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It looks like Iran hit Saudi Arabian oil facilities
Author: Sonia Alvarado Sep 18, 2019,
Sep 18, 2019, 0:30
Many questions remain unanswered about the pre-dawn attacks on Saudi Arabian oil facilities that sent crude prices skyrocketing, but perhaps the most pressing is whether the trigger will be pulled on a military response.
This image provided on Sunday by the USA government and DigitalGlobe and annotated by the source, shows a prestrike overview at Saudi Aramco's Khurais oil field in Buqayq, Saudi Arabia. Iran denied it was to blame. Earlier estimates had suggested it could take weeks. "We want to find definitively who did this".
This image provided on September 15, 2019, by the United States government and DigitalGlobe and annotated by the source, shows damage to the infrastructure at Saudi Aramco's Abaqaiq oil processing facility in Buqyaq, Saudi Arabia.
But U.S. Ambassador to the world body, Kelly Craft, told the Council that emerging information on the attacks "indicates that responsibility lies with Iran" and that there is no evidence the attack came from Yemen.
Iran will never hold one-on-one talks with the United States but could engage in multilateral discussions if it returns to the 2015 deal on Iran's nuclear programme, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Tuesday, according to state television.
"If the USA backs off from its call, repents, and returns to the nuclear treaty it has breached, then it will be able to join the gathering of the parties to the deal (JCPOA) who hold meetings and talk with Iran, otherwise no negotiations will take place between the officials of the Islamic Republic and the Americans at any level, not in NY and not anywhere else", Ayatollah Khamenei concluded.
The market eased from its peak after Trump said he would release US emergency supplies and producers said there were enough stocks stored up worldwide to make up for the shortfall.
Khamenei believes talks are America's way of putting pressure on Iran.
Relations between the United States and Iran have deteriorated since Trump pulled out of the Iran nuclear accord previous year and reimposed sanctions over Tehran's nuclear and ballistic programs.
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Trump said on Monday that it looked like Iran was behind the strike at the heart of the Saudi oil industry, but stressed he did not want to go to war. It was the worst such attack on regional oil facilities since Saddam Hussein torched Kuwait's oil wells during the 1990-91 Gulf war. They have also exposed the vulnerability of the pumping heart of Saudi Arabia's oil industry.
The attacks have raised questions about how the kingdom, one of the world's top spenders on weaponry, much of it supplied by USA companies, was unable to protect oil plants from attack.
The United States was still investigating if Iran was behind the Saudi strikes, Trump said, but "it's certainly looking that way at this moment".
"We assure the Saudi regime that our long arm can reach any place we choose and at the time of our choosing", Sarea tweeted."We warn companies and foreigners against being near the plants that we struck because they are still in our sights".
"In turn, we must prove that the policy of maximum pressure is worth nothing for the Iranian nation", Ayatollah Khamenei underscored. "The thinking here is that any attack on Iran must set back Iran's military ability 10 to 15 years".
The comments came amid speculation regarding a possible meeting between Trump and Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly meeting later this month.
"It used to be that only governments had air forces, but drones have democratized violence from the sky", says another analyst, Bernard Hudson, a fellow on Persian Gulf security issues at Harvard University, quoted in the Washington Post newspaper.
Trump affirmed he was ready to help its ally Saudi Arabia after the attacks that triggered a record leap in world oil prices.
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Home Education Smarty Scoop on Weekend Activities: March 16-18
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Smarty Scoop on Weekend Activities: March 16-18
written by Guest Blogger March 14, 2012
Happy Wednesday Smarties! Celebrate St. Patricks this weekend by participating in the Cookies for Kids Cancer 5k, going to the Whitewater Center, heading up to Discovery Place Kids or joining the festivities Uptown. OR….get your shop on at one of the many consignment sales going on all around town. Get out and enjoy!
A Smarty heads up:
Camp Thunderbird Open House
March 25, 1:00pm-4:00pm
Enjoy Zip line, climbing wall, canoeing, tours, boat rides, archery, inflatables, face painting, s’mores, and more! Meet the directors and staff at Camp Thunderbird and find out what’s new for summer 2012. Learn more about our nationally recognize water programs, the 28 land activities, air conditioned cabins and more! Register at Open House and receive a free t-shirt! You can also enter a raffle for a free week of camp! Camp Thunderbird is a co-ed Resident Overnight camp for kids 7-16 and a day camp for kids 5-12 located in Lake Wylie, SC- Only 20 minutes from Charlotte, NC.
Not able to come on the 25th? Join us for a tour! April 15, 1:00-4:00pm
DVF for GapKids Preview Party
GapKids SouthPark
Gap SouthPark is the only store in the Greater Charlotte area who will have the DVF Kids inventory and once it sells out, it’s forever gone. There will be no second shipment. Think Missoni for Target on crack – this stuff is the hottest ticket in kids clothes this spring! Here is the official invite from our Smarty friends at Gap SouthPark. And you should feel special – CSP and Scoop Charlotte are the only fans invited:-) In addition, Gap SouthPark is giving CSP readers 25% off their entire purchase (does not include the DVF line).
Cookies for Kids Cancer 5K, 1 Mile Fun Run and Bake Sale
Hardwick Rd and Chillingworth Rd. in Randolph Park
March 17, 10:00am
Join us Saturday, March 17 for the 1st Annual Cookies for Kids’ Cancer 5K and Bake Sale in Charlotte NC. We welcome any and all runners or walkers who are passionate about raising money to find a cure for pediatric cancer. And of course, even if you choose not to participate in the 5K, please come by and buy some baked goods and cheer on our participants. Make a difference by joining the mission to find a cure for pediatric cancer. There are many ways to support this event Cookies for Kids’ Cancer – register for the 5K or Fun Run, volunteer to bake for the bake sale or simply come out and buy baked goods to support this event. No effort is too small and every penny counts. Race fees are $10-$25.
16th Annual Charlotte Goes Green / St. Patrick’s Day Festival
Tryon St. from 3rd St. to 1st St.
March 17 10:00am-6:30pm
The 16th Annual Charlotte Goes Green / St. Patrick’s Day Festival take place in Uptown Charlotte on Sat., 3/17/12 from 10:00am – 6:30pm. The festival will be held on Tryon St. between 3rd & 1st St. and will feature live Irish music, Irish dancers & a pipe & drum band, many Irish/Celtic vendors from across the U.S., plus other vendors, a large Celtic Kids Corner, lots of food & beverages & more. There is no admission fee. Come join us before and after the parade where everyone is Irish for a day!
Green River Revival
March 17, 1:00pm
We’re turning our whitewater river green to celebrate the St. Patrick’s Day holiday. Come and watch the only whitewater river in the world flow green at 1 p.m. We’ll also have live music throughout the afternoon featuring Larry Keel and Natural Bridge and Chatham County Line and a PowerBall Race.
We’ll also be selling off a fleet of our used mountain bikes starting at 9 a.m. on the morning of this event.
Assurance UMC Children’s Consignment Sale
Assurance United Methodist Church, 9700 Mt. Holly-Huntersville Road
March 16-17, Fri., 9:00am-7:00pm; Sat., 8:00am-noon
Sales items include: boys and girls clothing sizes from newborn to 16, nursery décor, strollers, toys for newborn to young teens, book, videos, games, outdoor play equipment, baby bouncers, nursing items, maternity clothes, etc. Saturday’s sale, many items are half. Our sales benefit so many by offering needed essentials for kids and expecting moms at a fraction of retail prices, 70% commission to consignors, donated items are given to local Charlotte families in need, and proceeds raised is put towards mission projects that our church sponsors. This is a sale you do not want to miss! We gladly accept cash, VISA, and MasterCard.
Green Jeans Consignment: 3 Day Shopping event for Women and Teens
Kenton Place Shopping Center, Cornelius
March 15-17, Thurs., 9:00am-8:00pm; Fri., 9:00am-6:00pm; Sat., 8:00am-3:00pm
Green Jeans features NEW and recycled brand name and boutique clothing, shoes and accessories from petite to plus sizes, including maternity for WOMEN & TEENS. Shoppers have come to expect a wide array of brand name and designer labels including: Seven for all Mankind, Dooney and Burke, Kate Spade, Ella Moss, Milly, Tory Burch and everyday favorites like Banana Republic, J.Crew and Ann Taylor LOFT. Fashionistas of all sizes and styles will enjoy our FUN and organized shopping event – WE PROMISE!
Weddington Kids Consignment Sale
Family Life Center at Weddington United Methodist Church
March 17, 7:30am-1:00pm and 2:00pm-4:30pm
Incredible bargains on all things kids-clothes, furniture, toys, strollers, and SO MUCH MORE! Proceeds benefit women’s and children’s charities in Union County, North Carolina.
Matthews UMC Children and Teen Consignment Sale
March 17, 8:00am-12:00pm and 1:00pm-3:00pm
Children’s and teen clothing, maternity wear, toys, games, DVDs, books, children’s furniture, baby equipment and outdoor equipment, homeschooling materials, bikes and more. Cash only. No strollers on the floor.
Bouncing Bunnies and Hares
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March 17, 10:00am-1:00pm
A new season is blooming and we’re jumping with hippity-hoppity fun. Meet Harriet, our hare [Lepus sp.] and Smudge, our Dutch rabbit [Oryctolagus cuniculus], as well as other furry guests who will be visiting for the day, as we celebrate all things rabbit. There will be opportunities to meet and greet some of nature’s cutest creatures, especially as the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department Animal Control team presents information about bunny adoption and how to care for domesticated rabbits.
FUN Friday – Gold Rush!
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Make a rainbow to find your pot of gold. Search for gold coins and see what else sneaky Leprechauns have in store for you at the Museum. Free with Museum admission.
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March 16-18, Fri.-Sat., 8:00pm; Sun., 2:30pm
Stampeding elephants! Raging typhoons! Runaway trains! Unabashedly slapstick, this is the original amazing race! Join fearless adventurer Phileas Fogg and his faithful manservant, Passepartout, as they race to beat the clock. Fogg has agreed to a wager that puts his fortune and his life at risk, as he and his servant set out to circle the globe in 80 days. Danger, romance and comic surprises abound in this show as 5 actors portraying 39 characters traverse 7 continents in one of the great adventures of all time. Recommended for ages 9 and older. Cost is $8-$24.
March 16-18, Thurs.-Fri., 7:30pm; Sat., 2:00pm, 7:00pm; Sun., 2:00pm
Sleeping Beauty’s timeless tale of a beautiful princess, a dashing prince and the triumph of good over evil with a single kiss has delighted audiences for years. NC Dance Theatre is thrilled to perform Sleeping Beauty for the first time, with choreography by Jean-Pierre Bonnefoux, gorgeous costumes, magical sets and Tchaikovsky’s unforgettable score. Take your family on a whimsical journey to an enchanted kingdom, as this beloved childhood story is sure to leave audiences of all ages feeling happily ever after. Cost is $25-$79.
Tales of Edgar Allen Poe
Children’s Theatre of Charlotte
March 16-17, Fri., 7:30pm; Sat., 2:00pm
Join us for a pair of spine-tingling tales from the delightfully morbid mind of Edgar Allan Poe. In “The Telltale Heart,” a murderer is undone by his own insanity as the incessant pounding of his victim’s heart grows louder in his ears. This story is paired with “The Cask of Amontillado,” in which a connoisseur of fine wines takes horrible revenge on his family’s most hated enemy. Poe’s dark genius has invited children and adults to love literature for over 150 years, and his eerie thrillers still haunt our imaginations today. Ages 11 and older. Cost is $14-$18.
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Enjoy family-friendly craft projects, family tours, movement and healthy-living activities, artist demonstrations, and more! Kablam-o! Zap! Zowie! Inspired by the cool, hand-knit superhero costumes by Mark Newport on view in Fairytales, Fantasy, & Fear, design your own alter ego, craft yourself a cape, and meet area comic artists and knitters. Marvel at the super-heroic hip-hop skills of Create Don’t Hate dancers, and learn some new moves! Cost is Free for children, half-price admission adults.
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Remain in Light
The VETS, 1 Avenue of the Arts, Providence
Global pop superstar Angélique Kidjo brings her brilliant reimagining of the Talking Heads’ great opus, Remain In Light to the FirstWorks stage!
With her “canyon filling voice” (Billboard) and radiant charisma, “Africa’s premier diva” (Time Magazine) is a chart-topping, three-time Grammy Award winner who blends the West African traditions of her childhood with R&B, funk and jazz.
With Remain In Light, Kidjo and her five-piece band underscore the album’s African roots with repatriated grooves and traditional African language proverbs layered throughout.
Popular music was never quite the same after the Talking Heads (who met as students at RISD) released Remain in Light in 1980. Following her exile from Benin, Kidjo recalls how the album’s Afrobeat polyrhythms and Brian Eno-produced soundscapes, driven through the eclecticism of frontman David Byrne, helped to bridge her past and her future in the Western world. “This is African,” she remembers thinking, “yet it’s got something that is turning my head upside down.”
Presented as part of FirstWorks Artistic Icons Series
Remain in Light Preview
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$39-69 (incl. $4 restoration fee)
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Forgetting You
Chapter 7: The Iciest of Receptions
Billingsgate, London's East End, England
7:32 A.M. (Again)
"I'll get what you and your floozies owe me, Miss Ladybird! See if I don't!"
"Maybe ya noticed I'm not pissing me drawers at the prospect!"
Alice smirked as she wandered into the space Jack Splatter had recently vacated. Nan Sharpe, former nanny to the Liddell family and current madam of the Mangled Mermaid, was as feisty as ever it seemed – then again, she'd always been one to never give a pound more than she owed, nor take a pound less than was owed her. Sharp as a tack, with more pride than any "fallen woman" should have and the muscle to back it up, Alice found Nanny's (as she still thought of her) company as pleasurable now as she did when she was a child (except around lesson time). Unfortunately, her visits to the Mermaid were necessarily few and far between, thanks to therapy, chores, and the desire not to have to interact with lusty sailors. But she was here now, and she was looking forward to the opportunity to catch up now that Splatter had finally buggered off. She gave the window Nanny was currently occupying a couple of quick waves, hoping to grab the woman's attention without attracting other, unwanted eyes. She'd already had quite enough of those in her short time back on London's streets. Ten minutes – at the absolute most – and already I've been propositioned twice and threatened with a beating once, she thought, rolling her eyes. Oh Billingsgate, don't ever change.
Nanny, spotting the motion, stopped glaring at Splatter's back and looked down. Her eyes immediately brightened. "Alice Liddell!" she said, now all warmth and good spirits. "You'll make a nice change. Bring your disheveled self up here!"
"I'd intended to," Alice called back, rubbing the chill out of her arms. Ugh – she'd hoped to have a chance to dry off after escaping the Thames, not get wetter. Bloody rain. "But there's some rather insulting types standing guard over your front door." Much like the one who pulled me from the river, she added to herself, wrinkling her nose as she thought of those leering eyes stuffed into that beefy face. Though I suppose it's a little ironic that, after I rejected his "offer" to drag me off to the Mermaid, I ended up going there of my own free will. Closest "safe" place I know of, though – I can't walk back to Houndsditch like this. Ugh, I'm soaked right to the bone – this must be how rats feel when they're being drowned by angry housewives.
"Eh, there always is," Nanny said, leaning on the windowsill. "Probably 'cause they can't get it up without making someone's life harder. You just run around the back. Long Tim will let you through, no questions asked. I'll meet you up here. Up to you to get around the lot inside, though." She winked. "Just remember, I'll be putting any bottles you break on your tab."
With that, she withdrew her head and disappeared back inside her room. Alice couldn't help a smile. Good old Nanny. I'm so glad she was off visiting her sister when the fire happened, she thought, continuing up the alley toward the back entrance. I don't know how I would have managed my first few weeks here without her guidance. Rather depressing that she's been reduced from teaching French and music to upper-middle-class young ladies to selling companionship to laborers and thieves, but she seems happy enough with her new position. When Jack Splatter's not bothering her, that is. She rolled her eyes again. "Get what you owe me" – you're owed nothing but a punch in the face, you ugly leech. But I suppose you and she will be back on speaking terms soon enough. Why she puts up with your abuse I will never understand. Either you're an incredible lover or Nanny's hoping she'll crush you underneath one day.
Rounding the corner, she spotted Long Tim, Nanny's loyal bodyguard, leaning against the wall. The normally suspiciously-attentive man was facing away from her, bent nearly double and groaning. Alice lifted an eyebrow, faintly concerned. She and Tim weren't precisely friends, but they did talk on occasion. That was probably enough to warrant an inquiry about his health. Though I'm sure it's nothing more than a bad bottle of beer. "Long Tim? Are you all right?"
The guard moaned pitifully, then dragged himself around to face her, gasping with every stumbling step. Alice's eyes went wide. Buried in Tim's guts was a cleaver, soaked with blood and gore. "Tim! What–"
Tim lifted a shaky finger, pointing through the open back door. "Splat," he choked out. "Splat–"
The second syllable never came. With a final groan, Long Tim collapsed by the back step. Alice ran to his side, but it was far too late. Only a miracle could have saved him, and those were in short supply in the East End. She stared as his blood began to seep into the cracks between the cobbles, hardly daring to believe her eyes. This just couldn't be. Nanny's personal nobbler, whom she'd seen smash chairs into splinters and knock men out with a single punch, out and out murdered?! It stretched the bounds of even her imagination. He'd always said he'd die of a social disease, her mind whispered, recalling old conversations. Poor fellow never dreamed that disease would be named Jack Splatter.
Splatter!
Alice bolted into the Mangled Mermaid, her stomach roiling with fear. Splatter had threatened to brain her nanny not three minutes ago, and now – she skidded into the front room. The usual raucous crowd was in attendance – men tossing back watered-down beer and rotgut gin at the bar, women putting themselves on display in the hopes of a few coins, the player piano tinkling out an absurdly merry tune in the corner, and the first of many brawls being fought near the stairwell. But above the sound of men cussing, bottles thumping, and fists punching, Alice could swear she heard the wails of a woman in pain. Dodging around the drunkards in her way, she raced up the stairs, ignoring all of her legs' complaints. Oh Nanny, please be all right!
The second level of the Mermaid, where the girls plied their ancient trade, appeared to be deserted – the busiest hours of the night were over, leaving the remaining stragglers to toss back a few drinks downstairs before staggering off to their jobs. But Nanny's door, right across from the landing, was open – and inside, Alice saw a scene that chilled her heart. Her nanny, a woman built like a brick privy, who never took guff from anyone, was lying on the floor, one eye blackened and hands held up in terrified supplication. Jack Splatter loomed over her, fists clenched. "You won't give me what I want, I'll burn this dump of yours down to the ground!" he snarled, kicking her in the ribs.
Sheer terror for the one person she had left from her life before the fire caused Alice to do the very thing she'd always warned Victor against – get involved in one of Splatter's altercations. "Go away!" she demanded as she stalked into the room, although her voice wasn't nearly as strong or steady as she'd have liked. She decided to blame her recent dip into freezing sewage-filled water rather than the fear coursing through her. "She's done no harm!"
Splatter turned around, eyes glinting with cold malice. He regarded Alice for a moment as if she was nothing more than an insect, to be squashed beneath his boot and then forgotten. Then he smirked. "She hurt me feelings," he said causally, as if he and Nanny had had the merest friendly disagreement.
Then, with a single swipe of his arm, he knocked the lamp off Nanny's makeup table.
The light bounced across the room, glass shattering as it smacked against the far wall. Alice threw up her hands to guard against any flying shards. No – no no NO! her mind screamed as the flames began licking across the floor. She had to stop this, had to get over there and smother them before –
She saw the punch coming, but by then it was too late to block or dodge. Splatter's fist connected solidly with her temple, and pain exploded across her skull. Combined with her recent near-death experience, it was too much for her body to take. She hit the floor with a dull thud, the world fading to black as the smell of burning wood filled her nose and old familiar voices echoed in her ears:
"Out like a snuffed candle. Sleeps the sleep of the just."
"Help us, Alice!"
"Fire, Alice! Fire!"
Fire. . . .
The heat from the growing conflagration increased, wrapping her tight in its grip like a python with a luckless mouse. But now there was also motion – a blazingly fast fall that whipped her skirts up against her waist and filled her head with whistles. Even behind her eyelids, she could see the orange glow that streaked with her across the sky. A human meteor, that's what she had become. Tumbling to who knew where while the Mangled Mermaid burned. . . .
Her speed slackened abruptly, an invisible hand halting her in midair before lowering her gently to the ground. Her boots sizzled against the earth as a bitingly cold wind blew her hair against her face. Wobbling slightly, Alice put up a hand to brush the strands back –
Wait. Cold?
Alice blinked open her eyes as the last of the warmth surrounding her trickled away. She was standing near the edge of a vast glacier, with towering walls and vicious spikes of blue-green ice jutting out from the densely-packed snow. Below her, dark ocean waves lapped at humongous icebergs in the shape of never-to-crash breakers. Above her, the night sky twinkled with millions of glittering stars. There was also a crescent moon, brilliantly white, with a face carved into its curve. A cigarette dangled from its rocky lips, and from that trailed long glowing stripes of green smoke, which lit up the sky in jagged lines. And there was still the breeze, nipping at her exposed arms and face as it sent her hair streaming out behind her, her beloved blue dress little help against its chill. It was like she'd suddenly been flung into the highest reaches of the Arctic.
She loved it.
She spread her arms to encompass the ice and snow, relishing in the freezing temperatures so unlike the blazing inferno she'd left. Deep inside, she still feared for Nanny's safety, and even spared a worried thought for the customers down in the Mermaid's bar. But she couldn't help but be glad to be out of all that. To be as far from fire as one could possibly be. "Wonderful," she whispered, watching her breath turn to white fog as it passed her lips.
Then she smirked. "No – Tundraful."
Tundraful
"Oh, poor thing – running the caucus race didn't do much to save you from the cold, did it?"
The lory didn't reply – not that it could, being frozen solid. And even if that barrier could be overcome, the fact that it was missing a good chunk of its innards thanks to the gnawing of passing predators would probably discourage any conversation. Alice grimaced as she continued past the unfortunate bird. Tundraful was proving to be rather more vicious than she'd originally thought. True, all the running around she was doing made the cold bearable (though part of her longed for the long-sleeved dress she'd sported in Hatter's Domain), and the ice was fortunately not so slippery as to nearly send her careening over the cliffs whenever she tried to move. But that didn't change the fact that the only living creatures she'd seen so far – as opposed to those sad individuals who'd been turned into meaty iceboxes – were a handful of Ruin and a hulking Yeti who had seemed determined to send her sailing into the sea with a blast of hot, fish-stinking breath. She'd managed to dispatch the Ruin with her trusty Blade and Grinder, and avoiding the Yeti had simply been a matter of carefully timing her jump past his cave, but it was still rather discouraging. Not ten minutes in, and I've already had my life threatened twice. Not that I wanted to end up back in the Land of Fire and Brimstone when I left the Mermaid, but really, she thought grumpily. Why can't I ever fall into a place where there's nothing to fight and no hazards to worry about? Oh, yes, my mind hates me and wants me to die.
She entered another of the little round-faced caves that dotted the landscape, wondering if it would contain a memory, or perhaps a stiff-armed starfish she could smash for its health. Instead, she found herself facing an ice slide down into a deeper hole. All right then. . . . She plopped herself down, hissing as the chill penetrated her stockings and skirt like a thousand needles. Damn, it was like the bathing room at Rutledge all over again, with the nurses assuring her that the cold would clear her head as they repeatedly dumped buckets of water over her shivering form. They must have meant after I'd died from frostbite or pneumonia. It's well-documented that the dead can't think. . .unless you listen to Victor, in which case that 'treatment' would have been of absolutely no benefit at all.
Fortunately, the slipperiness of the slope made for a short ride down to the lower chamber, where, of all things, what looked like a chunk of Looking-Glass Land awaited her. The floor was checked red and white under a clear layer of ice, and directly before her were a pair of Knight statues carved out of the frozen wall. They stood straight and proud over a little stage of sorts, the loyal guards to – "Is that my old hobby horse?"
Alice jogged up the incline, quietly amazed. It was indeed her childhood toy, complete with braided yellow rope mane, a faded coat of white paint, and the little blue wheels at the end of the stick. A snatch of memory filled her ears as her fingers curled around it:
"Yah! You won't terrorize this village any longer, you wicked giantess! Take THIS!" POW! ". . .Oops."
"What on earth was – ALICE! What in BLAZES did you do to the wall?!"
Alice giggled at the image of her father's horrified face. "Oh, Papa, I didn't mean to put a huge hole in the plaster," she murmured, stroking the toy's muzzle lovingly. She could practically hear a whinny of delight in response. "How was I to know my simple wooden horse was stronger than your fabled brick?" Her lips twisted in a thoughtful smile. "Hmm. . .I wonder if this'd be just as effective against those barriers I use Hatter's bomb on. . . ."
She didn't have long to ponder the question, however. The sound of shattering tile and ice caught her ear, and she turned to see – Oh, hell.
It didn't look much like the slippery blue-green monsters that swam in the fast-flowing rivers of the Wonderland Woods, nor the burning red ones that frequented the boiling lava streams of the Land of Fire and Brimstone. This creature had a stockier body in deep ocean blue, blind white eyes, a glowing lure dangling from its nose (like the anglerfish she'd seen in Papa's encyclopedia of sea life), and a huge mouth full of teeth the size of railroad spikes. But it was a fish, and it had legs, and it looked ready to eat her, which meant it could only be one thing. "Snark," Alice growled, blood running hot and fast.
The Ice Snark hissed at her, frost streaming from its jaws. Alice hefted her new weapon, the familiar weight straining her arms. "I nearly knocked my nanny senseless with this," she snarled. "I can take you!"
The Snark wasn't impressed, judging by the way it immediately tried to leap on her. Alice dodged out of the way and swung the muzzle of the Horse straight into its face. The fish squealed in pain, then retaliated by spraying her with a lungful of cold mist. Alice gasped as it froze around her in a icy shell. "Oh, that's not fair!" she yelled. "I don't even have the Ice Wand this go-round to return the favor!"
Fortunately, pulling her little butterfly trick seemed sufficient to free her from her prison (Emily, have I thanked you for being a part of Victor's life lately?). She dodged another snap from the Snark's jaws, then slammed the Horse into the top of its skull. The Snark toppled over onto its side as blood sprayed from its wounds. Raising the toy as high above her head as she possibly could, Alice brought it down with a mighty smash, rocking the cave and reducing her foe into nothing more than the main ingredient in fish and chips. But why have one enemy when you can have four? she thought bitterly, watching as more Ice Snarks broke through the floor to avenge their fallen brother-in-arms. "I'm not afraid of you!" she yelled, swinging the Horse in front of her like a particularly odd mace. "I'll smash you all into patties and drag your frozen corpses to Van Dort Fish! I promised Victor I'd let his father see if you look good in cans!"
To her surprise and delight, the mention of the cannery seemed to put the monsters on edge – they backed away from her advance, hissing and squealing. Alice took full advantage of their fear to launch a devastating attack, beating them down with the Hobby Horse before fileting them with the Vorpal Blade. A couple tried to fight back, nipping and chomping at her elbows and knees between strikes, but a thorough peppering left them dazed and ripe for having their heads cracked open. After just three minutes, there was nothing left of the Snarks beyond a few blood splatters and some scattered chunks of fins and scales. Alice grinned as she stroked her Horse's muzzle, now tinted a rich crimson. "Oh, we're going to have all sorts of fun together," she whispered as three icicles, shaken loose from their moorings by the fearsome battle, toppled from the ceiling, providing her with a convenient path back to the open air. "I can just feel it."
"Now, where are those – oh! Well then – seems this detour of mine is more profitable than I'd thought."
Alice grinned up at the glittering butterfly resting on the ledge just above her head. She hadn't expected another moment with Victor when she'd come this way along the teetering, hopscotch path of icebergs and floating bits of crayon. All she'd been after was the treasure trove of golden teeth she'd spotted floating off this particular island's far shore. Hollow Yves valued those at five times the rate of the usual pearly whites, so even a group of three or so was worth going after. Who would have thought part of my dress would be alive? she thought, glancing as far as she could in the direction of the little skull that held her apron bow in place. Much less have the ability to magically upgrade my weaponry? Still, he's useful and no mistake. She summoned her Hobby Horse and admired its new look. A few handfuls of Wonderland's unusual currency had done quite the number on her old toy. Now her friendly little pony was a raging charger, its face made of sturdy red metal and its mane alternating thick red and white blunted spikes. Its pole was striped like a barber's, and weighted at the end with a studded white ball. The change from wood to steel meant it was rather heavier now too – but that just meant it packed more of a wallop. The Pepper Grinder changed its face too when I paid him last, and I swear the Vorpal Blade feels lighter in my hand. . .I wonder what all these deadly implements of mine will look like once I've finally satisfied Yves's passion for dentistry? She ran a finger along the curves of the Horse. Hopefully I'll get a chance to find out before this trip is over.
Hissing alerted her to the presence of a Snark, apparently standing guard over the memory. Alice's smile took on a vicious edge as she promptly began beating the wretched fish to death. Oh, it felt so good to be able to just hit it over and over again until it stopped moving! Its cousins in the water of the Wonderland Woods had been particular pains in her arse the last time. "At least I get to fight these on my preferred battleground, not theirs," she muttered, remembering all the times she'd been dragged into a river and had to fumble for her blade as sharp teeth nipped at her skin. "Of course, if we did take this fight to the sea, it's more likely we'd both end up as ice cubes rather than combatants."
Finally, the fish deigned to die. Alice gave it another wallop just for good measure, then put away the Horse and jumped onto the ledge. Safety secured, she gave the memory a tap.
"All right, lads, dump it out!"
The sailors heaved the net over the side, and with a series of wet little splats, the fish flopped onto the docks. Alice wrinkled her nose as she and Victor watched the pile grow before them, wriggling bodies sliding down the sides to slap their tails weakly against the water-stained wood. "And to think that these ugly little creatures will be headed for someone's dinner table," she commented as the dockmen started scooping up the catch and loading it into a waiting cart. "I wonder how long it'll take them to get those to the markets and canneries?"
"If they're good at their job, not long at all," Victor told her. Indeed, the cart was already full, squeaking away to the nearest icehouse while another rolled up to take its place. A second net disgorged its contents onto the dock in response, splattering slime and loose scales everywhere. Alice scowled as a glob landed on her apron. "Even packed in ice, fish goes bad quickly – at least, that's what Father tells me," Victor continued, noticing the mess and offering his handkerchief. "That's why he wanted to get into the canning business – the longer fish keeps, the more chance you have of actually making a profit. He's fond of reminding me that it'll all be mine one day." He frowned at the slowly-disintegrating mountain of smelt, trout, and bass, twiddling his fingers as she wiped off her dress. "I'm n-not eager for that day to come, to be honest."
And with that, the docks faded, as if pushed out of existence by Victor's reluctance to take up the mantle of cannery king. In their place sat a round wall of ice, marked with the head of a horse. Alice shattered it with the Hobby Horse as it implicitly bid and headed outside, musing on the memory. That was our first visit to Billingsgate, wasn't it? Yes – the one where we didn't talk much about Nanny and her chosen profession. It was all about Van Dort Fish that time – the whys and wherefores of cannery operations and high expectations. She sighed. Poor Victor – for all your talk about maybe finding some of your father's workers and getting a little taste of home, I think you were secretly pleased not to see that logo on any of the crates. It meant not thinking more than you had to about what your father insisted you do with your life.
It was funny how much people she'd barely shared two words with could irritate her. The Van Dort's dissatisfaction with their son was like a mosquito bite that wouldn't stop itching. She reserved her especial hatred for Nell – that awful, cold-hearted lickspittle – but William was not immune to her ill feelings either. Perhaps he didn't force Victor to attend crowded, noisy balls, or complain overmuch about his son's inability to impress the elite, but – well, the man was obviously blinder than the proverbial bat if he thought Victor was going to be a good businessman. Her friend was artistic, shy, and prone to letting others make decisions for him – hardly qualities valued by men of industry. And while he had more of a temper than he let on, he lacked that necessary ruthlessness needed to deal with incompetent workers and dangerous competitors alike. Yes, he'd picked up some all-too-necessary cynicism living in Whitechapel, but Alice could see that, at heart, Victor was still a sweet boy who just wanted to please people. Not the sort of person you wanted going up against those who would like to see your business fall under their control, or just fail entirely. Maybe he'd make a decent accountant – Victor had mentioned he knew quite a bit about balancing ledgers thanks to lots of practice in the family fish shop – but an owner? No.
And that's not even getting into the fact that Victor utterly despises fish in all its forms, Alice added to herself with a snort. She'd found that out in a rather hilarious way the first time Bumby had served fish for dinner. Victor had looked at his plate, poked at it with his fork, then, with extreme politeness, asked if he could be excused. What had followed was a full minute of staring from everyone else at the table, followed by at least three variations on "Are you sure?" from Bumby and an additional one from herself. Nobody had been able to believe that Victor (who, despite his skinny frame, had a very healthy appetite) was actually refusing food. The children had eventually taken advantage of the situation to devour his portion along with their own, but the shock had lasted throughout the rest of the meal. Alice had tracked him down afterward and asked what on earth he'd been thinking (slightly hurt because she'd been the one who'd cooked the damn thing). "I'm sorry, Alice – I don't mean to insult your culinary skills," he'd apologized. "But – the fact is, growing up, my family ate some form of seafood – usually the freshest examples of whatever had come to the cannery – every day. Supper was a constant parade of fish – and often lunch and tea involved the leftovers of the previous day. Father considered it good advertisement for the business. I don't know why – perhaps he thought people were looking through the windows watching us eat." He'd made a face then, chewing on his lower lip. "If the idea was to get me used to running a cannery, I'm afraid it's backfired on him – I've grown to hate the taste of fish. I'll eat it if I have no other choice, and I still enjoy things like lobster and shrimp, but – honestly, between the meal tonight and going hungry, I'd rather go hungry." Alice had been able to accept that as a legitimate excuse – and afterwards, whenever Bumby had sent her out to purchase fish for a meal, she'd warned Victor in advance so he could buy his own lunch or dinner. No sense in making her friend suffer if he had the money to avoid it.
Speaking of money. . .after taking a moment to shrink and reveal the path hovering above the water's surface, Alice carefully navigated her way over to the trio of glittering golden teeth. She gathered them up with a scoop of her hand, dropping them into whatever other-dimensional pocket also kept her weapons safe. Excellent – that should just about pay for whatever upgrade is due next on the grinder, she thought, patting her apron. Would have appreciated you opening your yap when I first arrived in the Village of the Doomed, Yves – then again, I had more variety in my weapons on that journey, so your services weren't as badly needed. Still, the very idea of an upgraded Jackbomb intrigues me. . . .
Thoughts straying from the deadly possibilities contained in less-than-innocent toys, Alice found her gaze going back up to the sky. The moon was still there, still smoking away, creating more bright sinuous blue-green ribbons to light the night sky. Between them, the distant stars glinted like diamonds wrapped in dark velvet. At the very edge of the horizon rested a streak of lighter blue, heralding a dawn that might never actually come. If only I had paint, canvas, and some time to spare, Alice thought wistfully. This would make the most beautiful picture. . .of course, I bet Victor could capture it better than I ever could. He's quite the artist. She smiled. I bet he'd love it here. Maybe not the cold, and the poor frozen animals, but the stars and the moon? He'd be awestruck, I'm sure of it. If only I could bring him here. . . .
Is that the second or third time I've wished that?
Alice frowned to herself. She'd been thinking of Victor a lot lately on her travels, hadn't she? Yes, he had his fair share of the memories tucked away around the varying landscapes, but so did Radcliffe and Nanny and even Bumby, and she generally didn't spare them a second thought after the flashback was over. Victor just stuck in her head, like gum on a shoe. And yes, to be fair, he was her best friend, but. . .it amazed her just how much she wanted him to be here. To show him her Wonderland – or, rather, Wonderland as it should be. She didn't want him to see the wrecked parts, the bits reflecting the way her mind was falling to pieces around her. But the quiet places, like the unspoiled islands of the Vale or the quiet icebergs of Tundraful. . .that would be a treat. She reached out a hand and pretended his fingers were wrapped around hers as they gazed up at the magnificent panorama spread out before them. It would be so nice to be able to while away a few hours here, wrapped in a snuggly blanket, talking and looking. . . .
Except that's not like me at all, she thought, dropping her arm back to her side. Wonderland was supposed to be her private retreat, her home away from home. The place she went when she wanted to escape the real world and everyone in it. The only other person she had ever really wanted to bring here was Lizzie. And she'd never thought of Victor like a brother, no matter how close they'd gotten. He was a – a friend. A kind, understanding, gentle. . . .
She shook her head rapidly. Wasting time again, she scolded herself. That Infernal Train is still out there, still spreading Ruin, and you're stuck on Northern Lights and pale young men who belong solely to reality. Your job isn't to muck about with what-ifs and could-have-beens – it's to learn more about the train, track it down, and stop it dumping more of that vile gunk across your mind! Unless you want to keep fighting legions of sludge monsters. . . .
The shudder that went down her spine was proof that she didn't. Nodding firmly to herself, she looked out across the water. The ship in a bottle she'd spotted while reducing the Snark population of the tundra to nil was almost within reach now, and she could see a familiar figure waving to her from its upper deck. The head of a young cow, bedecked with a rather ridiculous admiral's hat, was perched upon a turtle's shell and flippers, and while Alice was too far away to tell for sure, she was almost certain there were tears leaking from its beady eyes. "Rather hard to be lost at sea if you can't go anywhere," she mumbled, examining his glass prison. "But still, you're the only one with a boat to take me across this frigid ocean, so. . . ." She turned and ran back to the iceberg, preparing to circle around again and see if there weren't any more direct paths to her goal than the impossible jump waiting for her here.
Hopefully the Mock Turtle was doing more this time than just wailing.
"Hmm. A fine vessel, if I do say so. If you ignore the fact that I know next to nothing about sailing."
