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Blood on the Ice: Goon, violence & hockey cinema
As a young man in a small town in the north of England, entertainment was hard to come by in the late 80s and early 90s. My particular town did boast a two screen cinema (now an Australian theme pub) but in our pre-pub/club days, there really was only one social option: the local ice-rink. This pigeon-infested structure was of interest to local youth largely on the basis of the skate discos held there each weekend (think ‘50s hops, but colder). However, of far more interest to me were the rink’s resident stars: the most successful British ice hockey team of the day, the legendary Durham Wasps.
As today, the North East was a hotbed of football, with my town split – sometimes violently – between two local teams. A uniting sight, however, were the numerous, colourful Michelin Man-sized jackets worn around town by fans of the hockey team. I was a regular, shivering in the stands as a coalition of local boys and Canadian imports took to the ice in my name. This was a fast game, thrillingly dangerous, as blades sent sleet into the air, sticks clattered into midriffs, and pucks and bodies alike clattered plexiglass partitions.
Goals were met with cheers and chants by a surprisingly female-heavy crowd (particularly when compared to the aforementioned football), but it was a far more sinister element of the game which really worked the fans into frenzy: the fighting. On a ridiculously regular basis, members of both teams would remove various gloves and helmets and begin a punch up of the type that would be familiar yet frowned upon in the taxi queue not 200 yards away.
This violence wouldn’t be tolerated in any other team sport yet even to a sensitive youth like myself, its prevalence was intrinsic to the essence of the sport. I recall a local news report on one game concluding, “Eventually, a game of hockey broke out”. It was with all this in mind that I sat down to watch Canadian hockey comedy, Goon.
STIFLER ON ICE
Written by Seth Rogen collaborator Evan Goldberg in conjunction with one of the film’s stars Jay Baruchel, Goon approaches the inherent violence of the sport in a manner not seen since 1977’s Slap Shot and with as much brutal relish as the most bloodthirsty boxing movie. That the film is in the hands of Michael Dowse of Take Me Home Tonight and It’s All Gone Pete Tong ‘renown’ did not fill me with confidence; nor did the fact that the lead is played by Stifler himself, Seann William Scott. However, Goon is a movie which surprises not only in its violence, but in its successful comedy and central performances.
A “goon”, as any fule kno, is a hired thug, and the word is commonly used in Canadian hockey to describe a player whose role is to protect his team mates, rather than to contribute to the general play. In Goon, Ross Rhea (Liev Schreiber) is the ultimate example of such a player; an ageing hard man who prides himself on his ability to physically overpower any opponent, and whose assault on Halifax Highlanders’ flair player Xavier LaFlamme (Marc-Andre Grondin) has left the French-Canadian terrified, out-of-form and spiralling into a world of drugs, loose women and prima donna behaviour.
Doug Glatt (Seann William Scott) becomes a local hero in Goon
Into this uber-masculine world enters our hero Doug Glatt (Scott), son of an intellectual Jewish family, whose parents and brother are doctors with inflated expectations of their boy. Doug is an amiable idiot; slow, yet self-aware enough to understand that he cannot match his parents’ academic demands. Taken to a minor league hockey game by his best friend Pat (Baruchel), Doug earns notoriety and praise when violently defending Pat in a scuffle with an opposition player. This street fighting performance attracts the attention of the team coach and the offer of a contract. Soon Doug is on the other side of the glass, as his inability to skate or play hockey fails to dissuade the Highlanders from picking him as the ideal on-ice bodyguard for the out-of-sorts LaFlamme.
Scott brings a surprising amount of heart to the character of Doug, whose gentle naivety and innate loyalty includes a touching belief in his teammates and willingness to suffer in their name. When he meets hockey fan Eva (Alison Pill), it transpires that this decency and acceptance of physical and emotional pain also applies to romance. Even in the face of LaFlamme’s abuse, Eva’s unavailability and his parents’ disapproval, Doug’s decency away from the ice is in stark contrast to his brutality on it.
Make no mistake; this is a film which glories in violence. Just as in my days watching hockey in the local rink, the fans see the confrontation between their boys and the opposition as gladiatorial. With Eva (who admits her attraction to such primal physicality) and Pat cheering him on, Doug becomes the crowd’s hero, as he drops a series of rivals, happily waving his way towards the sin bin. The fight scenes are shot in close-up, every punch reverberating with the sound of slapped meat and claret colouring the ice below. That we are able to look beyond this blood-letting to enjoy the film’s occasional belly laughs and relate to Doug’s vulnerability is either a testament to Scott’s performance, or a damning indictment of our society’s numbness. You decide.
Of course, Doug’s path is inevitably leading to a climactic stand-off with Schreiber’s Rhea, though even their initial encounter betrays the mutual respect of gladiators; the suggestion being that these ‘goons’ are a vital part of the sport, willingly sacrificing themselves in the name of glory and the team ethic. It is an odd strength of the film that such mindless violence can seem to contain an element of heroism.
HOCKEY ON SCREEN
While the origins of Goon lie in a book called Goon: The True Story of an Unlikely Journey into a Minor Hockey League which detailed the career of boxer turned ice warrior Doug Smith, another clear influence is the 2004 Canadian documentary Les Chiefs. Les Chiefs follows the fortunes of five players with the Laval Chiefs, a semi-professional hockey team in Canada, including Mike Bajumy, whose brother produced the film. Bajumy, like Doug Glatt, came from an educated family (his parents were also doctors), but similarly rejected academia for the thrill of the minor leagues, much to the disapproval of his mother. Directed by Jason Gileno, the documentary details the squalid living conditions of the players and the violence of the game itself, while also revealing the blood lust of the Chiefs’ rabid fans.
The clearest link in Les Chiefs with the characters of Goon is found in the substantial shape of Tim Leveque and Dominic “The Giant” Forcier. Leveque joins the Chiefs mid-season to initial suspicion from his new team mates, but wins their respect by thrice defeating 6’7” Forcier in fights and eventually helping the team to the championship. This rivalry and Leveque’s ability to win respect through violence has much in common with Doug Blatt’s rise to prominence with the Halifax Highlanders and his eventual face off with Ross Rhea.
Of course, it would be foolish to consider Goon without placing it in the light of perhaps the best hockey film of all (Mighty Ducks fans, save your ire for the comments section), George Roy Hill’s aforementioned Slap Shot. Another comic-violent exploration of a struggling minor league team, it benefits from the presence of Paul Newman in the lead role and its refreshingly foul-mouthed collection of characters.
Slap Shot's terrifying Hanson brothers
The fictional Charlestown Chiefs, led by veteran player/coach Reggie Dunlop (Newman) are perennial losers who find their very existence under threat thanks to the closure of the local factory, the town’s major employer. In an attempt to carry the morale-sapped team through to the end of the season, Dunlop resorts to manipulation, lies (suggesting that a mystery buyer may be about to transfer the Chiefs to sunny Florida) and an extreme change of tactics following the arrival of the Hanson brothers, a trio as dense as their jam jar glasses.
The Hansons are real ‘enforcers’, launching into violence at the slightest provocation, starting fights before the game has even begun and, at one point, even climbing into the stands to attack opposition fans. Suddenly, the team begin to win, the crowds return and Dunlop realises that this new ultra-violence may be the key to success. On the whole, his players revel in this new tactic, one even changing his name to the physically inappropriate ‘Killer’, but opposition fans are outraged (“GOONS GO HOME”, reads one banner) and Dunlop finds a moral opponent in his talented, college educated top scorer Ned Braden who insists, “I’m not gonna goon it up for you”.
Off the ice, many of the themes of Goon are present in Slap Shot, as the hockey players are presented not as elite sportsmen, but rather as hard-drinking, womanising wash-ups, caught in a spiral of small-town living, loneliness and divorce. Just as Goon’s Pat seems to belch obscenities with every breath, Dunlop is similarly profane (Newman admitted that the character spilled over into his own life and vocabulary) while the women who are drawn to hockey and to those who play it are portrayed as lonely alcoholics, dabbling in lesbianism and enjoying a love/hate relationship with the routine violence. This is far from the perecived glamorous world of professional sport.
Increasingly, Dunlop is corrupted by the violence he finds himself revelling in; one key scene sees him taunt an opposition goaltender until he provokes an attack. Grinning on the ice he, like Glatt, happily takes a beating on behalf of the team. This corruption perhaps reaches its apogee when Dunlop places a bounty on the head of an opposition player. He has lost touch with the game that has been his life and hockey, in both his eyes and those of most of the Chiefs’ players and fans, has become more about gore than goals.
Ultimately, all three films reveal very similar truths about the underside of minor league hockey and of the corruption of violence, though different conclusions are drawn. While Doug’s defining clash with Rhea provides the redemptive climax of Goon, Slap Shot relies on Reg’s realisation that winning by any means possible is a betrayal of his ideals. Violence is a part of hockey, but it is a sideshow, and should not be allowed to eclipse what is in itself a fast, skilful and exciting sport. Goon is a lot of fun, but not for the squeamish and certainly not for the sporting idealist.
Goon is released in cinemas on Friday January 6th via Entertainment One.
This entry was posted in Features and tagged film, GOON, Ice hockey, Jay Baruchel, Liev Schreiber, Seann William Scott, Slap Shot, violence on January 3, 2012 by Michael Mand.
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Damien Hirst was born in Bristol in 1965. He first came to public attention in 1988 when he conceived and curated ‘Freeze’, an exhibition of his own work and that of his contemporaries at Golds...
Damien Hirst was born in Bristol in 1965. He first came to public attention in 1988 when he conceived and curated ‘Freeze’, an exhibition of his own work and that of his contemporaries at Goldsmiths college, staged in a disused London warehouse. Since this time Hirst has become widely recognised as one of the most influential artists of his generation.
Through a varied practise of installation, sculpture, painting and drawing Hirst has sought to explore the complex relationship between art, life and death. Alongside over 80 solo exhibitions he has worked on numerous curatorial projects. In 2008, Hirst took the unprecedented step of bypassing gallery involvement in selling 244 new works at a Sotheby’s, London auction entitled ‘Beautiful Inside My Head Forever’.
Hirst was awarded the Turner Prize in 1995 and his contribution to British art over the last two and a half decades has been acknowledged in a major solo retrospective exhibited at Tate Modern, London. He lives in Devon and has studios in Gloucester and London.
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January 14, 2013 Instructions — Tilt To and Fro
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May 24, 2012 Damien Hirst — Two Weeks One Summer
Damien Hirst – Two Weeks One Summer
Until 8 July 2012
For his first exhibition at White Cube Bermondsey, Damien Hirst will present a series of dynamic new paintings that he started working on in the summer of 2010. This exhibition coincides with the first UK retrospective of Hirst’s work at Tate Modern.
Painting has always been an important part of Hirst’s oeuvre, but unlike the spot paintings and photorealist series which were made using a collaborative studio process, this body of work is altogether more personal: painted from life, by Hirst in his Devon studio.
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The Complete Spot Paintings 1986–2011 – Damien Hirst
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July 21, 2011 Damien Hirst: The Dead and The Souls
Damien Hirst: The Dead and The Souls
Gow Langsford Gallery
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For The Love of God will be exhibited there until 1st May 2011 so try your best to visit the museum. The artwork is a life-size cast of a human skull in platinum, covered entirely by 8,601 VVS to flawless pavé-set diamonds, so quite unmissable. However if you are unable to visit, you can console yourself by browsing our For The Love of God collection on our website.
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Damien Hirst: Medicine Cabinets
L&M Arts is pleased to present an exhibition of early medicine cabinets by Damien Hirst. Assembled together for the first time are the seminal Sex Pistols cabinets from 1989. Each cabinet takes its name from one of the twelve title tracks of the legendary 1977 debut punk album “Never Mind the Bollocks, Here’s the Sex Pistols.”
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Justia Patents Inertia Responsive Locking Or Tightening Of Belt Or HarnessUS Patent for Webbing retractor, webbing retracting method, and vehicle Patent (Patent # 7,758,074)
Webbing retractor, webbing retracting method, and vehicle
Mar 2, 2005 - Kabushiki Kaisha Tokai-Rika-Denki-Seisakusho
A webbing retractor is provided that reduces the amount of webbing that is pulled-out after operation of a pretensioner mechanism. In a webbing retractor 10, a lock pawl 78 is set in a non-meshable state in which it cannot mesh with a lock gear 26. At a time when a pretensioner mechanism 34 operates and a clutch plate 42 rotates in a take-up direction, a lock stopper 86 rotates together with the clutch plate 42 and releases engagement with the lock pawl 78. Therefore, the lock pawl 78 is rotated by a compression coil spring 70 and changed to a meshable state. In this way, immediately after rotational force in a pull-out direction is applied to the lock gear 26 due to load from a vehicle occupant after operation of the pretensioner mechanism 34, the lock pawl 78 meshes with the lock gear 26, and pulling-out of a webbing 20 is impeded. Therefore, an amount of the webbing 20 which is pulled-out can be reduced.
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The present invention relates to a webbing retractor and a webbing retracting method in which a webbing is taken-up due to a pretensioner mechanism being operated, and to a vehicle equipped with the webbing retractor.
BACKGROUND TECHNOLOGY
There are in the prior art webbing retractors equipped with a pretensioner mechanism and a sensor lock mechanism. The pretensioner mechanism takes-up a webbing by being operated at the time of an emergency of a vehicle. At the time when the sensor lock mechanism senses that the pull-out acceleration of the webbing has become greater than or equal to a predetermined acceleration, the sensor lock mechanism is operated and locks the pulling-out of the webbing.
In this webbing retractor, after operation (after the conclusion of operation) of the pretensioner mechanism, pulling-out of the webbing is impeded due to the sensor lock mechanism being operated.
However, the sensor lock mechanism is operated at the time when the sensor lock mechanism senses that the pull-out acceleration of the webbing has become greater than or equal to the predetermined acceleration. Therefore, the webbing is pulled-out from after the operation of the pretensioner mechanism until the operation of the sensor lock mechanism.
Problems to be Solved by the Invention
In view of the above-described circumstances, an object of the present invention is to provide a webbing retractor, a webbing retracting method, and a vehicle which can reduce the amount of a webbing which is pulled-out after operation of a pretensioner mechanism. Further, an object of the present invention is to provide a webbing retractor and a vehicle which can make substantially constant the load which is applied to a vehicle occupant from a webbing after operation of a pretensioner mechanism.
The webbing retractor of the invention comprises: a rotating member by which, due to the rotating member being rotated in a take-up direction, a webbing is taken-up, and by which, due to the rotating member being rotated in a pull-out direction, the webbing is pulled-out; a pretensioner mechanism which, by being operated, rotates the rotating member in the take-up direction; and an engaging member which, at a time of operation of the pretensioner mechanism, is changed from a non-engageable state in which the engaging member cannot engage with the rotating member to an engageable state in which the engaging member does not engage with the rotating member to which rotational force in the take-up direction is applied and engages with the rotating member to which rotational force in the pull-out direction is applied, the engaging member impeding rotation of the rotating member by engaging with the rotating member.
In such a webbing retractor, the engaging member is set in a non-engageable state and cannot engage with the rotating member. Further, due to the pretensioner mechanism being operated, the rotating member is rotated in the take-up direction and the webbing is taken-up.
Here, when the pretensioner mechanism operates, the engaging member is changed from the non-engageable state to the engageable state.
The engaging member which is in the engageable state does not engage with the rotating member to which rotational force in the take-up direction is applied. Therefore, rotation of the rotating member in the take-up direction due to the operation of the pretensioner mechanism is permitted.
Further, the engaging member which is in the engageable state engages with the rotating member to which rotational force in the pull-out direction is applied, and impedes rotation of the rotating member. Therefore, when rotational force in the pull-out direction is applied to the rotating member after operation (after the conclusion of operation) of the pretensioner mechanism, the engaging member immediately engages with the rotating member. In this way, rotation of the rotating member is impeded, and pulling-out of the webbing is impeded. Accordingly, the amount of the webbing which is pulled-out after operation of the pretensioner mechanism can be reduced.
The webbing retractor of the invention may further comprise: an urging component for urging the engaging member toward the engageable state; and a moving member which, by engaging with the engaging member, sets the engaging member in the non-engageable state, and, due to the moving member being moved due to operation of the pretensioner mechanism, engagement of the moving member with the engaging member is released and the engaging member is changed to the engageable state by the urging component.
The urging component urges the engaging member toward the engageable state. Due to the moving member engaging with the engaging member, the engaging member is set in the non-engageable state. Here, the moving member is moved due to the operation of the pretensioner mechanism. In this way, the engagement of the moving member with the engaging member is released, and the engaging member is changed to the engageable state by the urging component. Therefore, the engaging member can be changed from the non-engageable state to the engageable state by a simple structure.
The webbing retractor of the invention may further comprise recited: a moving/urging member which, by being moved due to operation of the pretensioner mechanism, urges the engaging member and changes the engaging member from the non-engageable state to the engageable state.
Due to the moving/urging member being moved by operation of the pretensioner mechanism, the moving/urging member urges the engaging member and changes the engaging member from the non-engageable state to the engageable state. Therefore, the engaging member can be changed from the non-engageable state to the engageable state by a simple structure.
The engageable state of the engaging member is may be maintained after operation of the pretensioner mechanism.
Therefore, at the time when rotational force in the pull-out direction is applied to the rotating member, the engaging member can reliably engage the rotating member.
The webbing retractor of the invention may also comprise: a webbing applied to a vehicle occupant; a pretensioner mechanism, the webbing being taken-up due to the pretensioner mechanism being operated; and a maintaining component for, after conclusion of operation of the pretensioner mechanism, maintaining a load, which is applied from the webbing to the vehicle occupant, at the load at a time of the conclusion of operation of the pretensioner mechanism.
The webbing may be taken-up due to operation of the pretensioner mechanism.
Here, the maintaining component maintains the load, which is applied from the webbing to the vehicle occupant after the conclusion of operation of the pretensioner mechanism, at the load at the time of the conclusion of operation of the pretensioner mechanism. Therefore, the load applied from the webbing to the vehicle occupant after operation (after the conclusion of operation) of the pretensioner mechanism can be kept substantially constant.
The invention also includes a webbing retracting method comprising the steps of: taking-up a webbing by operating a pretensioner mechanism; and at a time of operation of the pretensioner mechanism, changing an engaging member from a state in which pulling-out of the webbing cannot be impeded to a state in which taking-up of the webbing is permitted and pulling-out of the webbing is impeded.
Effects of the Invention
In the present invention, the amount of the webbing which is pulled-out after the pretensioner mechanism operates can be reduced. Further, in the present invention, the load which is applied to the vehicle occupant from the webbing after the pretensioner mechanism operates can be kept substantially constant.
FIG. 1 is an exploded perspective view, as seen from above one side at an incline, showing main portions of a webbing retractor relating to a first embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 2 is an exploded perspective view, as seen from above the one side at an incline, showing in detail characteristic portions in the webbing retractor relating to the first embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 3 is a schematic side view (from which a gear case and a clutch plate are omitted), as seen from the one side, showing main portions of a webbing retractor relating to a second embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 4 is a schematic side view, as seen from the one side, showing a state of the main portions at a time when a pretensioner mechanism operates in the webbing retractor relating to the second embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 5 is a schematic side view, as seen from the one side, showing a state of the main portions after the pretensioner mechanism operates in the webbing retractor relating to the second embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 6 is a graph showing the relationship between an amount of movement of a chest portion of a vehicle occupant (horizontal axis) and a load applied from a webbing to a shoulder portion of a vehicle occupant (vertical axis) after the start of operation of pretensioner mechanisms, for the webbing retractors relating to the first embodiment and the second embodiment of the present invention and a conventional webbing retractor.
BEST MODES FOR IMPLEMENTING THE INVENTION First Embodiment
Main portions of a webbing retractor 10 relating to a first embodiment of the present invention are shown in FIG. 1 in an exploded perspective view as seen from above one side at an incline.
The webbing retractor 10 relating to the present embodiment has a frame 12 which is shaped as a substantially U-shaped plate as seen in top view. The frame 12 is fixed to the interior of a vehicle passenger compartment. A connecting piece 14 spans between the top end of one side wall and the top end of another side wall of the frame 12. The connecting piece 14 is fixed to the interior of the vehicle passenger compartment. An insert-through hole 16 is formed in the connecting piece 14.
A spool 18 (take-up shaft), which accommodates a force limiter mechanism, is supported so as to be freely rotatable between the one side wall and the other side wall of the frame 12. An elongated, belt-shaped webbing 20 is taken-up on the spool 18. A solid-cylindrical shaft 22 provided at the proximal end of the webbing 20 is anchored to the spool 18. A vicinity of the proximal end of the webbing 20 is inserted-through the spool 18. In this way, the webbing 20 is anchored to the spool 18. Further, in a vicinity of the portion which is taken-up on the spool 18, the webbing 20 is inserted-through the aforementioned insert-through hole 16. The webbing 20 is applied to an occupant of the vehicle. The webbing 20 is taken-up due to the spool 18 being rotated in a take-up direction. On the other hand, the webbing 20 is pulled-out due to the spool 18 being rotated in a pull-out direction.
A torsion shaft 24 (energy absorbing member), which comprises the force limiter mechanism and a maintaining component, is disposed at the central axis portion of the spool 18. The torsion shaft 24 can torsionally deform due to the application of a torsional load of a predetermined load or more. The other side end of the torsion shaft 24 is anchored to the other side end of the spool 18. The torsion shaft 24 rotates integrally with the spool 18.
A lock gear 26, which serves as a rotating member of the force limiter mechanism, is provided at the one side of the spool 18. The lock gear 26 is anchored at a vicinity of the one side end of the torsion shaft 24. The lock gear 26 rotates integrally with the torsion shaft 24 and the spool 18 at times other than when the torsion shaft 24 is torsionally deformed.
Ratchet teeth 28 are formed at the outer periphery of the lock gear 26. A substantially cylindrical knurled hole 30 is formed in the central side of the lock gear 26. The knurled hole 30 opens toward the one side. The entire outer periphery of the knurled hole 30 is subjected to knurling, such that a knurled surface 32 is formed.
A pretensioner mechanism 34 is provided at the outer side of the one side wall of the frame 12. The pretensioner mechanism 34 has a pinion 36. The pinion 36 is disposed at the one side of the lock gear 26. The pinion 36 is supported at the torsion shaft 24 so as to be freely rotatable. Pinion teeth 38 are formed at the one side portion of the pinion 36. On the other hand, a cam 40 is formed at the other side portion of the pinion 36. Convex and concave portions are formed alternately at the outer periphery of the cam 40. The cam 40 is inserted into the knurled hole 30. The cam 40 does not contact the knurled surface 32. In this way, the lock gear 26 can rotate independently of the pinion 36.
The pretensioner mechanism 34 has a clutch plate 42. The clutch plate 42 is disposed between the lock gear 26 and the pinion 36. A plurality of meshing claws 44 are formed at the central side of the clutch plate 42. The respective meshing claws 44 project-out from the clutch plate 42 toward the other side. The respective meshing claws 44 fit-together with the respective concave portions of the cam 40. In this way, the clutch plate 42 is mounted to the pinion 36. The respective meshing claws 44 are, together with the cam 40, inserted into the knurled hole 30. The respective meshing claws 44 do not contact the knurled surface 32. In this way, the lock gear 26 can rotate independently of the clutch plate 42. Further, a plurality of cut-outs 46 are formed in the outer periphery of the clutch plate 42.
The pretensioner mechanism 34 has a cylinder 48 which is shaped as a substantially L-shaped cylindrical tube. The cylinder 48 is fixed to the outer side of the one side wall of the frame 12, beneath the pinion 36. A gas generator 50 is provided at the lower side end of the cylinder 48. A generator cap 52, which is shaped as a cylindrical tube having a floor, is fixed at the lower side end of the cylinder 48. The gas generator 50 closes the lower side end of the cylinder 48 in the state in which the generator cap 52 is placed thereon.
The pretensioner mechanism 34 has a piston 54 (restricting member): The piston 54 is inserted into the cylinder 48 from the top end of the cylinder 48. An O-ring 56 is provided at the lower end of the piston 54. The O-ring 56 seals the region between the lower end of the piston 54 and the cylinder 48. Further, a rack 58 is formed at a region other than the lower end of the piston 54.
As shown in detail in FIG. 2, a gear case 60 is provided between the one side wall of the frame 12 and the pretensioner mechanism 34. The gear case 60 covers the one side of the lock gear 26. A circular through-hole 62 is formed in the center of the gear case 60. The through-hole 62 exposes the knurled hole 30 of the lock gear 26. A flat-plate-shaped stopper plate 64 stands erect perpendicularly at the upper end of the gear case 60. The stopper plate 64 is disposed parallel to the vertical direction. A curved-plate-shaped guide plate 66 stands erect perpendicularly at the peripheral portion of the gear case 60. The guide plate 66 extends in the take-up direction from the lower end of the stopper plate 64 along the outer periphery of the through-hole 62. An accommodating hole 68 is formed at the diagonally upper portion of the gear case 60. The accommodating hole 68 is formed in the shape of a rectangular column which is curved in an arc-shape. The accommodating hole 68 opens toward the one side. A compression coil spring 70 serving as an urging component is accommodated in the accommodating hole 68.
A lock member 72 spans between the one side wall and the other side wall of the frame 12. A lock plate 74 is provided at the one side end of the lock member 72. At the one end, the lock plate 74 is supported so as to be freely rotatable at the lower portion of the gear case 60. The lock plate 74 is disposed diagonally beneath the lock gear 26. Lock teeth 76 are formed at the other end of the lock plate 74. The lock plate 74 is disposed at a non-meshable position at the side opposite the lock gear 26. The lock plate 74 is in a non-meshable state in which the lock teeth 76 cannot mesh with the ratchet teeth 28 of the lock gear 26.
As shown in detail in FIG. 2, a lock pawl 78, which serves as an engaging member structuring the maintaining component, is provided at the outer side of the one side wall of the frame 12, diagonally above the lock gear 26. At one end, the lock pawl 78 is rotatably supported at the one side wall of the frame 12. A guide plate 80 is disposed at the one side of the lock pawl 78. The central portion of the guide plate 80 is, together with the lock pawl 78, rotatably supported at the one side wall of the frame 12. One end of the guide plate 80 is inserted into the accommodating hole 68 of the gear case 60. Due to the compression coil spring 70 within the accommodating hole 68, the other end of the guide plate 80 is urged in the direction of rotating toward the lock gear 26. A pair of guide legs 82, 84 are formed at the other end of the guide plate 80. The pair of guide legs 82, 84 project toward the other side. The one guide leg 82 is disposed at the side opposite the lock gear 26. On the other hand, the other guide leg 84 is disposed at the lock gear 26 side. A vicinity of the other end of the lock pawl 78 is disposed between the pair of guide legs 82, 84. The other end of the lock pawl 78 is urged in the direction of rotating toward the lock gear 26 by the one guide leg 82.
A lock stopper 86 serving as a moving member is provided at the one side of the clutch plate 42. The lock stopper 86 is formed in the shape of a substantially rectangular column which is curved along the outer periphery of the through-hole 62 of the gear case 60. A predetermined number (two in the present embodiment) of shear pins 88 are formed at the other side surface of the lock stopper 86. The predetermined number of shear pins 88 are inserted in the predetermined number of cut-outs 46 of the upper portion of the clutch plate 42. In this way, the lock stopper 86 is positioned at the upper portion of the clutch plate 42. A rectangular-column-shaped stopper column 90 is formed at the pull-out direction side end of the lock stopper 86. The stopper column 90 projects from the lock stopper 86 toward the other side, and engages with the lock gear 26 side of the other end of the lock pawl 78. In this way, due to the stopper column 90, the lock pawl 78 is disposed at a non-meshable position (non-engageable position) at the side opposite the lock gear 26, against the urging force of the compression coil spring 70. The lock pawl 78 is in a non-meshable state (non-engageable state) in which the other end of the lock pawl 78 cannot mesh (engage) with the ratchet teeth 28.
Operation of the present embodiment will be described next.
In the webbing retractor 10 having the above-described structure, when it is sensed that the pull-out acceleration of the webbing 20 has become greater than or equal to a predetermined acceleration, or at the time of a rapid deceleration of the vehicle, or the like, the lock plate 74 of the lock member 72 is temporarily rotated toward the meshable position at he lock gear 26 side. In this way, the lock plate 74 is changed to a meshable state in which the lock teeth 76 do not mesh with the ratchet teeth 28 of the lock gear 26 to which rotational force in the take-up direction is applied, and the lock teeth 76 mesh with the ratchet teeth 28 of the lock gear 26 to which rotational force in the pull-out direction is applied.
Further, pull-out load is applied to the webbing 20 from the vehicle occupant, and rotational force in the pull-out direction is applied to the spool 18, the torsion shaft 24 and the lock gear 26. In this way, the lock teeth 76 mesh with the ratchet teeth 28, rotation of the lock gear 26 in the pull-out direction is impeded, and pulling-out of the webbing 20 is impeded.
By the way, the other end of the lock pawl 78 is urged in the direction of rotating toward the lock gear 26, by the compression coil spring 70 via the guide leg 82 of the guide plate 80. The stopper column 90 of the lock stopper 86 is engaged with the lock gear 26 side of the other end of the lock pawl 78. In this way, the lock pawl 78 is disposed at the non-meshable position at the side opposite the lock gear 26, and the other end of the lock pawl 78 is in the non-meshable state in which it cannot mesh with the ratchet teeth 28 of the lock gear 26.
Here, at the time of an emergency (e.g., at the time of a rapid deceleration) of the vehicle, the pretensioner mechanism 34 is operated, and the gas generator 50 generates gas. In this way, the piston 54, together with the O-ring 56, is raised (moved) within the cylinder 48, and the rack 58 of the piston 54 meshes with the pinion teeth 38 of the pinion 36, and the pinion 36 is rotated in the take-up direction. Therefore, the pinion 36 is rotated relative to the clutch plate 42, and the respective meshing claws 44 of the clutch plate 42 mesh with the respective convex portions of the cam 40 of the pinion 36. In this way, the respective meshing claws 44 of the clutch plate 42 are moved toward the radial direction outer side of the clutch plate 42, and mesh with the knurled surface 32 of the lock gear 26. Accordingly, the clutch plate 42 and the lock gear 26 are rotated in the take-up direction, integrally with the pinion 36. Therefore, the torsion shaft 24 and the spool 18 are rotated in the take-up direction integrally with the lock gear 26, and the webbing 20 is taken-up.
At the time when the pretensioner mechanism 34 is operated and the clutch plate 42 is rotated in the take-up direction, the lock stopper 86 is rotated (moved) in the take-up direction together with the clutch plate 42, while being guided by the guide plate 66 of the gear case 60. Further, the stopper column 90 of the lock stopper 86 abuts the stopper plate 64 of the upper end of the gear case 60. In this way, the predetermined number of shear pins 88 of the lock stopper 86 are sheared, and the lock stopper 86 is disposed at a position at which the stopper column 90 abuts the stopper plate 64.
Therefore, the engagement of the stopper column 90 with the other end of the lock pawl 78 is released, and the other end of the lock pawl 78 is rotated toward the lock gear 26 by the urging force of the compression coil spring 70 via the guide leg 82 of the guide plate 80. In this way, the lock pawl 78 is disposed at the meshable position (engageable position) at the lock gear 26 side. Therefore, the lock pawl 78 is changed to the meshable state (engageable state) in which the other end of the lock pawl 78 does not mesh with the ratchet teeth 28 of the lock gear 26 to which rotational force in the take-up direction is applied, and the other end of the lock pawl 78 meshes with the ratchet teeth 28 of the lock gear 26 to which rotational force in the pull-out direction is applied. Note that, at the time when the lock pawl 78 is changed to the meshable state, due to the urging force of the compression coil spring 70, the guide leg 84 of the guide plate 80 is disposed at a position abutting the ratchet teeth 28 which are rotated, and the other end of the lock pawl 78 is disposed at a position which does not abut the ratchet teeth 28 which are rotated.
In this way, as described above, at the time when the pretensioner mechanism 34 is operated and the lock gear 26 is rotated in the take-up direction, the other end of the lock pawl 78 does not mesh with the ratchet teeth 28 of the lock gear 26. Therefore, rotation of the lock gear 26 in the take-up direction due to the operation of the pretensioner mechanism 34 is permitted.
On the other hand, after operation (after the conclusion of operation) of the pretensioner mechanism 34, pull-out load is applied to the webbing 20 from the vehicle occupant, and, immediately after rotational force in the pull-out direction is applied to the spool 18, the torsion shaft 24 and the lock gear 26, the other end of the guide plate 80 is rotated toward the lock gear 26 by the rotational force in the pull-out direction of the ratchet tooth 28 which the guide leg 84 of the guide plate 80 abuts first. In this way, the other end of lock pawl 78 is rotated toward the lock gear 26 by the guide leg 82 of the guide plate 80, and meshes with the next ratchet tooth 28 in the take-up direction after that ratchet tooth 28. Therefore, rotation of the lock gear 26 in the pull-out direction is impeded, and pulling-out of the webbing 20 is impeded.
Further, after the rotation of the lock gear 26 in the pull-out direction is impeded by the lock pawl 78 and the pulling-out of the webbing 20 is impeded in this way, at the time when the torsional load applied to the torsion shaft 24 from the vehicle occupant via the webbing 20 and the spool 18 is greater than or equal to a predetermined load, the force limiter mechanism is operated. Namely, due to the torsion shaft 24 being torsionally deformed, the spool 18 is rotated in the pull-out direction independently of the lock gear 26. In this way, the webbing 20 is pulled-out, and the load (energy) applied to the vehicle occupant from the webbing 20 is absorbed.
Due to the above, as compared with a case in which the lock teeth 76 of the lock plate 74 are made to mesh with the ratchet teeth 28 of the lock gear 26 and pulling-out of the webbing 20 is impeded due to it being sensed that the pull-out acceleration of the webbing 20 has become greater than or equal to the predetermined acceleration after the pretensioner mechanism 34 operates, the amount of the webbing 20 which is pulled-out can be reduced from after the operation of the pretensioner mechanism 34 until the operation of the force limiter mechanism.
Further, as described above, due to the operation of the pretensioner mechanism 34, the lock stopper 86 is rotated together with the clutch plate 42, and the engagement of the stopper column 90 with the lock pawl 78 other end is released. In this way, the other end of the lock pawl 78 is rotated toward the lock gear 26 by the urging force of the compression coil spring 70, and the lock pawl 78 is changed from the non-meshable state to the meshable state. Therefore, the lock pawl 78 can be changed from the non-meshable state to the meshable state by a simple structure.
Further, the urging force of the compression coil spring 70 is transferred to the lock pawl 78 via only the guide plate 80. Therefore, the number of parts is smaller, and compactness can be aimed for. Moreover, the responsiveness of the lock pawl 78 with respect to the urging force of the compression coil spring 70 can be made to be good.
By the way, in a conventional webbing retractor, the lock pawl 78 does not impede the rotation of the lock gear 26. Therefore, the rotation of the lock gear is first impeded by the lock plate and the pulling-out of the webbing is impeded, due to it being sensed that the pull-out acceleration of the webbing has become greater than or equal to the predetermined acceleration after the pretensioner mechanism operates. Further, rotational force in the take-up direction due to the pretensioner mechanism is applied to the one end side of the torsion shaft. Moreover, impeding of rotation of the lock gear by the lock plate is carried out at the other end side of the torsion shaft. Therefore, when the force limiter mechanism operates after operation of the pretensioner mechanism, the one end side of the torsion shaft is rotated in the pull-out direction, and the torsion shaft is torsionally deformed. In this way, at the pretensioner mechanism, the piston is moved in the direction of being returned to the interior of the cylinder.
Therefore, as shown by two-dot chain line S in FIG. 6, the amount of the webbing which is pulled-out becomes large from operation conclusion time point A of the pretensioner mechanism to rotation impeding time point B of the lock gear by the lock plate. In this way, the load which is applied from the webbing to the vehicle occupant (the shoulder portion of the vehicle occupant) is greatly reduced. Further, when the force limiter mechanism operates after the rotation impeding time point B of the lock gear by the lock plate, at the pretensioner mechanism, the movement of the piston in the direction of being returned to the interior of the cylinder is hindered due to the remaining gas within the cylinder. In this way, the torsional deformation of the torsion shaft due to the rotation of the one end side of the torsion shaft in the pull-out direction is hindered, and the load which is applied from the webbing to the vehicle occupant greatly increases.
On the other hand, in the webbing retractor 10 relating to the present embodiment, the lock pawl 78 impedes rotation of the lock gear 26 immediately after the conclusion of operation of the pretensioner mechanism 34 (before it is sensed that the pull-out acceleration of the webbing 20 has become greater than or equal to the predetermined acceleration). Further, rotational force in the take-up direction due to the pretensioner mechanism 34 is applied to the one side of the torsion shaft 24. Moreover, at the one side of the torsion shaft 24, impeding of the rotation of the lock gear 26 by the lock pawl 78 is carried out. Therefore, when the force limiter mechanism operates after the operation of the pretensioner mechanism 34, the other side of the torsion shaft 24 is rotated in the pull-out direction, and the torsion shaft 24 is torsionally deformed. In this way, at the pretensioner mechanism 34, the piston 54 is not moved in the direction of being returned to the interior of the cylinder 48.
Therefore, as shown by thick line T in FIG. 6, immediately after operation conclusion time point C of the pretensioner mechanism 34, the amount of the webbing 20 which is pulled-out is small. In this way, a reduction in the load applied from the webbing 20 to the vehicle occupant (the shoulder portion of the vehicle occupant) can be suppressed or prevented. Further, when the force limiter mechanism operates after the operation conclusion time point C of the pretensioner mechanism 34, at the pretensioner mechanism 34, the piston 54 is not moved in the direction of being returned to the interior of the cylinder 48. In this way, the load applied from the webbing 20 to the vehicle occupant does not greatly increase.
Therefore, the load applied from the webbing 20 to the vehicle occupant after the conclusion of operation of the pretensioner mechanism 34 is maintained at that load (e.g., within ±0.5 N of that load) at the time of the conclusion of operation of the pretensioner mechanism 34. Accordingly, the load applied from the webbing 20 to the vehicle occupant after the conclusion of operation of the pretensioner mechanism 34 can be kept substantially constant.
Second Embodiment
Main portions of a webbing retractor 100 relating to a second embodiment of the present invention are shown in FIG. 3 in a schematic side view as seen from the one side.
The webbing retractor 100 relating to the present embodiment differs from the above-described first embodiment with respect to the following points.
The compression coil spring 70, the lock pawl 78, and the guide plate 80 of the above-described first embodiment are not provided in the webbing retractor 100.
The lock plate 74 of the lock member 72 is the engaging member which forms the maintaining component. In a vicinity of one end, the lock plate 74 is supported so as to be freely rotatable at the lower portion of the gear case 60. The lock plate 74 is disposed at a non-meshable position (non-engageable position) at the side opposite the lock gear 26. The lock plate 74 is in a non-meshable state (non-engageable state) in which the lock teeth 76 of the other end of the lock plate 74 cannot mesh (engage) with the ratchet teeth 28 of the lock gear 26.
The lock stopper 86 forms a moving/urging member. One end of a coil spring 102, which structures the moving/urging member, is fixed to the take-up direction side end of the lock stopper 86. The coil spring 102 is in the state of its natural length at which it does not apply urging force. The other end of the coil spring 102 extends toward the one end of the lock plate 74.
In the webbing retractor 100 of the above-described structure, in the same way as in the above-described first embodiment, when it is sensed that the pull-out acceleration of the webbing 20 has become greater than or equal to a predetermined acceleration, or at the time of a rapid deceleration of the vehicle, or the like, the lock plate 74 of the lock member 72 is temporarily rotated to the meshable position and changed to the meshable state. In this way, at the time when pull-out load is applied from the vehicle occupant to the webbing 20, pulling-out of the webbing 20 is impeded.
Here, at the time of an emergency (e.g., at the time of a rapid deceleration) of the vehicle, in the same way as in the above-described first embodiment, the pretensioner mechanism 34 is operated, and the webbing 20 is taken-up.
At the time when the pretensioner mechanism 34 is operated and the clutch plate 42 is rotated in the take-up direction, the lock stopper 86 and the coil spring 102 are rotated (moved) in the take-up direction together with the clutch plate 42, while the lock stopper 86 is guided by the guide plate 66 of the gear case 60. Further, the stopper column 90 of the lock stopper 86 abuts the stopper plate 64 of the upper end of the gear case 60. In this way, the predetermined number of shear pins 88 of the lock stopper 86 are sheared, and the lock stopper 86 and the coil spring 102 are disposed at the position at which the stopper column 90 abuts the stopper plate 64.
Therefore, as shown in FIG. 4, at the other end, the coil spring 102 in the state of being compressed abuts the one end of the lock plate 74, and the lock teeth 76 of the other end of the lock plate 74 are rotated toward the lock gear 26 by the urging force of the coil spring 102. In this way, the lock plate 74 is disposed at the meshable position (engageable position) at the lock gear 26 side. Therefore, the lock plate 74 is changed to the meshable state (engageable state) in which the lock teeth 76 do not mesh with the ratchet teeth 28 of the lock gear 26 to which rotational force in the take-up direction is applied and the lock teeth 76 mesh with the ratchet teeth 28 of the lock gear 26 to which rotational force in the pull-out direction is applied.
Further, as shown in FIG. 5, after operation (after the conclusion of operation) of the pretensioner mechanism 24, the rack 58 of the piston 54 contacts the stopper column 90 of the lock stopper 86. Therefore, movement of the lock stopper 86 is restricted, and the meshable state of the lock plate 74 is maintained.
In this way, as described above, at the time when the pretensioner mechanism 34 is operated and the lock gear 26 is rotated in the take-up direction, the lock teeth 76 of the lock plate 74 do not mesh with the ratchet teeth 28 of the lock gear 26. Therefore, rotation of the lock gear 26 in the take-up direction due to the operation of the pretensioner mechanism 34 is permitted.
On the other hand, after operation of the pretensioner mechanism 34, immediately after pull-out load is applied from the vehicle occupant to the webbing 20 and rotational force in the pull-out direction is applied to the spool 18, the torsion shaft 24 and the lock gear 26, the lock teeth 76 of the lock plate 74 mesh with the ratchet teeth 28 of the lock gear 26. Therefore, rotation of the lock gear 26 in the pull-out direction is impeded, and pulling-out of the webbing 20 is impeded.
Further, after rotation of the lock gear 26 in the pull-out direction is impeded by the lock plate 74 and pulling-out of the webbing 20 is impeded after the operation of the pretensioner mechanism 34 in this way, at the time when the torsional load applied from the vehicle occupant to the torsion shaft 24 via the webbing 20 and the spool 18 is greater than or equal to a predetermined load, the force limiter mechanism is operated in the same way as in the above-described first embodiment. In this way, the webbing 20 is pulled-out, and the load (energy) applied from the webbing 20 to the vehicle occupant is absorbed.
Due to the above, as compared with a case in which the lock teeth 76 of the lock plate 74 are made to mesh with the ratchet teeth 28 of the lock gear 26 and pulling-out of the webbing 20 is impeded due to it being sensed that the pull-out acceleration of the webbing 20 has become greater than or equal to the predetermined acceleration after the pretensioner mechanism 34 operates, the amount of the webbing 20 which is pulled-out can be made to be small from after the operation of the pretensioner mechanism 34 until the operation of the force limiter mechanism.
Further, as described above, due to the operation of the pretensioner mechanism 34, the lock stopper 86 and the coil spring 102 are rotated together with the clutch plate 42. In this way, the lock teeth 76 of the lock plate 74 are rotated toward the lock gear 26 by the urging force of the coil spring 102, and the lock plate 74 is changed from the non-meshable state to the meshable state. Therefore, the lock plate 74 can be changed from the non-meshable state to the meshable state by a simple structure.
Moreover, after operation of the pretensioner mechanism 34, movement of the lock stopper 86 is restricted by the rack 58 of the piston 54, and the meshable state of the lock plate 74 is maintained. Therefore, at the time when rotational force is applied in the pull-out direction to the lock gear 26, the lock teeth 76 of the lock plate 74 can reliably mesh with the ratchet teeth 28 of the lock gear 26.
Further, the urging force of the coil spring 102 is directly transferred to the lock plate 74. Therefore, as compared with the above-described first embodiment, the number of parts is even fewer, and compactness can be aimed for even more. Moreover, as compared with the above-described first embodiment, the responsiveness of the lock plate 74 with respect to the urging force of the coil spring 102 can be made to be better.
Moreover, the function of the lock plate 74 in the present embodiment serves as both of the functions of the lock plate 74 and the lock pawl 78 in the above-described first embodiment. Therefore, the number of parts can be made to be even fewer.
By the way, in the webbing retractor 100 relating to the present embodiment, the lock plate 74 impedes rotation of the lock gear 26 immediately after the conclusion of operation of the pretensioner mechanism 34 (before it is sensed that the pull-out acceleration of the webbing 20 has become greater than or equal to the predetermined acceleration). Further, rotational force in the take-up direction due to the pretensioner mechanism 34 is applied to one side of the torsion shaft 24. Moreover, at the one side of the torsion shaft 24, impeding of the rotation of the lock gear 26 by the lock plate 74 is carried out. Therefore, when the force limiter mechanism operates after the operation of the pretensioner mechanism 34, the other side of the torsion shaft 24 is rotated in the pull-out direction, and the torsion shaft 24 is torsionally deformed. In this way, at the pretensioner mechanism 34, the piston 54 is not moved in the direction of being returned to the interior of the cylinder 48.
Therefore, as shown by the thick line T in FIG. 6, immediately after the operation conclusion time point C of the pretensioner mechanism 34, the amount of the webbing 20 which is pulled-out is small. In this way, a reduction in the load applied from the webbing 20 to the vehicle occupant (the shoulder portion of the vehicle occupant) can be suppressed or prevented. Further, when the force limiter mechanism operates after the operation conclusion time point C of the pretensioner mechanism 34, at the pretensioner mechanism 34, the piston 54 is not moved in the direction of being returned to the interior of the cylinder 48. In this way, the load applied from the webbing 20 to the vehicle occupant does not greatly increase.
Note that, in the above-described first embodiment and second embodiment, the lock stopper 86 is a structure which is mounted to the clutch plate 42. However, it suffices for the lock stopper (the moving member or the moving/urging member) to be a structure which is mounted to an operation member (e.g., the pinion 36 or the piston 54) which is operated by the operation of the pretensioner mechanism.
DESCRIPTION OF THE REFERENCE NUMERALS
10 webbing retractor
18 spool (take-up shaft)
20 webbing
24 torsion shaft (maintaining component)
26 lock gear (rotating member)
34 pretensioner mechanism
70 compression coil spring (urging component)
74 lock plate (engaging member, maintaining component)
78 lock pawl (engaging member, maintaining component)
86 lock stopper (moving member, moving/urging member)
100 webbing retractor
102 coil spring (moving/urging member)
1. A webbing retractor comprising:
a rotating member by which, due to the rotating member being rotated in a take-up direction, a webbing is taken-up, and by which, due to the rotating member being rotated in a pull-out direction, the webbing is pulled-out;
a pretensioner mechanism which, by being operated, rotates the rotating member in the take-up direction; and
an engaging member which, due to operation of the pretensioner mechanism, is changed from a non-engageable state in which the engaging member cannot engage with the rotating member to an engageable state in which the engaging member does not engage with the rotating member and which engages with the rotating member only after operation of the pretensioner mechanism and after rotational force in the pull-out direction is applied, whereupon the engaging member immediately impedes rotation of the rotating member by engaging with the rotating member.
2. The webbing retractor of claim 1, further comprising:
an urging component for urging the engaging member toward the engageable state; and
a stopper member which, by engaging with the engaging member, sets the engaging member in the non-engageable state, and, due to the stopper member being moved due to operation of the pretensioner mechanism, engagement of the stopper member with the engaging member is released and the engaging member is changed to the engageable state by the urging component.
3. The webbing retractor of claim 1, further comprising a stopper member which, by being moved due to operation of the pretensioner mechanism, changes the engaging member from the non-engageable state to the engageable state.
4. The webbing retractor of claim 1, wherein the engageable state of the engaging member is maintained after operation of the pretensioner mechanism.
5. The webbing retractor of claim 4, further comprising a restricting member which, by being moved due to operation of the pretensioner mechanism, restricts movement of engaging member and the engageable state of the engaging member is maintained.
6. The webbing retractor of claim 1, further comprising a take-up shaft on which the webbing is taken-up, and at one side of the take-up shaft, the pretensioner mechanism applies rotational force to the rotating member and the engaging member engages the rotating member.
7. A vehicle comprising the webbing retractor of claim 1.
a webbing applied to a vehicle occupant;
a pretensioner mechanism, the webbing being taken-up due to the pretensioner mechanism being operated; and
a maintaining component for maintaining a load at a constant level, which is applied from the webbing to the vehicle occupant after the conclusion of operation of the pretensioner mechanism, including a single torsion bar and an engaging member that moves due to operation of the pretensioner mechanism.
9. The webbing retractor of claim 8, further comprising a rotating member by which, due to the rotating member being rotated in a take-up direction, the webbing is taken-up, and by which, due to the rotating member being rotated in a pull-out direction, the webbing is pulled-out, the rotating member being rotated in the take-up direction due to the pretensioner mechanism being operated,
wherein the engaging member, at a time of operation of the pretensioner mechanism, is changed from a non-engageable state in which the engaging member cannot engage with the rotating member to an engageable state in which the engaging member does not engage with the rotating member to which rotational force in the take-up direction is applied and engages with the rotating member to which rotational force in the pull-out direction is applied, the engaging member impeding rotation of the rotating member by engaging with the rotating member.
10. The webbing retractor of claim 9, further comprising:
11. The webbing retractor of claim 9, further comprising a moving/urging stopper member which, by being moved due to operation of the pretensioner mechanism, urges changes the engaging member from the non-engageable state to the engageable state.
12. The webbing retractor of claim 9, wherein the engageable state of the engaging member is maintained after operation of the pretensioner mechanism.
13. The webbing retractor of claim 9, further comprising a take-up shaft on which the webbing is taken-up, and at one side of the take-up shaft, the pretensioner mechanism applies rotational force to the rotating member and the engaging member engages the rotating member.
14. A webbing retracting method comprising:
taking-up a webbing by operating a pretensioner mechanism; and
at a time of operation of the pretensioner mechanism, changing an engaging member from a state in which pulling-out of the webbing cannot be impeded to a state in which taking-up of the webbing is permitted and from a state in which taking-up of the webbing is permitted to a state in which pulling-out of the webbing is impeded, wherein the engaging member impedes pulling-out of the webbing only after operation of the pretensioner mechanism and after rotational force in a webbing pull-out direction is applied.
15. The webbing retracting method of claim 14, further comprising:
rotating a rotating member in a take-up direction by operating the pretensioner mechanism, the webbing being taken-up due to the rotating member being rotated in the take-up direction and the webbing being pulled-out due to the rotating member being rotated in a pull-out direction; and
at the time of operation of the pretensioner mechanism, changing the engaging member from a non-engageable state, in which the engaging member cannot engage with the rotating member, to an engageable state, in which the engaging member does not engage with the rotating member to which rotational force in the take-up direction is applied and engages with the rotating member to which rotational force in the pull-out direction is applied and impedes rotation of the rotating member.
setting the engaging member in the non-engageable state, by causing a moving member to engage with the engaging member; and
by moving the moving member by operation of the pretensioner mechanism, canceling engagement of the moving member with the engaging member, and changing the engaging member to the engageable state by an urging component which urges the engaging member toward the engageable state.
changing the engaging member from the non-engageable state to the engageable state by moving a stopper member by operation of the pretensioner mechanism.
maintaining the engageable state of the engaging member, after operation of the pretensioner mechanism.
at one side of a take-up shaft on which the webbing is taken-up, the pretensioner mechanism applying rotational force to the rotating member and causing the engaging member to engage with the rotating member.
after conclusion of operation of the pretensioner mechanism, maintaining a load, which is applied from the webbing to a vehicle occupant to which the webbing is applied, at the load at a time of the conclusion of operation of the pretensioner mechanism.
21. A webbing retractor comprising:
a lock member which, at a time when it is sensed that a pull-out acceleration of the webbing has become greater than or equal to a predetermined acceleration, or at a time of rapid deceleration of a vehicle, impedes rotation of the rotating member in the pull-out direction;
an engaging member that is separate from the lock member which, after a time of operation of the pretensioner mechanism, is changed from a non-engageable state in which the engaging member cannot engage with the rotating member to an engageable state in which the engaging member does not engage with the rotating member to which rotational force in the take-up direction is applied and engages with the rotating member to which rotational force in the pull-out direction is applied, the engaging member impeding rotation of the rotating member by engaging with the rotating member.
a rotating member directly connected to a webbing spool by which, due to being rotated in a take-up direction, a webbing is taken-up, and by which, due to the rotating member being rotated in a pull-out direction, the webbing is pulled-out;
a lock member which, at a time when it is sensed that a pull-out acceleration of the webbing has become greater than or equal to a predetermined acceleration, or at a time of rapid deceleration of a vehicle impedes rotation of the rotating member in the pull-out direction;
a pretensioner mechanism which, by being operated, rotates the rotating member in the take-up direction;
a force limiter including a single torsion bar for maintaining a load which is applied from the webbing to the vehicle occupant at a constant level, and
an engaging member that is separate from the lock member which, due to operation of the pretensioner mechanism, is changed from a non-engageable state in which the engaging member cannot engage with the rotating member to an engageable state in which the engaging member can engage but does not engage with the rotating member until a rotational force in the take-up direction is applied to the rotating member and the single torsion bar of the force limiter, whereupon said engaging member immediately engages with and impedes the rotating member from rotating.
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Filed: Mar 2, 2005
Date of Patent: Jul 20, 2010
Patent Publication Number: 20070290496
Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Tokai-Rika-Denki-Seisakusho (Aichi)
Inventors: Hitoshi Takamatsu (Niwa-gun), Tomonori Nagata (Niwa-gun), Kazuhiko Aihara (Niwa-gun), Masaki Yasuda (Niwa-gun), Toshio Nakashima (Niwa-gun)
Primary Examiner: Eric Culbreth
Attorney: Roberts Mlotkowski Safran & Cole, P.C.
Current U.S. Class: Inertia Responsive Locking Or Tightening Of Belt Or Harness (280/806); With Means To Absorb Energy Of Acceleration (297/470); Having Means To Lock Belt Against Further Extension When In Its Occupant-restraining Position (297/476); Inertia Actuated (297/478); Having Means To Lock Belt Against Further Extension When In Its Occupant-restraining Position (297/479); Inertia-responsive Locking Or Tightening Of Belt Or Harness (297/480)
International Classification: B60R 22/36 (20060101);
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Justia Patents Chemistry: Electrical And Wave Energy Patents Processes And ProductsElectrophoresis Or Electro-osmosis Processes And Electrolyte Compositions Therefor When Not Provided For Elsewhere Patents Isotachophoresis (i.e., Displacement Electrophoresis) Or Measurement Of Ion Or Particle Mobility Patents (Class 204/549)
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Inventors: Daishi Tanaka, Hisao Osawa, Kuno Suzuki
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Assignee: Technion Research and Development Foundation Limited
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Date of Patent: April 7, 2015
Assignee: Otsuka Electronics Co., Ltd.
Inventors: Mayumi Ikegami, Katsuhiro Morisawa, Tamotsu Hamao, Hidehiro Atagi
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Assignee: Washington State University
Inventors: Cornelius F. Ivory, Dan M. Leatzow
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Assignee: The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University
Inventors: Juan G. Santiago, Robert D. Chambers, Supreet Singh Bahga
MUTANT LYSENIN PORES
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Applicant: OXFORD NANOPORE TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED
Inventors: Mark Bruce, James Clarke, Andrew Heron, Lakmal Jayasinghe, Jayne Wallace
DETECTION OF GENETIC SEQUENCES USING PNA PROBES AND ISOTACHOPHORESIS
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Inventors: Moran Bercovici, Nadya Ostromohov, Ortal Schwartz
Control of Chemical Reactions using Isotachophoresis
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Assignee: Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique
Inventors: Gilles Marchand, Yves Fouillet, Philippe Clementz
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Assignee: Wako Pure Chemical Industries, Ltd.
Inventors: Tatsuo Kurosawa, Mitsuo Watanabe, Takuma Ohtsubo
Separation and Manipulation of a Chiral Object
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Applicant: Dynamic Connections, LLC
Inventors: Osman Kibar, Mirianas Chachisvilis, Eugene Tu, Thomas H. Marsilje
SPERM SEPARATION DEVICES AND ASSOCIATED METHODS
Abstract: The present invention provides methods, devices, and kits for separating and selecting top sperm from a sperm sample of a subject. In one aspect, for example, such a method can include removing a portion of negatively charged protein from sperm in the sperm sample, immobilizing the sperm, electrophoretically separating the sperm, and selecting mature sperm based on electromotility properties.
Inventors: Douglas T. Carrell, Luke Simon
Modulator Monitoring During Measuring Electromobility
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Applicant: Anton Paar GmbH
Inventors: Harald Noack, Christian Moitzi
Non-focusing tracers for indirect detection in electrophoretic displacement techniques
Abstract: A novel method for visualizing electrokinetic process zones (e.g., for isotachophoresis (ITP)) is provided. We introduce negligibly small concentrations of a fluorophore that is not focused by isotachophoresis. This non-focusing tracer (NFT) migrates through multiple isotachophoresis zones. As it enters each zone, the NFT concentration adapts to the local electric field in each zone. ITP zones can then be visualized with a point detector or camera. The method can be used to detect, identify, and quantify unknown analyte zones, and can visualize complex and even transient electrophoresis processes. This visualization technique is particularly suited to microfluidic and lab-on-a-chip applications, as typical fluorescence microscopes and CCD cameras can provide high-resolution spatiotemporal data.
Inventors: Robert D. Chambers, Juan G. Santiago, Moran Bercovici
TRAPPING MOLECULAR SEGMENTS IN NANO-GAPS
Abstract: A molecule trapping method includes forming a fluid bridge between a first reservoir and a second reservoir, translocating a molecule from the first reservoir to the second reservoir through the fluid bridge, detecting when a segment of the molecule is in the fluid bridge, breaking the fluid bridge and forming an a gap between the first and the second reservoirs, thereby trapping a segment of the molecule in the gap and making measurements on the segment of the molecule.
Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
Inventors: Venkat S.K. Balagurusamy, Stanislav Polonsky
Abstract: Methods are provided for forming a complex comprising an analyte (or an analyte analogue) from a blood-derived sample and labeling substances, and separating the complex from excess labeling substances and coexisting substances from the blood-derived sample, in a rapid, simple, convenient, and highly precise isotachophoresis (ITP) process by adding 2-(N-morpholino)ethane sulfonate (MES) salt and/or glutamate salt to the ITP sample. Methods are also provided for measuring the analyte in blood-derived samples with high precision and high sensitivity, based on the amount of the complex separated or the amount of uncomplexed labeling substance-containing molecules.
Applicant: Wako Pure Chemical Industries, Ltd.
Enhanced Isotachophoresis Assays Using Additives with Spatial Gradients
Abstract: Techniques for enhanced isotachophoresis assays using additives with spatial gradients include forming a concentration gradient of an additive along a channel from an input port to an output port. The channel is used for isotachophoresis with ions of a leading electrolyte having a first mobility greater than a mobility of an analyte, and ions of a trailing electrolyte having a second mobility less than the mobility of the analyte. The additive is different from both the leading electrolyte and the trailing electrolyte; and the additive has a third mobility that assures the analyte will encounter the additive. The method further comprises introducing a mixture of the trailing electrolyte and a sample including the analyte. The method further comprises applying an electric field to the channel; and, measuring the analyte.
Applicant: The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University
Inventors: Juan G. Santiago, Alexandre Persat, Giancarlo Garcia, Charbel Eid
Apparatus and method for detecting motion characteristics of particles in flow channel
Abstract: The present invention is an apparatus and method for detecting the motion characteristics of particles in a flow channel. The apparatus includes first and second electrode groups, each having a pair of electrodes, which are arranged to be spaced apart from each other in a flow channel. The pair of electrodes function as both a drive electrode and a sensing electrode for directly applying voltage and measuring impedance between the electrodes. An operation control unit measures variation in electrical pulses generated in the first and second electrode groups, thus detecting motion characteristics of the particles. The present invention is advantageous in that it does not require complicated optical measuring instruments or analyzing instruments, and in that it can be used to easily detect the motion characteristics of particles in a flow channel merely by analyzing variation in electrical pulses without requiring preliminary information.
Date of Patent: December 3, 2013
Assignee: Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)
Inventors: Young-Ho Cho, Tae Yoon Kim, Dong Woo Lee
Isotachophoretic analyte extraction
Abstract: An isotachophoresis method for preconcentrating and isolating a plurality n of charged analytes (Ai, with i=1 to n) contained in a sample is disclosed, wherein each one of the analytes Ai has an effective electrophoretic mobility ?Ai obeying the fully ordered relationship ?A1>?A2>etc.>?An, comprising the step of preparing a mixture of said sample and a number n?1 of spacer compounds (Sk, with k=1 to n?1) wherein each one of said spacer compounds (Sk) has an effective electrophoretic mobility ?Sk obeying the fully ordered relationship ?Ak>?Sk>?Ak+1. An axial electric field is applied along the longitudinal axis of a separation channel, thereby causing a preconcentration and separation of the analytes and spacers forming respective focused spacer zones and focused analyte zones that flow along the longitudinal axis.
Assignee: Swissfluidics AG
Inventor: Reto Schoch
Fluorescent finger prints for indirect detection in isotachophoresis
Abstract: Indirect detection and/or identification of analytes by ITP can be enhanced by adding a mixture of labeled carrier ampholytes (CAs) to the sample to provide a continuous range of mobility markers. Each analyte can be detected and quantified by corresponding gaps in the CA signal. This approach does not require a priori choice of fluorophores and can be readily applied (without extensive and specific design) to a wide range of analytes. Analyte identification can be expedited by computing a normalized signal integral (NSI) from the CA signals. Empirical calibrations can relate the NSI to effective mobility. Effective mobility results under two or more different pH conditions can be used to determine analyte pKa and fully ionized mobility, which are analyte properties that can facilitate analyte identification.
Inventors: Juan G. Santiago, Moran Bercovici, Govind V. Kaigala, Robert D. Chambers
Devices and methods for sequencing nucleic acids
Abstract: Methods and devices for sequencing nucleic acids are disclosed herein. Devices are also provided herein for measuring DNA with nano-pores sized to allow DNA to pass through the nano-pore. The capacitance can be measured for the DNA molecule passing through the nano-pore. The capacitance measurements can be correlated to determine the sequence of base pairs passing through the nano-pore to sequence the DNA.
Assignee: California Institute of Technology
Inventors: Sameer Walavalkar, Axel Scherer, Thomas A. Tombrello, Aditya Rajagopal, Andrew P. Homyk, Erika Garcia
On-chip hybridization coupled with ITP based purification for fast sequence specific identification
Abstract: Isotachophoresis (ITP) can be employed to simultaneously focus the target and ligand of an assay into the same ITP focus zone. The target and ligand can bind to each other in the ITP focus zone, and then the resulting bound complex can be detected (e.g., by fluorescence). The sensitivity of this approach can be greatly increased by the enhanced concentration of both target and ligand that ITP provides in the focus zone. Since ITP can be performed quickly, the resulting assay is both rapid and sensitive. Markers of bacterial urinary tract infections have been experimentally detected at clinically relevant concentrations with this approach. MicroRNA sequences have also been profiled with this approach, which is clinically relevant because MicroRNA is expected to provide useful markers for disease. In one experiment, miR-122 in human kidney and liver was detected and quantified.
Inventors: Paul J. Utz, Juan G. Santiago, Michael G. Kattah, Alexandre Persat
MULTIPLE ARM APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR SEPARATION OF PARTICLES
Abstract: The invention provides apparatus for separation of particles and methods for using the apparatus. In an embodiment, the apparatus includes three arms extending radially from a central reservoir, each arm being associated with a separation electrode. At least one on the arms includes a separation medium. Using a sequence of driving and mobility-changing voltages, target particles can be separated from closely related particles within a sample. For example, single point mutations can be resolved from a sample containing predominantly wild type nucleic acids.
Inventors: Andrea Marziali, Joel Pel
Droplet Actuator Systems, Devices and Methods
Abstract: The present invention is directed to droplet actuator systems, devices, and methods. In one embodiment, a microfluidic article of manufacture is provided. The microfluidic article of manufacture includes a first substrate; a second substrate separated from the first substrate to form a droplet operations gap; gap height setting spacers associated with the first and/or second substrate or situated between the first and second substrates; a spring forcing the second substrate against the gap height setting spacers, thereby establishing a substantially uniform gap height between the first and second substrates; and electrodes associated with the first and/or second substrate and configured to conduct droplet operations in the droplet operations gap.
Applicant: ADVANCED LIQUID LOGIC INC
Inventors: Michael Fogleman, Ryan A. Sturmer, Gregory F. Smith
Inventor: The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford
Method for modifying the concentration of reactants in a microfluidic device
Abstract: A method of modifying the concentration of reactants and carrying out a chemical reaction on a microfluidic device in which first and second reactants are delivered into a reaction channel combined, the second reactant different from the first reactant and capable of reacting with the first reactant. The first reactant is subjected to a stacking process, thereby producing a first stacked reactant. The second reactant is subjected to the stacking process, thereby producing a second stacked reactant. The first stacked reactant is exposed to the second stacked reactant so that the first stacked reactant and the second stacked reactant undergo a chemical reaction.
Date of Patent: June 11, 2013
Assignee: Caliper Life Sciences, Inc.
Inventors: Charles Park, Irina Kazakova
Arrangement for producing fluid flows and/or particle flows, and a method for the manufacture and operation thereof
Abstract: A device for producing at least one of fluid flows and particles flows includes a substrate having a substrate surface. The substrate surface includes a matrix including a plurality of regions having at least one of a different magnitude of a surface charge, a different sign of the surface charge, and a different height above the substrate. A fluid including at least partially electrically charged particles is disposed at the substrate surface. A first control element is configured to supply a plurality of electrical voltages to a plurality of electrode pairs. The electric field exerts a first force on a component of the fluid within an electrical double layer. The component is disposed adjacent to the substrate surface. The electric field exerts a second force within the double layer and outside the double layer, the second force is exerted on the at least partially electrically charged particles.
Assignee: Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe GmbH
Inventors: Andreas Class, Dominik Barz
Electrophoretic sample analysis and approach therefor
Abstract: Analysis of samples is facilitated. According to an example embodiment, an electrophoresis approach involves electrophoretically stacking and/or separating a sample or samples. An electrolyte and a mixture of one or more samples with another electrolyte are added to a microchannel or capillary. An electric field is applied to stack (and, in some applications, further separate) the one or more samples. Generally, the electric field and electrolyte are used to facilitate isotachophoretic (ITP) stacking. In some embodiments, a further electric field is applied and used with the electrolyte to facilitate subsequent capillary electrophoresis (CE).
Inventors: Juan G. Santiago, Byoungsok Jung, Rajiv Bharadwaj, Tarun Kumar Khurana
CONTROLLING TRANSLOCATION THROUGH NANOPORES WITH FLUID WALL
Abstract: Improved resolution and detection of nanoparticles are achieved when a nanopore connecting liquid compartments in a device running on the Coulter principle is provided with fluid lipid walls. The fluid lipid walls are made of a lipid bilayer, and preferably include lipid anchored mobile ligands as part of the lipid bilayer. By varying the nature and concentration of the mobile ligand in the lipid bilayer, multifunctional coatings of lipids are provided.
Applicant: The Regents of the University of Michigan
Inventors: Michael Mayer, Erik Yusko, Jerry Yang
MAGNETIC SEPARATION OF LIPOPROTEINS USING DEXTRAN SULFATE
Abstract: The invention provides apparatus and methods of preparation of lipoproteins from a biological sample, including HDL, LDL, Lp(a), IDL, and VLDL, for diagnostic purposes utilizing differential charged-particle mobility analysis methods. Further provided are methods for analyzing the size distribution of lipoproteins by differential charged-particle mobility, which lipoproteins are prepared by methods of the invention. Further provided are methods for assessing lipid-related health risk, cardiovascular condition, risk of cardiovascular disease, and responsiveness to a therapeutic intervention, which methods utilize lipoprotein size distributions determined by methods of the invention.
Inventors: Michael P. Caulfield, Jackie Liu, Dawn Shalhout, Zhihong Chen
Devices and methods for analyzing biomolecules and probes bound thereto
Abstract: Devices and methods for detecting the length of analytes and/or sequencing analytes are provided in which two or more electrical signals are obtained as an analyte traverses a nanopore or fluidic channel. Detection of the relative position of probes hybridized to a biomolecule and/or the length of the analyte (e.g., a biomolecule) rely on detection events to determine a distance associated with the biomolecule. Multiple signals may be obtained (e.g., as functions of time) corresponding to a plurality of detector volumes at known locations along a fluidic channel through which the biomolecule passes, and the distances may be determined from the multiple signals.
Assignee: Nabsys, Inc.
Inventors: John S. Oliver, Petre Ianakiev
METHODS FOR THE DETECTION OF BIOLOGICALLY RELEVANT MOLECULES AND THEIR INTERACTION CHARACTERISTICS
Abstract: Methods for the detection of biologically relevant molecules that comprise concentrating such molecules into microscopic holes in a sheet of chemically inert material, restricting the openings, and measuring the electric current through the holes or the fluorescence near the hole openings. The electric current or fluorescence will change as the molecules diffuse out of the holes, providing a measure of the diffusion rate and thereby detecting the presence and characteristics of the molecules. For molecules that interact, the diffusion rate will be slower than for molecules that do not interact, yielding a determination of the molecular interaction. Capping the population of holes and inserting into a mass spectrometer allows identification of the molecules.
Inventor: Christopher Gordon Atwood
Isotachophoresis System Having Larger-Diameter Channels Flowing Into Channels With Reduced Diameter And With Selectable Counter-Flow
Abstract: An isotachophoresis system for separating a sample containing particles into discrete packets including a flow channel, the flow channel having a large diameter section and a small diameter section; a negative electrode operably connected to the flow channel; a positive electrode operably connected to the flow channel; a leading carrier fluid in the flow channel; a trailing carrier fluid in the flow channel; and a control for separating the particles in the sample into discrete packets using the leading carrier fluid, the trailing carrier fluid, the large diameter section, and the small diameter section.
Applicant: Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC
Inventor: Raymond P. Mariella, JR.
Method and apparatus for the separation and quantification of particles
Abstract: The invention pertains to a method and apparatus to separate and quantify particles using time-variable force fields. The force fields can be for dielectrophoresis (positive or negative), electrophoresis or electrohydrodinamic. In a first aspect of the method, the fields are translated and/or modified in space at a speed substantially comparable to the speed of translation of the fastest particles in the sample so that only these follow by changing position, while the slowest particles are not affected. According to the invention the translation and/or modification of the force field can also occur with varying speed, which is especially useful when this happens with periodic law on a field with spatial periodicity.
Inventors: Nicolò Manaresi, Gianni Medoro
APPARATUS FOR HIGH-THROUGHPUT SUSPENSION MEASUREMENTS
Abstract: A high-throughput optical suspension characterization instrument is disclosed, which can include hydraulically separate and at least partially transparent sample containers. A selection mechanism is operative to selectively direct light from a light source (12) through different ones of the sample containers along an optical axis, and an off-axis scattering detector (38,24) is responsive to scattered light from the light source after it has interacted with a sample. Phase analysis light scattering is used to determine the electrophoretic mobility and zeta potential of samples. A second instrument is disclosed, wherein all sample containers are illuminated simultaneously. Transmitted light is collected by a camera. The electrophoretic mobility and hydrodynamic size of the samples may be determined.
Inventor: Fraser McNeil Watson
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On a Personal Note About My Writing
May I take a moment to give you a bit of news?
A writer’s art is mostly about balance. Balance of the elements of plot, dialogue, description, dynamics between protagonists and antagonists, even long sentences and short ones. I wrote my first novel at age 21 about vampire bats and my second novel about a haunted windmill. Both were dreadful novels and crushing failures. I wrote a pack of short stories and they also failed to see the publisher’s light of day. I rejected fiction writing for a while, wrote freelance feature articles for newspapers with surprising success; then I went back to fiction writing, determined to excel in my craft: read, examine, study, write; read, examine, study, write.
Here I am (I won’t say exactly how many years later) with seven short stories published in literary journals and anthologies, and two “quiet horror” novels selling conservatively on the internet (The Dazzling Darkness did make the Amazon ebook best-seller list for about 24 hours–a thrilling day), and book reviews by industry professionals and customer readers that I can be proud of.
Today, I’m happy to announce that Crickhollow Books (Crispin Imprint) in Milwaukee, Wisconsin will be publishing the print editions of The Dazzling Darkness and Night Sea Journey. Release dates might be as early as December.
Another piece of good news, Whistling Shade Literary Journal in St. Paul, Minnesota has just published my latest ghost story, Between the Darkness and the Dawn in their print edition (Internet edition will go live next week).
My Reading Fiction, Tales of Terror blog is nearing the 10,000 hits mark in less than a year of posts. And if you are a regular reader here, you can probably sense my dedication to (and my joy because I love doing Tales of Terror) writing highly inviting story introductions and hunting for the most thrilling and provocative classic short stories to post every week.
I value every single follower and visitor and especially your comments. Thank you to all the readers who are following me, commenting here, and reading my novels and short stories. Most of all, thank you for sharing my writer’s journey. Which continues, as I’ve got two more short stories on the fire and a third novel drafted.
Balance … kind of like riding a bike, right? Keep on peddling.
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Women of Horror for Halloween
The Specialist’s Hat by Kelly Link (1999)
Tuesday’s Tale of Terror October 29, 2013 Women In Horror
On Halloween, take a clean whiff of the air. I mean really breathe in the landscape. Daylight is full of the toasted scent of rusty leaves. Maybe there’s a cider sunshine that sweetens the sky. But once that moon rises, the night’s scrim evokes thin spirits among the haunted oak trees, a bit smoky with tart of crab-apple, spice of pumpkin. And while the dead leaves crack at you like popped corn, taste the descending wind as it turns to cold ash when midnight strikes.
I love Halloween! So, for this week’s Women In Horror, let’s go contemporary. I know we love classic tales of terror, but I thought I’d divert in honor of Halloween and offer you a modern-day Woman of Horror: Kelly Link. Her short story The Specialist’s Hat won the 1999 World Fantasy Award for Short Fiction.
In The Specialist’s Hat, we are in a two-hundred year old house called Eight Chimneys. Claire and Samantha are twins spending the summer there with their father who is writing a history of the house. The mother is dead.
The girls like to play the Dead game. The caretaker Mr. Coeslak says the woods aren’t safe. And here’s the thing. Neither is the attic safe. Don’t go into the attic. This night, the little girls are with a babysitter, playing their Dead game.
“This house is haunted,” Claire says.
“I know it is,” the babysitter says. “I used to live here.”
Something is creeping up the stairs,
Something is standing outside the door,
Something is sobbing, sobbing in the dark;
Something is sighing across the floor.
Would you like to go into the attic and play the Dead game with Claire and Samantha?
Read The Specialist’s Hat at KellyLink.net
Kelly Link is the author of three collections of short stories, Stranger Things Happen, Magic for Beginners, and Pretty Monsters. Her short stories have won three Nebulas, a Hugo, and a World Fantasy Award. Stranger Things Happen, was a Firecracker nominee, a Village Voice Favorite Book, and a Salon Book of the Year.
And for my diehard classic fans, I bring you two stories from another Woman of Horror: Mary Elizabeth Braddon. Braddon was a prolific writer with over eighty novels, her most popular novel Lady Audley’s Secret (1862) and the highly acclaimed ghost story At Chrighton Abbey.
The Cold Embrace (1860) is a chilly tale of love and romance. Gertrude is hopelessly in love with a handsome and charming artist, who swears his passion for her as well. But the golden dawns and rosy sunsets don’t last for long. How easily some men are bewitched.
Read The Cold Embrace at Gaslight.
In Braddon’s The Shadow in the Corner (1879), Michael Bascom does not believe that Wildheath Grange is haunted. Until the young maid Maria comes to the old house. Read Shadow in the Corner at Gaslight. Listen to the narration at Librivox Recording
I hope you’ve enjoyed October’s Women in Horror at Tales of Terror. If you have a title or author you’d like to share, please drop a line in a comment box. And if you’d like more about Women in Horror, I have a guest blog at Monster Librarian, “Literary Ladies of Horror’s Haunted Mountain” where you’ll find a number of titles and authors, classic and contemporary.
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Salem: Glossy Black Beast, White Horns
The Little Maid at the Door by Mary Wilkins Freeman (1892) Women In Horror
Tuesday’s Tale of Terror October 22, 2013
Witches’ winds are blowing in Salem. Listen to their haughty chants; watch for their spells and conjures. We love bewitching stories at this time of year, don’t we? Reading is such a seduction with atmospherics, mysterious characters we can’t resist, or a plot that thickens at every moment so we have to keep turning the pages. In the story I give you today, The Little Maid at the Door, the prose hits tenderly. The little maid at the door elicits a deep power in the heart. Mary Wilkins Freeman writes a historical fiction of family life, of witches in Salem, and the “disease of the mind” when partridges or squirrels might be demons in disguise. Not to mention the witches’ “yellow birds.” Freeman was known to write stories of rural domestic life in New England with penetrating supernaturalism. Her prose grabs you with anxious stirring. Read it softly and savor each image because this story is probably one of her best for describing life in Salem when “the leaves came out and the flowers bloomed in vain for the people in and about Salem village.”
“JOSEPH BAYLEY and his wife Ann came riding down from Salem village.”
The two are within a half a mile of the old Proctor house, known to be “full of devils.” As if that weren’t enough, the entire Proctor family was just arrested and jailed for witchcraft. Ann and Joseph, fearful of what evil hides within the woods there, intend to drive their horse fast and furiously down the road passed the Proctor house when they see a cursed glossy black beast. Terrified, Joseph speeds up, but Ann catches another sight … a little maid at the front door of the Proctor house. And here we meet little Abigail Proctor, abandoned child with a corn cob poppet (doll). Is she a witch too, like her mother, father, brother, and sister? With the excuse of dropping her shoe, Ann convinces Joseph to stop their horse so that she may engage the sad child at the door.
[Image from Literary Gothic, Howard Pyle Illustration]
Author Mary Wilkins Freeman had volumes of her short stories and novels published, many stories in the prestigious Harper’s New Monthly Magazine. She was the first recipient of the William Dean Howells Medal for Distinction in Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her writing had a direct influence on readers because of her themes of rebellions of spinsters and the oppressive confines of 19th-century married life.
Read the full text at The Literary Gothic http://www.litgothic.com/Texts/little_maid.html
Here’s a little bonus for you. Mary Wilkins wrote a play about the Salem witch trials, Giles Cory, Yeoman. What a read this is! Poor Giles is condemned to die crushed between two stones. At Gutenberg.org http://www.gutenberg.org/files/17960/17960-h/17960-h.htm
You might also enjoy Freeman’s very spooky tale The Shadows on the Wall: three sisters and a mysterious death, here at EastOfTheWeb. Librivox has a narration (26 minutes) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMXbGUG1AUs
Are you into listening to radio plays? At ScribblingWomen.org Freeman’s short story Louisa was adapted into a very entertaining radio play about a young woman who resists the pressures of contemporary marriage. Listen to Louisa here: http://www.scribblingwomen.org/mflouisafeature.htm Scroll down on that screen and you’ll find more fiction adapted into radio plays by a number of women writers: Willa Cather, Kate Chopin, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Edith Wharton, and more (and not just horror stories).
Good gosh, I couldn’t stop! This author has so much to offer us. Do drop me a comment if you’ve enjoyed discovering Mary Wilkins Freeman’s fiction.
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Ghostly Images of the Beloved Dead
The Invisible Girl by Mary Shelley (1832)
Tuesday’s Tale of Terror October 15, 2013 Women In Horror Month
October’s Women in Horror wouldn’t be complete without spotlighting Mary Shelley. Today I bring Mary to you as a ghost writer … and something more: a reflection. She wrote over twenty short stories, most of which are forgotten now beneath her Frankenstein fame.
In The Invisible Girl, she writes a story of forbidden love (is there no greater love?). Here you will discover a ruined tower on the bleak seaside between Wales and Ireland. From this tower flows a light. Local stories claim she is the ghost of a maiden who lost her sweetheart and lives within the tower, shining her light over the sea. She is known as the Invisible Girl.
In 1824 Mary Shelley wrote an essay On Ghosts, which are her reflections on the reality versus the unreality of ghosts and is a perfect coordinate reading for this short story. She writes “There is something beyond us of which we are ignorant. The sun drawing up the vaporous air makes a void, and the wind rushes in to fill it—thus beyond our soul’s ken there is an empty space; and our hopes and fears, in gentle gales or terrific whirlwinds, occupy the vacuum; and if it does no more, it bestows on the feeling heart a belief that influences do exist to watch and guard us, though they be impalpable to the coarser faculties.”
What thrilling prose! She asks in this essay, “What is the meaning of this feeling?” I think Mary exhibits the answer in her powerful but subtle ghost story. The Invisible Girl is by no means an ordinary story. The plot presents some questions but the theme is delightfully emblematic. I do so love when the supernatural is mixed with the driving human emotion of love and the psychological depths of grief.
Our protagonist is Henry Vernon, son of the baronet Sir Peter. Henry falls hopelessly I love with the young and sweet Rosina. Sir Peter forbids this marriage and poor Rosina is cursed, cruelly banished to wander the woods with no resources, and surely dies. With this image of his beloved dead, and driven by a frantic horror, Henry goes in search for her body, sailing the coastline to Wales. A threatening storm suddenly hits their small boat in the pitch black night. In the distance, Henry sees a mystic beacon of light shining from the shore assuring their safety. But is it a “fairy” light or is it real? Who burns this light in the deserted ruin by the sea? Is it the ghost of a maiden who lost her sweetheart?
What Henry experiences there in the shades of night, in the sequestered ruin, is the invisible girl.
And … on the feeling heart, a belief that influences do exist.
On Ghosts is available at The Literary Gothic http://www.litgothic.com/Texts/on_ghosts.html
Read The Invisible Girl at Gutenberg.net (5000 words, 30-minute read)
Listen to The Invisible Girl at Librivox http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/File:Invisible_girl_shelly_ehl.ogg
I sure would love to hear your thoughts about Mary’s The Invisible Girl.
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Horror Palace Reviews Night Sea Journey
May I offer you an update on my novel, Night Sea Journey, A Tale of the Supernatural?
I am honored and happy to have Horror Palace review my debut novel, Night Sea Journey. This is typical of “quiet horror” and timely for the Halloween season this month. Please take a look at this 4-star review by movie and book critic Damnetha Jules at HorrorPalace.com
http://www.horrorpalace.com/2013/10/13/night-sea-journey-book-review/
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October 8, 2013 · 4:44 pm
Dancing the Witches’ Goat Dance
The Ensouled Violin (1892) by Mme. Blavatsky (Helena Petrovna Blavatsky)
Tuesday’s Tale of Terror October 8, 2013 Women in Horror Month
Words create images. Does this headline conjure up images of craggy women flying on goats or witches dancing back to back around fiery circles? Press refresh in your mind. What if musical notes could create thick shapes and figures right before your eyes? Imagine the dance of violin music. If you’ve ever listened deeply to Paganini’s Witches’ Dance (La Streghe) you might know how his music can enter us in a very muscular way. But could music transform into a spell of images before our eyes? If music could perform such a supernatural event, is it the violin or the violinist that has that power?
Mme. Blavatsky brings us a story full of musical mesmerism, and Paganini is a major character drawn in full color. Paganini’s reputation for becoming bewitched by the devil in exchange for his brilliant career holds the central theme. The Italian was revered for playing his Witches Dance “pizzicato” with the left hand directly on the gut strings—without the aid of the bow. Was his superior talent singularly human?
In The Ensouled Violin, Franz Stenio, our semi-talented, young and aspiring musician dreams with his eyes open. He daydreams of nymphs and sirens, Calliope, Orpheus, and Olympus. These muses contribute to his Bohemian and penniless life. Until an old German, Samuel Klaus, a generous and hearty music teacher, decides to take Franz into his home as his own son. Klaus instills in Franz an ambition for exceptional talent and worldly fame, fame that might compete with the great and powerful Paganini. Off they go to Paris.
Yep, there are lots of discordant notes going on here, cacophonous cries of frenzy, a phantasmagoria, and Eastern Black Magic. Violins are mysterious instruments, singing out to us with the smallest swipe of the bow from their enchanting gut strings. One wonders, exactly whose gut strings are they that can create such beautiful sounds? Goats? Cats? Sheep? This is where the story gets especially ghastly. What kind of gut strings does Paganini use in his violin?
The old German teacher tells Franz the story of Paganini’s supernatural art and the Italian’s reputed deal with the devil. Franz is shocked but deeply curious. He asks Klaus, “Do you really believe that had I only the means of obtaining human intestines for strings, I could rival Paganini?”
Klaus unveiled his face, and, with a strange look of determination upon it, softly answered: “Human intestines alone are not sufficient for our purpose; they must have belonged to someone who had loved us well, with an unselfish holy love.”
Unselfish holy love? Blavatsky doesn’t leave us hanging for long with this sinister turn in the story. By the witches of Thessaly and the dark arts of Circe, our young and tender Franz chooses his fate … and the fate of another.
Blavatsky was a seductive storyteller. She became famous for being a philosopher, spiritualist, pioneer in the occult, one of the first people to coin the phrase the sixth sense, and was co-founder of The Theosophical Society in 1875. Her fiction is a small batch of stories in Nightmare Tales, published in 1907.
Read The Ensouled Violin at Gaslight:
http://gaslight.mtroyal.ca/gaslight/ensoulvn.htm
May I suggest, for an added appreciation of this very extraordinary short story, you listen to Paganini’s Witches Dance at Classical Music Online. What could be better than a classic horror story and a magnificent piece of classical music to complement the experience? Well, perhaps a glass of wine, preferably in a cut-glass goblet. Magnifico!
http://classical-music-online.net/en/listen/43608
You can access more of Mme. Blavatsky’s short stories in the links below, at the Theosophical University Press Online Edition.
CAN THE DOUBLE MURDER? — (c. 1876-77)
AN UNSOLVED MYSTERY — (c. 1876-77)
KARMIC VISIONS — (June 1888)
THE LEGEND OF THE BLUE LOTUS — (April 1890)
A BEWITCHED LIFE — (c. 1890-91)
THE LUMINOUS SHIELD — (c. 1890-91)
THE CAVE OF THE ECHOES — (c. 1890-91)
FROM THE POLAR LANDS — (c. 1890-91)
THE ENSOULED VIOLIN — (c. 1890-91)
http://www.theosociety.org/pasadena/nightmar/night-hp.htm
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Literary Ladies of Haunted Mountain. Who are they?
You are invited to my first Guest Blog at Monster Librarian!
“Literary Ladies of Haunted Mountain” complements my Women In Horror month for October’s Tales of Terror. Please click below on Monster Librarian. Monster Librarian has information on current mainstream horror and various lists of older books, reviews, and resources. This site has no other agenda than encouraging people to read and supporting readers of the horror genre.
Come back and leave me a comment!
Monster Librarian, Literary Ladies of Haunted Mountain by Paula Cappa
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Maharashtra, January 30 (Compass Direct News) – Hindu extremists on Jan. 26 disrupted a baptism and thrashed believers at Gangapur Dam, Nashik district. The Times of India reported that as members of the Navjivan Fellowship Church were conducting a baptism ceremony at the dam, a group of 10 to 12 men armed with cricket stumps, iron rods and sticks arrived and beat those present, including women and children. They also damaged the car of one Christian. Winston Daniel, whose head was injured during the assault, told the national daily that the attack was so meticulously planned that the group left behind no clues to ascertain their identity. The Hindustan Times reported that Sangeeta Paulat, who also was injured, said the assailants shouted, “Jai Shri Ram [hail to Lord Ram]” while beating them. Suresh Patil suffered a head injury, and Himmat Wagh received hospital treatment for a fractured hand. Sanjay Pandit suffered a broken leg and was recovering at Nashik General (Civil) Hospital. A complaint was filed with Nashik Taluk police, and a case of rioting was registered against the unidentified men.
Andhra Pradesh – Hindu extremists from the Hindu extremist Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh on Jan. 26 vandalized and attacked the nuns at St. Mary School in Kadiri. The Christian Legal Association (CLA) reported that a mob of about 12 extremists led by Vishnuvardhan Reddy barged into the school premises accusing authorities of not hoisting the flag on India’s Republic day. The extremists destroyed furniture, window panes and attacked the sisters, and area pastors reported the incident to police. A deputy superintendent of police identified only as Sainad told Compass that school officials and the attackers reached a compromise. The CLA reported that the school principal said the students had not come to school as there was a solar eclipse, but that the flag had been hoisted inside the building.
Madhya Pradesh – Hindu extremists accused a pastor of “harming religious sentiments” in Sanjay Koyla Nagar, Anooppur district, according to the Christian Legal Association. On Jan. 18 police went to the house of pastor Paulose Venkatarao of an area Pentecostal church around midnight on a complaint filed by Hindutva (Hindu nationalist) extremists accusing the pastor of selling a book, “Dharam Nirpeksh Evam Hindutva,” which they said harmed the sentiments of the Hindus. The Evangelical Fellowship of India reported that police told the pastor to go to the police station at 1 a.m., following a three-day convention the church had organized on Jan. 16-18, attended by a team from Bible College of Nagaland and pastors from abroad. At the police station, officers reprimanded the pastor; he gave a statement saying he had no idea who was selling books at the convention. Police officials told Compass that the pastor was called to the station for his own security as the extremists were creating a disturbance. No case was registered against the pastor.
Chhattisgarh – On Jan. 18 about 1,000 Hindu extremists gathered in anti-Christian protest in Palnar, Dendewada. The Evangelical Fellowship of India reported that the extremists shouted anti-Christian slogans, asserting that they wanted to wipe out all Christians and their activities in the area. The Hindu extremists reportedly staged the protest in response to Christians who were arrested on Jan. 5 on charges of defiling an area Hindu temple. After several calls by Christian leaders, police came to the area and dispersed the crowd.
Andhra Pradesh – Suspected Hindu extremists on Jan. 16 attacked a pastor in Gunpula, Karimnagar district. The Global Council of Indian Christians reported that six persons with their faces masked barged into the house of pastor Yakobu Jacob and began assaulting him. They shaved his head and burned his house with all his belongings. The intolerant Hindus also shouted that there should not be any Christian pastor in the village. The pastor filed a police complaint, and officers at Potkapalli police station registered a case against the extremists. Sub-Inspector D. Pratab told Compass that a police investigation was continuing.
