It’s a great venue for people to come together in a sport community.”
The designers of the mural have left space on the wall for Perry’s achievements in the rest of her career and gold at Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games is her first target.
“After getting silver on Gold Coast in 2018, getting that Commonwealth Gold Medal is my main aim for the next few years,” said Perry.
“I want to keep pushing on with my world ranking, looking ahead to world number one, and I’m going to do everything I can to fill the space they have left for me at the end of the timeline.”
The mural was unveiled ahead of the first Premier Squash League (PSL) fixture to be played at the Sports and Wellness Hub, which saw University of Warwick/Kenilworth (WarKens) beat St George’s Hill 4-1.
It featured a great come from behind victory by Perry to win in her match against Joelle King, which was a rematch of the Commonwealth Games final.
The hub features six glass-backed squash courts, with space for 120 spectators on the show courts.
Lisa Dodd-Mayne, Director of Sport & Active Communities at the University of Warwick, said: “We are privileged to count Sarah-Jane Perry amongst our alumni here at the University and as a respected ambassador of the Sports and Wellness Hub.
“She has had a fantastic career to date, so we thought it was only right we recognised her impact on squash here at the university and across Warwickshire.
“The mural looks fantastic and we hope everyone who comes in to play on the squash courts takes a little bit of inspiration away from Sarah-Jane’s story.”
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New Sheriff's K9 Trained To Detect Contraband In Jail
The newest addition to the Livingston County Sheriff’s Office is a K9 trained to detect prohibited items in the jail.
K9 Duke is a black lab who came from a breeder in North Dakota; however the Sheriff’s Office was able to purchase him thanks to a very generous family. Following the death of one of their family members the family, who preferred to remain anonymous, asked that any donations be made on behalf of the K9 program at the Sheriff’s Office. Sheriff Mike Murphy says with those donations, the Sheriff’s Office was fortunate enough to buy Duke. Duke is now the second K9 with the Sheriff’s Office.
Murphy tells WHMI Duke will be used inside the county jail, working to detect prohibited items like prescription drugs or tobacco. He will soon also be able to detect electronic devices such as cellphones. He added Duke is very friendly and non-threatening, and that the Sheriff’s Office looks forward to seeing Duke’s contributions to ensuring compliance and safety at the jail.
K9 Duke attended the Board of Commissioners meeting Tuesday to meet the county’s leaders and, based on his desire to smell everything and everyone in the room, appears ready to get to work. (DK)
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Who's Saving the Great Breads of France?
France Report
a traveling baker's report by Jonathan Stevens(Hungry Ghost Bread, Northampton, MA)
Let's face it: appearances can be deceiving, even when it comes to bread in France. Baguettes rarely taste as good as they look, for one thing. That wheat you can see growing everywhere, even as soon as you land at the airport outside Paris, it's not as wholesome as it seems. It's exciting to see, at first, for a baker from Massachusetts who rarely glimpses a field of grain. This is it! But it's all dwarf wheat, stiff and dull, which requires intensive chemical treatments which have contaminated the water table. Though the French countryside has a very beautiful face, it is done with the make-up of a highly industrialized agriculture that has, among other things, poisoned the soil.
So, it's fallen to a group of organic farmers to re-invent a real loaf from scratch. The “paysan-boulangers” (peasant-bakers) cultivate older heritage wheats, process, store & mill it themselves and then bring the grain to fruition by baking it into delicious bread. An international gathering of this movement in the southwestern region of the Lot-et-Garonne had brought us the opportunity to meet these pioneers.
One hundred and sixty bakers, farmers and researchers from 18 countries requiring a team of simultaneous translators spent four days on the exquisite farm of Jean-Francois and Cecile Berthellot. Four different kinds of wood-fired ovens allowed for simultaneous workshops. A remarkable demonstration field held vibrant plots of nearly 300 different kinds of wheat from around the world. We talked, made, ate, milled and danced around: bread.
There was a consensus there that our staple food is under real threat: not just from industrialized baking techniques or the triumph of form over content, but from the corporate ownership (and in the EU particularly, its bureaucratic allies) and impoverishment of our primary material, the wheat itself. Modern wheats varieties-and all too soon, GMO wheats- are designed for high yield, mechanical cultivation and processing, and proprietary characteristics. The farmer merely “rents' the seeds and cannot really replicate them or multiply them for his own stock. In the EU, there is a list of approved varieties and so selling or even trading most historic types is actually illegal because they are no longer (or never were) registered. So much is lost in this rationalized formula: the farmer's participation in the evolution of the seed, the complex genetic information of traditional varieties, not to mention the nutritional, digestive and taste dimensions of the bread.
These paysan-boulangers get back to basics not only by hand-mixing doughs, using natural leavens and wood-fired ovens, but by re-establishing the ancient relationship to the grain itself- in the field and at the mill.
Most heritage wheats are “land race” plants: the genetic diversity in each seed responds to its given conditions and will in time (in 3-4 years) adapt to the soil and climate of where it is planted -rather than being bred for specialization, like modern purelines. In this way, the grain behaves not unlike a sourdough culture that adapts to a new home. A San Francisco starter will become a Northampton starter after a week or two in my shop. Perhaps the biochemistry and the agronomy of our materials provide the metaphors we're meant to live by.
To be sure, these old wheats have lower yields, but far more nutrition ( the indigestibility of modern wheats was greatly discussed, said to be the source of many new “allergies”), not to mention a free pedigree, un-owned by anyone. Often, many different varieties are planted together in the same field, growing at varying heights, which allows wind and sun to penetrate and for the shorties to support the taller ones when the danger of lodging appears.
In Southern France, the climate is certainly hot & dry. “Winter” planting can happen as late as January or February with harvest in mid-July. The work may be a bit more hands-on with such a crop -as it is with the looser and stickier doughs they make -but who says human ingenuity was supposed to render itself obsolete? Surely we wish to make a bread of wonder and not the other way around...
Many of the paysan-boulangers consider the heart of their operations to be the mill -and a particular mill at that, made by the Astrie Brothers, an elderly pair that take at least two years to fill an order and have apparently spun off one approved acolyte by the name of Poilane (!) in Brittany. These are large stone mils (approximately 24” in diameter, and placed horizontally) with huge hoppers that feed the mills very slowly (so the flour does not heat up). A clamp-spring maintains the optimal distance and pressure between the stones and a sifting box with fine mesh separates out bran and white flour. Oddly enough, even these “fundamentalist” French bakers seem to use only white flour -even when making a “complet” whole wheat, they're just adding back in some of the bran (sometimes in the form of a whole bran starter!).
Some of the linguistic confusion was amusing: the word for spelt in French is “epautre” or more specifically, “grand epautre”. “Petit epautre” refers to einkorn, which while rare in the US is quite popular in France (the word for both in Italian is “farro” which also refers to a few other things, apparently). At this gathering, for a “dream bread”, einkorn was mixed with another problematic nexus of nomenclature and ownership known as “kamut”. Trademarked by the Quinn family of Montana, this ancient and somewhat mysterious wheat ( supposedly found in an Egyptian sarcophagus) is being grown by quite a few in France, some without “permission” who have had American lawyers come to call. So, in an act of agrarian repatriation, they've decided to call it simply “Khorasan” after the northern Iranian region it is actually from. Some state-side sympathizers took up the chorus of Bob Dylan's “The Mighty Quinn” (also copyrighted, not so strictly enforced).
It was so inspiring to see bakers act like craftspeople and not entrepreneurs -expanding their work not horizontally by opening franchises, but vertically by re-designing the very tools of a broken trade. Acting as stewards of a food-chain and not like gold miners (or spinners). We would do well to follow their example.
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New App Tells All Your Friends When You're Free to Hang Out
Author: Kyle VanHemertKyle VanHemert
Danny Trinh calls it the "blinking cursor" problem. It's Friday night, you don't have plans, and you're wondering who to text. There are a handful of close friends you can shamelessly spam, but beyond that, things are more complicated. Should you message that new friend from work, even though they said they were busy the last two times you tried? Is it weird to hit up that one sort-of-friend from college? Some will dismiss these as trivial concerns; others will know exactly what Trinh's talking about. "At the acquaintance level, it can be really stressful," Trinh says of making plans. "You're spending social capital to ask them to hang out."
Free is Trinh's attempt to solve the blinking-cursor problem. The iPhone app is meant to fill what the designer sees as a small but critical hole in our digitally mediated social lives: the ability to broadcast and communicate around availability. It makes hang-out intentions a little more visible in both directions: You can see if friends (or acquaintances!) are doing something, or looking for something to do, and vice versa. Trinh has another way of explaining it that folks of his generation—millennials—are sure to understand: He wants to build the modern, mobile version of the green dot from AIM.
Trinh, 24, was formerly the lead designer at Path, the inner-circle social app that couldn't ever quite convert interesting ideas into mainstream success, and he thought about AIM a lot in the course of developing Free. (One of his investors is Chamath Palihapitiya, who ran AIM in the mid-aughts.) Looking at the diverse tools we use for communicating and connecting today, Trinh sees much that can be traced back to AOL's seminal chat program. "The AIM buddy list is the godfather of all social software," he says, and he might have a point. Even before texting, it was AIM that got an entire generation hooked on chat. Those status updates that Facebook and Twitter are built around? Offshoots of the once-ubiquitous away message, Trinh says.
What Trinh thinks is missing is a way to advertise our availability, and quickly survey the availability of others. "I used to live on AIM, and if someone was green, that meant they were totally up to chat. I was in love with that," he says. With smartphones, we're more connected than ever—there's Gchat, WeChat, Snapchat, Facebook Messenger, and more—but as connection has become the default, we've lost ways to announce, "I'm up to hang." "In a world where everyone's online all the time, what's the true availability signal on top of that?" Trinh asks. "That's what we're trying to build." Put another way, now that we carry chat on us at all times, the green dot is assumed. Trinh thinks there's value in making it explicit.
Doing so proved a delicate challenge. Trinh and co-founder Kelvin Kakugawa built five or six distinct versions of Free in the course of its development over the last year and a half. The first one was just a button that said, "I'm available." But test users were reluctant to push it. It revealed an important insight that gets to the heart of the problem: No one wants to look desperate for something to do.
With the final version of Free, released last week, users can broadcast one of three statuses: Going Out, Flexible, or Busy. At a glance, you can see what the "going out" folks are doing and jump into a chat session around those hangouts. As opposed to, say, seeing someone check into a restaurant on Foursquare, seeing a "going out" status on Free comes with an implied opening to invite yourself. Trinh and company have called it a "Horn of Gondor" for friends.
On the other side of things, there's the flexible status. It means what it says, but it's also an option for people who actively are looking for something to do. It solves the desperation problem with a deft bit of ambiguity.
Of course, not everyone frets about "social capital" and the optics of asking acquaintances to hang out. There are folks who will fire off a Facebook friend request to the person they just chatted up at a party, because that's what Facebook is for, what could possibly be weird about that? But there are also those who agonize over the protocol for sending Facebook friend requests, or avoid the problem entirely by leaving the friend requesting to others. Whether the pitfalls are real or imagined, relationships can be fraught, and technology can certainly bring new dimensions to these age-old anxieties. With Free, Trinh is hoping it might help us alleviate them, too.
Social neuroses aside, Free represents an understanding that "communication" and "connection" aren't just big monolithic problems that are solved automatically when you give everyone a smartphone. Human interaction is a nuanced and complicated thing, and we could benefit from tools that reflect this complexity. Sure, we could go on coordinating our social lives by text message—it isn't that bad. But we could've gone on sharing photos via text message, too, and that didn't stop Instagram from catching on. Maybe there really is a better way to hang out. I talked to Trinh the morning after the Golden State Warriors won the NBA Finals, and he said Game 6 had served as a satisfying proof of concept. "There were six different places I could've gone to watch the Warriors," he says, having seen friends hanging out various places on Free. "I wouldn't have known about any of them otherwise. That's pretty amazing."
Trinh acknowledges that hang-out logistics might seem like a provincial concern, and in a way, they are. Free is very much tailored for young people with busy social lives in big cities. There are surely more pressing problems to solve. Still, in a world where so many so-called social apps yield a bunch of people by themselves, staring into screens, it's hard to hate on anyone trying to bring people together in the actual, physical sense.
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Online Conspiracy Theories: The WIRED Guide
Everything you need to know about George Soros, Pizzagate, and the Berenstain Bears.
Humans are pattern seekers. It’s how we’ve always made sense of the world: Our ancestors wouldn’t have survived if they hadn’t realized that plants tend to flourish after rainfall or that sabertooth tigers tended to eat them. But sometimes we’re just a little too good at finding meaning in the noise, occasionally unable to separate real patterns from those of our own imagining. These days, your pattern matching skills will help you find Waldo, but they are also why celebrities’ faces keep popping up on tortillas. At their most paranoid and byzantine, these pattern-matching misfires are called conspiracy theories: unfounded, deeply held alternative explanations for how things are—often invoking some shadowy, malevolent force masterminding the coverup.
What's a conspiracy theory? It's an unfounded, deeply held alternative explanation for how things are—often invoking some shadowy, malevolent force masterminding the coverup.
Conspiracy theories thrive on the internet, but that’s certainly not where they were born. The Flat Earth Society has existed since the 1800s, and people have been speculating about which people are secretly living or dead at least since 68 AD, when Romans weren’t convinced their arsonist emperor Nero had actually committed suicide. But conspiracies and the digital world do mesh well, probably because they scratch similar itches in our not-quite-domesticated psyches. Internet culture runs on people sinking huge amounts of effort into obscure and seemingly pointless undertakings. And conspiracy theories are to people what an unsupervised toddler is to a bored border collie: It may not look quite like a sheep, but when you nip at its ankles, your brain sure feels like it’s doing its job. The combination of the endless internet and your pattern-hungry brain has managed to spread webs of red string farther than was ever before possible.
On the web, it’s often hard to distinguish real conspiracy theories from gleefully ironic acts of collective world building—and either way, speculating about which celebs are immortal vampires and which are secretly lizards is mostly harmless fun (and excellent meme fodder). But because many dark and usually racist pre-internet conspiracies have found new homes on the web, you’re always a digital hop and a skip from the mind-bending alternate universes controlled by many of the same people responsible for our fake news crisis.
The History of Online Conspiracy Theories
The kind of conspiracy theories that wreak havoc on the internet have knowable ancestors: the conspiracies that erupt every time there’s a significant advance in communication technology. Take mass printing. The Protocols of the Elders of Zion is a fictitious pamphlet cooked up in 1903 to spread the idea that a ghoulish Jewish cabal was bent on overthrowing the virtuous (Christian, white) nation state. Thanks to the high-speed rotary printing press, the conspiracists were able to slip it into libraries across Europe, and because people trusted their libraries, it was believed. The result: populations turning a blind eye to Russia’s Jewish pogroms, and, later, to Nazi concentration camps. Around the same time, the (also anti-Semitic) Dreyfus affair used newly cheap and reproducible lithographs to spread anti-Jewish imagery.
Then came the radio. People heard ghosts in its crackles and echoes. Enigmatic “number stations” have fascinated conspiracy theorists since World War I. (There’s a station called the Buzzer that’s been broadcasting a continuous pulse since the 1970s—conspiracy fans think it might be part of an automated Soviet doomsday project, and that the world will end when it goes off the air.) Television was subjected to the same kind of scrutiny and symbol hunting: In the 1940s, some thought Tom and Jerry was Nazi propaganda; footage of the moon landing has been checked and rechecked for evidence of fakery for decades.
Classic Internet Conspiracy Theories
You remember reading the classic children’s books The Berenstein Bears, right? Wrong. Those bears weren’t Berensteins at all, but rather Berenstains. Some Berenstein truthers are so sure of their childhood memories they’ve become convinced they hail from an alternate universe—and photoshopped that pesky “ai” out of many an old snapshot to prove it.
Immortal Vampire Celebrities
A number of old paintings and high-contrast, low-resolution daguerreotypes kinda sorta look like Nicolas Cage. And John Travolta, Michael Cera, Peter Dinklage, Eddie Murphy, and, most of all, Keanu Reeves. So obviously: Jack Black is really Paul Revere! Travolta can time travel, or he’s a vampire doomed to fight Cage forever! Reeves’ graceful aging is evidence of his immortality!
Jet Fuel Can’t Melt Steel Beams
It’s often hard to tell where online conspiracy theory ends and meme begins, and that’s especially true of the 9/11 truther adage “Jet fuel can’t melt steel beams.” For the record the statement is technically correct—but beams don’t have to liquefy for a building to collapse. The phrase became such a popular comeback among conspiracy theorists (likely because it contains a kernel of truth, and refuting requires knowledge of the finer points of the structural integrity of steel) that it eventually morphed into a shorthand for the whole conspiracy theory mindset.
Modern Flat Earthers
We are all victims of a vast “globularist” conspiracy spread by elites who don’t want you to know the truth: The planet is flat, gravity doesn’t exist, the moon and sun are the same size and orbit the north pole, and every single astronaut is a gosh darn liar. Why? Because the US faked the moon landing, duh. Why is Earth the only flat planet? It’s just unique! Why do objects fall if there’s no gravity? Listen, things just fall, OK?
Finland and Australia Don’t Exist
Forget the existence of 30-some million Finnish and Australian citizens. The internet knows the real truth: Those people are actors and bots, and their countries don’t even exist. Finland, the theory goes, was invented by Japan and Russia after the Cold War to secure additional fishing rights for sushi-loving Japan. And as for Australia? The UK actually just offed those convicts rather than ship them halfway around the world.
The Very Bad No Good Large Hadron Collider
We’ll admit it: Smacking subatomic particles together in an underground complex does seem like supervillain behavior. In the years leading up to the collider being turned on, many became convinced its experiments would open an Earth-gobbling black hole—and that the many delays in its construction weren’t due to its expensiveness, size, or mechanical complexity, but rather to time-traveling saboteurs trying to stop that black hole from destroying us all.
Seth Rich
Democratic National Committee staffer Seth Rich was murdered in July 2016. The murder is unsolved, but law enforcement suspect Rich was the victim of a robbery gone wrong. Right-wing conspiracy theorists have a different idea: Rich was responsible for the DNC email leak, and Clinton campaign chair John Podesta had him assassinated.
With new technology comes new gaps in the public’s understanding of their world, and, for conspiracy theorists, new ways to manipulate those gaps. So the thing that makes the internet wonderful—that it is a near-endless, low-cost repository of information accessible by billions—is also what makes its so fertile for conspiracy. Early internet users were a generation trained on in-person and over-the-phone communication. Digital slang was in its infancy, the emoji that give context to chats didn’t exist, and users were faced with more information than they’d ever been exposed to before. Not only did you often confuse your peers with your ambiguous late-night typing, it was easy to wade into the web and emerge confused and overstimulated yourself.
Which brought forth communities united by laser-focused citizen sleuthing. In 1996, a spate of anonymous word-salad gibberish posts, all entitled Markovian Parallax Denigrate, flooded Usenet groups. Internet sleuths noticed that one of these messages seemed to come from controversial (and conspiracy-minded) antiwar activist Susan Lindauer, who claimed to be a CIA asset and to have reliable intel that 9/11 was an inside job. The conspiracy engines started turning and suddenly phrases like “refrigerate morphine napkin inland Janeiro nameable yearbook hark” were seen as the CIA’s digital-age take on the number station. At the same time, usenets devoted to Whitewater (a corruption probe focusing on Clinton real estate investments) sprang up and connected dots like Bill Clinton’s alleged cocaine habit, handwriting samples, and plane crashes to claim that White House deputy counsel Vince Foster’s suicide was actually a murder.
When video and easily manipulable images became more common, the landscape got loopier. Admit it, you were fooled by a Photoshopped image or two back in the day. (Remember Helicopter Shark?) But you don’t need to start ’shopping to fall down a photographic rabbit hole. Love (or hate) a celebrity? With a few keystrokes, you can comb through just about every paparazzi photo ever taken of them and watch videos of their interviews and public appearances for hours on end until you’re positive there’s some funny business going on. An alleged aversion to pens and emoji-heavy Instagram captions convinced some that Glee star Lea Michele can’t read. A monomaniacal focus on Katy Perry’s eye and eyebrow shape has led some YouTubers to believe the singer is actually murdered child-pageant star JonBenét Ramsey all grown up.
As internet access expanded, the massive scale of web conversation contributed to some weird delusions. Large groups innocently chatting about their childhoods have spawned some of the most enduring internet conspiracy theories. So many people are positive that they saw a nonexistent movie called Shazaam, in which comedian Sinbad supposedly played a genie. He has repeatedly denied ever starring in such a film. This collective misremembering is called the Mandela Effect because apparently heaps of people also remember Nelson Mandela dying in prison. (It’s also responsible for frequently misquoted movie lines like “Play it again, Sam” and “Luke, I am your father.”)
The same forces are at work on today’s internet, too. We may have GIFs and emoji to bring affect to our text-based messages, but, partly due to the internet’s irony-soaked culture, it’s still almost impossible to tell who is being serious. (This phenomenon is so prevalent that it’s entered the internet rule book and is now known as Poe’s Law, after a poster named Nathan Poe who was baffled by creationists and those parodizing them.) Poe’s Law is how jokes and memes jump the fence to become full-blown conspiracy theories on today’s internet. A decade ago, a satirical post citing some seemingly missing arm freckles and angsty lyrics, pronounced Avril Lavigne—like so many celebs before her—dead, and replaced by a dopplegänger named Melissa. In 2016, a quip about US senator Ted Cruz being the Zodiac Killer has blossomed into a mythology of its own, even though he was an infant during most of the killings. (Clues: Cruz sort of/not really looks like an old police sketch and has a slightly unsettling—perhaps serial-killer-esque, apparently—obsession with having a pantry well-stocked with cans of soup.)
Citizen sleuths—or, as some call themselves these days, citizen journalists—have only become more prevalent as access to information continues to increase. And sometimes these conspiracies do turn out to be true, like the Pixar connected universe theory, which links together dozens of Easter eggs, like recurring brand names, and split-second cameos to conclude that all Pixar films take place in the same world. Disney finally confirmed the theory in 2017.
At the most bizarre and all-encompassing, you get the internet edition of the now centuries-old obsession with the Illuminati: a secret cabal of (sometimes alien, sometimes reptilian, sometimes alien-reptile) elites who control the world to suit their own ends by meeting in underground bunkers and operating a celebrity-murder and -cloning station headed by Queen Elizabeth II. Almost every major celebrity has been accused of being a member. Some have dealt with it skillfully by ignoring it. Others, like Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, who some believe to be an extraterrestrial lizard person because of his round eyes and awkward mannerisms, have played directly into conspiracy theorists hands by saying things like “I am not a lizard.” Which, of course, is what a lizard would say.
Q Who? Tracing the rise of the baroque criminal-political conspiracy theory known as QAnon.
October 5, 2017: President Trump makes an ambiguous comment about a military dinner being “the calm before the storm,” sparking conspiracist speculation.
October 28, 2017: An anonymous user who later claimed to be a high-level government informant writes a cryptic post bursting with far-right conspiracy bait about Hillary Clinton, Huma Abedin, and George Soros on 4chan’s infamous /pol/ board. The user is nicknamed Q, after the Department of Energy’s top-secret security-clearance level.
October 31, 2017: A post titled “Bread Crumbs–Q Clearance Patriot” asks rhetorical questions about POTUS, Michael Flynn, Antifa, and others.
November 2017: Calling themselves QAnon or the Storm, Q's followers spread a grab bag of Trump-era conspiracy tropes—part Pizzagate, part Seth Rich—on 4chan and 8chan.
November 1, 2017: A screenshot of “Bread Crumbs” is posted to the r/conspiracy subreddit, where it racks up nearly 600 votes and more than 500 comments over the next two months.
November 20, 2017: Q posts are compiled and released on Google Drive as “The Book of Q.”
December 19, 2017: New York magazine publishes an explainer on the conspiracy, noting that the QAnon hashtag had been tweeted so many times it had become untrackable.
March 30, 2018: Roseanne Barr tweets support for the QAnon theory that President Trump is a mastermind saving children from pedophiles. Within a day, the post amassed more than 5,000 retweets and nearly 16,000 likes.
March 30, 2018: Twitter posts a Moment about Barr’s tweets. The Daily Beast publishes a QAnon explainer; the next day, CNN, Newsweek, and others follow suit.
June 24, 2018: YouTuber Prayingmedic posts a video titled “Q for Beginners.” The video has racked up more than 380,000 views.
June 29, 2018: Snopes reports QAnon billboards appearing in Georgia and Oklahoma.
July 23, 2018: The Daily Dot interviews sellers of QAnon merchandise on Amazon, Etsy, and TeeSpring.
July 31, 2018: QAnon devotees attend a Trump rally in Tampa, Florida, holding "We Are Q" signs.
August 24, 2018: Prominent QAnon promoter Michael "Lionel" Lebron poses for a photo with President Trump in the Oval Office.
September 12, 2018: Reddit bans the main QAnon subreddit, r/great-awakening, for “inciting violence, harassment, and the dissemination of personal information.”
At the most disturbing, you get Pizzagate: the widely debunked theory that a secret society of pedophiles ran a child-trafficking ring out of a DC pizzeria loosely connected to former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. Pizzagate is a good example of a relatively new conspiratogenic process. Because these days the internet can foster conspiracy by shrinking your world rather than growing it: Between algorithmically reinforced filter bubbles and topic-focused communities, it’s easy to live your life almost wholly within a conspiratorial alternate universe. Speculation inside the Pizzagate echo chamber (which got even more echoey after proponents of the theory were kicked off more mainstream platforms like Reddit) eventually reached such a pitch that a believer drove across multiple states to fire shots within the pizzeria. Fortunately no one was injured.
But really, the worst is likely yet to come. We’re facing a complete crisis of digital trust. Theories about paid “crisis actors” pretending to be disaster victims are nothing new—the black children integrating schools in Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1957 were also accused of being paid shills—but these days, crisis actor conspiracies follow every protest, every riot, every shooting. Establishing what is real and what is fake is only going to get harder. New technology that relies on machine learning can manipulate video and audio to seamlessly simulate interviews and speeches that never occurred. Similar tech has been leveraged to create “deepfakes”—nonconsensual pornography in which a victim’s face is digitally grafted onto an adult performer’s body. It doesn’t take much imagination to see how this tech could be used by propagandists to spread misinformation about celebrities, world leaders, or, really, anyone. Seeing images hasn’t been believing for a while now, but with AI-enabled fakery, nothing will be.
The Future of Online Conspiracy
So how do these things actually get started, and how do we stop them? Take the idea that liberal Jewish billionaire George Soros is actually an evil puppet master bent on selling out the interests of the average American for his own ends. Soros has been cast as the 21st century Elder of Zion. And if you ask certain (typically, ultra-far-right) corners of the internet, he’s bankrolled everything from the Women’s March to mass-shooting crisis actors to Pizzagate to the Snopes articles debunking these claims, for little other reason than his being liberal, a billionaire, and, of course, Jewish. So how does a swath of the internet find that credible?
It starts with the actual puppet masters: propagandists. In Soros’ case, that’s the Kremlin and American nativists whose aims are (maybe or maybe not) coincidentally aligned with Russia’s. Soros’ actual beef with both groups goes back many decades—he is a prolific funder of progressive political groups in both the US and in former Eastern Bloc nations. But really, the mythos of Soros the Boogeyman has very little to do with the man himself and everything to do with his supposed agenda: globalism. Russia wants to keep US influence away from its borders, and white supremacists and other purveyors of America First politics want a way to demonize their opposition. But they can’t just come out and say that.
Elements of a Conspiracy Theory
The Beautiful Mind
Multiparagraph screeds (or very long YouTube videos) connect ever-unlikelier dots to come to a scandalous conclusion. Every conspiracy theory needs one of these to refer back to as a kind of digital holy text. Example: the Flat Earth Society FAQ page.
The Photo Comparison
Photo collages are how conspiracy theorists try to prove that one of these things is (or isn’t) like the other. The subjects tend to be pixelated, shot from odd angles, or straight up photoshopped. Example: posts claiming the grieving families of children killed in mass shootings are crisis actors because they look similar to the parents of other slain children.
The Symbologist
Of course, all these world-running secret societies need some way to communicate without being caught. Some conspiracy theorists specialize in spotting alleged secret symbols, and then posting guides so fellow sleuths can find the hidden meaning in that gesture, image, or hashtag. Example: the intense analysis of Jay-Z and Beyonce flashing triangle hand symbols representing the Eye of Providence and their Illuminati membership. Or, you know, Jay-Z’s record label.
The Constant Contrary Comment
For every article or post about a major celebrity or organization, political entity or issue, there is bound to be someone down there calling you an idiot sheep blinkered to the harsh reality of your sheeply life. Example: Seriously, just about every comments section. But especially on articles making wild claims like: “NASA has been to the Moon.”
The Alex Jones
This form of conspiracy theorizing—which can occur in either video or text format, though it’s most common amongst YouTubers and guests on Hannity—needs no evidence to support its outlandish claims. It just needs fervor. They are so furious/hurt/scandalized/righteous about this thing you’ve never heard of but definitely should care about. You should be too. This thing is BAD. It’s SAD. It’s UNAMERICAN. That’s all you need to know. Example: Infowars, Trump tweets ending in WITCH HUNT!
Creating the illusion of populism, of being a true narrative put forth by everyday people who refuse to be hoodwinked anymore, is where their propaganda power lies. On the internet it is exceedingly easy to manufacture the illusion of popular support with bot armies and coordinated hashtag campaigns that can drive #soros and #globalism to the top of a platform’s trending topics. People who are conspiracy minded and distrustful of authority want to hear from people like themselves, and internet users’ record for being able to distinguish human from bot, earnestness from irony, genuine grassroots movement from Russian-led bamboozlement campaign is dismal.
What about folks who are a touch more skeptical? Well, credulity is context-dependent. A wild story you’d probably dismiss on a street corner sounds more plausible coming from a source you believe in. And slowly, over the past two decades, for both better and worse, the internet has won people over at the same moment that our collective faith in time-honored institutions is collapsing. Is it so outlandish to think the fluoride in the water supply is actually bad for you when stories about pharmaceutical companies paying doctors to endorse their products or Big Sugar funding organizations that demonize fat come out all the time? Even people who will dismiss what’s trending on Twitter may believe the headlines flitting across their screens—and, as you may have heard, the news ecosystem is flooded with Kremlin-linked fake news.
The internet also makes it easy to find pseudo-experts to lend credibility to your theory. As celebrities, Soros-truthers like Roseanne Barr and Infowars’ Alex Jones’ statements automatically carry authority (and hence, truthiness) for many, and social media gives them unprecedented reach. Even if you’re leery of celebrity endorsements, most people automatically trust people with PhDs and academic journal credentials. But between sketchy online journals willing to publish anything for a fee, sketchy professors willing to sound off on topics well outside their expertise for a fee, and the corporations and interest groups willing to pay them, it is very, very easy to get fooled. Propaganda experts call this “information laundering": By the time the information travels from propagandist to bot to veteran conspiracy theorists to authoritative spokesperson to Hannity to news articles from respected sources debunking the theory, the grimy manipulations of those first few cycles have already been washed away, drowned out by the volume of support and backlash created by the cycles following.
That process has been recycled and reconfigured for hundreds of years, and probably millennia. Trying to stop people from making up stories to support their own agendas by flagging problematic social media posts would be like trying to halt the tides with a well-placed sand castle. Because running underneath the success of all of this is a social ill that long, long predates the internet: prejudice. The Soros conspiracy theory and The Protocols of the Elders of Zion before it (and tales of baby-eating, well-poisoning Middle Ages Jews before that) only work because people are suspicious—or really, fearful—of difference. The only antidote to such a time-tested, targeted strike is empathy and understanding. Fortunately, we have access to empathy engines centuries past didn’t have: relatively unfettered access to other (yes, global) communities, and something approaching democratic access to education. In other words, we have the internet.
Here’s One Way to Reform an Internet Conspiracy Theorist
There is really no arguing with a veteran conspiracy theorist. Any attempt to debunk their theories just gets incorporated into the theory itself—you’re either with the freedom fighters battling shadowy oppressors, or you’re part of the coverup. But a recent study, which analyzed 10 years of conversation and millions of posts on popular conspiracy subreddits, showed that that worldview takes some time to solidify.
How Liberals Amped Up a Parkland Shooting Conspiracy Theory
Too often, outraged tweeters just call more attention to the thing they’re trying to pillory. That’s what happened to liberals scandalized by the far-right conspiracy theory that the outspoken high school students who survived the Parkland shooting were actually “crisis actors” hired to spread anti-gun propaganda. Repugnant? Absolutely. But the tsunami of criticism and debunkings just drove more people to the websites spinning that lie in the first place.
YouTube Will Link Directly to Wikipedia to Fight Conspiracy Theories
Conspiracy videos do bonkers traffic on YouTube. But rather than confront their conspiratorial video creators, YouTube is outsourcing their fake news problem to Wikipedia. Yes, the understaffed nonprofit web encyclopedia whose articles are editable by just about anyone. What could possibly go wrong?
Inside the Conspiracy Theory That Turned Syria’s First Responders Into Terrorists
The White Helmets are volunteer civilians who rush in wherever bombs fall on war-torn Syria. You’ve probably seen photographs of them pulling dusty children out of the rubble. Stand-up folks, right? Well, not according to the certain corners of the internet. Here’s how Russian foreign policy and American nativists teamed up to turn first responders into ISIS-saluting boogeymen.
The Internet Protocols of the Elders of Zion
Some conspiracy theories long predate the internet, but few have as genuine a claim to antiquity as the idea that a cabal of sinister Jews is out to take over the world and/or eat your baby and poison your well with plague. The root of this conspiracy? Anti-Semitism. And despite all the time that’s passed since the Black Death, anti-Semitism and its chosen conspiracy theory formula are still alive and well—and taking over the internet.
To Make Your Conspiracy Theory Legit, Find an ‘Expert’Bots are an effective tool to create the illusion of vast popular support, but they won’t convince anyone a cockeyed theory is true—they just fluff the confidence of existing truthers. To win over skeptics, conspiracy theories need to create an air of legitimacy. But for theories held together by cobwebs made of coincidence and finger pointing, that can be hard to pull off. Unless, of course, you can find yourself an expert.
This guide was last updated on October 4, 2018.
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Emma Grey Ellis is a staff writer at WIRED, specializing in internet culture and propaganda, as well as writing about planetary science and other things space-related. She graduated from Colgate University with a degree in English, and she resides in San Francisco.
Why You Can Never Argue with Conspiracy Theorists
Alex Jones is not the only guy making a career out of conspiracy theories. They are everywhere on the internet and here's why you have no choice but to ignore them.
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What is a Mosquito Hat?
Mosquito hats will not prevent bites on the hands, or other exposed areas.
Mosquito hats can be used in situations where insect repellent spray is not appropriate.
Mosquito bites can be a nuisance, as well as a serious health risk.
Mosquito hats may help treat individuals who are allergic to mosquitos.
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Bites by mosquitos and other flying insects have always been an annoyance - and a serious health risk. Millions of people have been stricken by mosquito-caused malaria, and the recent outbreaks of West Nile virus have also been attributed to mosquito bites. Throughout the years, people have been seeking relief from the buzzing and biting nuisances, and one of the most practical solutions for keeping the biting bugs away is by wearing a mosquito hat.
Mosquito hats are brimmed hats that have a length of fine mesh mosquito netting sewn around the rim that drops down to the collar area. Once you put the hat on, you cinch in the netting by way of a drawstring, keeping the pests from biting you on the face, ears and neck. This hat with its attached veil protects hunters, hikers, fisherman, boaters and campers in even the most infested surroundings. The addition of a quality insect repellent beneath the netting promises a bug-free experience while enjoying the great outdoors.
Mosquito hats come in several different styles: brimmed, ball cap, and helmet. Available in both men's and women's sizes, they are also available in a few color choices, primarily khaki, green and camouflage. Most mosquito hats are compact accessories; they either fold into themselves in a pocket on the hat's brim, or they collapse to fit into their own handy carrying pouch. The majority of mosquito hats are constructed of nylon fabric for its lightweight and weatherproof properties - and to allow for easy packing.
These useful hats are usually sold by camping and fishing outfitters or by sports gear companies. Mosquito hats range in price from just a few dollars to the top-of-the-line versions that can sell for as much as $100. In addition to protecting against mosquitos, these hats also aid in protecting against other types of flying pests such as black flies, no-see-ums, gnats and midges. If you are an outdoor enthusiast, carrying a mosquito hat with you can be a sensible solution to an age-old problem.
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'Disturbing': Turtles found chained together used in religious ceremony, officials say
By Bobby Cherry
Two turtles found with holes drilled in their shells and a chain connecting the two are believed to have been used as part of a religious ceremony.Officials in Miami, Florida, say the chain had plastic voodoo dolls, cinnamon cloves and two photos of an unknown couple attached to it.A woman found the turtles and quickly called authorities.“It’s pretty crazy when we see cases like this,” Yaritza Acosta, one of the people who has cared for the turtles, told WSVN-TV. “We’ve seen these kinds of cases in the past involving Muscovy ducks and things like that, but I’ve never seen a case like this with turtles chained together, so it’s pretty disturbing.”One of the turtles has respiratory problems an X-ray showed.“Right now, his buoyancy is off,” Acosta said. “He’s still able to eat pretty well, so he is in our outside pool doing well in that regard, but as soon as he recovers fully, we feel that he will be at 100 percent.”Acosta said the other turtle was in better condition and received daily cleanings and soaks."He healed well from that, so he was good to go fairly soon, and he’s out there,” Acosta said. That turtle was released into a lake at a park.As for the other turtle, when he recovers, the turtle will live in a private sanctuary at the Animal Rescue Mission.
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Two turtles found with holes drilled in their shells and a chain connecting the two are believed to have been used as part of a religious ceremony.
Officials in Miami, Florida, say the chain had plastic voodoo dolls, cinnamon cloves and two photos of an unknown couple attached to it.
A woman found the turtles and quickly called authorities.
“It’s pretty crazy when we see cases like this,” Yaritza Acosta, one of the people who has cared for the turtles, told WSVN-TV. “We’ve seen these kinds of cases in the past involving Muscovy ducks and things like that, but I’ve never seen a case like this with turtles chained together, so it’s pretty disturbing.”
One of the turtles has respiratory problems an X-ray showed.
“Right now, his buoyancy is off,” Acosta said. “He’s still able to eat pretty well, so he is in our outside pool doing well in that regard, but as soon as he recovers fully, we feel that he will be at 100 percent.”
Acosta said the other turtle was in better condition and received daily cleanings and soaks.
"He healed well from that, so he was good to go fairly soon, and he’s out there,” Acosta said. That turtle was released into a lake at a park.
As for the other turtle, when he recovers, the turtle will live in a private sanctuary at the Animal Rescue Mission.
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Cleveland Browns fire head coach Mike Pettine, general manager Ray Farmer
Top headlines: Cuyahoga County Prosecutor to meet with Cleveland-area clergy members in wake of Tamir Rice decision; Douglas Prade's daughters believe he's innocent of 1997 murder
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and MICHAEL BRATTON
Morning Edition Host
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Browns head coach Mike Pettine was fired Sunday evening after 3-13 season.
Courtesy of WKSU file photo
Morning headlines for Monday, January 4, 2016:
Cuyahoga County Prosecutor to meet with Cleveland-area clergy members in wake of Tamir Rice decision
Douglas Prade's daughters believe he's innocent of 1997 murder
Gov. Kasich continues down presidential campaign trail in New Hampshire
Ohio Supreme Court considering whether the state’s “Good Samaritan” law applies to non-medical help in emergencies
Ohio saw largest number of job openings during fall 2015
Area ski resorts still waiting to open
The Browns have fired coach Mike Pettine following a 3-13 season. Pettine went 10-22 in two years, dropping 18 of his final 21 games after a promising 7-4 start in 2014. The Browns announced Pettine's firing — and the dismissal of general manager Ray Farmer — shortly after a 28-12 home loss to the rival Pittsburgh Steelers. Pettine's job security had been in doubt for months, and not even owner Jimmy Haslam's vow at the start of training camp not to "blow things up" could stop another regime change in Cleveland. Haslam says he takes responsibility for a disastrous couple of years. 11632, NFL learning curve. Haslam promoted a systems analyst on the team to be the head of football operations. Sashi Brown will first pick a coach and then a general manager.
The prosecutor who recommended to a grand jury that a white police officer not be indicted for the fatal shooting of Tamir Rice, a 12-year-old black boy, will meet with Cleveland-area ministers to discuss the decision. Cleveland.com reports that the meeting between the ministers and Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Tim McGinty is scheduled for Tuesday morning. A grand jury last week voted not to indict patrolman Timothy Loehmann for shooting Tamir outside a Cleveland recreation center in November 2014. McGinty said it's "indisputable" that Tamir was reaching for a real-looking pellet gun tucked in his waistband when Loehmann opened fire within two seconds of a cruiser pulling next to the boy. McGinty has been criticized by Tamir's family and others for recommending that Loehmann and patrolman Frank Garmback not be indicted.
The daughters of a former Akron police captain who is seeking a new trial in the 1997 slaying of his ex-wife say they steadfastly believe their father couldn't have killed their mother. The Beacon Journal reports that one daughter of 69-year-old Douglas Prade says the absence of Prade's DNA on a bite mark on Dr. Margo Prade's blood-stained lab coat shows their father is innocent. Another daughter says prosecutors are engaged in a "witch hunt" as they fight Prade's efforts to obtain a new trial. The newspaper reports there's no timetable for when a judge in Akron might rule on the new trial question. Prade was convicted by a jury of aggravated murder and other charges in 1998 and received a sentence of 26 years to life.
Republican presidential candidate John Kasich is returning to New Hampshire for a week of campaign events across the state. Kasich has set his sights on a strong performance in the state's first-in-the-nation primary Feb. 9 to break him from the crowded GOP pack. The Ohio governor has struggled to gain traction with his campaign, but he says he is not discouraged. His campaign says Kasich will hold his 50th town-hall meeting in New Hampshire on Wednesday.
The Ohio Supreme Court is weighing whether the state's “Good Samaritan” law should apply to individuals trying to provide non-medical help in emergencies. The court plans to hear from both sides Tuesday in the case of a man sued after his unsuccessful efforts to free another man whose leg was pinned between a truck and a loading dock in Fairfield. The injured man, Dennis Carter, lost his leg after the man trying to help him inadvertently caused the truck to roll back and crush the leg. Attorneys for Larry Reese say he shouldn't be held liable for the accident because Ohio's good Samaritan law protects people trying to help in such circumstances.
Ohio saw more job openings during a 30-day period this fall that at any time since it began tracking those numbers in 2011. The Columbus Dispatch reports that statewide there were 240,000 job openings posted between mid-October and mid-November. Nearly 50,000 were in central Ohio and more than 40 percent offered annual pay of $50,000 or more. The biggest demand was for truck drivers, followed by registered nurses, retail workers and customer-service representatives. There were 255,000 people officially listed by the state as unemployed during that period. More than half the openings required a high-school diploma or GED and about 1 in 5 jobs required a bachelor's degree.
Despite lake effect snow across the region, many Northeast Ohio ski resorts remain closed today.
This winter's unseasonably warmer weather is cited as the reason for the closures.
Summit County’s Boston Mills and Brandywine ski areas have yet to announce when they’ll open for the season.
Alpine Valley Ski Resort in Geauga County, however, is open, but with limited slope and lift access.
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Ohio Attorney General sues Cleveland car dealer for failing to provide titles
State of Ohio to pay Cleveland man $337,000 for wrongful imprisonment
Cleveland mayor warns of layoffs, cuts if income tax hike isn�t approved
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Ohio EPA: Unacceptable lead levels in Chagrin Falls school drinking water
New poll shows Gov. Kasich tied for third in New Hampshire among Republican presidential hopefuls
New questions arise about who knew what and when about lead in Sebring's water
Akron-based FirstMerit Bank to merge with Huntington
Kasich gains steam in New Hampshire
The head of Northern Ohio's U.S. attorney�s office is moving on
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Youngstown-Warren Regional Airport will have regular passenger service again
Mayor Frank Jackson pledges Tamir Rice investigation will be thorough
Ohio welcomes its first poet laureate on Friday
Ohio's infant-mortality rates drop slightly
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Pluto: The Browns split from Manziel is long overdue
Pluto: Why Hue Jackson is the right coach for the Browns
Baseball Hall of Fame voter Terry Pluto calls for more transparency
Pluto: The Browns bring "Moneyball" to Cleveland with latest hire
Browns owner Haslam unveils new strategy for rebuilding team
Pluto: Browns fans endure yet another "rumor season"
Pluto: How Terry Bowden took Akron from 1-11 to bowl champs
Funding for NASA Glenn, RNC security included in omnibus spending bill deal
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Shocking video shows Utah trooper being struck by a car
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A Utah Highway Patrol trooper is recovering after being struck by a car during a snowstorm in Sardine Canyon in northern Utah.Utah Highway Patrol Lt. Lee Perry says Sgt. Cade Brenchley suffered some broken bones during the Sunday incident but is expected to make a full recovery.Brenchley was struck by the vehicle as he was outside his car checking on other accident victims on state Route 91.The road had wet and icy conditions.He is being treated for injuries to his head and lower extremities.His injuries are non-life threatening.
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A Utah Highway Patrol trooper is recovering after being struck by a car during a snowstorm in Sardine Canyon in northern Utah.
Utah Highway Patrol Lt. Lee Perry says Sgt. Cade Brenchley suffered some broken bones during the Sunday incident but is expected to make a full recovery.
Brenchley was struck by the vehicle as he was outside his car checking on other accident victims on state Route 91.
The road had wet and icy conditions.
He is being treated for injuries to his head and lower extremities.
His injuries are non-life threatening.
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Prince William’s guilty pleasure
Miriam Habtesellasie
We didn't expect this of the Royal!
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When it comes to fairytale love stories, few are as dreamy as that of the Duke and the Duchess of Cambridge. But just when we thought that Kate and Wills were immune to the daily bickering experienced by other couples, news came through about the pair’s right royal bust up.
During a tour of Luton’s Youthscape charity the Prince and his wife initially put on a united front. But things quickly began to go sour when Wills spotted an opportunity to indulge in one of his favourite past-times.
The prince wasted no time in grabbing the controls for a game of FIFA16, squaring up against 17-year-old opponent Jermaine Hylton. He said:
“I used to play, ahem, occasionally when I worked on the night shift. It was a good way to stay awake.”
There’s no doubt that Will got very involved in the game. And celebrated (perhaps prematurely) on a goal by cheering and pumping the air. Sadly it turned out to be offside – not even Royals can negotiate that rule.
The game proved to be a bit too distracting however, as the Prince failed to notice that Kate had moved on with their tour. When it dawned on him, he hurriedly made his excuses to follow her, saying:
“Oh my wife has gone, I’ll be in trouble. I have been accused of playing too long on computer games.”
Kate probably isn’t too annoyed though. Will later made amends by breaking off a piece of his chocolate Rice Krispies square for her. And Kate accepted the sweet peace offering – made by the charity’s teenagers – with a dainty nibble.
And the Duchess also had a guilty pleasure confession of her own. While chatting to a teen playing the card game UNO, she revealed that the game was one of her favourite’s growing up.
So it seems that the score is finally even between our favourite Royal couple!
Words: Assisted by Rachael Davis
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Things get tense from time-to-time at Anmer Hall!
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Gail Honeyman has started the story called Voice – now it’s up to you to finish the opening chapter.
Helen was awake now. Unlike her real phone, the landline hardly ever rang. The sound reminded her of childhood; for years, her parents had kept theirs on a special teak table in the hall. It had a green velvet-cushioned seat, and there was a drawer for dried-up pens, directories and, most importantly, the family address book. Leather-bound, A souvenir from Fuengirola, it held the contact details of everyone they’d ever interacted with, regularly and ruthlessly updated in five different sets of handwriting. She could still picture her mum sitting there, ankles neatly crossed, still hear her dad answering calls with a recitation of their home number. Helen reached across for the handset, saw that it displayed a number with the same area code as her own. Something – she’d wonder what, later – made her press the green button. ‘Hello?’ she said.
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Here's a breakdown of all 12 games involving a York-Adams League team on Friday, Sept. 14
Friday, Sept. 14, game capsules for contests involving York-Adams League football programs Here's a breakdown of all 12 games involving a York-Adams League team on Friday, Sept. 14 Check out this story on yorkdispatch.com: https://www.yorkdispatch.com/story/sports/high-school/football/2018/09/12/friday-sept-14-game-capsules-york-adams-league-football-teams/1259538002/
JACOB CALVIN MEYER, 717-505-5406/@jcalvinmeyer Published 1:25 p.m. ET Sept. 12, 2018 | Updated 3:42 p.m. ET Sept. 12, 2018
York Catholic finished off a 24-7 victory over Susquehannock on Monday night. The game was halted by lightning at halftime last Friday. York Catholic will face Littlestown on short rest this coming Friday in a key York-Adams League Division III contest. DISPATCH FILE PHOTO(Photo: The York Dispatch)Buy Photo
Division I: Red Lion travels to undefeated Central York in a game that's been close in recent years.
Division II: The top two teams from the division last season, Susquehannock and Dover, face off.
Division III: Defending co-champion Littlestown travels to fellow co-champion York Catholic.
The following are high school football game capsules for York-Adams League teams for Friday, Sept. 14. All games are at 7 p.m.
►Red Lion (2-1) at Central York (3-0): This match-up could decide key placement in Division I at the end of the season. The Panthers are coming off a dramatic victory last week, with quarterback Cade Pribula driving Central downfield in the closing minutes of the game to defeat Hempfield. Pribula accounted for all five Central touchdowns in the 35-31 win. The Lions lost their first game of the season last Friday, falling 28-19 against Chambersburg. The two squads have split the last two meetings. Central won 24-21 last year, and Red Lion triumphed 28-18 the year before.
►Dallastown (1-2) at South Western (0-3): Despite high expectations entering the season, the Wildcats started 0-2. Dallastown got back on track last week, though, defeating Penn Manor 42-7. Last year’s D-I Offensive Player of the Year, Nyzair Smith, broke out with 290 yards and five TDs in the win. South Western is still winless, with 20-plus-point losses to Gettysburg, Chambersburg and Carlisle. The Wildcats have defeated the Mustangs 35-7 each of the last two seasons. South Western hasn’t won this match-up since 2011.
Central York's Cade Pribula, back, looks to pass to Saahir Cornelius during football action against West York at Central York High School in Springettsbury Township, Friday, Aug. 24, 2018. Central York won the game 38-14. This Friday, Central plays host to Red Lion in a key York-Adams Division I contest. Dawn J. Sagert photo (Photo: The York Dispatch)
►New Oxford (1-2) at York High (3-0): The Bearcats have been lighting up their opponents all season, while the Colonials are happy to have a win next to their name. York High has outscored its opponents 160-30 in three games, including a 42-14 win over Cedar Crest last week. New Oxford, coming off its first victory since 2015 two weeks ago, lost 43-28 to Solanco last Friday. The Bearcats won this match-up 63-17 last season.
►Spring Grove (1-2) at Northeastern (1-2): The Bobcats won their first game of the season last week, defeating Mifflin County, 21-19. Northeastern hopes to get back to .500 against the Rockets, a team the Bobcats haven’t lost to since 2013. Spring Grove lost last week to Conestoga Valley — the same team that gave New Oxford its first win since 2015. Northeastern won last season 59-30.
►Susquehannock (1-2) at Dover (1-2): After winning the first game of their season, the Warriors have dropped two straight games to D-III schools. Susquehannock lost 29-14 to Littlestown and 24-3 to York Catholic the last two weeks. Dover, which finished second behind Susquehannock last year in D-II, lost its first two games of the season but won 35-13 at Red Land last week. The two teams have split this series since 2014. Susquehannock, the defending D-II champ, won 24-17 last season. Neither squad has won two straight years since Dover in 2013 and 2014.
Burns helps York Catholic beat Susquehannnock
►Eastern York (2-1) at York Suburban (1-2): The Golden Knights started their season with an impressive 2-0 start, which matched their win total from 2017. Eastern was handed its first loss of the season last week, though, falling 40-14 to Littlestown. After starting 0-2, Suburban defeated East Pennsboro 49-20. The Trojans defeated Eastern 42-12 last season.
Central York takes on West York during the season opener. West York was 0-3 in nonleague action, but gets a fresh start with the beginning of York-Adams League Division II play this coming Friday. DISPATCH FILE PHOTO (Photo: The York Dispatch)
►West York (0-3) at Gettysburg (1-2): The Bulldogs are the only 0-3 team in D-II, but that’s just as much about who they've played as how they’ve played. West York’s losses this season are to Central York, Shippensburg and Lampeter-Strasburg — the latter two by one score. Those three teams have a combined record of 9-0. Gettysburg blew out South Western to start the season but fell to Bishop McDevitt and Waynesboro the last two weeks. The Warriors defeated the Bulldogs 30-12 last season.
►Kennard-Dale (2-1) at Big Spring (2-1): In the odd-numbered Division II, the Rams are the only Y-A team to play a nonleague opponent this week. So far this season, K-D’s defense has proven to be one of the better units in the league. The Rams defeated Pequea Valley 33-0 to start the season and Biglerville 34-0 last week. Big Spring defeated Biglerville 46-20 in Week Zero and lost to Boiling Springs 34-19 last week. The two teams didn’t play last season.
►Bermudian Springs (2-1) at Hanover (0-3): After starting the season 2-0, the Eagles lost 37-17 last week to Shippensburg. The Nighthawks are one of three winless teams in the division, losing last week to Greencastle-Antrim 43-7. Bermudian won 27-7 last year. Hanover last won this match-up in 2015.
►Biglerville (0-3) at Fairfield (1-1): Despite roster number concerns and having their second game of the season canceled, the Green Knights won 31-23 last week against James Buchanan. Biglerville is one of three winless teams in the division after its blowout loss to Kennard-Dale last week. Fairfield won this match-up 53-14 last season.
►York Tech (0-3) at Delone Catholic (3-0): The Squires have been one of the most impressive teams in the Y-A League so far this season. Delone has outscored its opponents 163-26, with its most impressive win coming last week when the Squires defeated Steel-High 54-19. York Tech, meanwhile, is off to another slow start. The winless Spartans have been outscored 134-20 this season. Delone defeated York Tech 48-0 last year.
VIDEO: York Catholic head coach Eric Depew discusses his team's 24-3 win over Susquehannock and QB West Burns. York Dispatch
►Littlestown (3-0) at York Catholic (3-0): This match-up could be a pivotal game in deciding the D-III crown. Last season, the Thunderbolts and the Irish shared the D-III title and are poised to finish in the top half of the division again. Littlestown’s three wins are over Boiling Springs, Susquehannock and Eastern York. York Catholic’s victories are against York Suburban, Trinity and Susquehannock. York Catholic defeated Littlestown last season, handing the Thunderbolts their only division loss. Littlestown hasn’t beaten the Fighting Irish since 2013.
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How Could Such A Tragedy Happen Again After The Last Time We Did Absolutely Nothing?
Seventeen children are dead after yet another school shooting, this time at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. The shooter used an AR-15-style semiautomatic rifle, and carried multiple magazines with him. It's time again for the thoughts and the prayers, for the ritual Fox News/NRA condemnations of "gun free zones," for the conspiracy theories and harassment of grieving parents by crazy people who read online that they're merely "crisis actors," and for the predictable Republican explanation that guns aren't the problem, mental health is the problem -- followed, after a decent interval, by calls to cut Medicaid and other help for mental health. And of course it's time for the usual surge in sales of semiautomatic rifles, because gun sales almost always spike after a mass shooting.
Donald Trump is doing his part in The Narrative:
And for once, Trump is at least slightly right: Of the shooter, a 19-year-old who had been expelled from the school for unspecified disciplinary problems, a former classmate said he was "a troubled kid" who liked to show off pictures of his gun collection and liked to joke about shooting up the school, saying he "knows the layout of the school" and "he could pinpoint where the kids would be" since he'd participated in drills with them:
Student says alleged school shooter was a "troubled kid" pic.twitter.com/O0zZ6An2XM
— WSVN 7 News (@wsvn) February 14, 2018
The accused shooter's social media postings also were full of guns and violent fantasies, CNN reports. In YouTube comments, he had written
"I whana shoot people with my AR-15" (sic), "I wanna die Fighting killing shit ton of people" and "I am going to kill law enforcement one day they go after the good people."
And of course there were the mandatory Instagram posts showing him pointing guns and wearing a bandanna over his face. Others who knew him before he was expelled described him as becoming increasingly frightening, getting suspended from school, and being generally "weird." One former classmate told the Washington Post,
I think everyone in this school had it in the back of their mind that if anyone was supposed to do it, it was most likely gonna be him[.]
Jim Gard, a math teacher who'd had the shooter in his class last year, recalled that the administration had sent the kid's teachers a note telling them to watch out for behavior problems:
“I don’t recall the exact message,” Gard said, “but it was an email notice they sent out.”
“We were told last year that he wasn’t allowed on campus with a backpack on him,” Gard told the Miami Herald. “There were problems with him last year threatening students, and I guess he was asked to leave campus.”
So yes, plenty of warning signs. But there's one little problem with Donald Trump's advice for people to report "bad and erratic behavior" to the authorities: It's perfectly legal in the USA to post pictures of yourself posturing like Rambo with all your guns, and to have violent fantasies, and to fetishize firearms and wiping out cops. Heck, if you write a crappy novel about a lone lover of liberty wiping out agents of an unjust tyrannical government, you can sell it on Amazon yourself and make a tidy side income. Get together with a bunch of like-minded gun humpers and try to ram cops at a roadblock, and you can even become a genuine folk hero.
SCOTUS: Guy Threatening Ex On Facebook Probably Not A Real Threat, Just A Dick
Mr. Trump didn't exactly clarify what "authorities" were supposed to do about reports of bad and erratic behavior that don't rise to the level of an actual crime. Threatening behavior can be investigated, but prosecution can be iffy -- even of fairly specific online threats. Simply being a violence-obsessed asshole who talks about wanting to kill people in general isn't a crime. If it were, some guy who fantasized about protesters having to leave his rallies on a stretcher and who made shooting gestures while talking about what should happen to Bowe Bergdahl probably wouldn't be president.
The Florida shooter purchased his gun legally and, since he had no significant criminal history, passed the required federal background check, so under US and Florida law, he was entitled to be a well-regulated member of the militia.
Because the Florida legislature is a wholly owned subsidiary of the NRA, virtually the only gun regulations that count are the federal ones; state laws on guns are among the most generous in the country. As the Giffords Law Center points out, there's no state requirement to register or license a gun except for concealed-carry permits for handguns, which state law says must be issued to anyone who meets minimal qualifications -- and in this case, concealed carry isn't even a concern. The only real restrictions on guns prohibit convicted felons from having them, and even those convicted of misdemeanor domestic violence can legally own guns -- and even get a concealed carry permit after three years have passed. (In accordance with federal law, firearm possession is prohibited for anyone with a current protection order against them for domestic violence, stalking, or cyberstalking -- again, that wouldn't apply to the Stoneman Douglas school shooter.)
Florida has no state restrictions, of course, on the sales of assault-style semiautomatic rifles (a category of weapon gun-humpers insist doesn't even exist), nor any limits on high-capacity magazines, so a would-be mass shooter can get lots of shots off before having to switch out a spent magazine -- which is often when a gun will jam or a bystander has a chance to tackle the gunman.
Oh, and one last, fairly important problem for Trump's insistence that we all need to be vigilant and report dangerous-seeming weirdos to the authorities: Unless someone has been involuntarily committed to a mental health institution or "adjudicated as mentally defective," there are no restrictions on firearm possession, and even after release from an institution, the appeals process is very friendly to someone wanting a gun. And to top it all off, the state in 2011 prohibited local governments from passing their own restrictions on firearms, to keep big-city liberals from destroying the sacred Second Amendment.
Dems Introduce Assault Weapons Ban, Because Fuck Your Guns Is Why
Get ready for the geniuses asking if we want to ban CARS, TOO.
At the federal level, a number of Democrats are once again calling for a return of the federal assault-weapons ban, as they did following the Las Vegas massacre. California Senator Dianne Feinstein pointed out on Twitter that the bill she introduced in November is ready to go, should anyone want to do something about the preferred armament of mass shooters.
As for current laws aimed at keeping guns out of the hands of people who shouldn't have them, Mr. Trump's budget proposal calls for $12 million in cuts to the federal instant background check system used in firearms purchases, because of course it does.
As for those who fret that it's too soon to "politicize" yet another mass shooting, we'd refer you to Barack Obama's statement following the 2015 shooting at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Oregon:
Somehow this has become routine. The reporting is routine. My response here at this podium ends up being routine. The conversation in the aftermath of it. We've become numb to this [...]
And, of course, what’s also routine is that somebody, somewhere will comment and say, Obama politicized this issue. Well, this is something we should politicize. It is relevant to our common life together, to the body politic [...]
This is a political choice that we make to allow this to happen every few months in America. We collectively are answerable to those families who lose their loved ones because of our inaction. When Americans are killed in mine disasters, we work to make mines safer. When Americans are killed in floods and hurricanes, we make communities safer. When roads are unsafe, we fix them to reduce auto fatalities. We have seatbelt laws because we know it saves lives. So the notion that gun violence is somehow different, that our freedom and our Constitution prohibits any modest regulation of how we use a deadly weapon, when there are law-abiding gun owners all across the country who could hunt and protect their families and do everything they do under such regulations doesn’t make sense. [emphasis added -- ed.]
TL;DR version: You're damn right this is politicized. These weapons are out there, with very few restrictions on who can own them and how many rounds they can fire, because the gun lobby has pushed politicians to make them readily available. There's a lot of money to be made selling these things, and by selling the fear that the government will take all guns away if any restrictions on guns ever pass.
And so we type this same piece again and again, and we tweet out, again and again, that Onion headline: "‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens."
Also, about that:
We need to be a lot angrier at how routine this has become. We need to take action to make sure this routine changes. It won't be easy, but we have to make it harder for satire to become real life. Hug your kids. Call your representatives and senators. ELECT DEMOCRATS.
You have our permission to skip this morning’s tithe to Wonkette and throw some money at Everytown for Gun Safety, Gabby Giffords’s Americans for Responsible Solutions, Moms Demand Action, and the Brady Campaign To Prevent Gun Violence. Be safe.
[CNN / WaPo /Giffords Law Center / CNN / HuffPo / The Obama White House archives]
Doktor Zoom's real name is Marty Kelley, and he lives in the wilds of Boise, Idaho. He is not a medical doctor, but does have a real PhD in Rhetoric. You should definitely donate some money to this little mommyblog where he has finally found acceptance and cat pictures. He is on maternity leave until 2033. Here is his Twitter, also. His quest to avoid prolixity is not going so great.
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Know Your 2018 Candidates: U.S. House, District 3
By Ethan Magoc
October 18, 2018 Government and politics
Congressman Ted Yoho was first elected in 2012, and Yvonne Hayes Hinson is running to try to keep him from winning a fourth term representing Florida’s 3rd District.
The district covers Alachua, Bradford, Clay, Putnam, and Union counties, along with a portion of Marion County. Yoho, a Republican, is a veterinarian and Hayes Hinson, a Democrat, is a retired school teacher, principal, and former Gainesville city commissioner.
Above, you can hear each detail their experiences and perspectives that they would bring to the job. Below, here’s a summary of their positions on key issues that emerged from WUFT’s questions.
Q: Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell just this week said it may be time to look at possible cuts to Social Security and Medicare. What is your solution to maintaining those safety nets?
Hayes Hinson: Plans to fight to protect Social Security from privatization and to keep it solvent. Notes that she is a Medicare and Social Security recipient. “We paid into that program. This is not a benefit. It’s something we actually participated in.” Faults the recent Republican-pushed tax cuts as one of the reasons it’s not as solvent.
Yoho: Disagrees with Mitch McConnell. Does not intend to support any cuts to them. “These programs need to be shored up.” But does acknowledge that the actuarial tables show a 20 to 25 percent cut to each down the road. Prefers a solution that offers new people entering the workforce the option of a 401k-style plan for Social Security. Wants to put that solution before the voters before it becomes law.
Q: The poverty rate is near 20 percent across the district. What symptoms of that rate would you address and how?
Hayes Hinson: Advocates for more trade school opportunities that would boost income across communities. Says adults need more technological skills.
Yoho: Suggests government does not create jobs, but can create the environment for more job creation. Agrees with his opponent on the need for vocational education, particularly for veterans.
Q: For Yvonne Hayes Hinson, what policies or accomplishments of President Donald Trump during his first 18 months do you agree with?
Hayes Hinson: “I can’t think of one right now. Not even one right now.” Later said she would work with him to “persuade him to do right.” But also said she would vote to impeach him if given the chance.
Q: For Ted Yoho, what of President Trump’s first 18 months do you not like?
Yoho: “I don’t like the tweets. That’s for the people to decide. I don’t think that’s a good way to do foreign policy.” But stands behind him on his policies, such as tax cuts, Supreme Court justice selections, and foreign policy. Did not agree with his bombing of Syria’s air base.
Read more of WUFT’s coverage of campaign 2018.
Q: Where is healthcare moving in this country, particularly with regard to pre-existing conditions?
Hayes Hinson: Supports Medicare for all. Admits that the term “free healthcare” does not elucidate the requirement that someone pays taxes to support the system.
Yoho: Thinks Medicare for all would drive tax rates up by 50 percent. Still intends to fully repeal the Affordable Care Act and return the system to a private market to drive down the cost. Does support a requirement that people with pre-existing conditions receive coverage.
Q: What should Congress be doing on areas like greenhouse gas emissions, renewable energy, or tax credits to preserve the planet as it is?
Hayes Hinson: Wants to see more support of renewable energy sources. Opposes mining, fracking, and other sources that add greenhouse gases to the atmosphere. Wants to see Florida become a leader in solar energy.
Yoho: Visited the damage after Hurricane Michael. Says he’s not a climate change denier and notes how hot it has remained this fall in Florida. But wants everyone to look at and debate the actual cause of global warming. Does not want any U.S. or world policies to disadvantage the American economy versus those of other countries. Also wants to see the construction of more solar farms in this area, as well as the use of hydrogen.
Q: Do you think the midterm elections are safe from outside actors and has Congress done enough to ensure a safe vote?
Hayes Hinson: “Not at all. In fact the money that was appropriated for protecting our voting systems has not been spent. Nobody’s using it, implementing it, making sure it happens. I believe our votes here in Gainesville (are safe),” but she’s not confident about the security of the vote nationwide.
Yoho: He’s excited about his bill, the Cyber Deterrence and Response Act of 2018, which the U.S. Senate needs to pass. It would then determine what a cyber attack is and sets a response for those attacks including sanctions against international actors. “Nobody interferes with America on this.” But does admit that Russia interfered with the 2016 election.
Q: What will your immigration legacy be?
Hayes Hinson: Wants to collaborate with immigrants and immigration experts to find out the best solutions. Does not want to see a wall but rather a bridge “with sound, compassionate policies in place that would encourage people to either stay in their country or find a smooth way to come into another country.”
Yoho: Wants to see a guest worker program for the agriculture industry first. Implement a pre-screened pool. They would pay taxes for government services excluding Social Security benefits. “If we do this and it works for ag, it would work for every other industry.” Also said the wall that President Donald Trump is already in progress but needs to be finished from San Diego eastward.
Each candidate was offered an opportunity for a one-minute closing statement.