Alice stood just outside the oversized bottle, hands on her hips, regarding the ship inside with a critical eye. While her experience with seafaring had been limited to pleasure cruises in rowboats on the Isis, she felt that even a landlubber like her could appreciate this ship. It was a bit small, granted, and its long stint trapped in the chill had covered it with frost and icicles. But it looked sturdy enough, with wide sails and plenty of canon. And besides, any boat that had her friend Gryphon's head and claws carved into its prow probably had luck on its side.
On the other hand, being captained by the Mock Turtle might cancel that out, she thought, her gaze shifting upward to the ship's apparent owner. Mock returned her look with anxious impatience, drumming his flippers on the port side rail. He's a decent enough sort, I suppose, but I wouldn't put him in charge of anything that floats, not even a leaf. I've seen what happens when you do. She shuddered as it all came back to her – navigating fearsome rapids, plunging over steep drops, just barely avoiding being exploded or shot at or bitten or falling to her doom with every twisty turn. . . . It was almost enough to convince her that she should greet him with a whack of the Hobby Horse against his precious shell. The whole reason I put you in that train conductor's position is because you weren't any good at being a turtle, mock or otherwise. So why did you abandon your post? "Turtle?" she called.
He shook his head and pointed at the glass, mouthing soundless words. Ah – he couldn't hear her through it. Inconvenient – but she had to seek passage on his boat anyway to continue across the ocean, so. . . . Fortunately, she didn't need to bother with figuring out how to uncork his glass prison – the bottle already sported a huge crack stretching across the side, with a hole just big enough to climb through right above her head. Hauling herself through broken glass was hardly her favorite activity, but she didn't have much of a choice. She jumped and caught the bottom edge of the gap, then pulled herself up and through –
And bit back a scream as something leapt from the water and slammed its snout into the hole after her, nearly taking her rump off. Whipping around, she was confronted with what looked like an enormous shark constructed of chunks of ruined ships, floating in midair as it gnawed furiously at the glass. So that's what kept skirting the water around me, she thought, recognizing the dark pirate flag that served as the creature's dorsal fin from glimpses caught as she traveled across the glacier. But why try to attack me now? You never even looked in my direction before! And who told you it was acceptable for a sea creature to fly? Urgh, bloody nonsense. . . .
"You'd better come aboard, Alice," Mock said gloomily, attracting her attention. "We're doomed, of course."
"What? There's no hope then?" Alice asked, although even as she said it she wondered why she was bothering. Of course the answer would be no. The Mock Turtle never had any hope for anything. If he'd been the one to cry the Pool of Tears, it would have been an ocean – and still growing today.
"Oh, there's an infinite amount of hope," Mock returned to her mild surprise, shaking his head as the shark – a Shipwreck Shark, Alice decided – rammed into the bottle again, a low growl rising from whatever passed for its throat as it again failed to reach its prey. A second one appeared close to its cousin, scraping its teeth along the side and trying to wedge them into the crack. "But none for us. Now get up here!"
With a steadily growing number of Sharks throwing themselves from the water and crashing into the glass, Alice didn't need a second invitation. She raced to the boat and scrambled up the ladder Mock dropped over the side. "The friend you patterned this vessel on would be most welcome in the flesh right now," she commented as she clambered onto the deck.
Mock sniffled. "Gryphon's dead. I made this ship in his memory."
Alice froze, eyes wide. "Dead?" No, that couldn't be right! She'd brought him back last time, she knew she had! She'd seen him flying over the restored Caterpillar's Plot, looking – looking. . . .
She couldn't remember. The image was there, but – it was all faded and fuzzy, like she was peering at it through a layer of gauze. She couldn't recall the color of his eyes, nor the feel of his feathers, nor the sound of his voice. Their first meeting was nothing but a vague picture of a curled, sleeping figure that could just as easily be Dinah, or perhaps Fury, the terrier that farmer who'd lived a few streets over had owned. The Lobster Quadrille was clear – she'd sung it to herself regularly to ensure its being so – but while she knew Gryphon had danced to it, she was damned if she could recall the steps. Worst of all, his fight against the Jabberwock – his bravest, proudest moment – was little more than an indistinct blur in her mind. Only the memory of him taking his last, gasping breath had any clarity to it. But why? He was one of my dearest friends, why can't I –
"Gryphons aren't real, Alice. They're good for nothing more than heraldry. Do you want to always be the damsel in distress?"
Alice bit her lip. That she remembered – one of her least-annoying sessions, where she'd thought they'd actually made a little progress. Dr. Bumby had put the question to her after a trip through the Land of Fire and Brimstone, and of course she'd said no – she was perfectly capable of saving herself, thank you very much. She didn't need to lean on anyone. But just because she didn't need to didn't mean she didn't want to sometimes –
Another crash and a disturbing cracking sound distracted her from that line of thought. She whipped her head left and right to see a whole school of Shipwreck Sharks now slamming their noses against the bottle, covering its surface with fine-lined webs as they attempted to break through. One had even successfully wedged itself into the hole she'd climbed through and was now stretching its mighty jaws toward the side of the boat, snapping like it wanted to devour the very air. "Confounded beasts!" Mock cried, turning in terrified circles. "They want my ship!"
"I think you're more to their taste," Alice said, eying the one in the hole with an anxious swallow. The question is, am I as well?
"What? Never!" Mock declared, pressing his flippers against his cheek. "We're almost relatives!"
Despite her fear, Alice smirked. She had to call him out on that one. "You're related to soup, 'Admiral.'"
Mock glared at her. "You don't need to rub it in."
"My apologies, but it does lend credence to the idea that these creatures want a taste of you rather than your vessel."
"Not at all! These Sharks devour ships faster than a Snark can eat a baker! It's how they add onto themselves, you see. And I don't want any of them getting Gryphon's head!" he added, shaking a flipper at a Shark who seemed quite intent on getting its teeth into the prow.
"Oh!" Well, she supposed that made more sense for creatures so clearly made out of wood. "Still, do you think they'll particularly care if they chew us up along with the deck and masts?"
"No, they wouldn't," Mock admitted miserably as another Shark smashed into the bottle, creating a distinct shattered dent near the back. "It's curtains for us, and no mistake."
Then, out of nowhere, he brightened. "Wait – I've an idea! We'll leave this mayhem and go to Carpenter's show!" he said, pointing at the sea. "It's better than a gaff. Carpenter promises that which we don't take seriously can't harm us. And if the HMS Gryphon can't get us down to the Deluded Depths, I don't know what ship can!"
The webs continued to spread across the sides of the bottle with every crash, covering the glass with a series of small cricks and creaks. Alice followed their path to a rapidly-widening crack positioned just above their heads. Uh-oh. . . . "You're sure going below the water is the best thing to do in this case?" she asked.
"Oh yes. The Sharks don't go near Carpenter's. He used too many of them to help build the Dreary Lane Theater."
Crick. . .crack. . .crunch. . . . "Fine then. Best dive now, Admiral," she encouraged her friend. "Or the Sharks will have us for lunch."
As if to underscore her words, the bottle chose exactly that moment to give up the ghost and split in two. The Sharks let out roars of triumph as the shattered halves sunk beneath the midnight blue waves and leapt immediately for the feast before them. Alice yanked out her Blade, figuring it was better than nothing if she need to fight –
Whoosh! The sails spread and puffed proudly as they caught the ever-present breeze, sending the HMS Gryphon speeding across the sea. Most of the Sharks fell back to the water gnashing their teeth, and the one that landed hit the stern with its side instead of its mouth, snapping a few ribs before dropping away again. Alice gave them her best rude hand gesture as the ship raced away from them. "Not today, you woodworm-eaten beasts!" she cried as the school gave chase, nipping ineffectually at their heels. "Hah! Turtle, how long before we reach Carpenter's domain?"
"Not long at all! We're almost to the drop-off point!" Mock called, pointing ahead with a flipper. Alice ran to the bow to get a better look –
And felt her stomach drop straight into her feet. Directly in front of them was the biggest, steepest bloody waterfall she'd ever seen, the sea churning and growling like a shark itself. She whipped her head around as the ship rocked from side to side. "You have got to be kidding me! There is no way–" She yelped as they ricocheted off a stone. "Can't you steer this thing?!"
"Steering was an advanced class at our school! I never got a chance to learn!" the Mock Turtle yelled as they flew toward the edge, still pursued by the Sharks. "Would you rather be chewed to bits? Just take a breath and hold on!"
Alice clamped her hands onto the starboard railing, bile rising in her throat as the freezing spray lashed her face. Perfect, she thought angrily. I should have guessed. Just how many times is this bastard going to try to drown meee– "EEEEEEAAAAHHHH!"
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Each frond in a thicket of ferns sprouts miniature copies of itself. So does a cauliflower comprised of its florets.(small flowers). Those copies in turn, sprout even smaller versions of the same basic shape and structure.
"This repeated duplication on ever smaller scales is called self-similarity, a characteristic of fractals...fractal geometry is evidenced in lightning, rocks, lichen, etc."....By Nature's Design. Other designs too.
Cell, volume 99, page 367."Snapdragon plants have a master gene that normally makes leaves and petals asymmetrical. The same gene may control symmetry in other plants, such as the begonia."
"In plants, it's the first known gene controlling organ symmetry" says Enrico Coen, John Innes Centre in Norwich, Norfolk, England.
Some plants eat animal life, like insects. How did they survive so long while they were waiting for insects to evolve and for themselves to evolve the ability to eat 'em? Another magico bingo!
Immune system:.The internal defense system of vertebrates is dizzyingly complicated and incredibly strong as long as we don't allow it to be weakened:.Psalms 139:14 "I will praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Marvelous are your works and that my soul knows right well."
Immunization.traditionally refers to a natural exposure to antigens, followed by the body's natural immune response, building lasting natural immunity. The word 'vaccination' alternatively, refers to a medical procedure that typically triggers hyper-sensitization reactions within the lymphatic system, causing massive immediate and/or long term health issues, due in part to the poisons added to the concoction. God made the system work. Why tinker with it? Ignorance? Greed? Secret alterior motives.
Chinese medicine aims to maintain overall health rather than treat disease in the end stage.
The are many safe alternatives to dangerous vaccinating.(see the movie.VAXXED). Type alternatives to vaccinating into Bing, Google or GoodGopher.com or search at naturalnews.com, mercola.com, greenmedinfo.com, nutritionfacts.org and see the links here on vaccinations
Your immune system is a circulating nervous system of cells constantly listening to what's going on in body. The main thing that strengthens the immune system and even beyond into healing is strong love, for why are you sick when the Creator is love? The Creator never gets sick and you are in Him and if not in optimum health, perhaps not awakened yet.
Parts of this remarkable immune system present many problems for a model of gradual evolution. Why is our system able to inform us when we are not well? We know it does. We know nerves and cells are used in the process. But how did the body come to develop this complicated information system? If it wasn't all functioning immediately, then man would have died while he was awaiting evolution to develop the immune system in him. Our bodies had to be made all at once or we just would not be here.
Human skin excretes an enzyme that chops up RNA. Many viruses are made from RNA. To such a threat to the health of the body, the enzyme is deadly.
Viruses build large icosahedral.capsids to enclose and deliver their genetic material to new host cells. Viruses show perfect symmetry in their agglomeration of icosahedral capsids as they are clumpted together by bodily systems for disposal.
Exactly.60 capsids, all with identical structures combine to make up the capsid tobacco necrosis clumps called a virus. Others, depending upon size, can comprise 180 subunits; same as your garbage cans, holding various items for disposal.
At the onset of an illness, automatic defense occurs. Bacterial cells must be differentiated from blood cells, clumps of unwanted material the body wants rid of, differentiated from connective tissue, etc. It's an amazing intelligent system. The immune system can't see and must rely upon 'touch'.
Antibodies 'recognize' the difference between an invader.(old, used, decaying and dead bacterium clumped together).and other cells in the blood stream, such as the erythrocytes.(red corpuscles {red blood cells}).and the tissues they are constantly bumping into. Your body's immune system is extremely strong and fully capable of looking after you well throughout your life, that is, as long as you don't screw it up.
Antibodies are remarkably complex systems which mark the invaders to the blood stream as a signal to other systems to destroy it. The mechanism that allows the body to acquire tolerance to its own tissues had to be present from the start of the immune system, as an immediate part of a fully functioning body.
Diversity, recognition, toleration, destruction; all these and more, interact with each other. A 'gradualistic' evolutionary accounting of the immune system is blocked by many interwoven requirements. A large number of antibodies does nothing if there is not a system to back it up by killing the invaders. One couldn't have existed without the other. One couldn't have evolved as a result of changes in its predecessor. Evolution is just a bunch of crap!
The immune system's clonal selection, antibody diversity and complement system, each pose massive challenges to a putative step by step evolution. Read about its complexity on pages 126, 127 Darwin's Black Box.
It is not understood how white blood cells in the immune system can affect the chromosomes containing white blood cell DNA in such a way as to alter them to effectively deal with new invasive infective substances.
The immune system can easily recognize exceedingly great numbers of different invaders and even recognize actions of an invader it hasn't yet identified. How it does this... Our corollary is a virus program able to utilize a heuristic approach in checking computers for virus like activity.
Many of the molecules of the immune system have a distinctive shape, composed of many flexible arms, in order to take advantage of the cooperativity of the designed back up system, reducing entropy. This back up system involves proteins exhibiting multivalent.binding, that is, once one site on the protein has bound some invader, the other sites are held in close proximity to the target, increasing the probability of binding and decreasing entropy.
The oligomeric proteins in cells form closed, symmetrical complexes based on ideal point symmetry groups. The symmetrical association of proteins provides stability and control which could not occur if asymmetrical associations were transpiring. Unwanted aggregation of cells is dangerous to cells.
Factories float around in huge numbers poised to deliver antibodies in virtually every shape, that can stick to an invader. How does the body make and know how to make, all these billions of differently shaped antibodies? Once attached they know the invader's code and this goes into memory if later needed.
There is an elegant trick for making very many different antibodies without requiring enormous quantities of genetic material to code for the proteins.....pages 126-134 of Darwin's Black Box shows how and also shows how this amazing system adds yet another barrier to Darwinian evolution.
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Antoine Fuqua’s Western actioner hit DVD and Blu-ray not too long ago, so what better time to suggest a couple of titles that share qualities with this 2016 remake of Japanese classic Seven Samurai (1954)? Whether you enjoyed the ragtag cast’s camaraderie, the hard-hitting action, the attention to historical detail in the production values or even just seeing a Western on the big screen with this type of money and star power behind it, I may have something for you.
Let’s not procrastinate any longer, and just get shooting:
1. Tombstone (1993)
Probably the easiest recommendation on the list, George P. Cosmatos’ 1993 offering shares the same combination of humour and action as Fuqua’s film. Starring Kurt Russell as legendary lawman Wyatt Earp, the film dramatises the events leading up to the infamous gun battle at the OK Corral, as newcomers and former marshals the Earp brothers get into conflict with cattle rustling clan the Clantons, along with their dangerous associates Curly Bill and Johnny Ringo.
Produced a year before Lawrence Kasdan’s longer Wyatt Earp, where that film was rambling and unfocused, Tombstone is dead set on delivering a succinct and satisfying drama as you see Wyatt go from humble, retired husband to vengeful force of nature. Of course, complimenting Russell’s square-jawed, plain talking Wyatt is the fantastic Doc Holiday, portrayed by a younger Val Kilmer. A somewhat psychotic sophisticate, Holiday brings a tonne of humour to the proceedings, but also surprising heart as Wyatt’s most doggedly loyal friend. It’s a masterfully paced action ride with heart. What more could you want?
2. Death Rides A Horse (1967)
Here’s a tight and lean offering from the spaghetti era, and while it would’ve been easy to recommend one of Sergio Leone’s films, I decided to go for something more left field, but just as worthwhile. John Philip Law plays Bill, a young gunslinger hunting for the gang that slaughtered his family as a child. At the same time, one of the gang, Ryan, played by genre icon Lee Van Cleef, is released from jail after being framed by his former compatriots. The two meet, unaware of their mutual history, and team up to punish the killers.
While the opening raid may register as a little melodramatic for modern sensibilities, Death Rides A Horse delivers the goods you’d want from a spaghetti western, with dusty plains and violence aplenty. The final gun battle, in a fort amidst a sandstorm, is a wonderful example of effective low-budget filmmaking, with excellent cinematography, editing and use of sound. Just as good, however, is the mentor-student dynamic between Bill and Ryan: it starts as almost comical, each trying to upend the other, but they do reach a mutual respect and even companionship that makes the final revelation carry much more weight. It’s short and sweet. Can’t argue with that.
3. Silverado (1985)
While Wyatt Earp wasn’t that great, Lawrence Kasdan’s previous Western more than made up for it. A ragtag group of men, a Magnificent Four of two brothers, a cowboy and a mystery man rescued in the desert, battle a powerful rancher trying to control the plains by running off the rightful claimants. They battle Bandidos, corrupt law enforcement and even love as they seek to right wrong in Silverado.
The most directly akin to Magnificent Seven in its premise, Silverado is more candid and cheery in tone than the more grounded and grim Fuqua film. Indeed, the writing style has the same tongue in cheek awareness of Kasdan’s own Raiders of the Lost Ark in its presentation of Western tropes, while still delivering on them. The combination of Kevin Kline, Glenn, Danny Glover and Kevin Costner is inspired, all sharing great chemistry with each other, while the likes of Ray Baker and Brian Dennehy are having a ball as the bad guys. If you only know Kline from comedies, be ready to be on the edge of the seat in his climactic gun duel. It hits a great balance of comedy and wonderful action that you shouldn’t miss.
4. Pale Rider (1985)
Wouldn’t be a proper Western list without a mention from Clint Eastwood, the man who has come to embody the genre more than even heavyweights like John Wayne or Randolph Scott did. In this mid-80s offering, which he also directed and produced, Eastwood stars as a mysterious figure known as ‘the Preacher’, who seemingly arrives in answer to the prayers of a young girl whose mining community is being harassed by tycoon Coy LaHood and his men.
Moulded very much from the Dollars framework, especially Fistful, Eastwood delivers a splendid tale of judgement, faith and retribution. Of course, Eastwood directs a good looking film with visceral gunfights that will satisfy his devotees, but he also creates legitimately compelling drama concerning the Preacher’s dynamic with the girl and her family. Her innocence and good nature bring out a humanity in what could’ve merely a distant figure, which only makes you want to see him destroy the mining company that much more. The last act is especially intense but pays off incredibly.
And with that, I’m done. Four other worthy films for you to see if you found yourself quite pleased with Fuqua’s movie. Naturally, there’s an ocean, or trail here, of great Westerns that could’ve been recommended, be it for great drama or exciting gun battles, but I wanted to pick the most inviting to newcomers who may have gotten onboard because of Denzel Washington or Chris Pratt’s involvement. Either way, enjoy the ride, partners.
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Re: want to know
by happywaffle » February 20th, 2013, 1:58 pm
(cont'd)
In the barren wastes of western Nevada, Red Boy was rummaging for edible scraps in Carson City when he felt it.
Alongside the quiet river outside of Mission's End, Doc Jenkins was just taking his morning oatmeal when he felt it.
And inside Dicks's abandoned office back in town, Sheriff Brettsdick returned to consciousness one final time when he felt it—and then felt no more.
Meanwhile, as the city of San Francisco rocked and swayed, and those outside the whorehouse struggled to stay afoot, Cleary's lit cigar rolled unnoticed back into the collapsing stables, coming to rest fatefully in a pile of dried straw.
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by happywaffle » February 21st, 2013, 1:06 pm
(I've reached Jordan Maxwell levels of anticipation for the next chapter)
(Soooo close to the end, who's gonna bring us home?!)
by happywaffle » March 6th, 2013, 12:38 pm
by happywaffle » April 3rd, 2013, 2:08 pm
Tonight, the conclusion gets written…
by Rev. Jordan T. Maxwell » May 13th, 2014, 5:10 pm
The beginning...of the end!
Everything happened very quickly then.
Everything froze then.
A moment. That was all it took. But before it passed in the skip of a heartbeat, it stretched out for the span of eternity.
Cassandra saw the straw catch fire, engulfing Hazel as she cradled Audie’s corpse. Even in the stillness of that moment, Cassandra found it odd that Hazel made no effort to move. But she understood the fatal inevitability of it as she stared up at her own husband.
Jesse saw Cleary scrambling away from the pistol aimed at his head. He no longer cared about the deformed old man, or the Chinaman who had taken the knife from his throat, or the Chinaman’s sister who he’d been so intent on killing mere seconds before.
Nothing else mattered. Only this moment. For all the wasted moments that had passed before it.
They had no more time. They had all the time in the world. Between the space of a breath, they said a lifetime’s worth between their eyes.
“Hey, pretty girl…”
“Hey, cowboy…”
“We made a right mess a’ things, didn’t we?”
“Suppose we did at that.”
“I been thinkin’ back on us, on every step we’ve taken…”
“Along this broken path we been ridin’...”
“I wonder if there was another road to take…”
“But we took the path that was beaten for us…”
“Don’t you dare…”
“If I could change one thing…”
“Not one second…”
“I’d have told you more.”
“...say it now.”
“I love you, pretty girl.”
Cassandra let the breath she’d been holding out. And in that moment, she saw every possibility, every potential, every happy ending she’d ever dreamed burn to ash.
She looked away for only a second, distracted by a symphony of chaos...shattered glass, a gunshot, the cry and whimper of death...and when she looked back, her world was torn in two.
Jesse lay on the ground, a metal rod from the roof above pinning him through his belly. She did not gasp. She did not cry. She walked the few steps to his side, dropped gently to her knees beside him, and placed her hand upon his chest as its rise and fall grew ever more shallow.
“I love you, cowboy.”
Sweetness Prevails.
-the Reverend
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by hujhax » May 14th, 2014, 5:01 pm
The continuation of the end!
"A beast lashes out", Baozhai had told Wu Yun, long ago. "A beast panics, and has no choice but to panic."
Wu Yun asked her, his voice quivering a bit, "You can do better deal today, grandmother?"
Baozhai nodded, slowly. "A person, Wu Yun," she said, "a person can choose to be still."
And so they stood their ground, Wu Yun taking his cue from the old woman, until the bear two yards in front of them roared, and then roared again, and then lumbered away.
But sometimes it was so hard to make that choice. Now it felt like the whole world was on fire -- flames were licking up the walls. A broken pipe poked out of the ground like a cracked bone, shooting out flames. The hot, acrid air was painful to breathe, on top of the steady throb of pain that filled his whole body. The whole building made uneasy creaking sounds.
But he had to be careful. He had to be calm.
He took a slow, shallow breath. He adjusted his grip on his knife. He steadily scanned the room, starting at the window Cleary had just crashed through, and then checking the vicinity of the window. Yes. If he could just move quickly, and calmly, he could get out through --
PING! Something loud, something metallic, rang out above him. Not a bullet, but it was like some sickly, misshapen bell had tolled. His eyes darted up.
And there was an impact -- he spun around instinctively, and then -- then he was flat on his back. He was looking into his sister's eyes, and those eyes were wide with shock... strained... looking past him. She pulled away from him. Wu Yun realized he'd stabbed her in the heart.
"What -- how -- not believe your eyes!" he said, confused and pleading. "Was expecting great savings!" he spat out.
Lien-hua shot a look past his right shoulder. He glanced over, following her gaze. A couple of girders had come unhinged from the roof. One of them had impaled itself in the ground, right where he had been standing and watching, right up until his kid sister had instinctively knocked him out of the way.
He looked back at Lien-hua. "Lifesaving remedy," he said. He looked down to where she clutched at the knife. "Cost is only -- only --"
She sunk against him. "Cost is very affordable," she said. And then, in barely a whisper: "Pay now."
Wu Yun sat very still. Then he began to sing, softly, and in a croaking, almost tuneless voice. And as he started singing the song, he realized it was an old song from the temple, a song he hadn't heard in so long that he didn't even remember it past the first few words.
So Wu Yun sat there, his sister cradled in his arms, and sang whatever nonsense words he could think of. He wasn't sure whether to laugh at himself for babbling meaningless nonsense, or to curse himself for forgetting something that he cherished, or both. But he sang the old melody that Baozhai had sung, all those years ago, to sing his little sister to sleep.
He shut her eyes. He lurched towards the window, aimed his gun out the window unsteadily, and pulled the trigger. What had to be Cleary's voice shouted what had to be a choice collection of profanities with whatever was left of his tongue.
He pulled the trigger again, but Killer of Bad Personss had shot its last bullet. He set the gun down, gazed at it for a moment, and then kicked it out the window.
He shook his head a bit, like he was coming out of a dream, and turned around. "Jesse," he whispered.
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by happywaffle » May 15th, 2014, 8:36 am
The gunshot sent Jesse rocketing to his feet... or would have on any other day. On this day Jesse simply found himself prone in the dirt with his eyes open. There was Cassandra. There was the Chinaman. There was the Chinaman’s sister, lying very still next to him. And there was a steel beam, delivered from God straight into his belly. Jesse was dimly aware of how nonchalantly he regarded the last; he’d seen much the same passivity from the dying men at San Juan Hill when he was a boy. He knew that no country doctor or Eastern poultice would remedy this. Jesse heard the noise.
Cassandra dropped to her knees when she saw her husband was still conscious. “Hey pretty girl,” he muttered, though it tasted of blood for him to say. She held her open palms towards him, as though terrified to touch him. That would be a first. “Hey,” she snapped to someone. “Little girl, go find a doctor.”
Jesse lazily swung his head around to see who she was talking to. There was a young soot-covered whore in the shattered door frame of the brothel, staring back at him in terror. 14, maybe 15 years old--who could keep track of birthdays these days, anyhow? Jesse started to apologize, absurd though it was, for posing such an awful sight. But he stopped when he saw the girl’s dimples: one in her left cheek, one in her chin.
Addy.
Addy Windale.
Was he here with her spirit? Dead already? No. The one girl he had never found, the one who started it all, was standing right here. Delivered by heaven, and just as real as that steel rod in his gut.
Suddenly he knew what had to be done. And he had moments to make it happen.
“Wu Yun,” said Jesse, with a sudden clarity in his voice and his mind. He had to speak loudly to be heard over the noise. The Chinaman appeared over Cassandra’s quivering shoulder.
The noise grew louder, but Jesse’s voice couldn’t match it. He pointed to the girl and mouthed his words carefully. “Get her out of here, Chinaman. Get her to Mission’s End.” Blood was pooling in his mouth, and the noise grew even louder.
Wu Yun showed no understanding, no sympathy. His face was a stone. But as he turned and stepped away, Jesse knew that he would perform this task. And with not a moment to spare. The noise reached a deafening volume. It was almost upon him. He looked one last time into Cassandra’s sea-green eyes. “Pretty girl,” he whispered again, as the noise finally passed over him...
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by jesspasc » May 20th, 2014, 8:28 am
"Hazel!" Addy cried, lunging toward the only woman she knew as a mother. "Hazel!"
"Don't be a fool, girl, she's dead," the other woman said. Addy looked back at her. The scenes could have hung next to each other in a picture gallery. Hazel, kneeling with her arms wrapped around that strange, scarred man, and this other woman gazing down at the limp body of Jesse Calhoun with a detached look on her sooty face.
"Come on," she said, breaking her reverie and grabbing Addy by the hand.
"Hazel--" Addy started, pulling, but at that moment a crack resounded around them and a flaming beam fell between Addy and the pair on the ground.
"I told you, girl, she's dead. Whether she knows it yet or not. Now come on." This time, Addy followed.
The streets outside were unrecognizable. Miss Henry's Sewings & Alterations had toppled sideways like in a children's tale. The corner store where Addy and Hazel had sometimes bought penny candy was on fire and crumbling away. The stables were swaying like they were about to collapse--but right before they went, Addy saw the silhouette of a man on horseback galloping out of the flames. It was the Chinaman who had been in the bar, looking, if possible, even worse than he had then.
"Get…it…up…." he wheezed, barely lifting his head from his chest. His horse, a homely looking nag, rolled its eyes backwards and began to rear. "No, Happy Beauty Pony," the Chinaman whispered, and pat the nag on the neck. It didn't calm, but it stopped its prancing and rearing.
"Get…it…up…" he said again, "Faster…longer…"
"Don't have to ask us twice," the woman said, and threw Addy up on the back of the horse with surprising ease. As she was about to jump up herself, the Chinaman slid down clumsily next to the horse.
"I lead," he wheezed again, clutching his side. When he removed his hand, Addy saw the white of bone sticking through his skin.
"Fine by me," the woman said, and with an athletic leap situated herself behind Addy on the pony.
The fastest pace they could manage was a crawl. As they meandered through the burning city, the Chinaman seemed to have a sixth sense for a path to take. All Addy could do was watch and, through her fear, hope for safety.
"I'm Cassandra," the woman behind her whispered in her ear. "You're Addy, right?"
"Yes," she croaked, her throat lined with smoke.
"I'm gonna take you home, Addy," Cassandra said, and then they were silent. It was an empty promise, to Addy--since she was kidnapped, home had been wherever Hazel was.
It was too much effort to talk, but Addy couldn't help looking. San Francisco had been her home for the last five years, and now it was burning. It was fitting, given the things that had happened to her here, and she wasn't sad to see familiar landmarks present themselves to her as felled monsters, roaring, wailing and hissing as they died.
There were people, too, or, what looked like people. Addy saw a woman carrying what looked like a burnt loaf of bread that she realized after a moment was a bundled infant. She recognized a few members of the homeless teenage gang that roamed the neighborhood, one supporting the other as they called their friends' names into the smoke. As they rounded a corner only a few blocks away from the bar, the Chinaman faltered in his step and Cassandra's grip around her tightened uncomfortably. A one-handed man lay across their path. With his mouth agape, his white teeth and red tongue stood out in contrast to his blackened face. He looked monstrous. Addy hid her eyes. The Chinaman's pause was only momentary; he lead the pony around the man and continued on. Cassandra relaxed. From behind them Addy thought she heard a cough.
They walked for what seemed like forever, and Addy stopped looking. Her eyes glazed and her breathing became shallow and more labored. She barely noticed that the smoke was starting to thin and that she could see daylight in the distance. She didn't even register that the pony had stopped walking until Cassandra shook her shoulders.
"We're out, honey, we're out," Cassandra said, and Addy looked up. They'd made it to a rise and when she turned around she could see the city fanning out behind them, a patchwork of char, brick and flame.
"Take Happy Beauty Pony," the Chinaman said. He must have been in terrible pain, Addy thought, but from his face you couldn't tell.
"All right then," Cassandra said. The Chinaman leaned down and rested his head against the nag's forehead. He closed his eyes briefly and took a deep, rattling breath that seemed to cost him every ounce of his strength.
"Want to meet beautiful Russian girls? Chat now!" he said finally, the trace of a smile on his face. "Bye-bye."
With that, he turned and walked away, back down to the patchwork of destruction.
"Hold on, Chinaman, what in the hell do you think you're doing?" Cassandra said, grabbing Happy Beauty Pony's reins to stop him following his master.
"Wu-Yun…not done…" he replied, so quietly Addy barely heard him.
"You can leave him, Wu-Yun!" Cassandra said, "Just leave him!"
"No," the Chinaman said, "Want to know."
“Want to know what?” Cassandra called as she tried to calm the pony, who was now prancing in agitated circles. Addy slumped backwards onto Cassandra's chest, her eyes fluttering with the effort of staying on the pony and not passing out. Cassandra continued to circle the top of the hill with her eyes trained on the receding figure. Addy struggled to keep her eyes on him, the exhaustion taking her over.
“Want to know what?!” Cassandra called again. The Chinaman never turned around, nor slowed his gait. Within moments he had vanished into the smoke.
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Much has been said about the need to “calm the markets”… when what should be done sufficiently in advance is to calm the people, who won’t tolerate much longer the social inequities and this entirely disrupted economic system, with biased rating agencies.
In Italy the Coliseum is intended to be privatized… when a cultural symbol of such magnitude should be totally "italian”, totally "roman”, of a creative people who are in the hands of a few unscrupulous citizens.
I’ve read in the press: “The scandal of mass layoffs will bring down Chávez and Griñán”, in the opinion of the Popular Party candidate to the Andalusian regional government, while they are presenting a handful of candidates who are presently under criminal investigation and who actually have good perspectives of being elected, according to the opinion polls. Is it true that “with more corruption, more votes”? Despite party loyalty and blindness toward certain cases, I refuse to believe this.
Petroleum consumption is on the rise… and so are oil prices! And, thus, carbon dioxide emissions are also increasing. With increased consumption, you would expect prices to go down… . It is urgent to support renewable energies! It is one of our foremost commitments to future generations.
There’s no money to fight extreme poverty, nor to maintain the healthcare in the United States that President Obama had achieved despite the Republicans’ lack of solidarity… and there’s no way on earth to get them to even minimally cut military expending.
“Microcredits” provided excellent mini-solutions for many people… but as I warned many years ago, there was a risk that the “macrocredits” for development cooperation granted to replace exploitation would soon dry up.
Instead of admitting the reality of citizens’ quality of life, international financial institutions and the World Bank insist on using indices such as the GDP and per capita income. And, thus, it turns out that Uganda and Ruanda have shown “spectacular growth”. But this is mostly due to the coltan mined in the Kivu region by huge multinational consortia, which leaves the country via Kampala and Kigali, but which in no way benefits the native Congolese. So I must insist: if we ignore reality, we will never be able to provide appropriate solutions.
We talk of the overriding need to guarantee freedom of the press… while watching so many television channels concentrated in the same hands and, at the newsstands, choosing from so many biased newspapers that only reflect their “master’s voice”...
The markets must be regulated and tax havens must be shut down… In the end it is they who are regulating daily politics and providing selfish citizens opportunities to commit tax fraud. We’ve read in the press that “The European Union has reinforced its rescue fund in exchange for a strict social adjustment program”. I am sure that in a few months this type of news will no longer be published, because distance participation will enable citizens to make the right decisions in democracies consolidated through their intervention.
The social programs supported by savings banks have also been greatly cut back… . Another incongruency: the social programs have always been the “popular difference” that distinguished savings banks from other financial institutions. It’s clear that, until now, the chain always breaks at the weakest link. But, once again, take note of the “virtual tidal wave” and before they know it they will no longer be able to continue with this type of incongruencies.
Incongruencies, incongruencies… but for how long?
Publicado por Federico Mayor Zaragoza en 4:56 AM
Etiquetas: Incongruencies
1) The lack of solidarity of those who fail to pay their taxes –to share democratically and ensure that everyone has access to the social security system and health care, free education, and basic quality services…., choosing instead to deposit their money in tax “havens” that zealously keep the identity of their investors secret. This is a collective shame. Europe is scattered with countries whose largest source of revenue are funds deposited by selfish tax evaders.
When the failing financial institutions were rescued in November, 2008, the G-20 plutocrats assured law-abiding tax payers that this time the global banking system would be regulated and tax havens would be closed down for once and for all… But once again they broke their promises.
Governments should penalize this shameful situation for the social damage it causes, and regulate it through a reinforced United Nations backed by the whole of its member states.
A news item published not long ago underscored that thousands of Spaniards maintain accounts in Switzerland. Well, let it be known because if it is “normal” it should be transparent… and if it’s not transparent, then it’s certainly suspect.
3) The lack of solidarity of those who promote or tolerate a black market economy… who are often also those who rail against the high unemployment rate, whose “official” figures include a large percentage of “non-VAT” workers. This is another instance of a lack of employer solidarity that must be urgently remedied.
4) The lack of solidarity of those who for greed excessively “delocalize” production, just as Spain was used when we were a “developing country”. A huge amount of production has been transferred to countries in which labor costs are much lower (and where workplace conditions are often intolerably inhumane).
5) The lack of solidarity of those who file tax returns to pay less than they should, using every possible loophole (even legal ones…)
We are presently plagued by a systemic crisis, and the irreducible beneficiaries of globalization continue to work to ensure their survival and permanence.
Citizens must urgently take action to close down tax havens, to flush out the underground economy, to bring home the production of goods from places so distant from consumers that it cannot be justified, even in environmental terms.
If we act with solidarity, our problems will be resolved. Otherwise, our government leaders will continue to be trapped by opaque and protected markets, and politicians will continue to make empty promises aimed to attract voters, knowing all the while that if elected they will have to do what the system dictates… or simply look ridiculous, like those leaders who fly on low-cost airlines while drastically decreasing subventions for education and raising taxes…
Lack of solidarity, no. “The Peoples” will no longer tolerate it.
Etiquetas: Lacks of solidarity
In addition to interpreting laws according to their “progressive” or “conservative” political affiliations, which is a recurring issue that is difficult to explain and casts doubts as to the impartiality of certain judges, another related matter of much concern is the different level of diligence evident in certain courts. Thus, to cite two well-known examples, in Castellon and Valencia days, months and even years may pass, even beyond the statute of limitations for criminal prosecutions, while in Seville, to mention another more recent example, cases are diligently expedited, being enthusiastically supported by those accused in the “slower” prosecutions.
Let there be no mistake: the “democratic principles” so well proclaimed in the UNESCO Constitution commence with the judicial system. Let’s all work together to foster a quick “normalization” of this cornerstone of the future we all desire.
Otherwise, the peoples, who now have a voice, will no longer tolerate these time unbalances or the biased and partial verdicts of our judicial system.
This is good news for the economy and for dignity. As a scientist, I will never tire of repeating that reality can only be transformed to the extent that it is actually known. If only partially known, solutions will likewise be partial.
We were aware that there were many people and companies working “underground”, unknown, and the level of tax fraud and lack of solidarity that this represents.
In the interest of everyone, transparency, true knowledge of reality, will facilitate radical changes.
Etiquetas: Economy
Throughout history many wars have been proclaimed “just..." by those who started them. As the United Nations Charter very clearly indicates, an armed conflict may only be initiated when preventive mechanisms have failed, and all –or a large majority- of countries deem confrontation with the aggressor warranted. Confrontation may become inevitable, but it is not "just".