Karnataka – Hindutva (Hindu nationalist) extremists on Jan. 11 forcibly entered the home of Christian converts in Amrthmahal Kavalu hamlet, near Tiptur town in Tumkur district. They verbally abused the four Christians there, burned their Bibles and forced them to the Honnavalli police station, according to the Global Council of Indian Christians. Identified only as Shankarappa and his wife Leelamama, and Shivappa and his wife Manjamma, the two brothers and their wives are the only Christians resident in the village. They worship at Calvary Gospel Centre in Tiptur town. The church’s pastor, Joy Jacob, told Compass that at around 10:30 p.m. nine local Hindu extremists barged into the house using foul language, falsely accused the Christians of forcible conversions and tore up and burned two Bibles. They threatened to burn down the Christians’ house if they continued to worship at the Calvary Gospel Centre. Police arrived and took the Christians to the police station as the extremists shouted Hindu chants along the way. On Jan. 12 about 9 a.m., Jacob went to the police station to register a complaint but officers refused to accept it. They instead arranged a compromise agreement, with the Christians forgiving the assailants.
Karnataka – Police on Jan. 9 arrested pastor Iswar Albannavar of the Throne of Grace Ministry in Gangavadi slum, Belgaum for forcible conversion, but when the accusations proved false they were held for promoting religious enmity. The Global Council of Indian Christians (GCIC) reported that Albannavar and his wife Renuka were conducting their regular weekly prayer meeting in their home for about 25 Christians, mostly recovering alcoholics, when police officials from Mala Maruthi police station stormed into the house. On the basis of a complaint filed by Hanmant Gargoti, officers falsely charged the pastor with forcible conversion and confiscated Bibles and hymn books, GCIC said. Police took the pastor and another Christian, Raju Kolkar, to the police station for questioning, after which Albannavar and Kolkar were sent to Belgaum Central Jail. An investigating officer identified only as Channakeshava told the Christian Legal Association that the two Christians were charged with promoting enmity between different groups on grounds of religion.
Karnataka – Four suspected Hindu extremists on motorbikes beat teacher James Victor Menezes, 52, a teacher at St. Legory’s School in Merlapadavu village near Mangalore on Jan. 7, reported the Daijiworld Media Network. Father Charles Menezes of the school told Compass that he strongly suspected the hand of Hindu extremists in the attack. On Jan. 2 the Catholic school had distributed Bibles; officials had announced that the Bibles were intended only for Christians, but a few others also picked up copies. The next day, protestors appeared in front of the school from Hindu groups, including the Srirama Sene (Army of Lord Ram). “The protestors falsely accused the schoolteachers of distributing Bibles to Hindus,” Fr. Meneze said. The beaten school teacher said he filed a complaint with the Kankanady police station, reportedly informing police that he would be able to identify the attackers, as they had also taken part in the protest. At press time no arrests had been made.
Chhattisgarh – Police on Jan. 5 arrested 10 Christians in Dantewada for allegedly defiling a Hindu temple. The Evangelical Fellowship of India reported that on Christmas Day around 40 Christians from the Bastar for Christ (BFC) house church in Palnar village, Dantewada had gone to Phulpad for a picnic and had inadvertently left behind a few paper plates and some food. Unidentified mischief-makers gathered up the leftovers and piled them at a small Hindu temple nearby, then took photographs of the supposed defilement. Local sources told Compass that on Dec. 28 and Jan. 4, area Hindu extremists disrupted a prayer service at the BFC house church, and on Jan. 5 police from Kua Kunda arrested associate pastor Shankar Sona and nine other Christians based on a police complaint filed by a Hindu extremist using the photograph as evidence. Police charged the Christians with damaging or defiling a place of worship, and they were all released on bail the same day.
Madhya Pradesh – Police on Jan. 5 arrested Christians in Kushalpura village, near Rajgarh in Dhar district after Hindu extremists attacked them. Dr. Sajan K. George of the Global Council of Indian Christians, said that pastor Kantilal Bhuria of Philadelphia Church was conducting a house-blessing service at the home of Badar Baria when nearly 10 members of the Hindu extremist Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh and Vishwa Hindu Parishad stormed into the house, assaulted the Christians and falsely accused the pastor of forcible conversion. The extremists phoned police, and as is customary in India officers jailed the victims of the Hindu extremist aggression. Pastor Bhuria and Baria were taken to the Sardarpur police station. Investigating officer Upendra Khare informed the Christian Legal Association that the Christians were arrested for injuring or defiling a place of worship with intent to insult religion. At press time the Christians were still in jail.
Karnataka – Airport police in Bangalore on Jan. 4 arrested three Christians for trying to fraudulently convert residents of Murugeshpalya and for disparaging Hindu gods, the Times of India reported. Police arrested Rama Reddy, 26, Mike Barabas, 35, and his wife Asmira Barabas based on a complaint by Prabhod Kumar Das that they were involved in “denigration of Hindu gods.” The complaint also stated that the three persons promised him money and a job if he agreed to convert. The newspaper reported that the three visited Das’ house for one week and persuaded him to change his religion. When the three went to Das’ house on Jan. 4, he went out and called people from the area who took hold of the Christians and handed them over to airport police. Officials seized books, handouts and other evangelistic materials from the accused. Airport police officials told Compass that the three Christians were in jail and have been charged with trespassing, hurting religious sentiments and promoting enmity between different religious groups.
Karnataka – Police on Jan. 4 arrested a pastor on a false complaint of forcible conversion by Hindu extremists in Kanakapura Taluk, Ramnagar district. The Global Council of Indian Christians (GCIC) reported that nearly 25 extremists belonging to the Hindu extremist Bajrang Dal stormed the worship service of the India Christian Revival Mission, verbally abused the congregation and chased them from the building. The extremists repeatedly slapped and kicked the pastor, identified only as Paul, and his son Barnabas. The intolerant Hindus dragged them both outside and took them to the Kanakapura police station, where they filed the false complaint of forcible conversion against the pastor. A GCIC representative told Compass that police detained the Christians at the station until about 7:30 p.m., when GCIC intervention resulted in a compromise between the pastor and the assailants. Having forgiven them, the pastor declined to press charges, and police gave assurances that adequate protection would be extended to the church in Kanakapura.
Karnataka – Hindu extremists on Jan. 1 burned a house church of the Resurrected God’s Ministry in Malai Bennur, Davangere district. The Christian Legal Association reported that the extremists burned the church in the early morning hours and threatened a pastor identified only as Gangadhar that they would burn his family alive if he took the matter to authorities. The Deccan Herald News Service reported that one section of the church built with areca leaves was gutted in the fire, while the other side of the church was partially burned. This incident was reportedly the second attack on the church, with the earlier incident taking place on Nov. 11, 2007. Superintendent of Police Sandip Patil told Compass that one person had been arrested under Section 436 of the Indian Penal Code for intent to destroy a house with fire or explosives.
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BY WHAT MEANS MAY MINISTERS BEST WIN SOULS? Robert Traill
Take heed unto thyself, and unto the doctrine; continue in them: for in doing this thou shalt both save thyself, and them that hear thee. (1 Tim. iv. 16).
The words are a substantial part of the good counsel and direction the apostle gives to Timothy, and through him to all the ministers of the gospel.
In them are two things:
1. A threefold duty laid on gospel-ministers, Take heed unto thyself, and unto thy doctrine; continue in them.
2. A double advantage consequent upon the discharge of this duty: For in doing this, thou shalt both save thyself, and them that hear thee.
1. Ministers’ duty is in three things here.
First, Take heed unto thyself. You are set in a high office in a dangerous place; take good and narrow heed, look well to thyself, thy heart and way.
Second, Take heed unto thy doctrine. Though thou be ever so well gifted, and approved both of God and men; though thou be an extraordinary officer (as Timothy was); yet take heed unto thy doctrine. These two we pass at present; because we shall resume them at greater length, when we take their help to the resolving of this question.
Third, Continue in them. This is related to vs.12, and 15. as well as to the preceding part of this verse. I shall dismiss this part of the verse with these comments,
(1.) Continue in thy work. Thou who art a minister, it is a work for thy lifetime; and not to be taken up and laid down again, according as it may best suit a man’s carnal inclinations, and outward conveniences. The apostles that laboured with their hands have, by that example, set the conscience of a minister at liberty to provide for the necessities of this life by other employments when he cannot live of the gospel, yet certainly no man that is called of God to this work can with a safe conscience abandon it wholly. Paul, for example rather than necessity, both preached and wrought as a tent maker. As preaching doth not make working unlawful, so neither should any other business of a minister make preaching to cease.
(2.) Continue in endeavours after greater fitness for thy work. No attainments in fitness and qualifications for this work can free a man of the obligation that lies on him to increase and grow therein more and more. It is not enough that a man study and be careful ere he enter into the ministry, but he must labour still to be more fit for his great work.
(3.) Continue in your vigour, and carefulness, and diligence. Young ministers that are sound and sincere before God are usually warm and diligent in the first years of their ministry; and many do decline afterwards and become more cold and remiss. This exhortation is a check thereunto: Continue in them.
2. The second thing in the word is, the double advantage proposed to encourage ministers to this hard duty.
The first advantage is, Thou shalt save thyself. Thy own salvation shall be promoted thereby.
How becoming is it for a minister to mind his own salvation! and to mind it so heartily, as to be animated from the hopes of it unto the greater diligence in his ministry!
But how doth faithfulness in the ministry of the gospel further the minister’s salvation?
(1.) Thou shalt save thyself from the guilt of other men’s sins and ruin, if thou be faithful in the ministry: Ezek. xxxiii. 9. Thou hast delivered (or saved) thy soul, saith the Lord to the prophet in the case of unsuccessful faithfulness. So Paul, Acts xviii. 6. I am clean, your blood be upon your own heads: and Acts xx. 26-27. I take you to record this day, that I am pure from the blood of all men: for I have not shunned to declare unto you all the counsel of God. Every minister pledgeth his soul to God, that he shall be a faithful servant, whatever his success may be.
(2.) Faithfulness and carefulness in the ministry of the gospel, promotes a man’s own salvation, in so far as the work of Christianity is woven in with the right discharge of the office of the ministry. Many ministers can say that if they had not been ministers they had in all appearance lost their souls. The subject of the minister’s work, is the same with that of a Christian’s; and above all men should he be careful of his heart and intentions that all be pure and spiritual. No man in any work he is called to is under so strict a necessity of dependence on the influence and assistance of the Holy Ghost both for gifts and grace. And are not all these great helps unto our own salvation?
The second advantage is, Thou shalt save them that hear thee. There is little hope of that man’s being useful to save others that minds not his own salvation; and therefore the apostle puts them in this order, thyself, and then, them that hear thee.
This description of the people, them that hear thee, tells us that the principal work of a minister is preaching; and the principal benefit people have by them is to hear the Lord’s word from them; though there be a seeing (i.e. of their holy conversation) that is also useful, Phil. iv. 9. But the apostle knew no such ministers as were only to be seen in worldly pomp and grandeur and seldom or never heard preaching.
Thou shalt save them. The great end of both preaching and hearing, is salvation; and if salvation were more designed by preachers and hearers, it would be more frequently the effect of the action.
Thou shalt save them. Thou shalt, by the Lord’s blessing on thy ministry, be successful in converting sinners, and in building up of saints in holiness and faith unto salvation. Not that ministers are of themselves able by all their endeavours to carry on this great end; they are only God’s tools and instruments, 1 Cor. iii. 6, 7. Concerning this,
(1.) We find that the Lord hath appointed this great ordinance of the gospel-ministry for this end, the saving of men, Eph. iv. 11-13. It is through their word that men believe, John xvii. 20. And divine appointment of the means, declares it to be both useful and the end to be hopeful.
(2.) He hath also given many promises of His presence, blessing, and success, to follow and attend them whom He sends on this great errand. Christ’s first calling of the apostles had this promise in it, I will make you fishers of men; which not only declared what that employment was he called them to, but it assured them of success in it. At his leaving of them, Matt. xxviii. 20, He promised to be with them unto the end of the world. And this promise is as good to us as it was to them.
(3.) He has also revealed much of His mind about ministers’ duty, in order to this end of saving men. This also makes the end more hopeful.
(4.) We find that the Lord does qualify and fit them whom He makes successful. He makes men able ministers of the New Testament, the word of life, 2 Cor. iii. 5-6. And still, according to the success the Lord hath a mind to bless a man with gifts, and qualifications, and assistance, are proportionably given. The apostles that had the greatest harvest to gather in were made the strongest labourers: and, though in a far inferior degree, the same method is observed by the Lord in dealing with and by ordinary ministers. It is true, that not always the most able and learned ministers are most successful; yet, generally, the most skilful labourers are most blessed. Neither are the most learned and able men for parts most fit and skilful in dealing with souls at all times.
Now, having opened the words, we shall return to the question to be resolved,
By what Means may Ministers best win Souls?
Consider what this text speaks about this matter. It looks two ways upon this question. 1. It gives a direct answer to it: and points out duty. 2. It gives an encouraging promise of the good effect and fruit of the discharge of the duty.
I. Take heed unto thyself. Would you be a saved and successful minister? Take heed unto thyself. Such warnings imply always a case of difficulty and danger.
First; Take heed that thou be a sound and sincere believer, The importance of sincere godliness in a minister, is written in the deep wounds that the church of Christ has received by the hands of ungodly ministers. It has been made a question, whether an ungodly man can be a minister? But such men are in a most desperate condition: Mat. vii. 22, 23. Depart from me; not because you ran unsent, or preached error instead of truth, or preached poorly and meanly, (all great sins in themselves); but because you work iniquity; the usual expression of entire ungodliness. What use the Lord may make of the gifts (for, great gifts He gives to the worst of men) of ungodly men, even in the ministry of the gospel, is one of His deep paths. But no man can reasonably imagine, that a walker in the way to hell can be a fit and useful guide to them that mind to go to heaven. If a man would have peace in his conscience and success in his work of the ministry, let him take good heed to this, that he be a sound Christian. There is a special difficulty for a minister to know his grace. Gifts and grace have deceived many with their likeness; although the difference be great, both in itself, and to an enlightened eye.
Second; Take heed to thyself, that thou be a called and sent minister. This is of great importance as to success. He that can say, “Lord, thou hast sent me,” may boldly add, “Lord, go with me, and bless me.” It is good when a man is serious in this inquiry. It is to be feared that many run, and never asked this question; so is it seen in their speed and success. Jer. xxiii. 32. I sent them not, therefore they shall not profit this people at all, is a standing rule to this day.
These things, if found, may serve to satisfy a minister’s conscience, that Jesus Christ hath sent him.
(a.) If the heart be filled with a single desire after the great end of the ministry, the glory of God in the salvation of men. Every work that God calls a man to, He makes the end of it amiable. This desire sometimes attends men’s first conversion. Paul was called to be a saint and an apostle at once, Acts ix; and so have many been called to be saints and ministers together. If it be not so, yet this is found with him that Christ calls, that when he is most spiritual and serious, when his heart is most under the impressions of holiness, and he is nearest to God in communion with Him; then are such desires after the serving of Jesus Christ in the ministry most powerful. And the sincerity of his desire is also to be examined: and when it is found, it adds greatly to a man’s peace: when his heart bears him witness, that it is neither riches, nor honour, nor ease, nor the applause of men, that he seeks after, but singly Christ’s honour in the saving of men.
(b.) It helps to clear a man’s call, that there has been a conscientious diligence in all the means of attaining fitness for this great work. That love to the end that does not direct and determine to the use of the appointed means, may justly be suspected as irregular, and not flowing from the Holy Ghost. Even extraordinary officers seem not to have been above the use of ordinary means, 2 Tim. iv. 13: old, dying Paul sends for his books and papers.
(c.) A competent fitness for the work of the ministry is another proof of a man’s call to it. The Lord calls no man to a work for which He does not qualify. Though a sincere humble man (as all ministers should be) may and should think little of any measure he has, whether compared with the greater measures of others, or considered with regard unto the weight and worth or the work; yet there must be some confidence as to his competency, for clearing a man’s call, 2 Cor. iii. 5, 6. What this competency is, is not easy at all times to determine. But in general there must be, 1. A competent knowledge of gospel-mysteries. 2. A competent ability of utterance to the edifying of others. This is aptness to teach, required of the apostle in I Tim. iii. 2: and Titus i. 9. that a minister be able, by sound doctrine, to exhort and to convince gainsayers.
(d.) The savour of a man’s ministry on the hearts and consciences of others, both ministers and people, helps much to clear a man’s call. So that indeed ordinarily a man can never be so well confirmed in the faith of his being called of God, until he make some essay in this work. Deacons must first be proved, I Tim. iii 10; much more ministers. A single testimony given by ministers and Christians, that the word dispensed by the man is savoury and has effect on the conscience is a great confirmation; especially if sound conversion of some follow his labours. That is indeed a seal of his ministry, 2 Cor. iii. 3, and 1 Cor. ix. 2.
Third; Take heed unto thyself that thou be a lively thriving Christian. See that all your religion run not in the channel of your employment. It is found by experience, that as it fares with a minister in the frame of his heart, and thriving of the work of God in his soul, so doth it fare with his ministry both in its vigour and effects. A carnal frame, a dead heart and a loose walk, makes cold and unprofitable preaching. And how common is it for ministers to neglect their own vineyard? When we read the word we read ill as ministers to know what we should teach rather than what we should learn as Christians. Unless there be great heed taken, it will be found that our ministry and labour therein may eat out the life of our Christianity. Not that there is any discord betwixt them; but rather a friendly harmony, when each has its place and respect. The honest believer meditates that he may excite his grace; and ministers too often meditate only to increase their gifts. When we preach, the sincere hearer drinks in the word; and it may be we seldom mix faith with it, to grow thereby. O how hard is it to be a minister and a Christian in some of these acts! We are still conversant about the things of God; it is our study all the week long. This is our great advantage. But take heed to thyself, lest ordinary meddling with divine things bring on an ordinary and indifferent impression of them; and then their fruit to you, and your benefit by them, is almost gone and hardly recovered.
Fourth; Take heed unto thyself in reference to all the trials and temptations you may meet with. Be on your guard, watch in all things, 2 Tim. iv. 5. No men are shot at more by Satan than ministers, and Christ is liberal in His warnings of dangers, and in His promises of help in them.
2. The second word in the text to this purpose of directing ministers how to be useful to others, is take heed unto thy doctrine. Are you a minister? You must be a preacher. An unpreaching minister is a sort of contradiction. Yet, every sort of preaching is not enough; you must take heed to your doctrine what it is.
Here is a warrant for studying what we are to teach and what we have taught people. But the great matter is to take heed, or study aright. Students commonly need little direction about ordinary study. But concerning the doctrine, I shall entreat to take heed unto it in these things:— First; Take heed unto thy doctrine, that it be a divine truth:—Let a man speak as the oracles of God, 1 Pet. iv. 11. And therefore it is needful that ministers be well acquainted with the holy scriptures. It is a mark against a man that relishes any book more than the word of God. The world is full of books written on pretence and design to explain the scriptures; and men’s studies are full of them. There is also a blessing in them, and good use to be made of them; but also a bad use is made of them. Many ministers have found that they have preached better and to more profit to the people when they got their sermon by meditation on the word and prayer than by turning over many authors. From this neglect of the word also come a great many doctrines that are learned by man and borrowed from philosophy; which though they may have some truth in them, yet since it is divine truth that a minister should bring forth to the people, he should not rest on such low things.
Second; Take heed unto thy doctrine that it be plain and suited to the capacity of the hearers. Learned preaching (as it is called) is a vanity, pleasing principally to such as neither design nor desire edification. True godly learning consists in preaching plainly; and therein is no small difficulty. Two things would help to plain preaching. 1. Clearness of knowledge. The alleged depth of our doctrine often proceeds from our own darkness. 2. Humility and self-denial. We must not seek ourselves, nor the applause of men; but God’s glory, and men’s salvation. It is found that the holiest ministers preach most plainly and the plainest preachers are most successful.
Third; Take heed unto thy doctrine, that it be grave, and solid, and weighty; sound speech that cannot be condemned, Tit. ii. 8. Deep and weighty impressions of the things of God upon a man’s own heart would greatly advance this. A minister’s spirit is known in the gravity or lightness of his doctrine.
II. But now we come to the second thing proposed, to give some answer to this question from other things in the word.
And I shall, 1. Shew some things that must be laid to heart about the end, the saving of souls; and then, 2. Shall give some advice about the means.
1. About the end, the winning of souls. This is to bring them to God. It is not to win them to us, or to engage them into a party, or to the espousal of some opinions and practices, supposing them to be never so right and consonant to the word of God. But the winning of them is to bring them out of nature into a state of grace, that they may be fitted for, and in due time admitted into everlasting glory.
Concerning which great end, these few things should be laid deeply to heart by all that would serve the Lord in being instrumental in reaching it.
First; The exceeding height and excellency of this end is to be laid to heart. It is a wonder of condescension that the Lord will make use of men in promoting it. To be workers together with God in so great a business, is no small honour. The great value of men’s souls, the greatness of the misery they are delivered from, and of the happiness they are advanced to, with the manifold glory of God shining in all, makes the work of saving men great and excellent. Preaching the gospel, and suffering for it, are services that angels are not employed in. Mean and low thoughts of the great end of the ministry, as they are dissonant from truth, are also great hindrances to due endeavours after the attaining the end.
Second; The great difficulty of saving souls must be laid to heart. The difficulty is undoubted. To attempt it is to offer violence to men’s corrupt natures; and a storming of hell itself, whose captives all sinners are. Unless this difficulty be laid to heart ministers will be confident of their own strength and so miscarry and be unfruitful. Whoever prospers in winning souls is first convinced that it is the arm of Jehovah only can do the work.
Third; The duty of winning souls must be laid to heart by ministers. That it is their principle work and they are under many commands to endeavour it. It is a fault to look on fruit only as a reward of endeavours; but it should be so minded as the end we would strive for, Col. i. 28-29; which, when attained, is still to His praise: yet most commonly when it is missing it is to our reproach and danger, when it is (as alas! it is often) through our default.
Fourth; The great advantage there is to the labourer by his success is to be pondered. Great is the gain by one soul. He that winneth souls, is happy as well as wise, Prov. ix. 30. Dan. xii. 3. Won souls are a minister’s crown, and glory, and joy. Phil. iv. 1. 1 Thess. ii. 20. How far is this account above all others that a man can give of his ministry? These things fixed upon the heart, would enliven us in all endeavours to attain this excellent end.
2. For advice about the means, I shall add these few thoughts besides what hath been said.
First; Let ministers, if they would win souls, purchase and retain amongst the people a persuasion of their being sent of God; that they are Christ’s ministers, 1 Cor. iv. 1. It is not the confident asserting of it, nor justifying the lawfulness of our ecclesiastical calling, though there be some use of these things at some times: but it is ability, carefulness, faithfulness, humility, and self-denial, and, in a word, conformity to our Lord Jesus in His ministry, that will constrain people to say and think that we are sent of God. Nicodemus comes with this impression of Christ, John iii. 2. A teacher come from God. It is certain, that these thoughts in people further the reception of the gospel; Gal. iv. 14. Ye received me as an angel of God, even as Christ Jesus.
Second; Let ministers, if they would win souls, purchase and maintain the people’s love to their persons. And this is best done by loving them and dealing lovingly and patiently with them. There should be no striving with them especially about worldly things: yea, meekness to them that oppose themselves, 2 Tim. ii. 24-26. It is of great advantage to have their love. How carefully doth Paul sue for it in several epistles; and condescend to intreat and make apologies when indeed he had not wronged them but they only did imagine he had wronged them! 2 Cor. ix.
Third; It would further the winning of souls, to deal particularly and personally with them; not always nor altogether in public, Col. i. 28. Acts xx. 20-21. Great fruit hath constantly followed the conscientious discharge of this duty. The setting of it up in Geneva did produce incredible fruits of piety, as Calvin reports: when the ministers and some of the elders went from house to house and dealt particularly with the people’s consciences. And we are not without many instances of the fruit of this mean in our own time and in these nations. Blessed be the Lord for the labourers and their success.
Fourth; Ministers must pray much if they would be successful. The apostles spent their time this way, Acts vi. 3. Yea, our Lord Jesus preached all day, and continued all night alone in prayer to God. Ministers should be much in prayer. They used to reckon how many hours they spend in reading and study; it were far better both with ourselves and the church of God if more time were spent in prayer. Luther’s spending three hours daily in secret prayer, Bradford’s studying on his knees, and other instances of men in our time are talked of rather than imitated. Ministers should pray much for themselves; for they have corruptions like other men and have temptations that none but ministers are assaulted with. They should pray for their message. How sweet and easy is it for a minister, (and likely it is to be the more profitable to the people), to bring forth that scripture as food to the souls of his people that he hath got opened to his own heart by the power of the Holy Ghost in the exercise of faith and love in prayer! A minister should pray for a blessing on the word, and he should be much in seeking God particularly for the people. It may be this may be the reason why some ministers of meaner gifts and parts are more successful than some that are far above them in abilities; not because they preach better, but because they pray more. Many good sermons are lost for lack of much prayer in study.
But because the ministry of the word is the main instrument for winning souls, I shall therefore add somewhat more particularly concerning this, and that both as to the matter and manner of preaching.
For the subject-matter of gospel-preaching, it is determined by the apostle expressly to be Christ crucified, 1 Cor. ii. 2. Two things ministers have to do about Him in preaching Him to them that are without. 1. To set Him forth to people, Gal. iii. 1; to paint Him in His love, excellency, and ability to save. 2. To preach Him unto them freely, fully, without any limitation as to sinners, or their sinful state. And then Christ’s laws or will to be published to them that receive Him, and are His, for the rule of their walk; and His promises, for the measure and foundation of all their hopes and expectations; and His grace and fulness, for their supply in every case, till they be brought to heaven. This was the simplicity of the gospel that remained but a little while in the Christian church: for ceremonies amongst the Jews, and sinful mixtures of vain philosophy amongst the Gentiles, Col. ii. did by degrees so corrupt the gospel that the mystery of iniquity ripened in the production of Antichrist. It was a sad observation of the fourth century that it became a matter of learning and ingenuity to be a Christian. The meaning was that too much weight was laid on notions and matters of opinion; and less regard had unto the soundness of the heart and holiness of life. In the beginning of the reformation from Popery, the worthies whom God raised up in several countries did excellently in retrieving the simplicity of the gospel from the Popish mixtures. But that good work is on the decline greatly. How little of Jesus Christ is there in some pulpits! It is seen as to success, that whatever the law doth in alarming sinners, it is still the gospel-voice that is the key that opens the heart to Jesus Christ. Would ministers win souls? Let them have more of Jesus Christ in their dealing with men, and less of other things that never profit them that are exercised therein.
As for the manner of successful preaching, I shall give it in a negative and positive, from these two places: 1 Cor. i. 17, and ii. 1, 4.
First; What this negative condemns, is our inquiry. The words are full: For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel: not with wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made of none effect. Again, I came not to you with excellency of speech, or of wisdom, declaring unto you the testimony of God. Again, And my speech, and my preaching was not with enticing words of man’s wisdom. These are the words of the Holy Ghost concerning a way of preaching that is unprofitable: a way that seems was in use and respect with the Corinthians; and honest Paul was despised by them, for his simple and plain way, different from theirs. I shall only instance in things that this scriptural negative doth check and reprove in the way of preaching.
1. The establishing and advancing of divine truth upon the foundation of human reason; as if there were some weakness and insufficency in those methods and arguments of working on men’s consciences, that the Holy Ghost prescribes. The great foundation of all a minister hath to say, is, Thus saith the Lord; and a grave declaring of the testimony of God in this matter is a minister’s duty, 1 Cor. ii. 1, and will have more authority on men’s consciences than many human reasons. There is a rational preaching (as it is called), wherein men do not satisfy themselves to make use of reason as a tool and instrument (and then its use is excellent), but will establish it as a judge and dictator in all divine matters and truth; and so in effect turn all their preaching into little better things than the lectures of the philosophers of old; save that the poor pagans were more sincere in their morals and serious in delivering their opinions.
Let a minister therefore still think with himself, that a plain scripture-testimony is his main argument; and accordingly let him use it. When he teacheth philosophy, and when he teacheth men the will of God about salvation, he is in distinct provinces, and his management of his work therein should be very different.
2. It is to preach with excellency of speech, and words of man’s wisdom, when men think to reach the gospel end on sinners by force of even spiritual reason and persuasion. This corrupt thought riseth in some, from an imagination that moral suasion is all that is needful for converting a sinner: and in some this thought rises on a better account; the light of the glory of God in the gospel shines so brightly in upon their own hearts, that they fall into this conceit, that no man can stand before that light which they can hold forth: Melancthon’s mistake at first, till experience made him wiser. Hast thou a clear knowledge of gospel-mysteries, and the word of exhortation is with thee also, so that thou art qualified to urge, beseech. and plead warmly with sinners on Christ’s behalf? Take heed of this snare. Lest thou think that thy wisdom and gifts can promote and carry on the gospel-design on men.
3. This also is checked in the apostle’s words, the setting forth the beauty of the gospel by human art. The truth of the gospel shines best in its bare proposal; and its beauty in its simple and naked discovery. We may observe from church history, that as soundness of doctrine and the power of godliness decayed in the church, the vanity of an affected way of speaking and of writing of divine things came in. Quotations from the fathers, Latin, and languages, are pitiful ornaments to preaching if a man design conversion and soul-edification. And yet more despicable are all playing on words, jinglings, and cadences, (which things are in all the rules of true eloquence justly exploded); and yet some men reckon much on them. But would any man think his friend in earnest with him that would accost him in any affair with such sort of language and gesture?
Second; The positive is, in demonstration of the Spirit, and of power, 1 Cor. ii. 5.
1. Paul preached so as gave a demonstration that the Holy Ghost was in him, sanctifying him. This is a plain and blessed thing. Happy is the minister that manageth his work so that if the hearers get not a demonstration of great parts and learning, yet they have a demonstration of the sanctifying Spirit of God in the minister.
2. Paul preached so as gave a demonstration that the Spirit of God was with him, assisting and helping him in his work; even when he was amongst them in much weakness, fear, and trembling, ver. 3. Happy is the minister that can preach this way. He must be a depender upon assistance from the Holy Ghost.
3. Paul preached so as a demonstration of the power of the Holy Ghost was given to the hearts of the hearers. The Spirit of God so wrought on them by His power in and by Paul’s preaching, 2 Cor. iv. 2, commending ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God. This is the principle thing to be aimed at, and it is the proper source of all profitable preaching.
III. To conclude: You that are ministers, suffer a word of exhortation.
Men, brethren, and fathers, you are called to an high and holy calling. Your work is full of danger, full of duty, and full of mercy. You are called to the winning of souls; an employment near akin unto our Lord’s work, the saving of souls; and the nearer your spirits be in conformity to His holy temper and frame, the fitter you are for, and the more fruitful you shall be in your work. None of you are ignorant of the begun departure of our glory, and the daily advance of its departure, and the sad appearances of the Lord’s being about to leave us utterly. Should not these signs of the times rouse up ministers unto greater seriousness? What can be the reason of this sad observation, that when formerly a few lights raised up in the nation, did shine so as to scatter and dispel the darkness of popery in a little time; yet now when there are more and more learned men amongst us, the darkness comes on apace? Is it not because they were men filled with the Holy Ghost, and with power; and many of us are only filled with light and knowledge, and inefficacious notions of God’s truth? Doth not always the spirit of the ministers propagate itself amongst the people? A lively ministry, and lively Christians. Therefore be serious at heart; believe, and so speak; feel, and so speak; and as you teach, so do: and then people will feel what you say, and obey the word of God.
And, lastly, for people: it is not unfit that you should hear of ministers’ work, and duty, and difficulties. You see that all is of your concernment. All things are for your sakes, as the apostle said in another case.
Then only I entreat you,
1. Pity us. We are not angels, but men of like passions with yourselves. Be fuller of charity than of censure. We have all that you have to do about the saving of our own souls; and a great work besides about the saving of yours. We have all your difficulties as Christians; and some that you are not acquainted with, that are only ministers’ temptations and trials.
2. Help us in our work. If you can do anything, help us in the work of winning souls. What can we do, say you? Make haste to heaven, that you and we may meet joyfully before the throne of God and the Lamb.
3. Pray for us. How often and how earnestly doth Paul beg the prayers of the churches! And if he did so, much more should we beg them, and you grant them; for our necessities and weaknesses are greater than his: 2 Thess. iii. 1-2. Finally, brethren, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may have free course, and be glorified, even as it is with you: and that we may be delivered from unreasonable and wicked men: for all men have not faith.
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THE CITY OR THE SIGHT WHICH STIRRED ST. PAUL: J. C. Ryle
“Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was stirred in him, when he saw the city wholly given to idolatry. Therefore disputed he in the synagogue with the Jews, and with the devout persons, and in the market daily with them that met with him.”ACTS XVII. 16, 17.
Perhaps you live in a town, or city, and see more of bricks and mortar than of green fields. Perhaps you have some relative or friend living in a town, about whom you naturally feel a deep interest. In either case, the verses of Scripture which head this page demand your best attention. Give me that attention for a few short minutes while I try to show you the lessons, which the passage contains.
You see face to face in the verses before you no common city and no common man.
The city is the famous city Athens—Athens, renowned to this very day for its statesmen, philosophers, historians, poets, painters, and architects,—Athens, the eye of ancient Greece, as ancient Greece was the eye of the heathen world.
The man is the great Apostle of the Gentiles, St. Paul—St. Paul, the most laborious and successful Minister and Missionary the world has ever seen—St. Paul, who by pen and tongue has left a deeper mark on mankind than any born of woman, except his Divine Master.
Athens and St. Paul—the great servant of Christ, and the great stronghold of old heathenism,—are brought before us face to face. The result is told us: the interview is carefully described. The subject, I venture to think, is eminently suited to the times in which we live, and to the circumstances of many a dweller in London, Liverpool, Manchester, and other great English towns in the present day.
Without further preface I ask you to observe three things in this passage:—
I. What St. Paul SAW at Athens.
II. What St. Paul FELT at Athens.
III. What St. Paul DID at Athens.
I. First, then, What did St. Paul SEE at Athens?
The answer of the text is clear and unmistakable. He saw a “city wholly given to idolatry.” Idols met his eyes in every street. The temples of idol gods and goddesses occupied every prominent position. The magnificent statue of Minerva, twenty-six cubits high, according to Pliny, towered above the Acropolis, and caught the eye from every point. A vast system of idol-worship overspread the whole place, and thrust itself everywhere on his notice. The ancient writer, Pausanias, expressly says, that “the Athenians surpassed all states in the attention which they paid to the worship of the gods.” In short, the city, as the marginal reading says, was “full of idols.”
And yet this city, I would have you remember, was probably the most favourable specimen of a heathen city which St. Paul could have seen. In proportion to its size it very likely contained the most learned, civilized, philosophical, highly educated, artistic, intellectual population on the face of the globe. But what was it in a religious point of view? The city of wise men like Socrates and Plato—the city of Solon, and Pericles, and Demosthenes,—the city of Æschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, and Thucydides,—the city of mind, and intellect, and art, and taste,—this city was “wholly given to idolatry.” If the true God was unknown at Athens, what must He have been in the darker places of the earth? If the eye of Greece was so spiritually dim, what must have been the condition of such places as Babylon, Ephesus, Tyre, Alexandria, Corinth, and even of Rome? If men were so far gone from the light in a green tree, what must they have been in the dry?
Reader, what shall we say to these things? What are the conclusions to which they irresistibly draw us?
Ought you not to learn, for one thing, the absolute need of a Divine revelation, and of teaching from heaven? Leave man without a Bible, and he will have a religion of some kind, for human nature, corrupt as it is, must have a God. But it will be a religion without light, or peace, or hope. “The world by wisdom knew not God.” (1 Cor. i. 2l.) Old Athens is a standing lesson which we shall do well to observe. It is vain to suppose that nature, unaided by revelation, will ever lead fallen man to nature’s God. Without a Bible, the Athenian bowed down to stocks and stones, and worshipped the work of his own hands. Place a heathen philosopher,—a Stoic or an Epicurean,—by the side of an open grave, and ask him about a world to come, and he could have told you nothing certain, satisfactory, or peace-giving.
Ought you not to learn, for another thing, that the highest intellectual training is no security against utter darkness in religion? We cannot doubt that mind and reason were highly educated at Athens, if anywhere in the heathen world. The students of Greek philosophy were not unlearned and ignorant men. They were well-versed in logic, ethics, rhetoric, history, and poetry. But all this mental discipline did not prevent their city being a “city wholly given to idolatry.” And are we to be told in the nineteenth century, that reading, writing, arithmetic, mathematics, history, languages, and physical science, without a knowledge of the Scriptures, are sufficient to constitute education? God forbid! We have not so learned Christ. It may please some men to idolize intellectual power, and to speak highly of the debt which the world owes to the Greek mind. One thing, at any rate, is abundantly clear. Without the knowledge which the Holy Ghost revealed to the Hebrew nation, old Greece would have left the world buried in dark idolatry. A follower of Socrates or Plato might have talked well and eloquently on many subjects, but he could have never answered the jailer’s question, “What must I do to be saved?” (Acts xvi. 30.) He could never have said in his last hour, “O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?”
Ought you not to learn, for another thing, that the highest excellence in the material arts is no preservative against the grossest superstition? The perfection of Athenian architecture and sculpture is a great and undeniable fact. The eyes of St. Paul at Athens beheld many a “thing of beauty” which is still “a joy for ever” to artistic minds. And yet the men who conceived and executed the splendid buildings of Athens were utterly ignorant of the one true God. The world now-a-days is well-nigh drunk with self-conceit about our so-called progress in arts and sciences. Men talk and write of machinery and manufactures, as if nothing were impossible. But let it never be forgotten that the highest art or mechanical skill is consistent with a state of spiritual death in religion. Athens, the city of Phidias, was a “city wholly given to idolatry.” An Athenian sculptor might have designed a matchless tomb, but he could not have wiped a single tear from a mourner’s eye.
These things ought not to be forgotten. They ought to be carefully pondered. They suit the times in which we live. We have fallen on a sceptical and an unbelieving age. We meet on every side with doubts and questionings about the truth and value of revelation. “Is not reason alone sufficient?”—“Is the Bible really needful to make men wise unto salvation?”—“Has not man a light within, a verifying power, able to guide him to truth and God?”—Such are the inquiries which fall thick as hail around us. Such are the speculations which disquiet many unstable minds.
One plain answer is an appeal to facts. The remains of heathen Egypt, Greece, and Rome shall speak for us. They are preserved by God’s providence to this very day as monuments of what intellect and reason can do without revelation. The minds which designed the temples of Luxor and Carnac, or the Parthenon, or Coliseum were not the minds of fools. The builders who executed their designs did better and more lasting work than any contractor can do in modern times. The men who conceived the sculptured friezes, which we know as the Elgin Marbles, were trained and intellectual to the highest degree. And yet in religion these men were darkness itself. (Eph. v. 8.) The sight which St. Paul saw at Athens is an unanswerable proof that man knows nothing which can do his soul good without a Divine revelation.
II. I ask you to notice, in the second place, what St. Paul FELT at Athens. He saw a “city wholly given to idolatry.” How did the sight affect him? What did he feel?
It is instructive to observe how the same sight affects different people. Place two men on the same spot; let them stand side by side; let the same objects be presented to their eyes. The emotions called forth in the one man will often be wholly different from those called forth in the other. The thoughts which will be wakened up and brought to birth will often be as far as the poles asunder.
A mere artist visiting Athens for the first time would doubtless have been absorbed in the beauty of its buildings. A statesman or orator would have called up the memory of Pericles or Demosthenes. A literary man would have thought of Thucydides and Sophocles and Plato. A merchant would have gazed on the Piræus, its harbour, and the sea. But an apostle of Christ had far higher thoughts. One thing, above all others, swallowed up his attention, and made all else look small. That one thing was the spiritual condition of the Athenian people, the state of their souls. The great Apostle of the Gentiles was eminently a man of one thing, Like his Divine Master, he was always thinking of his “Father’s business.” (Luke ii. 49.) He stood at Athens, and thought of nothing so much as Athenian souls. Like Moses, Phineas, and Elijah, “his spirit was stirred within him when he saw the city wholly given to idolatry.”
Of all sights on earth, I know none so impressive, none so calculated to arouse thought in a reflecting mind, as the sight of a great city. The daily intercourse of man with man, which a city naturally produces, seems to sharpen intellect, and stimulate mental activity to an extent which dwellers in rural parishes, or other solitary places, cannot realize. Rightly or wrongly, the inhabitant of a city thinks twice as much, and twice as quickly, as the inhabitant of a village. It is the city “where Satan’s seat is.” (Rev. ii. 13.) It is the city where evil of every kind is most rapidly conceived, sown, ripened, and brought to maturity.—It is the city where the young man leaving home, and launching into life, becomes soonest hardened, and conscience-seared by daily familiarity with the sight of sin.—It is the city where sensuality, intemperance, and worldly amusements of the vilest kind, flourish most rankly, and find a congenial atmosphere.—It is the city where ungodliness and irreligion meet with the greatest encouragement, and the unhappy Sabbath breaker, or neglecter of all means of grace, can fortify himself behind the example of others, and enjoy the miserable comfort of feeling that “he does not stand alone!”—It is the city which is the chosen home of every form of superstition, ceremonialism, enthusiasm, and fanaticism in religion—It is the city which is the hot-bed of every kind of false philosophy, of Stoicism, Epicureanism, Agnosticism, Secularism, Scepticism, Positivism, Infidelity, and Atheism.—It is the city where that greatest of modern inventions, the printing-press, that mighty power for good or evil, is ever working with unsleeping activity, and pouring forth new matter for thought.—It is the city where the daily newspapers are continually supplying food for minds, and moulding and guiding public opinion.—It is the city which is the centre of all national business: the banks, the law-courts, the Stock-exchange, the Parliament or Assembly, are all bound up with the city.—It is the city which, by magnetic influence, draws together the rank and fashion of the land, and gives the tone to the tastes and ways of society.—It is the city which practically controls the destiny of a nation. Scattered millions, in rural districts, without habitual concert or contact, are powerless before the thousands who dwell side by side and exchange thought every day. It is the towns which govern a land.—I pity the man who could stand on the top of St. Paul’s Cathedral, and look down on London without some emotion, and not reflect that he sees the heart whose pulsations are felt over the whole civilized globe. And shall I wonder for a moment that the sight of Athens “stirred the spirit” of such a man as the great Apostle of the Gentiles? I cannot wonder at all. It was just the sight which was likely to move the heart of the converted man of Tarsus, the man who wrote the Epistle to the Romans, and had seen Jesus Christ face to face.
He was stirred with holy compassion. It moved his heart to see so many myriads perishing for lack of knowledge, without God, without Christ, having no hope, travelling in the broad road which leadeth to destruction.
He was stirred with holy sorrow. It moved his heart to see so much talent misapplied. Here were hands capable of excellent works, and minds capable of noble conceptions. And yet the God who gave life and breath and power was not glorified.
He was stirred with holy indignation against sin and the devil. He saw the god of this world blinding the eyes of multitudes of his fellow-men, and leading them captive at his will. He saw the natural corruption of man infecting the population of a vast city like one common disease, and an utter absence of any spiritual medicine, antidote, or remedy.
He was stirred with holy zeal for his Master’s glory. He saw the “strong man armed” keeping a house which was not lawfully his, and shutting out the rightful possessor. He saw his Divine Master unknown and unrecognised by His own creatures, and idols receiving the homage due to the King of kings.
Reader, these feelings which stirred the Apostle are a leading characteristic of a man born of the Spirit. Do you know anything of them? Where there is true grace there will always be tender concern for the souls of others. Where there is true sonship to God there will always be zeal for the Father’s glory. It is written of the ungodly, that they not only commit things worthy of death, but also “have pleasure in them that do them.” (Romans i. 32.) It may be said with equal truth of the godly, that they not only mourn over sin in their own hearts, but mourn over sin in others.
Hear what is written of Lot in Sodom: “He vexed his soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds.” (2 Peter ii. 8.) Hear what is written of David: “Rivers of water run down mine eyes, because they keep not Thy law.” (Psalm cxix. 136.) Hear what is written of the godly in Ezekiel’s time: “They sigh and cry for all the abominations that be done in the midst of the land.” (Ezek. ix. 4.) Hear what is written of our Lord and Saviour Himself: “He beheld the city and wept over it.” (Luke xix. 41.) Surely it may be laid down as one of the first principles of Scriptural religion, that he who can behold sin without sorrowful feelings has not the mind of the Spirit. This is one of those things in which the children of God are manifest, and are distinguished from the children of the devil.
I call your special attention to this point. The times demand that we look it fully in the face. The feelings with which we regard sin, heathenism, and irreligion are a subject of vast importance in the present day.
I ask you, first, to look outside our own country, and consider the state of the heathen world. At least six hundred millions of immortal beings are at this moment sunk in ignorance, superstition, and idolatry. They live and die without God, without Christ, and without hope. In sickness and sorrow they have no comfort. In old age and death they have no life beyond the grave. Of the true way of peace through a Redeemer, of God’s love in Christ, of free grace, of complete absolution from guilt, of a resurrection to life eternal, they have no knowledge. For long weary centuries they have been waiting for the tardy movements of the Church of Christ, while Christians have been asleep, or wasting their energies on useless controversies, and squabbling and wrangling about forms and ceremonies. Is not this a sight which ought to “stir the spirit”?
I ask you, next, to turn back to our own land, and consider the state of our great cities. There are districts in our great metropolis, in Liverpool, in Manchester, in Birmingham, in the Black Country, where Christianity seems practically unknown. Examine the religious condition of East London, or of Southwark, or Lambeth. Walk through the north end of Liverpool on Saturday evening, or Sunday, or on a Bank Holiday, and see how Sabbath-breaking, intemperance, and general ungodliness appear to rule and reign uncontrolled. “When the strong man armed keepeth his palace, his goods are in peace.” (Luke xi. 21.) And then remember that this state of things exists in a professedly Christian country, in a land where there is an Established Church, and within a few hours of Oxford and Cambridge! Once more I say, ought not these things to “stir” our hearts?
Reader, it is a sorrowful fact that there is around us in the present day a generation of men who regard heathenism, infidelity, and irreligion with apathy, coolness, and indifference? They care nothing for Christian Missions either at home or abroad. They see no necessity for them. They take no interest in the Evangelistic work of any Church or society. They treat all alike with undisguised contempt. They despise Exeter Hall. They never give subscriptions. They never attend meetings. They never read a Missionary Report. They seem to think that every man shall be saved by his own law or sect, if he is only sincere; and that one religion is as good as another, if those who profess it are only in earnest. They are fond of decrying and running down all spiritual machinery or Missionary operations. They are constantly asserting that modern Missions at home or abroad do nothing, and that those who support them are little better than weak enthusiasts. Judging by their language, they appear to think that the world receives no benefit from Missions and aggressive Christian movements, and that it would be a better way to leave the world alone!
What shall we say to these men? They meet us on every side. They are to be heard in every society. To sit by, and sneer, and criticise, and do nothing—this is apparently their delight and vocation. What shall we say to them?
Let us tell them plainly, if they will only hear us, that they are utterly opposed to the Apostle St. Paul. Let us show them that mighty model of a Christian Missionary walking the streets of Athens, and “stirred” in spirit at the sight of a “city wholly given to idolatry.” Let us ask them why they do not feel as he felt, about the idolatry of China and Hindustan, of Africa and the South Seas, or about the semi-heathen districts of London, Liverpool, Manchester, Birmingham, and the Black Country. Let us ask them whether 1900 years have made any difference in the nature of God, the necessities of fallen man, the sinfulness of idol worship, and the duty of Christians. We shall ask in vain for a reasonable answer: we shall get none. Sneers at our weakness are no argument against our principles. Jests at our infirmities and failures are no proof that our aims are wrong. Yes! they may have the wit and wisdom of this world upon their side; but the eternal principles of the New Testament are written clearly, plainly, and unmistakably. So long as the Bible is the Bible, charity to souls is one of the first of Christian graces, and it is a solemn duty to feel for the souls of the heathen, and of all unconverted people. He who knows nothing of this feeling has yet to become a learner in Christ’s school, He who despises this feeling is not a successor of St. Paul, but a follower of him who said, “Am I my brother’s keeper?”—even of Cain.
III. I ask you to observe, in the last place, what St. Paul DID at Athens. What he saw you have heard; what he felt you have been told; but how did he act?
He did something. He was not the man to stand still and “confer with flesh and blood” in the face of a city full of idols. He might have reasoned with himself that he stood alone,—that he was a Jew by birth,—that he was a stranger in a strange land,—that he had to oppose the rooted prejudices and old associations of learned men,—that to attack the old religion of a whole city was to beard a lion in his den,—that the doctrines of the Gospel were little likely to be effective on minds steeped in Greek philosophy. But none of these thoughts seem to have crossed the mind of St. Paul. He saw souls perishing; he felt that life was short, and time passing away; he had confidence in the power of his Master’s message to meet every man’s soul; he had received mercy himself, and knew not how to hold his peace. He acted at once; and what his hand found to do, he did with his might. Oh! that we had more men of action in these days!
And he did what he did with holy wisdom, as well as holy boldness. He commenced aggressive measures alone, and waited not for companions and helpers. But he commenced them with consummate skill, and in a manner most likely to obtain a footing for the Gospel. First, we are told, he disputed “with the Jews” in the synagogue, and the “devout persons” or proselytes who attended the Jewish worship. Afterwards he went on to “dispute,” or hold discussions, “in the market daily with them that met with him.” He advanced step by step like an experienced general. Here, as elsewhere, St. Paul is a model to us: he combined fiery zeal and boldness with judicious tact and sanctified common sense. Oh! that we had more men of wisdom in these days!
But what did the Apostle teach? What was the grand subject which he argued, and reasoned out, and discussed, both with Jew and Greek, in synagogue and street? That he exposed the folly of idolatry to the ignorant multitudes,—that he showed the true nature of God to the worshippers of images made with hands,—that he asserted the nearness of God to us all,—and the certainty of a solemn reckoning with God at the judgment day, to Epicureans and Stoics, these are facts which we have recorded fully in his address on Mars’ Hill.
But is there nothing more than this to be learnt about the Apostle’s dealings with the idolatrous city? Is there nothing more distinctive and peculiar to Christianity which St. Paul brought forward at Athens? There is indeed more. There is a sentence in the 18th verse of the chapter we are looking at, which ought to be written in letters of gold—a sentence which ought to silence for ever the impudent assertion, which some have dared to make, that the great Apostle of the Gentiles was sometimes content to be a mere teacher of deism or natural theology! We are told in the 18th verse that one thing which arrested the attention of the Athenians was the fact that St. Paul preached “Jesus and the resurrection.”
Jesus and the resurrection! What a mine of matter that sentence contained! What a complete summary of the Christian faith might be drawn from those words! That they are only meant to be a summary, I have no doubt. I pity those who would cramp and pare down their meaning, and interpret them as nothing more than Christ’s prophetical office and example. I think it incredible that the very Apostle who a few days after went to Corinth, “determined to know nothing but Christ crucified,” or the doctrine of the cross, would keep back the cross from Athenian ears. I believe that “Jesus and the resurrection” is a sentence which stands for the whole Gospel. The Founder’s name, and one of the foundation facts of the Gospel, stand before us for the whole of Christianity.
What, then, does this sentence mean? What are we to understand St. Paul preached?
(a) St. Paul at Athens preached the person of the Lord Jesus,—His divinity, His incarnation, His mission into the world to save sinners, His life, and death, and ascension up to heaven, His character, His teaching, His amazing love to the souls of men.
(b) St. Paul at Athens preached the work of the Lord Jesus,—His sacrifice upon the cross, His vicarious satisfaction for sin, His substitution as the just for the unjust, the full redemption He has procured for all, and specially effected for all who believe, the complete victory He has obtained for lost man over sin, death, and hell.
(c) St. Paul at Athens preached the offices of the Lord Jesus,—as the one Mediator between God and all mankind, as the great Physician for all sin-sick souls, as the Rest-giver and Peace-maker for all heavy-laden hearts, as the Friend of the friendless, the High Priest and Advocate of all who commit their souls into His hands, the Ransom-payer of captives, the Light and Guide of all wandering from God.
(d) St. Paul at Athens preached the terms which the Lord Jesus had commanded His servants to proclaim to all the world;—His readiness and willingness to receive at once the chief of sinners; His ability to save to the uttermost all who come unto God by Him; the full, present, and immediate forgiveness which He offers to all who believe; the complete cleansing in His blood for all manner of sin; faith, or simple trust of heart, the one thing required of all who feel their sins and desire to be saved; entire justification without works, or doing, or deeds of law for all who believe.
(e) Last, but not least, St. Paul preached at Athens the resurrection of the Lord Jesus. He preached it as the miraculous fact on which Jesus Himself staked the whole credibility of His mission, and as a fact proved by such abounding evidence that no caviller at miracles has ever yet honestly dared to meet.—He preached it as a fact, which was the very top-stone of the whole work of redemption, proving that what Christ undertook He fully accomplished, that the ransom was accepted, the atonement completed, and the prison doors thrown open forever.—He preached it as a fact, proving beyond doubt the possibility and certainty of our own resurrection in the flesh, and settling forever the great question, “Can God raise the dead?”
These things and many like them I cannot doubt St. Paul preached at Athens. I cannot for one moment suppose that he taught one thing at one place and one at another. The Holy Ghost supplies the substance of his preaching in that rich sentence, “Jesus and the resurrection.” The same Holy Ghost has told us fully how he handled these subjects at Antioch in Pisidia, at Philippi, at Corinth, and Ephesus. The Acts and the Epistles speak out on this point with no uncertain sound. I believe that “Jesus and the resurrection” means—Jesus and the redemption He effected by His death and rising from the grave, His atoning blood, His cross, His substitution, His mediation, His triumphant entrance into heaven, and the consequent full and complete salvation of all sinners who believe in Him. This is the doctrine St. Paul preached. This is the work St. Paul did when he was at Athens.
Reader, have we nothing to learn from these doings of the great Apostle of the Gentiles? There are lessons of deep importance to which I venture briefly to invite your attention. I say briefly. Time forbids me to dwell on them at any length. I only throw them out, as seeds for private thought.
(a) Learn, for one thing, a doctrinal lesson from St. Paul’s doings at Athens. The grand subject of our teaching in every place ought to be Jesus Christ. However learned or however unlearned, however high-born or however humble our audience, Christ crucified—Christ—Christ,—Christ—crucified, rising, interceding, redeeming, pardoning, receiving, saving—Christ must be the grand theme of our teaching. We shall never mend this Gospel. We shall never find any other subject which will do so much good. We must sow as St. Paul sowed, if we would reap as St. Paul reaped.
(b) Learn, for another thing, a practical lesson from St. Paul’s doings at Athens. We must never be afraid to stand alone and be solitary witnesses for Christ, if need be,—alone in a vast ungodly parish, in our own land,—alone in East London, in Liverpool, in Manchester,—alone in Delhi, or Benares, or Pekin,—it matters not. We need not hold our peace, if God’s truth be on our side. One Paul at Athens, one Athanasius against the world, one Wycliffe against a host of Romish prelates, one Luther at Worms,—these, these, are lighthouses before our eyes. God sees not as man sees. We must not stand still to count heads and number the people. One man, with Christ in his heart and the Bible in his hands, is stronger than a myriad of idolaters.
(c) Learn the importance, let me rather say the necessity, of asserting boldly the supernatural element as an essential part of the Christian religion. I need not tell many who read these pages that unbelievers and sceptics abound in these days, who make a dead set at the miracles of the Bible, and are incessantly trying to throw them overboard as useless lumber, or to prove by ingenious explanations that they are fables and no miracles at all. Let us never be afraid to resist such teaching steadily, and to take our stand by the side of St. Paul. Like him, let us point to the resurrection of Christ, and confidently challenge all fair and reasonable men to refute the evidence by which it is supported. The enemies of supernatural religion never have refuted that evidence, and they never will. If Christ was not raised from the dead, the conduct and teaching of the Apostles after He left the world is an unsolved problem and a perfect mystery, which no man in his senses can account for. But if, as we believe, the resurrection of Christ is an undeniable fact which cannot be disproved, the whole fabric of sceptical arguments against supernatural religion is undermined, and must fall to the ground. The stupendous miracle of the resurrection of Christ once admitted, it is sheer nonsense to tell us that any other smaller miracle in the Bible is incredible or impossible.
(d) Learn, for one thing more, a lesson of encouragement to faith from St. Paul’s doings at Athens. If we preach the Gospel, we may preach with perfect confidence that it will do good. That solitary Jew of Tarsus who stood up alone on Mars’ Hill appeared at the time to do little or nothing. He passed on his way and seemed to have made a failure. The Stoics and Epicureans probably laughed and sneered as if the day was their own. But that solitary Jew was lighting a candle that has never since been put out. The Word that he proclaimed in Athens grew and multiplied and became a great tree. That little leaven ultimately leavened the whole of Greece. The Gospel that Paul preached triumphed over idolatry. The empty Parthenon stands to this day, a proof that Athenian theology is dead and gone. Yes! if we sow good seed, we may sow it in tears, but we shall yet “come again with joy, bringing our sheaves with us.” (Psalm cxxvi. 6.)
I draw towards a conclusion. I pass from the consideration of what St. Paul saw, and felt, and did at Athens to points of practical importance. I ask every reader of this paper to-day what ought we to see, to feel, and to do?
(1) What ought we to see ? It is an age of sight-seeing and excitement. “The eye is not satisfied with seeing.” (Eccles. i. 8.) The world is mad after running to and fro, and the increase of knowledge. The wealth, the arts, the inventions of man are continually gathering myriads into Great Exhibitions. Thousands and tens of thousands are annually rushing about and gazing at the work of men’s hands.
But ought not the Christian to look at the map of the world? Ought not the man who believes the Bible to gaze with solemn thoughts on the vast spaces in that map which are yet spiritually black, dead, and without the Gospel? Ought not our eyes to look at the fact that half the population of the earth is yet ignorant of God and Christ, and yet sitting still in sin and idolatry, and that myriads of our own fellow-countrymen in our great cities are practically little better than heathen, because Christians do so little for souls?
Reader, the eyes of God see these things, and our eyes ought to see them too.
(2) What ought we to feel? Our hearts, if they are right in the sight of God, ought to be affected by the sight of irreligion and heathenism. Many indeed are the feelings which the aspect of the world ought to call up in our hearts.
Thankfulness we ought to feel for our own countless privileges. Little indeed do the bulk of English people know the amount of their own daily unpaid debt to Christianity. Well would it be for some if they could be compelled to dwell for a few weeks every year in a heathen land.
Shame and humiliation we ought to feel when we reflect how little the Church of England has done for the spread of Christianity hitherto. God has indeed done great things for us since time days when Cranmer, Ridley, and Latimer went to the stake,—has preserved us through many trials, and has enriched us with many blessings. But how little return we have made Him! How few of our 15,000 parishes do anything worthy of the cause of Missions at home or abroad! How little zeal some congregations show for the salvation of souls! These things ought not so to be!
Compassion we ought to feel when we think of the wretched state of unconverted souls, and the misery of all men and women who live and die without Christ. No poverty like this poverty! No disease like this disease! No slavery like this slavery! No death like this—death in idolatry, irreligion, and sin! Well may we ask ourselves, Where is the mind of Christ, if we do not feel for the lost? Reader, I lay it down boldly, as a great principle, that the Christianity which does not make a man feel for the state of unconverted people is not the Christianity which came down from heaven 1900 years ago, and is embalmed in the New Testament. It is a mere empty name. It is not the Christianity of St. Paul.
(3) Finally, reader, what ought we to do? This, after all, is the point to which I want to bring your mind. Seeing and feeling are well ; but doing is the life of religion. Passive impressions which do not lend to action have a tendency to harden the conscience, and do us positive harm. What ought we to do? We ought to do much more than we have ever done yet. We might all probably do more. The honour of the Gospel, the state of the Missionary field abroad, the condition of our overgrown cities at home, all call upon us to do more.
Need we stand still and be ashamed of the weapons of our warfare? Is the Gospel, the old Evangelical creed, unequal to the wants of our day? I assert boldly that we have no cause to be ashamed of the Gospel at all. It is not worn out. It is not effete. It is not behind the times. ‘We want nothing new, nothing added to the Gospel, nothing taken away. We want nothing but “the old paths”—the old truths fully, boldly, affectionately proclaimed. Only preach the Gospel fully, the same Gospel which St. Paul preached, and it is still “the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth,” and nothing else called religion has any real power at all. (Rom. i. 16.)
Need we stand still and be ashamed of the results of preaching the Gospel? Shall we hang down our heads, and complain that “the faith once delivered to the saints” has lost its power, and does no good? We have no cause to be ashamed at all. I am bold to say that no religious teaching on earth can point to any results worth mentioning except that which is called doctrinal, dogmatic theology. What deliverance on earth have all the modern schools—which scorn dogmatic teaching—what deliverance have they wrought? What over-grown and semi-heathen parishes in the metropolis, in our great seaports, our manufacturing towns, our colliery districts, have they evangelized and civilized? What New Zealand, what Red River, what Sierra Leone, what Tinnevelly can the high-sounding systems of this latter day point to as a fruit of their system? No! reader, if the question, “What is truth?” is to be solved by reference to results and fruits, the religion of the New Testament, the religion whose principles are summarised, condensed, and embalmed in our Articles, Creeds, and Prayer-book, has no cause to be ashamed.
What can we do now but humble ourselves for the past and endeavour, by God’s help, to do more for time to come? Let us open our eyes more, and see.
Let us open our hearts more, and feel. Let us stir up ourselves to do more work—by self-denying gifts, by zealous co-operation, by bold advocacy, by fervent prayer. Let us do something worthy of our cause. The cause for which Jesus left heaven and came down to earth deserves the best that we can do.
And now, reader, let me close this paper by returning to the thought with which it began. Perhaps your lot is cast in a city or town. The population of our rural districts is annually decreasing. The dwellers in towns are rapidly outnumbering the dwellers in country parishes. If you are a dweller in a town, accept the parting words of advice which I am about to offer. Give me your best attention while I speak to you about your soul.
(1) Remember, for one thing, that you are placed in a position of peculiar spiritual danger. From the days of Babel downwards, wherever Adam’s children have been assembled in large numbers, they have always drawn one another to the utmost extremities of sin and wickedness. The great towns have always been Satan’s seat. It is the town where the young man sees abounding examples of ungodliness; and, if he is determined to live in sin, will always find plenty of companions. It is the town where the theatre and the casino, the dancing room and the drinking bar, are continually crowded. It is the town where the love of money, or the love of amusement, or the love of sensual indulgence, lead captive myriads of slaves. It is the town where a man will always find hundreds to encourage him in breaking the Sabbath, despising the means of grace, neglecting the Bible, leaving off the habit of prayer. Reader, consider these things. If you live in a town, take care. Know your danger. Feel your weakness and sinfulness. Flee to Christ, and commit your soul to His keeping. Ask Him to hold you up, and you will he safe. Stand on your guard. Resist the devil. Watch and pray.
(2) Remember, on the other hand, if you live in a town, you will probably have some special help which you cannot always find in the country. There are few English towns in which you will not find a few faithful servants of Christ., who will gladly assist you and aid you in your journey towards heaven. Few indeed are the English towns in which you will not find some minister who preaches time Gospel, and some pilgrims in the narrow way who are ready to welcome any addition to their number.
Reader, be of good courage, and never give way to the despairing thought that it is impossible to serve Christ in a town. Think rather that with God nothing is impossible. Think of the long list of witnesses who have carried the cross, and been faithful unto death in the midst of the greatest temptations. Think of Daniel and the three children in Babylon. Think of the saints in Nero’s household at Rome. Think of the multitudes of believers at Corinth and Ephesus and Antioch in the days of the apostles. It is not place but grace that makes the Christian. The holiest and most useful servants of God who have ever lived were not hermits in the wilderness, but dwellers in towns.
Reader, remember these things, and be of good cheer. Your lot may be cast in a city like Athens, “wholly given to idolatry.” You may have to stand alone in the bank, the counting house, the place of business, or the shop. But you are not really alone, if Christ is with you. Be strong in the Lord, and in the power of His might. Be bold, thorough, decided, and patient. The day will come when you will find that even in a great city a man may be a happy, useful Christian, respected while he lives, and honoured when he dies.
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FAITH AND ASSURANCE: Bishop J. C. Ryle
If you are a thoughtless, careless man about your soul, you will take no interest in the subject of this tract. Faith and assurance are mere names and words to you: they are neither land, nor money, nor horses, nor dress, nor meat, nor drink: like Gallio, you care not for them. Alas, poor soul! I mourn over you. The day will come when you will think differently.
Reader, if you really desire to go to heaven, and to go there in the Bible way you will find the subject of this tract of the deepest importance. Believe me, your own comfort in religion, and your peace of conscience, depend exceedingly on understanding the matter about which I am going to speak. I say then, that faith in Christ, and a full assurance of being saved by Christ, are two distinct things.
A man may have saving faith in Christ, and yet never enjoy an assured hope, like the Apostle Paul. To believe, and have a glimmering hope of acceptance, is one thing; to have joy and peace in our believing, and abound in hope, is quite another. All God’s children have faith: not all have assurance. I think this ought never to be forgotten.
I know some great and good men have held a different opinion: I believe that many excellent ministers do not allow the distinction I have stated; but I desire to call no man master. I dread as much as anyone the idea of healing the wounds of conscience slightly; but I should think any other view than that I have given a most uncomfortable gospel to preach, and one very likely to keep souls back a long time from the gate of life.
I would not desire to make one contrite heart sad that God has not made sad, or to discourage one fainting child of God, or to give a soul the impression that you have no part or lot in Christ, except you feel assurance. I do not shrink from saying, that by grace a man may have sufficient faith to flee to Christ, really to lay hold on Him, really to trust in Him, really to be a child of God, really to be saved; and yet to his last day be never free from much anxiety, doubt, and fear.
“A letter,” says an old writer, “may be written which is not sealed; so grace may be written in the heart, yet the Spirit may not set the seal of assurance to it.”
A child may be born heir to a great fortune, and yet never be aware of his riches, live childish, die childish, and never know the greatness of his possessions.
And so also a man may be a babe in Christ’s family; think as a babe, speak as a babe, and, though saved, never enjoy a lively hope, or know the full privileges of his inheritance.
Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ a man must have, beyond all question, if he is to be saved. I know no other way of access to the Father: I see no intimation of mercy excepting through Christ. A man must feel his sins and lost estate, must come to Jesus for pardon and salvation, must rest his hope on Him and on Him alone. But if he only have faith to do this, however weak and feeble that faith may be, I will engage, from Scripture warrants, he shall not miss heaven. Never, never let us curtail the freeness of the glorious gospel, or clip its fair proportions. Never let us make the gate more strait, and the way more narrow, than pride or love of sin have made it already. The Lord Jesus is very pitiful and of tender mercy. He does not regard the quantity of faith, but the quality He does not measure its degree, but its truth. He will not break any bruised reed, nor quench any smoking flax. He will never let it be said that any perished at the foot of the cross. “Him that cometh unto Me,” He says, “I will in no wise cast out” (John vi. 37). 1
Yes, reader! though a man’s faith be no bigger than a grain of mustard seed, if it only brings him to Christ, and enables him to touch the hem of His garment, he shall be saved: saved as surely as the oldest saint in paradise; saved as completely and eternally as Peter, or John, or Paul. There are degrees in our sanctification: in our justification there are none. What is written is written, and shall never fail: “Whosoever believeth on Him,” not whosoever has a strong and mighty faith, “Whosoever believeth on Him shall not be ashamed” (Rom. x. 11).
But all this time, I would have you take notice, the poor soul may have no full assurance of his pardon and acceptance with God. He may be troubled with fear upon fear, and doubt upon doubt. He may have many a question and many an anxiety, many a struggle, and many a misgiving, clouds and darkness, storm and tempest to the very end.
I will engage, I repeat, that bare simple faith in Christ shall save a man, though he may never attain to assurance; but I will not engage it shall bring him to heaven, with strong and abounding consolations. I will engage it shall land him safe in harbour, but I will not engage he shall enter that harbour under full sail, confident and rejoicing. I shall not be surprised if he reaches his desired haven weather-beaten and tempest-tossed, scarcely realising his own safety till he opens his eyes in glory.
Reader, I believe it is of great importance to keep in view this distinction between faith and assurance. It explains things which an inquirer in religion some times finds it hard to understand.
Faith, let us remember, is the root, and assurance is the flower. Doubtless you can never have the flower without the root; but it is no less certain you may have the root and not the flower.
Faith is that poor trembling woman who came behind Jesus in the press and touched the hem of His garment (Mark v. 25). Assurance is Stephen standing calmly in the midst of his murderers, and saying, “I see the heavens opened, and the Son of man standing on the right hand of God” (Acts vii. 56). Faith is the penitent thief crying, “Lord, remember me” (Luke xxiii. 42). Assurance is Job sitting in the dust, covered with sores, and saying, “I know that my Redeemer liveth” (Job xix. 25). “Though He slay me, yet will I trust in Him” (Job xiii. 13).
Faith is Peter’s drowning cry as he began to sink: “Lord, save me!” (Matt. xiv. 30). Assurance is the same Peter declaring before the Council, in after times, “This is the stone which was set at nought of you builders, which is become the head of the corner. Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved” (Acts iv. 11,12).
Faith is the anxious, trembling voice: “Lord, I believe; help my unbelief” (Mark ix. 24). Assurance is the confident challenge: “Who shall lay anything to the charge of God’s elect? Who is he that condemneth?” (Rom. viii. 33, 34).
Faith is Saul praying in the house of Judas at Damascus, sorrowful, blind, and alone (Acts ix. 11). Assurance is Paul, the aged prisoner, looking calmly into the grave, and saying, “I know Whom I have believed,” “There is laid up for me a crown” (2 Tim. i. 12; iv. 8).
Faith is life. How great the blessing! Who can tell the gulf between life and death? And yet life may be weak, sickly, unhealthy, painful, trying, anxious, worn, burdensome, joyless, and smileless to the very end.
Assurance is more than life. It is health, strength, power, vigour, activity, energy, manliness, and beauty.
Reader, it is not a question of saved or not saved that lies before us, but of privilege or no privilege, it is not a question of peace or no peace, but of great peace or little peace, it is not a question between the wanderers of this world and the school of Christ, it is one that belongs only to the school, it is between the first form and the last.
He that has faith does well. Happy should I be if I thought all readers of this tract had it. Blessed, thrice blessed are they that believe: they are safe; they are washed; they are justified. They are beyond the power of hell. Satan, with all his malice, shall never pluck them out of Christ’s hands. But he that has assurance does far better, sees more, feels more, knows more, enjoys more, has more days like those spoken of in Deuteronomy, even “the days of heaven upon the earth” (Deut. xi. 21). 2
Reader, whoever you may be, I exhort you never to be satisfied with anything short of a full assurance of your own salvation. With faith, no doubt, you must begin, with simple, child-like faith: “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved.” But from faith go on to assurance. Rest not till you can say, “I know Whom I have believed.”
Believe me, believe me, assurance is worth the seeking. You forsake your own mercies when you rest content without it. The things I speak are for your peace. It is good to be sure in earthly things; how much better is it to be sure in heavenly things!
Make it then your daily prayer that you may have an increase of faith. According to your faith will be your peace. Cultivate that blessed root more, and sooner or later, by God’s blessing, you may hope to have the flower. You may not perhaps attain to full assurance at once: it is good sometimes to be kept waiting; we do not value things that we get without trouble. But though it tarry, wait for it. Seek on, and expect to find.
1 “He that believeth on Jesus shall never be confounded. Never was any; neither shall you, if you believe. It was a great word of faith spoken by a dying man, who had been converted in a singular way, betwixt his condemnation and execution: his last words were these, spoken with a mighty shout ‘Never man perished with his face towards Jesus Christ.'” Traill.
2 “The greatest thing that we can desire, next to the glory of God, is our own salvation; and the sweetest thing we can desire is the assurance of our salvation. In this life we cannot get higher than to be assured of that which in the next life is to be enjoyed. All saints shall enjoy a heaven when they leave this earth: some saints enjoy a heaven while they are here on earth.” Joseph Carlyle. 1658.
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Non Regular Attendance at Church
I have a confession to make ~ I haven’t been regularly attending church for quite some time. Why is that? Is it because I no longer believe or is because I have imbibed the modern idea that Christians don’t have to go to church? Neither is the case.
There is an element of social fear, the fear of going to a new church and getting ‘mugged’ by so many who want to make you feel so welcome, which a good number undoubtedly do want to achieve ~ however, it is my belief that a good number of the overtly obnoxious are somewhat superficial in their practice of ‘niceness.’ My experience has been that the ‘niceness’ is generally short-lived and is quickly followed by suspicion, jealousy, etc.
But the main reason I haven’t regularly attended church is my inability to find a church that satisfies my strong desire to find a ‘Biblically sound church.’ I describe myself as a ‘Particular Baptist,’ which isn’t a way of saying I’m better than everyone else, but that I have a name that describes my belief system and differentiates my beliefs from many other ‘Christian’ sects. Because of this somewhat ‘narrow’ belief system it is difficult to find a church I can be happy with.
Now there are a number of churches that would describe themselves along similar lines, however, practice falls short of what they define themselves to be ~ and to a degree this is true of all of us that profess Christianity. My problem is that I can’t seem to get close to a church that comes close to my belief system, without betraying some vital element of it.
I will never embrace the practice that sees a church cater to those who are unbelievers in the meetings that are meant for worship and the building up of the elect to the extent that everything is aimed at the unbeliever ~ there is a widespread practice in the church today that sees that which would bring unbelievers into the church as that which dictates the policy of church worship ~ it is popularised by such people as Rick Warren (and there is more to it than that).
Of course my viewpoint is largely regarded as being outdated and is far from popular. I am quite happy to leave these groups to their own devices, having failed to successfully warn churches of their tendency toward this type of thing before. Yet it disturbs me greatly that so-called ‘Reformed’ churches are chasing after this very sort of thing, while still claiming such men as Charles Haddon Spurgeon among those that have gone before them. Such downgrade practices have been seen before and these men battled it at great personal cost.
My friends, men like Spurgeon would be appalled to see the practices of the churches in this regard today and would distance themselves from any sign of unity with such groups. Such pious claims of reaching the unconverted by becoming like them is not what Paul had in mind when he said he would become all things to all men and the sooner the church understands this the better off it will be and the greater will be the number of true converts entering the church.
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March 4, 2016 March 4, 2016 Mr. Wapojif
In Praise of Otters (and why they aren’t related to snakes)!
Is it an otter… or is it a furry snake?!
We thought we’d praise otters today, just for the heck of it. We’re pretty sure we’ve never met an otter, but they remain the type of animal you’d probably like to hang around with. This is especially true if you’re living next to an open stretch of water, such as a river, which is an otter’s typical habitat. It’s true – otters haven’t taken to cities following the human population explosion… unlike rats. Those blaggards!
Otters have a serpentine like skull when you think about it. Look at the image above. That’s what a snake’s head looks like. This has led us to hypothesise some species of snakes evolved into otters. We don’t have any evidence for this, other than overt evidence such as the image of the otter in the foreground above. The otter in the background looks more like King Kong, so we’re leaving him (or her) out of this.
Are Otters Furry Snakes?
Otters are mammals, of course, which are like animals but with more hair. Reptiles are not related to mammals or animals in any way, but it appears at some stage in history a snake evolved into what is now known as the otter. In the process, this snake species circumnavigated the laws of nature to transform itself into a mammal. This is pretty good going!
We’re presuming the snake lived in a really cold area, so it grew hair to keep it warm. Eventually, limbs emerged from its body along with teeth, and the otter was complete. We contacted evolutionary experts about this possibility, but were dismissed as insane crackpots. Hmmm… anyway, nowadays there are some 13 extant (the opposite of extinct) otter species. They are classified as “semiaquatic” animals, which is like classifying dogs as “semi-airborne” – vague and largely specious reasoning.
Otters typically live in dens, although some of the more advanced species acquire tents from local DIY stores. They live on food such as fish, plants, rocks, and discarded tinned tomatoes. This information proved rather irrelevant to us, so we decided to pursue the possibility whether or not we could form a mighty new species. We pursued the matter with tangible interference.
Our Otters Are Furry Snakes!
To solve this most perplexing mystery, we decided to breed an otter and a snake (a rattle snake, to be precise) so we could pronounce to definitely have an otter/snake breed of animal. We were set to name this new species the snotter. It’s an amalgamation (we hate that word) of “snake” and “otter” – snotter. Regardless, something went wrong.
We acquired an otter and a rattlesnake (don’t ask how) “illegally”. Upon introducing the two animals for the first time, the most horrific din commenced – it was an almighty cacophony of destruction we had not expected. The enraged rattlesnake (Clive) began hissing wildly, rattling menacingly, and took to lunging at us all with his barbed fangs. The otter (Mary), clearly alarmed, began this strange honking noise, before hurtling around our office trashing the place.
This encounter led to all of us being rushed to hospital for anti-venom inoculations. Following this disaster, we have been stripped of our rights to own otters and snakes, which means we can’t pursue this thesis any further. This is a shame. As for Clive and Mary, they have been returned to their natural habitats and stay in contact via email. Bless.
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You aught to have known about the otters! Well, never mind!
I have a friend named Otta, but he’s not a snake. Snakes aught not to be otters.
Other than that, I aught not be allowed to author other otter comments.
Otters were invented by the Ottoman Empire, of course. I neglected to mention this in the post. Darn!
Otta is a cool name. Imagine if you got an otter and called it Otta. That’d be as ace as owning a hamster called Steve… which I do!
LOL! Now you’ve got me wondering if the ottoman ((foot bed) was invented by the Ottoman Empire? What about the auto? A friend once wrote … I auto cry, I auto laugh, because you want my autograph.
Please give Steve my warmest regards… and a little pet (only if allowed)
The Ottoman Empire did so much for humanity. Otters, oats, Otto from The Simpsons.
As for Steve, he remains awesome. I’ve had to steer clear of him as one has man flu. I’ve dubbed this his “alone time” – it’ll do him good!
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The DeX-Files: A House Of Cards Collapses
Posted on November 19, 2018 November 19, 2018 by Project DeX
+“Review: House of Cards Collapses, Finally” | Vanity Fair | Sonya Saraija | 11/02/18
“In exchange for a plot arc, House of Cards relies on what it has always done best: cynical provocation. The most confusing is Claire’s canny exploitation of feminist language for political gain, which in the back half of the season turns into a story about her in-office pregnancy. (It is never made clear how Claire gets pregnant; presumably, it could be her naturally conceived child with Frank, but the careful rollout of her condition suggests a much more calculated method.) Wright puts a lot into the movement of her face, but House of Cards has very little to offer on Claire’s feelings about impending motherhood, or how being pregnant changes the environment of the White House. Midway through the season, Claire announces she’s returning to her maiden name, Hale. She also lectures the Situation Room, during a nuclear crisis, on how no one knows the word for the opposite of misogyny. (Claire, apparently, was not paying much attention to the Internet in, like, 2013.)”
The opacity of Claire’s inner life over the first five seasons of House Of Cards served a singular and focused purpose. It was a lens. Through it we understood the lure of power politics in virtually every Machiavellian aspect of life. We accepted seizing and wielding power in a republic as a talent for which the most well-adapted are also the most successful and therefore the most deserving. We also squirmed as this brutal dharma made meritocracy self-justifying.
Still, the black hole inside Claire was also a nice balance against Francis’ raw, radical honesty.
But now that she’s President that opacity is no longer thick. It’s thin and runny, merely a series of gestures devoid of narrative weight. Claire can’t command the emotional center of the drama as Francis did. Much less obvious is that a House Of Cards in which Lady Macbeth replaces Macbeth became a copy of a copy that merely simulates the copy, not even the real thing. (Francis himself is a simulation of power politicians such as Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, and Sam Rayburn. Claire simulates Margaret Thatcher, Hillary Clinton, and Angela Merkel.) Still, it produces an anxiety that itself feels hyperreal.
We’re to understand how sexism shapes Claire’s character and ambitions and then give her props for playing that game on other characters on the show—even women. Even us. Unfortunately, there’s no catharsis in this, just complex but sterile simulations (characters) roaming through disjointed discourses (scenes) like the dead through a haunted house (text).
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Home Education in America Why Do Billionaires Care So Much About Charter Schools?
Why Do Billionaires Care So Much About Charter Schools?
For the 1 percent, combating inequality is all about individual achievement, not systemic change.
by Harold Meyerson
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This article originally appeared at The Los Angeles Times. Subscribe here.
The billionaires, apparently, we shall always have with us-even when we decide how to run the state-funded schools where they rarely send their own kids.
In the Los Angeles school board elections earlier this month, a number of billionaires, including Eli Broad, Netflix founder Reed Hastings, and two Walton family siblings, poured millions into the campaigns of two charter-school advocates. These billionaire-sponsored candidates defeated two badly outspent opponents who took a more cautionary stance on expanding charters, lest they decimate the school district's budget. In total, pro-charter groups outspent teacher unions, $9.7 million to $5.2 million. (In the 2016 state legislative campaigns, the charterizers outspent the unions by a far larger margin, $20.5 million to $1.2 million.)
Though a number of the billionaires who've involved themselves in the charter cause are conservatives and Republicans, the actual election battles they join almost always pit Democrat against Democrat-in part because nearly all big cities are now overwhelmingly Democratic. In California, where Republicans' numbers have ebbed past the point of power, the lion's share of billionaires' legislative campaign contributions have gone to more centrist Democrats, who not only are reliable votes on charter issues but also often oppose environmental and other measures advanced by their more progressive colleagues.
Of all the issues billionaires could choose, why charters, and why now?
One reason commonly adduced is that they've noticed something troubling: Public school graduates lack the skills necessary for employment. Many of those needed skills, however, are the kind that students acquire in vocational educational programs, not at charter schools.
That there are huge problems in the education of low-income students is beyond dispute-but this is hardly a recent development. The real recent development is the rising share of such students as the middle class has waned.
If the Waltons, say, decided to redirect more of their fortune to raising Walmart workers' wages, that in turn might enable hundreds of thousands of families to have more economically secure and stable lives, which could have a greater effect on student performance than charterization.
It's hardly fair, of course, to tar all billionaire charterizers with that kind of brush. But the fact is that they have emerged as a force at a time when our staggering levels of economic inequality have become a widely acknowledged problem. That's not just a coincidence.
Indeed, we have to go back to the economic polarization of pre-New Deal America to find a time when the super-rich felt so compelled to better the lot of the poor, as they understood it. Andrew Carnegie, who grew mightily rich by building the American steel industry, famously established libraries in thousands of cities and towns. Though, unlike today's charter backers, he wasn't draining off funds that could go to public libraries in the process.
What Carnegie and today's pro-charter rich have in common is a belief in individual betterment-but not only that. They also share a fierce opposition to collective betterment, manifested in their respective battles against unions and, in many cases, against governmentally established standards and services.
Living in separate eras when the middle class was-and is-embattled and the gap between rich and poor was-and is-immense, billionaires have largely shunned the fights that might truly narrow that gap: raising the minimum wage, making public colleges and universities free, funding sufficient public investment to create genuine full employment, reviving collective bargaining, and raising progressive taxes to pay for all of that.
As the billionaires see it, it's the lack of skills, not the dysfunctions of the larger economic system that they (or their parents) mastered, that is the cause of our national woes. Pure of heart though some of them may be, the charter billionaires have settled on a diagnosis, and a cure, that focuses on the deficiencies of the system's victims, not the system itself. How very comforting for them.
Poverty & Wealth
Harold Meyerson is editor at large of The American Prospect.
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Quiz: The Bible Trivia Quiz: HowStuffWorks
The Bible Trivia Quiz
Tasha Moore
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In this Bible trivia feat, you'll enjoy facts on Jonah's gripe with the Creator, the ten buggy plagues of Egypt, Job's wife's startling ultimatum to her hubby, and so much more! Have you been looking for a nifty way to knock down rock-solid walls with just your mouth? Well, you've come to the right place! Did you know that the walls of Jericho in the Bible came tumbling down with the aid of loud shrieks? And perhaps you've heard the phrase "land of milk and honey" thrown around, but do you actually know what it means and to whom it refers in the Bible? This Bible test will satisfy your curiosities.
The Old Testament is heavily mined in this exam; New Testament lore makes several appearances from time to time, too. Bodies of water mentioned in the New Testament are of particular concern here. Have you ever wondered how often water symbolism appears in the New Testament? Fishes of the sea, fishers of men, baptisms, water-walking, those sorts of things? We'll leave that waterlogged lesson for another test.
As for this fun Bible exam, don't flounder. Float onward and tally high!
In a dream, God told King Solomon that He would give him anything he asked for. Which of the following did Solomon ask for?
Endless riches
A wife
An understanding heart
God granted King Solomon longevity and riches because of Solomon's selfless request. Solomon had asked God for wisdom so that he might best lead his people in a righteous way.
What does the phrase "land flowing with milk and honey" describe in the Bible?
Slavery in Egypt
This description is presented in the Old Testament book of Exodus in the third chapter and eleventh verse. In the verse, God speaks to Moses, promising freedom for the children of Israel and deliverance into a land of prosperity: "And I have said, I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt unto the land of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, unto a land flowing with milk and honey."
Of the ten lepers that Jesus healed, how many came back to thank him?
The story of the ten lepers is recounted in the seventeenth chapter of the book of Luke. In the days of old, the law required that lepers keep away from other people, and lepers were to announce their presence if ever they had to go near anyone.
Which biblical figure was told to build seven altars?
Balak, King of Moab
Balak attempted to persuade Balaam, his diviner, to curse the Israelites by taking him to several places. Balak believed that a change of environment might help to change Balaam's mind. The twenty-third chapter of the book of Numbers details how God intervened in Balak's plans with Balaam.
Who gave Moses good advice about judging the Israelites?
Moses was Jethro's son-in-law. Jethro was a priest among the Israelites and had experience governing their affairs.
Which of Jesus's disciples was a tax collector?
The Romans appointed Matthew, who was a Jew, as tax collector. The Jews hated tax collectors because of their repute for cheating and their support from Rome.
Who was born "red all over like an hairy garment"?
The twenty-fifth chapter of the book of Genesis describes Esau as firstborn and "red, all over like an hairy garment." Esau's physical appearance in the Bible is symbolic of his profession, which is hunter and man of the field.
What did Job's wife tell Job to do?
Curse God and die
Leave the city
Burn sacrifices
Job's wife lost faith in God. The second chapter of the book of Job confirms Job's wife's frustration. In the ninth verse, she says, "Dost thou still retain thine integrity? Curse God, and die."
What two actions combined together caused the walls of Jericho to fall?
The priest blew trumpets and the people shouted.
Banging of hammer and sawing of bricks
Pounding of fists and a strong wind
Loud clapping and fervent tambourine playing
The sixth chapter in the book of Joshua at the twentieth verse details this scenario. This method of war was unusual, but it essentially tested the Israelites' level of faith and their willingness to obey God absolutely.
Which biblical preacher lived on a diet of locusts and wild honey?
John the Baptist is considered the forerunner of Jesus. His parents were Elizabeth and Zacharias. The first chapter of Mark at the sixth verse explains how he lived as a Nazirite in the desert: "And John was clothed with camel's hair, and with a girdle of a skin about his loins; and he did eat locusts and wild honey."
In what place did Peter find money to pay tribute?
In a well
Under a fig tree
A fish's mouth
Buried in the sand
Peter was one of Jesus's twelve disciples and his original name was "Simon," though he is sometimes referred to as "Simon Peter." In the seventeenth chapter of the book of Matthew at the twenty-seventh verse, Jesus instructs him to cast a hook and catch "the fish that first cometh up."
What are the names of the prophetess and the man who blessed the baby Jesus in the temple?
Martha and Lazarus
Priscilla and Matthew
Anna and Simeon
Anna and Simeon were the first to bear witness to baby Jesus. Although the two were of old age, they never gave up hope that they would one day see the Messiah before they died.
Which of the following people did Jesus not resurrect from the dead?
Jarius's daughter
The resurrection stories of Lazarus, the widow's son and Jarius's daughter can be found in the New Testament books of John, Luke and Mark, respectively. Compassion for his friends motivated Jesus to perform such remarkable miracles.
How long did Methuselah live?
The fifth chapter of the book of Genesis at the twenty-seventh verse confirms Methusaleh's age at the time of his death: "And all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty and nine years: and he died." Enoch was Methusaleh's father and Lamech was his son.
What was the name of the river in which John baptized Jesus?
Euphrates River
Tigris River
The third chapter of the book of Matthew gives an account of Jesus's baptism, and the thirteenth verse confirms the location: "Then cometh Jesus from Galilee to Jordan unto John, to be baptized of him." The Jordan River is a major body of water in the Palestine region.
Jesus spent most of His time preaching and healing near what body of water?
Jesus encountered disciples Simon Peter and his brother Andrew while they were fishing in the Sea of Galilee. The twenty-third verse in the fourth chapter of the book of Matthew explains how Jesus traveled near the Sea of Galilee while performing much of his good works.
What was Benjamin, Joseph's youngest brother, accused of stealing from Joseph?
The forty-fourth chapter in the book of Genesis explains the theft of Joseph's cherished possession. Joseph's silver cup represented his authority.
Who initially hesitated after being called to follow Elijah?
Elijah "cast his mantle upon" Elisha while Elisha was plowing. The nineteenth chapter of the book of first Kings recounts what Elisha told Elijah after he hesitated: "Let me, I pray thee, kiss my father and my mother, and then I will follow thee."
What renowned Bible character also had the name Edom?
By trading his birthright for food, Esau despised his birthright. According to the Bible, a birthright was a special honor bestowed upon the firstborn son.
What insects did God use to drive away the enemies of His people?
The twenty-third chapter of the book of Exodus details how God weaponized these insects against the enemies of His people: "And I will send hornets before thee, which shall drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite, from before thee." Hornets possess an awful sting which makes them a fearsome opponent.
Who was the ruler Jesus referred to as "that fox"?
The thirteenth chapter of the book of Luke at the thirty-second verse confirms Jesus's insult against Herod: "And he said unto them, Go ye, and tell that fox, Behold, I cast out devils, and I do cures to day and to morrow, and the third day I shall be perfected."
Gideon's army was reduced to how many soldiers?
At first, there were twenty-two thousand soldiers in Gideon's army. Then, only ten thousand soldiers remained of the original twenty-two thousand. Eventually, God instructed Gideon to choose the 300 soldiers who lapped water like a dog.
Who went to live in Egypt because of a grievous famine in the land?
God told Abram to leave his country, but while traveling to the desert region of Negev, a famine ensued in the region. The famine was so severe that Abram made a detour to Egypt.
Who dreamed of a loaf of barley bread smashing into a tent?
A Midianite soldier
A Midianite soldier, one of the Israelites's enemies, dreamed of barley grain, which was considered inferior to wheat in value just as the children of Israel were considered inferior to the Midianites. The dream foretold how Gideon and the small group of Israelite men would ultimately conquer the Midianites.
Which of the choices did God not prepare according to the Jonah story?
A camel
A great fish
A gourd
An east wind
The book of Jonah in the Old Testament describes how Jonah defied God. In the first chapter God gave him his command: "Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness is come up before me." But Jonah fled elsewhere "from the presence of the Lord."
Who was Zaphnath-Paaneah?
The Pharaoh of Egypt made Joseph second in command in all of Egypt because Joseph sustained the land. Joseph was Jacob's son, but he was given the name "Zaphnath-Paaneah," which was an Egyptian name that means "one who furnishes the sustenance of the land."
What group of people from the Bible had to drink water mixed with gold dust?