Hayes Hinson: “I just think America’s exhausted from the scandal, the greed, the corruption that we’ve encountered. The appointment of people with egregious behavior — and then they get fired or resign. Nikki Haley, one of the best U.N. ambassadors that I’ve seen on the (Republican) side just resigned, and we don’t know why. We’re just exhausted from that. What we need is an appointment of people with decency. We wall want to believe in the decency of our elected officials. We need to be more careful about who we elect. We need to vet them better. We need to collaborate better. I believe I am an expert in collaboration. I want to take collaboration to Congress to try to unite the people there instead of divide us, and make America a place where we can all be proud of America again.”
Yoho: “It’s an honor and a privilege to be your representative for District 3. I truly do believe it’s the best district in Florida. It’s because of the people here. I’ve been honored to be up there for three terms. I’m asking for your support for one more term. I believe in the greatness of this country. I’ve experienced that coming from a broken family, houses being repossessed as a kid, to becoming a person that’s lived the American dream through opportunity and hard work. We want to continue that. I stand with the president. Make America great. America’s always been great. We want to keep it great for the future generations for those kids that haven’t been born yet. We want to make sure we do that through a growing economy, focusing on America and putting America first. That doesn’t mean at the expense of everybody else. Zig Ziglar said you can get anything out of life you want if you help other people get what they want. I think that’s the spirit of America. We’re going through the hurricanes, the relief effort. What you see is the best coming out in people. That’s what America is. That’s what we want. Go to our website, TedYoho.com, and I’m asking for your vote.”
See coverage of other races on the 2018 Alachua County ballot.
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Ethan is a journalist at WUFT News. He's a Pennsylvania native who found a home reporting Florida's stories. Reach him by emailing emagoc@wuft.org or calling 352-294-1525.
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From the classical rubble of Athens and Rome to the castles of southern Spain, the pomp of Victorian London to the vineyards of Champagne, the ideas and institutions of Europe have spread to every corner of the world.
Nowhere has such a density of iconic, art-and-architecture-packed cities. Barcelona, Granada, Venice, Palermo, Paris, Avignon… between them Spain, France and Italy could easily fill a year of weekend breaks. And for longer stays, there are numerous historic regions to explore at leisure: the Moorish towns of Andalucia in Spain; the Renaissance cities of northern Italy; the Loire Valley chateaux in France.
But Europe has its wild side too. The great mountain chain of the Alps is the birthplace of world climbing, and Switzerland and Austria lay claim to breathtaking scenery criss-crossed by hiking trails. Norway’s fjords are truly epic and (outside the peak summer cruising season) remarkably quiet. North of the Artic Circle, Lapland offers husky sledding, Sami culture and the much-imitated Ice Hotel. Scotland’s Highlands and Islands has vast sweeps of moor, forest and crag; Iceland and southern Italy are dominated by volcanoes; Almeria in southern Spain even has a desert.
Southern Europe is defined by the balmy Mediterranean Sea, and its coastal towns and islands are where package tourism made some of its biggest mistakes – and started to learn from them. Islands like Tenerife, Malta, Ibiza, Mallorca, Corfu and Cyprus all have interesting hinterlands away from the resort strips, and reward exploration.
The former Soviet countries of Eastern Europe are catching up fast with the neighbours – and, outside the Euro currency, benefiting from lower prices. With its plethora of Adriatic islands, Croatia is already well-established as an alternative to Greece. Romania, Poland, Belarus and Ukraine harbour bears, wolves and untrammelled rural landscapes; the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania have historic cities (and great saunas). On the Soviet front line, Germany’s capital Berlin has now been reunited for 20 years, and repeatedly tops ‘favourite city’ lists.
Perhaps the best way to explore Europe is by rail. This is a continent of relatively small countries, and you can whisk from big city to mountain to coast – and on to a whole new country – in a few hours. Inter-rail (for European citizens only) and Eurail passes (for others) give access to 30 countries, and have kick-started many great travelling lives. For UK residents, Rail Europe has fares, routes and passes.
So what are you waiting for? Start planning your European adventure today…
Top 10 Europe travel experiences
From mountain ranges to turquoise seas, from really old ruins to throbbing modern cities, Europe has enough to keep every traveller entertained for a lifetime
Explore volcanic landscapes, Iceland – Iceland is a hotbed of geothermal activity: geysers spew, volcanoes erupt, hot pools steam. You can see a lot from capital Reykjavik – take a dip in the Blue Lagoon, then a day trip to Geysir and Gulfoss. Longer treks will unearth innumerable volcanic treasures.
Marvel at the Alhambra, Granada, Spain – the Moorish palace and fortress complex that dominates the Andalucian city is a delight of courtyards, pools and ornate chambers. It gets busy though – a good guide will steer you away from the crowds.
Cruise Norway’s fjords – the Unesco-listed inlets of the Norwegian coast are as dramatic as they are far-reaching, stretching way up into the Arctic Circle. Board the Hurtigruten ferry, which runs from north to south and back again year round, to see the lot.
Island hop, Greece – there are over 6,000 Greek islands, which is a lot of hopping. Try Santorini for romance, Crete for ruins and gorges, the Ionian Islands for learning to sail, and all of them for breezy taverna lounging.
Roaming the Highlands, Scotland – head to the UK's far north for the country's wildest wilderness and profuse wildlife: take binoculars to look out for puffins (try the Stacks of Duncansby), golden eagles, otters in the rivers, dolphins offshore (head to Moray Firth) and red squirrels in the woods.
Cycling in France – the perfect place for pedalers of all abilities: pros can tackle stretches of the Tour de France (the slog up Mont Ventoux, perhaps) while more casual cyclists can ride along the Loire or Brittany's coast, stopping off for plenty of vin rouge en route.
Meet bears and wolves, Romania – the Carpathian Mountains are one of the best spots for big mammals on the continent. Trek across this little-populated region with a local guide to maximise your chances of a sighting.
Hike round the Eiger, Switzerland – you don't need to summit this mighty mountain; for the best views of all its faces, walk around it instead, stopping in Heidi-cute hamlets and wildflower meadows. The excellent and efficient Swiss transport system makes access a doddle.
See Old Europe, Sicily, Italy – combine an active volcano, craggy coves, sunny beaches, top nosh and a surplus of ancient ruins on this Italian island, which has a distinctly differently feel to the mainland. Just avoid August, when all of Italy goes on holiday.
Walk the South West Coast Path, England – 1,000km of undulating, sea-hugging, seal-dotted, pasty-serving loveliness: England's longest walking trail is a beauty. In summer look out for basking sharks passing by.
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LSU fans can snap photo with National Championship Trophy
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - Louisiana State University fans reveling over the Tigers’ College Football Playoff National Championship win can continue the party by snapping a photo with the championship trophy.
The trophy will be displayed for fans in two Baton Rouge locations this week, news outlets reported.
Fans can head to Rouse’s located at 600 Arlington Creek on Wednesday between 4 to 7 p.m. or the Walmart on College Drive on Thursday also from 4 to 7 p.m.
Spectators will be able to view the trophy and have their photo taken with it. The trophy is 26.5 inches (67 centimeter) tall and weighs 50 pounds (23 kilograms). It’s made from 24-karat gold, bronze and stainless steel.
National Championship Trophy Manager Ryan Kasmiersky says the trophy is concluding its season long tour visiting games and public events nationwide. He says the trophy will later go on permanent display at LSU.
LSU defeated South Carolina’s Clemson University, 42-25, on Monday.
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Australian Gov puts Baseball5 in schools, reaching millions of youth
Baseball Australia successfully added Baseball5 to the portfolio of “Sporting Schools” the largest physical education initiative in the country targeting a potential of five million youth.
Following the launch of Baseball5 at the 2019 SportAccord Gold Coast convention, and the subsequent introduction to the schools in the region, Baseball5 is now added among the available programmes within “Sporting Schools” national government fund.
Baseball Australia CEO Cam Vale is firmly convinced that Baseball5 will drive the national baseball movement to new heights, “Baseball5 is a fun, fast-paced game and with limited barriers to playing lends itself to being a popular option for children through Sporting Schools and also in their own time”
As part of the five-week Sporting Schools program students will be introduced to the four key skills of Baseball5 – throwing, catching, hitting and running – through a range of mini games. “Sporting Schools will allow Baseball5 in Australia to reach new heights,” Vale said. “It is also a significant boost to baseball because both junior and primary school students will now be introduced to our great sport. “We’re thrilled to target a new demographic as we roll Baseball5 out into secondary schools early next year.” Read Baseball Australia press release.
Baseball in Australia has been growing at a steady pace in participation and international results with the nation improving its position from 14th to 7th in the WBSC Baseball Ranking in the last five years and to 6th place in the WBSC Women’s Baseball Ranking.
Australian Baseball owes part of its recent success also to the Australian Professional Baseball League that is able to attract foreign talent and develop national young prospects.
According to Australian Government official website, “Sporting Schools” is a $240 million Australian Government initiative designed to help schools to increase children's participation in sport, and to connect them with community sporting opportunities. Sporting Schools programs are provided free to children and their families to help students build the confidence and capability to be active for life. Since Sporting Schools started in 2015, over 7,000 schools have received funding. This has provided more than five million participant opportunities to get students active, engaged and having fun while sampling a variety of different sports. Read more.
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Review: The Other Barrio (feature film), a DCIFF entry
Tonight at the DC Independent Film Festival The Other Barrio will have its Washington premiere. The San Francisco tale is described as a ‘noir crime-buster.
As if ripped from today’s headlines reporting evictions, fires and protests in the streets, The Other Barrio follows investigator Roberto Morales as he sifts through the suspicious circumstances of a fatal fire in a residential hotel in San Francisco’s rapidly gentrifying Mission District and finds himself face to face with murder in the streets, corruption at City Hall and his own demons.
This is SF Noir at its best, a tale of murder, corruption, justice and greed. A truly complicated border war.’
But in fact, it is not the best. Surely, the noir feel is apparent, but the film lacks momentum as it seethes in its good intentions.
Adapted from a short story by San Francisco poet Laureate Alejandro Murguia and set against the current epidemic of evictions and gentrification, The Other Barrio is a fictionalized account of true events.
In a sea of stale stories day in and day out, this one is a nice one to exist. Frankly, the cinematography of this project is above many of its contemporaries making the festival rounds. And the diversity of it is highly necessary and appreciated.
The acting is subtle and believable. The sets are lovely and bring the audience closer to the atmosphere which has made San Francisco as enjoyable and desirable as it has for decades. Most importantly, the truth cuts like a knife when it comes to the social climate of San Francisco, both on socioeconomic and cultural levels.
However, being topical whilst including stories with queer or actors of color, a good story (or film) does not make.
The overall film plays mostly to the macho lead aggressor who will do anything he needs to allow his ego, albeit a well-intentioned ego, to be satiated in an ‘I told so’ manner. And that is the shame of this project. Having a lot of the right tools to make it a complete standout, it attempts to muddle through when it could have aimed much higher. Not to mention the scenes feel very chopped. Whether or not it is a style choice, it affects the flow of the story line.
Its main critique is that the standards were set high by the creative minds involved and subject matter.
The film shares billing tonight with First Metro in the eight to ten thirty block and the two to four in the afternoon block on Saturday, February 28th. For more information, [[click here]].
Current line-up: Bedbugs: A Musical Love Story, Bowes Academy, We Got Your Back.
Previous DC IFF entries: OFIR (documentary) : Ne Te Retourne Pas (short) : Halina (short) : EK (short) : Despite The Gods (documentary) : Materica (short) : No Strangers (documentary) : Meth Head, the movie : Echoes (short) : Titans of Newark (short) : A Cure (short)
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PGA Betting Guide for the QBE Shootout
Mike Rodden — @Mike_Rodden Dec 11th, 2019
Viktor Hovland and Matthew Wolff will look to make their mark as a team for this year's QBE Shootout. What other pairings look like good bets this week?
Picking winners of a golf tournament is hard. Doing it consistently is downright impossible. But finding value is something all bettors must practice in order to give themselves the best chance to make hay when the day finally comes that they ping a champion.
Below, we will cover the best bets for the QBE Shootout based on current form, course fit, and -- of course -- the value of their odds over at FanDuel Sportsbook.
While many of the biggest names in golf are dueling in the Presidents Cup down in Australia, a contingent of the next tier of PGA Tour pros (and one LPGA Tour pro!) heads to Florida for the QBE Shootout. The 24-person field features 12 teams that square off at Tiburón Golf Club with a different format for each of its three days.
Friday features a scramble format, where both golfers hit their tee shot and then decide which ball they want to play, then both hit from that spot, and repeat until the hole is completd. Saturday is a modified alternate shot, with the only modification being that both golfers tee off before alternating through the rest of the hole. And Sunday brings traditional four-balls, where each golfer plays his or her own shot with the better score counting for the team.
The team dynamic brings a unique energy to the typically individual sport, as the stars Down Under will no doubt show in this week's primary event. Matching with just one other golfer allows the teams to build chemistry and rhythm, and a sharing a title can create a long term bond between players. It is no surprise that 3 of the 12 teams are repeat pairings, while another team making its debut features two rookies who were college teammates this time last year.
Let's take a look at the best values in the field to wager on this week.
Viktor Hovland / Matthew Wolff (+550) - And what about those college teammates? Hovland and Wolff burst onto the scene last year, with Hovland earning top amateur at both the Masters and the U.S. Open before turning pro along with his fellow Oklahoma State Cowboy. By the end of the season, Hovland had ripped off five straight finishes of T16 or better before making the Korn Ferry Finals to earn his PGA Tour card. Wolff, meanwhile, got an electric win at the 3M Open to gain status and show that his winning ways on the college circuit could translate to the pros as well. With the two brightest futures in the QBE field teamed up, Hovland and Wolff are a worthy starting point at the top of the card.
Jason Kokrak / J.T. Poston (+650) - With the youngsters our preference over the betting-favorite combo of Billy Horschel / Brendon Todd (+470), we drop down to the next tier where we find one of the most consistent golfers of the 2018-19 season in Kokrak paired with a fairly recent winner in Poston. Kokrak was ice cold to start the fall before getting right with a T8 at the WGC-HSBC Champions in early November. He'll be well-rested since then and should have his confidence back. Poston, meanwhile, has fared better than many who earn their first career win after toiling away. He has four top-25s in his last seven events, including most recently a T14 at the RSM Classic. Both bring solid ballstriking profiles to their QBE debuts.
Graeme McDowell / Ian Poulter (+800) - An Irishman and an Englishman walk into a Shootout...stop me if you've heard this one before. This pair teamed up for a ninth-place finish at the QBE back in 2008, and while our first pick has the most runway in front of them, this pair has arguably the most experience and career success of any team. McDowell is one of just two major championship winners in the field (Bubba Watson being the other), and Poulter has exactly the right edge for match play. Poulter won this event back in 2010 partnered with Dustin Johnson, the man whom McDowell bested to win his defining U.S. Open earlier that year.
Brian Harman / Patton Kizzire (+1200) - The defending champions return to Tiburón as one of the longest duos in the field. No doubt Kizzire's recent troubles weigh down the team outlook. He has just one top-30 finish in the past seven months, but amidst all that darkness, the putter has been an occasional bright spot. With Harman doing the heavy lifting on the ballstriking side in the opening scramble, Kizzire can focus on sinking a few putts and building confidence for the rest of the week. Harman started the swing season hot before back to back duds at the Houston Open and the Mayakoba Golf Classic. A T14 finish at the RSM Classic can give us confidence in his form, leading this team at a tasty price.
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Class 2A State Championship Preview: Buffalo vs. Mountain View
Frank Gambino, WyoPreps.com
State championship weekend on the gridiron begins with a rematch, as defending champ Buffalo takes on Mountain View in the Class 2A title game.
The Bison beat the Buffaloes 43-18 in last year’s championship game.
That victory gave Buffalo their first state title since 2005. Now the Bison look for back-to-back crowns similar to ’04-and-’05.
Mountain View last won it all in 2017. The Buffaloes are looking for their third Class 2A state championship in the last six seasons.
Both teams are undefeated this year and come in with 10-0 records.
A key statistical match-up will be Buffalo’s No. 1 offense that averages 408.8 yards and 45.3 points per game facing Mountain View’s No. 1 defense that allows only 102 yards and 3.7 points per game. For more statistical info on the Bison and Buffaloes click the stats link below.
WyoPreps spoke with both head coaches, Buffalo’s Rob Hammond and Mountain View’s Brent Walk before the game. We discussed their season to this point, any defining moment(s) of their season, facing each other again, and their keys to success.
Kick-off is at 12 p.m. Friday from War Memorial Stadium in Laramie.
Series History
4-3: Buffalo leads – all the meetings have been in the playoffs
1995: Mountain View won 27-0
2018: Buffalo won 43-18
Championship Appearances in Laramie (including 2019)
Mountain View = 5
Buffalo = 3
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Family heads to probate court over Civil War era artifacts
On behalf of Zigray Law Office, LLC | Oct 11, 2013 | Probate Litigation
We’ve previously written about estate disputes over personal assets held in a trust or investment account. In some cases, however, estate disputes revolve around ownership right to family heirlooms or historical artifacts that have been passed down through generations.
One such dispute is currently being heard in probate court. At issue are numerous artifacts that previously belonged to the late Gideon Welles. During the Civil War, Welles served as the Secretary of the Navy and therefore had a personal relationship with then President Abraham Lincoln.
Many of the historical artifacts owned by Welles were eventually passed down to his grandson whose wife, Ruth Trost Welles, inherited them upon her husband’s death. When Ruth Welles died, she left the remaining artifacts to her children. The descendants of Ruth Welles’s children are now in probate court, alleging her estate was mishandled upon her death in 1955.
At the center of the case are several artifacts of historical significance that some of the heirs believe were either kept or sold by relatives who likely split the profits. Included in the list of disputed items is a cane given to the late Welles by President Lincoln, a rifle known to have been shot by Lincoln and a box of Civil War era swords.
Many of those items described by some of Rose Trost Welles’s heirs were not, however, included in the list of items from her estate. Other heirs seeking to put an end to the probate dispute argue these items were among those that were previously sold. A judge overseeing the case has agreed to effectively redo the probate case.
Source: The Hartford Courant, “Public Family Feud Over Lincoln-Era Artifacts Begins In Court,” Christine Dempsey, Oct. 8, 2013
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As someone who still burns a fair amount of DVDs and Blu-rays, I was alarmed to discover my favorite Mac applications for printing disc labels have been either abandoned entirely (R.I.P. Disclabel) or become victims of the macOS Catalina 32-bit “app-ocalypse” (Disc Cover). Thankfully, BeLight Software comes to the rescue by incorporating disc labeling tools into their already awesome page layout software. LABELS AND MORE A free update for owners of version 5.0, Swift Publisher 5.5 adds a ton of awesome functionality to the most capable and affordable Mac desktop publishing software. This $20 app already gave the likes of Adobe InDesign a run for its money with two-page spreads, unlimited layers, master pages, rich text tools, and print/export of projects in RGB or CMYK color modes for home or professional service…
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Reopening Workers' Comp Claims
Reopening Workers' Comp Claims in South Carolina
The workers' compensation system is designed to help injured workers recuperate, both physically and financially, so they can return to the workforce and continue making a living to take care of their family. But what happens when someone goes back to work and aggravates the same injury for which he or she received workers' comp?
In certain circumstances, it may be possible to reopen the original claim. David Yokel has handled all aspects of South Carolina workers' compensation claims for more than 35 years. He can evaluate your situation to determine whether reopening your claim is an option, and if it is, how to accomplish it quickly and efficiently.
Serving injured workers in Greenville-Spartanburg-Anderson and across upstate South Carolina. Call 864-240-2066 for a initial consultation.
Time Limit for Reopening Workers' Compensation Claims
Worker's comp claims can only be reopened within the first 12 months after the final payment is paid to you pursuant to an award for compensation. It is very important that you call an attorney as soon as your condition/injury flares up or changes.
Further, if a worker signed a final release (called a Clincher Agreement), then the claim cannot be reopened. The Clincher Agreement relieves the employer and the insurance company from any further responsibility to pay medical expenses or other compensation, even if the worker's injury worsens.
As a lawyer who has helped many workers in the Greenville-Spartanburg-Anderson area over the years, Mr. Yokel understands the South Carolina workers' compensation system and can quickly evaluate your case. If your injury has worsened, you received your final payment less than a year ago, and you did not sign a Clincher Agreement, there is a strong chance that you could receive further medical treatment and additional compensation for your changed condition.
Contact a Work Injury Attorney for a Consultation
If you have questions about reopening a workers' comp claim, reach out to workers' compensation lawyer David Yokel for help. Call 864-240-2066 or contact him online to schedule a consultation. His firm serves clients throughout the Greenville-Spartanburg-Anderson and throughout the upstate areas.
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The Dream by Michael Chin
February 1, 2017 youronephonecall
The ring arrives. Twenty-by-twenty, surrounded by fans. Not just hundreds. Thousands of them who spent their grocery money, their rent money to be here, on the promise of a good show. The kind of show they’ll remember. The kind that inspires people.
I’m in that ring. I can’t see my opponent’s face, only the shining gold belt around his waist.
Sometimes, his face comes into a focus. A pecker head like Freddie Phelps. The kind of guy I’d relish beating, not only to win the title, but to take it from him.
Sometimes it’s a legend. Ric Flair transported through time and the belt is the old school Big Gold Belt. The ten pounds of gold. There are big TV cameras around the ring and as we lock up in that first collar-and-elbow-tie-up, he asks me, “You ready, big man?”
Sometimes it’s Ghost. Returned. Tangible. Ready to work.
Sometimes it’s a friend. Martin LeRoux or New York Nick Nettles. I think it’s best then. Less a sensation of taking than having something given to me, because there’s no disagreement that I earned it.
And I lock in my hold, The Autopsy. He cries out his surrender.
And the referee’s prosthetic hand catches my wrist and raises my arm in victory. He hands me the gold. And everyone’s there. I mean everyone. All the boys, past and present. And Dragon Princess. She’s all around me and smells like lavender and cream and then like the cotton candy my old man bought me when I was a kid and went to my first wrestling show and I thought the world champion was the most important man in the world A treasure. A hero.
And Dad is there. Cowboy Sam, too, looking on like Obi Wan and Yoda from the rafters.
It’s everything. My life is complete.
And I wake. Not with a goofy grin. Not with sorrow because it was all a dream.
I wake with a rumbling from deep within me, ages old, of a man unfulfilled and aching to get what’s his.
I wake up hungry.
Michael Chin was born and raised in Utica, New York and is an alum of Oregon State’s MFA Program. He won Bayou Magazine’s Knudsen Prize for fiction and has published in journals including The Normal School and Bellevue Literary Review. Find him at miketchin.com and follow him on Twitter @miketchin.
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AKC/UKC BISS Ch Southchase’s Can You Do Magic? CGC, U-CD
AKC/UKC Ch Southchase’s Brother Eli x Southchase’s LL Amanda
Breeders/owners Lynda Webb & Stan Bielowicz
Call Name: Merlyn
December 19, 1997 - September 9, 2010
Merlyn started off his show career by being winning 1st Award of Merit at the 2000 National Specialty, from there he never looked back. He won 2 specialties - 2000 & 2002, was Best of Opp at 2 more - 2002 & 2003, & won AOM’s twice.2000 & 2001 Merlyn was honored with the distinction of being # 1 in both Breed and All-breed points in 2002 winning the prestigious Pedigree Award. Then retired by winning the Breed at Westminster in 2003. Along the way, Merlyn earned his UKC Championship and his U-CD.
As a sire, Merlyn has proven himself time and time again producing brains, beauty and hunting desire. With limited breeding, he has produced 9 Champions, several major pointed, Search and Rescue team members and awesome companions. He is the grandsire of 2 Hall of Fame inductees.
Always the gentleman, it has been a pleasure to live and travel with this gentle hound.
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Intermediate Application of Data Sets: Introducing the Census Bureau’s Business Formation Statistics
In July 2019, the Census Bureau released the Business Formation Statistics (BFS), a new data product that tracks trends in business applications and formations at the state, regional and national levels.
The BFS consists of four business application series and eight business formation series. It’s unique because it relies on administrative data from the IRS, specifically the data on applications for an Employer Identification Number (EIN) via IRS Form SS-4, to determine the number of business applications submitted in a quarter, and how many result in businesses with employees.
The BFS also includes projections for business formations in the near future. The BFS began in 2012 as a research project in the Census Bureau’s Center for Economic Studies and was first released in beta form in February 2018. It’s the culmination of research efforts by the Census Bureau, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, University of Maryland and the University of Notre Dame. This webinar will provide an overview of BFS and demonstrate how to access BFS data available on the Census website.
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Voting patterns
Popular vote of May 21, 2017
Federal law proposed September 30, 2016 on Energy (Enegergy Act, EnG)
Popular vote of February 12, 2017
Federal decree proposed September 30, 2016 on the establishment of a fund for national roads and urban transport
Federal law proposed June 17, 2016 on fiscal measures to strengthen the competitiveness of Swiss business location (Corporate Tax Reform Act)
Federal decree proposed September 30, 2016 on simplified naturalization of foreigners of third generation
Popular vote of September 25, 2016
Popular initiative proposed September 6, 2012 "For a sustainable economy based on an efficient management of resources (green economy)"
Federal decree proposed September 25, 2015 on intelligence (NDG)
Popular initiative proposed December 17, 2013 "AHVplus: for a strong AHV"
Popular vote of June 5, 2016
Popular initiative proposed April 10, 2013 "For an unconditional basic income"
Popular initiative proposed May 30, 2013 "In favor of public service"
Popular initiative proposed March 10, 2014 "For fair market financing"
Change proposed December 12, 2014 of the federal law on medically assisted procreation (Reproductive Medicine Act, FMedG)
Change proposed September 25, 2015 of the Asylum Act (Asylum Act)
Popular initiative proposed March 24, 2014 "No speculation on foodstuffs"
Popular initiative proposed November 11, 2012 "For couple and family - against the marriage penalty"
Popular initiative proposed December 28, 2012 "For the effective expulsion of criminal foreigners (Enforcement Initiative)"
Change proposed September 26, 2014 of the federal law on road transit in the Alpine region (STVG) (reconstruction of the Gotthard road tunnel)
Popular vote of June 14, 2015
Federal decree proposed December 12, 2014 on the amendment of the constitutional provision on reproductive medicine and human gene technology
Popular initiative proposed January 20, 2012 on student grants (Student Grant Initiative)
Popular initiative proposed February 15, 2013 "Tax million-franc inheritances to fund our pensions" (Inheritance Tax Reform)
Amendment of September 26, 2014 to the Federal Act on Radio and Television
Popular vote of March 8, 2015
Popular initiative "Support families! Tax-free child and education allowances"
Popular initiative "Energy tax not VAT"
Popular vote of November 30, 2014
Popular initiative "End tax breaks for millionaires (abolition of lump-sum taxation)"
Popular initiative "Stop over-population – Save our natural resources" (ECOPOP)
"Safeguard our Swiss gold (Gold Initiative)"
Popular initiative proposed September 21, 2011 « Stop to the discriminatory VAT for catering! »
Popular initiative proposed May 23, 2012 « For a public health insurance »
Federal act proposed September 27, 2013 on the Gripen fighter aircraft acquisition funds (Gripen Fund Act)
Popular initiative proposed January 23, 2012 « for the protection of fair wages »
Popular initiative proposed April 20, 2012 « Pedophiles should not be allowed to work with children »
Federal decree proposed September 19, 2013 on primary medical care
Popular vote of February 9, 2014
Popular initiative proposed February 14, 2012 « Against mass immigration »
Popular initiative proposed April 07, 2011 « Abortion funding is a private matter - Mitigating health insurance by deleting the costs of abortion from the compulsory basic insurance »
Federal decree proposed June 20, 2013 on the financing and the development of railway infrastructure (direct counter project to the popular initiative « for public transport »)
Amendment proposed March 22, 2013 of the federal act on the fee for the use of national roads (National Road Charges Act)
Popular initiative proposed July 2, 2011 « Initiative for the families: tax deductions for parents who keep their children themselves »
Popular initiative proposed March 21, 2011 «1:12 - For fair wages »
Change proposed December 14, 2012 of the federal law on the work in industry, crafts and trade (Labour Act)
Federal law proposed September 28, 2012 on the fight against communicable human diseases (Epidemics Act)
Popular initiative proposed January 01, 2012 « Yes to the abolition of compulsory military service »
Change proposed September 28, 2012 of the Asylum Act (Urgent amendments to the Asylum Act)
Popular initiative proposed July 07, 2011 « Election of the Federal Council by the people »
Change proposed June 15, 2012 of the federal law on spatial planning (Spatial Planning Act)
Popular initiative proposed February 26, 2008 « Against unfair compensation »
Federal decree proposed June 15, 2012 on family policies
Change proposed March 16, 2012 of the law on epizootic diseases
Federal decree on the promotion of youth musical education (counter-proposal to the popular initiative « youth + music »)
Popular initiative proposed January 23, 2009 « Safe living in old age »
Popular initiative proposed May 18, 2010 « Protection against passive smoking »
Change proposed September 30, 2011 of the federal law on health insurance (Managed Care)
Popular initiative proposed August 18, 2009 « For the strengthening of people’s rights in foreign policy (inter nation agreements: the people speak!)
Popular initiative proposed January 23, 2009 « Own for walls thanks to housing savings »
Popular vote of March 11, 2012
Federal law proposed March 18, 2011 on the book price regulation
Federal decree proposed September 29, 2011 regarding the regulation of gambling in favor of public interest (counter-proposal to the popular initiative « For gambling in favor of the common good »)
Popular initiative proposed June 26, 2009 « 6 weeks of vacation for all »
Popular initiative proposed September 29, 2009 « For preferential tax treatment of housing savings for the purchase of a home for personal use or the financing of energy-saving or environment-friendly constructions (initiative on housing savings) »
Popular initiative proposed December 18, 2007 « To end with invasive constructions of second homes »
Popular initiative proposed February 23, 2009 « For protection against gun violence »
Popular initiative proposed February 15, 2008 « for the deportation of foreign criminals (Deportation Initiative) »
Federal Decree from June 10, 2010 concerning the deportation and expulsion of foreign criminals under the Federal Constitution (counter-proposal to the popular initiative « for the deportation of foreign criminals [Deportation Initiative] »)
Popular initiative proposed May 6, 2008 « For fair taxes. Stop the abuse of tax competition (Initiative for fair taxes) »
Change proposed March 19, 2010 of the Federal Law on Unemployment Insurance and compensation in case of insolvency
Change proposed December 12, 2008 of the federal law on occupational retirement, survivors and disability (minimum conversion rate)
Popular initiative proposed July 26, 2007 « Against animal abuse and better leal protection of these (Initiative for the establishment of an animal welfare attorney)
Federal decree proposed September 25, 2009 relating to a constitutional article on research about research on humans
Popular initiative proposed July 08, 2008 « Against the construction of minarets »
Popular initiative proposed September 21, 2007 « For a ban on military equipment exports »
Federal decree proposed October 03, 2008 on the establishment of special funding for tasks in the field of air traffic
Federal decree proposed December 19, 2008 on the abolition of the general popular initiative
Federal decree proposed June 13, 2008 relating to the additional funding of disability insurance by a temporary increase in the VAT rate, as amended by the federal decree from June 12, 2009 changing this decree
Federal decree proposed June 13, 2008 regarding the approval and implementation of the exchange of notes between Switzerland and European Community concerning the resumption of Regulation (EC) 2252/2004 relating to the biometric passports and travel documents (Development of Schengen acquis)
Constitutional article from October 03, 2008 « For the consideration of complementary medicine »
Federal decree proposed June 13, 2008 approving the renewal of the agreement between Switzerland and the European Community and its Member States on the free movement of persons as well as the approval and implementation of the protocol to extend the agreement on free movement to Bulgaria and Romania
Popular Initiative from January 13, 2006 « for a reasonable policy on hemp effectively protecting youth »
Popular initiative proposed May 11, 2006 « Right of appeal of organizations: Enough obstructionism - More growth for Switzerland! »
Popular initiative proposed March 28, 2006 « For a flexible retirement age »
Popular initiative proposed March 1, 2006 « for the imprescriptibility of pornography offenses against children »
Change proposed 20.03.2008 of the Federal Law on Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances
Constitutional article from December 12, 2007 « Quality and economic efficiency in health insurance »
Popular initiative proposed August 11, 2004 « Popular sovereignty without government propaganda »
Popular initiative proposed November 18, 2005 « For democratic naturalizations »
Federal law proposed March 23, 2007 on improving the tax environment for entrepreneurial activities and investments (corporate tax reform act II)
Popular initiative proposed November 03, 2005 « Against the fighter jets noise in tourist areas »
Change proposed October 06, 2006 of the federal law on disability insurance
Popular initiative proposed December 09, 2004 « For a single and social health insurance »
Federal law proposed March 24, 2006 on family allowances (law on family allowances)
Federal law proposed March 24, 2006 on cooperation with Eastern Europe countries
Change proposed December 16, 2005 of the law on asylum (asylum act)
Federal law proposed December 16, 2005 on foreigners
Popular initiative proposed October 09, 2002 « National Back profits for AVS »
Federal decree proposed December 16, 2005 on the reorganization of constitutional articles about education
Federal law on the work in industry, crafts and trade (Labour law)
Federal decree on the popular initiative « For GMO-free agriculture »
Federal decree on the approval and implementation of the protocol on the extension of the agreement between Swiss Confederation, on the one hand, and the European Community and its Member States, on the other hand, on the free movement of persons to new members of the European Community and on the approval of the revision of accompanying measures concerning free movement of persons
Federal law proposed June 18, 2004 on registered same-sex couples partnership (Partnership act)
Federal decree proposed December 17, 2004 on the approval and implementation of bilateral agreements of association with the Schengen Space and the Dublin Space
Federal law proposed December 19, 2003 on embryonic stem cells research (Stem cell research act)
Federal decree proposed March 19, 2004 on a new financial system
Federal decree proposed October 03, 2003 on the reform of financial equalization and division of tasks between the Confederation and the cantons
Change proposed October 03, 2003 of the federal law on the income loss allowances for people serving in the military, civil service or civil protection (Allowances act for income loss)
Popular initiative proposed April 26, 2002 « Postal services for all »
Federal decree proposed October 03, 2003 on the acquisition of nationality by third-generation foreigners
Federal decree proposed October 03, 2003 on the regular naturalization and the facilitated naturalization of second-generation young foreigners
Federal law proposed June 20, 2003 on the amendment of regulations in the field of mariage and family taxation, housing taxation and stamp duties
Federal decree proposed October 03, 2004 on the financing of AVS/AI by increasing the VAT
Change proposed October, 2003 of the federal law on old-age and survivors' insurance (11th AVS revision)
Popular initiative proposed May 03, 2000 « Lifetime internment for sex offenders or violent offenders considered very dangerous and not untreatable
Change proposed December 13, 2002 of Swiss code of obligations (Leasing)
Counter-proposal to the Federal assembly from October 03, 2003 on the popular initiative « Avanti - for safe and efficient highways »
Popular initiative « For a sufficient vocational education (Initiative for apprendiceship)
Popular initiative « Moratorium Plus - For the extension of the moratorium on nuclear power plant construction and the limitation of nuclear risk (Moratorium Plus) »
Popular initiative « Without nuclear power - For an energy turnaround and gradual decommissioning of nuclear power plants (Electricity without atoms) »
Popular initiative « Equal rights for disabled people »
Popular initiative « Affordable health (health initiative) »
Popular initiative « For a car-free Suday per season - a trial for four years (Sundays initiative) »
Popular initiative « For fair rents »
Federal law on the protection of population and civil protection
Federal law on the army and the military administration (Law on the army), Change
Federal law on the adjustment of cantonal contributions to the costs of health services provided in the township hospital under the federal law on health insurance
Federal decree on the revision of popular rights
Change in the federal law on compulsory unemployment insurance and insolvency allowances (Unemployment insurance act)
Popular initiative « Against abuses of asylum right »
Law on electricity market
« Gold for the AVS, the cantons and the Foundation » (counter-proposal to the popular initiative « For the payment to the AVS fund of the Swiss National Bank excess gold reserves [Gold initiative] »)
Popular initiative « For the payment to the AVS fund of the Swiss National Bank excess gold reserves (Gold initiative) »
Popular initiative « For mother and child - for the protection of the unborn child and for the help of his mother in distress »
Change of the Swiss Penal Code (Abortion)
Popular initiative « For shorter working hours »
Federal popular initiative 'for the accession of Switzerland to the United Nations (UN)'
Popular vote of December 2, 2001
Popular initiative 'for a tax on capital gains'
Popular initiative 'Solidarity creates security: in favor of a voluntary civil peace service (CPS)'
People's Initiative for a credible security policy and a Switzerland without an Army '
People's Initiative 'to secure pensions - tax energy and not work!'
Federal decree about a debt brake
Federal Decree of December 15, 2000 repealing the constitutional provision making the erection of dioceses subject to the Confederation's approval
Change of the Federal law on the army and the military administration (LAMA) (training cooperation)
Change of the Federal law on the army and the military administration (LAMA) (weaponry)
Federal popular initiative 'for safety within towns with a maximum speed of 30 km/h with exceptions (Streets for all)'
Federal popular initiative 'for lower drug prices'
Federal popular initiative 'Yes to Europe!'
Law on Confederation personnel (LPers)
Popular initiative 'for lower hospital costs'
Popular initiative 'Save in the military and the general defense - for more peace and future-oriented jobs (Initiative for a redistribution of spending)'
People's Initiative 'for a flexible retirement age starting from 62, both for women and men'
Popular initiative 'for a relaxation of the pension system - against raising the retirement age of women'
Popular initiative "for more rights to the people thanks to the referendum with a counter-proposal (Constructive referendum)"
Popular initiative "for a regulation of immigration"
Constitutional article on an incentive fee on energy in favor of the environment (counter-proposal to the initiative 'Energy and Environment', which has been removed)
Constitutional article on a fee for the promotion of renewable energies (counter-proposal to the popular initiative 'for the introduction of a solar penny [Solar Initiative]')
Popular initiative 'for the introduction of a solar penny (Solar Initiative)'
Federal Decree on the approval of sectoral agreements between, on one hand, the Swiss Confederation and, on the other hand, the European Community and, where appropriate, its member States or the European Atomic Energy Community
Federal popular initiative 'aimed at halving the motorized traffic in order to maintain and improve habitats (initiative to reduce traffic)'
Federal popular initiative "for the protection of humans against artificial reproduction techniques (Initiative for procreation respecting human dignity)'
Federal popular initiative "for a fair representation of women in the federal authorities (Initiative of March 3)'
Federal popular initiative 'for faster direct democracy (Processing time of popular initiatives presented as fully drafted project)'
Federal decree on the reform of justice
Federal law on maternity insurance
Federal Law on Disability Insurance
Federal Decree on the medical prescription of heroin
Federal decree on emergency measures in the field of asylum and foreigners
Law on Asylum
Popular vote of April 18, 1999
Federal decree on an update of the Federal Constitution
Federal Law on Spatial Planning, change of March 20, 1998
Federal popular initiative 'Home Ownership for All'
Federal Decree concerning a constitutional provision on transplantation medicine
Federal decree on the change of the conditions for eligibility to the Federal Council
Federal Law on the labor in industry, commerce and trade (Labor law)
Popular initiative 'for a Sensible Drug Policy'
Federal decree on a new cereal product of limited duration
Federal Decree on the implementation and financing of infrastructure projects for public transport
Popular initiative 'for the 10th revision of the "AHV" pension system without raising the retirement age'
Popular initiative 'for inexpensive food and ecological farms'
Federal law regarding a fee on the traffic of heavy vehicle related to services (Law related to a fee on the traffic of heavy vehicles)
Popular initiative 'S.o.S - Switzerland without a nosy police'
Popular initiative 'for the protection of life and environment against genetic engineering (Initiative for genetic protection)'
Federal decree establishing measures to balance the budget
Popular initiative 'Youth Without Drugs'
Federal Decree of December 13, 1996 on the financing of unemployment insurance
Federal decree on the abolition of the tax on powders
Popular initiative 'for a ban on the export of war material'
Federal popular initiative 'EU accession negotiations: the people decide!'
Federal Law on the labor in industry, crafts and commerce (Labor law), change of March 22, 1996
Federal Decree on the popular initiative 'against illegal immigration'
Act of October 6, 1995 on the organization of government and administration
Counter-proposal of the Federal Assembly of December 21, 1995 on the popular initiative 'Farmers and consumers - for farming in harmony with nature'
Federal decree on the abolition of federal contributions to parking near the train stations of March 24, 1995
Federal decree on the abolition of the obligation to repurchase distillation devices and management of spirits
Federal decree abolishing the cantonal responsibility for the acquisition of personal equipment for the military
Federal decree on the transfer of the Bernese municipality Vellerat to the canton of Jura
Federal decree on the revision of the constitutional article on languages (art. 116)
Federal law on the acquisition of real estate by persons abroad. Change proposed October 7, 1994
Popular initiative "for the extension of the pension and invalidity insurances"
Federal Law on old-age and survivors' insurance (10th AHV revision), change from October 7, 1994
Federal decree establishing a spending brake from October 7, 1994
Federal Law on Agriculture. Change of October 8, 1993
1988 decree on the dairy industry, change of March 18, 1994
Federal Decree on the popular initiative 'for an environmentally sound and efficient peasant agriculture' (counter-proposal)
Federal law on coercive measures regarding foreigners' rights from March 18, 1994
Popular initiative 'for a healthy health insurance'
Federal act on health insurance of March 18, 1994
Swiss Penal Code. Military Penal Code. Change of June 18, 1993
Federal decree suppressing the reduction in the price of domestic wheat funded by tariffs of 18 March 1994
Federal Act on the Swiss troops in charge of peacekeeping operations of June 18, 1993
Federal Decree on the revision of the citizenship rights in the Federal Constitution (Facilitated naturalization for young foreigners)
Federal decree on the introduction into the federal constitution of an article for the promotion of culture of June 18, 1993
Air Navigation Act. Change of June 18, 1993
Popular Initiative 'to protect the Alpine regions against transit traffic'
Federal law regarding the introduction of a fee on the traffic of heavy vehicles, related either to services or to the consumption, of June 18, 1993
Federal decree on the continuation of the fee on heavy vehicles traffic from June 18, 1993
Federal decree on the continuation of the national road tax
Popular initiative 'for the prevention of tobacco-related problems'
Popular initiative 'for the prevention of alcohol-related problems'
Federal Decree on special consumption taxes of June 18, 1993
Federal Decree on measures for the conservation of social security of June 18, 1993
Federal Decree on the contribution to improving federal finances of June 18, 1993
Federal Decree on Financial Regulations of June 18, 1993
Federal Decree on measures concerning the unemployment insurance
Federal Decree on temporary measures against the rising price of health insurance
Federal popular initiative 'for a non-working national holiday (August 1st) initiative'
Federal Decree on the affiliation of Bernese district of Laufen to the canton of Basel-Landschaft
Federal decree against the abusive use of weapons of March 19, 1993
Popular initiative "for a Switzerland without new fighter jets"
Popular initiative "40 parade grounds, enough! - The military must also comply with the legislation on the protection of the environment"
Popular initiative 'for the abolition of animal testing'
Federal decree removing the ban on gambling of October 9, 1992
Federal law regarding the increase of import duties on fuels of October 9, 1992
Federal decree on the European Economic Area (EEA) of October 9, 1992
Federal law on rural land rights of October 4, 1991
Federal law on stamp duties. Change of October 4, 1991
Federal law on the contributions towards the infrastructure costs of groups and deputies (Law on infrastructure costs) of October 4, 1991
Federal law on allowances due to members of the legislative councils and contributions to groups (Law on parliamentary allowances). Change of October 4, 1991
Federal law on the procedure of the Federal Assembly, and on the form, publication and entry into force of legislative acts (Law on the relationship between boards). Change of October 4, 1991
Federal decree on the construction of the Swiss railway line through the Alps (decree on alpine transit) of October 4, 1991
Swiss penal code. Military penal code (Offenses against sexual integrity): Change of June 21, 1991
Federal decree for the introduction of a civilian service for conscientious objectors of December 13, 1991
Federal decree on the popular initiative "against the misuse of reproductive techniques and genetic manipulation to the human species" (counter-proposal)
Popular initiative "to safeguard our waters"
Federal law on the protection of waters (Water Protection Act) of January 24, 1991
Federal law on the participation of Switzerland in the Bretton Woods institutions of October 4, 1991
Federal decree on the membership of Switzerland to the Bretton Woods institutions of October 4, 1991
Popular initiative "for a strict and progressive reduction of animal testing (Let's strictly limit animal testing!)"
Popular initiative "for a financially bearable health insurance (Initiative of health insurances)"
Military penal code (MPC). Change of October 5, 1990
Federal decree on the new system of federal finances of December 14, 1990
Popular initiative "to promote public transport"
Federal decree proposed October 5, 1990 lowering to 18 the age required to exercise the right to vote and to be elected
Federal law on road traffic, change of October 6, 1989
Federal decree proposed October 6, 1989 on a constitutional article on energy
Popular initiative "Stop building nuclear power plants (moratorium)"
Popular initiative "for a phase out of nuclear energy"
Popular vote of April 1, 1990
Federal law proposed judiciary organization, change of June 23, 1989
Federal decree proposed June 23, 1989 on viticulture
Popular initiative "against the construction of a highway between Biel and Solothurn / Zuchwil"
Popular initiative "for a highway-free district of Knonau"
Popular initiative "for a region without highway between Murten and Yverdon"
Popular initiative "Stop concreting - for the stabilization of the road network"
Popular initiative "pro speed 130/100"
Popular initiative "for a Switzerland without an army and a comprehensive peace policy"
Popular initiative "for the protection of farms and against animal factories (Initiative for small farmers)"
Popular initiative "for limiting immigration"
Popular initiative "to reduce working hours"
Popular initiative "town and country against land speculation"
Popular initiative "aimed at reducing to 62 years for men and 60 years for women the age of entitlement to the federal old-age, survivors' and invalidity pension"
Federal decree proposed March 20, 1987 concerning the amendment of the federal constitution for a coordinated transport policy
Popular initiative "for the protection of the marshes - Rothenthurm initiative"
Federal law on health insurance, change of March 20, 1987
Federal decree proposed December 19, 1986 on the Rail 2000 project
Federal decree proposed December 19, 1986 on the voting procedure for popular initiatives accompanied by a counter-proposal
Popular initiative "requesting the right of referendum on military spending"
Federal law on the residence and establishment of foreigners, change of June 20, 1986
Asylum law, change of June 20, 1986
Popular initiative "for a fair taxation of heavyweight trucks traffic (levy on heavyweight trucks)"
Federal decree proposed March 21, 1986 on the popular initiative "for the protection of tenants" (counter-proposal)
Federal decree on the domestic sugar economy, change of June 21, 1985
Popular initiative "to guarantee vocational training and retraining"
Federal decree proposed December 20, 1985 on the popular initiative "in favor of culture" (counter-proposal)
Federal decree proposed December 20, 1985 on the popular initiative "in favor of culture"
Federal decree proposed December 14, 1984 on the accession of Switzerland to the United Nations
Popular initiative "for the abolition of vivisection"
Swiss civil code (General effects of marriage, marriage settlement and successions), change of October 5, 1984
Federal decree proposed October 5, 1984 establishing a guarantee against the risks of innovation for small and medium businesses
Federal decree proposed October 5, 1984 on the popular initiative "calling for the harmonization of the beginning of the school year in all cantons" (counter-proposal)
Federal decree proposed December 14, 1984 on the abolition of aid to producers growing wheat for their own needs
Federal decree proposed October 5, 1984 laying down the new distribution of net revenues from the taxation of distilled spirits
Federal decree proposed October 5, 1985 removing the cantons' share of the net revenue from stamp duties
Popular initiative "for the right to life"
Popular initiative "for an extension of the duration of paid vacation" (Initiative on vacation)
Federal decree proposed October 5, 1984 on training grants
Federal decree proposed October 5, 1984 removing the obligation of the federal government to allocate grants in the field of public health
Federal decree proposed October 5, 1984 removing subventions for primary education
Federal decree proposed June 22, 1984 on the popular initiative "on the compensation of victims of criminal violence" (counter-proposal)
Federal decree proposed June 23, 1984 concerning an article on radio and television
Popular initiative "for an effective protection of motherhood"
Popular initiative "for a safe, economical and environmentally sound energy supply"
Popular initiative "for a future without new nuclear plants"
Popular initiative "against giving away the national soil"
Popular initiative "against the abuse of bank secrecy and the power of banks"
Popular initiative "for an authentic civil service based on evidence by act"
Federal decree proposed June 24, 1983 on a fee for the use of national roads
Federal decree proposed June 24, 1983 concerning the collection of a fee on the traffic of heavyweight trucks
Federal decree proposed June 24, 1983 to facilitate some naturalizations
Federal decree proposed June 24, 1983 on the revision of nationality law in the federal constitution
Federal decree proposed October 10, 1982 concerning the constitutional article on energy
Federal decree proposed October 10, 1982 on a new regulation of customs duties on fuel
Federal decree proposed March 19, 1982 on the popular initiative "designed to prevent abuses in pricing" (counter-proposal)
Federal decree proposed March 19, 1982 on the popular initiative "designed to prevent abuses in pricing"
Law on foreigners of June 19, 1981
Swiss penal code, change of October 9, 1981 (Acts of criminal violence)
Federal decree proposed June 19, 1981 on the extension of the financial system and the improvement of federal finances
Federal decree proposed October 10, 1980 on the popular initiative "for the protection of consumer rights" (counter-proposal)
Federal decree proposed October 10, 1980 on the popular initiative "for equal rights between men and women" (counter-proposal)
Popular vote of October 20, 1974
Popular vote of July 2, 1967
Popular vote of November 4, 1962
Popular vote of January 26, 1958
Popular vote of October 5, 1952
Popular vote of December 11, 1949
Popular initiative against the abuse of economic power
Federal decree proposed January 10, 1957 extending for a limited time the validity of the transitional arrangements for the supply of the country in bread grain
Federal decree proposed September 20, 1957 introducing in the constitution an article 24quinquies on atomic energy and the protection against radiations
Federal decree proposed December 21, 1956 introducing in the constitution an article 36bis on radio and television
Federal decree proposed December 21, 1956 inserting in the federal constitution an article 22bis on civil protection
Federal decree proposed June 27, 1956 on the initiative concerning the vote on expenditures by the Federal Assembly (counter-proposal)
Federal decree proposed June 27, 1956 concerning the revision of the wheat regimen
Federal decree proposed September 30, 1955 establishing measures to promote the economy of the canton of Grisons, through aid to the public limited company for the mashing of wood in Domat/Ems
Popular initiative for an extension of people's rights when the Confederation grants concessions for the use of water power
Federal decree proposed December 22, 1955 on temporarily maintaining a control on reduced prices (extending the constitutional addendum of September 26, 1952)
Federal decree proposed December 22, 1954 on the initiative for the protection of tenants and consumers (counter-proposal)
Federal decree proposed December 22, 1954 on the initiative for the protection of tenants and consumers
Popular initiative for the protection of sites from the fall of the Rhine to Rheinau
Federal decree proposed June 25, 1954 on the financial regimen from 1955 to 1958
Federal decree proposed December 23, 1953 regarding special assistance to Swiss foreign victims of war
Federal decree proposed December 23, 1953 establishing the system of certificates of competency in the trades of cobbler, hairdresser, saddler and wheelwright
Federal decree proposed September 30, 953 introducing into the constitution an article 24quater on the protection of waters against pollution
Federal decree proposed September 25, 1953 establishing new constitutional provisions on the financial regimen of the Confederation
Federal law proposed June 20, 1952 concerning the revision of the federal law on the postal service
Federal decree proposed September 26, 1952 concerning the supply of the country in bread grain
Federal decree proposed September 26, 1952 on the temporary maintenance of a control on reduced prices
Federal decree proposed March 28, 1952 concerning the construction of bomb shelters in existing buildings
Federal law proposed February 1, 1952 amending the provisions related to the taxation of tobacco of the federal law on old-age and survivors' insurance
Federal decree proposed March 28, 1952 on the covererage of expenditures for armaments
Popular initiative to finance armaments and to safeguard the social conquests
Popular initiative on sales taxes
Federal law on the improvement of agriculture and the maintenance of the rural population (law on agriculture)
Federal decree extending the one restricting the opening and expansion of hotels
Popular initiative on the participation of public enterprises to the expenses for national defense
Federal decree on the initiative on the revision of art. 39 of the constitution (initiative for the free money) (counter-proposal)
Federal decree on the initiative on the revision of art. 39 of the constitution (initiative for the free money)
Federal decree on the public transportation of persons and things in motor vehicles
Federal decree on the financial regimen from 1951 to 1954
Federal decree amending article 72 of the constitution (election of the National Council)
Popular initiative for the protection of land and labor through measures against speculation
Federal decree establishing new constitutional provisions on the financial regimen of the Confederation
Federal decree extending and amending the one regarding measures to encourage the construction of dwelling houses
Federal law amending the law of June 30, 1927 on the status of civil servants
Popular initiative for a return to direct democracy
Federal law complementing that of June 13, 1928 on the fight against tuberculosis
Federal decree revising article 39 of the constitution on the Swiss national bank
Federal decree regulating the sugar regimen
Federal law on old-age and survivors' insurance
Federal decree revising the articles of the federal constitution relating to the economy
Federal decree on the initiative concerning the 'economic reform and labor rights'
Federal decree on the initiative on the 'right to work'
Federal decree on the initiative regulating the transport of goods (counter-proposal)
Federal decree on the initiative for the family (counter-proposal)
Federal law on federal railways
Federal law on unfair competition
Popular initiative for the reorganization of the national council
Popular initiative to increase the number of members of the federal council and have it elected by the people
Popular initiative for the revision of articles 31, 32bis and 32quater of the federal constitution
Federal law amending articles 103 and 104 of the law of April 12, 1907 on the military organization. (Obligation of the preparatory military training.)
Federal law amending the status of civil servants and the insurance conditions of the federal staff
Federal decree supplementing the federal constitution for the granting and partial coverage of credits for the building of national defense and the fight against unemployment
Federal decree on the initiative to restrict the use of the emergency clause (counter-proposal)
Popular initiative to extend the constitutional jurisdiction (revision of article 113 of the constitution)
Federal decree concerning the transitional regime of federal finances
Swiss penal code
Federal decree on the popular initiative against the private armament industry (counter-proposal)
Federal decree on the popular initiative against the private armament industry
Popular initiative to amend the optional referendum (revision of article 89, paragraph 2, of the constitution)
Federal decree revising articles 107 and 116 of the federal constitution (recognition of romansh as a national language)
Popular initiative on the partial revision of article 56 of the federal constitution (prohibition of Masonic societies and similar organizations)
Popular initiative for the total revision of the constitution
Popular initiative to combat the economic crisis and its effects
Federal law regulating the transport of goods and animals on the road with motor vehicles. (Law on sharing traffic.)
Federal law amending the law of April 12, 1907 on the military organization (Reorganisation of education)
Federal law on the protection of public order
Federal law temporarily reducing the wages and salaries of people employed by the Confederation
Federal law on the taxation of tobacco
Federal decree concerning the revision of articles 76, 96, paragraphs 1 and 3, and 105, paragraph 2, of the constitution (term of office of the national council, the federal council and the federal chancellor)
Federal decree concerning the revision of article 72 of the constitution (national council election)
Federal decree on the initiative for the revision of article 12 of the federal constitution (prohibition of decorations) (counter-proposal)
Federal decree concerning the revision of Articles 31 and 32bis of the federal constitution (alcohols regimen)
Popular initiative on the right of cantons and municipalities to prohibit distilled beverages
Popular initiative concerning the legislation on road transport
Federal law amending the article 14 of the Federal law of October 10, 1902 on the Swiss customs tariff
Federal decree on the popular initiative inserting an article 23bis in the Federal Constitution (wheat supply) (counter-proposal)
Federal decree on the popular initiative inserting an article 23bis in the Federal Constitution (wheat supply)
Popular initiative to amend Article 35 of the Constitution (popular initiative in favor of maintaining Kursaals and encouragement of tourism in Switzerland)
Federal decree concerning the revision of Article 44 of the Constitution (naturalization)
Federal law on the automobile and bicycle traffic
Federal decree on the revision of Article 30 of the Constitution (international alpine routes)
Federal decree proposed April 21, 1926 concerning the addition to the Federal Constitution of an article 23bis on the country's supply of grain
Federal decree on the insurance for old age, survivors' and disability insurance
Federal decree on residence and establishment of foreigners
Popular initiative for the insertion in the federal constitution of a 34quater article (creation of a fund for disability, old-age and survivors' insurance)
Federal law amending art. 41 of the law on factories of June 18, 1914/June 27, 1919
Federal decree concerning the revision of Articles 31 and 32bis (alcohols regime) of the Federal Constitution
Popular initiative to guarantee people's rights in customs matters (Article 29 of the Federal Constitution)
Federal decree ratifying the Convention between Switzerland and France regulating commercial and neighborhood relationships between the old zones of Upper Savoy and the Gex and neighboring Swiss cantons, signed in Paris on August 7, 1921
Popular initiative on "the arrest of Swiss citizens who threaten the internal security of the country'
Popular initiative regarding the a single tax on capital (Article 42a of the Constitution)
Federal act to modify the federal penal code of 4 February 1853 regarding the crimes against the constitutional order and internal security, and introducing the reprieve of execution of sentence
Popular initiative 'concerning the eligibility of federal officials to the National Council'
Popular initiative on 'eviction for breach the country's security, part II'
Popular initiative on 'naturalization, Part I'
Federal decree on the inclusion in the federal constitution of an article 37ter (Aviation)
Federal decree on the inclusion in the federal constitution of an article 37bis (automobile and bicycle traffic)
Popular initiative 'Suppression of military justice'
Popular initiative for the submission of international treaties to referendum
Federal law regarding working hours in the operation of railways and other transport and communications enterprises
Federal decree concerning the accession of Switzerland to the League of Nations
Federal decree on the popular initiative for the amendment of Article 35 of the Federal Constitution (prohibition of gambling houses) (counter-proposal)
Federal decree on the popular initiative for the amendment of Article 35 of the Federal Constitution (prohibition of gambling houses)
Federal law regulating working conditions
Federal decree on the adoption of transient provisions for the application of Article 73 of the Federal Constitution
Federal decree on the adoption of a constitutional article on the perception of a new extraordinary war tax
Federal decree on the inclusion of a section 24ter in the federal constitution (navigation)
Popular initiative for proportional representation in elections at the National Council
Popular initiative for inclusion in the Federal Constitution of an article 41bis and the amendment of Article 42, letter f, of this Constitution (introduction of direct federal taxes)
Federal decree on the introduction of an article 41bis and a new paragraph to article 42 under letter g (stamp duty)
Federal decree concerning adoption of an article of the Federal Constitution to levy a one-time war tax
Federal decree on the revision of Article 103 of the Federal Constitution and the addition of a section 114bis to the federal constitution
Federal decree amending Articles 69 and 31, paragraph 2, letter d, of the Federal Constitution (fight against diseases affecting humans and animals)
Federal law on insurance for sickness and accidents
Popular initiative to apply the proportional representation for elections to the National Council
Federal decree on federal legislation on the use of hydraulic power, and the transmission and distribution of electrical energy (counter-proposal: introduction in the federal constitution of an Article 24bis)
Popular initiative concerning the prohibition of absinthe
Federal decree supplementing the Federal Constitution regarding the right to legislate on arts and crafts
Military organization of the Swiss Confederation
Federal act on the trade of foods and various everyday objects
Federal decree concerning the revision of Article 64 of the Federal Constitution (extension of the protection of inventions)
Federal decree amending Article 32a of the Federal Constitution
Popular initiative for the revision of Article 72 of the Federal Constitution (election of the National Council based the population of Swiss citizens)
Federal law complementing the Federal Penal Code from February 4, 1853
Federal law on Customs Tariff
Federal decree concerning support for the public primary school by the Confederation
Popular initiative for the election of the Federal Council by the people
Popular initiative for the introduction of proportional representation in elections at the National Council
Federal law on insurance against illness and accidents, and on military insurance
Federal decree on the inclusion of an article 64bis in the Federal Constitution
Federal decree on the revision of Article 64 of the Federal Constitution
Federal law on the acquisition and operation of railways on behalf of the Confederation, and the organization of the administration of Federal Railways
Federal Ordinance on federal legislation on the food trade, and the trade of household items and everyday objects that may endanger the health or life
Federal decree revising Article 24 of the Federal Constitution
Federal law creating a Bank of the Swiss Confederation
Federal act on disciplinary sentences in the Swiss Army
Federal law on Accounting of railways
Federal law on liability in the cattle trade
Federal decree on the revision of the articles of the Federal Constitution relating to the military organization
Decree of the Federal Council on the referendum on the Federal decree of March 26, 1895 (additional provisions for the introduction of a monopoly in matches, in order to supplement the federal constitution of May 29, 1874)
Federal act on the representation of Switzerland abroad
Popular initiative to distribute between the cantons, some of the customs revenue
Popular initiative 'to ensure the right to work'
Federal decree on the referendum on the Federal decree of 20 December 1893 related to the addition to the federal constitution of a new section giving the Confederation the right to legislate on business
Popular initiative for a ban on the slaughter of animals without prior stunning
Federal decree concerning the purchase of the Swiss Central Railway
Federal act on the Swiss Customs Tariff
Federal decree concerning the revision of the Federal Constitution
Federal law for officials and federal employees who became unable to perform their duties
Federal decree on an article for inclusion in the federal constitution of May 29, 1874, to assign to the Confederation the right to legislate in the field of insurance in case of accident and sickness
Federal act on Debt Enforcement and Bankruptcy
Federal decree concerning a supplement to Article 64 of the Federal Constitution of May 29, 1874
Federal act related to spirits
Federal decree bringing partial modification to the Federal Constitution (hostel and alcohol)
Federal decree allocating a grant of 10,000 francs to the Swiss legation in Washington for its secretariat
Federal law concerning the addition of an article to the Federal Penal Law from February 4, 1853
Federal decree on patent fees for commercial travelers
Federal law regarding the organization of the Federal Department of Justice and Police
Federal decree on the enforcement of Article 27 of the Federal Constitution (primary education)
Federal law on measures against epidemics resulting in a general danger
Federal decree on the introduction of an addition to the Federal Constitution (protection of inventions)
Federal decree on the proposed revision of the Federal Constitution, raised by popular initiative dated August 3, 1880
Federal law regarding the revision of Art. 65 of the Federal Constitution (death penalty)
Federal law granting subsidies to railways in the Alps
Federal law on political rights of established and resident Swiss, and the loss of political rights of Swiss citizens
Federal law on the exemption tax of military service
Federal law concerning work in factories
Federal law on the issuance and rembursement of banknotes
Federal law on the voting rights of Swiss citizens
Federal law regarding marital status, related recordkeeping and marriage
Popular vote of May 3, 1942
Total revision
Prohibition of lottery and games of chance
Equality of citizens in view of the establishment and legislation
Prohibition of certain types of sentences
Freedom of conscience and religion
Voting rights for established Swiss, on municipal matters
Complete revision of September 12, 1848
Popular vote of September 8, 1935
Popular vote of August 10, 1919
Popular vote of July 11, 1897
Federal law amending the article 14 of the Federal law of October 10, 1902 on the Swiss customs tariff. September 24, 1972
Rejected (49.67%)
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Building the Tabernacle. This will be the place where God would manifest his presence to Israel (“dwelling among them”), and the divinely-given pattern as to the way we may approach God in worship. It is evident in the New Testament — both in the Gospel of John and in the Epistle to the Hebrews — that this structure symbolized and foreshadowed the Lord Jesus himself. Christ is the dwelling place of God; he is the altar of sacrifice (and the sacrifice), the water of cleansing that we need, the bread of life, the light of the world, and our Priestly mediator. For more detail on this read Jesus-and-the-Tabernacle
Gifted people, and giving people. As to the building of the tabernacle we read… “…and he has filled him with the Spirit of God, with skill, with intelligence, with knowledge, and with all craftsmanship…” (Exodus 35:31 ESV) And “Moses called Bezalel and Oholiab and every craftsman in whose mind the LORD had put skill, everyone whose heart stirred him up to come to do the work. And they received from Moses all the contribution that the people of Israel had brought for doing the work on the sanctuary. They still kept bringing him freewill offerings every morning…” (Exodus 36:2-3) This is just like what we see in the New Testament: God gives spiritual gifts to his people to build up the temple (now: the body of Christ) to be a dwelling place of the Holy Spirit for worship and service of God.
A good reflection. We read, “He made the basin of bronze and its stand of bronze, from the mirrors of the ministering women who ministered in the entrance of the tent of meeting.” (Exodus 38:8 ESV) Now there’s a bit of irony in this… These godly women gave up their polished bronze mirrors — used for looking at self, and so often becoming a source of vanity — to be transformed into a bronze basin to hold the water of cleansing, which brings true beauty and allows communion with God. Image below: ancient mirrors from Egypt on display at the Louvre.
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by T. Austin-Sparks
Beloved of the Lord,
One sang long since, "I love the habitation of Thy House, and the place where Thy Glory dwelleth" (R.V.).
He thought of an earthly habitation, a temple exceeding magnifical that crowned Mt. Zion; but those infinitely higher thoughts of the Holy Spirit had in mind the Body of the Christ, that heavenly habitation of the Lord of Glory; for the church when complete, shall be the everlasting tabernacle of His Glory.
The true mark of Christmindedness is a discerning of the Body of Christ, and surely the seal of Christlikeness is a love for His Body, and this is a practical and therefore a present love for that Body in its members. Let no one deceive himself in this, for there can be a perception of the truth concerning the Body without this practical, and present love of the members. The former illumination of the Spirit is necessary but the Spirit Himself within us would energise in the latter as "the Love of" the Christ. Oh, how we need a Divine discerning of the members, a knowing of one another after the Spirit Who dwells in us and upon us as the Spirit of the One Life of the Christ. Then shall we give ourselves as a living sacrifice to that ministry which is the Lord's supreme desire, namely, the up-building of His Body in the Increase of a Divine Life, which is the Divine Love.
Observe how the apostle in his heart burden of Eph. 3:14-21, speaks last of all before he comes to "the power that worketh in us" of "the love of Christ which passeth knowledge" for it is in this love we come into the fulness of God. Are we, beloved, living in the fulness of God? We are if we are now living on the earth for the Body's sake.
Did not the Saviour close His appeal for His Church with these words, "that the love wherewith Thou hast loved Me may be in them," and thus, "I in them"? What a love is this! His Spirit yearns for the complete glorifying of His Son in that Habitation made up of His living members, and within us His Spirit would be as a consuming fire unto this end. Let us yield our hearts to Him that in these last days our love for Him may be manifested in our love for His members, for whosoever loveth Him that begat, loveth him also that is begotten of Him.
We love them as we find them, discerning them in the Lord. They are scattered abroad these days, hidden away, often hungry for fellowship, food, and consolation. And there are those unborn ones, in every land that wait to hear that living Voice of His Love in the Gospel's proclamation. In every way either in prayer or preaching it is the task of an inward constraining Love, Christ's own love in our hearts.
May it be said of each of us, as of Him, "the zeal for Thy House hath consumed me".