Once again, Forges’ masterly comic strip, published in "El País" on March 22, says it better than any treatise could:
There are not just wars and unjust wars: there are only abominable wars
How could you paint it in the sky?
Because the truth is written even in the air
Etiquetas: Wars
Like humanity itself, the wind that carries the voice of the peoples, secularly silent, silenced, originated in Africa. It will now reach the whole world.
We must react wisely and timely. Not like in Libya. The time for dominating powers, for groups of plutocrats, is over.
It is time to unite, for a strong United Nations with a General Assembly that represents all of “the Peoples”. And an expanded and balanced Security Council, with the appropriate advisors, to likewise deal with questions of economic, environmental, energy and food security nature.
A United Nations to “save the future generations from the scourge of war”, the supreme commitment.
Do we realize how perfectly the UN Charter’s luminous mandate is being drawn?:
building peace
It is essential to achieve democracies that are “less formal” than the present ones in which obedience and biased interests drown out debate and the possibility for advancement and progress. Democracies hounded by the markets that, surreptitiously, are actually those in command.
Will our present political leaders be capable of rising to this great challenge?
Do those who are now champions in the use of force, under strict limitations and for the specific purposes authorized by the Security Council, really believe that they will find a solution to the fratricidal excesses in Libya by threatening to drag the Libyan leader, who they so strongly armed, before the Criminal Court?
Do those who until only a few weeks ago received the now “dictator” Gaddafi with honors really believe this? Those who allowed him to set up his tent in prominent venues, awarded him medals –and even academic degrees- and sold him immense arsenals of war material?
They must now seek a clever way out of this mess. And after…
After seeing that the oil and profits to be made will go to the Libyan people (in that regard, who is now exploiting the oilfields in Iraq?)... Let’s not let that happen in Libya.
Later, after calmly considering what has happened in Iraq –millions of displaced people, thousands of dead and injured by an invasion based on lies and strategic and oil interests-… and in Gaza, for example…
Then, and only then, may Gaddafi and other autocrats be judged with reliable evidence.
Later. But right now find a peaceful solution that, as I have repeatedly underscored, should have been sought before, through the United Nations with the support of the world’s superpowers (which continue to attempt to govern the world with groups of plutocrats).
Later, perhaps. Now, urgently stop the conflict.
Etiquetas: Conflict, Gaddafi, Libya, United Nations
Not everything is permissible, neither in form or substance, in order to mislead citizens for electoral purposes.
Following Stéphane Hessel’s wise recommendation, let’s get angry. Let’s cease to remain passive when once again we observe politicians who, offering no solutions and some of whom are surrounded by scandal and accused of corruption, who even came to power in questionable circumstances involving well-compensated vote-switching, are now at the highest level –those involved in the 1998 negotiations and in the Azores- slinging accusations against the Government and the police forces based on documents from ETA!
There is a limit to everything, especially in light of the great progress made in the fight against terrorism. Giving this group credibility will have consequences that this improper attitude deserves. It will truly have a boomerang effect.
It is not acceptable for the communications media to repeat not only the same insidious claims, but also to use language inappropriate from a democratic perspective and unwarranted for many citizens who, unaware, risk actually believing these outrageous remarks.
This is intolerable. It’s disgraceful.
Let’s raise our voices in protest. It’s a crime to remain silent.
Etiquetas: Angry, Stéphane Hessel
A new lesson, to endow the United Nations with the authority that is essential if it is to promptly fulfill its mission of preventing the “scourge of war ".
When the present powers that be, who only know how to use force, turn to the United Nations, it is only at the last minute in situations such as the present one when there’s no alternative to war, but which is better than ignoring the UN as was the case in Iraq.
The G-8 and G20 should disappear from the international scene once and for all, because their decisions always come too late, at the wrong time, or never.
If 20 days ago they had unanimously supported the United Nations, peace could have been negotiated because all countries in the world oppose Gaddafi’s brutal tactics. Now, once again, we must resort to the language of bombs. But since until only a few weeks ago they were selling arms to the “dictator”, the weapons used on each side are the same and are known to all...
Let’s once and for all rid ourselves of the embarrassment of these “acrobat” leaders who without compass or measure one day embrace him and the next day disown him. And although they don’t want to recognize it, this is a systemic crisis and what they must promptly do is to turn world governance upside down and with courage and intelligence replace the G20 with a G-196, with all nations... because all countries suffer the consequences of the current plutocracy.
It’s true, we could not consent to what was happening. No one can fire on his own people with impunity... but when political determination was needed to promptly and unanimously apply diplomatic and economic pressure, force was used instead, with results that will always be unpredictable and considerable “collateral effects”.
They now commit acts of war with the same diligence with which they sold him weapons just a month ago. It’s essential that we learn this terrible lesson and take measures to ensure that similar opprobrium is not repeated.
Look at what is happening in Bahrain and Yemen. Isn’t it time to end the dreams of domination of Reagan, Thatcher and the groups of plutocrats to return to a United Nations as it should be, and quickly make it strong, efficient and respected by all?
Etiquetas: Libya, Peace
Only a strong… and united (!) United Nations will be able...
To serve as a valid and efficient spokesman, representing all countries and not merely a few (European Union, OECD, Arab League... each, moreover, with its “less than exemplary” history) to intervene –and prevent- situations that Gaddafi’s Libya so dramatically represents...
As was to be expected, we are reaching a point of no return, and we will lose a historic opportunity, with many victims and much suffering.
The G-8 and G-20 continue to crumble, while the United Nations isn’t receiving –and this would be the moment to do so- the support needs to play the role that only it can play.
If it receives the support of all of the “globalizers” who seek to be the dominant power, and having been entrusted with an unpostponable universal commitment to the future generations, the United Nations is the only institution capable of reaching a global energy agreement that respects the environment, to henceforth regulate the consumption, use and characteristics of different energy sources (including, and foremost, oil and nuclear energy).
Only the United Nations system has the capacity to coordinate and implement the appropriate courses of action to respond to natural or man-made disasters and to reduce their impact, with the right technology and properly trained personnel...
Only a strong and united United Nations can provide a universally-recognized reference for the arbitration of such “new” and urgent global matters such as the management of Internet...
The time for neo-liberal globalization, for G groups and dominant powers is over. “The Peoples” referred to in the United Nations Charter are now beginning to make their voices heard.
Etiquetas: United Nations
Crime of silence: the time has come. It’s time for action
Editorial Comanegra has just released “Crime of Silence: the time has come. It’s time for action", a publication in which its author, Federico Mayor Zaragoza urges citizens to take a stand and take the reins of their destinies into their own hands, rather than remaining silent spectators, and to say ENOUGH!
Awareness, foresight, prevention. Behaving in such as way as to forge the future and invent a tomorrow in consonance with equal dignity for all human beings. This commitment to the future generations requires profound transformations and radical changes, but also that we preserve the essential values that must guide our steps and serve as a point of reference when responding to the great challenges that we face.
Thus, against the wind, we must plow our fields and plant our seeds, even in bad weather and hostile environments. For centuries, in male-dominated circles of power there has been a culture of imposition, violence and dominance. And people, as obedient vassals, have remained silent and fearful.
But at last the time has come for the peoples, the women and men of the whole world, to take the reins of their destinies into their own hands. The time has come to refuse to accept the unacceptable. To rise up, to raise our voices and to offer an outstretched hand.
Information and communications technologies now make distance participation possible. And, thus, they can facilitate a transition from an economy of speculation and war to an economy of sustainable global development. From subjects to citizens. From force to words.
The time has come. It’s time for action, and to cease being passive spectators.
The time for silence is over.
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Etiquetas: crime of silence, Silence
This “tidal wave” can only be contained by a United Nations duly endowed with the necessary authority.
Now it turns out that the solution to the crisis in Libya “will be political and not military,” according to the same European leader who SOME days ago frenetically unleashed all possible military resources...
It’s clear. This “tidal wave” was foreseeable, commencing with the neighboring countries.
It was foreseeable that groups of globalizing plutocrats, hounded by the markets, would be unable to provide good governance.
It was foreseeable that, as designed by Roosevelt, only a strong United Nations with sufficient authority could now undisputedly offer the only possible solution.
To all of those who finally opted for a military solution rather than having previously chosen a political one: we must now recommend that they not delay taking these decisions, as they did before... because this “tidal wave” can no longer be stopped.
Etiquetas: Libya, Peoples, United Nations
For many years, as Director General of UNESCO, created to “avoid war” and “build peace in the minds of men,” I have underscored the need to come together in dialogue and conciliation before conflicts arise or, at least, as soon as they commence.
Instead of seeking the Security Council’s permission last hour to reduce Gaddafi by force, the United Nations’ Member States should have unanimously supported earlier the UN as the major negotiator in preventing the conflict.
Maximo’s cartoon in the March 25th issue of ABC is excellent. It says so much in so few words! (and it certainly stands out among so many words that say so little.)
Etiquetas: Diplomacy, Gaddafi
Yes, we should stop Gaddafi’s deadly acts against his dissident citizens. This has been authorized by the United Nations Security Council. But simultaneously we must do what should have been done a long time ago: talk. Talk under the supervision of the United Nations. There have been proposals for mediation from Venezuela, Russia, Brazil, BRIC…
The United Nations, which authorized this military action, should now force the parties to mediate. This is essential. And this is the UN’s principal role.
And it should be made quite clear for the future that the “world’s leaders” cannot continue to attempt to govern through the G-8 or the G-20, only seeking the United Nations’ “placet” when there is no other option.
From now on, instead of turning to the United Nations as a last resort, that’s where we should start. All countries must unite with the United Nations… instead of permanently alienating the UN.
In that regard, it is simply immoral to compare a military action such as this one, limited exclusively to stopping an intolerable repression, with the invasion of Iraq, based on lies and on energy and geo-strategic ambitions. Those who promoted it knowing that no arsenals of mass destruction existed will be seriously accountable to history.
Etiquetas: Gaddafi, Libya, United Nations
Democracy should not tolerate such abuse
In today’s ABC, Gabriel Albiac published a column entitled “An Honorable Exit”. It was devoted to the President of the Government, to whom he referred in different paragraphs of his article as a “smiling nobody”, a “fool armed with resounding nonsense” and the “dumb one in the tribe”. He ends the article by saying, “I don’t know whether it’s true that he is planning to resign now, after having botched everything in both word and deed, to later return home as if nothing had happened. In his place, the least I would do would be to blow my brains out. With dignity.”
This is intolerable. This final paragraph borders on the criminal, and demands rectification and apologies.
Mr. Albiac should not have written this. ABC should not have published this.
As a tireless promoter of a culture of peace, I respect all types of criticism –and praise!-, all points of view and all opinions, although they may be radically opposed to my own. But violence, no. Imposition, no. Threats, no. Given the extent of this defamation, it is obvious that Mr. Albiac’s brain isn’t functioning properly. I trust that his mental disorder will only be temporary.
Etiquetas: ABC, Democracy, Press
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Exhibitions and Fairs in Berlin
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The beautiful city of Berlin has become one of Europe’s most important tourist destinations. Therefore, the city’s economy revolves around tourism, but also the services sector and technology companies. Berlin Trade Fair, Berlin Messe, spread over 260 thousand square meters, hosts around a hundred events a year, involving more than 34 000 exhibitors and 2.3 million visitors.
How to reach Berlin and Berlin Messe
Berlin is the hub of a network of rail corridors that link East and West Europe: Berlin’s central station, Berlin Hauptbahnhof, was opened in 2006 on the Stadtbahn railway line, which runs through downtown Berlin. There are 15 S-Bahn lines (suburban railway system) available in the city, and nine U-Bahn lines, the subway network, which runs mostly underground. 10 ferry lines operate on and across River Spree. Berlin Messe, in Messedamm, is reachable via train, Berlin Messe stop, on the Stadtbahn, and via shuttle bus and lines U2 and S5 from the airport.
Where to stay in Berlin
The city is increasingly becoming a tourist destination: more than 11.3 million overnight stays are currently registered annually. Over the last ten years, the hotel offer in Berlin has much improved, thanks to the restoration of old hotels and the construction of new ones in the east of the city. The largest concentration of hotels in Berlin is in Charlottenburg, the commercial heart of the city. From 2 and 3 star hotels in the area of Kreuzberg you can easily reach the bars and clubs on the banks of the Spree, one of the trendiest areas of the city.
Hot spots in Berlin for the after-show
Berlin offers plenty of opportunities for fun, especially in recent years, due to the increase in tourism activity. The neighborhoods where nightlife and good eats abound are Charlottenburg, in particular around Savignyplatz, with popular clubs such as Tresor, where the best DJs in the world perform, and Watergate, with stages for live music. In Berlin’s Mitte, around Alexanderplatz, there are more than 200 night clubs, including King Kong Klub, with its retro atmosphere. The lesbian and gay life is very lively in the city and is centered around Nollendorfplatz, in what is called the Pink Village. Those who prefer a less chaotic fun, may enjoy Berlin’s theaters: the Berliner Ensemble in Brecht-Platz or the Theater des Westens in Kantstrasse.
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Comic Book Adaptations
By JackFetch, October 2, 2008 in Comic Book Adaptations
Father of two
Location:The United States of America
Page 6 on Twitter:
Joel Schumacher has estimated that he’s had up to 20,000 sexual partners
And a comment under that Tweet:
Is he counting the people who paid money to see “Batman & Robin” as people he F***ed?
I am just glad Bane is no longer radioactive thanks to The Dark Knight Rises.
I am usually referred to as The Master—universally.
Location:Chicago, IL
Donomark
You can beg better than that.
Location:Nashville, TN
I'm gonna be honest...hardly anything about this film has me excited. It's a total wait and see until the reviews come out, as most everything I've heard come out of this sounds far away from my alley.
Margot Robbie was the best thing about Suicide Squad. I'm looking forward to it!
Curious what y'all think of this.
You Know Who
Location:Philadelphia, PA
Yes. Particularly the second-to-last sentence in the first paragraph.
This has been the discourse over the film since the reviews came out. I don't imagine it'll be as fuckboy-defensive as people are expecting it to be, but I don't think it'll be nearly as self-aware of itself as it really should be either. It's gotten such rave critical reviews, I can't help but he intrigued, but it also doesn't look like more than what it is, which is your basic "One Bad Day" woobie-ing of the Joker to justify some really horrible, anarchy shit. Ultimately the discourse, IMO, has gotten incredibly basic fast, but the movie - ultimately - looks to be just as basic as the discussion over it, so it probably won't be worth anyone's time when everything is all said and done.
Pan-dub
Hoi Sin Crispy Owl
Location:Middle England
Suicide Squad cast revealed.
Includes Peter Capaldi, Taika Waititi and John Cena. No Awful Joker.
This is actually encouraging, and seems like a boon more towards a traditional, mad-cap, cast inclusive Suicide Squad. The team should be an ensemble, and the Ayer movie was clearly the Will and Harley show.
Hey Dudes.
Location:New Richmond, WI
Michael Rooker? Say hello to Harley's Mentor, Undu Yodunta.
Also the Captain of The Squad's personal transport, Reynold Malcolm.
I'm joking, but James Gunn is fucking crazy.
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I've Got a Headache
Location:Dayton, OH
Tom Welling is playing Clark Kent again for Crisis on Infinite Earths and it's honestly sounding like it's the Smallville Clark.
Is there anything this crossover is holding back from?
I think the only thing left on my wish-list would be to see Rosenbaum as Lex and Mark Hamill as Joker, but the news has been so unendingly awesome that I'm more than satisfied.
Michael Keaton's Bruce Wayne please!
And now we got Erica Durance as Lois.
On 9/19/2019 at 2:27 PM, The Master said:
Here's what I think would be interesting: The Billy Dee Williams and Tommy Lee Jones versions of Harvey Dent meet, and have the change of races described as some sort of Multiverse blip that went noticed until now.
Ashley Scott who played Huntress in the 1 Season Birds of Prey series is reprising the role for Crisis.
This thing is gonna be a fucking ride!
Via EW, we have our first official image of Brandon Routh as the older, grey-templed Superman. I'm probably wrong, but based on the trunks I'm thinking Routh isn't playing the same Superman from Superman Returns (RE: the Christopher Reeve version). Instead, I think he's playing an older version of the George Reeves Superman.
Most of the sources say Kingdom Come Superman.
Bruh...
Calling it nao: This is the coolest Superman has looked in live action ever.
He has the look of a man who has cucked James Marsden 👍
Who hasn't cucked James Marsden?
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Sultan's Standard (Oman)
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Keywords: oman | sultan | bordure (green) | bordure (red) | fimbriation (green) | swords: crossed (yellow) | khanjar (yellow) | belt (yellow) | crown: royal (oman) | wings (yellow) |
image by Željko Heimer, 21 August 2002
It might be worth mentioning that the Sultan has two "capital cities", Musqat and Salalah, although Musqat is the only official capital city of the Sultanate.
After having overthrown his father in 1970, Sultan Qabus decided to modernize the country and to solve the national conflicts through negociation rather than bombing. His father prefered to ask the British Resident to send RAF aircrafts to get rid of the rebels. Ironically, Qabus was educated in Sandhurst Academy and advised by British officers to overthrow his father.
The province of Dhofar, in the south-west of the country, near Yemen, was incorporated to Oman in 1879. Successive rebellions turned into an organized guerilla in the 1970s, with the creation in South Yemen of the People's Front for Liberation of Oman and the Arab Gulf. In December 1975, an agreement was found with the rebels, and the Sultan decided he would spend the six winter months in Salalah, the capital city of Dhofar, and the six summer months in Musqat.
I was in Musqat in Summer 1998, and I saw the Sultan's flag hoisted over his palace.
Red flag with broad green orle and yellow emblem in the middle. The emblem consists of the national emblem with wings and topped with the Omani crown (which includes another national emblem itself). Source: Album des Pavillons 2000 [pay00].
Željko Heimer, 21 August 2002
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We Want a Clean and Fair Election
Bagan Pinang is one of the four state seats in the parliamentary constituency of Teluk Kemang in Port Dickson of Negeri Sembilan and the only state seat held by UMNO in the Parliamentary of Teluk Kemang. The Election Commission has fixed October 11 (Sunday) for the polling day and nomination of candidates is on October 3 (Saturday). There has been inconsistency in the fixing of polling days in the recent past few by-elections with polling days being fixed on a working weekday in opposition held seats.
There are a total of 13,644 registered voters in this state by election of which 4,604 voters are registered as postal votes making up a big share of 33.74% of the total votes. There have been many constant grouses on the anomalies of postal votes and one of the concerns raised by Bersih (Coalition for Clean and Fair Election) an alliance of about 70 civil society organization and several political parties which held a mammoth rally of about 100,000 peaceful protesters in November of 2007 calling for clean and fair election.
Bersih’s concerned with postal voting, limited to police and army personnel, and overseas students. In the General Election of March 2008, more than 221,000 voters use postal votes, but the tallied votes are not necessarily counted among those from voters’ home districts. Although the Army Div 2 Base in Georgetown, Penang, houses only a security guard, some 500 voters are registered to that address. A lack of transparency raises questions about how votes are assigned, including concerns that they may be arbitrarily allocated to benefit districts where the vote is close.
I will like to highlight a few salient points from Dr Mohd Raflick in his article from the blogsite Right2Write as below:
Some people may be wondering when and how the votes can be manipulated. Firstly soldiers can be brought in and their names are published as unit member’s days before the election. Those who are brought normally have been screened and selected. They will be briefed and will be ordered wisely. They will be told that informed that the Army has ways to find out who they voted for. Indeed the system is not perfect. Post election, we could find out who the soldiers voted based on the serial numbers on the paper as well as the soldiers Bat C 10 No.
Since the soldiers voted earlier than the general public, there is a long waiting time between the actual voting and the counting of their votes. These votes can be manipulated. The bags that contain the votes can disappears or be change. This is a serious concern that can actually change the result of an election.
The system is not perfect. It is open for manipulation by design. No serious effort is being taken by EC to ensure that soldiers voting exercise would be free from influence.
Maybe the EC should maintain a separate electoral rolls for soldiers and policeman which is updated quarterly and during a by election, the latest list is to be used. The election must be done outside their camps in public areas and managed accordingly by civilian volunteers under the eyes of the respective agents. Their votes must be counted on the same day and the result is announced to the agents as well as the public. The downside of this process outweighs the benefit of convincing the public that EC is truly fair and clean.
Extract of an interview by R.Nadeswaran and Terrence Fernandez of the Sun with Anwar Ibrahim on the 27 March 2008 after the General Election of 8 March 2008 on postal votes as follows:
Nades: Should the postal votes be abolished as we are not at war or in emergency. It was (mostly) meant for our servicemen in the jungles during the Emergency and the war against the communists.
Anwar: No. Postal voting can be conducted in a transparent and fair manner. These people … they virtually have robbed the people of their votes.
Like in Setiawangsa (which was won by Datuk Seri Zulhasnan Rafi que) … we won. Then came 14,000 postal votes.
Terence: We cannot prove this but is there any truth that in Lembah Pantai, where your daughter Nurul Izzah was contesting (and won against Datuk Seri Shahrizat Abdul Jalil), there were similar attempts?
Anwar: Yes. But there was not enough to go around. In Teluk Kemang 7,000 postal votes were brought in, still our guys managed to win.
Which means the number supporting us is big. That’s why I said, we will win if we get 55%. Even during the campaign I said you want to win with 50%, forget it!
Malaysians from all quarters has called for greater transparency in the voting process from postal votes and this cannot be further ignored or swept aside by the Election Commission and the Government. The people is calling for transparency and will no longer tolerate any anomalies, all votes must be counted and witnessed by the people and this is an ultimatum, we want to see our votes being counted.
Prof Dr Mohamad Agus Yusoff of Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia said the EC must convince voters that the process would be fair and impartial as postal votes accounted for 33.7 per cent of 13,644 votes in the constituency. He said the opposition would create a perception among voters that the postal votes would be manipulated by Barisan Nasional (BN).
Datuk Seri Abdul Hadi Awang also voiced doubts over whether the results of the by-election would truly represent the people’s choice, in view of the high number of postal voters in the constituency. Abdul Hadi said that if the EC revamped the system and allowed postal voters to cast their votes like any other constituent, this would ensure some amount of fairness, transparency and democracy in the voting process.
“We want them (postal voters) to even be given the right to attend political campaigns and ceramahs without being stopped by certain quarters.
“If possible, we want political parties to be allowed to come and keep watch over the postal voting process and we want their votes to be kept truly secret,” he said.
Human Rights Watch had in 2008 called on national election monitors tn Malaysia to thoroughly investigate any claims of electoral fraud and irregularities, and to provide for greater transparency by posting vote tallies outside polling stations before votes are transferred to the Election Commission.
“Voters in Malaysia deserve a chance for every vote to count and count equally”
Elaine Pearson – Human Rights Watch
Labels: Government, ISA and Human Rights, Must Read, Politics and Election
Richard Loh said...
Dirty and unfair are the viagra for umno to stay in power. Take away these, they become potent.
zorro said...
Xcellent and well researched post. I will link you in my next post on postal voting.
Hi Richard, i think you mean impotent :)
Thanks zorro, we have to change the system and they must give us complete transparency on the polling process.
...kami tau apa nak buat laa...ok !
Hi Anon 9.32pm,
Siapa lah "kami"?
kami = olang EC !
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Marine Heroes #8 - Raymond Davis
Rank: General
Hometown: Fitzgerald, GA
Bright flashes and loud explosions burst all around the First Battalion of the Seventh Marines as they marched up a narrow gravel trail, hardly suitable for even the local ox-carts. They were up 3,000 feet in the frigid North Korean mountains with sniper bullets coming from every direction.
Lt. Colonel Raymond Davis suddenly fell to the ground as a shell struck his helmet. His thick winter clothing had already been pierced by two bullets, but Davis got back to his feet to lead his men.
A company of Marine riflemen were trapped by a Chinese surprise attack at the Chosin Reservoir. He and his men fought as they climbed three ridges, traversed the narrow path for eight miles, and dug through the frozen snow in temperatures as low as -35°F, the coldest Korean winter in 100 years.
Lt. Colonel Davis and his First Battalion saved those riflemen, and fought to hold the narrow mountain pass for another dozen days as two Marine regiments escaped destruction. The withdrawal, the longest in American military history, would take 13 days and cost many lives.
The Korean War began on June 25, 1950 when nearly one hundred thousand soldiers from the North crossed the 38th parallel that divided South Korea from the Communist North Korea. Unprepared and overwhelmed, the South Korean army was almost destroyed and the South's capitol city of Seoul fell to the invaders within days.
The tide of the war dramatically turned on September 15th when General Douglas McArthur led his forces through the dramatic landing at Inchon. Victory was swift and decisive until the Americans and British forces neared the border with China. The North Koreans were devastated.
The Chinese had warned the United Nations forces not to cross the 38th parallel, and in November 1950, about 8,000 Americans, mostly Marines, were stealthily surrounded by 100,000 experienced Chinese soldiers. At that moment, Raymond Davis was sent to rescue the Marines who had been cut-off.
Lt. Colonel Davis was awarded the Medal of Honor by President Truman for that bitter cold, valiant mission in the mountains of Korea. During his long career he also received the Navy Cross in World War II, two Distinguish Service Medals, 2 Silver Stars, 2 Legion of Merits, Bronze Star , a Purple Heart, 5 Presidential Unit Citations, 3 NUCs.
Over three decades, Raymond Davis also filled every possible staff and command assignment. During his military career, he has commanded every level of combat from platoon to Division. He was Executive Officer of the 7th Marines in Korea. Lieutenant Colonel Davis was also in 14 Campaigns, World War II, Korean War, Vietnam and has been awarded Seven Foreign Awards. He retired in 1972 as a full four-star General.
Raymond Davis is a true American hero.
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Update 19 January 2016: ‘Sod it!’ in Villers-Bret
Minister Robert turns the first sod of the Monash Interpretive Centre and defends its cost against critics, including Honest History. The Minister’s view on cost drivers differs from that of a senior official of his department.
Update 15 January 2016: Mustafa Kemal’s sword, 1918
Evidence on both sides of an alleged incident where Mustafa Kemal (later Ataturk) surrendered to an Australian colonel in Syria, 1918. More from Honest History’s associate, Cengiz Ozakinci, in Ankara.
Update 11 January 2016: Australian Anzac centenary spend hits $A562 million
Anzac centenary minister Robert announces $A10 million donation by Rio Tinto to Anzac Centenary Public Fund, taking total Australian estimated spend to $A562 million. Minister Robert does not announce that Rio Tinto donation is equivalent to 0.1 per cent of Rio Tinto Group’s profit.
Update 23 December 2015: Monash boondoggle contract awarded; Gallipoli evacuation centenary
Minister Robert has announced the award of a construction contract (to a French company) for the Monash interpretive centre in France. The weekend was the centenary of the evacuation from Gallipoli and the occasion was marked during the regular Australian War Memorial Last Post ceremony.
Update 18 December 2015: former Anzac centenary minister Ronno to resign; ex-Digger to head War Graves (updated)
This post records that former Minister Senator Michael Ronaldson is leaving the Senate. We found notable his views on blood sacrifice by children and his arithmetic. Also, there is to be a new head of the Office of Australian War Graves.
Update 16 December 2015: Villers-Bretonneux boondoggle survives blunt Budget axe
An analysis of the Mid-Year Economic and Fiscal Outlook (MYEFO) efficiencies affecting areas of interest to Honest History. The egregious Monash museum project at Villers-Bretonneux (cost $100 million) has not been touched (though it is rumoured to be under question) and the Australian War Memorial has not been subjected to an additional 0.5 per cent efficiency dividend, unlike other national cultural institutions.
Update 14 December 2015: where are all the war books this Anzac centenary Christmas?
A note on Fairfax media’s roundup of the 2015 reading lists of 36 Australian writers. They recommend around 150 books between them and only two of the books mentioned touch tangentially on war. No Anzackery, no Anzac. Don’t these people know there is a war commemoration on?
Update 1 December 2015: are we yet at ‘peak Anzac’ and is ‘a century of service’ enough?
‘Easy from now on’?
Has the Anzac centenary industry hit its highest point? Have we reached ‘peak Anzac’? As early as August, the Lone Pine commemoration fell a bit flat (see Update 1 September) and there were signs that the then minister was turning his attention to the commemoration of the Vietnam War. The term ‘commemoration fatigue’ was starting to be uttered. Since then, the new prime minister has seemed to lack the infatuation with military matters that characterised his predecessor.
Anzac biscuits. The illustration is from Anzac.com, a website owned by OTTI Travel, based in Kusadasi, Turkey. The backdrop illustration on Anzac.com is of the Roll of Honour at the Australian War Memorial, complete with poppies. Honest History has asked the Department of Veterans’ Affairs how this website stands in relation to Australian regulations protecting the use of the word ‘Anzac’.
Recent seminars in Brisbane, Hobart and Canberra have adopted a questioning tone. The long-awaited and recently released book World War One: a History in 100 Stories turns the familiar tools of emotion and sentiment against the received and simplistic ‘birth of a nation, Anzac spirit’ view of the war. Meanwhile, greedy commercial interests seeking golden eggs have badly wounded the Anzac goose.
Looking ahead, colleagues canvassing Australian government Great War commemorative intentions for 2016 have gained the impression that, Fromelles and Pozieres in July aside, the agenda is fairly much bare. Fromelles itself (frequently billed as ‘the worst 24 hours in Australian history’) is a pretty grim episode which lacks the nationalistic marketing appeal of Gallipoli. (Peter FitzSimons’ Fromelles & Pozieres seems to lack much of the tub-thumping jingoism of its predecessor Gallipoli; the Fitzkrieg, rightly, has lost some momentum.)
Then there is Vietnam. By hanging official Vietnam War commemoration off the 50th anniversary of the Battle of Long Tan, just a month after the centenary of Fromelles, the government may risk an extreme case of midwinter community jading. The prominence being given to Long Tan is puzzling, given its relatively small contribution to overall Australian casualties in the war. Perhaps focusing on one battle will avoid re-opening wider issues; there has already been enough misrepresentation and half-truth about Australia’s Vietnam.
The Long Tan commemoration and other non-Great War events are officially part of the commemoration of the ‘century of service’ by Australia’s defence forces. In some ways this milestone is more deserving of recognition than the narrower Anzac centenary: in every ‘war or warlike operation’, time after time, it is defence personnel who cop it and carry the load, even as politicians and other urgers burble about ‘Anzac values’ and ‘martial tradition’. But the centenary is more showy; it is hard to see mass community enthusiasm being generated by events like the 25th anniversary of the end of the First Gulf War, the 50th anniversary of the end of Indonesian Confrontation, and the 25th anniversary of the arrival of 1RAR Task Group in Somalia, all being commemorated in 2016-18, although each of these events would be of significance to those who were involved in them. (The current list of dates is much shorter than the original ambit claim in the report of the National Commission on the Commemoration of the Anzac Centenary in 2011, which had more than 100 potential commemorative dates for the years 2016-18.)
Will the ‘magic’ then last for three more years? To date, the Turnbull Government has persisted with the dubious Abbott legacy of the Villers-Bretonneux boondoggle, the whizzo Monash interpretive centre. If that project continues it will open on Anzac Day 2018, with the event possibly heralded by a virtual artillery bombardment or some other triumph of ‘immersive’ technology. The question will be whether anyone other than European schoolchildren will be impressed. Those Australians who in December 2015 are already over Anzackery, or are just bemused by the frequency of ‘Lest We Forget’ moments, may well be hoping it will be ‘easy from now on’. Their ancestors a century ago felt similar emotions.
The Prince of Wales and Soldiers of the Queen, National Anzac Centre, Albany (Atlantico Press)
‘Ka-ching!’ at home in the West
There is one corner of this wide brown, El Niño-anticipating land that seems totally sold on the centenary, and that is Albany, WA. Honest History’s correspondent in the south-west has sent us the Albany Advertiser from 29 October, which records the following:
the National Anzac Centre has attracted 80 750 visitors in 12 months since it opened (Ka-ching!);
the Centre’s revenue in that time has been more than $1.3 million (Ka-ching!);
the Centre has been an attraction for more than 800 recreational vehicle owners who came to Albany for a rally and were expected to spend $1.5 million (Ka-ching!);
a dozen cruise ships will start arriving in Albany in November and many of the 16 000 passengers will head to the Centre; last year, cruise ship visitors spent $3.3 million in the town (Ka-ching! Ka-ching!);
in late November, the Clipper Round the World Race was to stop over in Albany, injecting another $0.8 million (Ka-ching!)
And all of this without counting the Prince and Princess of Wales, passing through on 14 November, who presumably got free entry to the Centre, but may well have bought a souvenir or two (discreet royal Ka-ching!) Of course, declining regional towns are entitled to make a buck but the lines between commemoration and commercialism seem very blurry around King George Sound.
Albany has also seen a torrent of muddled history and over-claiming about whether and when the town was the site of the first dawn service in Australia. Claims have been made and repeated (in local tourist brochures and on the website of the National Anzac Centre) that this service happened in 1930 at the summit of Mount Clarence but there is as little evidence for this as there is for the assertion, also on the Centre’s website, that the famous ‘Ataturk words’ commencing ‘Those heroes …’ were uttered at a dawn service at Gallipoli in 1934. Recent research in Perth has found evidence of dawn services around about 1930 in Albany, Collie, Northam and Roebourne, and that’s just in WA. The Australian War Memorial punts fairly firmly for 1928 in Sydney as the first organised dawn service.
‘I think I can, I think I can …’
We have written separately about the issues facing Stuart Robert MP under his triple burdens of Minister for Human Service, Minister for Veterans’ Affairs and Minister Assisting the Prime Minister for the Centenary of Anzac. (We also wrote a polite welcoming letter – see Update 13 October – to the Minister, offering to meet to discuss issues of mutual interest but, so far, not a sausage by way of reply or even acknowledgement from his staff, to whom we also sent greetings.)
The future of the Veterans’ Affairs portfolio itself may be clouded, which in turn has implications for public servants. The portfolio has for a long time been ‘the (relatively) Little Engine that Could‘. The Australian War Memorial’s director, Brendan Nelson, has been the highly effective engine driver, with the Department of Veterans’ Affairs manning the guard’s van. (In the original story, the engine seems to run itself, with no discernible driver.)
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In our related piece, we speculate about how long this situation can continue: there are straws in the wind in relation to both the centenary of Anzac function and the broader future of the portfolio. Among other questions, to which portfolio shed do the War Memorial engine and its passengers (300 staff) trundle if DVA becomes an Office within the Department of Human Services or a handful of divisions scattered across two or three departments in South Canberra, Woden and Tuggeranong? (Note for dwellers ‘beyond the beltway’, these are districts of the national capital which house departments delivering health and social services.) Veterans’ Affairs portfolio officers in Anzac Parade (War Memorial) and Constitution Avenue (new home of DVA) will be watching their new minister closely.
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By Bobbi Mlynar
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Curt Ellis, of Iola, and his horse team May and Bud compete in the Draft Horse Pull at the Lyon County Free Fair Monday, Aug. 4.
Curt Ellis of Iola had reason to be optimistic Monday evening as he waited for the horse-pulling contest to begin at the Lyon County Free Fair.
Ellis’ team of Belgian draft horses, Bud and May, were on a winning streak.
“I’ve won the last two with mine, and that pair right there got second last week,” he said, gesturing toward his brother Terry Ellis’s team of Belgians, Lucky and Barney. “... Last night, it came down to the two of us.”
By the time the pulling had ended Monday night, Bud and May again had placed first, with Terry Ellis’s team coming in third. Osawatomie resident Larry Oldham’s team placed second.
“We’ve been doing it for the past four or five years, maybe longer,” Curt Ellis said of the pulling competitions.
The brothers and their teams travel together, pulling 6,800 pounds of horses in a four-horse trailer behind their pickup truck.
Participation dwindled a little this year because of the high cost of fuel, he said, though they remain enthusiastic about competing. They come from a horse-pull family; their late father had draft horse pulling teams for years, and their uncles continue to participate, Curt said.
The Ellises spend considerable time with their horses, practicing for competitions that they travel to across the state, and from Oklahoma City to Iowa.
“They get worked, exercised, every night — two to three hours a night,” Curt said. “... We just spend lots and lots of time with it. According to our wives, too much.”
Curt serves as blacksmith, removing and nailing on new size 6 horseshoes as they are needed; Terry’s team wears size 7. The shoe “soles” resemble cleated athletic shoes, with oversized metal heels and toes that can dig down into the dirt for traction.
The nine teams entered in the contest Monday evening all started by pulling their own weights. Bud and May, at 3,200 pounds total, were required to begin by pulling a 3,200-pound sled; Terry’s team, which weighs about 3,600 pounds, started at that level.
With each round, the weights on the sleds were bumped up significantly.
“You’ll start out with 3,200 pounds, and each round they’ll add 1,000 pounds until it starts getting too heavy,” Curt explained. “They’ll cut it back to 500 pounds.”
The pulling is done on 12-foot lanes, with each team required to stay within the rope boundaries that marked the lanes.
“When they add the weights on each round, the team that can pull the weight the furthest that round is the winner of it,” he said before the contest. “Sometimes they’ll go six, seven, eight rounds.”
The teams need to pull their sleds at least 15 feet without stopping to remain in competition. As the teams are eliminated and only two remain, the contest can become a matter of feet. During what becomes the last round, Curt said, at least one team will not make the full 15 feet; sometimes neither team can pull its sled that far. In that case, the team that comes closest to 15 feet is declared the winner.
On the track, the competition is intense but prior to the contest, team owners and often their families take time to socialize.
The Ellis brothers intentionally arrived in Emporia between 3:30 and 4 p.m. for the 8 p.m. pull. Other pullers did the same, and relaxed in circles of lawn chairs and talked until it was time to harness the horses and get serious about the pull.
“It’s kind of like one big happy family,” Curt said. “We try to help one another as much as possible.”