The sick
Hebrew kings
While Moses received the Ten Commandments, the children of Israel urged Aaron to make a god who would lead them since they did not know of Moses's whereabouts. Aaron made a molten calf which angered God. When Moses saw the calf, he pulverized it and scattered its powder upon the waters and made them drink it.
Which biblical figure described himself as poured out as milk and curdled like cheese?
In the Old Testament book of Job in the tenth chapter at the tenth verse, Job illustrates his affliction: "Hast thou not poured me out as milk, and curdled me like cheese?" Due to the severity of his affliction, Job was under the assumption that God was against him.
Which of these three choices was not one of the ten plagues of Egypt?
The Old Testament book of Exodus lists the plagues that descended upon Egypt. Death of the firstborn was the tenth plague.
Which of these choices was not one of Job's daughters?
Job was blessed with three daughters after he had suffered greatly. The forty-second chapter of the book of Job confirms their names and the fact that Job also had seven sons.
Which biblical figure asked the question: "Hast thou but one blessing, my father?"
A birthright could only be given once, and it could not be repealed. Rebekah, Jacob's mother, tricked Isaac into giving Jacob Esau's birthright. Esau had been entitled to the birthright since he was the firstborn.
Where is Mars Hill located, according to the Bible?
The seventeenth chapter of the book of Acts confirms that Mars Hill is located in the city of Athens. Paul visited the city on his second missionary journey. While there, he spoke to a curious, but somewhat scornful audience at Mars Hill.
How many clean animals were permitted aboard Noah's ark?
The seventh chapter of the book of Genesis confirms the number of clean animals permitted to board Noah's ark. The chapter reads, "of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens." Two unclean animals were permitted aboard the ark as well.
When building Solomon's Temple, what did the construction workers provide that showed their reverence?
Firstborn sons
The first book of Kings in the sixth chapter describes how the workers at Solomon's Temple showed their reverence by not using noise-making equipment. The stones for the temple were crafted miles away.
What mother in the Bible was paid to raise her own child?
God used Jochebed, Moses's mother, to place Moses in Pharaoh's house so that he could one day lead the children of Israel out of bondage. The second chapter of the book of Exodus at the ninth verse explains how Pharaoh's daughter offered to pay Jochebed to nurse baby Moses.
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Chelsea’s luck out
September 7, 1908 kjehan Club news, Liverpool F.C. football ground Anfield, Other clubs news, Player news Leave a comment
Hard game with Liverpool at Anfield Road
Chelsea are two points down upon their last season’s League record as a result of their first outing. One of their finest performances in the First Division was to defeat Liverpool by four goals to one at Anfield Road. In the corresponding game on Saturday, however they were defeated by two goals to one – undeservedly.
That opinion was frankly and freely expressed by the spectators as they left the ground after one of those refreshing games which enable football to keep its wonderful hold upon the public. Liverpool would have had good cause to complain of their luck had they been beaten, inasmuch as during three fourths of the play their ranks were disorganised in consequence of an accident which early befell Jim Harrop, who was appearing for Alex Raisbeck at centre forward.
This mishap led John Cox, who was in charge of the team, to adopt an extraordinary re-formation, which would undoubtedly have led to Liverpool’s undoing had it been persisted in. But a goal to Chelsea fourteen minutes after the restart prompted Cox to return to his original lines, and before the end the game was pulled out of the fire in fine style.
Harrop was injured in a collision, and falling lame he was removed from centre half to outside left, Robert Robinson dropping back and Cox himself playing at inside right. Thus the attack was completely upset. Cox is the last man in the Liverpool team to attempt to play inside, and he should have stayed in his position. Harrop would have done just as well at outside right with Arthur Goddard in Robinson’s place. In that way one wing would have remained intact. Fortunately for his side, Harrop improved sufficiently to go back to his position, hence Liverpool’s victory.
Chelsea the better team.
But Chelsea were distinctly the better team, and whilst being unlucky, a bad decision on the part of the referee robbed them of a perfectly good goal, splendidly obtained by George Hilsdon. That was three minutes before the Chelsea centre scored the one which was allowed to count. Hildson was lying well up, but clearly in front of both backs, when he received a long forward pass. As the ball was coming along to him, Alf West, the opposing right back, took a few paces towards the centre of the field so that at the moment Hilsdon gained possession only Tom Rogers and Percy Saul were nearer the goal than himself. Mr. T. Kirkham, than whom there is no better referee, was completely deceived by West’s movement, although he hesitated so long that Hilsdon ran on over thirty yards and scored with a judiciously placed shot before he was whistled offside. Had that point counted, as it should have done, Chelsea would probably have won, for the Liverpool rally, which came after Hilsdon scored the goal which the referee did not negative, would have not have been so determined.
Hilsdon’s second success was the result of an ever greater individual effort than the ill-rewarded first. He pounced on the ball in Chelsea’s half of the field, and outwitting West with a beautiful feint, he went along at top speed, and when challenged by Rogers simply kicked forward and hopelessly outpaced his opponent. Sam Hardy made an attempt to get to the ball before Hilsdon could recover possession, but realising that to be impossible he backed into his goal again. Hilsdon shot at six yards range, cleverly out of Hardy’s reach, but well into the net.
Up to that point Chelsea had outplayed Liverpool, the goalless first half having been almost wholly in their favour.
Gaps in the team.
Yet the visitors were never going “all together.” They played an immensely improved game as compared with their exhibition against Preston North End, but there are still gaps in the side. The defence is very ordinary. Jack Whitley is excused. I agree that he is less accomplished than Nat Robinson, but he is a first class custodian all the same, and should not be dropped until he has forfeited his prior claim by making a mistake. He has yet to do that. Jock Cameron and Tommy Miller are not reliable, have little understanding with each other, and neither gave Whitley a chance under the bar. The goalkeeper is so lengthy and strong that he is respected by his opponents, and much more of the work of the defence should be left to him.
Miller’s kicking is always exceedingly clever when he is pressed, but he too often unsights Whitley. In the opening Miller’s placing is atrocious. He is too fond of volleying, and his aimless lunges, besides being a handicap to his halves and forwards, are distinctly to the liking of his opponents.
Like most old players, Bobby McRoberts is starting badly, and James Stark’s loss is proving costly. McRoberts is too slow for First Division football at present. He will, no doubt, improve as the season progresses, but in the meantime Chelsea are losing points. Ben Warren wore badly on Saturday, being a giant in the first half, but comparatively tired and ineffective in the closing stages. Ted Birnie is not well. His smile has disappeared, and his face is drawn.
Forward, Billy Brawn’s appearance will be welcomed, for Angus Douglas is much too spiritless, and inexperienced. I prefer Fred Rouse to Percy Humphreys, in the form of the two men with Chelsea, but neither can be blamed if they cannot get along with Douglas.
George Hilsdon, Jimmy Windridge, and Norrie Fairgray, to use football slang, are “the business.” Against Liverpool they were brilliant as a trio. Windridge is still the best forward in the kingdom. He has yet to receive his shooting qualities, but in the open he is incomparable. I cannot remember any player whose football I have admired so greatly.
Raisbeck is missed.
Liverpool, without Alex Raisbeck, are not a great side, but they are a plucky crew. Their forwards, excepting Ronald Orr, though not clever, make up a useful storming party. Both Arthur Goddard and John Cox appear to have lost pace, Joe Hewitt has not enough individualism to shine at centre forward, and Robinson is merely a tireless worker. Orr is the one general, and on Saturday he scored both goals into the bargain. Chelsea were leading with 15 minutes to go, when, after McRoberts had got in front of a hot shot from Hewitt, the ball went out to Goddard. What the outside right intended as a shot turned out to be an admirable centre, and Orr nipped in skilfully to score a goal.
A few minutes later Orr netted again from Goddard, but this time I should say he was well off side, although Mr. Kirkham was on the spot, and unhesitatingly dismissed the Chelsea players’ unanimous appeal.
The last word must be in congratulation of the Liverpool Club in regard to its ground. The turf is perfect, and the new stand a noble structure. Anfield Road will now comfortably accommodate 50,000 people, and at the same time is the most compact enclosure in the League.
(London Daily News: September 7, 1908; signed by ‘D.D’)
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AP: Iowa Supreme Court legalizes gay marriage
Published 9 April 2009 News (World) Leave a Comment
Tags: law, marri, marriage
Updated 3:06 p.m. ET April 3, 2009
DES MOINES, Iowa – The Iowa Supreme Court legalized gay marriage Friday in a unanimous and emphatic decision that makes Iowa the third state — and first in the nation’s heartland — to allow same-sex couples to wed.
Iowa joins only Massachusetts and Connecticut in permitting same-sex marriage. For six months last year, California’s high court allowed gay marriage before voters banned it in November.
The Iowa justices upheld a lower-court ruling that rejected a state law restricting marriage to a union between a man and woman.
The county attorney who defended the law said he would not seek a rehearing. The only recourse for opponents appeared to be a constitutional amendment, which could take years to ratify.
“We are firmly convinced the exclusion of gay and lesbian people from the institution of civil marriage does not substantially further any important governmental objective,” the Supreme Court wrote.
Iowa lawmakers have “excluded a historically disfavored class of persons from a supremely important civil institution without a constitutionally sufficient justification.”
To issue any other decision, the justices said, “would be an abdication of our constitutional duty.” Continue reading ‘AP: Iowa Supreme Court legalizes gay marriage’
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Clinton: Obama a 'blank screen'
(CNN) - Hillary Clinton Thursday jabbed at Sen. Barack Obama for being a first term senator and called her rival for the Democratic presidential nomination a "blank screen."
In an interview on ABC's Nightline Thursday night, Clinton dismissed notion's Barack Obama voters are uninformed, but said the Democratic presidential front-runner aptly described himself in his 2006 book, "The Audacity of Hope."
"I think the best description, actually, is in Barack's own book, the last book he wrote, 'Audacity of Hope,' where he said that he's a blank screen," she said in the interview. "And people of widely differing views project what they want to believe onto him. And then he went on to say, 'I am bound to disappoint some, if not all of them.'"
"He was in the state Senate, what, three years ago, four years ago?" Clinton said in continued jabs. "It's hard to know exactly what his positions are because they have changed rather rapidly in that four-year period. But there is something very appealing, and people have a right to vote for whomever they want."
The comments came a day before the Clinton campaign launched a tough new ad in Texas that aims to portray Clinton as considerably more prepared to handle a foreign policy crises than Obama. Over scenes of sleeping children, the ads narrator asks, "Who do you want answering the phone the phone?" at 3 in the morning.
Obama Campaign Manager David Plouffe forcefully responded to that ad in a conference call with reporters Friday morning."We don't think the ads are going to be effective at all, because Senator Clinton has already had her red phone moment. It was a decision whether to allow George Bush to invade Iraq, and she answered affirmatively," Plouffe said.
- CNN Ticker Producer Alexander Mooney
Filed under: Candidate Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton
paforhillary
wow, what a choice.....well, with all obama's uh...well uh......is it stuttering, plus the fact that he will have to have someone there to tell him what to do, my guess would be hillary will be best. sure obama can talk, but lets look for something else america. open your eyes!!!!wake up!!!!!!!!!!!!!vote clinton 08!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
February 29, 2008 11:39 am at 11:39 am |
Jack Robertson
Shame on you, Hillary Clinton! It seems that you have learned well from your political mentor, Karl Rove.
Andy Krammer, RI
Dream on Hillary, if you think this feeble attempt to attack Barack is going to shift the tide thats turning toward a better America, think again.
Americans want our country back, and no scare tactics taken from the Bush/Rove administration is going to work.
Obama 08
Haighter
Wow! I never thought Clinton would make a "Daisy" ad. Cold War fear mongering does not become you, Hillary!
Woman power!
Go Hillary, with you in the white house, things will be different.
We will rethink who gets to do stuff and our country can be run with sense.
Hillary is so desperate after having lost 12 in a row she's slinging the mud in every direction she can find. It's pretty sad. I can only imagine if she were president she'd be slinging mud every day. God help us. Fortunately Barack is above this kind of childish behavior, as we all know.
hillary,,you are right,,
obama sounds very good like jimmy carter ,,,,,,,and everyone knows,,,,
AJ, IL
Good counter-punch to Hillary's Ad! Beat her over the head with her Iraq War vote. Most important Commander-in-Chief decision she has come across since being in the Senate and she "fell down on the job". Has anyone ever honestly notice how Hillary Clinton blames everyone else accept herself?
She blamed Bush for her vote for the Iraq
Hillary need to concentrate on being positive & stop being negative. I think by now she would have learned the best thing to do is promote herself.
Texas, Ohio, Vermont and Rhode Island, you can change history next Tuesday and help send Hillary to the White House.
Unite behind Hillary to give her the victory and we will have a great President who will really change the US.
Time is running out on Barak and his bubble is soon going to burst.
Go Hillary, all the way!!!
Lloyd Hansen
She absolutely nailed it this time. He is a blank screen. Unfortunately he does have an agenda and it is clear that it is the far-left liberal agenda. People can't see past his skin color and flowery speeches long enough to see what he plans to do: Berkleyize the US.
"And then he went on to say, 'I am bound to disappoint some, if not all of them.'" His own words, didn't he say words were important?
What an admission !!!
Ohio, Texas and Pennsylvania – You are hiring someone to be the President of the U.S. It is the hard job and it is a dangerous, troubled world we live in.
Look at their credentials. It matters.
She has a pretty big mouth when she is not sitting next to Barack Obama, hasn't she ?
So fear mongering is the 'new' strategy. You know, however this plays out – it's a Karl-Rowe-Strategy that was used successfully in 2004 – Clinton is killing support she would need in November ... if she can smear and fear her way into the nomination.
It's OBAMA'08 or McCain here in Missouri, I can tell you that.
I dont think Hillary realizes that the more she does things like this, the more she turns off the voters
She needs to really stop
Jen-0-palooza
If Hillary thinks Obama is a 'blank screen', then I'd hate to imagine what kind of screen SHE qualifies as.
EWWWW! She sickens me and the majority of the rest of the country!
The phone the phone... come on CNN, step up the editing
Anna, IL
Is Hillary still in the race? I had thought the '08 campaign has moved on to Obama vs. McCain/Bush.
By the way, where is Huckabee?
After sixteen years of watching the Clintons, haven't we all learned that they will do anything to get back to the White House, no matter how much damage they inflict on the people, party and country. It's time to get a new broom and sweep them off the stage.
Her last 3 am call was probably to learn her campaign was running out of money...if she doesn't have sufficient experience, judgement and independent thinkers around her to run a campaign, a different kind of 3 am call to her scares me to death!
C'mon Hillary. You're so 1990s. Get out of the way.
umm after the iraq vote...i don't want Hillary to answer tha phone!!!!
I am behind Hillary 100%!!!! If she loses I hope Obama can take the heat from the Republicans like a man the way Hillary has from the media and the Obama campaign. My geuss is he'll whine like a baby.
Micahel Guinn, Ventura, CA
I will be so glad when Tuesday is over and Hillary HAS to stop her slams. This is another pathetic negative slam and keeps her Clan more hostile. She should know after "35 years of experience" that as she continues this, the chance for party unity diminish. The Clinton folks call us Obamabots, cultists, delusional dreamers, Obummers, etc. They need to see that their candidate is the one who is splitting the Democrats and her rhetoric is one of panic and innuendo. Hillary, just stop.
Oh, Hillary's still a candidate? Wow.
If she weren't so blind with ambition, she'd see the only option left for her is the same one so many of her influential supporters, in growing numbers, continue to take: abandon her campaign and endorse Obama.
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Tubulointerstitial injury induced in rats by a monoclonal antibody that inhibits function of a membrane inhibitor of complement
Atsushi Nomura, Kazuhiro Nishikawa, Yukio Yuzawa, Hidechika Okada, Noriko Okada, B. Paul Morgan, Sara J. Piddlesden, Masayuki Nadai, Takaaki Hasegawa, Seiichi Matsuo
The kidney widely expresses membrane-associated complement regulatory proteins (membrane inhibitors of complement). The aim of this work was to evaluate the roles of these molecules in rat kidneys in vivo. To suppress functions of rat membrane inhibitors of complement, two mAbs, 512 and 6D1, were used. 512 and 6D1 inhibit functions of membrane inhibitors of complement at C3 level (rat Crry/p65) and C8/9 level (rat CD59), respectively. F(ab')2 fragment of 512 or 6D1 was perfused in the left kidneys, and perfusate was discarded from the renal vein. After perfusion, the left kidneys were connected to systemic circulation. In rats perfused with 512, mouse IgG was found in glomeruli, peritubular capillaries, vascular bundles, and tubules 15 min after recirculation. Binding of C3 and C5b-9 was evident in these areas. 1 d after perfusion with 512, cast formation, dilatation of tubular lumen, and tubular cell degeneration were observed. At day 4 through day 7, significant mononuclear cell infiltration and proximal tubule damage were observed. These changes were completely prevented by complement depletion. Rats perfused with 6D1 showed the binding of mouse IgG in the similar areas as 512, but C3 or C5b-9 deposition was nut observed. Rats perfused with 6D1 or vehicle only did not show any pathology in the left kidneys. These results suggest that rat Crry/p65 plays protective roles against spontaneously occurring indiscriminate attack to tubulointerstitial tissues by autologous complement and that rat Crry/p65 is one of the important factors to maintain normal integrity of the kidney in rats.
Journal of Clinical Investigation
https://doi.org/10.1172/JCI118291
Complement Inactivating Agents
Complement Membrane Attack Complex
Immunoglobulin G
Complement C3
Renal Veins
Nomura, A., Nishikawa, K., Yuzawa, Y., Okada, H., Okada, N., Morgan, B. P., ... Matsuo, S. (1995). Tubulointerstitial injury induced in rats by a monoclonal antibody that inhibits function of a membrane inhibitor of complement. Journal of Clinical Investigation, 96(5), 2348-2356. https://doi.org/10.1172/JCI118291
Nomura, Atsushi ; Nishikawa, Kazuhiro ; Yuzawa, Yukio ; Okada, Hidechika ; Okada, Noriko ; Morgan, B. Paul ; Piddlesden, Sara J. ; Nadai, Masayuki ; Hasegawa, Takaaki ; Matsuo, Seiichi. / Tubulointerstitial injury induced in rats by a monoclonal antibody that inhibits function of a membrane inhibitor of complement. In: Journal of Clinical Investigation. 1995 ; Vol. 96, No. 5. pp. 2348-2356.
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Canadian Tech-Death Pioneers BENEATH THE MASSACRE Unveil New “Rise of the Fearmonger” Video
Christopher Gonda - Jan 10, 2020 at 03:44PM Comments
Canadian tech-death pioneers Beneath The Massacre have just unveiled the video for “Rise of the Fearmonger,” the second single lifted from their forthcoming mew album, Fearmonger. Their fourth recording to date, Fearmonger is the band’s first for Century Media and is, as is to be expected, heavy-as-hell.
The new single is, according to a recent press release, “a roar of frustration against populism and anti-intellectualism, two traits that are part of the political zeitgeist infecting minds around the world.”
The group’s guitarist, Chris Bradley, commented on the album saying, “We are proud to present you the opening track ‘Rise of the Fearmonger’ from our upcoming album Fearmonger out on Century Media, February 28th, 2020. The track was the last one we wrote for the album and was written in a blink of an eye without barely being reworked contrarily to most of our songs. It has a raw energy that prepares the auditor well to the sonic assault that is Fearmonger. The video made by the talented Costin Chioreanu nicely represents the lyrical concept of the song; the rise of fearmongering, anti-intellectualism and the post-truth era we are witnessing nowadays.”
Fearmonger Track Listing:
01. Rise of the Fearmonger
02. Hidden in Plain Sight
03. Of Gods and Machines
04. Treacherous
05. Autonomous Mind
06. Return to Medusa
07. Bottom Feeders
08. Absurd Hero
09. Flickering Light
10. Bitterest End
Beware the “Rise of the Fearmonger!”
The killer Fearmonger cover artwork was done by Alexandre Goulet:
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Mueller asks court for 100 more blank subpoenas ahead of Manafort trial
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Special counsel Robert Mueller is asking a federal court in Virginia for 100 blank subpoenas in the case against former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort.
[post_ads]The request was made in a filing on Wednesday. The subpoenas would require their recipients to testify in the U.S. District Court in Alexandria on July 25, when Manafort's trial in Virginia is set to begin.
No further information was provided in the filing, and a spokesman for the special counsel declined to comment on the request.
The request comes roughly a month after Mueller filed a request for 150 blank subpoenas.
Manafort is facing numerous charges, including tax evasion, bank fraud and failing to report foreign bank accounts. He has pleaded not guilty to the charges and has sought to delay the trial and move the venue to Roanoke from Alexandria.
Manafort has been held in the Northern Neck Regional Jail in Warsaw, Va., since last month, when a federal judge in Washington, where he is facing separate charges, revoked his bail in response to new charges that the former Trump campaign chair sought to sway the testimony of two witnesses in his trial.
Mueller's team is investigating possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia, as well as any other alleged crimes that may arise during the course of the probe.
Politics - U.S. Daily News: Mueller asks court for 100 more blank subpoenas ahead of Manafort trial
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Study Finds Association Between Whole-body MRI Measurements and Muscle Function Scores
by Marisa Wexler, MS
Muscle strength and function measurements in people with late-onset Pompe disease (LOPD) correlate with whole-body magnetic resonance imaging (WBMRI) results, a new study suggests.
The study, “Whole‐body MRI in Late‐onset Pompe Disease: Clinical utility and correlation with functional measures,” was published in the Journal of Inherited Metabolic Disease.
WBMRI is an imaging technique that, among other things, allows for the assessment of body fat — specifically a measurement called proton-density fat-fraction (PDFF). A previous study, with a relatively small sample size (34 participants), showed that measurements taken via MRI correlated with muscle strength in people with LOPD, which is Pompe disease that develops anytime after the first year of life.
“Whole-body muscle MRI (WBMRI) has clinical utility in diagnosis and disease monitoring in LOPD,” the authors wrote. “However, WBMRI is costly, requires expertise to interpret, and may not be readily available at all centers. Muscle strength and functional testing are alternative, non-invasive means of evaluating muscle disease in LOPD patients and have been shown to correlate well with degree of fatty changes seen on imaging,” they stated.
In this study, researchers tried to see how muscle strength and functional measurements, namely Gait, Stairs, Gowers, Chair (GSGC) scores and the modified Medical Research Council (mMRC) scale, correlated to WBMRI findings.
The researchers assessed 19 people with LOPD (eight male, 11 female) who underwent tests of muscle strength, as well as WBMRI. Most of the participants (15) underwent at least two WBMRI scans, with one-year gaps between scans.
All participants underwent functional (i.e., muscle strength-related) assessment, most within a month of a WBMRI scan. Researchers measured muscle strength with the mMRC scale and also performed lab tests, including urinary glucose tetrasaccharide (Glc4).
The researchers then looked for statistical associations between PDFF, as measured by WBMRI, and these functional outcomes.
They found that both GSGC and mMRC scores correlated closely with PDFF measurements; the two functional assessments also correlated well with each other. Glc4 scores were normal, despite different degrees of muscle weakness in patients.
Based on this, the researchers suggested that assessing one of these metrics in an individual should give a pretty good indication of what the results will be for the other metrics. They pointed out that this means the functional tests, which are relatively easy to carry out, could be used to provide insight into the likely results from WBMRI, without having to do the costly and expertise-heavy scan itself.
The researchers also found that PDFF scores significantly correlated with the participants’ age when they were diagnosed with Pompe disease.
They did not find statistically significant changes in PDFF measurements over time, and there was no significantly different PDFF among participants who started treatment within a year of being diagnosed, and those who started treatment more than a year after being diagnosed.
The researchers acknowledged this study had limitations, particularly its small sample size and short follow-up period. They further noted that, “[O]ur data is not generalizable to all LOPD patients; patients requiring ventilatory support or those with severe disease who could not lie flat for the duration of the scan were excluded.”
“We demonstrate that GSGC correlates highly with fatty infiltration on WBMRI and suggest that it may be used during patient follow-up,” they concluded.
Marisa Wexler, MS
Marisa holds an MS in Cellular and Molecular Pathology from the University of Pittsburgh, where she studied novel genetic drivers of ovarian cancer. She specializes in cancer biology, immunology, and genetics. Marisa began working with BioNews in 2018, and has written about science and health for SelfHacked and the Genetics Society of America. She also writes/composes musicals and coaches the University of Pittsburgh fencing club.
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What the Press Missed About Vanguard Founder's Fortune
John Bogle's life is a reminder that in capitalism you can make a fortune by saving your customers money.
Ira Stoll | 1.21.2019 4:00 PM
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John Bogle, the founder of The Vanguard Group who died earlier this month at age 89, got rich by giving his mutual fund customers a better deal.
The obituaries seem to have missed that point, dwelling instead on the theory that if only Bogle had chosen to rip off his customers, he could have been even richer. That claim is highly speculative, and based on a fundamental misperception: a view of capitalism as a racket rather than as a system in which the incentives of entrepreneurs and customers sometimes align with results that are spectacularly rewarding for both.
The tone was set with a New York Times obituary. "Vanguard managed its indexed mutual funds at cost, charging investors fees that were far lower than those of virtually all of its rivals," the Times wrote. "Vanguard's consistent growth produced riches for Mr. Bogle, but not to the extent that another ownership structure might have done. For example, Edward C. Johnson III, the chairman of Fidelity Investments, has a net worth of $7.4 billion, according to Forbes. Mr. Bogle's net worth was generally estimated at $80 million last year."
In case anyone missed the point, the lead headline in Friday's Times business section read "Jack Bogle was no billionaire." That ran over an article crediting Bogle with "giving up his chance at great wealth by eschewing ownership of the company," and describing Bogle's $80 million as "small change by the standards of money management."
"Instead of making billions, helping millions," was the Times inside headline. An accompanying Times article described Bogle as someone "who didn't care about his own bottom line."
A Bloomberg columnist, Nir Kaissar, echoed this theme, calling Bogle's fortune "laughably small" compared with those of Blackstone Group founder Stephen Schwarzman or BlackRock CEO Larry Fink. "He should be a billionaire, but Jack Bogle chose to make others richer," is the headline one newspaper put over the column.
Sorry, but that's nonsense. Had Bogle pursued the conventional, high-fee approach to mutual fund management, it's quite possible he would have ended up not as a billionaire but in obscurity, just another mediocre retired executive from some forgettable fund firm.
Insisting otherwise, as the press storyline does, is like writing a story about the world's richest man, Jeff Bezos, and claiming that he could be even richer if he only charged everyone $15 for shipping and handling instead of offering free shipping to Prime customers. Or it'd be like claiming that Bezos could be even richer if he sold bestselling books at full price rather than discounting. It'd be like writing a story about Charles Schwab saying he could have been even richer if he only had charged full price retail commissions for stock trades rather than opening a discount online brokerage. It'd be like writing a story about McDonald's genius Ray Kroc saying he could have been even richer if he had sold Big Macs for $10 rather than at lower prices.
Part of the confusion comes from conflating two aspects of Bogle's approach with Vanguard. One was low fees, largely made possible by index funds rather than active management. Another was ownership structure, in which the fund company was owned by the shareholders rather than by Bogle himself or some publicly traded firm. The low fees aren't totally unrelated to the ownership structure, but they aren't entirely dependent on it, either.
Bogle himself has acknowledged publicly that the low-cost approach was not in tension with his firm's commercial success but the reason for it. "Vanguard has proven to be both a commercial success and an artistic success," he said in 2008 at George Washington University Law School. "How did we earn that commercial success? By our artistic success, which I define as providing superior investment returns to our shareholders." He wrote that Vanguard was "the low-cost provider," and that low cost "is the key to superior returns."
Even Fidelity is now offering low-cost index funds, and Fink's BlackRock is behind the iShares exchange traded funds, many of which also offer index-linked returns at low cost.
Perhaps if Bogle had realized he was giving up $10 billion by adopting a mutual structure when he set up Vanguard, he would have done it differently at the time. Once such a decision is made, it is hard to undo.
In an event, $80 million isn't nothing, especially for someone with six children and lifelong health problems who didn't start out rich and who gave a lot of money away to charity. It's a reminder that in capitalism you can make a fortune by saving your customers money.
Ira Stoll is editor of FutureOfCapitalism.com and author of JFK, Conservative.
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CatoTheChipper
January.21.2019 at 4:28 pm
For libertarians this is obvious. For the typical journalist, not so much.
RIP John Bogle.
philoeleutheria
January.22.2019 at 10:28 am
Ahh yes, the old “Libertarian” sure-fire model.
It’s so obvious.
One just need follow the formula for guaranteed business success.
Oh, except for when others, like ones competitors, start turning to crony-capitalsim, securing political favoritism and special-interest legislation, giving them an edge, forcing others to start doing the exact same, spending more on lobbying to secure more favorable legislation, in stark contrast to supposed “Libertarian” ideology, leading to the exact system of corporate corruptocracy we currently exist in.
Oh, plus this:
Bogle was no “Libertarian”.
Bogle was influenced by the works of Economist Paul Samuelson, a Keynesian adherent (a market economy will often experience inefficient macroeconomic outcomes in the form of economic recessions, which can be solved/mitigated by GOVERNMENT economic policy responses).
Bogle voted for Bill Clinton, for Barack Obama in 2008 and 2012,and for Hillary Clinton in 2016.
He supported the Volcker rule and tighter rules on money market funds, and was critical of the US government’s lack of regulation of the financial sector.
Bogle said the current system in the US had “gotten out of balance”, and advocated for “taxes to discourage short-term speculation, limits on leverage, transparency for financial derivatives, stricter punishments for financial crimes, and a unified fiduciary standard for all money managers.
epsilon given
The system of corporate corruptocracy isn’t a direct result of Libertarians. It’s a direct result of big corporations getting cozy with government institutions, often in a symbiotic relationship. This happens far more often under philosophies of government that insist that governments should “do the right thing, and regulate companies!!!”
Unicorn Abattoir
I read one of Bogle’s books (Common Sense on Mutual Funds) many years ago, when I was just starting to invest. While I don’t tend to invest in index funds, I always pay attention to fees and their impact on actual returns.
One of his suggestions, which as far as I know he never implemented, was the idea of draconian sales fees for investments held for less than 10 years. The notion was that short term investors (who usually completely miss the notion of what a mutual fund is for) drive up costs and interfere with the fund’s ability to execute their strategies.
Had he done this, the press would now be writing about what a corrupt, greedy thief he was.
creech
Mr. Bogle, whom I met one time, got vastly richer through his “invention” and promotion of low cost funds than he would have by being just another run-of-the-mill big fee ripoff mutual fund. The “gimmick” grew Vanguard to either the largest or second largest fund in the country. The “gimmick” attracted tens of thousands of customers that Vanguard would not otherwise have had. Many of us can retire comfortably because of Mr. Bogle, which is more than one can say for those who put all their eggs in the social security basket.
Echospinner
I don’t put much stock in the psychological studies but they do claim that individual happiness vs income maxes out in the 100-200k range. I think it is true that there are diminishing returns at some point. You may be happier with a million a year but not by much.
Bogle got to do what he liked and live on his own terms. He brought wealth and financial security to himself, and many others. Good work RIP.
Jerryskids
“Instead of making billions, helping millions,” was the Times inside headline. An accompanying Times article described Bogle as someone “who didn’t care about his own bottom line.”
For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? What’s the going rate on souls? The guy did what he wanted to do and seemed to be happy doing it – how is that not caring about his own bottom line? Economics isn’t just about dollars and cents and money is just a tool to get what you want.
But it’s the NYT, their bubble doesn’t let them see the outside world.
Chipper Morning Baculum
Yeah, most economists are dumb like that. No, a businessman does not care only about profits. Psychic profits, maybe. But each person has his or her own scale of values, and maximizing profit falls somewhere on that value scale.
It’s kind of odd, seeing that the NYT and it’s readers rail against profit and celebrate non-profit activities. Shouldn’t they be celebrating his compassion for his fellow citizens? He actually combined both, making him a multifaceted hero.
MatthewSlyfield
January.22.2019 at 6:34 am
On the other hand, if you live modestly, you can do an order of magnitude more charitable work/giving with an income of $1M/year than with an income of $100K/year.
Where did you get that number? The actual studies show that 4 million is the magic number. Individual happiness goes down if you are worth more than that.
Don’t recall where. It was annual income not net worth. I don’t think the numbers are all that important anyway because it is too much an individual thing to just pin a number on.
January.21.2019 at 10:05 pm
I can guarantee you that happiness does not max out at a $200K income.
I think the point of the happiness income curve idea is that once you are at the point that you have enough for a comfortable life and some extra the incremental additional happiness gets smaller per dollar.
The idea is if you make say $200 k and go to $250k you may be happier but the increase of happiness is less than when you went from $50k to $100k.
Yeah, its not money per se that makes you happy, its financial stability. Depending on your lifestyle and tastes (and where you live) financial stability might come at less than 40k a year, or for others 4 million a year might not be enough
There have been multiple studies that showed the same approximate thing, basically once in the $100K-200K a year range, your income has nothing to do with your happiness.
Everybody knows that the best things in life really are free… Finding your true love, having awesome kids, doing what you like for work, etc etc etc. BUT having to worry about buying groceries or paying the electric bill is horrible too.
So once you’re there, at a statistical level, it seems to not improve happiness anymore. Obviously individual results will vary! Also, having a $4 million net worth (which I think is what you meant above) actually falls half way in line with somebody who makes a $100-200K a year and invests reasonably well.
Shhhh! [whisper] Don’t say that too loudly! Democrats (and other Statist Social Engineers) will take that study, and make sure that *everyone* makes $100-200k. They’ll most likely do this by inflation, and overlook the fact that once they are finished, nothing will have changed, except for the poor souls who were on the caboose of the inflation train churning through the economy!) [/whisper]
Mr. Bogle and Vanguard (great atari game) were very helpful RIP
That would be like claimi that the world’s richest man, Jeff Bezos, could be even richer if he only charged everyone $15 for shipping and handling instead of offering free shipping to Prime customers. It’d be like writing a story about Charles Schwab saying he could have been even richer if he only had charged full price retail commissions for stock trades rather than opening a discount online brokerage. It’d be like writing a story about McDonald’s genius Ray Kroc saying he could have been even richer if he had sold Big Macs for $10 rather than at lower prices, writes Ira Stoll.
It’s all about the money with those greedy capitalists – never mind those humble public servants that go into office with nothing and come out multi-millionaires, they’re only doing it for pure and noble and selfless reasons. And look at the many charities, non-profits, NGO’s, community activists and do-gooder groups that are run by volunteers, nobody thinks about the size of the paychecks there!
Well, no one looks at the paychecks of non-profit employees, unless it’s something “horrible” like the NRA.
Vanguard (great atari game)
Good record company too.
Aloysious
Thanks, Ira.
DajjaI
Having billions is really a curse. Because you can’t take it with you, and everyone else around you is spending all their time trying to figure out how to get you to part with it. Including your children, who are constantly scheming as they await your expiration, and whom you will likely despise. It’s really pointless to make so much money. Honestly I feel sorry for them.
Not if you did what you loved to get there!
I’m known some fabulously wealthy people, and some of them very much had the problems you mention. Others didn’t have them at all, and were just living an amazing life. None of these people were billionaires (okay, one actually was), but were in the 10s of millions, which is plenty enough for greedy family to step in.
Kazinski
Capitalism is the only way to get the competition and innovation needed to create the kind of value for consumers that Jack Bogle did.
But keep in mind it wasn’t actually Jack Bogle that created those returns for investors. It was American capitalism providing average 9.8% returns over 89 years (S&P 500 1928 – 2016). What Nobles contribution was is to both make consumers capital more readily available to corporations, and what he’s mainly being lauded for, making those returns available to consumers at the lowest possible costs.
The government also deserves some credit, in one of the Nixon Administration’s only accomplishments the SEC announced rules allowing brokerages to set their own commissions in 1973.
II’d forgotten that, and it’s not easy to find reference to it with a simple search.
I recall the wailing, gnashing of teeth and the tearing of hair reported among brokers who were quite certain they’d have to take side jobs flipping burgers to survive.
gah87
Remember at the same time, banks could not set interest rates paid on deposits. That’s why they gave out toasters to attract customers.
Jamie Dimon of J.P. Morgan fame once said to me (no shit), “If the government won’t let us charge for the seat in our restaurant, then we’ll charge for the linens. And if they don’t let us charge for the linens, then we’ll charge for the silverware.” Et cetera, et cetera.
ATXChappy
“…Bezos could be even richer if he sold bestselling books at full price rather than discounting.”
I once read a great article about early meetings Bezos had with book publishers (can’t find it now). He essentially broke the math down and showed them that they would generate more revenue if they lowered the prices slightly. Apparently they where way more interested in margins than profit. Let’s check in and see how that’s working out of them shall we?
“Amazon is a negative influence on today’s publishing industry,” Tim Godfray, chief executive of the Booksellers Association, told a panel at the London Book Fair. “Amazon has got so big it is now not competing but destroying the competition.”
This was also a big thing that Valve/Steam did. Most game distributors just slapped a $50 price tag on their games and sold them to big stores until something new was put on the shelf. And they felt if someone really wanted to buy the game 2 years from now, they might as well pay the full $50 for it.
It took 3-4 years of Valve showing these publishers that they could get a whole second year of sales just by cutting the price in half, and stimulate demand for game servers and DLC by having a game’s life last longer.
What is interesting is that this isn’t a new economic theory. Marketers have long known that people have different price sensitivities. While most people will buy a cheap product, some people would be willing to pay much more, and more will pay much less. This discovery among the game community (largely with Steam’s help) is why you have first day DLCs, and followup DLC as well as early access, and GOTY discounts.
There is such a thing as finding the optimum pricing though… I work in the entertainment industry, music to be precise, and over the last several years there have been billions left on the table. It was essentially bad negotiating on the part of the major labels, not wanting to look backwards thinking like they did with the transition to downloads, they signed off on horrible deals. They’re now becoming more assertive with YouTube/Streaming companies… And magically people don’t have a problem with paying more.
If you give something away for free, OF COURSE consumers will prefer that. But finding the optimum spot that maximizes revenue is what it’s really all about.
“…not wanting to look backwards thinking like they did with the transition to downloads…”
I’m not sure that’s entirely accurate. Much like the book publishers, they didn’t foresee the transition to digital distribution coming. But, I don’t think their concern was the appearance ‘of backwards thinking’. Much like Amazons Kindle Direct Self-Publishing platform, the digital music platforms where cutting them off from their consumers and they panicked. I’m not saying they didn’t leave money on the table, I’m sure they did. They whole digital transformation has been a great lesson in the power of the consumer in a free market. If companies don’t keep up with consumer preferences, they will be destroyed by the company that gives the consumer what they want.
I won’t go into details, but I have intimate first hand knowledge about the early days of digital downloads, from pre-iTunes era all the way until now.
The labels didn’t see the digital transition happening, and handled it all very badly in the late 90s/early 2000s. Savvy people and the press at large mocked them for this relentlessly. Once streaming started to become a viable thing, they straight up accepted horrible terms from these companies… And from first hand accounts of execs, in many cases it was because they didn’t want to “seem dumb” like they did with downloads. They didn’t want to miss the boat again, and look stupid again, so they signed bad deals many knew were bad at the time. That’s straight from the horses mouth.
Things like unlimited ad based on demand streaming never should have happened, nor should YouTube in the way it has. It was a bad business move. Things don’t need to be completely restrictive, but many nuanced details of how things have gone down have cost the industry billions. As I said they’re finally getting around to rectifying some of this stuff recently, and more will happen in the future.
My point however still stands:
Selling 1 million widgets at a profit of $1 each IS NOT better than selling 500,000 widgets at $3 profit per, or even selling 100 million widgets at $.01 profit per! Every market has an optimum pricing point for maximum profit, and that isn’t always the price point that benefits the most consumers. Sometimes it is, sometimes it isn’t. Often times businesses in the same industry will employ both ends of the extreme, which is fine. Finding that optimum point is the hardest thing to do in many ways!
Bogle made it possible for any worker to own a part of corporate America. He helped make possible what Leftists claim they want to do and never do. RIP.
So the Times, etc., talk about what would have happened in an alternate universe where Vanguard did business differently?
The media can’t even manage to get it right about what actually *did* happen in the past, much less what *could* have happened but didn’t.
Hattori Hanzo
Never met the man myself but there’s many stories of crew that met him over the years. Many of them met him in the galley during lunch. I’ve heard he was fond of brown bagging lunch. You were more than welcome to sit down, eat and chat. Definitely not your typical CEO.
Bogle made a fortune by allowing blue collar, white collar and blue bloods alike to invest. Leave it to the press to poo poo is pauper CEO fortune.
Ken Shultz
There’s also a fundamental observation to be missed in there about S&P 500 index funds outperforming the stock pickers over long periods of time.
500 different companies each pursuing their own best interests outperform the best and brightest minds our society has to offer over time–even when the stock pickers are as motivated by their own potential gains as they could possibly be. How is that possible? It’s almost as if an invisible hand were guiding them!
The fundamental conceit of central planning is exposed by that quantifiable fact. If our best and brightest can’t outperform a stupid index despite the motivation of their personal participation in the proceeds, then why would we trust government officials to plan our economy?
The government by itself creates nothing.
Only people do that.
librich
Charles Krauthammer, not a commentator I admired, said one thing I found particularly insightful. He said journalism would always be left-leaning, because bright kids with instincts for business and free-market competition would start companies, while journalism would draw kids with neither. If that’s true, we’ll be cursed with anti-capitalistic journalism in perpetuity.
The only real antidote for this, that I can think of, is if we someday were to include in our grade school, middle school and high school curricula some information for our kids about how our economy works. Crazy idea.
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Sibling Grammy Winners Billie Eilish and Finneas O'Connell Praise Homeschooling
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Fortnite Bandage Bazooka - Why Is It Gone?
The Bandage Bazooka is nowhere to be found in the world of Fortnite Battle Royale.
Published Nov. 13, 2019, 11:50 a.m. about Fortnite
by Nicholas Barth
The Chapter 2 update for Fortnite brought plenty of new items for players to use in their quests for Victory Royales. One of these new items was the Bandage Bazooka, which allows players to fire bandages and heal teammates at a distance. However, the community has noticed that the Bandage Bazooka is no longer in the title. A lack of official patch notes from Epic Games has led to players trying to discover on their own why this item is no longer available in the game's loot pool. Fortunately, we have everything you need to know regarding why this weapon has been removed from the battle royale game covered.
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According to the official Fortnite Trello page, the Bandage Bazooka was removed from the game because of syncing issues it was causing. Due to these syncing issues, Epic Games decided to remove the Bandage Bazooka from the game's core, competitive, and Playground playlists until they have fixed the problem with the weapon.
Unfortunately for fans of the healing item, they will not be able to use the new Chapter 2 weapon until Epic Games can find a solution to the syncing issues that it was causing as of late. We will update this article with any new information regarding the potential return date for the weapon when it is made available.
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The best comprehensive school for A-levels in the county was the De Lisle College in Loughborough. The two private single-sex schools in Loughborough, Loughborough Grammar School and Loughborough High School were the best schools overall at A-level. Located at its centre and administered separately from the rest of the count, Leicestershire takes its name from the city of Leicester (unitary authority).
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Forms part of the new National Forest area extending into Derbyshire and Staffordshire, around Coalville, is a large part of the north-west of the county. Since the Domesday Survey, Leicestershire's external boundaries have changed. Has been exchanged for the Netherseal area is the Measham-Donisthorpe exclave of Derbyshire and has caused Little Bowden, previously in Northamptonshire to be annexed, is the urban expansion of Market Harborough.
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An area of 2,084 km2 (804 sq mi), the county covers. Followed by the town of Loughborough, its largest population centre is the city of Leicester. Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Coalville, Hinckley, Market Harborough, Melton Mowbray, Oadby, Wigston and Lutterworth, are other large towns. There is only one upper school in either district giving no choice of school, for Melton and Blaby districts, although there is division by middle and upper schools.
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Long Clawson and the Leicestershire Handmade Cheese Company, two dairies produce Red Leicester cheese in the county. Known as the father of fox hunting who lived in Quorn is Hugo Meynell.
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The seat of Leicestershire County Council and the centre of operations of the county authority, some 3 miles (4.8 km) north-west of central Leicester and a little over 4 miles (6.4 km) from Leicester railway station is County Hall in Glenfield. There are seven district councils, Blaby, Charnwood, Harborough, Hinckley and Bosworth, Melton, North West Leicestershire and Oadby and Wigston below the County Council. Have their head offices in Leicestershire are the British Psychological Society, the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH) located in Wigston, and the National Examination Board in Occupational Safety and Health (NEBOSH).
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Vehicles in Redemption
A cart race in New Austin.
“Today, we are gladiators! Motivation, dear boy!”
–Nigel West Dickens
Carts are a type of transportation found in Red Dead Redemption. They are drawn by one horse and can only carry one occupant. In the game, players have the chance to take part in cart races.
The cart is the fastest way to travel in Red Dead Redemption, often reaching a speed that is nearly uncontrollable. Be cautious when driving at full speed, this nearly always results in hitting a rock or hard object which will cause the cart to become detached from the horse. There is no way to fix the cart, however you can still ride the horse, given it isn't dead. Unless driving over a cliff, the player will always survive the wreck.
Marston has to drive a cart during a cart race in the mission "Liars, Cheats and Other Proud Americans", for Nigel West Dickens. West Dickens asks Marston to win in the race, so he can earn the prize money.
At random times, a civilian may appear and ask Marston to retrieve his stolen cart. It's possible to ignore this, but retrieving the vehicle will result in a boost in honor and a reward of $1 to $100 dollars.
Also, like any horse-drawn vehicle, a cart will protect the player from predatory animals, except for cougars and bears, which will attack if you are sitting still for long enough.
When driving a cart, the B/O button can be held down, enabling an action shot camera. It will follow the cart unless the player lets go of the button.
The player can cause carts to flip. Simply hitting one with a horse, stagecoach, or wagon at high speed will do this.
It is possible to drift around corners. To do this, get the cart going as fast as possible, then turn sharply. It will swing wide in the direction the player turns. Caution is needed when doing this, for hitting an object such as a rock, will cause the cart to wreck.
Mules do not work in carts.
Sometimes when the player gets knocked off a cart the player will end up lying on the floor indefinitely, meaning the player cannot back up. This gives the appearance that Marston is dead. The only way out of this, it seems, is by killing the player with dynamite, getting eaten by wild animals, or a world event affecting you. (Xbox/PlayStation confirmed)
Another amusing glitch can cause the driver of a cart to bounce up and down from their seat whilst the cart is moving. (Xbox/PlayStation confirmed)
There's a glitch that happens rarely where if you stand near a Cart it will hit you and bounce around. (PlayStation confirmed)
For more cart and transport-related bugs, please see: Glitches
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England fans should be incredibly nervous after this Michael Hooper interview
England fans should be incredibly nervous after watching this Michael Hooper interview in the lead up to their World Cup quarter-final clash.
England take on Australia on Saturday in a game which will see make it through to the last four. We couldn’t get over Michael Hooper in this interview.
Suprisingly it is Australia with the size advantage tomorrow. #RugbyWorldCup #rwc2019 #ausvseng
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England are already the only RWC opponents Australia have lost to on three separate occasions. The Wallabies have only beaten Wales (5) and Ireland (4) more than three times at the World Cup
England have won each of their past six test encounters with Australia, the longest winning-streak between these two teams. England have also won eight of their last nine against the Wallabies.
We couldn’t get over this interview, because of the way in which Michael Hooper spoke.
He sounded like he’s about to play a local club match, he’s so relaxed. And the way that he seems to be SO excited for the match against England. If the Australian players are taking even a bit of that confidence then England are in trouble.
Speaking at the press conference, Hooper said…
“It’s not a normal week, it’s a quarter-final so great, how good is that? To be here in this position with this opportunity tomorrow. We’ve been preparing accordingly.
“Yeah, I’m nervous. But that’s good, it means you care. I was nervous the first Waratahs game of the year, the first trial and I’m nervous now. It’s part of being a rugby player. You feel alive and ready to go.”
Just look at Michael Hooper in this interview, how confident does this man sound?!
Personally, and we’re not at all going out on a limb here, Australia is going to win this match tomorrow.
We know they are, England do not sit well being the favourites. How many games have England lost when they’ve gone in odd-on favourites? Too many.
This video is nothing but a confirmation for us.
England fans should be nervous, very nervous.
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Category: Game Boy
Nintendo Game and Watch
Nintendo Game and Watch is a line of single games based on LCD characters with additional features like clock, alarm and sometime calculator. According to Nintendo sources Nintendo created this product to enable people to kill some time in public transportation. All design was done by Gunpei Yokoi in 1982.
LCD’s have low power consumption so these games were usually powered by two LR4x button-cell batteries and one could play for days. Of course Nintendo Game and Watch line was the product that gained major success.
The most popular titles were of course Nintendo brand Donkey Kong and Mario Bros, but there were other characters and also Mickey and Zelda.
There were several models, some even with two screens and a clam-shell design. You would be are right Nintendo DS and 3DS reused same two screen design.
Later from that idea Game Boy surfaced. That was after a total of 60 games had been released, Nintendo released the Game Boy which featured interchangeable cartridges.
After the Game Boy was released, Nintendo quit production of the Game & Watch series. There were re-releases in the late 90’s under the name Nintendo mini classics which were in form of small units with key chain.
The third important thing about it is “modern” D-pad cross design that is used on the whole range on Game Boy, NES, SNES, Nintendo DS/3DS, Nintendo Wii motes.
All thanks for this goes to it’s designer Gunpei Yokoi in 1982 and influence of Nintendo Game and Watch games to other systems. We can say only thank you Yokoi for an good gaming history.
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Author c128dPosted on February 18, 2018 February 18, 2018 Categories 3DS, DS, Game and Watch, Game Boy, NES, News, Nintendo, SNESLeave a comment on Nintendo Game and Watch
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AnoHana: A Title Too Long, An Anime Too Sad
The characters of AnoHana
Okay, the title is far too long. Ano Hi Mata Hana no Namae o Bokutachi wa Mada Shiranai. Roughly translated, We Still Don’t Know the Name of the Flower We Saw that Day. (Probably actually translated) I’m no expert in the Japanese language, but… Why? Anyways, that’s besides the point. This was a phenomenal show. It was also phenomenally sad. With angst and tears in hand, this show could do no wrong. For the most part.
First recommendation about this show. Watch this by yourself. No groups
The Haunting by Menma.
allowed. Unless you and another few people really wanna attempt to cry and connect with your emotional side, then do so by yourself. It’s well worth it. Second, watch this subbed. The dubbed version is not out, may take a while, but make sure this is watched subbed. The Japanese voice actors in this show give a whole new meaning to emotional acting. And third, whatever you do, love Yukiatsu. He is the most fantastic character in this anime. Not a jerk.
The cute children of AnoHana!
To the plot. This show is about a group of friends who, when they were children, called themselves the Super Peace Busters. Slightly strange, but they were for justice and peace, not for busting it. (Or were they?) Jintan, Menma, Anaru, Yukiatsu, Tsuruko, and Poppo would hang out all the time playing Nokemon and playing in the forest in their amazingly built clubhouse for a bunch of small children. One day tragedy strikes and Menma dies. This horrific accident separates the group forever.
Until one day, Jintan starts seeing Menma and what appears to be her poltergeist apparition form. Menma is now older and has aged like all the others to their high school age. Acting just like she did when she was younger, she now stands in stark contrast to those who lost her so many years ago.
Unconrtrollable tears!
Jintan has become a shut in who no longer attends school, Anaru has become what appears to be a snobby slut, Yukiatsu and Tsuruko have become cold hearted people, and Poppo is the only one who has remained the same.
Giving Menma appearing to him as an illusion of the summer heat, Jintan continues to go about his usual life. Having lost his mother, his father and him have seemed to grow apart to a superficial level. But, slowly but surely, Jintan begins to connect with Menma and starts to remember the emotions and feelings of his childhood. With Menma not knowing what exactly is her purpose on “haunting” Jintan, Jintan must try and grant her wish and send her to Heaven.
Yukiatsu, my love.
There is one thing and one thing only to say about this show. Tears. This show trys in every capacity, every episode, to make you cry. Not even the frequent intermissions of comic relief can attempt to dry your eyes of the sadness. The ending song itself functions as a key to emotionally end every episode on a revelation/sadness scene. And it is so damn effective. You become entirely attached to all the characters and want them to come to terms with Menma’s death and become friends again. And it doesn’t look possible. The alienation of growing up and high school, coupled with traumatizing death seems to leave them all hopeless. You wish the best for them and cry when things turn out all right. Just not in the way you’d think.
The comic relief needs to flowww.
With all the emotion and revealing scenes of twist and turns, this show just deliver and delivers. It spares not a minute of its short 11 episode run. The story is told and you’re left with a feeling of warmth beside a feeling of loss inside. And that makes it worth it. But you know what? I don’t want to cry every episode. I don’t mind spilling my man tears, but when you’re beaten over the head and told to cry, does the act of emotion and sadness really become an effective anime in the end? With the characters, I would say yes! Please for the love of God, Yukiatsu is the person I wanna be! (Wink wink) But with the plot and short period of time it has to function, give me a break every other episode. Let me dry my eyes and not feel this is kind of stupid in the heaviest melodramatic Lifetime movie way possible. Don’t try to make me cry for the sake of crying. Make me happy to shed tears for those I care about. Not unecessary tears of circumstance.
That being my only contention with this show, it takes it down heavily from the 10 out of 10 category and down into the 8 out of 10 category. But based solely on Yukiatsu, give it the 10 out of 10. Final verdict, 7.9 out of 10.
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Forget Me Not, written by Ellie Terry. Feiwel and Friends, Macmillan. Raincoast, 2017. $23.99 ages 10 and up
"I want to pluck
the moon from the sky,
swing it around
in circles.
Is that what it feels like
to have a best friend?
Maybe we'll hang out
every day - "
Isn't it tough enough being a middle grader? You would certainly think so.
For Calliope, you can add that her mother has just come out of another broken relationship which requires another move for the two, that she is the new kid at school, and that she has Tourette's Syndrome. That should do it. Tendency toward self-consciousness is a way of being for kids in seventh grade - just try to imagine how Calliope is feeling.
When she meets Jinsong she begins to feel hopeful. He lives in her apartment building. He goes to the same school, and he seems interested in being her friend. It soon becomes apparent to her classmates that Calliope is 'weird'. As she concerns herself with the many things she has to worry about, her tics become more prevalent and apparent to her classmates. She is soon made the target of jokes and bullying.
“Sometimes my tics
are like gentle whispers,
asking me to do things,
to say things.
But other times they’re like a
Jumping out so loud and strong
I could never hope to
stop them.”
Jinsong is a popular student and good friend. Will his popularity wane if he stands up for his new friend, a girl he finds appealing and attractive? That is certain to be a concern for any young person. If we are truthful, don't we often worry about such things?
"I walk into the boys' locker room and all I hear is:
"The new girl wears old clothes."
"The new girl rolls her eyes."
"The new girl makes creepy sounds in her throat."
It's all true. But somehow it feels wrong to hear them say it."
In honest and clear voices, one written in poetry and the other in prose, the two convey an emotional and uplifting story of fear, friendship and facing difficult times together. Will what they have learned from each other help them face Calli's next move, and keep their friendship strong despite an inevitable separation?
Because the author has Tourette's herself, the reader learns from the inside what it is like to live with the tics, the taunts and the other ways it affects Calliope and her relationships. She opens the door for understanding and meaningful conversation for those who share this story. Bravo!
Labels: bullying, diversity, family, friendship, middle years novel, novels in verse, school
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49er Faithful Light Up Levi’s Stadium As Niners Pummel Packers
By Betty Yu November 24, 2019 at 10:44 pm
Filed Under:Green Bay Packres, Levi's Stadium, NFL, Niner Faithful, San Francisco 49ers
SANTA CLARA (KPIX 5) — It was an explosive night at Levi’s Stadium on Sunday as the 49ers dominated the game against the Green Bay Packers from start to finish, and the fans were feverishly happy.
It was a marquee matchup and the Niners made a big statement, winning 37-8.
“They’ve been saying all season, we really haven’t been playing anybody, so what are they going to say tomorrow? We’re ten and one, baby,” said Tina Chavez of Chico. “Look at the stadium tonight, all the fans in the fourth quarter are still here, that goes to show you we’re faithful, baby.”
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Many naysayers wondered how the Niners would stack up against another successful team, but Sunday night they overwhelmed the Packers.
It wasn’t just Green Bay cheeseheads in the stadium Sunday. At Chef Michael Mina’s Tailgate, Wisconsin’s award-winning chefs served up dishes that share the flavor of Milwaukee.
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“So, this obviously isn’t a traditional sausage. It’s my take on it, but that says a lot about Wisconsin,” said Karen Bell, chef and owner of Bavette La Boucherie. “We’ve got a lot of roots in our past, but also a lot of looking toward the future as well.”
Guests could try duck liver hot dogs or traditional fish fry with beef fat tartar sauce, among 40 other dishes.
“Packers and 49ers have always had a rivalry, but to come out here and actually be a part of this, and do a tailgate for it is pretty outstanding,” said Justin Carlisle, chef and owner of Ardent.
Mina invites standout visiting chefs each home game to create customized menus.
“For us, it’s fun as chefs, and Diane and her bar, to create menus based on the team, based on the city or based on the state,” said Mina.
Back on the field, the Niners were looking nearly unbeatable.
The Niners play the Ravens and MVP candidate Lamar Jackson next on Sunday Dec. 1.
Betty Yu
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Boy Scout leaders to vote on ending ban against gay membership
By Casey Wian and Holly Yan, CNN
Irving, Texas (CNN) - The polarizing debate over whether Boy Scouts of America should allow gay members could culminate with a vote on a new policy Wednesday.
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Overdose prevention in injecting opioid users: The role of substance abuse treatment and training programs
La prevención de sobredosis en usuarios de opioides por vía parenteral: el papel del tratamiento y de los talleres de prevención
Ana Sarasa-Renedoa,b,c, Albert Espelta,b,d,e, Cinta Folchd,f, Carmen Vecinoa,b,d, Xavier Majóg, Yolanda Castellanoa,b,d, Jordi Casabonad,f, M. Teresa Brugala,b,d and Redan Study Group
aAgència de Salut Pública de Barcelona, Barcelona, España
bInstitut d'Investigació Biomédica (IIB Sant Pau), Barcelona, España
cPrograma de Epidemiología Aplicada y de Campo (PEAC), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, España
dCIBER de Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), España
eDepartament de Psicobiologia y Metodologia de les Ciències de la Salut, Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra (Barcelona), España
fCentre d'Estudis Epidemiològics sobre les Infeccions de Transmissió Sexual i Sida de Catalunya (CEEISCAT); Institut Catalá d'Oncologia (ICO), Agència de Salut Pública de Catalunya (ASPC), Generalitat de Catalunya, Badalona, Barcelona, España
gSubdirecció General de Drogodependències, Agència de Salut Pública de Catalunya, Barcelona, España
This study was supported by the following entities: Direcció General de Salut Pública, Departament de Salut, Generalitat de Catalunya; Subdirecció General de Drogodependències, Departament de Salut, Generalitat de Catalunya; Agència de Gestió d'Ajuts Universitaris I de Recerca - AGAUR (2005/SGR/00505), Departament d'Universitats, Recerca i Societat de la Informació, Generalitat de Catalunya; and Red de Trastornos Adictivos [RD06/0001/1018].
Objectives: Opioid overdose is still the first cause of preventable death among young men in Barcelona. Sound knowledge of opioid overdose prevention is important to avoid complications and deaths. This study aimed to identify the factors associated with limited knowledge of overdose prevention and to assess the possible effect of treatment and overdose prevention training programs on this variable.
Methods: From October 2008 to March 2009, current injecting opioid users attending harm reduction centers in Catalonia (Spain) were interviewed. Crude and adjusted prevalence ratios of limited knowledge about overdose prevention were calculated by adjusting Poisson regression models with a robust variance.
Results: In this sample, 28.7% of clients had limited knowledge of overdose prevention. Factors associated with limited knowledge were country of origin, never having received treatment for drug dependency, having a low educational level, and never having experienced an overdose. In contrast, treatment at the time of the interview was not associated with a lower prevalence of limited knowledge about overdose prevention.
Conclusions: These findings suggest that preventive programs would benefit from accounting for linguistic and educational limitations and from participation in every treatment episode. Comprehensiveness and broad coverage of such programs could help to maximize their impact.
Keywords: Heroin. Analgesics. Opioid. Intravenous injection. Preventive health services. Overdose. Substance abuse treatment centers.
Objetivos: La sobredosis por opioides sigue siendo la primera causa de muerte prevenible entre hombres jóvenes en Barcelona. El conocimiento profundo acerca de la prevención de sobredosis es importante a fin de evitar complicaciones y muertes. Los objetivos de este estudio fueron la identificación de aquellos factores asociados a un conocimiento limitado acerca de la prevención de sobredosis, y la evaluación del posible efecto sobre dicha variable del tratamiento y de la asistencia a talleres de prevención de sobredosis.
Métodos: Estudio transversal, mediante encuesta a usuarios de opioides por vía parenteral que acudieron a centros de reducción de daños de Cataluña entre octubre de 2008 y marzo de 2009. Se obtuvieron ratios de prevalencia crudas y ajustadas de Conocimiento limitado sobre prevención de sobredosis mediante la realización de modelos de regresión de Poisson con varianza robusta.
Resultados: El 28,7% de los usuarios entrevistados presentaba Conocimiento limitado sobre prevención de sobredosis. Los factores asociados a dicho Conocimiento limitado fueron el país de origen, no haber recibido tratamiento por el consumo de drogas, tener un menor nivel educativo, y nunca haber sufrido una sobredosis. El hecho de estar en tratamiento en el momento de la entrevista no se asoció a una menor prevalencia de conocimiento limitado sobre prevención de sobredosis.
Conclusiones: Estos hallazgos sugieren que los programas de prevención de sobredosis se verían beneficiados por tener en cuenta posibles limitaciones lingüísticas y educacionales, así como por estar integrados en todos los episodios de tratamiento. La exhaustividad y una cobertura elevada pueden ayudar a maximizar el impacto de dichos programas.
Palabras clave: Heroína. Analgésicos. Opioides. Inyección intravenosa. Servicios preventivos. Sobredosis. Centros de tratamiento por uso de sustancias.
EU. IDU. PR.
Overdose is a major cause of avoidable death among young people, and the main cause of death among injecting drug users (IDUs). Overdose accounts for about 6500 deaths per year in the European Union (EU).1 In Spain, injected opioid use has progressively declined due to the HIV/AIDS epidemic, as well as to cultural and market changes.2 However, Catalonia, an autonomous region within Spain, still presents a relatively high proportion of injecting heroin users, as compared with the rest of the country.3
Opioid overdose can be fatal or non-fatal, and both can be prevented. Non-fatal overdose is very frequent among opioid users, with an annual prevalence ranging from 9 to 22%.4,5 Opioid overdose can be prevented by avoiding certain risk factors and risky behaviors, such as combining heroin with other drugs, especially central nervous system depressants, and resuming heroin use after an abstinence period. Opioid users employing the injected route of administration are at higher risk of suffering an overdose than those using other administration routes.4,6 Other risk factors for suffering an opioid overdose have been extensively described elsewhere.4,7-10 Once an overdose does occur, witnesses may engage in certain interventions to minimize its consequences, such as searching for help and responding to overdose.8,11-15 Most overdose-related deaths occur in the presence of others, frequently other opioid users. The prevention of fatal consequences of an overdose depend at least partially on how rapidly medical assistance is provided.16,17 Preventive programs aim to increase knowledge about overdose risk factors, enhance recognition of an overdose, and train in first aid techniques and in the use of naloxone (an opioid antagonist which can safely and effectively revert overdoses).14 However, various interventions are needed at several levels (individual, community, service providers, and society as a whole) in order to have a significant impact in reducing the level of fatal overdose.18
The present study focuses on self-reported knowledge about overdose prevention among injecting opioid users attending harm reduction centers in Catalonia. It aims to quantify the level of knowledge about overdose prevention in injecting opioid users, to assess to what extent do treatment episodes and overdose prevention training programs affect this level of knowledge, and to identify which other factors are associated with limited knowledge about overdose prevention in this population.
Study design and Subjects
Between October 2008 and March 2009, injecting drug users attending harm reduction centers in Catalonia (Spain) were interviewed. Inclusion criteria were having used opioids (heroin, methadone or other opioids) and injecting any drug in the 6 months prior to the interview, and having signed an informed consent form. This informed consent form clearly stated the confidentiality of the study. The 18 Harm reduction centers included needle exchange programs, outreach programs, and three supervised injecting facilities. Most harm reduction centers included in the study (11 out of 18) were located in Barcelona or in its metropolitan area. A convenience stratified sample of injecting opioid users was selected (n = 729).19 Assignment to strata was proportional to the volume of visits in each center and to the percentage of individuals in each center by country of birth. In centers with less than 5% foreign-born clients, only native participants were recruited. Participants were randomly selected within harm reduction centers.
Face to face interviews were conducted in each center by trained interviewers using an anonymous structured questionnaire, adapted from the Itinere3 and World Health Organization20 questionnaires. Information was collected on socio-demographic variables, patterns of drug use, use of social and health services, and non-fatal opioid overdoses. The questionnaire was provided in 4 languages (Spanish, Romanian, English, and French), and piloted with a group of 15 IDUs from several countries before its administration. Interviewers were weekly monitored to control the quality of data collection.
Overdose was defined as an episode occurring due to heroin, methadone or other opioids use, in which after drug use, extreme difficulty in breathing, loss of consciousness and problems waking up or recovering consciousness, and sometimes bluish skin or lips would appear.21 Participants were asked, in two open ended questions, to list the three main reasons for an overdose to occur, as well as the three main actions to undertake in case of witnessing an overdose. Respondents received 24€ to encourage participation. The study protocol of the REDAN study was approved by an Ethics Committee Review Board (Hospital Universitari Germans Trias i Pujol, Badalona, Spain).
Reasons and actions cited in each open ended question were collected as transcribed verbatim and, based on similar underlying concepts, were classified in 11 recoded reasons (of which 9 were risk factors and 2 were inadequate reasons) and 15 recoded actions (9 recommended actions and 6 inadequate actions). Adequacy was based on the literature;7,8,10,12 see all categories and example verbatim in Table 1. This classification was reviewed and agreed upon separately by three experienced researchers (co-authors MTB -M.D. PhD-, ASR -MPH PhD, C.V -M.D. PhD-). A regional working document was used to resolve inconsistencies.22 Two variables were created, "Reasons to suffer an overdose", and "Actions to undergo if witnessing another person suffering an overdose".
The dependent variable "Limited knowledge about overdose prevention" was created by grouping categories of recoded reasons and actions. When a participant mentioned a maximum of 2 items (including evidence-based risk factors and adequate actions), he/she was considered to present "limited knowledge about overdose prevention".
Independent variables
To assess the effect of treatment and training episodes in their level of knowledge about overdose prevention, participants were asked whether they were receiving treatment for their drug dependency at the time of the interview, and whether they had ever undergone treatment. Drug dependency treatment included drug-free residential treatment or admission in therapeutic communities, in-hospital detoxification, out-patient drug-free treatment, methadone maintenance, and other medication/other treatments. Participants were also asked if they had ever attended overdose prevention training courses.
Socio-demographic information was collected. Cultural and language background was accounted for by regrouping countries of birth in three categories: native (Spanish), Eastern European (or former Soviet Republic countries; Georgia, Romania, Russia, Bulgaria, the former Yugoslavian countries, Albania, Armenia, Belarus, Lithuania, Poland, Czech Republic, and Ukraine), and other countries (a heterogeneous category including EU-15 and other Western European, African, Asian, and American countries). See Table 2 for a complete listing of explicative variables included in this study.
Proportions were calculated in relation to those who answered each question for the total sample and separated by sex. The proportion of cases citing each reason and action category was calculated per country of birth.
The association between limited knowledge about overdose prevention and a set of explanatory variables was examined using bivariate and multivariate methods. In bivariate methods statistical significance of differences in the prevalence of limited knowledge was tested using the Chi-square test, rejecting the null hypothesis when p < 0.05. In multivariate analysis different Poisson regression models with robust error variance were fitted,23 obtaining Prevalence Ratios (PRs) and 95% confidence intervals. Finally, a multivariate Poisson regression model with robust variance (backward model) was fitted, obtaining adjusted PRs. All variables were included in the first model and rejected in a stepwise way, according to statistical significance. Sex and age were retained in the model despite not reaching statistical significance. Statistical analyses were performed using Stata 11.0.
General characteristics of the sample
The study included 729 participants, of which 379 were recruited within the city of Barcelona. The sample was 82.6% male, median 36 years of age (20-59 years). Most participants had completed secondary education (Table 2). There were no statistically significant differences in most characteristics by sex, with the exceptions of having received most of their income in the previous 6 months from irregular or marginal activities and being immigrant. The vast majority of participants had injected drugs during the previous month, but only half of them injected drugs on a daily basis. In the previous 6 months, almost all participants were using at least 3 different drugs (95.3%) and had used syringe exchange programs (95.6%; data not shown). Most participants had at some point in their lives received drug dependency treatment (86.4%), and half underwent treatment at the time of the interview (49.7%), but only 27% had ever attended overdose prevention courses.
Prevalence of Limited Knowledge about Overdose Prevention and associated factors
Overall, 28.7% of participants had limited knowledge about overdose prevention, since they could not cite more than two risk factors and/or adequate actions to undertake if witnessing an overdose. When separated by origin, 25.7% of native respondents presented limited knowledge, versus 40.4% of participants from Eastern Europe and 22.6% among participants from other countries (Figure 1). Differences in prevalence of limited knowledge were significant when comparing native and Eastern Europeans (p < 0.001) as well as when comparing Eastern Europeans with immigrants from other countries (p < 0.01).
Crude prevalence of limited knowledge about overdose prevention was significantly higher in people who came from Eastern European countries, were not receiving or had never received drug dependency treatment, never had suffered an overdose, never had attended overdose prevention courses, injected drugs on a daily basis, or had better or similar self-perceived health than their age peers (Table 3). Use of supervised injecting facilities was not significantly associated with knowledge about overdose prevention.
After adjusting for other factors, those participants with primary or lower educational level (PR = 1.50, 95% CI:1.16-1.94), coming from Eastern European countries (PR = 1.71, 95%CI: 1.29-2.26), never having undergone drug dependency treatment (PR = 1.52, 95% CI:1.17-1.99) and never having suffered an overdose (PR = 1.37, 95% CI:1.07-1.75) had higher probability of presenting limited knowledge about overdose prevention (Table 3).
Self-Perceived General Reasons for Overdose and Actions in Case of Witnessing an Overdose
In this sample, 30.6% of injecting opioid users did not identify any risk factor for overdose, 51.3% identified one and 18.1% identified more than one. Native participants cited more frequently inadequate reasons for overdose, and especially the use of adulterated or cut heroin (Figure 2a). Notably, 5.2% cited the use of the injected route of administration as a risk factor for an opioid overdose.
In addition, 35.9% IDUs in the sample did not identify any adequate action in case of witnessing an overdose, 61.1% identified one, and only 3% identified two. Calling an emergency service (61.9%) and giving first aid (56.5%) were the most frequently cited adequate actions in case of witnessing an overdose. Naloxone administration was the sixth most frequent cited adequate action, and native participants seemed less familiar with this action (3.8%) than their foreign peers (10.1% Eastern Europeans, 11.1% other countries). In contrast, Eastern European participants cited very frequently the injected administration of substances different from naloxone (typically saline or water with lemon), whereas native participants very rarely mentioned this inadequate practice (Figure 2b).
The main findings in the present study were: 1) Factors associated with limited knowledge about overdose prevention were never having attended drug dependency treatment, having a low educational level, never having suffered an overdose, and coming from an Eastern European country; 2) Contact with other preventive resources (supervised injecting facilities, overdose prevention courses) did not predict increased knowledge about overdose prevention; 3) Almost 40% of respondents reported inadequate actions in case of witnessing an overdose, and only 5.2% recognized the injected route of administration as a risk factor for suffering an overdose; 4) Almost three quarters of the sample had never received training in overdose prevention.
Study limitations and strengths
This study poses the strength of exploring in detail a relevant topic which has been poorly studied, namely knowledge about opioid overdose prevention in an IDU population. Although we cannot assure that the sample is representative of opioid injectors as a whole in Catalonia, this study reaches a large sample out of a hidden population, generally very difficult to access and which bears enormous social barriers. The sample is representative of those injecting opioid users who attended Catalonian harm reduction centers, since assignment to strata was proportional to the volume of visits in each center and to the percentage of individuals in each center by country of birth, and since sample selection was random within the centers.
The dependent variable, limited knowledge about overdose prevention, is not straightforward, but it is informative about those participants presenting reduced knowledge about overdose prevention. This variable includes information about risk factors and adequate peer assistance. There is an underreporting of well-known risk factors for overdose among this sample, such as using the injected route of administration. It is possible that participants do not identify such risk factors spontaneously, but would recognize them if they would appear as a list of pre-coded questions, as was indeed the case in another study.21 It is also possible that participants have taken for granted those risk factors.
Limited knowledge about overdose prevention
A large proportion of participants cited consuming adulterated or cut heroin as a risk factor for overdose, even though this is considered an erroneous belief by the scientific community, as cited elsewhere.21 It is possible that this myth is encouraged by the fact that prevention messages associated with concerns about purity or amount coincide with those regarding adulterated heroin. Using a large amount of drug as a risk factor for suffering an opioid overdose was the most frequently cited reason, as in other studies.12,21
Other authors21 reported a prevalence of 57.2% regarding limited knowledge of overdose risk factors (less than two risk factors), against our 81.9% prevalence for the same variable. This difference could lie in the fact that our study population is older and less educated than that making up the Itinere cohort.3,21
The role of treatment and preventive training
To be effective and to have a positive impact in knowledge, overdose prevention programs must achieve high coverage, reaching most of the IDUs population.24 In Spain, harm reduction programs were implemented during the 1990s, especially methadone maintenance treatment and syringe exchange programs. These were set up later than in other EU countries, and introduction was heterogeneous throughout the country.25-28 Although overdose prevention interventions had been working in Barcelona for over 8 years at the time of the interviews,25-27 these interventions have only recently been implemented in a systematic way.
In this study, only 27% of the participants reported ever having attended overdose prevention courses. Even though they presented lower prevalence of limited knowledge than their peers, this difference was not statistically significant, and neither was the association measure (adjusted prevalence ratio). Other studies21,29,30 have reported better scores regarding overdose prevention knowledge in those IDUs attending courses or IDU-oriented resources. We would expect finding an association between knowledge about overdose prevention and access to health care services, but in our sample, use of harm reduction resources (supervised injecting facilities and overdose prevention courses) does not seem to protect against limited knowledge. However, Harm Reduction strategies have played an important role in other aspects of community health. Hence, injected drug use has overall decreased in Spain while syringe exchange programs have been expanded.25
Interestingly, participants who had never been exposed to treatment for their drug use did present significantly higher prevalence of limited knowledge about overdose prevention. Other studies had reported that exposure to opioid maintenance treatment reduced long-term risk of overdose death.31,32 In our study, participants who had undergone previous treatment were less prone to presenting limited knowledge. If knowledge levels translate into adequate preventive behaviors, it is possible that, until the study period, treatment centers were more efficient at delivering correct information, and therefore at preventing overdose episodes, than were overdose prevention courses. Further studies are needed to evaluate the performance of more recently implemented, systematic overdose prevention programs. Additionally, efforts should continue to make the most of those opportunities presented in each treatment episode, further spreading preventive messages in the community.
Other Risk factors for Limited Knowledge about overdose prevention
Other individual factors associated with limited knowledge about overdose prevention in this study were the country of origin (Eastern European countries), having a low educational level, and never having experienced an overdose before. IDUs who have already suffered non-fatal overdose episodes are more likely to be experienced drug users, with a history of exposure to different IDU-oriented resources including treatment and harm reduction, and probably having received a broad array of preventive messages.
Country of origin and low educational level likely have contributed a negative effect on understanding complex messages, such as those supplied in overdose prevention courses, since initially the content of such courses was neither provided in other languages nor tailored to low literacy populations. In this sense, special efforts should be made to provide specific responses to IDUs with limited Spanish/Catalan knowledge and low literacy. In the Catalonian case, where there are higher proportions both of IDUs and of immigrant drug users than in other Spanish regions, ad hoc programs should be developed accounting for users' specificities, such as idiomatic barriers and/or functional illiteracy stemming from a low educational level. Moreover, as the proportion of foreign-born users in IDU-oriented resources increases, and since immigrants in Spain tend to make less use of health services than natives,33,34 specifically targeted interventions should be developed to assure an increased access to such resources.
In conclusion, our findings suggest that harm reduction and overdose prevention programs, though implemented for almost a decade,25-28 and though successful in many other aspects, might not have had a significant impact in reducing limited knowledge about overdose prevention among injecting opioid users in Catalonia at the time of the interviews. It is of vital importance to continue developing extensive, methodologically systematic overdose prevention programs, especially designed to address idiomatic, educational and cultural differences, in order to improve knowledge about overdose prevention and to reduce potentially harmful beliefs persisting in the community. All IDU-oriented resources should be included in such programs, particularly treatment centers and harm reduction resources, in order to maximize their effect. Qualitative research should be undertaken to better understand the barriers to acquiring knowledge and how this translates into actions at overdose events among the injecting population. This research should then inform the development of future overdose training programs and their evaluation.
Editor in charge of the article
Ma Felicitas Domínguez-Berjón.
Contributions of authorship
Authors Maria Teresa Brugal, Jordi Casabona, Cinta Folch, Xavier Majó and Carmen Vecino designed the study and wrote the protocol. Authors Albert Espelt and Ana Sarasa-Renedo conducted literature searches. Authors Albert Espelt, Ana Sarasa-Renedo and Yolanda Castellano conducted the statistical analysis. Author Ana Sarasa-Renedo wrote the first draft of the manuscript and all authors contributed to and have approved the final manuscript.
The authors declare that there are no conflicts of interest.
The authors thank all interviewers, participants and collaborating centers: Ambit Prevenció; SAPS; Baluard, CAS Vall d'Hebrón; "El Local" Sant Adrià; AEC-Gris;Asaupa'm Santa Coloma; CAS Reus, AIDE Terrassa, Alba Terrassa, Arrels Lleida; Mercè Fontanilles Lleida; Creu Roja Constantí, IAS Girona.
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▲Correspondence:
E-mail address: aespelt@aspb.cat
(A. Espelt)
Received: July 9, 2013
Accepted: October 11, 2013
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Francis Ford Coppola And James Gunn Spar Over Marvel Movies’ Validity
Posted October 21st, 2019 by Mike Phalin
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Just recently, Martin Scorsese made a few disparaging comments, including doubling down on his opinion that superhero movies were not cinema. Now, another veteran filmmaker has come out with less-than-kind words regarding Marvel. Yahoo News published that this time it was ‘The Godfather’ director Francis Ford Coppola. While in France, having just received the Prix Lumiere award, Coppola expanded on Scorcese’s remarks.
“When Martin Scorsese says that the Marvel pictures are not cinema, he’s right because we expect to learn something from cinema, we expect to gain something, some enlightenment, some knowledge, some inspiration.”
Depending on how you experience a film, this can be very true. The filmgoing experience is subjective, though. Coppola could have left it there, but he continued one step beyond Scorsese’s assessment of this genre:
“Martin was kind when he said it’s not cinema. He didn’t say it’s despicable, which I just say it is.”
‘Guardians of the Galaxy’ and ‘The Suicide Squad’ director James Gunn didn’t take these statements lying down. Cinemablend relayed that on his Instagram, Gunn made the following statement:
“Many of our grandfathers thought all gangster movies were the same, often calling them “despicable”. Some of our great grandfathers thought the same of westerns, and believed the films of John Ford, Sam Peckinpah, and Sergio Leone were all exactly the same. I remember a great uncle to whom I was raving about Star Wars. He responded by saying, “I saw that when it was called 2001, and, boy, was it boring!” Superheroes are simply today’s gangsters/cowboys/outer space adventurers. Some superhero films are awful, some are beautiful. Like westerns and gangster movies (and before that, just MOVIES), not everyone will be able to appreciate them, even some geniuses. And that’s okay.”
Many of our grandfathers thought all gangster movies were the same, often calling them “despicable”. Some of our great grandfathers thought the same of westerns, and believed the films of John Ford, Sam Peckinpah, and Sergio Leone were all exactly the same. I remember a great uncle to whom I was raving about Star Wars. He responded by saying, “I saw that when it was called 2001, and, boy, was it boring!” Superheroes are simply today’s gangsters/cowboys/outer space adventurers. Some superhero films are awful, some are beautiful. Like westerns and gangster movies (and before that, just MOVIES), not everyone will be able to appreciate them, even some geniuses. And that’s okay. ❤️
A post shared by James Gunn (@jamesgunn) on Oct 20, 2019 at 11:51am PDT
An interesting response, no doubt. What do you think about this ongoing feud between the newcomers and the old guard?
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Can there be a definitive history of magic in India? This book tells the mesmerising story
John Zubrzycki’s book traces the journey of what we know as magic from the Harappan Civilisation to the current age.
Vipin Krishna
Jul 29, 2018 · 08:30 am
Jugglers, snake charmers and acrobats were a favourite subject of nineteenth- century photographers, Bourne and Shepherd, c. 1870. India Office Records, British Library | Courtesy Pan Macmillan
“To tell the story of Indian magic is to hold a mirror to India’s religious traditions, its society and culture,” journalist John Zubrzycki writes in his comprehensive history of magic in India. The country certainly has its fair share of vanishing coin tricks (think demonetisation), disappearances and elaborate escape routines (think Nirav Modi and Vijay Mallya) and conjuring tricks (think violent rumour-driven mobs and institutions of eminence). But these magic tricks, rather than entertaining us prove to be the duplicitous effects of political misdirection, and it is almost this distinction between magic as entertainment, and the story of magic as vexing reality that Zubrzycki recounts in Jadoowallahs, Jugglers, and Jinns.
Zubrzycki cites anthropologist Jan Van Baal at the very beginning of his book: “Magic is a dangerous word, more dangerous than magic itself, because it is such a handsome term to cover everything that we fail to understand. The term is used far too often as a vague kind of explanation, but in fact it explains nothing.” The definition-cum-premonition is somewhat true. As Zubrzycki makes clear by the end, not understanding comes at the cost of an arrogant division that must be affected between science and spirituality, and between east and west. A magic trick performed in three acts, Zubrzycki plays raconteur in the book to the birth, disappearance, and reappearance of modern Indian magic
The story of magic itself begins, as Zubrzycki tells it, from the very auspices of the Harappan Civilisation. Even though the book’s build-up is slow, it meticulously winds its way through this history – the concept of “maya” as a native connotation of the word “illusion” from the Rig Veda and its use by Indra through “cosmic sleights of hand” (the word “Indrajaala” is still used to denote magic in parts of the subcontinent). The seventh century Hindu sage Samkara used a “wonder show”, the centrepiece of which featured the (soon to be famed) rope trick to explain “maya”. Magic features in other religious texts as well. In the Pali translated Dhammapada, the Buddha challenges his detractors to a show of magical powers by growing a mango tree instantaneously. Curiously, it’s a trick that has made it into the modern Indian magician’s repertoire as well.
Courtesy Pan Macmillan India
Zubrzycki recounts other strange occurrences, such as the reception of a strange 14th century translated Persian manuscript named the Kamarupa Bijaksa, which spoke of magical imagination or “wahm” and divination or “damir” wisdom that first rested on the authority of the Assamese Kamakhya Devi. Side by side, the book features Ali Adil Shah, the ruler of Bijapur and his interest in the esoteric arts; Kabir and Gorakhnath and their oft-cited transfigurations into stream and frog respectively; Rafa’i Fakirs, Bazigars, thuggees, tamashewallahs and madaris, jadugars, qalandars, bahrupis and sanperas, all of whom, for Zubrzycki constitute the general jadoowallah.
Alongside macabre magic tricks, Zubrzycki observes that most jadoowallahs came from marginalised communities, many of whom would eventually be persecuted under the Criminal Tribes Act of 1871. The rest of the book almost acts as a lead-up to a conclusion foretold – one in which colonialism effects a division between the West and the rest. The story of Indian magic and its modern history, however, takes stranger twists and turns along the way, and Zubrzycki tells it with an magician’s penchant for strangeness, devoid of any empty pomp and flair the art would take on.
The second act of Indian magic, as Zubrzycki tells it, is the story of how it slowly slithered its way out of the subcontinent, swaying to the financial, scientific, legal and cultural tunes of Imperialism’s snake charm.
Snake charmer, c1930s calendar art, Priya Paul Collection, Courtesy Pan Macmillan India
Towards the end of the 18th and 19th centuries, magic somewhere lost some of its immersive quality and became the object of anthropological knowledge. Observational accounts of various kinds of performers saw themselves being published by the likes of Indians such as Krishnanath Raghunath in Bombay Beggars and Criers (1892) as well as Govind Narayan in Mumbaiche Varnan (1863). Around the same time, there grew a crop of western magicians (American, English, and German) who started patronising local Indian jadoowallahs in order to learn their tricks. Among these were Howard Thurston, who paid local magicians to perform in his hotel room, Harry Houdini, upon whose insistence a magic trick borrowed from a local magician was patented in his name, and Chung Ling Soo whose real name – William Robison – wouldn’t have been a palatable stage name for western audiences.
Zubrzycki also tells the heartbreaking story of the Oriental Troupe who had made their way to England under the auspices of one Mr Hanlon. However, having arrived, there emerged stories of abuse from within the group, and a lack of payment from their manager on the allegations that they had been drinking. The Strangers’ Home for Asiatics, Africans and South Sea Islanders at West India Dock, set up for cultural refugees, had to be a shelter for the Oriental Troupe. It is an illustrative example that Zubrzycki uses to make clear that of the many jadoowallahs who were brought to England, a large number were made destitute through an imperial sleight of hand. If the first act of Indian magic was filled with a thriving ecology of religion, magic, music and art, the second consisted of its disappearance up the rope. But with every trick, there is a final act, and Indian magicians would would still have theirs.
‘Karachi’(Arthur Claude Derby) performs the Indian Rope Trick at West Hampstead in 1934: Harrry Price Collection, University of London. Courtesy Panmacmillan India
In Zubrzycki’s third act, the slow feverish music that has remained as background noise reaches a crescendo replete with drums, cymbals, splitting the story finally into two distinct sides – East, and West, and their analogues of rational/scientific and spiritual/believing, all unravelling around a debate about who could make a rope stand rigid enough to be climbed.
With the story of the fabled Indian Rope trick, Zubrzycki reaches his emotional nadir, almost cinematic in its rendition. The Indian Rope trick, along with the mango-tree conjuring trick had till now been staple leitmotifs of Indian magic, and while the mango-tree conjuring trick had been seen and performed by almost every reputed magician in history, the rope trick had only been mentioned in a number of eye-witness accounts (including the likes of Ibn Battuta and Jahangir). No one in history had actually been able to perform it, satisfactorily at least. A challenge issued by an English occult group known as the Magic Circle around 1918 met with several failed attempts. It is here that Zubrzycki performs his own inverse magic trick. As feverish as the reader gets in wanting to find out the fate of Indian Rope trick, there is no “gasp” offered by the book. It maintains the suspense of how the effect was finally achieved, and by whom (if at all by anyone). There is a big reveal, yes, but perhaps magic, as the story goes, is not actually about the revelations but what goes on behind the scenes. The actual performer, it seems, died with the secret in 1970 having learnt it from a dying Gorkha soldier who allowed him to only pass it on if the situation required, and never to profit from it.
By the 1920s the Rope Trick was on the programme of many of the world’s leading magicians including Harry Blackstone | Wikimedia Commons.
The story of magic
The story of modern Indian magic is finally one of temperaments and how people viewed it. There were those who were enchanted by the world of magic and took part in it, and those who looked to separate themselves it. At a party hosted by Sir Arthur Lothian, the resident of Hyderabad, in the 1940s, when a fakir split his stomach and disembowelled himself, a guest commented with a stiff upper lip: “Hardly an appetising number to include in one’s programme at a cocktail party.”
It happens to be the case that, just like our quotidian card tricks, the metaphors of magic are both ubiquitous and cliched – from fakirs to rope tricks, and from rabbits in top hats to vanishing acts, they appear everywhere.
Zubrzycki not only infuses his book with a slow sound and fury, but makes apparent that politics, in the end, is the reigning supreme metaphor for magic, and just as people and cultures are made to disappear, they find ways of reappearing elsewhere, at other times.
Jadoowallahs, Jugglers and Jinns: A Magical History of India, John Zubrzycki, Pan Macmillan India.
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Central Jersey Group IV
(13) Long Branch 2, (1) Marlboro 1
Junior Brian Completo scored the tying goal in the 71st minute and junior Jason Laviola notched the winner in the 78th minute as the Green Wave (11-7-2) rallied for two goals in the final 10 minutes to stun the Mustangs (14-5) and advance to the Central Jersey Group IV final.
With his team trailing by a goal, Completo pushed up from his center fullback spot and got to a loose ball in the box that was last touched by a Marlboro defender. He knocked into open space on the left side of the box and ripped a left-footed shot back across the frame and into the far right side netting.
In the final three minutes, Long Branch broke out on a counterattack and senior Patrick O'Dwyer hammered a 20-yard shot on frame. Marlboro sophomore Nick Tango saved the shot and Long Branch senior Eryck Lazo whiffed on an attempted follow, but the ball rolled to Laviola, who buried it into the left side of the goal for his first tally of the season.
Marlboro took the lead in the 32nd minute on a shot by senior Mitchell Katsman off an attempted clearance by Long Branch.
Long Branch will play in the sectional final round for the first time since 2012 on Friday when it travels to No. 2 Hunterdon Central.
Central Jersey Group III
(1) Wall 0, (4) Allentown 0 (Wall advances on penalties, 4-3)
Senior Jack Gotsch buried the winning penalty kick and the Crimson Knights (15-4-1) squeaked past the Redbirds and into the Central Jersey Group III championship game for the first time in six years. Wall's last trip to the CJ III final ended with a 2-1 loss at Allentown in 2013.
Senior Tagg Acrum kicked off Wall's side of the shootout with a conversion and both junior Sean Southwell and senior Matt Penkethman connected on their attempts to set the stage for Gotsch.
Junior goalkeeper Sebastian Campanile saved Allentown's second attempt and the fourth attempt hit the crossbar to give Gotsch an opportunity to end it. Campanile saved six shots during 100 shutout minutes to earn the clean sheet.
Wall will go for its first sectional title in 15 years Friday when it hosts No. 11 seed and defending sectional champion Ocean.
(11) Ocean 0, (15) Lawrence 0 (Ocean advances on penalties, 5-4)
Senior Isaac Greenspan saved Lawrence's sixth attempt of the shootout and senior Eli Brandimarte slammed in the winner to send the Spartans (10-9-1) past the Cardinals and into the sectional final for the third straight year and fourth time in the last five years.
Brandimarte's winner was his second successful penalty-kick attempt of the shootout, which reached a sixth round of kicks after each side converted four of the first five. Sophomore Brian Miranda, senior Rob Lopes and senior Peter Wolff Bailler-Geau all sank their shots as well.