Yours by His grace,
T. Austin-Sparks.
T. Madoc-Jeffreys.
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Lyr Req: Pretty Little Pink
BLUE-EYED GIRL
PRETTY LITTLE MISS
Lyr Req: Fly Around My Pretty Little Miss (19)
Lyr Add: Fly Around My Blue-Eyed Gal (3)
GUEST,Frogmore 19 May 01 - 08:15 PM
Stewie 19 May 01 - 08:47 PM
Joe Offer 25 May 04 - 08:56 PM
Q (Frank Staplin) 25 May 04 - 10:37 PM
Q (Frank Staplin) 26 May 04 - 12:34 AM
Flash Company 26 May 04 - 10:57 AM
Goose Gander 08 Dec 06 - 03:26 PM
Azizi 08 Dec 06 - 05:32 PM
Azizi 09 Dec 06 - 07:25 AM
Q (Frank Staplin) 09 Dec 06 - 06:14 PM
kytrad (Jean Ritchie) 09 Dec 06 - 06:15 PM
Richie 10 Dec 06 - 08:24 PM
Richie 12 Dec 06 - 07:59 AM
GUEST,Elettra 12 Dec 06 - 05:42 PM
Q (Frank Staplin) 13 Dec 06 - 01:06 AM
sian, west wales 13 Dec 06 - 03:59 AM
Scrump 13 Dec 06 - 06:26 AM
Goose Gander 13 Dec 06 - 10:53 AM
Subject: lyrics required, Pretty Little Pink
From: GUEST,Frogmore
I'm spending this part of my life taking care of aging parents, as many of you are. My dad is remembering songs he heard in the 20s and 30s. Tonight's memories were "Pretty Little Pink" (I recall something like (Fly around, my pretty little pink, fly around my baby....) I think Doc Watson recorded a version. The other is the more well known "Papa's gonna but you a mockingbird, golden ring, etc. I know there are many versions and would appreciate any input. Thank you very much.
Hush Little Baby in the DT.
Subject: Lyr Add: MY PRETTY LITTLE PINK (from Sandburg)
From: Stewie
In respect of the first, you may be mixing a couple of songs here, albeit both use 'floaters'. Lyrics for a couple of versions of the song best known as 'Fly Around My Pretty Little Miss' may be found in this thread:
'My Pretty Little Pink' does not seem to be in the DT or forum. The composite version in Sandburg's 'American Songbag' is:
MY PRETTY LITTLE PINK
My pretty little pink, I once did think
That you and I would marry
But now I've lost all hopes of you
And I have no time to tarry
I'll take my knapsack on my back
My rifle on my shoulder
And I'll march away to the Rio Grande
To view the forest over
Where coffee grows on white oak trees
And the river flows with brandy
Where the girls are sweet as sweet can be
And the boys like sugar candy
Do a forum search for the 'mockingbird' one and I am sure you will find plenty.
--Stewie.
Subject: RE: lyrics required, Pretty Little Pink
The Traditional Ballad Index has an interesting entry. Looks like there are several versions of this song.
Little Pink
DESCRIPTION: "My pretty little Pink, I once did think, That you and I would marry." The singer complains that the girl has taken too long to make up her mind. In some versions he is a soldier who sets out to see the sights and fight in the Mexican War
EARLIEST DATE: 1914 (Brown)
KEYWORDS: courting love separation soldier floatingverses
FOUND IN: US(Ap,MW,SE,So)
REFERENCES (4 citations):
Sandburg, p. 166, "My Pretty Little Pink" (1 text, 1 tune)
Randolph 793, "Careless Love" (3 texts, 1 tune, but the "B" text belongs here if it belongs anywhere)
BrownIII 287, "Darling Little Pink" (1 text); also 78, "Coffee Grows on White Oak Trees" (7 texts plus 1 excerpt and mention of 1 more, but almost all mixed -- all except "H" have the "Coffee grows" stanza, but "A" also has verses from "Fly Around, My Pretty Little Miss"; "and "C" through "H" are mostly "Little Pink"; "B" is mixed with "Raccoon" or some such)
Hudson 85, p. 212, "Going to the Mexican War" (1 fragment, with the "Knapsack on my Shoulder" text and also the "Coffee Grows" stanza; there isn't much "Little Pink" in it, but it clearly goes with the Brown texts cited above)
Roud #735
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "We're Marching Down to Old Quebec" (floating verses)
File: San166
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
This is the text B of Randolph, # 793, "Careless Love." Is the first verse the only one, just searching for more verses?
Come my little pink and tell me what you think,
You're a long time making up your mind,
I truly understand that you love another man,
And folks tell me that your heart ain't mine.
I don't like to work, but I love to keep time
I do love to hear the dinner horn blow,
But I feel like I got no home.
Hand me down my suitcase and all my dirty clothes,
I'm a-going away for to stay,
And if she comes to see me while I'm gone
Just tell her I'm a-sleeping in the clay.
One white shirt is all I got,
One dollar is all I crave,
I didn't bring nothing to this here world,
And I won't take nothing to my grave.
Lance Howard, MO, 1923, Randolph, vol. 4, reprint p. 307.
The verse was used by Jean Ritchie as a chorus to "Over the River to Feed My Sheep." Posted Apr. 22, 2001 by Harpgirl, in thread 10474: Over the River .
I never could do without you
Since I lost all hopes of you
I care very little about you.
Turtle Old Man posted the verse in thread 32248, in "Black Is the Color...?", 05-Aug-02, sung by Dellie Norton, NC, in the song on a cd in the set, "Far on the Mountains." Black is the color
(See "Black Is the Colour (2) in the DT for the song without this verse, as collected by Sharp).
My pretty little pink, so fare you well,
You've slighted me but i wish you well,
If never on earth I no more see,
I cain't slight you like you've slighted me.
See "My Little Pink," by W. H. Delehanty, sheet music 1873, at American Memory. Sung by the Foy Sisters. Seems unrelated.
"I sent a note this morning, to my Melinda, dear,
And in it was a postscript, "Be sure to meet me here;" etc.
Spoken:
"Here comes my little pink of pets now, she's just the best bud in the bouquet basket,..."
Unattributed "Mother Goose"
My little pink,
I suppose you think,
I cannot do without you,
I'll let you know
Before I go,
How little I care about you.
www.famous-quote-famous-quotes.com/nursery_rhymes/hey_rub-a-dub.html
"Pretty Little Pink" as posted above by Stewie appears in Newell, W. W., "Games and Songs of American Children," first published in 1883. No. 175, from East Tennessee. "The manner of playing has not been obtained."
The second verse is slightly different, and a few words vary in the other verses.
That you and I would marry,
But now I've lost all hope of that,
I can no longer tarry.
I've got my knapsack on my back,
My musket on my shoulder,
To march away to Quebec town,
To be a gallant soldier.
Where coffee grows on a white-oak tree,
And the rivers flow with brandy,
Where the boys are like a lump of gold,
And the girls as sweet as candy.
"In another version, Mexico was substituted for Quebec."
From the Dover reprint with new introduction and Index by Carl Withers, copyright 1963. Still being reprinted.
Coffee on a white-oak tree??
Newell gives a note, "J. Mooney, Jour. American Folk-Lore, H. 104.'
Subject: Lyr Add: FOUR IN THE MIDDLE
Stewie's "Rio Grande" line brought to mind this old song chorus:
O, we're marching down to Dixie's land,
To Dixie's land, to Dixie's land
And our old flag shall wave to the Rio Grande
And treason shall go down!
From the Civil War song, "We're Marching Down to Dixie's Land." Lyric sheet at American Memory.
Lomax collected a play party song in Kingsville, Texas, 1939 Southern States Recording Trip which suggests that the 'coffee' verse in "Pretty Little Pink" is a floater:
Lyr. Add: FOUR IN THE MIDDLE
Sung by Ruby Wilson, Kingsville, TX
"Green coffee grows on white oak trees,
The river flows with brandy ose
Go choose the one to roam with you,
As sweet as striped candy ose.
Four in the middle and you can't get about
Four in the middle
Swing your partner around you.
Six in the middle and time half out
Eight in the middle and swing
Ten in the middle and two goes out
American Memory, under "Four in the Middle." Audio.
"Green Coffee Grows on White Oak Tops"
Play Party Game, music and description of game in Wolfe and Fullerton, "Together We Sing," All Grades (or Enlarged) Edition, Follett Pub. Co., p. 245. Collected in Tennessee.
Note: "This Tennessee folk song stems from a time when each cook bought green coffee beans and roasted them to suit her taste before roasting them. For many southern families during the Civil War, the only source for "coffee" was the acorns from the white oak."
"before grinding them," not roasting.
From "The Patriotic Contraband!" by A. Anderson
I den be dressed in Regimentals,
And a knapsack on my back,
With my musket at a shoulder arms,
Full up my habersack.
(From American Memory)
From: Flash Company
Comes up in a song called 'Weevily Wheat':-
My pretty little pink, suppose you think I care but little about you,
Let you know before I go I cannot live without you!
Charley he's a fine young man,
Charley he's a dandy
Loves to hug and kiss the girls
And feed them on sweet candy.
Probably know the rest if I think about it, heard from Guy Carawan.
Charley supposed to be Bonnie Prince of that ilk!
It is a floater not only in Weevily Wheat but others of the same type.
The DT version of "Weevily Wheat" has the 'coffee' verse. See threads on "Careless Love," Weevily threads, "Charlie, He's a Good Old Man," "Fly Around, my...," etc.
Anyone have the "Pretty Little Pink" verse in an earlier printing than the one from 1883 in Newell, "Games and Songs of American Children"?
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Pretty Little Pink
From: Goose Gander
Date: 08 Dec 06 - 03:26 PM
My pretty little pink I once did think,
To march away to Mexico,
Where coffee grows on a white oak tree,
As collected and printed by James Mooney, "Folklore of the Carolina Mountains," The Journal of American Folklore, Vol. 2, No. 5 (April-June, 1889), p.104
Mooney printed these lyrics as an example of a children's "song game": "One song of this kind was obtained from a lady living on Oconaluftee River, who had sung it when a child at her old home near Murphy, in the extreme southeastern corner of the state . . . . The lady had forgotten the details of the game, but remembered that one girl, presumably the "pretty little pink," stood in the centre, while the others marched around her singing the song. She said it had a very pretty tune, which she had forgotten . . . . The lady stated, however, that as she had known it the children said "Quebec Town" instead of "Mexico," which might indicate that the first part of the song goes back as far as the French and Indian war." p.104
Of course, the Quebec reference could also date the song to the American War of Indepedence or the War of 1812. And as bizarre as it seems, Alex Cox in his new film offers evidence that the United States planned an invasion of Canada in the inter-war decades of the twentieth century.
Not that there is any connection between a nineteenth century children's song and twentieth century war plans (!), but it is interesting that Canada has been a target for so long!
From: Azizi
While Yella {yellow} may have been the most common 19th century referent for a light skinned African American, in my opinion {and I have no proof of this} "my pretty little pink" originally referred to a African American female who is very light skinned.
The song may have later become a children's game in which "pink" referred to the color of clothing that a girl had on.
I'm wondering if there are any verses that refer to "my pretty little {other color}.
Have you found any versions of 'pretty little pink' (or related) among the African-American children's rhymes you collect?
Date: 09 Dec 06 - 07:25 AM
Michael Morris, my comment about Pretty little Pink games was in reference to your 08 Dec 06 - 03:26 post.
If there were examples of this singing game in which the "pretty little pink" was changed to "pretty little blue" or "pretty little green" etc, then maybe "pink" didn't refer to light skin color. Or maybe it had referred to light skin color at one time, but had changed to become a referent for the color of the featured participant's clothing.
I remember my mother reciting the first verse of "My Pretty Little Pink" to my sisters and me in the 1950s [or at least someone recited it to me as I remembered it from my childhood when I first read in in Thomas W Talley's 1922 collection "Negro Folk Rhymes".
I don't remember my mother doing any actions associated with that rhyme. It was recited as a poem.
For what it's worth, I've collected no children's rhymes from the 1950s to date that contain the line "my pretty little pink" or any other parts of the rhyme that you included in your Dec 06 - 03:26 post.
However, some folks might think that the "Where the boys are like a lump of gold, And the girls as sweet as candy" lines live on in these lines:
"Boys are rotten Just like cotton/Girls are handy Just like candy."
It's possible that the "boys are like a lump of gold" line etc may be at least one of the sources for "boys are rotten...", but I'm not certain of that.
Here's a common given version of the contemporary handclap rhyme containing that "boys are rotten" line:
My mother. Your mother
live across the street
eighteen nineteen Blueberry Street
Every night they have a fight
And this is what they said tonight
Boys are rotten
made out of cotton.
Girls are dandy
made out of candy
Girls go to Mars
To be superstars
Boys go to Jupiter
to get more stupider
Boys drink beer
To be unfair
Girls drink Pepsi
To get more sexy.
-Yammieshya P. {age 13 years} & Sadiqia P. {age 11 years}; [Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 2005
Also, Michael, it may be of interest to you and others that I've found that circle singing games- marching or otherwise- appear to have been relegated to a class room activity directed by pre-school teachers and other adults for pre-school age children. This appears to be the case among African American children in my area. And I dare say it's true elsewhere in the USA and maybe not just among African American children.
Stella Ola Ola/Slap Billy Ola is a big exception to my observation that elementary school age children {5-12 years old} don't play singing or chanting circle games.
Another big exception to this statement is "Going to Kentucky". That 'show me your motion' circle game is played in the traditional 'ring game with one person in the middle' mode. Another contemporary rhyme in that same traditional ring game mode is the contemporary version of 'Little Sally Walker {was walkin down the street}.
For more information on these examples and for additional examples, visit the hyperlink presented above. You might also want to visit my website http://www.cocojams.com/
Also, with regard to 'pink' as a referent for a female who is of African American/non African American ancestry and who has very light skin, I was thinking of the 1949 movie Pinky.
Genders OnLine Journal - Presenting innovative theories in art, literature, history, music, TV and film. Issue 40; 2004 "Passing For Horror; Race, Fear, and Elia Kazan's Pinky By Miriam J Petty http://www.genders.org/g40/g40_petty.txt presents an interesting commentary about that movie. Here's a very brief excerpt from that essay:
"Film genres routinely mix and evolve over time in ways hat change our expectations of them, and change the way that we as audiences read and receive them. At times, however, the mixing of genres can function to focus our attention on certain film texts, and certain critical moments within these texts....
In this essay, I use the 1949 Hollywood film Pinky to suggest the ways in which social problem films dealing with the phenomenon of racial "passing" (instances in which light-skinned black characters "pretend" to be whites) use themes and motifs commonly found in horror films...
A post-World War II offering from the Fox studio, Pinky represents part of what Christopher Jones calls the "culmination of the trend toward black realism in the American cinema of the forties" (110) in 1949. As Jones observes, this year saw the release of films like Lost Boundaries (also a cinematic account of a "black-as-white" passing story), Stanley Kramer's post-war drama Home of the Brave, and the film adaptation of William Faulkner's Intruder in the Dust. Pinky's place as the most popular and critically acclaimed of these films dealing substantially with "blacks at home in the United States, enduring the problems of civilian life" (Jones 110-111) suggests the significance of examining the currents of fear and repression underlying its presentation of racial realities."
Btw, here's Thomas W. Talley's version of "Pretty Little Pink" [originally published in 1922, but this is from the 1966 Kennikat edition, p 127
PRETTY LITTLE PINK
My pretty liddle Pink,
I once did think,
Dat we-uns sho' would marry;
But I'se done give up,
Hain't got no hope,
I hain
t got no time to tarry.
I'll drink coffee dat flows
From oaks dat grows,
'Long de river dat flows wid brandy.
-snip-
Note that the word "pink" is capitalized, as it might be if it was a referent for a person or a person's name.
Btw2, Tally also includes a separate song that contains a variant of the "Charley is a dandy" line.
Here's the first two verses of that 4 verse song:
HE LOVES SUGAR AND TEA
Mistah Buster, he loves sugar an' tea.
Mistah Buster, he loves candy
Mistah Buster, he's a Jim DandyA
He can swing dem gals so handy.
Charlie's up an' Charlie's down
Charlie's fine and dandt.
Ev'ry time he goes to town,
He gits dem gals stick candy.
Fwiw, the "He loves sugar and tea" phrase lives on in an [African American] children's handclap rhymes though I usually found it given as "I love coffee/I love tea".
Also fwiw, the only references to skin color or race that I've found in contemporary African American children's rhymes are from the the "I Love Coffee/I Love Tea" rhymes. Here's a common version of that rhyme:
I Love Coffee. I Love Tea {Example #3} Handclap rhyme
I love tea
I love a Black boy and he loves me
so step back White boy
you don't shine
I'mma get a Black boy to beat your behind
I met my boyfriend at the candy store.
He bought me ice-cream, he bought me cake,
he brought me home with a belly-ache.
Mamma, Mamma, I feel sick.
Call the doctor - quick, quick, quick.
Doctor, Doctor, will I die?
Count to five and you'll be alive.
1-2-3-4-5. I'm alive.
-African American girls, Pittsburgh, PA, collected late 1980s to date
Note: I received a version of "I love coffee" from a Latina girl who remembered reciting it in New York City, late 1980s. Her version said "I like a colored boy". I also have found several versions of "I love coffee" online from early 2000s which contain this
"I like a colored boy" line. Given the fact that African Americans haven't used the referent "Colored" for ourselves since the 1970s or so, I am presuming that at least some of those persons who posted this version of the "I love coffee" rhyme online are White.
Incidentally, I've never found a version with the line "I love a white boy and he loves me/so step back Black boy". My position is that these versions originated with Black children. My sense is that they reflect the racial tensions that may have occurred [or may still occur] in {newly?} integrated schools or other social settings frequented by Black children and non-Black children.
Also, the "Mama Mama I feel sick" line, probably comes from the [at least 19th century] slavery rhyme: "Grandma Grandma sick in bed/sent for the doctor and the doctor said/get up Grandma/You ain't sick/all you need is a hickory stick.
The "Doctor Doctor will I die?" line is probably also from the old "Waterflower" {"Water fall"?} rhyme.
One version of this children's ring game [with one person in the center] is included in Altona Trent John's 1944 book "Playsongs of the Deep South."
WATER-FLOWER
Water-flower, water-flower,
Growing up so tall,
All the young ladies must surely, surely die;
All except Miss 'Lindy Watkins,
She is everywhere,-
The white folks say, the white folks say,
Turn your back and tell your beau's name.
Doctor, Doctor can you tell
What will make poor 'Lindy well?
She is sick and 'bout to die,
That will make poor Johnnie cry!
Marry, marry, marry, quick!
'Lindy, you are just love sick!
Johnnie is a ver' nice man,
Comes to the door with hat in hand,
Pulls off his gloves and show his rings,
'Morrow is the wedding-day.
Azizi -
Thank you for all that, lots of stuff I didn't know! I have another version of Pretty Little Pink sung unaccompanied on a cassette put out by the Augusta Heritage Center, I'll dig it up, transcribe it and post it here.
My Pretty (Darling)(Little) Pink-My Pretty Little Miss seem to have popped up as a play party song sometime after the Civil War, and collected floaters.
So far, no evidence of earlier origin.
Mexico, Quebec, Rio Grande, New Orleans and Dixie seem to be the places 'marched off to'. It is widespread, from the East Coast to Texas (Owens, "Texas Folk Songs") if not farther.
From: kytrad (Jean Ritchie)
In Kentucky, in my family, this game-song was called, "Old King Cole was a Jolly Old Soul- goes like this:
Old King Cole was a jolly old soul
And that you may know by his larnin'-
He eat corn bread till his head turned red,
And his old yeller cap needs darnin'.
That I and you would marry.
And I ain't got long to tarry.
I'll take my knapsack on my back,
My musket on my shoulder-
I'll march away to Mexico,
Enlist and be a soldier.
Where coffee grows on the whiteoak trees
And the rivers they run brandy;
Where the boys are pure as a lump of gold
And the girls are sweet as candy.
You may-go on and I'll turn back
To the place where we first parted;
We'll open up the ring and choose a couple in-
And we hope they'll come free-hearted.
© 1953, Jean Ritchie Geordie Music Publishing Co.
(from Balis Ritchie, Jean's fath
My dad had another "little miss" song, like this:
Where are you goin my pretty little miss,
Where are you goin my daisy:?
Well...if I don't get me a young man soon,
I think I'm goin crazy.
Cho: Hi rinktum a dinktum a diddle diddle dum
Hi rinktum a dinktum a doodie (repeat these 2 lines)
How old are you my pretty little miss-
How old are you my honey?
Well...if I don't die of a broken heart
I'll be sixteen next Sunday.
Then there are several more verses. Would this be the one you're looking for, Frogmore?
Pretty little Miss (see thread 16280, linked above), likely the Frogmore request- separate play song or variant? I dunno.
Kytrad, I haven't seen "Old King Cole" brought into the mix before, or with the lines you post. Thanks for posting it.
From: Richie
The group of songs/titles connected here are large. The folk index puts most of them under the "Western Country/Fly Around My Pretty Little Miss" title. "Coffee Grows on White Oak Trees" is part of this group.
The "Pretty Little Pink" songs are related to "We're Marching to Quebec (sometimes New Orleans)".
The "Wheavily Wheat" songs mention Charlie as in "Charley He's a Good Old Boy/Man"
Then there's "Four in the Middle" a mid-west variant that is also related to "Jim Along Joe"
Jean's dad sang the variant: "How Old Are You (My Pretty Little Miss)?" which usually has the "I'll be sixteen next Sunday" line.
This song group has a very similar melody to "Shady Grove" and also surprisingly "Black Jack Davy/David.
Here are some names:
My Pretty Little Pink; Little Pink; All Around Those Pretty Little Pinks; Long the Days of Sorrows; Fly Around My Pretty Little Miss/Pink; We're Marching Down to Old Quebec; Charley He's a Good Old Boy/Man; Quadrille in D and A; Charlie's Neat (and Charlie's Sweet); Twistification; Western Country; Susannah Gal; Blue Eyed Gal; Charlie, He's My Darling; Four in the Middle; Coffee Grows on White Oak Trees; Weevily Wheat;
Here are some related songs:
Say, Darling, Say; Where Are You Going; Washing Mama's Dishes; Black Jack Davy (Tune); Little Betty Ann; I Want to Go Back to Georgia; Jaybird Died with the Whooping Cough; Shady Grove (tune); Daisy; How Old Are You (My Pretty Little Miss)?; Leroy Troy's Rabbit Dog; Jim Along Josie; Over the Water/River to Charlie;
Subject: Lyr Add: PRETTY LITTLE PINK (from Doc Watson)
Here's a version from my friend Doc Watson with some great lyrics:
Lry add: PRETTY LITTLE PINK
Doc Watson with Clarence Ashley
Fly all around my pretty little pink,
Fly all around my baby,
You slighted me and broke my heart,
You almost drove me crazy.
When I was a little boy,
A-playin' in the ditches,
Now I am a big grown man,
Wearing Pappy's britches.
Yonder stands my own true love,
You reckon how I know,
Tell her by her under clothes,
Hangin' down so low.
Every time that I go home,
I do the best to please her,
The more I try the worse she gets,
Durned if I don't leave her.
Yonder stands a pretty little girl,
She's all dressed in red,
I looked down and I seen her feet,
And I wished my wife was dead.
Subject: Lyr Add: PRETTY LITTLE PINK (from Bradley Kincaid)
Floating verses galore in this version from Bradley Kincaid . . . .
Lor, Lor, my pretty little Pink
Lor, Lor, I say
I'm going to stay away
Cheeks as red as a red, red rose
Her eyes as a diamond brown
I'm going to see my pretty little miss
Before the sun goes down
Fly around my pretty little miss
Fly around my daisy
You almost drive me crazy
I reckon you think my pretty little miss
But I'll let you know before I go
That I care very little about you
It's rings upon my true love's hands
Shines so bright like gold
Gonna see my pretty little miss
Before it rains or snows
When I was up in the field of work
I sat down and cried
Studying about my blue eyed girl
Thought to my God I'd die
Fly around me pretty little miss
Fly around my dandy
I don't want none of your candy
Every time I go that road
It looks so dark and cloudy
Every time I see that girl
I always tell her howdy
Coffee grows on white oak trees
The river flows with brandy
Rocks on the hills all covered with gold
And the girls all sweeter than candy
I'll put my knapsack on my back
I'll march away to Spartanburg
And there I'll be a soldier
Charlie is a nice young man
Charley is a dandy
Every time he goes to town
He buys the ladies candy
I don't want none of your weazely wheat
I don't wnat none of your barley
Want some flour in half an hour
To bake a cake for Charlie
It looks so dark and hazy
She almost drives me crazy
I asked that girl to marry me
And what did she say?
She said that she would marry me
Before the break of day
Source: Bradley Kincaid, Favorite Old-Time Songs and Mountain Ballads Book 2, 1929, p. 16-17.
Here's a few more . . . .
Pretty Little Pink As sung by O.B. Campbell, Vinita, Oklahoma on August 9, 1971, from the Max Hunter collection.
Relating to the Black Jack Davey connection mentioned by Ritchie, here's a verse from West Plains, Missouri . . . .
"Come with me, my pretty little pink
Come with me, my honey
Come with me to a distant land
Where we will never need for money
Where we will never need for money"
"Five Old-Country Ballads," The Journal of American Folklore, Vol. 25, No. 96. (Apr. - Jun., 1912), p. 174
MARCHING DOWN TO OLD QUEBEC
We're marching down to old Quebec
Whar th' drums is loudly beatin'
Th' 'Merican boys hev won th' day
An' th' British are retreatin'
Th' war's all over an' we'll turn back
To th' place whar we first started
We'll open up th' ring an' receive a couple in
To relieve th' brokenn-hearted
My purty leetle pink I used to think
I couldn't live without you
Thet I don't keer much about you
An' I'll march away to New Orleans
An' jine a band o' soldiers.
"The game is played very much like "The Miller Boy," but whenever the words "an' we'll turn back" are sung each couple does an about-face as quickly as possible. Two regularly appointed judges decide which couple was the slowest in making the turn, and this couple is turned out of the circle. At the words "we'll open up th' ring" the circle is broken for a moment, and the boy and girl outside rush to get in before it can be closed against them."
Vance Randolph, "The Ozark Play-Party," The Journal of American Folklore, Vol. 42, No. 165. (Jul. - Sep., 1929), p. 206-207
The "Marching Down to Old Quebec" is an interesting version.
"Five Old-Country Ballads" was submitted by George Lyman Kittredge to JAFL, based on texts collected by H. M. Belden, some of many not included in his book "Ballads and Songs Collected by the Missouri Folk-Lore Society." The book included only three of the singing games and two of the play party songs.
(I have finally succumbed and joined the American Folklore Society and paid the $15 extra for JSTOR access to JAFL).
Michael, your last verse of Bradley Kincaid's version (of several songs/games combined)was sung a bit differently at home:
O I asked that girl to marry me,
Y'reckon what she said?
She said she would not marry me
If everbody else 'uz dead.
I think that everybody who sings these songs "improves" on them, to make them funnier maybe, or to make them his/her own. But we separated them this way: "Old King Cole," was definitely a singing-game- it was called "a gettin-up song" because the boys were too bashful to ask girls to dance without help. SO, one brave couple promenaded round the room singing and when they reached the last verse, "we'll open up the ring and choose a couple in," another boy (or girl) had got up the nerve to get a partner, and they joined in the promenading and singing, until there were enough couples to play a regular game like, "Goin to Boston," or, "Over the River, Charlie."
"Shady Grove," on the other had, we sang as a sort of love song, not raucously, but with a more quiet gaiety, savoring the lovely tune.
And not to let go of it too soon, we sang every floating verse we knew to make it last longer!
Some versions of Shady Grove are minor and some major. We've sung both vocal parts at the same time (with two singers of course) in my band. It kinda works.
I alos like switching from major to minor after each verse/chorus.
I play the minor version in Em and also Dm like Doc Watson does. I play the major version faster, more like a breakdown.
IMHO the minor version does not closely resemble "Pretty Little Pink" songs but the major version does.
Subject: Lyr Add: PRETTY LITTLE PINK (from Tenn.Ernie Ford)
Here's a bit of Tennessee Ernie Ford's version. Basically he used
Bradley Kincaid's lyrics. I only could listen to the first part on-line. If anyone has the complete lyrics, please post them.
Pretty Little Pink- Tennessee Ernie Ford
Standin' In The Need Of Prayer CD Pickwick SPC-3222 1972
Her cheeks are red as a red, red rose
Her eyes are diamond brown
I'm going to see my pretty little gal
Fly around my pretty little pink
I reckon you think my pretty little pink
Here's some info from Mike Yeats' 'Far in the Mountains' notes:
(Played on the fiddle by Sam Connor and the banjo by Dent Wimmer at Dent's home in Floyd, Floyd County, 8.8.79)
Sam called this Little Pigee from his verse:
Run the old hog over the fence
And the little pigs through the cracks.
whilst Dent uses the title Western Country from the verse:
When I was in the western country,
Where the weather was so dry.
The sun came out and froze me,
Suzannah don't you cry.
Other Appalachian musicians call it either Fly Around My Pretty Little Pink or Blue Eyes Run Me Crazy because of another common verse:
Fly around my pretty little pink,
Fly around my daisy.
Your blue eyes run me crazy.
Kentucky banjo player Lee Sexton plays a good, if short, version on the album Mountain Music of Kentucky (Smithsonian Folkways SFCD 40077), and the North Carolina banjo-player and singer Frank Proffitt can be heard on Appleseed APR CD 1036; while Hobart Smith of Virginia played a stunning version on the piano (Rounder CD 1702). The Bogtrotters from Galax, VA, recorded it for the Library of Congress and The Hillbillies, a '20s stringband also from the area around Galax, called it Blue-Eyed Girl on their 1926 recording (Vocalion 5017) which has been reissued on Document DOCD-8039. They also included the 'little pigee' verse in their 1925 recording of Whoa' Mule (Okeh 40376) which is available on the same Document CD. A fine version from Frank Blevins and his Pilot Mountaineers has been reissued on Yazoo CD 2028, while Bradley Kincaid's Pretty Little Pink, reissued on Yazoo CD 2051, contains a number of similar verses.
Kytrad -
Thank you for shining a little light on where all the different Pretty Little Pinks come from, and also for your memories of singing games.
Here's an early source:
The True Mother Goose - Songs for the Nursery, Or, Mother Goose's Melodies for Children. Notes and Pictures by Blanche McManus. Published by Lamson, Wolffe and Co., Boston. 1895.
My little pink I suppose you think,
I cannot do with out you.
I will let you know before I go,
From: GUEST,Elettra
From my mother, who heard it from her aunt in the twenties in rural Alabama. She always called it "Bonnie Sweet Prince Charlie":
Charlie's neat and Charlie's sweet
My Charlie is a dandy
Every time he comes to town
He steals my sugar candy.
Over the river to feed my sheep
Over the river, Charlie
Over the river to grind my wheat
And measure out my barley.
Don't want your sheep, don't want your wheat
Nor do I want your barley
But I'll take a pound of the best you've got
To bake a cake for Charlie.
Repeat Vs. 1
Thank you, Michael Morris.
Elettra, a version of your song was posted in thread 10474: Over the River
"Over the River to Feed My Sheep," Ritchie Family version, was published, with score, in Jean Ritchie, 1940, "Celebration of Life," p. 11, Geordie Music Pub.
Prince Charles Edward Stewart, 'Bonnie Prince Charlie' 1720-1788
It's likely the "Charlie" was Prince Charles Edward Stewart 1720-1788.
This give the connection back to England.
Charles Edward Stewart, the true heir to the throne of Great Britain to his supporters and the "Young Pretender" to his enemies, was born in Rome in December 1720.
His grandfather, the Catholic James VII of Scotland and II of England had been ousted in favour of the Protestant William of Orange in the so-called Glorious Revolution of 1688, and had fled to France. After his death, Jacobites (as followers of the Stewart dynasty were called) recognised his son James Francis Edward as James VIII and III, and attempts were made to recover his throne in 1715 and 1719. Both were unsuccessful despite some assistance from France and Spain, whose own interests on a wider European stage favoured the return of the Stewart monarchy.
The above was taken from here:
http://www.visitscotland.com/library/princecharlie
W.K. McNeil discussed this song in Southern Mountain Folksongs . . .
"Although most folksong scholars agree that this song dates back only to the Mexican War (1846-1848), the earliest reported text, from eastern Tennessee in 1883, contains the following lyrics . . . (he cites stanza posted by Q above)
"This reference to Quebec suggests the possibility that the song originated during the French and Indian War (1754-1763), or about a century earlier than is generally believed. Some other texts mention New Orleans and thus make a War of 1812 origin possible. Is is, of course, also possible that the song predates all three wars and harks back to an as yet undiscovered urform. This seems to be what Ben Botkin is suggesting in The American Play-Party song, p.71, when he says the song 'presents a curious example of a dance song which has been converted into a soldiers' marching song, with Mexican War references, and then back into dance usage, war references and all."
McNeil printed a text plus tune from Doc Hopkins of Harlan County, Kentucky, taken from a tape he made in the late 1960s or early 1970s. Hopkins was a performer on the WLS National Barn Dance radio program in Chicago and performed in medicine shows previous to that. According to McNeil, he learned Pretty Little Pink from Bradley Kincaid who in turn learned it from fellow performer Scott Wiseman. The Hopkins version is shortened from the Kincaid version above, only having about half of the verses.
W.K. McNeil, Southern Mountain Folksongs (Little Rock, Arkansas: August House Publishers, Inc., 1993), p.150-153
Looking at the speculation above, how much of the imagery in these songs is the result of a combination of fanciful historical indoctrination of children by their homesick immigrant parents and the teaching of unrelated singing games by the teachers in the new homestead lands?
In the period 1850-1900, myriad poems extolling the deeds of old forbears were written and printed in American and Canadian books, magazines, and newspapers. Scots and English were prone to infect their children, and show their superiority to others in their new home, with poetry and songs, newly composed or paraphrased.
Old book stores always have volumes like this one, "Selections from Scottish Canadian Poets, being a Collection of the Best Poetry written by Scotsmen and their Descendants in the Dominion of Canada," pub. in Toronto, 1900. Of course it is some of the worst poetry ever published, but the books sold in good numbers.
A few quotes:
"Forward! see Scotland's gallant sons
Dash on to meet the foe,
Their strong right hand grasps Freedom's sword
And Freedom guides the blow;
Their bows are bent, their swords are keen," etc. etc.
"Then let us cheer his honoured name,
Sae dear to Scotland and to fame,
And on our feet, wi' loud acclaim,
Cry, "Hip, hurrah for Robin!"
"Then sing us to-night from the old Scottish songs-
The songs which our mothers would hear
In the old cottage homes, that were covered with thatch,
In a land that will ever be dear."
"Tonight we lift the minstrel harp,
With tears of sorrow wet,
And strike with reverent hand its chords
To wailings of regret;" etc.
"To chase in flight, by Carron winding slender,
The mail-clad legions of imperial Rome."
"Though haughty Edward looked in scorn
Upon the field of Bannockburn,
In terror thence he fled forlorn,
A long time ago."
Taking their parents stories based on fading memories of their homeland, made vivid through new books and papers like this one (which were also published for young people), children in schools of homestead settlements might entwine stories of ancient deeds and the singing games of the teachers into new ones that speak of olden times, but belong to a folk literature not from the 'old country' but newly born in the the new land.
Should we interpret these songs as survivals, or products of their time (1850-1900)? Just something I have wondered about but I don't think that there is a clear answer.
From: sian, west wales
From "The Scots Musical Museum: 1787 - 1803", James Johnson & Robert Burns ...
Heres to thy health my bonie lass
Written for this Work by Robt Burns
Tune, Loggan burn
Here's to thy health, my bonie lass
Gude night and joy be wi' thee:
I'll come nae mair to thy bower-door,
To tell thee that I loe thee.
O dinna think my pretty pink,
But I can live without thee:
I vow and swear, I dinna care
How lang ye look about ye.
Thou'rt ay fae free informing
Thou hast nae mind to marry.
I'll be as free informing thee,
Nae time hae I to tarry.
I ken thy friends try ilka means
Frae wedlock to delay thee;
Depending on some higher chance,
But fortune may betray thee.
I ken they scorn my low estate,
But that does never grieve me;
For I'm as free as any he,
Sma' siller will relieve me.
I'll count my health my greatest wealth
Sae lang as I'll enjoy it:
I'll fear nae scant, I'll bode nae want
As lang's I get employment.
But far off fowls hae feathers fair,
And ay until ye try them:
Tho' they seem fair, still have a care,
They may prove as bad as I am.
But at twel at night, when the moon shines bright,
My dear, I'll come & see thee;
For the man that loves his mistress weel
Nae travel makes him weary.
From: Scrump
I thought that was by the Psychedelic Furs?
... ah...
... I'll get me coat.
Q, in your 13 Dec 06 - 01:06 post you wrote "Looking at the speculation above, how much of the imagery in these songs is the result of a commbination of fanciful historical indoctrination of children by their homesick immigrant parents and the teaching of unrelated singing games by the teachers in the new homestead lands?"
Those are interesting points. I also wonder how much of the lyrics and performance activities of singing games were taught & passed on to children as a means of informally teaching & reinforcing such values as self-confidence and the importance of respecting and looking out for everyone in your group {which we now call demonstrating good team work skills}.
I also wonder how many of these games were used to teach & reinforce survival skills to African American and, possibly non-African American. Examples of the survival skills I have in mind are being alert & aware and thinking fast at all times.
Specifically, I'm thinking of 'show me your motion' ring {circle}games with one alternating center person as examples of games which taught the value that everyone in the group is important. According to Bess Jones in the book "Step It Down" that is co-authored by Bess Lomax-Hawes, traditionally these 'plays' did not end until every child in the group had a chance to be the center person in the ring.
Also, in these show me your motion ring games, since players never knew when they would be called to go in the center, they had to always be alert & prepared to immediately step into the middle of the ring. And they had to have a motion ready to do when it came time for that. And since motions shouldn't be repeated [at least that's the case now in the rare occassions that children play these games], players had to have a back up plan in case someone chose the movement that they were going to do. That's what I mean about thinking fast.
Though it's not in the 'Pretty Little Pink family' of rhymes, "Johnny Cuckoo" is one of the best examples I know of 19th century African American children's rhymes whose lyrics seek to conteract the rejection & negative valuations that Black children were bound to receive.
JOHNNY CUCKOO
Group Here comes one Johnny Cuckoo,
Cuckoo, Cuckoo.
Here comes one Johnny Cuckoo,
on a cold and stormy night.
Group What did you come for,
come for, come for?
What did you come for,
on a cold and stormy night?
Soloist #1 I come to be a soldier,
soldier, soldier.
I come to be a soldier,
on a cold an stormy night.
Group You are too black and dirty,
dirty, dirty.
You are too black and dirty
Soloist #1 I'm just as good as you are
you are, you are.
I'm just as good as you are
(repeat entire song with soloist #2 etc.)
"Johnny Cuckoo" is also included in a four CD collection of Southern folk songs (Alan Lomax, "Sounds of the South" Disc 4 Atlantic Recording Corp, 1993).
Sorry about that formatting.
Let me also note that Johnny Cuckoo is not a ring game but a line game.
"Looking at the speculation above, how much of the imagery in these songs is the result of a combination of fanciful historical indoctrination of children by their homesick immigrant parents and the teaching of unrelated singing games by the teachers in the new homestead lands?"
"Scots and English were prone to infect their children, and show their superiority to others in their new home, with poetry and songs, newly composed or paraphrased."
Q, all due respect, but your comments seem unfair and unnecessarily hostile. Some of your phrases - "...indoctrination of children..."; "Scots and English were prone to infect their children, and show their superiority to others in their new homes..."
Where to begin . . . .
Indoctrinate? Infect? Show me a culture - anytime, anyplace, anywhere - where parents do not seek to inculcate values to their children. Show me the culture that does not respect itself enough to ensure that such values support that culture.
What is the option, self-denigration? To quote the historian Eugene Genovese, " . . . self-hatred, no matter how flamboyantly presented as a high-minded seach for a more progressive identity, is no more attractive in white Southerners than in jews, blacks, Sicilians, or anyone else."
As to the roles of schools in spreading singing games, that is an interesting question and certainly worthy of study. But let's be specific - we are talking about a cluster of lyrics, melodies and games that for convenience we lump together as 'Pretty Little Pink.' You may notice that the places we find this song (North Carolina, east Tennessee, etc.) in the mid to late nineteenth century were not particularly known for high rates of compulsary education. So whatever the role of schoolteachers in spreading these songs, they probably were not the primary means of transmission.
Now Q, I'm sure I've jumped the gun and have been likewise unfair and unnecessarily hostile to you. Not my intention, but there's no way I could have made my point (at least right now, the way I'm feeling) without taking this tone.
Finally, Sian of West Wales, thank you for the Burns verses . . .
"O dinna think my pretty pink,
How lang ye look about ye."
Wonder if there's more?
Michael, my comments re Scots and English were meant tongue-in-cheek, but seem to have met a chip-on-the-shoulder response.
Alberta, Saskatchewan and other provinces in Canada had many homesteaders who came for the new land and a new beginning, Scots and English prominent among them. I picked Scots and English because their poems and songs, made in Canada, are most available because they are in English, and were printed by the publishers 'back east'.
There were Irish, too, settling at Cork (vanished settlement) and elsewhere in Alberta, but I have no knowledge of locally grown culture.
East-central Alberta was settled by Ukrainians, their onion-topped churches are a notable feature of the landscape. They have a lively culture. Poles also homesteaded in distinct locations.
Several settlements are French- not people from Quebec, but immigrants direct from France, who have little knowledge of that province except what they get on French Service Radio Canada broadcasts and telecasts.
Azizi, you may be aware of the African-American settlements in Alberta and Saskatchewan, 1000 coming from Oklahoma in 1911 (google for Amber Valley AB and Maidstone SK). Some early White settlers from the United States also tended to homestead in specific areas, one around High River. The book by Thomson, "Blacks in Deep Snow," Dent Pub., is interesting if superficial.
An area in southern Alberta is known for its Mormon settlements, and a well-known LDS temple at Cardston (many bought their spreads, so not homesteaders). There used to be schoolyard fights in Raymond area schools between Mormon and non-Mormon kids, the latter a minority- I wonder if any collections were made of singing games in this area. Incidentally, the first organized rodeo (stampede) in Canada took place here in 1902.
I could go on- even a small Icelandic settlement, which produced a well-known poet.
The same is true for the western states and their homesteaders.
My point, which I thought was obvious, is that some of the singing and play party games, which seem to have sprung up in the period 1850-1900, although mentioning themes of their forbears, developed in North American schoolyards and community halls and should not be considered direct descendants of old country forms.
Thanks, Sian, for "Here's to Thy Health, My Bonnie Lass." Burn's poems are in a bookcase within arm's reach of my computer, and I am somewhat red-faced for not knowing that poem. Now, I recall a Burn's poem about barley which may fit here. I think that the line "Charlie's sweet and Charlie's neat" in a Jean Ritchie version only coincidentally echos Burn's "O Mally's Meek, Mally's Sweet." (We had a Cairn Terrier that we named Mallie, from this poem. Perhaps I shouldn't mention this; Michael will take offence).
Azizi, "Johnny Cuckoo" reminded me of some of the contrabandist songs of the 1860's, when Blacks took up rifles and fought with the Unionists. Some of the same thought. Contrabandist songs are printed in several places- has any comprehensive collection been published?
"My point, which I thought was obvious, is that some of the singing and play party games, which seem to have sprung up in the period 1850-1900, although mentioning themes of their forbears, developed in North American schoolyards and community halls and should not be considered direct descendants of old country forms."
Fair enough, though it brings up the question of what exactly are 'direct descendants of old country forms.' Songs, ballads, singing games, melodies, etc. if they are alive at all and not museum pieces exist and have existed in a state of ongoing evolution. Recall Kytrad's comments that perhaps "everybody who sings these songs 'improves' on them, to make them funnier maybe, or to make them his/her own." Without a narrative to hold it together, Pretty Little Pink / Fly Around / Charlie lend themselves to improvisation and constant reworking. So there is no clear division between 'survivals' and 'products of the times', it's a this-and-that-at-the-same-time rather than an either/or.
And I did miss the tone of your post and I apologize, but that's what happens when I post first thing in the morning without taking a minute to reflect . . . .
Finally, bringing the discussion back to Pretty Little Pink, the verses from Burns (which I also have within arm's reach but never noticed) do seem to be the earliest form, much earlier than the late nineteenth century versions we've discussed above.
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Alexander Lobrano’s “Hungry for France” – My appetite for France (excerpt & recipe)
A Woman’s Paris™ in Book Reviews, Food, Travel
David Lebovitz My Paris Kitchen, Dorie Greenspan Around My French Table, Entrez: The Signs of France and French Dreams Steven Rothfeld, France, French food, French regional cooking, French regional food, French regional produce, Hungry for France Adventures for the Cook & Food Lover Alexander Lobrano, Jane Sigal, Layered Ratatouille Gratin Hungry for France Alexander Lobrano, Paris, Parisian food, Rizzoli New York, Ruth Reichl Delicious!: A Novel, Steven Rothfeld
Hungry for France: Adventures for the Cook & Food Lover by Alexander Lobrano (Rizzoli New York, April 2014) excerpt from Rizzoli New York, including recipe for Layered Ratatouille Gratin.
Every food lover’s ultimate dream is to tour the countryside of France, stopping off at luxurious inns with world-class restaurants and sampling fresh produce and regional specialties from local markets. Imagine having veteran food writer Alexander Lobrano as your guide—savvy bon vivant, someone who lives for the pleasures of the French table and knows just where to ferret out all the delicacies in each town. Lobrano shares thirty-plus years of exploring every corner of this gastronomically rich country with readers.
Beautifully photographed, the book’s thirteen chapters each cover a different region, from Normandy to Provence, and includes recommendations for a handful of the area’s most excellent, off-the-beaten-path restaurants, along with recipes. Hungry for France offers a delicious tour of some of the most alluring inns, food producers, and restaurants of France, with more than seventy-five recipes updating classic regional dishes. A complete list of addresses is provided to make trip planning easy. Hungry for France will inspire you to transform your cooking at home, as well as to help plan a culinary trip of a lifetime.
Interview: Alexander Lobrano on eating well in France: a culinary tour of alluring inns, food producers, restaurants and winemakers, published on A Woman’s Paris®.
INTRODUCTION: “My appetite for France” by Alexander Lobrano
What I liked best about the small triangular-shaped hotel room with faded cabbage-rose wallpaper were the smells of cooking—baking bread, roasting meat, sautéing shallots—that came from the restaurant in the neighboring building when I opened the window. This temptation of scents was like reading an invisible menu, and since I was hungry after the long train ride from Paris, I went to dinner there.
The small room was packed when I stepped through the door, but the pretty older blonde woman behind the service counter smiled across the room and nodded, as if to say, Don’t worry, we’ll find a place for you. And she did, at a tiny table for one next to a radiator, which suited me just fine. When she came to take my order, I told her I wanted what I’d smelled cooking ever since I’d checked in at the neighboring hotel, and she grinned: “Poulet au vinaigre, mais une petite salade d’abord, ça vous va?” Mais, oui! I loved the salad of curly endive with big, hot chunks of bacon and a coddled egg, but the chicken—tender fowl in a smooth but ruddy terra-cotta sauce that was brilliant for being complex and simple at the same time—brought on true rapture. On that long-ago night, it was one of the best things I’ve ever eaten and remains so after all these years (see page 144 for a recipe of the poulet au vinaigre served at Chez Hugon).
“Vous êtes bien? Ça vous a plu?” said the nice lady, Arlette—she told me her name when she cleared my plate—and I knew that she was teasing, because I must have been radiant with the enormity of my well-being that night. I didn’t realize it at the time, of course, but this meal in a Lyonnais bouchon was a sort of celebration that foreshadowed my life to come, one in which I’d travel to every corner of France to become educated about its cuisines, eat in its restaurants—from train station buffets to three-star tables—and learn to cook its food.
What I know now, you see, is that when I moved to Paris almost thirty years ago, it was the beginning of an incessantly exhilarating learning curve that hasn’t ended and hopefully never will. The more I learn about France, its language, its history, and its food, the more I need and want to learn. Still, one of the most delicious and valuable lessons I unexpectedly mastered during those first few fumbling months in a city where I knew almost no one and barely spoke the language is that some of the most delicious and valuable lessons in life are the most obvious ones. Let me explain.
Walking home from work on a cool October night, I was stopped in my tracks on the footbridge from the Tuileries Gardens over the Seine to the Left Bank in front of the Musée d’Orsay. Just before sundown, a low-slung barge piled high with shiny black coal was churning through the quicksilver waters of the river and leaving a rippling amber and mauve wake. Mesmerized by the beauty of the broken light on the water, I was lost in thought when it came to me: Go alone.
With a holiday weekend impending, I’d been listening to colleagues in the cliquish office where I worked talk about their plans, and it had made me melancholy. I didn’t have any plans, because I hadn’t made any friends yet. But in the middle of that bridge from one place to another, I understood the obvious: I could go somewhere by myself. Sure, it would be nice to travel with someone else, but it wasn’t necessary. So I decided to return to Lyon, a city I’ve always loved but hadn’t been to in many years, alone. And as the train left the Gare de Lyon and picked up speed, a quiet elation overcame me as I realized something else that was as obvious as the nose on my face. I’d been so excited by the idea of moving to Paris that I’d overlooked the fact that I was getting France in the bargain, and as much as I loved the city, now I had a whole new country to explore and eat my way through.
Thus I became a man who travels to eat, sometimes alone, sometimes with Bruno, my partner, and sometimes with friends. Six years ago I wrote a book about my life in Paris and its best restaurants, Hungry for Paris, so now, after eating my way through France for all of these years, it’s a pleasure for me to share what I’ve learned with others who have the same passion for France and its food. Some people look at a map of France and see cities, rivers, and mountain ranges. Well, I do too, but when I eyeball Gaul, I see menus and markets more than anything else. Why? Because France still has the finest and most deeply rooted culinary culture of any country in the western world, and can also stand up to challenges from any other place on the compass.
To be sure, some people have been kicking France’s ankles in a double-decade-long take-down of Gallic gastronomic superiority. But the wonderful news today is that they’re all more wrong than right. I’d defy you to find another country anywhere in the world where you can so reliably find a spectacular meal—at all levels of the food chain—in its most remote and forgotten villages. The explanation for this wonderfully pervasive and deepening epicurean revival is that a new generation of brilliant cooks and passionate food producers actually prefer the French countryside to its cities, which doesn’t, of course, mean that the cities are deprived of talent.
Au contraire, in fact, since today the talent pool in urban France is deeper and more cosmopolitan than it’s ever been in the country’s history. Hundreds of ambitious young cooks from all over the world, but especially Japan, arrive in France every year with the generally infallible logic that “If I can make it there, I can make it anywhere.” Chat with them, and the reasons they’re dead set on France recur constantly, too—it has the most pervasive and proudly lived man- (or woman-) in-the-street gastronomic culture of any place in the world, French professional culinary training is still the world’s highest quality, and no other country has such spectacular produce. So faced with the daunting challenge of which restaurants to include in this book, I weighed my choices in favor of this new generation of cooks, since many of them are still little known and their cooking is so spectacular.
Thanks to the patience and generosity of the hundreds of good Gauls who’ve allowed me to be their student through the years, I’ve found a place at the French table. This book, then, is an act of gratitude, since I can’t think of a better way of repaying these chefs, bakers, charcutiers, cheese makers, and others than by sharing what I know with you. Eh bien, bon voyage, et bon appétit!
Praise for Hungry for France: Adventures for the Cook & Food Lover
“I can’t think of anyone better than Alec Lobrano to brilliantly capture what makes France such a beloved culinary destination. Bravo for this tour de France, from one of the most talented food writers of our time.” —David Lebovitz, author of My Paris Kitchen
“Leafing through the pages of this book makes me so hungry! I want to get on the next plane and fly right to France. Alec is the best kind of connoisseur—he loves the food and the people—and his book reflects that. The pictures are gorgeous, the recipes appealing.” —Ruth Reichl, author of Delicious!: A Novel
“For years, Alec has been my most charming, most literate, most amusing, and trustiest guide to all things delicious in all parts of France. Now he’s yours, too. Hungry for France is a go-to whether you’re searching for an elegant dinner, a roadside snack, or even a recipe that will bring the flavors of France to your own home.” —Dorie Greenspan, author of Around My French Table
Layered Ratatouille Gratin
Hungry for France by Alexander Lobrano. Rizzoli International Publications, Inc.
Recipes ©Jane Sigal
Chef Ronan Kervarrec of La Chèvre d’Or in the village of Eze alternates slices of zucchini and eggplant with homemade tomato sauce (in place of fresh tomatoes) beneath an herb-rich bread crumb topping. This late-summer tian is a remarkable make-ahead dish; the flavors just keep getting better. To make a vegetarian entrée, layer in sliced mozzarella cheese or dollops of fresh ricotta.
– 1/4 cup (60 ml) extra-virgin olive oil
– 1/2 large onion, chopped
– 2 garlic cloves, sliced
– 1/2 pint (250 g) cherry tomatoes, halved
– 8 oz. (250 g) vine-ripened tomatoes, chopped
– 1 14.5-oz. (411-g) can diced tomatoes with juices
– 2 large basil sprigs with stems
– Kosher salt and freshly ground pepper
– Extra-virgin olive oil, for brushing and drizzling
– 1 lb. (500 g) zucchini, sliced crosswise 1/4 inch (6 mm) thick
– 1 lb. (500 g) eggplant, quartered length wise and sliced crosswise 1/4 inch (1 cm) thick
– 1 slice sourdough bread, about 1/2 inch (1 cm) thick, crust removed, toasted
– 1/4 cup (8 g) packed mixed parsley, thyme, and rosemary leaves
1. Tomato sauce: In a large saucepan, heat oil until hot. Add onion and garlic and cook over medium heat, stirring occasionally, until softened, about 5 minutes. Add cherry tomatoes, vine-ripened tomatoes, diced tomatoes, and basil and season with salt and pepper. Bring to a simmer, then cook over medium heat until sauce thickens, 20 to 30 minutes. Discard basil. Using an immersion blender, puree sauce until smooth.
2. Gratin: Meanwhile, heat oven to 425°F (220°C). Brush 2 large rimed baking sheets with oil. Spread zucchini slices on one sheet and eggplant on other. Brush slices with oil and season with salt and pepper. Bake, rotating sheets halfway through, until tender, 15 to 20 minutes.
3. Tear bread into pieces. In a food processor, pulse bread into large crumbs. Add garlic and herbs and pulse until blended.
4. Brush a medium terrine or casserole with oil. Arrange half of eggplant slices in terrine, slightly overlapping. Spoon 1/2 cup (125 ml) tomato sauce on top. Layer half of zucchini slices on top, slightly overlapping, followed by another 1/2 cup (125 ml) tomato sauce; repeat layers. Sprinkle bread crumbs on top, season with salt and pepper, and drizzle with oil. Transfer to oven and bake, rotating terrine halfway through, until bubbling and crisp, about 20 minutes. Let stand for 5 minutes, then serve hot, warm, or at room temperature. Do ahead: Gratin can be refrigerated for up to 2 days.
8 side servings
About the authors: Alexander Lobrano grew up in Connecticut, and lived in Boston, New York and London before moving to Paris, his home today, in 1986. He was European Correspondent for Gourmet magazine from 1999 until it’s closing, and has written about food and travel for Saveur, Bon Appétit, Food & Wine, the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Guardian, Travel & Leisure, Departures, Condé Nast Traveler, and many other publications in the United States and the United Kingdom. He is contributing editor at Saveur magazine and the author of Hungry for Paris. For more information, please visit: www.alexanderlobrano.com. (A Woman’s Paris Interview with Alexander Lobrano) (Purchase)
Steven Rothfeld is a celebrated travel photographer whose work includes the books Entrez: The Signs of France and French Dreams. His images have illustrated numerous books by many authors, including Marcel Marceau, Frances Mayes, and Patricia Wells.
Selected books by Alexander Lobrano
Hungry for France: Adventures for the Cook & Food Lover (April 1, 2014, Rizzoli New York)
Hungry for Paris (second edition): The Ultimate Guide to the City’s 109 Best Restaurants (April 15, 2014, Random House Trade Paperbacks)
Text copyright ©2014 Alexander Lobrano. All rights reserved.
Photography ©2014 Steven Rothfeld. All rights reserved.
Illustrations copyright ©Barbara Redmond. All rights reserved.
L. said:
I look forward deliciously to read your book!
Merle Minda said:
Lovely. Can’t wait to get the book.
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PHD #110: Dotting The I's
IC Timeline » Roleplay Logs » Season 1: How Sweet, Vengeance » PHD #110: Dotting The I's
Dotting the I's
Summary: Constin brings bad news to Madilyn, who wants to know if things are in order for the HALO jump.
Date: 16 June 2041 AE
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Marine Offices - Deck 6 - Battlestar Cerberus
This offices consists of desks for those under the CO, along with his desk toward the back of the room. The S1 and S2 have desks here and the place is neat as a pin, with everything in its place. At the front of the room, a Marine sits at a desk to meet people as they come in through the hatch.
Three and a half hours into the afternoon shift, and Corporal Constin has gathered the sum total of investigations to date, carried with him in a thick folder. "Major," the big man greets evenly, with a salute. "If you're prepared to receive a report on the present status of our counter-sabotage investigations?" As ever, the formal words don't conceal his lowbrow drawl, instead just polishing the words a bit.
Is there ever a time when the glorified secretary isn't at her desk? Well, the other night she took a walking tour of the ship inspecting the security details to make sure everything was in order. However, with the investigation reports rolling in, the upcoming military action, and of course, the 10-ton elephant down in the brig (a white elephant, maybe?), Madilyn's busied herself with the residual paperwork for that.
"Hello Corporal…and yes, please, have a seat. I could use a distraction from these mission plans." The folder surrounding the upcoming HALO operation lays open on the desk in front of her, with personnel files, limited recon images, and mission plans strewn across the surface as well. Out of character, there's no music today, and the coffee sits half-empty and cold in the mug.
Constin gives a tight, short-lived smile to the voiced wish for distraction, settling into the indicated seat with a nod. "Regarding the status of the Deck sabotage investigations, we've turned up some bad news, sir. The security feeds have been compromised, Major. At this point, it appears that during one of the rolling blackouts which hit the boat, power was briefly lost to the Tape library's black box. Seems during that specific period, fiber optic cables issued to Borenstein were installed to allow counterfeit tape to be fed into the encoder and thus receive a legit encoded time stamp." A drawn breath. "Three-Em is at work correcting this splice, but ah havn't recieved confirmation on it's completion just yet." First bit of bad news, check.
"Mother frakker," Madilyn replies with a little wince. Her lips are pressed together tightly and she straightens up in her chair a bit. "So we've got nothing from those. I was hoping we could get something…anything, no matter how small. All we have now is that some frakkin' snipe left his cable sit out and the saboteurs know how our electronics work well enough to bypass and splice. Great. Have we identified the blackout during which the splice was made, and at least validated tape footage before that?"
Constin could either stop the flow of bad news to answer, or save the discussion for later, but either way, Madilyn seems just agitated enough that she couldn't wait to ask. The stuff open on the desk is shoved aside so she can find a notepad, which gets the top sheet torn off to expose some clean paper.
"Yes, sir. We have isolated the initial blackout to being confined to a space of twenty minutes on ..This date-" one of the top pages is pulled out of the folder and placed before the Major outlining the power fluctuations which affected the crucial security system. "At this point, we don't consider the prior footage compromised, but the possibility has to be considered. Until more interrogations take place with Borenstein and Morgenfield, ah can't say any more on that for sure." A fresh breath drawn. "We still havn't been able to trace where the counterfeit tape was generated, but it would take computer skills a lot beyond what either of their service jackets reflect." He doesn't add Tillman's speculation that they might be Cylon sleepers.
"Great, so we've got snipes involved. Potential CIC involvement…" she starts, looking over the sheet, while holding two fingers to her right temple, thumb on her jawline. "Unless you happen to know of anyone else aboard who knows as much about Colonial ship computer systems than the folks in CIC. And that sort of involvement wouldn't surprise me, frankly, if the Admiral is what you and I and the XO have been convinced he is. Godsdamned this is getting out of control."
Madilyn pauses. "Alright. So we have absolutely no video evidence that we can treat as reliable and authentic, for the sake of this investigation. What have you gotten from Borenstein and Morgenfield so far? Have they given us anything we can use?" Leave the policing to the police, Madilyn would say - she's just a part-time cop.
"Correct, sir," Constin adds to the depressing statement of no reliable video feed. "The only good news is that in light of his absence, Intel officer Oberlin can probably be trusted as a reliable consultant on this, upon his return. For now, though.." He scowls. "Morgenfield hasn't volunteered anything yet, and Borenstein's injury delayed his interrogation for too damned long. We *do* have conclusive evidence tying him to the bomb that took out Raptor Three-oh-five, in addition to his little hostage standoff on the deck prior to apprehension. Working with Three-Em we've isolated how they've managed to manipulate the feeds and create alibis in the past, which we're working on unwinding now." Still, he frowns briefly again. "What we *have* found suggests that Specialist Coll really was set up to take the fall for the Three-Oh-Five bombing. Ah'd like to get a confession from Borenstein first, but after that ah'd recommend the Jay-Ay-Gee overturn her Dee-oh-Dee."
"That sounds logical enough. One in custody and a suspected partner in custody as well. As soon as you can positively tie both of them to these bombings, I want to know. Specialist Coll is back on duty now, is she not?" While she talks, Madilyn writes down some names on her notepad there, Oberlin's specifically. Compiling a list of names of people who can positively be trusted. "I'll leave the remainder of the investigation in the capable hands of you and the other MPs, however. What additional depressing news do you have for me?"
"It's Crewman Coll now, sir," Constin corrects. "Part of the Dee-Oh-Dee was a demotion, but yes. The Crewman is back on duty." As to Madilyn's latter question, he sniffs once and gives another brief, bone-dry smile. "The additional depressing news, sir, is that Lance Corporal Maragos, Private Jenkins, and mahself will be the three marine volunteers taking part in Major Tillman's advance Hay-Lo jump. Which is why ah've brought you copies of all of our ongoing investigations and preliminary reports, prior to entering a combat situation." The thick file is set on the Major's desk.
"That, at the very least, I was aware of," Madilyn replies to the topic of the HALO jump. "And speaking of, how has the accelerated training gone? Do you feel confident that the other volunteers are well-enough equipped, skill wise, that they won't perish during the jump?" What happens on the ground is impossible to predict, of course, but there's no sense in having crew get killed on the way down because they lacked enough training.
Constin nods to the Major's foreknowledge. "Good. And yes, sir. Ah'm confident the team will be able to handle the jump. We've got the best gear the boat has to offer, and at least one among the jump team volunteers has had prior training of this sort.. So we'll have one experienced hand to balance out the rooks, Major." Shoulders rise with another drawn breath and he holds the Major's eye to add, "We'll see what sort of ground greets us, sir, but ah have every confidence mah team will set boots to dirt with the same number of arms and legs as we had twenty miles higher."
"Good. Good. How have you decided to split your team? I've got the report here…somewhere." It's actually spread out on the desk under all the new material Constin just brought down as a backup plan in case something happens and another MP should need to pick up the investigation. "Everyone has been made quite accutely aware of the risks? Wait, scratch that. I'm sure Major Tillman would've made those risks clear. He's not the sort to sugar-coat a godsdamned thing."
"Yes, sir. Ah'm aware that if this operation doesn't turn up any raptors, we're most likely looking at a one way trip," the corporal states simply. A breath drawn and let out with a faint upward curl to his lip. "Ah hear the deck crew are having their last rites before they leave. So no, the Major didn't pull any punches, sir." As for the meat of the question, "The marine contingent will secure the hangar and keep surveilance over the surrounding grounds throughout the operation. Should it look worthwhile, we'll attempt demolitions to crack open the second sealed hangar, as late in the operation as possible, to lessen the window of oportunity in which the toasters will be aware of our presence."
"Very good. This is just a formality of course. I noticed the S3's signature on all of these plans already, and this is all sounding familiar. One of the things I regret, in fact, is that I'm no longer as hands-on as I was, or like to be. It's a careful balance of delegating tasks to those who've been trained for such tasks and playing it close to the chest, particularly with the present goings-on. I'm sure you've experienced a bit of something like that, hm?" Madilyn idly flips through the package of intelligence and interrogation information on the desk…one more thing piled there, which will hopefully be put in the OUT box sooner rather than later.
"A bit, sir. Yeah," Constin returns to Madilyn's apt supposition. "Been leaning on the bluffing face more and more, these days." He shrugs once. "It is what it needs to be, ah guess. Even if it means Majors don't get to jump out of Raptors," he adds with another dry grin which fades before his next words. "Do you have any further questions at this time, sir?"
Madilyn remains silent for a few moments, flipping through, sliding files around, looking through the information at a glance. "No. Nothing at this time Corporal. It will take me some time to go through this information in detail, of course. But at the very least, I trust that in the HALO jump plans, and, in true engineer fashion, that's at the front of the queue currently."
"So it, sir," Constin returns with a nod, before rising to his booted feet again, and offering the Major a salute before turning to get back to that front of the queue.
"Very good Corporal. Be on your toes though. I may send a runner with questions, if I don't find you myself." The chair behind the desk is slid out when she stands, returning the salute. She also takes the chance to straighten her uniform, stretch a minute, and start fresh coffee libations for a long night.
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PHD #364: Electrical Lesson
IC Timeline » Roleplay Logs » Season 2: The Widening Gyre » PHD #364: Electrical Lesson
Electrical Lesson
Summary: Poppy, Shakes and Galen all speak in the berth about injured, broken birds, and repairs.
Date: 25 Feb 2042 AE
Related Logs: Bus Repair
Pilot Berths
The swarms were leaving a giant dent in the ships - literally and it was all hands to help. With being cleared for deck duty recently, Solstice had spending her precious off-duty hours crawling the deck in a beautiful bright orange coverall, mixing with grease and dirt from the metal sidings of the mechanical beasts she flies.
Stepping in through the hatchway door, she is flexing her left hand steady and rolling her wrist. Tugging at the coverall, she shimmies her left arm out to let the clothing hand from her right shoulder, curls haphazardly layering her face from the quick uptie of her hair. She mutters something in Sagittaron and goes to her locker. The twisting of her wrist turns into her right hand rubbing over the flesh of it's opposite.
Khloe trundles in from the head, having just come from a shower. Small mesh shower bag in one hand, and towel draped around her shoulders keeping her still-damp hair off her back, she makes a straight line for her locker. Dressed in little more than her undershirt tank-top and briefs, she dials the combination to her locker (one of the few lockers that actually have padlocks) and throws it open. Lo, is the glory of the OCD pilot's locker; it glows with precision and orderliness. Fishing out fresh underclothes, Khloe partly uses the open door as a privacy screen and begins re-dressing, casting a glance over her shoulder to ensure the front hatch is closed, first, of course. She pauses when there's entry/exit, not paying attention to who comes or goes, and zoom! Changed.
Galen had spent the morning working out, took a shower and a nap, then headed for the first part of the afternoon to the trenches, helping the deck crew repair one of the catapults. Knowing work needed to be done was always something Galen didn't like have looming over his head, and getting that catapult back to 100% meant that launches would be faster and, with luck, they'd be able to respond faster the next time a swarm decides to test their defenses. His flight suit is open around his waist, T-shirt covering his upper body, a small pouch of something bouncing around his neck at the same level as his dog tags. He makes a beeline toward his berth, jiggling the handle twice to get it open, nodding to Khloe (after she's dressed, and if asked, NO he didn't look >.>) as he passes. "Afternoon, Captain."
"Poppy." Comes the name in idle recognition from Solstice as she opens her own locker with a soft metallic swivel. The ECO rolls her right arm out of the greasy coverall and ties it about her waist as she reaches in with her right hand and grabs out a few books. A faint mark of grease paints her cheek as she turns, hooking the locker closed with her foot and moving for the table to take a seat in the midst of the beds.