Other teams that competed were owned by: Kendall Hutton, Welda; Larry and Justin Woolery, Thayer; Jeremy Johnson, Westmoreland; Marvin Hall, Redfield; and Orval True, LeRoy. True organized and managed the event for the Lyon County Fair Board.
Article courtesy of emporiagazette.com
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I'm sure he could do
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CLEVELAND (AP) Francisco Lindor skipped down the third-base line Erik Gonzalez Jersey , crossed home plate and suddenly couldnt breathe.He wasnt alone.Lindor connected for a three-run homer with two outs in the ninth inning as the Cleveland Indians again moved 10 games ahead of Minnesota in the AL Central with a 5-2 win over the Twins on Wednesday night.Lindor, who struck out with the winning run at second base in the ninth to end a 3-2 loss on Tuesday, drove the first pitch from Trevor Hildenberger (2-3) over the wall in right to trigger a wild celebration.As the Progressive Field crowd roared as if it was October, the All-Star shortstop pointed and waved to the fans before being swarmed by his teammates, including pitcher Carlos Carrasco who emptied most of a bottle of white baby power on him.I didnt see it otherwise I would have touched the plate and ran, Lindor said of Carrascos powder-packed ambush. I felt powder and then all of a sudden I ran out of breath. I just tried to get out of there.Down 2-1, Minnesota tied it in the ninth on Miguel Sanos leadoff homer against Cody Allen (4-4), who cost Mike Clevinger a victory and wound up with a blown save and win.Lindor saved him.Jason Kipnis singled with one out in the ninth before Twins right fielder Max Kepler raced back and robbed Yan Gomes of extra bases with a leaping catch before crashing into the padded wall.Brandon Guyer followed with a single to bring up the electrifying Lindor, who has a knack for coming up big in clutch moments.Its like every time its a spot like this hes always hitting when its a chance like this, and its like a sixth sense, Clevinger said.You know its gonna happen. Like you look over on deck and youre like Does he bat every time its a tie game? And then every time it seems like hes coming through too, so its huge.Lindors homer was his 29th and gave him an MLB-leading 67 extra-base hits and 99 runs.Allen, the Indians dependable closer and career saves leader not only let the lead go, he cost Clevinger his first win since July 1. The right-hander limited the Twins to one run and five hits over seven strong innings, retiring the final 11 batters he faced before turning things over to Clevelands bullpen, which has been much better after some earlier struggles.However http://www.indiansfanproshop.com/authentic-josh-tomlin-jersey , Allens 2-1 knuckle curve didnt fool Sano, as Minnesotas cleanup hitter pounded his eighth homer over the wall. It was the ninth homer allowed by Allen in 47 1-3 innings a concerning statistic for the Indians as the push toward the playoffs.Minnesota committed three errors in the first six innings.We didnt do a lot with the bats, Clevinger was good, Twins manager Paul Molitor said. It just came down to trying to find a way to get back to even, which we did with Miggy with one swing, and then they put together the rally there in the bottom of the ninth.RBI CLUBCleveland has five players with at least 60 RBIs. No other team has more than three.TOUGH LOSSESThe Twins arent strangers to late-inning pain, having lost 11 times on walk-offs.It comes down to the last couple innings, and you find yourself in that predicament, Molitor said. Its been a part of the story line of the season.PITCHING PLANMinnesota may follow Tampas lead and use relief pitchers to open games before bringing in the scheduled starter. The Twins are intrigued by the method and have researched the experiment in the minor leagues. Molitor suggested the club could begin implementing it soon.I dont know if well get into that situation by the time we get to the end of the year or not, he said. Like everything that involves change in this game, were more than willing to look at it and see if its something that might be something for us to pursue.LONG RUNThe Indians officially released reliever Zach McAllister, who had been with the club since 2010. The 30-year-old was designated for assignment last week.McAllister struggled this season, going 1-2 with a 4.97 ERA in 41 appearances.TRAINERS ROOMTwins: Molitor still doesnt know if LHP Adalberto Mejia will make his next start. Mejia pitched five shutout innings before leaving Tuesdays win with a strained wrist. Mejia will throw a bullpen session on Friday.Indians: Guyer played center field for the first time since 2016 because Leonys Martin got real sick during the night, according to manager Terry Francona. Martin has played six games for Cleveland since being acquired in a deadline trade with Detroit.UP NEXTIndians ace Corey Kluber starts the finale of the four-game series against Twins RHP Jose Berrios. Kluber pitched a three-hitter and his seventh career complete-game shutout in his previous start on Aug. 3 against the Los Angeles Angels. Welcome to August 2018, where the Chicago Cubs have a leading National League MVP candidate who's not named Kris Bryant or Anthony Rizzo.It's Javier Baez, whose reality has finally caught up with his hype.Through 112 games Carlos Carrasco Jersey , the 25-year-old is hitting .298 with a .916 OPS, 25 home runs, 19 stolen bases and 88 runs batted in. All but the games played are career highs, and his RBI count is the highest of any National Leaguer.Not to be overlooked is Baez's defense. Per the defensive metrics, he's rating as an average or better defender at second base, shortstop and third base.Hence Baez's unsurprisingly strong showing in wins above replacement. He ranks at No. 7 in the National League with 4.9 rWAR at Baseball Reference. He's tied for sixth with 4.4 fWAR at FanGraphs.Granted, Baez is at the top of neither list.But the NL MVP race isn't like the American League MVP race, wherein it's clearly Mike Trout, Jose Ramirez, Mookie Betts and then everyone else. The NL MVP race isa wide-open affair that WAR alone can't determine. Even more than usual, careful consideration of exactly what a player can do and exactlyhow he's contributed to his team is advised.Well, the Cubs have the best record in the NL at 66-48. And for at least one Cub, it's quite simple."He's the most valuable player on our team, and we're in first place," Bryant said, according to Jesse Rogers of ESPN. "Seems like he should be at top of the list [of NL MVP candidates]."David Banks/Associated PressBryant would know Roy Oswalt Jersey , as being the most valuable player on first-place Cubs teams used to be his job.The third baseman led a 103-win and eventual World Series champion squad in 2016 with a .939 OPS and 39 dingers, for which he was named the NL MVP. He was back at it again in 2017 with a .946 OPS and 29 homers, helping the Cubs to 92 wins and a second straight National League Central title. His 13.5 rWAR across those two years placed just a hair behind Nolan Arenado for tops in the NL.Never far from Bryant in the spotlight was Rizzo. He had already established himself as one of the best first basemen in Major League Baseball with his work in 2014 and 2015. So it went in '16 and '17, as he averaged a .914 OPS with 64 homers and 9.8 rWAR.But in 2018, "Bryzzo" just hasn't been the same.Although he's come on like gangbustersin the second half, Rizzo is still on track for his worst season since 2013. For his part, Bryant has suffered a power loss that seemed mysterious at first, but which now makes sense in light of his left shoulder injury.The rest of Chicago's roster hasn't been without its own problems. Injuries and ineffectiveness have turned Yu Darvish into a bust in the first season of his six-year, $126 million contract. His starting rotation mates have largely struggled to the tune of a 4.08 ERA.And yet, there are the Cubs speeding toward their third straight NL Central title. And there's Baez, seemingly always in the middle of it all.Mind you, it's not like Baez was invisible before 2018. He was considered an elite prospect when he first arrived in 2014, and the sheer breadth of his skill set was oftenextremely visible.At times, Baez looked like the best sliderin MLB. At other times, he looked like the best tagger. At still other times, his arm and his range made him look like the best defender. At still more times http://www.astrosfanproshop.com/authentic-carlos-lee-jersey , he looked like one of MLB's most powerful sluggers.But then there were the other times when Baez was practically invisible at the plate, where his free-swinging style led to too many bad at-bats and, thus, frequent slumps.There were also the times when he must have wished he could hide. His defensive miscues would undermine his defensive brilliance, and his aggression on the basepaths sometimes resulted in avoidable outs.In short, Baez played like an unrestrained bundle of energy. And this act extended to, well, his act. He wasn't shy about having his fun when he wanted to, occasionally to the chagrin of the fun police.This next part should be a segue into how Baez has changed his ways to become a better player in 2018. But in reality, he's still the same Javier Baez. He's just...better.His 60.8 swing percentage is the highest of any qualified hitter, which explains his characteristically low walk rate of 3.8 percent. Buthe's mostly taking good swings, as an increasing rate of his hacks are taking place within the strike zone:His rate of contact on these swings isn't ideal, but it's acceptable. That helps explain how his strikeout rate is now well below its formerly catastrophic standing.Even better, Baez'squality of contact on his in-zone swings is beyond acceptable:2015:92.9 mph2016: 89.1 mph2017:88.5 mph2018:94.9 mphThus has Baez rarely not been a threat at the plate this season. He's posted an OPS north of .900 in every month except May, when he finished at a solid .769.Elsewhere, Baez is rating as one of the NL's top baserunners despite the fact he hasn't toned down his aggressiveness on the bases. And while he still boots the occasional ball J.R. Richard Jersey , even the newest Cub can see that his ability and versatility are more than worth the trouble on defense."He's a naturally gifted infielder," veteran left-hander Cole Hamels said, per Carrie Muskat of MLB.com. "I think if you wanted to throw him at first base, I'm sure he could do that pretty well, too."Meanwhile, Baez's natural tendency to wear his emotions on his sleeve is going strong. That's led to spats with Pittsburgh Pirates manager Clint Hurdle and Cincinnati Reds lefty Amir Garrett, but his position is clear: He's going to keep doing him."I don't control what's out there, what people say about me. I'm just going to keep playing my game," he said in April after running afoul of Hurdle, perMuskat.Heck, why not? Oakland Athletics outfielder Mark Canha's recent rescinding of an apologyfor a bat flip might be the ultimate sign that Major League Baseball is finally accepting a more outwardly emotional style, one which Baez and other Latin players have long since embraced.Beyond that, it's never a bad idea to stick with what's worked. That's how Baez has gotten to where he is now, and it has both him and the Cubs in an enviable spot.Stats courtesy of Baseball Reference, FanGraphs and Baseball Savant.
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Martin Callinan , February 8, 2019
By joining OpenChain, Microsoft takes another big step forward in being fully open-source friendly
OpenChain, I would argue, is the most important open-source project you’ve never heard of before. This Linux Foundation consortium provides an industry standard for open-source supply chain license compliance. And now, Microsoft has joined the the OpenChain Project.
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OpenChain’s important because the open-source software supply chain goes from companies that are little more than a single developer in his home office to multi-billion dollar businesses. Within it, there are tens of thousands of programs with a wide variety of open-source software licenses. So, how can companies trust and manage all the code’s legal requirements? The answer is with OpenChain.
As the OpenChain project manager Shane Coughlan explained, “The basic idea was simple: Identify key recommended processes for effective open source management. The goal was equally clear: Reduce bottlenecks and risk when using third-party code to make open-source license compliance simple and consistent across the supply chain. The key was to pull things together in a manner that balanced comprehensiveness, broad applicability, and real-world usability.”
Microsoft, which has just become a platinum OpenChain member, clearly believes OpenChain is doing just that. This is yet another major step forward in Microsoft working and playing well — not just with open-source code, but with its underlying legal and business foundation. It’s a natural move forward from Microsoft’s recent decision to join the Open Invention Network (OIN), thus making its entire patent portfolio available to this vital Linux and open-source patent consortium’s members.
Microsoft isn’t the only major company to have realized how OpenChain can help companies use open-source code safely and legally. Facebook, Google, and Uber all joined in January 2018.
David Rudin, a Microsoft assistant general counsel, explained why Microsoft joined in a blog post. OpenChain “plays an important role in increasing confidence around the open source code you receive. It does so by creating standards and training materials focused on how to run a quality open source compliance program, which in turn builds trust and removes friction in the ecosystem and supply chain,” Rudin said. “Trust is key to open source, and compliance with open source licenses is an important part of building that trust.”
“We’re thrilled that Microsoft has joined the project and welcome their expertise,” commented Coughlan. “Their membership provides great balance to our community of enterprise, cloud, automotive, and silicon companies, allowing us to ensure the standard is suitable for any size company across any industry.”
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Norwegian stock of passenger cars by fuel
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Just 51 of all ZEV models sold in 2018 had a hydrogen fuel cell system.
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By Jamie Adair Season 6 Recap June 20, 2016
Historic Recap: Battle of the Bastards, Season 6, Episode 9
Episode 9 – “Battle of the Bastards” – of Season Six Game of Thrones is epic – not because it necessarily surprised anyone but because the battle scenes were so phenomenally well produced. This episode has tons of historic tidbits for history lovers – and this recap will take you through a few of them.
The episode only has two storylines: Meereen and Winterfell. Both places are under attack.
This week’s recap focuses on a few specific historical events from the episode rather than recapping the full episode.
Meereen: Yara & Daenerys, Grace O’Malley & Elizabeth I
After Daenerys defeats the Slavers by dragonfire from above, Daenerys cuts a deal with Yara and Theon Greyjoy that evokes Elizabeth I’s meeting with Grace O’Malley, the Irish pirate queen.
Yara (Asha) and Theon Greyjoy arrive in Meereen to try to make a deal with Daenerys and save their skins. The Greyjoys offer Yara’s 100 ship fleet to Daenerys for her support. When Daenerys becomes queen, they want Daenerys to back Yara’s claim to the Iron Throne, kill the uncles that oppose her, and liberate the Iron Islands so they are no longer under Westerosi rule.
Tyrion watches as Daenerys talks to Yara on her level — instead of from the dais. Theon is in the background. (c) HBO.
Otherwise, Daenerys will be left to cut a deal with Euron Greyjoy. He has a 1000 ships but he wants Dany to marry him as part of the deal.
Daenerys has often been compared to Elizabeth I — the unwed female ruler of the Dragon-emblemed Tudor dynasty. When Daenerys hears that Euron wants to marry her, she sees right through his intentions.
Like Elizabeth I, Daenerys realizes that Euron would be another suitor from abroad who intends to dominate Daenerys and rule on her behalf, assuming that he can because he is a man. And, like Elizabeth I, Dany is having none of this.
Daenerys finds Yara, as a female Ironborn, leader intriguing. As a female ruler and commander of men, Dany sees common ground with Yara.
When Dany meets Yara, their introduction is taken right out of the pages of history. Yara is like Grace O’Malley, the Irish pirate queen from the sixteenth century.
Like Yara, Grace (“Granuaile”) was the daughter of powerful ruler — in Grace’s case, an Irish chieftain and sea captain named Owen O’Malley. Although Grace had a half-brother, he was unsuited to being the clan chieftain (either because he drank too much or spent too much time playing the pipes (or both)).
Grace’s father came to accept her desire to sail the seas, captain ships, and fight like a man. When he died, she became the effective leader of his clan. She lead a band of pirates and patrolled Clare bay in her longboat-type ships, extracting tolls from any ships who wished to navigate the waters.
When Grace O’Malley Met Elizabeth I
Grace O’Malley was the O’Malley chieftain in sixteenth century Ireland, in County Clare. She came into conflict with Elizabeth I’s government due to Elizabeth’s Irish foreign policy, which aimed to prevent war with Spain.
Daenerys with her unwedded rule, distinctive hair, and literal dragons (vs. Elizabeth’s emblematic Tudor dragons) is not unlike Elizabeth I.
When Elizabeth I decided to try reduce the power of local chieftains and anglicize Ireland (to prevent an alliance with Spain), one of her agents — Connacht governor Sir Richard Bingham –caused a great deal of pain and suffering for County Clare’s inhabitants. Case in point: After burning and pillaging County Clare, Grace and her people were forced to live on ships due to famine-like conditions.
To the English government, Grace was a pirate and traitor.
Nonetheless, Grace O’Malley decided to plead her case directly to Elizabeth I in person and request safe passage. Elizabeth corresponded with Grace for several years. She claimed she only committed the acts she had because Bingham made her. She was protecting her sons and people. In the spring of 1595, safe passage finally approved, Grace sailed for England to plead with Gloriana in person.
Now, this was pretty gutsy of Grace. The English could have easily backed out of their safe-passage agreement and thrown her into the Tower of London for piracy. Just going to England was putting her in a lot of danger. After all, the English government hung pirates.
It’s worth pointing out that piracy didn’t necessarily offend Elizabeth. She supported privateers like Francis Drake and John Hawkins, and she’d feign offense when the Spanish accused these sea captains of piracy. There was a pretty thin line between privateers and pirates, and Elizabeth employed these skilled sailors as architects of her navy and so on.
Francis Drake by Marcus Gheeraerts.
Knowing these men would make Elizabeth understand exactly who Grace was and the skills she’d need to possess to lead a fleet of pirates.
A portrait of Elizabeth I circa 1595 at roughly 62 years of age.
By the time Grace and Elizabeth met, Grace likely fascinated Elizabeth. Both women were in their early 60s and, in some ways, Grace was like a mirror of Elizabeth. They both played men’s roles. They both ruled people. Unlike Grace, however, even though Elizabeth was heralded as commander of men and captain of the seas, she’d never been to sea or set foot on a battlefield. For Elizabeth, Grace would have been the real deal. She commanded ships and fought like a man (likely using two swords even!).
Grace O’Malley (L.) meets Elizabeth I, as depicted in this image from the eighteenth century. Source: Wikipedia.
Meeting Grace likely amused if not entertained Elizabeth. After Grace sailed up the Thames, the two women met at Greenwich.
Grace entered like the audience chamber like a visiting regent. When she came before Elizabeth, Grace refused to curtsy. She held her head high like she was the Elizabeth’s equal. The courtiers were scandalized. The only people who didn’t bow or curtsy before the queen were other rulers.
If Elizabeth was offended though, she played it cool. The two women retired to sit by the fire and chat about their similar lives, including the trials of having to deal with jealous men.
Yara Shakes Daenerys’ Hand
When Yara negotiates with Daenerys, she never curtsies or bows before the Dragon queen. Technically, if Yara is recognizing Daenerys as the rightful ruler of the Seven Kingdoms, Yara should show some deference. When the two women reach an agreement, they shake hands like equals and this is a near perfect replay of Grace O’Malley’s lack of deference to Elizabeth I.
A faintly surprised Daenerys shakes “hands” (shakes forearms?) with Yara, and her lack of deference evokes pirate queen Grace O’Malley’s meeting with Elizabeth I. There’s no bowing or kissing the ring for Yara. (c) HBO.
The deal that Yara ends up cutting with Daenerys is questionable though. Yara basically sells out her people’s way of life by agreeing they will stop reeving and raiding. Yara wants less war, but nobody has ever said that she wants to change their culture. After all, she’s the pirate queen!
Is this even a promise that Yara can keep? Is she intending to back out of it? There is no food to speak of on the Iron Islands. How will the Ironborn survive without raiding?
The Battle of the Bastards
Although this episode didn’t end in an especially surprising way, the battle and the poetic justice ending – Ramsay eats it (or gets eaten) more than delivered.
By far, this was one of the best medieval battles I’ve seen portrayed on any screen size. It drew from real-world history in numerous places. I started to recap it, but it was so much fun breaking down the battle that I’m going to turn it into another article.
After Jon’s foolishly followed his heart, Sansa saves the day when she anticipates a brutal loss and gets the Vale army’s from Petyr Baelish.
Wun-Wun stops a potential siege when he smashes through the wooden doors at Winterfell. Sadly, by the time he is through the doors, he is covered in so many arrows that he dies. Ramsay fires the death arrow through Wun-Wun’s eye, but the poor old giant didn’t have much hope even before that.
In the books, Roose doubts Ramsay’s ability to be the leader of a house because he lacks formal military training. What men would follow him? He is essentially a peasant, a savage. It’s a cruel indictment from a father.
Sadly the truth of Ramsay’s military skill emerges when he tries to fight off Jon Snow. Ramsay’s chief weapon is the peasant weapon: the bow and arrow. Like the smallfolk, Ramsay can hunt. In fact, he is all too good of a hunter. But, you can’t win with a bow and arrow in close combat. Ramsay’s arrows are useless once Jon gets close enough.
Once Ramsay is beaten into unconsciousness, he wakes up in his own kennels. Sansa leaves her husband strapped to a chair so he can be devoured by his own dogs. It’s poetic justice — especially since Ramsay’s main crimes seem to be against women — and often with those terrible dogs. (You could argue that people like Theon were criminals, the Ironborn were prisoners of war and some of the other people he killed were traitors.)
Sansa is now a widow, and Warden of the North — if the North can have a female leader. This means that there might be three female rulers in Westeros (and area). Yara may become the queen of the independent Iron Islands and Daenerys may get the Iron throne.
Although given the Dragon queens increasing penchant for ruthlessness, perhaps we will see that female leaders aren’t necessarily the path to a kinder more peaceful world any more than men are. Does any gender really have the moral high ground?
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Jamie Adair is the editor of History Behind Game of Thrones, a website about the history behind George RR Martin's "A Song of Ice and Fire" novels and the hit TV show, "Game of Thrones."
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I love the analogy between Elizabeth I/ Daenerys and Grace O’Malley/ Yara. It didn’t cross my mind to consider why she didn’t bow to Daenerys! It seemed Dany viewed Yara as her equal and a victim of gender politics, mirroring Grace’s meeting with Elizabeth.
There were problems that others and I had with this episode:
1. OK, Jon Snow reverted back to Stupid Jon Snow because of Rickon’s death, but the Stark-loyal lords of the north of the books (outside of the Karstarks) would not have been fine with Rickon being cut down by Ramsay. Actually, Manderly handing over Rickon in the first place doesn’t make much sense at all. It doesn’t fit historical sense either. With nobody actually liking Ramsay, if this took place in the real world, the nominally Bolton-supporting Northern lords (outside of maybe the Karstarks) would have hung around to see who the winner was instead of going all-in for Bolton.
2. Sansa not telling Jon Snow about Littlefinger and Vale makes no sense (unless Sansa was playing some devious game where the Boltons and JS’s rag-tag group beat each other up leaving the person who controls the Vale knights in control of the North, which would also be completely out of character).
3. In an open field battle, you simply wouldn’t have such big mountains of dead.
4. Shooting arrows in to your own men is a great way for them to say “eff it all” and just take off (yes, Ramsay flays, but he has to win first).
5. Once they caught sight of the Vale cavalry, infantry on the Bolton side (especially the non-Bolton forces) would have taken off or surrendered instead of waiting to get rolled up.
6. Speaking of the Vale knights, no one bothered to cut off Ramsay’s little coterie?
7. A giant can break through a wall of pikes. No one thought to give Wun-Wun a giant club so that he could sweep away the enemy?
8. If you want to avoid an arrow, once you see the arrow take flight, you change the path of your run, Rickon.
Basically, D&D can’t do plot as well as GRRM.
Sorry, I meant Umbers when I said Manderlys.
Indeed, Dave and Dan cannot plot a fraction as well as GRRM. Benioff is very into machismo in his own writing, I’ve heard. As visually stunning as the episode was, it does not have nearly as much impact on me as an Asha chapter about the frozen march toward Winterfell in snow or a Theon chapter with unbearable tension among the “allies” of Roose Bolton inside Winterfell. The mysterious assassinations that kept happening, driving the houses into frenzied suspicion at each other. Mance Rayder’s women lurking in the shadows, under the threats of being flayed by Ramsay. Bone-chilling stuff. Plus I really like the five-chinned lord of White Harbor. 🙂
GRRM would never have used the same device twice — A fresh army riding into the battlefield in the nick of time! First Stannis’ and now Littlefinger’s. He’s too proud to use deus ex machina even once.
Ha. What do people think of Dany’s actions in Meereen? Is she becoming too ruthless? I was seriously troubled that she thought about burning cities. Is she going to be our next villain?
I love that chapter in Winterfell BTW. I was really surprised they didnt use it in the show. Maybe the claustrophobia and horse kaka wouldnt have filmed well, but the murders would have.
Lol. Well, you’re going to hate the second half because I loved the battle scene. I liked it because I haven’t seen very many medieval battles on TV or in the movies – and, when I have read about military history, I’ve always tried to picture what they were like symphonically.
I saw a lot of stuff in the battle scene that I’ve read about, so I really liked that.
I do agree about the realism of the mountain of the dead. I found myself thinking, “Where are the stackers?” But I loved the mountain as a plot device. I thought the whole scene showed brilliant strategy on Ramsay’s part. (And I love Ramsay; he is such a great villain!)
You make a good point about Rickon and the arrows. I still really liked it though. Compare the battle with say, the Battle of Bosworth in The White Queen… hands down, this is better. In fact, plot holes and all, I still think it is better than most battles I’ve seen. Of course, I am not a battle aficionado so I may have a low standard!
I assumed that Sansa rode off in the night after she talked to Jon. Had she already sent Brienne? Id like to think Sansa hasn’t become so ruthless she wouldn’t tell Jon just so she could be the 11th hour hero.
But why not tell Jon about the raven to LF?
I hope there’s a decent explanation in the last episode.
A lot of details in the battle scene were realistic (minus the mountains of dead; and it wouldn’t have been so frenetic; and swords made of ordinary iron/steel wouldn’t stay sharp after hitting armor a few times, so medieval battles were really bludgeoning affairs where guys kept whacking each other). But it had the mud and gore (if not as much of the emotion) of the battle scene in “Henry V”, which was much more realistic than medieval battles before it.
I thought maybe Sansa is still traumatised because of her recent experiences and found it difficult to trust people. I saw a documentary once where someone who had been a prisoner in one of the Nazi death camps said that after he had been freed it took him a long time to “become normal”.
It seems to me that the writers made a number of not-very-logical decisions just so that we get to see the battle of bastards in this way. If Sansa had told Jon about Littlefinger’s army or, better yet, accepted LF’s army in the first place, we would not have had this up-and-down journey over the season, nor would we see Jon Snow almost lose with a surprise reverse that tugs at our heart strings. It seems to me that they started with how the battle has to look like and went backward. I don’t see any convoluted conspiracy in the whole thing. Fans came up with all sorts of conspiracy theory after Arya was stabbed, but it worked out very straightforward.
The battle scenes were well done. The POV shots of Jon being buried in the dead are amazing. Technically this was a well choreographed and well filmed episode.
I have not seen anyone commenting on the fact that no one, except the Bolton army (but not Ramsay) were wearing full armor and full helm. I have read and heard writers, including GRRM, complain or make fun of this for years. But the audience has to see the pretty faces of the heroes and villains, and actors really hate doing fight scenes in clunky costumes.
I figured out how the bodies got there after watching the scene about 20 times. (I’m writing an article about the battle strategy – because frankly I love it. Plus it gives me an excuse to talk about Agincourt, longbows, etc.) Ramsay deliberately orchestrates the mountain of the dead in that location. He does it by having the archers shoot their volleys at that area at specific intervals or when a lot of people approach the edge. Admittedly, I do think the mountains of dead looked a little too neatly piled.
I’d say I wasn’t sure Ramsay’s corpse-mountain orchestration was realistic, but then again, medieval and ancient generals pulled off stuff that’s equally crazy so I think HBO gets a pass on that. 🙂 Plus it does let them make the double entrapment that much more dramatic, so I don’t mind…
Haha, Jamie, you love Ramsay. Maybe you should write about that. 😀
I look at the frustrating problem of ruling Meereen as two separate issues:
1) Can slavery in Essos be peacefully abolished?
2) Is Dany a ruler in peace?
I’m inclined to give “No” to both answers. The war of Meereen is inevitable, which is why Dany has to be in Meereen at that time to abolish it. But Dany is not Lincoln and therefore she needs to get out once slavery is abolished by force.
The first question seems to go to GRRM’s discussion about whether war in and of itself is evil. He has said many times that, while he refused to go to Vietnam, he believes war is not black or white, good or bad, but rather full of shades of gray.
I don’t know how the TV series will handle the ending, but I am pretty sure that Dany will not be ruling Westeros in the novels. IMO no Bollywood ending. Sorry. 🙂
ROFL. I might write about my love for Ramsay, Jun! After all, somebody had to replace Tywin. 😀
I really didn’t like book Ramsay though. I can’t tell whether I like TV Ramsay better because I love a good villain or because I love Iwan Rheon’s performance. Book Ramsay isn’t nearly so soft spoken in my mind. He is bigger and harsher. I really like Iwan’s mellifluous voice and his ice blue eyes work perfectly for the part.
For some reason TV Ramsay doesn’t bug me nearly as much as TV Joffrey. But, I didn’t enjoy some of the *brutal* violence TV Ramsay dished out.
I really like Iwan Rhoen too. His eyes! There’s nothing in the world like them. He played a sweet young man in the series Vicious. I think he’s quite cute. I hope he won’t get typecast into psychopaths in future projects. But he did recently say in an interview that he wants to play Iago. Interesting.
He would be a good Iago. He has such an interesting voice and he can certainly play complexity.
And, no Bollywood ending? You’re breaking my heart Jun. Lol.
I do agree with you. I didn’t actually like the battle scene very much. Jon seemed arrogant, dismissive, naive and dare I say it, not so bright – all of which are out of character. I agree that most would not have thriwn their weight behind Ramsay but would’ve hedged their bets. Bosworth anyone?
1. The Karstarks and the Umbers were no longer Stark loyalists, due to Rob Stark’s treatment of their fathers. Hanging around to see who the winner is can be dangerous with a psychopath like Ramsey, who would probably take neutrality as the same as enmity.
2. Sansa didn’t know how Littlefinger or Jon would react to her request, or if the Vale knights would arrive on time. She did keep asking Jon to wait for more men, but couldn’t tell him if, or when they would arrive.
3. It was no longer open field when the Bolton infantry arrived and before that the Starks and the Boltons were killing each other and Ramsey was killing them both. Mounds of dead are historically accurate.
4. When you are fighting from your life, you are disorientated and it is difficult to know where the arrows are coming from.
5. The Vale knights charged into the back of the Bolton forces, who were in a tight formation. The latter couldn’t go forward, because of the Starks and couldn’t go back, because of the knights. This assumes that they even saw or heard the knights, as they were fighting for their lives.
6. Did they even see him or know who he was? They had a much bigger target.
7. Fair point, but nobody expected the wall of pikes. Hindsight is a great thing.
8. It is difficult to run fast forwards, while looking backwards for an arrow. A zig-zag run would be safest, but takes more time and he wanted to go to Jon as quickly as possible. Besides, Ramsay had already “missed” a couple of times to lull him into a false sense of security. Could any of us think clearly when someone is shooting arrows at us?
I’m not claiming that my answers are correct, but this is my take on the situation.
2. No, she could not say when/if they would arrive, but she could say that she made the request. And if her plan is to make JS wait for reinforcements, how is withholding the info that she sent for help going to help in that regard?
3. Where have mounds of dead ever been historically accurate in an open field battle? Example? Only when people are fighting for a small strategic piece of land or penned in (and the Bolton pikes didn’t come until there was a mound of dead). In the open field, battle lines shift all over the place.
4. This is nonsense. First off, if the show was historically accurate (which it really wasn’t), there would have been big lines or balls of men to fend off cavalry charges and to attack in force, not a general melee (which is a great way for your army to panic and disintegrate since you don’t keep discipline). Any everyone would have been keenly aware where death from the sky was raining from.
5. The Vale knights sounded their horn and the Bolton pikemen would have seen them coming. And they weren’t “fighting for their lives”, considering that they had encircled the Wildlings in a wall of pikes.
6. If the Vale knights didn’t know who or where Ramsay was, then they are even bigger idiots than the showrunners. I’m sorry, that’s just not realistic. In every battle, every side with any military know-how always tries to ascertain where the leader of the other side is (especially in the medieval era when knocking off the leader of the other side was likely to lead the other side to run away in panic and lead to a general rout).
8. Rickon lost his brains? Yes, you zigzag and you look back. Who cares if you can’t run as fast? Dodging arrows is till paramount. And JS (in real life) would have shouted if he saw an arrow heading straight for Rickon (and he had a perfect view).
I think, for some strange reason, you’re too generous to the showrunners.
The piles of bodies are from the American Civil War.
The battles are from Agincourt and Cannae.
>>I think, for some strange reason, you’re too generous to the showrunners.
I don’t know if this was directed at me or not. (I think it was directed at David Wright.)
I’m very generous to the showrunners though because I’ve dabbled in fiction, I work as a professional writer — and there is *nothing but criticism* in my profession, and I tend to think, “Could I do better?” The answer I usually come up with is, “No.”
I know book fans tend to get very annoyed with the show. I do get disappointed when HBO omits things, but I took a year long course about film adaptations of novels in university so I’m rarely surprised.
I also love history so much that I have a very low bar for costume dramas/period pieces, etc. I’m thrilled to see anything from the Middle Ages brought to life. Case in point: I watched The White Queen — *and blogged about it*. And, The White Queen was *terrible*.
With Game of Thrones, I think people often overlook the filmic value, art symbolism, etc. the showrunners weave in that are not in the book. (Don’t get me wrong: there is an awful lot of amazing symbolism in the books too. My point is just that the showrunners try to give their work a literary or filmic quality that fits their chosen genre and medium.)
If I ever get through the mountain of work I have and backlog, I’m going to publish something about a scene where they took GRRM’s work, ran with it, and, I’d argue, improved upon his work. What GRRM and the showrunners did is quite feminist actually. I’d say more but I don’t like scooping myself. 😉
2. I didn’t say it would help, only that could be a reason why she didn’t tell him.
3 Agincourt, where French knights are said to have drowned in their helmets, where the Duke of York probably died from suffocation under a pile of dead and where the Gesta Henrici describes three great heaps of dead.
4. Fending off cavalry charges requires a disciplined group of men armed with spears or pikes, not a charging rabble of variously armed infantry. As for being keenly aware of where death comes from, I always remember the comment of an officer at Waterloo: “I’ll be hanged if I know anything at all about the matter, for I was all day trodden in the mud and galloped over by every scoundrel who had a horse”.
5. If they turned to face the Vale cavalry, they would then have a group of very angry wilding at their back. If a wall of pikes breaks, they are in serious trouble. Read about the battle of Flodden.
6. Look at the relative positions of the Vale knights, the melee and Ramsey. If a small group had been given the task to get Ramsay, they would have done; if they had been tasked to charge into the melee, they would have done. Perhaps an oversight on Littlefinger’s part?
8. In the show, Rickon is about 11. He is terrified and being shot at, while help is straight ahead. Can he think clearly enough to zig-zag? Can Jon actually see an arrow – head on it has a small profile and Jon had his hand out to grasp Rickon, which he was concentrating.
I am not trying to be generous to the show runners, just postulating possible alternatives to your comments. As you have obviously kept a cool head many times whilst being in the middle of medieval battles where people are trying to kill you, I will bow to your expertise.
I lost a comment (I think because I am dangling on the danged dongle as my broadband connection and phone have gone awry since yesterday evening). I think GRRM does use a deus ex machina though
BOOK SPOILER IF YOU’VE NOT READ DANCE WITH DRAGONS
because Wyman Manderly knows the younger Stark boys are alive because Theon’s squire had been up a tree listening when they have their discussion in ACOK with Maester Lewin and the same squire then relays the information to Lord Manderly.
Perhaps I am fortunate in that I can separate the show and the books and enjoy each for their separate strong points (that doesn’t mean I overlook their separate weak points either D&D’s Dorne was indeed forlorn and in DWD I didn’t need to keep reading Tyrion asking “Where do whores go?” 999 times – well it felt like 999 times when I was reading it and I did read the physical book in that case rather than listen to an audio book).
I’d like to ‘white knight’ D&D to some extent in that when they undertook the adaptation of the books back in 2009 (or thereabouts I’m not actually 100% sure of the exact date) they were under the impression that “Winds of Winter” would have been published by now so they are in a difficult position of having to “adapt” something that has not been published.
Yes, Watcher, you’re right in that TV adaptation is difficult. GRRM himself has admitted that he wrote the series with the full expectation that it canNOT be filmed. And certainly he himself has to bear the blame for the fact that the writers have no source material to fall back on to adapt now.
BTW, Tyrion’s “Where do whores go” thoughts in ADWD is about his desperate fantasy of finding his wife somewhere. Perhaps it is merely a nod to romance novels in which such absurd coincidence would happen (GRRM seems to be well versed in romance tropes, strangely), but I often wonder if it foreshadows something …
Agree with Jun that the writers wanted to set up the battle scene this way and then worked backwards, which led to some stupid logic. I can see their thinking:
JS needs to charge in to a trap
Rickon needs to be toyed with
Umber has to hand over Rickon.
Nevermind that that act (without some backstabbing by Umber) is nonsensical. What happened to “the North remembers”?
Even if Umber hates the wildlings, real-life Umber would protect Rickon. If he has Rickon, he has the Stark heir and could rally the rest of the North against Bolton.
Handing over Rickon makes no sense.
The sad part is that this could have been made tense and suspenseful if they had respected the audience’s intelligence enough. In the real world, everyone would know that that Vale is coming. Thus Ramsay would have to move to wipe out JS’s crew before the Vale arrived. But there is the uncertainty of Umber and other Northern lords. And you could have tension between Sansa and LF with Sansa wanting to move quickly but LF holding back the Vale knights to let the 2 Northern forces wipe each other out first before coming in to finish off.
What would Sansa barter for faster movement? How could Ramsay persuade the Northern lords to fight for him? Would the Vale arrive in time to save JS? This episode could have been suspenseful.
. . . sadly, D&D went the Michael Bay way and aimed it at an audience with the sophistication of 13 year-olds.
I wouldn’t be that harsh, Richard, but ‘twould be a dull world if we all thought alike and I will respect your opinion. Some 13 year olds are quite sophisticated. But like I say I watch the show as the show now. I’m not a great one for re-reading books though I’m not saying I’ve never done so but I appreciate the books as the books and one has to give GRRM kudos for creating the ASOIAF world by taking inspiration from history, myth and possibly ballads.
I don’t know if anyone has seen any of the scolagladiatori videos on YouTube? The speaker there has commented on some of the GoT fights – about the ToJ fight he said that dual wielding of swords did go on sometimes though perhaps not overly frequently and he was pleased with Arthur Dayne for wearing a helmet – but not for sticking his nice sharp sword in the ground. Apparently that would not have gone on.