Ocean will travel to play No. 1 Wall in Friday's sectional final - a rematch of last year's Central Group III semifinal, which Ocean won, 2-0. Championship kickoff is set for noon at Wall Municipal Complex.
Central Jersey Group II
(2) Delaware Valley 3, (3) Monmouth 1
Sophomore Aiden Hicks scored off a pass from junior Lucas Pierra to open the scoring early in the second half, but the Terriers scored three unanswered goals to beat the Falcons (15-5-2) secure a trip to the Central Group II championship game.
South Jersey Group IV
(16) Toms River North 2, (4) Jackson Memorial 1
Junior Ali Baish knocked in a cross from classmate Parker Nickelsen with 1:38 left on the clock and the Mariners (11-7-1) shocked the Jaguars (15-3-2) to advance to the South Jersey Group IV final as a No. 16 seed.
As the clocked crept under two minutes to go in regulation, Baish flicked the ball toward the corner and made a run toward the right post. Meanwhile, Nickelsen - who scored in each of Toms River North's first two upset wins in the tournament - chased down the flick and beat a defender around the corner on the left side.
Nickelsen slid the ball across the mouth of the goal and after it got by Jackson Memorial goalkeeper Charlie Harrison, Baish one-timed it into the goal from point-blank range for the winning score.
Jackson Memorial broke a scoreless draw in the 47th minute, when senior Ben Schnaak headed in a long throw-in by junior Zack Rogacki.
Toms River North came right back with an answer, with senior Logan Mack converting a penalty kick after a Jaguars handball in the 18-yard box.
The Mariners advance to the sectional final for the first time in five years and will take on No. 2 Egg Harbor on Friday in search of the program's first sectional crown since winning Central Group IV in 2009.
South Jersey Group III
(9) Ocean City 5, (5) Toms River South 1
Junior Shane Kluxen opened the scoring for Toms River South but the Raiders came back with two goals before halftime and five unanswered overall to turn back the Indians (10-6-2) and advance to the sectional final Friday at No. 2 Triton.
South Jersey Group II
(2) Oakcrest 2, (3) Manasquan 0
Senior Gabe Paz scored two goals in the second half to increase his season total to 27 and the Falcons handed the Warriors (11-6-4) their first tournament loss of the season. Oakcrest advances to play at No. 1 Delran in Friday's sectional final round.
South Jersey Non-Public A
(2) CBA 2, (3) Notre Dame 1
Senior Connor Anderko headed in a free kick by senior Luke Pascarella in the 34th minute for a tie-breaking goal that proved to be the difference in a Colts (13-3-3) win over the Irish.
Junior Brett Sieg scored off a rebound in the 17th minute to tie the game at 1-1 after Elias Thomas staked Notre Dame to a 1-0 lead seven minutes into the match.
Senior goalkeeper A.J. Pinto helped CBA ward off a heavy storm of pressure from Notre Dame in the second half, including a leaping save to parry the ball over the bar early in the half and back-to-back saves in the 67th.
CBA will play for its fifth straight South Jersey Non-Public A title Thursday, when it travels to top-seeded St. Augustine in a rematch of last year's sectional final.
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September 4, 2012 by tomwfreeman - 0 comments
Many gamers who are challenging themselves to 24 hours of gaming this year have taken part in Sick Kids Save Point before. They’ll tell you that a gaming marathon is no walk in the park, but some are setting themselves extra challenges…
Perhaps they have been inspired by last year’s top player Neil Gow, who decided to play a list of the very worst games out there. Neil endured the tedium of Desert Bus, the broken controls of superman 64 and the terrifying banality of Coronation Street the game during his marathon, and raised around two thousand pounds for the Sick Kids Friends Foundation.
Try not to rage quit on the Sandcrawler Alex!
Our resident designer Ross Aitken thinks 24 hours isn’t a proper marathon, so he plays 26.2 hours of gaming. Pedant.
This year Alex Sievewright is limiting himself to only games based on movies. This is a challenge, since most movie spin offs are terribly dull! How will he stay awake? We suggest Super Star Wars on the SNES, and PS1 title Spiderman. If you want to suggest a game for Alex, why not sponsor him here?
Another gamer taking suggestions is SKSP regular Richard Adams, or Oxygen Addict, who is undertaking a developing marathon. Using the program Gamemaker from Yoyo games, Richard will be making as many simple games as he can in 24 hours. He’s doing this on the 30th & 31st of September so anything he makes will be playable for everyone during our marathon on the 12th-14th October! Sponsor him here, and check out his site where he’ll be posting the results.
Robert Eastell is going to be playing an ‘Alphabet of gaming’, at least half an hour of a game starting with each letter of the alphabet.
We’ll all feel like this after our marathons…
Scott Murdoch is going to attempt to survive for 24 hours in Day Z. Surely impossible Scott? He’s even offered to donate £5 every time he dies, which sounds to us like a challenge to come and get him…
We understand that gamers addicted to MMORPGs have no problem playing games for 24 hours. In fact we’re told that they often do it. No problem then for Gaz Jones and his guild in Star Wars: The Old Republic, who will be defeating the republic AND saving kids.
If you like any of these ideas, please throw a couple of quid sponsorship their way. Not only will it go towards helping sick children and their families, but it will also help these brave gamers enter the SKSP prize draw, open to anyone who raises over £100 in sponsorship.
If you’d like to take part in Sick Kids Save Point yourself click here to set up a Just Giving page of your own, and read our safety guidelines
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“High Life,” which was written by Dallas Blocker (Bun B, Rick Ross, Paul Wall) and produced by J Sounds, samples Rose Royce’s “Ooh Boy I Love You So.”
“High Life shows a different side of me,” Coline previously stated. “I always write or co-write on my songs which mostly talk about relationships and heartbreak, so ‘High Life’ was a good change of pace and added some balance to the EP.”
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COMMENT: Tim Henman’s eagerness to return to tennis must be embraced
By Chukwuemeka Afonne
Tim Henman was a player who never got the credit he deserved, says Kevin Palmer, so we should all be delighted at his apparent eagerness to return to tennis.
As introductions go, it was a pretty shoddy start from the normally immaculate Tim Henman, yet we should all be toasting his presence as captain of Team GB at the inaugural ATP Cup in Australia.
Henman’s first duty on his return to mainstream tennis was to introduce his team to a social media audience, but his first attempt flopped badly as Dan Evans and Jamie Murray were among those left to laugh at his expense.
Tim, tell us about your team …
😂#ATPCup | #Sydney | 🇬🇧 #TeamGreatBritain pic.twitter.com/5BtmohSyf7
— ATPCup (@ATPCup) January 2, 2020
It was a lovely moment to start the tennis year for a returning hero who is clearly opening his mind to playing a more active role in a sport he did so much to promote in the UK during a career that was ludicrously ridiculed by uneducated part-time tennis watchers.
As was the case with Andy Murray during the period of his career when he was knocking on the door of the game’s biggest prizes and coming up agonisingly short against the game’s very best, Henman found himself cast as a ‘loser’ by an English media pack and a general public whose interest in tennis has a tendency to start on the opening day of Wimbledon and end with the final on Centre Court.
It’s hard to acquire any level of tennis expertise when your sphere of reference is based around a solitary tournament and that helped to ensure that Henman’s impressive achievements in the game were never given the plaudits they merited in the UK.
Runs to the semi-finals of the US Open and the French Open along with victory in the 2003 Paris Masters cemented Henman’s legacy as one of the most respected performers on the ATP Tour, with his success in draining every last ounce from the natural talents he was given an achievement that should have attracted more vocal acclaim.
Henman’s retirement in 2007 brought about another round of lament from his detractors as they reflected on his disappointments rather than his success of staying at the top of the game for a decade, with his activity in the sport in the years since he played his final match in a Davis Cup tie at Wimbledon allowing him to take more of a backseat role.
Aside from his appearances on the BBC Wimbledon coverage and occasional events for his sponsors, Henman has focused his attention on his work as one of the key decision-makers at the All England Club and has turned down some high profile coaching offers that could have kept him involved in the game at the top level.
Now Henman appears to ready to make a comeback, of sorts, after being convinced by Andy Murray to lead the British team at the ATP Cup and as former British Davis Cup player Mark Petchey told Tennis365, his reappearance should be welcomed.
“It’s great to see him getting back into tennis a little more,” Petchey told us. “He has always had a wise head on his shoulders and it will be a great addition to the game if he does return in a more official capacity.
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“He will not rush into anything and the role he has played at Wimbledon in the last few years has obviously been a huge help to that tournament and the steps forward made on a number of levels. He could be chairman of the All England Club at some point, but maybe he wants to get back into tennis in a bigger way and his involvement with the ATP Cup will allow him to get back involved.
“You only need to be at the tournaments when Tim is around and you can see how much respect he has from all the former champions. He may not have won a major himself, but he got everything out of his game in his career and tennis better for him being back into it.”
Petchey’s comments will be echoed by all in the tennis family as Henman’s professionalism on the court has always been matched by his dignified class off it.
British tennis needs a giant of Henman’s gravitas to play a prominent role in its future and if he is open to the prospect in 2020, all involved in the game need to ensure they tap into his huge pool of knowledge.
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“I’m letting you go,” Regent lied.
He made Shadow Stalker drop to all fours on the ground and forced a grunt from her mouth. With the same ease as he moved his own body, he made her load her bolt and spin to point her crossbow at him. There was no danger of her shooting him; he was fully in control from start to finish.
He could feel her striving and straining to move her finger, to pull the trigger and plant an arrow just above his collarbone. Every iota of her willpower must have been focused on the task.
“There’s a catch,” he spoke. “My power? Once I’ve figured someone out? It’s a lot easier to control them, after. Any time you come near me, I can do this. I can use my power and retake control in the blink of an eye.”
He had her raise her crossbow and point it at her temple.
“Next time I get control? I’m keeping you for a full day. Maybe two, if I feel like pulling an all-nighter. And here’s the funny part,” there was no humor in his voice, “I’m going to do it even if I’m in civilian clothes, if my power tells me you’re in range. You won’t even know when it’s coming. You’re now a liability to the Wards, and you won’t ever know when or where I’m going to get control again…
“Unless you leave. Skip town. Join another team.”
He had her nod, stiffly, awkwardly. He felt her rising heartbeat, the slight increase in her breathing, which he managed, controlled. Her muscles clenched, an involuntary reaction just beyond the scope of his control. She’d realized what he was doing. Rather, she knew what he wasn’t doing.
He wasn’t letting her go.
“Now let’s walk you off to the other end of the city before I release you. I don’t think you’re quite stupid enough to try and follow us, but I think my teammates would be more comfortable if they were sure.” He rolled his eyes.
That said, he turned her around, activated her power and walked her through the door.
Regent looked at the others, shrugged. “Good enough?”
Using the shadow form, she could cover a lot of ground very quickly. For long minutes, he exercised her power, the ability to be as light as a feather, enjoyed it. He even liked the running, too, when he turned off her power and just legged it. This girl was in good shape. He could tell she exercised regularly, that she ran on a regular basis. Running was almost effortless, and it felt good, even with the aches and pains of the recent brawl. Months or years of practice had fine tuned her body.
Fighting had been much the same way, but it had been even better. Her muscle memory had been so primed for punching, kicking, takedowns and evading that he’d almost been able to let her go on autopilot, let her body handle things on its own.
Not that he could, really. But it had been easy. He loved that sort of thing. Maximum reward for minimum effort.
That same philosophy of minimizing the work he had to put in, sticking to what he enjoyed and the things that interested him, it was an advantage here. Brian, Lisa and Taylor had their own dynamic. They were friends. He considered Brian a friend, but it was more along the lines of someone he could play video games with, talk about movies. It wasn’t much different from if they were coworkers or roommates. He smiled at the thought. They kind of were, when it came down to it.
Regent knew he was a background character, for the most part. He played along, he didn’t make waves, he didn’t stand out. He wasn’t close to any of the others.
He was cool with that. In fact, it suited him perfectly.
He was cool with it because it meant that when they were all heading out to meet Coil, nobody noticed that he was distracted, or that he wasn’t joining in the conversation. His control got worse as the distance between himself and his puppets widened, which meant he had to devote more focus to Shadow Stalker and the act of keeping her movements fluid. He ran into the same issues when he controlled more people, and there was the irritating side effect that his own coordination, speech and fluidity of movement all suffered to the same extent that his ‘puppets’ did. Were he to open his own mouth now and speak to Brian or Taylor, he might stutter or slur his words. It was almost more trouble than it was worth.
Almost. He was surprised to realize how much he’d missed this. It was like a high, a whole other set of emotions, of physical sensations. Real life, just being Alec, only Alec? It paled in comparison. It was dull.
He wondered sometimes if dealing with his father had messed up something inside him.
He could remember being young, maybe eight or so, fighting with two of his sisters over the fact that he’d wanted to watch the music channel and they wanted to watch some craptastic stop motion cartoon. They’d outnumbered him two to one, and he’d known he would lose the argument. So he’d thrown a tantrum, started screaming.
The entire atmosphere in the house had changed in a second. His sisters went from argumentative to conciliatory in an instant, changed the channel to the music, tried to give him the remote. One of father’s ‘girls’ came in and tried to quiet him down. When he hadn’t, she’d clamped a hand over his mouth.
It hadn’t been enough. Dear Old Dad had come marching out of the master bedroom. Nikos Vasil. Heartbreaker. Tall, wearing only boxer briefs, with a muscled, lanky physique, long hair plastered to his head with sweat. Father had taken two or three seconds to assess the situation before using his power on Alec, his two sisters and the ‘girl’ with a hand over Alec’s mouth. He hit each of them with stark terror. The kind of fear you experienced when you were claustrophobic and you woke up in a coffin six feet underground.
Then father had gone back into the bedroom and slammed the door behind him.
It had been around summer when that happened, Alec mused. He didn’t have many ways to tell time, back then, since he hadn’t gone to school, and the days kind of passed. Still, it had been hot, he remembered. Between that summer and Christmas, Alec hadn’t opened his mouth to speak once.
That was only one of a dozen or so experiences that came to mind. So yeah, maybe father had broken something in the process. Maybe it had been the emotional equivalent of staring into the sun for far too long, too many times, being left almost half blind.
Or maybe it was his own power. He could be two, three or four people at the same time, feeling what they felt. By the time he was a teenager, he’d experienced every kind of drug, in someone else’s body, had slept with himself as various boys and girls. How was being just ordinary Alec supposed to compare?
Shadow Stalker wasn’t emotionally dulled. Her emotions were rich, uninhibited. She was passionate in her emotions: angry, judgemental. Even the negative feelings were something he could savor in their own way. He wasn’t really experiencing them – it was more of a very involved spectator role. Her fear was thrilling in the same way a fantastic scary movie was, with the detail and the immersion cranked up to eleven.
He leaped straight up into the air, then activated the shadow state. When she was as high as she would get, he had her grip her cloak in her hands and use it to guide her descent so she could land atop the roof of the gas station. He stopped, stretched her arms. She was breathing hard, but not as much as his Alec-self would be after even half as much running. He could feel the endorphins being pumped into her body from the hard exercise, and he was all the more aware of it because he had his other body to compare to. She was an athlete.
He ran her hands down her chest, felt her breasts, the muscles of her stomach. Stretching once more, he clenched her hands, felt the muscles in her arms flex. He felt her shudder in revulsion.
“Almost forgot you were in there,” he murmured, barely loud enough for her to catch. Not that it mattered. She was as aware of the movements of her mouth as he was. He could mouth the words and she would probably understand. He smirked for her benefit as much as his own.
“So. Bet you’re wondering what’s up,” he commented. “Funny thing about having this control over you, I can feel your emotions, your body’s reactions. Like a really, really good polygraph test. I wasn’t even half done saying my piece back there when I caught on to the fact that you were too pissed and too angry to back down and walk away. There’s no way you’re going to leave town if I let you go, right?”
He felt her struggle to open her mouth and respond. He could have let her, by giving her some limited control over her own movements, but he didn’t.
“Right. So I’m taking it upon myself to ensure this all goes smoothly. My teammates have other shit to worry about, and I’m kind of enjoying flexing my powers. So I’m dealing with this situation myself. You and I? We’re going to go another route.”
He fished in her belt and pockets and began withdrawing the contents. He tossed the things he couldn’t use over the edge of the roof. Billfold, spare cartridges for the crossbow, a small knife, spare strings for the crossbows, bandages, keys and a Wards ID card fell to the ground by the side of the gas station, in and near an overflowing dumpster. There were plastic cuffs in the belt, but he couldn’t be bothered to fish out every last one and throw them all away. At the right hip, he found two cell phones. Success.
One of the phones looked years out of date. The screen was scuffed so badly it was barely readable, and the plastic cover for the plug slot at the bottom was missing. The other was a touch screen smart phone. He didn’t recognize the make or the model, and the interface when he turned it on and touched the screen was unfamiliar. Special issue from the Wards? Whatever. Not important.
The smart phone was password protected. That was more Lisa’s thing, but he did have one trick up his sleeve. Holding her fingers above the keypad, he let them follow through with the most natural feeling sequence of numbers, ingrained into the mind-body connection through the habitual repetition of a sequence of movements over weeks or months. Muscle memory.
It took two tries. The first felt slightly off at the end. The second was spot on, and was rewarded with a vibration of the phone and a menu.
“Contacts,” he murmured, pressing a button, “Weld, Clockblocker, Vista, Flechette, Kid Win… boring. Nothing I can work with, here.” Director Piggot? No. Some potential there, maybe, but she was probably on top of this body-snatching situation. Fully informed.
He scrolled down. Beyond the contacts that had been pinned to the top of the list, there was a short list of contacts that were sorted in order of who had been contacted most recently. At the top of the list was an ‘Emma Barnes’.
He checked the other, older phone. No password. A quick examination showed it was her civilian phone.
“Taking this out on patrol? Is that stupidity or arrogance? What if you lost it?” He shook his head, then offered her a dramatic gasp, “What if it got into the wrong hands?” Her voice was far better for the gasp than his own was. He couldn’t help but chuckle after hearing it.
This Emma girl was listed in both of the phones. Now he had a strong suspicion as to who it was. A quick read of the received texts gave away Shadow Stalker’s name, but he already knew that. Taylor had let it slip, before.
Her pulse was pounding now, and he could feel a growing sense of… what was that? Outrage? She was pissed at the invasion of privacy.
He tried a giggle on for size, to see if he could, and to see if it irritated her. It worked on both counts.
No text messages had been exchanged on the smart phone, so he dug through the archive of old texts on the crummy old phone. Lots sent to Emma. Some sent to a Madison. Others, relatively few, to a mom, a Terry and an Alan.
When he’d gotten sick of paging through the texts in the order that they’d been sent, he went looking for the saved texts, the messages Sophia had deemed important or noteworthy enough to save from being deleted. What he uncovered was telling. He had to do more digging to find the rest of the discussions for each message Sophia had saved, in order to get as much a sense of things as he could. It was hard, when each series of texts was in response to some event he hadn’t participated in.
Some were inane, others he just didn’t understand. Then he found one that gave him pause, that confirmed his suspicions about who Emma was.
Emma: what r u doing with her bag?
Sophia: am in art class atm. was thinking i can fill it with paint when teach leaves room. put it in lost&found. her art midterm is inside so she might look for it and find it and
Sophia: be all yay i found it and then she looks inside and sees its fucked
Emma: lol.
Sophia: what did you say to make her cry? that was awesome. blew my mind.
Emma: (SAVED MESSAGE) crying hrself to sleep for a week? she told me she did after her mommy died
Sophia: you r so evil
Emma: ya ya
Sophia: can i use that one on her? saving that one for posterity btw
Emma: won’t have same bite to it. brilliant bit was the suprise. that slow realization abt what i meant.
Sophia: teach me o master
Emma: lol
Emma: wont be as good but i was thinking of that day. think i remember musc we were listening to when she got the phone call abt her mom.
Emma: we shld wait a while and then see if she cries agn if we play it in hallways or b4 class.
Sophia: and we cant get in trouble for just listening to music
Emma: ya
Sophia: cant believe you were her friend.
Emma: she was lame but not depressing and lame @ same time.
Regent closed the phone, threw it casually into the air, and then caught it on the way down. He did that a few more times, thinking.
“Huh,” he said.
Long seconds passed. He knew he should feel bad for the dork, but he only felt annoyed. He felt worse about the fact that he didn’t feel bad than he did about what he’d just read.
Something to thank father for, maybe.
“You are not a nice person,” he spoke to Sophia with a note of irony in his voice. He could feel her try to respond.
He smiled slowly, “Let’s see…”
He thumbed through the phone’s menus until he found an email option. He verified it could send attachments.
The smart phone in his other hand, he found the web browser and did a search for local high schools.
“Hmmm. What school do you go to? Arcadia? No. Immaculata? No. Clarendon? Nope. Winslow?”
He felt the slightest of reactions from her. A hitching of breath, maybe. And there was nothing she could do to stop it, because the reactions were hers only because they were involuntary.
“Awesome.” He searched for the web site for Winslow High School, and whistled tunelessly to annoy Shadow Stalker as he found the teacher’s emails. He began painstakingly entering them into the recipient field.
When he’d done that, he began the process of attaching the texts to the email. It would have been mind-numbingly dull if it wasn’t for that gradually building sense of trepidation he was experiencing from his gracious host.
He typed out a message for the email itself:
found phone. stuff inside is concerning. thought u should see what ur students r doing.
Her thumb hovered over the button that would send the email.
“Nah,” he decided. He felt a wave of relief from his host.
That relief swiftly faded as he turned her eyes to the smart phone and searched for Brockton Bay’s police force.
When he’d added that email to the list, he added another line:
contacting police to make sure something is done
He sent the email.
He felt an explosion of rage from within Shadow Stalker’s body. Her hands even shook with it. He laughed, and her anger mixed with his amusement to create something that sounded unhinged.
Probably was, when he thought about it. She had multiple personalities, in a way.
He stepped from the roof, and waited until the last second to use her power. Her body exploded into a cloud of shadows. As she pulled back together, he felt a strong discomfort. Not quite pain. In seconds, she had condensed back to her normal form. The pain his hosts felt was something distant. It didn’t bother him half as much. He couldn’t be sure if it was because he instinctually prevented it or if it was something else.
He resumed his whistling as he hopped up onto the railing of a bridge and walked atop it. He dialed Emma, felt a mild reaction from his host: Annoyance with a note of anxiety.
Emma picked up on the fourth ring. “What the fuck soph… what the fuck!? It’s three AM!”
“Terribly sorry,” Regent tried to sound convincing, but it came out sounding sarcastic.
“You said you’d call me hours ago, to give me a recap.”
“I’m sorry,” Regent didn’t trust himself to pull off a sincere apology, so he lowered her voice to a hush instead.
“I needed to talk to someone,” he spoke.
“…Are you hurt? What happened?”
“Nothing. There was this brawl at the headquarters, Dragon showed up, but that isn’t what I wanted to talk about.”
Regent held his breath, waited.
“Seriously, you’ve got me worried. You’re making it sound like this important thing, and you woke me up at ten past three in the morning, so it had better be important. Dish. Explain.”
“I’m lonely.”
Emma’s voice rose in pitch, irritated, “Seriously? That‘s your issue!?”
“I miss you.” He knew she wasn’t in town from the most recent texts he’d read on the phone.
“This doesn’t sound like you. Are you high, or did you get poisoned or something?”
“I really miss you,” Regent breathed into the phone.
“I’ve been in love with you from the beginning.”
“Sophia, stop. If this is a prank-”
“Why do you think I pushed you to turn on that depressing little shit of a friend, way back then? I was jealous of her.”
“This is retarded. Don’t fucking call me again until you’re ready to grow up,” Emma growled.
“Please,” Regent managed to pull off a pleading tone, but Emma was already hanging up. He heard the dial tone and swore, “Fuck.”
He hopped down from the railing as he reached the end of the bridge. He commented, “Don’t think she bought it.”
Sophia tried to respond, and for the first time, she almost succeeded. The distance between Alec and Shadow Stalker was too wide, now. It would only get worse. He could feel it in his other body, too.
“Let’s see,” he grinned, raising the smart phone. Her hand shook as she held it. “Ooh, maps.”
The map application still showed the last route Shadow Stalker had requested from it, detailing directions from a point in the south end of the Docks to a place downtown.
“Thirty-three Stonemast avenue.”
Again, that slight reaction from her that told him he’d found something.
“That got your attention. Let’s go pay a visit.”
He set the phone to display directions from their current location to Stonemast avenue, and then he ran once more.
Her movements were more awkward, now. Her reflexes were slower, her balance worse. Activating her power was becoming a chore, a slower, harder process. Above all, it required more of his attention. He had his Regent-self put his headphones in and turn on some music. It was an excuse to ignore the others, and to have his attention elsewhere. They weren’t at their destination yet.
Shadow Stalker reached Stonemast avenue before Regent, Tattletale, Skitter, Imp and Grue got to Coil. It was funny, but with the route they were taking, if the timing was a little different, the group could have theoretically crossed paths with Shadow Stalker. At least his control was improving as the gap between them closed.
Thirty-five, thirty-four, thirty-three. It was a residential area. The houses here weren’t in the best shape, and a lot of houses had trash or belongings in the yard. Thirty-three Stonemast avenue had a toddler’s toys sitting on the front lawn. The hedges between the property and the neighbors was overgrown, and the tree at the front of the property looked dead. It might have seemed deserted, but someone had taken up the effort of picking up the detritus the tidal wave had brought in and piling it at the front corner of the lawn, by the driveway.
He walked her through the front door, felt rising anger and worry from his host.
That anger and worry peaked when a young man, nineteen or twenty, stepped from the living room to the front hall, heading towards the kitchen, and saw her. The man stopped and stared.
“Mom!” He shouted.
A tired looking middle-aged woman entered from the kitchen, holding a four-year old girl in her arms. Regent had grown up around lots of kids. He liked to think he was a good judge of ages.
The woman stared at Shadow Stalker, then turned, “Terry, take your sister upstairs.”
“Now!” the woman barked.
Terry moved to pick up the child, who was looking increasingly concerned over the raised emotions and the strange person in their hallway. Regent reached out and grabbed Terry’s arm.
“Chill, bro,” Regent was making a guess here. From the way the boy stared at Shadow Stalker, he knew he’d hit the mark.
“Sophia!?”
“Yeah,” Regent grinned behind her mask. “Duh, moron.”
The woman stepped between Shadow Stalker and Terry, a look of fury on her face, “Sophia! Kitchen. Now!”
With a swagger, Regent walked Shadow Stalker into the kitchen. There was a flurry of hissed words between Terry and Shadow Stalker’s mother. Among them was a surprised, hurt, “You knew!?”
Regent sat down at the kitchen table and put her feet up. Dirty water pooled on the table’s surface.
It was nearly a minute before the mother came storming into the kitchen. She pushed Shadow Stalker’s feet off the table.
“Explain!” she demanded.
“What?” Regent lifted one shoulder in a shrug.
“We had a deal. You could do this thing of yours, but your siblings were not to know!”
“It’s a pain in the ass,” Regent said. He pulled off Shadow Stalker’s mask and started tapping the edge against the table, idly.
“It’s the rules in my house! If it’s going to keep you out of prison and on the straight and narrow, fine. But I will not have you glorifying violence-”
The mother stopped mid-sentence as Regent opened Shadow Stalker’s mouth in a very real yawn. Funny that his other self yawned as well, in that sympathetic reaction to someone else yawning. The mother slapped the mask from Sophia’s hand. It clattered to the ground. “Listen to me!”
“Whatever,” Regent drew a crossbow and turned it over in his hands.
The mother stared at it. Her voice was hushed as she spoke, “That doesn’t look like the tranquilizer dart the Director showed me.”
Regent quirked an eyebrow, “Oops.”
“What are you doing, Sophia? Do you want to go to jail?”
“I’m bored,” Regent replied.
“You do not have the right to complain about something like being bored! I work two jobs for you three! I put in overtime, I attend every school function, I come into the office every time you get reprimanded because you’ve got anger issues! You aren’t even taking care of your sister, or helping out around this house! What do you think-”
“And now you’re making me even more bored,” Regent cut her off.
The mother slapped Sophia so hard that her head turned to one side. Her cheek burned.
“Don’t you dare,” the mother intoned.
Shadow Stalker stood at Regent’s directions, then pointed the crossbow at the mother. The woman’s eyes widened, and she hurried to back away as Shadow Stalker advanced. They stopped when the mother’s back was to the wall by the kitchen door, with Shadow Stalker’s crossbow bolt pressed against her throat.
“I think I’m done with listening to you whinge,” Regent whispered.
“What are you doing? What’s wrong with you?”
“Like you said,” Regent shrugged, “Anger problems. I promise you, you don’t have the slightest idea of what I go through.”
When in doubt, be vague.
“If you’re talking about Steven…”
Steven. Regent could feel a reaction from Shadow Stalker at the name. “I’m not talking about Steven.” He put some inflection in the name. He dropped the crossbow to one side, stepped away and stretched. The mother didn’t budge from where she was pressed up against the wall. “I’m going to my room. Don’t disturb me.”
He bent down and grabbed the mask, but he didn’t put it back on. He stepped out into the hallway, and saw a vacuum cleaner parked in the corner. An extension cord trailed from it to a neighboring room. An office? He unplugged the cord from the wall and the vacuum, and then headed upstairs, winding the cord into a simple coil.
Shadow Stalker’s body was a cocktail of emotion. Fear, anger, anxiety, worry, panic and sheer fury. Regent staved off the worst of the physical reactions, the trembling and the heavy breathing, and managed to make Shadow Stalker seem calm as she reached the top of the stairs. Terry was up there in the hallway, staring, uncomprehending.
Regent found her room, then shut the door. It was small, old-fashioned, with wood paneling on the walls. The furniture was limited to a twin-sized bed, a vanity with a mirror, candles and cosmetics littering the top, a bookshelf and a combination computer desk and dresser with a computer and a printer perched on top. The wall behind the pictures showed Shadow Stalker with a redheaded girl. There were a lot of photos with them laughing. Emma?
“Emma?” he asked. That slight alteration in her heartbeat and her breathing told him he was right.
He found a picture of Shadow Stalker – Sophia – with her family. Her mom looked younger and far less tired there, and was pregnant. Shadow Stalker looked twelve or so, and her brother looked sixteen or seventeen, sporting a fantastic looking afro and a less fantastic attempt at a moustache. They were clustered around one another, but only the mom was smiling.
Regent’s eyes fell on the man who was cut out of the photo, only his hand on the mom’s shoulder, and a sliver of his torso and leg were visible at the edge of the picture.
“Steven?” he asked. Raw hatred boiled up inside Shadow Stalker, for both Regent and the man that couldn’t be seen in the picture. “Steven. So what did he do do you? Believe me, I’ve seen it all. Hit you? Touch you?”
No reaction from either of those. Verbal abuse? Emotional? Something else? He didn’t care enough to quiz her more.
He grabbed the lighter from beside the scented candles and began pulling the photos off of the wall. Using the lighter, he burned a hole in the photograph where Emma’s face was.
“Well,” he said, his tone dry. He had to cough to keep himself from letting her anger turn his voice into a growl. “You sure rose above that shit, treating your classmates like you do, getting in fights, not helping out dear old mom.”
Again, he had to struggle to maintain control as she exploded with emotion. It didn’t help that his other self was trying to listen to what Coil was saying. Better to avoid testing her.
“You and I are more alike than you’d suspect, I think,” he said. “We’re both arrogant assholes, yeah? Difference is, I admit it, I don’t dress it up and tell myself that I’m a bitch and that that’s a good thing.” He burned Emma’s face out of another photo.
“So, let’s tie all this shit together. I have been working with a goal in mind, believe me.”
He got a piece of paper out of the printer, then found a pen in one of the drawers. He was careful to rely on her muscle memory when it came to the handwriting.
I thought I could manage.
I’m too angry. Too lonely. I hate myself for what I’m doing. Hurting people.
I hurt my mom. I hurt my classmates as Sophia. I hurt people as Shadow Stalker, and I hate myself for enjoying it.
I thought I could manage it. I had Emma. She had my back.
Except she turned me down. I loved her, really loved her, and when I confessed she turned me away. Acted like it was a joke.
This is the right thing to do. I won’t be able to hurt anyone anymore.
Terror surged through her body like ice water. When he laughed in reaction, it came out shaky. He littered the burned photographs around the piece of paper, with Emma’s face missing from each, then drew an arrow from the crossbow’s cartridge and laid it across the bottom edge of the paper. It was overdramatic enough to work.
He stood on the chair and began wrapping the extension cord around the base of the light fixture. He grabbed the cord and hung off it for a few seconds to verify it could hold her weight. The light fixture itself was flimsy , but the frame it was attached to was bolted securely into the wooden beams of the ceiling.
He found moisturizers and soaps on top of the vanity. Using them, he rubbed the end of the extension cord, making it slick. Holding the end, he began tying it into a crude hangman’s knot. When he failed to do it right, he used the smart phone to find a video of how to tie one, then turned the volume all the way down.
“Here’s the thousand dollar question,” he mused, as he began following the steps outlined in the video, putting the knot together, “Will your boss tell your mom what happened with me controlling you? If she keeps her mouth shut, well, this paints a pretty ugly picture, doesn’t it?”
A tear rolled down his cheek. He scoffed a little, blinked the tears out of her eyes.
“But if she does tell, if she lets mommy know, then shit hits the fan. It looks pretty fucking bad for her, and if word gets out, it’s as bad as it gets for public relations. Scary, dangerous parahumans. Not just lives at risk, but you could be controlled. Ooooh, scary. Nobody would ever be able to trust their coworkers or neighbors. It’s the kind of stuff they want to keep quiet.”
“Looks bad for me, sure, but you saw the fight earlier. It’s not like you guys are that big a threat. Like I said, I’m arrogant that way.”
He reached to plug the extension cord into the wall, but found it too short. He sighed and went to unplug everything from the computer’s power bar and use that to extend the length of the cord so he could plug it in. He grabbed her alarm clock, stood on the chair, and plugged it into the noose. He put her hood down, and then set the alarm clock inside her hood, blinking 12:00, 12:00, 12:00.
“Any last words?” He slid the noose around her neck. It was slimy with the soaps and other shit he’d poured on it.
He gave her enough control to speak, but retained control of her arms, legs so she couldn’t escape, and held her diaphragm so she couldn’t draw in enough air to scream for help.
“Why?” she breathed.
“You fucked with my teammate,” he shrugged her shoulder.
“Grue? I-”
He didn’t let her finish. “I dunno if I care all that much, but it’s the sort of thing I’ll do because it feels like I should. Dunno. There’s also the fact that you’re dangerous, and you’ve outlived your usefulness, so… unless you can give me a convincing reason.”
“Not that convincing.” He raised one foot, then kicked the chair, hard.
It rocked, but didn’t tip over.
He chuckled lightly, feeling the confusion and the relief from his host. It was a thrill unlike any other. “I think I made my point.”
She wanted to respond, but he didn’t let her. She was bewildered, just as scared as she had been before.
“I’d like to think that you have much less reason to hang around this city than you did an hour ago. Even if she hears how you were controlled by yours truly, mom’s not going to be so comfortable having you around in the future, given the dim possibility of a repeat performance. Things are going to be awkward with Emma there, too. Your career as a hero here isn’t looking good, either. Eff why eye, I was telling the truth about my ability to assume total control faster, easier, if I’ve controlled someone before.”
He fished out a set of the plastic cuffs and put them around her wrists, then worked her fingers to pull the end and cinch the cuffs tight, behind her back.
“I can feel your emotions. I know I’ve convinced you. You leave town, and if you don’t want me paying a visit, wherever you wind up, you keep your mouth closed about tonight. They don’t need to know this was all my doing. Things get messy that way, yeah?”
He gave her limited control, and she nodded, fractionally, as if afraid to move.
“If I do get control again? I won’t pull my punches. Or my kicks.” He tapped her foot against the back of the chair. Her heart leaped in her chest. “You can’t feel my emotions, so you’ll have to trust that I’m capable of it. You know I’m Heartbreaker’s kid. You know I’ve killed before.”
Again, she offered a slight nod. She tried to speak, but he didn’t let her. No need, he could guess, from what she was feeling. The anger was gone now. There was only fear.
He glanced out the window. There were flashing lights. A PRT van? Or maybe a police car.
A chuckle escaped her lips. “Well, I’ll leave it to you to get out of this situation. When you do? Get the fuck out of my city.”
He let out a breath, and then relinquished control of her body back to its owner.
This entry was posted in 10.x (Interlude) and tagged Grue, Heartbreaker, Regent, Shadow Stalker, Sophia, Tattletale, Taylor by wildbow. Bookmark the permalink.
259 thoughts on “Interlude 10”
Ivan Ronical on May 15, 2012 at 00:16 said:
Regent may be a dick, but this was some awesome payback. Great chapter.
One small thing: eveyr -> every
Djay on December 15, 2015 at 08:10 said:
She is NEVER going to recover from that!
And I think he want a little bit overbored don’t you think?
ScaerW on February 13, 2016 at 22:27 said:
It was rather messed up, though satisfying enough a read.
Alex on June 2, 2017 at 14:34 said:
Really. I love this book but I hate the undersides.
kaida tong on January 11, 2017 at 20:20 said:
Did you just say “overbored”
that reminded me of how she told her mom she was making her bored.
TheShadow on August 5, 2017 at 15:26 said:
Yeah. Sophia is a sociopathic bitch, who’s killed people, and practically ruined Taylor’s life for a significant amount of time…but that…Jesus, Alec. WTF?
greatwyrmgold on December 14, 2019 at 06:03 said:
If this is Regent pulling his punches, I don’t want to see him go all out.
I mean, I guess he pulled one punch there at the end…At least he understands that Sophia wasn’t enough of a dick to go that far.
He still has work to do in figuring out when he should go as far as he did, and I don’t think he has anyone who pays enough attention to give him the kick he needs to learn.
Twi on May 6, 2016 at 12:51 said:
Oh, yes. Awesome payback, saddling her with 18 different forms of PTSD, cutting every safety net she has, and dooming her to either homelessness or becoming a pariah if she ever comes forward, because we KNOW there’s no chance anyone will believe her when she says she was coerced into all that. She’ll probably kill herself for real before too long, since she has literally NO ONE she can turn to for help. Yes, that’s awesome payback. Regent is in no way a monster and this isn’t fucked up at ALL.
Andreas Kill on June 14, 2016 at 16:17 said:
Chill out. First of all, you must not have been paying attention to the story up to now because you seem to have missed the fact that SS is a horrible cunt who deserves (almost) everything she got. Secondly, everyone will believe her about being “coerced” (you’re an SJW aren’t you..) at least within the context of her secret identity because EVERYONE (within the PRT at least) knows what Regent can do and that he was controlling her. Same goes for her turning to people for help (not that Sophia would ever do that in the first place. again, you haven’t been paying attention). Thirdly, if your comment was a troll i commend you because it worked!!
coachskau on November 12, 2017 at 20:25 said:
Doesn’t matter if anybody knows Regent did it, seeing/hearing what Regent did coming from Sophia herself will leave a lasting mark, not to mention all the actual bad things she did being sent to the school faculty and police. And as for civilians being told that she was being puppeted, that’s not going to happen. Regent was right, letting civilians know that there are real-life body snatchers out there would be too big a clusterfuck to make any peace of mind it’d afford the few people affected worth it.
Andreas Kill on November 12, 2017 at 20:50 said:
its going to “leave a lasting mark”? so what? as if she didn’t leave lasting marks on any of the people she terrorized over the years? And why would civilians need to be told that she was being controlled? other than her mother and Emma she didn’t interact with any civilians, so her story would not become public. (police + PRT are not civilians, and they probably kept the whole thing under wraps) We never do find out if her mother is informed of the situation, so in the end she is the only “innocent” victim in all of this – and i don’t think what she goes through is any worse then what Danny Hebert was put through due to the antics of Sofia and her friends. not really sure what the point of the comment was, although it is good to see people still debating this despite the number of years since its publishing 🙂
gregb on June 22, 2016 at 18:09 said:
Did you forget about her being a murderer? Or the fact that she put Taylor through a living hell for years on end to the point where she probably would have killed herself if she hadn’t gained powers? This is nothing in comparison.
That’s never a valid argument – wrong is wrong.
Them doing something horrible to you then you doing something (arguably) less horrible to them doesn’t make you right – it just means two people are being horrible rather than one.
Now if you have to engage in a lesser horror to prevent a greater one, that’s defensible. But as far as I can tell that never even entered Regent’s thinking here. It was payback, pure and simple.
Trying to be the lesser evil is a losing game – you’re still being evil.
A) “wrong is wrong” not really. The entire point of worm is about perspectives. And that is not even mentioning moral relativity.
B) Most people are not arguing that what regent did is “right” (morally and legally), merely that it is permissible in that his victim is not an innocent. Again, perspectives. I shed no tears when murderers and rapists are tortured or killed; I have a limited number of fucks I can give and i choose to spend them on people who are innocent. Your opinions and moral values may differ from mine on that account.
C) I don’t think anyone debates that regent is a very fucked up individual. He is no better than SS (in my eyes) but i don’t think that has anything to do with whether or not we should feel sorry for SS.
The two people above me seem to be trying to excuse Regent’s actions by arguing that SS deserved what she got.
I don’t believe his actions were excusable.
Worm is about perspectives but I don’t believe that even at its worst it intended to imply that morality is entirely relative.
Morality IS entirely relative (unless you believe that there is a being in the sky that decides right and wrong; if you do then this argument will go nowhere)
The interesting thing about most people who are saying SS deserved it is that they are not trying to justify Regents actions (they might think they are) but rather their feelings about his actions. i.e. they were happy to see SS get tortured, so they have to justify it – not for regent but for themselves, by telling themselves that she deserved it.
Regent doesn’t need his actions excused. He is a villain who has been doing horrible and fucked up thing most of his life. At this point in the story the readers have two perspectives towards Regent: either they accept what he has done, who he is and what he will continue to do and like him despite that (or because of that) or they reject him and decide that they cannot handle what he has done and will continue to do. Either way no excuses need to be made since he is a villain; he doesn’t wear a white hat and pretend to be the good guy (unlike SS i might add) so you needn’t make excuses to go on thinking he is the good guy. Although again, good and bad are matters of perspective.
No, I don’t believe that there is a being in the sky that decides right and wrong (and if there was I’m not convinced that being God automatically gives them moral authority).
What I *do* believe is that, as human beings we have a common mental biology. We have commonalities and two of those shared commonalities are empathy and compassion. These act as a universal basis for morality amongst human beings (there’s a reason so many different cultures have come up with some variant of the Golden Rule).
If we ever have to deal with non-human intelligences (be they alien, AI or something else) we may have to re-evaluate the objectiveness of morality, but amongst human beings morality is clearly not purely relative.
I agree with you about the god thing, although if you believe that it created right and wrong as well then I suppose it would have moral authority. But I digress.
I’m not sure that i agree with you. Yes humans have a common mental Biology, but compassion and empathy are (partially at least) learned traits. Children generally have to be taught that hurting others is wrong, rather than being aware of that by instinct. As for morality being decided by a collective, shouldn’t that mean that things like homosexuality are morally wrong, seeing as the majority of people believe that? I think you are confusing things. Yes lots of people have similar moral codes, but that is because they are influenced by society similarly ( .i.e their parents and their religion believe that being homosexual is morally wrong and so they think so too) it does nothing to prove that morality is somehow objective.
And if it is, then whose sense of morality should we be going by? The once who believe that eating meat is murder? The ones who believe that stoning people to death for adultery is acceptable? (just to name a few) Human being disagree over everything, especially the subject of right and wrong.How can one person say that their moral code is somehow better or more moral than another persons? No; the only thing that makes sense is to accept that everyone has their own code of conduct, and that their morality/immorality are decide by how well they keep to it.
That being said, one can still be determined as good or bad according to the Law; but laws exist to ensure that we act in ways that are conducive to consolidating a functioning society. And many lawmaking parties agree that certain actions are NOT conducive to that end; murder for example. (this last part is in response to the golden rule comment)
Neurobiology shows that we (and other primates at least – not sure about other species of mammals) have mirror neurons. These are what enable us to ‘put ourselves in the shoes of” another person. It’s why when guys see another guy take a blow to a *cough* sensitive region, we instantly wince as though we ourselves have been hit. How this correlates to “having to” teach kids empathy I don’t know. It’s possible such teaching isn’t as necessary as we assume, or its possible that it’s a feature of more fully developed brains (in which case teaching may or may not help children reach that stage faster). Personally I suspect the latter.
You’ll note that I said that morality is not *purely* relative. There are core human values which are objective, or close enough to. Basically all societies consider human life is valuable and should be respected. Ditto property, freedom and so on. We’re also a very tribal species though, and many cultures throughout history consider morals to apply to full citizens, not to outsiders – which could include everything from slaves to foreigners to women.
The further you get away from universal human experience and values the more subjective morals become. Homosexuality is an example of this – most people can’t envision wanting to sleep with someone of the same sex. It seems icky and wrong. In some ways morality against homosexuality is actually a misapplication of the Golden Rule – “Do unto others as you would have others do unto you – and I would *not* have others do that unto me”. Of course the other way of looking at that is to realise that under the Golden Rule I would want others to let me live my life any way that makes me happy and doesn’t harm anyone.
What rights animals should have is also comparatively subjective and comes down to how tribal our outlook is – are animals outsiders not deserving of rights like us? Or are they living beings just like we are who we should grant the same rights to life and happiness that we apply to ourselves? (I sit at the morally undefensible “probably, but they’re yummy!” position. >_>)
In summary I would say that human morality varies from a firm objective core where shared human experience and perspective overlaps, out to entirely subjective at the edges where situations are so unusual or complex that people are having to essentially invent the morality to cope with it on the fly. Most issues fall somewhere in-between – there are universal or general moral principles which serve as guidance in decision-making but how strongly a given principle should be weighted in a particular situation involves personal interpretation (especially if there are multiple principles involved – is it reasonable to kill someone who’s trying to steal your property, for example).
I feel that we have strayed far from the original topic; not that I mind, the discussion has still been engaging.
While mirror neurons may enable us to put ourselves in the shoes of another person, they exist alongside our aggressive and destructive tendencies. The fact is that both are needed (or rather, were needed) in order for a society to function. Case and point: Chimpanzees (our closest relatives and therefore the best example of what early human behavior would have been like) are regularly see displaying compassion and empathy to each other; whether it be consoling an injured troop mate or what have you. But this does not stop them from regularly beating each other to death, and yes, in some cases, even raping each other (and no, not just the members of other troops). The point of what I’m saying is that having empathy does not negate or automatically make violence wrong; apes apparently do both and have no real sense of right and wrong. In essence, because of social evolution, humans no longer need to struggle as much (for food, dominance, or mates; there are places where this is not true and we generally tend to find that the people who live there are far more comfortable with violence) and as such we have discarded those violent acts and thoughts as being of no real use. Instead we now prize empathy and compassion, but this does not indicate that either side is inherently right; merely that one side is more useful and constructive to the way our society currently works.
“The further you get away from universal human experience and values the more subjective morals become.” This is excellently put, but, unlike you, I feel that rather than this causing some group of morals to become objective, it simply makes certain moral codes more common. Gravity is objective. It acts according to a set number of observable rules that remain constant; that is what it means to be objective. Morality on the other hand, shifts constantly; you put this down to people “othering” those who are different to them, but does that truly matter? If 2000 years ago the vast majority of people on earth believed there was nothing morally reprehensible about slavery and nowadays nearly everyone believes otherwise, does that not show a shift in moral reasoning? The fact that moral codes have changed in regards to slavery, homosexuality, rape, and murder over the years. Proves that even the so called “core” of moral believes is subject to altercations and subtle influences; the reason why this moral shift occurred is inconsequential.
But this is all irrelevant because even if every single person in the world agrees that something is right, it does not make that thing right. Even if a large group of persons have a similar “core set of morals” what makes said set right? The problem with morals is that they are leftovers from religion: a being writes an indomitable law into the universe that says certain actions are good while others are bad. That being then backs said moral code with cause and effect: An action that is good sends you to a happy place when you die, while and action that is bad sends you elsewhere (you can substitute this with “causes you to be judged” in any way you like). But without this being there is nothing to hold the belief in place. Why is killing someone bad? Because it hurts other people. But what if I refute the belief that hurting others is bad? The point is that moral right and wrong are like god; one cannot prove their existence. One also cannot prove that their version is the correct version.
I feel like this last post of mine does a very poor job of eloquently explaining my point but alas, I find the abstract to be difficult to explain in general. That being said I agree with you on most things, especially your degrees of variance view on moral subjectivity/relativity. The farther one gets from commonly shared human experiences the greater number of opinions on what is right and wrong there are. I simply don’t follow it to the same conclusion as you, as I simply do not believe that there is any moral beliefs that can be truly absolute.
Please (@alexman695) on January 3, 2017 at 02:23 said:
“Yes, that’s awesome payback.”
Glad you agree. This was satifying
JJ Jameson on May 25, 2017 at 17:31 said:
If you mess with best you better not miss baby, she deserved what she got, Regent is the most suave motherfucker in the group and I won’t stand the slander of his respectful name.
Fanboy Akyso on October 12, 2019 at 14:07 said:
Regent I like. Mostly because his detatched, rude and as he said asshole behaviour is something that I myself use as a cope. So yeah. Regent. Badass.
I thought Wildbow was amping things up to the point that even the most Sophia-hating readers would realize Regent went too far. I guess there’s a parallel to Poe’s Law about immorality, or at least vengeance. “No matter how nasty you make something, someone will think it’s badass.”
Man. One door opens, another closes for Taylor.
Mr. Walaa on May 15, 2012 at 00:32 said:
Damm she got her comeuppance in spades and it could not have gone to a more deserving person. To say that I was not totally drawn in by this chapter was an understatement.
Drunkfu on May 15, 2012 at 00:37 said:
I kind of sort of DON’T want her to leave town because of all the potential she has to mix things up, and absolutely want to read about her trying to explain what happened to see how she deals.
pinmalken on May 8, 2018 at 15:17 said:
This may seem strange, but getting some insight into the origins of her disfunction… was one of the most satisfying things about this section. Gaining some understanding that she was, in some fashion, abused, by this ‘Stephen’ — that she was -preyed- upon… She was twisted by it, sought to regain her lost control by excercising abuse, dominance, control over others around her (Taylor, random criminals as SS).
It does not excuse anything she did, but It’s wonderful to gain some more… understanding, of the story behind it.
Well, so much for the Undersiders not getting on the heroes bad side if this gets out. I think this sort of behaviour is exactly the sort of thing that will prevent Taylor from ever being on friendly terms with any hero if the need arises, it is taking Glory Girl’s sister hostage magnified a lot. And some people might skip this whole not using lethal force even if it means the villains get away the next time it comes up.
I guess it is a good thing that there are no threats on the horizon that will require cooperation or at least that the heroes trust the villains enough to take them seriously when they talk about the end of the world. Chances of this not coming out and coming back to bite anyone are practically zero.
Hmm. I hadn’t realised Regent knew all about Taylor. Tattletale? General deduction?
Now, I…kind of don’t really like this ending. There’s no closure for Taylor. Yes, she’s rid of one of her primary antagonists, but she had nothing to do with it, and it happened in a way that she likely wouldn’t be comfortable with. That’s not really the best resolution.
*necrocomment!*
Taylor told the entire crew about the bullying at Fugly Bob’s when she told them about her trigger event. Shell 4.3. Not much deduction required — although there may be a bit of “so *that’s* why she was okay with kidnapping Shadow Stalker!” going on.
Darker on October 18, 2017 at 13:45 said:
Taylor is definitely not okay with what Alec did. Back in the same chapter she expressely told them that she wants them to NOT get involved :Ü™
CraftySyndicate on March 16, 2018 at 12:15 said:
because it was her problem to handle which has been stated more than once. she didn’t want anyone intruding on her life because she felt it would only make it worse. the only reason she hasn’t done anything worse to sophia is because she doesn’t want to go down that road and lose what little morality she has, she has however contemplated it and forced herself not to hurt sophia on multiple occasions. if you look back to the situation in the book store she was ready to fight sophia with grue at her back but failed because she was delayed by the racist book store owner.
Richard on May 8, 2018 at 21:18 said:
At this point in the story, none of the Undersiders except Taylor know that Shadow Stalker is Sophia. Only Taylor and Grue know that Sophia is one of Taylor’s bullies, but Grue does NOT know that Sophia is Shadow Stalker.
What the Undersiders DO know is that Taylor knows Shadow Stalkers real identity, and they know that Shadow Stalker tried to murder Taylor. I believe that THIS is what this entire chapter is in retaliation for. If Regent knew that Sophia was one of Taylor’s bullies as well as Shadow Stalker, he probably would have ended here here.
Regent worked it out in this chapter.
“He knew he should feel bad for the dork, but he only felt annoyed. He felt worse about the fact that he didn’t feel bad than he did about what he’d just read.”
By the end, he knew exactly who she was.
afifakhan2001 on May 15, 2012 at 00:54 said:
‘Were he to open his own mouth now and speak to Brian or Alec’, possible mistake there. did you mean lisa or taylor? anyway interesting chapter as he is a character that stands around in the background, so much more depth give to his character in this chapter and also it was nice to see shadow stalker squirm some more.
Good eye. Fixed.
MadNinja on May 15, 2012 at 02:26 said:
Regent the parasite.
Nah, let’s work on some titles here.
Regent the Mindripper
More like Regent The Body Snatcher. Since the victim’s mind is still there own but not there bodies.
Regent the Mindcrusher
I like throwing mind in there and going for something fearsome. That’s why I’m not saying something like “Regent the Bodyjacker.” That, and Bodyjacker just doesn’t sound right, even if it sounds like he’s done dirty deeds dirt cheap with those other bodies.
I think “Regent the Bodyjacker” is just right.
Fjolnir on February 21, 2015 at 20:59 said:
Hilariously, “Regent” is a pretty solid title for a master like this, the person who controls a kingdom on behalf of another?
Nix on February 21, 2015 at 21:41 said:
Quite. His name seemed… odd to start with. Why would someone whose power is to make someone twitch called Regent rather than Cramp? And then we see what his power can really do…
(It’s appropriate for another reason, too. A regent can’t just waltz in from outside and take a kingdom over — he has to plan and prepare. Regent’s power is just the same, though it only takes an hour or so rather than years.)
Jinx on May 15, 2012 at 02:57 said:
I had to stop reading halfway through. Simply because of how horrific Regent’s power is. The nightmarish possibilities of what he could do were too much.
Oh, I kept reading. I wasn’t too sure about what he did to her at the time, but I’ve come around to it as I wrote this.
I mean, here we have her get her comeuppance, and then some. So the scales are somewhat balanced when it comes to her, Emma, and Taylor, as well as her and Grue.
Her time as a hero is over, though. I’d like to say that means she stops completely, but she’s going to keep on doing stuff whether she’s got approval or not. Ignoring that she was controlled at the time, there’s finally proof implicating her and Emma with the bullying. That’s not going to do much yet, since the school is sleeping with the fishes, but it keeps Emma’s dad from weasaling her out of it and it’s troublesome for Stalker’s probation. This is someone who doesn’t need to be in power. Neither does Regent, but at least he’s somewhat capable of doing the right thing despite his psychopathy (and I might be using the term accurately there).
Of course, all this was secondary to the real purpose. He wanted to make sure she was absolutely convinced that leaving the city was in her best interests.
Because the fact that someone randomly could take control of her at potentially any time wasn’t enough of a reason. I guess we know why he had to be so blatant about it.
So, from deep down in the bottom of my heart, I would just like to say about Sophia: “…and the horse you rode in on!”
Crap, now who are we going to have fun hating on in the story?
Oooh, I know, y’all can all hate on me for being the annoying guy who talks about himself a lot and fails miserably at being funny!
Sophia IS the horse he rode in on.
If only she was an entire horse. She’s more like just the horse’s ass.
einargs on October 10, 2014 at 12:09 said:
I dunno, throughout the whole thing I was cheering for regent. At the end I was so annoyed that he didn’t have her suicide, because it would have been hilarious seeing Piggott and Taylor’s reactions. I might be a bit messed up, but I always fantasized about doing this my bullies. Preferably with a flourine capsule with argon to keep it from burning through down their stomach… ah their insides would literally be on fire, and in the end they’d have a cauterized hole through there stomach and anus, if I added phosphates. No, I’m perfectly sane, why do you ask?
Alli on April 18, 2016 at 00:53 said:
I think theres two ways how bully victims feel about death; wanting to kill the bully (to end the bullying and hurt them how they hurt you) or wanting to kill yourself (to cause them horrific guilt and end the bullying). Honestly, I was the latter when I was bullied, and I still think this way because fucking someone over psychologically about death means they have to live with that, whereas death just ends it for them.
Dread Pirate on January 14, 2018 at 19:47 said:
You could argue that Regent has just provided the best of both worlds, here. Hurt them how they hurt [others], cause horrific psychological trauma (possibly even guilt if she does some introspection, but I’m not holding my breath), and end the bullying.
Can’t really blame Regent for abusing his power like this. Especially since in his place I’d abuse it more.
Though is this thing he did here doesn’t backfire I’ll eat my ham sandwich.
Considering that they now have solid evidence about Sophia’s and Emma’s bullying, the police are going to want to get in contact with the girl they bullied and who tried to bring it up, Taylor, to build a case. That will lead them to her tendency to skip school and eventually leaving it altogether. With her in the system as a troubled girl with a traumatic experience (mental institution records) she might set off some warnings set up by Dragon that are used to investigate if someone’s had an experience that causes superpowers, prompting them to look more into those absences if they can. Also, as a missing teen, they’ll want photographs of her which might wind up matched by advanced programs with clear photos of Skitter.
Mainly, the police will be looking for her as a civilian, but not in a hostile manner considering that her absences were, as far as they’d know, the result of that bullying behavior. She would be low priority right now.
Brockton Bay is in ruins, and Taylor’s Dad doesn’t know where to find her. Cops won’t spend much effort there. Things will not be quite so comfortable for Emma and Madison after this, though.
PandaGrill on May 9, 2014 at 07:46 said:
It is funny reading this comment when reading the second time through. I wonder what your reaction was during that chapter.
FYI, gang, I’ve updated the cast page to reflect the new status quo.
I urge you guys to point out anyone I’m missing, and to feel free to poke me to add details on any newly introduced character (or details about a character as of yet undescribed). Too easy to slack on that front, in any case.
Hm, I noticed that Faultline seems to have gone ahead with recruiting Shamrock…
Had the voting turned out differently, Arc 9 might have featured Faultline’s crew and the recruitment, and many more details would have been revealed about the Case 53s. Sophia’s interlude chapter would have been the interlude between arc 9 and arc 10.
As is, all that same stuff happened in the background.
Josh on September 3, 2013 at 21:17 said:
Legend is still not on the non-spoiler list.
Jake on May 15, 2012 at 10:13 said:
Wildbow, excellent post. I don’t know if I’ve ever read such a convincing sociopath. Regent is… disturbing.
I doubt it’d work though, because Weld knew Sophia was being controlled and all that stuff about each person’s M.O. and when something doesn’t seem to fit
It wouldn’t except for all those text messages archiving her bullying. Sophia is *screwed*; there is no way the Wards won’t lock her up, and she needs them to corroborate the “I was body-jacked” story.
THF on May 15, 2012 at 10:19 said:
I usually try not to swear on the internet,but holy fuck, I think that was one of the scariest things I’ve ever read.
Wow. Quite a compliment, that.
alextfish on November 27, 2013 at 19:03 said:
…Yeah, I’m pretty much with you there. And I thought it was unpleasant in 9.6 when we were inside Sophia’s head. Wow. That’s nothing compared to this.
Incredibly disturbing. Very effective, wildbow.
Oh, hey. This happens to be the 100th chapter of Worm. Woohoo.
100 chapters.
1,689 comments.
125 tags (I tag recurring characters so their names appear at the bottom of the posts, so ~125 characters)
Somewhere between 375,000-400,000 words written.
Amusing search terms people have used that led them to Worm:
(AKA, people don’t know how to search, or they do and they’re looking for porn)
“had the toe rings”
wear we can find wildbaw meet in dandenong
rock staddy grue
“full body pantyhose” “performed ” -porn -sexy
wall worm physique file missing
faultline – describe the movement of dance cigarette
weight stability mouse leviathan
the undersiders book flake (hope that’s not someone implying I’m a flake. ;))
“muscles began to” “teenager” superheroine
grue stomach growls
grue moon cartoon
giantess shrink machine beat father pantyhose (I don’t even know)
menja shat.nl
man makes howling sound after concussion
lifts superheroine over his head crotch
a folded ink blot. rigid transformation? yes no if yes, which type of
i think a worm fell from my ceiling vent
long white spear shaped worm in cats poo
dreams stainless mesh and worms in wrist
he believed he had a different type of world and couldn’t understand why god put him in grue
who was the leader of tattletales in seven spiders spinning
tied lisa arms and legs to her body with metal wirs, pointed her from head to feet
parasites on face a worm climbed out of my mouth (There’s a lot of these)
estocasticom on May 15, 2012 at 13:58 said:
hehe, weird searched…awsome novel.
To the page archivement i will add a TvTroope page and a Wiki (work in progress). I can see a Wikipedia page in the future once you began publishing in dead-trees.
By the way: 125 characters, Wow, in the wiki we only have a page for 13 of them so far. We have a lot of work ahead…i like it.
Same deal as I made with Valran for the chapter summaries/entries. If you’ll put together the character pages, I’ll see about adding tidbits of information & trivia for the ones you get done. Won’t do them all, but I’ll see what I can offer.
Not sure about the wikipedia page. Worm isn’t that high on the Notability count.
Noticed a link to it from Legion of Nothing. Felt like bringing the sheer terror of Psycho Gecko commentary down upon another great story. Read my works, ye mighty, and despair.
…nothing beside remains.
Happy 100th.
A surprising number of people have searched for Psycho Gecko, interestingly. Someone trying to track you down? Or just a fan, wanting to follow your mad ramblings?
I have no clue. I’ve searched maybe three times to see if people have been saying things. It feels good to have people say good things about me here and at Jim’s site, but I also worry if someone just sees me as trying to hijack the stuff(Quoth the Robot Devil: “You can’t have your characters just say how they feel! That makes me feel angry!”). Instead, I’ve seen an increase in people talking about pet geckos and using the term psycho. There’s also some spamming there from this one website thing that manages guilds, including a Supergroup I’m in on City of Heroes (Now free to play!). Since my Global in the game is @Psycho Gecko, it pops up a little. Unfortunately, someone else seems to have grabbed that with DC Universe online, but I don’t play that anyway.
I don’t have any kind of blog or site of my own. I briefly did try to blog about whatever came to my mind under a different name, but I got about three posts off and haven’t been back to it since. My posts as Psycho Gecko and stories featuring me are on Legion of Nothing and here. Generally they’re small one-shots that are either making a point, poking fun at things, or have what I felt were funny references to the story. Or combinations of those. Three consecutive Thursdays, I posted parts of a story in Jim’s comments at LoN. Psychonomous Gex! The Rise of Psycho Gecko, if anyone wants to search for that. More of a present day summary.
I’d like to tell the full backstory on its own sometime, but that’s quite a task. If I wanted to share it, I’d need a site, and who wants to stop by just for a short story like that? I’d feel bad dropping it in yours or Jim’s comments too. I felt embarrassed enough that I went through with that one over on LoN. It didn’t help that I made an error in one part that made an entire comical list gag useless. At least you get to correct your mistakes.
Aside from that, I do have some writings that are about different characters from City of Heroes on a couple of other sites, not necessarily under this name because of them being Supergroups. My gas-mask wearing mad bomber woman predates yours, Wildbow.
In our top coincidence news, there’s some wierd relationship between something called Psychonomics and something called Gex or gEX. Had no clue about that one. Also didn’t know about Xolotl and Axolotl until real recently and that was also kinda freaky, especially given that the Psycho stands for Psychopomp and that one of the things he uses his powers for is rapid regeneration. Regeneration is such an overdone power, but he’s no Wolverine or Deadpool. Well, some people I know have drawn comparisons to Deadpool, so I try to avoid reading him. Don’t want any inadvertent (or advertant) cross contamination while writing.
JN on October 20, 2012 at 22:36 said:
I’m boring. I saw it mentioned on the LON comments and googled: worm superhero.
Pft. I simply googled “worm”. Suppose you’ve come a long way, Wildbow. Congratulations.
Ilutu-Lili on May 15, 2012 at 13:03 said:
Really good writing here. Has Imp been mentioned on the cast page yet? Her power is interesting to me.
Added Imp.
thewarriorofmanyfaces on September 3, 2014 at 10:56 said:
The irony.
Um the Muse on May 15, 2012 at 13:53 said:
Various typo’s, with corrections in square brackets:
enough and try to follow [enough to try and follow]
eveyr [every]
We’re going [to] go
whinge [British spelling; American spelling is without the g: whine]
but it’s the sort of thing I can do because it feels like I should [? Maybe remove the “can”]
That was an intense and interesting chapter. I kind of always felt that Alec was hiding a sly, conniving mind behind his devil-may-care attitude. I admit that I thought he was a spy or traitor of some sort, though.
I can easily see how having that kind of control could be addicting. I think that it says a lot about him that he was able to give it up. I wonder why he did, though. Was it out of a sense of duty? An abhorrence of his father?
Changes made. I think I made a few of those hours ago, though? You start compiling the list & then put it down for a long while?
Keeping whinge, though. It fits with where Alec came from (he was born & spent more than half his life in an area where many anglophones had some strong British/Scottish ancestry/identification, and his father lived in the United Kingdom for some time, so Alec could have easily picked it up somewhere, growing up.)
Why did he stop using his power? It’s been hinted at, but the primary reasons were that Tattletale knew it would scare Taylor off, it’s problematic to use, it’s the sort of thing that brings the heroes down on your head, if you’re not careful, and lastly, he wanted to fly under the radar and not draw his dad’s attention.
Oh, yeah. I get your newest chapter e-mailed to me and then I read it through the day when I feel like taking a break from my work. Sorry if you already made the corrections.
Also, I realize that Regent had a lot of good reasons to keep this a secret and to use the power sparingly. That said, I could see this being something that would be hard to stop once you started, no matter how irrational that would be.
Makes sense. Thanks for taking the time to alert me.
Out of curiosity, how do you pronounce “whinge”? Is it just like “whine,” or is it pronounced differently?
(h)winj.
Like the ‘wh’ from whip and the ‘inge’ from hinge.
Hm…I wonder if Sophia’s mother ever realized that Sophia didn’t quite sound right…
“So what did he do do you?”
Second “do” should probably be a “to”. Unless Regent is slurring his words oddly or something.
merdinus on January 15, 2015 at 23:21 said:
‘Whine’ and ‘whinge’ are not the same word. Whining more closely refers to higher pitches like when a dog is scared; whinging is specifically complaining, with the word being used mostly when you’re implying that the complaint is petty and inconsiderate. In usage, though, when you hear that someone was whinging, you consider it a given that they were using a specific tone of voice, usually a whine.
Sarah on May 15, 2012 at 15:00 said:
I’ve been reading for a while but this is the first time I’ve commented because it’s the best chapter so far! On the one hand the potential uses for Regent’s power are horrifying but on the other is is so satisfying to see Sophia finally brought down but on a third hand I feel like a sociopath revelling in that. But it is Sophia…. Why am I so conflicted?!? Take that as a compliment to your character development skills 🙂
Congrats on 100 chapters!
You’re conflicted because you have a conscience.
name_not_required on January 19, 2013 at 18:46 said:
Gosh… for a moment I thought he would do it… By that, sealing his own fate and that of his team members…
Even what he already did (emails to police & school, weirding out Emma and especially scaring her family) may have been a bit too much… If she ever talks about it, seriousness will be some levels up, which means: The Birdcage for him and the Undersiders. *shudder*. Hm… thinking again… he is already bound for the Birdcage, for killing. But still…
I think I need to calm down before I go to sleep.
On the other hand, there is no evidence that it was him that sent the e-mail, and it would take the PRT admitting that the other actions could have been done by Regent to give them much chance of getting caged for that.
Besides, Coil’s taking over the city; taking over one hero isn’t that much, by comparison.
at the beggining i felt that the chapter inspired postivie emotions,with shadow stalker getting what she deserved, but as the chapter went on i stopped thinking she deserved it and starting thinking reagent was going too far, by the end i felt sympathetic for shadow stalker, and started to realize that reagent really is a sociopath. he probably didnt realize he was doing something wrong, and felt like he was doing the right thing, but it was also clear that he enjoyed other poeples pain and would, if he could without risk, control as many people as possible and do stuff like this to all of them, deserving or not.
The thing I find the scariest about Regent is that he DOES seem to know what he is doing is utterly wrong and fucked up. And he just doesn’t care. He is so screwed up from his upbringing that practically nothing brings him any feeling and he gets more pissed about not having feelings than anything that should cause those feelings. It’s scary as hell to know that the only thing that keeps him from going all out is loyalty to his team (partly because he feels he should be loyal than actually needing to be loyal) and he knows if he pushes it too far than the heroes will gun for him as a priority.
The only time I felt bad for Sophia was when he threatened her mom actually. I knew bullies like her, was bullied myself and I know of at least one person who killed themself to get away from bullies. So I have very little sympathy for people like Sophia. If you drive someone as far as they drove Taylor, then you deserve every amount of Karma she received here and more so. One single horrible awful bad day does not make up for over a year of shear torture. Because that’s what the trio did. Torture. I’m amazed that Taylor didn’t snap and either kill herself or kill them prior to the start of the story. Sophia deserved this.
baufenbeast on October 3, 2014 at 23:41 said:
I believe it’s mentioned earlier that Taylor herself thought that she had been travelling down that road; if her power hadn’t come in to distract her and give her a superhero life to look forward to, she might have turned suicidal. It’s scary to think about how it actually makes sense, and more so that this kind of stuff actually happens in real life.
Mike on May 2, 2013 at 10:29 said:
The first time I read this, I remember thinking that this was terrifying and Alec was a huge dick. Re-reading it now, Alec is a dick, but he’s also a pretty swell guy considering his background and personality. That line about him feeling worse about not feeling anything is subtle, yet powerful in that context.
I felt similarly — but you’re right about the ‘considering’. His morality hardware has been burned out, but he’s trying to emulate it in software.
God on May 26, 2013 at 07:33 said:
Man. So regent basically raped a bunch of people with his power? I know its is dads fault that he’s fucked up but damn he really is a fucking sociopath.
Still kind of fun watching someone be evil with their powers and have fun doing it.
But yeah this chapter kind of makes Regent terrifying.
TinkerTailor on June 30, 2013 at 18:55 said:
Back when I first read this chapter, I honestly thought Alec was going to do it, and I felt really bad for Sophia. She has ridiculously bad karma, but doesn’t deserve being made to hang herself. It was a very suspenseful chapter, with a real sense of growing dread. I was very releived by the time the chapter ended. Kudos to wildbow, for prompting that sort of emotional response for a character as unlikable as her.
On my reread, I was more able to pick up on some of the hints as to her backstory, too. Interesting stuff.
Kailen on October 15, 2015 at 13:55 said:
I felt really bad for Sophia. She has ridiculously bad karma, but doesn’t deserve being made to hang herself.
No, what she truly deserves is for the last thing she ever sees to be Skitter saying, “you want to know why?” *takes off her mask* “This is why.” And then Alec causes her to step off of a nice, tall building and makes sure she doesn’t go shadowform for the next few seconds.
Did you know that if you stepped off a 14-story building, it would only take about 3 seconds before you reached the ground, in which time gravity would accelerate your body to 60 MPH? After those 3 seconds, her body would impact against asphalt or concrete and decelerate back to 0 again in much less than 3 seconds, causing her to splatter.
Like a bug.
She is a murderer, an unrepentant murderer at that, and moreover an unrepentant superpowered murderer, and that’s before we even get into any of the things she’s done to Taylor. that’s exactly what she deserves and I’m kind of disappointed it didn’t end that way. I really am.
Takashoru on April 5, 2016 at 14:40 said:
Man, that would have been great. I think Sophia would have had to have done something worse for Taylor to have gone for that, but just the idea of that scene gives me chills.
irrevenant on April 6, 2016 at 17:19 said:
Actually, leaving her in shadowform might be worse assuming she falls into the ground and just keeps going…
While she probably *deserved* to be hanged, at this point it would be overkill. Her life is ruined.
DefiantPotato on July 2, 2013 at 03:43 said:
Been waiting for an idea of Alec’s “fuckedupness” for a while. Great chapter
mdman1 on August 7, 2013 at 03:26 said:
Oh my god, this chapter… just this chapter…
I’ve been archive binging up to this point and intend to go on further but wow, amazing writing. It evoked so much emotion, without a doubt one of the best chapters in the story I’ve read so far.
Regent is scary, but you wrote him in a way that gave me so much schadenfreude that I pulled muscles from laughing so hard during the early antics. Sobered up a bit later but wow, really fitting for Sophia, karma is a bitch. Just an awesome story (first comment).
Intelligent Fool on August 9, 2013 at 23:13 said:
I started this expecting that it would make me hate Regent, or at least dislike him rather than generally be annoyed by him and suspicious of him. Then, I was totally into it. By the end I wished he’d killed SS. No reason to let her live, really, other than doing what he said he would to the group. But he could make up an excuse to get around that. I’d think she’s more trouble alive than her death would create.
Still, fast thinking on his part.
I noticed that in the past few chapters you’d used the word “grunt” a lot, and in places where it didn’t fit right. I was surprised that in this whole chapter the word didn’t show up after the second sentence – which was just a restating of what happened in the last chapter.
The problem with killing her is that it would bring the PRT down on him and the Undersiders. The group is more of the underdogs at the moment. Nobody really puts priority on them besides Coil because while they are annoying they haven’t done anything worth putting big resources into hunting them down like ABB or EEE. Blatant murder would rocket them straight up in the priority whether or not it was with their consent.
Nim on August 24, 2013 at 08:14 said:
It’s the little things that really sell this short. Stuff like Alec pausing to check youtube because he doesn’t know how to tie a noose. Keeps things grounded, reminds you that whatever else he might be, he’s human. Helps the reader to stay connected and empathize, which only ratchets the horror of his actions that much higher.
I don’t think “sell this short” means what you mean (cf.), but you’re right — it’s a good touch.
Hmm, yeah the context is a little awkward, go with “sell this arc,” instead.
I had the same reaction to the comment too, but it’s actually correct as is. “Short” is a common abbreviation for a short story or film. Nim was saying it’s the little choices that help sell this short story, and he’s right.
The language ambiguity is unfortunate. That’s one of the dangers of English. Its flexibility and ambiguity is brilliant for writers (and comedians. 🙂 letting them express things in a nuanced, layered way. It also makes it very easy to inject double meanings where you weren’t intending to.
Not to mention all the double-meanings that get injected in the years after, when new words and language-constructions are introduced into the language. (Obligatory TV Trope.)
trebar on April 4, 2017 at 17:54 said:
I get what you’re saying, but I would still argue that you are wrong. “Sell [something] short” already has a meaning independent of your explanation, and it is actually the opposite of the intended meaning. To sell something short is to get less value that it deserves. For example, if you sell yourself short you do not have confidence in yourself. The saying derives from the concept of “short-selling” a stock, which is when you borrow stock to sell it now in the belief that the price will drop later.
The idea they are trying to convey is fine; they are saying the short story sells itself really well because of the little details. But the phrase “the details really sell this story short” would mean that the details themselves are getting in the way of the story and preventing it from reaching its full potential. This is the opposite of the intended meaning.
CNR on August 24, 2013 at 18:35 said:
Holy sh*t.
I’m not exactly sympathetic towards Shadow Stalker
(as per comment on SS’s Interlude, she’s one of the few characters I actually find myself hating with no sympathy at all)
but this is scary.
I still don’t feel sorry for her. At least, not in any rational sense. Regent completely screwed her life over and probably psychologically damaged her for life, and I feel bad about the idea of that happening to someone in the abstract, but I still think she deserved it, in the context of what she already did.
My main reaction to this isn’t sympathy for Sophie, it’s fear and awe. Regent just jumped several rungs closer to “favorite” and “scariest” characters in this story. He took over this girl’s body and used that to destroy her life while she watched from inside, which to me is much scarier than even the Endbringers…
…but he did it because she deserved it, and because she had hurt his teammate, which to me makes him a lot more likable, by some twisted reasoning.
I’m going to have so much fun getting to sleep tonight. Keep up the amazing work, Wildbow.
I agree on all accounts. Regent is far scarier to me than the Endbringers. They will kill you but they will kill you fast and you will see it coming. This guy makes your mind a prison and can use your own muscle memory to damn you. It’s scary as shit.
And yes I love how he basically fried his hard drive and runs a simulation of what should be there. And that he did this to her because of Taylor. So glad he is on the protagonist’s side!
I like Regent now. 🙂
I’m not a sociopath like him but I can imagine doing something similar myself (particularly enjoying an athletic body with powers).
EF on September 23, 2013 at 12:34 said:
I have not been able to stop obsessively reading this story since I discovered it a few days ago, and I just wanted to say that WOW this is by far my favorite chapter. More than a bit disturbing and sociopathic, but awesome and fantastically written. I’m a bit disturbed by how exultant I was the whole way through. Also now I’m alarmed at the disappointment I felt when he DIDN’T kill her. Like other commenters have said, I suddenly find myself really liking Regent. Great work!
“I think I’m done with listening to you whinge,”
I think it should be “whine”, unless that was intentional and I just don’t know the slang.
Whinge is a word.
Whinge is also a *word* word, not slang. (As in, it is so much a word in the UK that I had no idea until now that it wasn’t universal in English-speaking countries. It has been used many times by relatively non-slangy sources such as BBC News, the Financial Times and the Economist.)
The OED traces it to late Old English /hwinsian/ (‘whine’ traces to the related /whinan/). Its complaint meaning is actually *older* than the similar meaning of ‘whine’, which dates in that sense only from the 1520s. Both long predate any English colonization of the American continent.
Given that, I wonder why it dropped out of use in the USA? Maybe it was less common in Ireland and the parts of the west country that sourced so much US immigration…
Bgbg on November 15, 2013 at 14:57 said:
Regent just went from a relatively unknown character to taking the lead as my favourite. This chapter was awesome.
Jeremy Young on November 19, 2013 at 05:59 said:
I’ve been loving this so far, and then this chapter, oh my gawd! That was intense. I’ve been reviewing this as an option to have my book club read, and it’s just so unique I think I can sell them on it easily. So much good writing, but this chapter really stands out. Wow.
ceb1970 on November 21, 2013 at 18:27 said:
Just read up to this point over the last week based on the recommendation of the HPMOR author and I am totally hooked. I think this is a perfect spot in the story thus far for me to take a break and smoke a figurative cigarette.
Any speculation about Steven? No matter what Steven put Sophia through that made her such a cruel person (assuming she wasn’t before) it can still be argued that she deserved some sort of punishment for her behavior, though this is obviously extreme. But I wonder if some of us will have to temper our “enthusiasm” for this payback once we learn more about Sophia’s fomulative events.
s on April 3, 2018 at 17:38 said:
Ya know, it might be a nice trope aversion if Steven didn’t really do anything wrong, but just left in a sort-of “no reason to stay” way.
mouse on November 21, 2013 at 23:05 said:
Up to here, the character I’d had the worst opinion of was Bakuda. One of the few people I thought actually deserved life in a one-way deathtrap like the Birdcage, or *maybe* being put down as a precautionary measure.
Regent, though, needs to be *executed*. Publicly, if possible. Yes, Sophia was a bitch. Yes, she was a horrible person. She did not deserve this. *No-one* deserves anything like this. A fucking Endbringer attack would be preferable to allowing Alec to live once he has proven capable and *willing* to do something like this. His father, too, from what we’ve heard so far.
draconian139 on February 24, 2014 at 11:22 said:
Really? I found it justified if not light treatment considering that she attempted to murder Skitter(as well as Grue for that matter) and was not going to let things drop. This is the bigger factor to me, most people seem to have focused on the bullying but that’s just because we read more about it.
I mean lets look at his options as he sees them.
1.Let her go while knowing she’s already tried to kill one teammate
2.Make her commit suicide and try to make it appear like she left town.
3.Keep her hostage indefinitely.
4.Frighten her into leaving town.
Letting someone with no compunctions against murder and a vendetta against you go free when they’re at your mercy requires either a death wish or a noble but stupid outlook.
Option two is worse than what he actually did in my book.
Option three is questionably even worse than two morally speaking. Plus there’s a risk that she’d get free of whatever restraints they used during periods that Regent slept.
I’m fine with option four and really don’t see much wrong with it other than him getting enjoyment out of it. Sophia clearly has mental issues and it would take a lot to frighten her to the extent that he needs to. There could be an argument as to whether he needed to go quite that far but it would be easy to not go far enough.
I’m not sure that anyone’s disagreeing that it was the best tactical move available (though getting Sophia being her lovely murderous self on film and releasing it to the media should work to get her sent to the Birdcage pronto – she’s already on thin ice. If the issue of whether she was being controlled pops up, we’ll Armmaster can detect lies, no?).
What Mouse (and I, for that matter) are saying is that it’s a move that only a monster would actually execute.
I can understand how such a power could be seductive and addictive. And feeling lessened when only on a single body would be horrible. But those other bodies are *inhabited*. Being powerless over your own body and your own life is about the most horrible thing that can happen to someone. Having your enemy control them is worse. (Arguably murder is worse still, but at least a murdered person isn’t still suffering).
Regent seems to be so messed up for good reasons and this action helped out the Undersiders but that doesn’t change the fact he’s a horrific monster.
Dragon on October 15, 2014 at 02:40 said:
Why “executed”? If we execute everyone that is even capable of upsetting the status quo, then soon no one will be left. On the other hand, those who completely abuse their powers (not necessarily super) need to have the capability to use their power taken away. Taking one’s agency to use their power away is the most effective form of punishment, worse than any death penalty.
Of course, that doesn’t mean I support your idea of killing or punishing people like Alec. I mean, everyone is capable of terrible deeds in their own way. The fact that he chooses to channel his power towards benefiting people, even indirectly, by destroying the lives of evil people, rather than destroying innocent lives for his amusement, which he is capable of with his power, is definitely a redeeming factor. Being able to separate what is good from what is evil is pretty much all the morality that is necessary. I wouldn’t say Alec is completely amoral, at this point in the story. In fact, I’d even say he tries to be a good person to his.. well.. colleagues.
Taking a person’s past actions into account is all well and good, but it’s also necessary to give more weight to the person they are trying to be now. Alec has changed his motives, if not his actions, and doesn’t use his powers for personal pleasure anymore. Shadow Stalker, on the other hand, has displayed multiple reasons to be “put down”. If given more power, she’d pretty much enforce her “prey-predator” view upon the entire world. She’d abuse, ruin or even take away the lives of everyone she deems weak, without remorse or doubt. So yes, she very much deserves to have the equation of power turned on her.
Fuck, I can think of hundreds of people who deserve to have their capability to act taken away, just as Regent does. I don’t know why you can’t.
MadScientist14159 on November 24, 2013 at 09:46 said:
I always love reading from the perspective of psychopaths/sociopaths. They always do such *interesting* things in stories, where neurotypical characters would be boring and predictable. I hope there are more chapters from Regents POV.
Curious George on November 28, 2013 at 02:50 said:
Watch that first line, folks, it’s a doozy. Seriously, it stood me on my head with one word. “lied.”
Very happy to learn more about both Shadow Stalker and Regent, and this chapter definitely accomplishes that. And as terrifying and wrong as this is, I’m a bit disturbed to admit that it was also very satisfying, partly because of the way he turns her own nature and past wrongs against her, and partly because seeing her powerless and afraid is a bit of poetic justice. As far as wrongness, though, the way he turns her unconscious reactions against her is almost worse than his outright control of her body. It means that she can’t help betraying herself in small ways, effectively giving him clues about how to hurt her the worst. That would add to the terror a lot, I think.
All in all, extremely troubling – but a great read. I’m not sure whether dying or surviving is worse from SS’s perspective, mainly because I think she’s extremely prideful and each option hits her hard, in significantly different ways. I definitely think that pressuring her not to admit Regent’s responsibility for much of what just happened was a masterstroke, in terms of finding a way to hurt her – this night could well have ramifications for the rest of her life, and she’ll be reminded of what he did every day, most likely. Anytime something makes her think of her family, or school or super-work. Her entire life is probably tainted by this, now, even if she never again sets foot on the same continent as Regent. It’s a hell of a blow. Maximum effect for minimum effort, indeed. And despite the horrific things he does, I still end this chapter feeling more sympathy for Regent than when it started. That is quite an achievement.
I do feel a bit bad for Sophia (though not as much as I probably should) and also for her mother. In a nicer and less logical world, she and Danny Hebert would meet in a local support group for parents of superteens and help each other through the nastiness, or something. Parents of supers often get a raw deal, it seems to me. Even the decent ones.
It’s not spelled out, but I noticed that Mom was pretty quick to fall back to smacking Sophia, showed plenty of anger, little fear, although she knows her daughter is healthy, strong, impulsive and violent. I have a feeling that Sophia had a lot of help digging the hole she’s in.
Jerden on October 12, 2015 at 12:52 said:
Mother slaps daugher with very little provocation, and wonders why her little girl is so angry and violent.
Delta on November 30, 2013 at 18:49 said:
That was… amazing and horrifying. The wham “I lied” line at the start, the guilty amusement as she admits her misdeeds then the increasing unease as she’s forced to do things she wouldn’t then more and more horrible as we see her home and near-suicide. And how this is Alex trying to be good.
Something that occurred to me was that this is in some ways the same as Taylor or Ender’s approach, the willingness to inflict fear or pain if it is necessary and the best way to resolve a situation.
If the rush of controlling people is like a drug to him it’s scary to think what he might start doing once he has his own team and the others can’t keep an eye on him as much.
Jenny Creed on December 17, 2013 at 09:13 said:
“The anger was gone now. There was only fear.”
My favorite part of this very good chapter. It’s neat to have this literal insight in what a character feels, cause it makes it so clear that Alec’s thing works. Probably not in the way he intended, but still: He manages to break Sophia’s illusions of immortality, or superiority. Now that she understands that she’s not better than everyone else – that she can be beaten, and even killed – she can begin to connect with the rest of humanity. Maybe even develop empathy. I think, in her position, a person can only choose to completely embrace other people, care about them and hope that they care about her in turn and try to avoid making people want to do this sort of thing to her again, or reject other people completely and go live in a cabin in the woods.
In either case, everyone wins.
Not that I’m advocating abusing people to the point where they fully believe they’re going to die as a solution to antisocial behavior or anything. It may have worked for me, but I don’t want anyone to go through the same. But speaking as we are, sure about the facts a) exactly what she’s feeling and b) she didn’t die, in Sophia’s case, I think what Alec did helped her.
xGD on December 18, 2013 at 23:42 said:
Or she defines predators as better than prey and defines her abuser as a predator. A belief in her superiority to the majority would then be reinforced.
Or she reasons that while they may be dangerous if given a chance and the right conditions, that’s a motivation to be more careful. There are many ways of mitigating risk.
More than two potential responses to fear down the line.
I haven’t said this yet, so let me say it now: this is an excellent story, one of the best things I have ever read.
Suffice it to say that this is the most disturbing thing I have read in a long, long time. Especially the part where he almost hangs her.
J on December 24, 2013 at 11:27 said:
Yes! Finally Regent gets his on chapter 🙂
I loved this one and I hope we get more Regent in the future.
Henry on December 26, 2013 at 04:18 said:
Katie Cohen on December 26, 2013 at 12:07 said:
Typo alert: “I think I’m done with listening to you whinge,” Regent whispered. I believe it should be “whine.”
Glassware on January 11, 2014 at 19:48 said:
anKLJ on January 30, 2014 at 15:59 said:
I agree that “whinge” is a word; a very Anglo word that Alec would know and use, but …
it is obviously sticking for many USA readers, and is probably NOT a word that Sophia would use. so the question is — would Alec make the little “slip” of putting it in her mouth in front of her mother?
May want to consider that in an edit for publication, Wildbow.
On the other hand:
HOLY. CRAP! did I have Regent under-estimated until now! He is SERIOUSLY powered and scary! Amazing character development!
Sky on December 28, 2013 at 22:01 said:
God. Friendly little pet sociopath they’ve been keeping around.
Taylor knows that Tattletale misses things. It would be smart of her to start asking Tattletale more specific questions about horror scenarios like this, which she seems better at imagining.
swiftmockingjay451 on January 5, 2014 at 17:14 said:
I always kind of liked Regent, especially his costume design, all about deception. It was a bit annoying how you were giving all the characters these awesome backstories, but kept skipping over Regent, leaving him in the background. Now we get a whole chapter of Alec/Regent psychopathic goodness, and I must say, I really, really enjoyed it. Not sure what that says about me, but I wished he had killed Sophia. At the very least, publicly revealed her as Shadow Stalker? The bitch got what was coming to her. I wonder what happens with the suicide note, though, because she didn’t actually commit suicide…?
Alec is quite a scary character now.
rahlian on January 30, 2014 at 01:41 said:
Second time reader first time comment or. Good job asusual wildbow. As a sociopath myself. I couldn’t stop giggling. Would have like to see her die but whatever. I will say that I preferred Alec keep her as his personal meatpuppet but Taylor is too much of a hypocrite for that to ever happen. Still gj wildbow.
WildShipperAppeared on February 1, 2014 at 17:40 said:
Everyone else: lol sophie got what she deserved
holy crap holy crap regent is freaky as shit!
So Alec is bi? This shall have interesting effects on the ships.
I have no idea why but I’d already assumed that he was.
Cirno on March 14, 2014 at 07:19 said:
Too rude. Scare her? Break her? Mess her human contacts? Too rude.
What would she think? That she met even bigger bully than she is?
Alas. I hoped she will repent somehow and make perfect pair for Brian.
We’ve talked about what Alec did to Sophia but I’m a bit surprised that noone’s brought up how comfortable he is deliberately deceiving the Undersiders.
He ostensibly punished Sophia on Taylor’s behalf, but even that seemed more from a sort of general “I can’t let you get away with messing with my associate’ principle than any genuine concern for Taylor.
He seems happy enough to be part of the Undersiders for now, but he doesn’t seem genuinely attached to any of them. If a better deal came along, I suspect he would turn on a dime.
J C on March 29, 2014 at 05:38 said:
Fuck me. That was the most stressfully amazing thing I have ever read.
cyphis on April 19, 2014 at 05:51 said:
that was awesome
Olivebirdy on April 29, 2014 at 16:56 said:
Typo alert-
So yeah, maybe father had broken something in the process. -Father
“What the fuck soph… what the fuck!? It’s three AM!” -Soph
“Seriously? That‘s your issue!?” – the ‘s is left out of the italics
Thirty-three Stonemast avenue had a toddler’s toys sitting on the front lawn. -Avenue
The hedges between the property and the neighbors was overgrown -were
So what did he do do you? -to you
Schrodinger's Hat on May 24, 2014 at 00:27 said:
I’m just wondering out loud here. If Sophia gets exposed in school as being shadow stalker, which I’m sure is going to happen in one of the upcoming chapters, then it sure as hell is going to do one hell of a lot of damage to the Wards reputation, which means that Piggot will have to ensure a stricter recruitment policy.