She rolls her shoulder anew and slides into a seat with a sigh - leaning back as her eyes close. The books are an afterthought and rest against her lap. She wets her lips and rubs her hand up along her neck and down her right shoulder, the skin a little red.
Once fresh underthings are on and tanks and fatigue slacks get pulled on, Khloe glances over at the greeting. "Shakes, right?" She asks, as she crumples up dirty clothes and crams them into a mostly-empty laundry bag. A stiff-wire brush is produced, and Poppy begins going over her hair, head and upper body tilted to the side. No gentle ceremony with her; knots just get tugged out. "You look beat. Been helping down on the deck like Boots, eh?" Eyes travel past her to track Galen briefly, perhaps with a hint of distrust - but she's quick to focus on Solstice again.
Galen is the new guy, so it'll be a bit before he's earned even the smallest measure of respect in the Captain's eyes. He's got to show he can pull his weight and not get splashed on his first combat mission, otherwise why would anyone even give him the time of day. He sits on the edge of his bunk and flops back with a thud, the blankets rustling beneath him.
"Yeah, Shakes. Solstice..Vasco. Whatever works. Shakes wasn't my first choice." As are most callsigns. She rubs her hand up over her face and through her hair to let it down. The flow of curls falls, some glinting with grease. "It's been a lot of work. Just too bad the condition they came back in, that and the loss of the crew." She says rather quietly of Mouse and her ECO.
The ECO moves her engineerng books to the table, idly opening them and fingering through the pages. "But everything seems to be under control - ships are slowly being pieced together."
Khloe quickly gets through brushing her hair, gives it a final pat down and squeeze from her towel, and banishes both to her locker. A quick swipe of deodorant, and Poppy nudges her locker shut with her foot. She begins the practiced movements of her usual regulation braid. "Going to be nothing left to the air wing but sewn-together birds," she mutters disapprovingly, but it's clearly not meant as a judgment against Solstice. Braid, braid. "If Drips isn't on CAP or training, or sleeping, he's usually down on the deck helping out, too. I suppose it's good that I have zero mechanical aptitude else I'd never sleep." Glancing over at Galen's flop, she offers, "Tired already, Ensign?"
There's two ways Galen can answer that - either smart-ass, which is how he was before the Military, or the 'Correct' way, which is what he does. "No Sir, just inspecting the ceiling for structural flaws." He sits up, swinging his arms above his head to gain a little momentum. "I am pleased to report that the ceiling is in A-ok condition. Sir."
"I am afraid to report, that they alread are." Says the Lieutenant. Her gaze moves then to the Ensign and honey eyes regard him in that distant study that she affords all. Shakes pulls another chair closer and puts her feet up, stretching out as another sign helps release her tense body. Wetting her lips she rubs at the grease on her neck and then her cheek, only smeering it further. Thumb to pointer - she rubs the two pads of her fingers together to try to wear away the grease before giving up and wiping it on the coveralls that garishly gleam about her waist in their orange hue. Her tank top is looked down at and she frowns some, consideirng a shower after having seen Poppy looking quite chipper after her own.
"Smart-ass," Khloe replies dryly to Galen, although it isn't accompanied by her usual deepening frown. Just her regular one. Achievement unlocked? She pads over to the center table where Solstice is sitting, finishes tying off her braid, turns one of the seats around so the back is facing forward and plunks down into it. Chipper is not an attribute often applied to the Knights SL. "There's a reason why military-grade soap removes the top two layers of skin," she offers to Solstice, nodding at her grease problem. "That stuff is vile."
Well that wasn't too terrible of a backhand. Galen chuckles. "Part of me thinks they put ground up sand into the bottoms of the bottle for extra abrasive properties, but there's no denying it works. Just don't put cologne or anything alcohol-based on your skin until you've gotten used to it." Galen rubs the back of his neck from his sitting position, wincing at the memory before getting to his feet and padding over. "I'm Galen, the new guy. Mind if I ask what you're reading?"
"Vile is an understatement." she states to Khloe, still feeling the oil linger on her fingers. Shakes looks up at Galen as he joins them. "Uhhh…nothing that most people care to read in their off time.." She slides the book towards him, stretching out a little more in her chair and rolling her shoulder. "Principals of Electrical Engineering. Figure I better brush up seeing as the Raptor bit me today..rather a hot plate did." She winces a little and rubs her left hand, the jolt from it causing her some lasting numbness through her hand. She sits up, drawing her legs off the chair a little as she then adds towards Poppy, "How is Drips and the others doing?" Meaning the others who had been injured.
"He's on light duty, which means he's healthy enough to get into trouble," Khloe responds. "Bubbles has been back flying for quite a while, much to my disapproval, but I'm no doctor. Hosedown is still in recovery, I think - It'll be a while til we know how long it'll be before she's flight-worthy." There's that tell-tale frown. "Frankly, we're getting frakked. I'm glad we've jumped someplace where I hope they'll leave us alone for a while. I'm not one to shy from a fight but attrition wars with no hope of relief just aren't sustainable."
All these names, and none Galen knows. Hopefully he'll get to know them soon, alive and well, and not at their memorial services. "I mostly did physics…and my repair is basically on farm equipment which, surprisingly, translates fairly well to the heavy stuff we use. Just don't ask me to calibrate anything major, and we'll be fine." Galen gives a grin to the lady who didn't introduce herself, even though he did. He makes an end-run around the table and takes one of the unclaimed seats. "They're treating us like a foxhunt. Just enough to keep us off balance." Galen shakes his head, running a hand through his short hair. "From your lips to god's ears, Captain."
She shoots the book over towards the new guy, "Read up on this..I have marked the pages that apply to the electronic stations on the Raptors and Vipers.." She offers. Shakes then unhooks her legs from her chair and sits up fully, leaning over the table and one of the smaller books before her. Her eyes shift to Poppy and she nods slowly, taking it in, "At least they are alive." She says faintly, "Lords be praised for that. This new jump, as you say will hopefully give us some time. To possibly even do more with the birds than - patch them up." She frowns some and looks over to Galen, a hand lifting to worry that grease spot once more. "Solstice Vasco." She offers finally, as if she hadn't forgotten but found it of no rushed importance to share her name. "Or Shakes." A brow lifts with that name and she adds, "Farm equipment won't shock you like a frakkin hotplate will." That said, she stands and stretches, moving then to undo the overall, hooking the boots off and placing them to the side as she opens her locker once more. Stepping out of the garish orange and just in PT shorts, Shakes then rolls the dirtied coveralls and stuffs them into a laundry bag. "Think I may hit the laundry room in a few." She murmurs.
Khloe nods after Solstice, watching her as she retreats to her locker; once she starts disrobing she turns her attention back to Galen. "I'm sure that if you wanted to help out, you could. You'd just need my permission - which you have - and then permission from the CAG to talk to Chief Damon. I'm sure they'll take whatever help they can get. Just operate on the grounds that your primary responsibility is to fly a Viper. You let your other duties slack and I'll weld your ass to a bulkhead."
Yay, homework. It's not like he didn't have other things to do, but in the middle of a war, free time is a luxury that one really can't afford. The slid book is stopped by the lifting of his fingers, the very real weight of it thumping against the heel of his hand. he turns it, peering down at the marked pages. "It's not physics equations, but it's something I can work with…" he murmurs before his head swivels to pay attention to Khloe and not Shakes, nodding. "It's not an order, but it's something that'll help. Aye-aye, Sir. i'll check with the CAG ASAP."
Drawing out her sweatpants, she tugs them on and then grabs for her tennis shoes. Tucking them under arm, Shakes then ties off the laundry bag and tugs it out of the locker with a thud to the floor. She drags it over to her chair and sits back down, getting about tying the shoes on. Her gaze lifts to the book, "Should you need some help, let me know. It was my area of study at the Academy." She states.
She makes a motion with her hand and then looks up at Poppy. "Sir, perhaps you would find time to run me through some Raptor sims. After the Aerilon Recon, I feel I may need to brush up on my piloting. Being alone out there shocks one in to remembering that to get away you need to be able to fly and not just fire up a suite."
"Good boy." Well, Galen is over a decade younger than her. "Poppy's #1 rule: if you're not bathing, sleeping, or on duty, you could be doing something to make yourself a better soldier." Rolling her shoulders stiffly, giving a faint wince, she says to Solstice, "To be fair, I've got the Raptor competency of a green Nugget. If you want tips, you should hit up Toast, or maybe Pony. Definitely Toast; she can point you in the right direction."
"Thanks, Solstice, I will. I'm not too bad about asking questions if I have no idea. Last thing I want to do is assume I know something and cause a viper to auger in somewhere unpleasant due to something I did." Galen rubs the edge of the book he was given with the pad of his thumb, feeling the weave of the cloth binding, the pages. It's a tactile sensation not given much anymore. Inclining his head toward the captain, he asks. "Sir, you okay? you're acting like you've got a pulled muscle or five in there."
"Honesty, the best policy." she states in regards to them both. Shakes ties off one and hooks her next foot up, tying the other in short order before the foot rests back on the ground. She looks between the two and then pushes herself up. "Damage that book and it will be the last thign you touch." She says in an uncharacteristic tone from Solstice. She grabs her other two books and gives them a toss to her bunk. The bag of her laundry is taken up with a slight grunt.
A thin eyebrow goes up at Solstice's overly-protective nature of her book. Followed by a wry smirk. "I'd be careful, Ensign," she warns Galen. "Never come between a lady and her engineering manual. And no, I'm fine. Just stiff, and old." Pushing up with hands on the back of her reversed chair, she intones, "I think it means I need a catnap before CAP tonight. Try not to read too loudly." Nodding to Galen, and then flashing that smirk again at Solstice, Khloe pads over to her bunk and climbs up and in. Zip goes the curtain.
"No need to worry. I'll treat it like my very favorite thing." Galen flips open the book to one of the marked pages and starts to skim - apparently this is the one that doesn't begin 'So you want to fix Vipers.' That's the kid's version. This one is chock full of engineering, voltage specs, where not to touch, where to touch if you want to fix the problem, etc. It's going to take a while for him to digest this all, and even longer to put it to memory, but Galen'll get there eventually. "Good sleep, Sir." he calls before the curtain closes, tapping the book with a fingertip when he turns to Solstice. "I take it these are as rare as hens' teeth, then?"
"Sir." Shakes says to Poppy, a faint upturn of her own lips at the jest made about the book. She was right though, her gaze shifts back to what Galen has in his possession. Solstice gives a nod of her head to his comment as she settles the large bag to the chair. "It's not like I can hit a colony and pick up another." She says faintly. "The library here is good for many things, but they don't have everything. That edition is my academy one. It has all my footnotes in it. That in itself makes it worth something." She says, tilting her head as her eyes lift from the book to him.
Galen purses his lips and nods knowingly. "I read you, Shakes. I'll keep it in the condition I got it in. Promise." A page is turned rather carefully, the paper rustling as he does so. "Any specific systems that we need to concentrate on? I'm guessing life support, weapons, comms, directionals…the usual suspects? Or will I just be the guy handing the wrench or screwdriver to the guy who knows how to fix the problem?"
Tilting her head some, Shakes considers his question, "At this point it can be any of them. Been recently having trouble with the ECO stations shorting out on us..or the PiRC." She states. She narrows her gaze. "I am headed down for laundry, I gotta go now or work in damp uniforms. Come with and I can help you, otherwise you are out of luck for the moment." She states. Hoisting the bag finally, she lets it rest to her shoulder. "Otherwise just start with the neutral wire's section. That will explain their purpose. Probably the biggest problem we have thus far with the electrical systems." She advises and takes a step towards the door, lugging her clothes.
"I'll come with and help carry. Gives me an excuse to do the laundry I have building up, and the last thing I want is to be 'that guy' in the bunks with only one pair of clean anything." Galen closes the book, slides out of the seat, and jogs over to his bunk to grab his laundry. "let's go."
"Alright." she says and waits for him. Solstice then opens the hatch for him. Stepping out with the Viper jock, the ECO falls to silence as they move through the decks.
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Grease: School Edition
The Remains of Logan Dankworth
“I believed that Fukayama line: the end of history. But History didn’t end, did it?”
Logan Dankworth, columnist and Twitter warrior, grew up romanticising the political turmoil of the 1980s. Now, as the EU referendum looms he is determined to be in the fray of the biggest political battle for years. Meanwhile, Logan’s wife Megan wants to leave London to better raise their daughter. As tensions rise at home and across the nation, something is set to be lost forever.
The third of Luke Wright’s trilogy of political verse plays looks at trust and privilege in the age of Brexit, performed in Wright’s breath-taking verse.
Written and Performed by Luke Wright
Directed by Alex Thorpe
Scored by Polly Wright
Dramaturgy by Sarah Dickenson
Lighting Design by Joe Price
Photo: Andrew Florides
Commissioned by Norwich Arts Centre, Freedom Festival, National Centre for Writing, and Colchester Arts Centre. Supported by Arts Council England.
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Written by Pete Silvester, CEO – Summits.com for Asia Trails Magazine.
Attendances at running events have grown three-fold in the last decade. The larger marathons in Singapore regularly attract 30,000 runners. The Philippines had 116,000 runners in a 2010 charity run in Manilla – a world record. But what about trail-running, and skyrunning?
We checked in with Summits.com – a new website that aims to get more people up Southeast Asia’s mountains – about what trail-runners, and particularly skyrunners, could expect in Southeast Asia, and where the best trails are to run.
What’s trail-running and skyrunning like in Southeast Asia?
While each Southeast Asian country is developing its own culture of running based on its attitudes towards sports, local customs, and environment that they have to work with, the common denominator is the tropical climate and the amazing rainforests that result. This means Southeast Asia has some fantastic jungle trails available to runners.
Mount Kerinci from below, Indonesia. Photo by Summits.com
Thick jungle makes for challenging terrain, even on well-worn trails, with exposed tree roots, mud and smushy organic matter. The air can sometimes get soupy, and you need to hydrate more than in temperate climates. Then rain is always a possibility, even if you set out in blue skies. This all gives trail-running in Southeast Asia its unique flavour and challenges. But when you run up a mountain in Southeast Asia, interesting things happen.
Jungles tend to get more lively and pristine on hills and mountains. They tend to be the places where agriculture couldn’t get to, so they’re left relatively untouched.
Jungle trail heading up Mount Kerinci, Sumatra, Indonesia. Photo by Summits.com
Secondly, the air is better up mountains in Southeast Asia. The air can be stiflingly humid, hot, and polluted down in the rice paddies and cities. Forest fires create haze around Indonesia, Singapore, and Malaysia during the dry season. But it doesn’t take much climbing before the air gets cooler, cleaner and fresher. Then as you ascend further, you reach this misty level where the vegetation can change into cloud forests and sometimes alpine grasslands. It’s fun to run up and down through these transitions.
If you’re skyrunning a real mountain, the trees thin out and the mountain takes on otherworldly characters as you get higher. For example, on Mount Kinabalu, you’re suddenly in this surreal moonscape of twisted granite shapes. Or, on the volcanoes in Indonesia or the Philippines, you can find range of concoctions on the volcanic peaks. Some volcanoes have huge calderas resulted from some apocalyptic explosions thousands of years ago, and some of these are filled with tranquil blue lakes, others with noxious gasses, others are still erupting! There are some volcanoes that are almost perfect cones like Mount Apo or the Mayon Volcano in the Philippines, or Mount Semeru, Merapi, or Kerinci in Indonesia. This means runners have to scramble for hundreds of metres up sometimes loose and freshly laid volcanic rubble and detritus to summit.
The summit scramble to the top of Mount Kerinci, Indonesia. Photo by Summits.com
Finally, the views from the summits of mountains in Southeast Asia tend to be more spectacular than others. Because the mountains are often isolated from one another, you could be looking down thousands of metres upon farmlands, cities, beaches, and oceans, or see neighbouring peaks in the distance. Nothing beats a tropical sunset (or sunrise), except when you’re looking at all this beauty being lit up in kaleidoscopic hues as your mountain stretches its shadow over the world.
Sunset atop Mount Rinjani, Lombok, Indonesia. Photo by Summits.com
Where are the best places for skyrunning in Southeast Asia?
The great things about these mountains in Southeast Asia is that they can often be found within reach of major Southeast Asian cities. This means you can often fit a run into a weekend trip, or onto the side of a beach vacation or business trip.
One look at a topographic map of Indonesia – pockmarked with volcanoes – and its clear that it has the most skyrunning potential in the region.
Jakarta has Gede-Pangrango – a double-headed volcano known for its biodiversity despite being just to the south of a raging megapolis. The Gede-Pangrango Ultra is run here every year.
A couple more hours from Jakarta – closer to Surabaya, Semarang or Yogyakarta – Central Java offers dozens more great mountain trails. Goat Run Indonesia runs a few skyrunning races throughout the year, namely to Mount Lawu, Slamet, and Salak. In the past they offered Mount Merapi, but it’s currently erupting. Or, the Mantra Summits Challenge will run again this July around Mount Arjuna.
Towards East Java, there have been a few skyrunning events around the incredible Bromo-Tengger-Semeru National Park, which includes Mount Bromo and Mount Semeru, both active volcanoes but which are open and great to climb. The Bromo Marathon will be held again this September. In the far east of Java, the Ijen Crater – a surreal and active volcano famed for its blue fire – hosts an Ultra this August.
Bali has Mount Agung, but it’s currently erupting and the Indonesian Government has set up an exclusion zone. There are other mountains on Bali, but the better bet might be to jump on a boat and head next-door to Mount Rinjani in Lombok. Rinjani is probably the most beautiful mountain in Indonesia, and hosts the Rinjani 100 each year.
The Philippines has an active Skyrunning community, and some great mountains to run on too.
Manilla has a few mountains poking out of its urban sprawl, but I think it’s worth going a little further to the city’s northern fringe where you find Mount Pinatubo. It’s the volcano that gave us the second largest eruption of the 20th century, and it resulted in an incredible crater lake you can visit today. The Philippines Skyrunning Association – which is registered with the International Skyrunning Federation (ISF) – hosts the Pilipinas Akyathlon which finishes at the summit of Mount Inoman. But an organisation called V2S seems to take skyrunning more seriously, and puts on a few skyrunning events each year across the archipelago, including up the Philippines’ crown jewel – Mount Apo. There is also an ultra run yearly up the 2,000 metre Mount Tilinis volcano through some very thick jungle, and the less attended Hungduan National Climbathon, which climbs 2,642 metres up Mount Napulauan.
In Malaysia, there are mountains worth running both on the Peninsular and on Borneo. On Borneo, Mount Kinabalu is probably the most popular climb in Southeast Asia, and it’s a World Heritage Site. The ISF-registered Mount Kinabalu International Climbathon covers 21 km up Southeast Asia’s most treasured mountain. Kinabalu is also only a couple hours drive from Kota Kinabalu airport, and on the way to other amazing places in Sabah that could easily fill a week-long holiday. Kuching – the other major city on Borneo – has Mount Santubong, which is a smaller mountain where you could run from the beach to the summit for sunset, and then back to the beach for dinner.
Peninsular Malaysia hosts the annual Malaysian Mountain Trail Festival, which this year will be centred around Maxwell Hill near Taiping, up near Penang. There are also regular runs in the Cameron Highlands, and up Gunung Panti in Johor Province (not far from Singapore). Kuala Lumpur has Bukit Tabur right at the edge of the city, but it’s a notch or two above a scramble, and probably too dangerous for proper sky-running. Alternatively, the little-known ancient rainforest around Mount Tahan is just a few hours away, but you’ll need to cover greater distances to summit it.
Indochina hasn’t taken to organised skyrunning as much yet, but there are some great mountains there too. In Thailand, the Ultra Trail Chiang Mai in August reaches about 1,000m in vertical climbing, but doesn’t summit either of Doi Inthanon or Doi Chiang Dao – the country’s two tallest mountains that are nearby Chiang Mai. The gorgeous hills of Sapa aren’t far from Hanoi, and this includes Mount Fansipan – the highest in Viet Nam. The Vietnam Trail Series includes a Vietnam Mountain Marathon in Sapa in September, but doesn’t currently summit Mount Fan Si Pan. There are ultras around Luang Prabang in Laos, and around Ankor Wat in Cambodia, but they don’t seem to be skyrunning yet.
Even though Singapore’s Bukit Timah is barely even a hill, I have to mention it for having pristine jungle that you can be running in an hour after getting off a flight from Hong Kong, and there’s an active trail-running community there too. From Singapore, there are more mountains nearby in Johor Province in Malaysia, some which host skyrunning events, or on Indonesia’s Bintang Island.
Root-strewn trail in Bukit Timah reserve, Singapore.
What does Summits.com offer trail-runners and skyrunners?
We’re hoping to get more people of all sorts of people summiting mountains in Southeast Asia. But given how popular running is in Southeast Asia, we’re investing in content aimed at getting regular runners into trail-running and skyrunning. We’ll also list running events on mountains we cover. But really, we want to hear from the wider trail-running and skyrunning community about what they want and how we can do better. They’re welcome to email me at pete@summits.com.
Pete Silvester is the CEO of Summits.com – a website for mountaineering and skyrunning in Southeast Asia. Pete has spent about 7 years in Southeast Asia travelling, studying, building companies, and summiting the odd mountain.
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OpenTable Devours FoodSpotting for $10 Million in Cash
January 29, 2013 at 5:00 am PT
OpenTable has acquired Foodspotting, the popular photo-sharing application for restaurants.
The online reservations company said it paid about $10 million in cash for the company, making it a pretty good deal for the startup, which raised $3.75 million over its three-year existence.
Matt Roberts, OpenTable’s CEO, said it originally partnered with Foodspotting a year ago to add some of its photos to its mobile application, but “we had a such a shared passion for restaurants, we wanted an opportunity to work closely together as one team.”
As the name of the app suggests, Foodspotting allows people to look for restaurant recommendations by sifting through photos of dishes shot by other customers. Today, the app has three million photos in its catalog of dishes from crepes to cupcakes.
Roberts said that the Foodspotting app will continue to exist, and that users can make OpenTable reservations from within the app, but “the more deeper integration will happen in the other direction,” he said.
In October, OpenTable started getting more serious about mobile by giving restaurants the tools to optimize their sites for the smaller screen to support making reservations over mobile. The images and photography will be used by OpenTable’s restaurants to illustrate their menus. There are 15,000 OpenTable restaurants on the Foodspotting app.
Ten of Foodspotting’s employees will join OpenTable, including CEO and co-founder Alexa Andrzejewski, who will become OpenTable’s lead user interface designer.
Investors in Foodspotting include BlueRun Ventures, Felicis Ventures, High Line Ventures, 500 Startups and Zelkova Ventures, plus angel investor Dave Morin.
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In examining the implications for an exit from a currency union, one of the issues that arises is the proportion of public debt that is issued under foreign law. This is a separate issue to the implications of foreign-currency denominated debt. Both issues are problematic and compromise a government’s capacity to remain solvent. I covered the former issue to some extent in my 2015 book – Eurozone Dystopia: Groupthink and Denial on a Grand Scale – when I was considering different strategies for exit. There has been some further research on the question of foreign law debt issuance by the ECB and its Working Paper No. 2162 – Foreign-law bonds: can they reduce sovereign borrowing costs? – published June 2018, has relevance. It is clear that a government reestablishing its sovereignty has the upper hand, especially if it has issued debt under its own legal system. Which is why the likes of the IMF and the European Commission has been keen to increasingly pressure governments to issue debt under foreign laws under the ruse that this is a show of faith to the private bond markets. Once again the increasing bias towards foreign-law debt is all about privileging private capital over the interests of citizens in national states. What is absolutely clear is that a sovereign government should never issue debt instruments under any legal system other than their own. What is even clearer – such a government has no need to issue any debt at all.
The first point to note is that a sovereign government, one which issues its own currency, should never issue debt in any form. There is no financial reason to do so.
If such a government does issue debt then it should only ever be denominated in its own currency and constituted under the nation’s own legal structure.
In those situations there can never be any question of solvency – such a government can always meet any financial liabilities that are denominated in the currency it issues.
Any deviation from that state would only arise if the government imposed voluntary restrictions on itself or chose to default for political reasons.
The situation is different for a government that does not issue its own currency, such as the 19 Member States of the Eurozone.
They must issue debt to cover any spending in excess of taxation receipts. In that respect, they are captive of the private bond markets and must pay the yields that are demanded at the time of issue.
In the case of the Eurozone, the European Central Bank can clearly play a role in controlling those yields if it chooses. Its Quantitative Easing program has done just that. The only problem in the EMU context is that the ECB will only exercise that function if nation’s follow the strict fiscal austerity rules.
In the case of the Eurozone Member States they are always forced to issue debt in a foreign currency and are thus always exposed to the risk of insolvency.
Then the question arises – which legal jurisdiction should they issue the debt contract in?
The 19 Member States still have a choice in that regard. They can issue the foreign-currency denominated debt under their own law or under the law of another country.
This is a different issue to the actual currency the debt that is issued is denominated in.
A related (non)-issue is the nationality of the holder of the debt. This is the ‘China is funding the US’ issue, which rears its nonsensical head every now and then.
Per se, it doesn’t really matter who holds the debt issued by a government. China is never ‘funding’ US government spending, notwithstanding the fact that Chinese residents (institutions) hold large swathes of US Treasury-issued debt.
For a currency-issuing government such as the US, the funds associated with the debt issuance do not provide the US government with the capacity to spend. That capacity is intrinsic to a currency-issuing government.
There are exchange rate implications of China running external surpluses against the US and thus accumulating financial claims in US dollars, some of which can manifest as US government bonds. But these issues are separate from the solvency-type issues.
Please read my blog posts for a discussion of those implications:
1. Trade and external finance mysteries – Part 1 (May 8, 2018).
2. Trade and finance mysteries – Part 2 (May 9, 2018).
3. A surplus of trade discussions (May 23, 2018).
Further, many commentators claim the only reason the Japanese government has been able to avoid insolvency is that its debt is bought by domestic residents and institutions who have some cultural loyalty or some such. The argument is ridiculous.
Yes, the fact that domestic residents and institutions in Japan gain the risk-free asset and income flow, even though yields are typically very low. That might appear to be preferable for some to handing out public money to foreigners. But it has no implications for government solvency.
The Japanese government will always be solvent.
Yes, I know about the claim that Japan defaulted on its debt as World War 2 was unfolding – this was a strategic act on debt owed to its then new enemies. It has no relevance for serious considerations of solvency.
There are thus three dimensions to public debt each with implications for solvency and exit strategies from shared currency arrangements:
1. The currency of denomination.
2. The nationality of the holder of the debt – foreign or domestic.
3. The legislative framework and the place of issuance, which regulates the debt contract.
The ECB Working Paper cited in the Introduction (published June 2018), bears on the third dimension identified above – the jurisdiction which regulates the debt contract.
Their research seeks to whether there are “pricing effects of this jurisdiction choice”.
The authors recognise that:
From the investors’ perspective, sovereign bonds governed by the laws of a foreign jurisdiction are less risky than domestic-law bonds. Domestic-law bonds can have weaker legal protection since the bond contract terms can be altered retroactively by changes in the law of debtor countries. Through an act of parliament, governments can, in principle, change the payment terms of domestic-law bonds, their currency denomination, or the voting rules for a potential restructuring. Such a retroactive change of contracts is not possible for foreign-law bonds, because legislation by national parliaments has no authority beyond domestic borders.
I examined this issue in my 2015 book – Eurozone Dystopia: Groupthink and Denial on a Grand Scale – in my discussion of the so-called ‘Law of the Money’ or Lex Monetae.
Lex Monetae or ‘The Law of the Money’ is a well-established legal principle, backed up by a swathe of case law across many jurisdictions, and is internationally accepted.
It states broadly that the government of the day determines what the legal currency is for transactions and contractual obligations within its national borders.
There is thus no question that a nation currently using the euro could abandon it, introduce its own currency, and require all taxes to be paid and all contracts to be denominated in that currency.
Lex Monetae also has been taken to mean that if, say, an Italian had borrowed US dollars from a London bank operating under English law, the definition of the ‘currency’ for the purposes of resolving this contract is governed by US law.
Finally, the principle also means that if a government changes its currency and re-denominates at some given parity, all contracts must be honoured at the re-denominated rate.
The legal principle became the topic of financial commentary in 2012, when there was the very real possibility that Greece would be forced out of the Eurozone.
On May 20, 2012, the UK Telegraph published the article – Multinationals sweep euros from accounts on daily basis – which elaborated on the implications of the legal principle.
The article noted that:
The principle is a legal minefield when it comes to the euro because economic monetary union compelled all member states to transfer “irrevocably” monetary sovereignty to the European Union. If Athens quit the euro, however, Greek companies would be expected to claim that they could honour any obligations in a depreciating drachma – a stance local courts are likely to back. Much would then depend on the legal jurisdiction of any contract as to whether it was actually enforceable.
So there is an interpretation of the legal principle that says that even private sector debtors can demand to have any obligations redenominated in the currency of the nation they operate in. This is serious implications for whether an exiting government introduces legislation to permit this and which jurisdiction the issue would be settled in.
While there is little doubt that a government could redenominate any debt it issued under its own legal framework in the currency of their choosing, the uncertainty surrounding private debt has meant that some commentators, say in the case of an EMU Member State exiting the currency arrangement, advocating that all private financial contracts remain in euros (including all bank deposits).
There is no clear legal precedent to guide us in this specific case. It is really a secondary consideration for the exiting government. They could choose either option – leave all private financial contracts in euros or force redenomination at some parity or both.
Ultimately, taxpayers in the exiting nation would have to acquire the new currency immediately to meet their obligations to the state (which would no longer accept euros in this regard) and the only way they could do that would be to swap goods and services in return for the currency (which the government would have had to spend into existence) or engage in foreign exchange market transactions.
As some point, when GDP was growing strongly enough, everyone would want to shift into the new currency anyway.
Consideration of Lex Monetae has led to a new concept – redenomination risk – entering the financial lexicon.
This obviously is a major issue if any Eurozone Member State makes the decision to exit.
In the case of a nation that changes its own currency, which then might depreciate against other currencies, the redenomination risk is present but there can be no question that the ‘old’ currency continues to exist.
In the Eurozone case, if Italy was to exit and introduce its own currency the euro still exists.
So there is a question of which ‘Lex Monetae’ is relevant – that of the remaining euro Member States or that of Italy.
Working through the implications of that distinction is interesting.
And the jurisdictional status of the debt contracts then becomes a significant factor in deciding between the two options.
As the ECB Working Paper notes, it is relatively straightforward for a government to redenominate its outstanding liabilities into the currency of its choice if the contracts (debt agreements) are made under the law of that nation.
The only question is the redenomination parity (1 for 1, or something else). The redenomination risk arises though in terms of that parity (at the time of redenomination) and then subsequently, when the new currency trades on international foreign exchange markets.
The latter risk is really a foreign exchange risk that exists every time currency transactions are present but in this case it is driven not by the choice of the currency holder but by the redenomination choice of the government.
However, in the case of debt contracts that are created under the legal system of a nation not exiting, retrospective redenomination is not possible:
… because legislation by national parliaments has no authority beyond domestic borders.
We saw that distinction in operation during the 2012 Greek debt restructuring.
As the ECB Working Paper notes:
In early 2012, the Greek parliament passed a law inserting clauses into the outstanding Greek domestic- law bonds that made an encompassing debt restructuring significantly easier. In contrast, the outstanding Greek foreign-law bonds were not affected.
The law the ECB was referring to demonstrated the additional complication of so-called Collective Action Clauses (CACs).
These arrangements allows some majority of creditors to make agreements among themselves which are then binding on other creditors in the case of a debt restructure or redenomination.
CACs became a big deal in the 2012 Greek Bailout. The Greek government was coerced by the IMF and the ECB into amending Greek law on February 23, 2012 with the following legislation – Greek law no. 4050/2012 “Rules of amendment of titles issued or guaranteed by the Hellenic Republic with the Bondholder’s agreement, otherwise known as the “Greek Bondholder Act”.
This Act retrospectively added CACs to all outstanding Greek government debt issued under Greek law. This forced all creditors to accept the decisions of a majority (66 per cent) of creditors to take the ‘haircut’ under the so-called Private Sector Involvement’ (PSI), irrespective of whether those minority creditors had signalled a willingness or otherwise to accept the deal presented to them by the Troika.
The inclusion of the CACs allowed the Troika to trample over the rights of creditors who had purchased the debt in good faith. It was one of many astounding features of that period of European financial history.
The ECB note that “more than 50% OF Greek bonds under English, Swiss and Japanese law were not restructured and have been serviced in full and on time ever since. The foreign-law clause thus protected these investors from deep losses”.
The losses on “domestic-law bonds” was of the order of 65 per centr of the net present value of the debt and income streams.
So quite a difference.
The willingness of governments to retrospectively use CACs when they get into financial trouble has risen in recent years because it is perceived they add a layer of protection to the issuing body.
Further, the European Commission amended the European Stability Mechanism Treaty (Paragraph 3 of Article 12) to make such CACs “mandatory in all new euro area government securities with maturity above one year issued on or after 1 January 2013” (Source)
The rising importance of CACs also reflects a view that they can deal with the ‘free rider’ or holdout problem.
However, things are not that simple. History tells us that the use of CACs has been far from clean and have not offered speedy resolutions.
Legal covenants have always considered creditors to have individual rights and this requires that any restructuring entity negotiate one by one. If one or more creditors refuse the terms of the restructure then this puts a spanner in the works.
Lawyers typically benefit from the legal challenges that follow and delays in settlements (enforcing the CACs) are common.
This IMF Policy Paper – A Survey of Experiences in Emerging Market Sovereign Debt Restructurings (published June 5, 2012) – illustrates the complexity of restructuring when CACs are involved.
Two notable cases (Argentina, 2005; and Dominica, 2004) “had a large share of holdout creditors and difficulties in re-accessing international capital markets after the exchange”.
In the case of Argentina (2005) it took 42 months to engineer a 76.30 per cent haircut after the CACs were triggered to deal with a holdout group comprising 24 per cent of creditors.
In Dominica (2004) it took 15 months to engineer a 54 per cent haircut after the CACs were triggered to deal with a holdout group comprising 28 per cent of creditors.
So, having CACs is no guarantee that a nation will be able to avoid protracted litigation.
Which is why debt that is issued under rules of foreign legal jurisdictions is seen as being safer for ‘investors’ and gives government little leeway.
This point was not lost on the Troika, which during the 2012 bailout forced the Greek government to issue liabilities under English law in order to gain further bailout assistance, thus anticipating the application of Lex Monetae, in the case of an exit.
What proportion of debt is issued under foreign laws?
The following graphic comes from the ECB Working Paper (cited above) and shows “the share of foreign-law bonds in total public sector bond issuance between 2003 and July 2014 for EU countries”.
The ECB Working Paper also published a similar graph for Emerging Market Economies (EMEs) which included Argentina, China, India, Malaysia, Mexico, Philippines, Russia, Singapore, South Korea, Turkey and UAE.
They concluded that:
We generally find foreign-law bonds to account for a substantial share of public sector borrowing in the last decade, both in Europe and in Emerging Markets.
Why would governments forego their options under Lex Monetae and issue debt under foreign law?
On February 12, 2012, the New York Times article – Given Greek Deal, Investors May Reconsider Sovereign Debt – noted that:
… after the Greek experience, investors might think twice before investing in those local-law bonds, no matter how high the yield.
Foreign-law bonds can also be more attractive to foreign investors because they allow bondholders to pursue legal action away from local courts, which are unlikely to look with favor on foreign investor claims.
My reading of the legal and financial literature, however, is that a government that reestablishes its sovereignty can simply ignore legal claims against it in foreign courts.
The ECB Working Paper found that in relation to foreign-law bonds:
… the premium is small or even negative when credit risk is low, but it can become sizable in crisis times …
Our results thus suggest that countries can borrow, at the margin, at more favorable terms by selling bonds in a foreign jurisdiction in episodes of distress, although they may have to pay slightly more during normal times …
The findings are consistent with the view that issuing foreign-law bonds provides the possibility of commitment in crisis times: by issuing under foreign jurisdictions and thereby making the debt harder to restructure, sovereigns send a signal that they are unlikely to default on such bonds.
That seems to leave the volition with the national government.
But in practice, especially in poorer nations in Africa and Latin America, the IMF has coerced the governments into issuing debt under foreign law contracts to make it harder for the governments to restructure when in trouble and make the austerity adjustments more binding.
History suggests that motivation rather than the desire of governments to show bond markets they are committed to repayment is the reason for the rising importance of foreign-law debt issuance.
I am currently working on a number of these issues to more fully educate myself in the murky world of sovereign debt law. The purpose of this self-education is to allow me to more carefully develop an Exit Blueprint for nations stuck in anti-democratic and destructive arrangements such as the Eurozone.
It is clear that a government reestablishing its sovereignty has the upper hand, especially if it has issued debt under its own legal system.
Which is why the likes of the IMF and the European Commission has been keen to increasingly pressure governments to issue debt under foreign laws under the ruse that this is a show of faith to the private bond markets.
Once again the increasing bias towards foreign-law debt is all about privileging private capital over the interests of citizens in national states.
What is absolutely clear is that a sovereign government should never issue debt instruments under any legal system other than their own.
What is even clearer – such a government has no need to issue any debt at all.
That is enough for today!
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Andrew John Miles says:
Tuesday, July 3, 2018 at 21:28
It appears that English law is a very common choice for debt issued under foreign law. Would this imply that a British government (say, led by Corbyn) could legislate to allow other countries who issued debts under English law to re-denominate in their domestic currency, should they wish to?
I certainly agree about the reasons why debt shouldn’t be issued under foreign law at all. I just thought changing UK legislation might offer a solution for the existing stock of foreign currency denominated debt issued under English law.
Derek Henry says:
Wednesday, July 4, 2018 at 7:22
Warren when interviewed suggested you don’t actually leave the Euro and just start taxing in the Lira on a 1:1 basis. Then start spending in the Lira.
This gives the Italians independent fiscal policy and independent monetary policy.
He then says the most important thing is not to covert bank deposits from Euro to Lira. So say half the people in Italy want the Euro and the other half need the lira to make ends meet. If you convert everybody to Lira now those people who want Euro are very unhappy. So they have this Lira that they don’t want and what they do is sell the Lira to by the Euro.
The Lira can then drop 60% and the central bank does not know what to do ( there’s a suprise) so they raise interest rates which pushes the price of imports up by 50% or more and then the government does not know how to deal with that ( there’s another suprise) then the government collapses.
On the other hand if you don’t convert bank deposits everybody is happy. The people who have Euro who want the Lira. Have to sell their Euro’s and buy the Lira. Where are they going to get the Lira from as it is the new currency ?
The government can sell them the new Lira at a slight premium to the Euro say 1%. So now people can sell the Euro and get the Lira they want which creates a strong stable currency that does not go down. It wan’t to go up but the government sells it keeping in constant. Which means the government is getting all of these Euro’s for people who want Lira.
It uses that to pay off its Lira debt that helps it to get through the difficult transistion period without a collapse in currency. So it is important that you don’t force everybody to convert from Euro to Lira.
All Bank Deposits including central bank deposits. You do not convert the Italian bonds. They stay in Euro.
What I take away from that is in order to sell the Lira and drop the currency and then collapse the government. They have to have the Lira to do that. Warren’s proposal stops that as there are few Lira about and to get the Lira in the first place to sell it you have to first sell the Euro to get the Lira which keeps the Lira stronger.
Derek, do you have the link available?
Ralph Musgrave says:
Wednesday, July 4, 2018 at 17:08
“….. a sovereign government, one which issues its own currency, should never issue debt in any form.”
Yup: Milton Friedman and Warren Mosler also argued against debt in any form.
Nik-Cap says:
i think video in question is this – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wEoiy5rB08
Thursday, July 5, 2018 at 3:13
Nik-cap, Many thanks.
What always makes the situation worse is the first line of defence of raising interest rates to protect the currency.
For me that is a HUGE mistake and only makes things worse. Raising interest rates do the exact opposite of what they say they will do.
It looks like the right move at the time because Mr Market moves to protect the currency as the market participants are moving it under a false understanding. Ultimately, it is short lived as the price hikes and the interest income channels will further weaken the currency.
If however, the first response was to slash interest rates to zero to defend the currency. Fundamentally that would work over the longer term. The problem being the short term reaction by Mr Market and the market participants would be the opposite they would continue to sell the currency under a false understanding.
So I like Warren’s proposals because you could actually cut interest rates to zero whilst carrying out what he suggests and I think that would defend the currency easily over the short and longer term.
Friday, July 13, 2018 at 8:18
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PR: @CombateAmericas Announces Return to Fresno (@AfroMike76)
Combate Americas today announced its return to Fresno, Calif. with another Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) extravaganza, live on television, on both Univision (12 a.m. ET/PT) and UDN (12 a.m. ET/9 p.m. PT), from Save Mart Center on Friday, Aug. 2.
In the flyweight (125 pounds) main event, former world champion and superstar Zoila "The Warrior Princess" Frausto (14-5) will square off with three-time Central American Judo champion, Reina Cordoba (9-1).
Priced from $22, tickets for the Combate Americas event are on sale at Ticketmaster.com.
"Fresno has become a phenomenal home for Combate Americas action, and we will be bringing another lineup filled with both established and rising stars to Save Mart Center on August 2, beginning with our main event between Zoila Frausto and Reina Cordoba," said Combate Americas CEO Campbell McLaren.
Frausto of Madera, Calif. made her long-awaited return to MMA action as well as her promotional debut with Combate Americas at Save Mart Center on February 22.
Fighting under MMA rules for the first time in three years, the former world champion who also competes professionally at a world-class level in both kickboxing and Muay Thai, came out of the gates blazing, and scored a first round (1:52) TKO (knee to the body) on fellow veteran Jaimee Nievera.
In addition to her accolades in Judo competition, Cordoba of San Jose, Costa Rica is a two-time Pan American Sambo tournament champion, and an aggressive-minded veteran who has earned eight of her nine professional career victories by way of (T)KO or submission.
The matchup with Frausto will mark Cordoba's first start since May 4, 2017 when she submitted (guillotine choke) Alejandra Orozco in the second round (2:23) of battle.
Joel Lopez (1-0) of Madera will face off with Brock Dias (0-0) of Visalia, Calif. in a bantamweight (135 pounds) matchup.
Austin "The Dynasty" Liu (0-0) of Fresno will make his professional debut against Daniel Oseguera (0-1) of Modesto in another bantamweight affair.
Additional Combate Americas bouts, including the co-main event and remainder of the main card, will be announced soon.
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Lithuania: Controversial MP Resigns on the Eve of Protest - Anticorr.media
Lithuania: Controversial MP Resigns on the Eve of Protest
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A day after the Lithuanian parliament failed to impeach him for breaking his oath of office, a formerly influential lawmaker resigned on Wednesday, a day before scheduled protests against the scandalous parliament vote.
An impeachment procedure was launched against Mindaugas Bastys after his security clearance was denied based on suggestions from the country’s intelligence service that he was connected to Russian interest groups and people affiliated with organized crime. In spite of a ruling by the Baltic state‘s Constitutional Court, stating that Bastys had broken his oath, the parliament failed on Tuesday to gather enough votes to impeach him.
This outraged Lithuanians. Andrius Tapinas, a famous journalist and a TV show host, called on citizens to object to the parliament’s decision to keep Bastys and take to the streets on Thursday.
Although he stated on Tuesday he had no intention to resign, Bastys suddenly changed his mind and announced his departure on Wednesday at an unexpected press conference.
Bastys said it was his personal decision and had nothing to do with the announced protests or talks he might have had with some of the country‘s most powerful politicians.
“I wanted to prove my truth. And I succeeded,” Bastys said about the failed impeachment vote.
Bastys said he intends to remain active in politics. Since he was elected in a single-seat constituency, a new election has to be held in order to fill his seat but Bastys did not reveal whether he will run for it.
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Small businesses in South Africa honoured
The hard work and achievements of the small business community in South Africa were in the spotlight when the winners of the 2015 South African Small Business Awards were announced on 5 November 2015 at a breakfast at Montecasino in Fourways, Johannesburg.The awards, hosted by the National Small Business Chamber (NSBC) and sponsored by Adams & Adams, First National Bank and Vodacom, paid tribute to the contribution that small businesses made in creating employment and building communities. They represented various industries throughout the country.Successful small businesses promote the outcomes of the country’s National Development Plan. It aims to create decent employment through inclusive economic growth, so creating a better South Africa, a better Africa, and a better world.The NSBC, established in 2007, is a non-profit membership organisation and the driving force fuelling small business growth. It was set up to foster the sustainability and growth of the SME sector, driving job creation, alleviating unemployment and nurturing the country’s entrepreneurial spirit. The chamber has a membership of more than 87 000 small- and medium-sized enterprises and 50 big brands as national partners.Mike Anderson, founder and chief executive officer of the NSBC, gives a motivational speech.(Image: National Small Business Chamber)Mike Anderson, the founder and chief executive officer of the NSBC, said in a statement that being recognised as a champion business further validated the award winners’ reputation for quality and provided opportunities for further growth. “While our economy struggles to reach its full potential, small businesses like the 2015 award winners act as shining examples of how innovation, perseverance and commitment can have a big impact,” he said.“Though times can be tough, this year’s winners have proven they can be too. The 2015 winners have shown that through passion, hard work and dedication, success is achievable.”The South African Small Business Awards, now in its seventh year, once again drew thousands of entries. This year, three special awards were introduced: National Exporter Award, National Travel & Tourism Award and National Innovation Award.Social mediaBusiness owners and others at the awards tweeted about the event:Delighted that .@StaffsUni Business School has been recognised by @SmallBizCharter for its SME and enterprise work https://t.co/76NJL98Edd— Paul Williams (@PaulWilliams207) November 5, 2015Mike Anderson (NSBC Founder & CEO) & @KatlegoMaboe talking about the importance of #smallbusiness #SmallBizAwardsSA https://t.co/SlLBSxjFA5— NSBC South Africa (@mysmallbiz) November 5, 2015Networking with some of SA’s best entrepreneurs @Phezulu_Group #smallbizawards #entrepreneur #SmallBusiness pic.twitter.com/Y2kMfek7Ob— Jean-Mari_Zeilinga (@JeanMariZ2) November 5, 2015#smallbizawards @ThinkroomTalk Daunting task to grow a business but nothing more rewarding— Zuanda (@ZuandaReid) November 5, 2015Women absolutely dominating these awards. Very encouraging to see. #SmallBizAwardsSA— media757 (@Media7five7) November 5, 2015The winnersAriston Global, owned by Reginald Pillay, was named 2015 National Small Business Champion. Pillay’s company provides accounting, tax, human resources and advisory services. It has grown over eight years to report a growth rate of more than 250% this financial year and created many new, professional long-term job opportunities for young entrants to the job market.Pillay said the first 1 000 days of a business were the most critical. “I’m inspired by how we’ve grown over the last eight years into the Ariston Global that you see today.“I am honoured to be the recipient of this award and humbled to be recognised by the NSBC. The way that the NSBC not only supports small businesses but also provides accolades for achievement is great. I am so happy to be a part of that.”From left: Stephen Swart, Head of Acquisitions at FNB; Gerard Du Plessis, Chairman at Adams & Adams; Reginald Pillay of Ariston Global and Songezo Masiso, National Sales Manager at Vodacom. Pillay won the National Small Business Champion of the Year award. (Image: National Small Business Chamber)The National Entrepreneur Champion and inaugural National Exporter Award went to Shooshoos, an exclusive baby shoe brand owned by Gill Bowen. The company has grown exponentially to become the biggest exclusive baby shoe brand in South Africa and exports to over 15 countries.National Woman in Business Champion of the Year – From Left: First runner-up: Tanya Kisten of Khanyisela College; National Woman in Business Champion of the Year award winner Sonja Smith-Janse Van Rensburg of Sonja Smith Funeral Group Pty Ltd and Second runner-up Refilwe Marumo of Mighty Comms Pty Ltd. (Image: National Small Business Chamber)Sonja Smith Funeral Group, owned by Sonja Smith, was awarded the National Woman in Business Champion. Smith’s passion for being of service to people in times of grief and her tireless advocacy in tackling legal issues in the funeral industry led to the company being featured in the Sunday newspaper Rapport and on television investigative journalism show Carte Blanche.Janine van Zyl, the owner of Cold Gold Artisan Ice Cream, scooped the National Young Entrepreneur Champion Award. With the motto “Perfection is all the little things done well with love”, Cold Gold Artisan Ice Cream creates speciality 100% natural ice cream and sorbet in over 800 flavours.Van Zyl said it was a great honour to receive the award. “It has been inspiring to watch my business grow alongside those of my suppliers. It was part of my vision to not only create a business for myself but to assist other businesses to grow at the same time.”The full list of winners and runners-up is:National Small Business Champion of the YearWinner: Ariston Global – Reginald PillayFirst runner-up: College of Production Technology – Andy GreenwoodSecond runner-up: Oembotutravel.co.za – Henri OtouNational Entrepreneur Champion of the YearWinner: Gill Bowen – ShooshoosFirst runner-up: Tyrone Naidoo – BEE OnlineSecond runner-up: Kevin Paxton – Noble Water SolutionsNational Woman in Business Champion of the YearWinner: Sonja Smith-Janse van Rensburg – Sonja Smith Funeral GroupFirst runner up: Tanya Kisten – Khanyisela CollegeSecond runner-up: Refilwe Marumo – Mighty CommsNational Young Entrepreneur Champion of the YearWinner: Janine Van Zyl – Cold Gold Artisan Ice CreamFirst runner-up: Tshepiso Mametja – Amphiguard BrickyardSecond runner-up: Marisa da Silva – Infanta FoodSpecial awardsNational Travel & Tourism Award: Oembotutravel.Co.Za – Henri OtouNational Exporter Award: Shooshoos – Gill BowenNational Innovation Award: Noble Water Solutions – Kevin PaxtonSource: South African Small Business Awards and Brand South Africa reporter. read more
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2019-2020 Ohio FFA Officer Team (Audio included)
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MapQuest Launches Android App with OpenStreetMap and Turn-By-Turn Navigation
audrey watters Related Posts Role of Mobile App Analytics In-App Engagement Tags:#Location#mobile#web Why IoT Apps are Eating Device Interfaces The Rise and Rise of Mobile Payment Technology What it Takes to Build a Highly Secure FinTech … One of the superior apps on the Android phone has long been Google Maps, with its turn-by-turn and voice-guided navigation missing from the iPhone version. So on the surface, MapQuest has a difficult sell to Android users with the launch of its free app today.The MapQuest app also offers the turn-by-turn capabilities and takes advantage of Android’s speech capabilities to offer a voice guide as well. The benefits of MapQuest over Google Maps comes from the former’s use of OpenStreetMap (OSM), making the mapping app usable outside the U.S. and adding to it some user-submitted data. Millions of MapQuest fans frequently use our mobile website from their Android devices. To these millions, we’re thrilled to present our free Android app with turn-by-turn, voice-guided navigation, as well as OpenStreetMap (OSM) capabilities. Download it here.The Android app is similar to MapQuest’s iPhone offering and includes the following features: voice-guided, turn-by-turn navigation, voice search, a map toolbar, walking and driving directions, and live traffic flow information (updated every 5 minutes).It’s the OpenStreetMap component that makes MapQuest (and not just this Android app) an interesting alternative Google’s efforts to map the world. OpenStreetMap offers what MapQuest describes as “a collaborative, ‘by the people, for the people’ mapping movement. It’s basically a living map that is improved every day by people just like you.” This allows users to correct and add information on the map, giving in many instances better local details, including information about local businesses. read more
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Will Wearable Computers Make Our Tech Addictions Even Worse?
Tags:#Apple#Google#Google Glass#iWatch#wearable Why IoT Apps are Eating Device Interfaces The Rise and Rise of Mobile Payment Technology What it Takes to Build a Highly Secure FinTech … john paul titlow Role of Mobile App Analytics In-App Engagement If you think we’re hooked on social status updates now, just wait. As connected computing starts to shift from our pockets to wearable devices like Google Glass and Apple’s rumored iWatch, the flood of messages and bite-sized digital content is going to become even more relentless. Just like smartphones, these devices will have a transformative impact on things like communication, navigation and productivity. But some are concerned that, like their pocket-sized counterparts, wearables could increase our reliance on technology in unhealthy ways. The First Step: Admitting We Have A ProblemIt’s now beyond debate that owners of mobile devices like smartphones and tablets often exhibit something resembling an addiction to those gadgets. It may not be as serious as something like alcohol or crystal meth, but it’s a type of dependence nonetheless. Sure, some of the press coverage of this topic may be overblown, but the science supporting the existence of widespread smartphone addiction keeps piling up. If that’s not convincing enough, just look around. A few weeks ago, I was waiting for a table in a crowded restaurant. As I sat on the bench, I couldn’t help but notice the scene next to me: An entire family – mother, father and three kids – were all sitting in total silence, each of them staring intently into little glowing screens. Not once over the course of several minutes did any of them look up from their devices or say a word. Of course, I only noticed this family of smartphone zombies because, for once, I wasn’t glued to my own phone.Scenes like this are incredibly common these days. Sometimes, they’re short-lived and innocent. In some cases, relationships, productivity and mental health can become strained. Evidently, we haven’t yet figured out how to best fit these amazing little computers into our lives. While we’ve had no trouble discovering all kinds of beneficial uses for them, many of us have a hard time knowing when not to use them.What makes us think we’re prepared to wear computers on our faces and wrists? That’s precisely the question some psychologists are asking. Larry Rosen is a research psychologist at California State University and author of iDisorder, a book about the psychological impacts of technology, particularly as our reliance on it increases. “We are already so distractible, checking in with our technology all day long,” says Dr. Rosen. “When we don’t have to reach into our pockets or our purses, we will be even more enmeshed and face even more obsession and compulsion.” With wearable devices, checking messages and updates not only becomes physically easier, but it will also be less noticeable to those around us. For human beings, pulling a small rectangle-shaped device out of our pockets and interacting with it is a relatively new behavior. Looking down at our watches is not, and thus it’s less conspicuous. Sure, it would still be obvious and unusual if I were to look at my watch dozens of times in an hour, not to mention periodically swipe its touch screen. But by even slightly reducing the physical barrier to interacting with the digital world, we’re ensuring we’ll do it more. Mainlining The Internet Directly Into Our EyeballsHead-mounted computers are a little different. For one, they’re not intended for everybody. Not yet, anyway. When Google Glass first hits the market, we’ll know (and probably disapprove) if somebody is wearing it at the dinner table. Early Glass users won’t be able to use them whenever and wherever they please. But when they do use it, they’ll be developing new digital habits. Instead of compulsively checking Facebook on their phones, they’ll be able to mainline status updates and notifications directly into their eyeballs. For awhile, the obvious design of products like Glass will limit their use, and thus curtail whatever disruptive effects they might have. But what happens when head-mounted computers become more seamlessly designed into normal glasses frames? Eventually, we’ll have connected contact lenses. Hopefully we’ll have enough time before their arrival to figure out some of the glaring social and psychological issues these technologies raise. In the meantime, there’s plenty to be excited about. As Sarah Rotmann Epps outlined recently, wearable devices can be hugely beneficial to our lives, especially if they’re designed with our brains’ limitations in mind. And while Google Glass raises a number of weird social questions, there are lots of very compelling use cases for the device. It’s like any major advance in technology: There are going to be issues. The tech is going to evolve more rapidly than laws, etiquette or certainly the human brain itself. The era of wearable computing is coming regardless of how ready we are. Related Posts read more
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Gasol, Mills lead balanced Spurs attack over Grizzlies
2 ‘newbie’ drug pushers fall in Lucena sting MOST READ Don’t miss out on the latest news and information. Spurs: Host the Philadelphia 76ers on Friday night.Grizzlies: Host the Los Angeles Clippers on Friday night. Willie Marcial is new PBA commissioner Typhoon Kammuri accelerates, gains strength en route to PH Brace for potentially devastating typhoon approaching PH – NDRRMC Trending Articles PLAY LIST 00:50Trending Articles00:59Sports venues to be ready in time for SEA Games01:27Filipino athletes get grand send-off ahead of SEA Games01:29Police teams find crossbows, bows in HK university01:35Panelo suggests discounted SEA Games tickets for students02:49Robredo: True leaders perform well despite having ‘uninspiring’ boss02:42PH underwater hockey team aims to make waves in SEA Games01:44Philippines marks anniversary of massacre with calls for justice01:19Fire erupts in Barangay Tatalon in Quezon City LATEST STORIES Kammuri turning to super typhoon less likely but possible — Pagasa View comments Globe Business launches leading cloud-enabled and hardware-agnostic conferencing platform in PH Marc Gasol led the Grizzlies with 18 points and seven rebounds, while Deyonta Davis added 12 points. Dillon Brooks finished with 10 points as the Grizzlies were hampered by 43 percent shooting, including 2 of 18 from outside the arc, and 17 turnovers.Between illness and rest, each team was down at least four players, creating some makeshift lineups. Spurs leading-scorer LaMarcus Aldridge took the night off for rest.FEATURED STORIESSPORTSWATCH: Drones light up sky in final leg of SEA Games torch runSPORTSLillard, Anthony lead Blazers over ThunderSPORTSMalditas save PH from shutoutBoth teams started 2 of 11 from the field in a sloppy first half. Memphis committed 10 turnovers while shooting just under 40 percent, while the Spurs shot slightly better at 44 percent along with eight miscues.Pau Gasol was the only player to reach double figures with 10 points in helping San Antonio to a 51-40 lead at the break. Slow and steady hope for near-extinct Bangladesh tortoises The Spurs maintained the double-digit lead through the third and early stages of the fourth as the Spurs defense pressured the Grizzlies, still mired at 41 percent shooting, including 2 of 12 from outside the arc.Memphis got the lead to single-digits with just under eight minutes remaining, but the Spurs scored the next six points, including four from Parker to match their biggest lead at 91-76 with about six minutes to go.That was in the midst of a 14-2 Spurs run to take the lead to 20 points.Spurs: Joffrey Lauvergne made his first four shots. … Rudy Gay, Manu Ginobili and Kawhi Leonard also sat out for San Antonio. They’re each dealing with long-term injuries. … Bertans started his second game of the season. … Pau Gasol is 17-10 in games against his younger brother Marc. … Spurs have a 27-3 record when leading after three quarters.Grizzlies: F Dillon Brooks was named to the Rising Stars World Team earlier Wednesday. Brooks is a native of Canada. … Ivan Rabb, a rookie out of California, made his first career start. … Saw their streak of five straight games with at least 10 3-pointers snapped.UP NEXTADVERTISEMENT NEXT BLOCK ASIA 2.0 introduces GURUS AWARDS to recognize and reward industry influencers John Lloyd Cruz a dashing guest at Vhong Navarro’s wedding Read Next Memphis Grizzlies center Marc Gasol (33) drives against his brother and San Antonio Spurs center, Pau Gasol, during the first half of an NBA basketball game Wednesday, Jan. 24, 2018, in Memphis, Tenn. (AP Photo/Brandon Dill)MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Pau Gasol ended an assist short of a triple-double, Patty Mills scored 15 points and the San Antonio Spurs beat the Memphis Grizzlies 108-85 on Wednesday night.Gasol had 14 points, 15 rebounds and nine assists, and Bryn Forbes and Danny Green also finished with 14 points each. Davis Bertans and Dejounte Murray each had 11 points.ADVERTISEMENT read more
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Remember the Blue Moon is this weekend!
Some of or readers today have been in:
Addia Ababa, Ethiopia
Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei
Orleans, France
Erbil, Iraq
Kluang, Malaysia
Makati, Philippines
Port-Of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago
70 The Temple of Jerusalem burns after a nine-month Roman siege.
1526 Ottoman Suleiman the Magnificent crushes a Hungarian army under Lewis II at the Battle of Mohacs.
1533 In Peru, the Inca chief Atahualpa is executed by orders of Francisco Pizarro, although the chief had already paid his ransom.
1776 General George Washington retreats during the night from Long Island to New York City.
1793 Slavery is abolished in Santo Domingo.
1862 Union General John Pope's army is defeated by a smaller Confederate force at the Second Battle of Bull Run.
1882 Australia defeats England in cricket for the first time. The following day a obituary appears in the Sporting Times addressed to the British team.
1942 The American Red Cross announces that Japan has refused to allow safe conduct for the passage of ships with supplies for American prisoners of war.
1945 U.S. airborne troops are landed in transport planes at Atsugi airfield, southwest of Tokyo, beginning the occupation of Japan.
1952 In the largest bombing raid of the Korean War, 1,403 planes of the Far East Air Force bomb Pyongyang, North Korea.
1992 Thousands of Germans demonstrate against a wave of racist attacks aimed at immigrants.
Two more Tibetan teens die in self-immolations, protesting Chinese rule
Lobsang Kalsang, an 18-year-old monk, and Damchoek, a 17-year-old former monk, set themselves on fire on Monday morning near Kirti Monastery in Aba county, in the Tibetan region. This brings the number of Tibetans who have set themselves on fire since 2009 to 51.
Woman took part in search for herself
A tourist in Iceland who was declared missing and the subject of an intense police search had no idea she was missing, and in fact took part in the search itself.
The story began on Saturday when the woman, who was described as "of Asian origin, aged 20-30, about 160cm, wearing dark clothing and speaks fluent English" was declared missing somewhere in the vicinity of Eldgjá, in south Iceland. The search found no sign of her.
However, on Sunday morning, she was reported found - and had no idea she was missing in the first place. This was apparently the result of a misunderstanding regarding her appearance. While it was initially reported that she had stepped off the bus at Eldgjá and never returned, in fact she changed clothing before getting back on the bus.
It appears she had even taken part in the search, without realising that she was the woman being searched for. Eventually, it occurred to her that she could very well be the "missing person" being described, and reported the matter to the police. The search was called off shortly thereafter.
Comrade Jindal complains Obama isn't giving him enough taxpayer socialism for hurricane damage
That crazy socialist governor from the People's Republic of Louisiana, Bobby Jindal, and the rest of the teabagging repugicans are such complete frauds but can't admit it.
They're always glad to complain about handouts - such as when Jindal turned down $90m in stimulus monies meant to help 24,000 unemployed in Louisiana, or when Jindal turned down $300m for high speed rail - but then, when it's politically popular (like during a hurricane) suddenly Jindal is Chairman Mao begging at the people's teat, like Jindal is now doing over federal disaster monies for Hurricane Isaac.
The repugicans like Jindal believe that the bible has all the answers, not science and of course not the government - but the only thing they're praying for right now is more money from Uncle Sam. You know, the kind of handouts and money that they dismiss and blast when it's for others.
Jindal should quit complaining and join the modern world. Or figure out how to raise his own money. CBS News:
The White House said Obama informed Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal of the emergency declaration in a phone call. The declaration makes federal support available to save lives, protect public health and safety and preserve property in coastal areas.
Jindal, a repugican, shot back late Monday in a letter to the Obama administration that the declaration fell short of the help he was requesting.
"We appreciate your response to our request and your approval," Jindal wrote. "However, the state's original request for federal assistance .... included a request for reimbursement for all emergency protective measures. The federal declaration of emergency only provides for direct federal assistance."
One day someone in Washington needs to call out the crazies like Jindal. If you're going to make a name for yourself ripping science and government taxes they don't ask for them and don't accept them. Why should Jindal dirty his hands with socialist tax dollars that probably came from the Blue States who pay much more into the federal government than they receive. What does the bible have to say about that?
Let's also not forget that it has been the repugicans who have been chopping the FEMA budget, so Governor Jindal ought to be talking with his repugican friends instead of complaining about the president.
Comrade Jindal now demanding MORE fed disaster aid than states normally get
We know what you are, Comrade Jindal, we're simply haggling over the price.
We wrote above about "conservative" Governor Bobby Jindal of the People's Republic of Louisiana complaining that he wanted the Obama administration to give him more federal disaster aid than he was already getting.
We noted that it was, well, odd that proud red-stater Jindal, who famously turned down stimulus funds for unemployed Louisianans and for a high-speed rail, is now such a fan of all that tainted socialist "welfare" from Washington.
But now we learn that Jinda is even a bigger hypocrite than we thought.
You see, Comrade Jindal is now demanding more from the federal teet than states normally get during these "disasters."
He wants the federal government to reimburse him for state money spent on preparing for the hurricane. That's not something FEMA normally covers because, you know, this is America, not the Soviet Union, and states like Louisiana, and governors like Jindal, are supposed to prepare for things like bad storms on their own.
Oh but it gets even better: Jindal had no such complaint when the shrub didn't offer to pay state preparations for a hurricane in 2008. So either Jindal is playing politics with his state's impending hurricane, or he blew off the welfare of his own state in 2008 so as not to embarrass a repugican pretender.
Which one is it, tovarisch?
From Brian Beutler:
Asked today to respond to Jindal’s push for further assistance, FEMA administrator Craig Fugate explained, “primary responsibility for evacuations really [falls to] state and local governments and when it’s extraordinary the federal government can support that with financial assistance. What the President said yesterday was if you have a request for specific federal assistance, we’re ready to provide that life safety issues. We’re not going to hold anything up. But we’ll look at the impacts and determine, does this really exceed the state’s capability that require federal tax dollars to support that response and particularly if they start having damages. So, early on the request was direct federal assistance. If the financial impacts are greater than the state of Louisiana can manage, we assess that and we’ll make recommendations again looking at what the governor has requested.”
That’s the same approach the shrub cabal took when Gustav was bearing down on Louisiana in 2008.
According to the Louisiana Times-Picayune, “Though Jindal called on the federal government to shoulder the full cost of the federal, state and local efforts, he did not publicly make the same criticisms when former pretender the shrub issued a similar declaration that included a cost ceiling as Hurricane Gustav approached the state…though as the storm was trailing off, the state and the shrub cabal fought over exactly who would pay for what portion of the federal response.”
Romney aide: We won't let our ads be dictated by facts
A Romney aide just admitted that their campaign ads aren't true. That they know they're not true. And they don't care." From Ben Smith at Buzzfeed:
Mitt Romney's aides explained with unusual political bluntness today why they are spending heavily — and ignoring media criticism — to air an add accusing President Barack Obama of "gutting" the work requirement for welfare, a marginal political issue since the mid-1990s that Romney pushed back to center stage.
"Fact checkers come to this with their own sets of thoughts and beliefs, and we’re not going to let our campaign be dictated by fact checkers," he said. The fact-checkers — whose institutional rise has been a feature of the cycle — have "jumped the shark," he added after the panel.
It's not just fact checkers like:
* The Washington Post ("Four pinocchios");
* CNN ("Fact check: Romney's welfare claims wrong");
* FactCheck.org ("It's simply not true"); and
* Politifact ("The ad’s claim is not accurate, and it inflames old resentments about able-bodied adults sitting around collecting public assistance. Pants on Fire!").
Even MSNBC's wingnut host Joe Scarborough, who was a former uber-repugican congressman, concluded: "I've been looking for a week-and-a-half to try to figure out the basis of this welfare reform ad," Scarborough said. "I've scoured the Wall Street Journal editorial pages … the ad's completely false. It's just completely false."
What does it say about your candidate when his entire campaign is based up on a lie? Not just the welfare ad - but the candidate himself?
Mitt Romney isn't running for president. Some guy, who isn't Mitt Romney at all, is running.
The guy who's running is a social conservative who's against the Massachusetts health care reform law, who isn't more pro-gay and pro-abortion than Ted Kennedy, who loves guns and Ronald Reagan, and who now is apparently very concerned that President Obama "gutted" welfare reform when everyone agrees that President Obama did no such thing.