Wasn’t Mors Umber a bit of a stinker in ADWD – though I’ll concede book Smalljon wouldn’t have handed Rickon over (especially if he’s dead in the books).
Edit: I think it might have been Hother Umber who had dealings with the Boltons in the books – it’s a couple or three years since I read ADWD. In my last sentence in the posting above, for clarity, I was saying the Smalljon was dead in the books –
POSSIBLE BOOK SPOILER
as far as I recall Rickon and Osha – and Shaggydog – were on Skagos (sp?) in the books dodging cannibals and creatures that might be dangerous unicorns or one-horned goats.
I agree with you Richard. Jon was out of character, the Northern lords were out of character, and LF was out of character – all to serve some dramatic anti-climax for the big reveal consisting of the Vale lords wading in to save the day. All very Hollywood.
Well, LF wants Sansa now that Catelyn is dead. And maybe Jon’s self-control died the first time (plus the Starks are reckless when it comes to honor). But Sansa not telling Jon and Ramsay not knowing about the Vale force begs belief. That last episode better explain (though nothing is as bad as anti-biotic Arya being able to ward off sepsis in a medieval era after being stabbed in the gut several times).
In any case, GoT doesn’t believe in punishment (annoyingly unrealistically so in the show: if it was true to humans, the Northern lords would have turned on Ramsay.
Reading your comment, I’ve just had a horrible thought! What if Littlefinger is going on a redemption arc like The Hound and Jaime? Watching Sansa with him and the preview of the next episode, I fear the writers may have him bizarrely atoning rather than punishing him for his past betrayals.
Phillip Hallam-Baker
One of the mistakes a lot of people make in criticizing the show is to say that something is pointless or gratuitous when in most cases it simply turns out that the significance only becomes later.
This week Ramsay is fed to the same dogs he fed his brother, his mother in law and the corpse of his lover. We also discover that after surviving Ramsay, Sansa has difficulty trusting people.
The pivotal moment in Sansa’s arc is when Brienne catches up with her and pledges allegiance to Sansa. Up to that point, Theon is in charge. After that point, Sansa makes all the decisions.
I think the show got a bad rap with respect to Theon. Yes, Sansa gets raped. But Theon is tortured for months and castrated. And the thing that is most horrifying about that particular scene is that Sansa has just married Theon and has presumably consented to have sex. But that wasn’t enough for Ramsay, he had to rape her instead.
One of the points of criticism was that Theon kills Miranda rather than Sansa. Which I thought wrong at the time because at the time neither was fully functional. Theon didn’t have the will to act, Sansa didn’t have the ability. If Sansa had killed Miranda during the escape, the execution of Ramsay would have had less effect. And I am pretty sure that was planned out in advance as you will recall that Miranda and Ramsay both make the mistake of trying to use a bow and arrow, a ranged weapon at close quarters.
Jon doesn’t listen to or take Sansa’s advice. The battle is almost lost as a result. It is left to Sansa to save the day. Jon acknowledges that by giving Sansa the pleasure of finishing Ramsay off. With the murder of Rickon and Bran being absent, Sansa is now the Queen in the North.
That may not happen in the books. But there is certainly a very powerful logic to Sansa’s plot arc that would not have been there if the show had followed the ‘lemoncakes’ plot line. But then again, book Sansa is rather younger and the timeline is intended to be rather longer.
It is surely no coincidence that the war of five kings has resulted in a situation where Westeros now has five queens.
Jon seemed arrogant and patronising & he refused to listen to Sansa. I blame Jon more than Sansa for the loss of life. What I did find unusual was Ramsay’s military strategic capability, the behaviour of the houses (ie. not hedging their bets), Vale “saving the day” a la Hollywood.
Phil, I really like this: “It is surely no coincidence that the war of five kings has resulted in a situation where Westeros now has five queens.” 😀
Yes. Sansa in the North, Daenerys in Essos, Cersei in KL, Sand Snakes in Dorne and Yara in the Iron Islands. I find this similar to the situation that transpired after the death of Edward VI when five female candidates were touted – Jane Grey, Mary I, Elizabeth I, Mary of Scots & Eleanor Brandon.
I appreciate the point that some people have made that the troops of the Vale came in very last minute – a bit like the US cavalry in some old westerns – but I wouldn’t have put it past Littlefinger to hang back till the last possible moment. Maybe next episode will shed some light on why Sansa remained silent about having contacted Littlefinger – perhaps she wasn’t sure he would come, after all she had dismissed him pretty forthrightly at their previous meeting.
Anyway, I must be indulging my inner thirteen year old * because I liked the episode.
I can’t recall whether I suggested this on another thread but ASOIAF might be suited to an audio series – the BBC radio have done good “classic” serials over the years and I think it would be easier to stick closer to the books in the medium of radio – after all one would be imagining the milieu internally as one does when reading the books. Or there’s Big Finish Produtions – they are a paid for download outfit but they have done some (to me – everything is subjective) good audio plays about Dr Who and a series called “The Confessions of Dorian Gray” which is a ‘what if scenario’ as if Dorian had been a real person and had lived on past the death of Oscar Wilde. But then if HBO own all the broadcasting rights I don’t know if a radio adaptation is feasible.
* Richard, referring my inner 13 year old isn’t meant to be snark by the way. It’s just that when I was younger I let other peoples’ opinions influence me somewhat so now I am older I keep my own opinions and I’m going to stick with liking the episode even if I’m the only person who does so!
Kudos for keeping one’s own opinions, Watcher, and in such a kind way. 🙂
Edit for clarity: I meant if HBO own the broadcasting rights to ASOIAF they might not be willing to let another outfit make an audio version.
I don’t want to beat up the TV series too much. They are doing as good a job as they can, particularly given the time and budget constraints. I am sure GRRM would be the first to acknowledge that his novels are nearly impossible to adapt to the screen, particularly after ASOS. That does not excuse the flaws in the series — I am particularly bothered by the increasing number of logical holes cropping up — but it’s unrealistic to expect it to match the scope of the books. For a TV series, it’s good stuff, although it’s not my all time favorite.
OTOH, the books of ASOIAF have changed my entire worldview. I am forever indebted to GRRM.
Jun, there is no rule that says that you or any other person who prefers the ASOIAF books to the show has to agree with me. There are some people who love the books who have something of a “People who like the show are thickos” attitude – which is not a point of view I am ascribing to you. As I say, I watch the show for itself and think of the books as the books and each being interesting in their own way. I would never have read/listened to the books if it hadn’t been for the show. I’ve already said I didn’t like the way the Dorne story was changed from the books though I am infinitely grateful it only took a few moments for Maester Cresson to die of poison in the show rather than a whole chapter (or prologue) though I will likely be in the minority.
If it would be of interest the video linked (which is quite long) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avtHpJyYYkQ features someone – who seems to know what he is talking about – giving a critique of some parts of the eponymous battle in Battle of the Bastards. He doesn’t give it a free pass and he states what is logical and what is not.
Sorry – my post above was a bit short – the video is perhaps more positive than negative but the chap making it does not say everything is right.
I will concur that the adaptation of ASOIAF has become a looser adaptation as the story progressed. I didn’t think the book version of Dorne was so bad that it needed to be altered and I quite liked book Ellaria
being a peacemaker among her belligerent daughters and stepdaughters.
Many adaptations change from the page to the screen or stage as I’m sure folk are aware. I haven’t read the Longmire or Dexter books though I’ve seen some episodes of the TV series (haven’t watched Dexter since the one where the hero had to choose between his biological brother and his adoptive sister) though I’ve heard they diverge at least a little from the books. I was mightily pleased neither of the show Daarios had a blue beard, though I suspect I might be in the minority.
I couldn’t say the ASOIAF have changed my worldview – I read (or listened to audio versions) more for entertainment though I have experienced times when I came across a (to me) “good read” but I haven’t wanted to put a book down.
Argie
The video does point out serious obvious battle issues. Wun wun could not only be intimidating, but an incredible advantage, yet they essentially having him just kicking and pushing people. They could have given him a tree trunk to swing and take out flanks of people in each swing. Similarly, he can cover more ground and would have reached Rickon much faster than Jon. When they are surrounded by Ramsay’s men, only then does he grab a shield and begin to swing. I feel that the writers are relying too heavily on the idea that the Wildlings don’t have formal battle training. That could have been an advantage. Similarly, Sansa pointed out repeatedly that Ramsay does not play by the rule book necessarily, yet they had no surprises laid out. Davos also had experience with Ramsay when he burned Stannis’ stores before the last battle, yet no surprises were discussed. When one has a horrific disadvantage in numbers, equipment and resources, there has to be one or more backup plans. In that sense, this seemed to play out only to stress the viewer and heighten tension. Overall, I enjoyed it, but it left Jon looking like a tosser. Follow him into battle again?
I’m surprised that no one mentioned the sudden appearance of Yara and Theon. Given that the city had just been attacked by sea, a hundred ships coming out of nowhere would likely be suspect. Yet they get an audience with the Mother of Dragons just like that. I thoroughtly enjoyed their meeting and love the historical references indicated in this thread, but would have liked to have seen a bit more. Did they witness the dragons smoting the Master’s ships? Did they correspond requesting an audience like Grace did QEI? Did Tyrion give Dany a ‘briefing’ on the Iron Born? She commands they stop pirating, yet they have no fertile lands and know no other way, yet in one conversation, she’s willing to change her people’s way of life. why? What more does she really know about Dany and what she’s accomplished so far? They have spent a LOT of screen time on Arya’s personal awakening and hand to hand combat with the waif, and simply gloss over this meeting.
When you only have ten episodes, you need to choose what gets screen time effectively. This season has been somewhat lacking in that regard.
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Suffer the Children? Episode 10, Season 4 Recap
Showrunners Weiss and Debioff have billed tonight’s season finale, “The Children” as the show’s finest hour. Does it live up to the hype? The twists – and deaths – keep coming there’s no doubt. Still, it is definitely the season’s act IV, a denouement and soft conclusion rather than an adrenaline filled time for the heroes. Despite all the characters who got axed, the show did not have the dark ending like Game of Thrones‘ ninth episodes — essentially an…
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The Victory Garden 1941
This was produced before America formally entered the war. This garden is huge for a family of 4 or 5 pictured. It was probably the idea to grow far more than needed to feed the neighboring community. Apparently all of the dust masks were being used for the war effort, so young Dick is inhaling all of those pesticides. No mention of compost; and the weeds that they mention; lambs quarter and amaranth are often being eaten now by foragers. Remember, no garden, no victory. Being threatened with the loss of freedom by gaining food freedom seems such innocuous propaganda.
Turning Honeycombs into Wax the Traditional Way
A traditional German apiary processes the honeycombs into cleaned beeswax. The extent of electricity being used is to light the work area. These methods have been used for centuries to make wax for candles when candles where one of the few forms of illumination.
DIY Top Bar Hive; Recycled Barrel
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This is a brilliant idea to repurpose an old food grade barrel. This makes two top bar hives. Full Directions can be found here: http://www.velacreations.com/honeycow.html
New Bee Variety; Virtually Stingless and a Hardy Producer
These gentle bees that rarely sting are isolated in mountain valleys in the Caucasus. They have the longest proboscis of any bee giving them an advantage in nectar production. Not available in the US yet but this hardy but docile bee would be great for the urban back yard beekeeper.
Best Method to Make Sauerkraut.
I have tried the crock method to make my sauerkraut, but the mason jar and ziplock bag of brine method has given me the least amount of fuss. I found this video to be the most instructive in this method. I usually forgo canning to keep the probiotic effects of fresh kraut. It keeps well in the fridge so I don't find canning necessary.
Urban Beekeeping in New York City
Urban farming continues to grow a mainstream following.
One Million People Sign Emergency Petition to Ban Bee-Killing Nicotine Pesticide Illegally Registered in Us
Word is getting out there of collateral damage from nicotine based pesticides. The ground swell of attention is surprising considering overall knowledge of our food supply here in America by the average citizen.
A remarkable emergency petition with over one million signatures has been submitted to the USEPA requesting the withdrawal of the pesticide clothianidin - a nicotine-based systemic pesticide widely used on corn/maize. Multiple activist organizations participated, lead by major US beekeepers.
The basis of the petition is that the USEPA's legal requirements for the demonstrated safety of clothianidin were never proven - and subsequent findings have shown its damages - violating the US law FIFRA, which governs the registration process for pesticides.
A coalition of beekeepers and activists gained over one million signatures on this petition, that walks step-by-step through the reasoning behind the proposed determination of the clothianidin registration's illegality - used as the basis for the withdrawal request.
This is fantastic.
http://pierreterre.com/blog/bee-killing-nicotine-pesticide-illegally-registered-us-one-million-sign-petitionPlease download the complete original emergency petition linked here (English version):
http://www.beyondpesticides.org/pollinators/CFS-Clothianidin-Petition-3-20-12.pdf
From http://www.i-sis.org.uk/Emergency_Petition_to_Ban_Bee-Killing_Pesticide.php
An in Depth look into Beekeeping with the Warre Hive (Top Bar)
Warre - Beekeeping For All
Organic Monoculture; Sustainable?
While the production numbers are impressive and the growth in organic crops is a huge positive, look at some of the production numbers. 87% of the apples, 81% of the cherries and 78% of the pears are coming from one state. One state that is in the corner of the country. Meaning about 87% of the apples are being shipped from one place. This can demonstrate how a rise in oil prices can propagate higher food prices even if the crops are being produced without large petrochemical inputs like conventional agriculture. Moving 200K tons of apples may be fine at $100 a barrel oil, but is it sustainable at $150 or even $200?
This shows that the sustainability of organic may end once the crops leave the farm, and the system of truck farming and massive economies of scale may only work to drive down food prices as long as oil prices stay stable and low. Growing in less than optimal climates may be the future of agriculture to off set higher fuel costs if we go into another oil shock.
Seeds of Life
Home Gardening by the Numbers
The Problems of Society are Problems within the Human Mind.
Nick Titar speaks on permaculture and changing the way we think.
Suburban Homestead
It should say how much land you need to live off of with a typical American diet.
Compared with what some urban homesteaders are able to get away with this seem like more than enough land. Mind you, the chart looks more like mimicking conventional agriculture and crops than what could be optimized in ones own climate zone. An aquaponic operation would cut down on the square footage dramatically and increase the protein production as well. Rabbits en lieu of chickens for protein and adding bees for honey and pollination would cut inputs (feed) and boost production with the bonus of extra calories from honey.
Here is a WW II poster from the National Archive encouraging food storage for the war effort. Today we have record enrollment on food stamps yet not a widespread government campaign for backyard food production.
The Cost of Lawns
Some interesting perspective on the cost of planting lawns at the detriment of producing food.
GMO Factsheet
You can look at this from many angles. Are there health concerns? Are there environmental concerns? Are we comfortable with the idea of being able to patent food?
Urban Honey from Hong Kong
Dwindling Crop Varieties
From this months National Geographic
Urban Bee Swarm
One way to stop loitering.
Tupelo Honey Harvest
Thank our ancestors we are not starving.
Right now it is easy to see how dependent we are on modern technology to keep the world fed. Larger, productive farms replacing subsistence farming around the world. These practices for better or for worse keep mouths fed and bellies full.
But step back for a moment, just as the world couldn't have succeeded in growing the population to such enormous levels without improvements in farming methods, we wouldn't be here if it were not for our ancestors.
Many crops were domesticate through thousands of years of selective breeding and only exist today due to human intervention. Take the brassica family:
About 2000 years ago Brassica oleracea was first domesticated and grown in Mediterranean gardens. Growers kept seeds of the larger leafed plants and eventurally it became to what we know as kale today. Following the developement of kale growers selected ever and ever more tight bunches of leaves at the top of the plant that in turn led to the formation of heads of cabbage over successive generations of selection.
About the same time cabbage came into existance successive growing of large rooted kale plants led to kohlrabi.
Later with a penchant for eating the flowering buds of the plant growers later developed cauliflower and broccoli.
Still later after that in Belgium the selection smaller buds on cabbage led to the cultivation of brussel sprouts.
So between 2000 years ago and 300 years ago 6 distinct vegetables were painstakingly developed by our ancestors. This is but one plant that developed into several food crops, 2000 years in the making. The full girth of this worlds population weighed heavily on the shoulders of our ancestors, without them we would probably not have variety cultivars to grow in many parts of the world and we would not have the variety to as easily make a balanced diet.
Talking to Strangers: honey birds
This is amazing that a wild bird becomes so tame and willing to help fetch honey. If I could only find an eagle that would help me fish.
Who Killed the honeybee.
Great piece by the BBC on the die off of honeybees worldwide. When trying to get to the bottom of what is going on I particularly like the analogy of going to the pharmacist and being asked what other medication you are taking to find out if there could be any negative interactions. I think this approach gets to the crux of colony collapse disorder. It is not one single thing in the environment but several working in congress and becoming toxic. Unfortunately this gives cover to the pesticide and GMO manufacturers since by themselves they are not directly toxic to honeybees.
Links on Food and Bees
Victoria farmer working to bring back buzz of native bees
Alarmed at honeybee colony losses that reached 80 to 100 per cent last spring on Vancouver Island, a Victoria farmer is abuzz over a program she says will boost native bee populations that could replace the threatened honeybee.
Working with the Victoria-based land trust, The Land Conservancy, as an agricultural program assistant, Nathalie Chambers is leading the just-launched Pollinator Enhancement Program. The provincewide plan aims to improve conditions for native bees so that farmers are not as dependent on the honeybee, the dominant pollinator, originating in the Mediterranean area and brought to B.C. in 1858.
US food prices could surpass 2008 levels, says USDA
US food prices could surpass those seen during the 2008 food price crisis this year, as higher commodity and energy prices cause food makers to pass on costs, according to the US Department of Agriculture (USDA).
The USDA predicted late last year that food prices would rise during 2011, and in recent weeks several major food manufacturers have said they intend to raise prices on the back of stronger commodity costs. The USDA had been saying since July that food price inflation – after dropping to its lowest rate in 18 years – would accelerate during 2011, by 2 to 3 percent. But it is only in the last week that the agency revised its forecast, saying that it predicts the Consumer Price Index (CPI) to rise by 3 to 4 percent during the year.
Bumblebees' disappearance 'alarming'
Four species see 96-per-cent decline
- Four previously abundant species of bumblebee are close to disappearing in the United States, researchers reported yesterday in a study confirming that the agriculturally important bees are being affected worldwide.
They found a 96-per-cent decline in the numbers of the four species and said their range had shrunk by as much as 87 per cent. As with honeybees, a pathogen is involved, but the researchers also found evidence of inbreeding caused by habitat loss.
"We provide incontrovertible evidence that multiple Bombus species have experienced sharp population declines at the national level," researchers reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, calling the findings "alarming."
"These are one of the most important pollinators of native plants," said Sydney Cameron of the University of Illinois, who led the study.
Improving honeybee populations?
I came accross this article and still haven't been able to find the USDA survey release associated with it.
The number of honey-producing bee
colonies in the U.S. rose 7.4 percent last year
and honey production was up 20 percent,
the Department of Agriculture said.
About 2.684 million colonies were reported
by beekeepers with five or more hives in
2010, the USDA said Friday in a report.
Honey production rose to 65.5 pounds per
colony, up 12 percent from 2009, with
overall output at 176 million pounds. The
average price at the private and retail levels
was $1.603 a pound, an all-time high and up
8.8 percent from the previous record last
year, the USDA said.
If this is the full story this is very good news. I would like to find the full survey to see if it mentions the size of colonies. Beekeepers could be maintaining more hives that are smaller colonies by splitting colonies into two hives as population rises in the summer. Also honey prices have dramatically increased in the last few years, so it is possible that more beekeepers are focusing more on honey production than just making their money on pollination. Bee colonies were still being flown in from Australia last year for pollination, which tells me along with continued high pollination rates that farmers are still struggling to get bees for pollination.
Hopefully we are turning the corner or at least things are getting less worse. But with many surveys like this the devil is in the details. While colonies may be improving and honey production is ramping up, pollination could still be in peril. I would like to get the full story.
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Back in November, two weeks after he was elected president, Barack Obama delivered a pre-taped speech to an international conference on global warming that was convened in Los Angeles by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. It wasn't Obama's most important speech, but the effect it had on the audience was profound—mostly because they heard it through the haze of the last eight years.
Act Three: Lions And Lambs
When Barack Obama chose Rick Warren of Saddleback Church to give a prayer at his inauguration, gay and lesbian groups cried foul, because of Warren's past remarks about homosexuality and gay marriage. But Rick Warren's constituents—Christian conservatives—also got angry.
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del Rosso Review: Pumpgirl
Lisa Del Rosso 17 November, 2019 Uncategorized
The protagonist of “Pumpgirl,” the harrowing, brilliant and brutal play by Abbie Spallen, directed with riveting precision by Nicola Murphy and a timely revival at the Irish Repertory Theatre, has no name. She is just plain “Pumpgirl,” who works at her father’s petrol station. As portrayed by Labhaoise Magee (who is astonishing), she is not the defined person she would like to be seen as; rather, she is a thing. She is asked rude questions about her gender. She gets come-ons from truckers. The man she has a crush on, Hammy (Hamish Allan-Headley, the perfect embodiment of the banality of evil), she considers a friend. She is also shagging him regularly in his car, despite his “cunt” of a wife, Sinead (Clare O’Malley, in a nervy, arresting performance) and his two young children. So he must be her friend then, right?
The play portrays post-IRA Northern Ireland, and those who are dealing with the economic and societal constructs left to them. Though they inhabit the same space, the three characters – who all live on the same rural estate – do not address each other. Instead, they address the audience in successive monologues. Hammy, who spends his spare time stock car racing, drinking with the lads, and shagging women who are not his wife, works a job in a hatchery, cleaning out filthy chicken cages. Sinead is frustrated with her errant husband, with being a wife and mother in a sexless, loveless marriage. And Pumpgirl just wants to be noticed, particularly by Hammy. But when Hammy comes to pick her up with his drunken mates in tow, though she gives him the benefit of the doubt, he betrays her in such a way that neither will ever forget. Sinead, meanwhile, has already shagged one of the same mates. The consequences of these choices are devastating for all three.
I’m being a bit coy here because I don’t want any spoilers, though there is a warning in the program that “Pumpgirl” contains themes of physical and sexual violence. But this is not the kind of play where everyone eventually does the right thing, calls the police, gets therapy, atones for their sins, is justly punished, etc… mainly because these three do not have the tools to deal with the consequences. Only Pumpgirl has a glimmer of recovery. And though there is some kind of order restored, I couldn’t help but think it was the women who were left to clean up the messes of men. In that community, the men and women snap back into their prescribed roles like rubber bands. The only way to avoid this fate, one way, or another, is to escape.
As usual, the genius set and lighting of the Irish Repertory Company, in this case by set designer Yu-Hsuan Chen and lighting designer Michael O’Connor, never fails to impress – that bed! – and the costumes, from Pumpgirl’s unassuming attire to Sinead’s ruby camisole occasionally covered with a care-worn cardigan, by Costume Designer Molly Seidel, were spot-on.
With “Pumpgirl,” Abbie Spallen and Nicola Murphy have together created a first-rate theatrical experience that is at once disturbing and relentless. I don’t see characters like these depicted onstage very often. But Pumpgirl, Hammy and Sinead demand your attention, demand to be seen and heard, as does this provocative, profound play.
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NBA Star Spencer Dinwiddie Just Tokenized His Own Contract
The news that Brooklyn Nets star Spencer Dinwiddie was to roll out an Ethereum-based investment vehicle for his own contract took the NBA and crypto communities by surprise. Disregarding an NBA threat to ban him from the professional basketball league, the 26-year-old point guard – who tellingly describes himself as “a tech guy with a jumper” on Twitter – launched his unique bond on January 13 with the aid of security token platform Securitize.
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Dinwiddie’s desire to tokenize his lucrative Brooklyn Nets contract first made news in September, with the NBA quickly conveying its ire to the New York Times by citing a CBA provision that “no player shall assign or otherwise transfer to any third party his right to receive compensation from the team under his uniform player contract.”
Despite fierce protestations, Dinwiddie has turned his three-year, $34.4 million contract with the Nets into an investment vehicle called Dream Fan Shares, via which he will sell 90 SD8 tokens or Professional Athlete Investment Tokens (PAInTs). There is a caveat, however: the tokens can only be purchased by qualified accredited investors who have passed various SEC and legal standards. Regulations also stipulate that the tokens – priced at $150,000 a piece – cannot be sold or traded for one year.
As “digital transfer agent and technology partner,” Securitize is facilitating the move, which will let Dinwiddie claim $13.5M of his contract upfront as a sort of business loan. It’s a novel idea, and it is likely that other sports stars will be watching closely to see how it plays out. It’s conceivable to imagine other athletes structuring and issuing their own debt instruments in digital token form, the size of their contracts making it simpler to bootstrap liquidity and interest using tokenized instruments. Incidentally, Dinwiddie’s three-year bond is forecasted to pay out 4.95% base interest on a monthly basis, with the entire principal dispensed at the end of the period upon maturity in a bullet payment.
Dinwiddie’s initial idea – to offer dividends for investors if he opts out of his contract in the final year, switching allegiance to another team or inking a new deal with the Nets – was kiboshed by the NBA, who deemed it a form of gambling. Nonetheless, the forward-thinking player seems to have gotten most of what he craved following protracted discussions with the Association.
In an attempt to further sweeten the deal for potential investors, Dinwiddie promised to take eight backers to All-Star weekend in Chicago if he’s picked for the game.
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The announcement of the player’s bond-based security provoked an outpouring of opinion on social media, ranging from acclaim (“You’re pioneering a new way for athletes and fans to engage with each other”) to scorn (“This is awesome conceptually but the “accredited investor” bit is wack. It’s bullshit in legacy markets and it’s bullshit here. Keeping real folks from participating”). Tron CEO Justin Sun was in the former camp, as he inquired how to get his hands on the token. It will be interesting to see just how many parties back Dinwiddie before the investment period ends on February 10.
One person who welcomed the release of SD8 tokens was Messari CEO Ryan Selkis. In his January 13 newsletter, the entrepreneur said, “I’m a net buyer of tokenized athletic contracts as a precursor to widespread ISA adoption, and view the Dinwiddie bonds as merely the first in a coming slew of high-profile contracts that leverage a much more efficient technology (crypto) than previous attempts at similar structures through the legacy securities markets.”
Of course, it is not the first time that the worlds of sport and the NBA have collided. Back in 2014, Sacramento Kings became the first pro sports franchise to accept bitcoin for tickets and merchandise, a feat replicated by Portuguese soccer team Benfica last June. English Premier League teams Wolves and Newcastle United have also struck kit sponsorship deals with crypto platforms like Stormgain, while boxing champion Manny Pacquiao launched a merchandise-backed crypto (the “pac” token) in August. As for Dream Fan Shares, their website states that they are “actively working to bring additional athletes, artists, and influencers onto the platform.”
What are your thoughts on Spencer Dinwiddie tokenizing his contract? Let us know in the comments section below.