Coz the people in Winslow sure as hell know what a sadist Sophia really is. Then again, if they prevented her from being expelled, and just suspended maybe the authority really are a bunch of insensitive assholes.
Leigha on June 28, 2014 at 23:07 said:
This is my second time through, and I think this is my absolute favorite chapter. Yes, there are some where Skitter pulls off some pretty badass shit, and points of delightful foreshadowing and irony, but there’s just something about a well-written socio-pov chapter…and this is one of the best I’ve ever read. My compliments to the author.
After reading everyone’s reactions to Regent here, I can’t wait to see how they react to some of his later actions!
Holy…wow. Okay I have to say that was awesome and extremely well played and I am soooooo glad to see at least one of the trio get their comeuppance. But I have to say that dear lord Alec scares the shit out of me! He strikes me a more dangerous Dexter. He knows pretty much without a doubt that he is a fucked up sociopath who doesn’t really feel things the way that he should but it doesn’t change that he is a fucked up sociopath. He has the potential to be one of the scariest nightmares in the closet of almost anyone shown so far in my opinion. Thank god he works with the main characters and thank god he didn’t decide to go after Taylor before. It was a wonderful pet the dog though fucking with Sophia so much partially on account of her, especially since she only just started to patch things up a few days prior.
Also I have to say that the entire situation with Alec is a perfect example of what I had commented on a few chapters back in 9.something. Sophia is a evil bitch who might or might not have a sad backstory but it doesn’t matter. She is psycho but not nearly to the extent that Alec is. And Alec had an even more horrible past almost guaranteed. And yet here he is being nice to his teammates, helping out previously even when it hurts him, knowing he is fucked up and sorta kinda working around it, and all around having redeeming traits despite being screwed up and kinda evil. He is a bastard but he is a bastard who understands that and doesn’t go out of his way to be a bastard just because he can. It’s pretty cool. Doesn’t change the fact that he scares me shitless though.
Thanatos on September 22, 2014 at 19:22 said:
Alec is the ultimate dom! If he ever finds a girl who likes BDSM, he can make her really, really happy.
Rob on September 14, 2015 at 06:40 said:
Or a guy.
I think I just understood why Alec’s cape name is Regent. O_O
Martin Skullerud on October 22, 2014 at 22:17 said:
“Comeuppance”? “Awesome”? “Justified”? What the fuck is wrong with all the people lionizing Regent? I haven’t read farther than this but he deserves to be dumped in the deepest darkest part of the Birdcage more than any other character we’ve seen so far.
Really? You think that a man taking revenge on someone who has tried multiple times to murder a not one but two of his teammates, at least once in cold blood, deserves to go to the Birdcage? Is Regent a bit unhinged and the worst person on the team? Sure. But he at least is attempting to be civilized and was screwed over by his father from the time he was born. Sophia has no supervillain parents to give a convenient excuse for being a psychopath. She has been shown to have no thought for her teammates at all, her family didn’t seem particularly invested in her and she executes people who are inconvenient or annoying. Regent has been holding back with few complaints and even in this chapter he held back. SS never held back and acted far worse than he did.
On top of that we know exactly how she was acting out of costume with outright torturing to Taylor. I’ve been bullied myself. Thankfully it wasn’t to the degree shown in this story but it was bad enough I hated going to school. If I had been subjected to the torture (and that’s what the bulling at the beginning of the story was, not abuse, torture) shown earlier, I wouldn’t have made it as long as our hero did. I would’ve snapped and either killed the bullies or myself. Sophia deserved far worse than what Regent did to her in this chapter. I have no delusions, Regent is a sociopath. But to me, for giving Sophia just a small amount of the karma she has earned, he is my hero.
Yes, Regent deserves to go to the Birdcage. The keyword is “revenge”. Regent wasn’t acting in self (or other) defence – he went out of his way to use his powers to mentally torture someone.
This argument that “Oh, but Sophia is worse!” doesn’t hold much water. That doesn’t excuse Regent’s actions – it just means they *both* belong in the Birdcage.
Yes, he’s doing the best he can with the upbringing he had. How often do we tell dangerous criminals “Oh, I didn’t realise you had a terrible childhood. You can go free then.”?
Regent is understandable, even sympathetic. He’s also a major menace to society.
I can agree that he is a menace and probably should go to prison but I don’t believe he deserves the Birdcage. He should go to regular prison with rotating guards and get therapy.
I just get annoyed when people suddenly decide Regent is a bad person because of the Sophia thing. He’s shown he has a screw loose quite a few times. My biggest problem with him is honestly the part with Bakuda when he was honestly praising some of her antics which creeped me right the hell out. I’ve been a little set against Regent since then. I’ve come to terms with him being the Token Evil Teammate.
I disagree somewhat. Sure desire for revenge (on behalf of a teammate) was a factor in tearing SS apart, but the main reason was to ensure she didn’t come after them like the trigger happy sadistic murdering torturer she is. Were his motives pure? No. Is he a good person? Gonna have to say no there as well, though he is trying and doing pretty well for a supervillain largely or entirely lacking the capacity for empathy or guilt. But this case was largely in defense of himself and his team.
Steve Neiman on November 16, 2014 at 18:30 said:
My compliments to Wildbow. It takes a lot of skill to craft a character unlikable enough that I wouldn’t feel bad about something like this happening.
>It was funny, but with the route they were taking, if the timing was a little different
>The light fixture itself was flimsy , but the frame it was attached to was bolted securely into the wooden beams of the ceiling.
Space between clause and comma.
I like Regent. Maybe that paints a bad picture of my ego, how my favourite characters appear to be Coil and Regent, the two a lot of people would probably call the most evil characters in Worm so far.
I don’t find them to be such, though. They’re both supremely self-interested, but evil? It’s not like either of them go out of their way to hurt people, like Kaiser would, or go about their business in a despicably unscrupulous way, like Heartbreaker, or are just incomprehensibly violent, like the Endbringers. They just do their thing; as it happens, their thing occasionally involves hurting others, and they don’t really care. Aye, a man of my heart, this Regent.
I’m sad he didn’t make Sophia kill herself, and I don’t think it fits his personality not to. Sure, his team would probably have reacted with revulsion if it ever came out, but the way he set it up, it’s unlikely it ever would have. From Regent’s perspective, I see no reason not to kill her. It would’ve been a more complete job – only drawback is he wouldn’t have been able to see it.
Moridain on January 31, 2015 at 18:15 said:
That… was way less satisfying to read than I thought it would be.
End result? I like. Her hero career is over, at least in that city and under that name. Her relationships are gone.
But that body control power… wow…
I think it creeped me out too much for me to really enjoy it.
laghjla2013 on January 31, 2015 at 23:52 said:
As much as Alec is a fucked up sociopath (I don’t deny that in the least!), since the beginning of the story, although I’ve always gotten the sense he was clearly evil, I’ve found him just a fascinating character. His powers are undeniably awe inspiring, even if he uses them in fucked up ways. I guess a part of me deep down is attracted to how screwed up and evil he is, which sort of disturbs me.
As someone who had a friend bullied (If not to the degree Taylor was, but still cruelly) when I was in high school, knowing the effects on his mental health for years afterwards, I can be glad of SS’s fate. As much as I know Regent acted not out of loyalty to Taylor, I still like that Shadow Stalker ‘faced the music’ so to speak.
All in all, if in real like someone i knew acted as Alec does, I suppose I’d probably be incredibly terrified and freaked out. But as a story, the sociopathic character is just so interesting and compelling that I can’t help but like him. Wildbow, I congratulate you on a truly fantastically crafted character.
You have to admit, moral issues aside, Regent does have a very cool costume.
Dragon on February 2, 2015 at 09:32 said:
What if I said that just because Alec used to be an evil psychopath, it doesn’t mean he’s always evil ever after? I mean, he does keep his… psychopathy.. under control a lot of the times. In fact, outside combat situations, there’s rarely any scene (other than this particular one) where he grinds his enemy’s face into the dust purely for his own entertainment. To get the job done, sure he does, and maybe he enjoys it. But he never goes out of his way to find someone to torture.
Also, he’s literally the one guy the Undersiders can depend on to not let emotions cloud his judgement. If there’s one guy who can genuinely compliment an enemy (Bakuda) in order to buy time without letting guilt at being an asshole get in the way, it’s Regent.
Doesn’t it all come down to whether the person he’s going to be a psychopath with is also an incorrigible (incorrigible is a key word) psychopath who would never change her mind about killing them all and, figuratively, bathing in their blood?
laghjla2013 on February 3, 2015 at 00:48 said:
I agree entirely. Although it mentions him using his power in evil ways in the past, throughout the story so far, he hasn’t used the full extent of it where it wasn’t deserved or necessary.
axle on March 1, 2015 at 01:17 said:
Damn. Alec was always my favorite Undersider. Hell, he’d even be the kind of guy I’d like to kick back with every once in awhile. I thought his attitude was just a laid back personality, I didn’t think he was an actual sociopath! During that tattletale interlude, the moment tattletale read him as “sociopath” I went an instant “NOPE” and realized Alec is not the type of guy I should be cheering for.
This chapter has me at mixed feeling for him. On one hand, he’s absolutely a sociopath. On the other, he tries to maintain a “code” to a certain degree. He considers the Undersiders his friends even though he doesn’t feel anything for them. The actions he did in this chapter were a mixture of “I need to scare this girl out of town” “Karma’s a bitch” and “I love fucking with people”
Unfortunately, he acts upon his personal desires over anything else. At least he’s willing to admit it. For now, Alec is still cool in my book, he just creeps me out on a whole new level.
slider214 on March 1, 2015 at 01:59 said:
I agree though truthfully after this chapter I was less creeped out than before. His comments during the whole Bakuda thing really made my hair stand on end in addition to a few other things here and there. This gave me context and let me feel a bit better about his particular version of crazy.
I mostly read Alec as a sorta Dexterish character. He is a guy who truly believes he is completely incapable of feeling anything, is mildly bothered by that and still sorta tries to act somewhat normal most of the time. Coupled with he does seem to actually have some feelings but doesn’t particularly recognize it himself I actually really liked him a lot more after this chapter.
lovebooksandblush on March 29, 2015 at 02:19 said:
Oh, wow. Hahaha. That bitch deserves it. I feel kinda bad, but that shit in her phone about Taylor? Emma and her actually plan out the bad shit they want to do to her, which in hindsight is obvious, but shows how truly evil that girl is. Loved this chapter!
Jay on May 3, 2015 at 08:24 said:
Wow, this was somehow the most riveting (and terrifying) chapter yet. Incredibly well done! Bad people doing bad things to other bad people… It’s almost as interesting to read through the comments and see the different levels of reactions.
TrevorBurns on June 3, 2015 at 00:12 said:
Outdid yourself on this one Wildbow. May be your best chapter yet in my humble opinion.
deltadelivers on August 5, 2015 at 09:21 said:
Even on a second read-through and knowing it was coming this was pretty disturbing. Like many others here I’m actually disturbed by how satisfying it was to see Sophia/SS get, well I was going to say “her comeuppance” or “just desserts” but I don’t really agree with that.
Since reading a book on evolutionary psychology and getting used to the idea of emotions as basically suspect, designed to help us survive rather than out of any greater purpose or tapping into some kind of basic truth, that I’ve become skeptical of the ideas of retribution even in its fairer guises of “fairness” or “justice”. It feels instinctively right and good to see bad people be punished, but that instinct could well exist so we make an example of those who cheat or harm us rather than because retribution is actually right (and punishing unfairness is usually to our advantage since we’re biased to calculate things in our favour anyway).
For me punishment can be justified on utilitarian grounds (to aid rehabilitation or deter others), but punishing for its own sake, even if motivated by ideas of fairness or justice, is just increasing the amount of suffering in the world. I feel Regent’s “scare ’em straight” approach could possibly be justified on these grounds (even after the Wards fight Sophia wanted revenge, and in the circumstances breaking her spirit might have been the only way she could be removed as a threat), but if say you found out Sophia was living on a deserted island somewhere, with no prospect of or opportunity to harm others there would be no reason to go and harm her just because “she deserves it” for her misdeeds.
Totally agree. Regent went way over the line.
The hypothetical I think of is “If X could be cured of their violent/criminal tendencies with 100% success, would you be happy to see them set free and returned to society tomorrow?”. Why/why not?
That’s a good way of looking at it, ideally everyone would be given however much time and therapy they needed to mend their ways. Everyone deserves that chance and it’s a tragedy that our resources and time are sometimes limited (e.g. when the person is about to harm someone) mean sometimes we can’t always give people the mercy they deserve.
As for Regent though, I’m not sure if I’d say he went *way* over the line. The fact he enjoyed it is reprehensible and maybe that impure motive taints the whole enterprise, but I wonder if you could make a utilitarian argument at least partially justifying a similar “scare ’em straight” action if the motivations behind it were different.
You could argue his power gives him enough knowledge of Shadow Stalker’s emotions to know she won’t let this go and will come after his friends again unless he does something. This puts him in the position of having to choose whether to harm her or risk harm to the other Undersiders (or possibly unrelated parties). While she still deserves mercy, would the extent of her misdeeds (murder and torture) make her less deserving of it than an innocent or someone with less bad misdeeds, meaning if we had to choose to save her or the other we should choose the other?
This justification would only apply if he knew for sure she was likely to harm others (something we’d have trouble knowing in real life), if he couldn’t think of some less horrible way of stopping her doing so and if protecting others rather than revenge was the primary/sole motive for Regent’s action.
Does that sound fair? I’m not an expert on morality or ethics so it’s possible I missed something important here, and the action still feels pretty questionable.
C.C x Lelouch on August 25, 2015 at 04:37 said:
Daw he didn’t kill her…….. ;-; (been waiting for her painful demise since we found out she was a “hero” it built up so well but nooooooo~)
You know what always scares me the most whenever I read this chapter? I know I should be absolutly horrified by Regent systematically destroying Shadow Stalkers life. I know I should be. But so much of me is just finding him sorta charming, and hates Sophia so much for the shit she did to Taylor…. Well Shadow Stalker should be Glad Regent wasn’t feeling more ambitious about ruining her life.
I really enjoyed this chapter!
Regent doesn’t scare me. If he were real, he totally would and I’d want him to go to the Birdcage, but as it is, I really like this power.
Not even because he’s fucking up Sophia. The bullying scenes were long ago and I don’t quite hate her, and I have a hard time connecting her to her superhero identity.
Just…the possibilities.
(And no, I don’t think anyone should feel scared by this. You don’t have an obligation to feel any one way. 😛 )
almostNEET on September 28, 2015 at 10:03 said:
HOLY FUCKING SHIT!!!
This was one intense chapter, Alec with his sociopathic tendencies freaked the hell out of me. I was waiting for the other shoe to drop, since the first line. Good thing he didn’t cross that line though.
Laz TheUndead on September 29, 2015 at 04:43 said:
Ah mildblow not many authors can make me laugh like a madman while I watch someone be psychologically tortured, but you…you do it’s spectacularly. You have my unwavering respect
I’m worried, because I think I enjoyed this interlude as much as Regent did, and I don’t like what that says about me as a person.
““I think I’m done with listening to you whinge,” Regent whispered.” That should be ‘whine’.
Nix on October 21, 2015 at 12:56 said:
Not so. That’s a Britishism (and Canadianism), not a typo, from a Scottish dialectical form of OE “hwinsian”.
And Australianism…
Ah. Thank you for clarifying.
cjgonzales621 on May 25, 2017 at 03:48 said:
Really only us Yanks as they like to call us don’t use it.
Man, this chapter gets me. As much as I hate Sophia, no one deserves this kind of psychological trauma. I’m starting to hate Alec about as much.
Emma deserves it. Emma deserves worse. As someone who has been bullied, I would much rather be killed than slowly tortured for years. Especially by someone who used to be my best friend. Sophia may have issues and Alec might have been a bit extreme but I have pretty much zero issues with what happened in this chapter. And I fully feel that Emma deserves far worse than this.
When you start to think this is over the top remember how the story started. Taylor was forced to eat lunch in a BATHROOM STALL to try and escape her torturers. And it still wasn’t enough. These ‘people’ deserve every ounce of karma heaped upon them.
Y’know, it’s not incompatible to believe someone deserves to be punished horribly and still recognise that someone willing to actually inflict that horrible punishment on someone is a bad person.
I never said that Alec isn’t a bad person. He’s certainly not good by any stretch. He may be acceptable (pushing the bounds really at this point since most of my examples of his better behavior is from later chapters) but he is definitely not good. I was mostly commenting on Sophia and Emma having this coming.
Okay, I understand where you’re coming from. I’m sorry, I didn’t want to shit on your experiences. I definitely don’t feel *sorry* for her.
I stand by what I said about Alec. Just like with Sophia, no matter how he was raised, it doesn’t excuse the grievous crimes he admitted to committing, and seems to have even less qualms about hurting people than her.
No worries, I just get annoyed at all the people who look down on bullying as not really being as bad as the victims make it out to be. It really is a form of long term psychological torture that most perpetrators simply never get punished for because “they’re just kids”. My own experiences were nowhere near as horrible as those depicted here but it still hits close enough to strike a nerve.
I agree, Alec is screwed up. I can’t even really defend him all that well at this point as his primary redeeming factor is that he does truly seem to do this more out of “you screwed with one of my few friends” rather than just wanting to “play”. He certainly enjoyed his antics far more than is comfortable. While I cheered for the karmic retribution I did still get the willies from Alec. Between here and his reaction to Baccuda, he is an exceptionally creepy and disturbed guy.
The one thing I can give to Sophia without any reservation at all: she does well and truly believe her own philosophy and follows it.
That’s one of the things I love so much about Worm; the portrayals of abuse and bullying are so real and the effects/treatment of abuse are not remotely sugar-coated. Representation for victims of bullying is an important thing. But I 100% understand that it must be uncomfortable to read.
I agree fully. It really makes Worm so much more powerful!
It was but that was part of why I feel this story was so amazing. It’s rare to find literature that takes something totally unrealistic like superpowers and not only makes it sound perfectly reasonable but also blends it with well portrayed real world issues.
That combination is probably my very favorite way of story writing and Worm does it flawlessly 🙂
Augh. See, this is the Sophia chapter I wanted, except it’s about Regent. (Does that make sense? I want(ed) a chapter that gets is inside Sophia’s head the easy this one gets us inside Regents’. I see where this one was necessarily easier to write, because we already have some context for Regent.)
That… *shivers*. Yet we know Sophia earned every bit of what he did to her. Whether she deserved it is a slightly different thing.
Steven Quach on March 14, 2016 at 23:32 said:
This chapter left me shaking, just because of how awesome it is.
Miguel on April 8, 2016 at 17:13 said:
I FUCKING LOVE REGENT. He is definitely my new favorite character. He has so much more depth now and you have done an excellent job of conveying how much of a sociopath he is. And hes still likeable for it IMO since it is pretty much his dad that made him that way. If you believe in nurture > nature anyway.
autismprism on April 18, 2016 at 18:08 said:
I just want to finally comment… I have been absolutely AWESTRUCK and CAPTIVATED at this entire series (book?!)…
Whoever the author is – first, my most sincere apologies for not knowing as I’ve been unable to tear myself away from reading this for more than sleeping (recovering from surgery)…second, holy shit – why don’t you have some sort of publisher and print this?! This is the kind of brilliant writing that deserves to be PAID for…have to say I’m glad it isn’t for my own sake (broke single mom), but I would maneuver some bills to buy this with the way I’ve been hooked like a damn junkie, just sayin!
Huge kudos to you, this is absolutely one of the best things I’ve read in a LONG time…more interesting to me than Harry Potter or Twilight (hope that isn’t offensive, but I think we can all agree that those things got tons of press).
And last…wow…I have to say I only feel a slight bit sorry for Sophia, as sick and twisted as that may be…she totally deserved it!
Twi on May 13, 2016 at 16:53 said:
Uh, no she didn’t. There are precious few people who I would say deserved what she got, and Sophia is not one of them. This was MAJOR overkill and Regent is a sick fuck for doling it out.
slider214 on May 13, 2016 at 17:01 said:
The girl had no qualms with attempting to kill people simply because they either annoyed her or got in her way. She was also one of the ringleaders in a progressive bullying campaign that had a high school girl steps away from suicidal. This was bad but it was not caps worthy “MAJOR” overkill. It was karma coming all at once instead of spaced out.
Regent is screwed up yes but Sophie was nowhere near innocent. I actually hate Sophia more than some of the true crazies in the setting. Murderers are horrible but Sophie and Emma were straight up torturers. As a victim of bullying myself, I cheer watching her get some comeuppance in this chapter.
Look, here’s what Sophie did versus what Regent did to her.
-Physically bullied Taylor
-Directly caused her trigger event
-Was an accomplice to emotional bullying
-Physically tortured her
-Took control of her body, which I read as a metaphor for rape
-Forced her to fight against her teammates
-Gave her false hope and immediately snatched it away
-Forced her to out herself to the police
-Forced her to assault her own mother
-Forced her to falsely out herself as a lesbian
-Taunted her with preparations for her own suicide
-Released her into the wild
I count the last one because her life is fucking RUINED. She has no safety net. She can’t turn to her family, her friends, or even the police. This girl probably has PTSD similar to those of rape victims/survivors, and she has nowhere to turn. She will be homeless for the rest of her life, probably unable to rely on even other homeless people for help, for fear they’ll recognize her and turn her in, if a reward for her capture is posted. The chances of her being sexually assaulted while out on the streets is high. And when I say “the rest of her life,” I mean “the next few months, at most,” because this girl is probably going to kill herself. And when she does, will she be vindicated? No. Fucking. Way. She’ll be remembered as an unstable cape who lost control, probably had deep-seated mental issues, and killed herself as a result.
If you still don’t care about her fate, think of her family. Her parents are going to have to fight off the press for the rest of their lives. They will probably receive hate mail and threatening phone calls, being the parents of an unstable cape and all. They’ll be blamed for something she didn’t even want to do. In the midst of this, they’ll always wonder why she did what she did. They’ll never have any peace. Regent’s “payback” didn’t only affect Sophie; it affected her family. I’ve been bullied. I’ve been abused. And this is not justice. This is SICK.
All because she bullied the protagonist, who, by the way, has the Undersiders for support and nifty superpowers to show for her trigger event.
Jeremy on May 14, 2016 at 11:31 said:
Too. Seriously.
Read the rest of the book before you give any more empathy to this character.
Things you missed in the “what she did”
-Tried to murder Gru
-Tried to murder Skitter
-Purposely goes out of her way to hurt people (remember how she
let those men start assaulting that woman so that she would have an excuse to go all out and injure them as badly as she wanted?)
-Has a fucked up philosophy about everyone being either predator or prey and fights to enforce this on those who don’t “stay in their place”
and last but not least:
– Has LITERALLY (see i can use caps too, isn’t this exciting?) killed multiple people
Now from what i can see, your first mistake is reading too much into the story “Which i read as a metaphor for rape” Regent has actually raped people, so there is no reason to imagine that this is a metaphor for that. Now to address everything else you said point by point:
– She has no safety net? Have you been paying attention? She hates almost everyone or despises them for being weak at the very least. She doesn’t rely on other people. ESPECIALLY as shoulders to cry on.
– As for the PTSD, perhaps but i doubt it. she was angry instead of scared for the majority of the episode. Anger does not (despite what many people who are easily “triggered” might tell you) create PTSD
-Why would she be homeless, and why would there be a reward for her capture posted? You seem to be thinking that people would not realize that she had been taken over by Regent, but this is NOT the case (It took the wards less than five minutes to figure out that she was being controlled so…)
-Her being sexually assaulted? are you high? first of all, attempting to sexually assault her would be as pointless and laughable as trying to rape the wind. Second of all she is far too capable and aggressive for that to ever happen.
– Her killing herself is not an option given the way she thinks about strength and weakness. (for her it would be an unforgivable weakness to admit to being damaged by killing herself)
-Who do you imagine will be blaming her parents, and for what? the general public does not know what happened, and never will unless her family tells them, so no. And they will never have to “wonder why she did what she did” because the PRT will almost certainly tell them. Stop acting like she committed a mass shooting in her school or something.
So that’s that. Also as a final note, the website has a trigger warning at the beginning to tell sensitives like yourself to steer clear. but you obviously haven’t read the beginning have you.
autismprism on May 20, 2016 at 06:27 said:
It IS just a story…but I concur, I see how someone would not believe anyone deserves punishment of any kind, as it is merely perpetuating violence, and what’s the point in that? But I agree, Regent was pretty sick.
lablebiblog on May 13, 2016 at 09:32 said:
Fucking awesome, one of my favorite chapters so far
Wow, this chapter.
Also I guess I’m more of a sociopath than the sociopath, since I really wanted him to kill her.
Guy on June 2, 2016 at 03:51 said:
Wow. Just wow. This is the first time I’m replying to one of your posts, Wildbow. You probably won’t see this but I had to say something. I have already read all of Pact first and then decided to read this one. I have been loving every word from the beginning. I loved Pact as well. This though. This is something else. Never before in writing have I felt such a concoction of emotions. Happiness at a ruthless bully, murderer, and all around bad person getting some well deserved comeuppance. Unhappiness and a bit of pity at an overly unfair punishment. Happiness again when I think of what she’s done and how she really does deserve this. Joy at the creative punishments for a vile person. Fear when I’m unsure if Regent is going to kill her, which I think would be a bit overboard. All of these emotions were flowing through me at the same time while I read this interlude. The whole story culminating in this at this point is masterful work, sir. I’m floored by this writing. Now I can’t wait to see the possible aftermath of this course of events. I would be a little sad if this was never touched on again but I’m sure it will be. You’re not one to leave plot threads hanging. Pun intended. You’re currently my favorite writer which may not mean much since I don’t read many books but gosh.
Also I’m conflicted that this punishment didn’t happen to Emma who it seems like would be more deserving of this type of thing and who I really wanted to see get it after her awful personal attacks against Taylor. This is still good though. In a truly just world the whole posse would see an equal punishment. After I’m done reading this story I will be very excited to read Twig. You’re two for two on phenomenal writing and I doubt any future developments in this story could ruin it as I know you’re a skilled writer. Anyway enough gushing. Thanks for writing cool stuff.
You: hey!
Regent: what?
You: go f*ck yourself!
Regent: sure (takes over your body and starts f*cking himself).
Valaun The Fallen Prince on July 18, 2016 at 12:43 said:
I recently discovered this web serial, and have since fallen in love with this story.
I’ve been reading as much as I can every time I get a chance.
Fantastic writing and concept, and your delivery is spot on.
Of everything I’ve read so far, this is my favorite chapter, hands down. It was such a blind side, and seeing what Regent could and would do because of her, “Fucking with his teammate”, and simple boredom is beautiful.
Certainly made me like the character a lot more.
Jack Atkinson on August 21, 2016 at 12:06 said:
The world is so fucked up. People are just too good at doing only the stuff they can get away with. Honestly I’m a nice guy but I was hoping throughout this series that they would get their comeuppance, so glad it happened even though Emma deserved something like this instead.
I knew Regent was messed up, but I didn’t expect to see something this cold-blooded.
Props to Wildbow for the effortless changes in perspective. It feels like a totally new character each time.
bananaman3773 on December 25, 2016 at 13:23 said:
That was perhaps the nastiest thing I’ve ever chanced upon the idea of. I love this story so far, but goodness that leaves a sick feeling in my stomach. Man do I hate Regent now.
Not_a_robot on December 30, 2017 at 11:36 said:
Wildbow is really>/em> good at writing viscerally unsettling stuff with no obvious distinction between the right and wrong things to do because he knows perfectly how to mix the ordinary with the extraordinary. To anyone reading this, you’re all in for a treat.
David DeLaney on December 29, 2016 at 05:12 said:
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–Dave, cryptical13ly
Summer on May 13, 2018 at 07:39 said:
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Andreas Kill on December 31, 2016 at 12:42 said:
This is still one of my favorite chapters, even on my 4th reread. one of the things I love is how it divides the audience into those who now love alec more and those who absolutely hate him. Did SS deserve it? yes. did regent go a little overboard? also yes. but he is a villain, doing “bad” things and going overboard are the villains prerogative. I think a lot of the readers who are whining about regent going too far and ss not deserving it just don’t understand how damaging ss’s bullying really would be, and what a truly terrible person she is.
Kotawa on January 8, 2017 at 17:36 said:
Oh man did Alec go overboard.
I don’t think SS deserved all of that, but I was so FUC…, I mean, frigging disapointed when Regent didn’t knock over that chair that I’m considering seeing a psychologist for a check up.
>JUST
Matthew on March 20, 2017 at 02:24 said:
Holy fuck. Holy fuck.
I don’t know what else to say. Forget Skitter’s bugs, forget Grue’s darkness, Tattle’s infotheft and Bitch’s dogs – Regent is absolutely terrifying. Jesus Christ.
I’m glad Sophia finally got what was coming to her – it was disproportionate, but her helplessness mirrored Taylor’s so there’s an element of eye-for-an-eye there.
I’m worried now that Regent’s re-realized how much fun his power can be. Who’s he going to go after next? And will we be aware when he does?
I guess I’ll find out!
Also wondering if Sophia will work out that Skitter = Taylor through Regent’s telling her she “fucked over a teammate” when he read her texts to Emma earlier. Might be a bit of a stretch – but if there’s any hint of emotional feedback the other way, Sophia would have noticed a lack of response when she thought he was referring to Grue.
Probably my favorite chapter so far, and that’s saying a lot because there’s been some doozies.
That was.. hard to read. I hope subsequent chapters gives us some clue into what happened to her and her family. I hope it gets resolved to some degree…
Or if she’s likely to cause more suffering than her life is worth, that she gets a swift and dignified death. Or jailtime to keep her from doing damage, if that’s possible.
The comment section reminds me of a video I saw on FB, where someone was torturing a person for posting a video where he abused a dog. The comments were all “YES!” and “I wish I could have been there!”
A grim reminder about how most people are wired from birth.
slider214 on March 23, 2017 at 21:00 said:
Honestly I think that comparison is a bit lacking. Don’t get me wrong, I’m fully against torturing animals and don’t really have many moral issues with someone getting beaten because they abused a dog…But I am also a victim of bullying and there is a difference between hurting an animal for fun and hurting a human for fun. I understand that a lot of bullies only hurt others because their life sucks and they are taking control however they can but it doesn’t matter to the victims WHY they do it, all that matters is that they push us to the very brink. A lot of victims are pushed OVER the brink. Thankfully I never had to deal with the suicidal thoughts or behaviors instigated by consistent, severe bullying, but I do know people who have. There was a girl at my brother’s school who didn’t make it through that issue. So would I be a bit uncomfortable watching that video you described? Yes. Would I have any issues at all if it was the situation presented here in this chapter? No. Not at all. I think I’m in the minority here, but I don’t think Regent went far enough. Why? Because Sophia isn’t going to see this as being done due to her hurting Taylor. She’s going to see this as being on the receiving end of losing to villains. It’s not comeuppance for torturing a girl to the point that she had a mental breakdown and very nearly became suicidal; Sophia just lost a fight and has to deal with the consequences.
That was a long winded way of saying, Sophia deserved that. Emma deserves worse. Sophia was a random bully who tortured a classmate to the brink for no real reason. Emma was personal. (I’d say more but I don’t remember where the spoilers start so I’m cutting this thought here.)
I don’t see a problem with bullies getting a small taste of the freaking HELL they put us through every. Single. Day. You say it’s a grim reminder about how we’re wired; I say it’s the victims celebrating one of our tormentors finally understanding why we cringe when they walk into view.
Anne on March 23, 2017 at 21:41 said:
okay, I read a lot of the comments, and I can see these are big discussion things. I am just going to put out there a couple of things
one, yes I think this was morally wrong. NO I do not want to go into circumstances, that will take too long. hers, his, any of it. In general, morally wrong, bad whatever.
two, I liked it anyway, acknowledging that.
most people dislike ‘evil’ and such, but as it said at the home page, this is not a happy story. I have enjoyed it. And lots of other people do too, despite the fucked up shit that goes down.
I am pretty sure that most of the people (please note the pretty sure and the most, this is in general, not every single person, so if not you please don’t get on my case about it.) Who read this are also not of the sunshine and smiles type, and enjoy seeing this. Reading it, whatever.
So yes bad, and yes I like it, and yes I am probably not a good peraon, but then I am going to hazard a guess that most of the readers aren’t either. And that they enjoyed this as well, probably with some kind of acknowledging of this being bad.
jmdlugosz on April 7, 2017 at 16:36 said:
«“I think I’m done with listening to you whinge,”» “whinge” is completely unknown to most Americans, and is British. An Amarican girl would say “whine”.
Regent’s dad was European & later Anglophone Quebecois. Upbringing/background.
Oh, that works. For the most part your characters don’t talk differently and all have _your_ word choice. This alglo speaking ought to show up more in Regent’s chapter where he has more lines than the rest of the serial to date. (BTW, I’m really enjoying the serial.)
Best way I can think of her to get out from under his thumb is to ask for help and confess. Okay, technically she already “confessed” but admitting it herself and showing True remorse might help. But more specifically she needs to get help from Dragon. In other words someone who can provide something that will jam and interfere with Regents power. I’m thinking a collar.
So rereading this chapter and reading the comments I would like to point out one thing… SS mother didn’t notice anything out of the ordinary. Now I’m not saying what Regent did wasn’t wrong and slightly satisfying (More than slightly if i’m being honest) however it is the fact that the mother takes her daughter breaking a agreement by coming home in costume, hearing the mother’s thoughts on the reason SS does things, and not finding it out of character to point a friggin crossbow at her head that raises a flag. This means her mother could see her doing these things if she wasn’t controlled. And her reactions are more telling about how much karma SS deserved than anything else.
Based Regent god bless him
Anmol on July 3, 2017 at 03:13 said:
Man I shouldn’t be enjoying what happened to shadow stalker quite THIS much. I’m a bad person.
RhupsodyX on July 16, 2017 at 07:15 said:
I got confused. Did Alec made boys and girls sleep with him, or made boys and girls sleep with each other?
Both, probably. He grew up in a near-total moral vacuum.
Selene Drakane on July 29, 2017 at 23:26 said:
I don’t often post on stories like this. However, this is my first time reading through, and I gotta say that the portrayal of Regent’s personality/”condition” feels very on-the-mark, or accurate. I say that because it’s very easy to relate to his character in some ways because I’m mildly “Psychopathic”, myself. I find it hard to even pretend to care when someone close to me dies or falls seriously ill, such as when my family’s dog of 14 years had to be put to down due to various health problems a few months ago. I dug the grave myself, and a family member asked me if something was wrong with me when I, in a sudden fit of “lack of sense”, told them that I didn’t feel anything in response to the event.
So, I just wanted to show that I can view Regent from a different perspective of someone who can see themselves in his shoes, even if I would never do what he does. Over the course of the story from the beginning until now, we see that Regent is only really animated when doing things that interest him, such as playing video games, playing around with his power, or maybe reflecting on himself to some degree.
In my opinion, the most striking example of something that I can relate to from him in this chapter or any other previous to it is this part here:
That type of self-reflection is the kind of thing that is almost word for word what I sometimes feel about myself, although Regent appears to present a more serious… “case” when it comes to his mental disorder (I hate to call it that, but it’s probably what most people will use to describe his mind state.)
I hope that what I wrote was easy to follow, as I don’t normally talk about this anywhere.
P.S. You might think that Regent is my favorite character after I said all that. Nope. Tattletale forever.
ArkhCthuul on August 8, 2017 at 19:20 said:
Just as scary, awesome, nauseating and exceptionally written the.second time around. 🙂
Holy shit, that was intense. It was pretty damn fucked up, but I have to admit if he stopped after sending the evidence and then shot her with her crossbow through the leg and called the Heroes so they’d find her with lethal weapons, the only problem I’d have with what he did is that it wasn’t Taylor who got her revenge personally. My issue is more with dragging the family into it.
And still, this type of power is the reason my D&D characters and main characters for little story snippets I think up are almost always undead, because they are completely immune to mindfuckery, and to this type of sh*t too because there’d be no neural signals no latch on to.
Sithoid on November 23, 2017 at 04:40 said:
WOW, this is deliciously fucked up. And I thought *Sophia*’s imagination was disturbed…
When he took the cord from the vacuum cleaner, I had a genuine OH SHI– moment. Like, oh my god, he can totally suicide her right now, and even if the puppeteer thing surfaces, he’ll have witnesses who ‘know’ that she had already been released and was just probably having PTSD.
Still wishing he followed through though. Not that anyone deserves that – just for the sheer degree of horror in this story.
Slaaneshi on November 28, 2017 at 03:38 said:
This chapter… is the best chapter this series has to offer. Way to write a 100th chapter.
Also, I guess this is why a friend of mine suggested I should read this series. He knew I’d enjoy every piece of it and the emotions I went through while reading. First the validation of Alec’s actions as just and right, and then slowly succumbing to the idea that he went slightly overboard… and then the cord noose scene. I did think he’d do it. Alec’s killed before, so it wouldn’t be past him.
Hats off, Wildbow.
What I would enjoy more is if Taylor was somehow actively involved into this kind of retribution or at least on board with it. It doesn’t seem to me she’d be all too happy about it if she ever finds out (and she most likely will). After all, possession and\or paralysis are her greatest fears… Inflicting this kind of PTSD-inducing experience is something she’d definitely want to avoid, even if it’s SS on the receiving end imo.
After this I have really high hopes that Worm would have more chapter with this kind of suspense and emotional investment from the reader, especially to the most unexpected character (come on, has anyone expected they’d feel for SS at any point?).
I’m absolutely enjoying this read with all its emotional highs and lows.
Midasonna on December 6, 2017 at 21:26 said:
I love this story. It would make an AMAZING TV series. I would watch the fuck out of it.
Densaugeo on December 16, 2017 at 20:16 said:
Okay, I’ve tried to post this 4 times now. I don’t know wtf is wrong with this site.
Anyway, this is one of the most intense terror scenes I have read. Made more so by Sophia being such an unsympathetic character. It’s interesting when people can disagree about whether a character is a hero or a villain.
I like the way Alec explains his reasoning. Sophia was using lethal weapons and intending to continue going after them, and he found a way to make her leave town without killing her. You can argue about whether he saved her life or traumatized her (he likely did both), but either way he is becoming a much scarier character.
qwpanda on January 8, 2018 at 14:18 said:
.. i ship Taylor and Alec now. i love this chapter xD huehe she got what she deserved
mintmittens on January 19, 2018 at 03:13 said:
Loved the tension build up, and a chapter dedicated not only to sweet, cold revenge, but Alec! Nicely accentuated
TheAnomaly on January 25, 2018 at 17:05 said:
Eons late now and hoping it gets answered as I read further but how the hell is Alec not marked as a target for the birdcage and bringing down a lot more heat on The Undersiders? The Protectorate clearly has files on him from his time with Heartbreaker and knows he’s killed before and at least some idea of how terrifying and dangerous his powers are. Is he getting some kind of leeway because he was young and possibly cult influenced and hasn’t really done anything birdcage worthy since or do they just not know how strong he is which seems unlikely considering their precautions and his blatant control of Shadow Stalker in front of the Wards even if this chapter’s misdeeds aren’t known?
It just seems odd to me that um Canary I believe it was in a previous interlude got birdcaged for almost killing someone by telling him to “Go fuck himself” and yet Alec who can do far worse isn’t on the must kill/birdcage list. Even if they underestimated his powers the recent events in front of the Wards I think would be enough to warrant some sort of threat upgrade.
Anyhow rant aside, I still absolutely love this story. Onward march!
GenEngineer on January 29, 2018 at 12:38 said:
Mostly because Regent’s originally showed up as a separate cape-identity, who only made people trip up and such – Armsmaster had to do some digging to piece together who he really was.
Separate from Daddy and suddenly being less nasty puts him lower on the radar, but now that he’s going back to his old tricks…
TheAnomaly on February 15, 2018 at 22:42 said:
I did take that into consideration as i mentioned in my comment but I still think considering how they reacted to the Canary situation that some sort of reaction or reason for lack there of should have been made especially with the wards chapters being a good way to get someone on their side of it.
I don’t want to say whether it gets brought up later and satisfactorily answered or not to potentially spoil anything but I do still think it should have been addressed sometime before or in this chapter especially considering this is where we truly realize how dangerous he is because it’s the kind of detail that Wildbow normally addresses adequately before someone can claim it to be a plothole, or people behaving out of character just to move the plot along or keep the main character’s group out of trouble.
Amelie on January 30, 2018 at 11:04 said:
Well, you’ve proved to the abuser “””predator””” there are bigger abusers than her out there. Some might call that justice, or necessary. I don’t think it’s going to help Sophie make better choices or anything, but as a way to get her off the team’s back you’ve got to admit it’s the most effective non-murdery solution anyone could have.
Eli on February 24, 2018 at 12:41 said:
What regent did was horrible and monstrous. That being said, as the despicable human i am and having read what not only Taylor but others around Sofia had to go through, I savoured this chapter to the extreme
grassbloop on April 8, 2018 at 08:37 said:
Honestly I feel like she deserved it. It’s a wake up call for her especially after what she did to Taylor with the period pads (just thinking of that disgusts me, i cant imagine living through it)
Jason on April 20, 2018 at 22:55 said:
I didn’t really care about Regent before, but I love him now. The only thing I could think of before was having Taylor bite her legs with Brown Recluses (since running is so important to her), but this was so much better
ugh, I feel so bad for Sophia.
W on May 31, 2018 at 14:17 said:
Wow!!! Just wow !!!
Uthoryan on June 20, 2018 at 05:22 said:
My favorite inerlude, by far. That’s so interesting that the character who is presented as the least powerful is in fact a dangerous psychopath. Regent can perfectly control a human body.
I hope there are more interlude with Regent ’cause i love this character and his psychology. He wants to avenge Taylor whereas he did not seem to care before. And he liked doing horrible things to Sophia.
Nier Mier on June 24, 2018 at 12:59 said:
Everyone has their own opinions about what Regent did here and I respect all of those opinions. I hope that those who felt this chapter was too much can at least accept when I say that I was VERY satisfied to see Sophia’s comeuppance. When he said “Nah,” I was sad… and then I scrolled down a tick and had to get up from my chair to leave the room, letting my chuckles subside. I don’t doubt that Regent would have killed her if he sensed that she was still too stubborn to be quiet and leave the city at the end of the chapter. Still, Regent said it best, he knows he’s fucked up and he admits it, embraces it. If you think what he did was wrong, well, Regent probably agrees; he was just okay with crossing that line where other people wouldn’t be.
Regent’s character is so interesting based off of his actions here. He wasn’t angry about when he saw the evidence about what Sophia and Emma did to Taylor but he WAS annoyed that he didn’t feel anything; as though he wanted to but simply couldn’t. His father’s power and his own may be important factors as to why he couldn’t feel anything but another is that, well, he’s probably done worse to people on orders of his father multiple times.
What I’m really curious to see is how Taylor reacts. There’s no way she can’t suspect and want to confront Alec on this matter.
I am really curious to know if Skitter would be able to user her bugs normally if she would be under his control.
Regent may be able to control the body , but Skitter´s power are controlled by her mind. So maybe she would be able to freely control them.
KuroOkami on August 31, 2018 at 09:53 said:
I really LOVED this chapter. But Regent could have kicked that chair. I just HATE this Bitch. (The other Bitch too, but that’s for another time)
night on September 26, 2018 at 09:54 said:
Good job Regent. One bully down!
SDK on October 29, 2018 at 19:43 said:
I finished Worm and two days later started reading again from the beginning. This chapter was on my mind the entire time. I knew it was coming, and felt both dread and excitement at getting to read it again. I never felt quite sure just how far Alec was going to take it, from the extremely brief hint of sexual assault, to the bullying, to her family, to the suicide… Such a nerve wracking chapter. I have honestly never read fiction as good as this. Thanks, Wildbow.
Super interesting to read the comments here too! Some share my view that Alec took this plenty far enough, but it’s strange to see so many wishing he’d actually killed her. Either way, plenty were touched in a variety of ways here. Well done.
Ethical on November 2, 2018 at 10:32 said:
Are you aware of the ongoing sequel Ward? Would highly recommend
bundleofstrings on October 31, 2018 at 14:29 said:
This chapter…
This is my second read through, my first was in 2014. I wanted to reread it back in 2017 but every time I tried starting i remembered this chapter and stopped. There are several Worm scenes that occasionally keep me awake since my first read through and this one is the most prominent one.
It’s probably the casual mention of rape and sexual assault (Regent groping her), and the reference to suicide.
I’m not saying they should be removed, the story is probably better for them – it does colour Regent’s attitude a certain colour, and it being disturbing is probably intentional. It just struck a nerve.
Going through arc 9 it’s very tempting to focus on how horrible she is and how she needs some form of comeuppance. It took me conscious effort to remember that she’s a child and that she needs therapy and rehabilitation, not karmic retribution.
In any case, I just want to say that I love Worm and that it affected me. Thank you for writing it.
Karalyn on November 15, 2019 at 01:45 said:
In previous arcs I continually wondered about Regent, as he had the least attention of the Undersiders.
Now I know. Regent is terrifying.
I can’t feel sorry for Shadow Stalker/Sophia after her past actions, but I can’t excuse Regent’s actions either.
That said, I think from the heroes’ perspective, say, most of the Wards, all of the Undersiders would seem terrifying. Swarms of bugs, monstrous dogs, inhibition of sight and sound, all your secrets revealed… Each with a different type of fear, perhaps only increasing with their continual victories against the Wards. It’s only different for the readers since we get to see their more humanizing interactions.
Regent knew he was a background character, for the most part.
I bet he’d get along with Bakugo pretty well. Or Sophia, if they were on the same team somehow. He’d make one heck of a crony for either.
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A gray cat slinks past a wooden house. There’s something a little intimidating attempting to describe.
“The beautiful opening solo by onno van swigchem transformed the music into a dialogue”
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Performance by tetzepi with Louis Sclavis in the BIMhuis, Amsterdam
As a saxophonist I’m a storyteller. I love to carry people along in an arc and in the experience of the music. It began in a workshop led by Gerard Ammerlaan. I hadn’t been playing saxophone for long, and already in the first rehearsal it was “OK, you take the solo”. “Who, me?” Stress! “But how should it go, and what key is it in?” No reply. Only a repetition: “Go for it”. It was an instructive moment, and it left me wanting more.
During my development as a musician I searched out improvisation in many forms. In complex structures of contemporary music in the ‘bigtet’ Tetzepi, but also as the conductor of ‘instant compositions’ shaped on the spot: absolutely nothing agreed in advance, no notes on paper, but following and giving form to what develops in that particular space and time. But also in small and medium-sized line-ups: as a soloist, in duos, in my own band De Bende van Drie(‘The Gang of Three’). At venues and festivals in the Netherlands, or with the Oorsmeer saxophone quartet and other bands on the road in France, Italy or Spain.
I love music when there’s something to experience, and so I try to make sure that happens, both as a player and a teacher. When you’re truly in the moment then something can happen; if not then we’re listening to some or other form of automatic pilot and our attention drifts.
The added value of improvisation
As I see it, the added value of improvisation is that the music is made in the moment itself. Nothing helps to create excitement more than not knowing what will happen in the next second. And you don’t have to turn everything upside down or leave everything open for this to happen. Based on existing tunes or free, just as long as there is space to explore. Exploring this space is the ultimate enjoyment.
I’ve always found the mechanisms underlying this fascinating: why does it work one time and not another? What is the magic? It’s not a question of ‘just doing something’. It’s a close interplay of emptying your mind, listening, and paying attention to what’s going on around you. Feeling, having courage and taking a leap.
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Well, well, with Rockets pushing Warriors around, it looks like we have a series on our hands
May 17, 2018, 12:24 PM UTC
HOUSTON — Eric Gordon tried to bait Draymond Green with his dribble, but the ball kept slipping from his hands until he was in a race against the shot clock. Green surrendered no ground and suddenly was towering over Gordon above the 3-point line, daring the reigning Sixth Man of the Year to do something. Gordon finally flung the ball toward the rim, causing players on the Golden State Warriors’ bench to stand up, ready to applaud Green’s textbook defense. But the shot fell. Green glared. And the Warriors on the bench sat back down.
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The Houston Rockets weren’t letting this one get away. And they weren’t going to let the developing narrative that what made them special couldn’t work against this team gain any more momentum. By focusing on self-improvement instead of a complete overhaul, by having Gordon and two unlikely forwards out-splash the greatest shooting backcourt in NBA history, by withstanding another offensive eruption from the game’s most fearsome 7-foot assassin, and by turning up their swag, the Rockets did the basketball world a huge favor Wednesday night: They made a playoff series involving the Warriors intriguing for once.
“We showed how good we can be,” Gordon told Yahoo Sports after the Rockets’ 127-105 victory in Game 2 of the Western Conference finals. “It was just us seeing it, and everyone else is seeing it, that we have a chance.”
James Harden gets an easy bucket in the second half Wednesday night. (Getty)
Since the Warriors added Kevin Durant, no team had ever drawn even in a playoff series with them until the stubborn Rockets shut down all of the handwringing about their style of play and delivered the kind of performance that justified why folks have been looking forward to this matchup for several months. Desperation brought out the best of the Rockets, who appeared so despondent after their Game 1 stinker that James Harden called his teammates in an effort “to keep our guys’ swag up.” Harden had to remind his guys via text messages, voicemails and frank conversations who they were, how they got here, and where they hope to be. The formidable Warriors stand in their way, but the stubbornness of coach Mike D’Antoni and the cockiness of the team’s stars are what led them to set a franchise record for wins in the regular season and why they believe they could upend a potential dynasty before it started.
“They’re one of the best all-time teams. We’re trying to prove we’re up there with them,” D’Antoni said.
In previous series over the past two postseasons in which the Warriors dropped a game, arrogance and complacency have been the ready-made excuse for a team that never steps on the floor without a huge talent disparity. But if that’s the case, that’s a dangerous game to play against these Rockets, who have no interest in being a footnote in the Warriors’ quest to win the franchise’s first repeat championship. Houston believes it is the better team, hasn’t been shy about expressing that opinion and sent the Warriors back home to Oracle Arena with some problems to address before Game 3. Will the Stephen Curry they know and love show up this postseason? Has their offensive dependence on Durant descended into an addiction? And what happens if the Hamptons Five lineup plays more like the Hampton Inn lineup?
Curry is still working his way back into form after returning from a nearly six-week absence following a knee injury. Six games into his comeback, Curry hasn’t quite looked right since that initial, adrenaline-fueled return against New Orleans that made the Warriors seem to be a galaxy away from the rest of the league. After his first pair of consecutive playoff games with only one 3-pointer peer game to start this series, Curry said he was “feeling great” and Warriors coach Steve Kerr joked that the injury was “13.7 percent” responsible for his woes. The Warriors were able to get past San Antonio without Curry and didn’t need Curry at his best to defeat the Pelicans. But the Rockets are a different challenge altogether, with Harden, the likely MVP; Chris Paul, making his long-awaited first conference finals appearance in his 13th season; and scrappy role players who have accepted what’s asked of them all season. “We’re playing a team that won 65 games,” Kerr said. “They’re damn good.”
The Rockets continue to magnify Curry’s misery by targeting him on the defensive end. Curry knows the onslaught is coming, in the form of Harden step-backs and Paul forearm shoves to the ground, but the Warriors’ guard hasn’t been able to counter with much more than a few driving layups whenever Clint Capela switches over to him. Every team would take Curry layups over those crowd-silencing threes that keep the two-time MVP shimmying. Klay Thompson compensated for Curry’s struggles in Game 1, but the Rockets limited his touches and ran him off the 3-point line in Game 2, making him ineffective and putting even more pressure on Durant to carry the offensive load. Durant had 38 points, giving him 75 for the series, but he has only handed out one assist. The Warriors know Durant can bail them out, and he’s more than willing to oblige. But an offense predicated on ball movement and player movement can get stifled and stagnant when everyone sits back and just watches Durant’s one-man show. Houston doesn’t have an answer for Durant, but his production is muted if the rest of the team is silenced.
Golden State got the split it wanted, starting its first series on the road in the Kerr era, but the Rockets got what they needed, and that’s the confidence that they can hang with a team that usually doesn’t dilly-dally in the postseason. Talking a good game, which the Rockets have done all season, is different from playing one. But they can also take some solace winning a game in which Harden (27 points) didn’t have to go supernova and Paul only had to worry about making sure his passes were fancy enough for the highlights. Gordon (27 points) single-handedly outscored Curry and Thompson. P.J. Tucker and Trevor Ariza found the shots that had gone missing in the first game — and made close to all of them, combining to shoot 15-of-18. The Rockets still utilized one-on-one play, but did it quicker and more decisively. And the miscommunications and breakdowns on defense were diminished considerably, replaced by more veracity and hustle.
One win doesn’t distinguish the Rockets from Cleveland, San Antonio or New Orleans — the other teams that were able to sneak off with a victory from the Warriors since Durant arrived. But by pushing back so quickly, the Rockets have signaled that this round might be more of a fight. “We don’t really worry about who we’re playing against. If we come out and be some dogs and do what we did,” Harden said, “it doesn’t matter.”
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Artists with Impact
Toolkits for Change
Honoring Inuit culture through traditional tattoos
|In Artists with Impact
|By Nicole Rupersburg
Holly Mititquq Nordlum is an Inupiaq artist born in Kotzebue, an Inuit village in the Northwest Arctic Borough of Alaska. As an artist, she has followed a lifelong call that has led her to painting, sculpture, graphic design, photography, printmaking, jewelry making, and now filmmaking.
“I blame my mom,” she laughs. “She was an artist herself. I blame her for giving me permission to follow this path and supporting me through it all.”
Nordlum has been actively working at promoting Alaskan Inuit culture since she was a teenager, addressing issues prevalent in the Inuit community and educating people about them.
Holly Mititquq Nordlum. Photo by Michael Conti Photography.
After attending boarding school in Hawaii she returned to Alaska, where she attended the University of Alaska, Anchorage and earned a BFA. Anchorage is called the biggest Native “village” in Alaska because there are more than 23,000 Inuit people living in the city. It was here that Nordlum started teaching art classes through one of the school districts while still taking classes, painting, and printmaking herself.
“I was trying to better my community, but up until then the only way I knew how to do that was through education and getting kids to think about their community,” she says. “But at some point talking about alcoholism, drug use, suicide, all the bad things Alaskan Natives face, I realized I was just perpetuating that and not doing anything positive about.”
She started thinking about what else she could do, not just to promote a positive perception of the Native community within the Native community but also how in how that community is viewed by non-Natives.
“I wanted to bring a positive perception of our culture, not just call out the bad but bring something positive to it,” she says.
Maya Sialuk Jacobsen tattooing Holly Mititquq Nordlum. Photo by Michael Conti Photography.
One thing she had been thinking about a lot was traditional Inuit tattooing, tupik. The tradition of female face tattooing dates back thousands of years in Inuit culture. Nordlum’s own great-grandmother had such tattoos and Nordlum had been considering getting her own for some time, but was hesitant because of concerns over how it would be perceived.
“I had been thinking about it for a long time but as someone in the Western world, it’s obviously a big step,” she says. “So I started studying traditional Inuit tattooing five years ago and looked for someone in Anchorage to do it, but there was no one at the time still doing it here in the traditional method.”
Maya Sialuk Jacobsen. Photo by Michael Conti Photography.
With support from the Anchorage Museum, Nordlum found an inker from Greenland, Maya Sialuk Jacobsen, who still uses the traditional Inuit tattooing techniques of skin stitching and hand poking. Nordlum brought Jacobsen to Alaska where she started a tupik training program, training herself and two other women on these traditional methods. They are all now practicing tattoo artists in Anchorage using these same techniques.
“The point was to bring our community together, to bring these urban Natives like myself together and bring some pride to our communities after the colonization that happened to us,” Nordlum says. “Tattooing provides this vehicle for talking about these issues, not as a negative thing but just as facts. Colonization hurt our communities so how do we heal from that?”
She explains that traditional Inuit tattooing was done by women for women, almost exclusively. “The tattoos celebrated their lives and accomplishments,” she says. The first lines tattooed on the chin marked a girl who had come of age and was now an adult. That was celebrated. Tattoos symbolized moments in a woman’s life, reflecting things like marriage and children. More tattoos meant a woman was older and had accomplished more, which was also celebrated.
“That idea to celebrate Native girls and women is a big shift here that hasn’t always been done,” says Nordlum. “With colonization we lost that, but now we’re bringing it back. It’s ultimately about community.”
Nordlum also says that honoring traditional practices like the female face tattooing does not mean she is also advocating for a return to all traditional practices or ways of life.
Holly Mititquq Nordlum and Maya Sialuk Jacobsen. Photo by Michael Conti Photography.
“Obviously in today’s world not everything is going to equate. I’m not going to tattoo a 13-year-old, but I do talk to adults about what they want, what they can do, and what they want to accomplish. There are only a few getting chin tattoos, but when they [get any tattoos] it’s important culturally because now we live in the Western world. We’re not trying to go back to the way it was. That’s unrealistic. I’m not going to sell my house, take my kids out of school, and go live a nomadic life on the tundra. I’m from the Western world.
‘But we can be proud of who we are and walk around with it every day and that’s enough to bring some healing. That’s what I want to do: recognize we are a people that thrived here and have thousands of years of ancestry and that’s something to be proud of.”
Filming Tupik Mi. Photo by Michael Conti Photography.
Colonization by the United States and Denmark brought with it tremendous shame in being Inuit. Nordlum continues on to say, “Just walking around proud is enough. I’m not trying to go back in time; I’m just trying to bring back a little pride and community. I still want to thrive here, but in doing so also bring back a little pride and healing of our own culture.”
She admits that walking around with such pride can be difficult, especially when people shoot her looks of disgust or go out of their way to avoid looking at her at all. It helps that Western culture has normalized tattooing so much, she says, but when it’s tourist season in Anchorage and people come pouring out of the docking cruise ships daily, being confronted with dirty looks when she’s just trying to get a cup of coffee wears her down.
“It’s insulting after awhile. I just get run down by it. And that’s going to change here; every week we’re tattooing more women. But it’s exhausting sometimes, the mean looks. Obviously I knew what I was getting into; I’m an adult. And I try to explain it to people who are genuinely curious.”
Her greater mission is, as ever, to educate as much as celebrate, which is why she started making a film documenting the process of women in the Arctic connecting through traditional Inuit tattooing and reclaiming their cultural and personal identities. The film, called Tupik Mi, is still in production, and features Nordlum and Jacobsen on their journey of connecting to each other and others across oceans, educating people on tupik and training other Native Arctic women in the practice, as well as their own personal journeys through tupik.
“Bringing Inuit people from around the world together was a goal for us,” Nordlum says. “Greenland was colonized by the Danish and we were colonized by America, but the language is still the same and the culture is still the same. This is bringing us all together to make a bigger community, and together we can make a bigger impact in the way people perceive us and the way we perceive our community.”
While Nordlum will tattoo non-Native people, there are certain Inuit designs she will not tattoo on them to protect this art form from cultural appropriation.
“The few things I’m keeping sacred are the chin and finger tattoos that have Inuit significance to them,” she says. “We’re Inuit so we’re keeping them for ourselves because that makes them special for us, and I think that’s an important element because we’ve not been special for so long, it had just been people trying to assimilate us.”
She recognizes that just because she won’t tattoo non-Native women with these designs of cultural significance to Inuit people doesn’t mean that they can’t go to someone else and have them done, no more than the lower 48 can seem to stop sun-kissed blonde SoCal Millennials from donning Native headdresses at Coachella every year. But she can certainly speak out about it.
From IKEA appropriating Inuit designs to use on cheap pillows to high-profile New York galleries selling off 12,000-year-old Inuit artifacts that no living Inuit person has ever seen or touched, much less could possibly afford to purchase and return to the community, Nordlum is proudly outspoken where issues of cultural appropriation are involved.
“How does [IKEA] benefit Inuit people? They’re just taking 10,000 years of history and putting it on pillows. It’s really important to get the message out there that appropriation is not okay. Taking out patterns without benefit to our community is not okay. This tattooing project has got a lot of press and that’s great because it allows me to speak about these things.”
She encourages people like herself who experience appropriation of their own cultures to talk about it and get it out in the open.
“It’s enough to just get it out there. Tell them we’re watching,” she says. “Saying it and making people aware is enough. I do understand the frustration in this America that we’re living in. The frustration is unbelievable from my point of view. Everything is being taken, not just from me but from everyone. I think we need to be this outspoken. I have to spit it out all the time and be very vocal and talk about these things all the time to make people see that they’re benefiting from our demise, especially in Alaska. The United States brought it for a cheap price and they got mines and oil. There is so much profit in Alaska, the only problem was the Inuit people and how to get rid of them. I have to encourage other artists and other people to say as much as they can and point it out: it’s not okay.”
Nordlum says she gets criticized by her own people for being “too vocal” on these issues.
“They don’t want to rock the boat too much, but I’m powering forward with my small group of people and we going to keep talking about this. I look at what other people are doing and think, ‘I’ve got to do more.’ There’s so much to be done around educating people about Inuit culture. It’s a tumultuous time we live in but that’s the best opportunity to make change, and I’m using that opportunity to be as fearless as possible.”
(1) How do you like to collaborate?
I find I collaborate best with people I already respect and admire, so I choose wisely. With Maya (my tattoo project, life pursuit) I didn’t know her and she was a world away but fate brought us together and I trusted we would have more in common than differences. She is now the closest thing I have to a sister and business partner.
(2) How do you a start a project?
Dream big, start small…it’s cheesy but true, and I also don’t ever let anyone say NO to me and if they do I don’t give up. I reason with them and/or I gain perspective from listening.
(3) How do you talk about your value?
I don’t. I still have a hard time charging for things but try to always be fair.
(4) How do you define success?
I try to be grateful and praise those who are with me but also never stop striving. I never really feel successful but I do feel proud of things we have accomplished.
(5) How do you fund your work?
At the demise of my kids and house! I scrounge and apply and talk about work and try to bring in partners that have funds…I am definitely still learning.
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Virgil and Ovid on Aeneas and Dido
August 24, 2018 Gloss, Ovid, VIrgil, Virgil and Ovid on Aeneas and DidoSlowlander
These two texts are foundational in the Western Tradition’s view of passionate love and they highlight the misogyny inherent in Roman culture that valued the male’s “virtue” – virtus – of strength and masculinity and his devotion to Jove over the later Christian piety which is portrayed as feminine (motherly virtue and chastity).
In context, Aeneas loves his country, not the woman whom he had an affair with (and got pregnant) and excuses his misogyny by basically saying that the gods told him to move on out of Carthage.
We also see the tension between what Dido believes is a legitimate marriage and what Aeneas believes is an illegitimate marriage. Though she claims the lightning of the gods serve as the wedding torches and the gods themselves are witness to a legitimate ceremony, he does not recognize that particular supernatural authority. In fact we could tease this out as being the bedrock upon which the conflict between Rome and Carthage was built and why the two cities hated each other.
We also have the theme of love as insanity where she is like the wounded animal who, with the arrow having pierced her still as she tries to escape the hunter, stands in contrast to Aeneas who is passive. The woman is described as being little more than a terrified beast who lives off of instinct and emotion whereas the man is the passive, rational master hunter.
It is important to remember, however, that Virgil’s and Ovid’s audience were well aware what they were writing was a historical fiction, just as we know the film Gladiator is a historical fiction and as Shakespeare’s audience know Richard III was historical fiction. Yet the images are so powerful and convincing to an audience that they become embedded in our thinking and traditions and culture until the not just the stories, but the cultural attitudes present in the stories remain with us through the centuries.
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The New York City Administration for Children’s Services announced Tuesday that more than 2,000 of its caseworkers will start using new tablet computers and software in all child abuse investigations.
The Microsoft Surface Pro tablets being given to all frontline child-protective staff are equipped with new software which will allow workers to access the state’s child-welfare database in the field, according to an agency press release. The newly implemented technology will give caseworkers easy and immediate access to critical documents, case history and other relevant data.
“Our frontline child protective workers are first responders for New York City’s children, and we have to make sure they have every tool available to do their lifesaving work,” said ACS Commissioner David A. Hansell. “Whether it’s making the difficult decision to remove a child from a dangerous home or referring a family to substance abuse treatment, these technological upgrades will mean CPS have the tools they need to serve children and families right at their fingertips.”
The new tablets will also be equipped with high-speed internet and several advanced features. According to ACS, each tablet features Microsoft OneNote and ACS’s Safe Measures dashboard, a city-developed platform that gives agency employees overviews of their cases and helps them manage tasks, track interviews and prioritize workloads. Supervisors are also able to view caseworkers’ workload and analyze their progress.
OneNote provides workers with “speech-to-text” technology as well as the ability to handwrite notes using a stylus.
“Carrying tablets with these apps and software helps us prioritize our work and complete investigations faster and more efficiently,” said Eric Blackwood, a child protective specialist in Brooklyn.
The city’s child protective specialists investigated about 60,000 reports of child abuse and neglect called into the New York Statewide Central Register in 2017, ACS said.
Before ACS’ purchase of the tablets, its caseworkers have had to keep paper records or get to an office to search databases or pull up records. City officials have said this causes critical time to be lost in sensitive investigations. So far, 2,628 ACS workers have been trained to use the Surface Pro devices and the SafeMeasures dashboard.
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Nonrepudiation is the assurance that someone cannot deny something. Typically, nonrepudiation refers to the ability to ensure that a party to a contract or a communication cannot deny the authenticity of their signature on a document or the sending of a message that they originated.
To repudiate means to deny. For many years, authorities have sought to make repudiation impossible in some situations. You might send registered mail, for example, so the recipient cannot deny that a letter was delivered. Similarly, a legal document typically requires witnesses to signing so that the person who signs cannot deny having done so.
On the Internet, a digital signature is used not only to ensure that a message or document has been electronically signed by the person that purported to sign the document, but also, since a digital signature can only be created by one person, to ensure that a person cannot later deny that they furnished the signature.
Since no security technology is absolutely fool-proof, some experts warn that a digital signature alone may not always guarantee nonrepudiation. It is suggested that multiple approaches be used, such as capturing unique biometric information and other data about the sender or signer that collectively would be difficult to repudiate.
Email nonrepudiation involves methods such as email tracking that are designed to ensure that the sender cannot deny having sent a message and/or that the recipient cannot deny having received it.
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The IRS recently released final regulations for the first-year 100% bonus depreciation deduction, in addition to another round of proposed regulations. The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) expanded the deduction to 100% if the qualified property is placed in service through 2022, with the amount dropping each subsequent year by 20%, until it sunsets in 2027. Of course, Congress could act before that to extend or revise the deduction.
The final regulations address several critical issues related to these requirements and include some changes from the set of proposed regulations previously issued in August 2018. The newly proposed regulations provide guidance on some areas not covered in the final regulations.
Qualifying for the Bonus Depreciation: Past and Present
Prior to the TCJA, qualified retail improvement property, restaurant property and leasehold improvement property were depreciated over 15 years under the modified accelerated cost recovery system (MACRS).
The TCJA now classifies all of these property types as qualified improvement property (QIP). QIP generally is defined as any improvement to the interior of a nonresidential real property that’s placed in service after the building was placed in service.
Although Congress intended QIP placed in service after 2017 to have a 15-year MACRS recovery period and, therefore, qualify for bonus depreciation, a drafting error didn’t make that clear.
In what’s been called “the retail glitch,” the 15-year recovery period didn’t make it into the TCJA’s statutory language. The preamble to the final regulations explains that legislative action is required to remedy this problem. Until then, QIP placed in service after 2017 is subject to a 39-year depreciation period and remains ineligible for bonus depreciation.
To qualify for 100% bonus depreciation, property generally must meet the following requirements:
Fall within the definition of “qualified property”
Be new (meaning the property’s original use begins with the business) or acquired used property
Be acquired and placed in service by the taxpayer after September 27, 2017
Used Property Questions
The TCJA makes bonus depreciation available for qualified used property that wasn’t used by the taxpayer or a predecessor at any time prior to its acquisition. The final regulations define the term “predecessor” to include any of the following:
The transferor of an asset to a transferee in a transaction subject to rules for tax attribute carryovers in corporate acquisitions
The transferor of an asset to a transferee in a transaction in which the transferee’s basis in the asset is determined by reference to the asset’s basis when it was in the hands of the transferor
A partnership that’s considered as continuing
The deceased person, in the case of an asset acquired by an estate
The transferor of an asset to a trust
The regulations indicate that the IRS believes the consideration of such parties when determining whether a taxpayer has used a piece of property is necessary to prevent the abusive churning of assets by taxpayers.
They also requested comments on whether the IRS should provide a safe harbor as to how many taxable years a taxpayer or predecessor must look back to determine if a depreciable interest existed.
The result is that the final regulations do include a safe harbor look-back period that considers only the five calendar years immediately prior to the taxpayer’s current placed-in-service year for the property. If the taxpayer and a predecessor haven’t been around that long, only the number of calendar years they’ve existed is taken into account.
In addition, the final regulations provide that “substantially renovated property” can qualify for bonus depreciation even if the taxpayer had a prior depreciable interest in it before the renovation. A property is substantially renovated if the cost of the used parts is less than or equal to 20% of the total cost of renovated property, whether the property is acquired or self-constructed.
Date of Acquisition Issues (And Changes to the Previously Proposed Regulations)
Under the TCJA, eligible property must be acquired after September 27, 2017, or acquired according to a written binding contract entered into by the taxpayer after September 27, 2017.
The final regulations provide that the acquisition date of property acquired according to a written binding contract is the later of these four scenarios:
The date on which the contract was entered into
The date on which the contract is enforceable under state law
The date on which all cancellation periods end, if the contract has one or more cancellation periods
The date on which all conditions subject to such clauses are satisfied, if the contract has one or more contingency clauses
The August 2018 proposed regulations provided that property manufactured, constructed or produced for the taxpayer for use in its business by another person under a written binding contract that was entered into prior to the manufacture, construction or production is acquired according to a written binding contract. Many commenters disagreed with this position, prompting the IRS to reconsider.
Thus, the final regulations provide that such property is now considered self-constructed property. This property type isn’t subject to the written binding contract rule and is eligible for bonus depreciation if the taxpayer began manufacturing, constructing or producing it after September 27, 2017.
The ADS Factor Finalized
Property that must be depreciated under the alternative depreciation system (ADS) generally isn’t eligible for bonus depreciation. As the final regulations note, some tax code provisions require the use of the ADS to determine aggregate basis for the purposes of the respective provision — but not for purposes of calculating Section 168 depreciation deductions.
The final regulations state that such requirements to use the ADS generally don’t render property ineligible for bonus depreciation. They also clarify that using the ADS to determine the adjusted basis of a taxpayer’s tangible assets for purposes of allocating business interest expense between excepted and nonexcepted businesses generally doesn’t make the property ineligible.
Effective Dates and Flexibility
The final regulations are effective for qualified property placed in service during tax years that include September 24, 2019. You can elect to apply the regulations to qualified property acquired and placed in service after September 27, 2017, or during tax years ending on or after September 28, 2017, as long as all of the rules in the final regulations are consistently applied.
Alternatively, you can rely on the August 2018 proposed regulations for qualified property acquired and placed in service after September 27, 2017, during tax years ending on or after September 28, 2017, and ending on September 24, 2019.
Newly Proposed Regulations
The proposed regulations contain additional rules regarding the definition of qualified property, consolidated groups, the treatment of components of self-constructed property and the application of the midquarter convention. They also propose exceptions to some of the final regulations.
For example, the proposed regulations include an exception to the depreciable interest rule for used property when the taxpayer disposes of the property within 90 days of placing it in service. If certain requirements are satisfied, the taxpayer’s depreciable interest in the property during that period isn’t taken into account when determining whether the property was used by the taxpayer or a predecessor at any time before the taxpayer’s reacquisition of it.
Next Steps to Maximize Your Depreciation Deduction
The final and proposed first-year 100% bonus depreciation deduction regulations may provide you with some unexpected opportunities to claim bonus depreciation. In some cases, it might be worth amending your 2017 and 2018 tax return filings.
Your Seiler tax advisor can help you determine the best course of action for both your future and past taxes to ensure you’ve maximized your bonus depreciation as much as possible.
Reach out over phone or email to discuss how these new IRS regulations personally impact you and your business.
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Dollar, Young Love: We need your help!
Dollar » The Paris Collection
80sPopNew romanticNew waveUK
Thereza Bazar and David Van Day (previously members of Guys and Dolls) formed Dollar in 1978 making an instant impact on the charts with their first single Shooting Star. They enjoyed a successful chart career over the next ten years selling over ten million records worldwide. They spent over 120 weeks on the UK charts alone with classic pop songs including Who Were You With In The Moonlight, Love's Gotta Hold On Me, Hand Held In Black And White, Mirror Mirror (Mon Amour), Give Me Back My Heart, Videotheque, O L'Amour and many more. Read Full BioThereza Bazar and David Van Day (previously members of Guys and Dolls) formed Dollar in 1978 making an instant impact on the charts with their first single Shooting Star. They enjoyed a successful chart career over the next ten years selling over ten million records worldwide. They spent over 120 weeks on the UK charts alone with classic pop songs including Who Were You With In The Moonlight, Love's Gotta Hold On Me, Hand Held In Black And White, Mirror Mirror (Mon Amour), Give Me Back My Heart, Videotheque, O L'Amour and many more. Dollar are without doubt one of the most successful duos in pop music history.
01Radio3:46
02The Girls Are Out to Get Ya3:07
03Young Love3:10
04You Take My Breath Away3:34
05Love At First Sight2:48
06Takin' a Chance On You3:28
07Ebony3:09
08No Mans Land2:46
09Don't Change Your Life2:41
10Heartbeat (Love Me Slowly)4:00
11The Girls Are Out To Get Ya - Alternate 1980 mix3:31
12Love Don't Come Easy2:30
13Young Americans Talking3:32
14Fighting For The Country4:23
15Ringing The Day3:43
16Young Americans Talking - Extended 12" Version6:06
by Dollar
We have lyrics for 'Young Love' by these artists:
Air Supply Lately all my thoughts have gone to you You know that's…
Aldo Nova Just west of 42nd street There runs a subway line It's a…
Alex Price I never give up I'm never gonna give up No…
Andy Williams You tell me you love me, you say you'll be…
Ann and Kate McGarrigle They say for every boy and girl There's just one love…
Billy Gilman Even if the pipes are knockin' and the walls are…
Bride Roxanne doesn't think she's pretty enough She sits staring u…
Carly Hennessy How old are you? I'm sixteen Uh And so much more Love, love…
Carter's Chord You had the headlights off, so no one could see Sneaking…
Celtic Thunder They say for every boy and girl There's just one love…
Chris Brown Young love, love love. A teenage love. Young love. A teenage…
Cliff Richard There are times, when you know Love is lost to he…
Coby Grant In the start in the dark I didn't know What you…
Coheed and Cambria Four AM, blank T.V. screen Inside voice, the need to scream …
Connie Francis They say for every boy and girl There's just one love…
Connie Smith [ Both ] They say for every boy and girl there's…
Crests Happy birthday, happy birthday, baby Oh, I love you so S…
Damian McGinty They say for every boy and girl There's just one love…
Damian McGinty Celtic Thunder They say for every boy and girl There's just one love…
Daniel O'Donnell They say for every boy and girl There's just one love…
Dizzy Balloon Do you believe that life is full of misery? Nothing more…
Donny Osmond They say for every boy and girl There's just one love…
Eli Lieb When I was twenty two the day that I met…
Elisa Jordana I'm in my studio, hearing my stereo Listening to Young Love…
Felix Cartal You do wrong when you know what is right Just to…
Frankie Avalon They say for every boy and girl, There's just one love…
Gavin DeGraw There's no need to beg babe, that's my open pocket You…
Girl's Day Young Love my only Hey you feeling love Oh, Young Love, neo…
Government Issue Of world violence Of media sex Patriotic puppets Bloodthi…
Hunter Tab They say for every boy and girl There's just one love…
Janet Jackson I may be young, but I'm not foolish I can tell…
Jedward Yeah yeah yea yeah I was with my friends Third street wa…
Jesse McCartney We've been together a minute Seen couples come and go When p…
John Foxx From the tick-tock of the union shop To the rock-rock where…
Judds She was sitting crossed legged on a hood of a…
Kate & Anna McGarrigle They say for every boy and girl There's just one love…
Kelsie May I knew you would show up I always heard you would…
Kid Alex 11x Young love topless 3x young love I met the young but…
Kim Carnes Jenny loves John But he doesn't care Now that he loves ano…
Kip Moore Your daddy thought I was wrong for you, thinking back…
Koko LaRoo You do wrong when you know what is right Just to…
Kris Allen I won't be the one that makes you question all…
Laura Marling Mystery Jets If I only knew your name, I'd go from door…
Lesley Gore Young love, first love Filled with true devotion They say f…
Lisa May Eey young love We can ride it to the sun You know,…
Mary Hopkin They say for every boy and girl There's just one…
Moto boy Young hearts light their own funeral piles A wild fire the…
Mystery Jets If I only knew your name, I'd go from door…
Nat Stuckey They say for every boy and girl there's just one…
Nat Stuckey & Connie Smith [ Both ] They say for every boy and girl there's…
Nature When you thought it was no love It's always love around…
No Angels We're still talking on the phone in the mornin We started…
Osmonds They say for every boy and girl There's just one love…
Perry Como Young love! Young love! Young love! Young love! They say…
Ray Stevens They say for every boy and girl There's just one love…
Rival Sons Well your daddy's gone too fat this time, And I…
Roger Taylor With a feeling so sure With a feeling so real When you…
Sandy Posey They say for every boy and girl There's just one love…
Semi Precious Weapons Every second, every hour, every day Every chance I could se…
Sha Na Na They say for every boy and girl There's just one love…
Slowtide I walk the world starry-eyed wherever my feet may take me I'…
Sonny James They say for every boy and girl There's just one love…
Sun Kil Moon On cold November days don't like to stray too far Or…
Tab Hunter They say for every boy and girl Theres just one love…
Teena Oh, oh, oh, oh, Yeah, yeah I remember back in school When…
Telepathic Teddy Bear When I was young love I would watch from underneath your…
The Amboy Dukes My baby gave your love And she came from up above To…
The Crests Happy birthday, happy birthday, baby Oh, I love you so S…
The Crew Cuts Young Love -Artist: Tab Hunter -the # 22 song of the 195…
The Crew-Cuts Young Love -Artist: Tab Hunter -the # 22 song of the 1955-1…
The Judds She was sitting crossed legged on a hood of a…
The Mystery Jets & Laura Marling If I only knew your name, I'd go from door…
The Osmonds They say for every boy and girl There's just one love…
The Outfield Young love, bigger than anything You're waitin' for a girl t…
The Tide They keep saying we don't know a thing We're just kids…
This Century Young love tell me how it is your heart is in the…
Tommy DeNoble Count every star in the midnight sky Count every rose,…
Yes It's You This is young love And it's our It's gonna be our love…
We have lyrics for these tracks by Dollar:
Give Me Back My Heart Heart heart heart heart La la la la I feel so silly…
Give Me Some Kinda Magic I was a young man choosing to be alone You were…
Guessing Games Thereza Bazar / David Van Day) Ive been giving you all…
Hand Held In Black & White On a ticket Tokyo return Colour evening palaces that burn …
I Need Your Love Baby, can you hear me? Do you know what I'm trying…
I Wanna Hold Your Hand Oh yeh I tell ya something I think you'll understand When I…
I Want To Hold Your Hand Oh yeah I tell you somethin' I think you'll understand Whe…
It It's only confusion When your dreams hit the floor You mak…
Love Street Used to walk along lonely street Thinking love would never …
Love's Gotta Hold On Me Here comes that same old feeling again And I don't wanna…
Mirror Mirror Mirror mirror mon amour If I was to tell you how…
Mirror Mirror (Mon Amour) Mirror mirror mon amour If I was to tell you how…
O L'Amour Vince Clarke / Andy Bell) O l'amour now I'm aching for…
Oh L'Amour Oh l'amour now I'm aching for you Mon amour what's a…
Ring Ring Christopher Rainbow) Baby don't worry if the tide should tu…
Second Time Around Thereza Bazar / David Van Day) They always said you were…
Shooting Star Tonight of nights you should be far away A million miles…
Takin' a Chance On You You don't have to say a word I've seen it in…
The Girls Are Out to Get Ya Party's going on tonight And I'm available 'Cause I look t…
The Second Time Around They always said you were a shooting star And you were…
Tokyo On a ticket Tokyo return Color evening palaces that burn…
Videotheque When the VJ shoots the beam I take my partner from…
We Walked in Love Michael St. James) I love you more than I can say Sometimes…
Who Were You With in the Moonlight Who were you with in the moonlight Who was it holding…
You Take My Breath Away Funny faces look at the way that we live We're on…
Wyclef Jean - Sweetest Girl (Dollar Bill) ft. Akon, Lil Wayne, Niia
Jason Derulo - Swalla (feat. Nicki Minaj & Ty Dolla $ign) (Official Music Video)
Tapout (Explicit)
Likkle Addi - Dollar Sign (Official Lyric Video)
Dababy - Suge (Yea Yea) Official Music Video
Wiz Khalifa - Something New feat. Ty Dolla $ign [Official Music Video]
OneRepublic - Counting Stars
Noizy ft. Çiljeta - Me shum se dollar (Official Video HD)
YNW Melly - Butter Pecan (Music Video) Shot By @DrewFilmedit
EL DOLLAR | DILE | GHETTO LOVE | VIDEO OFFICIAL
Twerking At The Comedy Show To 60 Percent on The Dollar and Uno Dos Tres
Lil TJAY - Forever (Official Music Video)
Jamey Johnson - The Dollar
Ty Dolla $ign - Or Nah ft. The Weeknd, Wiz Khalifa & DJ Mustard [Music Video]
Jah Master - Zorora Mwari Vakudana (Tribute to Young Dollar)
Ty Dolla $ign - Love U Better ft. Lil Wayne & The-Dream [Music Video]
Dollar (Full Video) | Lovepreet Dhillon | Latest Punjabi Songs 2018 | Vehli Janta Records
DIY Dollar Tree Craft Gift Set | For Young Girls who Love Arts & Crafts!
young dollar ft smartaman love you girl.VOB
Kygo & Ellie Goulding - First Time
Rae Sremmurd - Black Beatles ft. Gucci Mane
Kehlani - Nights Like This (Lyrics) (ft. Ty Dolla $ign)
Young majik ft Macky 2 n Cream dollar - Sweet love
Post Malone - Candy Paint (Official Lyrics)
Ty Dolla $ign - Purple Emoji feat. J. Cole [Official Music Video]
Sia - Cheap Thrills ft. Sean Paul (Lyric Video)
Billion Dollar Love
Mozzy - Thugz Mansion ft. Ty Dolla $ign & YG (Official Video)
Drake - God's Plan
Ty Dolla $ign - Pineapple feat. Gucci Mane & Quavo [Music Video]
Chris Stapleton - Millionaire (Audio)
Free Freddie Gibbs | Curren$y Type Beat "Dollar $hort" (Prod. B.Young)
Angry Dad at The Dollar General
Nicki Minaj - Pills N Potions (Official)
Jah Master - Zorora "Dedication To Young Dollar" [Produced By Malon T ] May 2019 Zimdancehall
Give me dollar - The Young People with lyrics, con su letra
Khalid - OTW ft. 6LACK, Ty Dolla $ign (Official Music Video)
Kehlani - Nights Like This (feat. Ty Dolla $ign) [Official Video]
Lil Wayne - Love Me (Explicit) ft. Drake, Future
21 Savage - a lot ft. J. Cole (Official Video)
Lil Baby x Gunna - Drip Too Hard (Official Audio)
Swae Lee, Slim Jxmmi, Rae Sremmurd - Guatemala
Sia - Cheap Thrills ( Lyrics )
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Morgan Hill gears up for its 141st annual Freedom Fest
CHORALE KIDS Patriotic Sing performers will be centerstage in the annual Morgan Hill Freedom Fest on July 3-4, 2017. Photo: Jeff Bentz
Small town tradition comes alive as Morgan Hill celebrates Independence Day with its annual Freedom Fest. Celebrated in Morgan Hill since 1876, this year’s theme is America’s National Parks, 100 Years and Counting and events will include a time-honored Patriotic Sing, Family Music Fest, Freedom Run, Car Cruise n’ Show and an explosively fun Fireworks and entertainment show.
Vice president of events, Diana Wood says, “My mind is being blown about how this all is morphing into the amazing series of events we know and love, right in front of my eyes.”
Hailed as the official Santa Clara County Independence Day Parade, this year the historic procession celebrates its 141st trip down the streets of Morgan Hill.
The two-day celebration kicks off on Monday night, July 3, at 6pm as children from the community gather to sing the songs of America at the Downtown Amphitheater—a tradition that began around the turn of the century and was rekindled in 1989. Now, in its 29th year, the Patriotic Sing boasts the participation of second generation chorus members performing for the community.
Festivities continue Monday night with the Family Music Fest, featuring Bay Area band The Recurrents playing a versatile lineup of dance-inducing tunes.
Tuesday, July fourth’s events open with the Freedom Run, a 5K run and walk and Kid’s 1-mile run. This year the run is part of the official grand prix circuit for the Pacific Association for USA Track and Field which ensures some of the fastest runners in Northern California taking the downtown track.
The 12th Annual Cruise ‘n Car Show will showcase more than 100 locally owned classic cars cruising the parade route before heading to the Community Center parking lot for the car show.
The Freedom Fest finishes with a bang Tuesday night with Fireworks on the Green at the Morgan Hill Outdoor Sports Center. Attendees are encouraged to bring a picnic or purchase food and beverages from onsite vendors. Entertainment will begin at 6pm with Bay Area local band One Country. In addition to old fashioned fun and an encore performance of the Patriotic Sing, The Hackjammers will also perform. The Fireworks on the Green entertainment and fireworks display beginning around 9:30pm are a no cost event and donations will be accepted during the show.
Wood says the community seems to come together more for July fourth events than any of the others held around in the South Valley.
“Despite the fact that our nation seems to be focused only on our differences lately, we all share the unique freedoms the United States provides,” she says. “July fourth gives us an opportunity to set aside our differences and celebrate those freedoms.”
For more information, visit morganhillfreedomfest.com.
Tia Sundberg
Tia Sundberg is a crafting diva, knitter, Halloween fanatic and freelance writer for South Valley magazine.
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Mobile handsets & components under Make in India to get special push in Budget
At the meeting where the PM was most candid asking for real time suggestions to boost growth, he was informed that electronics manufacturing, especially handsets and components, had a good chance of becoming India's largest exports within the next five years.
How to make ‘Make in India’: Editorial
The trade war between the US and China may be partly responsible for the economic slowdown globally, but it presents an opportunity for India to propel itself to become a hub of manufacturing in Asia.
Government plans higher duty sops to lure phone companies to Make in India
Govt has set a target to increase smartphone exports to $110 billion by 2025 from $3 billion now.
Oppo weaves growth strategy around 'Make in India' drive
Chinese tech giant Oppo is looking to cash in on the "incredible" opportunities thrown by untapped millennial population in the Indian market and charting out strategies to back the government's 'Make in India' mission by extending support to startups and bringing India-centric innovations.
Apple supplier Salcomp buys Nokia’s Chennai phone unit for just Rs 215 cr
Salcomp, one of Apple’s major component suppliers, has bought Nokia’s defunct handset factory near Chennai for close to $30 million (Rs215 crore), setting the stage for the revival of what was once India’s poster child for local manufacturing but which was shut down in late 2014 after a tax dispute between the Finnish company and local authorities.
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'Make in India' hub Noida to churn over 30 cr mobiles in 5 yrs
The pace at which mobile manufacturing activity is growing in the Noida/Greater Noida area owing to the "Make in India" initiative, the region is set to produce about 30 per cent of an estimated 100 crore mobile phones the country will produce annually by 2025.
Flex plans to expand India manufacturing operations
Flex, which entered India in 2001, export electronics worth about $600 million from its 11 facilities across Chennai, Pune, Hyderabad, Bengaluru, Gurgaon and Vishakhapatnam. It employs some 25,000 people. A mail sent to Flex remained unanswered.
Tech's still a strange word for manufacturers in India
A look at why Indian manufacturers are seeking to take their time to adapt to ‘Industry 4.0’
Huawei’s local 5G licensing to boost Make in India ambition
The telecom gear market is currently driven by Huawei, Samsung, Ericsson, Nokia and ZTE worldwide, and is expected to reach to $562 billion by 2023 with nearly 10% cumulative annual growth rate (CAGR) during the period from 2017–2023.
Corporate tax relief: Karbonn phone maker Jaina Group expects industry to achieve double-digit growth
To attract fresh investment in manufacturing and boost Make In India, new provision has been inserted in the I-T Act, which allows any new domestic company incorporated on or after October 1, 2019, making fresh investment in manufacturing, and starts operations before March 31, 2023, an option to pay income tax at 15 per cent, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said on Friday.
Realme invests Rs 300 cr to ramp up manufacturing; says more component partners setting up plants
Sheth said that over 10 component partners have set up facilities in India in the last one year, and more partners are planning their facilities.
Coming soon: Smart kiosks for postal, banking services
The department has been aggressively implementing a slew of digital initiatives after it has modernised 1.55 lakh post offices across the country in partnership with state-driven Telecommunications Consultants India Limited (TCIL) and IT services company Tata Consultancy Services (TCS).
Vivo launches Y90 in India for Rs 6,990
The device sports a 15.8cm (6.22) Halo FullView™ display with a screen-to-body ratio of 88.6% that provides consumers an enhanced viewing experience.
Government supports local suppliers for public procurement orders
Central agencies told to drop restrictive, discriminatory criteria from tenders against domestic companies.
India’s electronics output surges to Rs 4.58 lakh crore: Ravi Shankar Prasad
India’s electronics sector, particularly the manufacturing of mobile phones and other devices, has witnessed impressive growth over the last few years on the back of Narendra Modi’s ambitious Make in India program.
Public sector companies subvert ‘Preference to Make in India’ rules: Tepc's Sandeep Aggarwal
'In the private sector, PMI will only happen if the license conditions require the operators to buy at least 75% of their telecom equipment from Indian companies meeting PMA guidelines.'
Customs regime may be tweaked to boost make in India, exports
Government could soon revamp its customs duty regime with focus on exemptions and inverted duty structures.
Japan takes India to WTO over mobile phone import duties
Make in India: Aakash tablet-computer maker DataWind shuts down Amritsar, Hyderabad units
'Once booming India’s tablet market has been reduced to a third, impacted by demonetisation of currency, and existing levies on components and higher GST slab.'
Lenovo-Motorola shifts focus to profitability; making India exports hub: Country head
Motorola is planning to make India an exports hub, a top executive said, adding the company has shifted focus away from volumes to profitability due to the brutal competition in the local smartphone market.
Sunil KamathSVP-Asia, Opera Software
MWC 2017: How Indian smartphone users shape global mobile ecosystem
Mobile operators, device manufacturers, ad tech providers and content owners from across the world got together in Mobile World Congress last week, unveiling their upcoming products and technology, wooing business partners and consumers. The announcements highlighted in this show indicated and addressed what the next billions of mobile internet users, especially in India, would crave for in 2017. Here are my observations: Nokia is making a comeback Iconic New Nokia 3310 was launched This year, Read more..