What does it say about Mitt Romney when his team admits that "Our most effective ad is our welfare ad"? It means that the truth about Mitt Romney must be pretty bad, and the truth about President Obama must be darn good, if the best argument Team Romney has for why Mitt should be president is a lie.
Buzzfeed on how it became okay for the repugican cabal to be openly racist towards Obama
Interesting analysis. Though in simpler terms, if you give an inch they take a mile. From the first repugicans getting away with calling Obama a socialist four or five years ago, the repugicans were given the clear go-ahead that it was open season on Obama and nobody was going to fight back. And now, even the repugican presidential candidate is making birther comments, while the head of the rnc is insinuating that the President is a socialist, or a foreigner, or something.
Here's an excerpt from Buzzfeed:
The Overton Window, a theory named for the late think tank executive who developed it, postulates that there’s a finite range of policies or statements a politician can put forward, that are considered acceptable to the “mainstream” of that particular zeitgeist. If an idea is deemed politically and publicly acceptable, it is considered within the Window -- and, if it is not, proponents will seek to shift the window so that the statement no longer seems controversial.
Consider the effect of events like these on the Overton Window. In mainstreaming pronouncements of Obama’s otherness and displays of disrespect for his presidential legitimacy, federal and statewide elected officials steadily moved the border of publicly acceptable discourse crosswise. In so doing, they have served to normalize the kinds of messages – Obama isn’t working, Obama is in over his head, Obama is angry – that Romney has personally delivered for much of this campaign. After all, if questioning the president’s very legitimacy is now in bounds, Romney questioning his intelligence or work ethic hardly seems extraordinary in that context.
And it’s this same new climate that regularizes jokes that Obama is so inept he must rely on a teleprompter in order to speak, and which makes us almost immune to shock when a reporter barks at the president during a press conference in the Rose Garden.
Which brings us back to Romney’s remarks on Friday. Four years ago, describing Obama’s election as a risk was met with public disapproval. Today, questioning his very legitimacy has become a mainstream position pushed by some prominent elected officials in the repugican cabal.
The repugican "We Built It" speaker got millions from feds, gives speeches on fed aid
In other words, she didn't build it, WE BUILT IT. We, the taxpayers who subsidized yet another repugican small business that's now out there dissing the very government help she got to put her on the map.
Seriously, this is getting embarrassing at this point.
Andrew Kaczynski at Buzzfeed has her powerpoint on how to get rich at the government trough, here's a sample image:
Media Matters has another presentation she also gave on feeding at the government trough, including the fact that her company received millions in federal loans and contracts.
The experience of a small business owner who will be promoted at the repugican national cabal sharply diverges from the right-wing media myth her speech is intended to promote.
On the day that the repugican cabal will tout Faux-fueled myth "We Built It" as its primary theme, Delaware Lt. Gov. candidate and small business owner Sher Valenzuela is slated to deliver a speech about small business issues. But contrary to the evening's theme, Valenzuela's company, First State Manufacturing, has received millions of dollars in federal loans and contracts. Valenzuela has not only attributed her success in part to this outside assistance, but urged other small business owners to follow the same strategy of seeking government funds.
But the rnc isn't lying. When it comes to Valenzuela's company, in fact, we the taxpayers did built it.
Coal miners required to attend Romney rally, give up day's pay
What do you expect from a guy who likes being able to fire people?
From the Cleveland Plain Dealer:
When repugican presidential candidate Mitt Romney visited an Ohio coal mine this month to promote jobs in the coal industry, workers who appeared with him at the rally lost pay because their mine was shut down.
The Pepper Pike company that owns the Century Mine told workers that attending the Aug. 14 Romney event would be both mandatory and unpaid, a top company official said Monday morning in a West Virginia radio interview.
And this was priceless from the coal company CFO Rob Moore:
Moore told Blomquist that managers "communicated to our workforce that the attendance at the Romney event was mandatory, but no one was forced to attend."
Ha! If that wasn't a perfect Romneyism: Your attendance is mandatory, says your boss, but no one is forcing you to attend.
You'll be surprised to hear that the coal company has contributed $900,000 to repugican candidates over the past few years.
Then there's this, from the king of flip-flops himself:
Romney used his appearance at the coal mine to blast what he called a "war on coal" by the Obama administration that he said was costing jobs in the coal industry.
You know what else costs jobs in the coal industry? Not paying coal miners because their attendance is required at a Soviet-style Romney rally.
Paul Ryan blames Obama for GM plant closed in 2008 under the shrub
GM stopped production at its Janesville, Wisconsin production facility in 2008, when the shrub was still pretending to be president, but according to Paul Ryan the person to blame is President Obama.
Ryan told a crowd in North Canton, Ohio yesterday that the president's energy policies had led to the factory's closure in 2009. Ryan delivered the attack in personal terms, saying he had high school buddies who worked at the factory. "A lot of my high school buddies worked at that GM plant," Ryan said. "One of the reasons that plant got shut down is $4 gasoline. You see, this costs jobs. The president's terrible energy policies are costing us jobs."
But despite Ryan's emotional story, GM announced the plant's closure in June of 2008. In October of 2008, the date was accelerated from 2010 to the end of the year. And on December 23, 2008 the last SUV rolled off the line.
Ryan said the factory closed because gas prices had climbed to $4 per gallon. Gas prices were that high, but that was in June of 2008, when the shrub was the pretender president. Gas prices today are lower than they were then, though they do remain high.
Ryan also claimed the President Obama had promised to keep the factory open—but that's not true according to The Detroit News, USA Today, and TPM.
Bottom line: Without the benefit of facts, Ryan's story sounded compelling, but once you learn what really happened, you quickly realize Ryan was telling a tall tale that was just too perfect to be true. And with that kind of thing starting to become a pattern with Ryan, it's no wonder that Mitt Romney likes him so much.
To add—Ryan is INSISTENT that the plant closed because of bad energy policy. Hence, it was shrub's energy policy that closed down that plant. So how is Mitt Romney's energy policy any different?
Can We Learn as We Sleep?
Studies show it's possible -- at least when it comes to learning smells.
About the reasons illegal immigrants are more patriotic than corporations
Do beavers mate for life? not these 4
That the IMF admits: Iceland was right to throw out the banksters
And here's the most brilliant palindrome of all time
More: Did you know ...
About long-term joblessness: the quiet monster
That birtherism is no laughing matter
That 40% of American workers live paycheck to paycheck
About the poll that finds majority of NYC thinks police favor whites
Exploiting the Fine Print
Lawyer and financial planner Joseph Caramadre has made a career out of reading the fine print and exploiting loopholes. He's under fire now for a scheme in which he sold variable annuities with life insurance. The catch he found is that Rhode Island doesn't specifically state that you have to have some kind of relationship with a person in order to insure their life. And during the latest economic boom, insurance companies were very eager to sell policies. So Caramadre sold variable annuities to investors, tagged the attached life insurance policy on someone else who was close to death, and made himself and/or his investors the beneficiary of their insurance policy.
There is something morally unsettling about this. Put simply: Caramadre was setting himself and his clients up to profit from the demise of strangers. While the macabre aspect of his scheme offends many, it did not make Caramadre squeamish. He rationalized that a lot of people — funeral homes, hospitals and cemeteries — make money from the dead and dying, why not him?
Caramadre's insight might have remained a curiosity were it not for something called "the arms race." As competition intensified in the mid-2000s, many life insurance companies launched an unprecedented war for customers, offering benefits they now acknowledge were far, far too favorable.
The insurance companies' contracts provided little defense against Caramadre's approach. For policies under a million dollars, they didn't check the health status of people receiving variable annuities. Instead, they limited the ages of annuitants or the amount that could be invested. All that the companies required for persons to serve as a measuring life was their signature, birthdate and Social Security number. Some didn't even require the signature.
There was usually only a single line that touched on insurable interest in the contract. Companies would ask if a relationship existed between the investor and the annuitant. Caramadre and the men with whom he worked would either leave the answer blank or type in "none." The companies, eager for business, took the policy anyway.
Insurance companies have sued Caramadre left and right, and he is also being investigated for criminal conspiracy. The question is not whether the scheme was despicable; the question is whether it was strictly illegal. More
Bank left unlocked over weekend
The Royal Bank of Scotland has launched an investigation after the main doors to one of its branches were left unlocked over a weekend.
The problem at the branch in Carnoustie near Dundee was only discovered when a member of the public leaned against them setting off the alarm. The bank said the internal doors were locked.
A spokeswoman added that they were "pleased the alarm system worked as planned". The member of the public is understood to have lent on the wooden front doors at the bank, pushing them open, as she waited for a bus.
Tayside Police were called to the scene when the alarm activated. The Royal Bank of Scotland spokesman said: "We are investigating why these doors could have opened."
School demands that boy must change his name from Hunter because it violates its weapons policy
In the interest of safety, a preschool is insisting that a deaf boy named Hunter change his name at school so people don't accidentally shoot and kill someone with their finger when they use sign language to say his name.
Three-year-old Hunter Spanjer is deaf and talks with his hands. In the S.E.E. (Signing Exact English) language, the gesture that means his name violates his school's weapons policy. Grand Island Public School wants Hunter to change his name so he won't have to use the sign.
Grand Island's "Weapons in Schools" Board Policy 8470 forbids "any instrument...that looks like a weapon," But a three year-old's hands?
"Anybody that I have talked to thinks this is absolutely ridiculous. This is not threatening in any way," said Hunter's grandmother Janet Logue.
"It's a symbol. It's an actual sign, a registered sign, through S.E.E.," Brian Spanjer said.
The sign may look a little bit like a gun, but Hunter's name is a slightly modified sign to designate it as his name, in which he crosses his fingers. His fingers still look too much like a gun for school authorities. The National Association of the Deaf has been notified, and is expected to send lawyers to talk to officials from the school.
Better safe than sorry!
Grand Island Preschooler Asked to Change the Sign for His Name in School
Oh, for the love of Pete grow some gonads people!
More Infants Born Addicted to Prescription Drugs
The national rate of newborns suffering from withdrawal rose 330 percent from 2000 to 2009. Read more
Your medical needs total $15,000 ...
... but your voucher is only worth, say, $5,000. "You're shit outta luck" say the repugicans. That's the privatization way.
In a leaked party platform circulating on the eve of their cabal, repugicans reveal in candid detail how they intend to remake medicare. - More
Oh, and Democrats ... could you show some fuckin' backbone and start calling social security, etc as "earned benefits?" Cut the crap with the repugican talking point phraseology of "entitlements."
We pay into the program. We earn the right to collect on the benefits of paying into the programs..
Thief infected with Ebola from stolen phone
A thief nicked a cell phone from a patient at Kagadi Hospital in Kibaale District, Uganda. Turns out, the owner had Ebola and the thief became infected. From The Monitor:
Police detectives began tracking him after he apparently began communicating to his friends using the phone. But as police zeroed in on him, he developed symptoms similar to those of Ebola and sought medication at the hospital. While at hospital he reportedly confessed stealing the phone and has handed it to Kagadi police.
“Kagadi Police Station received that complaint and investigations are underway,” Mr John Ojokuna Elatu, the district police commander confirmed to Sunday Monitor.
"Man steals phone from Ebola patient, gets infected"
How police can obtain your records without a subpoena
Over at Wired News, David Kravets writes about the administrative subpoena, a nifty legal tool that allows government agents to access sensitive personal data without court warrants if agents believe the data is “relevant” to an investigation.
"With a federal official’s signature, banks, hospitals, bookstores, telecommunications companies and even utilities and internet service providers — virtually all businesses — are required to hand over sensitive data on individuals or corporations, as long as a government agent declares the information is relevant to an investigation. Via a wide range of laws, Congress has authorized the government to bypass the Fourth Amendment — the constitutional guard against unreasonable searches and seizures that requires a probable-cause warrant signed by a judge.
GA Murder Case Unveils Bizarre Terror Plot by Soldiers to Overthrow Government
Prosecutors say a murder case against four soldiers in Georgia has revealed they formed an anarchist militia within the U.S. military with plans to overthrow the federal government.
Israeli court rules US activist Rachel Corrie's death an accident
The death of 23-year-old Rachel Corrie, an American pro-Palestinian activist crushed to death by an Israeli military bulldozer, has been ruled an accident that occurred during “a military activity meant to prevent terrorist activity.”
Man accused of attacking brother with Styrofoam plate
A Florida man was charged with battery after he allegedly hit his brother with a Styrofoam plate.
On Aug. 17 the two brothers and their father were in the dining room of a Fort Walton Beach residence when an argument. According to the father, the spat began when one of the brothers began making disparaging comments about his mother.
During the argument, one brother apparently picked up a Styrofoam plate and swung at his brother, striking him in the face. The victim suffered several small cuts to his cheek and the left side of this face, an Okaloosa County Sheriff's deputy wrote in the arrest report.
The brother was charged with misdemeanor battery and will report to a judge on Sept. 4.
Music Idol Causes Women to Swoon
In the 20th century, we became used to seeing hoards of girls excitedly screaming over a musician: Frank Sinatra, Elvis, the Beatles ...all the way to Justin Bieber in the 21st century. But the phenomenon did not start with Frankie; musician-mania just became better publicized in the modern era.
In the year 1842, five years into the proper Victorian Era, and that's when Lisztomania swept the land. [Hungarian musician Franz] Liszt was 31 years old the year he landed in Berlin. He'd established a new mode of performance — the solo piano recital — and new kinds of non-narrative music that people compared to musical poetry. He also developed a violent playing style that broke strings and sometimes brought down entire pianos. The Berliners were enchanted. At his concerts, they worked themselves up to screaming, fainting ecstasies. Women followed Liszt down the street and picked up his old cigarette stubs, made bracelets from his broken piano strings — and tried to rush him en masse, and pull out or cut locks of his hair. The craze spread outward from there, getting Britons and Italians as Liszt moved around.
Read more about Liszt and his fans here.
Sky Garage
Problem: You want to be close to your Ferrari and don't want to leave it at a cold and lonely garage in the basement, but you live in a high-rise apartment.
Solution: A car lift that brings you car straight into your living room.
Climate Change Killed Egypt's Pyramid Builders
Pollen and charcoal buried in the Nile Delta 4,200 years ago tell the tale of a drought of Biblical proportions associated with the fall of the pyramid builders. Read more
Weird loud booms in northern California
Mysterious booms are rattling citizens of El Dorado County, California. Quarry owners require government permission to use explosives. The local Naval Air Station denies any supersonic flights over the area. Some have suggested that perhaps wineries are employing propane canons to scare away birds. From CBS Sacramento:
According to USGS, there aren’t enough seismic stations to pinpoint the exact location. Meanwhile, some say the booms have been around so long and happen so often they barely notice them anymore. Still, others want to solve the mystery.
“I would like to know what it is, yeah. And I’d like to know when it’s going to stop too,” said (Pleasant Valley resident Peter) O’Grady.
"Source Of Loud Boom In Foothills A Mystery"
It's official: Arctic ice caps smallest on record
Scientists expected it to happen soon and now, it's happened. The climate change deniers (also called the repugican cabal) will come up with excuses, just as they will come up with silly stories about how natural disasters are messages from god. They're anti-science, anti-learning and as Bill Nye said, they're dangerous for the youth of America.
In the modern industrialized world, it's the US that stands alone in ignorance thanks to the GOP. This has to change.
The Independent:
The news that came yesterday should be, environmental campaigners said, a global wake-up call. The ice cap covering the top of the world is now smaller than it has been at any point since scientists started to measure it precisely from space.
Satellite data released last night show that the sea ice floating on the Arctic Ocean has reached a record low, retreating further than it has done since detailed records began more than 30 years ago.
The US National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colorado said that the 2007 record was broken on Sunday with two or three weeks of the melt season still remaining, suggesting that this year's sea ice will retreat substantially further than at any time in the satellite era. The snow and ice center said that the surface area of the Arctic Ocean covered by floating sea ice fell to 4.10 million square kilometers (1.58m square miles), which was 70,000 square kilometers below the previous record minimum of 4.17 square kilometers set in September 2007.
The beauty of the night sky
“At the dead hour of the night, when the world is hushed in sleep and all is still; when there is not a sound to be heard save the dead beat escapement of the clock, counting with hollow voice the footsteps of time in ceaseless round, I turn to the Ephemeris and find there, by calculations made years ago, that when that clock tells a certain hour, a star which I never saw will be in the field of the telescope for a moment, flit through and then disappear. The instrument is set; the moment approaches and is intently awaited—I look—the star mute with eloquence that gathers sublimity from the silence of the night, comes smiling and dancing into the field, and at the instant predicted even to the fraction of a second, it makes its transit and is gone. With emotions too deep for the organs of speech, the heart swells out with unutterable anthems; we then see that there is harmony in the heavens above; and though we cannot hear, we feel the ‘music of the spheres.’” — Matthew Fontaine Maury, in an 1849 presentation to the Virginia Historical Society. Maury was superintendent of the U.S. Naval Observatory.
Read more about Maury and other retro scientists in Caren Cooper's guest posts at the Scientific American blogs.
Video: Yosemite Nature Notes on night skies and light pollution.
Artificial Universe Created Inside a Supercomputer
A simulation of our evolving universe is the most accurate yet, producing spiral galaxies not too dissimilar to the Milky Way.
What Is A Black Hole?
Black holes may be among the strangest - and most commonly misunderstood - objects in our universe. The remnants of the most massive stars, they sit at the limit of our understanding of physics. They can contain several times the mass of our sun in a space no larger than a city.
With gravity so intense that not even light can escape their surfaces, black holes can teach us about the absolute extremes in the cosmos and the very structure of space itself.
The first recorded human voice transmission from Mars
Snip from statement of Charlie Bolden, NASA Administrator, speaking via broadcast from the Curiosity Rover on the surface of Mars: "The knowledge we hope to gain from our observation and analysis of Gale Crater, will tell us much about the possibility of life on Mars as well as the past and future possibilities for our own planet. Curiosity will bring benefits to Earth and inspire a new generation of scientists and explorers, as it prepares the way for a human mission in the not too distant future."
Curiosity Zooms in on Martian Mountain
NASA's new Mars rover has returned stunning telephoto views of the layered deposits at the base of Mt. Sharp.
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Curiosity rover captures stunning vistas of rugged Mars
NASA's Curiosity rover, giving earthlings a glimpse of its ultimate target, has beamed back spectacular high-resolution photos of the rugged foothills of Mount Sharp, showing a khaki-colored landscape marked by towering hills, gaping canyons and sand dunes reminiscent of the American southwest, scientists said Monday.
A Boy and His Marmot Friends
Four years ago, Matteo Walch and his family went to the Austrian Alps and made some quite unusual friends, a colony of marmots! Since then, Matteo has returned to the same place every year to visit his furry buddies:
The family return to visit the colony in Groslocker in the Austrian Alps for two weeks every year.
Matteo’s father Michaela, said: 'Their friendship has lasted for more than four years now.
'He loves those animals and they are not at all afraid of Matteo because he has a feeling towards them and they understand that.
‘We go there every year now for two weeks - it’s amazing to watch the connection between a boy and his animal friends.’
Bigfoot hoaxer killed
Randy Lee Tenley, 44, of Kalispell, Montana was killed yesterday while reportedly attempting to stage a Bigfoot hoax. Tenley was walking on a highway wearing a hunter's ghillie suit, likely similar to the one seen here, when he was struck by two different vehicles driven by teenagers.
From KAJ18.com:
Montana Highway Patrol Trooper Jim Schneider says friends of the victim said Tenley was wearing a military-style camouflage ghillie suit in hopes of creating a Bigfoot hoax…
"It's still a crash involving vehicles and a pedestrian. So we're still doing the same investigation, but once we started speaking to parties, then someone involved in it, trying to ascertain exactly what brought that gentleman out to Highway 93 … I would not guess that would motivate anybody to be out on Highway 93," Scheider said.
"Man dressed as Sasquatch hit and killed near Kalispell"
"Man Pulling Off Bigfoot Hoax Killed"
Oh, the irony
Tiny bugs found trapped in amber
Scientists have found three well preserved ancient insects frozen in amber - and time - in what is Earth's oldest bug trap.
Cancer threatens Tasmanian Devils with extinction by "devil facial tumor disease"
In the last 2 decades, some 85% of wild Tasmanian Devils have been wiped out. The primary cause isn't poachers or habitat destruction, but a bizarre kind of *contagious* cancer. "A recent epidemic disease, known as devil facial tumor disease, has brought an extremely rare, but equally devastating, set of circumstances together to threaten the devil population. Facial tumor disease, unlike every form of cancer known to affect humans, is transferred directly from devil to devil when they bite each other, which is 'something they do a lot during feeding or mating.'”
Koala paddles across river and climbs aboard passing canoe
Koalas aren't normally known for taking a dip, but one curious creature on Queensland's Gold Coast wasn't shy about exploring new terrain.
The koala was caught on camera swimming across Burleigh Point and up to a stunned group of local paddlers, joining them in the canoe. Julie Elliott, who filmed the rare encounter, said she and her colleagues from the local Outrigger Canoe Club were amazed when the koala came paddling towards them.
"It took a sip of water and then saw us and obviously decided to come straight over," she said. "Then it started clawing at the boat and we didn't know what to do."
"We were thinking it was going to drown so my mate behind me just grabbed him and put him straight in the boat." The group later released the koala on an embankment at a local golf club where koalas were known to populate the gum trees.
There's a news video, including interview with Ms Elliott, here.
Marine Corps Mascot Promoted under Controversial Circumstances
Chesty XIII* is an enlisted bulldog in the United States Marine Corps and that force's official mascot. His recent promotion from corporal to sergeant was almost aborted after Chesty angrily confronted a golden retriever owned by the Secretary of Defense. It was a major breach of protocol that, according to some Marines, indicated that Chesty wasn't ready to become a sergeant:
Other senior Marines worried about the message promoting Chesty might send. In military chain of command, Bravo is second only to Bo Obama, the president's hypoallergenic Portuguese water dog. The Constitution puts the military under civilian control, and some senior officers thought promoting Chesty might appear insubordinate.
"The standards in the barracks had lowered," said one senior Marine officer. "The dog didn't really deserve it."
Col. Montanus, who had the dog's fate in his hands, acknowledges that Chesty was wrong to shove his short snout in Bravo's face. "There absolutely was a protocol break," he said. "We don't bark at guests, whether they are human or the canine variety."
*Named after Marine Corps Lt. Gen. Lewis "Chesty" Puller, the most decorated Marine in history.
Photo: Arthur Anker/Flickr
Is that mothra as a baby? Zoologist Arthur Anker of Brazil's Federal University snapped this fantastic photo of a Venezuelan poodle moth or muslin moth in the Gran Sabana region of Venezuela's Canaima National Park:
It's been compared to a fluffy dog, a Pokemon character and a Power Rangers villain — but whatever it is, the Venezuelan poodle moth has captured the Internet like Mothra in a bad Japanese movie. Now it's up to the experts to figure out exactly where this moth belongs on the tree of life.
The first thing to emphasize is that the poodle moth is no phony concoction like the jackalope, dogerpillar or chupacabra. Its cute, furry, scary look is totally in line with what's expected for a neotropical ornamental moth. In fact, cryptozoologist Karl Shuker found a similar picture of a white, fuzzy critter known as Diaphora mendica, or muslin moth, a member of the lepidopteran family Arctiidae.
Alan Boyle of Cosmic Log has more: here
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How Your Hardships Can Make You Better, Not Bitter
By Sarah Beauchemin • 5 years ago
Photo by Prixel Creative
Suffering is part of the human condition. No one escapes this life untouched by pain and heartache. Hardships, when they happen, often arise out of the blue and can plague us for what seems like forever. It’s easy to get dragged into the undertow of resentment.
But a world that’s connected by bitter people is not a world that’s connected at all. When we stew in our own sense of injustice, we can’t see outside ourselves. We can’t feel empathy for others. We can’t truly care about others. And we definitely can’t induce change.
Which is why it’s so important to understand that your hardships can and will make you a better person. You will emerge stronger and happier than you ever imagined, by believing in a few important points.
01 | HARDSHIPS HAPPEN FOR A REASON
Though clichéd, it’s true: everything happens for a reason. Those reasons lead us to better things. But in the midst of a downward spiral, we lack perspective, something that’s very dangerous because it’s a bitterness trap. One way to regain perspective is to take inventory of the hardships in your life thus far and list the positive outcomes of each. Try to remember how long those results took to emerge; this will help remind you that hardships -- like anything else -- are a process, but they do have an end.
02 | HARDSHIPS BRING YOU CLOSER TO WHERE YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO BE
Many of us were raised by parents of a very different generation. They believed that success was reached by choosing a path and committing to it – forever. Hardships remind us that this is far from true, by showing up when we’ve gone too far down the wrong path. They urge us to turn left instead of right at the next fork in the road.
What’s more, they strengthen us by forcing us to let go of the stuff that weakens us. It’s simple: we can’t grow until we cut the rope. There comes a time when our tribulations' bitterness and resentment will no longer serve a purpose. Identify the parts of your life most affected by your hardship. Which areas were you most unhappy with? How has your struggle freed you from having to live those out any longer?
03 | HARDSHIPS CHANGE THE WORLD FOR THE BETTER
Remember that world-changing memoir written by the guy who never revealed any of his personal struggles? Me neither. Inspiration is rooted in hardship, and from it flourishes happiness. Some of the most powerful influencers of good have gone through the roughest, lowest ordeals. Tales of overcoming adversity create powerful human networks. When we come to see one another for the amazing, resilient beings we are, we start to truly believe change is possible.
Hardships are agonizing. But it’s how we choose to deal with them that will transform our pain into growth. By recognizing the positive impacts of our struggles, we become stronger, more capable agents of change. We become the path towards better, leaving the bitter behind.
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SeaWorld 2017 US park group reveals new ride vehicles LEFT TO RIGHT :Wave Breaker at SeaWorld San Antonio, Submarine Quest at SeaWorld San Diego, and InvadR at Busch Gardens Williamsburg
details of the company’s plans for 2017, one of the largest new attraction years in its 53-year history. All of the attractions in question have already been previewed in Park World, but here's a quick recap, along with a preview of some of the ride vechicles. Wave Breaker: The Rescue Coaster, destined for
SeaWorld San Antonio (Texas), is a multi-launch jetski-themed coaster from Intamin that will enable riders to feel what it’s like to race alongside
uring November’s IAAPA Attractions Expo in Orlando, SeaWorld Parks & Entertainment president and CEO Joel Manby discussed
SeaWorld’s animal care team and veterinarians. The queue line will reinforce a rescue mission using video. Three trains of jetski ride vehciles will carry up to 16 passengers per train through banked and serpentine turns, and airtime hills. The signature attraction for SeaWorld San
Diego (Calfornia) in Submarine Quest, anchoring the new Ocean Explorer realm. The three-minute sumbarine experience, with ride vehicles by Chance, is designed to enhance guests' understanding of our fragile ocean ecosystem. It also been announced that in 2018 the same park will open a SkyRocket coaster from Premier
Rides, named Electric Eel. After the unveiling in 2016 of the big Mako coaster
at SeaWorld Orlando there's no new ride as such at the Florida park but its older B&M coaster, Kraken, gets the virtual reality treatment with custom VR content inspired by extinct and legendary animals of the past. Over at Busch Gardens Williamsburg there's
a new wooden rollercoaster on the way, InvadR by Great Coasters International. The family thriller will be the Virginia park's first woodie, with steel supports, a wooden track and repurposed ride cars from Busch Gardens Tampa’s retired wooden coaster, Gwazi.
David Rosenberg now IAAPA's second vice-chair
Following the untimely death of Al Weber Jnr, who had been elected to the position in September, David Rosenberg (pictured) has been chosen as second vice-chairman of IAAPA, the International Association of Amusement Parks & Attractions. Rosenberg is vice-president of Monterey Bay Aquarium in
California and will serve as second and first vice-chairman of IAAPA before leading the association for one-year as from November 2018. He is already an active member of IAAPA, having recently
served on the board of directors and was chairman of the global membership committee. He has also served as chairman of the IAAPA zoos and aquariums committee and was a member of various other committees. In 2015, Rosenberg was awarded the IAAPA Outstanding Service Award.
*The news that Al Weber died on November 8, just days ahead of November's IAAPA Attractions Expo narrowly missed the print edition of our November/December issue, although it had become common knowledge by the time of the event just days later in Orlando. Al passed away after snorkelling in the Virgin Islands. The seasoned parks and attractions executive, aged 64, would have been set to lead IAAPA as from November 2018. President and CEO of Apex Parks, operator of Indiana Beach, Martin’s
Fantasy Island (New York), Sahara Sam’s Oasis (New Jersey) and more than 10 FECs across the United States, Al founded the group in 2014 after a period as interim CEO and COO of Six Flags. He started his career at the age 16 as a ride operator at Coney Island Amusement Park in Cincinnati, Ohio, and went on to manage park operations at Carowinds in North Carolina and serve as general manager of Paramount’s Great America (California) and Paramount’s Kings Island, Cincinatti (now part of the Cedar Fair group). During his 45-plus years in the business, Al served as president and CEO of
both Paramount Parks and Palace Entertainment, as well as CEO of consultancy Kings Leisure Partners. He also oversaw the design and construction of a waterpark in Texas. “We have lost a visionary, an advocate, and a friend,” notes IAAPA president and CEO, Paul Noland. “Al was the embodiment of everything that is great about this business, and his impact on our industry will live on for generations to come.”
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology
Incidence and risk factors of n...
January 2020 , pp. 73-79
Incidence and risk factors of non–device-associated pneumonia in an acute-care hospital
Paula D. Strassle (a1) (a2), Emily E. Sickbert-Bennett (a1) (a3), Michael Klompas (a4) (a5), Jennifer L. Lund (a1), Paul W. Stewart (a6), Ashley H. Marx (a7), Lauren M. DiBiase (a3) and David J. Weber (a1) (a3)...
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1Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
2Department of Surgery, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
3Department of Hospital Epidemiology, University of North Carolina Medical Center, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
4Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, Boston, Massachusetts
5Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
6Department of Biostatistics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
7Department of Pharmacy, University of North Carolina Medical Center, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/ice.2019.300
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 29 October 2019
To update current estimates of non–device-associated pneumonia (ND pneumonia) rates and their frequency relative to ventilator associated pneumonia (VAP), and identify risk factors for ND pneumonia.
Cohort study.
Academic teaching hospital.
All adult hospitalizations between 2013 and 2017 were included. Pneumonia (device associated and non–device associated) were captured through comprehensive, hospital-wide active surveillance using CDC definitions and methodology.
From 2013 to 2017, there were 163,386 hospitalizations (97,485 unique patients) and 771 pneumonia cases (520 ND pneumonia and 191 VAP). The rate of ND pneumonia remained stable, with 4.15 and 4.54 ND pneumonia cases per 10,000 hospitalization days in 2013 and 2017 respectively (P = .65). In 2017, 74% of pneumonia cases were ND pneumonia. Male sex and increasing age we both associated with increased risk of ND pneumonia. Additionally, patients with chronic bronchitis or emphysema (hazard ratio [HR], 2.07; 95% confidence interval [CI], 1.40–3.06), congestive heart failure (HR, 1.48; 95% CI, 1.07–2.05), or paralysis (HR, 1.72; 95% CI, 1.09–2.73) were also at increased risk, as were those who were immunosuppressed (HR, 1.54; 95% CI, 1.18–2.00) or in the ICU (HR, 1.49; 95% CI, 1.06–2.09). We did not detect a change in ND pneumonia risk with use of chlorhexidine mouthwash, total parenteral nutrition, all medications of interest, and prior ventilation.
The incidence rate of ND pneumonia did not change from 2013 to 2017, and 3 of 4 nosocomial pneumonia cases were non–device associated. Hospital infection prevention programs should consider expanding the scope of surveillance to include non-ventilated patients. Future research should continue to look for modifiable risk factors and should assess potential prevention strategies.
© 2019 by The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America. All rights reserved.
Author for correspondence: Paula D. Strassle, Email: paula_strassle@med.unc.edu
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Determinants of parasite distribution in Arctic charr populations: catchment structure versus dispersal potential
R.A. Paterson, R. Knudsen, I. Blasco-Costa, A.M. Dunn, S. Hytterød, H. Hansen
Journal: Journal of Helminthology / Volume 93 / Issue 5 / September 2019
Parasite distribution patterns in lotic catchments are driven by the combined influences of unidirectional water flow and the mobility of the most mobile host. However, the importance of such drivers in catchments dominated by lentic habitats are poorly understood. We examined parasite populations of Arctic charr Salvelinus alpinus from a series of linear-connected lakes in northern Norway to assess the generality of lotic-derived catchment-scale parasite assemblage patterns. Our results demonstrated that the abundance of most parasite taxa increased from the upper to lower catchment. Allogenic taxa (piscivorous birds as final host) were present throughout the entire catchment, whereas their autogenic counterparts (charr as final hosts) demonstrated restricted distributions, thus supporting the theory that the mobility of the most mobile host determines taxa-specific parasite distribution patterns. Overall, catchment-wide parasite abundance and distribution patterns in this lentic-dominated system were in accordance with those reported for lotic systems. Additionally, our study highlighted that upper catchment regions may be inadequate reservoirs to facilitate recolonization of parasite communities in the event of downstream environmental perturbations.
Host choice and penetration by Schistosoma haematobium miracidia
F. Allan, D. Rollinson, J.E. Smith, A.M. Dunn
Journal: Journal of Helminthology / Volume 83 / Issue 1 / March 2009
Schistosome parasites commonly show specificity to their intermediate mollusc hosts and the degree of specificity can vary between parasite strains and geographical location. Here the role of miracidial behaviour in host specificity of Schistosoma haematobium on the islands of Zanzibar is investigated. In choice-chamber experiments, S. haematobium miracidia moved towards Bulinus globosus snail hosts in preference to empty chambers. In addition, miracidia preferred uninfected over patent B. globosus. This preference should benefit the parasite as patent snails are likely to have mounted an immune response to S. haematobium as well as providing poorer resources than uninfected snails. Miracidia also discriminated between the host B. globosus and the sympatric, non-host species Cleopatra ferruginea. In contrast, S. haematobium did not discriminate against the allopatric Bulinus nasutus. Penetration of the host by miracidia was investigated by screening snails 24 h after exposure using polymerase chain reaction (PCR) with S. haematobium specific DraI repeat primers. There was no difference in the frequency of penetration of B. globosus versus B. nasutus. These responses to different snail species may reflect selection pressure to avoid sympatric non-hosts which represent a transmission dead end. The distribution of B. nasutus on Unguja is outside the endemic zone and so there is less chance of exposure to S. haematobium, hence there will be little selection pressure to avoid this non-host snail.
Application of the Inverse Monte Carlo Method to Energy-Dispersive X-Ray Fluorescence
A.M. Yacout, W.L. Dunn
Journal: Advances in X-ray Analysis / Volume 30 / 1986
The feasibility of utilizing the Inverse Monte Carlo (IMC) method to determine elemental amounts in homogeneous samples from energy-dispersive X-ray fluorescence (EDXRF) measurements has been investigated. IMC is a novel application of standard Monte Carlo that, in principle, allows a rather large class of inverse problems to be solved noniteratively, in the sense that the simulation is not repeated. IMC is implemented by hypothesizing values for the unknown parameters, executing a direct Monte Carlo simulation using these values and scoring the results with factors that contain the unknown parameters. By equating the resulting Monte Carlo estimators to the known measured responses, a system of algebraic equations is formed that may be soluble by standard numerical techniques. Advantages of IMC include the facts that it can be applied to complex (e.g., multidimensional) problems and that it is relatively efficient since the simulation is performed only once. In the EDXRF case, simplified assumptions have been used to construct an approximate IMC solution. The model provides a means to determine the elemental amounts in an unknown sample by treating the unknown composition as a perturbation around the composition of a fixed "reference" sample that contains the same elements as the unknown sample. Primary and secondary X-rays are included in the model. The resulting system of algebraic equations is nonlinear and solutions are obtained via an approximation. Since the model is based on correlated sampling techniques, several unknown samples can be modeled simultaneously provided that they contain the same elements and their compositions are sufficiently close to that of the assumed reference sample. Direct Monte Carlo was used to generate the relative intensities for eighteen different samples in a ternary (Ni-Fe-Cr) system; these results were then used in the IMC model to recover the sample weight fractions. Excellent results were obtained, demonstrating the feasibility of the approach.
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Economy: Recent developments
EIU global forecast - First-phase US-China deal in sight
The US-China trade war continues to represent the main drag, and threat, to the global economy. We expect that global growth has slowed to 2.3% this year, and that it will rebound only slightly in 2020, to 2.5%. We have long assumed that de-escalation in the trade war will be driven by the US, particularly as the economic and political fallout of that dispute intensifies. The Chinese economy is more exposed to the downside risks of further deterioration in US‑China economic ties, but the position of its leaders appears unyielding. By contrast, the US president, Donald Trump, has come under domestic political pressure as the trade war has escalated. This explains why the US has recently sent surprisingly positive signals regarding the upcoming conclusion of a first-phase trade deal with China.
A first-phase trade deal will be agreed before mid-December
The US and China had initially planned to sign a trade deal on the sidelines of the Asia Pacific Economic Co‑operation (APEC) summit in Chile in mid-November. The cancellation of that summit (due to protests in the host country) has added uncertainty about the timing of this agreement. Nevertheless, the APEC summit merely presented a venue for the signing of the deal, and we expect that an alternative arrangement will be agreed in time for a trade deal to be signed before December 15th (when the next round of US tariffs is due to kick in).
The first-phase trade deal has better survival chances than previous attempts
The first-phase trade deal will revolve primarily around Chinese purchases of US agricultural products, but will also incorporate the strengthening of China's intellectual property (IP) framework, the liberalisation of its financial sector and, potentially, an accord on currency developments. Both countries, however, are already aligned in most of these areas, and this agreement would therefore not entail major concessions from either the US or China. Since late 2018 China has moved to strengthen its patent protection framework, as well as to enhance the protection of some IP of foreign companies under its new foreign investment law (to be effective from 2020). Financial sector liberalisation is also at the forefront of China's reform agenda. Finally, the two countries have an incentive to prevent the renminbi from depreciating too quickly against the US dollar. Consensus on agricultural issues may prove more challenging. The US has indicated that it wants China to "scale up" its annual average purchases of US farm products to US$40bn‑50bn within two years of an agreement. However, China has so far pushed back against a firm value commitment.
Mr Trump will present the first-phase trade deal as a policy victory
Coming to a shallow accord with China will allow the US to extricate itself from sharper economic disruption. As part of this, we do not expect the US to move forward with its threatened tariffs in mid‑December on the remainder of finished Chinese-manufactured consumer goods not yet targeted by existing US duties. Such de‑escalation will inject some confidence back into businesses and consumers on both sides of the Pacific; US stockmarkets have rebounded since early October, predicated on the hopes of a deal. Mr Trump will also try to spin the narrative of a foreign policy victory. This is because he has already communicated his intention for both sides to continue discussions on the thornier structural issues—such as China's controversial industrial policies and market access issues, which lie at the heart of the trade conflict—at a later date (as part of "phase two" and "phase three" discussions).
Trade policy will remain uncertain, weighing on business sentiment
Trade policy will remain uncertain as the US keeps the threat of further tariffs on the table in 2020, which will continue to weigh on business investment. However, the suspension of the 15% tariff previously due to be implemented on December 15th will ease pressure on consumers in 2020. In the light of these developments, we will revise up our forecast for US GDP growth in 2020 slightly, to 1.7% (from 1.6%). The macroeconomic impact of a deal will be more muted for China, primarily because the majority of Chinese export flows to the US will remain subject to US duties. Stabilisation in China's economic growth will instead derive from increasingly ambitious support policies. As a result, we have not revised our China growth forecast for 2020, which stands at 6.1%.
The US-China conflict continues to spill over into finance and tech
Beyond 2020, tensions between the US and China will remain high. A first-phase trade deal is a meaningful initial step, but it will do little to smooth US-China trade frictions. We expect the shallow agreement to prevent future tariffs, but we do not expect the majority of existing tariffs—already across bilateral merchandise trade worth more than US$450bn—to be revoked until 2021, after the US presidential election. In all likelihood, the two sides will not be able to reach agreement over issues scheduled for discussion in phases two and three of trade negotiations—areas in which China has steadfastly refused to compromise. Meanwhile the US-China conflict will continue to spill over into areas other than trade, such as finance and technology.
World economy: Forecast summary
Real GDP growth (%)
World (PPPa exchange rates) 3.4 3.3 3.8 3.5 2.9 3.2 3.5 3.6 3.5 3.5
World (market exchange rates) 2.8 2.5 3.2 2.9 2.3 2.5 2.8 2.9 2.9 2.9
US 2.9 1.6 2.4 2.9 2.3 1.7 1.8 2.0 1.8 2.2
Euro area 2.0 1.9 2.7 1.9 1.2 1.2 1.6 1.6 1.6 1.6
Europe 1.9 1.9 2.8 2.1 1.3 1.6 1.9 2.0 1.9 1.9
China 6.9 6.7 6.8 6.6 6.2 6.1 5.8 5.5 5.3 5.0
Asia and Australasia 4.5 4.5 4.9 4.5 4.0 4.1 4.3 4.3 4.2 4.1
Latin Americab 0.1 -0.3 1.8 1.6 0.8 1.0 2.5 2.6 2.6 2.6
Middle East & Africa 2.3 4.8 1.5 1.2 0.8 2.1 2.9 3.1 3.3 3.3
Sub-Saharan Africa 2.7 0.8 2.3 2.4 2.0 2.5 3.6 4.2 4.3 4.6
World inflation (%; av)b 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.4 3.5 3.3 3.2 3.3 3.2 3.0
World trade growth (%) 2.2 2.1 5.6 3.9 1.5 2.4 3.7 3.9 3.9 3.8
Oil (US$/barrel; Brent) 52.4 44.0 54.4 71.1 64.0 63.0 67.0 71.0 73.8 71.0
Industrial raw materials (US$; % change) -15.2 -2.2 20.2 2.2 -8.6 0.4 4.1 2.7 0.8 1.1
Food, feedstuffs & beverages (US$; % change) -18.4 -3.5 -0.9 1.6 -5.5 0.8 4.0 1.2 0.9 3.7
Exchange rates (av)
¥:US$ 121.0 108.8 112.1 110.4 108.5 106.0 104.7 100.9 97.6 95.4
US$:€ 1.11 1.11 1.13 1.18 1.12 1.13 1.16 1.21 1.24 1.24
a Purchasing power parity. b Excludes Venezuela.
Source: The Economist Intelligence Unit.
Unemployment, the economy and politics
Politics | January 6th 2020
Government set to prioritise politics over economy
Such a strategy will probably help the BJP to consolidate power, but it will undermine the economy's growth potential.
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Foundation of
Throckmorton Trotman Esq.
Bunhill Row,
London.
Pinnock’s History of England
Many years ago my father, Charles Leonard Marshall Cowley, gave me a book, ‘Pinnock’s History of England’, which had been given to him by his ‘Uncle Bob’ (Robert Barnes Naylor). The book was in a very sorry state of repair - pieces of the spine had fallen off and were in a Boots plastic bag, and pages were falling out! In 2008 I decided to have the book restored and this was done superbly well by Kate Hore of Teasdale Bookbinders who operates from a small shop in Corwen, North Wales. The book provides a fascinating glimpse of part of our family history although it probably poses more questions than it answers!
The front cover of the book, originally presented to James Priestnall Woolley (b abt 1819), is embossed ‘The Gift of the Haberdashers Company’. Inside the flyleaf there are three inscriptions - the original is shown in black type below and the later additions are in blue.
Robert Barnes Naylor
on his 8th Birthday
Sep 14 / 78
From his Grandpapa
James Priestnall
Woolley
Charles Leonard Marshall Cowley
Great Grandson of
James Priestnall Woolley
From Uncle Bob
Presented to
Samuel Butler Esq Master
William Coates
Benjamin Harvey
Elisha Wilson
Wardens of the
Worshipful Company
of Haberdashers
Messrs
James Priestnall Woolley (b abt 1819)
I know very little about James Priestnall Woolley (b abt 1819) other than that he was born in London and that in the 1861 census he is living in Brighton with his wife, Elizabeth Adriana , a ‘teacher of drawing’. James is listed as a ‘Hat Maker employing one man and two boys’. His profession undoubtedly explains the gift of the book, as explained below.
The Haberdashers’ Livery Company
Dr David Bartle, Archivist at The Haberdashers’ Company, writes -
“From what you say, my suspicion is that the book presented to James Woolley may have been as a Christmas gift to him as a pupil at the Trotman School in Bunhill, London. If you would like to know more about this Bunhill School, please see the details below about our records that you would now need to consult in the Manuscript Section of the Guildhall Library:
TROTMAN'S SCHOOL, Bunhill Row (17th century-1883); City Road (1883-99). Established under will of Throckmorton Trotman (1663) who bequeathed £2000 to Haberdashers' Company to build and endow a school. A school was built on land purchased by the Company in Bunhill Row. The school took boys from the parish of St Giles Cripplegate, and, after its establishment as a parish, from St Luke's Old Street. In 1819 there were only 12 boys being educated. Closed in 1899, and money from the bequest diverted to other schools supported by the Company. L 49.1 Ms 15901 - (Pupil records, 1844-99 (admission register). Administrative records, 1827-1979 held on behalf of the Haberdashers' Company are in the Guildhall Library)
We do not have here any specific details of James Woolley's trade as a hatter, but if he was a member of the Haberdashers Company (quite likely as he went to a Haberdashers school and followed in a related trade) he should appear in either the Register of Bindings (ie Apprentices) and/or the Registers of Freedoms of the Company that are once again the care of the Guildhall Library Manuscript Room are available to consult on microfiche.”
The Haberdashers’ Company is eighth in the order of precedence of Livery Companies (order established in 1516) and as such is a member of the "Great Twelve Companies"
Click here to read about the Company’s history and present day work on their web site.
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PORTAVOGIE TRUE BLUES LOL No 552
The members of this lodge met last week to do honour to two of their members, Brs. W M'Master and Alex M'Vea, who left for Chicago, USA on St Patrick's Day. Br. Wm Clint was moved to the chair, and in the course of his remarks thanked the members for placing him in that position, and expressed regret at the departure of their brethren, but wished them every prosperity in the land of their adoption. The chairman also presented each with beautiful certificates. The secretary of the lodge, Br. David Kelly, also spoke. He said he could not let the occasion pass without saying a few words, and he knew he was only expressing the heartfelt wish of all the members of that lodge, when he wished their much respected brethren (Brs. A M'Vea and W M'Master) health, happiness and prosperity in the land they were going to, and hoped that before many years they would have made enough to enable them to settle down at home in Portavogie once more. He concluded by wishing them a safe passage over, and to say he hoped they would not forget the happy times spent in No 552 (applause). Brs. M'Vea and M'Master amicably replied. During the evening gramophone selections were given by Br. Alex O'Prey. A dance was subsequently indulged in, the music being rendered by Br. Hugh O'Prey (violin). Br John Kelly, W.M. kindly acted as M.C. and rendered valuable assistance. The dancing continued until a late hour, after which the singing of 'Auld Lang Syne' brought an enjoyable evening to a close.
• Alex and Hugh O'Prey were clearly musical; both lived at Ratallagh between Portavogie and Cloughey, and signed the Ulster Covenant at Ballyeasborough Orange Hall. According to the 1911 Census Alex was 19; he had a 16 year old brother called Hugh. Their father was also called Hugh, aged 45. I suspect the father was the fiddle player. The family was Church of Ireland (presumably Ballyeasborough again) and all of the men were blacksmiths.
• William Clint of Cloughey also signed at Ballyeasborough
• David Kelly of Kirkistown signed at Kirkistown Orange Hall
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Google has launched a new service, called What's mysterious like that. It is a simple search box, similar to the Google home page, but returns the result of over 20 different Google services, like Google Translate, Trends, YouTube, Maps, Groups etc.
The results are presented in small boxes that can, in some cases, you can enlarge by clicking the icon in the lower right corner, and if you need more results, you can click the button in the upper right corner of the box and go directly to the chosen service.
The concept reminds us of iGoogle, a service that lets you add simple applications to your personalized portal. What do you like, however, instantly creates a mini-site on any term you choose, making it a good choice for users who do not have time to play with the options and simply want access to many Google services on one page.
The service, located at the address and google www.wdyl.com. com / whatdoyoulove /, you mark Google's copyright, but very little explanation, and so far has not been announced in any official Google blogs. Tell us what you like in the comments!
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Twitter has become an invaluable tool for journalists with regard to the sources to find and share stories. Now, the microblogging site has published a guide that shows journalists best use of the tool in their daily cares.
The guide, entitled "Twitter for newsrooms," is a bit obvious to anyone using Twitter daily. No new information here, just tips on how to inform, interact with other users and followers and how to use the tweets in the process of reporting. But the fact that Twitter has launched an official guide for journalists is an indicator of the impact of social media on the news.
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Trump Wages War on FBI, Justice Department With Release of Nunes Memo
Numerous FBI veterans fear the bureau is now in a battle with the White House over its independence—with damage that may extend beyond the Russia inquiry.
Spencer Ackerman
Senior Nat’l Security Correspondent
Updated Feb. 02, 2018 1:57PM ET / Published Feb. 02, 2018 1:21PM ET
Saying senior FBI and Justice Department officials “should be ashamed of themselves,” President Donald Trump declassified on Friday a Republican memo alleging surveillance abuses—over the furious objections of his senior law enforcement appointees.
The release of the memo, prepared by House intelligence committee chairman Rep. Devin Nunes and his staff, placed the White House in a dangerous open conflict over the independence of the Justice Department and FBI. Nunes’ memo aids Trump in undermining special counsel Robert Mueller’s inquiry into the Trump campaign’s potential collusion with the Russian government and possible obstruction of justice by Trump.
Conversations with FBI veterans ahead of the memo’s release indicated an atmosphere of intense uncertainty over the right wing’s attacks on the bureau—and even fear. Several wonder whether Trump’s chosen FBI director, Christopher Wray, will remain in his job, now that Trump has dismissed his repeated objections to a memo that portrays senior FBI and Justice Department officials as corrupt zealots manipulating the surveillance process to destroy Trump.
Nunes’ memo claims it calls into question the “legitimacy and legality of certain [Justice Department] and FBI interactions with the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court.” It centers overwhelmingly on ex-British spy Christopher Steele’s famous dossier, which has often aroused Trump’s ire and which Nunes has extensively sought to discredit.
Yet it at the same time concedes that the FBI’s investigation into the Trump circle began not with the dossier but with a Trump campaign aide who has since pleaded guilty to cooperate with Mueller: George Papadopolous. “The Papadopoulos information triggered the opening of an FBI counterintelligence investigation in late July 2016 by FBI agent Pete Strzok,” whom the GOP has portrayed as motivated by anti-Trump animus.
That concession in the memo undermines months’ worth of GOP statements that the dossier played a central role in the Trump-Russia inquiry.
One of the memo’s targets, as The Daily Beast first reported, is Rod Rosenstein, the deputy attorney general who oversees Mueller. Trump has reportedly asked Rosenstein if he is “on my team.” Asked at the White House if he will now fire Rosenstein—a precursor to firing or constraining Mueller—Trump said Friday, “you figure that one out.” Also named are FBI and Justice Department officials frequently criticized on the right, such as ex-Acting Attorney General Sally Yates, outgoing FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, ex-FBI director James Comey and FBI counterintelligence agent Peter Strzok.
The FBI on Wednesday publicly attacked the memo, saying it had “grave concerns about material omissions of fact that fundamentally impact the memo’s accuracy.” Asked for comment on it, and about Wray’s future, the bureau said only that its Wednesday statement stands. After the memo’s release, the president of the FBI Agents Association, 80 percent of whose members are serving FBI special agents, strongly defended the bureau.
“The American people should know that they continue to be well-served by the world’s preeminent law enforcement agency,” said president Tom O’Connor in a statement.
Multiple former FBI officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity to describe their recent discussions with friends still at the bureau, described bewilderment within FBI hallways over how the right’s fury at them has compounded. Agents, they said, simply want what they considered a manufactured controversy to go away.
Most worrisome to the FBI veterans were the implications of the episode on the bureau’s cherished independence. While agents are far from inclined to fight with Trump, they said, Trump’s apparent expectations that the bureau ought to express personal loyalty to him struck them as ominous. One former FBI official raised comparisons between Trump and Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey’s authoritarian president whom Trump has praised.
Reflecting an organizational culture that, despite the attacks of Trump allies, is notably conservative, several ex-agents labored in interviews to give Nunes and the memo the benefit of the doubt. Since a surveillance application to the FISA Court contains volumes of information, a fact that turns out to be incorrect can be repeated in a re-submission for a renewed warrant, a different former senior official said, who spoke from personal experience, but expressed bewilderment that someone could consider that abuse.
This former senior official, who has been involved in numerous FISA-warrant submissions, recalled assembling probable-cause applications that numbered in the hundreds of pages. Justice Department attorneys who shepherd them to the secret court for approval are almost “mind-numbingly” conservative in what counts toward probable cause, for fear of having an application rejected, which is rare.
Title I FISA applications, as they are known, require a judge’s approval, as the memo acknowledges the surveillance on Page received.
The ex-official said it was appropriate for the FBI to be held accountable for mistakes, but expected oversight agencies to respond proportionately, rather than level accusations of wholesale FBI politicization, as Trump did this morning. Summarizing a voluminous FISA application in under four pages, the former official said, was a blueprint for stripping away relevant context.
The memo claims a particular but notably nonspecific role for Steele’s dossier, financed by Republican and then Democratic Trump opponents, in the FISA process—though the memo does not mention the GOP-aligned financing. The dossier “formed an essential part of the Carter Page FISA application,” the memo claims, confirming publicly that surveillance of a Trump adviser received multiple renewals, beginning from inception on October 21, 2016, including from Trump appointees Rosenstein and now-FBI general counsel Dana Boente. At least seven officials signed off on the renewals each 90 days—strongly suggesting, though not confirming, that Page remains under FBI surveillance and the intelligence committee may have revealed it.
Rosenstein, the memo claims, signed off on “one or more” warrant renewals on Page: a second would have expired in late January 2017; a third Rosenstein renewal would mean Page, who did not respond to a message seeking comment, is still under surveillance.
“At least seven officials signed off on the renewals each 90 days—strongly suggesting, though not confirming, that Page remains under FBI surveillance and the intelligence committee may have revealed it”
Comey excoriated the memo after its release, saying on Twitter:
“That’s it? Dishonest and misleading memo wrecked the House intel committee, destroyed trust with Intelligence Community, damaged relationship with FISA court, and inexcusably exposed classified investigation of an American citizen. For what? DOJ & FBI must keep doing their jobs.”
An ex-official who was not involved in the surveillance application for Page said foreign intelligence services’ information—something reminiscent of but not equivalent to the Steele Dossier’s unverified assertions—does go into surveillance applications, but could not envision the dossier as even a substantial aspect of a FISA warrant. Several other FBI and Justice Department officials who have worked on FISA warrants have told The Daily Beast that since government attorneys could not vouch for Steele’s sources, they would not likely risk a judge’s rejection.
At bottom, all who talked to The Daily Beast wondered about the different world the bureau will inhabit—in its relationship with Capitol Hill, with the American right, and particularly with Trump—after the memo’s release. Several doubted that Wray can have a successful tenure after Trump ignored him to divulge a memo that sacrifices the FBI in order to protect his presidency from an investigation into potential collusion with the Kremlin.
Senator John McCain (R-AZ) criticized the Nunes memo sharply, saying its “attacks on the FBI and Department of Justice serve no America interest—no party’s, no president’s, only Putin.” Nunes’ Republican predecessor on the House intelligence committee, Mike Rogers, a former FBI agent, said earlier on Friday the memo ought not to be released.
“Unfortunately, I do” believe the House intelligence committee has lost its credibility, Rogers told NPR. “It’s not necessarily even the credibility from the public’s perspective. I know for a fact they’ve lost credibility with – they don’t trust Republicans and Democrats to keep a secret anymore in the intelligence community.”
Adam Schiff, Nunes’ Democratic counterpart on the intelligence committee, excoriated Nunes, his memo, and the decision to release it.
“The sole purpose of the Republican document is to circle the wagons around the White House and insulate the President. Tellingly, when asked whether the Republican staff who wrote the memo had coordinated its drafting with the White House, the Chairman refused to answer,” Schiff said Friday.
Mark Warner, the top Democrat on the Senate intelligence committee also investigating Trump and Russia, added: “Unlike almost every House member who voted in favor of this memo's release, I have actually read the underlying documents on which the memo was based. They simply do not support its conclusions.”
Nunes, in his own statement, said the memo revealed “serious violations of the public trust, and the American people have a right to know when officials in crucial institutions are abusing their authority for political purposes.” He suggested unnamed “reforms” were appropriate to “allow the American people to have full faith and confidence in their governing institutions.”
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Big Brand Perfumers Love Oud
The mystical and mesmerizing allure of oud oil, the musky, evocative scent of Arabia has gone mainstream. Premier oud oil producer and supplier, Treedom, has experienced a surge of interest from Europe and the Western world for its trademark woody, intoxicating aroma. Now big-name fragrance brands are infusing their perfumes and colognes with the heady Oud notes, redefining the scent market and reaching new fragrance consumers who are falling for the luxurious quality of Oud.
Oud oil has been desirable in the Middle East and the Orient for thousands of years, but is a relative newcomer to markets in the West. Its popularity is due to its enticingly deep layers of complex scents which are rich and pungent. With so many fragrances introduced each year, Oud Oil is a key ingredient in creating innovative products that really have a standout quality. In turn, this appeals to consumers who welcome the tantalising individuality and unique characteristics of oud oil.
Oud has become synonymous with luxury and niche, although high-profile brands are certainly introducing this so-called ‘liquid gold’ to a wider market. The oud oil trend began in the West when fashion perfumers such as Versace, Tom Ford and Calvin Klein developed an interest in oud oil, following some of the most renowned scent makers who were already developing oud oil concoctions and experimenting with different scents. From the catwalk fashionistas, the potential of oud oil has been realized with new scents that combine the highly fragrant oil with other ingredients to create an entirely new and exciting range of products.
Oud Oil, once considered rare and sought-after by Arabs visiting the West, has been adopted by perfume houses with gusto. Harrods in London launched H – The Exclusive Oud, a fragrance designed just for them only. Amouroud fragrances, born out of the Perfumer’s Workshop in the US, are penetrating Europe with their Dark Orchid fragrance a bestseller at Stockholm NK with Safran Rare, which was launched in 2016, selling out too.
The big brands are definitely marketing oud oil as an upscale fragrance choice, reaching out to the mainstream in luxuriant style. The combinations are exotic, with an air of off-beat mystery. Noted perfumes and colognes include, Jo Malone’s Velvet Rose & Oud Cologne, Gucci’s Gucci Intense Oud, L’Occitane Oud & Rose eau de parfum, Tom Ford’s Oud Wood, Armani’s Oud Royal, Honey Oud by Floris, with many other well-known brands too.
One reason why big brands are falling in love with oud is its versatility. Several years ago unisex fragrances hit the market with great success and oud oil lends itself to fragrances for men and women and scents suitable for both. The rise of the metrosexual and blurred gender definitions undoubtedly has some impact on how the fashion and fragrance industries develop.
The brand-name oud oil scents may be far different than the rich aromas of Oud Oil’s Middle Eastern heritage, but they still retain the essence of what is a wonderfully enchanting ingredient.
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Very few musicians are said to be extraordinary examples of excellence in any one genre of music. Even fewer can be described as exceptional across multiple. When considering Chris Eger fits into the latter category as both a guitarist AND vocalist, it is no doubt an especially rare gift. Fronting his own band for close to a decade now, Chris has taken his game to a new level and a new town. When Nashville called, he answered, and this highly anticipated project was born. Eger and his longtime guitar-hero, and Nashville recording artist, Eric Heatherly, joined forces and have crafted an album that demands attention. Rock and Blues, Country, Funk and Soul collide in this modern take on vintage roots music. These are not overproduced, synthesized tunes created by a computer. This is raw, powerful, handmade – in the USA! The Chris Eger Band is: REAL. AMERICAN. MUSIC.
Written and recorded in Nashville with Chris’ guitar hero, Eric Heatherly, as producer – The CEB’s latest offering “Show Me Where to Sign” is a breath of fresh air in a prepackaged, fast-food type of music landscape. It features tunes penned by Eric, Chris, Nashville Blues great – Stacy Mitchhart, as well as co-founder of Ground Zero Blues Club in Clarksdale, MS – Gary Vincent. Notable musicians include world renowned vocalist extraordinare – Bekka Bramlett, Rock & Roll HOF inductee – Double Trouble’s Reese Wynans and some of the most prolific studio players in Nashville. This high-energy record blends straight electric Blues with blue-eyed Soul, Hendrix inspired classic Rock, and horn infused Funk. It is a fresh take on vintage, guitar music for the 21st Century!
A bonafied “quadruple threat,” Eger is a multi-instrumentalist, accomplished songwriter, kick-butt showman, as well as sensational vocalist for which he has been nominated three years in a row, for Best Male Vocalist by the Washington Blues Society. Chris is backed by bassist and father Randall Eger, who has over 35 years of live performance experience. Drummer, Mark Clark, is a veteran of the Northwest music scene, playing with the likes of the New Deal Rhythm Band and the Chryslers. Clark brings a solid, funky foundation to the group, and always delivers. Rick Jiles, keyboardist and leader of the local favorites Midlife Crisis & the Alimony Horns, is a tasteful and scintillating addition to the rhythm section. Finally, Pete Kirkman and Mike West lend their talents as the noteworthy and eponymous Powerhouse Horns.
The band’s high-energy performances always please crowds and are constant signatures of what the cast brings. The band is tight, fun, and dishes out plenty of soul! It’s no wonder they constantly attract new fans as well as amaze longtime followers.
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Debatepedia User Guide
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This page is a tutorial on all of the basic, need-to-know things on Debatepedia. It will jump-start your ability to browse, edit, and engage with the Debatepedia community.
1 Registering and logging in
2 The mission: Creating an encyclopedia of pros and cons and supporting quotations
3 Writing model pro and con arguments
4 Creating argument pages
5 Taking a debate from start to finish
5.1 Step 1: Compile a pro/con resources section
5.2 Step 2: Draw arguments and quotations from pro/con resources
5.3 Step 3: Keep referring back to high-level feature debates and emulate them.
6 Quoting and referencing styles - MLA
7 Creating debate pages
8 Editing policies
9 Editing debate pages
10 Editing argument pages
11 Creating new debate pages and regular pages (argument pages, organization pages...)
12 Key editing tools and functionalities
13 Communicating with other members of the community
14 Navigating Debatepedia
15 The case for editing on Debatepedia
16 What are Debatepedia's standards
Click on the "log in / create account" button in the upper-right of your screen and enter your basic information. We encourage you to use your real name as your "user name". You will be able to use your user page as a profile and bio page, so it may be worthwhile for you to provide a real name and build your actual profile.
The mission: Creating an encyclopedia of pros and cons and supporting quotations
Debatepedia's mission is to act as an encyclopedia of pro and con arguments and quotations in all major public debates around the world. This means that, in any given article that you are working on, the objective is to document every single pro and con argument and all supporting quotations from the key leaders and players in the debate and from the primary pro and con articles and essays. This is what you and other editors are striving to achieve in articles that you edit.
The below articles are some models of these standards (although they are still not perfect). You should aim to emulate these articles. In general, the best way to learn how to do something editorially is to find where it is done right on a model debate, click "edit", observe the wiki code used to produce what you want to produce, and emulate what you see.
Some model debates to emulate:
Health care, universal
Writing model pro and con arguments
Arguments are the basic units of a debate. You must know how to write good arguments and in Debatepedia's simple format. Here is what a good argument looks like on Debatepedia:
Offering drivers licenses to illegal immigrants will make roads safer in the US With millions of illegal immigrants lacking drivers licenses, there are millions of drivers on the road who have not taken a driver's license test and who probably do not know the traffic safety laws. Issuing driver's licenses to illegal aliens and requiring that they take a driving test would help resolve this safety hazard.
Or, you could use a supporting quotation to summarize the argument, making it look like this:
Offering drivers licenses to illegal immigrants will make roads safer in the US Sam Gomez. "Should illegal immigrants be granted Driver Licenses in New York State?" Clarkson Integrator. 12 Dec. 2007 - "The last real benefit of the policy change is the most obvious; safer streets. We all remember taking driver ed, the signs, parallel parking, three point turns, the works. Obviously, people who do not have to pass that rigorous rite of passage known as 'the driving test' aren't going to be well equipped to handle driving on congested roads. Not knowing the rules of the road aside, the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety found that unlicensed drivers are five times more likely to be involved in a fatal accident than validly licensed drivers. Clearly, safer roads would also be good for everybody."
Some of the key features of this model argument include:
A bullet point should start arguments for visual reasons.
The argument "claim" is essentially a one sentence summary of the argument's conclusion. It is basically a header for an argument. It should be as concise and to-the-core-point-of-the-argument as is possible. The rule of thumb is that it take up no more than a single line the pro or con side of a debate, which requires that it be very concise. Part of the reason for this is that "claims" are what are made into the titles of argument pages (below).
Argument summaries come after the "claim". This is where a more detailed, generally three to five sentence, description of the argument is presented.
Or, a summarizing quotation after the claim. It is good to have a balance of argument summaries and summarizing quotations on a debate article.
A link to an argument page The above arguments have a link to their own argument pages. Argument pages are whole pages dedicated to a single argument, with the "claim" being the title of the argument page (click on the above argument). On these pages, supporting evidence (quotes, studies, facts) can be presented in mass in support of an argument. The example provided above demonstrates that the "claim" is made into the title of the argument page. The next section shows you how to create these pages.
See also Debatepedia:Writing arguments
Creating argument pages
You can create these pages very easily, simply by putting "[[ ]]" around the claim. But, we like to preface the claim on these pages with "Argument". So, click "edit" here and view what this looks like in the wiki code with the above argument. As you can see, "Argument:" does not appear in the rendering (when you press save). This is because the code is written like this: '''[[Argument: Offering drivers licenses to illegal immigrants will make roads safer in the US| Offering drivers licenses to illegal immigrants will make roads safer in the US]]'''
See main article on this: Debatepedia:Argument pages
Taking a debate from start to finish
Step 1: Compile a pro/con resources section
Because the objective in each article is to document public debates and all the primary pro and con arguments and quotations in them, the first place to start in a debate article is in creating the "the pro/con resources" section. Here's a good example. This section is split-screen section that should appear at the bottom of the pro/con section of a debate article. In this section, you will document the primary pro and con articles, essays, and cases in the public debate. These will be the resources that you will draw from and quote from in compiling pro/con arguments in your debates. You should search for these cases through Google, Google Scholar, Ask.com, Lexus Nexus (if you have access), and other search engines. Key word selection is fairly important. Some recommended search key words include:
The topic: "Capital Punishment", "The Death Penalty", and iterations of the topic name.
"The case for/against..."
"Arguments for/against..."
"Pro/cons of..."
"Why ban assault weapons"
Once you've found an article, use MLA referencing style to compile the list of pro and cons resources.