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36.- F. Sánchez, U. Lüders, G. Herranz, I.C. Infante, J. Fontcuberta, M.V. García- Cuenca, C. Ferrater and M. Varela
Self-organization in complex oxide thin films: From 2D to 0D nanostructures of SrRuO3 and CoCr2O4
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37.- C. Martínez Boubeta, C. Clavero, J.M. García-Martín, G. Armelles, A. Cebollada, Ll. Balcells, J.L. Menéndez, F. Peiró, A. Cornet and M.F. Toney
Coverage effects on the magnetism of Fe/MgO(001) ultrathin films
38.- M. Wojcik, E. Jedryka, S. Nadolski, D. Rubi, C. Frontera, J. Fontcuberta, B. Jurca, N. Dragoe and P. Berthet
Electronic self-doping of Mo states in A2FeMoO6 (A=Ca, Sr, and Ba) half- metallic ferromagnets: A nuclear magnetic resonance study
39.- U. Lüders, M. Bibes, J.F. Bobo, M. Cantoni, R. Bertacco and J. Fontcuberta Enhanced magnetic moment and conductive behavior in NiFe2O4 spinel ultrathin films
40.- G. Herranz, F. Sánchez, J. Fontcuberta, M.V. García-Cuenca, C. Ferrater, M. Varela, T. Angelova, A. Cros and A. Cantarero
Domain structure of epitaxial SrRuO3 thin films
41.- G. Herranz, F. Sánchez, J. Fontcuberta, V. Laukhin, J. Galibert, M.V. García- Cuenca, C. Ferrater and M. Varela
Magnetic field effect on quantum corrections to the low temperature conductivity in metallic perovskite oxides
42.- M. Gajek, M. Bibes, A. Barthélémy, K. Bouzehouane, S. Fusil, M. Varela, J. Fontcuberta and A. Fert
Spin filtering through ferromagnetic BiMnO3 tunnel barriers
43.- J.L. García-Muñoz, C. Frontera, M. Respaud, M. Giot, C. Ritter and X.G. Capdevila
Magnetic properties of Bi0.75Sr0.25MnO3 (x≈2/8, TCO=600K): Ferromagnetism and charge order
44.- B. Martínez, F. Sandiumengue, Ll. Balcells, J. Arbiol, F. Sibieude and C. Monty
Structural and magnetic properties in Co-doped ZnO nanoparticles
45.- C. López, R. Costa, F. Illas, C.de Graaf, M.M. Turnbull, C.P. Landee, E. Espinosa, I. Mata and E. Molins
Magneto-structural correlations in binuclear copper(II) compounds bridged by a ferrocenecarboxylato(-1) and an hydroxo- or methoxo-ligands
Dalton Transactions, (2005), pp. 2322-2330
46.- C. Frontera, J.L. García-Muñoz, M.A.G. Aranda, M. Hervieu, C. Ritter, A. Calleja, X.G. Capdevila and M. Respaud
Magnetism in the low-doping regime (x<0.50) of Bi1-xSrxMnO3 perovskites
Journal of Applied Physics, 97, (2005), pp. 10C105-1 - 10C105-3
47.- C. Frontera, J.L. García-Muñoz, A.E. Carrillo, A. Caneiro, C. Ritter and D. Martín y Marero
Magnetism and vacancy ordering in PrBaCo2O5+δ (δ≥0.50)
48.- B. Martínez, F. Sandiumengue, Ll. Balcells, J. Fontcuberta, F. Sibieude and C. Monty
Magnetic properties of Co-doped ZnO nanoparticles prepared by vaporization- condensation in a solar reactor
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49.- J.L. García-Muñoz, N. Bellido, C. Frontera, J. Hernández-Velasco, C. Ritter, C. Yaicle, C. Martin and A. Maignan
Neutron-diffraction study of magnetization avalanches in Pr0.50Ca0.50Mn1-xNixO3
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50.- G. Herranz, N. Dix, F. Sánchez, B. Martínez, J. Fontcuberta, M.V. García- Cuenca, C. Ferrater, M. Varela, D. Hrabovsky and A.R. Fert
Kerr measurements on single-domain SrRuO3 thin films
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51.- M. Gajek, M. Bibes, A. Barthélémy, M. Varela and J. Fontcuberta Perovskite-based heterostructures integrating ferromagnetic-insulating La0.1Bi0.9MnO3
52.- M. Gich, A. Roig, C. Frontera, E. Molins, J. Sort, M. Popovici, G. Chouteau, D. Martín y Marero and J. Nogués
Large coercivity and low-temperature magnetic reorientation in -Fe2O3
53.- M. Bibes, V. Laukhin, S. Valencia, B. Martínez, J. Fontcuberta, O.Y. Gorbenko,
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54.- D. Rubí, C. Frontera, A. Roig, J. Nogués, J.S. Muñoz and J. Fontcuberta Increasing the Curie temperature of Ca2FeMoO6 double perovskite by introducing near-neighbour antiferromagnetic interactions
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56.- J.A. Collado, C. Frontera, J.L. García-Muñoz and M.A.G. Aranda
Effect of cation site-disorder on the structure and magneto-transport properties of Ln5/8M3/8MnO3 manganites
57.- U. Lüders, M. Bibes, J.F. Bobo and J. Fontcuberta
Tuning the growth orientation of NiFe2O4 films by appropriate underlayer selection
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58.- U. Lüders, F. Sánchez and J. Fontcuberta
Self-organized growth of pyramidal clusters in epitaxial spinel CoCr2O4 films on rock salt MgO (001) substrates
59.- K. Racka, M. Gich, A. Ślawska-Waniewska, A. Roig and E. Molins
Magnetic properties of Fe nanoparticle systems
Ferromagnetism in co-doped ZnO particles prepared by vaporization- condensation in a solar image furnace
61.- V. Laukhin, Ll. Abad, Ll. Balcells, J. Fontcuberta, B. Martínez, O. Gorbenko and
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Charge inhomogeneities in La2/3Ca1/3MnO3 epitaxial thin films
62.- J. Fontcuberta, D. Rubi, C. Frontera, J.L. García-Muñoz, M. Wojcik, E. Jedryka,
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Ferromagnetic coupling strength and electron-doping effects in double perovskites
63.- G. Herranz, F. Sánchez, B. Martínez, C. Ferrater, M.V. García-Cuenca, M. Varela and J. Fontcuberta
Magnetoresistance of SrRuO3 ultra-thin films
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A new intermediate intercalate in superconducting sodium-doped hafnium nitride chloride
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Mechanisms of nanostructural and morphological evolution of CeO2 functional films by chemical solution deposition
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67.- C. Navau, A. Sánchez, E. Pardo, D.-X. Chen, E. Bartolomé, X. Granados, T. Puig and X. Obradors
Critical state in finite type-II superconducting rings
68.- E. Bartolomé, X. Granados, A. Palau, T. Puig, X. Obradors, C. Navau, E. Pardo,
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Magnetization and critical current of finite Superconductivity YBa2Cu3O7 rings
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Anomalous ac magnetic susceptibility of high-temperature YBa2Cu3O7-δ superconductors
70.- F. Berberich, H. Graafsma, B. Rousseau, A. Canizares, R. Ramy Ratiarison, N. Raimbou, P. Simon, P. Odier, N. Mestres, T. Puig and X. Obradors
Combined synchrotron x-ray diffraction and micro-Raman for following in situ the growth of solution-deposited YBa2Cu3O7 thin films
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Pushing and trapping phenomena in YBa2Cu3O7 melt-textured composites with BaZrO3 and Ag additions
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Melting of Ag-YBa2Cu3O7 interfaces: The path to large area high critical current welds
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Vortex pinning by a novel stress induced stacking fault microstructure in melt- textured YBa2Cu3O7
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Transport versus magnetization technique for determination of critical current densities in superconducting tapes with macroscopic defects
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Critical current density analysis of ex situ MgB2 wire by in-field and temperature Hall probe imaging
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Influence of growth conditions on the microstructure and critical currents of TFA-MOD YBa2Cu3O7 films
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Determination of the inter- and intra-granular critical currents in superconducting YBa2Cu3O7 welds
81.- A. Pomar, M. Coll, A. Cavallaro, J. Gázquez, J.C. González, N. Mestres, F. Sandiumenge, T. Puig and X. Obradors
High Jc YBCO thin films and multilayers grown by chemical solution deposition
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Critical state of YBCO superconductors with artificially patterned Holes
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Effect of strain on grain and grain-boundary critical currents of YBCO coated conductors
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Preparation of MZrO3 (M=Ba,Sr) buffer layers on surface oxidized Ni/NiO templates by PLD and MOD
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Mechanical fragility and tri-dimensional crack structure in NdBaCuO top seeded and multi-seeded melt-textured samples
86.- X. Granados, B. Bozzo, S. Iliescu, E. Bartolomé, T. Puig, X. Obradors, J. Amorós and M. Carrera
Critical current determination of artificially welded HTS samples by in-field Hall mapping technique
87.- A. Caballero, V. Lloveras, A. Tárraga, A. Espinosa, M. D. Velasco, J. Vidal- Gancedo, C. Rovira, K. Wurst, P. Molina and J. Veciana
An electroactive nitrogen-rich [4,4]ferrocenophane displaying a Redox- swichable behabiour: Selective sensing, complexation, and decomplexation of Mg 2+ ions
88.- A. Laromaine, F. Teixidor and C. Viñas
Carbon extrusion in 1,2-dicarba-closo-dodecaboranes: Regioselective boron substitution in ten-vertex closo-monocarbaborane anions
Angewandte Chemie-International Edition, 44 (15), (2005), pp. 2220-2222
89.- S. Perruchas, J. Fraxedas, E. Canadell, P. Auban-Senzier and P. Batail
Monoclinic polymorphs of bechgaard and fabre salts
90.- E. Gomar-Nadal, J. Veciana, C. Rovira and D.B. Amabilino
Chiral teleinduction in the formation of a macromolecular multistate chiroptical redox switch
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The Ni mediated cyclocarbonylation of allyl halides and alkynes made catalytic. Evidence supporting the involvement of pseudoradical Ni I species in the mechanism
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(EDT-TTF-CONH2)6[Re6Se8(CN)6], a metallic Kagome-type organic-inorganic hybrid compound: Electronic instability, molecular motion, and charge localization
94.- J.M. Oliva, N.L. Allan, P. v. R. Schleyer, C. Viñas and F. Teixidor
Strikingly long C···C distances in 1,2-disubstituted ortho-carboranes and their dianions
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Highly selective chromogenic and redox of fluorescent sensors of Hg2+ in aqueous environment based on 1,4-disubstituted azines
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Self-assembly of mercaptane-metallacarborane complexes by an unconventional cooperative effect: A C-H···S-H···H-B hydrogen/dihydrogen bond interaction Journal of the American Chemical Society, 127 (45), (2005), pp. 15976-15982
97.- K. Cuentas-Gallegos, M. Lira-Cantú, N. Casañ-Pastor and P. Gómez-Romero Nanocomposite hybrid molecular materials for application in solid-state electrochemical supercapacitors
Advanced Functional Materials, 15, (2005), pp. 1125-1133
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Generation and reactions of ruthenium phosphido complexes [(η5- C5H5)Ru(PR’3)2(PR2)]: Remarkably high phosphorus basicities and applications as ligands for palladium-catalyzed suzuki cross-coupling reactions
99.- C. Viñas, J. Llop, F. Teixidor, R. Kivekas and R. Sillanpää
Restricted rotation in unbridged sandwich complexes: Rotational behavior of closo-[Co(η5-NC4H4)(C2B9H11)] derivatives
Chemistry - A European Journal, 11 (6), (2005), pp. 1933-1941
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103.- J.R. Herance, E. Peris, J. Vidal, J.L. Bourdelande, J. Marquet and H. Garcia Second harmonic generation of C60 incorporated in alkali metal ion zeolites and mesoporous MCM-41 silica
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Tailoring oxygen content on PrBaCo2O5+δ layered cobaltites
105.- J. Gómez-Segura, O. Kazakova, J. Davies, P. Josephs-Franks, J. Veciana and D. Ruiz-Molina
Self-organization of Mn12 single-molecule magnets into ring structures induced by breath-figures as templates
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Polymer-filled nanoporous silica aerogels as hosts for highly stable solid-state dye lasers
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Ring-chain tautomerism of the novel 2-Ferrocenyl-2,4-dihydro-1H-3,1- benzoxazine
109.- X. Ribas, A. Sironi, N. Masciocchi, E.B Lopes, M. Almeida, J. Veciana and C. Rovira
Structural, magnetic and electrical characterization of new polycrystalline phases of nickel- and platinum-doped [(DT-TTF)n][Au(mnt)2] (n = 1,2)
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An unusually stable trinuclear manganese (II) complex bearing bulk carboxylic radical ligands
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Boron–functionalized carbosilanes: Insertion of carborane clusters into peripheral silicon atoms of carbosilane compounds
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Synthesis, reactivity and structural studies of carboranyl thioethers and disulfides
Dalton Transactions, 10, (2005), pp. 1785-1795
113.- A. García-Raso, J.J. Fiol, A. Tasada, F.M. Albertí, E. Molins, M.G. Basallote,
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Ag(I) complexes with alkylidene-bis(2-aminopyrimidines) as building units for discrete metallomacrocyclic frames. A structural and solution study
114.- P. Gomez-Romero and C. Sanchez
Hybrid materials. Functional properties. From maya blue to 21st century materials
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115.- J. Gómez-Segura, E. Lhotel, C. Paulsen, D. Luneau, K. Wurst, J. Veciana, D. Ruiz-Molina and P. Gerbier
Trihaloacetic acids: An investigation of steric and inductive ligand effects on the synthesis of [Mn12O12(O2CCX3)16(H2O)4] single-molecule magnets
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116.- S. Martínez, A. Vallribera, C.L. Cotet, M. Popovici, L. Martín, A. Roig, M. Moreno-Mañas and E. Molins
Nanosized metallic particles embedded in silica and carbon aerogels as catalysts of Mizoroki-Hech coupling reaction
New Journal of Chemistry, 29, (2005), pp. 1342-1345
117.- S.V. Simonov, I.Yu. Shevyakova, L.V. Zorina, S.S. Khasanov, L.I. Buravov,
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Variety of molecular conducting layers in the family of radical cation salts based on BEDT-TTF with the metal mononitrosyl complex [OsNOCl5]2-
118.- J.C. Dias, X. Ribas, J. Morgado, J. Seiça, E.B. Lopes, I.C. Santos, R.T. Henriques,
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Multistability in a family of DT–TTF organic radical based compounds (DT– TTF)4[M(L)2]3 (M = Au, Cu; L = pds, pdt, bdt)
119.- M.M.S. Abdel-Mottaleb, E. Gomar-Nadal, M. Surin, H. Uji-i, W. Mamdouh, J. Veciana, V. Lemaur, C. Rovira, J. Cornil, R. Lazzaroni, D.B. Amabilino, S. De Feyter and F.C. De Schryver
Self-assembly of tetrathiafulvalene derivatives at a liquid/solid interface – compositional and constitutional influence on supramolecular ordering Journal of Materials Chemistry, 15, (2005), pp. 4601-4615
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Polypyrrole materials doped with weakly coordinating anions: Influence of substituents and the fate of the doping anion during the overoxidation process Polymer, 46 (26), (2005), pp. 12218-12225
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Characterization of high-k Ta2Si oxidized films on 4H-SiC and Si substrates as gate insulator
Journal of the Electrochemical Society, 152 (4), (2005), pp. G259-G265
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Oxynitrides as electrode materials for lithium-ion batteries. Characterization and performance of Li7.9MnN3.2O1.6
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Hybrid proton-conducting membranes for polymer electrolyte fuel cells. Phosphoric acid doped poly(2,5-benzimidazole)-(ABPBI-H3PMo12O40) Electrochimica Acta, 50, (2005), pp. 4715-4720
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Copper, cobalt and platinum complexes with dithiothiophene-based ligands
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Aerosol nanoparticles in the Fe1-xCrx system: Room-temperature stabilization of the phase and phase transformation
128.- T. Boix, J. Gomez-Morales, J. Torrent-Burgues, A. Monfort, P. Puigdomènech and R. Rodriguez-Clemente
Adsorption of recombinant human bone morphogenetic protein rhBMP-2m onto hydroxyapatite
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Self-doped titanium oxide thin films for efficient visible light photocalysis. An example: Nonylphenol photodegradation
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130.- M.B. Fernández van Raap, F.H. Sánchez, C.E. Rodríguez Torres, Ll. Casas, A. Roig and E. Molins
Detailed magnetic dynamic behaviour of nanocomposite iron oxide aerogels
131.- M.K Amshumali, I. Chávez, V. Arancibia, F. Burgos, J.M. Manríquez, E. Molins and A. Roig
Synthesis, characterization and structure of diiron organometallic derivatives of 2,9-di methyl-1, 10-dihydro-dicyclopenta[a,h]naphthalene
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Ex situ NMR and neutron diffraction study of structure and lithium motion in Li7MnN4
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Room temperature solid-state transformation from Ag2Cu2O3 to Ag2Cu2O4 by ozone oxidation
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135.- A.M. Peiró, J.A. Ayllón, J. Peral, X. Domènech and C. Domingo Microwave activated chemical bath deposition (MW-CBD) of zinc oxide: Influence of bath composition and substrate characteristics
Journal of Crystal Growth, 285, (2005), pp. 6-16
136.- A. García-Raso, J.J. Fiol, A. Tasada, M.J. Prieto, V. Moreno, I. Mata, E. Molins,
T. Bunič, A. Golobič and I. Turel
Ruthenium complexes with purine derivatives: Syntheses, structural characterization and preliminary studies with plasmidic DNA Inorganic Chemistry Communications, 8, (2005), pp. 800-804
137.- M. Burriel, G. Garcia, J. Santiso, A.N. Hansson, S. Linderoth and A. Figueras Co3O4 protective coatings prepared by pulsed injection metal organic chemical vapour deposition
Thin Solid Films, 473 (1), (2005), pp. 98-103
138.- A.M. Peiró, C. Domingo, J. Peral, X. Domènech, E. Vigil, M.A. Hernández- Fenollosa, M. Mollar, B. Marí and J.A. Ayllón
Nanostructured zinc oxide films grown from microwave activated aqueous solutions
Thin Solid Films, 483 (1-2), (2005), pp. 79-83
139.- E. Vigil, B. González, I. Zumeta, C. Domingo, X. Doménech and J.A. Ayllon Preparation of photoelectrodes with spectral response in the visible without applied bias based on photochemically deposited copper oxide inside a porous titanium dioxide film
140.- M.R. Sundberg, S. Paavola, C. Viñas, F. Teixidor, R. Uggla and R. Kivekäs Plasticity of the five-membered chelate ring in [PdCL2(1,2-(PR2)2-1,2-C2B10H10)] complexes (R = H or iPr)
Inorganica Chimica Acta, 358 (6), (2005), pp. 2107-2111
141.- M. Lira-Cantú, A. Morales-Sabio, A. Brustenga and P. Gomez-Romero Electrochemical deposition of black nickel solar absorber coatings on stainless steel AISI316L for thermal solar cells
Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells, 87, (2005), pp. 685-694
142.- A.K. Cuentas-Gallegos and P. Gomez-Romero
In-situ synthesis of polypyrrole-MnO2-x nanocomposite hybrids
Journal of New Materials for Electrochemical Systems, 8 (3), (2005), pp. 181-
143.- J. Cabana, C. Mercier, D. Gautier and M.R. Palacín
Synthesis and electrochemical study of antifluorite-type phases in the Li-M-N-O (M=Ti, V) systems
Zeitschrift fur Anorganische und Allgemeine Chemie, 631, (2005), pp. 2136- 2141
144.- E. Vigil, I. Zumeta, J.A. Ayllon, B. González, X. Doménech and C. Domingo Photovoltaic behaviour of structures based on nanocrystalline semiconductor oxides
Physica Status Solidi b, 242 (9), (2005), pp. 1807-1811
145.- L. Narvaez, E. Cano and D.M. Bastidas
3-hydroxybenzoic acid as AISI 316L stainless steel corrosion inhibitor in a H2SO4-HF-H2O2 pickling solution
Journal of Applied Electrochemistry, 35 (5), (2005), pp. 499-506
146.- P. Gómez-Romero, K. Cuentas-Gallegos, M. Lira-Cantú and N. Casañ-Pastor Hybrid nanocomposite materials for energy storage and conversion applications Journal of Materials Science, 40, (2005), pp. 1423-1428
147.- L. Fernández-Carrasco, F. Puertas, M.T. Blanco-Varela, T. Vazquez and J. Rius Synthesis and crystal structure solution of potassium dawsonite: An intermediate compound in the alkaline hydrolysis of calcium aluminate cements
Cement and Concrete Research, 35, (2005), pp. 641-646
148.- E. Cano, D.M. Bastidas, J. Simancas and J.M. Bastidas
Dicyclohexylamine nitrite as volatile corrosion inhibitor for steel in polluted environments
Corrosion, 61 (5), (2005), pp. 473-479
149.- A. Gupta, S.B. Samanta, V.P.S. Awana, H. Kishan, A.M. Awasthi, S. Bharadwaj,
A.V. Narlikar, C. Frontera and J.L. Garcia-Muñoz
Direct evidence for charge ordering and electronic phase separation in BixSr1- xMnO3 at room temperature
Physica B-Condensed Matter, 370, (2005), pp. 172-177
150.- M. Casas-Cabanas, M.R. Palacín and J. Rodríguez- Carvajal
Microstructural analysis of nickel hydroxide: Anisotropic size versus stacking faults
Powder Diffraction, 20 (4), (2005), pp. 334-344
151.- D. Nowak, M. Florek, J. Nowak, W. Kwiatek, J. Lekki, E. Zieba, P.G. Romero,
B. Ben-Nissan and A. Kuczumow
Micro-spectrometric investigations of inorganic components of the black corals for biomedical applications
Bioceramics, 17, (2005), pp. 297-300
152.- C. Réthoré, N. Avarvari, E. Canadell, P. Auban-Senzier and M. Fourmigué
Chiral molecular metals: Syntheses, structures, and properties of the AsF − salts
of racemic (+/−), (R)-, and (S)-tetrathiafulvalene-oxazoline derivatives
153.- X. Ribas, M. Mas-Torrent, A. Pérez-Benítez, J.C. Dias, H. Alves, E.B. Lopes,
R.T. Henriques, E. Molins, I.C. Santos, K. Wurst, P. Foury-Leylekian, M. Almeida, J. Veciana and C. Rovira
Organic spin ladders from tetrathiafulvalene (TTF) derivatives
154.- O.B. Borobia, P. Guionneau, H. Heise, F.H. Köhler, L. Ducasse, J. Vidal- Gancedo, J. Veciana, S. Golhen, L. Ouahab and J.-P. Sutter
Discrepancy between the spin distribution and the magnetic ground state for a triaminoxyl substituted triphenylphosphine oxide derivative
155.- M. Mas-Torrent, P. Hadley, S.T. Bromley, N. Crivillers, J. Veciana and C. Rovira Single-crystal organic field-effect transistors based on dibenzo-tetrathiafulvalene Applied Physics Letters, 86, (2005), pp. 012110-1 - 012110-3
156.- A. Frontera, M. Orell, C. Garau, D. Quiñonero, E. Molins, I. Mata and J. Morey Preparation, solid-state characterization, and computational study of a crown ether attached to a squaramide
Organic Letters, 7 (8), (2005), pp. 1437-1440
157.- O. Bassas, N. Llor, M.M.M. Santos, R. Griera, E. Molins, M. Amat and J. Bosch Biogenetically inspired enantioselective approach to indolo[2,3-a]- and benzo[a]quinolizidine alkaloids from a synthetic equivalent of secologanin Organic Letters, 7 (14), (2005), pp. 2817-2820
158.- D.B. Amabilino, J.-L. Serrano and J. Veciana
Reversible and irreversible conformational changes in poly(isocyanide)s: A remote stereoelectronic effect
Chemical Communications, (2005), pp. 322-324
159.- J. Sly, P. Kasák, E. Gomar-Nadal, C. Rovira, L. Górriz, P. Thordarson, D.B. Amabilino, A.E. Rowan and R.J.M. Nolte
Chiral molecular tapes from novel tetra(thiafulvalene-crown-ether)-substituted phthalocyanine building blocks
160.- N. Roques, D. Maspoch, N. Domingo, D. Ruiz-Molina, K. Wurst, J. Tejada, C. Rovira and J. Veciana
Hydrogen-bonded self-assemblies in a polychlorotriphenylmethyl radical derivative substituted with six meta-carboxylic acid groups
161.- D. Maspoch, N. Domingo, D. Ruiz-Molina, K. Wurst, J.-M. Hernández, G. Vaughan, C. Rovira, F. Lloret, J. Tejada and J. Veciana
Coexistence of ferro- and antiferromagnetic interactions in a metal-organic radical-based (6, 3)-helical network with large channels
162.- E. Laukhina, V. Tkacheva, I. Chuev, R. Wojciechowski, J. Ulanski, J. Vidal- Gancedo, J. Veciana, V. Laukhin and C. Rovira
Harnessing ICl reduction processes for synthesis of different BEDT-TTF-based molecular conductors
163.- S. Sala, N. Ventosa, T. Tassaing, M. Cano, Y. Danten, M. Besnard and J. Veciana Synergistic enhancement of the solubility of hexamethylene-tetramine in subcritical CO2-ethanol mixtures studied by infrared spectroscopy ChemPhysChem, 6, (2005), pp. 587-590
164.- D.B. Amabilino, E. Ramos, J.-L. Serrano, T. Sierra and J. Veciana Chiral teleinduction in the polymerization of isocyanides Polymer, 46, (2005), pp. 1507-1521
165.- C. Hirel, J. Pécaut, S. Choua, P. Turek, D.B. Amabilino, J. Veciana and P. Rey Enantiopure and racemic chiral nitronyl nitroxide free radicals: Synthesis and characterization
European Journal of Organic Chemistry, (2005), pp. 348-359
166.- V. Lloveras, A. Caballero, A. Tárraga, M.D. Velasco, A. Espinosa, K. Wurst, D.J. Evans, J. Vidal-Gancedo, C. Rovira, P. Molina and J. Veciana
Synthesis and characterization of radical cations derived from mono- and biferrocenyl-substituted 2-aza-1,3-butadienes: A study of the influence of an asymmetric and oxidizable bridge on intramolecular electron transfer European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, 12, (2005), pp. 2436-2450
167.- E. Evangelio and D. Ruiz-Molina
Valence tautomerism: New challenges for electroactive ligands
European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, 15, (2005), pp. 2957-2971
168.- D. Maspoch, N. Domingo, D. Ruiz-Molina, K. Wurst, J. Tejada, C. Rovira and J. Veciana
Carboxylic-substituted polychlortirphenylmethyl radicals, new organic building- blocks to design nanosporous magnetic molecular materials
Comptes Rendus Chimie, 8 (8), (2005), pp. 1213-1225
169.- M. Ramírez-Osuna, D. Chávez, L. Hernández, E. Molins, R. Somanathan and G. Aguirre
Synthesis of analogs of amathamide A and their preliminary antimicrobial activity
Molecules, 10, (2005), pp. 295-301
170.- M. Ramírez-Cardona, L. Ventolà, T. Calvet, M.A. Cuevas-Diarte, J. Rius, J.M. Amigó and M.M. Reventós
Crystal structure determination of 1-pentanol from low-temperature powder diffraction data by Patterson search methods
171.- I. Mata, E. Rodríguez and E. Molins
Dodeca-µ2-hydroxo-di-µ3-oxo-hexakis(1,4,7-triazacyclonane- K3N,N’,N’’)octairon(III) octabromide octahydrate
Acta Crystallographica E, 61, (2005), pp. m1988-m1990
172.- C. Sporer, I. Ratera, K. Wurst J. Vidal-Gancedo, D. Ruiz-Molina, C. Rovira and
J. Veciana
Ferrocene triphenylmethyl radical donor–acceptor compounds. Towards the development of multifunctional molecular switches
Arkivoc, ix, (2005), pp. 104-114
173.- R. Lindsay, A. Wander, A. Ernst, B. Montanari, G. Thornton and N.M. Harrison Revisiting the surface structure of TiO2(110): A quantitative low-energy electron diffraction study
Physical Review Letter, 94, (2005), pp. 246102-1 - 246102-4
174.- A. Cantín, A. Corma, S. Leiva, F. Rey, J. Rius and S. Valencia
Synthesis and structure of the bidimensional zeolite ITQ-32 with small and large pores
175.- J. Santiso, J.A. Pardo, C. Solis, G. Garcia, A. Figueras, M.D. Rossell and G. Van Tendeloo
Strain relaxation and oxygen superstructure modulation in epitaxial Sr4Fe6O13±δ films
176.- D.G. de Oteyza, E. Barrena, J.O. Ossó, H. Dosch, S. Meyer and J. Pflaum Controlled enhancement of the electron field-effect mobility of F16CuPc thin-film transistors by use of functionalized SiO2 substrates
177.- J. Rius-Palleiro, I. Peral, I. Margiolaki and X. Torrelles
Solving centrosymmetrical zeolites from powder diffraction data by combining the direct-methods origin-free modulus sum function with the isomorphous replacement technique. X
178.- S. Bahrs, J. Guimpel, A.R. Goñi, B. Maiorov, A. Fainstein, G. Nieva and C. Thomsen
Persistent photo-excitation in GdBa2Cu3O6.5 in a simultaneous Raman and electrical-transport experiment
179.- O. Bikondoa, G.R. Castro, X. Torrelles, F. Wendler and W. Moritz Surface-induced disorder on the clean Ni3Al(111) surface Physical Review B, 72, (2005), pp. 195430-1 - 195430-8
180.- G.A. Battiston, D. Berto, A. Convertino, D. Emiliani, A. Figueras, R. Gerbasi and
S. Viticoli
PECVD of h-BN and c-BN films from boranedimethylamine as a single source precursor
181.- I. Justicia, G. Garcia, G.A. Battiston, R. Gerbasi, F. Ager, M. Guerra, J. Caixach,
J.A. Pardo, J. Rivera and A. Figueras
Photocatalysis in the visible range of sub-stoichiometric anatase films prepared by MOCVD
182.- M.I. Alonso, M. de la Calle, J.O. Ossó, M. Garriga and A.R. Goñi Strain and composition profiles of self-assembled Ge/Si(001) islands Journal of Applied Physics, 98, (2005), pp. 033530-1 - 033530-6
183.- E. György, J. Santiso, A. Figueras, A. Giannoudakos, M. Kompitsas and I. Mihailescu
Morphology evolution and local electric properties of Au nanoparticles on ZnO thin films
Journal of Applied Physics, 98 (8), (2005), pp. 084302-1 - 084302-4
184.- M. Burriel, G. Garcia, J. Santiso, A. Abrutis, Z. Saltyte and A. Figueras Growth kinetics, composition, and morphology of Co3O4 thin films prepared by the Pulsed Liquid-Injection MOCVD
185.- J. Fraxedas, A. Verdaguer, F. Sanz, S. Baudron and P. Batail Water nanodroplets confined in molecular nanobeakers Surface Science, 588, (2005), pp. 41-48
186.- X. Torrelles, J. Zegenhagen, J. Rius, T. Gloege, L.X. Cao and W. Moritz Atomic structure of a long-range ordered vicinal surface of SrTiO3 Surface Science, 589, (2005), pp. 184-191
187.- R. Pérez, D. Tournier, A. Pérez-Tomás, P. Godignon, N. Mestres and J. Millán Planar edge termination design and technology considerations for 1.7kV 4H-SiC PiN diodes
IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, 52 (10), (2005), pp. 2309-2316
188.- R. Pérez, N. Mestres, D. Tournier, P. Godignon and J. Millán
Ni/Ti ohmic and Schottky contacts on 4H-SiC formed with a single thermal treatment
Diamond & Related Materials, 14, (2005), pp. 1146-1149
189.- M. Salluzzo, A. Fragneto, G.M. de Luca, U. Scotti di Uccio and X. Torrelles Surface an interface structure of Nd1.2Ba1.8Cu3Oy epitaxial films studied by grazing incidence X-ray diffraction
Thin Solid Films, 486, (2005), pp. 178-181
190.- E. György, J. Santiso, A. Giannoudakos, M. Kompitsas, I.N. Mihailescu and D. Pandelica
Growth of Al doped ZnO thin films by a synchronized two laser system
191.- J. Nowak, M. Florek, W. Kwiatek, J. Lekki, P. Chevallier, E. Zieba, N. Mestres,
E.M. Dutkiewicz and A. Kuczumow
Composite structure of wood cells in petrified wood
Materials Science and Engineering C, 25, (2005), pp. 119-130
192.- X. Perpiñà, X. Jordà, M. Vellvehí, J. Millán and N. Mestres
Development of an analogue processing circuit for IR-radiation power and noncontact position measurements
Review of Scientific Instruments, 76, (2005), pp. 025106-1 - 025106-6
193.- X. Perpinya, X. Jordà, F. Madrid, D. Flores, S. Hidalgo, M. Vellvehi and N. Mestres
Thermal calibration procedure for internal infrared laser deflection apparatus
194.- M.R.F. Siggel-King, R. Lindsay, T.J. Reddish and F.M. Quinn
TEARES: Toroidal energy- and angle-resolving electron spectrometer - results, recent modifications and instrument performance
Journal of Electron Spectroscopy and Related Phenomena, 144-147, (2005), pp. 1005-1010
195.- E.T. Gomez, T. Sanfeliu, J. Rius and M.M. Jordán
Evolution, sources and distribution of mineral particles and amorphous phase of atmospheric aerosol in an industrial and Mediterranean coastal area
Water, Air, and Soil Pollution, 167 (1-4), (2005), pp. 311-330
196.- R. Pérez, N. Mestres, J. Montserrat, D. Tournier and P. Godignon
Barrier inhomogeneities and electrical characteristics of Ni/Ti bilayer Schottky contacts on 4H-SiC after high temperature treatments
Physica Status Solidi a, 202 (4), (2005), pp. 692-697
197.- S. Blanqué, J. Lyonnet, R. Pérez, P. Terziyska, S. Contreras, P. Godidgnon, N. Mestres, J. Pascual and J. Camassel
Full wafer size investigation of N+ and P+ co-implanted layers in 4H-SiC
198.- M. Voelskow, D. Panknin, E.K. Polycroniadis, G. Ferro, P. Godignon, N. Mestres, W. Skorupa, Y. Monteil and J. Stoemenos
Epitaxial SiC formation at the SiO2/Si interface by C+ implantation into SiO2 and subsequent annealing
199.- S. Blanqué, J. Lyonnet, J. Camassel, R. Pérez, P. Terziyska, S. Contreras, P. Godignon, N. Mestres and J. Pascual
Homogeneity of nitrogen and phosphorus co-implants in 4H-SiC: Full wafer scale investigation
200.- A. Pérez Tomás, D. Tournier, P. Godignon, N. Mestres and J. Millán
4H-SiC MOS structures fabricated from RTCVD Si layers oxidized in diluted N2O
4H-SiC MOSFETs using thermal oxidized Ta2Si films as high-k gate dielectric
202.- R. Pérez, N. Mestres, D. Tournier, X. Jordà, M. Vellvehi and P. Godignon Temperature dependence of 4H-SiC JBS and schottky diodes after high temperature treatment of contact metal
203.- N. Ventosa, J. Veciana, S. Sala, M. Muntó, M. Cano and M. Gimeno
New technologies for the preparation of micro- and nanostructured materials with potential applications in drug delivery and clinical diagnostics Contributions to Science, 3 (1), (2005), pp. 11-18
204.- J.A. Asensio and P. Gómez-Romero
Recent developments on proton conducting poly(2,5-benzimidazole) (ABPBI) membranes for high temperature polymer electrolyte fuel cells
Fuel Cells, 5(3), (2005), pp. 336-343
205.- J.L. Mozos, E. Machado, E.R. Hernandez and P. Ordejón
Nanotubes and nanowires: The effect of impurities and defects on their electronic properties
International Journal of Nanotechnology, 2, (2005), pp. 114-128
206.- M. Kompitsas, A. Giannodaukos, E. György, J. Santiso and D. Pantelica Kontrollierte dotierung von Al:ZnO-Schichten durch PLD mit zwei lasern und zwei targets
Photonik, 2, (2005), pp. 58-61
Nanotech insight
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The International Institute for Population Sciences (I.I.P.S) has over the span of six decades established itself world over as a premier institution specializing in teaching as well as research in the field of Population Sciences. In addition to regular teaching and research activities, the Institute has over the years leveraged its expertise in the field to successfully organize various short term tailored made training programs covering various aspects of Population and health. The training programs are for the in-service officials, researchers working in NGOs, doctoral and post-doctoral candidates and independent researchers working in the field of Population and Health, and are funded by various international and national funding agencies including WHO, UNFPA, Nordic Council of India, Asian Development Bank, Government of India, State governments, University Grant Commission to name a few. Some of the most popular courses organized by the Institute in the past are:
Demographic Techniques and Application of Demographic Software Packages.
Life Tables Construction and Population Projection.
Analysis of Large Scale Sample Survey data in Demographic and Health Research.
Gender and Reproductive Health.
Qualitative Research Methods in Demographic and Health Research.
Analysis of Vital Statistics from Civil Registration System.
Strengthening State Plans for Human Development.
Besides, the Institute has also organized customized training programs for various ministries in India (central and state governments), Myanmar, UNFPA, Nordic Council of India, various international and national non-Governmental organizations, to name a few.
The Institute proposes to organize the following short term training programmes in the current academic session 2019-2020:
1. Gender Analysis of Health: Workshop for Researchers using Large Scale Data Sets:
Gender Analysis has not been adequately mainstreamed into health research. Only with the recognition of Gender as an axis of analysis will it be possible to examine its impact on health outcomes. The workshop aims to enable young researchers recognize the relevance of gender on health outcomes using large scale data sets like NFHS, NSSO, GATS, DLHS, etc. Gender analysis to facilitate an identification of the possible ways in which gender norms and values, roles and responsibilities and access to and control over resources shape the following outcomes:
Vulnerability in terms of incidence, prevalence or response to vaccines;
Health seeking behavior (care seeking or not seeking pattern as well as continuation and discontinuation of treatment);
Ability to access health services;
Preventive and treatment options and responses to treatment or rehabilitation;
Experience with health services and health providers;
Outcome of health problem-in terms of detection, prevention, recovery, rehabilitation, disability, death;
Consequences- in terms of economic, social and attitudinal.
Schedule: 10- 15 October, 2019
Duration: One-week (six working days)
Intended participants: Ph.D. students and young researchers working on Population and Health issues having knowledge of STATA / SPSS / R and able to work with large scale survey data sets.
2. Large Scale Sample Surveys- Data Users Training Workshop
Sample Surveys as a source of population & health information has been an integral part of IIPS. In recent years the Institute has been able to successfully conduct many large scale sample surveys like National Family Health Survey (NFHS), District Level Household Survey (DLHS), Assessment of National Rural Health Mission (NRHM), YOUTH in India Project, Global Adult Tobacco Survey (GATS India Project), Research Intervention on Sexual Health Theory to Action (RISHTA Project), and Nutrition Surveys and Longitudinal Aging Study in India (LASI), etc.
In view of the expertise IIPS has developed in the field of Large Scale Sample Surveys, the training workshop aims to build capacity of researchers working in the field of population & health to engage deeply in the analysis and dissemination of datasets collected through large scale sample surveys in the country. Hands on training would be provided to the participants using the data collected through various rounds of National Family Health Surveys (NFHS) by the Institute.
The one-week short term training workshop would cover among others the following aspects of Large Scale Sample Surveys: Sampling; Sampling Weights; Survey Instruments; Mapping & House Listing; Selection of Sample; Sampling and Non-Sampling Errors; Ethical Issues; Data Analysis, etc. with ample time for hands on exercises.
Schedule: 17th – 22nd of February, 2020.
Duration: One-week (six working days).
Intended participants: Young full-time research scholars pursuing their doctoral work in the field of population & health are encouraged to apply for the training workshop. Early career researchers are also encouraged to apply particularly those working at the Population Research Centers (PRCs).
3. Qualitative Research Methods in Demographic and Health Research
The proposed short term training programme on Qualitative Research Methods in Demographic and Health Research aims to build capacity on theoretical construct of various types of qualitative methods and techniques, data collection and their uses in population and health research.
The training programme would cover the following aspects of Qualitative Research: Theoretical paradigms; Research strategies; Sampling methods and design; Data Collection Methods; Data Analysis; Use of Software Packages in Qualitative Research; Report writing; Ethical Issues.
Schedule: to be announced.
Intended participants: Teachers/Researchers working in research institutions/organizations, research scholars, NGO workers, Independent researchers.
Further information can be had from the following contact persons:
Dr. Usha Ram
usharam@iips.net
Dr. Archana K.Roy
royarchana@iips.net
Mr. B.S. Kumar
Assistant Research Officer
bskumar@iips.net
Dr. P. Murugesan
Sr. Research Assistant
pmurugesan@iips.net
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December 3, 2014 Editor 298 Views Advanced Style, Ari Seth Cohen, Fashion Blog, New York
Advanced Style is a documentary film that follows successful fashion blogger Ari Seth Cohen, whose blog of the same name has become something of a street style phenomenon in his native New York and beyond.
Street style blogs, websites and commentaries are a dime a dozen these days, and New York is probably home to the largest concentration of them. You want wacky? Colourful? Eccentric? Easy enough to find. But what if you want all of those things, plus a 50+ demographic? That’s where Cohen has found his niche. Photographing women of ‘a certain age’ and getting to know many of their personal stories and the inspiration for their elegant, outlandish and utterly unique sartorial styles has become his career. His blog is hugely popular (it’s spawned a coffee table book of the same name) and several of his favourite subjects are now almost minor celebrities in their own right.
Perhaps inevitably the success of his blog and his wonderful, memorable subjects has led to the making of the documentary which follows Cohen as he photographs several of the ladies who feature most prominently on his blog, and shows the development of Advanced Style from a blog paying homage to his stylish grandmothers to something of a media darling, with appearances on daytime TV and high fashion shoots with acclaimed designers.
As a storyline, the film doesn’t really follow a strong thread and is more of a collection of vignettes and interviews with the ladies of the blog. It’s a weakness to the documentary, but luckily the charisma, elegance, and sheer ballsiness of Cohen’s subjects make up for any of the lapses in cinematographic excellence. The 5 main women who feature are simply a delight. Ranging in age from 60 to 95, these women are all utterly unique and each has a wonderful story. The common thread with all of them is their attitude to ageing – that it’s a time to celebrate, to liberate yourself from the rigours of what is expected of you and embrace the colours, shapes, and styles that speak to you. One lady insists a woman should always have her nails polished and her lipstick on, another has spiky pink hair and becomes the face of a fashion campaign, yet another (at 93 years of age) still teaches a painting class and reads without glasses. Many have a wonderful knowledge of clothing construction, costume and fashion, and there is an infectious sense of fearlessness that is common to all the women in the film. It is inspiring to watch – and certainly made me feel like my wardrobe is drab and mainstream by comparison!
In addition to the wonderful ensembles and wacky accessories these dames wear as daily garb, the film also offers them an opportunity to give commentary on the fashion industry (cue disparaging remarks about the young, thin homogenous nature of fashion models these days) and plenty of enthusiasm for keeping young by exercising, getting out and about and having a great time.
For anyone who has even a slight interest in fashion, strong inspiring women and a fabulous attitude to ageing, Advanced Style is a must-see. You could take your 90-year old mother or your 12-year old daughter and everyone will have a fabulous time. Highly recommended.
Reviewed by Natalie Ridler
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Determining the Number of Accusations for Decision Making in Key Revocation Protocol for MANET
Maryam Zarezadeh
Mohammad Ali Doostari
Seyyed Hamid Haj Seyyed Javadi
Shahed University, Tehran
Considering the dynamic and wireless topology of the mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs), the implementation of security in such networks is an important problem. Key revocation is a solution for this challenge which prevents the continuous presence of the attacker in the network and disclosure of confidential information. In some suggested key revocation protocols such as Liu et al.'s scheme, each node monitors the network and will send an accusation packet to the authority center if it receives a suspicious behavior from the neighboring nodes.Then, the authority center decides to revoke the key of the accused node based on the number of received accusations. Due to the fact that the participation of the nodes is time consuming, the threshold for the number of accusations is an important factor for key revocation procedure. In this paper, a stochastic model is presented to determine the optimal threshold for the number of accusations and the appropriate time for decision making in the key revocation protocol. Based on some assumptions, the threshold parameter is used in key revocation scheme of Liu et al. and results are evaluated by simulation. Simulation results show that the proposed threshold for the number of accusation packets enhances the efficiency and effectiveness of the key revocation protocol for MANET.
Ad Hoc Network
Key Revocation
Accusation Packet
Zarezadeh, M., Doostari, M., Haj Seyyed Javadi, S. (2016). Determining the Number of Accusations for Decision Making in Key Revocation Protocol for MANET. Journal of Computing and Security, 3(1), 63-72.
Maryam Zarezadeh; Mohammad Ali Doostari; Seyyed Hamid Haj Seyyed Javadi. "Determining the Number of Accusations for Decision Making in Key Revocation Protocol for MANET". Journal of Computing and Security, 3, 1, 2016, 63-72.
Zarezadeh, M., Doostari, M., Haj Seyyed Javadi, S. (2016). 'Determining the Number of Accusations for Decision Making in Key Revocation Protocol for MANET', Journal of Computing and Security, 3(1), pp. 63-72.
Zarezadeh, M., Doostari, M., Haj Seyyed Javadi, S. Determining the Number of Accusations for Decision Making in Key Revocation Protocol for MANET. Journal of Computing and Security, 2016; 3(1): 63-72.
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Finally got around to cutting the sheets of metal for Pentecost.
Finalmente llegamos a cortar las hojas de metal para el Pentecost.
Colours for Pentecost
Here is rough guide to the colours to be used in painting Pentecost.
Aquí es guía aproximada de los colores que se utilizarán en la pintura de Pentecostés.
Georgian Pavilion
Labels: Folly
Gwangju Folly
Gwangju Folly II
Since the mid-17th century, in literature and in architecture, the folly has been employed as a detour into delirium: nonetheless, a critical medium, oscillating between aesthetic autonomy and social-political potential. As a spatial intervention, the folly can be understood as a rupture, a strategic site questioning the constraints of norms. Gwangju Folly II director Nikolaus Hirsch and curators Philipp Misselwitz and Eui Young Chun have developed a curatorial approach that exploits the ambiguities of a folly as a critical tool of inquiry to address the condition of public space. Since the May 18, 1980 Democratic Uprising, the negotiation of public space in Gwangju has played a crucial role in the political transformation of South Korea—it has even come to signify a model for effective political mobilization. Contextualizing the potential of spatial interventions, the eight newly commissioned follies here seek to test the constitution of public space today—in contemporary Gwangju as well as in the global context.
Architect David Adjaye and writer Taiye Selasi have developed a folly called the Gwangju River Reading Room. It is positioned on the embankment of the Gwangju River, connecting the street level above with the grassy flood planes used as a seasonal park. The structure draws inspiration from traditional Korean pavilions and houses a "human rights" library of 200 books from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie´s Half of a Yellow Sun to Emile Zola's Germinal.
Inspired by the function, economics, and history of Gwangju's pojangmachas, Ai Weiwei´s Cubic Meter Food Cart reflects on the role these "tented wagons" to instigate a discussion about public space: how does the city reconcile restricting these small, temporary, and useful structures while allowing the construction of massive permanent buildings?
As winners of an open competition for emerging Korean architects, Seok-hong Go and Mihee Kim's Memory Box appropriates an existing system of public lockers. The doors, however, have been replaced with transparent fronts so that citizens are invited to store and display private objects and memorabilia on public view. Architect Rem Koolhaas and writer Ingo Niermann address public participation in terms of The Vote. Their folly is positioned in the middle of a busy shopping and entertainment district that is mainly frequented by teenagers. The street has been divided into three pedestrian lanes marked "Yes," "No," and "Maybe." Votes are counted via a digital system and tallies are placed online to create a new form of direct plebiscite.
Delhi-based artist collective Raqs Media Collective´s folly have transformed a train of the Gwangju Metro into the Autodidact's Transport. The artists have undertaken a conceptual re-invocation of Erasmus´s In Praise of the Folly (1668) on the Gwangju Metro as a way of extending the Folly project beyond the frame of static presence in built spaces.
An itinerant structure, the Korean artist Do Ho Suh and Suh Architects's In-between Hotel is both strange and familiar. It slips through the fabric of Gwangju's public identity: a temporary dwelling unit activating aspects of Gwangju that have eluded the grand narratives.