Sanjay KalironaCEO and Director, COMIO India
'Make in India' and the emergence of India as a manufacturing powerhouse
India has witnessed a boom in the smartphone market and is considered as one of the fastest growing smartphone markets in the world. According to a Morgan Stanley research report, India is expected to overtake the US next year as the second-largest smartphone market, in terms of units. Indias mobile handset market will grow nearly five times faster than the worlds largest smartphone market - China, where growth has decelerated. Earlier this year mobile manufacturing base in India reached an Read more..
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By Darren Buford
The sexes at battle once again — he says go north, she says turn by the gas station. But instead of there being a clear victor in the war of navigation, both may be correct according to a new study published in Behavioral Neuroscience. Researchers from the University of Saskatchewan have found men and women do equally fine with receiving directions — when done so according to their preference. For instance, men do better when given abstract spatial cues, such as compass directions or distance. Women, on the other hand, do better when given landmarks.
Speculation on why these differences exist involves considering the lifestyles of our ancestors. Early man was a hunter and often to traveled long distances in order to track herds for food. Ultimately, it was easier for the men to return home using spatial directions than landmarks because there would have been too many to remember. Women were gatherers, thus their need to roam away from home was minimal. Instead, they sought out plants and berries close by; thus, remembering landmarks proved most valuable for sustenance.
Darren Buford
The Power of Touch
I can’t tell you how glad I was to see your name in my calendar this week,” s
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‘Star Wars: The Last Jedi’ Negative Buzz Apparently Amplified by Russian Trolls, Study Finds
Nick Poulimenakos on October 1, 2018
Star Wars: The Last Jedi, a film which singlehandedly broken the franchise fanbase and split it into several different camps. There were fans who absolutely hated the feature, those who called it the best film in the series since Empire, critics who continuously argued with fans about the films complex nature and more. But, what if I told you that the negative buzz surrounding the film… was falsified! Did Star Wars: The Last Jedi destroy the franchise and permanently rupture the fandom as its critics (melodramatically) have accused it of doing? According to a new academic paper by researcher Morten Bay, the answer is… no. And the reason might surprise you.
The paper, titled Weaponizing The Haters: The Last Jedi and the strategic politicization of pop culture through social media manipulation, examines the online response to The Last Jedi, a movie that has come to be considered either a masterpiece or a complete failure amongst the larger fanbase of the franchise.
The author suggests that controversial reputation the film has may not be as earned as fans believe, and instead:
“…finds evidence of deliberate, organized political influence measures disguised as fan arguments,” as he writes in the paper’s abstract. The likely objective of these measures is increasing media coverage of the fandom conflict, thereby adding to and further propagating a narrative of widespread discord and dysfunction in American society. Persuading voters of this narrative remains a strategic goal for the U.S. alt-right movement, as well as the Russian Federation.”
The paper analyzes vigorously the negative online reaction, which he split into three different camps: Those with a political agenda, trolls, and what Bay calls “real fantagonists,” which he outlines as genuine Star Wars fans disappointed in the movie. His findings are fascinating; “Overall, 50.9% of those tweeting negatively [about the movie] was likely politically motivated or not even human,” he writes, noting that only 21.9% of tweets analyzed about the movie had been negative in the first place.
“A number of these users appear to be Russian trolls,” he writes of the negative tweets.
Bay even goes on to suggest that complaints about Lucasfilm’s reported politicization of the franchise by many of the disaffected fans “says more about the fans than it does Disney or Lucasfilm’s treatment of it. “
“[S]ince the political and ethical positions presented in the new films are consistent with older films, it is more likely that the polarization of the Trump era has politicized the fans. The divisive political discourse of the study period and the months leading up to it, has likely primed these fans with a particular type of political messaging that is in direct conflict with the values presented in The Last Jedi.”
Director Rian Johnson has actually responded to a tweet announcing the release of the paper, adding:
“Looking forward to reading it, but what the top-line describes is consistent with my experience online.”
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TheAdvocatesPost in Nepal School, The Advocates for Human Rights - All Posts April 28, 2015 April 28, 2015 947 Words
“All our SPCS family r safe…”
Students at the Sankhu-Palubari Community School enjoying recess in March, 2015. (Credit: Jennifer Prestholdt)
“All our SPCS family r safe …”
This was the message I received from Anoop Poudel, headmaster at the Sankhu-Palubari Community School (SPCS), on Monday night. We had been desperately trying to reach Anoop and others connected with SPCS since the 7.8 earthquake devastated Nepal on Saturday, April 25. Our concern grew as the death toll mounted and the strong aftershocks continued in the Kathmandu Valley. What a relief to learn that the teachers and 340 students at the school, as well as their families, are safe!
The Sankhu-Palubari Community School in the rural Kathmandu Valley, March 2015. (Credit: David Kistle)
In my role as The Advocates for Human Rights’ deputy director, I coordinate The Advocates’ Nepal School Project. I was in Nepal just a few weeks ago with a team of volunteers to conduct our annual monitoring visit. The Advocates has been partnering with the Sankhu-Palubari community since 1999 to provide education as an alternative to child labor for low-income children in the area who would otherwise be working in brick yards or in the fields.
The Sankhu-Palubari Community School provides free, high quality education to children in grades pre-K through 10. Many of the students walk a long way to get to school – some as long as two hours each way.
The students’ standardized test scores are among the highest in Nepal, a highly competitive honor. And the school was awarded Nepal’s prestigious National Education Service Felicitation Award in 2014. Graduates are now studying at universities, preparing to become doctors, social workers, teachers, and agronomists; many plan to return to their village to improve the community’s quality of life. Their contributions will be even more important now, in the aftermath of this devastating earthquake.
Some students walk – up to 2 hours each way – to Sankhu-Palubari Community School to access their right to education. (Credit: Laura Sandall)
The school is especially important for girls, who make up 52 percent of the student body. When SPCS began, girls often left school at an early age to marry or work. Now, they are staying and graduating because families have experienced the benefits of education. (You can read the inspiring story of SPCS’ first female graduate in Kanchi’s Story.)
First grade student at SPCS (Credit: Jennifer Prestholdt)
The new school year had just started at SPCS, but school was not in session when the earthquake hit. Students in Nepal attend school six days a week; Saturday is the only day when there is no school. Many people believe that, had it been a school day, the numbers of dead and injured in Kathmandu and throughout the Kathmandu Valley could have been much higher.
Even with that one tiny bright spot in a terrible national tragedy, UNICEF estimates that nearly one million children in Nepal were severely affected by the earthquake. Most of our students, who come from extremely poor agricultural families, are included in that number. Anoop sent me several more texts after the first, describing heavy damage in the area of the eastern Kathmandu Valley where the school is located. Media sources and other Nepali contacts also confirm extensive destruction in the Sankhu area. While we don’t have a lot of information yet, Anoop reported that he believes that more than 90 percent of the students and teachers have lost their homes in the earthquake. They are living outside in temporary shelters because of continuing aftershocks. Word about the school building’s fate is yet to be received. The first relief teams are reportedly scheduled to arrive in the area on Wednesday.
Primary students at SPCS (Credit: Jennifer Prestholdt)
Our hearts go out to everyone in our SPCS family, as well as to the millions of other Nepalis affected by the “Black Saturday” earthquake. At The Advocates, we believe that support for basic human needs such as water, food, and medical assistance in Nepal is the most urgent need at this point in time. We encourage people to give to reputable international humanitarian assistance organizations involved in the earthquake relief effort (you can find more information in the links below). In the long term, Nepal will need sustainable rebuilding and development programs.
Because education is essential to reducing poverty and inequality, the best way that The Advocates can support the rebuilding of Nepal is to is to ensure that the education of the students at our school continues with the least amount of interruption possible. We remain focused on that goal.
To find people in Nepal:
Use the Restoring Family Links tool on the ICRC website to search for a family member or friend in the area hit by the earthquake.
Use Google Person Finder if you are looking for, or have information about, someone in the affected area.
Use Facebook Safety Check to connect with you friends in the area and mark them as safe if you know that they’re ok.
Articles about how to contribute to the earthquake relief effort in Nepal:
How to Help The Relief Effort in Nepal
Nepal Earthquake: How To Donate
How To Help Nepal: 7 Vetted Charities Doing Relief Work Following the Earthquake
Don’t Rush to Nepal. Read This First.
Photo of pre-K students at the Sankhu-Palubari Community School (Credit: David Parker)
Jennifer Prestholdt is the Deputy Director and International Justice Program Director at The Advocates for Human Rights.
In March 2015, she made her sixth trip to the Sankhu-Palubari Community School in Nepal.
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SoftBank Vision Fund, the world’s first $100B global technology investment fund, appoint Daniel Malnik as Head of U.S Valuations based in San Carlos, California. Prior to joining SoftBank Vision Fund, Daniel spent 7 years in New York at Och-Ziff Capital Management in Valuations & Private Equity roles, prior to this was Portfolio Valuations specialist at Duff & Phelps which was the first role he assumed when coming out of the Israeli Military. The search was led and completed by Simon Clark. For more information please see www.visionfund.com
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Criteo (NASDAQ: CRTO) the advertising platform of choice for the open internet hire Geoffroy Martin as EVP & GM Retail Media & Supply. Prior to joining Criteo Geoffroy was President & CEO of Art.com and held several advisory Board roles at Injectsense, Daylighted, Refiners & Agrconomie. The search was led and completed by Simon Clark. For more information please visit: www.criteo.com
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Criteo hire Oana Iordachescu as Head of Talent Acquisition for Technology & Product in Paris using The Clark Partnership.
Criteo (NASDAQ: CRTO), the advertising platform of choice for the open internet, appoint Oana Iordachescu as Head of Talent Acquisition for Technology & Product based in Paris. Prior to joining Criteo, Oana led Technology Recruitment for Booking.com in the Netherlands and prior to that worked as a Senior Recruiter at Facebook. The search was led and completed by Simon Clark. For more information please visit: www.criteo.com
SoftBank Vision Fund retain The Clark Partnership to lead the search for a Head of Operations in San Carlos, California.
SoftBank Vision Fund, the world’s first $100B global technology investment fund, retain The Clark Partnership to lead the search for a Head of Operations based in San Carlos, California. For more information please see www.visionfund.com
The Clark Partnership hire London restaurant entrepreneur as OYO’s Head of UK.
OYO, India’s largest online hospitality company, backed by SoftBank Vision Fund, Sequoia Capital and Lightspeed Ventures hire London restaurant entrepreneur, Jeremy Sanders, as their Head of UK using The Clark Partnership. The search was led and completed by Simon Clark. Prior to joining OYO, Jeremy co-founded & sold Coco Di Mama and prior to this was a Consultant at Bain & Co. For more information please visit: www.oyorooms.com
SoftBank Vision Fund retain The Clark Partnership to lead the search for a Head of HR based in San Carlos, California.
SoftBank Vision Fund, the world’s first $100B global technology investment fund, retain The Clark Partnership to lead the search for a Head of HR based in San Carlos, California. For more information please see www.visionfund.com
SoftBank Vision Fund retain The Clark Partnership to lead the search for a VP Deferred Compensation based in London, England.
SoftBank Vision Fund, the world’s first $100B global technology investment fund, retain The Clark Partnership to lead the search for a VP Deferred Compensation based in London, England. For more information please see www.visionfund.com
Criteo’s Founder, JB Rudelle, retains The Clark Partnership to lead new EVP People search in Paris.
Criteo (NASDAQ: CRTO), the advertising platform of choice for the open internet, retain The Clark Partnership to lead the search for their new EVP People based in Paris reporting to Criteo’s Founder & CEO, JB Rudelle. For more information please visit: www.criteo.com
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OYO’s Founder, Ritesh Agarwal, retains the Clark Partnership on Head of Global Brand Design search based in India.
OYO, India’s largest online hospitality company, backed by SoftBank Vision Fund, Sequoia Capital and Lightspeed Ventures, retain The Clark Partnership to lead the search for their new Global Head of Brand & Design based in Gurgaon, India. For more information please visit: www.oyorooms.com
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SoftBank Vision Fund, the world’s first $100B global technology investment fund, appoint Ivor Van Esch as their new VP Business Operations based in San Carlos, California. Prior to joining SoftBank Vision Fund, Ivor spent 5 years in Operations & Valuations roles at TPG Capital & TPG Global in San Francisco. The search was led and completed by Simon Clark. For more information please see www.visionfund.com
SoftBank Vision Fund retain The Clark Partnership to lead the search for their new Head of Portfolio Valuations based in San Carlos, California.
SoftBank Vision Fund, the world’s first $100B global technology investment fund, retain The Clark Partnership to lead the search for their new Head of Portfolio Valuations based in San Carlos, California. For more information please see www.visionfund.com
Uber appoint Edwin Linares as their new Head of Executive Compensation based in San Francisco.
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SoftBank Vision Fund retain The Clark Partnership for Vision Fund 2 Fundraising search.
SoftBank Vision Fund, the world’s first $100B global technology investment fund headquartered in London, retain The Clark Partnership to lead the search for their new MD for Fundraising & Investor Relations for Vision Fund 2. For more information please see www.visionfund.com
SoftBank Vision Fund appoint Ivan Gleeson as their new Head of Internal Audit based in London.
SoftBank Vision Fund, the world’s first $100B global technology investment fund headquartered in London, appoint Ivan Gleeson as their new Head of Internal Audit based in London, the search was led and completed by Simon Clark. Prior to joining SoftBank’s Vision Fund, Ivan was the MD & Head of International Audit at Jefferies for 8 years and prior to that held Senior Audit roles at Mizuho Bank and Nomura. For more information please see www.visionfund.com
Criteo appoint Connor McGogney as the new SVP Corporate Development & M&A based in New York
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OYO’s international expansion.
OYO, India’s largest online hospitality company, backed by SoftBank Vision Fund, Sequoia Capital and Lightspeed Ventures, retain The Clark Partnership to lead further international expansion outside of India with the search for a Head of UK. For more information please visit www.oyorooms.com.
Criteo appoint Jen Whelan as the new SVP Marketing based in New York.
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Criteo appoint Mike Peralta as the new EVP Operations & Chief of Staff based in New York.
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Uber appoint Sam Gilbert as their new Head of Compensation based in San Francisco.
Uber, the ride hailing company, appoint Sam Gilbert as their new Head of Compensation based in San Francisco, the search was led and completed by Simon Clark. Prior to joining Uber, Sam was Head of Compensation & Benefits at Quantcast and prior to that spent 5 years at Google. For more information please visit: www.uber.com
SoftBank Vision Fund appoint Rowan Brown as the Director EMEA Communications based in London.
SoftBank Vision Fund, the world’s first $100B global technology investment fund headquartered in London, appoint Rowan Brown as the Director, EMEA Communications based in London, the search was led and completed by Simon Clark. Prior to joining SoftBank’s Vision Fund, Rowan was a Director at Brunswick. For more information please visit www.visionfund.com
Criteo appoint Greg Archibald as the EVP Americas based in New York.
Criteo, (NASDAQ: CRTO) the commerce marketing technology company headquartered in Paris, appoint Greg Archibald as the EVP Americas based in New York, the search was led and completed by Simon Clark. Prior to joining Criteo, Greg was the CRO at Ninth Decimal and spent 10 years at Yahoo! in various sales leadership roles. For more information please visit www.criteo.com.
SoftBank Vision Fund appoint Maria Khan as the Chief Risk Officer based in London.
SoftBank Vision Fund, the world’s first $100B global technology investment fund headquartered in London, appoint Maria Khan as the Chief Risk Officer based in London, the search was led and completed by Simon Clark. Prior to joining SoftBank’s Vision Fund, Maria ran Operational Risk at Hermes Investment Management. For more information please visit www.visionfund.com
SoftBank Vision Fund appoint Simon Gregory as the Chief Compliance Officer based in London.
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Criteo appoint Mitchell Pulley as the VP Total Rewards based in Paris.
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Criteo appoint Tom Aurelio as their new EVP HR based in Paris.
Criteo, (NASDAQ: CRTO) the commerce marketing technology company headquartered in Paris, appoint Tom Aurelio as their new EVP HR based in Paris, the search was led and completed by Simon Clark. Prior to joining Criteo, Tom was the SVP People & Culture at Priceline.com and spent 10 years at Symantec as VP HR. For more information please visit www.criteo.com.
Criteo appoint Audrey Riviere as VP Finance & Corporate Controller based in Paris.
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Criteo appoint appoint Erik Juhl as VP Talent Acquisition based in Paris.
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Criteo appoint Petri Terblanche as VP SOX & Risk Management based in Paris.
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US Navy’s Newest F-35B-Carrying Amphibious Assault Ship Is Heading to Japan
The USS America recently arrived at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii en route to its new homeport of Sasebo in Japan.
Rethinking Air Superiority Acquisition in the United States
How much can technological improvements really do to improve procurement problems?
North Korea Vows to Respond to South's Deployment of F-35 Stealth Fighters
North Korea slammed South Korea over its ongoing deployment of high-tech U.S. fighter jets.
Is China Rethinking the Shenyang J-31 Fighter?
The Chinese military has been lukewarm about the J-31, concerned that its performance did not merit domestic acquisition.
F-35A Stealth Fighter Jet Price Dips Below $90 Million For First Time
The U.S. Department of Defense and Lockheed Martin have finalized a new contract for the 11th batch of F-35s.
F-35 Brains in an F-22 Body: Thinking Through Japan's Next-Generation Fighter Options
Getting there won't be easy, but an updated F-22 is, in theory, a formidable concept.
Why the F-35 Isn’t Good Enough for Japan
By Abraham Ait
Tokyo looks to American and indigenous alternatives as a result of the joint strike fighter’s shortcomings.
What Does the Latest F-35 Data Breach Teach Us About Defense Industrial Espionage?
Autarky has its merits. If partners don't have your unclassified data, it can't be taken from them.
Room for Maneuver in Australia's Naval Aviation Plans?
Australia's longstanding procurement plans may merit reconsideration.
'Optionality' and the Future of US Defense Procurement
“Optionality” may someday become one of the buzzwords that we simultaneously bemoan and find useful.
Is This What the Pentagon's 'Third Offset' Has Been Missing All Along?
Have changes to the U.S. industrial and technological sector posed new challenges for defense procurement?
Just How Wide-Reaching Are China's Economic Espionage Efforts?
Chinese economic espionage was never limited to just the United States or just one industry.
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Quick Update (12/5/18)
I didn’t fall into the Unknown Regions, I’ve just been super-busy with work and unable to post and write as much as I’d like to. But I wanted to give a heads up to what projects I have in the…oh I do hate the phrase “in the pipeline.” Iminent? Forthcoming? Sure, one of those.
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Author David BullockPosted on December 6, 2018 December 6, 2018 Categories UpdatesTags empire, hasbro, hasbro star wars, lego, lego star wars, lego star wars moc, Marvel Comics, MOC, star wars, star wars books, star wars canon, Star Wars Collecting, star wars comics, star wars games, Star Wars Legends, star wars lego, star wars toysLeave a comment on Quick Update (12/5/18)
What if Darth Vader Exploded? (Part Two)
Missed part one? Check it out here. Long story short, how would the Saga change if Darth Vader suddenly died partway through? His subdermal implants that kept him bound to slavery were never removed or addressed again in canon, meaning they could potentially explode at any time. Or perhaps Vader could control them. . .
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Author David BullockPosted on August 5, 2018 Categories What If?Tags Books, Darth Vader, Emperor Palpatine, Films, star wars, star wars books, star wars canon, Star Wars Inquisitors, star wars what if, television, What If?, writing1 Comment on What if Darth Vader Exploded? (Part Two)
Definite Article: The Fett-Man Cometh
It’s no secret that I love Boba Fett, and in the spirit of talking about actually enjoying Star Wars instead of nitpicking it to death, I want to talk about the possibilities for Fett’s potential spin-off film!
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Author David BullockPosted on June 19, 2018 July 12, 2018 Categories Definite Article, Discussion, NewsTags a star wars story, Boba Fett, Boba Fett movie, Books, Darth Maul, film, Mandalorians, movies, star wars, Star Wars anthology films, star wars books, star wars canon, Star Wars Legends, televisionLeave a comment on Definite Article: The Fett-Man Cometh
Definite Article: From Fett to Phasma – Deconstructing Two “Useless” Characters
This Definite Article contains spoilers for the following films, novels, and comics:
-Star Wars: The Last Jedi
-Marvel’s Star Wars (ongoing, but events mentioned are pretty old now)
-Phasma novel and Marvel’s Phasma miniseries
-The Aftermath Trilogy novels
When you hear the name Boba Fett, do you think of a ruthless bounty hunter? Or do you think of a cool-looking guy who was beaten effortlessly and thrown into a tentacle monster’s mouth in the desert? What about Captain Phasma of the First Order? Is she really an unparalleled leader of stormtroopers, or was she dumped off into the trash bin only to be brought back and killed off again in the next film? If you’re a doubter of either of these characters that appear to be looks over substance, I’m here to inform you you’re dead wrong.
Boba Fett began his life in concept art as a ‘supercommando,’ a stormtrooper clad in modified white armor with multiple upgrades to his weapons. He was later recolored and reconfigured into the bounty hunter we all know today, clad in green armor and welding modified blasters, a jetpack that can launch a missile, and gauntlets loaded with other hidden tools and weapons. Boba is a man of few words but is shown to stop at nothing to complete a contract, be it protecting valuable cargo from shadowy Kage Warriors or delivering a rebel general to Jabba the Hutt. His armored visage steals any scene he appears in, and since his debut in Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back The Star Wars Holiday Special, he’s been selling toys and collecting bounties.
So what’s the problem here? Sounds like one tough customer, right?
The man in the Mandalorian armor suffers from two big criticisms by fans and detractors alike. Number one, he doesn’t do very much when he’s onscreen in the films. And secondly, he’s hardly expanded upon as such a tough character before he’s killed off by Han Solo – his jetpack is stricken by a stray blow from a blinded man, and he falls into the sarlacc pit as his pack fails to lift him back up. Taken at face value these criticisms are valid; however, we aren’t dealing with a universe that’s just the films and onscreen appearances. Boba Fett’s story was expanded after his apparent death in Return of the Jedi. His rescue from the sarlacc by fellow bounty hunter Dengar is detailed in the legends novel The Mandalorian Armor by K.W. Jeter. On the canon end, Attack of the Clones and The Clone Wars detail what a younger Boba Fett was up to during prequel era. Many fans just can’t get enough Boba. Continued interest in the character and his fate (as well as it being no secret that he’s my favorite Star Wars characters) is why I want to present some different points of view that may defend some of my favorite characters, old and new alike.
First and foremost, not everything Boba Fett accomplishes has to be explicitly shown onscreen. In The Empire Strikes back, Darth Vader hires six bounty hunters to track down the Millennium Falcon. And only one bounty hunter, Boba Fett, manages to track the ship and inform Lord Vader of the rebels’ whereabouts. Does he do any damage to them personally when he’s taking potshots at Luke Skywalker? No. These are extremely valuable targets, and as we also see from his prior engagement with Luke in the Marvel Star Wars comics, he also doesn’t damage Luke. Luke is too valuable to bring back dead. Sure, Han Solo can be frozen in carbonite and delivered to Jabba regardless of being alive or dead – Han Solo isn’t the son of Skywalker, and despite being a rebel leader, he isn’t as high a priority to Vader as Luke is. Boba Fett, in this instance, is a bounty hunter in the truest sense. He tracks down the target and brings them in alive to his employer. That’s just good business.
Defending the battle aboard Jabba’s barge, the Khetanna, is a little tougher but I’ve always had some head canon that makes it work out for me. The argument is that Boba Fett goes out like a complete wimp, but he actually does a bit more than he’d technically be expected to do in that situation. Boba, amongst other thugs often employed by Jabba the Hutt, is present for the execution of Luke and Han. All well and good, as it seems in his downtime he acts as something of a bodyguard to our favorite hutt whose last name is ‘the Hutt.’ Luke gives the signal to R2-D2 aboard the Khetanna, and R2 ejects a lightsaber into Luke’s hands. Thus begins a wild scramble to contain the prisoners aboard the skiffs circling the maw of the Great Pit of Carkoon. Boba Fett steps in, attempting to recapture Luke Skywalker.
Notice how that story doesn’t really work if Boba Fett isn’t on Jabba’s payroll as a bodyguard? Why does he jump in and fight? Any bounty hunter in the galaxy worth his credits would either have that set up as part of the contract already, otherwise they likely wouldn’t step into a fight against a Jedi knight. Sure, Boba is well-equipped for the job, but as we all know, it doesn’t go well for him. But a question comes into my mind there regarding Boba’s dealings – is he A.) Protecting Jabba as a source of jobs and income, B.) Protecting Jabba because it fits into his moral code somehow, or C.) Doing it in the hopes that a Jedi’s head will earn him a tidy sum of credits once the battle blows over? Money is at the root of two of these arguments, so I’d bet that Boba Fett has thought this out and has a protection clause in his contract with Jabba the Hutt, and can maybe earn bonuses for side gigs if they benefit Jabba.
Part two of my theory is that we’re just catching Boba Fett on one of the worst days of Boba Fett’s life. The last time we see him in the films, he’s a child holding the helmet of his father Jango, who has just been killed in the Geonosis arena battle. That kind of weight and pain would stick to Boba for a lifetime whether he’s a top-notch tough guy for a living or not. How profoundly does it affect him? Canon doesn’t tell us a whole lot. Would he still be mourning twenty years or more later? Maybe not daily, maybe not so much that it gets to him often. But stepping out of universe for a moment, Boba Fett can’t be the badass we’ve all made him out to be – rather, he can’t be that guy all the time. He’s bound to have moments where he falters and fails, and one of the many moments in his life just happens to be captured in a saga film. That’s why even though The Mandalorian Armor isn’t canon anymore, Boba probably gets back up after the fact. It’s been hinted at, and in the Aftermath trilogy of novels, Dengar again pulls Boba’s armor out from the pit. Boba isn’t in it at the moment, but there’s hope that he still got out.
This is far from a flawless fan theory, but I think Boba is still alive and lying low. He’ll reclaim his armor and leave Tatooine, probably get a few last big jobs done and then retire. Or maybe he’ll get married or adopt a child and train them in the bounty hunting ways. There’s plenty of places to go with the character, and plenty of Legends stories to pick the best bits from. Doesn’t that make the unstoppable Boba Fett more relatable though, if he was having an off day in that hot, sweaty armor and just happened to get taken out by a blind guy? How many times have you messed up at your job over something stupid and you had to try and come up with a good reason for what went wrong? Now imagine doing that and getting eaten by a giant monster after. You’d be out of the game for a little while, too.
Captain Phasma, leader and trainer of the First Order’s stormtroopers, is faced with similar criticism. She’s very imposing – her height coupled with custom chromium armor, a command cape, and customized blaster are enough to send puny resistance fighters fleeing in the opposite direction. She trained Finn who, although he defected, is well-versed in combat with blasters and melee weapons. So how can a character who was instrumental in training a main character of the new saga be so underrated and even outright hated?
Like Boba Fett, Captain Phasma is guilty of having very little to do onscreen in her two film appearances, and just about as much dialog. Phasma’s personal ethics prevent her from self-sacrifice, love, and compassion. In her mind she is superior and will do anything to remain the most-superior. Although she doesn’t do much in the films, she’s one of the most competent members of the First Order military seen onscreen thus far, barring the incident with the shield generator on Starkiller Base.
Starkiller Base was Phasma’s first major failure in life, however she hunted down the only witness and killed him – honestly, the massive loss of life there probably doesn’t mean much to her since her ultimate loyalty is to herself and not the First Order. So going by the character’s internal logic, I’m going to count that one as an ‘acceptable loss.’ Phasma’s lack of compassion makes her a perfect soldier and trainer in the eyes of the First Order. Her troops are loyal and merciless. With the help of General Hux, she’s able to instill one value in her soldiers above all – the weak shall serve the strong, not unlike many Sith ideologies over the years.
And despite her appearance in The Last Jedi, which some consider to be another letdown, Phasma goes down fighting. She shows expertise with an extendable spear, fighting Finn to a draw aboard the Supremacy. Once disarmed, she draws a pistol and holds back her foes with suppressive fire – I say again, with a pistol – until backup arrives. Though she is ultimately defeated, she never yielded. She never accepted defeat, and like a true warrior, never gave up the fight.
I suspect we’ll be seeing Captain Phasma again in Episode Nine. The decision to reveal her face for the first time in canon (beneath the damaged mask) seemed like a deliberate re-reveal of the character. Now that she’s wounded and potentially fit for demotion, what lengths will she go to to reclaim her honor? The fact that the First Order demotes her would be meaningless if not for her ruthless dedication to her own sense of honor and the meaning she places in power. Will she make a case to train new guards for Supreme Leader Ren? Or will she perhaps really perish after all, leaving the First Order without one of its great military trainers and place that burden back on General Hux?
I wanted to talk about these two characters in particular to show that just because something happens in a movie doesn’t mean that your understanding should stop then and there. I’ve always loved that Star Wars has such a massive universe to invest in, and getting full stories in places besides movies – where they can be greatly expanded upon – is one of my favorite parts of that universe. It makes rewatching the movies so much better when you come back into them with more information each time, and it also makes villains that might be written off as window-dressing much more interesting. Sure not everyone has the same opinions on the characters, but I wanted to get my two credits in – as always, Star Wars benefits from seeing stories from multiple points of view.
Thanks for reading! Hope you enjoyed the Definite Article, and as always, keep on trooping.
-Supreme Leader David
Author David BullockPosted on February 25, 2018 July 31, 2018 Categories Definite Article, Discussion, Head Canon, Humor, UncategorizedTags Boba Fett, Captain Phasma, Mandalorians, star wars books, star wars canon, star wars canon novel, Star Wars characters, Star Wars novels, the force awakens, the last Jedi, The Last Jedi SpoilersLeave a comment on Definite Article: From Fett to Phasma – Deconstructing Two “Useless” Characters
Definite Article: LGBT+SW
A galaxy far, far away hits home in plenty of ways. And now it’s making a welcome environment for the LGBT+ fans and community, giving them new characters to adore and identify with. Mostly canon, but definitely an article, keep reading for a look at great LGBT+ Star Wars characters across Legends and Canon!
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Author David BullockPosted on December 2, 2017 June 1, 2019 Categories Definite ArticleTags Books, Comics, disney, Episode IX, film, games, Legends, LGBT, LGBT Equality, Marriage Equality, Marvel Comics, movies, star wars, star wars books, star wars canon, star wars canon characters, star wars comics, Star Wars LGBT Characters, star wars TV series, television, the force awakens, the last JediLeave a comment on Definite Article: LGBT+SW
Force Friday
Happy Friday! Enjoy the new The Last Jedi wave of merch and don’t be a scalper. New Lego, Black Series, and more are available in stores and online now!
Author David BullockPosted on September 1, 2017 September 1, 2017 Categories NewsTags black series, black series stormtrooper, Black Series Vehicles, Carrie Fisher, chewbacca, disney, Episode 8, Episode Eight, film, First Order, force friday, Grand Admiral Thrawn, hasbro, hasbro star wars, Kylo Ren, Kylo Ren's TIE FIghter, lego, lego star wars, lego star wars 2017, Luke Skywalker, luke skywalker black series, movies, Princess Leia, Rey, star wars, star wars black series, star wars books, star wars collectibles, Star Wars Collecting, star wars episode 8, star wars episode eight, star wars lego, star wars news, star wars Thrawn, star wars toys, the last Jedi, Thrawn, TIE Silencer, toysLeave a comment on Force Friday
Journey to Rogue One: Rebel Rising Review
For this review, “I rebel” and walk the path of someone who can’t find their way on either side of the Galactic Civil War. Abandoned by a rebel friend and hunted by the Imperial war machine, Jyn Erso lives life in a grey area of the galaxy. What is she to do when the rebellion brings her nothing but pain, but the Empire does nothing but cause pain for others?
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Author David BullockPosted on August 13, 2017 July 31, 2018 Categories Books, Definite Article, Recap, Review, UncategorizedTags battlefront, battlefront 2, Books, catalyst, disney, film, Inferno Squad, movies, Rebel Rising, rebels, rogue one, rogue one catalyst, star wars, star wars books, star wars canon, star wars canon novel, television1 Comment on Journey to Rogue One: Rebel Rising Review
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Grammy Awards 2013: Red Carpet Fashion Review
Morgan C. Schimminger February 11th, 2013
The stars apparently took the memo asking everyone to cover up pretty seriously. Sheer details and cut-out accents were the main form of subtle exposure with a few risk-takers attempting to push the preset limits via plunging necklines and extreme slits. Black was the favored hue, but fiery bursts of red and gorgeous shades of green also made notable appearances. Embellishments and statement jewelry were both well-represented, especially since glamour appeared to win out over shock value on the red carpet. Here’s an overview of some of the memorable looks from this year’s Grammys.
Look of the Day: Solange Knowles Steps Out in Diane von Furstenberg’s Splashy SuitStrike a Pose: “The Face” Coaches Show Off Some Killer Poses
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Morgan C. Schimminger
As passionate about feminism as she is about fashion, Morgan C. Schimminger spends much of her time writing and editing pieces on everything from celebrity style to the fight to keep funding for Planned Parenthood. She earned her bachelor’s degree in English from the University of California at Berkeley and a master’s degree in publishing from Rosemont College. Morgan has contributed to a variety of publications, including StyleBakery, Uptown, metro.pop and Sister 2 Sister. Every week for theFashionSpot, she profiles the Top 10 Best Dressed Celebs and provides a daily dose of stylish stars via Look of the Day.
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News - August 2019 RSS Feed
Time and Talent Weekends
You are all invited to prayerfully consider to which ministry you are being called to share your gifts with your faith family here at The Good Shepherd Parish the weekends of September 21/22 and 28/29. For a complete list of the Parish activities, please refer to the brochure (pdf format) by clicking on this news item to open the web page.
Welcome to our Parish Youth Ministry Coordinator
At all Masses last weekend our parish welcomed Kate Keenan as the new Good Shepherd Parish Youth Ministry Coordinator. Kate is looking forward to engaging the youth in the parish and there will be future notices in the bulletin and on the website with information on youth activities. Parishioners are asked to keep Kate and the parish youth ministry in your personal prayers as they commence their activities. Kate is available via email, youth@thegoodshepherdparish.com and the parish website will soon hold additional news and information on this ministry (https://www.thegoodshepherdparish.com/). Stay tuned!
CWL 40th Anniversary
Tickets for the CWL 40th Anniversary, on Sunday Sept. 29, are now available. There will be a CWL member at the back of the Church after each Mass. Ticket cost of $40 includes a wonderful hot and cold buffet, entertainment and a few surprises, following the 11:15 Mass of Thanksgiving. Members can also obtain their tickets at our General Meeting on Sept. 10. We hope you will come out to show your support and also to have a plain old fashioned Sunday afternoon good time!!
BRIDGE CLUB - “Would you be interested in playing a friendly game of bridge this winter in your own home? The Divine Infant Bridge League would welcome you to join them. Each pair plays another pair at a mutually convenient time. You can play six to nine games between October and the end of April. For further information, please contact Barb Paquette at (613) 834-8855 or Mary Goodale, (613) 590-7879”.
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King Kong, Guy the Gorilla (& Dave Bartholomew) The Monkey Speaks His Mind!
Posted on June 22, 2017 by Thom Hickey
An Immortal Jukebox Production Starring:
Guy The Gorilla!
King Kong!
J. Fred Muggs!
Ham The Astronaut!
And a special appearance by Washoe!
Music by:
Denzil Thorpe
Now we all know One Monkey Don’t Stop No Show.
Even if it’s Mickey’s Monkey.
And, of course, Everybody’s Got Something To Hide Except Me And My Monkey.
Trust me. I’m a Monkey Man. A Monkey Man.
Time for The Monkey To Speak His Mind!
The great Guy The Gorilla, Lord of London Zoo, for more than three decades, kept this thoughts to himself.
Yet, none could doubt that Guy cast a quizzical eye on the rubbernecking crowds who passed by his domain.
Let’s get this Coconut Tree swinging with the man who translated The Monkey’s thoughts – New Orleans and American Music Master, Dave Bartholomew.
Yeah The Monkey Speaks His Mind .. discussing things as they are said to be
Now, when it comes to making great records there was no chink in the armoury of Dave Bartholomew. He could write a street smart lyric and invent winning melodies.
He could hand pick musicians and lead them from the bandstand or the Producer’s desk. He could craft arrangements to add colour and tone to his original conception.
Dave Bartholomew was the whole package. The Real Deal.
He is unquestionably a Roots Music All Star and season after season an obvious MVP pick.
This is the organising mind behind a string of classic records for Fats Domino, Smiley Lewis and Lloyd Price.
Yet, every time I thinks of Dave my musical memory lights first upon, ‘The Monkey Speaks His Mind’ for its wit, its wisdom and its one chord drive which lodges the song deep in the cortex.
Yeah, The Monkey Speaks His Mind:
‘There’s a certain rumour that just can’t be true. That Man descended from our noble race. Why, the very idea is a big disgrace!’
Perhaps such thoughts tormented the mind of King Kong as he swayed atop The Empire State Building preparing for his doom.
King Kong is one of the great tragic heroes of Popular Culture and you can be sure his dignity and nobility will always win him a revered place in the affections of humans with functioning hearts.
‘No Monkey ever deserted his wife, starved her baby and ruined her life.’
Let’s now call upon a man loaded with N’Awlins Mojo – Dr John.
In this live version his steam heat band soak us in jungle humidity and push up the ambient temperature of the Club.
Good job there were cooling libations to hand!
The guitarist and drummer exercise Zen mastery while the trombone solo sails acrobatically through the room.
‘And you’ve never known a mother Monk to leave her babies with others to bunk and passed them from one to another ‘Til they scarcely knew who was their mother.’
Such thoughts must surely have crossed the mind of J Fred Muggs as he surveyed the passing parade of human folly.
To emphasise the point I call upon one of the finest bands ever to emerge from Texas – The Fabulous Thunderbirds.
One thing you can rely on in this unpredicatable world. If you go to a Fabulous Thunderbirds show you are gonna get good and sweaty and have the time of your life.
I speak as as someone who has seen them in all the incarnations that have toured the U.K.
The blacktop blast of Kim Wilson’s harmonica and the perfect economy of Jimmie Vaughan’s Guitar with Keith Ferguson and Fran Christian anchoring the sound makes for an over proof combination that’s guaranteed to get the adrenaline pumping and the heart rejoicing.
Adrenaline would surely have been coursing through Ham The Chimpanzee when he blasted into space on 31 January 1961.
The success of Ham’s mission gave the green light for manned space flights to follow.
As he climbed to unimagined heights viewing the world below from a new perspective perhaps Ham reflected that:
‘You will never see a Monkey build a fence around a Coconut Tree and let all the coconuts go to waste forbidding other monkeys to come and taste’.
Yeah, The Monkey Speaks His Mind!
To conclude our meditations on the theme here’s a lovely lurching version from Jamaica, where the rhythms of New Orleans were readily appreciated and appropriated.
At the controls was Coxsone Dodd, founder of the legendary Studio 1 recording Mecca and label.
The vocal is by Denzil Thorpe having his brief moment of glory (Any information on Denzil’s subsequent career much welcomed here!)
Washoe learned to communicate fluently in sign language. In quiet moments I wonder if she signed to herself:
‘Here’s another thing a Monkey won’t do – go out on a night and get all in a stew. Or use a gun or club or knife to take another Monkey’s life!’
And, when The Monkey Speaks His Mind we would would do well to listen!
This Post dedicated to the great Dave Bartholomew. A Founding Father of Rock ‘n’ Roll still going strong at 98! Wishing him health and happiness and looking forward to celebrating his Centenary.
Guy The Gorilla (Gorilla,gorilla,gorilla) was one of the most distinguished residents of London between 1947 and 1978. He is properly commemorated in a statue at London Zoo and in portrait paintings.
I saw him often when I was a child and clearly remember being affected by his immense physicality and his somber aura.
King Kong – there were many profoundly important events in 1933. Not least Kong’s appearance in the 1933 film bearing his name. Film technology is now immensely sophisticated yet it is the original King Kong who haunts the dreams.
J. Fred Muggs was one of the premier stars of American TV in the 1950s. As ‘Co-Host’ of the NBC Today Show he became a household name and reassuring presence.
Ham passed out top of his group of would be Space Monkeys and happily survived his voyage into space. He spent his remaining years in Washington D.C and North Carolina.
He was buried with appropriate honours, including a eulogy by Col John Stapp, in the Space Hall of Fame in New Mexico.
Washoe (1965 – 2007) developed a signing vocabulary of over 300 words and was able to see a Swan and sign ‘Water Bird’
Her example led to the institution of The Great Ape Project which aims to extend moral and legal protections currently only afforded to humans to the Great Apes.
Posted in 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, Americana, Music, New Orleans, Rhythm and Blues | Tagged Dave Bartholomew, Denzil Thorpe, Dr John, Guy The Gorilla, Ham The Space Chimp, J. Fred Muggs, King Kong, The Fabulous Thunderbirds, The Monkey Speaks His Mind, Washoe | 58 Replies
Fathers Day : Paul Simon, John Gorka, Seamus Heaney, Slievenamon & My Dad
It’s 28 years since my Dad died.
Yet, barely a day goes by without me remembering some saying of his or wondering what would he have made of the roller coaster of current events.
Each day, looking in the mirror, I resemble him more and more.
And, each day, I wish I could reach my hand out to hold his once more.
Until that day all I can do is remember him in my prayers, honour him in my actions and stumblingly capture him with my words.
Fathers and Sons. Sons and Fathers. Sons carry their Father’s in their bloodstream, in their mannerisms and gestures and in the echoing halls of their memories.
No matter what you do in life, no matter how radically you roam from where you started you remain in some part of you (in more parts that you usually like to acknowledge) your Father’s son.
The process of becoming a man might be defined as honouring and taking the best from the experiences of your Father’s life while finding through your own experiences the kind of man and Father you want to be yourself.
Coming to terms with your Father, the Son you were and are and the man and Father you have become is the work of a lifetime. A story that’s always unfolding, always being rewritten as you learn more about the man you are and understand more about the man your Father was.
Sons, schooled by the abrasive tides of life, sometimes learn to have a certain humility about the easy certainties of their youth as to who their Fathers was and what made him that way. It’s easy to be a Father until you become one.
‘What did I know? What did I know of
Love’s austere and lonely offices?’ (Robert Hayden)
Sons writing about Father’s is one of the great themes of all literature and songwriting because that story is always current, always unfolding, always full to the brim with all that is human in all its bloody and terrible glory.
No two stories of Fathers and Sons are the same though most will recognise something of themselves in every story.
Here’s a cry from the soul. Paul Simon’s, ‘Maybe I Think Too Much’ from his aptly titled, ‘Hearts And Bones’ record. Fathers and Sons – Hearts and Bones, Hearts and Bones.
Sons never know when they will need to call for their Fathers to appear in their dreams.
‘They say the left side of the brain dominates the right
And the right side has to labor through the long and speechless night
In the night my Father came and held me to his chest.
He said there’s not much more that you can do
Go Home and get some rest.’
The song about Father’s and Sons that grips my heart every time I hear it and which calls to me in the middle of the night is John Gorka’s, ‘The Mercy Of The Wheels’.
Forgive the initially muffled sound.
‘I’d like to catch a train that could go back in time
That could make a lot of stops along the way
I would go to see my Father with the eyes he left behind
I would go for all the words I’d like to say
And I ‘d take along a sandwich and a picture of my girl
And show them all that I made out OK’
I miss my Father. My Dad.
I miss the smell of Old Holborn tobacco as he smoked one of his thin roll your own cigarettes.
I miss the days of childhood when I would buy him a pouch of Old Holborn for Father’s Day.
I miss getting up in the middle of the night with him to hear crackly radio commentaries on Muhammad Ali fights.
I miss the early Sunday mornings when we walked to a church two parishes away because he had been advised to walk a lot after his heart attack.
I miss hearing him roar home Lester Piggott as he brought the Vincent O’Brien horse into the lead in The Derby with half a furlong to go!
I miss hearing him say, ‘There’ll never be another like him’ as Jimmy Greaves scored another nonchalant goal for Spurs.
I miss hearing him say, ‘That was a complete waste of electricity’ as he glanced at the TV screen as some worthy drama concluded.
I miss sharing a pot of very, very strong tea with him well before six o clock in the morning – because as anyone with any sense knew the best of the day was gone before most people bothered to open an eye.
I miss sitting with him in easeful silence.
I miss him always expecting me to come top in every exam while always expecting me not to count on that.
I miss his indulgence in Fry’s Chocolate Cream bars.
I miss him saying, ‘You’ll be fine so ..’ whenever I had to face a daunting new challenge in life.
I miss him calling out the names of the men who worked with him on the building sites – Toher and Boucher and O’ Rahilly with me double checking the spellings as we filled out (creatively) the time sheets accounting for every hour of effort in the working week
I miss watching him expertly navigating his way to a green field site not marked on any map to start a new job and then watching him get hopelessly lost a mile from home on a shopping trip
I miss watching his delight as David Carradine in the TV show Kung Fu, unarmed, took on another gang of armed swaggering bullies and reduced them to whimpers in a few moments – ‘You watch he’ll be catching bullets next’.
I miss hearing his wholly unexpected but wholly accurate estimation of Bruce Springsteen’s cultural importance when seeing him featured on a news special when he first came to England: ‘He’ll never be Elvis’
I miss the way he remained a proud Tipperary man and Irishman despite living for more than 40 years in England.
I miss his quiet certainty that there was an after life – a world where Father’s and Sons divided by death could meet again.
I regret not being able to introduce him to the beautiful woman who, amazingly, wanted to be and became my wife.
I regret not watching him watch my Daughter and my Son grow up into their glorious selves.
I regret not watching him enjoying the pleasures of retirement and old age.
I miss alternating between thinking I was nothing like him and thinking I was exactly like him!
I miss the shyness of his smile.
I miss the sound of his voice.
I miss the touch of his leathery hands.
I miss the way he swept his left hand back across his thinning scalp when he was tired (exactly as I do now).
I miss the sound of my name when he said it.
I miss my Dad.
My dad lies in the green pastures of his beloved Tipperary now under the sheltering slopes of Slievenamon (he would never have forgiven me had he been buried anywhere else!)
You can almost hear this song echoing in the silence all around him.
I walked many roads with my Father.
I’ve walked many miles without him by my side now (though I sometimes feel his presence).
I hope I have many miles to walk until I join him again.
As I walk I will lean on him as I face the twists, turns and trip hazards ahead, accompanied by the words of Seamus Heaney:
‘Dangerous pavements … But this year I face the ice with my Father’s stick’
Thanks to Martin Doyle for featuring this tribute in The Irish Times.
My Dad would have been very proud to see it there.
Posted in 1970s, Ireland, Music, Tributes | Tagged Frank Patterson, John Gorka, Maybe I Think Too Much, Merrcy Of The Wheels, Paul Simon, Robert Hayden, Slievenamon, Tipperary | 100 Replies
Steve Forbert : I Blinked Once – Alive On Arrival and still swinging for the fence!
‘My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling bad or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was to keep swinging.’ (Hank Aaron)
‘You have to walk, that’s the element of time, which forces you to move and change. It’s in the fall, and there’s leaves and dust and dirt in the air – and things are gonna stick to you.’ (Steve Forbert).
Growing up in America most young boys indulge a fantasy where on their Major League debut they get to hit a home run off the opponents’ star pitcher at Fenway Park or Dodger Stadium.
Rounding the bases to ecstatic acclaim they nonchalantly wave their hat to the adoring crowd pausing only to catch the eye of the hometown sweetheart who has travelled hundreds of miles to share the moment.
In my own version of this story (slipping the bonds of time and chronology as you’re allowed to in dreams) I hit a homer off Whitey Ford at Ebbetts Field for my beloved Brooklyn Dodgers.
Taking my seat in the dugout Jackie Robinson says, ‘Good hit, Kid’ and punches me on the shoulder.
The music business version of this myth might follow the following arc.
A 21 year old kid from Mississsippi moves to New York City carrying an acoustic guitar and a harmonica rack.
Armed with the fearlessness of youth he busks at Grand Central Station before landing a regular club gig at New Wave/Punk headquarters CBGB (opening for both Talking Heads and John Cale).
The script naturally segues into the scene where the famous manager says, ‘You got something Kid – I can get you a record deal!’
And, sure enough he does. And wouldn’t you just know it the debut album showcases a series of winning songs fizzing with wit, youthful charm and irresistible energy.
The second album adds seasoned musicians and produces a tremendous calling card hit single.
A hot shot critic for Rolling Stone notes that he makes listeners think that they actually do know him – and that this rare gift might just make him the next American Superstar!
And, that folks is the first act of, ‘The Steve Forbert Story’.
Time, I think, for us to fade up the soundtrack. From the aptly named, ‘Alive on Arrival’ the feisty, ‘Goin’ Down To Laurel’.
Straightaway Steve Forbert announces his artistic virtues.
He has a hoarse, reaching for that farther star, voice that charms as it plucks at your heart.
He sure can spin a story that’ll lodge and linger in the mind. With a wide and knowing grin he beckons you into the story of a shooting the breeze young man who is part straight arrow Tom Sawyer and part rapscallion Huck Finn:
‘Glad to be so careless in my way
Glad to take a chance and play against the odds
Glad to be so crazy in my day’
This is a red blooded young man who relishes the rush of life with his harmonica rhythmically rhyming with the wheels carrying him down to Laurel and the moon and sun above.
He’s more smart than you might think – he glories in being so young and carefree yet he knows those cares are waiting up ahead. For this great life can always end and love is a funny, funny, state of mind.
So, time to enjoy every wonderful moment spent with the girl who is a fool for him – well worth the trip to a dirty stinking Town.
Not time now to dwell on the serial marriages and breakdowns all around, the rain in the clouds somewhere above, the trains taking young men out of town leaving burning buildings behind them.
Yes, love is a funny state of mind and isn’t it marvellous to discover that for yourself. Love does make the world go around and boarding that carousel makes the head spin and the heart pump faster and faster.
Steve Forbert, from the get go, do something that defines writers and performers who matter. His songs have quick vitality plunging us into a life we recognise and through the verve of performance winning our attention and allegiance.
Captured, we want to know how the story pans out. We want to stick along for the ride – wherever it may take us for we sense there are more fine, echoing stories ahead.
And, indeed there were. On his second record, ‘Jackrabbit Slim’ Steve nailed a song he had been working on for a long time. ‘Romeo’s Tune’ explodes with dizzying exuberance and joy.
You are swept along by the I can’t contain myself vocal and the surging melody.
It has, ‘this ones just got to be a hit’ and keeper written all over it.
Steve Forbert will be singing this song for the rest of his life and every audience that hears him sing it, for the first or the thousandth time, will sing with him.
Surely everyone wants Southern kisses and wants their lover to embody the the smell of The Moon for precious moments.
Of course, the years will rise and fall. They must. They must.
Yet, every day we wish for someone who will share that rise and fall with us. Someone who will care. Someone who will laugh with us as we sneak on out beneath the stars and run!
So now we move on to Act 2 wherein our hero encounters and endures a reversal in his fortunes. There is drama, disappointment, what some would call disloyalty, puzzlement, treachery and perfidy.
It is, after all, The Music Business!
Contrary to informed expectation and the spreadsheet projections of managers, record company bean counters and executives his follow up records did not produce chart topping hits and fill stadium bleachers.
Mogul patience runs out. Spectacularly so. A fifth album is recorded. But not issued. And, no one else can issue it either.
And, you got to understand this Kid .. you can’t record for anyone else either!
This is what we call a test of mettle. Steve hits the road, writes songs, ascends for year after backbreaking year the rocky slopes of purgatory.
Stubborn perseverance pays off when The E Street Band’s Gary Tallent appears on a metaphorical white horse ready to produce a ‘comeback’ album.
When it is issued, ‘Streets of This Town’ turns out to be a magnificent album of deeply felt songs that could only have been written by an artist of rare talent.
One bloodied but unbowed by the tempests he had survived. It is a record of hard won insight and tender empathy. The Kid is now unquestionably a Man. A man with visions to turn to when storms assail your own life.
Here’s a man who has realised that the promises made to you when you sign on the dotted line are often not honoured and that you might well lose a lot more than you gain in the transaction if you’re not very careful.
The skills of wheeling and dealing and knocking people down to get your way on the streets of this town must encourage him to light out for the territory even if it is with tears in a grown man’s eyes. Time to take off the uniform and abjure the crazy norm.
Streets of This Town was a major critical success as was its excellent follow up, ‘The American in Me’. But, this is real life not a film.
Critical hosannas did not turn into public acclamation. Record stores were not besieged by hordes of fans desperate to reintroduce themselves to the mature work of that guy who wrote that Romeo song.
So, Steve did what he had always done. He wrote engaging, literate songs that reflected his own struggles and joys and the life of the communities and generations around him.
He kept on keepin’ on. Always heading for another joint.
And, as he did it turned out that there was always an audience for songs that nourished the heart and stimulated the imagination.
Life flowed on for him and his audience so that songs written in youth took on new layers of meaning when recreated in performance decades down the track from their birth.
Here’s a tender, deeply moving, version of the powerful and poignant, ‘I Blinked Once’ that will surely have resonances in every life that has felt the chill wings of time’s winged chariot rushing by.
It could be, it might be … It is, A Home Run!
Steve Forbert sings reveal a man in full. An artist who speaks to how we live our lives in youth, in early maturity and middle age.
We recognise ourselves in these songs and understand that their author has kept the faith and is still running his race with purpose and determination. Long may he run!
In the coming months Steve Forbert will bring his bulging backpack of songs filled with wit and hard won wisdom to Milwaukee and Wilmington and Decatur.
If you’re within a couple of hours driving distance make sure you go!
He has great stories to tell that will remind you of the flowing tides of your own life and he knows how to tell them.
I’m delighted he’s still out there, crazy in his way, still swinging for the fence.
Still swinging for the fence.
First of all many thanks to the man himself for sharing this Post through his official Twitter feed.
A warm welcome to fans of Steve now introduced to The Jukebox.
Steve Forbert, like Nick Lowe and Southside Johnny, is an artist I have enormous fondness for in addition to admiration for his writing and performing abilities.
This post has concentrated on songs from the first 15 years of a career which has now clocked up nearly 40.
I plan to write a further post on the later period of his career to stress how he has continued to write fine songs worthy of your attention.
Recommended Albums:
Alive on Arrival (1978)
Jackrabbit Slim (1979)
Streets of This Town (1988)
The American In Me (1992)
Any Old Time (2002 – a wholly charming collection of Jimmie Rodgers songs)
Over With You (2012)
Compromised (2015)
Steve is an excellent live performer.
I treasure all his live records and DVDs – my favourite being ‘Here’s Your Pizza’ from 1997 and ‘On Stage at World Cafe’ from 2007.
Posted in 1970s, Americana, Folk Music, Music | Tagged Alive on Arrival, Goin' Down to Laurel, I Blinked Once, Romeo's Tune, Steve Forbert, Streets of This Town | 69 Replies
Opening for The Beatles Clarence ‘Frogman’ Henry : Ain’t Got No Home!
Posted on June 5, 2017 by Thom Hickey
In New Orleans, America’s greatest music city, they sure know how to throw a party.
Mardi Gras might just be the greatest and most joyous greatest civic celebration on the entire planet.
Mardi Gras rolls around every year.
But, on September 16 1964 New Orleans was en fete for a very different occassion. The Beatles were coming to City Park as part of their very first American tour.
The Beatles! A year earlier few had heard of them.
Now, following their historic appearances on Ed Sullivan and their subsequent colonisation of the Hot 100 they were famous at a level only previously approached by Elvis himself.
The whole city virtually levitated with anticipation and not just the crazed teenage Beatles fans.
No, even the Crescent City’s Mayor, Victor H Schiro, thought it only mete and proper to declare Wednesday September 16 1964 to be officialy, ‘Beatles Day In New Orleans’.
He welcomed the arriving, ‘English Storm’ in the Hurricane Month and, correctly, noted that what The Beatles did and sang was based on a cousin ship with Jazz – the jumping, danceable historic art form which was New Orleans inestimable gift to World Culture.
And, wonder of wonders, as the lights went down, who should be first on the Bill at this epochal show?
Why, none other than one of New Orleans most favoured sons, Clarence Frogman Henry, who could make a dead man rise out of his grave to dance and shout with Joy.
You want Joy? Joy, raining down in torrents?
Ecouter le cri de la grenouille! Ecouter! Ecouter!
Now, in my book, one of the primary purposes of music is to provide good cheer – to lift the burdensome cares of the day and remind you that to be alive is a glorious gift.
And, I can think of few records that fulfill that purpose to better effect than, ‘Aint Got No Home’.
It was a substantial R&B and Pop hit in 1956 as all over the nation people fell in love with the voice that could sound like a lonely boy, a lonely girl, a treetop bird and, best of all – A Frog!
What’s not to like!
There’s the trademark rolling on the river rhythm New Orleans sound that carries you securely along with the drums, bass and sax meshing perfectly together.
Clarence brings all his patent piano and vocal charm, honed in clubs like The Chicken Shack, to produce a record that is both a novelty and a Rock ‘n’ Roll classic.
Clarence, born and raised in the Crescent City, had clearly been listening to Fats Domino, Professor Longhair and Shirley and Lee. The delightful Frog impression was his own boyhood invention.
Ooo .. ooooo …. ooooo … ooooo … ooooo .. oooooo!
Yes indeed. Yes Indeed.
I’m here to tell you that there’s no Jukebox in the whole wide World that wouldn’t be improved by having a copy of, ‘Aint Got No Home’ in its racks!
The success of Aint Got No Home brought appearances at the premier Black Theatres of the day – The Apollo in New York, The Howard in D.C and The Royal in Baltimore sharing the stage with luminaries like Clyde McPhatter and Chuck Berry.
But, there was no immediate hit follow up so Clarence went back home to the Boubon Street clubs where he always drew a loyal and enthusiastic hometown crowd.
Clarence’s next smash came courtesy of two fellow Louisianians Paul Gayten and Bobby Charles.
Paul Gayten, a prodigiously talented musician, arranger and Bandleader, acting as a talent scout for Chess Records had spotted the potential of Clarence and hustled him into Cosimo Matassa’s Studio to record his initial hit.
Paul had recorded Bobby Charles immortal, ‘See You Later Alligator’ later popularised by Bill Haley, and the two combined their talents to write, ‘(I Don’t Know Why) But I Do’ which gave Clarence a big, fat, International hit in 1961.
Bobby Charles, a secret hero of Rock ‘n Roll, will feature here later. He had the priceless gift of writing songs which sounded as if you’ve always known them yet which never lose their playability through the years.
I chose to feature the live version above for the thrill of seeing and listening to a gold plated N’Awlins Band (with back up Dancers!) and the oratorical tones of legendary WLAC DJ Bill ‘Hoss’ Allen.
Wonderful to hear the exchange between ‘Frog’ and ‘Hoss’, to briefly glimpse Robert ‘Barefootin” Parker and to realise that Frog’s accent is so thick you could near cut slices off it!
Clarence’s final appearance on the Charts also in ’61 was with a revival of the standard, ‘You Always Hurt the One You Love’ written by Allan Roberts and Doris Fisher.
There are countless versions by everyone from The Mills Brothers to Peggy Lee and on to Ringo Starr.
Still, for my money, if you have a few drinks taken and fancy a whirl around a hardwood floor you can’t do better than call up the Frog!
Clarence has recorded extensively, toured Europe and played with many of the greats besides The Beatles but he has always returned home to the bosom of Bourbon Street.
If you’re lucky, even though he’s now in his ninth decade, you might see him there still.
Be assured you’re guaranteed a real find time and without doubt you’ll find yourself crooning along to his classic tunes.
As The Mayor of Jukeboxville I’m issuing my own Proclamation:
Whereas, in order to increase the wellbeing and mirth of all it devolves upon myself to officially proclaim today, June 5 2017, to be officially Clarence Frogman Henry Day.
Encore, ecouter le cri de la grenouille!
Posted in 1950s, 1960s, Music, New Oreans, Rhythm and Blues, Rock 'N' Roll | Tagged Ain't Got No Home, Bobby Charles, But I Do, Clarence Frogman Henry, Paul Gayten, The Beatles in New Orleans, You Always Hurt the One You Love | 54 Replies
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Gavin McDaid sports one of his Coolwich tees. Also available in black with white writing.
photo by @cineviewstudios
The power of the t-shirt to celebrate, inspire, defy, and define is well known. Vivienne Westwood’s Destroy t-shirt epitomised a moment in 1970s punk politics, and the Wham! Choose Life design became the two-word bold-font icon of the 1980s.
When Gavin McDaid moved to Woolwich a few years ago, he sensed a certain something in the local air, a mix of passion, pride, enthusiasm, and anticipation. It was that “thumping self-centered vitality” that Ian Nairn described in the 1960s when discussing Woolwich’s ability to always rebuild itself, to pick itself up and get on with the business of being one of London’s most mercurial places.
So Gavin decided to put it on a t-shirt, and The Coolwich Collection was born. For the price of a couple of large Pinot Grigios and a packet of crisps at the Dial Arch, you can add your postcode to your wardrobe if you’re lucky enough to live in Southeast London. Here’s the low-down from the Coolwich Kid himself…
TOWIW: So, firstly can you tell us a bit about yourself. Are you new to Woolwich or have you been around here for a while?
Gavin: I was born and raised in Derry in Ireland, I have been in England since 1999, beginning ‘up North’. I have been in London for about 12 years and in this area for almost 3 years. Prior to that I lived in Shoreditch but for most of my time in London I have lived in South East London in places such as Brockley, New Cross and Lewisham.
Is your background in fashion?
Believe or not I was a lawyer in the City for 10 years! However, I have always paid close attention to all things fashion related and I would say I am naturally creative having dabbled with poetry and being in a guitar band from time to time.
What inspired you to do the t-shirts? Was there a light-bulb moment?
As you already know, one of the reasons I moved to the area was because of the information I found on your blog. After moving here, I followed you and the #Woolwich hashtag on Twitter but without actually being a part of Twitter. I drew such positivity from what I read that I felt that I wanted to do my bit and I really wanted to do something to create a buzz and unite people. This resulted in my near 6 year hiatus from social media coming to an end.
Who thought up Coolwich? I reckon it will catch on!
I just merged the two words together and used it in a hashtag once and hey presto, it was there, that was the light bulb moment, I think. Then I just ran with it, within days I was half way to setting up the business.
How are sales? Which design is the most popular?
We had a real boom following The Evening Standard article and we have been super busy ever since. It’s just about neck and neck between the SE18 postcode tee and the black Coolwich one for the best seller.
I’ve noticed you’re very particular about how people should launder your product. Can you tell us a bit about the quality? Where are the tees made?
The tees are made of organic cotton which means they are good quality but also need to be taken care of. They are all made in India in wind-powered factories where the workers are treated well. It makes us proud to be able to say we offer ethically made goods.
What’s general feedback been like? Do people stop you in the street and want to know where you got the cool tee?
The feedback has been great, I have had lots of people talk to me in the street and on the train. We did a photo shoot recently in the town centre and we had groups of kids clambering to get a view of us, it was great fun!
Any plans to expand to other nearby postcodes? I’m pretty sure the good people of Charlton and Eltham would wear a tee with pride.
Yes, check out our SE Collection, which has one tee with an SE logo that represents all of South East London and, as if that’s not enough, we have also done most of the individual postcodes for all of South East London. If people cannot find their SE postcode on there, just contact me and I will get it arranged for you.
I think you’ve already added some colder weather gear to the range, is that right? What’s new and what’s on the cards?
Yes, indeed, we have a couple of sweaters and hoodie available and also The Coolwich Life bag. I am busy looking at extending the range further, so there should be further additions soon.
You’re obviously a fan of the area. What are your top five favourite places to eat/drink/be merry in?
Oh, that’s tough. The Woolwich Equitable would probably be my favourite hang out. I have played there on their open mic nights. I love Viet Baguette, I was a fan of The Rust Bucket when they were in the square (now at Streetfeast). Public is also amazing too. I quite like The White Swan in Charlton (they have a great open fire) and the little cafe in Charlton park up there too.
The details: follow The Coolwich Kid on Twitter @coolwich or Instagram @thecoolwichkid and check out the website at http://www.coolwich.teemill.com.
By Paul Breen, author of The Charlton Men
BACK in the middle 90s, I watched a movie called Things to Do in Denver When You’re Dead. It was a crime flick in the era of Pulp Fiction imitations. Probably, the only memorable feature of the entire show was the title. The rest was just a story of guys with cliché nicknames shooting at other gangsters in sharp suits.
However, I always thought that title could give rise to a cool variation set in London – things to do in Deptford when you’re alive. But by now, twenty years after first seeing that movie, Deptford has become well-established as a vibrant and energised place to hang out, despite possibly lacking in the calibre of bars and restaurants that you find just up the road in New Cross. A few years back people were even starting to christen New Cross as South London’s Camden. But it could turn out to be another part of the beautiful south that steals all the headlines as the place to be seen in the next few years, especially with the development of Crossrail taking people in and out of London’s heartlands in a matter of minutes.
Already reenergised by the Docklands Light Railway, Woolwich appears to be on the verge of further regeneration and modernisation that paradoxically is going to sweep back the decades to where it stood a century ago in London folklore. Once upon a time this suburb of South London was a Kentish town at the heart of the British Empire. Ships rose out of the royal docks, and furnaces roared on the side of a thriving industrialised waterfront. Some of the finest and most prestigious stores in the country came to the outskirts of London to a place where people had money in their pockets. But then after the rampant destruction of bombing raids in the Second World War and the closure of Woolwich Arsenal’s armaments factories the place fell into decline.
More recently, it suffered fresh damage during the London riots. Then it had the negative publicity generated by Lee Rigby’s murder just up the road from the Town Hall. But thanks to Crossrail and the work of Greenwich Council, Woolwich has managed to rise again from the wreckage of these various events and is fast becoming a place that can once again attract visitors from outside.
So instead of Things to Do in Denver When You’re Dead, I’m thinking of Ways to While Away a Weekend In Woolwich. In my new book, various scenes take place in this part of London and not always happy scenes, since it’s a psychological thriller with elements of crime fiction, so maybe this is my way of showing another side to Woolwich. And if you do visit and do read the book, you could even spend some time checking out the locations that are given a mention.
But back to our imaginary weekend, which should probably start with a boat ride out of central London and past the Thames Barrier towards Woolwich terminal. Once you land you pass through a riverside development that was formerly part of the historic Arsenal, which gave its name to a certain football club. They left in 1913 but you can find traces of one of their places of origin – Dial Square – where there’s now a pub called The Dial Arch that allows for sitting outside and sipping a pint across from the small sculpture that marks the story of Arsenal’s birth. The Arsenal angle could be a whole tourist adventure on its own. Dotted around Woolwich and its surrounds, as far out as Plumstead Common, you can find places with a connection to the club. An Arsenal F.C. pub crawl would take in quite a bit of walking and a fair chunk of local history too. But if it’s history you’re after in Woolwich the Greenwich Heritage Centre is well worth a visit. This includes a gallery that tells the story of the Royal Arsenal, as well as the broader story of Woolwich, and the whole of Greenwich Borough. There’s also a lot of history to be found in the Bathway area of the town, particularly in landmark buildings such as the Edwardian Baroque Town Hall and the old public baths on Polytechnic Street.
On the whole, this part of Woolwich feels a bit like one of those old factory towns you get up north, with lots of grand old buildings made from red or brown brick slightly blackened by the smoke of time. If that’s what interests you, there’s a lot to see in the architecture around here. If not, and you prefer somewhere with the feel of Sloane Square, maybe skip these back streets!
But if you are a fan of old buildings and of walking, there are a lot more historical sights to see in the outlying areas of Woolwich. Amidst waves of Council housing, you can find the hidden gem of The Garrison Church of Saint George which is currently earmarked for refurbishment to bring it back to something of its former glory in the days before it was bombed in the Second World War. Across the way from this you can find The Royal Artillery Barracks, and further up the road across Woolwich Common, the Royal Military Academy which has now been converted to private housing whilst retaining its grandeur on the outside.
Anyway after all that walking there would be dire need to quench a thirst. Woolwich, in the past few years, has built up a range of pubs to rival neighbouring New Cross or Greenwich, though is still crying out for one located right on the edge of town facing over the river. There are a couple of Irish bars, with one slightly rough around the edges, and The Castle Tavern which is said to be great for African food, flavour, and entertainment especially during football matches. In the centre of the town there’s the historic Great Harry, named after a ship built in the sixteenth century heydey of the Woolwich Dockyard.Then there’s the venerable Elephant and Castle, which might seem as if it’s ended up in the wrong part of town. But this is very much at home a few miles down the road from its famous namesake and is the only pub in town that can claim to have an affinity with the local football club. No, not Arsenal. This is the team that drove the Gunners out of Woolwich and across the river to Highbury – none other than the mighty Charlton Athletic, for whom Irishman Andy Reid once starred and earned the nickname The Puskas of Plumstead. So if you want to pay homage to local football royalty, maybe the (Elephant &) Castle is the place for raising your tankard.
Across the way you then have The Woolwich Equitable which is located within the former home of The Equitable Building Society, and bears traces of that past in almost every aspect of the design and décor. There’s a nice selection of beers too and after a few craft ales you can almost hear the ghostly whisperings of clerks and administrators as you stare out into the fountain waters of General Gordon Square. This is the square at the heart of Woolwich town centre and one that has been extensively redesigned in the past few years. It now features a giant TV screen around which clusters of people from all corners of the world congregate on a nightly basis to give testament to Woolwich’s current diversity.
Indeed this square is likely to play host to some of the shows in the annual Charlton and Woolwich Free Film Festival, which thankfully doesn’t feature Things to Do in Denver When You’re Dead. Details can be found here http://www.freefilmfestivals.org/filmfestival/charlton/ and this might well be a great time to start whiling away a weekend in Woolwich.
But back to the pubs and places you can sample in between films. Down towards the river once more, you’ll find The Guard House, which again like Equitable and Dial Arch, is housed within a historic building from the past. You can also find Hop Stuff Brewery within the Royal Arsenal Development, a place that makes its own range of ales and now has its own bar called The Tap Room. Though not an ale drinker myself, several friends have said this is the best ale they have tasted in London, and that’s even alongside the big name brands of huge breweries!
However if alcohol’s not your thing, there are plenty of other places to socialise and get a flavour of Woolwich these days. You might want to go see the site of the United Kingdom’s first ever McDonald’s restaurant in the heart of Powis Street, which opened in 1974 at a time when a quarter pounder with cheese cost 48p! But personally I’d recommend something more exotic than America’s most famous fast food franchise. The Blue Nile Café on Woolwich New Road is another example of Woolwich’s proud immigrant and African association of recent times. Combining Italian and Eritrean cuisine, this family run business is rated amongst the top 200 restaurants in London out of TWENTY THOUSAND on Tripadvisor. That’s quite an achievement and that statistic alone says more than words. And in terms of the diverse ethnic feel of Woolwich, you just have to walk down the street and you come to Saint Peter’s Catholic Church from the 1800s, partly designed by English Gothic architect Augustus Pugin, at a time when he was also designing interiors in the Houses of Parliament. Today this church stands not only as a relic to this popular style of architecture in 19th century England but also a reminder of the many Irish immigrants who settled in this part of London to work in the Arsenal’s factories. And going back to my earlier mention of the Town Hall there’s an Irish connection there too because if you’re familiar with Belfast you’ll see the similarity with the Northern Irish capital’s City Hall, since both were designed by the Baroque revivalist Alfred Brumwell Thomas.
So if it’s food, beer, architecture, or just plain, panoramic, or pacific riverside views you’re looking for then it might be a good time to while away a weekend in Woolwich as summer comes to an end. Maybe even since film inspired this article in the first place, the film festival might be a good time to start. Even if you don’t come by water the DLR takes you right to the edge of General Gordon Square so there’s no reason at all to miss the boat so to speak!
PAUL BREEN is the author of The Charlton Men, a novel set in South London, and his latest work of fiction is entitled The Bones of a Season. Information about that can be found here – http://www.open-bks.com/library/moderns/the-bones-of-a-season/about-book.html
You can also follow Paul on Twitter @CharltonMen
St Georges Garrison Church in Woolwich is where The Third Man will be screened on Sept. 10.
After many months of planning (sensibly, most of it seems to have taken place in local pubs), the Charlton and Woolwich Free Film Festival is here! The whole thing kicks off on Friday September 9 in General Gordon Square in Woolwich, so I thought I’d throw a few questions at one of the forces behind it, Paul Chapman. For details of films, screening times and locations go to freefilmfestivals.org and follow them on twitter @CWFilmFestival. The line up looks great, and the venues are fabulous!
Hi Paul, firstly, can you tell us a bit about yourself. Are you a local?
Hello! Yes, I’m a local. A Charlton local more specifically. I am but a small cog in the small team running this years first ever Charlton and Woolwich Free Film Festival.
What gave you the idea for a film festival? Have you run one before?
Not my idea, credit there goes to the mighty Gavin Eastley. Free film festivals have enjoyed a surge in popularity in recent years, particularly in South London it seems, and Gavin has been part of other local festivals, either behind the scenes, as a projectionist or just sat watching. This year Gavin decided to have a go at launching a festival in his own area, and he appears to have pulled it off!
How supportive have people been? (And has the council been helpful?)
The council were really pro-active, getting in touch to offer the use of the big screen in General Gordon Square before we’d even had a chance to ask them ourselves. There’s been a few bureaucratic hoops to jump through to get the two films showing there (Rocky Horror Picture Show – 9th September, Master and Commander – 16th) but the council have come up trumps. They’ve even provided some funding this year to cover various costs, which is great.
We’ve also had great support from other local venues and businesses. St Georges Garrison Church and Charlton Park Academy both approached us very early on, for instance. Everyone involved seems genuinely interested in buying into the ethos of the film festival, even if there’s a cost to them in terms of time or money, which is fab.
And most importantly people seem very keen to come along to the festival! The response from people has been great, so hopefully we’re not going to be screening films to empty rooms (or squares).
Is this a team effort? Who are these ace people?
It is 100% a team effort. Gavin is the brains behind the whole thing and he’s event managing several of the films, as well as being our lead projectionist. So in a team of equals he is clearly more equal than the rest of us. But we’ve also got Dean and Amrit who are hosting Predator at Bunker 51 on the 14th, and they’ve also masterminded the programme design along with student graphic designer extraordinaire Hakam. We’ve got Simon and Wendy who successfully got films into the Blue Nile (Winter of Discontent – 13th) and Bathway Theatre (City of Dreams – 12th), two very cool venues. The lovely Sonia is our Shrewsbury House contact and we’re showing two there: Monty Python and the Holy Grail (16th) and The Peanuts Movie (12th). Charlton writer Matt Goodsell is giving a talk on screen moments that have had a personal impact on him before epic documentary Virunga (10th). We’re also working with a small group of Woolwich-based filmmakers called Select18 who are just starting out and have been brilliant, creating our very own ‘ident’ to be shown before each film as well as creating 3 shorts specifically for the festival, which is great. Too many people to thank really, but we need to try!
Some of the venues sound amazing: the ruined church of St George for instance. Was it always the aim to seek out unusual locations?
Yes, definitely. A big part of Free Film Festivals is that its not just about the film, it’s about the venue. And the real payoff is when you get a great film and are able to screen it in a venue that works perfectly with it. St Georges Garrison Church is a perfect example, it’s a beautiful but relatively unknown place, very atmospheric, and the Third Man is a classic film noir that should be one of the highlights of the festival (September 10th). Shrewsbury House is another one. I’ve never been (shamefully) but people who have rave about it and it’s the perfect excuse to visit somewhere new while seeing a film in the process. We’re also very lucky that Charlton House has provided space for several films, another great venue.
Tell us about the film selection. Are some of these personal favourites you wanted to share? What criteria did you have for choosing?
The way it works (or at least the way it has worked with us) is Gavin threw open the invitation to everyone and anyone to get involved and come up with a film and/or venue. After that a process of waiting to see who kept coming to meetings meant we ended up with a programme. Maybe I shouldn’t be giving away these trade secrets!
As for personal favourites, it’s difficult. I love Monty Python so looking forward to seeing Holy Grail (again) at Shrewsbury House, I may even dress up. I’m going to miss A Field In England (September 11th) at Charlton House which is a shame as it looks gloriously mad. It’s not typically my type of film but Predator should be a complete blast as not only will we get Arnie and his chums eating jungle but Bunker51 – the venue – are dressing their dystopian warehouse as a jungle specifically for the event, and they’re offering discount laser tag beforehand! Finally, I’d be mad not to plug my own event, Shaun of the Dead (September 11th) at The White Swan in Charlton Village. I love the film, but I love that pub even more, and the team there have pitched in with a BBQ beforehand, we’ve got Bunker51 lending us some actual Zombies, we’ve got a member of the cast coming down, it’ll be bloody great fun.
Blue Nile in Woolwich is where Winter of Discontent screens on Sept. 13.
Down to practical details. Where can people get programme and venue info?
The programme has endured a difficult pregnancy, but it’s now just about ready to go to the printers. And again, big thanks to designer Hakam for all her hard (and free of charge) work. Once it comes off the presses then myself and other members of the team will be handing them out at various train/tube stations in the area as well as leaving them in selected venues – look out for posters and programmes from Friday 2nd! And of course all the details are already on our website: http://www.freefilmfestivals.org/filmfestival/charlton/ You can also find us on Facebook and Twitter for the latest updates and general silliness.
What to bring? (Cushions etc?)
What to bring depends very much on the venue. Certainly anyone coming to General Gordon Square and St Georges should consider warm clothing and if you want to bring a garden chair or something that may be a good idea. Most other venues will be providing seating of some form or other. You can of course bring your own food to the outdoor screenings.
What can’t you bring?
The same rules – or common sense really – apply as it would if there was not a film screening. So don’t take your own food and drink to a pub or restaurant, that sort of thing. Gavin is fond of reminding us that free film festivals are generally fairly anarchic affairs, there aren’t an abundance of rules. Probably the best rule of thumb is to remember it’s free so come along prepared to pitch in and, in the smaller venues, be prepared to not get in and to end up having a night out elsewhere.
Will there be food/drink vans at any of the venues?
We certainly hope so. Only a few things are confirmed so far. We’ve got The Yawning Donkey team providing craft ales and ciders at a few events. We think we’ve got some food vans lined up for the big screen but not 100% sorted yet. Some places will have popcorn I think. There is talk of a cocktail pop-up at the Short Screenings night, but these are all the last minute details that are still being finalised.
Will there be loos?
A world exclusive for you here, I’ve just this minute had it confirmed from Gavin that all venues have toilets. Thanks especially to the Council for opening the toilets in Vincent Road for the General Gordon Square events.
Do you still need volunteers? How can people help at this late stage?
Yes we do! We still need volunteers to steward the big screen events, and there’s probably a drink and a sausage roll in it if people are interested. We also need bucket rattlers at various events, it’s a primary source of funding for future events. Anyone interested in knowing more can email Gavin on gavineastley@virginmedia.com
More than anything else of course we need people to turn out and support the festival. And at the end of it all, after a Blow Up Walk and Talk (September 17th, 5pm) and a screening of the film at Charlton House (September 17th, 7pm), everyone is very welcome to the Closing Party at The White Swan, from 9pm till whenever they kick us out. See you there!
One of my most favourite places on earth is Madrid’s Mercado de San Miguel. I spent a few hours there not that long ago, wandering, sipping, tasting, pointing, chatting, marvelling. It’s a happy place, very near perfect. Buy a glass of cava from the man, point to the oysters you want shucking, nibble on pinchos, experience bliss.
But it’s a bit of a hike to get there from SE18, which is why the Royal Arsenal Farmers Market has gone straight into my all-time hall of fame for Things That Are Good For Woolwich. Already a legend.
The market is held on the second and fourth Saturdays of the month. It currently occupies the huge warehouse near Taproom (go there for fabulous local beer and wine and pizza) but will move outdoors to No.I Street when the big ball of fire finally ups its game.
Okay, Woolwich isn’t Madrid. (The nearest tapas is in Greenwich, courtesy of a charming restaurant called San Miguel, coincidently, which I warmly recommend.) But no matter. Our market does exactly the same thing as the Spanish one: it showcases and celebrates fantastic produce in an inviting setting in which it’s easy to lose a few happy hours.
I love the social side of it. I always have a chinwag with my mate and fellow-Melburnian Despina, who runs Souvlaki The Greek with her partner Scott. Make sure you try one of their souvlakis, made to order on the spot. Get your laughing gear around a healthy and satisfying combo of chicken (or pork or lamb), fresh salad, and tzatziki, wrapped in soft artisan flatbread. Also try the life-saving breakfast souvlaki of sausage, gigantes beans, scrambled egg, and oregano. These guys recently made it into a Londonist feature on where London’s best souvlakis can be found.
Find more homemade Greek dishes at Greekelicious. Julia whips up great moussaka, stifado, pastitsio, dolmades and soutzoukakia. Not sure what soutzoukakia is? Only one way to find out (Google doesn’t count and isn’t as much fun anyway).
While you’re in Despina’s neighbourhood, stop by Southern Wine Roads and have a chat to Maria. She will take you through all the wonderful Greek wines she has on offer. Maria is based in Orphington and is passionate and very knowledgeable about her country’s wines. Buy a small glass for just £3 and sip while you saunter. She sells wine and beer by the bottle as well.
Wildes Cheese is another highlight. I met Philip and Keith a few years ago when their adventure in cheese was just beginning. At that stage, Philip was making the good stuff in his kitchen at home, learning the ropes and forming a business plan. These days, Wildes Cheese is well and truly on London’s food map. Philip has even been on the telly: he is a natural in front of the camera and really should have his own show. Their home market is Ally Pally, but they love coming south of the river now that they understand there are no dragons. On market days they bring the cheese down on the clipper.
Anyone who’s on Twitter in this part of the world will know about our very supportive online community of local purveyors and producers, all doing their thing around Woolwich, Shooters Hill, Eltham, Charlton, Greenwich, and Blackheath. You can meet this virtual network in the flesh at the market. There’s Mike the Very Green Grocer (@VeryGreenGrocer) for Kent-sourced fresh fruit, veggies, eggs, and honey. Mike also stocks other goodies: try to get your hands on the amazing hot sauce from Moon Hot Sauce (@moonhotsauce) and a bag of delicious Gildas Bear granola (@GildasBear). For gorgeous cakes, including gluten-free, see Geraldine at Besprinkle (@besprinkle_) and for tasty sauces see Emma at All Things Saucy (@AllThingsSaucy). Fresh bread abounds too, thanks to Adam at Season Bakery (@SeasonEtcetera) and Graham and Jen at The Honest Loaf (@thehonestloaf).
The market has all the food groups covered. Apart from the above, there are butchers, sausage makers, charcuterie makers, fishmongers, and of course Flicks Fancies for the most enormous sausage rolls imaginable.
But wait, there’s more wine. Don’t miss Andrew and Emma Nielsen of Le Grappin. Andrew’s Twitter profile says it best: Australian nano-négociant in Beaune making small lot wines from under-appreciated appellations across Burgundy. Wow! All I can add is that I highly recommend you buy a Bagnum (a bag of wine) and stick it in the fridge for summer. Buy two. Also take a look at L’atypique for natural, organic, and biodynamic wines.
For more sipping, I’m going to start off at Gin Tales next time. Coming into warmer weather, a G&T while shopping will be just the ticket and is really how life should be all of the time.
Circling back to the social aspect of the market, though, I love how it has become a magnet for all the ace friends we’ve made in Woolwich and slightly beyond. Despina and Scott’s stall has become something of an unofficial gathering spot: everyone seems to show up at roughly the same time and the laughs begin. And looking around the market, I see we’re not alone: there are many jolly groups gathered. London can be a lonely, cold, and overwhelming place sometimes, and it can make you feel very far from home. The Royal Arsenal Farmers Market does the exact opposite.
The Royal Arsenal Farmers Market has a facebook page and also tweets at @RAFarmersMkt
Cities are full of traces. Traces of destruction and creation. Of decline and prosperity. Of war and peace.
I’ve been thinking about this a bit lately, particularly regarding Woolwich and its see-sawing fortunes and the many score-marks of history we can see in its streets and buildings. Sometimes it’s as innocuous as a shoddy shopfront concealing an elegant eighteenth-century townhouse. Other times, it’s as conclusive as the rubble and carbuncles left after Greenwich Council razes an entire town block, or the Arsenal Gate being forever marooned by that flourish of 1980s “planning” known as Plumstead Road.
A few Sundays ago, I visited the ruin of the 1860s Garrison Church of St. George, which is opposite the Royal Artillery Barracks. The traces that remain are what survived after most of the building was blasted to oblivion by a V2 flying bomb in 1944.
The St. George ruins offer us a different type of trace. They carry the full weight of 20th-century history, for a start, rather than rubbing our noses in the misguided actions of council drones and short-sighted planners. And what’s left is well worth preserving. A new curved roof shields the stunning mosaic work and inscriptions from the elements, and is a marked improvement on the previous makeshift shed. This is also a site upon which other traces of memory have been inscribed. Besides the memorials to soldiers who fell while the church was whole, a more recent set of plaques remembers eleven men who have died in service since WW2 or by an act of terrorism. Lee Rigby is among those named.
A modest garden replaces the aisles and pews. The church’s roof was all but completely destroyed during the war, so now it’s an open-air space that functions as a memorial garden and is occasionally used by the nearby Royal Artillery Barracks.
During my visit, I met some locals who’ve banded together to form a friends group. They aim to gather enough similarly enthusiastic volunteers to enable the church to open to the public regularly (for more details you can follow them on Facebook or Twitter @StGeorgesSE18 or email them hpostgeorgeswoolwich@gmail.com). They’ve already amassed a pile of information on what the church, and its surrounds, used to look like, and will tell you about the plans for its future. Do pay them a visit; you’ll be glad you did.
The menu board, with sweet treats in the foreground.
By their nature, pop-ups are supposed to be temporary. Discovered by hipsters today, written about in Time Out tomorrow, gone next month. Plumstead Pantry started life as a pop-up a few months ago, but if everything goes to plan, one of SE18’s newest and brightest stars will soon become a permanent fixture in what is becoming a jolly decent local dining scene.
When I first heard that a brunch spot had “popped up,” as it were, in Tony’s Café in Plumstead, I had to know more. A pop-up? In Plumstead? A place surely where, much like hurricanes in Hartford, Hereford and Hampshire, pop-ups hardly ever happen. Even Twitter was a bit confused. Some didn’t know what or where Plumstead was. Others couldn’t picture Tony’s Café until locals pointed out its proximity to The Old Mill pub. I was intrigued by a posse of well-trained baristas and foodies invading a traditional Southeast London greasy spoon, but I couldn’t see how they were going to make it work.
That said, it only took a couple of photos of drool-worthy plates of eggs benedict, tweeted by indefatigable SE18 enthusiasts @saminus and @SteveToole, to convince me to traverse the lower slopes of Shooters Hill one sunny Saturday and strike out in the direction of Plumstead Common.
We’d woken up at the crack of 11am, busting as ever for bacon and coffee. Happily, we soon found out that Plumstead Pantry does both of those things extremely well. Owners Julia and Ashley source the bacon (and everything else) locally. Chef Ashley then performs some kind of alchemy in the kitchen to turn the succulent rashers into even more succulent Maple Bacon. I don’t normally go in for random capitalisations, but the Maple Bacon deserves it.
Our first crack at the menu was the Pantry Breakfast, the flagship offering. It features eggs on top of sourdough toast (bread baked that day by Charlton-based artisanal micro-bakery The Honest Loaf), a lip-smacking pile of Maple Bacon, a slice or two of black pudding, grilled tomatoes and broad beans. My friend Kim would not condone the broad beans because they go against her no-greens-for-breakfast mantra, but I think they complement the meatier aspects of the dish very nicely. If meat isn’t your caper, there’s the Veggie Breakfast of haloumi, mushrooms, poached eggs, sourdough toast, tomatoes and beans. No Maple Bacon, though, so I’ll probably never order it.
If cutlery and grown up things on a plate is too much for your hangover, just go for a bacon/egg or sausage/egg sarnie. They’re large and restorative.
And the coffee? Well, someone has to be the winner and I reckon Plumstead Pantry does the best coffee in SE18. At least, that’s my opinion as a Melburnian who has sat on many a fake-grass-covered upturned milk crate in Fitzroy, Brunswick, Abbotsford and central Melbourne’s café-lined laneways, sipping flat whites that come as close to perfection as can be imagined. I know I could spend an hour traveling to some hipster café in Soho, or queuing for 40 minutes outside Monmouth Coffee near Borough Market, but I don’t want to have to. I really don’t. The many flat whites I’ve inhaled at Plumstead Pantry have been consistently very, very good. Bold and bright enough, with a creamy texture and lovely finish. Well played, Plumstead Pantry baristas.
Besides ensuring the cranky likes of me get their fill of bacon and coffee, Ashley and Julia have also been working hard to establish the Pantry’s dinner menu. We’ve not been for dinner yet, but the menus that flicker across my Twitter feed sound seasonal, local, healthy, and wonderful. Green tea salmon with jewelled bulgur and harissa yoghurt. Pork tenderloin with greens, brown rice, and Oxleas Wood apples. Tofu burger with kimchi and miso salad. And so on. At the moment at least, you bring your own wine.
If everything falls into place, Plumstead Pantry will soon be permanent. An interior refurbishment is on the cards, too. The notion of the Pantry staying on and growing and becoming a beloved landmark will make its already-sizable legion of local fans very happy indeed. As a near-local from the other bit of SE18, I too cannot wait!
Details: Plumstead Pantry currently does dinner from Tuesdays through Fridays, and brunch on Saturday and Sunday. Dinner, BYO booze. The address is 16 Warwick Terrace, SE18 1QJ but most people just know it as the café near the pub. Follow on Twitter and Instagram @PlumPantry.
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Valerie June
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"Understanding the order of time is important to anyone hoping to manifest a dream," says Valerie June. "There is a time to push, and a time to gently tend the garden."
“Understanding the order of time is important to anyone hoping to manifest a dream,” says Valerie June. “There is a time to push, and a time to gently tend the garden.”
Since the release of her 2013 breakout Pushin’ Against A Stone, June has been patiently at work in the garden of song, nurturing seedlings with love and care into the lush bloom that is her stunning new album, The Order Of Time. Some songs grew from seeds planted more than a decade ago, others blossomed overnight when she least expected them to, but every track bears the influence of time. See, time has been on June’s mind a lot lately. It’s the only constant in life, even though it’s constantly changing. It’s the healer of all wounds, the killer of all men. It’s at once infinite and finite, ever flowing with twists and turns and brutal, churning rapids that give way to serene stretches of placid tranquility. Fight against the current and it will knock you flat on your ass. Learn to read it, to speak its language, and it will carry you exactly where you’re meant to be.
“Time is the ruler of Earth’s rhythm,” June explains. “Our daily lives revolve around it. Our hearts beat along to its song. If we let it, it can be a powerful guide to turning our greatest hopes and dreams into realities.”