Step 2: Draw arguments and quotations from pro/con resources
Search for and isolate specific arguments made in these cases. Let's say you find an argument along the lines that US roads would be made safer by offering driver's licenses to illegal immigrants. The first thing you'll want to do is isolate and widdle down this "claim". So, "Offering drivers licenses to illegal immigrants will make roads safer in the US". Then, you would want to create a basic argument summary: "With millions of illegal immigrants lacking drivers licenses, there are millions of drivers on the road who have not taken a driver's license test and who probably do not know the traffic safety laws. Issuing driver's licenses to illegal aliens and requiring that they take a driving test would help resolve this safety hazard." Now, imagining that you want to quote a specific argument made in the article you're reading as "a supporting quotation" on Debatepedia, you will have to create an argument page (see section below). Once you've done this, you should create a "supporting evidence" section by writing "==Supporting Evidence==" into the editing window of your new argument page. Now, you can cut-and-paste a quote from one of your sources under this "supporting evidence" section. Next, you will have to make an external link to the resource that you are quoting.
[http://blog.wired.com/cars/2007/10/illegal-immigra.html "Illegal Immigrants, Driver's License Crash Into American Consensus". Wired Magazine. October 04, 2007] - "New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer loves a fight. But his policy to allow illegal immigrants to obtain driver's licenses, announced just weeks ago, has even his closest loyalists in a sweat. His reasoning is that denying immigrants the legal right to drive hasn't stopped them from driving. After all, they're already breaking the law just by being here. By driving illegally, they don't have insurance, which has contributed to more hit-and-run accidents as well as higher insurance premiums for everyone else." Read through all the articles you've compiled and draw from them in documenting arguments and quoting and gathering supporting evidence.
Step 3: Keep referring back to high-level feature debates and emulate them.
These are pretty good model debate articles to refer to in creating others.
Quoting and referencing styles - MLA
Referencing and quoting are very common and important on Debatepedia. We are generally using MLA style for this, but Debatepedia is flexible to others ways to introduce a supporting quotation when it is more natural and useful to the readers. Generally, when quoting from an article published in a newspaper or journal, the style is:
Sam Gomez. "Should illegal immigrants be granted Driver Licenses in New York State?" Clarkson Integrator. 12 Dec. 2007 - "The last real benefit of the policy change is the most obvious; safer streets. We all remember taking driver ed, the signs, parallel parking, three point turns, the works. Obviously, people who do not have to pass that rigorous rite of passage known as 'the driving test' aren't going to be well equipped to handle driving on congested roads. Not knowing the rules of the road aside, the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety found that unlicensed drivers are five times more likely to be involved in a fatal accident than validly licensed drivers. Clearly, safer roads would also be good for everybody."
But, there are many instances in which a more flexible approach is appropriate. For instance:
Creating debate pages
Create new debate, argument, and other pages. You can create both debate and argument pages on Debatepedia. There are different processes for doing both of these things (see the link), but you should keep in mind that you are free and encouraged to create new pages. If there is a notable public debate in the world that doesn't already exist on Debatepedia, you should create it. The same applies to argument pages.
See also Help:Editing
You must abide by Debatepedia's editing policies. If your edits break these policies, other users have the right to delete or change what you have done into compliance with these policies. These policies include:
Debatepedia is an encyclopedia of debates, arguments, and debate-related materials. Debatepedia is an encyclopedia for the documentation of existing, notable public debates and the primary pro/con arguments and evidence within them. Debatepedia does allow arguments to be presented in an assertive, biased form so that they read as if the author is making them. But, this is mainly for posterity, so that arguments are read in their more "natural" form (how you might hear them or make them).
Sober language. While assertive language can be used, passionate language is not allowed.
Fair and balanced articles. As an encyclopedia, the ultimate goal is to achieve a fair and balanced presentation of a debate, its arguments, and the supporting evidence (quotes, articles, links) within.
Arguments must be based on and cited to reliable published sources: Arguments on Debatepedia must be backed-up by supporting evidence that is derived from and cited to reliable published sources.
Arguments must be logically consistent. Arguments must follow basic laws of logical consistency and validity, avoiding tangents, and staying focus on justifying the claim or conclusion that is being asserted (the "claim" should be a very short bolded sentence at the beginning of an argument that explains the jist of the argument).
Debate questions and subquestions must be neutral in orientation. Loaded questions and subquestions are not allowed on Debatepedia. A debate's main question should frame a public debate in a fair and balanced weigh. Subquestions should simply act as a way to break-down a debate into its more chewable subdebates (economic, social, legal pros and cons...).
See also Debatepedia:Editing policies
Editing debate pages
Debate pages on Debatepedia are based on a unique pro/con "logic tree" structure. Debates start with a main "yes"/"no" question. The pro/"yes" and con/"no" arguments are then divided into a split screen with pros on the left and cons on the right. Subquestions help organize the pros and cons of often large debates into more chewable parts (economic, social, legal...). Subquestions are simply there for the purpose of organizing pros/cons within the larger debate or "yes"/"no" question; they are not there for opening tangential debates to the main debate/question.
Manipulating the Debatepedia "logic tree" structure and software: In coordination with IDEA, Debatemedia Inc. developed with a great Indian software firm called QuadOne special software so that you can effectively manipulate Debatepedia's unique "logic tree" architecture on debate pages. With this software, editors can:
Shift up or down subquestion sections and their contents (arrow icons): This is important for structuring: moving around the subquestion, sub-debate sections so that the "logical" flow of a debate is maintained. Typically, the most important sub-debates within a larger debate should appear at the top.
Insert new subquestion sections (box icon): Because there are varying numbers of sub-debates within a debate, users must be able to add new subquestions sections. The box icon allows for this.
Delete old or unneeded subquestions (red icon): Users must also be able to delete old subquestion section shells that are no longer needed.
WARNING: Debate pages have table code that creates the pro/con structure of these pages. Do not delete or alter this code. Furthermore, if you click on the editing pencil for the "yes" box, for example, you will see the table code for the "no" box on that page. Make sure to write add content for the "yes" box above this table code. If you write content below this code, the content will actually appear in the "no" box.
Editing argument pages
On debate pages, arguments are presented that often have a vast array of supporting evidence in the form of quotes, links to articles making an argument, studies, or simply facts that can be reasonably brought together to support an argument. For this reason, we allow for argument pages to be created and linked-to from debate pages. Doing this is fairly simple. On debate pages, arguments are presented first by their "claim", which is a brief one sentence summary of an argument's main point. For example, "capital punishment deters crime" is a "claim", and this would be presented on a debate page at the beginning of a larger summary of that argument. This "claim" can be made into the title of its own argument page. Doing this is very simple. Once you have the "claim" on the debate page, all you have to do is click edit, place two brackets on both sides (two, not one on each side) of the argument "claim". Press save and click on the new red argument, whereupon you will be taken to the new argument page where you can document supporting evidence for the argument.
Example: Argument:Universal health care would be an illegitimate "positive" right
See Debatepedia:Argument pages
Creating new debate pages and regular pages (argument pages, organization pages...)
You can create new pages whenever you want on Debatepedia. Debate pages are pages with the pro/con "logic tree" structure. These pages also have the special QuadOne software that enables you to manipulate the Debatepedia structure effectively. Regular pages are ordinary blank pages. These are used for argument pages, administrative pages (like this one), regular encyclopedic articles (ones about a certain notable individual in the history of public debate and deliberation), and for a variety of other purposes.
See Debatepedia:Creating New Pages
Key editing tools and functionalities
The toolbar at the top of an editing window. When you're in an editing window, put your cursor over the toolbar that appears just at the top of the window. These tools are very useful, and include bolding, italics, internal linking, external linking, and many other functionalities.
Create internal links between pages on Debatepedia by placing "[[Title]]" around the title of a page you are trying to link to.
Make an internal link, but with hyper-link in blue as different wording (maybe shorter or without caps) than the title you're linking to [[Title| desired wording]]
Create external links by writing: "[url Wikipedia article on capital punishment]" (by creating a space between the end of the url and "Wikipedia article...", you will hyperlink "Wikipedia article..."). You'll often be hyperlinking an author, title of an article,... as an introduction to a quote.
Making a bullet point. A bullet point can be used to start-off a unique argument. Use an asterix in an editing window to do this.
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Debatepedia is a community of editors like you, and we encourage you to communicate with the rest of this community by going to the Main Page discussion page, the talk pages of articles, or to the user pages of other members of this community (user pages are best accessed by going to the "history" tab at the top of the screen and seeing who has contributed what to an article of interest to you). You are welcome to write almost anything on these pages (questions, comments, suggestions), as long as it's appropriate and relevant to the other user and the Debatepedia project.
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The first reason to join Debatepedia and begin editing is self-interested. Debatepedia is the ideal way to deliberate on the tough questions that surround us in society, so that we can take firm positions as citizens and vote effectively. This is not only in reading existing Debatepedia articles, but in using Debatepedia to frame the arguments and evidence we come across in newspapers, journals, books, and other places so that we can better deliberate, draw conclusions, assert personal positions effectively within our communities, and vote with confidence.
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Also see Wikipedia's tutorial on editing, which will help you learn the very basic and most important MediWiki (the software Wikipedia and Debatepedia uses) editing techniques and tools.
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Huang Xing and the Hekou Uprising in Yunnan
Author(s): Fan Dewei
Journal: Journal of National Museum of Chinese History
Keyword: Huang Xing; Yunnan; Hekou Uprising;
Abstract: In 1908, the United League of China launched an uprising at Hekou in Yunnan and failed. People like Sun Yat-sen attributed its failure to Huang Xing, who was absent from commanding at Hekou, while Feng Ziyou and others believed it had been caused by Huang Xing’s departure from Hekou. Is it true that it was Huang Xing who determined the fate of the Hekou Uprising? Through constant discoveries and researches of related historical materials, the author concludes that Huang did not play such a decisive role as people had imagined; he neither facilitated the development of the uprising, nor caused its failure. Nevertheless, the fact that Huang left Hekou without notice was a stain in his revolutionary career.
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overall 2014-2018 19 14 5 10 2 0 0 0 6 13 0 31.57 Profile
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2016-2016 1 1 0 5 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 100.00
Docklands Stadium, Melbourne - Australia
2014-2014 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0.00
Forsyth Barr Stadium, Dunedin - New Zealand
Lang Park, Brisbane - Australia
Lansdowne Road, Dublin - Ireland
Le Stade de Toulouse, Toulouse - France
Murrayfield, Edinburgh - Scotland
Stade de France, Paris - France
2015-2018 7 6 1 5 1 0 0 0 3 4 0 42.85
Stadio Olimpico, Rome - Italy
Sydney Football Stadium - Australia
Twickenham Stadium, London - England
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All articles issues
Will be a special issue of the international journal «Olimpic reporter» (2092)
Maksim Fyodorov
Sochi-2014: Olympic arithmetics (2023)
The virus of Olympic optimism (2340)
«Russia has found itself in investors shoes» (2139)
Let's go! (2001)
Sergey Semyonov
«I will not tell Putin anymore, that it is necessary to make haste!» (2599)
Olympic Games-2014: possibilities and risks (2205)
«It is profitable for the majority of building companies to work with government orders» (2117)
Artem Vasilyev
«There is no massed appeal to us» (2368)
Hospitality test (1964)
We need to make Sochi French Riviera (2021)
Expensive, but good bargain (2261)
Heritage and successors (2014)
City for life or place for party? (2424)
Irina Rodina
To stop an avalanche (2177)
Olympic interchange (2329)
Explosive effect (2817)
Alena Lapteva
Gold, but not people! (2447)
Konstantin Kuharenko
«Olympic character means — the sportsman can surprise himself» (3424)
Irina Varlamova
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Broad view at «bottlenecks»
On example of the Olympic Games in Turin and Vancouver, «Reporter» has made the list of the main problems which organizers of the Games in Sochi can face.
The Russian authorities have proclaimed their aim to make the Olympic Games in Sochi «the very best» — the most convenient, the most innovative, the most ecologic, the most safety. As a matter of fact, the project «Sochi-2014» should show to the world community, what the country — the mistress of XXII winter Games is capable of. However, money is not everything. It is necessary to consider a number of «bottlenecks» which can spoil the impression of the best Olympic Games. According to the «Reporter», the experience of predecessors will be useful for Sochi — Turin, which held the XX winter Games in February, 2006, and Vancouver, which will hold the XXI winter Games in February, 2010.
Now there is a single two-lane road connecting Adler and Krasnaya Polyana. In the program of Olympic building there is combined highway and the railway road. There will be laid single-track railroad on the left bank or the river Mzymta with six junctions, allowing to transport 12 thousand passengers every hour. The combination of possibilities will allow to provide the delivery of 20 thousand passengers an hour, that corresponds to the highest standards. Transport plans of the organizers of the Sochi Games are grandiose and ambitious. It is already obvious, that builders will face strict time trouble. To have time to deliver the Adler — Krasnaya Polyana road by 2013, it is necessary to cut through 500 metres of tunnels a month… The underground helped to cope with passenger traffic in million Turin — it was under consruction for five years and costed 600 million euro. But there were problems with getting to places of competitions. In spite of the fact, that the mountain track was quite good, sportsmen and fans complained: it took them up to five hours sometimes to get from one object to the other sometimes.
The Canadians also have difficulties. Participants and visitors of Games will live in two Olympic villages. A bridge connects two points with three lines in each direction through Burrard-Inlet, where can be jams, as it is quite a narrrow place.
For the Sochi Games two Olympic villages will be constructed, the main of them will be situated at the Black sea coast, the International experience additional — in mountains. That is sportsmen will live close to objects, where they should make a brilliant display of their skills. And what is to be done with fans? For accomodation of visitors and participants of the Sochi Games it is planned to give 6 348 five-star rooms, 17 483 — four-star rooms, 24 016 — three-star rooms and 9 052 two-star rooms. In total — 57 368 rooms. Figures are serious enough, and the IOC is satisfied with them. However, it is necessary to be ready that the number of visitors will exceed forecasts. In due time the Organizing committee of the Turin Olympic Games addressed to townspeople with the official request to lease their houses during competitions, as it was found out that the constructed hotels are not enough.
Not once it was emphasized, that the IOC decision to give the Olympic Games to Sochi was caused in many respects by the unique environment in places for competitions. It is declared from the highest tribunes about the priority attention to the Caucasian state natural biospheric reserve. However, the power and ecologists can not find mutual understanding in some points. Scientists pay attention to another serious threat also. According to their estimation, the water drain designed for the city with the population of 240 thousand persons (now in so-called Big Sochi already live more than 400 thousand) is in a critical condition, and one-time inflow of a great number of people can cause real ecological catastrophe accompanied with sea water pollution and epidemic break out.
The Olympic Games, rivetting the looks of all the world, — is the ideal place for acts of terrorism and provocations, and possibilities, and also impudence of those who makes them, constantly grow. We can only guess, what is the price and what efforts should be applied to provide the safety competitions in Russia. The Sochi Games will be held tin immidiate proximity to Abkhazia, which is considered to be a part of Georgia, which last hopes to get back, even by force. The North Caucasus also looks more sleeping, than an extinct volcano. In Turin many people complained of difficulties in moving between the Olympic objects, of difficult and inefficient system of checks and accreditations. Russian authorities can hardly be suspected in greater softness. However, it is quite possible to make so, that their work was subtle and unnoticeable. After all, when there is always special squad soldier with the terrible face and the gun near you, watching the competitions and especially participation in them can hardly give any pleasure.
Author: Sergey Semyonov
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Satan (view source)
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The “Devil” was Lucifer, and the surviving fallen angels that were under him are all called devils, Lucifer’s seed still outranking the seed of the lesser powers and principalities of Darkness. Even so, in their personification of [[Evil]], or the Energy Veil, those who deified and were the embodiment of Absolute Evil were referred to by the generic term “devil.”
Both Lucifer and Satan and their various lieutenants have been referred to in scripture as the adversary, the accuser of the brethren, the tempter, the [[Antichrist]], the personification of the [carnal mind ]] of mankind, i.e., the planetary [[dweller-on-the-threshold]], [[Serpent]], the beast, the dragon, etc.
== The Final Judgment of Satan ==
<blockquote>Therefore, let it be known that the remanding of Satan to that court, where the Lord Sanat Kumara presides in the presence of the Four and Twenty Elders, has resulted in his final judgment. Therefore rejoice, O ye heavens and the earth! For that power of Satan is bound, and that Fallen One is judged and will no more go forth among the inhabitants of this or any other world to tempt them against the Person of the Lord Christ!...</blockquote>
<blockquote>This event marks the second in the occurrence of the final judgment of the fallen ones by the work and the hand of our [[two witnesses]], as the call has gone forth. You are aware of the judgment, the binding, and the second death of Lucifer.<ref> Isa. 14:12. On April 26, 1975, Lucifer was sentenced to the second death. His final judgment was announced by Alpha on July 5, 1975. See Alpha, “The Judgment: The Sealing of the Lifewaves throughout the Galaxy,” and Elizabeth Clare Prophet, July 6, 1975, “Antichrist: The Dragon, the Beast, the False Prophet, and the Great Whore,” in {{GWB}}</ref></blockquote>
<blockquote>Therefore, now be aware of the binding and the judgment and the second death of Satan. Understand that the hour of the second death is following the trial at the court of the [[God Star]]. Thus, we have heard and we have borne our witness as to the influence not only of Satan but of the race of his seed called the [[Satans]], who have infiltrated every corner of this galaxy and beyond.</blockquote>
<blockquote>Therefore, these who yet strut on earth and other planetary homes remain in that state of an accelerated dissolution and a deceleration. They have lost the impetus of the original seed and the one who held for them that comparable manifestation which my Sacred Heart holds for you.</blockquote>
<blockquote>This one, beloved hearts, has been the personal adversary of my lifestream and all who have come in the fullness of my joy. This occurrence, then, long anticipated and awaited by myself, will result in a new surge of power, wisdom, love, ''healing'', [[transmutation]], contact with my own through the blessed [[threefold flame ]] of all hearts who are united with me!</blockquote>
<blockquote>Blessed ones, though that seed is no more in its original manifestation, yet the stalking of the earth by those who are the copies of the original remains a point of alert to the faithful and a sign that, in the hour of their own dissolution, there is the ranting and the raving in those moments before the interior deterioration will manifest also in the final judgment that is become physical. Thus, all who were his seed and are his seed have also been judged at inner levels with him, for they are one and the same manifestation! But in the physical octave, there is yet the residual manifestation of these lifewaves.</blockquote>
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<div class="block_article_media"> <div class="media"> <div id="videoBlock" class="type_1" style="display:none;">{{#ev:youtube|https://www.youtube.com/embed/oXoIx74Oq-E|200}}</div> <div id="imageBlock" class="type_2" style="display:block;"><entrepreneurImage/></div> </div> <div class="tabs"> <div id="videoBlockButton" style="display:block;">Video</div> <div id="imageBlockButton" class="current">Image</div> </div> </div> <entrepreneurEOImage eo=1/> == Colin Christopher Campbell's Social Links == <ocialLinks/> == Profile == A serial internet entrepreneur, Colin Campbell and partners have built several internet companies including: Internet Direct Canada Inc (TMX: IDX), Tucows Ltd. (TC), and Hostopia.com (TMX: H) which sold to Deluxe Corporation in 2008. Colin's companies have won several awards including Profit magazine's 7th fastest growing company in Canada (1997), 2nd fastest growing company in Canada (1998), #1 fastest growing company (2005) and Inc magazine's top 500 fastest growing companies (2005). He has also been an active member of the internet community in the past serving as director for the Canadian Association of Internet Providers (CAIP), and the Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA), and has been a guest speaker at a number of Universities speaking on Entrepreneurship. Most recently Colin and partners continue to launch new companies including GeeksForLess.com , .Club Domains, LLC, Brisk Mobile, and SharkFinNetworks. In addition to his entrepreneurial endeavors he co-owner in Little Flower Montessori in Fort Lauderdale and recently launched EntrepreneurWiki. Colin, a Canadian citizen, is a graduate from the University of Toronto a major in commerce. He is married with two kids and resides in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. == Companies and Investments == Companies Founded Internet Direct Canada Inc. (TMX: IDX)(co-founder) Tucows Inc. (TC) (co-founder) Hostopia.com Inc. (TMX: H) (co-founder) GeeksForLess.com Inc. (co-founder) Sharkfin Networks (c0-founder) Brisk Mobile Inc. (c0-founder) .Club Domains, LLC (founder) Entrepreneur.wiki (co-founder) Notable Investments Anomolous Networks (sold to Tangoe) DBA Cases Moimstone == Lessons Learned == Learning the art of the Exit (Published in Octane 2009): Sometimes it takes a major loss to really learn a lesson. In my case, that loss was my business; which had taken me seven years to build. Over the course of a year, I lost more than US$100 million! How did this happen? At 23, I launched an Internet service provider with my brother— this was before “the Web” even existed. Five years later, with two businesses in tow, we were the kings of the Internet in Canada. When we sold both of our companies, we had more money than we could ever imagine. Expensive wine, cigars, houses— we lived the good life! Everything changed in a heartbeat. Some judge decided Microsoft didn’t have the right to rule the world, and the NASDAQ collapsed to below 4,000. The company that bought ours had to pull its offering and wait for the market to rebound. The stock, of which I had a little too much, went from being worth US$20 a share to just six cents a share, thanks in part to the dot-com bubble bursting. I couldn’t believe it! I had worked so hard, only to have it all fall apart. I lost everything. And it didn’t just affect me— most of my management team had become millionaires over night before losing it all. Though I was miserable, I had to find a way to let go. I began to put all my energy back into what I truly enjoyed: The Internet. I created a new company, Hostopia.com, and found success once more. What did I learn from my meteoric loss? That when faced with a monumental crisis, all you can really do is accept it and put yourself back in the game. I can’t change the past, but I can certainly apply what I learned from it. As a corollary, in August 2008, one month before the financial crisis hit, we sold Hostopia.com for US$120 million. And yes, this time the shareholders got all cash. Funding my very First Venture Excerpt from the book Start, Scale, Exit, Repeat (to be released in 2015): Rule #4: In the beginning there is really only one major source of funding you should pursue: raising money from yourself and partners. Warning: playing with the money of those closest to you is dangerous. Especially if you have not proven your concept. When I started my first company, I had little to no money but I was young and had a lot of drive. Fortunately, I was able to borrow $12,000 from my mother at a 10% interest. I couldn’t fathom losing her money and not repaying it so I created a back up plan to get a job should things not work out. Yes I rolled the dice. There are other methods to raise early funds today like government back loans, and crowdfunding. Most of these options were not available to me in the early nineties. At this stage I don’t recommend bringing in outside equity investors, especially those closest to you unless you have a way to pay them back if everything fails. 95% of all ventures fail and you are not doing them a favor taking them on a roller coaster ride. In addition, the more you can fund at the earliest stage, the more you will keep when things start to take off. My first business was funded by several sources including: credit cards, student loans, and a hard summer spent farming, and my mothers loan. Ultimately my business had to be shut down but I was able to keep it open long enough to start a new business. As a corollary, the government, the credit card company and my mother all were repaid with interest. And my mother got another pay day after we had proved the next concept. She invested $100,000 a couple years later earning her an almost 20 fold return. There is a time to bring friends and family in a big way once the model has been proven. Rule #5: When success is almost certain than consider friends, family and other investors. Until then find a way to prove the model with your own resources. == Inspiring Quotes == == Colin Christopher Campbell's Quotes == {{cquote|Only the obsessed change the world|author=[[:Category:Only the obsessed change the world|Colin Christopher Campbell]]}} {{cquote|Liquidity or Control!|author=[[:Category:Liquidity or Control!|Colin Christopher Campbell]]}} [[Category:Only the obsessed change the world|Only the obsessed change the world]] [[Category:Liquidity or Control!|Liquidity or Control!]] == Influential Books == [[:Category:Patrick Thean - Execution Without The Drama|Patrick Thean - Execution Without The Drama]] [[:Category:Jim Collins - Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap and Others Don't|Jim Collins - Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap and Others Don't]] [[:Category:Thomas L. Friedman - The World Is Flat 3.0: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century|Thomas L. 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Cool Hearses, Featured, Funeral Industry 2018-08-16
Cool Hearses, Funeral Hearses 2018-07-30
Hell’s 17th Annual Hearse Fest
This year marks the 17th annual Hearse Fest in Hell, Michigan. The annual event has become a popular gathering place for fans of funeral cars, custom and vintage hearses as well as those who simply enjoy funeral culture.
The event is slated to take place Saturday, September 15th and is organized by Just Hearse N Around, the local group of hearse enthusiasts.
This year, they have been going the extra mile when it comes to promotion since there will be a film crew on hand. Film director Steve Shippy has arranged to bring an entire film crew to film a full-length documentary. The crew will be focused on cars and interviewing owners as well as the culture surrounding hearses.
Vendors are also turning out in droves and are sure to appeal to everyone from serious professional collectors to casual fans and first time visitors. A partial list of vendors already confirmed include:
Deadly Grounds Coffee
Crooked Seams by lindsay J
Nicole’s Disturbed on Canvas
Zachariah Messiah’s Morbid Curiosities
Grave Digger Candles
Dead Sled Morgue LLC
Hardcore Hearse Club
Voodoo Doll’s Accessories
You can check out the latest news and developments as well as posts from fans over at the Hell’s Hearse Fest Facebook page.
Cool Hearses, Featured 2018-07-13
Collecting Hearses: Child’s Play
Funeral car fans may pine for a classic hearse or even plan their own customized dream funeral car but you don’t have to break the bank to start an amazing collection. Models and sets have made it easier than ever for all funeral car fans to begin developing their collections no matter what their budget.
Matchbox City Action ’63 Cadillac Hearse 1:64 Die Cast Car Model ($35.95, Amazon)
Most, if not all, of us remember Matchbox cars as being synonymous with race cars. But the toy car company knows that the kids who cut their teeth on race cars grow up to be gearheads with a soft spot for these nostalgic collectibles. This 1:64 scale die cast model is bound to please any funeral car fan with childhood memories of Matchbox cars. Reading through the comments, we found a special tidbit on this model. One reviewer reports that the car is “the one with the hand coming out of the coffin in back”. In order to see it if you decide to invest (and open the package) you’ll need to “look from the passenger side back, and everything is gray, but the coffin is open and a hand is out laying on the open lid”.
1921 Ford Model T Hearse with Ornate Carved Detail ($190.95, Rakuten)
This 1:18 detailed model is made by GreenLight toys as part of their Precision Collection. It comes complete with detailed replica coffin, rotating wheels and opening driver passenger and rear doors.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles T-Machines Rat King in Hearse Diecast Vehicle ($15, Gift Universal)
Hearse fans who grew up in the 80s and 90s are bound to fall in love with this throwback hearse model. The officially licensed TMNT model allows fans to take on Shredder and the Foot Clan with this “powerful line of T-Machines to save the streets of New York. Grab your Shell and Roll!”
Riding With The Munsters ($99.99, The Hamilton Collection)
What toy hearse collection would be complete without one of the most identifiable hearses of all time? This 1:18-Scale Hearse Sculpture features amazing detail.
Fully-sculpted 1930s-style hearse in oversized 1:18 collector scale
Gleaming chrome-look trim
Iconic skull hood ornament
Hand-numbered with a matching Certificate of Authenticity
Side images of the entire Munster clan – including Herman, Lily, Grandpa, Eddy and Marilyn
A three-dimensional Herman Munster “bursting” out through the roof
Nightmare Before Christmas Hearse ($99.99, The Hamilton Collection)
Speaking of eye catching hearses, consider this homage to Tim Burton’s holiday crossover classic A Nightmare Before Christmas. Inspired by the design of their Munster hearse, this officially licensed product features plenty of amazing details including the Pumpkin King himself, Jack Skellington, sitting stop the 1930s style hearse.
LEGO Vampyre Hearse ($72.50, Amazon)
This now-retired Lego set is in high demand but can still be found on sites like Amazon, eBay and other resale venues. Set features invclude:
Includes the Vampyre’s Hearse and Dr. Rodney Rathbone’s motorcycle
Moonstone accessory and 4 weapons
Coffin with catapult function
Dodge the Vampyre’s catapult attack
Measures over 4″ high, 3″ wide and 7″ long when complete
Cool Hearses 2018-06-30
Five Hearses Everyone Knows and Loves
There are plenty of examples of widely recognized cars but, when asked, many people may not immediately think of hearses as being a car everyone can recognize easily. but there are a handful of hearses that have become pop culture icons – as recognizable as The Bandit’s Trans Am.
1. Claire Fisher’s Green Funeral Coach (1971 S&S Victoria, Six Feet Under)
HBO’s award winning series, Six Feet Under, followed the lives of a funeral home family. The show ran for five seasons and Claire was the youngest member of the family. Claire used the lime green hearse as her daily ride throughout the show and it was routinely featured in promos and fan art for the show.
2. Harold’s Morbid Ride (1967 Jaguar XK-E Hearse 4.2 Series, Harold & Maude)
The 1971 cult classic Harold and Maude features two noteworthy hearses: a 1959 Cadillac Superior 3-way and a custom model he makes from a 1967 Jaguar XK-E Hearse 4.2 Series. The custom hearse has become a more recognizable hearse, though some car fans are quick to point out calling it a hearse is a bit of a stretch (pun intended).
3. John F. Kennedy’s Final Ride (1964 Cadillac Miller-Meteor)
Pretty much anything and everything John F. Kennedy touched quickly became worth its weight in gold after his tragic death. This was true of the car that carried him to his final resting place as well. The “cotillion white” 1964 Cadillac Miller-Meteor became an instant must have item for collectors of JFK memorabilia as well as hearse and funeral collectors. The car was sold at auction for $176,000 in 2012 to Stephen Tebo of Boulder, Colorado who reportedly added it to his private collection of more than 400 noteworthy vehicles.
4. Munster Koach (Custom Made, The Munsters)
The Munsters may not have transcended generations the same way the Addam’s Family did, but there’s no denying the campy monster family remains a cult favorite. The Munsters’ family car couldn’t have been anything but a hearse, but theirs simply couldn’t be a run of the mill hearse. Instead, producers had the Munster Koach custom made and used three Ford Model T bodies, making it 18 feet long. The car featured blood red interior and black pearl paint and it took artists 500 hours to hand-form the ornate rolled steel scroll work.
5. The Ecto-1 (1959 Cadillac Miller-Meteor, Ghostbusters)
Okay, okay .. let’s get one thing out of the way right off the bat. While it’s generally accepted as a hearse for the sake of arguments (and lists like this), it’s important to point out the car is, technically, an ambulance / hearse combination. Still, it’s probably the most recognizable “personal health car” in the country. The car has a long and interesting history and remains a fan favorite. In the highly debated reboot, the car was revamped as a Fleetwood hearse, making it officially a hearse in the Ghostbusters universe.
Fun Fact: The original Ecto-1 was notorious for having car problems. Scenes from Ghostbusters II where the car breaks down, backfires and starts billowing smoke on the Brooklyn Bridge were not the result of special effects. The car was, in fact, on its deathbed. The resulting traffic jam resulted in heavy fines for production and having the car converted for the rest of the film.
Cool Hearses, Funeral Cars, Funeral Industry 2017-10-23
Want to Control Your Hearse Fleet With your Smartphone? There’s an App for That!
Imagine, if you will, being in the middle of a funeral service and you pull out your iPhone. You open up the remote control app you have installed and start one of the hearses in your fleet. Then you push a button and the hearse wheels itself around to the front of the building and stops to wait for the pall bearers to carry the casket to the back of the vehicle. Amazing thought, isn’t it?
Well, you can’t do all of that with your iPhone, but you can start your hearse and control some of the functions on your vehicles with your iPhone.
The technology is courtesy a company called Delphi. Using Bluetooth technology, the company has created an app that allows you to remote start your vehicles through your key fob. You can also unlock doors and operate several other vehicle functions remotely.
This is a huge step forward from yesteryear, huh?
As a funeral director, you are always trying to make your processes more efficient and elegant. Your iPhone can now participate and make that happen for you and your business.
Delphi isn’t even the only company getting into the smartphone apps for car control. Viper SmartStart, for example, offers remote start, real time tracking and security features which can be useful for funeral directors managing a large fleet with multiple drivers.
The next time you speak to your funeral coach dealer, ask about the iPhone remote control app. Ask if they’ve heard of it. This technology is only bound to get better and that’s something to look forward to.
13 Photos That Prove Vintage Hearses are Still Cool
The first motorized hearses were produced in 1909. Prior to that hearses were horse-drawn. It wasn’t until 1920 that motorized hearses become more mainstream. Early on, some hearses also doubled as ambulances because of the large capacity in the back of the vehicle.
The majority of hearses in North America are Cadillacs and Lincolns. Mercedes-Benz, Daimler, Jaguar and Volvo are the main bases for the hearse in Europe.
Cadillac manufactured a “commercial chassis” which is a strengthened version of the typical passenger car to handle the extra bodywork weight, rear deck and cargo. Ford Motor sells a Lincoln Town Car that is built with expectations of becoming a hearse. Coachbuilders, manufacturer of bodies for automobiles, take the base of the car and put the finishing touches on that turns the vehicle into a working hearse.
Below are 13 late model hearses, each with their own distinctive appearance.
Photos via Bad Control
Cool Hearses, Funeral Cars 2017-08-03
Hearse Spotlight: The Thundertaker – A Killer Cadillac Custom Car
We thought it was high time we dedicated some space to admiring some of the amazing custom hearses out there today. For our first spotlight piece we’re looking at the Thundertaker, an amazing custom Cadillac hearse.
The 1960 Cadillac hearse Thundertaker shown below is the creation Bryan Fuller and his shop Fuller Hot Rods. Fuller is a longtime fan of hearses and frequently drove a hearse around as a form of transportation. Fuller craved a little more and the Thundertaker was born.
This Thundertaker rides on one of the longest hot rod chassis out there. Fuller and his team loaded this Cadillac with every entertainment electronics available. The leather and every bolt, top of the line. All in, Fuller estimates the project took well over 6,000 hours. “There was, at the very least, one guy on the car for 40 hours a week for three years,” Fuller says, “but the harder the build is, the more rewarding it is in the end.”
The 1960 Cadillac Superior Coachworks hearse certainly has come alive with this incredible customization job.
Do you know about a custom or otherwise amazing hearse we should spotlight in our series? Share it in the comments below!
Hearse Legends and Urban Myths (Hearse Legends – Part Three of a Three Part Series)
We hope you have been enjoying our exploration of hearse stories and legends of funeral cars. For our final installment of this series, we decided to do a small round-up of myths and legends from around the country. Each of these legends has its devout believers as well as its cynics and skeptics. In each case, the stories have been passed around for years – generations, even – and so have become part of the local culture and folklore history.
Archer Woods Cemetery – Chicago, Illinois
If you plan to visit this old cemetery at night, you may see a ghostly team of horses pulling a phantom hearse through the serene setting. Those who have seen it report it’s an extremely frightening sight, but there are still those who say it’s nothing more than the result of some healthy imaginations.
Sleepy Hollow Road – Louisville, Kentucky
With a name like Sleepy Hollow Road, you would expect a plethora of strange occurrences. Several modern-day ghost stories happen along this road, including one story of a ghostly black hearse that follows cars that pass by. The hearse not only follows the cars, but it also causes them to run off the road and over a cliff. According to sightings, the hearse begins following as soon as you enter the road. It then increases in speed, causing the driver of the car to lose control until it plunges into the 30-foot ravine that runs alongside Sleepy Hollow Road.
American Fork Canyon (Wasatch Mountains, Utah)
Locals often mention American Fork Canyon when discussing haunted places in Utah. The local legend says that people who drive in a circle three times at the top of Tibble Fork don’t leave the park alone. Once the circles are done and people pull out of the parking lot, they see a ghostly hearse following them.
How do you feel about these legends? Are you a firm believer in them or do you just find them an interesting part of American folklore? Leave us a comment and let us know your thoughts or share your own local hearse myths and legends!
The Haunted Mansion Hearse (Hearse Legends – A Three Part Series)
Hearses and funeral cars are probably the most storied vehicles in the history of our culture. Even before the modern-day hearses, the mystique of death and the horse-drawn carriage has always grabbed peoples’ attention. That’s why there are so many legends about hearses and funeral cars in our society. We would like to explore some of those legends of funerals cars in a multi-part blog series. We hope you will enjoy this and learn something new at the same time.
The Haunted Mansion Hearse
One of the most common legends concerning a hearse takes us to Disney’s Haunted Mansion ride. Before entering the ride, an old-fashioned horse-drawn hearse provides an ominous feeling to those wanting a thrill. According to legend and rumors, this is the same carriage that transported the body of Brigham Young, the president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. His funeral took place in 1877, making this hearse more than a century old.
It’s a detail passed around Disney fans for years and is often accepted at face value. After all, there are dozens of stories passed around about Disney history. The fact that this one involves a hearse has made it especially appealing to generations of visitors. The blend of Disneyworld whole fun with the macabre is simply too good to pass up. Although this is one of the most prominent hearse legends, it is not true.
Glen M. Leonard, director of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’ buytramadolbest.com Museum of Church History and Art, went on the record in an attempt to dispel the myth once and for all. He confirmed that “historical evidence shows no hearse was used,” before going on to tell the story of Brigham Young’s real funeral transportation.
Brigham Young had set out a specific set of instruction he expected to be carried out long before his death in August of 1877. When Young passed away, those explicit directions were carried out by his staff. Among the directions had been the naming of pall bearers taken from his pool of clerks and employees. These men were selected to carry Young’s body from its death bed to the Tabernacle in preparation for his funeral. After the funeral, those same pall bearers carried Young’s body to a nearby private cemetery. Simply put, there were no wheeled vehicles of any kind, horse-drawn or otherwise, used in the funeral of Brigham Young.
Exposing this urban legend doesn’t dispel the mystery around the hearse however. The lineage of the Haunted Mansion hearse can only be traced back to its purchase by Disney from Dale Rickards, a collector in Malibu. Earlier records for the hearse had disappeared and the manufacturer’s plate had been removed. This makes it impossible to trace the hearse’s history any further and, as a result, ripe for speculation. So while it certainly wasn’t used in the funeral of Brigham Young, that doesn’t mean it’s history is any less intriguing.
10 Custom Hearses That Could Make Your Last Trip the Best One Yet
Normally when people see a hearse going down the road, they’re just glad they aren’t the one getting that final ride. But then there are hearses that just might give you some second thoughts. Okay, so that might be a bit of an overstatement but, if nothing else, these amazing customized hearses prove that your final ride doesn’t have to be the worst.
While most choose traditional hearse options there are many cool customized hearses on the road today. Often, these hearses aren’t used for traditional funeral services – but they could be. Today, many of these cars are private vehicles used simply for fun, but with funeral options growing year on year, it may be only a matter of time before we begin to see them as being offered for specialized services.
Da Bears Hearse
For Die-Hard Fans
Motorcycle Hearse
For the Motorcycle Enthusiast
The Gothic Hearse
From the Mad Max set
The Drag Racing Hearse
Do you want to race?
Bicycle Hearse
Great on Fuel
Sidecar Hearse
For that final ride into the sunset
The Hearse Camper
There’s definitely room to lay down!
Hot Rod Hearse
When you need to get there fast
Off Road Hearse
Tough Terrain, no problem
Toyota Prius Hearse
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László Tolcsvay, composer
Mysterious Island
(On Tivadar Csontváry Kosztka's Mysterious Island)
Being a musician, I’ll forbear dabbling in art criticism and want to relate only the excitement and calm that filled my heart when I saw the picture.
You cannot tell whether the storm that batters the island on the canvas is coming or going. My impression is that it has just arrived, but the sun is already shining behind the clouds. Otherwise the small sailboat, full of hope, would hardly have ventured out to a sea whose surface is still unruffled. The merry-go-round of the riders on the wall is already bathed in light.
Nor are the mysterious creatures of the island troubled by the tempest. They are dancing, knowing there is no danger because sunlight glows in all of Csontváry’s pictures, and it will always give warmth to the small realm behind the walls.
What else could encourage the angel-anointed Hungarian genius of the “way of the sun” for creative work?
A monastery is also a mysterious island, as isolated as Csontváry’s dream surrounded by the sea. If the world outside is now tempestuous, now peaceful, ceaseless prayer within guards the truth.
I had seen the monastery in Bánfalva before the reconstruction, ruined, looted, disgraced, abandoned. I am always saddened when the faithless destroy something, acting on barbaric impulses, creating an inarticulate frenzy around themselves. They do so because, hiding in the tempestuous darkness of their souls, they think they are invisible.
There is, however, one thing they forget. There will always be someone who is watchful, in whose heart trust and hope, the “way of the sun,” feed an undying fire. When the opportunity arises, he will collect his allies and march his perfervid knights to serve salvation and talent. He will build, reform, create. To the glory of God.
Here I stand, with a rapturous heart, under the beams of the Novitiate Hall, which are decorated with ancient motifs, and I feel that from now on the same sun will shine on us again that shone on the Paulists.
Fiery and bright, as if the storm had left the island on Csontváry’s painting for good.
Grace shines in the hearts when someone creates with an elevated soul, full of virtue and faith.
Zoltán Cser, Buddhist teacher
Crimson and Emerald
(On Lajos Gulácsy's Crimson and Emerald)
Looking at man, we can observe two types of action. First, we have hands and feet, so we can manipulate and walk, just as we have organs that enable us to talk or song. Sensation is the other type of action, most of the organs of which are situated on our heads, arranged vertically in a particular order, with the eyes on top, etc. As the eyes can see, so the soul has a way of looking at things. What I mean is that our selves exist in mostly in images, our nature is defined by visions, memories, worldviews and outlooks. There are, in other words, many types of images, some of which can be found in the deepest recesses of the soul, which we can call symbols or archetypes. Archetypes are very important at times when humanity forgets about fundamental ethical values, has no respect for other humans, for nature, creation and beauty, engaged in an endless rush that only destroys man and his environment, whilst becoming more and more superficial spiritually. Archetypes are there to warn us that man is but a minute part of nature; it is possible to live in harmony with it, and it offers its wonders for contemplation as a young girl contemplates the archetypal images of the sunset or the sunrise on a windswept beach. Whether it is a sunset or the sunrise, it is impossible to tell, the colours whisper, sky, sea, land, they have another miracle as a part, man, we only need to learn to stop. Crimson and emerald, crimson and emerald. We need to learn to stop.
László Hollós, Buddhist teacher
(On Béla Kondor's The Prophet)
I know they are not one.
They are not even contemporaneous. Merely brought
together by chance.
They are nonetheless like one, belong together
in my eyes like the two pictures of a diptych.
Departure and arrival.
The red and gold lights of dawn, the ecstasy of hearing the word uttered,
the sunlight halo radiating from the fingers of the raised hand.
The state of creation.
Power, will, confrontation, action. As if he grabbed the axis
around which the world turns.
The cool blue of sunset.
The motionless calm of arrival.
The wings are not opened for soaring, they no longer serve
leaving the earth behind.
They mark the direction: the way is upwards.
On the figure of the prophet, the pattern of the skeleton of the mortal body.
On the body of the angel, the force lines of a crystal structure
invisible to the eye.
Calm, understanding, brightness, balance.
He no longer wants to change the world: it is he who has changed.
He has found his place.
He is the axis around which the world turns.
The one who will move on is the one he still holds in his arms.
He will set out to travel the new cycle.
He will be the new Prophet, and he may become the new Angel.
Csaba Asztalos, M. D.
Icarus Tree
(On Menyhért Tóth's Icarus Tree)
I was a bit anxious when I arrived at the monastery, having presumptions of a great experience at the exhibition. While I reach the Novitiate Hall among the ancient walls, passing the yard, the fountain, the cloister, I am overwhelmed by the past, the spirit of history. Bygone times whisper from every nook, and I feel as if the hermit monks had made this a condition to have the experience: I must leave the outside world, earthly being, behind.
I enter the Novitiate Hall (for me, it is not an exhibition hall – it would be unworthy of the place to call it so) as a foreign onlooker, but upon seeing the beams, the carved ornaments and symbols, the pictures on the walls, it all looks familiar!
I get under its influence, I am under its influence!
I stand before Menyhért Tóth’s pictures, musing, unaware of the passing moments... I should remember my life, I do not need to accept this, but here even the insensitive starts feeling, the faithless suddenly starts believing. I begin to envy the monks who once lived here: theirs was a life permeated with intellect, the profundity of ideas, as are these works of art. Looking at them, I see into the world and lives of the “invisible travellers.” In the Novitiate Hall, before the works, I am ready to believe that art is divine creation, the reflection of human and divine ideas and messages, the way to sense depthless being, help to experience the ways of “dimensions.” Nothing is spelled out, this art only presents and invites us to confront, yet anxiousness and order rule the pictures, reinterpreting the sense of mortality. It intensifies my desire for peace and harmony, because we live buried in the world we create. With He who walks on water, I could sense the radiation of that higher world, spirituality, which defines our lives and fates.
For a work of art to be able to represent the experiences and emotions of the human spirit, it does not need to comply with any written or unwritten rules. Whether their tools were simple, even naive, or pointed towards abstraction, the two works led me to the spiritual, magical ideas of being.
Péter Müller, author
(On Zsuzsa Péreli's Aequilibrium)
You cannot, you must not, talk about a picture.
I have always considered it a vain and foolish attempt to exchange
the message of an Image for the small coins of words.
It spoils the work.
An image conveys more than ideas and emotions:
an image conveys an Image.
Stop before Zsuzsa Péreli’s gobelin, Aequilibirum.
And look.
Forget where you are. Forget the other pictures, drawings, paintings,
the people around you – and look.
And see!
Do not think of anything, do not feel anything, and above all,
do not try to convert in yourself your experiences into words,
because you will immediately kill the magic of the work.
After a while – if you look and see correctly –, the distance between you
and the work will disappear.
You enter the image.
You become the Angel.
Earth and Sky will also be a part of you.
Your two hands will become the hands of the Angel.
One is the Earth-hand, the other the Sky-hand.
You can feel the mystery of the thread on your fingertips.
You hold the Universe together.
You do not need much.
Two thin threads will suffice.
An Earth-thread and a Sky-thread.
You, the Angel?
You float.
To hold the Universe together – it is easy.
A trifle.
And as you lead what it above into what is below, and what is below
into what is above, you have a very rare experience.
You find calm.
A calm you have never had.
This is not human calm.
Or angelic calm.
This is Divine calm.
Now you can take your eyes off the work.
You can even forget about it, if you like.
You have become the Angel.
Masterworks redeem the soul.
Tibor Almási, art historian
Commonly called the “grand dame” of modern Hungarian textile art, Zsuzsa Péreli has earned the epithet with an oeuvre which over the decades revitalized this means of self-expression, a form that boasts a venerable tradition in her country’s art. The development of Péreli’s inimitable, unmistakable art has been continuous, its trajectory unbroken. Since as early as the beginning of the 1980s, her original vision and her pioneering work, which sought to reform, as well as to find recognition for, the genre, have been repeatedly acknowledged with professional honours and awards. In 1980 she won the main prize of the Wall and Space Textile Biennial, and its special prize in 1990; in 1981 she was awarded the Munkácsy Prize, and in 1998 the For Hungarian Art Prize; in 2008 she received the Artist of Merit of the Republic of Hungary Award; and in 1994 she was elected a member of the Széchenyi Academy of Literature and Arts.
Zsuzsa Péreli’s early work seeks to evoke the mood of an early-20th century milieu by transposing yellowed, tattered photographs into an artistic medium. She went on to apply objects to the tapestries, which were somehow typical of their age and contributed essentially to the meaning of the works, while also functioning as atmospheric elements. These works opened new directions for the genre, investing the tapestry with the standing of an art object. As in the case of many more artists, the political transition brought a fundamental turn in Péreli’s work. The elements and experiences of physical reality gave way to a different creative intention, one that sought to reflect a different world view. An essential aspect of the latter is a departure from the everyday towards the sublime, towards sentiments that can be experienced in the spiritual sphere. The works of this period translate these feelings into the formal idiom of textile, and are dominated by icon-inspired representations of the Madonna, and other emotionally charged pieces of a more solemn mood, with more abstract subjects and messages. Aequilibrium, a large (220x160 cm) tapestry made in 2000–2001 is one of the fist, and still one of the most beautiful, pieces in this series, a compelling demonstration of the artist’s unique sense of calling. The very arrangement of the composition answers to the appeal of the titular equilibrium, with a formal harmony of vertical and horizontal structures. The very definite horizontality of the dynamic blue sky, which directs the gaze, and of the hilly land that occupies the lower section of the work, is balanced by the perpendicular, brownish woollen threads that suggest a region between the heavens and the earth. It is in this carefully considered and visually harmonic frame of a landscape that the vehicle of the work’s intellectual content appears: an angel with vast wings who hovers between heaven and earth, linking the material world with the transcendental, the physical with the spiritual. In addition to its central position, the angel’s role of establishing a connection is further emphasized by a straight blue and red ray or line that connects its hands with the sky and the earth, respectively. According to the symbolism of colours, blue represents the intellect, a spiritual, superhuman, heavenly force, while red signifies life and mortality, worldly existence. From this perspective, Aequilibrium has multiple layers, admits different approaches and interpretations. It is probably fair to assume that Péreli intended this impressive and spectacular composition to be a reminder in this overly material-minded world that more is necessary for a complete life and the much-treasured self-realization than earthly goods and pleasures: while maintaining moderation and a balance, we must fully embrace the possibilities that a spiritual life offers.
(Published: Almási, Tibor: "Péreli Zsuzsa: Aequilibrium". In: Jog, állam, politika, year IV, 1/2012. pp. 163-164.)
Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main
Ino and Melicertes
(On Markó, Károly the Elder's Ino and Melicertes Tumbling into the Sea)
Greek mythology was one of the Hungarian Romantic Markó's central subjects. In the myth Melicertes dies, when in a frenzy his mother Ino throws him into a basin with boiling water. Having composed herself again, Ino recognises her deed and together with her beloved child's body she throws herself of a cliff into the sea. Mother and son then become the sea gody Leucothea and Palaemon.
János Jerneyei Kiss, art historian
(On Mányoki, Ádám's Portrait of the Wife of Ferenc Rákóczi II, Charlotte Amalie, Princess of Hessen-Rheinfels)
— Translation coming soon.
(Published: Vonzások és változások / Affinities and Transformations. Exhibition catalogue. Ed.: Fertőszögi, Péter–Szinyei Merse, Anna. Budapest, Kovács Gábor Art Foundation–Hungarian National Museum, 2013. pp. 5-6)
Fruits, birds
(On Jacob Bogdany's still lives)
(Published: Vonzások és változások / Affinities and Transformations. Exhibition catalogue. Ed.: Fertőszögi, Péter–Szinyei Merse, Anna. Budapest, Kovács Gábor Art Foundation–Hungarian National Museum, 2013. p. 6)
Gabriella Szvoboda Dománszky, art historian
Csokonai
(On Stunder, János Jakab's Portrait of Mihály Csokonai Vitéz)
(Published: Vonzások és változások / Affinities and Transformations. Exhibition catalogue. Ed.: Fertőszögi, Péter–Szinyei Merse, Anna. Budapest, Kovács Gábor Art Foundation–Hungarian National Museum, 2013. p. 32)
Tivadar Csontváry Kosztka: Mysterious Island, circa 1903
Lajos Gulácsy: Crimson and Emerald, 1906
Béla Kondor: The Phrophet, 1969
Menyhért Tóth: Icarus Tree, late 1950s
Zsuzsa Péreli: Aequilibrium, 2000–01
Markó, Károly the Elder: Ino and Melicertes Tumbling into the Sea, circa 1830
Mányoki, Ádám: Portrait of the Wife of Ferenc Rákóczi II, Charlotte Amalie, Princess of Hessen-Rheinfels, 1707
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Wild Cards: Death Draws Five
Synopsis of Wild Cards: Death Draws Five
An original novel set in the widely popular Wild Cards world created by science fiction scion George R.R. Martin. Edited by Hugo award winning and New York times bestselling Author, George R.R. Martin.
It's really quite simple. Mr. Nobody wants to do his job. The Midnight Angel wants to serve her Lord. Billy Ray, dying from boredom, wants some action. John Nighthawk wants to uncover the awful secret behind his mysterious power. Fortunato wants to rescue his son from the clutches of a cryptic Vatican office. John Fortune just wants to catch Siegfried and Ralph's famous Vegas review. The problem is that all roads, whether they start in Turin, Italy, Las Vegas, Hokkaido, Japan, Jokertown, Snake Hill, the Short Cut, or Yazoo City, Mississippi, lead to Leo Barnett's Peaceable Kingdon where the difference between the Apocalypse and Peace on Earth is as thin as a razor's edge and where Death himself awaits the final terrible turn of the card.
Wild Cards: Death Draws Five is an original novel set in this shared world utilizing characters from other Wild Card adventures.
Reviews of Wild Cards: Death Draws Five
With Miller's considerable talent fully employed, it's like the Wild Cards never left...and readers can hope they won't be gone so long ever again. -- Drew Bittner, SFRevu
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Main Rules
TSR Item # 7514 ISBN: 1-56076-401-5 Year: 1992
by Bruce Nesmith and James M. Ward
Tame the wild frontiers of Gamma Terra in the Gamma World post-holocaust science-fantasy game! Play a pure strain human or a mutated human, animal, or plant with wild and unique powers. Find and master the artifacts of the Ancients. Survive encounters with the mutant horrors that stalk the land. Revised 4th Edition rules emphasize clarity and elegant game mechanics. Includes a complete campaign background with a color campaign map. Features new character classes: enforcers, espers, examiners, and scouts.
Gamma Knights (Boxed Set)
by Dale 'Slade' Henson
Face the dangers of Gamma Terra in the most potent weapon system of the Ancients--powered battle armor! Battle mutant monsters, rampaging robots, and the ultimate challenge of other Gamma Knights. Choose a standard suit and start play instantly or custom design a suit for maximum power. Designed to be both a fast-playing boardgame and a supplement to the popular Gamma World science-fantasy role-playing game. Features colorful stand-up playing pieces, counters, and full-size color maps. No previous experience with the Gamma World game is necessary to play.
Treasures Of The Ancients (GWA1)
This accessory includes the following: Weapons, bombs, grenades, and other military systems, including the lethal Mark XII Blaster. Vehicles, civilian and military, occupational and recreational, including the fun but dangerous Pogo Platform. Medical products to aid characters in their adventures, including the rare and wonderful Life Chamber. Dozens of robots, including the Exterminator and the Devastator--two robotic devices that will make the most powerful mutants cringe in fear. An additional suit of powered armor.
The Overlord of Bonparr (GWA2)
Within Bonparr, the Ranks of the Fit rule supreme. Outside Bonparr, the Ranks will soon rule! Bonparr is one of the mightiest empires in the heartland. It is ruled by the powerful cryptic alliance, the Ranks of the Fit, a paramilitary organization of mutated animals. Tied together by a network of ancient roads and held by force of arms, Bonparr is a well-regulated state in a sea of turmoil. It is presently at peace, bu threatens to boil over on the death of its aging overlord. Features deatiled descriptions of steaming Magmatap, the robot-prowled remains of Gruesome Afbayz, and the blasted, irradiated crater of Napless. This folder package contains a 64 page book describing the land of Bonparr, a 32 page book describing the unaligned territory on Bonparr's borders, and a full size full color map of the region from the Ascension to the Soto River.
Mutant Master (GWQ1)
by Bruce Nesmith
Secreted away in his hideout, the Mutant Master makes his plans. "Fellow New Men!" he cries out to the crowd before him. A roar of approval rises before he can continue. "We have bided our time, waiting for the opportunity to move forward into a new and glorious day. We have tolerated the scorn and derision of lesser races, knowing that one day, we would reign supreme!" Another roar engulfs the Mutant Master. He raises his arms for silence, his blue skin glistening in the sun. "Today, we begin the conquest of the world!" The cheer is deafening as the New Men surge forward, ready to show their loyalty for the Mutant Master, eager to do his bidding. The world doesn't know how much trouble it is in..." Characters encounter altered ones and living metal while searching the hostile wilderness for hidden secrets of the ancients! They try to penetrate the blue man's renegade Iron Society enclave to uncover the mystery of the Yorkum Tulrkel! This adventure for the new 4th Edition QAMMA WORLD game is designed for three to six characters of 1st to 3rd level. Mutant Master is an excellent tool for beginning a new GAMMA WORLD campaign, either based in Ascension in Gamma Terra, or adapted into a GM'S personally designed world. It is recommended that the character group have at least one Altered Human.
All Animals Are Equal (GWQ2)
Three-hundred years after the end of civilization, the creatures are running the zoo. Home to a bewildering array of talking, intelligent creatures, the ZOO has turned into a melting pot of political intrigue, assassination, and homicide. The factions bicker end battle over territory, food, water, and power. Here in the zoo, humans are the outsiders. But when player characters enter the scene, they are welcomed as the means of upsetting the balance of power. The Pride, the Troop, and every other faction seem to have a past wound or old humiliation to settle. See what zoo politics can really be with All Animals Are Equal. In the Zoo, only power matters! Get as much as possible, however possible! Characters are drawn into the delicately balanced world of animal politics, where tooth and claw often take a back seat to treaties and promisies; They must weave their way through this maze of alliances, feuds, and diplomacy, carefully considering when to stay neutral and when to take sides; The zoo can easily be positioned in any campaign world; This 64-page adventure includes new mutations, new technology, and new weapons; The adventure is designed for 3 to 6 characters of levels 4 to 6.
Home Before the Sky Falls (GWQ3)
by Beach, Bittner, Eastland, and Reigel
The fate of Bonparr hangs in the balance... and the key to the past is within reach! Characters are drafted into the army of Bonparr for a special mission to investigate the stories of a terrifying war machine that is devastating the lands to the west. Not only must this formidable machine be defeated, but the PCs must discover its origin and the reason behind its rampage. In fact, that may be the only way to stop it; The adventure can easily be positioned in any GAMMA WORLD campaign; This 64-page adventure includes data on the awesome Excelsior Class RMV battlesuit and previously unknown information about the fate of Grissom Air Force Base; The adventure is usable by characters of low to mid levels.
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Female Poets of The First World War
List of Female Poets
Jelena Spiridonovic-Savic (1891 – 1974 –Serbian poet
In order to highlight the global impact of the war I have
tried to find poets from as many countries as possible. For that reason
some of the poems included in this project are not about WW1.
The Austro-Hungarian Empire invaded Serbia in late July 1914. Serbia's victory at the Battle of Cer in August 1914 was the first victory for the Entente Powers in the First World War.
In all, Serbia lost 1,100,000 people during the War - civilians and military deaths.
Jelena was born on 11th January 1891 into a family of doctors – her parents were Michael and Olga Spiridonovic. After leaving school, Jelena continued her studies at the French College in Trieste before travelling to New York, Milan and Vienna to study philosophy.
Jelena married Vladislav Savic, Consul General of Yugoslavia, who was also a poet and writer. He started the Socialist Party of Serbia in 1903.
Jelena, who published her first volume of poetry in 1926, was a member of the Pen Club and the Society of Writers of Serbia. She died in Belgrade in September 1974.
Sunce (Translation: Sun)
I ponesi me,
ponesi tako, u sjajnom
dugorn putu
tvoga zlaćanog zrak
O, Sunce,
Svetlosti moćne
vodi me
iz Carstva mraka.
First published in “Saa Uskih Staza” (Tr. From the Narrow Paths) (Belgrade, Izdanje SB Cvijanovica, 1919
Flora Sandes WW1
For information about Flora Sandes, the English woman who fought for Serbia during WW1, please see www.inspirationalwomenofww1.blogspot.co.uk
Posted by Lucy at 04:39
Akiko Yosano (1878 – 1942) – Japanese Poet, writer, feminist, pacifist and social reformer
Japan was one of Britain's allies during the First World War
Akiko Yosano was the pen-name of the Japanese writer, poet, feminist, pacifist and social reformer Sho Ho, who was born on 7th December 1878 in Sakai near Osaka to a wealthy family. Her father realised his daughter's intelligence and allowed her to have a good education. Akiko began writing poetry as a teenager.
When she was eleven years old Akiko was in charge of the family business making and selling Japanese sweets.
In 1901, Akiko married Tekan Yosano, who edited the poetry magazine "Myojo" (Translation: "Bright Star") a publication in which many of Akiko's poems were printed. She also had her first volume of poems published in 1901.
Akiko wrote a tremendous number of poems and essays and worked tirelessly for the cause of women's education, helping to found a school for girls - the Bunka Gaguin. She died at the age of 63 on 29th May 1942, leaving a legacy of tens of thousands of poems. Her poem "Thou shalt not die" dedicated to her brother during the Russo-Japanese War, was set to music and became a protest song. Akiko Yosano is buried on the outskirts of Tokyo.
Thou shalt not die
O my young brother, I cry for you
Don't you understand you must not die!
You who were born the last of all
Command a special store of parents' love
Would parents place a blade in children's hands
Teaching them to murder other men
Teaching them to kill and then to die?
Have you so learned and grown to twenty-four?
O my brother, you must not die!
Could it be the Emperor His Grace
Exposeth not to jeopardy of war
But urgeth men to spilling human blood
And dying in the way of wild beasts,
Calling such death the path to glory?
If His Grace possesseth noble heart
What must be the thoughts that linger there?
Members of the Japanese Red Cross Corps leaving for Britain c. 1916
Jean McKishnie Blewett (1872 - 1934) - Canadian journalist, author and poet
Jean Blewett featured in the very first exhibition of Female Poets of the First World War held in November 2012 at The Wilfred Owen Story, Wirral, UK, which featured her poem “What Time the Morning Stars Arise”
Jean Blewett was born Janet McKinshie in Scotia, Kent County, Ontario. Her parents, John McKishnie and his wife Janet, nee MacIntyre were Scottish - from Argyllshire. Educated in local schools and at St. Thomas Collegiate Institute, Jean began writing at an early age and published her first novel in 1890 and her first collection of poems in 1897. She also wrote under the pen-name Katherine Kent. Jean’s brother, Archie P. McKishnie, was also a well-known writer.
Jean married Bassett Blewett, who was from Cornwall. She joined the editorial staff of “The Globe”, a Toronto newspaper and in 1898 she became editor of the newspaper’s Homemakers Department. Jean also wrote for “Everywoman’s World” in Toronto.
In 1919, assisted by the Imperial Order of the Daughters of the Empire, she published a booklet titled Heart Stories to benefit war charities. Jean also regularly lectured on topics such as temperance and suffragism. She retired from journalism in 1925 and died in Chatham, Ontario on 19th August 1934.
“Canadian Poems of the Great War” Chosen and Edited by John W. Garvin (McClelland & Stewart Publishers, Toronto, 1918)
https://archive.org/stream/canadianpoems00garvuoft/canadianpoems00garvuoft_djvu.txt
Mount Cavell
Look yonder where the Rose of Sunset leans
A Blessed Damosel on golden stair-
Whose lightest touch illumes, incaradines,
And kindles flames of splendour everywhere.
Mount Cavell but a little time ago
Seemed typical of majesty severe,
Aloof, far-off, with diadem of snow-
Lo, gone the grimness, and the air austere !
The Rose of Sunset in a shining mood
Has paused to touch him with her fingers warm,
To weave her crimson petals in a hood,
For his great head, with all her subtle charm.
For cloak she shakes from out her royal lap
Whole webs of vapour, soft, of silken mist,
The rarest colours ever dyed, mayhap,
Mauve pink, and Persian rose, and amethyst.
With blues of many shades, blues somber, gay,
Blending together in a dream of light,
The sun-thrilled blue of perfect summer day,
The star-kissed blue of perfect winter night.
That rarest blue, in midnight vision given
To such as vigil keep, for His dear sake,
Who see across the flowery meads of heaven
The shining pathway that the angels take.
Fair, fair, this cloak the Rose of Sunset weaves,
Ere the invading twilight dulls and blurrs,
Weaves out of golden mist and ruby leaves,
While all the glamour of the skies are hers.
Mount Cavell did we dare to call thee grim
When first we saw thee standing bald and bare,
Ere vet this glory clothed thee like a dream,
Kindled to lip a thousand beauties fair?
Nay, grandeur is thine own staunch and immoved
Thou standest forth a splendid monument
To her, the brave, the steadfast, the beloved
Who sleeps upon a foreign shore, content.
A monument the years will not efface
A speaking monument that will extoll
A woman s tenderness, and truth, and grace,
The strength and courage of a woman s soul.
The Rose of Sunset steals away to sleep,
And, following in her train of palest gold,
Are soft-veiled, fleecy clouds like flocks of sheep
That hurrying go to find some far-off fold.
Above Mount Cavell mark the shadows grey,
Shot through with one great opal tinted bar;
And just between the darkness and the day
Gleams down upon the hills one silver star.
Jean Blewett
Mount Edith Cavell is a mountain located in the Athabasca River and Astoria River valleys of Jasper National Park, and the most prominent peak entirely within Alberta, Canada. The mountain was named in 1916 in memory of British nurse Edith Cavell.
The Wilfred Owen Story and Study Centre is currently in The West Kirby Arts Centre, 29 Brookfield Gardens, West Kirby, Wirral, UK, CH48 4EL. Tel.:
07539 371925. The WOS is the first permanent exhibition to commemorate the genius of the Peninsula’s most famous adopted son.
Sylvia Townsend Warner (1893 – 1978) - British writer and poet; WW1 munitions worker
Sylvia Nora Townsend Warner was born in Harrow on the Hill, Middlesex, UK on 6th December 1893. Her parents were George Townsend Warner and his wife Eleanor Mary, née Hudleston, who was known as Nora. George was a house-master at Harrow School and was associated with the prestigious Harrow History Prize which was renamed the Townsend Warner History Prize in his honour, after his death in 1916.
Educated at home by her father, Sylvia worked in a munitions factory during the First World War. She died on 1st May 1978, leaving a legacy of a large volume of literary works.
Syvlia’s WW1 poetry collection was entitled “The Espalier: poems” (Chatto & Windus, London, 1925).
If you live near London, UK, you will be able to hear some of Sylvia’s war-time poems at an event organised by Boulevard Theatre and Live Canon Ensemble: War Poets, Sunday, 10th November 16h.30 at The New Boulevard Theatre, 6 Walker's Court, Soho, W1F 0BT, UK To book tickets please follow this link https://boulevardtheatre.co.uk/…/sunday-service-poetry-10-…/
This performance by the Live Canon ensemble showcases several centuries of war poetry. The programme features well-known poems from the First World War, including work by Sylvia Townsend Warner, May Herschel Clarke, Edith Sitwell, Helen Dircks, Eva Dobell. Rupert Brooke, Edward Thomas, Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen and work from other conflicts - the Crimea, Second World War, Vietnam, Iraq, Liberia and Afghanistan - and foregrounds some of the most extraordinary war poetry by women from every generation. Live Canon perform from memory – these are not readings – and this is a rare opportunity to hear this collection of poetry performed live.
To book tickets please follow this link
https://boulevardtheatre.co.uk/whats-on/sunday-service-poetry-10-november/?fbclid=IwAR0khNmJ1o7QugvLcNuoQirS3qpVB7x_ZzUhCjW1uBWGlQxvadF5dJfJ7XY
Sources: Catherine W. Reilly “English Poetry of the First World War: A Bibliography” (St. Martin’s Press, New York, 1978) p. 328.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvia_Townsend_Warner
Photo from https://theblankgarden.com/2017/12/05/sylvia-townsend-warner/
Grace D. Vanamee (1867 – 1946) - American Suffragist, Teacher, Writer and Poet
Grace Davis was born on 15th September 1876 in North Adams, Massachusetts, United States. Her parents were George Davis and his wife Electra, nee Magoon.
Grace graduated from Drury High School, North Adams in 1894 then attended Bliss Business College in 1895 before going to Emerson College Oratory, Boston, in 1899, where she followed a post-graduate course in 1900.
Grace then became a platform reader and lecturer and taught in private schools from 1901-1907. She was a lecturer in city schools in New York, and Brooklyn Institute Arts and Sciences, 1907-1909. In 1909, Grace married lawyer William Vanamee, a widower who died in 1914.