Danish artist group Superflex´s Power Toilets address the inclusion of Gwangju into the UNESCO Memory of the World Register. Superflex have replaced a run-down public toilet in Gwangju with a new toilet which—in its interior—is an exact copy of the exclusive toilet used by the Executive Board of the UNESCO headquarters in Paris. While maintaining the semblance of a normal public toilet, the structure also engages its users in questioning the relationship between original and copy, exclusivity and inclusivity, and, ultimately, the infrastructures of power and everyday uses.
The Roundabout Revolution by Eyal Weizman and Samaneh Moafi establishes a relation between Gwangju in 1980 and the turmoil, civil strife, and revolutions that have shaken the Middle East since the "Arab Spring": the parallel uniting many of these uprisings being that they all took place in and around traffic circles. The folly draws a line from roundabout revolution to post-revolutionary round table politics.
Folly: the book The Gwangju Folly II will be accompanied by a conference and a publication. The book takes the form of fragmented glossary of associative thoughts and images, alongside more shrewd scholarly investigations, edited by assistant curator April Lamm, situating the eight new follies within a broader cultural discourse. It includes a photographic survey by Bas Princen and texts by Barry Bergdoll, Joan Didion, Hans Ulrich Obrist, and Felicity D. Scott, among many others (Hatje Cantz, 208 pages, ca. 80 illustrations,17 x 24 cm, ISBN 978-3-7757-3553-7).
"Art should make us feel more clearly and more intelligently. It should give us coherent sensations which otherwise we would not have had."
Robert Hughes.
Le Choeur de Lumière (Chapel of Light)
http://www.anthonycaro.org/news-chapel.htm
Ville de Vence - Matisse Chapel
Ville de Vence - Matisse Chapel:
Rothko Chapel
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I watched Faleena Hopkins’s scary video. All 1 hour and 39 minutes of it.
Hey everybody! I will be MIA from the cyberbullying and mob of haters for a few days because I’m going to beautiful Mackinac Island tomorrow and I’m not coming back until Friday. But I’ll leave you this tweet. Follow it for a very long thread recapping the bizarre and infuriating video Faleena Hopkins made on Facebook Live in the middle of the night.
We’re mad because we’re jealous of her fame and success
Bring on the hate. She can take it.
But she has to have someone else read the mean comments so she can protect herself
She isn’t hurting the authors she’s sent takedown notices to, their readers are hurting them by attacking her
Also, you can’t attack her because in doing so you’re calling autistic people stupid
Oh, and she’s a descendant of a slave so you really can’t attack her
(But apparently, most of the authors she’s targeted with takedowns are black)
Authors whose books have been removed or retitled are pretending to be victims for attention
“You know who you are.”
The first tweet in the thread is below, go check it out if your morbid curiosity leads you there.
Because there’s never been a cringefest I could walk away from, and because I’ve got some friends here and on FB who’ve been blocked by #ByeFaleena and can’t see her video, I’m gonna grab some coffee, watch, and live tweet. I am unsettled.
— 🏳️🌈Jenny “suck this cocky” Trout (@Jenny_Trout) May 8, 2018
Also, there’s been a huge surge in traffic to the site (it was actually down for a while yesterday), so if you’re putting your eyes on this stuff and liking it and you feel like tossing a buck my way, there’s a “buy me a coffee” button to the right of this post.
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Thanks for the Twitter thread. That was a wild ride and Flördiböp seems unhinged and like a toxic nightmare of a person. I also got the “Cathy” vibe and I felt uneasy just reading your tweets.
I really hope she doesn’t start even worse attacks on authors.
I was just thinking today of “buying you a coffee”, however I got bad news today… I’ve been unemployed for a long time (working internships during and after graduation…the only thing I could get yay millenial life…) and today, two months too late, the unemployment insurance fund (or whatever you call it in English) sent me a letter saying “Naw you don’t get any money” so I’ve been living from March’s scraps and I’m kinda financially fucked.
Long story short, I won’t be able to send you a few bucks, as I had intended to, but I’ll do later as soon as I got the situation settled and money on my bank account.
Oh shit! Glad you got that handled. And donations are NEVER mandatory.
Oh, shit. You don’t have it handled yet, I misread. So I hope you get that handled! That’s a no fun situation to have to deal with.
Thank you for your kind words! <3
I know it's not mandatory but I want to support the people that give me so much joy and you're one of those people. It's important to give people something back because I know how hard financial problems are and I love your work so it's not mandatory, it's a pleasure. <3
Fangs 4 the Fantasy (@Fangs4Fantasy)
This is a work of performance art, it has to be.
I still question how this woman, so utterly incapable of staying on point for 10 minutes, managed to write any books.
Paula Stiles
She probably hired a ghost writer. For peanuts.
#CockyGate Continues With Cringeworthy Victim-Blaming
[…] Earlier today, Hopkins’ author page on Facebook was taken down, along with the video. For anyone still interested in what the author has to say (spoiler alert: there is no apology, no justification, and no reasonable explanation), Jenny Trout live-tweeted the entire experience for those who were unable to watch it and then posted about the experience on her site. […]
ViolettaD
The vid is up here, or was last I looked:
https://youtu.be/96CjvfJTTHM
I suggest reading Jenny’s live tweets first (or even instead of). I’ve only watched a few minutes, but had to take a break after the first pseudo-Tourette’s episode.
Again, I wonder exactly what her connection is with the law firm she has mentioned, since the first bit if legal advice most lawyers would give is not to release such a video.
Is there any evidence that someone has been harassing her models?
They’d also be telling their client not to write their own cease and desist letters/emails. Lawyers are the ones that craft those. And if the one that’s come out was written by a lawyer who went to real law school I will eat my goddamn shoe.
Maybe it was written by a lawyer who went to Cooley law school?
Hollywood Upstairs Law School.
ThWritingSpider
It’s been taken down. BOOOO I want to see this mess.
“…due to a copyright claim by Faleena Hopkins.”
I guess when your only weapon is a hammer, the whole world looks like a nail.
Wait … wasn’t the video HER? Is she making a copyright claim against herself??
She’s pretending she’s Vevo on YouTube.
Which means it may show up on Vimeo at any moment.
C’mon, Fajita, once it’s out there, it’s OUT THERE. SOMEBODY has it.
I’m morbidly curious. I want to watch it!
For anyone who didn’t get to see the video before her page got taken down, some sweet soul put it up on YouTube for the world.
ASMR Bookclub
I don’t want to watch this… but I SO WANT TO WATCH THIS.
Teresa Mazon
Ohhhh, I so much understand that. Same for me. I don’t honestly want to give her a minute of my time, on the other, I want to hear her to be able to “diagnose” her, ha ha.
Evil!Blonde Bitch
Oh god. Cringe. The thing that infuriated me most is that “I descended from slaves, you can’t attack me!”
Bitch, I am descended from a freaking king of England. That does *not* mean I expect people to give me the red carpet and VIP passes everywhere. You know why? Because it is MY merit that gets me anywhere in life, not my ancestors’! And if I pull bullshit, it is people’s absolute right to tell me I’m being an ass. The rules apply to you, Faleena.
YOU are bullying authors. YOU have made yourself look bad. YOU caused this situation, and your ancestors influence fuck nothing. #ByeFaleena
many bells down
I’m descended from Lady Godiva, so you can’t tell ME I can’t be naked in Target!
HerImperialMaj
That’s amazing. You’re my new favourite.
Me, too! Thanks, Ancestry.com! Maybe we are cousins….
Um, Jenny, if Cathy’s real name was Faleena, you’d … you’d tell us, right?
I wonder if her parents named her, or she named herself, after Marty Robbins’ old ballad “El Paso.”
Emily Barnard
No, no, Violetta, please don’t bring Marty Robbins into this!
PJ Harrison
That’s spelled Felina [Spanish] or Philena [Greek]. Faleena is the “I have no clue what I’m doing but I’m gonna use this so lets sound it out” version. My mother was a Philena named after my Grandmother’s fiance’s [who died in WWI] mother. She named her first daughter after his mother. Marty’s song was Felina. Faleena is a made up class all her own…
JFC, that video is chilling. Like, I’ve seen her comments and posts, and still I was unprepared for how stone cold she is.
Kudos to you for watching the whole thing, Jenny; you are a braver soul than I.
If I didn’t know so many indie authors in the romance/erotica/contemporary community I would probably watch this clusterf**k from afar silently. But I can’t because the authors in our community are rockstars. They are kind, determined, hardworking, creative, loving, supportive and genuine people. They are not a mob of bullies as Ms. Hopkins seems to want to believe to justify the backlash she’s receiving. Until Saturday I had no clue who she was. No one from any of the 30 plus readers groups I’m in, dozens of authors pages/groups, 10 plus blogs or website has ever sent anything written by Faleena Hopkins to me as a recommendation in the past 5 years. It still baffles me since I’m so active in this community as a reader who spend up to $30 a week on ebooks. I’m not the only one who asked “Faleena who?” but she seems to have been very successful with her writing. And I’m not in any way going to imply that she didn’t work hard to get that success. I’m also not going to ignore the hard work that the people she decided to step on in this community put forth for their success though. As a reader, personally, I feel privileged to be a part of this world. I’m humbled by the kindness and support I see authors giving each other. I’m so grateful that even though my favorite authors have their own personal lives that come first, they still take the time to bring their characters to life and share them with us. To any and every author who might be reading this: THANK YOU. You bring me joy, you bring me laughter, you move me to tears, you make me want to break my Kindle in half sometimes with a plot twist sometimes. And I love every single second of it. I’m privileged to be a beta reader for several authors. We put some of you through hell with our feedback but never once do you complain. Being a part of the process that creates such utterly fantastic stories is indescribable. Like so many others, I wish I could solve this for you because you did nothing, NOTHING wrong, and you do not deserve this. If it makes a difference, please remember this: Ms. Hopkins attempt to censor this the authors of this community (because taking legal action against a fellow author for using an adjective she didn’t create herself, but simply decided “THAT’S MINE! I’m not sharing!” is censorship. It’s not a brand.) is what she will now be known for. Not her characters, not her stories, not her hard work. THIS. That’s her legacy. She’s the Monica Lewinsky of indie romance. All it cost her was the respect of this community.
Don’t diss Lewinsky by comparing this manipulative creature with her. Had Lewinsky been more a calculating gold-digger and less the victim of a genuine schoolgirl crush on her boss, she would have fared much better in life.
What Violetta said. I don’t see anything comparable between those two women. That’s an odd comparison.
Caitlyn Lynch
Yeah I think Faleena’s more the Melania Trump here, tbh.
Jamoche
More of a Rosie Ruiz.
She-
Um. THE WHITE CHICK SERIOUSLY PULLED AN “I WAS DESCENDED FROM SLAVES”?!
You are cancelled forever, Faleena. You suck. If you are THAT oblivious, then no, you don’t deserve a public platform.
That actually happened.
Someone is that fucking clueless and stupid.
Miss Faleena, I’m a POC woman as well. If this was an issue of race, I’ll stand by you, but this has nothing to do with race, it has to do with you being a hungry, greedy, selfish person.
OK, made it to 8 minutes now, finally figured out what she reminds me of:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=I0xlTQiOzYE
Some kind of trigger warning might be in order here, so I’ll just say Malignant Narcissist and/or Sociopath Alert.
I clicked on the link, saw the opening shot, whispered “Oh God” and closed the tab immediately. Damn, there’s really no preparing for that shit.
No, there isn’t any way to prepare.
What’s striking is the attempt on both to project an image of confidence, even arrogance. “Look at me, I’m so menacing.” No, what both videos show is a scared little shit who has to attack others, whether it’s through bullets or bogus lawsuits, to feel powerful.
“Fear is the path to the dark side…fear leads to anger…anger leads to hate…hate leads to suffering.”
YES OH MY GOD AND HOLY SHIT. You are not wrong. You are not wrong in ANY damned way. That is EXACTLY the demeanor. The supercilious, smug, arrogant-pretending-to-be-righteous vibe. Ho. Lee. Shitballs. You nailed it.
She seriously reminds me so so much of Laurell K Hamilton. I used to be a fan of Hamilton but that changed completely after the way she acted at a signing she did years ago at the bookstore I work at. I don’t think Hamilton, or Faleena realize that pissing off potential readers, especially if they’re booksellers or fellow authors is the worst idea in the world because your books will not get rec’d and in fact, people will warn other readers away from them because nobody wants to support someone who treats people like shit.
I had that exact impression too! I mentioned it in Jenny’s previous entry – she even has sort of the same speech pattern that LKH does.
She really does. And the same sort of I’m the best and everyone is just a jealous hater attitude that LKH has.
God yes! From the first few seconds, that’s all I could think of. The way she speaks was almost exactly like LKH in her vids, and the tone and wording were so reminiscent of “Dear Negative Reader” I was literally gobsmacked. And I’ve only watched about three minutes of Faileena.
(Different) Rebecca
I recently read an author who tee-d off against her readers, but oh, you guys, it was SO classy. See, she wrote it into a book. She took every obsessed, stalker-y, “you should do this, not that, with your characters” stan and put them on blast by making them the killer, and it was fucking awesome–if you want to see it done right, read JD Robb’s latest book, Dark In Death.
Thanks for recommendation; will read.
Ms. Lee
Man, I really hate to see Nora/JD’s name in any way in the same conversation with this cluster f#@k.
Just to let her shine in contrast, though, seriously. I mean, come on: book 46 of this series and she’s not gone completely dry/boring/formulaic? I’m still interested in the setting, ALL the characters, AND the sex? She’s a goddess!!
“I am descended from slaves.”
Ah yes, the slaves. They also frequently abused loopholes in the legal system to bully and defraud people, and then were forced to endure snarky commentary from outsiders.
Oh wait, that’s not at all what slaves dealt with? Slaves were victims of countless atrocities and Faleena Hopkins should shut her vile, self-sabotaging fucking mouth? Okay then.
MamaLich
I know right? It instantly reminded me of Cassie Edwards and her, “I didn’t plagiarise anything! And even if I did, you can’t point a finger at me because my grandmother’s native american!”
Drea C
Oh, guys. They’ve shut down reviews on her Amazon books. I tried to leave a review and it gave me a message saying the book couldn’t be reviewed. All of her books are like that.
(Before any wild-eyed, deranged author accuses me of trying to leave unmerited 1-star reviews, let me say I DID read the first book in the [redacted] series and I was going to give an honest review of what I thought of the writing.)
I started to read the first book, and it reads like a poorly written fanfic by EL James. The main male protagonist isn’t cocky, he’s a dick. Big difference.
“poorly written fanfic by EL James”
Yeeeowch. THAT bad?!
Isn’t that redundant?
XD Yes, you’re right.
But it’s true. The author seems to think if the characters talk fast and loud and enthustically, that means they’re quirky and fun and witty! But in reality they sound like immature morons who are unable to control the volume of their voices.
Here’s a gross line: “Wow, I can see your nipples through your padded bra.”
That’s Literally one of the first things the main love interest said to the protagonist. Gross.
Who the hell says that unless they’re trying to be helpful? It’s not even sexy… It’s more of a surprised thought someone might have. It’s not amazing, it’s just odd.
Because more importantly, if it’s a padded bra, how the hell are you seeing those nipples? Was he staring down a low-cut shirt and her boobs were too small, so it was hanging out a bit, and the loose fabric of the shirt didn’t tighten it up, so he was basically looking straight at the nipples? It shouldn’t be possible otherwise unless her nips were hard enough to cut diamonds or the padding and the shirt were made from super thin material since the whole point of that style is to enhance the bust or hide the nipples. Does this author even wear bras? o_o
She also has the mother of her series berating her son for ‘forcing his 30 something high school teacher to fall in love with him’.
Literally: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DaHY4t2VQAAj6qn.jpg:large
What the hell is this?!
It’s true. Her characters make 50 Shades look like a masterpiece. The heroine wants to move with this guy who just sexually harassed her because he has a “britta” (sic) water pitcher in his refrigerator. Not even like a refrigerator with an in-door water dispenser, but a pitcher in his refrigerator that costs maybe $20 at Target.
Can the Brita folks sue her for copyright infringement?
God dang, you guys. My inner goddess is laughing hysterically so much that she just peed herself.
I just read the sample on Amazon and it’s ridiculous. The heroine is already skeptical of craigslist ads from people trying to scam her bank details. The “landlord” she HAS AN APPOINTMENT WITH opens the door basically naked and starts talking about her boobs and grabs his dick. Instead of calling 911 because she has clearly graduated from the identity theft to the rapist variety of craigslist criminals, she thinks “What a funny mix-up! And I’d totally hit that.” Uh, nope…
Out morbid curiosity I looked up her books on Amazon. (Overdrive doesn’t even have them in their not owned category.) The first three books are available in a set on Kindle Unlimited, but are labeled as the final three. She can’t even be bothered to proof that!
Usually Just Lurking
Got through about 15 minutes of the video. Jenny, you are spot on about the ‘performative breakdown’. I think that’s why she seems so off to people who watch the video. She’s just not a good actress. I’m not even being mean. She’s just objectively not good at acting.
Mercutia
Maggie, what did LKH do at the book signing? Enquiring minds want to know!
Oohhh boy, there is quite a bit so I’ll just hit the high lights.
First, she showed up late, which fine sometimes there’s traffic, things come up, etc. When she got there, she first demanded that we kick everyone out of the public rest room so she didn’t have to be in there at the same time as other people. Manager of the store was like yeah, that’s not happening.
The manager offered up the office for them to hang coats, leave bags, etc, so they’d be out of the way and locked safely in the office. Instead she asked that employees not be allowed in the break room(you have to walk through it to get to the office in the employees only area), again, absolutely not because it’s required to have an area for employees for required breaks by law. So already off to a weird start.
During the signing she and her husband(who sat next to her at the signing table to sign things as well and talk to fan, again, weird) both wore sunglasses, indoors because of “camera flashes”, y’all maybe a dozen people got pictures, like selfies with no flash.
Most authors stay after their signings(which usually end around closing time) to chat with employees, sign things for them, since many are usually fans and don’t get a chance while working during the signing. She was one of the only ones we’ve had that didn’t do that, didn’t sign other books of hers, and was just generally rude and dismissive.
We had 3 or 4 employees who were fans of her books before this, myself included, and we would rec the hell out of her books, after none of us were fans and stopped rec’ing her books. We went from selling 75-100 copies of each of her new books, down to maybe a couple dozen each new release, though that could also be because of the steep nosedive her books took after Obsidian Butterfly. The manager of our store actually told corporate not to seek out tour dates for her for our store.
Meanwhile with the exact opposite Charlaine Harris and Jodi Picoult are absolutely lovely women and we would have had them back in a heart beat, and we rec’d their books all the time because of that.
Awww that’s nice to hear about Charlaine.
Well, you do know she was “attacked” by a “negative reader” in the bathroom of a con once upon a time, right? And Jonboi has author cred because he “helped” write some of the comics, and her wrist just can’t handle signing so much at once. /sarcasm
I’d almost give her the wrist one, if she didn’t also say that she has to wear four-inch high-heeled boots because they’re better for her ankles than hightop sneakers.
Yeah it was pretty soon after that “attack” from a reader. Hilariously that started off as someone saying a mean thing about not liking her books any more and morphed over the years into the woman being a giant who shoved her against the bathroom sink and threatened her.
Yeah, she’s told the same stories so many times she feels she needs to keep embellishing to keep them interesting to the point that they’re complete fish tales now. Like the one of why she’s afraid to fly going from mildly rough turbulence to the stewardess plastered to the ceiling of the cab.
Hahah I’d forgotten about the plane story.
Obsidian Butterfly was my stopping point when I went through and weeded out my collection. Seriously, more Edward, less…well, everything else.
I gave up at Cerulean Sins. So much nothing happened yet she was able to turn my favorite character into an unrepentant rapist. Shadow of things to come, I suppose. I’d already given up on her Merry series. I was on the third book and paused reading. When I picked it back up I noticed I was nearly dead center and I had read NOTHING but sex scenes. I never bothered finishing it.
I’m not a “prude”, I just expected more than erotica for the sake of erotica.
There’s nothing wrong with erotica is 1) that’s what you’re going in looking to read and 2) it’s well written. Sadly she still insists her books are mysteries or some such nonsense.
Imagine if she’d gone in the Edward direction, all the wonderful stories we could have had. Edward’s backstory and how it led to him and Anita meeting. The current “normie” relationship Edward is in slowly disintegrating as his girlfriend/family comes to realize, deeply, how amoral he is, and Anita’s participation in that. Edward and Anita kicking ass together, with nary an orgy scene in sight! But no, we get her poly-group of sex-crazed submissives. Fuck.
I loved Edward as a character so much, now I just want her to leave him alone because she’d probably make him suddenly in love with Anita.
Don’t forget about the high school student she’s fucking while also attending his parent teacher conferences.
Maggie, I should have been more clear. I don’t dislike erotica. I prefer a more plot driven romance, but do enjoy the occasional pure erotica. As you said though, I want to go into a book knowing it’s a romance/erotic novel. So many times I’ve picked up what I thought was going to be a paranormal thriller, only to find it was a cookie cutter romance with a vampire or werewolf thrown in because they’re popular. Again, nothing against paranormal romance (completely in love with Gail Carriger’s Parasol Protectorate series), but I want to go in knowing that’s what I’m reading.
And yes, being well written is most definitely necessary.
My personal headcanon is that Edward’s playing her, saying what Anita wants to hear only because she’s still useful to him. The second she’s no longer useful he’ll get rid of her and move on.
Oh, I love erotica, too, but like…the people should be interesting as people. Marathon sex sessions are awesome, but then what do you talk about when you’re too sore to continue, is the thing.
Love the thought of Edward playing her. Love. It.
And if you like Gail Carriger (which I do, but…not as much as I used to), then try Genevieve Cogman’s Invisible Library series. Smarter, more intricately plotted, and less slapstick, while still sexy and funny and compelling. More sexual tension and innuendo than outright sex.
I used to be a huge fan of her fairy-princess series, but I too was slowly realizing there was just waaaaaay too much sex going on. I remember specifically standing in Borders, opening the newest book that just came out and the very first sentence of the first page of the book was:
“The entire room smelled like sex.”
And then I closed the book and never read her stuff again.
I literally put down a book by a different author at BAM that had, “If you like Anne Rice or Laurell K. Hamilton, you’ll love this,” on the cover. LKH and the aforementioned paranormal romance disguised as mystery/thriller is why I moved into YA when I wanted something non-romance.
And then came Twilight and nothing was safe.
Cheryl Z
Oooh thanks for the dish I don’t read LKH but I knew people were obsessed. I did remember reading her “Dear Negative Reader” post that someone put on a FB page and I thought she sounded like an arrogant jerk.
I was pretty involved in the fandom for her books for years. Even before the Dear Negative Reader shit went down there were so many red flag I ignored. Pretty soon after that blog post, people started getting banned from her forums for calling out things in the books that were sexist and racist.
Wait, which husband was it? Richard or Micah? I’m guessing it was the latter? 😉
I seriously almost snorted limeade out my nose. The current husband wishes he was Micah, even though Micah is a rapist.
I remember reading The Diva Ate Her, which was allegedly written about LKH by her former PA, and just dying internally, thinking “THIS is how big-time authors behave? Count. Me Out.”
How much of it was true, I don’t know, but it was a hell of a read.
I read it too, and from what I can gather from following snarking of her blog, I’m fairly certain most of it, with small changes. Though I doubt the PA was completely as blameless as the one depicted in the book.
There’s an “Open Letter to Faleena Hopkins” here:
https://cassiesharpbooks.wordpress.com/2018/05/07/open-letter-to-faleena-hopkins/
Sharp speculates that Hopkins may be truly clueless because she has not had the reality checks available to people in a writing community: yes, this is how GoodReads operates; no, you’re not being singled out by this or that procedure.
I’m impressed by Sharp’s effort to be benevolent, but I’m not sure she has seen the video, because it’s difficult to give Hopkins the benefit of the doubt after watching even a small segment of that. Could Hopkins really not know that shutting people down on Amazon would affect sales not only in the short term, but even later? How many times have some people surfed recommendations, vaguely noted something interesting in passing, then come back to purchase days or weeks later? That initial product featuring may be crucial.
I drew a parallel with Lani Sarem because it was the authors in the YA online community who sounded the alarm regarding her “overnight” success, and it’s the authors in the Romance online community who are stating: “We’re copying you and stealing from you? We don’t even know WHO you are!” It indicates someone who thinks they’re bigger than the collective which they’re supposedly aligned with, but not really because their motives have nothing to do with becoming an accomplished writer.
I’ve seen your original article pop up in comment sections everywhere Jenny, I’m not surprised a lot of traffic has come this way.
jane dow
I didn’t believe it could be impossible to watch, but it really, truly is. I have a whole new kind of respect for you now, and here I thought reading through 50 Shades was the peak any mortal could achieve.
Bookjunk
I love how after her warning to “leave my cover models alone” she then asks, seemingly just having found out about this completely outrageous behaviour when she heard herself saying it, “You’re harassing my cover models?” It’s so weird. Is she discovering new things as she goes along, presenting new ‘facts’ to herself, Giuliani-style?
Small jar of fireflies
It’s because she can’t act. If you write that set of phrases down, the followup question can be taken as disbelieving outrage. Since she knows it’s not true, she can’t summon the thing she’s trying to create, disbelief. So the way she delivers it comes off as confused.
Its the same way a liar tends to spill a flood of extra information. They know it’s not true and they put infive times the work to make it sound better to themselves.
Napalm Nacey
Man, this takes me right back to fandom_wank/otf_wank. It’s amaaaaazing.
Clicked on your link–I was in grad school when this was going on, and knew nothing about it.
Holy…….
Oh please ohplease oh PLEASE try to take down Kid Rock for his album “Cocky”. Maybe one of you who Tweet can point out that egregious use of her special word….
(this woman is something else)
Okay so this would be a truly good thing to come out of this debacle and I 100 percent support it with my whole heart.
I just read through these tweets and found your blog through them. I’m kind of disappointed that the video’s been taken down as I was morbidly curious to see it.
I’ll just fall down the other rabbit holes on here instead!
MayaB
I can wholeheartedly recommend the 50 Shades and the Handbook for Mortals recaps. You get to procrastinate for days and learn interesting things about writing in the process.
Gabriela Fernandez
Seconding the above recommendations in her Jealous Hater Book Club posts! I think I have read the 50 Shades series of posts 4 times now and seeing the errors she points out have helped me weed out garbage in my own scribbles.
IT’S UP ON VIMEO. I’m not at home or I’d link it – I found it on my phone. Go to vimeo and search #cockygate posted from “hoe”
What did I tell you?!! I KNEW Vimeo would get it!
I know!! You totally called it!!
I’m almost done with this video and holy. cheeses. christ. on A CRACKER.
I’m not even ten minutes through yet. I just can’t take this without frequent breaks.
Re: the long, dramatic pauses:
‘This here young lady,’ said the Gryphon, ‘she wants for to know your history, she do.’
‘I’ll tell it her,’ said the Mock Turtle in a deep, hollow tone: ‘sit down, both of you, and don’t speak a word till I’ve finished.’
So they sat down, and nobody spoke for some minutes. Alice thought to herself, ‘I don’t see how he can EVEN finish, if he doesn’t begin.’ But she waited patiently.
‘Once,’ said the Mock Turtle at last, with a deep sigh, ‘I was a real Turtle.’
These words were followed by a very long silence, broken only by an occasional exclamation of `Hjckrrh!’ from the Gryphon, and the constant heavy sobbing of the Mock Turtle. Alice was very nearly getting up and saying, ‘Thank you, sir, for your interesting story….”
I’m an Alice fan and you had me at Gryphon. <3
MyDog'sPA
A song comes to mind:
Cockee
(sung to “Happy” by Pharrell Williams, with hat tip to Weird Al)
[Verse 1:]
I’m no author but that’s what I wanna be!
In writing class, barely got a C
Got no book deal so I did it all my self
So I’ll make other authors’ lives a living hell!
(Because I’m Cockee)
Trademark a common word, make every else to pay
(The word is ‘cocky’)
Wordmark someone else’s font but somehow that’s OK
Used stock photos for my covers, then loudly complain
When others balk at that, they’re the ones who are insane
FaceBook Live, did a hundred minute rant
QED: I’m full of excrement
You’re just mad of my success and fame
Even though I know all my books are lame
Threaten other authors with a FaceBook C&D
To be legal, this must come from an attorney (not me)
You can not attack me because I descend from slaves
I’m whiter than sour cream, isn’t that just so depraved?
Show my shame, won’t everything
Show my shame, I always try to
Show my shame, all my words just
Show my shame, I said
Show my shame, doesn’t everything
Show my shame, I sink deeper to
I run away and hide, web comments can be so mean
Which is odd, ’cause I go and do the very exact same thing
It’s all your fault you’re attacking me, so go ahead & sue
Only the lawyers will make money, shows I really don’t have a clue
I was so bold US romance writers all were stunned
Pushback was so severe I’ll likely be forever shunned
Banned your books from Amazon, can’t even give it a review
If you don’t think that’s bad, then you’re probably Cockee, too
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qrE7lMB8ElQ
MrGBH
I particularly like “whiter than sour cream.” In the words of “Ain’t Got No” from “Hair,” she looks “Rinso-white.” Rashida and Kidada Jones have discussed how looking lighter or darker, although they shared the same racial mix, affected how each was treated. Even if Fandango can verify a teeny percentage of milky-tea ecru, I doubt she was ever profiled for driving or followed around a convenience store per that classic scene in “Don’t Be a Menace…”
‘Sour cream’ came straight out of Weird Al’s “White & Nerdy” but it seemed to fit here after looking at her video for 10 seconds.
I’m no Weird Al, so it may take a bit of time to polish to make it flow with the music better, but this is what you get for a quick hour or two.
If anyone’s interested, this is a spoof of Weird Al’s spoof at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zq7Eki5EZ8o
As many have suspected…
By Mercy Pilkington –
https://goodereader.com/blog/indie-author-news/faleena-hopkins-village-idiot-or-smarter-than-us-all
“Many of the detractors claim that Hopkins just destroyed any hope of a career, but there seems to be something nefarious behind the willful targeting. If yesterday’s sad and awkward video served as proof, basically… no one with the ability to string a bunch of words together semi-coherently is this stupid. It’s time to call it like we see it once and for all: we just got played by someone with an agenda while using online bullying to do it.”
https://medium.com/@staceykeith/faleena-hopkins-avowed-goal-was-to-wipe-her-ass-with-other-writers-royalties-2ec82c41799c
“Faleena Hopkins’ avowed goal was to wipe her ass with other writers’ royalties. Her actual goal is a shitton of publicity for herself. And she has succeeded. THE GUARDIAN just ran a piece on her with a full frontal of all her books. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/may/08/romantic-novelist-trademarking-of-word-cocky-fameela-hopkins
“Sure, the romance fiction community wouldn’t spit on her if she were on fire. But the public at large won’t care. They’re going to buy her books out of sheer morbid curiosity. They’ve got no skin in the game. None. And thus do the wicked flourish.”
Even then, I doubt she’ll get that many sales. People aren’t buying as many books as they used to unless they’re avid readers, and most people steer clear of books labeled romance unless they like romance novels. Most people are going to find her on Amazon.com where they can get a sample or return it once they realize it’s garbage.
Well…she didn’t get enough cocky so now she’s going after dick. 😉
This is sick and brilliant.
Beginning to think the theories she just wanted publicity, good or bad, must have a lot of truth to them. It might backfire financially from all the countersuits, possibly including the lawyers she claims are representing her but who have not sent out any notices on firm letterhead per standard procedure.
If she’s so talented with graphics, you’d think she’d have gone to a poultry farm or state fair, got her own shots of a Orpington or a Black Silkie, and Incorporated it into her logo. She could even have done her own illuminations of a particular letter:
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.pinterest.com/amp/briansdotter/chickens/?source=images
https://goo.gl/images/9jD5Th
Guess she thought it was quicker to be Omarosa.
Jenny (but not Jenny Trout)
Dear Jenny Trout – the Queen of all that is Awesome – how in the name of fuck did you watch the whole video? What’s her bucket (don’t know, don’t care enough to look it up) sounds completely freaking paranoid. And how is an author that oinarticulate? I don’t expect an author to be perfect when speaking, but JFC, that was rediclous. What was up with the Supernatural tangent? Despite listening to the video while playing a game on my tablet, I couldn’t take all the whining. She shouldn’t start a pissing contest if she isn’t willing to get wet.
This lady is a piece of work. Why does she think no one else can use stock photos? More importantly, why does she think models can’t be on more than one book cover? Whatever model she used isn’t the character and she doesn’t have the right to stop him from doing other shoots. Her readers are idiots if they can’t figure out what author they are looking for or maybe she should take her own pics if it’s that important.
I bought The Cockiest Cowboy Who Ever Cocked because that title is great and I bought Cocky Author so I know what I’m doing this weekend. And I’m buying you coffee because after that trainwreck, you deserve it. Keep fighting the good fight.
Major Boner
Oh, “C*cky Author” and “C*cky Neighbor” are both hilarious. Several dollars well spent. (I also bought, but haven’t started reading, The Cockiest Cowboy Who Ever Cocked.)
Jenny, I don’t know how you got through the entire video. I’ve tried four, maybe five, times now and can’t get even ten minutes in without needing another beer. Should I keep trying, I fear that my liver will file for divorce.
I’ve been taking it four or five minutes at a time, and I seriously don’t know how Jenny’s did it one sitting without the aid of anything stronger than caffeine. Farteena couldn’t have been more self-indulgent had she planted herself in front of a camera for an hour-and-a-half of picking her nose and eating it. And it might have been more watchable.
Given what anybody who could watch the first ~10 minutes endured, I’m with you on the booger eating possibly being more watchable.
Of course, now I’m imagining long, dramatic pauses while she gazes at the green gold before delicately inserting her booger hooker into her mouth and talking about mint-chocolate-chip ice cream.
I’m underemployed and have never bought Jenny a coffee before, but after trying to watch Fasciolosis’ video, which I still can’t bring myself to finish, I’ve bought her two. She has performed a public service.
Good call. Jenny took the hit for us, so I just bought her a coffee. Or a shot if she needs something a little stronger after all that. #JustSaying #NotJudging
I’m so confused about Faleena’s plan, if there was one. She’s now (in)famous. The general public might buy one or a couple of her books merely because her name is out there now, not knowing about the trademark or not realising that she’s fucking over other authors with her bullshit. So, short-term result: her sales are up. Money, money, money! (I presume.)
And then what?
She doesn’t seem like such a talented writer that people who just buy a book out of curiosity – because they want to know what all the hullabaloo about her and her work is all about – are going to continue to purchase the novels she churns out after her fifteen minutes of fame are up. Some might stick around, I guess. Yay?
Meanwhile, a lot of romance writer and readers hate her guts and are never ever going to consider buying one of her books or supporting her in any way whatsoever. She’s gonna get flak for years and years. People who are passionate about the romance genre are not gonna forget about her and her stupid scam.
I just don’t see her reaping benefits from this move in the long term. Quite the opposite, really. Or am I missing something?
Nah, you’re correct. She’s probably gonna have a tiny curiosity boom but seeing how people who have checked her books out say, her writing isn’t really good and she hasn’t pulled of E.L James and her cultural phenomena of Erotica!HumanAU! Twilight, that would give her a real movie deal so this is probably gonna be over soon and in a year or so everyone is gonna be ‘Feleena who?’ again.
Imagine Charlaine Harris got copyrights for the word ”dead”:-D How ridiculous!
So… guessing she has some sort of mental illness. I watched the video and the melodrama of it all, the long sighs, the silences… Christ! It was like watching a wreck and not being able look away. She must be losing sleep and going crazy by now… you know, shopping for groceries in sweats and hoodie.
Agree that the melodrama sounds unbearable (I don’t dare watch something that cringe-inducing) but this kind of comment about mental illness is not of the good. We really don’t need to perpetuate the idea that having a mental illness makes a person like this.
I found it on YouTube again, because someone always saves this stuff, and it is mind blowingly painful. Except if you watch it at 2x speed it is kinda less so. But still painful. How can you trademark a word? Unbelievable and idiotic…
Nice legal analysis here:
https://accrispin.blogspot.com/2018/05/trademark-shenanigans-weighing-in-on.html?m=1
Now I have to get back to my cacophonous three-way with my living stuffed toy cockatiel and living stuffed toy cocker spaniel.
In further news, Molly Malone’s ghost has been told that it may no longer wheel her barrow through streets broad and narrow, crying “Cockles and Mussels.”
I’ve always liked the song and I hope she leaves it alone.
HollyRee
Do you think she’d sue me if I wrote a steamy fanfic about a cocky bounty named Trade Marker chasing down a desperate woman on the run named Jenny Ric-Title? I’m thinking of calling it CEASE TO RESIST.
I think she’d whine about it in a video. It sounds like a wonderful story already.
It made me cry when I was six.
Sorry this was to Zev’s comment about “Molly Malone” song above.
Mel B and C
Crow: Ohhh, ohhh. You know, aside from the fact that I’ll never experience joy in my life I don’t think Faleena Hopkins had any kind of negative effect on me.
PS I love you, Mels B & C.
Joel: “You haven’t won, Ms. Hopkins; you’ve lost. And I feel sorry for you. You’re nothing but a sad little hack in a hole in the ground who can only feel power by hurting others.”
I really didn’t even sit through the entire video. Every spot I went too had some crazy, inane, horrible thing, so I jump around a lot.
I bought Jenny a ko-fi because she deserved at least that for making it all the way through and sharing with the rest of us. My god!
I still haven’t finished it. I’ve been watching in 5-minute stretches. I’m not sure I could get through this one without a break even with a janitor and some ‘bots on the Satellite of Love.
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Educational Choice for Students with Special Needs: The Issue
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From Texas Public Policy Foundation’s 2017-18 Legislator’s Guide, Special Session Edition, Educational Choice for Students with Special Needs.