June knows a thing or two about turning hopes and dreams into realities. With Pushin’ Against A Stone, she went from self-releasing her music as Tennessee’s best kept secret to being hailed by the New York Times as one of America’s “most intriguing, fully formed new talents.” The New Yorker was captivated by her “unique, stunning voice,” while Rolling Stone dubbed her “unstoppable,” and NPR called her “an elemental talent born with the ability to rearrange the clouds themselves.” She astonished TV audiences from coast-to-coast with spellbinding performances on The Tonight Show, The Late Show, Austin City Limits, Rachael Ray, and CBS Saturday Morning, and graced some of the world’s most prestigious stages, from Carnegie Hall to the Kennedy Center. First Lady Michelle Obama invited June to The White House, and she toured with artists like Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings, Sturgill Simpson, Norah Jones, and Jake Bugg in addition to flooring festival crowds at Bonnaroo, Outside Lands, Newport Folk, Hangout, ACL, Pickathon, Mountain Jam and more. In the UK, the reaction was similarly ecstatic. June performed on Later…with Jools Holland, joined a bill with the Rolling Stones in Hyde Park, and took the press by storm. Uncut praised her “remarkably careworn vocals,” MOJO swooned for her “glorious sound,” and The Independent’s Andy Gill wrote, “June has the most strikingly individual delivery I’ve heard in ages.”
When it came time to record the follow-up, June felt liberated by the success, fearless and more confident than ever in trusting her instincts and following her muse. There was to be no rushing the music, no harvesting a song before it was ripe on the vine and ready to be plucked. When she sensed the time was right, she headed to rural Guilford, Vermont, with producer Matt Marinelli, spending long stretches through the fall and winter living and recording away from the hustle and bustle of her adopted home of Brooklyn.
“They made us feel so welcome in Vermont,” remembers June. “I was cooking amazing food and hanging out with the band all the time. There were long talks and long walks in the snow, and friends would come up for holidays. I felt like I put myself in a place where I could really soar. With the last album, I was absorbing and learning and developing so much in the studio, but this is me taking the things I learned and the things I felt in my heart and fighting for them.”
In her heart, June is a songwriter first and foremost, willing and able to blur the lines between genres and eras of sounds. The result is an eclectic blend of folk and soul and country and R&B and blues that is undoubtedly the finest work of her career. Opener “Long Lonely Road” settles in like languid southern heat, as June looks back to the sacrifices of her parents and grandparents, singing in a gentle near-whisper of the sometimes difficult, sometimes beautiful journey we all must undertake in search of brighter days. On the soulful “Love You Once Made,” her voice is backed by rich horns and vintage organ as she makes peace with the specter of loss and the ephemeral nature of our relationships, while the bluesy juke joint rocker “Shake Down” features backup vocals from her brothers, Jason and Patrick Hockett and father, Emerson Hockett recorded at home in Tennessee, and “Man Done Wrong” centers on a hypnotic banjo riff that’s more African than Appalachian.
“People shouldn’t necessarily think of bluegrass when they see the banjo,” explains June. “It was originally an African instrument, and people in America used to play all kinds of banjo: mandolin banjo, ukulele banjo, bass banjo, classical banjo, jazz banjo, there were even banjo orchestras. For some reason people like to limit it and say it just has to be in folk and bluegrass, but to me it can be in anything, and I really wanted to set the banjo free on this record.”
The banjo turns up again later as the underpinning of the R&B rave-up “Got Soul,” which plays out like a mission statement for the entire album, as June offers to “sing a country tune” or “play the blues” but reveals that underneath it all is her sweet soul. Those genre terms might be simplistic ways to attempt to define her, empty signifiers creating distinctions between sounds where June sees none. “With You” channels the sprightly, ethereal beauty of Nico with fingerpicked electric guitar and cinematic strings, “Slip Slide On By” grooves with shades of Van Morrison, and “If And” slowly builds over meditative hum that hints at John Cale.
Despite the music’s varied nature, the songs all belong to a cohesive family, in part because they’re tied together by June’s one-of-a-kind voice, and because they’re all pieces of a larger rumination on the passage of time and how it affects us. The ultimate takeaway from tracks like “The Front Door” and “Just In Time” is that the present is all we have. Everything around us (our loved ones, our youth, our beauty) will someday fade and disappear, but that transience is what makes those things all the more magical. We’re given this brief moment to share our love and light with the world, and when, as June sings on the album, “Time’s hands turn and point straight towards you,” you’d better be ready.
Thankfully for us, June was ready when time told her to harvest these songs. In the garden, as in life, there is a time for everything and the moment has finally arrived to enjoy the fruits of all her labor. With ‘The Order Of Time,’ Valerie June has prepared a bountiful feast, and there’s a seat at the table for everyone.
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Prostate Cancer, The Facts Your Doctor Isn’t Likely Telling You.
Prostate cancer is BIG BUSINESS for medi-sin. Despite the “Discoverer” of the Prostate Specific Antigen test stating “I never dreamed that my discovery four decades ago would lead to such a profit-driven public health disaster,” Dr. Richard Ablin.
Even the Chief Scientific Officer for the American Cancer Society relates to people who promote PSA screening as working with the “Devil” because they deceive people about testing and treatments for prostate cancer.
The Wild Doc delivers a hardcore true assessment of the facts and science behind the cancer industry! Dr. Dale also delivers hope and real strategies that have been clinically and scientifically proven to benefit those men diagnosed and dealing with prostate cancer. Natural strategies that are effective for prostate cancer and nutritional strategies have been found more effective against prostate cancer, better than the most expensive drugs and medical treatments. Facts that are delivered in this talk!
Sex Life After Prostate Cancer Surgery? The Truth Isn’t Sexy.
How Cool Are Mushrooms!? Preventing Prostate Cancer From The “Stem”!
FDA Approves Prostate Cancer Vaccine–It Took Death Threats!
Prostate Cancer: Effective, Evidence-based Treatment
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What will cars be like in the future? Will we be flying through the air, navigating skyscrapers and cutting through clouds? While the car industry is rapidly advancing, it seems more likely that reducing pollution, sourcing renewable energy and building a sustainable future will be the highest priorities.
Working closely with clients such as TRACKER™ and Avis Budget Group, we have a vested interest in learning everything we can about the future of the automotive industry – which is why we attended the FT Future of the Car Summit 2018. This Financial Times Live event featured discussions around the logistics of a world with autonomous vehicles, how manufacturing processes will impact supply chains and the challenges of data security.
With the power to reduce air pollution and simplify the driving experience, it’s no surprise that numbers of electric cars are already on the rise. This falls nicely in line with the EU’s commitment to reduce emissions by 80-95% – an ambitious goal that brings a few considerations to mind. As cars lose their combustion engines, become automated and gradually transform into computers with wheels, OEMs (Original Equipment Manufacturers) will be forced to adapt their offerings from providing parts to providing software and data. This is known as ‘Mobility as a Service’ (MaaS) and is already being considered by many OEMs. Andreas Tschiesner, Senior Partner at McKinsey & Company, explained how this new landscape will have 5 layers or touchpoints to provide connected experiences to consumers:
Infrastructure > Supplier > Producer > Provider > Platform owner/Integrator.
For companies like TRACKER™, who are the leading experts in stolen vehicle recovery, the emergence of MaaS will require them to change their hardware products into software add-ons. This, in turn, creates further challenges when it comes to data security. Currently a hot topic, thanks to the recent GDPR regulations, data security for autonomous cars with ‘learning’ behaviours will need to be practically impenetrable before they can become mainstream.
In addition to these manufacturing and security impacts, autonomous vehicles will also affect the ways in which cars are used and owned by consumers. Speakers at the summit frequently referenced the ACES framework – Autonomous, Connected, Electrified, Shared – which paints a vivid picture of future cars.
The definition of autonomy itself has been broken down into four levels: feet off, hands off, eyes off and brain off. Only the latter would be considered a truly autonomous vehicle. Functioning almost like a mobile living room, these ‘brain off’ cars will provide a world of possibilities. Though we currently rely on cars for freedom and independence, they spend an average of 96% of the time either parked on drives or car parks. Autonomous cars will allow us to share cars with family, friends and colleagues. Picture your car dropping you off at work and then doing the school run all by itself!
Exciting as this may be, it also poses the question of if we’ll need to own cars at all. Many experts in the automotive industry suggest that most people will switch to flexible car hire models that can be tailored for their needs. As an example, people may hire a sports car for their working week and a family SUV for weekend camping trips
For companies like Avis Budget Group, the sharing model is a very applicable approach to how we might get around in the future – almost like a sophisticated version of UBER. Of course, it may take a bit more time for rural areas to adopt it and cities will face unique challenges of their own. Seleta Reynolds, General Manager at the Los Angeles Department of Transportation, believes autonomous car sharing can only be possible with a seamless integration to public transport, requiring significant changes to city infrastructures and logistics.
This brings us the to the key question: when? When will we see electric vehicles replace combustion engines? When we will see a world of fully automated cars? While it’s clear that the industry is advancing very quickly, there are many variables that make the answer uncertain. Certainly within the next 10 years, the number of electric vehicles will be significantly higher. Volvo has already pledged to stop manufacturing combustion engine cars by 2019. As for autonomous cars, it’s likely that cities will initially build ‘autonomous-only’ zones that human-driven cars will not be able to access.
Regardless of when this may be, the future of the car will be dictated by consumer behaviours, shifts in manufacturing and heightened safety regulations. And before any of those elements begin to shape the way we get around, we need to be able to trust the technology. Each city will require different technical solutions to accommodate new breeds of vehicles, but we must first find a way to safely integrate human and machine interaction.
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In the austere, shaded quiet of the Quaker burial ground in New Adel Lane, the plain gravestones record only names and dates - no statues or florid verses here, where all are equal. One stone bears the name of Thomas Harvey, who during his lifetime fought against slavery, war, cruelty and deprivation. These causes took him across the world – to the West Indies, Finland, Russia, Canada – in an era when such journeys meant long months of danger and hardship. But his home, his family and his daily work were here in Leeds.
He was born in 1812 into a Quaker family in Barnsley, where his father was a linen manufacturer. The second of five children, he was educated at Barnsley Grammar School and the Quaker schools at Ackworth and York. But money ran short and at fifteen he was apprenticed to a chemist and druggist in Birmingham, to train for his future. There he met fellow Quakers like the Cadburys and Joseph Sturge, the eminent anti-slavery activist. In 1836 he was invited to accompany Sturge to the British colonies of the West Indies to investigate the condition of the former slaves, freed in 1834 but still bound by the plantation owners into harsh apprenticeship schemes. He helped Sturge produce a long report which persuaded Parliament to change this abusive system.
Back in England, he moved to Leeds to set up in business as a chemist and druggist, in a shop at 13 Briggate. He sold the usual patent medicines of the time – Widow Welch’s Pills (for all female complaints); Butler’s Compound Concentrated Concoction (for every possible ailment) – but he became an expert pharmacist, publishing specialist notes for doctors on remedies and dosages, and over the years he took an increasing interest in medical and scientific advances. He later took on a partner (Harvey & Reynolds): among other developments they specialised in early photographic equipment and became the pre-eminent supplier in this new field.
In 1845 he married, and three children were born, though their first son died aged only six. Alongside his business and his family, he devoted himself to campaigning on behalf of victims of slavery and exploitation around the world, writing letters and articles in the press, addressing meetings, collecting funds. He drew attention to Britain’s shameful role in the opium trade with China. He took up the cause of people everywhere who suffered ‘the dreadful ravages of war’. In 1856 he travelled, again with Joseph Sturge, to Finland, where the British Fleet, stationed in the Baltic during the Crimean War, had caused terrible hardship, and raised money for relief. He collected too for the victims (on whatever side) of the Franco-German War and the American Civil War, publishing ‘A Plea for the Perishing’. In 1866 he visited Jamaica again to investigate conditions and help promote education for the freed slaves, and the next year undertook a gruelling journey to Russia to visit the Mennonite community who were being persecuted for their pacifism, and assist with their resettlement in Canada. It was a punishing schedule, and his health suffered.
That same year he had to endure the loss of his youngest son, seventeen, studying in London, who drowned with many others skating on the frozen Regent’s Park lake when the ice gave way. The family was stricken. He retired from his business, and with the benefit of money inherited from his brothers committed himself completely to his philanthropic work, not only around the world but also close to home. He served on the Leeds School Board; was Secretary of the Leeds Blind, Deaf and Dumb Institution; supported the cause of women’s education, subscribed to the Hospital for Women and Children. He was active in the Society of Friends, a strong speaker and worker for temperance and the peace movement. In 1883 he took a leading role on the cross-faith committee which organised the visit to Leeds of the famous American evangelists Moody and Sankey, who in their fortnight’s mission here preached to many thousands with the message ‘stand up for Jesus’.
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Drive not far from the Strip and a different side of Las Vegas will show itself, one filled with tree-lined streets, parks and a surprising amount of natural beauty. If you’re looking for a Las Vegas park where you can enjoy some time outdoors, there’s no shortage of excellent choices.
At the Springs Preserve, visitors can learn about the history of the region, visit museums, explore botanical gardens and hike on trails. The complex is a showcase of history and nature that the whole family can appreciate. Plan on spending at least half a day here to fully explore the grounds–this is the actual birthplace of Las Vegas, where early Spanish explorers stopped for water.
Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area, located just outside the western edge of the city, is full of natural wonders. The area is full of dramatic sandstone cliffs and rock formations. Hiking, biking and rock climbing are some of the most popular activities in Red Rock, but visitors who don’t want to hit the trail can still enjoy the Scenic Loop from their car.
Wildlife is abundant at many Las Vegas parks. Migratory birds and animals of all kinds can be seen around springs and ponds, especially early in the morning or late in the day. The variety of creatures you might spot may surprise some visitors: bunnies, lizards, bighorn sheep, peacocks and burros, among many others.
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The grassy, tree-filled Floyd Lamb Park offers a great respite from the desert. Several ponds in the park support a wealth of plant and animal life, including an abundance of birds. Fishing in the stocked ponds is allowed (with a license), although no swimming or wading. The grounds are full of critters, including peacocks, geese and ducksâ” who are used to people feeding them. Be careful if you have small children because the large birds can be persistent. Paths and picnic tables make the park an attractive choice for a day of walking, picnicking or watching wildlife. Horseback rides are also offered at an equestrian center on the grounds, although an appointment is required. Also within the park’s boundaries is the historic Tule Springs Ranch, whose remaining buildings are on the National Register of Historic Places.
Located just down the road from Red Rock Canyon National Recreation Area on Highway 159, Spring Mountain Ranch State Park is a small oasis in the dry Mojave Desert. Natural springs have attracted people from the early Native Americans through more modern times when pioneers and ranchers settled here. Historic buildings, some dating to the 1860s, are located throughout the ranch’s acreage. Grassy meadows, trees from a former orchard, and hiking trails surround the main ranch house. Picnic areas offer visitors a place to enjoy lunch. The dramatic Wilson Cliffs offer a backdrop of vertical sandstone. A red one-story ranch house is the centerpiece of the park, and it has a history of famous owners, including Howard Hughes and Vera Krupp. The interior has been preserved, and also acts as a visitor center. Guided tours are available, and docents are on hand to answer questions.
Located in the heart of Summerlin–an area that’s home to many parks–the Gardens Park is in a great central location for the area and offers plenty of amenities for a picnic or family outing. The park has picnic areas, open fields, basketball courts, horseshoe pits, tennis courts and even a bocce court. If you didn’t bring your lunch, don’t worry. Nearby you’ll find all kinds of restaurants and even grocery stores, as well as a convenience store within easy walking distance of the park. This area of Summerlin is filled with an abundance of parks, but Gardens Park is one of the easiest to access from major cross-streets, plus it offers lots of opportunities for family-friendly activities.
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Located between Las Vegas and Lake Mead about one mile east of Boulder Highway and Tropicana Avenue, Clark County Wetlands Park is a 2,900-acre oasis in the Mojave Desert. Reclaimed water from the urban area of Las Vegas flows through the park, allowing a permanent wetlands plant community to thrive. The park is also home to 212 species of birds, including snowy egrets, burrowing owls, wood ducks and great blue herons with wingspans of 6-and-a-half feet, as well as more than 70 species of mammals and reptiles. In addition to its impressive wildlife, the park boasts 13 miles of hiking trails, including six miles within its Nature Preserve. The 210-acre Nature Preserve is the centerpiece of the park, featuring wildlife viewing blinds, educational signage and a flagstone outdoor amphitheater that is ADA accessible.
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Located just three miles from the famed Las Vegas Strip, the Springs Preserve is an award-winning 180-acre family destination dedicated to exploring green-living, desert life and Las Vegas’ vibrant history through botanical gardens, interactive science and nature exhibits, animal shows and trails. The Springs offers 110 acres of display gardens, natural gardens, wildlife habitat, walking and biking trails and educational resources. Their Botanical Gardens feature more than 1,200 species of native and desert-adapted plants housed in several themed areas. Indoor experiences include exhibition galleries dedicated to showcasing art and traveling exhibitions of local and national significance, Origen Museum and the Nevada State Museum.
The Spring Mountains National Recreation Area is part of the Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest. Better known to locals as Mount Charleston, it’s just 30 minutes from downtown Las Vegas and encompasses more than 316,000 acres of remarkable beauty and surprising diversity. During the winter months, skiing is a top draw; when the weather warms, hiking trails become incredibly popular. Camping and picnicking are also prominent, and folks have been known to encounter wild horses and elk when they’re taking advantage of the terrain’s natural beauty. The area is actually home to more than 50 sensitive plants and animals, some of which are found nowhere else in the world. Other activities include horseback riding, mountain biking and rock climbing.
The crown jewel of Clark County’s park system, Sunset Park has served the Las Vegas valley since 1967. Phased park expansions have developed 185 of the 323 total acres, making Sunset the largest and the most distinguished park in town. An oasis in the desert, it offers something for everyone including tennis, volleyball and basketball courts, softball fields, a disc golf course, dog park, playground, shaded picnic areas, lake–fish included–and plenty of open space. The most recent expansion includes the addition of walking trails meandering through natural mesquite and dunes areas. The park contains the last remaining natural dunes that once dominated the southern end of the Las Vegas valley. Sunset Park also hosts many special events open to the public, including the annual Age of Chivalry Renaissance Festival.
Located four miles southeast of Boulder City, Lake Mead National Recreation Park Area provides relaxation and fun year-round. With 1.5 million acres, it’s twice the size of Rhode Island and is America’s largest man-made reservoir. Interestingly, three of America’s four desert ecosystems–the Mojave, the Great Basin and the Sonoran deserts–are all connected by Lake Mead. With 50 miles of shoreline, the park offers multiple marinas, boating, fishing and water sports. It also caters to hikers, climbers, campers and car tours. Lakeshore Road and Northshore Road will take you around a large portion of the lake and both roads have multiple access points to the lake, although lowering water levels have closed or moved some places. Keep your eyes peeled for wildlife, as the area is home to thousands of desert plants and animals.
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This grand geological park, located 55 miles northeast of Las Vegas, is Nevada’s oldest state park. Its brilliantly colored sandstone formations were generated from 150 million years of weathering in the Mojave Desert. In fact, the park’s name comes from the vibrant appearance of sunlight on the red rocks. Evidence of ancient trees and early man are found throughout the park in areas of petrified wood and 3,000-year-old Native American petroglyphs. Popular activities include camping, hiking, picnicking and photography. A visitor center acquaints folks to the on-site attractions. Seventy-two campsites are available for an additional fee (first-come, first served) and come equipped with shaded tables, grills, water and restrooms.
Photo courtesy of U.S. Bureau of Land Management
Part of the Mojave Desert, Red Rock Canyon is an easy escape from the fast pace of the Glitter City, located just 17 miles from downtown Vegas. The area showcases spectacular scenery, complete with rugged red rock formations, desert vegetation and open vistas. The visitor center can help you orient yourself to the landscape, and a gift shop and exhibits are available. While many folks opt to bike, hike or rock-climb, others make the most of the 13-mile scenic loop, which lets you drive a picturesque circuit and offers stop-offs for photography. Still, others prefer to travel via horseback or simply enjoy a picnic at one of the picnic areas.
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Early Decision (ED) is a binding method of admission by which students apply early to a single school — usually their first choice — and pledge to attend if accepted. In an email to the Daily, Karen Richardson, dean of undergraduate admissions and enrollment management, stated that she expects at least half of the Class of 2022 will come from the ED applicant pool.
History of early admission programs
According to documents obtained from the Digital Collections and Archives, in the 1959-1960 bulletin, a new heading of “Early Decisions” was introduced.
“Serious, well-qualified applicants who know they wish to enter Tufts may apply for early decision prior to March 15 of the Senior year [of high school],” the bulletin reads.
Eventually, Michael Behnke, who served as dean of admissions from 1976 to 1985, made early applications a permanent fixture on the hill, according to a 2017 article in Tufts Magazine.
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For the Classes of 2012 and 2013, Tufts chose not to publicize the number of ED applications it received, in a move designed to make the college admissions process less stressful for future applicants, according to a Jan. 23, 2009 Daily article.
Richardson said that the number of applications for ED has increased steadily over the past ten years, but the acceptance rate has not changed as significantly given the increase. However, the percentage of the incoming first-year class that was admitted ED has shifted accordingly, Richardson noted.
“We don’t go into the early process with a set percentage in mind,” Richardson told the Daily in an email. “Rather, we see the students admitted through [early admissions] as setting the foundation for the incoming class.”
Experiences of current students
Junior Sammy Levy was drawn to Tufts and made the decision to apply ED, because she liked its location and the opportunity for students to explore a range of different disciplines.
“I chose Tufts because I liked having family nearby, as well as the flexibility to study liberal arts and/or engineering depending on what I discovered I liked more,” Levy said. “Ultimately I’m really happy that I did apply because I found Human Factors Engineering, and that’s not offered at a lot of schools.”
While Levy applied under ED I, in which applicants have a deadline of November 1 and are notified of admission results in mid-December, Tufts also offers a later deadline under ED II.
“Tufts offers Early Decision II because some students have not yet decided by Nov. 1 that Tufts is their first choice,” Richardson said. “ED II gives a student who knows that Tufts is their first choice the ability to apply by Jan. 1 and learn their decision by mid-February.”
Despite this flexibility in deadlines, first-year Alyssa Blaise did not apply early to Tufts or any other schools in large part due to her uncertainty about financial aid.
“I didn’t want to be committed to a school and then be offered a financial aid package that didn’t meet my family’s needs,” Blaise said. “I’m also not sure how one would navigate that kind of situation of having to argue for more once you’ve already basically told the school you’re going to come, so I didn’t even want [to] consider that possibility.”
While Tufts meets 100 percent of demonstrated financial need for all admitted students and would offer the same financial aid package to a student regardless of whether they applied Regular Decision (RD) or ED, Richardson said that the admissions office advises potential applicants that ED may not be the best option for students who wish to compare financial aid packages, as applicants will have to make a binding commitment to attend the university if admitted.
However, Richardson noted that Tufts will allow a student to back out of the ED agreement for financial reasons after working with the financial aid office to determine if a resolution is possible.
For Blaise, applying ED meant she would have had to be confident that she and her family would be fine with the financial aid package the school offered her, in addition to knowing that the school she was applying to was the right fit.
“I leveraged my financial aid offers from other schools against Tufts in order to try and get a better package,” she said. “Besides financial aid, there weren’t any schools that I immediately clicked with. It’s different for everybody; I see the appeal of knowing ahead of time and not having to pay for and send out tons of applications, but I liked all the schools I applied to and was very torn about where I should go.”
Levy also deliberated about where she wanted to go to college, but financial aid was not a deciding factor in her choice.
“My parents have always been very frugal, but when it came to my education that was something they said we’d never look for a discount for, so I’m incredibly lucky that financial aid wasn’t a deciding factor when it came to applying to college,” Levy said. “However, I think if money was a part of the picture, then I might not have looked at a school like Tufts.”
Recent trend of early admissions
While ED offers students the ability to show a school that it is the student’s first choice and to hear back earlier in the college admissions process, there has been some criticism that ED favors the more privileged and leaves other applicants at a disadvantage. In 2006, the University of Virginia announced that it was ending its ED program in an effort to attract more low-income students; it now uses Early Action.
“[Tufts does] not offer Early Action, which is non-binding and would make projections of yield very difficult, putting the university at risk of over- or under-enrolling from year to year,” Richardson said.
Tufts is not alone in embracing and using ED to its advantage. ED provides security not only for college applicants, but also for the schools themselves. For colleges and universities, ED provides stability in a volatile, frenzied college admissions market. ED also enables a school to become more selective with a lower overall acceptance rate, and increase its yield because it already has a certain percentage of admitted students guaranteed to attend.
Both Levy and Blaise believe it’s important for prospective applicants to weigh the pros and cons of applying ED and to know if and why the school is right for them.
“I’d say only apply if you’re confident that that school is a good fit for you and you’ve explored and are okay with the financial aid policies, if that’s something that applies to you,” Blaise said.
Levy echoed this sentiment.
“If the academics, the opportunities, the campus culture and other important things check their boxes, then I’d encourage [a prospective student] to apply ED,” she said. “But I think kids are told if they don’t know exactly where they want to go, they won’t have a chance of getting in. So some people may feel pressured to do ED because they see the majority of a class being accepted [that] way.”
While the pool of applications is much smaller for ED than RD, the process Tufts uses and the criteria for admission are the same, according to Richardson. She also emphasized that it is not easier to get in ED, contrary to popular belief.
“The biggest difference between ED and [RD] students is that those who apply ED have already decided that Tufts is the place that they want to be,” Richardson said. “As the ED pool has grown and gotten stronger, it’s difficult to say ‘no’ to good students who are good fits and who have made the commitment to attend if accepted.”
Richardson’s statement reflects the upward trend of ED applications and class composition: ED applicants made up 35 percent of the class of 2015 and 39 percent of the class of 2016, while approximately half of the classes of 2021 and 2020 came from ED.
“I definitely think applying ED will become even more the norm in the future,” Levy said. “If … 50 percent of the current [first-year] class is ED, does that mean in another 10 years 60 percent could be from ED?”
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By Abdullah Ayasun On Jul 19, 2018
Turkey's gendarmerie forces and rescue teams recover body of a person died while crossing Evros River this February. (Photo: AFAD)
A mother and three children have gone missing after a dinghy boat capsized while attempting to cross Evros River in a bid to reach Greece, the father of the children said on Thursday.
The grim incident took place when a group of people fleeing the persecution in Turkey tried to go to Greece through a perilous river journey in the western province of Edirne, bordering both Greece and Bulgaria.
Turkish Journalist Cevheri Guven tweeted the incident on Twitter.
A boat carrying Turkish purge victims was capsized on Evros River, Greece, a mom and 3 kids lost in flood, a kid was wearing life west, they all may be alive, rescue units must be urgently deployed to area @UNHCRGreece @Refugees_Gr pic.twitter.com/xU3jM8wt1B
— Cevheri Güven (@cevheriguven) July 19, 2018
The father Murat Akcabay has made an emotional plea for the rescue of the missing ones.
A woman and her three children went missing after a boat carrying several Turkish asylum seekers capsized in the Evros River along the Turkey-Greece border on July 18, Wednesday night. The father, Murat Akçabay makes an emotional plea for their rescue. @BBC @Guardian @bbcturkce pic.twitter.com/15hdhpsDBr
— Human Rights Turkey (@HumanRightsTR) July 19, 2018
Writer Cemil Tokpinar claimed the same day that Greek border police located the missing people on the islet in the river, Turkey Purge reported. Six people from the same boat have reportedly been rescued.
Hamza Akcabay, the uncle of the missing children, informed Turkish police and urged the officials to immediately launch a rescue and search campaign. Instead of heeding his desperate plea, the Turkish authorities have detained the man.
The incident is the latest in a series of fatal efforts to cross Evros River, which, according to the German Bild newspaper, has become a graveyard for thousands of asylum seekers and immigrants who try their bid to reach Europe through Greece.
The river offers a natural demarcation zone at the Turkish-Greek border and people attempt to cross to the Greek side often on dinghy, unsafe and makeshift boats.
While mostly immigrants from Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria hedged their bets on risky journeys in the past, Turkish people have also, in increasing numbers, joined the ones for crossing through Evros River.
Particularly, people affiliated with Gulen Movement who have become target of a sweeping crackdown both before and after the July 2016 coup attempt take that risk.
More than 150,000 people have been purged by emergency rule decrees in the post-coup clampdown on political opponents. People who lost their government jobs are forced to live under untenable circumstances given the loss of their licenses to work in the public or private sector. Their passports have been revoked and employers are deterred by authorities to hire the dismissed public workers.
For the desperate victims of Turkey’s never-ending purge, this leaves no option but leaving the country for a new life abroad.
A new set of measures proposed by the government for the aftermath of the emergency rule, which came to an end on Wednesday two years after it was first imposed following the botched putsch, enable President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s cabinet to continue dismissing public workers without a need to use emergency laws.
Victims of the purge, already living in a precarious situation in their home country after being deprived of basic livelihood, embrace all the odds and challenges of crossing Evros River.
Earlier this year, one mother and two children perished while crossing the river in the punishingly cold waters of the winter. Until Turkey’s authorities in Ankara address enduring plight of hundreds of thousands of people who have been condemned to live in a perpetual state of destitution since 2016, observers and critics fear that similar tragic incidents may increase at the Turkish border.
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Two new Amiga CD projects on the horizon...
Jazzz
After years of absence from the remixing scene, Instant Remedy is finally ready to give the fans a second injection of his all-healing dance beats, this time in the shape of a remix album concentrating on the Commodore Amiga: many of the popular and big titles from the 16-bit era will be included and of course rendered into booty-shaking, dance-friendly versions with that instantly recognizable IR trademark sound. The tracklisting of the CD is still a secret, but tunes like “Project X” or “Lotus Turbo Challenge 2” are destined to be included - and what kind of Amiga album would possibly be complete without music by Hülsbeck and Hippel?
Instant Remedy began his remixing career a decade ago and quickly became known as a dance remix whiz when his takes on “Commando”, “Last Ninja”, or “Comic Bakery” were released. The enthusiastic feedback he received from listeners soon led to the production of a proper SID remix album published by C64Audio.com in 2002 (now sold out, but available as a digital download from www.c64audio.com).
Says Martin (aka Instant Remedy): “I have thought about making Amiga remixes for quite a while, but was never able to get myself to begin. They are quite different from SID remixes since you have a second dimension to cover: the samples technology available on the 16-bit computer. Amiga tunes get their special sound and atmosphere by using samples on top of the melody to describe the music. My vision is to stay true to the original compositions but within the boundaries of a dance style remix. And it really feels good to be back…”
It has also been revealed that a fourth (and possibly final) album in the acclaimed “Immortal” series is currently being worked on. Created by Portuguese Ruben Monteiro back in 1997, the idea behind the “Immortal” project is to have popular tunes from Commodore Amiga games arranged for CD by the original composers whenever possible. Artists like Allister Brimble, Chris Hülsbeck, Andrew Barnabas, Tim Wright, Jason Page or the late Richard Joseph have contributed exclusive studio versions of their game soundtracks in the past. The most recent volume was released in 2006 and featured over 150 minutes of music from 35 Amiga titles.
Says executive producer Jan Zottmann: “I think I have been talking about the fourth album on a number of occasions already, but it was never announced properly. So here you finally have it… we’re working on it, and it is going to be a massive double CD set once again! The list of contributors includes a number of familiar faces, but also some composers who are new to the series, for instance Jean Baudlot, Mark Knight or Raymond Usher”.
Official news thread: http://www.remix64.com/board/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=6110
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Sounds fantastic. Immortal 3 was an amazing diverse album so I'm pleased they're making an equally grand successor!
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A few more news have been released regarding the development of the album: About 26 tracks are completed or close to being completed at this point. One of these songs is a rendition of the theme music from "F17 Challenge" by Nicola Tomljanovich - an excerpt of that one is available in the download section of his homepage (http://www.amc-interactive.com). It has also been revealed that Tim Wright of "Wipeout" fame and German game composer Matthias Steinwachs will contribute tracks. Below you will find links to interviews where the guys talk about writing music for games - the "Immortal 4" project is briefly mentioned in these interviews:
http://www.ocremix.org/info/Composer...GE_(Tim_Wright)
http://www.kultboy.com/Matthias-Stei...-Interview/22/ (available in German language only)
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mmm, someone I know is going to be arranging a track for Immortal 4. i'm looking forward to it shame Phil Nixon wasn't able to arrange his own track on the last release, I would have loved to hear that.
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January 14, 2020 / 5:30 PM / 15 days ago
Anglo American likely to confirm deal to buy Sirius ahead of deadline: sources
Barbara Lewis, Clara Denina
LONDON (Reuters) - Anglo American Plc (AAL.L) is likely to confirm a deal to buy fertilizer company Sirius Minerals Plc (SXX.L) for more than $500 million excluding debt, ahead of an early February deadline to finalise its bid, three sources close to the matter said.
FILE PHOTO: The logo of Anglo American is seen on a jacket of an employee at the Los Bronces copper mine, in the outskirts of Santiago, Chile March 14, 2019 REUTERS/Rodrigo Garrido/File Photo
Anglo said on Jan. 8 it was in advanced talks over a 5.5 pence ($0.7138) cash offer for the venture that is Britain’s biggest mining project.
Sirius’ share price rose more than a third when Anglo announced its indicative offer and it closed at 5.4 pence on Tuesday.
The company has until Feb. 5 to make a firm offer or walk away, but a bid is likely in the coming days, the sources said.
Anglo declined to comment and Sirius was not immediately available to comment.
A deal would throw a lifeline to Sirius and is politically resonant as it would save hundreds of jobs in northern England, where the lack of opportunities was an issue in the election that returned Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s government to power.
It would also diversify Anglo American’s portfolio and mark its return to fertilizer. It sold its remaining fertilizer project in Brazil in 2016 when it was recovering from a commodity market crash.
Sources said the two companies have been in talks for the last nine months. They said Anglo is unlikely to increase its offer.
“There is significant value that Anglo can capture with the discount that Sirius trades at, because they can bring financing and knowledge on how to push the project forward,” said RBC analyst Tyler Broda.
Anglo will have to invest more than $3 billion over five years. This is modest compared with the $8.8 billion cost of its Minas Rio iron ore project in Brazil, which it bought at the top of the cycle.
Sirius has struggled to get bank financing to complete its project since fundraising with retail investors in 2017. It embarked on a review after scrapping a plan to raise $500 million in a bond sale.
The share price fell more than 80% in 2019.
The sources also said Sirius was unlikely to get a better offer.
Anglo last week said Sirius provided a rare chance to buy near the bottom of the market.
The project could also help Anglo move away from more polluting assets, notably coal, as investors demand miners become more climate aware.
Reporting by Barbara Lewis and Clara Denina; Editing by Lisa Shumaker
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Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-MI. (AP /Carlos Osorio) AP /Carlos Osorio
US Congresswoman Tlaib Says Israeli ‘Military Occupation’ Encourages Palestinian ‘Honor Killings’
The anti-Israel Muslim-American congresswoman has found yet another reason to condemn the Jewish state, linking Israel to a problem that is truly a serious one but has nothing to do with Israel.
By United With Israel Staff
“A 21-year-old Palestinian woman died on Thursday in suspicious circumstances fueling speculation and causing massive outrage among activists and social media users across the Middle East and North Africa,” reported the Egyptian Streets website.
“Israa Gharib, a makeup artist from Bethlehem, died in a coma due to head trauma, in what activists and sources close to the victim are saying was a brutal honor killing. The culprits are believed to be her father and brothers,” the website adds.
“It all began when Gharib went to meet a potential suitor in a public place and posted a video of the outing on her Instagram page,” the story continues.
“According to a friend of the victim’s, Gharib’s mother was fully aware of the meeting and the suitor’s sister was also in attendance. According to sources online,” writes Egyptian Streets, “Gharib’s cousin then showed the video to the victim’s father and brothers, allegedly urging them to act to prevent scandal and accusing Israa of dishonoring herself and bringing shame to the family by being seen in the company of a man outside the bonds of marriage.”
Understandably, Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) released a statement decrying the phenomenon of “honor” killings.
“Israa’s death illustrates an ever-present toxic masculinity and control over women’s bodies and lives,” she tweeted.
However, Tlaib then attaches a link to her tweet for an article that blames Israeli occupation for such killings.
The article is posted on a site called Babyfist.
“Israeli military occupation and a corrupt Palestinian Authority both hinder any legal, economic, and social progress. Right now there are Arabic articles (this story has rightfully taken the Arab world by storm) and doubtless, some Hebrew articles being published by some Zionist news outlets to try and pink-wash occupation,” says the article.
The anti-Israel, pro-BDS congresswoman has found yet another reason to condemn the Jewish state, linking Israel to a problem that is truly a serious one but which has nothing to do with Israel.
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Government’s electric car policy lacks direction, warns Unite
The union is calling for the government to enter into urgent meaningful talks on a ‘just transition’ with the car industry and Unite in order to defend employment for thousands of jobs in diesel engine production, and for a truly workable policy to be fully developed, which will avoid damaging the UK’s automobile manufacturing sector.
Infrastructure investment
In particular Unite believes for the government’s electric car plans to be successful there needs to be far more investment in the UK’s infrastructure, to drive the demand for electric cars, including battery production, recycling and charging.
As well as greatly increasing the number of charging points, there needs to be uniformity in how drivers are charged and for re-charging times to be minimised. The government’s proposals have principally focussed on the potential requirement that all new homes will be built with charging points.
National Grid capacity
The increase in the use of electric cars will also require the capacity of the National Grid to be increased, Unite believes.
Hybrid Engines
Unite also believes that in order for the automobile sector to be properly supported the government will need to recognise and support the use of hybrid engines in the ‘just transition’ to electric vehicles.
Unite assistant general secretary Tony Burke said: “Unite supports the just transition to electric cars but this must not be at the expense of the UK’s automotive industry and supply chain.
“After years of confusion and indecision the government’s latest policy lacks direction, fails to tackle the huge infrastructure changes needed for drivers to be able to use their vehicles and lacks detail on jobs and future employment.
“At this time of huge economic uncertainty the government is in severe danger of further damaging the car industry due to a failure to fully appreciate the challenges of introducing electric cars.
“If the proposals for all cars to be electric by 2040 are to be met, then the government needs to avoid unilateral off the cuff statements by ministers and politicians and properly consult industry and unions.
“Unite is working with employers, international unions including our sister union IG Metall in Germany, in how we defend jobs, create new skills and ensure the UK maintains its position as a world leader in the automotive industry.”
Unite’s ‘Just Transition’ for diesel includes:
Ensuring vehicles which fulfil Euro 6 regulations can drive in any new ultra-low emissions zones
That central, regional and local governments must work on transition plans with trade unions and industry before unilaterally announcing any ban dates on diesel in urban areas
There must be investment to support re-skilling of the existing diesel workforce
There must be investment to help the supply chain re-tool and re-skill
Transitional measures should include improving Euro 6 diesel vehicles further – with better filtration systems for new vehicles, and retro fitting both filtration systems and AdBlue for older vehicles.
The above points are included in Unite’s broader strategy: Electric Vehicles, Autonomous Technology and Future Mobility launched in March 2018.
For more information please contact Unite communications officer Barckley Sumner on 020 3371 2067 or 07802 329235. Email: barckley.sumner@unitetheunion.org
Unite is Britain and Ireland’s largest trade union with over 1.4 million members working across all sectors of the economy. The general secretary is Len McCluskey.
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Sammi’s Favorite Things: APOTHIA
Sammi Turano August 31, 2019
TVGrapevine recently talked to Ron Robinson, the creator of APOTHIA. The man behind this marvelous scent revealed that will soon be celebrating its 19th anniversary. APOTHIA is a scent meant to make women feel sexy, feminine and sensuous.
He took a unique step in order to make sure it was something women would enjoy. In 2000, he did a blind scent test with 200 women, including prominent names in Hollywood. He polled how they felt about each scent and soon came up with APOTHIA.
The scent is available in different forms and he also has several home scents in his collection. It can be found online, in NYC and in LA. He also recently redid the bottle in time for the scent’s anniversary, giving it a sexy, more modern look.
Earlier this month, APOTHIA releases their wildly popular IF personal fragrance with a beautiful, modern look ready for 2020. APOTHIA, created by combining “apothecary” and “utopia” is the RON ROBINSON designed signature collection of fine perfumes, home, and body fragrances. The scent speaks to the serenity and beauty of paradise, using the California lifestyle as a muse. Now, one of the top-trending scents in the beloved APOTHIA home and personal fragrance collection unveils a brand new chic aesthetic aimed at communicating the elegant sophistication of this longtime fan favorite.
In perfect “Ron Robinson” style – always one step ahead – he created the fragrance by communication with 100 different women across the United States to come up with its alluring bouquet. With input from Hollywood’s elite, such as Drew Barrymore, Jennifer Garner, Macy Gray and Lila Ford – the final essence is a zesty grapefruit with sparkling yuzu, on top of four exotic flowers and supported by a deep, clean Pacific Musk.
Today, IF eau de parfum continues to win the hearts of the “it” crowd all over the world. Its delicate mingling of fresh, light, and sensual notes still evoke the mystery and possibility of the question, what if…? Described as “heavenly,” “incredible,” “lovely,” “sexy,” and “unlike any other,” APOTHIA’S best-known fragrance now unveils a new visual element that is a. nod to its enduring legacy and a 2020 vision of tomorrow.
Today’s IF eau de parfum bottle has evolved to a matte white clean look of simplicity, contrasted with a pearlized white label and chrome silver lettering, which embodies both the elegant sophistication and fresh, modern appeal of the scent. Available for home – including the aromatic diffuser ($90) and all-new Air Mist ($38) – and body – including the eau de parfum ($95) and roll-on pure oil ($64) – enjoy the dazzling, romantic scent of IF anywhere and everywhere.
Explore the full collection of APOTHIA fragrances, along with the
newly-released APOTHIA “Air Mist” for summer in Soul, Wave, Bronzed, at Apothia.com
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Service Club Members
Bookworms: Both Hachiman and Yukino, with the latter fitting this trope to a T. Yui, in contrast, almost always plays with her mobile phone while they're reading.
Breakfast Club: Or rather, "Service Club". The club's purpose is ostensibly to help the school's students solve their problems, but as Hachiman notes early on, it also doubles as an "isolation ward" for students Hiratsuka-sensei considers to be problematic with the intention of reforming them, i.e. Hachiman and Yukino.
The Confidant: Many characters find the Service Club trustworthy enough to share their troubles with, even when they wouldn't tell their closest friends.
Fire-Forged Friends: In the beginning, they're just three random people in one club. Come Culture Fair, they're partners and friends who trust and rely on each other.
Freudian Trio: While Yui is generally cemented as The McCoy due to her emotional focus, Hachiman and Yukino tend to take different roles depending on the request made. However, Yukino is more often The Kirk (while brutally honest, she's very good at understanding emotions), and Hachiman is more often The Spock, being the pragmatic, goal-oriented logical thinker.
The Spock: Mostly Hachiman, who tends to value results and the logical motivations of others above all else. Yukino tends to have some traits as well as she often has to view all the logical pitfalls of the people who make requests (Yui's lack of confidence about cooking skills, Zaimokuza's lack of ability as a writer), but where Hachiman normally focuses on what people thinks rather than on their emotions, Yukino balances emotional understanding and logic.
The Kirk: As the leader of the Service Club, Yukino's generally the one who has to weigh the long-term consequences and vision, and balances emotional understanding with logic. But for some of the earlier requests, Hachiman often had to balance Yukino's brute force improvement with Yui's emotional understanding.
Nice, Mean, and In-Between: Yui is always nice, while Hachiman and Yukino can switch the other two roles. Yukino is very good at emotional understanding, and actually is a caring person, but also brutally blunt, especially at the beginning. Hachiman, as cynical as he is, is ultimately a Nice Guy too, but in some situations he lacks emotional understanding, and the methods he uses to solve problems can be quite questionable.
Ragtag Bunch of Misfits: They all have issues, that's undeniable, but they're all good, well-intentioned guys and work well together.
Series Goal: To help the ones in need, but they have different ways of doing it. What they have in common is that they are selfless and benevolent people, only that they show it in different ways:
Yui is always kind and friendly, and has no problems interacting with anyone.
Hachiman is the one who has, besides his extreme pragmatism, his selflessness (also meant as his poor opinion of himself) as his Fatal Flaw. He thinks he's useless, and commits social suicide to maintain other ones happy.
Yukino is very prideful and idealistic. She wants other ones to come to her so she can help them, and can't stand when other ones are so damn lazy that they simply want to "run away" and do nothing to get better.
Sliding Scale of Cynicism Versus Idealism:
Hachiman is The Cynic and a Knight in Sour Armour: he's a good person and has good intentions, but he really lacks positive outlook on life and firmly believes in the Status Quo.
Yui is idealistic, always sees the best in people and is always friendly to everyone. She's also an airhead at times, naturally.
Yukino is in-between. While she's sure not above misanthropic tendencies and a cynical outlook on life, she still has her idealism and thinks things can change. She analyses other ones' flaws to try to change them and turn them into better people.
True Companions: Well, we have a self-destructive, extremely pragmatic and disenchanted guy with no ideals, and two girls, one who is lonely and shielded and wants to change the false and petty society that surrounds her, and the other one who is outgoing, optimistic and happy-go-lucky, but has issues with being herself for real. They become really close to each other, and they're all kind-hearted and caring individuals overall.
Two Girls and a Guy: The trope is played in a uncommon way because the guy is the protagonist. On the romance side of things, one girl is interested in the guy. The other girl's interest is somewhere between ambiguous and non-existent depending on who you ask. Although the guy finds both physically attractive, he doesn't want a relationship with either.
We Help the Helpless: Not to the fantastic extent of most examples (even because Yukino wants other ones to come to the club), but their club mission is to offer a hand to anyone in need.
We Work Well Together: Although each member has their own skills and some prefer to use their own methods to solve the problem, whenever the trio works united, they always get the best results.
Hachiman Hikigaya
Voiced by: Takuya Eguchi (Japanese), Adam Gibbs (English)
Hachiman is the story's main protagonist, an isolated, friendless boy who is pragmatic to a fault. His most prominent feature is his set of "dead fish-eyes". He firmly believes that "youth" is simply an illusion created by hypocrites, for hypocrites, born from the ashes of past failures. In this state of apparent corruption, he is coerced into joining the Service Club by his futures advisor in the hopes that exposing him to the world will change his personality, and ultimately make him a "better person".
Accidental Pervert: In episode 3 he walks in on Yui and Yukino changing clothes and gets a tennis racket to the face. Hachiman notes how extremely rom-com cliche it was.
Adaptational Attractiveness: Even counts as this in between seasons. In the first, he looks more tired and homely, which befits his anti-social nature. Come the second season however, and his looks get kicked up a notch.
Ain't Too Proud to Beg: When he's on the losing end of a tennis match against Yumiko and Hayato, Hachiman considers groveling as a serious strategy.
Anti-Hero: While a good person at heart, he has traits of a Byronic Hero (being a cynical and introspective loner) and of a Pragmatic Hero (being goal-oriented and, obviously, extremely pragmatic).
Anti-Role Model: Hachiman's overall arc tends to fall in this territory. He's portrayed as overly cynical with harsh methods that are eventually shown to not work in contrast to Yukino who is portrayed as having the correct methods but little time to execute them.
All for Nothing: He realizes that his methods didn't work when, during the Christmas event planning, he notices that Rumi is just as alienated from her fellow grade-schoolers as she was during the Summer camp. This is one of the aspects that makes him go to Yui and Yukino to ask them for help, alongside being at an odd's end regarding the planning committee's lack of compromise, finally finding himself completely out of ideas.
Alliterative Name: Hachiman Hikigaya.
Always Save the Girl: Most people who come for help to the Service Club are girls. Although it's part of his role as a member of the Service Club, Hachiman is capable of going to extreme lengths to ensure that the problem is solved but always gives more priority to ensure that the girls are unharmed in any way. Even if it's someone he doesn't particularly like, such as Sagami, or even if it means putting Tobe's request secondly and give priority to Hina's.
Ambiguously Bi: Although he does indulge in Eating the Eye Candy when he blunders upon it (while getting knocked flat onto the floor as a female student is passing, for example), he seems more attracted to Totsuka than any of the girls.note Given his commentary, it's more a case of If It's You, It's OK toward Totsuka, and this mainly because Totsuka is way cuter and more feminine than all the other girls combined.
Animal Motifs: He tends to get compared to less appealing animals, whether it be fish (due to his dead-eyes) or frogs (one of his childhood nicknames). He compares himself to a bear, however (and it quite fits his personality)...
Annoying Laugh: Yukino and Yui find Hachiman's laugh unpleasant.
Apathetic Student: Hachiman is shown to hate school due to being The Hermit and doesn't like human interaction. Though he's more Brilliant, but Lazy.
Awesomeness by Analysis: Hachiman's greatest strength is his ability to quickly analyse and come to a fairly accurate conclusion of a person's hidden motivations and personality traits. This is best shown when Hachiman managed to deduce where Sagami was hiding faster than anyone during the culture festival by figuring out her way of thinking.
Bad Liar: Not always, but when it comes to his romantic history he is. His difference from the usual practitioners is that he mixes lies with facts and tries to reinterpret them in a positive and heroic way. No one is fooled, including himself.
Beady-Eyed Loser: Subverted. While the novel illustrations portray ◊ his ◊ eyes ◊ normally (especially at his more emotionally open moments ◊), the anime adaptation decided to depict his "dead fish eyes" as this— just look at his page picture.
Be Yourself: Despite having a horrible outlook on life and society, Hachiman initially has no intention to change anything, believing people are the way they are suppose to be and should stay true to themselves. This is in contrast to Yukino, who believes it is necessary for people to question themselves and change. He later reevaluates this outlook.
Big Brother Instinct: Very protective of his little sister, Komachi, who's initially the only person he treated with care. This later extends to Iroha, Rumi and Keika since Hachiman, due to being unable to turn off his "Onii-chan" mode, has a soft spot for younger girls.
Birds of a Feather: With Yukino, no matter how much they deny it. Both are sarcastic bookworms with a matching sense of humor and cynical view of the world, but, at the same time, they feel the obligation to help those they encounter due to a motivation born out of a truckload of painful social experience.
Bishōnen: Surprisingly, yes, though you have to ignore the eyes. The original novel even noted that he's relatively good-looking without his "dead-fish eyes". Some of the original light novel illustrations play down his eyes, making him look handsome overall. His appearance in the first season is unpleasant because the anime deliberately gave him a misshaped face, while his second season appearance has a sharper face, and some of the side shots to his face are reasonably handsome.
Book Dumb: Downplayed Trope. His grades are not bad, but as smart as he is, he could do much better academically.
Break the Cutie: He used to be an adorkable and socially awkward kid but constant rejections, bullying and fairly mocking treatment from his classmates and even his own teachers made him give up on people ever accepting him thus turning him into the loner he is. Komachi even points out that he used to be adorable during his childhood and his dead-fish eyes are never shown during his flashbacks prior the series.
Brilliant, but Lazy: Clearly very intelligent and observant but generally has to be dragged into acting by whatever request at hand or Shizuka. She also points out that his test scores alone are good, indicating he can score marks without proper content.
Broken Pedestal: To Yukino surprisingly, much like how she was one to him. She considered their mutual belief in always telling the truth and their dislike of false appearances to be the one thing that prevented them from completely hating each other. And when Hachiman does exactly that to preserve the Service Club when Yukino runs for Student Council President, their relationship starts to fall apart.
Butt-Monkey: Both in a comedic sense and and in a serious one. He's generally on the receiving end of snark and physical punishment from Yukinoshita and Shizuka respectively. Though in other examples it's not as Played for Laughs, such as his acts of social suicide.
Buxom Is Better: Hachiman faithfully takes notice of girls with large chests, but his first impression of Yukino was noting he wouldn't be interested in her for her flat chest.
Byronic Hero: Is he intensely introspective? Yes. Is he cynical and jaded and has he experienced a bargain bin of a dark and troubled past bundled with regrets? Yes. Does he see his own values or passions as above everyone else's? Yes. Is he doggedly determined to follow his values and passions despite trampling over others? Yes. Is he especially physically attractive?... No - well, good enough.
Catchphrase:
"As I expected, my youth romantic comedy is wrong."
"Source: me," which he says when speaking from personal experience. Yukino later adopts it.
Celibate Hero: Actively tries to avoid "Rom-Com" situations, and does not believe that he deserves love. Best shown when he rejects Yui's feelings for him because he believed they were driven by her guilt.
Character Development:
Consistently defied by Hachiman. He knows he's an antisocial loner and, despite hanging out and liking the company of two other people, refuses to change for them. Ironically, and tragically, this is the source of most of the conflict in the series.
Played straight in the Light Novels, where Hachiman's narration changes to match his changing mentality. In the later novels his Unreliable Narrator antics like his random rants, anime references, or sophistry slowly start to decline to the point where they rarely show up. By volume 10.5 he is willing to admit he is friendly with the other two club members, but his date with Iroha shows he is still incapable of believing that any girl could like him.
His driving arc eventually becomes one where he doesn't necessarily want to be popular, but to have a genuine bond with someone else.
Chick Magnet: Almost every time Hachiman gets involved with a female character, they eventually develop an interest in him. Yui's been interested since they first met, Yukino later becomes as obvious as Yui, Iroha is heavily implied later on, then there's the Ship Tease he has with Totsuka, Saki (especially in the light novels), Shizuka, and even Ebina has joked that she wouldn't have minded going out with Hachiman. Even Kaori now shows hints.
Chronic Hero Syndrome: He can't abandon someone in distress if he can help, no matter how much he tries to convince himself of otherwise.
Comical Overreacting: Almost every interaction with Totsuka leads to this. When Totsuka offers to trade emails with him, Hachiman's joy is a bit overboard.
Covert Pervert: Never misses the chance to check up on girls (and Totsuka). Every time Yui approaches him, he notices her chest first and everything else later. Manages to appreciate being touched by Hiratsuka-sensei's breasts while she grabs him in Sumo grapple (for your info: hurts like hell). Derives sexual references out of thin air in the first 100 words of the very first chapter... well, you get the picture.
The Cynic: His outlook on love, hard work and social interactions are less than positive. Due to his past experiences, he hates having to deal with people and the fake fronts they put up, and consequently he stops caring.
Deadpan Snarker: Any verbal conversation he has with his more popular classmates tend to be dripping with snide remarks and sarcasm.
Deconstruction: Hachiman's answer to certain problems is to act as a scapegoat and resolve the situation while shouldering all the blame and burden. The series goes to great lengths of showing how this kind of mentality is not ideal and how it can affect Hachiman's friends as well.
Hachiman himself is a deconstruction of the romantic comedy protagonist as well. While still a good-hearted loner with two or more possible love interests, he isn't a typically naive Nice Guy or a comedy version of an All-Loving Hero: he's rather a comedy version of a Byronic Hero, being cynical, with misanthropic tendencies, and also pragmatic to a fault. While he's a good and altruistic person, and has good intentions towards others, his methods to help others tend to be harsh and unkind.
Defrosting Ice King: Shizuka wants Hachiman to be less cynical, pessimistic and pragmatic. While he still believes in the Status Quo, he turns out to be a really nice and caring person, as Yukino does too.
Dismotivation: Fits Hachiman to a T. Among the usual reasons, like not wanting to be hurt again, he has an uncommon but somewhat logical argument.
Hachiman: "We only change to avoid the current situation. The true meaning of not running away is planting your feet firmly in the ground and doing the best you can with your present. Who's running away now? Why can't you just accept who you are and were?"
To some, Hachiman's little rebuke may double as an establishing character moment.
Distracted by the Sexy: Despite his rejection of romantic pursuits, he still gets distracted by girls from time to time. A humorous example where he lost a few points to Iroha during their table tennis match despite being a far better player than her due to her skirt.
Don't You Dare Pity Me!: He welcomes hatred, rejection, isolation, and disgust. But the one thing he cannot accept is being pitied for what he himself chose to do.
Dude, Where's My Respect?: Members of the Service Club (plus Hayama) know that he willfully provides twisted solutions to club's cases, sometimes taking the heat in the process. Others just see a manipulative asshole.
Takes an interesting turn later on where Yukino of all people starts giving him too much credit, and starts having doubts about her ability to resolve other's problems.
Dull Eyes of Unhappiness: Hachiman's are a minor variant, described as rotten, like "eyes of a dead fish."
Eating Lunch Alone: He always eats lunch by the tennis courts alone, and states he loves it because it's the one time during the day he can be alone and in peace.
Enemies List: Hachiman keeps a notepad filled with the names of his peers who he wishes were dead. Among the list is Yukino, whom he quickly added after meeting.
Establishing Character Moment:
We have his opening monologue where he rails against the hypocrisy of youth in his essay and his reasoning on why he doesn't change when he argues with Yukino. But at the end of the episode, he still helps Yui see a new perspective by noting the intent behind her cookies.
A more plot significant one comes in his backstory: He decides to save Yui's dog and gets hit by Yukino's car in the process, cementing himself as a self-sacrificing individual. This aspect of his character is significant for his development into someone who has others who care about him.
Everybody Hates Mathematics: He is good at certain subjects like Japanese (to the point of bragging about it in the introductory chapters). However, he is genuinely bad in Math and the biological sciences, once mistaking a hernia for herpes.
Explained in the novels: Being socially awkward, he is afraid to ask questions about the subject which lead to him being flunked at the subject. That's why he focuses on subjects that can be easily understood.
Family Man: Stated to be this as he takes care of his sister Komachi and the house because his parents are never in home, as well he wants to be a House Husband as his career after high school.
Fatal Flaw: Selflessness and pragmatism. Hachiman solves many issues through social suicide, helping others while disregarding what happens to his own reputation.
Belief in the Status Quo. Hachiman is firmly convinced that people don't change so he approaches problems by trying to eliminate them altogether rather than actually improving the people around him.
First-Person Smartass: While he certainly isn't afraid to voice his opinion, he tends to keep his most scathing remarks to himself.
Note he seems to be submissive when talking with people like Shizuka or Yukino. If his tongue could match his mind, perhaps he could go toe to toe with even Yukino.
Forgettable Character: Happens frequently due to the low profile he tries to maintain. Ironically he has the same attitude with Saki, constantly forgetting her name, only remembering it on occasions where her brother is involved, and even then he refers to her brother as "that thing."
The Friend Nobody Likes: Starts out this way in the service club, with even nicer characters like Yui commenting on how gross he is, let alone Yukino and Shizuka's opinions of him.
Genghis Gambit: Hachiman rather likes playing this card or a variation of it, with himself as the mutual threat or object of hatred. Unlike the standard gambit, however, he generally doesn't care whether this pulls the group together or shatters their bonds completely, if either end will stop the conflict.
Genre Savvy: Although his arbitrary pessimism might land him in Wrong Genre Savvy depending on who you ask.
Good Is Not Nice: He really is a nice person, but his methods of communicating and solving problems would say otherwise.
Go Mad from the Isolation: He tried to fit in but was turned down every single time until he gave up on society accepting him and became a loner instead.
Guile Hero: Achieves his goals through words and schemes. Be it talking the Festival Chairman into humiliation or winning a toy for Yukino in the arcade (by buying it from the manager).
Hates Being Touched: Physical contact is a big no-no for Hachiman.
Hate Sink: He often deliberately invokes this on himself so that people will hate him instead of someone else. Despite the good it does, many characters like, Yui and Yukino, dislike when Hachiman does this.
Hates Small Talk: One of Hachiman's reasons for self-isolation.
Heroic Self-Deprecation: Hachiman's opinion of himself is so poor he never acknowledges when others are grateful to him, believing it is natural for the worthless to sacrifice themselves. His idea of a good ice breaking conversation is putting himself down. Played for Drama later on as his lack of self-esteem causes some friction for the people who do care about him.
Hidden Depths: Contrary to many characters assumptions Hachiman is a very intelligent and observant person. Best seen in his narrations in-series, where he analyzes the social psychology of those around him, makes numerous allusions to high level literature, and understands the classic anime and manga references Shizuka makes.
This aspect of him is actually a major plot point later on, with people lampshading how he is a "monster of logic" that searches for hidden meanings behind people's personalities and actions without understanding the emotions that may have driven them.
His Own Worst Enemy: Because of how jaded he is, he is usually unable to recognize when sincere kindness is dispensed onto him and assumes that this "kindness" stems from a self-serving and insincere drive from the person who is dispensing it. This obstinate attitude keeps people that try to approach him at bay.
House Husband: What he aspires to be due to his hatred of the labour system.
Hurting Hero: Invoked. Given the battery of his experiences, it's apparent that Hachiman can take whatever is thrown at him with a stride. What starts chipping away his armor is the fact that by allowing himself to get hurt, he's hurting Yui and Yukino by extension; he fundamentally begins recognizing that he doesn't want to cause them any harm by his account if he can help it, so he mistakenly begins to put distance between them until it blows up in his face during the Christmas event planning.
Hyper-Competent Sidekick: He ends up being one for Iroha while helping her with her student council duties.
Hypocrite: He dislikes when people lie, but he's not above doing it too.
I Am What I Am: Despite his self-image being overwhelmingly negative, Hachiman starts off mostly at peace and satisfied with being a cynical loner and does not wish to change himself. His adamant nature gradually shifts over the course of the series.
I Can't Do This by Myself: Initially tried to take on Iroha's request on his own given that he's directly responsible for her problems. However, he's unable to solve the problem and eventually turns to the rest of his club seeking help.
I Did What I Had to Do: Hachiman is very goal-oriented and will do whatever is most effective to solve a problem, often hurting himself and others in the process.
I Just Want to Have Friends: What he begrudgingly, and tearfully, admits to Yui and Yukino when he realizes that the problems of the joint Student Councils ballooned beyond his control during the Christmas event planning.
Idiot Hair: The cowlick is serves as expressive hair, though he is not stupid, just lazy.
If It's You, It's Okay: Hachiman is generally heterosexual despite not having the guts or motivation to do anything; however, he can't stop himself from leaning a little around Totsuka. Of course, few guys can, since Totsuka's the cutest girl in the school (or would be if he was a girl).
I'll Take That as a Compliment: Hachiman takes the response a step further.
Shizuka Hiratsuka: "Your eyes are like a rotten fish's".
Hachiman: "Do I look that much full of DHA? I must be pretty smart."
I'm Standing Right Here: He doesn't react to people talking smack about him right to his face, and he's so nonchalant about it that Yukino and Yui start defending him when people take it too far.
Indirect Kiss:
Subverted. He rejects Yui's offer to drink the mineral water at Kyoto because she had used the scoop before him. Yui is taken aback when she realizes what he could have taken from her actions.
Gets one from Iroha in volume 11/Season 2 Episode 12 when she shoves the spoon she was using to taste her chocolate into his mouth.
Ineffectual Loner: He prefers to be left alone, but refusing to interact with others prevents him from ever growing as a person. It is only after Hachiman joins the Service Club that he begins to change both himself and the world he seemingly hates.
Informed Loner: Within the series, more and more people care about his well-being and consider him a friend, yet he still takes pride in his status as a loner.
Insane Troll Logic: His excuses often involve this.
"Heroes always arrive late. But no one ever criticizes them for their tardiness. In a way, tardiness can be considered justice."
In-Series Nickname:
Yui refers to him exclusively as "Hikki."
Some characters can't seem to get his name right, such as Tobe calling him "Hikitani."note "Hikitani" is excusable as the last character in his name (谷) can be pronounced '-tani'. But "Hikki" is a particularly unfortunate nickname, as it resembles "Hikikomori", meaning an anti-social shut-in.
"Senpai" by Iroha. This could be normal being from a lower class than him, but later is revealed Iroha only refers Hachiman as "senpai".
Insecure Love Interest: His previously terrible relationships with girls have completely ruined his self-esteem to the point where he cannot even comprehend any girl liking him and as such, ignores the pretty obvious amounts of female attention he gets over the series.
Irony:
In spite of the pretty girls that surround him, his attraction towards Totsuka, a boy, is the most obvious and sincere (see Ambiguously Gay). As a matter of fact, Totsuka is one of the few people that Hachiman treats with sincere kindness and affection from the start. In time, though, Yukino and Yui get into his heart too.
Seeing himself as a romantic rejection guru of-sorts, he sees every approach by a girl as not romantic or affectionate even when they do mean it. As such, he misses numerous cues from Yui, Yukino and Iroha as a result, as he doesn't consider himself attractive enough to warrant those.
Jerkass Has a Point: Despite his abrasiveness and pessimism his observations about the events going on around are him are valid. Hachiman tends to have some exceptionally harsh criticisms of other characters that are mixed in with his own biases. While the series often goes to show the consequences of his methods, the fundamental criticisms he makes aren't necessarily wrong.
Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Yes, he's a cynical and pessimistic loner with misanthropic tendencies, and often extremely blunt, but he's a well-intentioned, helpful and good person underneath it all.
Knight In Sour Armor: While he is antisocial and is pretty much disgusted by all human beings including himself, Hachiman also slips out surprisingly heroic actions.
Last-Name Basis: Prefers to be this with everyone, mostly because he does not see the point in using first names just to show how close you are with one another.
Logical Fallacies: Uses and abuses those to no end to justify his outlook on life in the arguments and essays. Gets called out on that repeatedly.
Loners Are Freaks: He purposely tries to avoid socializing as he finds small talk meaningless, and doesn't want to get hurt again, in the case of dating.
Loner-Turned-Friend: Initially refused to interact with anyone but being forced into helping people with their personal issues resulted in a lot of them being grateful to Hachiman thus becoming acquaintances with him.
Loophole Abuse: In a sense. While he does technically solve many of the requests given to the service club, his methods don't really improve the people around him, which causes some frustration among both Shizuka and the other club members.
Magnetic Hero: A somewhat unconventional example. Despite his personality, he gains the friendship and respect of a number of individuals over the course of the novels after helping them.
Manipulative Bastard: He has a firm understanding of human nature and psychology, and knows what to do to redirect focus and manipulate emotions as a way to solve problems.
Martyr Without a Cause: His modus operandi when it comes to solving problems. His strategies often involve destroying his own reputation, though he claims he doesn't care what others think of him so long as the main problem is settled.
Meaningful Name: His name clearly refers to his date of birth: "hachi" means "eight", and he was born on August 8th.
Misunderstood Loner with a Heart of Gold: Has some shades of this while undergoing Character Development, where he begins toning down his anti-social tendencies.
Monster Brother, Cutie Sister: Downplayed. Hachiman isn't exactly ugly or feared by everyone else, but Komachi certainly is a cutie that has nothing to do with him, but Hachiman has a Big Brother Instinct over her, also inherited to Rumi and Iroha.
My Sister Is Off-Limits!: Very protective of his sister, and really does not appreciate the fact Kawasaki's brother calls him big brother.
Never Be Hurt Again: Was initially a primary motivator for Hachiman which he basically accomplished by rejecting others before they could reject him.
Hachiman (after remembering a rejected confession of the past): "For me these kinds of romantic developments don't happen in real life. In order to prevent a tragedy (read: rejection) from occurring I just have to be hated."
Nice Guy: To the surprise of several characters, he's actually a very nice and considerate guy if you look beyond his cynical thoughts.
Non-Action Snarker: Prefers to use his wits, sarcasm, and brutal honesty to solve a problem. While he does have some athletic ability, it doesn't come into play to solve problems.
Nonuniform Uniform: Doesn't wear the tie.
No Social Skills: When he was a child, he was socially awkward and naive. Now he's an anti-social and very distrustful loner because of his Friendless Background, but once you get to know him he's a Nice Guy deep down. Yukino largely shares these qualities in common with Hachiman.
Not So Above It All: A major part of his character is the fact that even Hachiman isn't immune to his own cynical criticisms, and despite his experiences there's hints that he just wants to experience high school like everyone else.
Not So Different:
With Yukino and even Hayato. All of them are intelligent and thoughtful, but they all differ in their opinions of the best way to help others.
Another example being his underclassmen Iroha, while being on two completely different ends on the social food chain, they have surprisingly similar personalities. This is lampshaded to the point where Hachiman considers her the second most rotten person he knows (The first obviously being himself).
Oblivious to His Own Description: His sister Komachi describes her ideal man, and Hachiman doesn't seem to realize that she just described him perfectly.
Odd Friendship:
While by no means friends, he and Tobe manage to get along surprisingly well, Tobe being one of the few popular guys Hachiman actually tolerates.
Outside of the Service club, he mostly hangs out with both Totsuka (a popular tennis player) and Zaimokuza (a chuunibyou otaku).
Only Known by Their Nickname: His fellow classmates in 2C refer to him as "Hikitani" though it is implied that only Tobe is ignorant of his actual name, the rest doing so deliberately.
Is called Senpai by Iroha, he theorizes that it is because she can't remember his name, but does have a hint of Ship Tease since he notes he is the only one she calls Senpai.
Perpetual Frowner: His default expression, which isn't too surprisingly considering his outlook on life.
The Philosopher: Prone to spiraling into deep internal monologues about the futility of social acceptance and society.
Platonic Declaration of Love: In volume 6, Invoked when Hachiman was tasked to find Sagami for the closing ceremony of the School Festival and Saki's helpful tip made him do this in gratitude. Cue Luminescent Blush from Saki. This scene is omitted in the anime.
Poisonous Friend: Takes this role much of the time; he can be nasty, usually with good intentions but he cares enough about others to take the fall for others.
Politically Incorrect Hero: Besides his misanthropic tendencies, he also shows signs of indiscriminate misogyny early on.
Power Trio: Outside the Service Club, he made one with Totsuka and Zaimokuza, forming a Big, Thin, Short Trio, Hachiman being the thin leader.
Pragmatic Hero: Dear God, is he ever.
Progressively Prettier: It's mostly due to the second season of the Anime having a completely different studio to animate it, but he's significantly better-looking as the series goes on, even with his trademark "Dead-fish eyes".
"The Reason You Suck" Speech: Gives one out to Sagami but it's ultimately to help her.
Refusal of the Call: Hachiman was against joining the Service Club and leaving his self-imposed solitude. Unfortunately, Shizuka threatens to hold him back a year if he refuses.
Rousseau Was Right: Is surprisingly enough a believer in this, as he shows when he quotes Sōseki Natsume
Hachiman (Quoting Natsume): “You seem to be under the impression that there is a special breed of bad humans. There is no such thing as a stereotype bad man in this world. Under normal conditions, everybody is more or less good, or, at least, ordinary. But tempt them, and they may suddenly change. That is what is so frightening about men. Don't trust anyone - that was what Natsume Soseki was trying to tell us.”
Selective Obliviousness: Unlike other protagonists in the genre, Hachiman is very observant of the way people act around him. He simply picks and chooses what is necessary to acknowledge.
She Is Not My Girlfriend: Happens quite a bit in regards to his relationship with Yukino.
Ship Tease: Mostly with Yui, and a surprising amount with Saika. At first there doesn't appear to be much with Yukino, but there are a lot of subtle hints as the story progresses. Then there are the moments he shares with Shizuka...
The anime doesn't show much, but in the novels there is a decent amount with Saki.
Later novels have quite a bit with his underclassman Iroha Isshiki, and surprisingly enough Kaori Orimoto, the girl he asked out in middle-school.
Smarter Than You Look: Yui assumed that he also wasn't a good student due to his lazy attitude only for it to turn out that his grades in literature and history are quite good. Several characters have also noted that he's far more perceptive than the feeling he gives off
The Snark Knight: Hachiman is both defined by this trope and, in a way, also defies it.
The Social Expert: Ironically, being a loner has granted Hachiman a lot of understanding about social relationships.
The Spock: Throughout the series, Hachiman tends to think very logically when trying to deduce people's motivations. The downside is that he tends to not grasp the emotional motivations behind other characters.
The Stoic: He is usually seen frowning and serious. He rarely lost his cool and is calm most of time.Though he does lose his cool on rare occasion.
Stepford Snarker: He snarks and speaks self-assuredly of himself in many instances, almost enjoying being a loner. Nevertheless, part of his attitude stems from harsh social experiences and a desire not to be hurt.
Stock Light-Novel Hero: Regularly lampshades these qualities and actively defies them, though still ends up having more than a few of the stereotypical traits. Hachiman is a highly intelligent and competent protagonist who ends up being quite the Chick Magnet, but also loathes people with these traits, though his nature forces him into more idealistic roles regardless.
Stupid Sexy Flanders: Gets this almost every time he's with Totsuka. Hachiman even has a Fauxdian Slip once by muttering to Saika "I want to eat the miso soup you prepared every morning" which is tantamount to a(n indirect) proposal.
Supporting Protagonist: In relation to the Service Club; while his growth is just as important, the club was originally started for the purpose of helping Yukino.
Tastes Like Friendship: Briefly considers this after Hayama and Totsuka eagerly ask him to form a group with him for the school trip. Later this becomes real with Totsuka and Zaimokuza being a group outside the Service Club.
This Looks Like a Job for Aquaman: His identity and attitude as a loner are often derided but at the same time offers him some important insights to others characters. Yukino notes once that it's precisely because his eyes are rotten that he can see through rotten facades.
Token Evil Teammate: Though obviously not evil, he often plays this role in order to get things done, such as finding and bringing Sagami back when she runs off from the school festival. He does get called out on his seemingly harsh treatment of people when he does this however, even though some of them understand the intentions he has. He nearly does this again during the dual holiday festival with another school, but fortunately Yukino steps in for him and turns into the "bad guy" with her Brutal Honesty.
Trickster Mentor: His way of teaching people lessons usually involve making them look at the situation from a different perspective. While effective, Yukino notes that this way of teaching encourages avoiding or accepting the problem, not confronting or changing to overcome it.
Troubled, but Cute: Underneath his cynical and snarky attitudine there is actually a Nice Guy with a Friendless Background.
The Un-Favourite: Whenever the topic of his parents come up (either in his narration or by Komachi) it's typically mentioned that they tend to spoil and dote on Komachi while usually acting much more half-heatedly towards Hachiman (e.g. During birthdays Komachi would get taken out to go present shopping, eat out and get a cake while Hachiman is only given 1000 yen).
Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist: When the series starts out, he's a very spiteful person who expresses some sexist attitudes towards girls. This is tempered by most of the characters being dismissive or mocking of him
Unreliable Narrator: The story is from his perspective and filtered through his viewpoint on life. Thus, the reader has to determine how much is true and how much is his own biases.
Unknown Rival: Tamanawa mistakenly believes he and Hachiman are competing for Orimoto's affection, while the other two know their relationship is acquaintanceship and just get confused by Tamanawa's competitive attitude about it.
Vitriolic Best Buds: Most of his "friendships" qualify, but especially with Yukino. Hachiman cannot stand her superior attitude and wise remarks, but he also feels a sort of camaraderie with her.
What Is This Feeling?: Hachiman has twice, so far, wished to befriend Yukino. There is a good chance he hadn't wanted anyone specific to be his friend for years. Yukino, however, promptly crushes this wish.
When All You Have Is a Hammer...: Hachiman gradually becomes more reliant on social suicide to solve Service Club problems. This however, causes issues with other characters who have some kind of relationship with him, such as Yui, Yukino, and Hayato.
Worthy Opponent: Hayato views him as one, due to his ability to get results, even if his methods are a bit unorthodox at times.
You Are Better Than You Think You Are: Despite his constant self-deprecation, others around him occasionally remind him of this. Yukino and Yui are not fond of the fact that he's willing to throw himself under the bus with very little inconvenience, regardless of the fact that he knows that they definitely don't want him to be hurt anymore.
Your Favorite: Hachiman is very particular about his coffee, preferring the brand "Max Coffee." He drinks it so much both Yukino and Komachi know it's his favorite. Much like himself, the coffee is bitter to no end.
Zero-Approval Gambit: One of his methods of bringing people together is acting as the "bad guy", as shown during the Cultural Festival.
However this is downplayed later on, apparently his lack of standing in the school's society makes it so that people don't care enough about him to hate him.
While most people don't bother much either way, those that are actually close to him hate this side of him, and will frequently get angry when they see him playing the "bad guy" or taking the most embarrassing and unpleasant tasks to get a job done.
Yukino Yukinoshita
Voiced by: Saori Hayami (Japanese), Melissa Molano (English)
Yukino is the leader of the Service Club, of which she is the sole member until Hachiman joins her. She is smart, beautiful, and is nicknamed the "Ice-cold Beauty" for her icy demeanor. She has a twisted sense of "noblesse oblige", and believes that it is the duty of the exceptional (in other words, herself) to help the "lost lambs" of the world. Her personality often leads her to be disgusted at the naivete and lack of understanding what life really is of others, particularly Yui's, and she does not hesitate to show it. She becomes best friends with the latter, and even in her demeanor she becomes kinder and friendlier.
Academic Athlete: Excelling at sports and studies, holding the number 1 rank in her class.
A-Cup Angst: She doesn't react well when people compare her bust size with the likes of Yui, Yumiko, Shizuka or her sister, Haruno.
After-Action Patch-Up: After Hachiman hurts himself while trying to help Hayato, Yukino offers to clean and bandage his knee.
Alliterative Name: Yukino Yukinoshita.
All of the Other Reindeer: She was ostracised because of her beauty and talents.
Aloof Dark-Haired Girl: She has black hair, is The Stoic (but not so much as she looks like), and is repeatedly described as beautiful.
Always Someone Better: Take your pick: beauty, academics or sports and Yukino is this to everyone at school. However her sports position is a little nebulous because she has poor stamina in her words.
Ironically, she feels this way towards Hachiman in terms of progress in the service Club since strictly speaking he's slightly ahead of her in terms of results.
Animal Motifs: Her demeanor as well as her animal preference make her seem a bit catlike, in contrast to Yui's dog.
Appeal to Consequences:
Yukino: "If that's so, then there would be no way to relieve concerns and no way to redeem one self would there?"
The Atoner: One interpretation of Yukino's actions towards Hachiman and the start of the service club. Especially since it's revealed that Yukino knew Hachiman all along due to his car accident.
Beauty = Goodness: Seen as the most beautiful girl in her school, and, while with a cold and distant attitude, definitely on the heroic side (she's the Big Good).
Berserk Button: Strangely enough, insulting her favorite mascot Pan-san.
Betty and Veronica: The melancholic and shielded Veronica to Yui's down-to-earth and outgoing Betty for Hachiman's Archie.
Big Good: Shizuka states that Yukino is the member who has the best long-term vision for the club, in contrast to Hachiman who tends to solve more cases with no regard for the long-term consequences.
Birds of a Feather: With Hachiman. Both are sarcastic bookworms with a matching sense of humor. Both share their cynical view of the world, and, at the same time, feel the obligation to help those they encounter. Both have a truckload of painful social experience.
Blessed with Suck: Her beauty, social standing and familial expectations of her have done her very little favors throughout her life, and have only served for her to become increasingly isolated from her peers.
Bookworm: And how! She's practically always seen reading, and overall she has a huge interest in culture. After all, she's a top student.
Borrowed Catch Phrase: Yukino starts using Hachiman's catch phrase "source: me" and its variants by episode 3.
Broken Ace: Outstanding beauty and academical achievements did nothing but make her classmates scorn her, leading to her current shielded personality.
Broken Bird: Her cold and distant personality is the result of a life of getting shunned, bullied and harassed because of her beauty and talents. She becomes kinder in the second series, where also her relationship with her family is revealed.
Broken Pedestal: To Hachiman, who initially admired her for being a strong-willed person and for always telling the truth. This illusion breaks when he realizes that Yukino knew that he was the one her car ran over and pretended to have never met him during their first meeting, and as a result the two grow more distant towards each other.
Brutal Honesty: One of her defining personality points, and also the reason Yui likes her so much. Though it is less about a need to be honest and more with the fact that she is a direct person by nature.
Cannot Spit It Out: She has developed feelings for Hachiman, but doesn't give him chocolate and doesn't confess to him because her best friend likes him too.
Catchphrase: "I don't lie." Due to this catchphrase, it really hits Hachiman hard when he realizes she has lied to him before.
Character Development: She changes her behaviour even more than Hachiman. Besides becoming nicer, she finally reveals the fragility and the sadness she hid before.
Childhood Friends: With Hayato, or at least their parents know one another and they went to grade school with each other.
Chronic Hero Syndrome: Mostly a coincidentally positive consequence of her ambition of Utopia Justifies the Means. Yukino does not actively go out helping people, preferring them to come to her, making this a rather twisted sense of Noblesse Oblige.
Clingy Jealous Girl: Though subtle, she doesn't seem too happy when she sees Hachiman on a double date with Kaori. And later when she finds out Yui went shopping with him alone note Or so she thought, as Komachi ditched the two at some point and it was to buy a birthday present for her., her reaction strongly hints that she wouldn't be happy seeing him with another girl, despite her claims that he disgusts her. And in episode 12 of season 2, she frowns after overhearing Kaori mention she'll give Hachiman some chocolates that year.
Much more explicit in the light novel where she gets more outwardly jealous, often talking much colder to him. A good example being her trying to force Hachiman to eat extremely bitter chocolate after he tasted Iroha's chocolate. Also at volume 10.5, after the discovery of their supposed date with Iroha, she assigns almost all duties of writing a newspaper like writing, proofreading, coverage, photography etc. to Hachiman with a cold hearted look. Fortunately he was saved again courtesy of Yui.
Color Motif: Yukino tends to dress in quiet, subdued, black or white colors, which are occasionally accented with the formal purple. Many of her more emotional moments with Hachiman often take place at night time, where the atmosphere is dark and quiet.
Compliment Backfire
Yukino (after knowing that Hachiman detected her sister's facade): "Despite your rotten eyes - or perhaps you can see because they're rotten."
Hachiman: "Is that supposed to be a compliment?"
Yukino: "It is. I'm singing your praises."
Cool Loser: Extremely smart, beautiful and talented... But an outcast at the start of the series.
Cuteness Proximity: Plant a cat nearby and see how cold stoic beauty turns into meowing lunatic. Not that she'd ever admit it aloud.
Has the same reaction to anything relating to Pan-San, with casual insults to it resulting in her becoming enraged instantly.
Dark and Troubled Past: A family of Jerkasses and schoolmates who mistreated her. Yukino’s past is shrouded in mystery and revealed to us in her moments of vulnerability, when the layers around her heart lose their strength and show the true nature of what this poor girl carries with her.
Deadpan Snarker: Near constantly.
Death Glare: Her favourite way of communicating with people... at first.
Defrosting Ice Queen: Towards Yui, gradually warming up to her and becoming close friends. Also towards Hachiman to a much slower degree.
Deuteragonist: Yukino's backstory as well as her development alongside Hachiman is one of the main plot points of the series. Of the three main characters, Yukino's family issues are the most prominent which ties into her motivations.
Exact Words: At the end of the cultural festival, Yukino insists that she never lied to Hachiman: she didn't know him... but she does now.
Extreme Doormat: Haruno constantly hints that the reason Yukino will never surpass her is because she does not know how to be proactive or do what she wants. This is seen in the nature of the Service Club, which requires people to come and ask things of her and never the other way around. In addition, her need to be perfect is to please her family, not herself, and her reluctance to express her feelings to Hachiman is due to not wanting to hurt Yui.
Family Honor: Implied to be a value of Yukino's and one of the reasons why she wouldn't want anyone to think she and Hachiman are in a relationship.
Fatal Flaw: Pride. It prevents her from ever backing down from a challenge or openly admitting her faults, and while she wants to help others, the girl doesn't want to be helped by others. It is also the cause of great self-esteem issues when Yukino does not succeed as much as she believes she should.
Like Hachiman, she's a selfless person, but her fault in this case is different: when Hachiman is about to play the role of the "bad guy", she sometimes stops his social suicide playing the role herself instead of him.
Foil: While they share many similar qualities like their social rejection and Brutal Honesty, Yukino actually foils Hachiman in the sense that while Hachiman adamantly denies himself happiness out of the notion that society is terrible and cannot be changed, Yukino formed the Service Club to change the world and herself.
While both Yukino and Hachiman are social outcasts, their ostracization happened differently, which ends up informing their perspective on society; while Yukino was often bullied by jealous peers for being talented, Hachiman was naturally awkward and repeatedly failed at making friends.
Forgotten First Meeting: Turns out Yukino did know of Hachiman before he joined the club; it was her car that hit him. She just pretended to forget about him.
Friendship Moment: Despite adamantly refusing to acknowledge him as a friend, she has a few moments with Hachiman, such as defending him when he is insulted by Tobe.
Genre Savvy: Anytime she dislikes an idea, she tries to deconstruct it, listing all the stereotypical things that will likely happen and why the idea will fail.
Good Is Not Nice: She is nice in truth underneath her cold demeanor. She's more openly blunt than Hachiman, but like him, a good person at heart.
Green-Eyed Monster: Is surprisingly prone to jealousy late in the series. Hachiman's soft spot for Iroha being a particular annoyance for her, since she goes out of her way to make sure the two are not alone with each other.
Hair Decorations: Has ribbons tied to her hair for purely aesthetic reasons.
He Is Not My Boyfriend: To Hachiman, with increasing frequency. Especially after anyone listens to their bickering for some time.
Heterosexual Life-Partners: With Yui. Yui's friendship with Yukino is also a driving force for her as she tries to get Yukino to open up. This causes some angst for her as it's implied they like the same person.
Hidden Heart of Gold: Despite her stoic, snarky and quite cold and distant demeanor, she really has a noble heart, has empathy towards other people, and her goal is to help other ones to make better people of them.
Hyper-Competent Sidekick: She ends up being this to Sagami during the culture festival. While vice-chairman in name, she's basically the chairman while Sagami is Authority in Name Only.
Hypocritical Humor: In a certain sense she can be seen as a hypocrite: totally sincere when she says to others what she thinks of them, but not really sincere with herself. She's extremely honest, but due to her Fatal Flaw (pride) she often calls out Hachiman for his arrogance, cynicism, and occasional naivety while being guilty of those very things herself (though less cynical than Hachiman). She also calls Hachiman's critique of Yoshiteru's light novel too harsh after having just torn into him herself. However, she gets better and becomes much more sincere with herself.
The Idealist: A more brutally honest example than most. In contrast to Hachiman who believes that people cannot change, Yukino tries to focus on bettering others rather than having them focus on dragging others down.
Indifferent Beauty: Yukino makes it clear while criticizing Hachiman's argument for his own self worth.
Yukino: "Simply put, deriving self-confidence from the superficial, such as your grades or your looks, isn't flattering at all."
In-Series Nickname: Is called "Yukinon" by Yui.
Intelligence = Isolation: Hiratsuka implies this is the case for Yukino.
Jerk with a Heart of Gold: At the beginning, but she actually mellows out and becomes kinder and friendlier.
Kindhearted Cat Lover: She reveals her sweet side to cats — something she rarely does for people. However, she's afraid of dogs.
The Kirk: Because she is able to understand the emotions of others while also keeping the club's objectives in mind, Yukino strikes a balance between the goal-oriented Hachiman and the innately sympathetic Yui. As the club founder, most decisions ultimately come down to Yukino's discretion.
Knight in Sour Armour: A less straight version than Hachiman, as she still has her ideals and maintains them.
Last Lousy Point: She has beauty, intelligence and affluence, but has not really good social skills (though she gets better). Haruno's main gripe with her stems from the fact that Yukino also lacks initiative and is trying to follow her footsteps even when Yukino was given more freedom than Haruno in her endeavors by their parents.
Light Feminine and Dark Feminine: The dark to Yui's light. She's serious, blunt, melancholic and thoughtful.
Lonely Rich Kid: Yukino comes from a family more than wealthy enough to afford her an apartment suite to live in all by herself. Her mother pressured Yukino into making herself as perfect as possible, but her resulting superiority led to her being socially ostracized. Her bitterness for having to grow up with the pressure of perfection also caused Yukino to resent and distance herself from her family.
Meaningful Name: Her full name means "snow under snow," and just like her name suggests, she is cold and impossible to reach. She's in truth kind-hearted, but practically unable to trust anyone.
Misunderstood Loner with a Heart of Gold: More envied than misunderstood, but still qualifies. Underneath her stoic, quite cold demeanor, there's a noble heart, and she really has good intentions towards others.
Nice Girl: Like Hachiman, she's nice and good at heart despite her demeanor. Shizuka describes her as a very sweet girl.
"No. Just... No" Reaction: She is visibly offended at how Hachiman deliberately belittles himself to spare Kakeru from Hina's rejection and outright tells him that she hates how he handles things. Henceforth, things remain awkward between the two of them for the rest of the story.
No Sense of Direction: One of her rare "weaknesses" to the point where she walks in the direction of a blank wall at an animal show despite having a map with her and later whilst shopping with Hachiman at a shopping mall for a present for Yui. Hachiman narrates how she lost her way four times before finally finding the store she was looking for when they were following her lead.
No Social Skills: Or at least, not perfect ones, because of her straightforwardness. That's a thing she shares in common with Hachiman due to her Friendless Background. She gets better, though.
No Sympathy: While her goal of helping people is noble, she does not show sympathy to those who, in her eyes, simply wish to "run away."
Not So Above It All: Yukino, despite trying to be as perfect as it gets: she's easily coerced into doing things when accused of being afraid of something, lowers her shields around Service Club members (if ever so slightly), and can sincerely enjoy the sports festival Hachiman accidentally spoiling the victory with his schemes notwithstanding). Not to mention her relationships with cats.
Not So Stoic: As she opens herself to her friends, naturally she becomes more vulnerable to these moments.
She cracks after Hachiman pours his heart out when asking for her and Yui's help.
She is on the verge of tears when Yui confronts her about her reluctance to hurt others.
Odd Friendship: With Yui. Despite their vast differences, Yui suddenly likes Yukino, finding her very cool and sincere, and the two become friends. While Yukino initially sees Yui as a bit clingy, she develops a deep feeling of friendship for her. After all, Opposites Attract, and basically what they have in common is that they have a good heart.
The Paragon: Yukino explains that the Service Club's purpose, rather than simply helping people, is to teach others to help themselves, which stems from her own beliefs.
Pet the Dog: Even if she doesn't see the purpose on a certain outing, she will come along simply because it would make Yui happy.
Proud Beauty: Her overall pride is mainly concerned with other traits, such as being extremely smart, but Yukino still qualifies.
Rapunzel Hair: Her hair almost reaches her thighs.
Red Oni, Blue Oni: The blue to Yui's red. Where Yui is outgoing and emotional, Yukino is cool, calm and collected. Not that Yukino isn't emotional, it's simply hard for her to show her emotions.
Renaissance Man: Her skill range is very impressive, being at the top of her class in all subjects, skilled in sports such as tennis and other athletic competitions, possesses great leadership skills, is a competent cook, and can even sing and play the guitar expertly. This wide skill range is due to her strict upbringing and desire to compete with her older sister.
Repetitive Name: Yukino Yukinoshita.
Romantic Runner-Up: Her sister mentions that she has been on the losing side of a Love Triangle in the past.
Running Gag: Yukino having very poor stamina and getting tired easily.
Sheltered Aristocrat: Has shades of this, displaying ignorance of certain common everyday things such as Hachiman having to explain to her how to play a claw crane game and how to get a drink at a self-serve bar, the latter of which she apparently considered novel enough to observe with "sparkling eyes."
She's Got Legs: The light novels dedicate plenty of paragraphs towards describing her pretty legs.
Sibling Rivalry: Completely one-sided on her part; her older sister sees the whole rivalry thing as cute.
So Beautiful, It's a Curse: Because she's so beautiful and famous, she attracted unwanted attention from people, suffered bullying from other girls that were jealous of her good looks and her upperclassmen harassed her frequently.
Statuesque Stunner: She's very beautiful and quite tall, with a slim yet athletic figure.
Stepford Smiler: At the beginning. With the exception of her many smug smirks, at first most smiles that come from her are identified as fake by Hachiman. But when he understands they're genuine and true, he remains speechless.