During the First World War, Grace was Assistant to the chairman of the American Poets’ Ambulance Committee and secretary of the Italian War Relief Committee of New York.
From 1915 Grace was connected with the American Academy Arts and Letters, becoming assistant to the president from 1921-1941 and assistant secretary and assistant treasurer of the National Institute of Arts and Letters, 1925-1940. She served as acting director of the Hall of Fame in 1920.
In 1920, Grace became Chairman of the Republican Women’s State Speaker’s Bureau and a member Women’s Republican State Committee.
Grace died on 10th December 1946.
Grace's poem "The Sequel - He kept his Rendezvous with Death" was first published in the magazine “The Art World” - January 1917, Volume 1, No. 4 – reproduced by kind permission of Matt Jacobsen, editor of the website www.oldmagazinearticles.com
Here is a link to a report about the American Poets Ambulance Committee in WW1:
https://archive.org/stream/americanpoetsamb00john/americanpoetsamb00john_djvu.txt
Anna Jakobsen a Danish poet who wrote a poem about her son who was killed
With grateful thanks to the wonderful Pike Grey on Twitter who not only found this poem for me but also translated it from the original Danish. Another WW1 Mother's anguish ...
From Pike Grey 1914-1918 @PikeGrey1418
"My Boy" a short Danish wartime poem written by Anna Jakobsen, a mother of a fallen soldier from the Danish minority in Schelswig who were compelled to fight in the German army.
I've translated is as close to the original as I could.
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Ella Dunnington Jefferson (1888 – 1934) - WW1 VAD and poet
Ella's Red Cross Record Card
It is always exciting to find a hitherto undiscovered poem – here is one, written by Ella Dunnington Jefferson during the First World War - with thanks to Historian Debbie Cameron for this post and to Anne Houson of Clements Hall History Group for sending me the full poem.
Before World War One, the world famous York firm, T. E. Cooke, had been making scientific instruments and equipment for the military, including rangefinders and surveying equipment. They opened a new factory in Bishophill in York in 1915 and took on women to help with production. Ella Dunning Jefferson was one of those women.
Ella Dunnington Jefferson (1888 – 1934) was born in York, Yorkshire, UK in May 1888. Her parents were Mervyn Dunnington Jefferson, a former Army officer and Justice of the Peace, and his wife, Louisa Dunnington Jefferson, nee Barry. Ella had two older sisters and a younger brother.
The family lived in Middlethorpe Hall, Middlethorpe, Yorkshire until 1911, when they moved to Thicket Priory, near Thorganby, which they owned. Their home had originally been a priory but the Dunnington Jefferson family demolished this in the 1840’s and built a brand new country house. Curiously, the family sold Thicket Priory in 1955 to the Carmelite sisters of Exmouth and it became a religious house once more.
With thanks to the Red Cross WW1 website
Ella joined the Voluntary Aid Detachment and worked as a nurse and orderly at Clifford St and Nunthorpe Hall Auxiliary Hospitals, before going to work at Cooke’s.
Records for T. E. Cooke which are now held at the Borthwick Institute, include the humorous “A Munition Dirge” that Ella Jefferson wrote about her experiences at Cooke’s. It paints a picture of an assortment of displaced ‘ladies’ who are only working at the firm ‘on suffrance’. Their foreman, Harrison who terrifies them, holds them in check. The Dirge includes the following line “There was Harrison our Overseer, Who caused us all to quake with fear” but ends on a patriotic note, however and Ella seems proud to be doing her bit towards World War One.
Photographs of the women at work at Cooke’s in 1916 showed that the work was clean enough not to require overalls – it looks as though most of the girls are wearing their own clothes with some, but not all of them wearing aprons. It is highly likely that some of the girls on the photograph are the ones mentioned in Ella’s Munition Dirge.
"A Munitions Dirge"
I was a nurse, a nurse was I,
Methought at Cooke’s I’ll have a try.
The rain poured down, the wind blew shrill,
O’er Cookes-s’ss works at Bishophill.
I knocked upon the factory door,
I stood upon the office floor.
The manager spoke unto me:
“Munitions worker you would be?”
Quoth I, “I am a V.A.D.
But if you’re kind I’ll work for thee.”
Quoth he, - “It is a stiffish job’”
You’ll have to come for 17/- Bob.
‘”Be here quite sharp at early dawn
And unto secrecy be sworn.”
“At Bishophill you’ll stay until
You faint before the awful drill.”
They led me from the fated room
Into a dungeon full of gloom
I sat upon a wooden stool,
I vowed I was an awful fool.
I painted reel, I painted drum
I cut my hand, I pierced my thumb.
I drove the nail, I turned the screw
I did whate’er there was to do.
But when I saw the ladies there,
My heart leaped up, they were so fair.
Miss Tennant took me by the hand,
“Oh welcome to Munitions Land.”
“I’ll give you buns, I’ll give you tea,
And Chocolate Biscuits I’ll give thee”
And dear Miss Carr, She said to me:
“We’re only here on suffrance see” –
Miss Blaylock works whate’er may hap,
She swallowed strip, she swallowed flap
E D Jefferson
http://www.clementshallhistorygroup.org.uk/projects/world-war-1/the-contribution-of-women-in-the-first-world-war1/women-at-war-a-munition-dirge/?fbclid=IwAR0OXdyg2uctH1K_57kuCY5nB1SebttDERxUG6lqYjsN10RMjnAhwMiwpmA
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This is a (self-funded) research project that seeks to inform the general public about the First World War through exhibitions of the work and lives of women who wrote poetry at that time.
It is hoped that exhibitions may be held throughout the coming Centenary years.
If you have an interest in Female War Poets - or, indeed, are one yourself, you can drop us a line to: info@femalewarpoets.com
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"Poems are made by fools like me..." Joyce Kilmer "Trees and Other Poems, 1914. Lucy London is a poet. Having trained as a French/English shorthand secretary and worked in London in the media and PR, she worked for some years on the Continent of Europe. In 1998 she studied at the University of Central Lancashire and in 2001 graduated with a BA (Hons). Forgotten Poets is the latest addition to her WW1 commemorative exhibition project.
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The Birds' Song
Fil & Tom
Fil Campbell
Tom McFarland
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The Birds' Song Book for Children
Robin and his friends Blackbird and Thrush are wondering why the foreign birds are not visiting and think that something is afoot. Are other birds stopping them at the borders?
The Birds' Song is a tongue in cheek parody about the crisis of refugees/immigration around the world in a language that children can understand.
It is a story in a song in a book.
Aimed at children aged from 5 -7 years old and covering themes of diversity and culture.
Written by Tom McFarland
with music by Fil Campbell
beautifully illustrated by Colum McEvoy
The 16 page A4 sized book includes sheet music
Purchase at our Shop
Tom says, "When the idea for this song first came to me I was thinking about all the people migrating across the Mediterranean Sea and what would drive them to take such desperate action. At the same time someone said to me “There don’t seem to be as many migrating birds coming as there used to be”.
I got to thinking what a very different world it would be if the birds were stopped from coming to our shores. What if all the local birds got together to stop them coming!
We only have one planet for all of us to share. We don’t really own any of it, it’s just on loan to protect and feed us and keep us alive.
As the chorus says “We all have different feathers and sing a different song but when we sing together the differences are gone”.
Maybe some day we’ll all sing together and realise we are not so different - we’ve just forgotten how similar we are"
Listen to The Birds' Song here
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Tom McFarland is a musician/percussionist/singer and songwriter based in Rostrevor, Co. Down and originally from Belfast. Read more about him here.
Colum McEvoy from Rostrevor in Co Down, studied at the Belfast College of Art before moving to Dublin and working as a gallery artist with the Hackett Gallery. Specialising for most of his career in watercolours until his more recent foray into oils, Colum has collaborated with several songwriters, and performers, including Colum Sands and Marie McStay, on books of songs and books of local historical content. His work is represented in private and public collections throughout Ireland, the UK, Europe and America.
Colum says: "Since I was a kid I have had a love of birds. I vividly remember once, having witnessed a flock of crows in an evening sky, I asked my father where they were coming from.
He replied “They are returning home from work”.
That fuelled my young imagination and, like the birds in Tom’s thought- provoking song, they became little people for me with everyday concerns. How wonderful it is for me to return to those innocent days and, once again, view the world with that child’s uncluttered imagination"
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An Tain Arts Centre, Dundalk, Co. Louth
Fil with Hungarian poet Csilla Toldy present a story of crossing borders, told in poetry and song. Csilla escaped from communist Hungary - her story is juxtaposed with Fil's growing up on the Irish border during the conflict. When they met, many similarities emerged. This is their story.
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The Playhouse Theatre, 5-7 Artillery St, Derry, Northern Ireland
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The Emigrant Woman's Tale/Bananas
Sunday, March 8 @ 12:00AM Sun, Mar 8 @ 12:00AM
An Cuan, Shore Road, Rostrevor, Co. Down
To celebrate International Woman's Day and supported by Peace IV, this joint production of The Emigrant Woman's Tale and Bananas (a one woman play about homelessness also written by Csilla Toldy) will give lots of room for discussion chaired by Billy Graham in the beautiful surroundings of An Cuan in Rostrevor Admission Free
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Chicago (IL) Tribune, “Good Bye, John Bell,” May 2, 1861
“Good Bye, John Bell,” Chicago (IL) Tribune, May 2, 1861, p. 2: 1.
Louisville (KY) Democrat ; Louisville (KY) Journal
Good Bye, John Bell
Don Sailer, Dickinson College
The following text is presented here in complete form, as it originally appeared in print. Spelling and typographical errors have been preserved as in the original.
GOOD BYE, JOHN BELL.
The Nashville papers contain an abstract of the recent speech of John Bell, which shows that he is not only a rank secessionist, but a traitor and a coward. In his speech he declared that “Tennessee had, in effect, dissolved her relations with the Federal Union, and though he had hoped and labored to the last to preserve the Union first, and second, if separation was inevitable, to make it peaceable, he now abandoned all such hope, and his voice was clear and loud to every Tennessean – to arms! to arms!”
The Louisville Journal, in referring to Mr. Bell’s defection, cuttingly says:
When, with the vivid recollection of all that we said of John Bell during the Presidential canvas, we look at his present position and read the language he utters, we cannot but recall the striking advice given by some prudent sage – “Never praise a man till he is dead.”
And the Louisville Democrat thus refers to the same gentleman:
John Bell never had brains enough to stand up in a storm. He has been only consistent as a [partisan?], and can [take?] any inconsistent positions his party will assume. His conduct only shows which way he thinks his party are going, and his opinion on that subject is not worth much.
And thus John Bell has sunk without a ripple to mark the place where he went down. – As the Judge always says when he sentences a murderer, “May the Almighty have mercy on your soul.”
“Good Bye, John Bell,” Chicago (IL) Tribune, May 2, 1861
Election of 1860
Bell, John
How to Cite This Page: "Chicago (IL) Tribune, “Good Bye, John Bell,” May 2, 1861," House Divided: The Civil War Research Engine at Dickinson College, http://hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu/node/36704.
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Home » Health News » The Vaping-Related Lung Disease Outbreak May Be Coming to an End
The Vaping-Related Lung Disease Outbreak May Be Coming to an End
December 21, 2019 TimeMagazine Off Health News
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) announced Friday with new confidence that vitamin E acetate seems to be largely to blame for the vaping-related lung illness outbreak that swept the country—at the same time it announced the outbreak seems to be approaching its end.
As of the CDC’s latest update, 2,506 people in the U.S. and its territories have been hospitalized for “e-cigarette, or vaping, product use-associated lung injury” (EVALI), and 54 people have died. Most of these cases seem to have occurred in people who used products containing the marijuana compound THC, the majority purchased from black-market sources. Products spiked with the oily additive vitamin E acetate, which is sometimes used to stretch a product’s THC content, have been seen as the leading culprit.
Building upon prior findings, CDC researchers published a report about vitamin E acetate in the New England Journal of Medicine Friday. Researchers tested lung fluid samples from 51 patients with EVALI from 16 states, as well as from a control group of 99 healthy subjects, some of whom smoked or vaped. They found vitamin E acetate in 48 of the 51 samples from EVALI patients, and in none of the healthy control samples.
The fact that EVALI patients showing signs of vitamin E acetate exposure came from 16 different states suggests one supplier or dealer is not to blame for the injuries, CDC Principal Deputy Director Dr. Anne Schuchat said on a call with reporters Friday.
It’s not exactly clear how vitamin E acetate could cause lung issues, but Schuchat said there are two leading theories. One is that the oily substance disrupts the lining of the lungs, interfering with their ability to expand. The other is that a byproduct produced by vitamin E acetate during the vaping process could cause a chemical injury to the lungs.
Though Schuchat said vitamin E acetate seems to be behind most of the EVALI cases, she cautioned that “this does not mean there are not other substances in e-cigarette or vaping products that have or are capable of causing lung injuries,” especially since some patients have reported using only e-cigarettes containing nicotine.
The CDC also announced some good news on the call, and in a separate paper also published in NEJM. “While we continue to receive reports [of EVALI],” Schuchat said, “the level of new cases is greatly reduced, and has been declining since a peak in September.”
At the same time, though, the CDC reported evidence of a troubling trend. A small but significant number of EVALI patients have seen their symptoms worsen, or even grow fatal, after being discharged from the hospital. Thirty-one patients were readmitted to hospitals after discharge, and seven patients died after being discharged. Elderly patients, as well as those with preexisting chronic conditions, seem to be at highest risk for readmission, Schuchat said.
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Don’t Delay Having Children
Women shouldn’t delay to have child until end of thirty or forty because it’s involve trouble and health risk, Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) warn.
That college said delaying have a child will “push” women to have child in their “most fertile moment”, generally between 20 to 35 years old.
There is also "urge requirement" for women to make more realize about potential problems, so they not feel regret delay to become a mother, RCOG warn.
Louise Silverton, secretary of deputy general of Royal College of Midwives, said : “pregnancy complication is mostly happened in elder women; they have induction level and higher caesar birth, which cause big risk to mother or the baby."
“ Even so, we support all women decide when she want to start pregnant."
“Many women feel they have to delay her pregnancy until her financial condition is stable and possible to add other member of the family."
“The point is they have to listen the information about the risk of giving birth in overdue age."
About 19% of pregnant woman now are in 40 age. In 2008, there are 26,419 babies was born from 40 years old (even more) women.
Research Showed that fertility has been descend significantly after 35, and more descend after 40, while chance of miscarriage also increase.
Using fertility treatment in that ages also not guarantee will be successful. Birth rate after IVF treatment for women under 35 is 31%. 40 years old women also have higher risk to get complication, such as diabetic and pre-eclampsia, a deadly syndrome where blood pressure become so high during pregnancy.
The reason to delay become a mother is very complex and involve pretension to have a stable relationship with spouse who support her and also long with her carrier.
"Women must supported, rather than push, there are options in her life," the organization warn.
Melanie Davies, from University College London, one a scientist, said: "If you don’t have all the information, you can make a decision without enough knowledge, which can be ended in regret."
She also add: "All medical information said that better have a child before 35 than after that age."
Mary Newburn, from National Childbirth Trust (NCT), said: "There are so many reasons for women to delay having child; this includes desirable to build carrier or to reach independence financial condition."
"Now we need to see how to make woman to stop having an early carrier and make her possible to have child in younger age."
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A FAR OFF PLACE
AMAZING STORIES ALAMO JOBE
AN AMERICAN TAIL
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HONEY, I SHRUNK THE KIDS.
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MIGHTY JOE YOUNG
MY HEROES HAVE ALWAYS BEEN COWBOYS
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THE MAN WITHOUT A FACE
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Isaeva Tatyana is a leader of the project "Let’s create museum about us!”
She has been at gender movement since 2004. She has been a collaborator of Kharkiv Woman Organization "Krona” and an editor of the magazine "I am”, only one in Ukraine periodical print nonprofit publication in gender education, since 2003.
http://gendermuseum.com
e-mail: t_isaeva@ukr.net
mob. +38-050-403-13-25
Chorna Maria is artist and designer of the project "Let’s create museum about us!” and projects of Kharkiv Woman Organization "Krona”, of its informational and educational publication "I am” and "Gender in pictures”.
Olga Karasiova is a PR-manager of the project. She is an author of articles about gender and feminist subject. She is a co-author of the photo project "Gender subject”
http://www.olkara.io.ua
e-mail: olkara@ukr.net
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Sea Ledges – Manset, Maine
Posted by George Soules on Jun 21, 2014 in Architecture
Sea Ledges is located on the Shore Road in Manset, Maine on Mount Desert Island. Its views of Southwest Harbor, Somes Sound, and Acadia National Park are spectacular. With kind permission from the owners, I made the panorama below on the summer solstice at 5:23 AM. I used a Canon 5D3 and a Canon 45mm f/2.8 tilt/shift lens shooting 1/125 sec, f/5.6 at ISO 100. The pano is a combination of 16 images stitched together to capture a view of approximately 270°.
A hundred years ago a hotel called The Stanley House stood on this site as described on pages 192-193 in the 1938 book Traditions and Records of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine by Mrs. Seth S. Thornton:
"The Spahr house, owned by Mr. and Mrs. Boyd Lee Spahr of Haverford, Pa., and built for them by R. M. Norwood in 1932, is on a site where formerly two summer hotels have stood, both being destroyed by fire. The first one was built by Sans Stanley about 1875 and was very popular as a summer hotel and patronized by many Harvard professors. It was burned July 10, 1884. Mr. Stanley built another and larger hotel on the same site and this was burned March 18, 1927. A few years later the land was sold to Mr. Spahr, who also owns one of the small cottages nearby which is used as a guest house."
The black & white photos below are courtesy of the Southwest Harbor Public Library. The first is of the original Stanley House with a Mansard roof. The second photo shows it burning in 1884. The last two are of the rebuilt structure which burned in 1927. The color photos are of the property as it looks today. One of the current owners told me:
"I am one of three 4th generation of Spahrs to own the property. My great-grandfather Boyd built the house in 1932 and it has been passed down through the generations to my two brothers and me. The other two small cottages on the property are owned by my father's cousins."
When the Spahrs are not spending time at Sea Ledges themselves, they make it available for others to enjoy. Click here to learn about renting the house for a week in the summer. With seven bedrooms and five baths, it sleeps 14 and can accommodate almost any sized family. The rental also includes use of the deepwater dock with two moorings for your boats!
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Sea Ledges at sunrise. Manset, Maine
Sea Ledges at sunset. Manset, Maine
Manset Maine Sunrise
View of Southwest Harbor from Manset, Maine
Original Stanley House
Original Stanley House burning
Rebuilt Stanley House
Rebuilt Stanley House on Manset shore
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Green Day has revealed that they will be on tour and Asia is first on the list! This is also paired by the release of their new single 'Father of all at the same time', part of their upcoming 2020 album of the same name. This will be their first LP since they released 'Revolution Radio' in 2016.
The Punk Rock band consists of Billie Joe Armstrong (Lead Vocalist & guitarist), Mike Dirnt (Bassist), and Tré Cool (Drummer). The band got their start with their major-label debut 'Dookie' in 1994 & sold over 10 million copies, leading to a Grammy Award for Best Alternative Album. It also has been four years since they were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
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InterContinental Hong Kong, Mira force staff to take leave
Hong Kong’s hotel workers are paying the price for three months of anti-government protests, with many placed involuntarily on paid and unpaid leave as occupancy rates plummet.
The South China Morning Post has learned that the Mira Hong Kong, situated in the bustling tourist district of Tsim Sha Tsui, has become the latest of the city’s high-end hotels to put employees on leave, with scores of housekeeping staff at the 492-room hotel set for an unwanted break.
A few streets away in the same district, the waterfront 503-room InterContinental Hong Kong hotel has asked permanent members of staff to take annual leave and unpaid leave to save money, with 10 hotels operated by tycoon Li Ka-shing’s CK Asset Holdings reportedly making a similar move.
Protests had damaged the city’s economy, reporting shrinking figures in tourist arrivals and room occupancy rates.
Commerce minister Edward Yau Tang-wah earlier said the number of inbound tourists dropped more than 30% for the first 10 days in August, and industry figures said the protests could be worse for Hong Kong than the 2003 Sars outbreak.
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Use footstool in a sentence
More example sentences with the word footstool in them
Apostles and martyrs soared around, the Saviour sat enthroned in glory and triumph, while angels, cradled on the clouds that were his footstool, were singing beatific hymns which sounded clearly in her ear above the many-voiced tumult of the quays. [10]
The head of Serapis was the eternal Mind; in his broad breast slept the Soul of the Universe, and the prototypes of all created things; the world of matter was the footstool under his feet. [10]
He then places her footstool according to her desire, after which he puts her coronet where it will be convenient to her hand when the time for the simultaneous coroneting of the nobles shall arrive. [5]
Then she rose from her footstool at the Queen's feet, and made the King an elaborate courtesy. [11]
This is the footstool of the Most High--Satan owns no handful of its soil. [5]
Whenever I look at that dear thing he's married, I feel there's no trusting Providence, who seems to make the deserving a footstool for the undeserving. [11]
Both the throne and its footstool are covered with cloth of gold. [5]
A large table, a couch covered with a panther's skin, a footstool in front of it, and on it a crescent-shaped support for the head, made of ivory, [A support of crescent form on which the Egyptians rested their heads. [10]
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Dungeon Battle Royale
Hachinan tte, Sore wa Nai Deshou!
Hakai no Miko
Summoned Slaughterer
Tale of the Mismarca Kingdom
The Spearmaster and the Black Cat
Ascendance of a Bookworm
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Imperial wars and my stratagems
Kakei Senki wo Kakageyo!
Maou no Utsuwa
Chapter 38 – Sunday Morning
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Wrapped in the refreshing morning sunlight, a huge group of slightly dirty people were restlessly gathered. They were those who listened to Bifron’s call and exited the slums.
Listening to Bifron, whose strength was recognized within the slums, and seeing his proof in the form of Torkemada’s corpse, a little less than 150 people had gathered and followed the trash-filled street, and exited the slums. Although there were a lot of men as well, almost all the women and kids had come out. They didn’t have either the power or the intention to go against the lord.
Bifron and his comrades who had been running around the slums for the whole night, were completely exhausted. But once they thought about what would happen from now on, their tension and sleepiness was blown away.
“Good morning!” (Alyssa)
Amidst the noisy conversations expressing their uneasiness, a loud cheerful greeting was heard.
As he looked over, Bifron could see a young lady walking over, waving her hands. Behind her were many men and women looking like government officials, as well as several soldiers.
“Old man, you and the rest of the people are those who exited the slums, right?” (Alyssa)
“Ah, yes.” (Bifron)
“I’m the military director in this city, Alyssa. Hifumi told me that I’ll be here to receive you. I want the men over there, the women over there, and the kids, along with their mothers, over there.” (Alyssa)
As she was giving instructions to Caim, Origa, and the other responsible people in order to quickly move along, a man stepped out from behind Bifron.
“If this is a joke, listening to a small kid like you, I’m not laughing! Don’t make fun of us just because we’re from the slums!”
It was the same man who first raised his voice in rage when Hifumi killed Torkemada.
“Eh… But…” (Alyssa)
“Considering Bifron’s face, just obediently get out of here. We don’t have any reason to get along with some kid’s play.”
Drawing closer, Alyssa hesitantly looked behind her, and saw Origa give her a nod, as she stood with her arms crossed, with a daunting pose.
“Uhh… There!” (Alyssa)
Under the pressure of Origa’s gaze, Alyssa resolved herself and swung the tobiguchi she held in her hand.
Swinging down, with her eyes relatively closed, the pointy end of the tobiguchi accurately pierced the middle of the head.
“Like that.” (Alyssa)
Standing aside Alyssa, Origa slowly talked to the frightened citizens.
“The people going against our lord Hifumi’s intentions will be dealt with. As we aren’t planning on keeping unnecessary baggage, we need to deal with it. If you understand, then quickly move as we told you to.” (Origa)
Within the ambiance not expressing either consent or refusal, even Bifron remained silent, while the men went towards their gathering place.
“Alyssa, you did that well. There’s no need to listen to what guys like him are saying.” (Origa)
“I wonder if that really was a good thing …” (Alyssa)
Origa gave a kind smile to Alyssa, who still didn’t have any self-confidence.
“Have some self-confidence. You just dealt with one of Hifumi’s enemies, after all.” (Origa)
“T-that’s right!” (Alyssa)
They brought about a peaceful atmosphere, but the people around them looked at them with fear in their gazes.
At this point, Hifumi came walking completely relaxed.
“Oh, you’ve already started talking?” (Hifumi)
“You’re slow, Lord.” (Myukare)
As Myukare, who came with Alyssa, said that, Hifumi let out a big yawn.
“I was talking with Pruflas last night and we got a bit excited, so it ended up being quite late. Don’t glare at me just because I overslept a bit.” (Hifumi)
“Hifumi, leave this to us.” (Origa)
“Yeah, I’ll leave it to you. Well then, I’ll be tidying up the rest. Alyssa, send some people to clean up around dusk.” (Hifumi)
“Understood!” (Alyssa)
So that’s the Lord? The residents from the slum were talking to each other. After Alyssa clapped her hands to get their attention and once again gave them directions, the remaining people quickly began to move.
“Origa, as planned, the men will help Pruflas. The women will help the staff members, and you’ll be educating the kids.” (Hifumi)
“Understood. You take care as well.” (Origa)
Lightly waving his hand towards towards Origa who was doing an elegant bow, Hifumi went towards the road to the slums.
“Hifumi, what exactly did you talk to Pruflas about?” (Alyssa)
“About new weapons and war devices.” (Hifumi)
“Eh?” (Alyssa)
Origa promptly replied to the question Alyssa muttered.
“Weapons to use we have to make in a hurry and planning the work for the inhabitants of the slums. It was a talk about what has to be constructed in preparation for the war.” (Origa)
We left together the first thing this morning, so why do you know this? Alyssa thought to herself. But except having a bad feeling about it, she didn’t ask anything more.
Just like what Origa for some reason knew, Hifumi had thrown a few new weapons into his dark magic storage.
While walking down the trashy street, he withdrew one of them.
It was three, 90 centimeter long iron rods, connected with chains. A so called three-section staff. Just like the chigiriki, it could be connected to become one long staff. But sadly, the mechanism in the chigiriki had quickly broken, so it was made simpler in this weapon. In order to raise the deadliness of the staff, the metal ends were sharpened.
Breathing through his nose, and squinting his eyes because of the bright sun, Hifumi entered the slums, aimlessly wandering around its dirty streets, searching for any anyone’s presence.
Suddenly, he stopped in front of an old house and kicked down the front door.
Stepping inside, he found a bearded old man lying down in the dark. The smell of alcohol filled the air.
“Ah, what’s this?”
Whether he was drunk or just half-asleep, the old man’s eyes were flickering around before Hifumi thrust the pointy end of his staff into the old man’s throat.
“Ghue.”
The old man died without making any sound.
Confirming that the staff’s pointy end didn’t break after hitting the neck bone, Hifumi was satisfied, as he went towards the next house.
As he disposed of a few more people in a similar way, making sure that the staff was easy to use, he saw a group of men gathered on the road. Upon sighting Hifumi, the men raised their weapons and started shouting.
“Did you say you were going to deal with us, brat!?”
“Swinging around that weird stick, who do you think you are!?”
They look just like some countryside delinquents, Hifumi thought, as he let out a chuckle.
“I’m the Lord. It’s fine if you don’t remember that, though.” (Hifumi)
There were 8 of them.
Hifumi rushed over to the guy who spoke first, in the middle. With a swing like he was playing golf, he drove the staff into the other guy’s crotch.
With a sound like something was crushed, the guy died in shock.
“Hii….”
The man next to him let out a scream as he witnessed the scene.
Letting his hands go of the staff, Hifumi withdrew a jitte from his within his breast pocket. It wasn’t the cross kind, but rather the kind the policemen during the Edo period used. It was an about 30 centimeters long rod of iron, with a pointy end. As they didn’t have the right materials, there was no tassel, to Hifumi’s disappointment.
Thrusting the jitte in his right hand with an overhand grip, he intimidated the nearest guy.
“W-what will you do with such a short…”
While he was saying that, Hifumi stabbed the jitte into his kneecap, not given a chance to scream before his neck was snapped with a foot.
Hifumi deflected a sword incoming from the side with his right hand, before hitting the attacker’s chest like a hammer.
A dull vibrating sound was heard as the man dropped the sword, and feebly fell down on the ground.
Jumping towards one of the men who stepped back in fear, Hifumi thrust the jitte into his left eye, then using the handle in the left hand to send him flying with a hit to the back of the head.
“3 guys left, huh?” (Hifumi)
“W-wait a second! I was opposed to this kind of… Hiii!”
“Shut up.” (Hifumi)
Closing in on the frightened man barehanded, Hifumi snatched his arm and pulled him down on the ground with his face down, before before strongly trampling down on the back of his head, crushing it.
As the man stopped moving after having his head crushed on the hard ground, Hifumi let go of his hand and pulled out his favourite kusarigama.
“Y-you beast!”
“Who’s a beast?” (Hifumi)
Shifting his position, Hifumi knocked down the desperately attacking man with his leg, ignoring him as he fell. Another person hesitatingly poising with a sword attacked, clinging to Hifumi, pushing him down.
“Geh.” (Hifumi)
The moment he was pushed down, Hifumi used his body weight to drive the sickle into the man’s heart, ending his life.
Looking at Hifumi slowly standing up having his face dyed red with blood stains, the fallen man wasn’t able to get up any more.
“W-waah…”
Being affected by the blood-soaked sickle held by Hifumi as he slowly approached, the man was frozen in fear.
Like he was cutting grass, Hifumi slashed with the sickle, and the last person died.
“Hmm….” (Hifumi)
Picking up the dropped weapons, Hifumi checked them all.
“Aah, it’s bent.” (Hifumi)
The jitte he had thrust through into an eye socket, piercing the cranium has some brain matter stuck to it, which he wiped off with some paper. Looking at it closely, it was slightly bent due to the impact when he struck with it.
“It really bent … It was meant as a test, but I guess stuff like this happens.” (Hifumi)
Cleaning the weapons he used, and putting them away into the storage, Hifumi was hungry, so he left the slums to find a food stall to get some food. After eating, he returned to the slums, he aimlessly walked around until dusk, disposing of another 30 or so people.
They were mostly rash young men who had confidence in their skills, but none of them managed to even wound Hifumi.
In the time he continued the stroll of slaughtering while being bathed in blood, with the exception of the already broken jitte, he also tested out the three-section staff several times. Since the basics of thrusting and also the basics of the katana’s hassou, for such things as cutting at the lower leg and shaving off, were entirely on his regular practice menu, it flowed gently and was easy to use. (T/N: hassou is a kendo stance, as far as I understand it)
Having almost finished moving through the whole area of the slum, Hifumi felt a strong thirst for blood, as he took a step to the side.
With a sound of cutting through the air, an arrow lodged into the inside of a run-down house.
Turning around, a man was preparing to shoot another arrow. He was two meters tall, holding a huge bow that he was drawing to the very limit.
Feeling happy about being ambushed, Hifumi displayed a smile as he drew his katana.
“So you’re the last one. With your huge frame, archery isn’t the only thing you’re good at, right?” (Hifumi)
The man looked at the club hanging on his waist, but without responding to the provocation, he aimed a second arrow at Hifumi.
With the katana in an underhand grip, Hifumi put the katana in front of him as he lowered his body. It was an old stance he was taught a long time ago by his master, which was used against arrows. It was the first time he used it in actual combat, however.
(It’s a stance limiting the area he can hit, then defending with the katana) (Hifumi)
Trying it out in reality, Hifumi was quite tense, so he deliberately relaxed his arm a bit.
Moving the katana on reflex, a broken arrow fell down by his feet with a dull sound.
As the man didn’t think Hifumi would be able to knock down the arrow, he opened his eyes wide, not drawing another arrow.
Hifumi used that moment to shorten the distance, and just as if making a paint stroke, he slashed at the man with the katana. The man threw down his bow and made an evasive roll.
Doing that, the man grasped the one meter long wooden club at his waist and alertly put himself into position. As far as Hifumi was concerned, this was a satisfying opponent.
“Nice, nice. You’re different from those other idiots.” (Hifumi)
“… You’re a monster.”
Facing the loudly laughing Hifumi as he quickly changed the underhand grip on the katana to an overhand one, the man made a bitter face.
“I’m just a normal person who put forth a great amount of effort.” (Hifumi)
If you asked 10 people who knew Hifumi, 15 would tell you otherwise.
The man was silent as he swung down the club, but Hifumi steadily retreated, avoiding the blow.
“And with a continuous motion!”
While the man was brandishing the club above his head, Hifumi slipped in below his stomach, and tackled the man with the shoulder, making him fall.
It made a dull sound, but the man still unsteadily stood up.
“You’re quite sturdy, aren’t you?” (Hifumi)
“You and your strange movements……”
Cracking his neck with a flushed face, the man once again readied his club.
“You were alright with the bow, but the way you’re swinging the club is dull and boring. Don’t you have anything else?” (Hifumi)
As the man approached with vehement vigor without affirming nor disagreeing, Hifumi started to get tired of him.
Hifumi then remembered something else Pruflas had prepared, and withdrew it from his storage, sprinkling it on the ground.
“Huh!? Aaaah!”
Stepping on the caltrops Hifumi had strewn out on the ground, with all of his might, the man couldn’t bear it and dropped the club, falling down on the ground.
“As expected, you couldn’t bear this.” (Hifumi)
Avoiding the caltrops covering the ground, Hifumi gently thrust the katana into the heart of the man, as he had fainted in agony.
“It was the first time I’ve used it, but it could be nice to use once in a while. It reduces the tension, though.” (Hifumi)
He gathered the scattered caltrops.
“… Gathering them is a pain …” (Hifumi)
After collecting all of the caltrops and returning them to his dark magic storage, he realized he could’ve just opened a hole on the ground and directly collected them into his storage, and felt a bit sad about it, as he returned to the Lord’s mansion.
Thus, the slums that had been a garbage heap in Fokalore since forever, had been emptied of inhabitants in just one day.
Because Origa and the five slave civil officials put the gathered manpower from the slum to their best use, Fokalore quickly underwent a change.
Thanks to the manpower from the slums, the rails reaching Arosel had been finished, so they started testing it by sending goods and people.
The city’s outer wall was also reinforced, and the entrances facing both royal capital, and the one facing Arosel were improved.
The women from the slums initially received a cold shoulder from the city’s residents, but as they worked hard with cleaning up the city and collecting household garbage, the inhabitants generally came to accept them.
Just being the feudal lord, Hifumi left all the decision making to the civil officials only making a rough draft for this project and occasionally confirming the progress. Alyssa also didn’t approach the governmental operations excusing herself with the words 「I don’t quite understand.」 The number provided to help out from the territorial army decreased as well as they were worked to death at combat training according to Hifumi’s and Miyukare’s instructions.
Naturally, as the style of receiving the instructions from Hifumi and assigning the work following those became established for Origa, some amongst the residents misunderstood Origa to be Hifumi’s wife. But there were also some thinking the feudal lord is a woman.
With Hifumi himself doing only the minimum of necessary document signing, his daily life basically started with finishing the morning practise and no sooner than after taking a hot bath he went missing without anyone noticing.
Today being the same, Hifumi vanished from his office going on a trip under the pretext of test running the arrival of the rail car at Arosel and eliminating the monsters along the highway on the occasion.
“Today he is absent as well?” (Caim)
The civil official slave Caim, known for his notorious “impudence” amongst the staff members, muttered without a change in his expression seeing Kasha house-sitting in Hifumi’s office.
“Caim-san, huh? I came to this room right at the moment when he departed.” (Kasha)
“Can you do me favor of detaining him a bit? It would be a great help.” (Caim)
“Don’t ask the impossible.” (Kasha)
With a face where you didn’t know whether he was laughing or crying, Caim left the office silently after looking at Kasha for a short while.
As if replacing him, Origa entered.
“Ara …” (Origa)
Origa noticing there was no one but Kasha inside the room, she tried to leave the room right away, but Kasha stopped her by calling out to her.
“Origa, if it’s Hifumi-san you want to speak with, I can hear you out.” (Kasha)
Stopping her feet, Origa fixed her eyes on Kasha.
In difference to Caim, her face showed that she suppressed something she wanted to say.
“… No. After Hifumi-sama has returned, I will tell him directly.” (Origa)
Then, Origa, who was about exit the room, once again stopped.
“Kasha, since you are a guard, even if only in name, how about doing a little bit of training? Because we can expect a large-scale battle with Vichy very soon going by the reports from the scouts, come and participate in the training to see how Alyssa has arranged the territorial army to move.” (Origa)
After spitting out in one go what she wanted to say, Origa left without delay.
“Battle, huh?” (Kasha)
There was a small magic tool within the pouch hanging on Kasha’s waist.
Although it was something simple, broken into two pieces and being separated from the other half, it was a quite expensive tool used for the purpose of communication in emergency.
According to the request she had received from Pajou, this half could be used to make Pajou aware of the situation in case Hifumi had been seriously injured or was in a critical state.
For the time being it was something with the purpose of come running in case Hifumi was in danger with the ostensible reason of being able to search for him, but in reality it was obvious that the princess and Pajou intended to assassinate Hifumi in the confusion of the battle.
But, will it be only Hifumi that will die in the situation after using this?
Kasha stared at the door through which Origa left for a long time.
Zettai Zero
28th June 2016 at 16:42
welp ofcourse not only Hifumi would be assasinated but also Origa who would put her life in the line to protect Hifumi so basically you’re not only trying to sell Hifumi out but also Origa as well whom is with you for a long time
MirrorDefense
rizyun
hee~
so all he did in that morning is just a simple “practical training” eh?
25th March 2016 at 0:01
Acquaintances hate him!
fuzor100
izzy844
Thank you forthe chapter XD
KozuKy
maybe try asking yourself first if Hifumi is the one who will really die.
Thanks for the chapter 🙂
Tereus
An the big ugly creature opened its hideous mouth and said in a loud bone chilling roar:
MOOOOAAAARRRRRR!
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cuck-kun
Finally~
ftxnexus
Origa is pretty much brainwashed. She will go “For Hifumi!” and fight to the death -.-
She’s not brainwashed. She’s just yandere.
sasamiyasoujiro
No no no, my friend you are mistaken.. Origa just adored Hifumi so much like a yandere waifu that will kill anyone and die for him if given the chance. Kukuku….
superdbgtfan
Origa is just another gasi yuno
Lord Etez
16th July 2016 at 16:19
No~? More like she is “deeply in love” with Hifumi… *cough* like albedo *caugh*
Never watchedread overlord, guess i will ahve to do it soon?
Anime or LN first? 😛
shasux
LN, screw the anime
Why are some of the LN to anime adaptions so bad… Well at least some of the scenes in those adaptions are good, for example fight scenes or best girl Krulcifer kissing Lux :3
Well… I do love the animation of Mondaiji Tachi and NGNL 😛
This season has another very decent LN, Tenkou no Aldemarin, getting an anime adaption, but… *cringes*
31st July 2016 at 4:02
LN is better detailed. You don’t rly understand sometimes what happend in the Anime because of plotholes. In the LN there are no plotholes. But Anime was rushed with a few dozen scenes and dialogues not contained.
1st August 2016 at 23:23
Y, i know… Most LN to anima adaptions suck… And if they get a second season, it is doomed to get an anime original… Tho i love some of the LN and anime scenes, its just not the same…
5th August 2016 at 15:11
Nguyen Gia Thai
“But, will it be only Hifumi that will die in the situation after using this?”<====
Hahh? Did she think she would survive in that scenario? Hifumi died and anyone who know the many dirty secrets surrounding his circumstance would die with him. Origa and Kasha are two closest to him, can be said to be his disciples. There's no reason to think that they dont know what he know, so of course they had to die.
Dumb is not a sentence to die, but she really should stick to being a dumb sexpot than a betrayer. She just doesnt have the intelligence for that.
Rip in pieces Pasha.
i have a feeling he already knows
Even before they plan on doing it, he already know it. He’s just letting them do as they pleases while thinking how amusing they are…m.
yea he figured it out from the note that guy had given to that country and the fact that she made a sudden reappearance.
IceDervish
joshua rqoue
Really now is the title related to the song [Sunday morning]?
SUNOFA
Why is it that they are so confidant that Hifumi will be seriously injured in the following war and why are they so sure they’ll be able to kill him in the first place!?
Well, they are doing simple maths. The defending side got 5000 soldiers and the attacking side got 15000 soldiers. Though they do not know that in a siege battle you need at least 5:1 on the attacking side and that would already include technologies like catapults and battering rams which Vichy doesn’t possess as far as I understood. Maybe magic might offset that but so far I can’t really say the author talked much about destructive magic.
Or in other words, they are plainly making assumptions while missing the accurate knowledge to actually do so.
Wonder if the term love is blind works here. Thanks for the chapter
abyssdarkfire
Princess, Pajou and Kasha walking a thin line.
Bijas
what a bitch just die you fucking whore he helped her with her revenge etc.
and she is helping them to kill him FUCKING WHORE
To be fair, any sane person would. His only purpose is to drive the entire continent into endless war so he can AMUSE himself.
That’s sorta something you would try to stop, if at all able.
night0lw
14th April 2016 at 21:59
Maybe but he hasn’t broken any laws and has dine nothing but help her and they were already in a state of war before he came
seregosa
8th April 2017 at 5:32
Mhmm, yeah, amuse himself, well, I guess you could say that. He fights to improve his skills and put them to practical use, he finds that pleasing.
However, is normal kingdoms that much better? They drive the continent into war so that they can have a bigger piece of the cake instead of working together peacefully, they summoned him to kill off a race that didn’t do anything but defend against their intrusions when they wanted more territory, by lying to him they wanted him to cooperate with him. They want war to get profits, in other words, to amuse or please themselves, he wants the world to develop better war tactics and skills so that he may amuse himself. His slaughters are limited to his foes and he leaves other people alone, while kingdoms will kill off entire races or countries, including the inhabitants that has nothing to do with it.
I honestly prefer his way of doing things 😀 The people in the kingdoms, including the princess(or especially the princess), are just hypocrites who proclaim that he’s an evil existence while doing something worse on their own, they’re just afraid that he will turn on them later on, it’s not really about stopping his slaughters or attempts for war, but to stop the chance of him turning on them with a war later on. I really despise hypocrites who speak of justice while doing evil.
Yukino Takada 雪乃 鷹だ
OMFG Origa,what did she teach Alyssa ,I guess we could expect more yandere soon 😀
Vorth
10th September 2016 at 16:31
Did Hifumi finally started killing random people in the streets to test his weapons? FINALLY!!!!! About damn time he started killing for no actual reasons. This is feeling like a good old GTA : Vice City fun driving time downtown.
Also silly Kasha. I’m hoping Hifumi doesn’t kill her and just keep her as a slave or something. The attention is kinda cute, wanting the D and wanting to kill someone is pretty close after all.
So, asking that would break the laws of the universe or something and make 10 people into 15 people. Cool 😀
But does it hurt as much as stepping on a piece of lego?
Sage Hidden Bear
6th August 2017 at 4:47
Hm. I honestly have mild hopes for Kasha but I’m being very hesitant. I don’t think she will succeed is all.
Izaya Zayoi
The illustration is missing
https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=0B3m-suzOsRMEVkZqYlcwMWwyaTA
28th August 2018 at 4:22
I can’t get the link T_T
Would you be kind to link it up?
This chapter illustration. Nice work Alyssa.
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/8c032637360ecceaa2806bc116cb8e2d6ab9037fafa1d3f09011be4b39f0b856.jpg
Only the fool would die and that fool is her..
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Niebrugge downs Gooch in match play portion of Western Amateur
August 3, 2013 Ken MacLeod 0 Comments
ROLAND, ARK. (Saturday, Aug. 3) – The Western Amateur’s medalist jinx returned with a vengeance Saturday and sent Patrick Rodgers back home to Indiana.
Rodgers, who dominated the stroke play segment of 111th the Western Amateur at The Alotian Club, fell to recent North Florida graduate Sean Dale, who beat the two-time Walker Cup team member 2 up in the first round of match play.
Although the bracketology of the day showed Rodgers to be the No. 1 seed versus the 16th-seeded Dale, such seedings don’t indicate a major difference in the quality of competitors, as they do, say, in NCAA basketball.
“I played great in stroke play and got rewarded [to play against] … probably the best player in the field,” Rodgers observed, referring to his recent Palmer Cup teammate. “I know [Dale] is a great player. He has a great track record…You have to expect to play great players all the way. You have to play well and beat great players, and I just didn’t do that today.”
This is the fourth time in the last five years the Western Amateur medalist has lost in the first round of match play. The exception was last year when Chris Williams won both medalist and match play honors. In 2011, Williams was medalist and lost in the first round.
Rodgers’ elimination means the five top-ranked players in the field are gone: No. 1 Cory Whitsett, No. 2 Michael Kim, No. 3 Justin Thomas – three of Rodgers’ teammates at the upcoming Walker Cup – No. 4 Bobby Wyatt, and the fifth-ranked Rodgers.
Dale took a 3-up lead when Rodgers bogeyed Nos. 9, 10 and 12 “with wedges in my hands.” Rodgers fought back with birdies on 13 and 14.
“I had all the momentum in the match,” said the Stanford junior. “I just didn’t give myself enough opportunities down the stretch to finish it off”
His comeback stalled when he missed the green on the par 3 16th, missed the fairway left off the tee on the par 5 17th (meaning he couldn’t go for the green in two), and lipped out a par putt on 18, which Dale then parred.
“The hardest part when you get down three with six to go is you just can’t make any mistakes,” Rodgers said. “You can’t afford to make any bogeys. You can’t afford to give them any holes. You just have to keep the gas pedal down. I got [birdies on] 13 and 14 but after that I didn’t really have any good looks…”
Rodgers will play in the U.S. Amateur in two weeks and then the Walker Cup versus Great Britain and Ireland on Sept. 7-8 at the National Golf Links in Southampton, N.Y.
Meanwhile, one of Walker Cup captain Jim Holtgrieve’s potential remaining picks – Jordan Niebrugge, of Mequon, Wis. – won his opening Sweet 16 match 4 and 3, dominating his Oklahoma State teammate Talor Gooch of Midwest City, Okla.
If Niebrugge should win the Western Amateur, it would be his third victory in the last three weeks. He won the U.S. Public Links and the Wisconsin State Amateur over the last two weeks.
In other matches, Georgia Tech lefty Seth Reeves made a hole-in-one on the 11th hole to take a one-up lead on opponent Jonathan Garrick, and won 2 and 1. Reeves used a 9-iron on the 167-yard hole. It was his second hole-in-one in competition.
David Snyder, the youngest player in the field at 15, defeated his morning opponent, Taylor Moore, a sophomore at Arkansas by a 5-and-3 margin.
Moore’s teammate, senior Sebastian Cappelen came back from a two-hole deficit against 17-year-old phenom Robby Shelton IV to force the match to overtime and win on the second extra hole.
Texas A&M junior Tyler Dunlap defeated Cory McElyea in 20 holes. A 21-year-old senior at the University of San Francisco who played in this year’s U.S. Open, McElyea was the only player in the field to carry his own bag.
In the battle of Texas Longhorns, Kramer Hickok defeated teammate Beau Hossler 2 and 1. It was the first Sweet 16 appearance for both players.
Mexico’s slightly-built Carlos Ortiz, who was runner-up to Rodgers in stroke play, defeated Georgia junior Keith Mitchell of Chattanooga 2 and 1.
Rodgers also lost in the first round of match play at the 2011 Western Amateur at North Shore Country Club outside Chicago.
Western Amateur
First-Round Match Play Results
The Alotian Club, Roland, Ark.
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Sean Dale def. Patrick Rodgers, 2 up
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David Snyder def. Taylor Moore, 5 and 3
Carlos Ortiz def. Keith Mitchell, 2 and 1
Sebastian Cappelen def. Robby Shelton IV, 20 holes
Jordan Niebrugge def. Talor Gooch, 4 and 3
Seth Reeves def. Jonathan Garrick, 2 and 1
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Grail Seekers Media Watch ending 31 Dec 07
Grail Seekers this week:
I thought I’d hold off on doing the news until today this week. It seems appropriate to wrap up the year this way. Once again I’d like to thank everyone out there that has been so supportive of my work this year. I can only hope that next year is as interesting and productive as 2007 was.
I ask my wife yesterday what her New Year’s resolutions were. She, rather curtly, informed me that she did not believe in them. How could I have missed that small fact in the years we had been together? Obviously, I don’t listen as well as I should. So guess what my resolution is this year…
Don’t forget to eat your black-eyed peas, cabbage, hog jowl, and any other food that mystically will bring you good luck for the New Year. Myself, I’m going to warm up some haggis and wish I was in Edinburgh for Hogmanay.
On Audio:
Steven Mehler will talk about the waterways beneath Giza's Pyramids on 1 Jan 08 on the Laura Lee show.
Don’t forget to check out the Oopa Loopa Café interview with Michael Cremo which aired on the 27th.
The Royston Caves are in trouble of being damaged by truck traffic. Thanks to My Space friend Crint Eastwood for the heads up on this article.
The Kebra Negast is now available in French. Then again if you’re reading this blog you can read English and wouldn’t need a French version would you?
The “Temple” in London starts a four month celebration of the area’s history.
What exactly was the Star of Bethlehem?
Do these standing stones in the UK align with Orion’s Belt?
The Key of Solomon web site explores the temple and seal of the wisest man in the world.
Blog On:
Speculations about Archbishop Michael Lefebvre and the Priory of Zion just simply won’t die.
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Labels: Media Watch
The Holy Grail Has Been Found, Again…
The news hit the streets yesterday, via the Evening Times, that historian and author Mark Oxbrow has put his hat in the ring for discovering the location of the Holy Grail. This marks the third time this year that the Grail has been found. The first was in June when Italian archeologist Alfredo Barbagallo announced that the Grail was in Basilica of San Lorenzo Fuori le Mura in Rome. Another location of the elusive Grail came from Ferhat Kanarya. He pinpointed the Grail’s resting place in the Hagia Sophia.
It would seem that Oxbrow has confirmed that Dan Brown was partially right, the Grail is in the Louvre. However, it does not rest under I.M. Pei’s pyramid. Oxbrow theorizes that the Grail has been on display in the Louvre for years, and no one has noticed it. That was until he and his wife visited the Paris museum.
Oxbrow’s Grail is actually the Patene de Serpentine, a jewel encrusted dish dating back in the 100BC to 100 AD range. The dish was used in Saint-Denis during the 15th century when the abbey was used for coronations of French royalty. Oxbrow feels that the use of the dish was the inspiration for Chretien de Troyes early literature about the Grail. "It's impossible to prove 100% that the Patene de Serpentine is the real Holy Grail.
But the Patene is a sacred medieval treasure that perfectly matches every detail of the earliest descriptions of the Grail.” said Oxbrow in the Evening Times article.
For years, Oxbrow has been doing research into the Grail world. In Rosslyn and the Grail , Oxbrow sought to set the record straight about Grail theory and the famous Scottish Chapel. The text takes Grail theorists Andrew Sinclair, Tim Wallace-Murphy, Knight and Lomas, and Baigent and Leigh to task about their claims about the Chapel. I’m curious how Oxbrow’s theory will fair under the same scrutiny he has put the other theorists to.
Labels: Holy Grail, Holy Grail Media Watch, Mark Oxbrow
Happy Holidays from the Grail Seekers Team
I'd like to thank everyone out there that has shown support for this blog over the last year. All the e-mails and contact I've gotten from you have really made the difference some days between me writing another article and packing it all in. Thank you all so very much for helping me along my own Grail Quest. Have a happy holidays!
Labels: Personal News
Grail Seekers Media Watch for the Week Ending 22 Dec 07
Have a holly, jolly Christmas everyone. I hope Santa brings you all the goodies that your heart desires. I myself ask for a winning lottery ticket, but somehow I don’t think I’ve been that good this year. And please, don’t forget to go out and do something for your fellow man. Even if it’s just a random gesture of goodwill, do something. It’s not that hard to make a small difference in someone’s life.
Radio Rennessence is now presenting their year end RLC extravaganza. According to an e-mail I got from Corjan the special is: “Over an hour of hot debate of Andrew Gough, Philip Coppens, Corjan de Raaf (and his flu) giving an awful lot of details and background information you won't hear anywhere else.”
Rosslyn Chapel bans photography in 2008.
Ray H Marr has done a video series on the history of the Knights of St. John. Thanks to Red Ice Creations for posting all the parts of the video in one place.
The Realtravel blog has a travel-log of a visit to Aksum
Codex Celtica takes a look back at this year in esoteric terms.
The La Bas blog asks if there’s a link between French Surrealism and Secret Societies
Futurecult takes a tongue and cheek investigation into the Priory of Sion in Springfield Missouri
EVS-Islands does an Enhanced Vector Shoreline study of Tana Island in Ethiopia
The Illumanati Conspiracy Journal wonders why Jacob Rothschild married into the Sinclair family.
Rosslyn Chapel to Ban Photography
According to a Scotsman article Tuesday, the officials at Rosslyn Chapel are banning all types of photography inside the Chapel beginning 2 Jan 08. According to the article: “Colin Glynne-Percy, the director of the Rosslyn Chapel Trust, said: "I would hope that people come to see the chapel, not just to video it, so I would expect visitor numbers to be unchanged. The problem is one we have had for quite a while, because the chapel is quite dimly lit and there are cracked and uneven slabs.”
Huh? The problem with this explanation is that visitors will be at the same risk of tipping while looking at the ceiling, or photographing it. While there are areas of the Chapel that has, what I would consider, uneven slabs. Around the Apprentice Pillar, there is a small step up behind pillar. You’d have to be a pretty big klutz to trip over this small step up.
I would think the scaffoldings around the outside of the Chapel would be more of a safety concern. The steps up to the top of the scaffolding are quite steep and can get slick when it rains. There has to be a greater risk of someone falling off this while taking pictures that stubbing their toe on something inside the Chapel.
The Apprentice Pillar at Rosslyn Chapel taken on 15 Oct 07
with a cordoned off area behind the Pillar.
The article goes on to say, “"In the past we have used tape to cordon off some of the worst areas…” When Laura and I were there in October, there was a cordoned off section right behind the Apprentice Pillar. The section had yellow and black caution tape around a piece of plywood behind the Pillar. When I ask the on site tour guide about the area, she had told me “Repairs or some such work going on over there.” After going back through photos other visitors had posted on line, I was able to ascertain that the section was corroded off sometime between 22 Sept and 3 Oct 07. I have not seen any photos of the area dated any later than mine on line, so it still could be there.
This area is also the perfect spot for conducting any type of unobtrusive studies of the Pillar. One could dig down, bore a hole from underneath the Pillar, and insert a file optic camera into the Pillar itself. No one would be with wiser. This would be a rather easy way to put the speculation to rest that he Pillar was hollow and contained that magical treasure everyone is looking for at Rosslyn.
Speculation that the Pillar is hollow generally relates back to a Masonic legend. The story is that before the Flood, Enoch placed a book containing all the antediluvian arts and sciences, and laws of the universe either beneath or inside two pillars. Some have tried to make the connection that this story is a veiled allegory to what is hidden at Rosslyn.
Somehow I think there is more going on at the Chapel than just a concern for safety. Signs posted that said, “Uneven steps proceed at your own risk.” would pretty much release the Chapel of any liability in a lawsuit. So what’s the real motive behind the photography ban? You and I may never know.
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National Treasure 2: Book of Secrets Review
The allure of a seeing something on the silver screen is that you are mystically transported out of your everyday life. Reality is suspended and any numbers of worlds open up that are impossible to obtain for those munching on popcorn in the aisles. Our inner Indiana Jones is called to in National Treasure 2: Book of Secrets. Nicholas Cage reprises his role as Benjamin Franklin Gates, finder of the lost Masonic/Templar treasure in the first film.
The hook this time is a little known group called the Knights of the Golden Circle (KGC). The KCG was a very real group of Southern sympathizers that operated as somewhat of a guerilla force during, and after, the Civil War. Modern day treasure hunters have long thought that the KGC horded gold and goods in secret locations throughout the country waiting until the time was right for the South to rise again.
The movie’s treasure trail begins with John Wilkes Booth and another member of the Knights of the Golden Circle (KGC) seeking the aid of Cage’s great-great-great grandfather Thomas Gates. Members of the KGC have planned the assignation of Lincoln and are hunting for a treasure that will fund a second Civil War. Gates is sucked into their plot by being asked to decrypt a cipher contained in John Wilkes Booth’s diary.
Granddaddy Gates cracks the code and realizes that he’s been duped by the seditious KGC members. Gates burns the relevant pages of Booth’s diary and is shot by a KGC agent for his trouble. Flash forward 140 years and bad guy Ed Harris presents a fragment of the diary to the world, naming the Gates family as the masterminds behind the Lincoln assignation. Feeling the only way to clear the family name, Cage and father Jon Voight is to find the treasure the KGC was looking for. After that the usual globe trotting, treasure hunting high jinx ensue.
National Treasure 2 follows the same formula of car chases, techomancy, and 30 second solutions to hidden history as its predecessor. The film is an easy on the mind, romp into finding lost loot. That’s my biggest problem with the whole endeavor, that it’s easy on the mind. I understand that the key to commercial success is to make a movie accessible to everyone. However, the script writers had a golden opportunity to plant Easter eggs for those historically minded folks out there.
There was a half hearted attempt to do so. The references to Albert Pike, the missing pages of Booth’s diary, and the fictional President’s book of Secrets did give me hope there would be more to sink my teeth into. But when dealing with a film that literally has our hero pull a lever and the entrance to the treasure appears, one gives up hope for any additional complexity. The biggest mystery left to ponder in the film is what’s on page 47 of the President’s Book of Secrets. Oh wait, I know… It’s the hook for National Treasure 3. I guess it is possible to solve some mysteries in less than 30 seconds.
There’s no real reason to pay for this instead of waiting to download it on Amazon Unboxed . That is unless you have nothing better to do this weekend and wish to be inspired to hunt for long lost gold…
Labels: Media Watch, National Treasure 2, Reviews
A Guide to Masonic Symbolism for the Non-Mason
With this week’s release of National Treasure 2: Book of Secrets and the buzz about Dan Brown’s new book The Solomon Key, discussions on the web will invariably turn their attention to Masonic symbolism. The number of queries relating to: “What does this Masonic symbol mean?” or “What do you think about my theory on where this Masonic symbol derives from?” are already floating my way in an increasing rate.
The topic will stimulate some to do good hard core research into the topic. Others will take flights of fancy and ascribe any number of attributes to the symbols of the Craft. I thought I might head off some of the wild speculations at the pass with a guide to what symbols used in Masonry mean to this Mason. This should help those who have an interest in the topic pick their way around a rather complex subject.
I understand that all of you out there that are detractors of Masonry will rail against what I have to say here. That’s your right. Please don’t fill my inbox with the usual litany I get when I write an article on my experiences in Masonry. I keep an open mind, but please don’t begin your rail with accusations of being in league with the Devil or tales of goats…
Before we start, what does the Conch Shell have to do with Freemasonry?
A conch shell has absolutely nothing to do with Freemasonry. I thought it would be instructive to use a non-Masonic symbol as a reference point to describe how different aspects of symbolism are used. That gives me an easy way out for being able to talk about Masonic symbols without breaking any of my vows. Confused? Read on and hopefully you won’t be.
Conch Shell Basics
The conch shell has long been associated as the symbol for Key West, Florida. It is unclear when the conch shell was adopted for this purpose, but the conch symbolism is firmly engrained in Key West society. A native might refer to themselves as conchs and the conch even used on the “Key West flag”. It is thought that the legend of the Conch was the background for this symbol of the island, but the exact. Now back to our regularly scheduled article.
Why Does Freemasonry Use Symbols?
The answer to this question is the same for any group that utilizes visual symbols. Virtually every business, government, organized religion, and social group employs some type of visual symbols. The examples are too numerous to list, but a simple look to the conch for a proof of this point.
All of the aforementioned groups employ visual symbols for one reason; to easily convey a set of complex ideas within a pictogram. The basis for utilizing pictograms reaches back to early written language and art. Pictures were employed to convey ideas. A single symbol became associated with a specific idea or object, and viola; a written language is born. Chinese and Sumerian are perfect examples of languages that employ pictograms as a written linguistic device. Modern symbolism has developed from these humble pictogram beginnings.
Freemasonry is no different than these pictogram languages. The symbols of the Craft are designed to impart a moral or esoteric meaning. Visual representations of symbols in the first three degrees of Masonry are generally objects that someone, of years gone by, would commonly see. A beehive, an hourglass, a rough cut stone (or ashlar) would be real world anchors that would remind the Mason of their symbolic lesson.
Take our conch shell as an example. A native of Key West is walking on the beach and sees a conch shell lying on the beach. His first thoughts of themselves as a "conch" might very well come to mind first. Their thoughts might then range to their neighbor conchs and the warm fuzzy feeling it gives them to be part of that group. The natural extension of the thought goes to he should be a good neighbor to his fellow conchs.
The same holds true for a Mason when he views any of the symbols he has been exposed to. The symbol reminds a Mason that he should be industrious or kind or benevolent. In this way we are reminded of the many moral obligations we have when living a very real-world life.
So what are you told that symbols mean when you’re a Mason?
Most Masonic symbols are of moral lessons in nature. Specific symbols can range in meaning from time management to everyday mortality. Within a Degree, a Mason is told what each symbol means in the context of that Degree. Some symbols have secondary meanings that show up in other Degree work. What is missing from the explanations is a historical context for the use of that symbol. There’s plenty of legend and lore surrounding the stories told in degree work, but it is nearly impossible to pin down historically. This would leave plenty of speculation and detective work left to those who seek the meaning in the symbols and lore. The loose ends also make it very attractive to assign meaning where meaning might not exist.
With this in mind, it’s rather hard to think of Masonic symbols being used in any type of “coded” way by Masonry as a whole. I tend to be suspect of anyone who starts out their theories with this mind set. Let’s take a building that has incorporated Masonic symbols into its architecture. An author is making a case that “the Masons” incorporated these symbols into the architecture of the building for an esoteric purpose. I would suggest in cases like this, look at the individual that was responsible for the building’s architecture first. More than likely it was this individual’s motives and esoteric thought that created the building, not the entire fraternity of Masons.
Now, our Key Westerner who is feeling warm and fuzzy after the previous section. He now considering how best to explain what it means to be a conch to his son. After thinking about all the different aspects of the conch, he can’t come up with a simple explanation. Our Key Westerner is now stymied at how to explain how the conch became to mean all of these things to his 6 year old. The best explanation he can muster is that, “The conch’s meaning been passed along for generations and now I’m telling you what it means.”
But isn’t that just what they tell low-level Masons? The “higher-ups” really know what the symbols mean.
This statement is a common misconception most hold about the use of Masonic symbolism. It is true that many of Masonry's symbols can have different applications. However, all Masons are admonished to find additional meanings to symbols presented in the Degrees in their own way. The funny part is that after I achieved the 32nd Degree, I had more questions than answers about the symbols that had been presented to me. Masonry follows in the vein of all esoteric educational systems. The onus of application and interpretation of anything that is presented in a Degree is one's own. The symbols of Masonry become peculiar to each and every Mason.
The individual interpretation premise is the reason wildly varied and broad interpretations exist for Masonic symbols. One gets a true feel for this admonition when referencing 19th century Masonic authors. The speculations of Waite, Pike, and Gould are often taken as authoritative stances on symbolism and their context within Masonry. Within the framework of each author’s research and beliefs, they assigned their own meanings to Masonic symbols.
The fallacy that many make is that Masonic authors, especially Pike, are a single authoritative representative of Freemasonry. These authors are no more a voice for all of Masonry than I am. Yes, there are men who take on leadership positions in Masonry who do speak for groups of us. These men in leadership positions speak for the group in the same way our elected government representatives speak for their constituents. Sometimes we agree with our representatives, and sometimes we don’t. At the end of the day the legislator is no more, or less, a citizen than fellow that elected him. That means that any Master Mason stands on equal footing with Albert Pike and speaks with equal authority.
This relates back to another common misconception about Masonry. The thought that someone who has done degree work in either the Scottish or York Rites is a “higher up”. I have obtained the 32nd Degree in the Scottish Rite. Does this mean that other Masons who have not gone through the Scottish Rite are somehow less in the eyes of the fraternity than I am?
The answer is no. Once a Mason has obtained the degree of Master Mason, or the 3rd Degree in the Blue Lodge, he is a full Brother. Anyone that chooses to become a part of the Scottish or York Rite has just decided they want to expand their experiences within Masonry. So this doesn’t mean that I can get a 14th Degree Scottish Rite Mason to do my laundry or wash my car.
Our conch takes his son to his grandfather for clarification of the mysteries of the conch. The grandfather looks at the young lad and says, “Son it’s always been that way. But I think the symbol must be linked to that book Lord of the Flies. They used a conch shell in that book. So someone must have read it, lived in Key West and started calling us Westies conchs.” Father and son then go back home thinking the grandfather is a crazy old coot.
So what’s the deal with the symbols on the rings and auto emblems?
Many of the symbols you might see on auto emblems, t-shirts, rings, and other Masonic swag are peculiar to a specific Degree. These symbols take elements a Degree’s story and place them in a Cliff’s Notes visual format. This is especially true in the Degree work of the Scottish and York Rites. Each of the Degrees has their own symbols that are unique to the Degree.
These symbols do incorporate symbols from various esoteric traditions depicted in the Degree. This is an extension of the application of using commonly items and attaching symbolic meaning to them. When a Mason sees a symbol for a specific Degree, it is designed to remind him of the lessons that were taught in that degree. No more, no less.
Getting in their car, our Westie and son decide to go back home. Our favorite conch remembers he has a bumper sticker he hasn’t placed on his car. The sticker is simply the flag of Key West. The father turns to the son and says,” I guess the biggest lesson of the conch is that we should be glad we live in Key West and not Cleveland.”
Wrapping up the longest article ever.
I hope this has given some of you a glimpse into Masonry and the reasons we employ the symbols we use. This is simply an overview of my perspective on Masonic symbolism. Masonry, in some respects, is like a primer for a multitude of esoteric traditions. Each Mason incorporates this banquet into their lives as they see fit. Just try to remember this when thinking that Nicholas Cage might be on to something by fitting the pieces of the puzzle together.
Labels: Blue Lodge, Freemasonry, Scottish Rite, Symbolism, York Rite
The Family Life Church versus the Compasses and Square
The Burning Taper reported this week that the Family Life Church in Eglin, IL destroyed a Masonic compasses and square and the cornerstone of a former Masonic Temple the group recently purchased. I must admit that upon hearing the news I was more than a little miffed. Thought of: “How could they?”, “What were they thinking?”,” What do they hate Freemasons so much as to destroy a compasses and square?”, all flooded thought my mind.
I decided that I was in the same trap I rail against at times. Emotion was taking the place of rational thought. A good night’s sleep and a cup of coffee the next morning generally will cure my ruffled feathers. True to form, the day break and caffeine gave me some perspective on the events in Illinois.
The fact of the matter is that the building legally belongs to the Family Life Church. As much as I shutter at the fact the organization would deface a historic building and smash a Masonic Symbol, it is their right to do so. Just as I have the right to set up a pink elephant in my back yard with garden gnomes dancing around it; they have the right to dispose of their property to their satisfaction.
A better solution would have been to have given a local Lodge or the Grand Lodge of Illinois the chance to recover the cornerstone and compasses and square. This solution could have benefited both parties. However, it is obvious that the Family Life Church’s beliefs hold something against Freemasonry. (I’ve attempted to log on to their web site this weekend to view their statements of faith and it’s either down or non-responsive.) The Church’s actions must have been purely symbolic, for whatever motive they have.