The Stoic: She's usually aloof and serious when she's with other people, and expressing emotions in front of them is very hard for her. Does Yukino ever express powerful emotions, especially positive ones like genuine joy? With her Character Development, she will, but still in front of people she trusts, such as Hachiman or Yui.
Sugar-and-Ice Personality: Mainly icy at first, later in sugar mode most of the time. Yukino initially prefers to maintain an air of superiority and distance to hide her vulnerabilities and will only rarely lower her shields. Hachiman once jokingly called her cute and Yukino, having been caught off guard, launches into a long rambling to hide her embarrassment. Later on, she opens herself to Hachiman after he did the same for her.
Tall Poppy Syndrome: Was a victim of this in junior high.
Training from Hell: Her idea of whipping Totsuka into shape.
"First, laps around the track until you die, then practice swings until you die, finishing with practice matches until you die. How's that?"
Trash Talk: In response to Yumiko saying she won't go easy on her in tennis, Yukino replies that she'll be going easy on her.
Troubled, but Cute: She grew up in a family of manipulative jerks, was bullied because of her beauty, intelligence and talents, and the result is that she's a sad and bitter loner, with an aloof and cold demeanor. Underneath her facade, there's a heart of gold, and a sweet and altruistic girl who in the end of the second season, after understanding what her best friend feels for Hachiman, avoids to make advances and wants them to be the True Companions they have become.
Tsundere: More of a type A in the first season, while she tends more towards type B in the second season (see Sugar-and-Ice Personality).
The Unfavorite: She grew up in the shadow of her older sister who won the attention of her mother. As a result, Yukino developed a need to be perfect, wanting to impress her family, but also holding a sort of bitterness towards them, too.
The Unfettered: Downplayed Trope. She actually has good intentions and a noble goal. But, with the exception of Yui and Hachiman, Yukino does not allow the opinions of her peers to influence her in any way: she maintains her goal and her way of thinking. Subverted for her family, where Yukino will very much be The Fettered, going out of her way to impress them, and becoming frustrated if she fails to.
Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Yukino can be considered partially to blame for Hachiman's continued isolation in high school. By accidentally hitting him with her family car, he was put out of commission and could not socialize during the vital first few weeks of school.
Utopia Justifies the Means: Downplayed, but in her words she wants to change the world in order to avoid the downfalls of human nature. For example, the tendency of the talented to suffer for their gifts. Her means of doing so involves bluntly criticizing people.
Verbal Tic: Yukino always ends all her phrases with the "-kashira" suffix in the Japanese version.
Vitriolic Best Buds: She greatly dislikes Hachiman's ideals, stubbornness and rotten attitude, but she also cares for and trusts him, though she would never admit it.
Weaksauce Weakness: She's morbidly afraid of dogs and thrill rides.
Well, Excuse Me, Princess!: Even as they grow closer, snide banter remains the foundation of her relationship with Hachiman.
When She Smiles: Her true, genuine smiles leave Hachiman speechless.
Will Not Tell a Lie: Is known for telling the truth no matter how harsh it might be, though she is capable of half truths and clever semantics. However, Hachiman finds out Yukino did lie when she claimed she didn't know him before their initial meeting. This puts quite a bit of strain on their relationship. It veers to the better when she clarifies that she indeed did not know him back then, but rather knew of him, and that it's now that she knows him.
Worthy Opponent: Considers Hachiman this in terms of Snark-to-Snark Combat.
Zettai Ryouiki: Grade A.
Yui Yuigahama
Voiced by: Nao Touyama (Japanese), Cat Thomas (English)
Yui is a cheerful, outgoing girl who becomes the Service Club's first "customer", asking them to help her bake cookies for "a certain someone." Her problems lie not with her personality, but with her inability to deal with issues by herself. She believes that talent is inborn, and often aspired to be like others until Yukino changed her way of thinking. Following her experience with the Service Club, Yui begins to attend Service Club sessions after school as well, despite Yukino's objections early on.
Adorkable: She can be a bit ditzy at times, but her antics are endearing to Hachiman and Yukino.
Alliterative Name: Yui Yuigahama.
All-Loving Hero: Yui, in contrast with the other main two characters, especially Hachiman, is very optimistic, idealistic and totally above misanthropic tendencies and cynicism. Yui is naive and doesn't find it hard at all to trust others and express her emotions.
Ambiguously Bi: When asked by Yukino's big sister what she thinks of Yukino, Yui can't help but talk like a lovestruck highschool girl as she explains. This is while she's already hinted to have romantic feelings for Hachiman. Considering that Hachiman himself is also Ambiguously Bi...
Animal Motifs: Her choice of pet and overall personality likens her to dog.
Audience Surrogate: In contrast to Hachiman and Yukino who espouse larger philosophical ideas, Yui is presented as more down to earth and more in-line with a normal high school student's behavior.
Bare Your Midriff: In the episode where she dresses as a devil.
Betty and Veronica: The down-to-earth and outgoing Betty to melancholic and shielded Yukino's Veronica for Hachiman's Archie.
Bokukko: Downplayed Trope. In the anime, she's greeted Hachiman with slang usually used by guys and will sometimes speak like one (using "ore" instead of "watashi/atashi") around Yukino and Hachiman, but she has more of a Plucky Girl persona than that of a traditional Tomboy's.
Call-Back: Yui's baking lesson from her first appearance finally gains relevance when she bakes cookies for Hachiman 9 volumes later, confirming he was the one she wanted to learn baking for.
Cannot Spit It Out: It becomes a little obvious that she likes Hachiman, but she never states her feelings to him. Part of it is due to him stopping her before she gets a chance, and later she feels it would be unfair if she took advantage of various situations with him.
Catchphrase: "Ya-hello!"
Clingy Jealous Girl: While it doesn't show up much, she doesn't seem to like it if another girl expresses interest or even just gets uncomfortably close to Hachiman, such as the student council president when she wanted help with the athletic festival in episode 13. She also gets a little upset when Hachiman shows a lot of interest in going to a maid cafe in episode 5 with Zaimokuza. And when she overhears Kaori mention she'll give Hachiman some chocolates, she frowns at him.
Cloud Cuckoolander: Yui is airheaded and naive and doesn't think about other ones could react when she tends to be clingy towards them.
Color Motif: Yui is typically dressed in bright, feminine colors and, notably, her hair is a warm peach.
Played for Laughs when Hachiman accompanies Yukino to buy a present for Yui. He suggests that Yui would like something "colorful, fluffy and dumb-looking". Yukino expresses how the comment is harsh yet cannot disagree with him.
Conflicting Loyalty: Yui holds the precarious position of being friends with both the popular students (Yumiko, Hayato) and the loners (Hachiman, Yukino). Unfortunately, Yumiko is not happy about Yui's intermingling and initially pressured her into picking a side.
Cuddle Bug: Yukino is her favorite person to cuddle with.
The Cutie: Yui doesn't have a mean bone in her body, consistently providing her friends with kind, sincere support.
The Ditz: Downplayed. While she is noted by the other club members to not be the most intelligent of the group, she's in truth quite smart, though not as Yukino or Hachiman, but she's also quite naive, airheaded, and not very realistic. She has issues with being herself at the beginning, but she gets better, and while remaining optimistic, she actually reveals to be perceptive.
Embarrassing Nickname: Came up with "Yui Yui" for herself when it was pointed out that nobody has given her a nickname. She got tired of it quickly though.
Expy: Downplayed, but she partially reminds of Minori Kushieda from Toradora!: airheaded, but actually smarter than she looks, very nice and friendly (but still hides some issues), and the "red headed" Genki Girl of the group, as well as "strong feelings" for the protagonist guy.
Fiery Redhead: Has peach-colored hair and is a happy-go-lucky, outgoing and quite Hot-Blooded Genki Girl.
First-Name Basis: It doesn't take long for her to refer to most people by their first names, regardless of how well she knows them.
Foil: Yui represents what Hachiman and Yukino generally are not: expressive, with a warm and extroverted behaviour, and inviting, but also naive and idealistic (though, in truth, Hachiman and Yukino are Not So Above It All, especially Yukino who has a very idealistic goal).
Unlike Yukino, Yui has a good relationship with her mother.
She also foils her clique. Along with Hayama, she stands out as more insightful than her peers in noting the politics of the class. However, she struggles to rectify many of the conflicts due to her kindness.
The Four Loves: Eros is arguably a prime motivator for her behavior concerning Hachiman.
Genki Girl: The most upbeat and outgoing of the Service Club members.
Grew a Spine: Yui always opts to do the "nice" thing, even if she doesn't necessarily always agree with it. However, her decision to finally confess to Hachiman, despite knowing Yukino also likes him, signals that she is developing into a more brave, honest person.
The Heart: Shizuka hints that even if she doesn't contribute as much as Hachiman or Yukino, Yui's presence is the glue that keeps the rest of the Service Club together.
Heterosexual Life-Partners: With Yukino.
Hopeless Suitor: Feels she's falling into this, particularly in season 2 after seeing how much closer Yukino and Hachiman seem to have gotten.
Hyper-Competent Sidekick: The light novels go into greater detail over her role as Ebina's production assistant during the Cultural Festival storyline, namely, being the one rallying the class into making the latter's outlandish directions a reality. Even Ebina's moment of Hyper-Awareness in the anime was originally hers in the novels.
Hypocrite: Sadly, in a certain sense she's a hypocrite too. She has issues with being herself and always appears to be happy, even when she doesn't like a situation. She gets better, though.
I Just Want to Have Friends: A motivator for her relationship with Yukino and maybe even Hachiman. Although it depends on how the viewer sees her relationship with Yumiko's clique.
Lethal Chef: Can't cook to save her life. Yoshiteru passes out after eating a little bit of food she made in the OVA. Hachiman then forces himself to eat the rest of it, and though Yui is touched by that, he really did it because he didn't want Saika to have to eat it and suffer the same consequences.
Light Feminine and Dark Feminine: The light to Yukino's dark. She's naive, outgoing, kind and always happy.
The McCoy: She tends to be the nicest and most easily emotional of the three, thinking primarily in terms of her emotional desires.
Matchmaker Crush: This is one interpretation of her actions towards the end of Season 2/Volume 11. She is trying to get Yukino to admit her feelings towards Hachiman despite being attracted to Hachiman herself.
Meaningful Name: "Yui" can mean "bind," the same way she is often called the glue that keeps the Service Club together. When seated, Yui is always positioned between Hachiman and Yukino.
Morality Pet: Downplayed Trope. Yukino is definitely a good person, and not amoral at all, make no mistake. But Yui is Yukino's only friend, and Yukino tends to show unambiguous concern towards her while gently correcting her when she sees fit. It would be more correct to say that Yui doesn't change Yukino's morality, she just makes Yukino less brutally honest and snarky.
Ms. Fanservice: Despite being considered as a more traditional beauty than Yukino, she's the one who provides more Fanservice.
Naïve Everygirl: Quite the typical happy-go-lucky, popular, pretty teenager, and while not stupid, she's naive and a bit ditzy.
Nice Girl: Freely interacts with Yumiko's clique as well as the more independent (or lonely) Service Club without any problems.
The Nicknamer: Strictly refers to Hachiman as "Hikki," and Yukino as "Yukinon."
It is noted by the others that they never actually accepted her nicknames, she just wouldn't stop saying them so they had begrudgingly got used to it.
In the "Birthday Song for You" drama CD, she refers to Zaimokuza as "Chuuni."
Non-Uniform Uniform: It's more unkempt than most; her shirt is untucked, and in the first season, she didn't wear the ribbon with the winter uniform.
No Sense of Personal Space: Is extremely clingy towards Yukino, which greatly discomforted her at first.
Odd Friendship: She forges a friendship with Yukino despite — and in some ways because of — the great differences between them. Despite being different from each other, they're both kind-hearted, pure, and altruistic girls, after all, and that's essential for a real friendship.
Only Friend: The only person Yukino is shown to unambiguously and unhesitatingly allow herself to be friends with.
Only Sane Woman: Is sometimes given this role since she is the most "normal" out of a cast of socially odd people. She tends to be the one lampshading the Hikigaya siblings weird relationship, or Hachiman's behavior towards Totsuka.
Perpetual Smiler: The most cheerful of the bunch, though she has her own insecurities to deal with as well.
Plucky Girl: Yui's cheerful disposition has proven to be quite resilient, never taking offense when she is mistreated. Few things can make her cry and even fewer things can keep her down for long.
Red Oni, Blue Oni: The red to Yukino's blue. Where Yui is outgoing and emotional, Yukino is cool, calm and collected. However, look above, Yukino is in truth Not So Stoic...
Repetitive Name: Yui Yuigahama.
Rose-Haired Sweetie: It's more of a peach color, but her personality fits the bill, though it should be noted that it is dyed.
Running Gag: Mishearing and confusing English words said by Hachiman and Yukino.
Smarter Than You Look: While she's naive and a bit airheaded, she's actually pretty smart (though not as much as Yukino or Hachiman) and perceptive.
Spanner in the Works: Called this by Hiratsuka because she suddenly thrust herself into the club dynamic when the teacher meant for the club to be solely for Hachiman and Yukino.
Stepford Smiler: Especially in Season 2, when the bond between the members of the Service Club begin breaking down due to Hachiman's actions, though signs do appear in Season One.
Straight Man: Often plays this role in response to Hachiman and Yukino's commentary.
Tsundere: Type B. She's easily one of the nicest characters in the series, but Hachiman tends to bring out her more annoyed and embarrassed side.
The Watson: Yui often requires Hachiman and Yukino to explain their more complicated ideas in a way that's convenient for both herself and the audience to understand. She's rarely the one who ultimately solves a problem, but she is considered vital to the process, nonetheless.
Class 2F
Hayato Hayama
Voiced by: Takashi Kondo (Japanese), Scott Gibbs (English)
Hayato is a central figure in class 2F and the ace of the football club. Well-liked by his peers, he is extremely kind to other people, including Hachiman, and often selflessly offers his help to others. He is one of the few people who seems to understand Hachiman's intentions, though he knows their different positions and philosophies will never allow them to be friends. He is a former friend of Yukino's, and envies Hachiman's ability to help her.
Academic Athlete: Turns out he's not only the soccer ace but number two overall in their high school, right behind Yukino.
The Ace: One of the top students in the school, the best athlete, and just an overall talented individual.
Ain't Too Proud to Beg: In episode 4 of season 2, he bows and begs Hachiman to go on a double date with Orimoto and her friend. Hachiman initially refuses, until Haruno calls and tells him Hayato would normally never beg in that manner, then threatens him into going.
Alliterative Name: Hayato Hayama
The Atoner: He regrets because he wasn't able to help Yukino when she was bullied.
Broken Ace: He's far more cynical than he lets on, and due to his reluctance to hurt anyone, he's practically incapable of solving anything by himself — something that he's well aware of and hates. He repeatedly states to Hachiman that he's not the perfect Nice Guy everyone thinks he is.
In Episode 11 of Season 2, he admits that he feels inferior to Hachiman and hates him as a result.
Bros Before Hoes: Attempts this in episode 4 of season 2, after getting tired of hearing Orimoto and her friend constantly mocking Hachiman. The latter tries to act in his usual uncaring mood afterwards.
Bystander Syndrome: He's thoughtful enough to understand when others like Hachiman are being mistreated, but he hates involving himself as it could lead to having to hurt others.
The Charmer: He has a lovable personality, with many girls commenting on how attractive and cool he is.
Chick Magnet: Popular among girls, attracting the affections of Yumiko, Iroha, and Orimoto's friend among others.
Failure Knight: It is implied he tried to help Rumi because something similar happened to a girl in elementary school and he never lifted a finger to help her (Implied to be Yukino). He later admits that he hates the frustration and inferiority he feels when having to rely on Hachiman because his own ideals and values prevent him from finding a way to help everyone when they most need it.
Foil:
He's Hachiman's perfect opposite; popular, sociable, and nice (though not without his faults). While he is superior to Hachiman in almost every area, however, he is constantly outshined whenever it comes to solving other people's problems. Both ultimately have good intentions, but use different methods. Nevertheless, he has a mostly amicable relationship with him.
While Hayato is openly nice but reluctant to help others if it means hurting them, Hachiman is willing to help, but often at the cost of hurting himself and looking like a "bad guy". They also both have a tendency to settle conflict without addressing the core issues, thereby putting off or brushing aside the true problems.
Both he and Yukino are not only popular, but have high social status. However, while Yukino tries to change people through Brutal Honesty, Hayato for the most part tries to maintain the status quo with his niceness.
Green-Eyed Monster: Flat out tells Hachiman that he hates him because he feels inferior to him.
Hero of Another Story: He's the central figure of his circle of friends with his own problems he has to deal with and would likely be the protagonist in a different story.
Hidden Depths: Initially seems like an overly nice but somewhat oblivious popular guy, but he's far more perceptive of Yukino and Hachiman's methods than most others.
Hypocrite: Invoked. He snaps on Kaori Orimoto for her relentless teasing of Hachiman; however, he states that by doing so, he's been trying to mend what he neglected to do towards Yukino and it's further implied that he does it because he is aware that he'd allowed his friends to tease Hachiman in the same manner, making him not particularly better than Kaori.
Lovable Jock: Unusually for a show about outcasts, the most popular guy in the school is actually really nice. Even his buddies are at worst Dumb Jock.
Magnetic Hero: He's popular and charismatic so he is able to attract the admiration of people from different classes and schools.
Morality Chain: The only one who Yumiko complies to. Hayama usually has to reign in her more abrasive tendencies.
My Greatest Failure: His failing to defend Yukino during her youth, allowing her to become isolated, drives most of his actions regarding the Service Club. As a matter of fact, he's more of aware of his own propensity towards inaction, which is an aspect that he wants to correct at all costs.
Nice Guy: Definitely a nice person, however he prefers to maintain his reputation while doing so.
However, he himself claims that he is not one to Hachiman on several occasions, saying that Hachiman is simply forcing that perception onto him.
By volume 10 it is pretty clear that his cool personality is mostly a facade and his actual personality is more cynical than he lets on. Hachiman more or less tells him to show his true self, but Hayato still isn't willing to show it.
Non-Uniform Uniform: He wears a bolo tie in place of the regular tie.
Not So Different: Heavily implied to share certain outlooks with Hachiman, as Hayato can actually match Hachiman in terms of cynicism at times. In addition, they apparently have a mutual outlook in regards to romance.
Hayama: “So basically, you’ve never really actually liked someone, huh? ... Both you and me.”
Despite Hayama and Hachiman's differing methods, both end up preserving the status quo, which puts them at odds with Yukino at times.
Not So Similar: Makes a Not So Different claim to Hachiman in regards to his friendships, believing he and his circle will still be close regardless of what path they take.
Repetitive Name: Hayato Hayama.
The Rival: He hates the fact that despite being superior to Hachiman at almost everything, he still loses to him at the most important things, like having the will to help others.
Sitcom Arch-Nemesis: At first, it's pretty much one-sided as Hachiman holds a rather general bias against him as part of the popular crowd. However, eventually Hayato states that he probably wouldn't have been able to befriend Hachiman if they had meet prior the events of the series. By the second season, Hachiman has essentially become a symbol of things Hayato despises about himself and openly admits to hate him.
Status Quo Is God: A stern believer in this, he would much rather have relationships stay the way they are rather than resolve an issue that could potentially harm his friendships.
Stepford Smiler: As cheerful and easy-going as he seems with his friends, he lets his mask down around Hachiman, revealing a much more conflicted individual.
We Used to Be Friends: Hayato and Yukino's families are close, and as a result they spent most of their childhoods together. However, they had a falling out when Yukino suffered severe bullying in middle school and Hayato didn't lift a finger to help. As a result, Yukino has become more distant, while Hayato holds onto feelings of guilt for failing to help her.
Worthy Opponent: Hachiman views him as one, due to his popularity with the other students and his usual cool demeanor. In Hayama's case, it's played with, as he admits that if they were equals he could tolerate losing to him. Precisely because Hachiman is the way he is why he doesn't want to lose to him.
Yumiko Miura
Voiced by: Marina Inoue (Japanese), Christina Kelly (English)
Yumiko is a popular girl from class 2F with a pompous personality. She is the main female figure in Hayato's clique. Due to her popularity, she has no trouble making friends and thus has little to no understanding towards people who have social troubles. She brushes off anything she doesn't understand as "making no sense".
All Love Is Unrequited: She has a crush on Hayato. The latter hints that he is aware of her feelings but only considers her a friend.
Alpha Bitch: Most of the time she is this, insulting the Service Club and actively bullying Yui anytime she wants to hang out with Hachiman and Yukino.
Anti-Hero: She's self-centered and easily gets angry for personal reasons, but is a good person deep down.
The Beard: It's implied by Hachiman that Hayato does not return Yumiko's feelings, but doesn't reject her at least partially so that other girls do not approach him.
Buxom Is Better: Carries this belief. In episode eight, her first reaction to seeing Yukino in a swimsuit is "I win".
Clingy Jealous Girl: When she spots Hayato on a date with Orimoto, she attempts to interrupt them, although she loses her balance due to trying on some boots. Hachiman gets Hayato out of there before Yumiko recovers from her fall. Later in the season when she hears the rumor that he might be dating Yukino, she doesn't take it very well and ends up confronting the latter about it.
Cry Cute: Does this in episode 11 of season 2 after admitting that she wants to stay close to Hayato and their other friends in college, which she talks about after realizing Hachiman and Yui understand her quite a bit.
Dumb Blonde: Downplayed. She lacks the capacity to think deeply like Yukino and Hachiman can and can get confused when speaking to them.
Foil: To Yukino; both characters are stubborn, somewhat haughty popular/former popular girls who are good friends with Yui. The major difference is probably the harsh social experience that Yukino faced to fuel her beliefs. Yumiko, on the other hand, cannot understand the struggles of a social outcast at all.
Hidden Depths: While she dislikes the Service Club members, it's shown that she has learnt to know better rather than to antagonize them. This shows that she's aware that regarding Yukino and Hachiman, there are aspects of which she's effectively Locked Out of the Loop by virtue of who she is and her social position. It's also shown that in spite of her haughtiness, she looks after her friends.
It's All About Me: Yumio's self-centeredness is one of her more prominent traits. Everything needs to be to her benefit, and she does not take sharing Yui with the Service Club well.
Jerkass: Comes off this way, as she acts really abrasive to those not within her clique.
Jerk with a Heart of Gold: She's arrogant and mean-spirited, but Yumiko is also perceptive of the actions and feelings of her closest friends, and will attempt to make sure that they don't get hurt.
No Sympathy: She has a hard time relating to the struggles of social outcasts, coldly stating its their own fault for not having better social skills.
Not So Stoic: Under her tough girl act hides a fragile but motherly figure. She can easily break in tears if confronted by people she can't deal with and takes care of Iroha when she needs it while completely ignoring the fact that she's also her love rival.
Ojou Ringlets: She's at the top of the social food chain and wears her ringlets proudly.
Pet the Dog: She's very thoughtful towards Hina.
Popular Is Dumb: While not exactly stupid, she is a bit ditzy and naiive. She often gets confused when talking with Yukino and Hachiman.
Most evident when they were trying to help Tsurumi during the summer camp. She was incredibly naiive about how to help her because of her popularity.
Sitcom Arch-Nemesis: To Yukino. The two never miss a chance to express how much they despise each other when they are together.
Smug Snake: During her tennis match against Yukino.
Saika Totsuka
Voiced by: Mikako Komatsu (Japanese), Margaret McDonald (English)
Saika is a member of the Tennis Club who has a feminine appearance, but prefers others to not mistake his gender. He is called "The Prince" by his female classmates. On their first meeting, Saika asks Hachiman to join the tennis club, but was brushed off by Yukino. Saika then asked the Service Club to help him improve his tennis skills so that he may properly train others. He eventually became one of the few people in class 2F who enjoys talking to Hachiman, and often hangs out with him.
Ambiguously Gay: The amount of affection he shows to Hachiman may raise a few eyebrows.
Bishie Sparkle: Turns it into a weapon in episode 13 of the anime where Totsuka is actually so cute he incapacitates several other boys.
Bishōnen: So, so much. He's so beautiful and delicate that he really looks like a girl.
The Cutie: Unlike most of his classmates who use facades to gain acceptance, Totsuka seems to be genuinely sweet and innocent.
Dude Looks Like a Lady: He's notably small, slender and cute, and often wears short-shorts to better accentuate this. Most characters initially assume he is a girl. But the narration has been sure to remind us that Saika is indeed 100% a guy.
Even the Guys Want Him: Episode 13 has some of the guys fawn over him.
Gay Option: Hachiman perceives him as the homosexual route in an imaginary Dating Sim. He has his own ending in the Playstation Vita game!
Hero-Worshipper: Admires Hachiman for his supposedly "cool" selfless personality.
If It's You, It's Okay: Hachiman, despite knowing Totsuka is a guy, seems okay with doing some Ho Yay with him.
Irony: Even with several attractive girls surrounding him, Hachiman is initially more physically attracted to Saika from the moment they meet.
Nice Guy: One of the few people who befriends Hachiman without a few rough edges.
Non-Uniform Uniform: He always wears the P.E. uniform, even during class.
Obliviously Beautiful: A rare male example who excels in feminine beauty. He seems blissfully unaware of how cute he looks and the responses he gets from men and women alike. Dude's beautiful.
Only Friend: He is the first person in the story for whom Hachiman shows sincere affection, and whose friendship is reciprocal.
The Reliable One: Saika is one of the only few characters whom Hachiman trusts from the get-go, way before his clubmates Yukino and Yui. Saika would seldom, if ever, say no to Hachiman's requests and offers his help towards anything he needs from him.
Ship Tease: Consistently with Hachiman. Anytime the two interact, plenty of blushing occurs between them.
Talking in Your Sleep: He often murmurs Hachiman's name in his sleep.
Saki Kawasaki
Voiced by: Ami Koshimizu (Japanese), Teresa Zimmermann (English)
Saki is Hachiman's classmate who seems like a delinquent but was formerly a model student in junior high. She cares deeply for her brother as she hid her name and age to work in night-shift part-time jobs in order to pay school fees and reduce her family's load.
Accidental Misnaming: A Running Gag in the light novels, which was unfortunately Adapted Out in the anime, involves Hachiman forgetting Saki's name and going through a list of possibilities in his head every time they meet.
Adaptation Distillation: Much of the Ship Tease between her and Hachiman is omitted in the anime, presumably to allow greater focus on Yukino, Yui, and Iroha.
Big Sister Instinct: Hachiman commented on her rare smile. The cause of her once in Hachiman's lifetime smile was her brother. Plus, if Hachiman so much as discomforts her brother, she usually glares at him.
Birds of a Feather: She develops a crush on fellow reclusive loner Hachiman, and only after witnessing what a caring older sibling he is, like Saki herself.
Cannot Spit It Out: In the light novels, she clearly develops an attraction to Hachiman after getting to know him as he is fulfilling her brother's request. Unfortunately, she is too shy to admit it, and her interactions with him usually devolve into her stealing awkward glances at him. Hachiman finds this strange and becomes insecure over it.
Cool Big Sis: Tries to act like one for her younger siblings, such as taking on a night job to help pay for her brother's tuition, or helping her younger sister to make chocolates for Valentine's Day.
The Drag-Along: She never seems eager to interact with others and usually needs to be coerced into cooperating.
Foil: Saki's willingness to work hard contrasts Hachiman's desire to be a lazy House Husband. Despite this, both are loners who have siblings that they care deeply for.
Also foils Yukino as Saki comes from a family that struggles to support their children while the former comes from a family of privilege. Also, while Saki cares for her siblings and would do anything for them, Yukino has a bitter one-sided rivalry against her sister.
Girls Are Really Scared of Horror Movies: During the school trip to Kyoto, she runs out of a haunted house in a panic and sobs uncontrollably.
Hates Small Talk: Shares this with Hachiman. She rarely speaks to others from her side, and dedicates very little time and effort to conversations that come her way.
Hidden Depths: As Hina reveals later, Saki makes her own clothes and accessories and is pretty good at it.
Ice Queen: A milder case but still, she's rarely shown without a detached and callous disposition.
Japanese Delinquent: With her disregard for proper dress code, poor attendance at school, tough attitude and loner status, Saki has a few typical delinquent traits.
Jerk with a Heart of Gold: She's rather cold, but she also cares very much for her family and tries her best not to burden them.
Loner-Turned-Friend: A mild case where Saki still prefers being left to herself, but knows she can rely on Hachiman's group if need be and vice-versa.
Misunderstood Loner with a Heart of Gold: She looks like a delinquent, is a loner and can have an abrasive attitude, but she's actually a good person.
Monster Brother, Cutie Sister: Downplayed. Saki isn't ugly but certainly is feared because of her loneliness and looking at first sight as a Japanese Delinquent. But she's so protective of her little siblings as Hachiman is with Komachi.
Non-Uniform Uniform: She forgoes the ribbon and blazer, which adds to her delinquent look.
Not So Different: She and Hachiman are both isolated despite sharing different beliefs (while Saki is diligent, Hachiman believes that "to work is to lose"), and care similarly for their siblings.
Rapunzel Hair: About thigh-length, which makes it even more impressive how she manages to put it up in a bun at work.
Really 17 Years Old: Saki lies about her age in order to work as a bartender.
Repetitive Name: Saki Kawasaki.
Shy Blue-Haired Girl: She is distinguished by her striking blue hair and asocial behavior. This is downplayed in that she is more aloof than shy, but whenever she interacts with Hachiman in the novels, well, see Cannot Spit It Out above.
Tsundere: Type A towards Hachiman in the novels, after the infamous rooftop incident but signs show even before that. She acts dismissive of Hachiman, but actually trusts him a great deal and always comes to his aid when he needs it.
Tomboy: Has a lot of masculine habits, and greatly dislikes getting dressed up in girly attire.
Used to Be More Social: Was formerly a very kind sister, but trying to balance school and work has caused her to adopt a much colder, unsocial demeanor.
Kakeru Tobe
Voiced by: Chado Horii (Japanese), Gareth West (English)
A member of Hayato's clique and classmate of Hachiman's. Tobe is a bombastic, foolhardy individual, well known for his cheerful demeanor but also for his quite poor grades. Like most of class 2F, Tobe regularly mistakes Hachiman's name as "Hikitani."
Accidental Misnaming: He never gets Hachiman's name right, referring to him constantly as "Hikitani."
All Love Is Unrequited: His crush on Hina is not reciprocated.
Being Evil Sucks: He disliked playing the role of the bad guy while helping some girls at summer camp.
Book Dumb: He's implied to be a poor student as his friends often tease him about his grades.
Class Clown: How Hayato describes him, but Yukino concludes he's more of an Attention Whore.
Face of a Thug: Due to his dyed hair and loud personality, he's noted to give off an unruly vibe, but he's actually harmless. Tobe can also invoke this trope and make himself look genuinely frightening when he wants to.
Innocently Insensitive: He always calls Hachiman by the wrong name, though Hachiman doesn't care enough to bother with correcting him.
Keet: Tobe is almost always in a jolly mood, and his motions are very dramatic and bombastic.
Nice Guy: He's generally a good-natured guy and doesn't like hurting others. Zigzagged in that he would regularly tease and mildly bully Hachiman before eventually coming to respect him.
He's very kind towards Iroha, as she is the manager of Tobe's soccer team, and is often seen taking time to lend her a hand with her student council duties.
Non-Uniform Uniform: He wears a pink sweater with his uniform.
Hina Ebina
Voiced by: Nozomi Sasaki (Japanese), Natalie Rial (English)
A close friend of Yumiko and Yui's, and a member of Hayato's clique. Hina appears to be a rather unassuming character, but she is actually a proud fan of Yaoi and prone to passionate ravings about her interests.
Empty Shell: Not literally, but Hina stated to Hachiman that she was rotten inside, one of the reasons why she's unable to be in a relationship.
Hidden Depths: She is actually a decent leader, and acted as director of her class's cultural festival. She is also keen enough to notice Tobe's crush on her, but rejected him because she felt she was not mature enough for a relationship.
Hyper-Awareness: She has an eye for detail and could immediately tell Saki's clothes and accessories were handmade.
Large Ham: She can get very worked up over the possibility of boys getting intimate with other boys.
Meganekko: Distinguish her as a sweet character, but her glasses also tend to light up when she senses the possibility of a Slash Fic.
Nosebleed: She gets dribbles of blood while having boy-on-boy fantasies.
No Sense of Personal Space: When she gets riled up, all respect for personal space of others goes out the window.
Proud to Be a Geek: She is a proud member of the Yaoi fandom and believes openly embracing your interests is the key to happiness and social satisfaction.
Ship Tease: With Hachiman. After helping her avoid Tobe's confession, Hina jokes that she wouldn't mind dating if it were with Hachiman, although it's ambiguous if she was actually being serious or not.
Slash Fic: She apparently imagines her own using her male classmates.
Yaoi Fangirl: Likes to fantasize about Hachiman and Hayato together, or any pair of boys, really.
Minami Sagami
Voiced by: Minako Kotobuki (Japanese), Caitlynn French (English)
A seemingly sweet and unassuming girl who in actuality pretends to be so to gain attention. Her desire for recognition leads her to becoming chairman of the school's culture festival. She comes to the Service Club to request aid as her duties as chairman are more than she bargained for.
Attention Whore: Hachiman deduces she is this. Even her attempt at fleeing from her chairman obligation was implied to be a cry for attention.
Authority in Name Only: What she quickly turns into as Yukino ends up running the show, while Sagami basically does nothing. While initially glad to have someone else doing her work for her, this ends up damaging her ego as she realizes how useless she is.
Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Pretends to be nice and innocent, but actually has a big ego and would rather dependent on others to do her assigned work.
Break the Haughty: Played straight then subverted. She gets effortlessly upstaged by Yukino and when looking for reassurance, Hachiman gives her a brutal "The Reason You Suck" Speech instead. But in the end, she gets what she wants. Hayato comes to her defense and she's seen as a victim of Hachiman's abuse, thus salvaging her reputation.
Compliment Fishing: She milks compliments from others whenever possible, usually feigning Heroic Self-Deprecation.
Deliberately Bad Example: To contrast Yumiko and Hayato's circle of friends, Sagami embodies a more antagonistic popular character who actively foists responsibility onto other people.
Not So Different: Hachiman attempts to argue this in his Breaking Speech to Sagami, claiming that he only found her precisely because they thought in the same way as "the lowest stratum of society".
One-Shot Character: Sagami has had no other appearances outside the school culture festival.
"The Reason You Suck" Speech: Courtesy of Hachiman after she disappears before the closing ceremony for the school festival in episode 12. He gives a highly critical analysis of her hypocrisy that is so brutal that even Hayato, the residential Nice Guy, got physical because he thought it went too far.
Repetitive Name: Minami Sagami.
The Resenter: She is not at all happy when Yukino effortlessly upstages her as leader during the culture festival.
Other Recurring Characters
Shizuka Hiratsuka
Voiced by: Ryoka Yuzuki (Japanese), Heidi Hinkel (English)
Shizuka is Hachiman's teacher, a language teacher who serves as his futures advisor/counselor. She is aware of Hachiman's supposed "problems", and takes steps to ensure he is freed from them, her first move being to force him into joining the Service Club. However, she appears to have some quirks of her own: she is a young smoker, she is very sensitive about her age, and she is often prone to quoting or copying scenes from popular shounen manga. She also never remembers to knock before entering the Service Club's classroom, much to Yukino's chagrin.
Berserk Button: Mentioning her age or single status will either result in pain (in Hachiman's case) or just make her depressed.
Christmas Cake: It is mentioned that she is somewhere around her thirties, and several characters pray for someone to marry her already. In the OVA Hachiman states that if this takes too long, he'll have to be the one to do it.
Cool Teacher: Although her students do not always show her respect, Shizuka genuinely cares for their growth and success, especially Hachiman's.
Corporal Punishment: Shizuka regularly uses it as a threat to keep Hachiman in line. She even strikes him from time to time to force him to do his club duties, and sometimes because he simply pushed her Berserk Button.
Death Glare: Used one on Komachi in the OVA when the latter claims that none of the three contestants in wedding dresses won. She was about to claim herself as the winner, until Shizuka does a prolonged glare at her, scaring her into declaring the latter as the winner.
Got Volunteered: She likes to do this to Hachiman a lot.
In the OVA she herself ended up getting volunteered to do a special article on marriage, but laments to the other characters that she doesn't have enough experience in those aspects to do it. Unfortunately none of the other students do either, as they're a little too young to be thinking about married life.
Hot Teacher: Her looks are great, but apparently her personality drives away men.
Labcoat of Science and Medicine: Subverted. Shizuka inexplicably wears a lab coat despite actually being a Japanese language teacher.
Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places: Her romantic relationships never seem to work out because of her personality, thus leaving Shizuka worrying if she will ever find the right guy. Ironically, the guy who seems to appreciate and understand her best and can even fluster her on occasion is Hachiman.
Not So Different: Despite her desire to improve the personalities of the Service Club members, she seems to have some of her own interpersonal problems which parallel theirs (such as their mutual lack of love life).
Phrase Catcher: "Ms. Hiratsuka, please knock!"
Pop-Cultural Osmosis Failure: She occasionally drops very old manga references, which Hachiman will take as a sign of her age.
Rapunzel Hair: Almost reaches down to her knees.
Running Gag: Never knocking before walking into the Service Club, to Yukino's annoyance.
Sensei-chan: She's attractive, relates well to her students, and her relationship with Hachiman strongly resembles what could be friendship.
She Cleans Up Nicely: When she shows up in a wedding dress during the bridal contest in the OVA, the others are stunned at how beautiful she looks in it, even Hachiman.
Ship Tease: Has quite a bit with Hachiman, actually. Most notably in Episode 8 of the second season, when she laments that she can't get married because she misreads people. Hachiman states it's other people's fault for having bad taste, making Shizuka blush, and mentally admits if he were ten years older, he might have fallen in love with her.
Smoking Is Cool: She's a smoker, and especially likes to do so while giving Hachiman advice to look cool, which he lampshades.
Supreme Chef: Though her plate seems unusual in the bridal contest during the OVA, Hachiman states that it tastes really good.
Vague Age: Shizuka deliberately keeps her exact age a mystery. In the anime, she states that she's around 30 (but not specifically).
Yandere: Played for Laughs, her text messages are beyond scary to Hachiman, which get progressively more desperate-sounding the more he ignores them.
Komachi Hikigaya
Voiced by: Aoi Yuuki (Japanese), Hilary Haag (English)
Komachi is Hachiman's younger sister who, different from her brother, is cheerful and lively, and is a member of the student council in her school. She understands that her brother has a corrupted personality but still cares for and relies on him regardless.
Annoying Younger Sibling: For Hachiman.
Catchphrase: "I'm sure that line scored me a few points."
The Confidant: For Hachiman. Komachi is the only person her older brother is comfortable sharing his problems with.
Cute Little Fangs: Pops up whenever she is doing her cute little sister routine.
Foil: Besides being the opposite of her brother, she's also one for Haruno. While both characters encourage their respective siblings in various ways, Komachi tends to be more supportive and helpful whereas Haruno is more willing to provoke to see what will happen.
Genki Girl: She tends to be a bit excited about things, especially when Hachiman is around.
Genre Savvy: Interestingly she's considered the "expert" on marriage in the OVA. Though Yukino did claim the former has experience in taking care of a deadweight, referring to Hachiman. And for the most part her answers do seem to match what they were expecting on what to write about regarding marriage for an article.
Idiot Hair: Same as her mother and brother.
Infectious Enthusiasm: Her Genki Girl facade sometimes rubs off on other characters such as Yui.
Innocent Fan Service Girl: She has no problem being in her underwear in front of Hachiman.
She also shows off her different attires in front of Hachiman to get a reaction from him.
Incest Subtext: Lampshaded quite a bit due to the siblings close relationship, but mostly Played for Laughs. However when she was describing what type of man she would fall for, it sounded suspiciously similar to a certain fish-eyed protagonist...
Manipulative Bastard: Another family trait she shares with Hachiman; however, though a bit self-centered and bratty, she's not really a bastard, and just has good intentions towards her brother. The only difference is her schemes are meant for the latter to come out of his shell.
Morality Pet: She fits the trope, but Hachiman is definitely not amoral, just very snarky. Despite their mutual snarkiness and banter, Hachiman clearly cares about his sister and dotes on her, showing her far more tenderness than anyone else. Komachi in turn tries to have him come out his shell more.
Nice Girl: Though a bit bratty and annoying at times, she's a very kind and friendly girl, who also loves her brother and deeply cares for him.
Parental Favoritism: According to Hachiman, she's the most important member of the family in terms of attention, losing only to the cat.
The Runaway: Tired of her parents never being home, Komachi once ran away from home when she was younger. Hachiman was the one to comfort and bring Komachi back home, and the two gained an unbreakable trust since then.
Shipper on Deck: Ships her brother with Yukino. Or Yui. Or presumably just about anyone else she thinks is plausible. She probably just wants to help out his social life.
Sibling Yin-Yang: Personality-wise, she and her brother are almost nothing alike.
Thicker Than Water: Even though he annoys her sometimes, Komachi says she always forgives Hachiman because he is her brother.
Third-Person Person: Often refers to herself as "Komachi" when speaking about stuff she's doing, as opposed to "I" or "me".
Title Drop: Drops the title when her scheme to get her brother a girlfriend is ruined in one of the side-stories.
Yoshiteru Zaimokuza
Voiced by: Nobuyuki Hiyama (Japanese), Andrew Love (English)
Yoshiteru is a student from class 2C who suffers from adolescent delusions. He sees Hachiman as a friend after being paired up with him during physical education lessons. While he is annoying, he has a group of otaku friends he's on good terms with. He aims to be a light novel writer.
Badass Longcoat: He is rarely seen without his signature trench coat, which he apparently wears to unsuccessfully invoke this trope.
Big Fun: The largest character in the series, and by far the silliest of the bunch.
Bromantic Foil: Considered more eccentric than Hachiman, and is unable to even talk to girls. His traits make Hachiman look almost normal in comparison.
Calling Your Attacks: While playing tennis, he gives ridiculous names to every move he and Hachiman make.
Cannot Talk to Women: He tries to avoid this problem by directing everything he has to say to Hachiman, unable to make eye contact with the girls.
Can't Take Criticism: He is terrified of his light novels receiving poor reviews and comes to Hachiman and Yukino for some friendly consultation. Not the best idea.
Eyes Always Averted: He cannot talk to women, so when he asked for help, he usually only talked to Hachiman, avoiding even eye-contact with Yukino who also asked things when he went to Service Club for critics about the light novel he's writing, going very nervous when Yukino confronted him about didn't get any attention from him, not even looked her.
Fat Best Friend: Type A/C. He's usually yelling his ideas and mixing everything with anime culture. He also can't talk to girls.
Fingerless Gloves: Wears them apparently because he believes they designate him as the "Chosen One."
The Friend Nobody Likes: One of the few characters who weirds out the Service Club more than Hachiman usually does. Nevertheless, Hachiman ends up hanging out and relying on him on a few occasions.
Geek Physique: He's the fat variant.
Gentle Giant: He's tall, chubby and a Nice Guy.
Large Ham: All the time. Seems kind of par for the course when you're being voiced by Nobuyuki Hiyama.
Mr. Imagination: Yoshiteru is a full-blown Chuunibyou, and sees himself and Hachiman as historical feudal figures.
Nice Guy: Despite his hamminess and delusions, he's an honest and decent guy.
Not So Different: Hachiman notes to himself that Zaimokuza's behavior isn't that far from his own in middle school. Both characters are loners who seem to revel in their eccentricities but while Zaimokuza seems to be happy in his delusions, Hachiman comforts himself through his cynical lens of reality.
No Indoor Voice: Is almost always yelling, the only times he isn't is when someone beats down his self-esteem.
Out of Focus: His role is extremely limited after his arc. While he's seen from time to time, he doesn't play into the plot very much.
Serious Business: He's considered a "specialist" on maid cafes, and criticized that Yui doesn't put her spirit into it when she dressed up as a maid.
Shipper on Deck: Unlike most characters who ship Hikigaya with either Yui or Yukino, he ships Hikigaya with Totsuka.
Static Character: Since his first appearance, Yoshiteru is and always will be the same lovable, delusional otaku we met him as.
Stout Strength: In the tower toppling game, he was able to push several other boys at once.
True Companions: He considers Hachiman one, and the feeling is ultimately mutual.
Haruno Yukinoshita
Voiced by: Mai Nakahara (Japanese), Olivia Swasey (English)
Haruno is Yukino's older sister who is even more outstanding than Yukino: same talents, but better social skills. However, unlike Yukino, she shows a good attitude towards other people, even if she has to lie about her true feelings most of the time. While Yukino holds strong animosity towards her, Haruno sees her sister who's constantly trying to overtake her as cute.
The Ace: Intelligent, heir to the family business, a brilliant musician and conductor, extremely beautiful and a social butterfly. The hurdle she leaves for Yukino is very high.
Broken Ace: Heavily implied that she is not completely happy with her position in the family. Unlike Yukino, she has no choice in representing the family, and she often mixes in genuine hostility with her desire to improve her sister.
Always Someone Better: Is this to Yukino, being the person she aspires to surpass.
Big Sister Bully: Likes to provoke Yukino every chance she gets. She means well however, and actually likes her younger sister.
Yukino attributes her fear for roller coasters to her sister's schemes whenever they went to an amusement park.
Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Haruno is a Manipulative Bastard, a teasing Big Sister Bully and The Gadfly, but she's mostly harmless.
Brutal Honesty: Not her natural behaviour, but it amuses her. Her teasing of Yukino can veer in this direction, turning from light jabs into harsh criticisms, but all for the sake of trying to make a point with her.
Buxom Is Better: She's the most likely answer as to why Yukino has A-Cup Angst.
Cool Big Sis: Despite the resentment she gets from Yukino, Haruno still adores her.
The Dreaded: Played for Laughs in season 2. Hayato tells Hachiman that if Haruno really doesn't like you, she would make it a point to destroy you, at least socially. She also gets Hachiman to go on the double date with Hayato and the two girls from his middle school, something he had refused to do when Hayato asked. From each of their encounters, it's clear that she's the one character who makes him consistently uncomfortable.
Foil: In a series about socially awkward characters, Haruno's flawless social skills are a bit jarring.
She's heavily implied to be similar to Yukino in terms of disposition. However, while Haruno freely puts up a facade as part of her responsibilities, Yukino remains cold and unapproachable (and obviously honest).
She's also one to Shizuka, being the second oldest character after her and outside the age range of the main cast. Like Shizuka, she also sees their problems and insecurities and attempts to help them sort. However, her methods are far more questionable; Shizuka guides her students and advises them, but ultimately lets them solve their own problems. Haruno however directly confronts them on their issues and calls them out for it, and basically chooses her words carefully to force a confrontation.
The Gadfly: She likes to poke fun at Hachiman and her sister any chance she gets, all for the sake of her own amusement. She really starts ratcheting this up in season 2.
It Amused Me: The way she acts and speaks towards Hachiman and Yukino, and Hayato at times. She'll often say provoking things or attempt some Brutal Honesty mostly because she finds it interesting.
Jerkass: She can be quite petty, and is of course not sincere as her sister. She inherited her Bitch in Sheep's Clothing personality from her mother, with the difference that she ultimately has good intentions towards Yukino.
Jerk with a Heart of Gold: While she teases and manipulates, her intentions are not necessarily bad. Instead, she's the only one in her family who has good intentions towards Yukino.
Karma Houdini: Freely pokes at the wounds of the main characters without any repercussions or retorts. Though her comments are at least partly for the improvement of others.
Meaningful Name: Her first name contains "Haru" which means "Spring", a season of energy and possibilities. 'Haru' also represents the Sun in names, which also reflects her sunny disposition. Contrast with Yukino's name.
No Sense of Personal Space: She gets rather close to Hachiman in episode 6 when they first meet.
Whether this trope was exploited by Haruno is ambiguous.
The Resenter: Haruno, having always been set as the inheritor of the family business, holds a bit of jealousy towards Yukino for being given the option to live freely by their mother, but wastes it by trying to chase after her.
Shipper on Deck: Wants Hachiman and Yukino to get together, or not. It's hard to tell with her sometimes.
The Social Expert: She's a master of reading others, which gives her the appearance of a social butterfly, but Hachiman deduces it is indeed a fabricated personality.
Stepford Smiler: Hachiman notices from their very first meeting that everything about her was just one big facade.
Trickster Mentor: As opposed to Shizuka who gently steers Hachiman in the right direction, Haruno will provoke and antagonize Yukino into action, though she has her sister's best interests in heart.
Rumi Tsurumi
Voiced by: Sumire Morohoshi (Japanese), Savanna Menzel (English)
A primary school student the Service Club meet while volunteering at a summer camp. Rumi is a quiet girl who struggles to fit in with her classmates after they senselessly ostracize her.
Alone in a Crowd: Everyone is enjoying their summer camp experience, and Rumi spends it isolated, bitter and unwanted.
Big Damn Heroes: She thwarts Hachiman's plan at giving her classmates A Taste of Their Own Medicine by saving everyone despite how poorly they've treated her.
Birds of a Feather: Rumi considers Hachiman, Yukino and herself "different" from the others because all three know what it feels like to be rejected.
The Bus Came Back: 5 volumes later and in season 2 of the anime, Rumi and her classmates return, and she's still being isolated.
Hair Intakes: Her hairdo has two of what look like cat ears.
I Just Want to Have Friends: She's too proud to admit it, but Rumi desperately wants friends.
I Work Alone: Having been isolated for so long, Rumi has learned to be self-reliant, though she does not necessarily like it.
Repetitive Name: Rumi Tsurumi.
A Taste of Their Own Medicine: She admits she used to join in and tease other kids because everyone else was doing it, but this time, she's the one who's suffering.
Tsundere: Although she insists she wants to be left on her own, in reality, she truly wants and enjoys the company of others. However, when Hachiman is the one coming to her side, she rejects him at first but it doesn't take her long to show that she wants him to stay with her.
Wise Beyond Their Years: Rumi is very mature and intelligent compared to her classmates, even looking down on them for being "kids."
You Remind Me of X: Hachiman notes that Rumi is basically a younger Yukino and could easily end up just like her.
Iroha Isshiki
Voiced by: Ayane Sakura (Japanese), Luci Christian (English)
Iroha is a 1st year at Sobu high and the club manager of the soccer team; later taking on the job of student council president. Hachiman initially sees her as a "not cute Komachi" or a "better version of Sagami." She puts up a facade in front of others to create a cute appearance, and she only shows her honest self to Hachiman. Considered by Hachiman to be the second most rotten person in the world, only losing out to Hachiman himself.
Affectionate Nickname: Only refers to Hachiman as Senpai, which is notable since he is the only one she does this with, and she uses it endearingly so.
Alliterative Name: Iroha Isshiki.
All Love Is Unrequited: Her confession to Hayama gets rejected.
Annoying Younger Sibling: How Hachiman treats her, since he can't turn off his "Komachi training skills" when he's around her.
Ascended Extra: Was first introduced only as the manager of Hayama's club in a side volume. Later gets the spotlight with her request and even gets a side volume that's pretty much dedicated to her. At this point she might as well be a permanent member of the Service Club.
Beneath the Mask: Iroha acts childish and cutesy, but she's actually highly perceptive, self-centered, and manipulative.
Birds of a Feather: Iroha can be described as a female version of Hachiman without the loner aspect attached.
Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Hachiman's first impression of her, since he saw her as a more skilled version of Sagami. She grew on him though.
Blackmail: Uses the receipts from their date to force Hachiman to help her with the Student Council's newspaper.
Blatant Lies: When she's showing her honest side she tends to do this quite a bit. Usually with a forced correction at the end.
Brilliant, but Lazy: Is actually quite good at her job, she just lacks any motivation to do so; and is far more willing to get someone else to do the labour.
Catchphrase: She often states "Could it be that you were making passes at me just now?", followed by some reason why a relationship with Hachiman wouldn't work out after he says or does something that flusters her. She goes from saying “Huh? W-What are you doing? Are you making passes at me? I'm sorry, it won’t work out. There’s someone I like.” to, “What are you doing? Are you making passes at me while I'm heartbroken? I’m sorry, it’s still not possible just yet.”
She and Hachiman also share the phrase "What do you take me for?" in their exchanges.
Caught the Heart on His Sleeve: Her favorite gesture towards Hachiman, usually gripping onto it to drag him off somewhere.
Cry Cute: Sheds some tears when Hachiman starts comforting her after Hayama rejects her confession.
Cute Clumsy Girl: What she wants other people to see her as, so she can take advantage of them treating their cute Kouhai nicely. Notably Hayama and Hachiman are the only ones she doesn't use this facade for.
Cute Sports Club Manager: Is the manager of the soccer club.
The Determinator: How Hachiman views her, and states constantly how he admires her for it.
Does This Remind You of Anything?: Her way of searching through her clothing in front of Hachiman and the other two girls was described in a way that resembled a strip tease. The noises she made while rummaging through them certainly didn't help.
Double Meaning: Her conversation with Hachiman when she fed him some chocolate was full of this. Her question on whether or not he hated "this sort of sweet things" is implied to be about her personality rather than about the chocolate. His response is a bit ambiguous, but it ties nicely into his "sugar, spice, and all thing's nice" analogy in the previous side volume.
Dumb Blonde: The image she actively cultivates so people will offer to help her. Iroha is actually very clever and intelligent, though sometimes her younger age does show.
Everyone Loves Blondes: Is specifically noted to be a natural blond.
Exact Words: Teaches Hachiman a lesson on underhanded tactics when she points out that the bet they made was only based around her winning, and that nobody mentioned her paying for lunch if he won.
Hidden Depths: While she appears lazy and manipulative, she is actually a hard worker and quite responsible when she actually puts the effort in. She is also surprisingly sentimental, while her habit of constantly taking photos can be seen as a habit of vanity, to her it is about storing memories.
House Wife: As another parallel to Hachiman, this is what she wants to be. She plans on retiring soon after to getting married for an easy life.
Indirect Kiss: Gives one to Hachiman in volume 11 while taste-testing chocolate.
Jerk with a Heart of Gold: While manipulative and a bit bratty, she's a good person at heart.
Just Smile and Nod: Her response to the overly complicated and pretentious brainstorming of another student council is to smile and agree with everything.
Knight of Cerebus: Doesn't match the typical example of the trope, however her request coincided with a particularly troubled period for the Service Club.
Loophole Abuse: How she was eligible for the election. While the president is typically a second or third year student, the rules do not specifically prohibit a first year student from the position, nor does it specifically prohibit candidates that did not actually agree to run.
Lovable Alpha Bitch: A self-centered and manipulative pretty girl, but actually a good person.
Love Confession: Gives one to Hayama, but is rejected.
Manipulative Bastard: Is considered "dangerous" by Hachiman because she knows how to use her cute appearance and status as an underclassman to her advantage.
My Friends... and Zoidberg: Hachiman occasionally talks about her in this way, much to her irritation. Though to be fair, she also has a habit of doing the same to him.
Not So Different: With Hachiman, despite first impressions their personalities are remarkably similar.
To be more specific, they both have manipulative personalities, though Iroha's is based more on using her natural charms while Hachiman likes underhanded tactics. They both have similar mentalities towards work, share a love for sweets, talk in a similar manner quite often, and they both have a fear of Shizuka. Most telling of all is that they also share the incapability of remembering Saki's name.
Not a Date: Has one with Hachiman while using "research for spots to spend time with Hayama" as a pretense to do so.
Played for Laughs when her affections for Hayama are deliberately placed in parallel to Hachiman's obsession over Saika.
Odd Friendship: She is cute and popular, yet gets along swimmingly with a loner like Hachiman, and she doesn't really care if they are seen together.
Oh, Crap!: Has a minor and comedic one when she accidentally shows Yukino and Yui the picture she took of her and Hachiman during their date.
Running Gag: Her constant rejections towards Hachiman, which also serve as a good indicator of her Character Development with him.
Sempai/Kohai: Is this to all the main cast since she is the only named first year. But special mention goes to her relationship with Hachiman, since he is the only one she refers to as solely "Senpai".
Shipper on Deck: Implied to be one for Miura and Hayama, judging by her nod of approval after she motivated Miura to cheer for him during the marathon.
Ship Tease: Quite a lot with Hachiman during, and notably after, her arc.
Smarter Than You Look: Is surprisingly perceptive on the emotional reasons why people take certain actions, which makes a nice contrast to Hachiman who can only understand the logical reasons.
Smitten Teenage Girl: What her crush towards Hayama appears to be.
Student Council President: Goes to the Service Club to avoid becoming this. Ends up taking the job anyway after Hachiman convinces her.
The Tease: A less fanservice focused example, but she still fits. In-universe they refer to it as her "appeals", which is basically her using her cuteness to try to get something out of someone.
Third-Option Love Interest: Considered by many people to be an actual contender, aside from Yui and Yukino, in winning Hachiman over.
Tranquil Fury: A humorous example, but this is how she displays her anger when she misinterprets one of Hachiman's statements as him saying she was unattractive.
Wham Line: Towards Hachiman at the very least, her exclamation that she wants something genuine too really throws him off.
Kaori Orimoto
Voiced by: Haruka Tomatsu (Japanese), Kira Vincent-Davis (English)
Orimoto was Hachiman's former classmate in middle school who now attends a different high school. Her rejection of him emotionally scarred him, contributing to his present cynical self.
Alpha Bitch: Downplayed version. During middle school, she did exchange texts with Hachiman out of pity and gave the "let's be friends" speech line when he confessed to her. Played more straight when they meet again and she lacks any form of delicacy when talking to him.
Bad Date: Goes on a double date with Hachiman and Hayato, with her interests clearly directed towards Hayato and her mocking Hachiman the entire time. By the end, Hayato reveals that he orchestrated the date just to give her a "The Reason You Suck" Speech.
Brutal Honesty: Has a tendency to freely speak her mind, without any consideration of Hachiman's feelings.
Character Development: Slightly. After Hayato tears into her, she learns to be a bit more sensitive when talking with Hachiman. For instance, when she sees Iroha and Hachiman together, she refrains from making her usual comments.
Deliberately Bad Example: Kaori as a whole represents the kind of person Hachiman and Yukino actively try not to be. She is foolhardy, careless about her interactions with others, and is an active participant of herd mentality.
Innocently Insensitive: She's not really antagonistic, but she tends to be very callous when talking about details of Hachiman's past.
Jerk with a Heart of Gold: She's not necessarily a bad person. Just inconsiderate and brutally blunt. She actually is (somewhat) nice to Hachiman when she's not mocking him and attempts to be friends with him.
"The Reason You Suck" Speech: After an entire day of her mocking Hachiman, Hayato lays into her about how incorrect her opinions of Hachiman are and that he hangs around girls far better than her.
Small Role, Big Impact: Doesn't have much screentime (doesn't appear on screen until Season 2). But her rejection of Hachiman played a big role in shaping his cynical, anti-social persona and severely damaged his self-esteem.
Yes-Man: Turns into one during the community festival committee. She just blindly agrees with anything and everything said by her classmates, despite how absurd some of those claims were. Likely due to lack of interest on her part.
Alternative Title(s): Yahari Ore No Seishun Love Come Wa Machigatteiru, My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU
Mythical Detective Loki Ragnarok
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UN Women launches SHEInnovates Alberta, first chapter worldwide
Elizabeth Cannon, Suzanne Tough and Lesley Rigg part of inaugural group announced on March 18
Lauren Phillips, University Relations
Cannon, second from left, helps launch SHEInnovates Alberta, the first local chapter worldwide.
Riley Brandt, University of Calgary
In 2018, Alberta women led our province’s economic recovery. Now, they’re leading the charge in empowering women worldwide.
On March 18, alongside the Honourable Rona Ambrose, Dr. Elizabeth Cannon, PhD, formally launched the SHEInnovates Alberta chapter — the first one globally.
A new program from UN Women, SHEInnovates provides access to development tools, programs and resources to break down barriers that impede women’s success on local and global scales.
Alberta chosen for pilot chapter of UN Women’s SHEInnovates program
As the only local chapter, SHEInnovates Alberta will lay the groundwork for other communities around the world to better support women in innovation and entrepreneurship.
The inaugural group consists of 66 Alberta women, including Dr. Suzanne Tough, PhD, and Dr. Elizabeth Cannon, PhD, and Dr. Lesley Rigg, PhD. Tough and Cannon were two of the five who were nominated to the UN Women’s 100 innovators and entrepreneurs on International Women’s Day. Several other members of Alberta’s pilot chapter have direct ties to the university.
“I’m honoured to be part of the first local chapter of SHEInnovates,” says Cannon. “Women have the capacity to drive change and make lasting global impacts. This initiative will provide the tools necessary to empower women across our province as they rise up in leadership positions and develop innovative solutions.”
“Women have the power to make a real difference in their communities through science, innovation and action,” says Rigg. “SHEInnovates Alberta is an opportunity to advance diversity and inclusivity, enabling more creative problem-solving and solutions. Together, we can change the world one idea at a time.”
Visit the SHEInnovates Alberta website for more information and to review profiles of the first 66 women as they are published in the coming months.
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Date: March 7, 2012Author: ucbcluj
Recently, I’ve been trying to find hidden meaning in things. Not in a crazy, over-emotional, kind of way. More like, as jargon would suggest, ‘reading between the lines,’ ‘delving into the shades of gray,’ or ‘close reading’ of different texts. Obviously, this type of critical thinking is an important facet of most, if not all, academic fields of study. However, I’ve found that it can be extended to other areas besides the boring scholarly texts holding you responsible for discussing why the color green is actually a metaphor representing our carbon footprint in a children’s narrative about a little girl named Sally walking to school. While we are often forced to ‘read between the lines,’ I have started to ask myself what other ways I can apply this skill for entertainment purposes, rather than as a chore/challenge created as a means of torturing the curious mind.
Thinking about this in more depth, I began to recognize the amusement that I gain from listening to music. I’m not going to lie and say that there’s more meaning to gain from Britney Spears’s “Gimme More” or Katy Perry’s “I Kissed A Girl.” I’m also not going to deny that I get amusement out of both of these songs. I mean, what better way to exercise than accompanied by an upbeat peppy song by Britney Spears or an angry one by Buckcherry. Regardless of your deep-seeded interest in embarrassing pop-music, what I am referring to are those favorite songs of ours with the captivating sounds of the piano, guitar, violin, or other musical instrument playing in the background, leading us from the beginning to the end of the song. For me, this ‘close reading’ skill that I’ve developed during my years in college has allowed me to find hidden meaning in these songs, rich with metaphors and full of symbolism, that I often gloss over because I am too lost in the beauty of the music to take the meaning of the words as anything more than at face value.
For example, “Love the Way You Lie” by Eminem begins the first two lines of this song by stating “Just gonna stand there and watch me burn/ Well that’s alright because I like the way it hurts.” When I apply my critical thinking skills, I can find a hidden meaning in these lines. Who’s to say that there isn’t some allusion being made? For me, I can find a metaphor signifying Joan of Arc in these lines (who was also burned as people watched). Through this framework, I see a powerful statement about passion and war being made. I can view the song in a way that moves beyond a love song about two people in an abusive relationship to a song that discusses fighting for what you believe in (your passion), at all costs possible, even if it hurts. Sure, it’s sappy. Sure, it may not have been the original intentions of the writers behind this song. However, it is a way of personalizing the song and finding a greater meaning, as it applies to me, in something that’s both poetic and beautiful. Furthermore, it’s a way of applying my critical thinking skills in a way that is entertaining, rather than just as a chore.
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Why Hollywood Sucks: Recalling Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy and Why The Entire Cold War Was A Colossal Waste
These days, consideration of espionage genre picture elicits imagery of hyper-charged, quick-paced Bond or Bourne films that seem to be the celluloid agnate of an anabolic steroid injection. In a humorous observation, film scholar David Bordwell pointed out the assumed audience idiocy in The Bourne Ultimatum with a scene-setting shot: “We see a city landscape including the Arc de Triomphe; we’re told it’s Paris; and we’re told it’s Paris, France (not Paris, Maine) [in the title card].”
As part of this same essay, Bordwell goes on to explore the exquisite 2011 adaptation of John le Carré’s beloved novel Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (dir. Tomas Alfredson), a period piece set in early-1970s Britain and steeped in the stylistic flourishes of that era’s cinematic practices, featuring retired spy George Smiley’s (Gary Oldman) hunt for a double agent that has infiltrated the Queen’s espionage service. Bordwell’s essay is a gem, but there’s one aspect that I thought he missed.
For the past forty years, since Ronald Reagan’s election signaled the end of the mainstream experimentation seen in the prior two decades, American films dealing with geopolitics (war, spy, and political dramas) have all exuded an amplified American exceptionalism, ever more noxious than that of preceding eras.
Even purportedly anti-war films or those taking on institutional corruption (I’m thinking in particular about Oliver Stone and Michael Moore at their brightest) hearken back to a notion of halcyon days when things were allegedly wonderful. The defeat of the antagonists in these films will restore a glorious Republic.
By contrast Tinker offers something quite different. Films always express multiple meanings, but the overwhelming sentiment of Tinker is that the entire Cold War was a colossal waste. From start to end the characters are repeatedly wrecked by their service to Queen and Country. Even the protagonists who seem victorious at denouement come to these laurels at great cost and bear no assurance that they will last long.
For this reason the argument might be made that the film is not necessarily a spoof (Austen Powers covered that ground twenty years ago) but instead a genre subversion, even more substantial than the source novel, originally a rebuttal to Ian Fleming but that nevertheless maintained its reverence to the Cold War’s mythology. Le Carré continues subscription to a British Cold War liberal narrative of history, made manifest in post-1991 interviews, insistent upon the justification for the conflict.
His persistence with this narrative comes despite Soviet Communism’s collapse while its Global Southern progeny survive, demonstrating conclusively almost all the theses of this liberal narrative were dead wrong. Whereas the original novel and its BBC television adaptation believed the West had something to gain in battling the East, this picture sees the entire conflict as a squandering of time and treasure, not unlike how, for a brief moment, American cinema embraced the New Left’s antiwar perspective (cf. Apocalypse Now, Platoon, Full Metal Jacket). This at least partially should be attributed to the nostalgic hindsight upon the twentieth century’s geopolitics, a time described as simple by the chorus-like retired intelligence processor Connie Sachs (Kathy Burke).
Connie Sachs, reciting the glory days of when “Englishmen could be proud,” sits beside George Smiley in an intimate bedroom moment that exposes absolutely everything except intimate body parts, an inversion of what we usually see in James Bond./Fair Use.
Thesis: Unambiguous pride and cheer remembering the Second World War./Fair Use.
Antithesis: How much does Britain really have to be proud of regarding its wartime conduct?/Fair Use.
Another reason for this nostalgia is partially owed to the retrospective horrors of the Soviet Union’s implosion that catalyzes an undeniable escapism. Economic downturn, austerity, the squandered peace dividend during the Clinton/Blair years, humanitarian regime change to justify endless war, murderous confrontation with the Islamic world, the replacement of both Communism and European Social Democracy with neoliberalism and its contemporary progeny of neofascism, all spur a desired retreat to a yesteryear.
Le Carré is of course acclaimed for his world building, rivaling Tolkien with the creation of a parallel universe where his vocabulary and grammar of spy craft hearkens to British knights and courtly romantic pageantry. This is most noteworthy because these halcyon projections are admittedly as fantastic as the Knights of the Round Table that these spies seek to emulate. There never actually was a good moment of history for the British Empire, just like America can’t be Made Great Again. Even during the war, which Connie Sachs reverentially rhapsodizes for, the British wartime government caused unnecessary loss of civilian lives worldwide by insisting on the wasteful North African campaigns, delaying the Soviet conquest of the Third Reich so Churchill could reclaim colonial sovereignty for the Crown, a project Eisenhower called “periphery pecking.”
The most painful expression of this wastefulness is within the sexual dimensions of the plot, subtly hinting that the personal is political and that the (counter)revolution starts at home. Unlike James Bond, who seems immune to any consequence of his dalliances, every character in this picture has a sex life that is immiserated by the Cold War.
Sex, sexuality, and gender relations are a hurricane of misery and sadness caused by sacrifice of self-interest upon the altar of imperialism. Of particular notice is the painful representation of the closet that two significant queers are forced to occupy in order to better serve Queen and Country. One individual severs the romance with his live-in same-sex partner in order to avoid blackmail by both the British and Soviet intelligence agencies. Another uses apparent bisexuality in service of his efforts, placing institutional above interpersonal loyalties.
These days the Brits are in the midst of a political hurricane not unlike our own domestic circus. Tinker offered a very important critique of the 20th century British social contract and a warning for future generations.
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Sabres fall to Islanders 6-3
Kane scores twice, Eichel nets one
NEW YORK (WBEN/AP) — One day after a disappointing road loss in their season opener, John Tavares and the New York Islanders hit their stride at home
Tavares scored twice — the first coming just 1:50 into the game — to lead the Islanders to a 6-3 victory over the Buffalo Sabres on Saturday night.
"We just got after it at the drop of the puck," Tavares said. "We had a lot of possession. Obviously a good bounce-back from last night to get that first win, especially at home."
Casey Cizikas had two goals and an assist, and Josh Bailey and Anthony Beauvillier also scored for the Islanders, who lost 5-0 at Columbus the previous night. Jaroslav Halak stopped 26 shots.
"Just the way we came out tonight, there was no hangover from yesterday," Cizikas said "We know that was unacceptable. We came out tonight with a purpose. We played outstanding. And Jaro stood on his head when we needed him to."
Evander Kane scored twice and Jack Eichel had a goal and an assist for the Sabres, who lost their opener in a shootout to Montreal on Thursday night and are still seeking their first win under new coach Phil Housley. Robin Lehner gave up four goals on 16 shots and was pulled early in the second. Chad Johnson finished with 15 saves.
The Islanders were 0 for 3 on the power play and Buffalo was 0 for 4, but each team scored two short-handed goals in a wild second period.
New York scored three times — including twice short-handed — in a 1:47 span that gave them a 4-0 lead seven minutes into the period.
Buffalo went on the power play 4:50 in after the Islanders' Scott Mayfield was whistled for a double-minor when he got tangled up with Rasmus Ristolainen, who also received a penalty.
Tavares got his second of the night as he intercepted a pass by Nathan Beaulieu near Buffalo's blue line, skated in on Lehner and backhanded it over the goalie's glove at 5:13.
Cizikas made it 3-0 just 50 seconds later on a slap shot from the left circle. Shortly after the Sabres' power play ended, Bailey got a pass from Josh Ho-Sang from behind the goal line and wristed it past Lehner to make it 4-0 and end the goalie's night.
"We obviously don't put ourselves in a good position to win a hockey game when you give up that many short-handed goals and (in) the succession we gave them up," Eichel said. "It's definitely frustrating and it's something we need to correct."
Kane got the Sabres on the scoreboard just past the midpoint of the period. With New York on the man advantage, Eichel stole the puck from Halak behind the net and sent a pass from the left corner in front and Kane put it in before Halak could recover.
Kane scored short-handed again on a wraparound with about 4 1/2 minutes remaining in the middle period to pull the Sabres to 4-2.
"They scored two goals on our power play, a couple of bad bounces," Halak said. "We did a pretty good job tonight. Everyone was excited in the building — fans and players. We wanted to come out and get a good start and we did."
Beauvillier scored on a rebound after Johnson made several nice stops to restore the Islanders' three-goal lead at 5:39 of the third.
Eichel's first of the season made it a two-goal game again with 3:44 remaining.
Buffalo then pulled Johnson for an extra skater with 2 1/2 minutes to go and nearly scored again with a little over a minute left, but Halak smothered the puck before it trickled over the line. The no-goal call stood after a review.
Cizikas added an empty-netter with 26 seconds left.
Tavares' first-period goal moved him past Bobby Nystrom into sole possession of eighth place on the franchise list with his 236th career goal. His second goal put him one behind Bob Bourne (238) for seventh.
NOTES: Tavares now has 14 goals and 25 points in 24 career games against the Sabres. Jordan Eberle, acquired from Edmonton in the offseason, set up Tavares' first goal with a nice saucer pass and now has six points in 10 games vs. Buffalo. ... Islanders D Nick Leddy appeared in his 500th career game. ... F Jason Chimera played in his 190th consecutive game — 106 with Washington and the last 84 with the Islanders. ... The teams play two more times this season, back here on Dec. 27 and at Buffalo on Feb. 8. ... The Sabres have now given up three short-handed goals in two games. ... Buffalo F Kyle Okposo, who missed the end of last season while dealing with severe post-concussion symptoms that landed him in a hospital, received a strong ovation from the crowd before the game. Okposo, in his second year with the Sabres, had 139 goals and 230 assists in nine seasons with the Islanders.
Sabres: Host New Jersey on Monday.
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City: Streets May Be Closed For Days After UWS Water Main Break
NEW YORK (WCBS 880) — A massive water main break on the Upper West Side flooded streets for blocks and led to the partial suspension of service on the 1, 2 and 3 subway lines.
The 3-foot main broke around 5 a.m., flooding both Broadway and Columbus Avenue between West 61st and 65th streets.
As WCBS 880’s Kevin Rincon reports, several basements were flooded and at least one underground parking garage. For hours on Monday, water was being pumped from the facilities.
“Big gushy amount of water. Looks like Niagara Falls out there for a second,” said one resident. “Pretty shocking.”
The force of the break caused pieces of the street and sidewalk to be blown to pieces. Neighbors in this area said it was surreal walking out to see the damage.
Utility workers told reporters late Monday that it would be days, if not weeks, to get everything back to normal.
Water is being pumped out from an underground garage along W 62nd Street in #NYC. It’s been like this for hours following a water main break 12 hours ago. pic.twitter.com/yHKmLfN0E6
— Kevin Rincon (@KevRincon) January 13, 2020
The break was capped shortly before 8 a.m. but the extent of the damage is still being assessed.
At a 9:30 a.m. press conference, officials said it would take days to repair the main, affecting traffic on Broadway.
"The work now is opening up the pavement of the street so the water main can be exposed so that we can get in there and make repairs, but it's likely that it will take us a few days to actually have that work done and the street restored," Vincent Sapienza, the city's DEP commissioner, said. "We’re going to have Broadway southbound — the west side of Broadway — closed down probably for a few days as we open up the street and make repairs to that main. Northbound Broadway and the sidewalk is open. Parts of Columbus and a couple of the side streets may be closed periodically."
Residents in nearby buildings are being urged to run water until it's clear if they notice any discoloration.
Video from the scene showed deep flood waters across entire streets near Lincoln Center throughout the morning commute.
Its official... @MTA @NYCTSubway sucks at dealing with emergencies... what if it was a real emergency and the water was rising faster!? You dont even make announcements until it's waaay too late to be useful to anyone trying to get anywhere... pic.twitter.com/5uqegi07gS
— MTAisTRASH! (@MTA_is_Garbage) January 13, 2020
The MTA said the Department of Environmental Protection stopped water flowing into the subway and that maintenance teams spent the day pumping out water from the tracks.
About 500,000 gallons of water flooded the system, entering the tunnels through an emergency exit hatchway, manholes and cable duct work, reaching the third rail which forced the MTA to such off power to the tracks.
Gusher of epic proportions here on Broadway between 62 and 63. Subway service affected, roads closed for blocks around @wcbs880 pic.twitter.com/65kQwuaAL0
— Steve Burns (@StvBurns) January 13, 2020
The water has stopped. Street and sidewalk blown to pieces. Massive cleanup starts now @wcbs880 pic.twitter.com/G14GFBvwOB
The water main break caused a flood of problems on the 1, 2 and 3 subway lines during the morning rush hour, leading to suspensions, reroutes and delays.
There are multiple impacts and extensive delays in 1, 2 and 3 service because of a water main break near 66 St-Lincoln Center.
Details in the thread: pic.twitter.com/WLgD1K77du
— NYCT Subway (@NYCTSubway) January 13, 2020
The MTA must inspect 72 signals and 12 switches to ensure they are functioning properly before fully restoring service, which they hope to accomplish by the evening rush hour.
The cause of the water main break is under investigation. The temperature fluctuation may have been a factor.
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Bio: A prize-winning author and Honours graduate of York University’s Creative Writing Program, Collette Yvonne is equally at home writing both fiction and non-fiction. Her publication credits include numerous articles, stories, reviews and interviews in national Canadian publications and anthologies. One of her short stories was made into a short film ‘Snapshots for Henry’, which received a nomination for a Genie Award in 2007. Collette was born in Manitoba, Canada. Now married with three children, she lives in Ontario where she is a part-time yoga instructor, as well as a writer. The Perils of Pauline is Collette’s first novel, published in 2015 by Astor+Blue Editions of New York.
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The Perils of Pauline
For ex-army veteran Pauline Parril, life marches along in orderly formation now that she is happily married, raising three children, and ascending a promising career ladder. But the handles of her safe and comfortable world soon turn upside down when a termination letter lands on her lap and her once-loving husband Donald grows suspiciously distant. Complications further arise when Pauline returns to school and meets Michael Fortune―the handsome and exciting poetry professor who threatens to get out of hand.
Pauline once endured a long deployment to a war-torn country halfway around the world, but can she survive the front lines of her fraying household? Find out how she does it in The Perils of Pauline, an uproarious tale à la Bridget Jones of an intrepid every-woman stepping through the challenges of rebuilding her life while learning that there’s actually more to discover about herself than she ever dreamed possible.
Midwest Book Review, March 2015: A deftly written, uproariously funny, exceptionally entertaining novel, The Perils of Pauline clearly documents Collette Yvonne as a gifted author of the first order. Impressively entertaining from beginning to end, The Perils of Pauline is very highly recommended reading for personal leisure time lists and would prove to be an enduringly popular addition to community library General Fiction collections.
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Review the Google App on iPhone 6
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Video: Review the Google App on iPhone 6
You're watching VisiHow. In this video, we're going to show you how to review the Google application on the iPhone 6.
To begin, unlock the phone
Either press the lock button on the side, or the home button at the bottom.
Swipe from left to right across the screen
Enter the passcode, or press a finger to the home button to use the fingerprint scanner
Find the Google application
The icon is blue and white with a recognizable lower-case Google "g" in the center. Tap once to open up the app, and it will take us to the search page. We can either search using the bar along the middle or the microphone. We illustrate how to do that in another video.
Press the symbol that looks like a flower in the top left corner
Scroll down to the second-to-last section
Press "About". This loads a screen with more information.
Tap on the bottom option, "Review on the App Store"
This takes us to the App Store, and more specifically, its page for the Google app. Along the top, underneath the thumbnail, the title, and the app's review score, we have three buttons: "Details", "Reviews" and "Related".
Press "Reviews", the middle option
Now we have the option to write a review, located above everyone else's.
Tap on "Write a Review"
Sign in to the iTunes Store
Once logged in, it takes us to the "Write a Review" page.
Tap on a star under "Write a Review" to give a star rating
The number of stars you have chosen will be highlighted in yellow. We can give five stars for a great review, one star for a bad review, and so on. Let's give three stars.
Press the "From" field to add a nickname
We will type "Bob" for this example.
Press the "Title" field to add a title
Maybe we are really impressed with the speed, so let's say "Speedy app!"
Press the "Review" field to add a main review
We can type as much as we like.
Let's write, "Very impressed!" As soon as we start typing in the review section, the "Send" icon in the top right-hand corner is highlighted
If we only want to send the subject and who it's from, it's not considered a proper review, and can't be sent.
To decide not to send it, press "Cancel" in the top left corner
To send it, tap "Send" in the top right corner
It appears on the page with everyone else's.
Press the phone's home button to go back
Tap on the Google icon
Press "DONE" in the top right-hand corner of the "About" menu
This takes us back to the page where we began.
This is a VisiHow video
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A new function for adducin. Calcium/calmodulin-regulated capping of the barbed ends of actin filaments
Kuhlman, P. A.
Hughes, C. A.
Bennett, V.
Fowler, Velia
Adducin is a membrane skeleton protein originally described in human erythrocytes that promotes the binding of spectrin to actin and also binds directly to actin and bundles actin filaments. Adducin is associated with regions of cell-cell contact in nonerythroid cells, where it is believed to play a role in regulating the assembly of the spectrin-actin membrane skeleton. In this study we demonstrate a novel function for adducin; it completely blocks elongation and depolymerization at the barbed (fast growing) ends of actin filaments, thus functioning as a barbed end capping protein (Kcap approximately 100 nM). This barbed end capping activity requires the intact adducin molecule and is not provided by the NH2-terminal globular head domains alone nor by the COOH-terminal extended tail domains, which were previously shown to contain the spectrin-actin binding, calmodulin binding, and phosphorylation sites. A novel difference between adducin and other previously described capping proteins is that it is down-regulated by calmodulin in the presence of calcium. The association of stoichiometric amounts of adducin with the short erythrocyte actin filaments in the membrane skeleton indicates that adducin could be the functional barbed end capper in erythrocytes and play a role in restricting actin filament length. Our experiments also suggest novel possibilities for calcium regulation of actin filament assembly by adducin in erythrocytes and at cell-cell contact sites in nonerythroid cells.
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Calmodulin-Binding Proteins
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Microfilament Proteins
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Assembly Health Committee Fails to Act on Sexual Assault Kit Legislation
By Josh Kaul - Jan 13th, 2020 01:42 pm
MADISON, Wis. – Last week, the Assembly Committee on Health held a public hearing, but it again failed to take up bipartisan legislation designed to prevent a future backlog of untested sexual assault kits. The legislation has been co-sponsored by a majority of the State Assembly.
In December, Attorney General Josh Kaul urged Rep. Joe Sanfelippo (R-West Allis) to immediately hold a public hearing on Senate Bill 200/Assembly Bill 214. According to reporting by the AP, “Rep. Joe Sanfelippo, chairman of the Assembly Health Committee that has the bill, said he planned to hold a hearing on it and expected it would be pass before the end of session [this] year.” On January 7, however, the committee held a public hearing on several bills, but not the proposed sexual assault kit legislation, which has been assigned to the committee since May 2019.
“This legislation is supported by the Wisconsin Chiefs of Police Association, Wisconsin Nurses Association, and Wisconsin Coalition Against Sexual Assault. Failure to act on this legislation is bad for survivors of sexual assault and bad for public safety,” said Attorney General Kaul.
“Rep. Sanfelippo should stop blocking this legislation, which has been awaiting a hearing since May of 2019. There is no reason the Assembly Committee on Health shouldn’t hear from supporters on this legislation and take a vote,” continued Attorney General Kaul.
The legislation was introduced by a bipartisan group of legislators in May 2019: Sen. Robert Cowles (R-Green Bay), Sen. Patty Schachtner (D-Somerset), Rep. Melissa Sargent (D-Madison), and Rep. David Steffen (R-Green Bay).
There is strong support for this legislation:
The legislation is co-sponsored by 72 senators and representatives (47 Democrats, 25 Republicans), including a majority of the members of the State Assembly (56).
The legislation was approved 5-0 in the Senate Committee on Insurance, Financial Services, Government Oversight and Courts. Those senators are:
Senator David Craig (R-Big Bend)
Senator Duey Stroebel (R-Saukville)
Senator Dan Feyen (R-Fond du Lac)
Senator Fred Risser (D-Madison)
Senator Lena Taylor (D-Milwaukee)
The legislation was passed by the State Senate on a voice vote in October 2019.
The Wisconsin Chiefs of Police Association, Wisconsin Nurses Association, Wisconsin Coalition Against Sexual Assault, and the Wisconsin Alliance for Women’s Health have registered in support of the legislation. No organizations are registered against the legislation and no member of the State Legislature has publicly announced opposition to it.
Approximately 1,400 sexual assault kits are submitted to the Wisconsin State Crime Laboratory by law enforcement each year, and currently there is no uniform procedure for how or when that evidence is submitted and processed.
Under the legislation, when a health care professional collects sexual assault evidence, a survivor will have the choice of whether to report to law enforcement. If a survivor chooses not to report to law enforcement, the health care professional must, within 72 hours, send the sexual assault kit to the state crime labs for storage. The kit will then be stored for 10 years or until the survivor decides to report to law enforcement.
If a survivor chooses to report to law enforcement, the proposed legislation would require the health care professional to notify law enforcement within 24 hours after collecting the sexual assault kit. The law enforcement agency would then have 72 hours to obtain the kit from the health care professional, and 14 days after that to send the kit to the state crime laboratories.
The legislation would also require the Wisconsin Department of Justice (DOJ) to collect information regarding sexual assault kits collected in Wisconsin and thereby facilitate future analysis and evidence-based policymaking.
Once enacted, this legislation would provide law enforcement, sexual assault nurse examiners, hospitals, and all those impacted by sexual assault clear guidelines for the submission and processing of sexual assault kits.
People: Dan Feyen, David Craig, David Steffen, Duey Stroebel, Fred Risser, Joe Sanfelippo, Josh Kaul, Lena Taylor, Melissa Sargent, Patty Schachtner
Organizations: Wisconsin Alliance for Women’s Health, Wisconsin Coalition Against Sexual Assault
Government: Wisconsin Department of Justice
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"I support Governor Evers’ swift response to the National Guard Bureau Office of Complex Investigations report, with his issuance of Executive Order #62."
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Tigers Rumors: 3 free agent signings that can make Detroit contenders in 2018
The free agents are out there. Will the Tigers make a move? [Image via ESPN/YouTube]
Pitchers and catchers report on February 14: Will the Tigers make any key acquisitions beforehand?
by Joseph Karbousky (article) and Adem Pasic (video)
February 6, 2018 at 6:19 PM February 6, 2018 at 6:19 PM
Tigers Rumors: Detroit can become contenders in 2018 with Ron Gardenhire - Video
The Detroit Tigers are going to be better than people think in 2018. I can't believe I just said that, but I really believe it -- and here's why. They have Ron Gardenhire. Gardenhire has a tendency to bring out the best in players and really has a strong reputation for being a players' manager, kind of like Jim Leyland.
If you have ever stumbled across any of my previous writings, you know that I was strongly banging the drum for Detroit to hire Gardenhire as soon as Leland stepped down. Obviously, they went with Brad Ausmus and we see where Detroit is today.
Unfortunately for Gardenhire, he won't be filling out a lineup card that has the privilege of reading players like Ian Kinsler, JD Martinez, Justin Upton or Alex Avila -- nor will he be able to trot Justin Verlander to the mound every fifth day.
Nevertheless, with a few offseason signings between now and opening day, the Tigers won’t be the disaster everyone believes they will be. Here are the three players I would add to the Tigers if I were GM, and it doesn’t come close to breaking the bank!
Jonathan Lucroy, Catcher
With Alex Avila gone, that leaves John Hicks and James McCann to handle the duties this summer behind the plate. Signing Jonathan Lucroy could solve that problem. Lucroy has been one of the top catchers in the game over the past several seasons, and he would add some stability behind the dish. While Lucroy struggled with the Texas Rangers in 2017, his overall career has been great.
A career .281 hitter, Lucroy could add some pop to the Tigers' lineup, especially with all the gap space at Comerica Park. Another reason he would be a great addition is that the Tigers could probably get him on a two year deal for a total of $15-20 million.
Neil Walker, second base
A switch-hitting second baseman with pop, Walker would be a great addition to the Tigers' infield. Walker could be that leadoff hitter the Tigers need, or he could even bat 5th or 6th, ideally behind Cabrera and Castellanos -- he is that versatile.
The only downfall is that he made $17 million last year with the NY Mets, however, the fact that Walker is still available may help the Tigers pick him up for even a bit cheaper.
Alex Cobb, Pitcher
Ahh, to the best pickup of all. Why the Tigers have not swooped this guy up already is amazing to me. Adding Cobb with Michael Fulmer and Daniel Norris could make the Tigers have a more than decent rotation. Add that to the fact that Jordan Zimmermann told Mlive.com that he feels the healthiest he has been since joining the Tigers, this move needs to be made. Cobb is one of the best-kept secrets in the league, and if he didn’t play in Tampa for his entire career, he would be much more popular nationally.
Cobb has compiled a 48-35 record in his six seasons with the Rays while having an ERA of 3.50.
Adem Pasic
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Experimenting with the Elimination of Traffic Lights
By Sarah Goodyear
Today from the Streetsblog Network, Tom Vanderbilt writes on his How We Drive blog about an upcoming experiment in London. Traffic lights at seven intersections in the borough of Ealing will be covered with bags, and drivers will be expected to safely navigate by making eye contact with pedestrians, cyclists and other motorists. The move was inspired by an accidental signal failure that resulted in improved traffic flow, catching the eye of planners. Vanderbilt cautions:
Photo by Ed Lawes via Flickr.
Of course, careful attention will have to paid to safety results, particularly with pedestrians (the piece refers to some new mid-block crossings but one has to entertain the idea that these treatments may
reduce pedestrian’s perception of safety and thus, potentially, one’s inclination to walk). The one day of outage could have represented a novelty effect. But the interesting thing about these novel treatments
is that they are often done with much more care and concern than the standard “out of the book” approach that is applied automatically.
Eliminating traffic lights is one element of the "shared spaces" planning approach advocated by the late Dutch traffic engineer Hans Monderman. However, without the other elements of Monderman-style design, for example the use of varied street surface texture and color, it remains to be seen if a street without signals serves pedestrians and cyclists as well as drivers.
Other food for thought from around the network: WashCycle enters the debate about what traffic laws merit the most vigorous enforcement; Fifty Car Pileup writes about the growing movement to eliminate urban highways; and Orphan Road argues that while $8 billion may not be much in the grand scheme of things, it does effectively change the national conversation on high-speed rail.
Building a Safer Mid-Block Crossing
By Angie Schmitt | Jun 14, 2019
Regular crosswalks don't cut it at mid block. But there are lots of low-cost ways to upgrade mid-block crossings and save lives.
Study: Too Many Drivers Fail to Look for Pedestrians When Turning Left
By Tanya Snyder | Apr 4, 2013
Drivers turning left are a leading cause of pedestrian crashes in urban areas. Where drivers can only turn left with a green left-turn arrow, pedestrians are more protected. But when drivers are watching oncoming traffic for a chance to make their turn, they tend not to be as vigilant as they should to watch for […]
Tom Vanderbilt in NYT: Jaywalking Tickets Don’t Make Streets Safer
By Tanya Snyder | Feb 3, 2014
Enforcement of jaywalking doesn’t improve pedestrian safety. So what will? Tom Vanderbilt, best-selling author of Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do, gave a succinct answer in a New York Times op-ed this weekend. Our cities will be safer to walk in when we have “better walking infrastructure, slower car speeds and more pedestrians.” […]
Pedestrian Safety: The National Picture
By Sarah Goodyear | Apr 2, 2007
Whose light is it, anyway? A recent story in USA Today talked about the growing national movement for pedestrian and bicyclist safety. The piece included a table that showed the number of pedestrians killed state by state in 2005 (Florida, with 3.24 deaths per 100,000 population, was the worst for pedestrians, while New Hampshire was […]
Congress Eyes Increased Funds for Vision Zero
By Aaron Short | Oct 24, 2019
House members propose a bill that would fund pedestrian- and cycling-safety efforts.
Phoenix Trying to Get a Handle on Pedestrian Deaths
By Angie Schmitt | Nov 5, 2012
Being a pedestrian in Phoenix is dangerous business. This is a place that comes by its reputation as a car-friendly city honestly. Phoenix pedestrians account for just 2 percent of collisions, but 42 percent of fatalities. That’s the fourth-highest share of overall traffic deaths in the country, behind three cities with much more walking — […]
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