What does bother me about their actions is that even if they take issue with Freemasonry, I never believe it’s a good idea to destroy a symbol of the past. That’s their right too. The members of the Family Life Church have every right in the world to believe what they wish. If they choose to believe that the tenants of Freemasonry are opposed to their faith, I’m fine with that.
The question is how wise is it to destroy any symbol on a building that has a historical significance? I would never consider tearing down Auschwitz or an American Civil War Confederate monument. It is not because I hold the tenants of either group in esteem. Quite the contrary, I feel that these symbols should remind us of the atrocities and folly committed by those that have gone before us. These things should never be too far out of sight, or we will never be reminded of the guideposts our ancestors placed for us.
I know there are those that say that the sight of symbols that fall into this category are offensive. I would agree. There is nothing more offensive that thinking about the horrors heaped on Jews in Austria by the Nazis or how seceding from the Union almost cost this country it’s identity. The goal of these places should be to offend. I would rather these places be so offensive to those who look at them, that simply thinking of theminsures their history is never repeated.
The worst I can fault the Family Life Church for destroying something I feel is of architectural and historical import. While I don’t agree with their actions, it was their right to do so. What does it really matter if there is one less compasses and square in the world? As a Mason, the lessons of the symbols are more important to me than any of their physical representations.
Labels: Freemasonry
A big thanks goes out to Floyd Mann from the Lost Treasure USA site and Bill Gallagher of the Treasure Hunt Adventure site for the kind words and links to this week’s Templar Dig in Bulgaria article. Now on to the news…
Astraea Magazine’s latest audio interview is with Egyptologist Dr. Nabil Swelim, who says the Bosnian pyramids are real.
Lynn Picknett and Clive Prince will discuss their new book The Sion Revelation on Coast to Coast AM on 15 December 2007
A Turkish soccer fan has sued the European soccer governing body, after Italian team Inter Milan’s uniform portrayed a red cross. His complaint was that it looked like a Templar Cross and offended him and other Muslims. I will withhold additional comments for obvious reasons.
The Christian Family Life Church has smashed a Compass and Square on a historical building they own in Eglin, IL. The Burning Taper has done a great job of keeping up with this story until its destructive end. I’ll write something about this after I stop being angry and start rational thought again.
BBC gives a historical perspective on Lisbon’s Jeronimos Monastery, that was built by the Poor Knights of Christ. Conspiracy theorists will note that this building will be used for the signing of the European Union’s Reformation Treaty.
Haaretz tells the story of Crusader’s Vadum Iacob fortress and the archeological work going on there.
An ancient stone circle is found in Sweden.
Why is Aleister Crowley’s disciple Jack Parsons file missing from the FBI’s publicly accessible website?
Ouroboros Press announces it will be publishing a book by Masonic historian Angel Millar in the spring of 2008 on their My Space Blog.
The VRmag site has a panoramic virtual tour of Rosslyn Chapel.
On Film:
National Treasure 2: Book of Secrets will be opening on the 21st. I have been invited to a special sneak peak on the 19th and will have an advance look at the film that night.
A little more English language news on the Scandinavian film Arn about the Templars.
The Templar Code for Dummies blog reviews Stephen Dafoe's Nobly Born: An Illustrated History of the Knights Templar
Anthony North’s Beyond the Blog asks Who was King Arthur?
Grail Seekers Media Watch for the Week Ending 8 Dec 07
Oh, there’s just news at the present and the hope Santa Claus will bring me all the toys on my wish list…. And an appeal to Wally Temple. If you're still out there, drop me an e-mail. (Oh you know there's more to come on this one if I'm looking for a guy who calls himself Wally Temple...)
Coast to Coast AM, Wednesday, 12 Dec 07: Michael Tsarion will discuss his latest work on the Irish origins of civilization.
More mirror image clamor in Da Vinci’s works. Is it an image of God or Darth Vader?
The Vatican finds more things in their closet than Fibber McGee. This time it’s a lost Michelangelo drawing.
The Library of Congress displays a 500 year old map that accurately displays South America. What the real mystery is that the map makers said they based their map on a 1300 year old map of Ptolemy’s.
Did the National Geographic Society screw up the translation of the Gospel of Judas?
Forget Nicholas Cage in National Treasure, Bob Brewer is the real deal.
Callum Jensen writes an article “The Lincoln Cathedral and Rennes-le-Chateau Synergic” on Ellis C Taylor’s site.
The On Line Catholic Encyclopedia looks at the link between the Abbey of Athelney and the monks of Glastonbury.
GNN reprints an excerpt from Jim Marrs’ book Rule by Secrecy about Nazi occultism and the Protocols of Zion.
The BS Historian is searching for the Elusive Knights Templar
Bob Freeman kills time thinking about the Green Man in Rosslyn Chapel.
Labels: Holy Grail Media Watch, Media Watch
Templar Dig in Bulgaria
The news last week of the modern day Templar Organization Ordo Supremus Militaris Templi Hierosolymitani (OSMTH) will begin excavations in the Russe region of Bulgaria isn’t really news. At least the part about archeological activity in Russe relating to the Templars isn’t news. Back in April, archeologist Nikolai Ovcharov conducted a survey of the area for direct evidence of Templar holdings at the behest of the OSMTH. Ovcharov, the self titled “Indiana Jones of Bulgaria”, came to international attention in the archeological community when he announced coming into possession of a 7,000 year old tablet. According to Ovcharov, the stone contains the world’s earliest example of a written language.
It would now seem that the OSMTH has taken up the role of financing excavations in the Russe region. The OSMTH have dubbed the dig the “Nisovo Project”. Nisovo is a small village near the Romanian border. The above link cites that “remains of closes ancient necropolis where typical Templiers [sic] crosses were found”. So it would seem that we have a good idea where in Russe the excavations are going on. The OSMTH also is considering trying to excavate a Catholic Church in the ancient capital of Bulgaria, Veliko Tarnovo.
I was able to get a better picture of the Russe area from former history teacher at Memphis’ prestigious Harding Academy, Charlie Milson. After a number of mission trips to Romania, Charlie was able to visit Russe. “It's still an international crossroads and a great place to ford the Danube. A huge bridge is there now; it replaced another that was built in the 1920’s. There are some stone relics of older bridges that lie nearby”, said Milson. This would have made Russe the perfect place for Crusaders going to and from Constantinople to cross the Danube. It is no wonder evidence of the Templars can be found in this area.
Bulgaria would seem to be a treasure trove for those who would just look. Post Communism, the trade in illicit relics in Bulgaria “is more profitable than the drug trafficking.” “There are ruins all over Romania and Bulgaria one can just walk up to without anyone saying a word. The Communists didn’t have any idea what to do with the sites, so they left them alone”, said Milson.
Another event from the Bulgarian past that was publicized just days before the initial survey was announced could give another clue to what “Project Nisovo” might uncover. The remains of Tzar Kaloyan was laid to rest in an undisclosed Church in Veliko Tarnovo. Kaloyan is a central figure in Bulgarian history for securing the state in wars with Byzantium, Hungary and Serbia. During the late 1190’s, Pope Innocent III was in negotiations with the Tzar to make Bulgaria’s official religion Roman Catholic. The Tzar is also noted in history for capturing Emperor Baldwin of Flanders during the 4th Crusade.
The story of Kaloyan serves as simply a clue to what could be found near Russe. After the 4th Crusades’ sack of Constantinople, the Russe region would have had any number of those returning overland with their spoils in the interior of Europe. What might the Templars squirreled in the region from the riches of Constantinople? Hopefully, if the OSMTH expedition finds anything of note they will share it with the world. At present the Bulgarian branch of the OSMTH has not replied to my request for an interview.
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Labels: Bulgaria, Knights Templar
The Miraculous Templar Diamond
Last month, I cited a press release about the nearly unbelievable story of a diamond having a near perfect Templar Cross in the center of the stone. Last night, I was able to talk to the diamond’s owner David Rafaeli in depth about his find.
Los Angeles diamond broker David Rafaeli takes a few trips a year to brokerage centers in Antwerp or Tel Aviv. During one of these trips, David sees and bids on more diamonds than most people will see in a lifetime. It was on one of these trips to a Tel Aviv auction house in the fall of 2006 that Rafaeli found himself bidding on what seemed to be a standard lot of diamonds. Before the auction, David had spotted the unusual gem that would become known as the Miraculous Templar diamond in the lot. “I was the only one that recognized the significance of the diamond”, Rafaeli said.
What is so special about the diamond? The stone is a 2.73 carat green-yellow diamond containing a distinctive four-sided, Templar like cross. The cross is formed by a dark spot almost in the dead center of the stone. The diamond was extracted recently in a South African diamond mine and cut in Israel. Rafaeli claims that the Cross could not have been manmade. “We have a letter from the GIA [Gemological Institute of America] that states the diamond is totally natural.” a spokesman for Rafaeli said
Since he purchased the diamond, Rafaeli has come to consider that the diamond's center piece was a sacred occurrence. Rafaeli feels that the Templars recognized that there needed to be a unification of all the world’s religions and were working towards that goal. The diamond has become a symbol of unification and world peace to Mr. Rafaeli. The stone is a “story from God if we will only recognize it”, Rafaeli said.
There does seem to be a synchronicity with the diamond’s discovery and recent Templar related events. Rafaeli thinks that the timing of the discovery only strengthens his claim that the diamond signifies more than just a geological anomaly. Mr. Rafaeli feels that the diamond signifies “things are starting to happen in the world” and it could be used as a vehicle for humanity to find a common ground.
In keeping with thoughts of brotherhood, Rafaeli would like to find a venue for the diamond to be shared with the world. A number of groups have been contacted about displaying the diamond - including the Vatican. At the time of this report, the Holy See has not responded to Rafaeli.
I wish Rafaeli success in his quest to use the diamond to bring about unification of diverse groups in these troubled times. If the faith Rafaeli places on the diamond’s discovery is any indication of if it’s potential, it very well might have the power to change the world.
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03/26/09 Philip K. Howard Wants To Do Away With Silly Lawsuits, Sue Him Before He Succeeds !!!!
Life without lawyer jokes
Get your dose of common sense tonight as lawyer Philip K. Howard discusses his new book, Life Without Lawyers at The New-York Historical Society. Howard’s book criticizes, pretty fairly really, the impact of a litigious culture on our schools and our health-care system, and even the impact of being legally self-conscious on our actions. What would have happened if Captain Sullenberger had considered the legal implications before acting? (We would have probably never got to appreciate his fine, upstanding mustache for one.)
As sensible as this all sounds, we’re still not sure if we’re ready to live in a world without ridiculous lawsuits and the comical bureaucracy they spawn. After the jump, the best examples from Howard’s book
1. A Washington judge sued a dry cleaners for $54 million after losing his (not diamond-encrusted) pants. He is still appealing the case two years later.
2. A jury awarded $6 million to someone who had broken his leg on the sledding hill in Greenwich, Connecticut, causing nearby towns to forbid people from sledding on town property (those killjoys).
3. In 2005, a girl in kindergarten in St. Petersburg, Florida, went on a “rampage”, trashing a classroom. Since teachers were wary of placing a hand on a child, police led her away in handcuffs.
4. A five-inch fishing lure, with a three-pronged hook, now comes with the following legend on its side: “Harmful if swallowed.”
5. A music teacher was accused of misconduct after positioning a child’s fingers on a flute (the monster—we hated music lessons too).
6. A letter opener, which wasn’t a mini chain saw, included the missive “Caution: Safety Goggles Recommended.”
The talk starts at 6:30pm and costs $15, or costs N-YHS a lot more if you inadvertently lose your pants/break your leg sledding/swallow a fishing lure/poke yourself in the eye with a letter opener.
03/26/09Once Again Greenwich Time Editor Bruce Hunter Is Late To The Party And His Niave Reporter Gets The Story Wrong
Good Ole Honest Abe Had It Right
At Was Abraham Lincoln who said....
"You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can't fool all of the people all of the time.'
Hats off, as they would say in Honest Abe's time, to the out of town newspapers and bloggers who were not so easily fooled like the Greenwich Time amateurish news team
Compare And Contrast The Green Kitty Litter Liner's Reporting With That Of Out Of Town Newspapers And Bloggers
If You Want To Know What Is Really Going On In And Around Greenwich, Then You Have To Read The Out Of Town Newspapers, As Well As, Local And National Blogs.
AIG resignation hits close to home
By Susan Tuz
REDDING -- Former Greenwich resident Jake DeSantis' resignation from a job with AIG Financial Products unit Wednesday came as no surprise to those who knew him....
...DeSantis is known for being civic-minded in the town. On arriving in Redding, he joined The League of Women Voters. However, his membership is no longer active, according to Jane Ross, president of the league.....
....In the open letter to Liddy, DeSantis rails against the unfair way in which he and other AIG executives have been vilified and about Liddy not supporting them before Congress, the Connecticut and New York attorneys general and the press.....
.....He said he will donate his retention payment from AIG of $746,006 after taxes to "organizations that are helping people who are suffering from the global downturn." ..... Blah .... Blah .... Blah ..... Blah ..... Blah ..... Blah ..... Blah ...... Blah ..... Blah ....... Boring And Ill Informed .....
If You Want To Know Whats Really
Going On You Have To Skip The Greenwich Time
And Read The Out Of Town Newspapers
03/26/09 Former Greenwich Resident Fake Jake DeSantist: "I didn't do nothin' .... Besides I deserve All That Cash ......"
Waaaaaa! AIG Brat Jason DeSantis whines and resigns
....An AIG exec who got a payout of over $1 million quit his job Wednesday in a huffy public letter that was meant to generate sympathy - but instead landed like a lead balloon....
...."I am disappointed and frustrated over your lack of support for us," he wrote. "You didn't defend us against the baseless and reckless comments made by the attorneys general of New York and Connecticut."....
Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal wasn't moved. He pointed out that DeSantis glossed over a key fact: Without a massive taxpayer bailout, AIG would have collapsed months ago.
"His company and his contract and his bonus would simply be nonexistent without the taxpayer, and that critical fact is ignored," Blumenthal said.
The letter caused a big ruckus online, where many branded it more unseemly whining from an entitled fat cat who still doesn't understand the pain financiers have wrought.
"Cry me a river," read one typical comment.
Adding insult to injury, DeSantis said he didn't need the money, acknowledged that he was overpaid, and said that he was taking his bonus - "$742,006.40 after taxes" - and giving it to charity instead of back to AIG, as Blumenthal and New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo have demanded.
"I at least deserve to dictate how my earnings are spent, and do not want to see them disappear back into the obscurity of AIG's or the federal government's budget," he wrote.
He did not mention that since AIG is now 80% owned by the taxpayer, returning his bonus would have returned it to the taxpayer.
"I commend his motivation in wanting to help people who have been harmed by the economic downturn, but this is taxpayer money," Blumenthal said.....
And Read The Local Citizen Journalists And Bloggers
03/24/09 UNETHICAL BEHAVIOUR: Former Greenwich Resident And AIG Bum "Fake Jake" DeSantis Tries To Buck Efforts to Give Back Bonus Pay
......The Arrogant Little AIG SOB That Refuses To Give Back
His Neighbors Hard Earned Tax Dollars.......
I take this action after 11 years of dedicated, honorable service to A.I.G. I can no longer effectively perform my duties in this dysfunctional environment.......
..... Even Though Cry Baby Jake DeSantis Refuses To Ask For Forgiveness For Stealing From All Of His Neighbors .....
"Fake Jake" Desantis Still Wants Everyone To Love And Feel Sorry For Him:....
As most of us have done nothing wrong, guilt is not a motivation to surrender our earnings. We have worked 12 long months under these contracts and now deserve to be paid as promised. None of us should be cheated of our payments.....
Be Sure To Read Bonus Bum"Fake Jake" DeSantis' Fine Print:
....On March 16 I received a payment from A.I.G. amounting to $742,006.40, after taxes ......
(Jake DeSantis Is Such An Unethical AIG Bum That He Has Obviously Visited An Accountant To Calculate The Amount Of Taxes To The Penny. DeSantis Is Such A Greedy SOB He Couldn't Add $933.40 Of His Own Money To Make The Taxpayer Funded Package An Even $743,000)
....In light of the uncertainty over the ultimate taxation and legal status of this payment, the actual amount I donate may be less...... (Greedy Con Artist Jake DeSantis Really Has Hug Balls. This AIG Scamster Says I Am Going To Act Like A Big Shot Donating Your Tax Dollars, But If He Miscalculated The Tax Ramifications ..... He Is Going To Use Your Tax Dollars To Pay Any Additional Tax Liability That He May Incur. As Leona Hemsley Said,"Only The Little People Pay Taxes.")
.....This choice is right for me. I wish others at A.I.G.-F.P. luck finding peace with their difficult decision, and only hope their judgment is not clouded by fear......
WHAT AIG BONUS BUM "FAKE JAKE" DESANTIS WONT TELL YOU IS......
That he and the other AIG Bums decided to accelerate by three months more than a quarter of the amounts due under the contracts. That action probably net him $250,000.00 in taxpayer money and allowed him to stash $185, 501.60 after taxes in the bank......
.....Here Is How The Jake DeSantis Ponzie Scheme Will Probably Work:
First AIG Bum "Fake Jake" DeSantis Will Use Over $250,000.00 Of Your Tax Dollars To Pay His Tax Bill. Then He Will Claim Huge Tax Deductions For Donating $742,006.40 Of Your Tax Dollars To Help Those "Who Are Suffering From The Global Downturn".
Greedy " Fake Jake" DeSantis Will Then Be Able To Carry The The Taxpayer Funded Deduction Forward Three Years, Thus Allowing Him To Pay Virtually No Taxes.
The $742,006.40 Of Mr. Desantists' Neighbors Tax Dollars Will Need To Go Into A Financial Vehicle Like A Private Foundation To Distribute The Tax Dollars.
Of Coarse, There Will Be Expences Involved With Distributing Your Tax Dollars So Greedy "Fake Jake" Desantis Will Have To Be Compensated. Desantis May Even Need To Hire Friends And Family Members To Help Disburse Your Tax Dollars To Help Those "Who Are Suffering From The Global Downturn".
Then There Is Greedy Jake Desantis Mission Of Distributing Your Hard Earned Tax Dollars To Help Those "Who Are Suffering From The Global Downturn".
This Mission Statement Includes Virtually Everybody In The World .... Greedy Jake Desantis' Laws .... Greedy "Fake Jake" Desantis' Golfing Buddy ...... Greedy Jake Desantis' Business Associates ..... Etc.....
You Will Notice That Greedy "Fake Jake" Desantis' Wont Say I Am Giving Your Tax Dollars To Underprivileged Children.
You Will Notice That Greedy "Fake Jake" Desantis' Wont Say I Am Giving Your Tax Dollars To Pay The Medical Bills Of Uninsured Families.
You Will Notice That Greedy "Fake Jake" Desantis' Wont Say I Am Giving Your Tax Dollars To Senior Citizens In Danger Of Losing Their Homes
All Of The Above Mentioned , Charitable Mission Statements Would Be To Narrowly Focus And Make It Too Hard To Abuse
MOREOVER:
Fake Jake DeSantist Wont Tell You ThatThe Other AIG Shoe Has Not Dropped Yet.....
WHY ISN'T ANYONE LISTENING TO GREENWICH ROUNDUP
THIS WAS ONLY THE FIRST ROUNDOF BONUS PAYMENTS TO THE AIG FAT CATSLIKE "FAKE JAKE" DESANTIS
THE CLOCK IS TICKING ON A SECOND TAXPAYER FUNDEDAIG BONUS PAYMENT TO "FAKE JAKE" DESANTIS
The AIG Employee Retention Plan Has Two ComponentsThere Are Two Sets Of Bonus Payments
There Are Two Sets Of Bonus Payments
For "Fake Jake" Desantis And The Other AIG Pirates
This Was Only The First Bonus And Covers December 01, 2007 To November 30, 2008 That Was To Be Paid No Later Than March 15th of 2009.
And As We Read Above ..... The Greedy AIG SOB's Like "Fake Jake" Desantis Couldn't Wait Till March 15, 2009 So They Accelerated 25% Of The Bonus To Be Paid Last December.
Most People Don't Realize ThatThe Clock Is Already Ticking On ASecond Round Of Bonus Payments For"Fake Jake DeSantis And The Other AIG Pirates:
The Is Second Bonus Payments Cover December 01, 2008 To November 30, 2009 That Was To Be Paid No Later Than March 15th of 2010.
MORE ON THAT ECELERATEDDECEMBER BONUS PAYMENT:
03/21/09 SUPRISE AIG LIED:Greenwich Resident Richard Blumenthal Says AIG Paid It's Fat Cat Pirates $218 Million In Bonuses !!!!!
03/20/09 Fat Cats In The Backcoutry Of Greenwich Watch In Horror As Fellow Town Resident Richard Blumenthal Sends Out Subpoena To AIG Bonus Bums
03/20/09 READER SUBMITTED COMMENTS: Hatred palooza 2009 on Sat AM for AIG FPG execs.
03/20/09 New York Post's Jackpot Jimmy Cries Like A Baby As He Gives Back His AIG Multi Million Pirate Booty Back To The Taxpayers
03/18/09 The Jack Pot Jimmys Of The Greenwich Backcountry Are Shaking In Terror As The New York Post Shows Up In New Canaan And Fairfield
The Fact Is That "Fake Jake's" Desantis' AIG Retintion Contract Would Not Have Been Worth The Paper It Was Written On If His Nieghbor's Hard Earned Tax Dollars Had Not Been Stolen
Why I Have No Sympathy for Jake DeSantis
Mitchell Bard
On Tuesday the New York Times ran on its op-ed page the resignation letter written by Jake DeSantis, a vice president of AIG's infamous financial products ...
....I am not the least bit moved by DeSantis's point of view, because over the last several years, he has tremendously profited from a larger financial culture that is completely out of whack. Those working in the financial industry made untold sums of money from a bubble that was bound to burst, and they did so in an environment that rewarded risk with no consequences for failure......
.....In other words, DeSantis has become wealthy beyond his wildest dreams, with no worries about money for the rest of his life, at the expense of most Americans and the financial system as a whole, all by taking advantage of a set of rules that skewed in his favor. He profited from an industry that rejected decades of regulations and took crazy risks that a bubble could be sustained against all logic to the contrary, and that firm's could leverage themselves at unhealthy levels with no consequences. And now that some semblance of order is trying to be applied to the financial industry, with the bill being footed in billions of dollars by the American people, he has the audacity to complain that he is being treated unfairly? It's like someone finding a hole in the side of a bank vault and stopping by once a year to take millions of dollars from the structure, only to complain on the 15th trip when the hole has been sealed up......
.....My point in listing DeSantis's bloated salary isn't, as my friends on the right will probably immediately accuse me of doing, an effort to attack wealth or wealth creation. Rather, my quarrel with DeSantis's letter is that it represents an unwillingness to confront the culture that not only caused the current financial collapse, but that will prevent true recovery if it's not addressed.....
.....You would think that those who created this mess would have some humility. But you would be wrong. DeSantis's letter is just one example. In a front-page New York Times article on Monday discussing the administration's attempts to get private equity firms and hedge funds to buy into Treasury secretary Timothy Geithner's new plan to purchase toxic assets from banks, the chief executive of a "major investment firm" is quoted as saying
"The deal is good, but it's not worth it if I'm buying myself into a retroactive tax or a Congressional hearing."
The article notes that
"some executives at private equity firms and hedge funds, who were briefed on the plan Sunday afternoon, are anxious about the recent uproar over millions of dollars in bonus payments made to executives of (AIG)."
When I read observations like these, I just cannot believe that these people are so blind as to what has happened to the financial industry in the last six months. I know these individuals profited from a bubble, but apparently they are also living in one.....
.....A plan to rescue the banks without addressing and changing the compensation culture on Wall Street is like treating a cancer patient's symptoms without eradicating the tumors. The relief will be only temporary......
.....If DeSantis doesn't want to be a part of the solution, if he wants to hold onto a system in which it is reasonable to pay him (and, presumably, many others) $742,006.40 after taxes, by a company accepting hundreds of billions from the federal government, I can only come to the conclusion that he doesn't understand where we need to go. He is part of the problem, not the solution. Good riddance to him, and let the door hit him on the butt on the way out. DeSantis may have a valid contract, but it's a product of a corrupt system. And it's time for the system to change, if we truly want to rebuild the nation's financial institutions and economy.
The apocalyptic rich
The next day, that long whine by AIG executive Jake DeSantis appeared on the Times' op-ed page, proving my point. This fool is completely oblivious to the fact that he wouldn't be in position to earn a million-dollar bonus were it not for taxpayers. And if he deigns to send it anywhere, in his attempt at martyrdom, DeSantis's $742,006.40, after taxes, should come right back to the U.S. Treasury.
Some at AIG Buck Efforts to Give Back Bonus Pay
....Wednesday, employees at the insurer gave a standing ovation for Jake DeSantis, an executive in AIG's financial-products division, who was the first to publicly refuse to return his retention bonus despite an outcry over the payments.
Joining in the ovation was Gerry Pasciucco, attendees said. Mr. Pasciucco heads the division that had $40 billion in losses last year that nearly sank AIG and triggered the government rescue. About five employees of the unit quit Wednesday, said a person familiar with the matter.......
.....In recent days, employees have huddled in small groups in conference rooms off the division's main trading floor in Wilton, Conn., debating what to do.....
........One employee said he had instructed his wife to call the police in the event his identity became known and a news truck appeared at his home.....
AIG Exec Whines About Public Anger, and Now We're Supposed to Pity Him? Yeah, Right ...
AIG exec Jake DeSantis' NY Times letter asking for us to chill out about his poor overworked employees is a sick joke.....
....AIGFP only had 377 employees. Those 400-odd folks received almost $3.5 billion in compensation in the last seven years, a very large part of that money coming from the sale of credit default protection. Doing the math, that averages out to over $9 million of compensation per person.
Ask yourself this question: If your company made that much money, and the boss of the unit made almost $280 million in just a few years, exactly how likely is it that you wouldn't know where that money was coming from?
Are we supposed to believe that Jake DeSantis knew nothing about Joe Cassano's CDS deals? If your boss and the top guys in your firm were all making a killing selling anything at all -- whether it was rubber kayaks, generic Levitra or credit default swaps -- you really wouldn't bother to find out what that thing they were selling was? You'd really just mind your own business, sit at your cubicle and put your faith in the guys up top to fill you in if there was something you needed to know?.....
.....But all of this is really secondary to the tone of DeSantis' letter. He acts like he's a victim because he didn't get to keep his after-tax bonus of $742,006.40 in the middle of a global depression. And he really loses his fucking mind when he writes:
"None of us should be cheated of our payments any more than a plumber should be cheated after he has fixed the pipes but a careless electrician causes a fire that burns down the house."
First of all, Jake, you asshole, no plumber in the world gets paid a $740,000 bonus, over and above his salary, just to keep plumbing. Second, try living on a plumber's salary before you even think about comparing yourself to one; you're inviting a pitchfork in the gut by even thinking along those lines. Third, Jake, if you were a plumber, and the electrician burned the house down -- well, guess what? If you and that electrician worked for the same company, you actually wouldn't get paid for that job.
Out in the real world, when your company burns a house down, you're not getting paid by that client. It's only on Wall Street, where the every-man-for-himself ethos is built into an insanely selfish and greed-addled compensation system, that people like you expect to get paid in a bubble -- only there do people expect their performance bonuses no matter how much money the shareholders lose overall, no matter how many people get laid off after the hostile takeover, no matter how ill-considered the mortgages lent out by your division were.
You expect that money because you think it's owed to you. But what money? The money is gone. Your boss, if not you, set it all afire. You want the money, but where exactly do you think it's coming from?
Do you just not understand that that money now would have to come out of someone else's pocket? That it would have to come from middle-class taxpayers, real plumbers, people who didn't make millions over the years in equity and commodity trading?.....
.....Only a person with a habitually overinflated sense of self-worth could think he deserves a $700,000 retention bonus, even if it has to be paid by taxpayers....
.....Hey Jake, it's not like you were curing cancer. You were a f**king commodities trader. Thanks to a completely insane, horribly skewed set of societal values that puts a premium on greed and severely undervalues selflessness, communal spirit and intellectualism -- values that make millionaires out of people like you and leave teachers and nurses, the people who raise your kids and clean your parents' bedpans, comparatively penniless .
Good for you. Consider yourself lucky. But your company went belly-up and broke, almost certainly thanks in part to you, and now you don't get your bonus.
So be a man and deal with it. The rest of us do, when we get bad breaks, and we've had a lot more of them than you. And stop whining......
John Walker Lindh presents Enemy Combatant t-shirt to Jake ...
TPMCafé
In a moving ceremony today, John Walker Lindh, the "American Taliban" convicted of treason in the wake of the Sept. 11 disaster and resulting war with Afghanistan, handed off the "enemy combatant" t-shirt he has worn for the past eight years to Jake DeSantis, a former employee of AIG Corporation who has refused to return his negotiated compensation, controversially dubbed a "bonus," to American taxpayers, electing to donate the money instead.
"Man, it's weird," opined Lindh in his remarks prior to the presentation. "One day, you're just a feckless kid from Marin County, or an egghead from MIT in Jake's case, out in the world doing what you more or less believe in. The next day history catches up with you and you're in the bright lights with everybody calling you a traitor. I can't say the last eight years have been great for me or that I don't kind of want to scream 'Your turn, asshole!' to Jake. I mean, guys like him are exactly the guys I was trying to fight against. But wearing this Enemy Combatant t-shirt isn't easy, and on a human level I hope he doesn't end up dead or spending 20 years in prison. I'm pretty sure he has more friends in high places than I did, so it doesn't seem likely."
DeSantis, after accepting the Enemy Combatant t-shirt, said only "I bet all you Liberal freaks are thinking 'Hey, what goes around comes around.' I told you I'm giving the money to charity, just like Jesus would have. Now either crucify me or get off my effing back."
No elected officials have yet commented on the event.
A Response to AIG’s Jake DeSantis - Victim
Wrecking Ball Report (satire)
AIG’s Jake DeSantis is a self-righteous wealthy person who likes to remind us how hard he works. This reminds us of numerous Hollywood stereotypes designed to make us dislike various wealthy characters so we can root for the plucky young working class hero.
And that makes us really hate Hollywood for getting inside our heads, because although his guest Op-Ed in the New York Times made us throw up our leftover Mac and Cheese.....
....DeSantis is quitting his job at AIG and giving whatever part of his bonus he has left after (possibly massive) taxes to charity. Sounds noble enough, but there’s a catch:
Jake Desantis wants us to see him as a victim, perhaps even feel sorry for him......
....The pledge to donate to charity - nice, we like it. Tough not to see it as a clever play for positive PR in a world that’s ready to throw you to the wolves, while we all play the part of the wolves ....
....But here’s the thing - that shit is really happening. There are fucking tent cities springing up in California, dude. And it isn’t to film a Slumdog Millionaire sequel. These are your countrymen in this day and age, unemployed and homeless, many through no fault of their own. Now, if you want to see yourself as blameless, that’s your right. Maybe you are. But you are an executive for AIG’s Financial Products division - whether or not the paperwork for CDS’ crossed your desk or not, you have become a rich man by working at a company that in the end, f**ked us all.....
....Go home to your family, dude. We’re sorry about your sh*tty boss and that lost year of your life, but we’ve got to clean the puke off our second-hand clothes and go whore ourselves to make rent - we don’t have time for your f**king pity party.
Self Outed Public Figure Jake DeSantis Is Encouraged By Greenwich Roundup To Respond To This Post If He So Chooses.
03/26/09 BIG LOSER: Greenwich Billionaire Once Again Fails To Make The Grade. Lampert saw his nine largest equity stakes lose $5 Billion.
Has Eddie The Micro Manager Lost His Touch?
Investors Are Wondering If Lampert Can't See The Forest For The Trees.
Sears hedge fund guru a stranger to 'richest' list he once headed
Sears Holdings Corp. Chairman and hedge-fund guru Edward S. Lampert failed for the fourth year to make a list he once topped -- the richest hedge-fund managers in the nation.....
....In 2006, Lampert placed sixth on the list by taking home $425 million in 2005.
In the latest Alpha magazine edition (http://www.iimagazine.com/ ), Lampert appears in a story titled "Eight Men Out," listing eight hedge-fund managers who lost the most personal wealth.
... Lampert topped the list published in 2005, after pocketing a $1.02 billion salary in 2004 for his leadership of Greenwich, Conn.-based ESL Investments. ...
....The losses included $3.6 billion from Sears Holdings, $587 million from Auto Nation, $480 million from AutoZone, $174.7 million from Home Depot and $162.4 million from Citigroup, according to the report.
Lampert owns 40 percent of Sears stock. The ESL portfolio is estimated to be worth $11.5 billion.
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03/26/09 Richard Blumenthal Chickens Out: The names of AIG bonus recipients were edited out out Hearst Newspaper Freedom Of Information Requests.
AIG documents released - Topix
Comments: 16 posts
AIG documents released.
HARTFORD -- In the days after news of their federally funded bonuses became public, Wilton-based AIG was deluged with angry e-mails, many threatening violence.
"I would rejoice if someone went bin Laden on AIG headquarters," said one message dated March 15 on an AIG Yahoo Groups' message board titled, "When does AIG get bombed?"
"The burned corpses of those responsible would bring a smile to my face, as would any tears of their families on the news shows," it concludes.
"The Revolution is coming," another e-mail said. "The family members of your executives are not safe. Your blood will run through the streets in the coming months."
In documents released on Wednesday to Hearst Connecticut Newspapers under the state Freedom of Information Act, AIG Financial Products Corp. officials detailed dozens of threats, along with bonuses for 418 employees totaling $218 million from federal bailout money.
The smallest bonus was $1,000. One hundred people earned bonuses of $82,500 or less, while 317 earned more than $85,000 in bonuses.
Seventy-three were paid more than $1 million in bonuses, according to the documents.
Full Story: Stamford Advocate
FOR THE RECORD:
These "So-Called" Threats Are Hype.
There Have Not Been Any Threats In CT
No Fairfield County Newspaper
Has Reported That Any AIG Employee
Has Filed A Complaint With Any Local
Police Or State Police Department
Some Drunk Guy Gets On A Yahoo Message Board
And Mouths Off
This Is The Best AIG Can Come Up With?
This Is Not A Good Enough Reason Not To Tell
Greenwich Residents Where Their Hard Earned
Tax Dollars Went To.
If AIG Bailout Bums receive Death Threats Via Email Or By Phone, They Should Immediately Contact The Police And Let Them Trace Down The Offender.
Greenwich Bloggers Get Threatened All The Time By Drunken Bums
Usually, Greenwich Bloggers Ignore These Idiots And Their Flames Sent Via Comment Links
Greenwich Bloggers Are Able To Trace Down The Idiots With Ease At No Cost, So Why Can't AIG With Its Billions In Tax Dollars And Lawyers Find One Credible Threat.
The Local Topix Message Boards Directly Linked To Scores Of AIG News Reports, Have Been Death Threat Free.
This Is Just A Smoke Screen That AIG Is Using To Prevent The Public From Exercising Their Right To Know Where Their Hard Earned Tax Dollars Went.
Eventually, We Will Learn Who The AIG Bonus Bums Are Because New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo Is Not Afraid Of AIG.
After Cuomo Releases The Names, Then Resident "Me Too" Richard Blumenthal Will Join The NY Attorney General's Band Wagon
03/21/09 GREENWICH BLOGGERS SAY QUIT YOUR CRYING AND GROW A PAIR: It's Not Just Greedy AIG Bailout Thieves That Get Harrassed And Threatened
03/21/09 READER SUBMITTED COMMENTS: Fairfield They Laughs At The Toubled AIG, But Greenwich Residents Don't Like It When Their Bloggers Are Threatened
03/21/09 READER SUBMITTED COMMENTS: Threats Against Greenwich Blogger Chris Fountain Should Be Traced
03/21/09 Threats Against Greenwich Blogger May Be Comming From No Other Than Ex-Bear Sterns Fat Cat Robert Steinberg
12/25/08 Greenwich Resident Robert Steinberg Wasn't Happy With Helping Destroy Bear Sterns. No He Has To Destroy Whats Left Of The Republican Party!!!
03/26/09 The Raw Greenwich News Feed; This Just In ....
The Greenwich Latest News Briefs:
Failed Hearst Newspaper Managing Editor Missed This Story, Maybe It Will Be Up At The Greenwich Time Later Today.......
Skakel To Make New Appeal Today To State Supreme Court
They are: •The post-conviction disclosure by Gitano "Tony" Bryant, a frequent, teen-age visitor to Greenwich at the time of Moxley's death, that two of his ...
Rob Mathes to perform at Dana's Angels benefit concert
Stamford Plus Magazine
By Press Release Greenwich's own multi-talented performer and music director Rob Mathes, fresh from the recent excitement of musically directing President ...
New-Home Sales Rise as Prices Fall
The data "have allayed some fears that the housing market would continue to freefall," said Omar Sharif, an economist with RBS Greenwich Capital, ...
Commercial Mortgage Bond Spreads Decline on Treasury's Plan
Bloomberg - USA
... debt is "incredibly important" for commercial-mortgage backed securities, said Kenneth Hackel, head of fixed-income strategy at RBS Greenwich Capital. ...
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03/26/09 PRESS RELEASE: :Just Books' Events: March 26-April 4
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JUST BOOKS' UPCOMING EVENTS
"SPRING IS IN THE AIR"
To download the latest Just Books' Event Calendar, Click Here
Author Visit & Book Signing
SATURDAY, APRIL 4, 10:00 AM
SANDI HABER FIFIELD
WALKING THROUGH THE WORLD
28 Arcadia Road, Old Greenwich, CT
Photographer Sandi Haber Fifield will sign copies of her beautiful and moving book of photography, Walking Through the World (Charta, $55). This gorgeous book with 188 color illustrations and texts by Arthur Ollman and Tom O'Connor, is one that is profound and captivating. The photos are born of collisions and alignments, made as Haber Fifield navigates the world around her. Her works can be seen in many of the world's outstanding collections and museums including The Museum of Modern Art in NY, The Art Institute of Chicago and the LA County Museum. Sandi has also worked as an editorial and commercial artist for Metropolitan Home, Esquire, MTV and CBS Records.
TODDLER & PRE-SCHOOL STORY HOUR
WEDNESDAYS, 10:30 AM
APRIL 1, 15, 22 & 29
Free and Open to the Public; Reservations Recommended - 203-637-0707
NEW! Toddler and pre school story hour each Wednesday morning at 10:30 a.m. at Just Books; call 203-637-0707 to reserve a space
Kid's Board
JUST BOOKS' KIDS BOARD
TUESDAY & THURSDAY, 4:00 - 4:45 PM
MARCH 26 & 31; APRIL 2, 14, 16, 21, 23, 28 & 30
Free and Open to the Public - Ages 5-18
Kids ages 5-18 come review NEW books at Just Books!
Just Books' Kids Board meets every Tuesday & Thursday. Moderated by Jenny Lawton. Drop-ins welcome!
Just Books would like to THANK the community for its continued support. The success of an independent neighborhood bookstore is dependent on its loyal customers.
-- Marion Holmes and the staff at Just Books
MARK YOUR CALENDAR FOR THESE UPCOMING
JUST BOOKS' EVENTS
APRIL 14, 7:30 PM - COKIE ROBERTS with WE ARE OUR MOTHERS' DAUGHTERS and LADIES OF LIBERTY at Arcadia Café (Book Signing)
APRIL 15, 12 PM -- Greenwich Water Club Book Club - Unaccustomed Earth by Jumpa Lahiri; luncheon $40 (includes book): reservations required by calling 203-661-4033
APRIL 18, 10 AM - ANTHONY SKIP ALLOCCO with FISHIN' JACK (THE FISHIN' FANATIC) AND THE ORIGIN OF FLY FISHING (THE REEL STORY) at Just Books (Book Signing)
APRIL 21, 7 PM - Fresh Picks Book Club, moderated by Jenny Lawton at Arcadia Café; cost is $50 and includes hardcover book, salad, soup; BYO; reservations required by calling 203-647-8766
APRIL 22, 7:00 PM - SARAH DARER LITTMAN with PURGE at Arcadia Café (Book Signing)
APRIL 25, 10:00 AM - E.D. HILL with I'M NOT YOUR FRIEND, I'M YOUR PARENT: HELPING YOUR CHILDREN SET THE BOUNDARIES THEY NEED... AND REALLY WANT at Just Books (Book Signing)
APRIL 28, 7:30 PM -- JEFFREY TOOBIN with THE NINE: INSIDE THE SECRET WORLD OF THE SURPREME COURT at Just Books (Book Signing)
APRIL 2, 14, 16, 21, 23, 28 & 30, 4 - 4:45 PM -- Just Books' KIDS BOARD - Kids ages 5-18 at Just Books
APRIL 1, 15, 22 & 29, 10:30 AM - Just Books' Toddler & Pre School Story Hour at Just Books
Old Greenwich, CT 06870
M-F, 9am - 5pm
Sat, 9am-4pm
REMEMBER - JUST BOOKS HAS AUTHOR SIGNED BOOKS! LIMITED SUPPLIES AVAILABLE
Just Books is proud to support the community with a renewed and continued focus on customer service. Check out the Just Books' calendar for upcoming events, including book signings, book clubs, youth literacy and writing programs (Just Words @ Just Books on Monday nights). Also stop by anytime and meet the new owner Marion Holmes. Just Books also wants to hear from you, so please send us your favorites, recommendations and wish list! Just Books can special order any book, gift wrap and ship to anywhere in the U.S.
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Jason DeSantis (above) lives in a house
once owned by Mark Twain
BY Oren Yaniv, Edgar Sandoval and Helen Kennedy
An AIG exec who got a payout of over $1 million quit his job Wednesday in a huffy public letter that was meant to generate sympathy - but instead landed like a lead balloon.
Jason DeSantis, 39, argued that because he had worked hard and didn't cause the firm's problems, he deserved to get his promised bonus.
"We in the financial products unit have been betrayed by AIG and are being unfairly persecuted by elected officials," DeSantis, vice president of AIG Financial Products for 11 years, wrote to company CEO Edward Liddy.
"I am disappointed and frustrated over your lack of support for us," he wrote. "You didn't defend us against the baseless and reckless comments made by the attorneys general of New York and Connecticut."
The letter was published Wednesday in The New York Times, and DeSantis was greeted with a standing ovation when he walked into his office, according to a source close to the firm.
"I commend his motivation in wanting to help people who have been harmed by the economic downturn, but this is taxpayer money," Blumenthal said.
DeSantis, an MIT scientist who went into finance and made tens of millions at AIG, lives with his wife, Erika, in a gated community in Redding, Conn., in a house once owned by Mark Twain.....
....In his letter, DeSantis took a shot at Blumenthal and Cuomo for threatening to out the names of execs who don't return bonuses "even though attorneys general are supposed to stand for due process, to conduct trials in courts and not the press."
Cuomo had no comment. Blumenthal said he hasn't made anyone's name public: "He put his own name in the public realm,".....
DEAR AIG, I QUIT
His Neighbors Hard Earned Tax Dollars Continues.....
....I take this action after 11 years of dedicated, honorable service to A.I.G. I can no longer effectively perform my duties in this dysfunctional environment.......
He Still Wants Everyone To Love And Feel Sorry For Him:....
Be Sure To Read Bonus Bum
"Fake Jake" DeSantis' Fine Print:
......Spoiled Disloyal Bonus Bum " Fake Jake" DeSantis
Gives No Notice To AIG:
He's Just Going To Take His Neighbor's Money And Run.....
....Mr. Liddy, I wish you success in your commitment to return the money extended by the American government, and luck with the continued unwinding of the company’s diverse businesses — especially those remaining credit default swaps. I’ll continue over the short term to help make sure no balls are dropped, but after what’s happened this past week I can’t remain much longer — there is too much bad blood.....
All Of The Above, Charitable Mission Statements Would Be To Narrowly Focus And Make It Too Hard To Abuse.
Fake Jake DeSantist Wont Tell You That
The Other AIG Shoe Has Not Dropped Yet.....
THIS WAS ONLY THE FIRST ROUNDOF BONUS PAYMENTS TO THE AIG FAT CATS
LIKE "FAKE JAKE" DESANTIS
And As We Read Above ..... The Greedy AIG SOB's Like "Fake Jake" Desantis Couldn't Wait Till March 15, 2009 So They Accelerated 25% Of The Bonus To Be Paid In December.
Most People Don't Realize That
The Clock Is Already Ticking On A
Second Round Of Bonus Payments For
"Fake Jake DeSantis And The Other AIG Pirates:
MORE ON THAT ECELERATED
DECEMBER BONUS PAYMENT:
03/26/09 Ace Reporter Ken Borsuk Reports The Truth And Lets The Chips Fall Where They May, While The "Yellowich Time" Puts It's Head In The Sand
Gang Members Threaten Wilbur Peck Residents With Retribution If They Call Or Talk To The The Greenwich Police Department
Failed Green Kitty Litter Liner, Managing Editor, Bruce Hunter Is Too Afraid Of Greenwich Police Chief David Ridberg Reaction To To Report The Facts
Hearst Newspapers Rookie Reporter's Were Too Scared To Go To Wilbur Peck And Interview The Residents Who Have To Deal With Criminal Activity On A Daily Basis - That's Why The Greenwich Time Only Published One Side Articles That Only Quoted Police And Housing Authority Officials
Wilbur Peck Senior Citizens And Children Live In Fear, Because Greenwich Police Chief David Ridberg Lets A Gang Of Punks Run An Open Air Drug Market On Town Property
Some in fear as Wilbur Peck calls for more patrols
Greenwich Post
Written by Ken Borsuk, Staff Reporter
Residents of Wilbur Peck Court are demanding action from the town and from police in the wake of a March 14 incident that left three police officers with minor injuries and several residents under arrest. ....
.....Wilbur Peck resident Aldina Portu said she has long been sounding the alarm about the Flores brothers and the overall problems in the complex, but neither the Housing Authority nor the police have done anything about it. She said there is an overall lack of security in the complex and the brothers and their friends are constantly harassing people, drinking, doing drugs and threatening people they think might be speaking to authorities.
Ms. Portu has been a resident of the complex with her eight-year-old daughter for two years. She said she filed complaints with Housing Authority Executive Director Anthony Johnson and Deputy Director Terry Mardula well before the incident.
“They chose to ignore me,” Ms. Portu said. “They promise things to us that they never deliver and we don’t feel safe. I told them that someone is going to be seriously hurt or killed. I told them to take action but they didn’t do anything.”
Ms. Portu told the Post residents are afraid to go out at night and people are afraid of retribution. She said the central problem in the complex is the Flores brothers and their friends, and the complex needs increased and regular patrol presence by police.
“All of the trash in Greenwich comes to visit the Flores brothers,” Ms. Portu said. “They’re drinking and doing drugs and committing vandalism and no one is doing anything about it.” Speaking to the Post on Tuesday, several Wilbur Peck residents, some of whom declined to go on the record due to safety concerns, said there has been a long-term problem at the complex.
Candice Smith said she constantly finds drugs, empty beer bottles and used condoms around the grounds.......
....Another resident, a senior citizen who declined to give her name, said she has been insulted with profanity to her face and had rocks and bottles thrown at her door. She also criticized the Housing Authority for focusing on small issues......
.....Ms. Smith said she wants to see more residents of the complex standing up, too.....
......Stamford attorney Mark Sherman, who is representing the Floreses in court, told the Post on Monday that the issues at Wilbur Peck Court go beyond the brothers.
“These problems are not the result of just a few people,” Mr. Sherman said......
03/20/09 Six Days Later Failed Greenwich Time Managing Editor Bruce Hunter Has Rookie Reporter Debra Friedman Get The Rest Of The Story At Wilbur Peck
Greenwich Time Hates To Tell
Failed Greenwich Time
Managing Editor Bruce Hunter
We Told You So, But.....
.....Eby Kerekes, 52, an eight-year resident of Wilbur Peck Court, said she is constantly disturbed by a group of young men she sees hanging out from her window."I have no peace," said Kerekes.
"You have to walk on egg shells around here. It keeps getting worse."Ramone Medrano, 86, who has lived at Wilbur Peck Court for 20 years, said he often hears a group of men drinking and making noise late at night."Every day it's the same thing," he said.....
What's Terry Mardula Hiding?
....Terry Mardula, deputy director of the Greenwich Housing Authority, said he was aware of residents' frustration over a group known to cause disturbances and they are taking the matter seriously.
However, he said that there is no simple solution to solve the problem.
"People think this wouldn't have happened if there was more security there, or if there were more cameras. That is not the cause of this. These are young adults who abuse alcohol and do not like to be directed on what to do," said Mardula.
While Mardula said the Wilbur Peck complex is equipped with security cameras, he declined to comment on their condition or disclose how many there are. Residents said the cameras only monitor the garbage areas.....
....Ridberg Pussy Foots Around The Gang Question
...."It depends on how you classify a gang. If it's a very general description of two or more people engaged in criminal activity, then yes. .....
This Kind Of Reminds One Of When
Former President Clinton Said,
"It Depends What Your Deifinition Of "Is" Is
At Least Mardula Is Willing To Tell The Taxpayers The Truth About The Violence
....While he noted that some behaviors are correctable, like a noise violation, others, such as behaving violently, are not.
"For me, it's hard to see how this is correctable," Mardula said
06/21/08 Gang Violence Comes To Downtown Greenwich
......Greenwich Officials Continues To Ignore Byram Gang Problem As Gang Fight Comes To Davis Avenue Next To Bruce Park.
Greenwich Police Officer Caught In The Middle Of Gang FightJust Blocks From Greenwich Avenue
Calls for backup brings, almost the entire, night time shift to bring the down town street under control.
Will The Greenwich Police Department release copies of the radio tapes of the gang incident to the press and the general public?
This all happened Friday over night just blocks from Greenwich Avenue.Greenwich Police Officer and Backup Officers are forced draw weapons on the armed gang members on Davis Avenue.
Four Or Five Gang Members Arrested By Greenwich Police Officers.Knives, Bats and Other Weapons Confiscated From Gang Members who will appear in court on Monday morning.
Luckily no Greenwich police officers or innocent civilians were not injured in bringing the disturbance under control.
Port Chester Gang Members Were Involved......
03/14/09 Nine Months Ago Greenwich Roundup Warned Greenwich Police Chief David Ridberg That The Davis Avenue Gang Violence Was Going To Come Downtown
......Bruce Hunter And Lazy Merideth Blake Need To Learn That There Are At Least Three Sides To Every Story And They Need To Include All Of The Vioces Of Greenwich Society.
In This Case There Is At Least Four Sides, The Meyhem With The Police, Gang Activity In The Area, The Greenwich Police Departments Community Relations And The Minority Police Officer's Lawsuit That Alleges That Discrimination Is Pervasive In The Greenwich Police Department.
Lazy Greenwich Time Reporter Meridith Blake Ignored Everything Except The Meyhem With The Police Department And Then Only Used One Sourse .....
Sgt. James Bonney The Head Of The Greenwich Police Union.....
....Police Officers Tell Greenwich Roundup That
Jorge Cardenas-Rey Holds Some Type Of Leadership Position
In The Gang That Greenwich Police Chief
David Ridberg Says Doesn't Exist.
Further, Greenwich Police Officers Are Angry That It Was Not Released That Jorge Cardenas- was arrested on Valentines day morning and charged for a very similar incident that did not escalate in to an out of control situation.
In The Valentines Day incident Jorge Cardenas-Rey
was arrested for interfering with a police officer
and disorderly conduct.
Greenwich Police Officers say after that the Valentine's Day arrest, and many after other previous incidents, they have repeatedly complained that Gang activity is getting out of hand in the Davis Avenue Area.
But, Greenwich Police Chief David Ridberg just ignores their complaints.....
03/17/08 Greenwich Time Editors Forced To Shut Down Another Message Board As Secret Greenwich Bigot Appears At Topix
Three Greenwich Officers Injured Breaking Up Melee
WINS-AM New York
Eruption in Wilbur Peck of Greenwich Connecticut
Stamford News
Melee breaks out at court arraignment
Stamford Advocate
The Gangs of Greenwich?
EVEN MORE INFORMATION:
Please Read About Another Gang Incident
Reported In Greenwich Roundup:
04/09/08 - Byram Police Officers Show An LA Gang Member Who's The Boss
Please Also Read How Greenwich Citizens Are Complaining
That Nothing Is Being Done About Gang Activity:
04/21/08 - Reader Submitted Comments: Nightmare On Pemberwick Road
Please Also Read About TheGang Graffiti Problem In Byram:
04/14/08 - Greenwich Needs To Solve The Byram Goose Poop Problem So That We Can Go After The Drug And Gang Grafitti Problems
01/16/08 - I Met With First Selectman Peter Tesei Today
01/15/08 - Even More Complaints About How Byram Was Hit Hard With Gang Related Graffiti This Weekend
01/14/08 - More Complaints About How Byram Was Hit Hard By Gang Grafitti This Weekend
01/11/08 - This What The Welcome Sign To Byram Looked Like Before Mike Bocchinoke Became President Of The Byram Nieghborhood Association
12/31/07 - Red Alert - The Gateway To The Town Of Greenwich And The Village Of Byram Looks Like A Hazardous Waste Zone
Please send your comments, news tips and press re;eases to GreenwichRoundup@gmail.com or click on the comments link at the end of this post.
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Description of Series
A Guide to the Spencer Perskin Papers, 1962-1970
Creator: Perskin, Spencer
Title: Perskin, Spencer, Papers
Abstract: The Spencer Perskin Papers, 1962-1970, are comprised of several notebooks of typed and handwritten poetry and other writings.
OCLC No.:
Extent: 5 in.
A classically trained musician, Spenser Perskin was accepted as a child to the music program at the Sothern Methodist University in Dallas, where he studied for eight years, playing with various orchestras. Perskin continued performing with orchestras while attending college at North Texas State University, and was also a member of the folk music club. Perskin plays the violin, guitar and saxophone.
Perskin formed Shiva’s Headband in 1967, along with his wife Susan, and serves as violinist and main vocalist. Their fusion of country and rock shaped the local Austin music scene. Perskin was also one of the founders of the concert hall, Armadillo World Headquarters (1970-1980). Shiva’s Headband was the first band to play in the hall, which also hosted acts such as Stevie Ray Vaughan, Bruce Springsteen and Frank Zappa. The band still performs in Austin, and is now called Shiva’s Headband Experience.
John Wheat, “Armadillo World Headquarters,” Handbook of Texas Online. Accessed December 21, 2015, https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/xda01
“Biography,” Shiva Headband’s website. Accessed December 21, 2015, http://www.shivasheadband.com
The Spencer Perskin Papers, 1962-1970, are comprised of several notebooks of typed and handwritten poetry and other writings.
This collection is open for research use.
Perskin, Spencer -- Archives
Subjects (Organizations)
Shiva's Headband (Musical group)
Austin (Tex.)
See also Armadillo World Headquarters
Spencer Perskin, 1962-1970, Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin.
This collection was processed by Amanda Reyes, December 2015.
2N282 Works by Perskin
"Perskin's papers," Spring 1962-Summer 1963
"Sophomorium," Fall 1963
"Soul Songs," Fall 1963-Fall 1964
"Green," Summer 1964
"Karmasque," Summer 1964
"For Love," Fall 1964
"Land of the Stowes," Summer 1965
"Out of the Valley," Summer 1965
"Zounds," Fall 1965
"Winter Wheel," December 1965
"Earthbeat Headness," 1967-1970
"Exmorphonos," undated
"Terralux Books," undated
"The Tree and the Vine," undated
Untitled, undated
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Diadems Are Forever (Part II)
Do as the Romans Do. But what did they do in Palmyra?
How strong was the cultural impact of Rome on far-away Palmyra, a city in Syrian desert -- closer to the Euphrates River than to any other part of the Roman Empire?
Nowadays, historians have a fairly nuanced view of cultural identity. It is seen as a kind of layer-cake, with overlapping hard and soft zones which are constantly changing as the one bumps up against another. In fact, having multiple cultural identities was a remarkable feature of the Roman world: people constantly added layers to the cake instead of just absorbing Roman flavourings. Thus, the elite of Palmyra (and those are the only people of this rich city that we really know anything about) continued to display local pride, traditions, and ideals rather than aspire to being, in any real sense, solely Roman.
Proof of the Pudding
In a Master's thesis, recently completed at Leiden University (Diadems: a girl’s best friend? Jewellery finds and sculptural representations of jewellery from Rome and Palmyra in the first two centuries AD), Ms Andrea Raat explored the relationship between a provincial society (= Palmyra) and the core of the Empire (= Rome) by focusing on precious metals and gems: what jewellery was found in burials compared with what was being carved on statues of men and women in each place?
Part I of 'Diadems Are Forever' considered the jewellery (as it happened, mostly of gold) found buried in graves excavated near Rome. She then looked at statues of men and women from roughly the same time and place: what bijouterie was -- and was not -- pictured on their statues? It turned out that both in reality (burials) and image (sculpture), jewellery was only associated with the female sex. Roman men did not do bling.
In Palmyra, Do as Palmyrans Do
Now we turn to one of the farthest frontiers of Empire to compare the cultural value of jewellery at the centre with that of the periphery. The procedure is the same: how does real jewellery found in tombs stack up against the ornaments sculpted on funerary portraits? Are we seeing the same the norms when it comes to jewellery, or are the Palmyrans going their own way in matters of bling?
From Towers and Underground Tombs
A total of 84 pieces of real jewellery were collected from six tombs of mainly second-century CE date. The haul included bracelets, a brooch, earrings, finger-rings (such as pictured above), a loose gem, one necklace, and several pendants. Most objects were made of copper or silver and very few of gold. Of course, the big problem at Palmyra is that nearly every tomb was thoroughly looted long ago, so thieves probably beat the archaeologists to most of the good stuff.
That may not be the whole story, however.
Classier finds did come from the relatively undisturbed Tomb F, excavated in the 1990's -- built by two brothers with the impossible names of BWRP and BWLH. This tomb yielded a total of 30 pieces of jewellery, including lots of beads, finger-rings (one of gold), copper earrings, and two gold-and-glass pendants (left) ... and a strange human-shaped amulet, resembling a clothed female-like figure (13.3 cm tall; top of post).
Who had goodies in their graves?
We are obviously missing lots of jewellery and assume there would have been more glittery gold if the tombs had not been so extensively robbed. Still, we must make do with what we have.
We have bones.
The bones of 22 skeletons in graves with jewellery could be sexed and/or age estimated: three were adult males, six adult females, and twelve were children; one burial held two adult males and a child.* Though fewer males than females were buried with jewellery, there was clearly no prohibition on the practice (contrast the Roman study which found no males buried with bijoux). On the contrary, the average number of pieces buried with each sex was much the same: 3.5 pieces per adult woman vs 3.0 per adult man; the kids had less: just 1.4 pieces each.
Nonetheless, there was a distinction in the types of jewellery that men and women took with them to the grave. Men had predominantly pendants, often of amuletic character (such as the figurine at the top of this post). Adult females were mostly buried with earrings and finger-rings, and children mostly with beads.
Reality versus Image
So that's the real deal. But reality never interferes with how people choose to picture the dead. It's always idealized.
In order to make a fair comparison with the Roman statues, Ms Raat sought a published Palmyran tomb that held at least 15 well-preserved female portrait busts (that is, the same number as Roman female statues), and mainly from the second century CE. Only the underground tomb of Sassan qualified: 42 individual limestone busts come from this tomb and 16 of them (38%) are female. Working back from an inscription written in Palmyrene (a dialect of Aramaic) on the bust of two men which is dated to the year 181/182 AD, Sassan's family genealogy was established by linking up inscriptions on funerary portraits (I am X, son of Y, son of Z -- that sort of thing). This gives the time range during which the tomb was used as ca. 80-200 CE.
Sassan's Daughters
We know something about 15 of the 16 women whose images were sculpted on the limestone busts because inscriptions give their name plus their father's name and often his father's name, and such useful patriarchal data. Only one inscription names both parents.
The women must all have been part of the Sassan family for which the tomb was constructed. How they are exactly related is not always apparent. In one case, we can point to two women who were sisters. We can be certain, however, that all these women belonged to the higher class: the family was affluent and important enough to found and sustain this quite large tomb.
So, how were these well-to-do fathers' daughters portrayed? And who was meant to see them? Ms Raat sets the scene:
... I would call the context of the [tomb] semi-private or semi-public. In Palmyra, family members of the deceased had access to the tombs, so the busts were visible for generations to come. Only relatives or others associated with the deceased would be able to open the locks on the entrance doors of the tombs....
We thus can identify the location, the viewing context (deliberate visits to mourn, pray and perhaps worship), as well as the viewers (relatives of the deceased) of these sculptures. This must be taken into account in the interpretation of the busts....With all this in mind the deceased will have been represented in a certain way, conveying messages on his or her identity and role in society. The sculptures will have evoked a certain response from the family members.
Now, what did these ladies look like?
Amtâ, daughter of Malkû, wife of Belšûrî, son of Sassan
Let's start with a woman named Amta, who died between 100-130 CE. She wears a headband and a knotted turban underneath a cloak that is draped as a veil. Covering the head with a veil was fashionable in different areas of the ancient east as well as the west. She gazes straight forward, holding her veil with her right hand and, with her left hand, a spindle and distaff as proof of perfect domesticity. As for jewellery, other than the headband, she wears a brooch, earrings shaped like a bunch of grapes, and two necklaces, both consisting of chains of round stones.
Tammâ, daughter of Sîgâ (and), daughter of Belšûrî
Tamma was buried between 100-120 CE. She was the only woman in Sassan's tomb whose father and mother were both named on her funerary stone. She touches her chin with her right index finger. Her other hand holds spindle and distaff. She wears a broad, rather plain headband and a twisted turban below a veil. Her ornaments are a brooch and bunch-of-grapes earrings.
Amtâ, daughter of Malkâl, (son of) Moqîmû
Amta was a popular name in Palmyra. Another lady of this name died between 170-200 CE. She holds her veil with her right hand, raising it to collarbone level. Raising a hand to chin or collarbone was known in Rome as the pudicitia gesture (pointing to modesty and fidelity) and is commonly made by women in Palmyran funerary portraits -- though it might not have had the same meaning here.** She wears a headband with floral design, a head-chain made of round stones and a knotted turban underneath a veil. As for other jewellery, she boasts a large, richly-decorated brooch, dumbbell earrings, two rings on her little finger, and two necklaces, the first a simple choker with a flower-like pendant, and the second a chain of stones.
Malkat, daugther of Oggâ, son of Sassan
Malkat died between 150-170 CE. She holds her veil with her right hand, raising it to collarbone level, and in her left hand loosely grasps a spindle and distaff. She wears a floral-design headband, a head-chain made of round stones and a knotted turban underneath a veil. The jewellery displayed includes a brooch, dumbbell earrings, and a necklace of stones with an oval pendant, which itself has three smaller pendants.
Bîlat, daughter of Elahbel
Big-eyed Bilat was buried between 140-170 CE. She holds her veil with her right hand, raising it to collarbone level, and holds in the other a spindle and distaff. She wears a headband with floral design and a knotted and twisted turban below a veil. Her jewels are an animal-headed brooch, earrings shaped like a bunch of grapes, and a ring on the little finger of her left hand.
We needn't go on. You get the idea.
If you've got it, flaunt it.
Female jewellery is meant to be seen and its reproduction on funerary portraits is clearly considered seemly. The total amount of separate pieces of jewellery pictured on the 16 busts (earrings counted per pair) adds up to 75 objects. On average 4.7 pieces of jewellery are displayed per portrait and ranges from two to ten pieces per bust. No woman wore less than two items (the minimum was a brooch and headband). In short, all of the ladies wore jewellery.
It is difficult to determine the kind of material the sculpted jewellery was intended to represent. A necklace made up of a chain of stones is often described as a ‘pearl necklace’, but most sculptures in Palmyra were painted, though few traces of colours survive.
Those colours would have told whoever was looking at them what the jewellery was meant to be: gold would be shown by yellow paint, silver by white paint, gems by their 'natural' colours. We can be sure that yellow paint imitated gold because the 'Beauty of Palmyra' (below), for example, retains both traces of gold leaf as well as yellow paint. Recent microscopic photography has revealed red paint invisible to the naked eye (above, left) on the bust of Haliphat, daughter of Oglata, son of Harimai, now in the Smithsonian -- that might have indicated rubies along with some kind of red inlay.
But boys will be boys
Male funerary busts, whether in Sassan's tomb or anywhere else in Palmyra tombs are never pictured wearing any jewellery except occasional finger-rings or cloak fasteners (fibulae). Thus, the difference between men and women regarding jewellery representations is a strict matter of gender. Which is interesting when you think that some men were nonetheless buried with jewellery -- even if the limestone portraits that closed their graves did not show it!
In the Roman part of this study, all graves with jewellery were female graves, and, as it turned out, only with a specific category of deceased: young unmarried women. Even so, in both regions, it was uncommon to bury the dead with jewellery. Just a quarter of the graves in the unlooted Tomb C held any jewellery at all . Moreover, in the grave of the founder of the Tomb (YRHY, son of LSMS, son of MLKW -- if you must know) no jewellery or grave goods of any kind were found, even though his tomb was undisturbed.
This is an important outcome, because it points to jewellery not being a general status marker of the deceased person. Not even in wealthier circles of society there was a habit to give jewellery with the deceased into the grave, neither as a remembrance of the status and wealth of the persons during life, nor as an act of conspicuous consumption by rich families during burial rituals.
When in Palmyra....
The 'Beauty of Palmyra'
And yet, not a single dead woman was pictured without at least two pieces of jewellery -- and some wore lots more. In some tombs, the jewellery displays were simply dazzling (left).
This adornment with jewellery, combined with feminine gestures and attributes (e.g. spindle and distaff), expressed what was considered the Palmyran female ideal. Differences in the amount of jewellery displayed on female portrait busts surely reflected the social status of the city's elite as well as the actual wealth of the women and their families during life.
The enormous display of jewellery visible on the Palmyran busts was unimaginable in Rome: there, the general absence of jewellery on statues of women counts. Displaying jewellery contradicted the feminine virtues and challenged the prevailing female ideals. In Roman society, sculptures without jewellery were representations of that feminine ideal. Opulent displays like those in Palmyra would have been shocking, an indication of loose morals -- or worse! Only diadems (and earrings) were allowed on Roman female statues: since diadems were connected with the religious sphere, this must have made it an acceptable adornment.
The results on the jewellery finds and how jewellery was pictured on statues from Rome and Palmyra show that we are not dealing with a dominant centre that set the standards to which all the provinces conformed. The relationship is not that direct: there is more an overlap in the material visible, pointing to a layer-cake-like process taking place. When it comes to the way they handled jewellery, Rome and Palmyra followed their own traditions and practices.
In short, as Ms Raad concludes, "The sculptures demonstrate that different ideals prevailed in Rome and Palmyra."
* Two of the males were aged between 20-39 years old, two between 40-59 years old, and one was older than 60 years. One female was between 40-59 years old when she died, one around eighteen years old, and two could only be classified as 'middle-aged' and another one as 'young'. For the children, gender could not be determined but two were under a year and two were 5-7 years old.
** On the pudicitia and other female gestures, see Zenobia's post on The Secret Language of Palmyra
All are taken from Andrea Raat's Master's thesis with the exception of the 'Beauty of Palmyra' (ca. 190-210 CE) from Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek and the microscopic photograph made by the Smithsonian of the necklace worn by Haliphat, daughter of Oglata, son of Harimai (died 231 CE).
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