A majority of states have some form of private school choice. Texas has none.
Every Texas child should be afforded the opportunity to select the educational options that best suit his or her individual needs. Children with special needs are a particularly vulnerable group in need of expanded, individualized options that will allow them a customized education designed to meet their unique needs.
Texas is behind many states in educational opportunity. In 2017, Arizona passed the most comprehensive choice program in the nation that would allow almost every student in the state the freedom to select the best educational program for their own educational needs. Arizona did this through an Education Savings Account (ESA) program, which they refer to as the Empowerment Scholarship Account program. An ESA is innovative because it can be used for a variety of educational expenses throughout a school year, including therapy, tutoring, test fees, textbooks, or tuition. In addition, families can roll over unused ESA dollars from one school year to the next. Funds remaining upon graduation can often be used for higher education. Modeled after Health Savings Accounts, the ESA concept provides an offset to many of the third-party pay problems inherent in education today. Figure 4 illustrates how ESAs might work.
Half the nation’s state legislatures have established educational choice programs.
ESAs have been established by legislatures in Nevada, Arizona, Tennessee, Mississippi, and Florida. Arizona’s program is the leading model currently in operation because of its near-universal availability. Arizona students are eligible for the program if they have been enrolled in public schools for at least 100 days of the prior fiscal year and must be a member of a limited number of populations, among them children with an active IEP or Section 504 plan. Over the next four school years, all Arizona students will become eligible as long as they meet the 100-day requirement. Arizona has had an ESA program since 2011, and parents have taken full advantage of the program’s flexibility. About one-third of ESA funds are expended on multiple items; in other words, a sizable number of parents choose not to use the entire ESA on tuition.
Arizona special needs students were the first to be given access in 2011. In 2015, they comprised 58 percent of the 2,406 Arizona ESA holders. Parent satisfaction with the program is notably high: a survey of over half of participating families in the 2012-2013 school year found that 71 percent were “very satisfied,” 19 percent were “satisfied,” and 10 percent were “somewhat satisfied.” No respondents registered negative or neutral feedback.
A survey of Florida’s current and previous McKay scholarship programs (an educational choice program for children with special needs) found similarly high levels of parent satisfaction. A total of “92.7% of current McKay participants are satisfied or very satisfied with their McKay schools; only 32.7% were similarly satisfied with their public schools.” The researchers also included parents no longer participating in the program to see if dissatisfaction with the program was higher in that group. They found that, “Perhaps the strongest evidence regarding the McKay program’s performance is that over 90% of parents who have left the program believe it should continue to be available to those who wish to use it.”
For the general student population, student performance improves as a result of educational choice. According to the Friedman Foundation, of 18 empirical studies on this topic, 14 found that student achievement improved and two found no measurable impact. The two studies that found a negative impact were both of the program in Louisiana, known for its overbearing regulations on participating private schools. Choice also has been shown to improve public school performance. Of 33 empirical studies surveyed by the Friedman Foundation, 31 found that public schools improve when students are allowed a choice. Only one found no measurable improvement and only one found a negative impact.
We are unaware of studies examining student performance in relation to educational choice strictly within the special needs student population. However, students with special needs would have been eligible for many of the programs studied above.
Call Item 4: School Finance Reform Commission
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From Funding Public Schools for the 21st Century, Texas Public Policy Foundation’s 2017-18 Legislator’s Guide, Special Session Edition.
The Texas Constitution establishes public education through Article VII, Section 1, which states:
“A general diffusion of knowledge being essential to the preservation of the liberties and rights of the people, it shall be
the duty of the Legislature of the State to establish and make suitable provision for the support and maintenance of an
efficient system of public free schools.”
Since 1989, the Texas Supreme Court has ruled six times on school finance. In the process, the Court has laid out three tests that the system must fulfill in order to be constitutional. These are illustrated in Figure 1, and are explained in detail in Texas School Finance: Basics and Reform.
Critically, the Qualitative Efficiency test had not been addressed by the courts until the most recent ruling in 2016. In 2005, the Texas Supreme Court wrote that it wished to rule upon Qualitative Efficiency, but did not do so because no petitioners at that time appealed to this test, which asks: does the system produce results with little waste? Like the courts, the Legislature must address this test, which requires an appropriate relationship between inputs and outputs.
In the 2014-15 school year, Texas taxpayers spent a total of $60.98 billion on public education according to the Texas Education Agency’s (TEA) 2014-15 Financial Actual Report. In the same school year, there were 4,778,559 students attending Texas public schools. As a result, Texans spent $12,761 per student, whereas the average tuition for accredited private schools in Texas was only $7,848. According to the TEA’s 2014-15 Texas Academic Performance Reports (TAPR), the average elementary and secondary school class size is about 20 students. Therefore, Texans spend about $255,00 for the average class. At the same time, the 2014-15 TAPR shows that the average annual salary for teachers was $50,715. Resources are not currently allocated in the most efficient manner to help Texas students.
Public education is funded by an unnecessarily complex and inefficient system that is not student-centered. Texas’ funding formulas have been cobbled together based on political dynamics, not by what works for students. As a result, the system fails the Texas Constitution’s Qualitative Efficiency test. In addition, the system fails the Quantitative Efficiency test on a student basis. We detail solutions to this problem in our Basics and Reform study (49-56).
The Texas Supreme Court, which has dealt with school finance reform for the last 30 years, has repeatedly encouraged the Legislature to make structural reforms to the system. Yet Texas has failed to enact any significant reform that would benefit students or taxpayers. In order to meet Texas’ constitutional obligation to provide “support and maintenance of an efficient system of public free schools,” we must scrutinize how our current system is failing, and make recommendations for meaningful reform. Analysis should include what the purpose is and the relationship between inputs and outputs in public schools, the relationship between public and state funding, and how we can meet or exceed the three tests to achieve a constitutional public funding system.
Teacher Pay & Administrative Flexibility: The Issue
From: Teacher Pay & Administrative Flexibility, Texas Public Policy Foundation’s 2017-18 Legislator’s Guide, Special Session Edition.
Nothing is more important to a child’s academic success in the classroom than his teacher. To ensure that students have access to the best educators, administrators must be free to hire, fire, and determine the pay of teachers. The Texas Association of School Administrators agrees:
“Bureaucracies value power and authority, while learning organizations are driven by beliefs and values. Schools must be transformed from their current bureaucratic form.… Educating our youth is not a state responsibility but a local function. Attempts to run the schools from Austin and Washington will result in a further decline in the local sense of ownership and responsibility at the very time when local involvement is most needed.”
When parents, principals, and teachers are given the authority to make the necessary decisions to improve public education, it is the students who will win. Local administrators will have more freedom to encourage and reward their highest performers and teachers will experience increased work satisfaction and productivity. They will both provide the best product to their customer: the student and his parents. Texas spends more than $12,000 per student each year on public education. In Texas, the average elementary school class has 18 students; in high schools, the average class size is 27. Therefore, Texas spends about $216,000 per elementary school class and about $324,000 per high school class. However, the average Texas teacher’s salary in 2014-2015 was $50,715. From 1992-2014, teaching staff in Texas increased by 53 percent, while administrator and “all other staff” increased by an alarming 174 percent. If Texas had simply increased its administrative staff at the same rate as teaching staff, Texas would have saved $7.4 billion annually. Every teacher could receive a $22,100 pay raise annually.
Of course, pay raises should be based on teacher performance, not a pre-determined set salary schedule. At the same time, school leaders must be relieved of some of the most onerous limitations on staff management found in Chapter 21 of the Education Code. Meria Carstarphen, former superintendent of the Austin ISD and former superintendent in a traditionally-run union state, testified that Texas labor laws (non-union) make it more difficult to manage labor practices than the union states in which she previously worked. She found that Texas’ Chapter 21 labor laws can add up to $80,000 for each teacher dismissal process. These labor laws harm the teaching profession, force misallocation of resources, and prevent employment decisions from being made at the local level.
What is in the best interest of the child? Clearly, great teachers matter to the child. And great teachers should be rewarded and encouraged to mentor their less-experienced peers. Allowing districts—and their locally elected board members—to direct salary schedules and hiring practices helps both teachers and students. No bureaucracy in Austin should have the power to dictate how a locally run school district runs its business. That is not in the best interest of the child.
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175 Tax Burden – We in the Republican Party of Texas believe in the principles of constitutionally limited government based on Federalist principles. To this end we encourage our elected officials at all levels of government to work to reverse the current trend of expanding government and the growing tax and debt burdens this places on we the people. We believe the most equitable system of taxation is one based on consumption and wish to see reforms towards that end at all levels of government Furthermore, we believe that the borrower truly is a slave to the lender, and so long as we continue to increase our tax and debt burdens we will never be a truly free people. Towards these ends, we support the reformation of the current systems of taxation at all levels of government: federal, state, and local. Examples of these reforms include the following:
Eliminating the Internal Revenue Service (IRS)
The “Fair Tax” system
A Flat Tax
The 1-2-3 No Federal Tax
Abolishing property taxes, but in the interim, property taxes should be paid on the price of the property when it was initially purchased.
Electing appraisal boards
Exempting inventories from property taxes
Abolishing estate taxes or the “Death Tax” as it’s more commonly known
Abolishing capital gains taxes
Abolishing franchise and business income taxes
Abolishing the gift tax.
Discontinuing revenue generating licensing fee
176 State Income Tax Ban – We support maintaining the current ban on state income taxes in Texas.
177 Real Estate Transaction Tax – We oppose any creation of a real estate transaction tax.
178 Bond Elections – State and local bond election ballots should be required to include the amount of debt currently outstanding, current debt service payments, current per capita debt obligations, the amount of new debt being proposed, estimated debt service for the new debt, and estimated per capita burden being proposed. Any bond election (state or local) must pass with at least a 2/3 majority of voters to affirm the bond. The bond issue must obtain a yes vote of a minimum of 20% of registered voters. All elections of personnel responsible for adopting a budget and a property tax rate and all elections involving bond indebtedness shall be held on the November uniform election date and administered by the County Clerk or the County Elections Administrator. Any government entity should not spend taxpayer dollars in promoting further indebtedness or spending of taxpayer dollars via mass media. We oppose bundling of items on bond election ballots.
TPPF Special Session Guide: Mail-in Ballot Fraud
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From TPPF: “2017 Special Session Legislator’s Guide,” p. 32.
Mail-in ballot fraud is “’the tool of choice’ for those who are engaging in election fraud.”
Once rare and only used when voters knew they were going to be out of town on Election Day, mail-in ballots have become commonplace in Texas and around the nation. The advent of early voting has largely addressed the originating rationale for mail-in ballots. Instead, mail-in ballots are now mostly used for convenience or by people who, due to illness, injury, or disability, find traveling to the polls to be arduous. In Texas, mail-in ballots bypass the state’s voter ID law. Mail-in ballots are vulnerable to electoral fraud when voters, especially the aged and the disabled, are encouraged by paid political operatives to apply for a mail-in ballot and then “assisted” in filling out the ballot and handing it over to the operative for delivery.
Seniors or disabled voters living in their own homes may find it difficult to make it to the polls, whether during early voting or on Election Day. Thus, these voters turn to mail-in ballots. Voter ID is not required before voting from home. Ballot harvesters, otherwise known as politiqueras, exploit the proven vulnerabilities of mail-in balloting by approaching seniors to sign up, “helping” them fill in their ballot, and then carrying the ballot to the mail. This mode of fraud appears to be particularly hard to address. The fact is a formal polling facility is the only place where the sanctity of the secret ballot free from coercion can be monitored.
House Bill 658, signed into law in 2017, closes one avenue of mail-in ballot fraud while simultaneously making it easier for voters in nursing homes to participate in elections by allowing residential care facilities with five or more voters to become early voting centers. Some 3,000 assisted living facilities statewide might benefit. However, assisted living centers include memory care facilities, a class of facility that is growing rapidly, where the residents have compromised mental capabilities. Memory care facilities do not yet appear to be a large source of ballot fraud. Research by the Foundation examined voter registration and voting records of 40 facilities that exclusively provide memory care in Texas and found only 19 registered voters at 11 facilities having cast five votes of which three were mail-in ballots in the 2016 general election.
To preserve the integrity of the vote, Texas Election Code restricts candidates, bystanders, sound trucks, election-related badges, and other activities from polling places. Further, it is unlawful to influence voters at the polls. In addition, the Election Code specifies that election judges must be affiliated or aligned with different political parties. Yet voters, often elderly or disabled, receive no such protections when voting by mail. With the use of mail-in ballots growing, why aren’t these votes given the same protections as votes at the precinct polling place? The practice of employing mail-in ballot harvesters, or politiqueras, needs to be ended. Election law prohibits a polling place staffed by paid agents of one candidate or one political party, yet, ballot harvesters are functionally the same in many key respects as election judges.
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Brandon Dutcher: School Choice Will Increase Teacher Pay & Quality
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Brandon Dutcher of OK Council of Public Affairs reports:
"During a past Texas school finance trial...Dr. Jacob Vigdor, an expert witness hired by public school districts...", explicitly stated, “'introducing greater competition into the market for teachers will raise teacher salaries...'”
"Dr. Jacob Vigdor contended that Texas should not adopt school choice because districts would then have to pay teachers more. But his argument supports exactly what quality teachers and concerned Texans desire: using school choice to improve the quality and salaries of teachers."
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Dodgers Legend Jackie Robinson Honored at South Pasadena Library and Dodger Stadium For 100th Birthday
January 31, 2019 January 30, 2019 Scott Andes
The last day of January is a special day for Dodger fans and humanity in general as it is Jackie Robinson’s birthday. He would be turning 100 today if he were still with us. The legendary Dodger hall of famer and civil rights pioneer will be honored throughout the day.
There will be a free screening of the film The Jackie Robinson story to be showed at the South Pasadena Public library on Thursday night. The free event will take place in the Library community room at 6:30 PM and is sponsored by the South Pasadena Public Library, the Friends of the South Pasadena Public Library, and the Lucille and Edward R. Roybal Foundation.
The Dodgers will also be honoring Jackie with a party at Dodger Stadium to host 250 children from the Union Rescue mission. The party will have a DJ/dancing, a tour of the Jackie Robinson pop-up museum, and everyone will sing happy birthday to Jackie. The festivities will also begin at 6:30 PM. Unfortunately you won’t be able to attend both events, unless you can be in two places at the same time. Here’s the press releases for both events.
Jackie Robinson’s 100th Birthday to be Celebrated with Film Screening at South Pasadena Public Library on January 31
In honor of the 100th Birthday of Jackie Robinson (1919-1972), a free screening of “The Jackie Robinson Story,” a classic 1950 film starring Jackie as himself will be presented at the South Pasadena Public Library . The free event for all ages will be celebrated in the Library Community Room on Thursday, January 31 at 7 pm on the eve of Black History Month. It is sponsored by the South Pasadena Public Library, the Friends of the South Pasadena Public Library, and the Lucille and Edward R. Roybal Foundation.
“The Jackie Robinson Story” was initially released to theatres in 1953 during the era of racial segregation but was nonetheless accorded critical praise and strong box office receipts. It featured an outstanding performance by Ruby Dee as Jackie’s wife, Rachel Robinson. Although not a professional actor, Jackie Robinson’s potentially difficult portrayal of himself also earned high praises for its confident assuredness and restraint. And as might be expected, the re-enacted baseball scenes are outstanding –and in many ways they are superior to those in “42”, the 2013 Jackie Robinson motion picture starring Chadwick Bozeman. Introductions to the film will be made by Mark Langill, Official Historian of the Los Angeles Dodgers, and Alex Boekelheide, Executive Director of Strategic Communications and Marketing, Pasadena City College.
The South Pasadena Public Library Community Room is located at 1115 El Centro Street. Doors will open at 6:30 p.m. no tickets or reservations are necessary, and refreshments will be served. Special surprises are planned as well. Thanks to the Los Angeles Dodgers, Pasadena City College, 210eastsound, Videotheque, The Rose, and Movie Licensing USA. For more information, please call the South Pasadena Public Library at 626 403-7350.
Free parking is available after noon at the Mission Meridian Parking Garage located at 805 Meridian Avenue adjacent to the Metro Gold Line Station, only one block from the Library. Upon request made no later than four (4) business days before the event, the City will provide a reasonable accommodation for a qualified person with a disability to have equal access to the event. Please contact ADA Coordinator and Human Resources Manager, Mariam Lee Ko, at (626) 403-7312 or fill out the City’s request form available at www.southpasadenaca.gov and email the form to Human Resources at HR@southpasadenaca.gov
The Los Angeles Dodgers will celebrate the 100th anniversary of Jackie Robinson’s birthday tomorrow, Thursday, January 31, by hosting a celebration for 250 children and parents from Union Rescue Mission.
The birthday party runs from 6:30-8:30 p.m. in partnership with Worthy of Love, a non-profit organization that hosts monthly birthday parties for children living in the Union Rescue Mission in Downtown Los Angeles. The program will begin at 6:30 p.m. at the Jackie Robinson Statue (in Lot B), where participants will sing “Happy Birthday” to Robinson. Other activities include a tour of the Jackie Robinson exhibit at the club’s Pop-Up Museum Presented by Mastercard followed by DJ/dancing, a photo booth, a balloon artist, face painting and a petting zoo in the Stadium Club.
“The Dodgers are proud to keep Jackie Robinson’s spirit alive on his 100th birthday and continue to teach future generations about his life and legacy,” said Naomi Rodriguez, Dodger Vice President of External Affairs & Community Relations. “We know this will be an unforgettable day for hundreds of children, filled with birthday cake, fun and games.”
“It has been a vision of mine to throw birthday parties in stadiums throughout the nation for the 2.5 million children experiencing homelessness,” said Mary Davis, founder of Worthy of Love. “To see smiles on the kids’ faces as they enter Dodger Stadium will be a dream come true!”
The team will continue to celebrate Jackie Robinson and his legacy with a special educational tour of Dodger Stadium, which will be held on Saturdays and Sundays at 3:00 p.m. during the month of February. The hour-long tour highlights the life, career and influence of Jackie Robinson, and will also include admission to the Jackie Robinson exhibit at the Pop-Up Museum. More information can be found at Dodgers.com/Tours.
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Just think how good this guy was, and then how good he would have been had he started his career sooner. He was 28 when he played his first MLB game. Maury Wills was close to that same age when he came up. The Dodgers are starting something this year called the Legends of Dodger baseball. Kind of like a Dodger Hall of Fame. Garvey, Fernando and Newk are going in this year sometime. Those inductions will be celebrated with a bobble head of those players.
From a Logenhagen chat today:
Jack: I’m a Dodger fan and my brain has been melted by the last two World Series losses, pessimism is all I know. Can you convince me that Keibert Ruiz isn’t Dioner Navarro?
Eric A Longenhagen: I have a 7 on his bat and he has the most accurate arm I’ve ever seen.
Sir Nerdlington: Do you believe in the changes Gavin Lux made? He’s not on the 40-man but is there a chance he plays in Chavez Ravine this year?
Eric A Longenhagen: Buy that he’s made offensive progress, don’t think he’s a SS anymore tho
NotGraphs Revivalist: Very random question – which pitchers in the top 100 prospects would you expect to have the heaviest ground ball rates?
Eric A Longenhagen: uh, Kyle Wright or Dustin May?
From Keith Law chats:
Joe: Would it make any sense for the Dodgers to trade Ruiz in a deal for Realmuto?
Keith Law: Definitely not. And I don’t think they will.
Kevin: I believe Mitch White made a midseason list or was at least a name to watch for you previously, did you get to see him last season? Any chance he ends up getting a spot start with the Dodgers this year?
Keith Law: He was on my midseason list over in 2017. Has had trouble staying healthy, and when he’s pitched his stuff has varied widely.
Bilal: who’s getting the bulk of the starts behind the plate for the Dodgers by the All-Star break: Barnes, Smith or Ruiz?
Keith Law: Smith.
Nook: Is Bellinger still young enough to make significant strides offensively, or do you think 2018 was a realistic showing of who he is?
Keith Law: He’s still 23 so age isn’t a concern, but the way he swings leaves him vulnerable to a couple of pitching plans and he has to show he can adjust and shorten up if he wants to be more than he’s already been.
Kimmy: Dennis Santana: 4th-starter ceiling?
Keith Law: More likely reliever for me. I feel like if he starts he’d be more than that, but the odds are he’s a reliever.
Ave Maria: Is there a pitcher in the Dodgers system you’re particularly high on at the moment?
Keith Law: Several. You’ll see a couple of those names Monday-Wednesday.
Kip: Arenado or Machado?
Keith Law: Machado.
Mike: Thoughts on Dodgers trading away Puig (and friends) and replacing him with older and injury prone AJ Pollock?
Keith Law: Puig was a free agent after the year, so your question is leading, omitting a critical detail – and Pollock may be older but he’s a better all-around player right now.
Shane: Have you heard any whispers about what type of punishment the Dodgers face for their international issues and if that is playing a hand in their offseason moves?
Keith Law: I haven’t heard a word about it nor have I asked. Not really my department.
Jason: Is Pollock better than Joc Pederson over the next two years?
Keith Law: Yes.
Anuj: Is Ruiz and J. Gray for Realmuto too much, fair, or too little?
Keith Law: Too much, and the Dodgers are not trading for a terrible framing catcher.
I have a couple of small statuettes of Jackie. I have the one they gave away at the stadium that is a copy of the one at the stadium. I also have one of Jackie swinging a bat that I found on ebay. I found a ceramic baseball card of him on ebay also. I treasure those. I only wish I had the chance to see him play in person instead of just seeing him on TV.
Arenado signs for 26 million. Duke to the Reds. Nothing on the Dodger front and not a word on Realmuto. Keith Law says that by the all star break most of the games being caught will be by Will Smith. Interesting since Smith is not on the 40 man roster.
I think Law answered that Smith would get more than Barnes or Ruiz. It was a clumsily asked question.
Perhaps a clumsily spoken answer?
It was a one word answer!
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Andrew Burger 01/21/2017
The most populous, and second-most densely populated, nation in Africa, Nigeria is fast coming to the fore as a mobile pay-go solar and solar-storage microgrid leader. Part and parcel of its Green Energy Project with the UN Development Program (UNDP), Nigeria’s Bank of Industry (BoI) on Jan. 19 launched a 1 billion nara (US$3.1 million) off-grid solar energy fund.
The bank will lend and/or invest the fund’s capital on favorable, concessionary terms to qualified businesses installing mobile pay-go and other forms of off-grid solar energy systems and services across the country, according to a news report.
More than half Nigeria’s population lack access to grid power – some 184 million people according to 2015 national statistics. In making Green Energy Project investment decisions, BoI will concentrate on financing projects carried out by micro, small and medium-sized Nigerian businesses that intend to provide home solar energy services in rural areas of the nation, where the large majority of those without grid access reside.
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In February 2016, the GSMA Mobile for Development (M4D) Utilities program and Etisalat, with support from the U.K. government, released the first of a series of four reports in which researchers concluded that while the Nigerian market for off-grid solar solutions was in a nascent state of development, actions and investment via initiatives such as the joint IFC-World Bank Lighting Africa program were opening up opportunities for mobile network operators (MNOs) to launch mobile pay-go solar solutions in the country at scale.
Subsequent developments have borne that out. Africa-focused private equity firms in 4Q 2016 invested over $60 million in Nigerian mobile pay-go solar provider Mobisol and Netherlands-based Lumos Global, which is selling emissions-free electricity services from solar-storage microgrids in Nigeria.
Nigerian MNO MTN is Lumos’s partner in offering mobile pay-go home solar energy services via MTN Mobile Electricity. Installed in customers’ homes, automated, wireless machine-to-machine (M2M) communications see to usage monitoring, billing and performance.
UNDP joined with BoI to launch the bank’s Green Energy Project (aka Access to Renewable Energy) in 2011. In May 2016, the two partners announced the completion of a 24kW solar microgrid and home solar energy service for the rural, Edo State community of Obayantor 1. The N44 million project was financed at a concessionary interest rate of 7% over 15 years.
Off-Grid Solar Microgrids Outdo Centralized Fossil Fuel Generation, T&D
Solar microgrids offer rural communities the opportunity to take control of energy generation and pay only for what they use, BoI managing director Waheed Olagunju was reported as saying. He also said BoI and UNDP intend to employ the same model in rolling out community solar microgrids and home energy services in other rural communities in Edo State.
“We are all aware that power remains a major obstacle to growth in Nigeria, as inadequate and unreliable electricity undermines investment opportunity, economic growth, social and infrastructure developments,” Olanguju stated.
He also pointed out that central power generation, transmission and distribution cannot compete with cheap, reliable and emissions-free off-grid solar energy microgrids when it comes to delivering electricity to remote communities.
In total, BoI invested some N240 million to finance construction of six pilot off-grid home solar energy services projects in 2016.
Speaking to the advantages and benefits of investing in off-grid solar as opposed to centralized, fossil fuel-fired power systems, Olanguju noted that electricity services typically account for around 40 percent of Nigerian businesses’ operating expenses. That can rise substantially if business owners and managers need to turn to conventional diesel fuel “gensets” for on-site back-up power generation.
“For Nigeria to therefore achieve sustainable and inclusive development, there is an urgent need to substantially increase the supply of modern and affordable energy services from sources that are affordable, accessible and environmentally friendly,” Olanguju was quoted as saying.
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Nationalmuseum acquires Rudolf Wittkopf plate warmer
Editor . August 14, 2013
A plate warmer manufactured by Rudolf Wittkopf in Stockholm in 1709, believed to be a unique artifact, has been added to Nationalmuseum’s collection of early 18th-century Swedish silver. The piece, the only known surviving example in Sweden of a silver plate warmer, consists of a stand with three cast-metal feet and a removable burner with oil reservoir. The upper section is perforated to improve the airflow to the flame providing the heat, and at the top are three volute-shaped handles that hold the plate of food to be warmed.
Plate warmer by Rudolf Wittkopf, 1709
The new, refined dining customs that appeared in Swedish upper-class circles in the early 18th century were modelled on French practices. Nationalmuseum’s extensive collection of hand drawings includes depictions from this period of two French réchaudes, or plate warmers, which were intended to serve as models for the modern silverware to be ordered by the Swedish court and aristocracy. The royal household accounts of Queen Hedvig Eleonora show that, in 1705, the fashion-conscious monarch purchased “a silver dish ring that can also be used as a heating dish” from Petter Henning, a Stockholm silversmith. However, little of the royal silverware from this period has survived, and there are no known examples in Sweden apart from the plate warmer now acquired by Nationalmuseum. This suggests that objects of this kind were a rarity even in their day and were probably manufactured only in very limited quantities.
The new acquisition is an important addition to Nationalmuseum’s collection of late baroque silver, illustrating how closely the Swedish court and aristocracy followed contemporary fashion, especially that of France.
Nationalmuseum’s acquisition of the Rudolf Wittkopf plate warmer has been made possible by a donation from the Barbro Osher Fund. Nationalmuseum has no budget of its own for new acquisitions, but relies on gifting and financial support from private funds and foundations to enhance its collections of fine art and craft. www.nationalmuseum.se
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Groups raise concerns over O’hare Traffic Shift
by nadignewspapers@aol.com · January 30, 2013
by CYRYL JAKUBOWSKI
Northwest Side community groups are voicing concern that the opening of a new runway at O’Hare International Airport will cause a significant increase in the number of planes flying over their neighborhoods beginning in October.
The opening on Oct. 17 of new Runway 10 Center/28 Center, which lines up with Wilson Avenue, will cause a shift in the airport’s runway use patterns, according to Federal Aviation Administration Great Lakes Region spokesman Anthony Molinaro.
“That new runway is changing everything, and there will be some increase in traffic in some areas, but we are trying to keep a balanced airport,” Molinaro said. He said that use of the northwest-southeast diagonal runways at the airport will be discontinued and that air traffic at the airport will have a predominantly east-west flow, although the two northeast-southwest diagonal runways will still be used.
Molinaro said that some flight tracks are not a part of the “Fly Quiet” program, including the one that will open in October over Wilson Avenue. The voluntary program encourages pilots and air traffic controllers to use flight tracks that direct planes over forest preserves, highways and commercial and industrial areas to mitigate noise in residential areas.
The Chicago Department of Aviation briefed the O’Hare Noise Compatibility Commission about the opening of the new runway in November. The department provided information about the new east-west flow configurations at the airport, the noise contours that were forecast in 2005, the progress of the sound insulation program and what the department will do in terms of community outreach.
The new Wilson runway will be used for 24.5 percent of arrivals during the day and for 1.2 percent of landings at night on 28 Center, and for 11 percent of landings during the day and 7.6 percent of landings at the night on 10 Center. The runway will not be used for departures, according to the FAA.
“When the new runway 9 Center/27 Center is built, the ultimate goal is to have west flow and east flow, and that’s why we are changing the configurations,” Molinaro said. The new runway, which is scheduled to be built by 2020 after a new terminal is opened, will line up with Granville Avenue.
As part of the opening of the new runway, traffic will increase on Runway 9 Right/27 Left, which lines up with Thorndale Avenue. According to the FAA, arrivals will increase to 58.1 percent of total landings on 27 Left at night and to 24.4 percent during the day, depending on the wind direction. The increase will amount to more than 100 flights at night, according to the Sauganash Community Association.
Also beginning in October, Runway 9 Left/27 Right, which lines up with Pratt Avenue and which opened in 2008, will see an increase in daytime arrivals. The runway will see a minimal number of departures.
Runway 9 Left will have 10 percent of arrivals during the day and 6.6 percent of arrivals at night, and Runway 27 Right will have 23.2 percent of arrivals during the day and 3.7 arrivals at night.
The Sauganash Community Association has sent letters to aviation administration officials and elected officials denouncing the change in usage patterns at the airport. The letter states that jet noise created by the changes will have a negative effect on Northwest Side neighborhoods.
Association member Andrew Ginocchio, who is the 39th Ward representative on the O’Hare Noise Compatibility Commission, said that he worked with the group to write the letter. Ginocchio is the chairman of the association’s O’Hare Noise Committee.
Ginocchio said that other groups are drafting their own letters.
Ginocchio said that based on his analysis of numbers provided by the city Department of Aviation, flights over Sauganash will increase from an average of 15 landings a day to more than 100, with many at night. He said that the runway which lines up with Thorndale is one of the oldest and shortest runways and that the main runway that lines up with Lawrence Avenue is safer and more modern but that it will rarely be used for night landings from the east.
The FAA documents show that Runway 10 Left/28 Right, which lines up with Lawrence, will not be used for night landings on 28 Right but for 20.1 percent of night landings on 10 Left.
However, 36.9 percent of departures at night and 24 percent of arrivals during the day will happen on 10 Left, and 13 percent of departures during the day and 22.1 percent of departures at night will happen on 28 Right.
Molinaro said that the administration is trying to split up traffic on the north side and the south side of the airport. “Sometimes people look at only the arrivals, but you can’t split them up like that without looking at the departures,” Molinaro said.
Molinaro said that many arrivals, especially night landings, are done so they can be as close to the terminals to eliminate delays.
The letter from the Sauganash association states that the numbers show that the FAA plans to shift 80,000 landings per year that fly over the north and northwest suburbs to fly over the near north suburbs, over the lake and back over the Northwest Side in order to land. Ginocchio said that the shift would add 40 miles of distance and 15 minutes of flying time, using an additional 40 million gallons of jet fuel and costing the airlines more than $120 million a year.
Ginocchio said that many airports use diagonal runways to compensate for wind direction and that the O’Hare plan was based on Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport. He said that it is dangerous to use parallel runways for virtually all of the traffic at the airport and that not using diagonal runways would waste money.
Molinaro said that the airport intends to use the remaining diagonal runways and that the parallel runways are designed not to cross and pose safety hazards.
Edgebrook Community Association president Jeff Manuel said in a letter to elected officials that the group opposes the planned changes in runway use. “These changes will adversely impact our community in numerous respects including but not limited to increased noise levels in the early morning and late at night, decreased property values and an overall reduction of quality of life standards,” the letter states.
Spokesmen for Alderman Margaret Laurino (39th) and Alderman Mary O’Connor (41st) said that the aldermen plan to hold public meetings on the issue.
The Sauganash Community Association said that the diagonal runways should be kept open and used to maintain O’Hare’s competitiveness and safety.
“We feel that the main runway and the two brand new runways should be used more than part-time for landings,” association president Renee Bennett said in the letter. “We believe flights should be directed over no-people commercial and park zones as much as possible, and we believe homes in flyover zones where heavy traffic cannot be truly avoided should get home insulation assistance.”
Ginocchio said that the reason for the shift of traffic to the Thorndale runway has to do with the noise insulation program. He said that complaints from other municipalities over noise would cause an uproar and that’s why the majority of night landings will be kept over the city.
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Take Off That Hat!
There are times when my Brother-in-Law, The Mouth, and his blunders remind me of a Three Stooges comedy routine.
He came over for dinner as usual, and as usual, he was afraid to take off his hat. The man would leave his own rear end behind if it were not attached. Keys, wallet, glasses, attache case, hat, coat, everything that can possibly be separated from his person is in continual danger of being left behind wherever he goes. In fairy tales they leave trails of bread crumbs. He leaves trails of belongings in his wake. It wouldn't take a trained detective to follow his path and know exactly what he has been doing, where, and when.
So he comes over for dinner, and not only do i cook a meal, i pull out all the leftovers and sometimes grab a few things i stashed in the freezer, too. He isn't called The Mouth for nothing, although he does have a knack for saying the wrong thing at the exact wrong moment, too.
Pot roast, gravy, rice, soup with lots of veggies. turnip greens, leftover brisket, leftover pasta and shrimp, leftover pork and veggie stir fry. He's in hog heaven, he loves a spread.
He takes the leftover pork and veggie stir fry, warms it up, and wants to add it to the soup. Sounds odd to me, but he likes it, so okay. He is ladling the soup up, and true to his clumsy self, manages to tip his bowl and spill half the stir fry into the gravy, into the turnip greens, onto the stove, and i even had to pull one of the grills off and clean out from under it.
"Darn!" he yelled at the top of his lungs. "Himmel!" Yes, darn and himmel are his worst. He doesn't smoke, drink more than one glass of wine a night, or cuss. Yes, he does play piano at church, why do you ask?
He then snatched off his hat, that he had left on so he wouldn't forget it, and tossed it onto the counter in frustration, knocking over the bottle of olive oil.
I shrieked, dashed past him and grabbed the oil just before the top could come loose. Safe!
At that point, i made him put his hat in the refrigerator with his spinach that i get for him at Sam's Club where it is cheaper, and, so that he wouldn't forget the spinach or the hat, his keys. Can't start the truck without the keys.
The whole time i was cleaning the mess, i was thinking of the time Curly Howard was in court, and the Judge told him to take off his hat. He did so, and then the Judge said, "Raise your right hand." Curly put the hat back on so as to have his hand free to raise it. Then he is again ordered to "Take off that hat!" Over and over. Never did he think of putting down the cane he held in his left hand, or setting the hat in his lap.
Dealing with my Brother-in-Law is a bit like that. Laugh so you don't cry.
Feast of Great Typos (I've made several of those!)
Feast of Hecate -- Ancient Greek Calendar
Independence Day -- Nauru
Inspire Your Heart with Art Day
National Popcorn Day
National Seed Swap Day
St. John Bosco's Day (patron of editors, apprentices)
Valkyries' Day -- Norse Calendar
Uncle P
My brother, the children's Uncle P, came by to spend time with us before he moves away for a year.
He is hitting the big time, moving to The Big Apple, to live with a mission group that works with the homeless there. He has committed to stay for a year, and if he loves it he has the option to simply remain there.
So he wanted to visit, and only had a couple of hours. They all went across the field and the creek to the pond, and fed the ducks. It is something i try to get them to do when we end up with lots of old bread in the freezer, and it had built up quite a bit. They had wanted to take him to the zoo, but it is too far for a two hour visit. Getting there takes up 45 minutes by itself.
He came to visit, and talk, and he also brought forks! Because he is emptying out his house to sell, and everything is going, he brought us his flatware. Like mine, not a full set (in fact, all 5 of our forks are from different patterns), but now we have plenty.
No, we aren't picky when we set a table. In fact, we don't have a table right now to set, so everything is a bit scribbly.
We hope to have bar stools soon, and a small table to use for the microwave and fruit bowls.
Uncle P also brought plastic containers, one without a lid. It got me to thinking about all the things you have to dispose of when you break up housekeeping. The plastic baggies and box of tin foil (as my grandmother taught me to call it). The can openers -- ours died recently, he brought 3! Whisks and a stirring spoon, a couple of mismatched bowls that Sweetie has claimed because they hold his favorite serving size, LARGE.
So we had a good time talking and visiting. This is something i hope works out well for him. Seminary didn't, and he has never married, and he wants to do more with his life than just the usual nine to five. If he likes it, this may become his life work. Better than paper pushing, that is for sure. Work that makes you feel like you've really done something at the end of the day.
Being a creature of the South, i also hope the weather isn't too much of a shock to him.
Escape Day
Ka Molokai Makahiki -- Molokai, Hawaii (harvest festival)
Martyr's Day -- India
School Day of Nonviolence and Peace -- Spain
St. Aldegund's Day (patron against cancer, childhood illness, fever, eye disease, sudden death, wounds)
St. Bathild's Day
Three Archbishops' Day
World Leprosy Day
Yodel For Your Neighbors Day (Why? Do you hate your neighbors?)
Peter Leko, of Hungary, becomes the world's youngest chess grand master at age 14, 1994
You Do Know How Kittens Come Along, Right?
Twice this week we have dealt with cats and kittens from an older lady who thought she was doing the right thing taking the cats in. The cats, of course, had babies. She didn't have money for spaying/neutering.
So, when it got to where there were 20 cats in the house, she starts calling for help.
The four kittens, weaned but not looking great, ended up with a new foster mom, Nicky, who i watched with pride as she learned to dose them. We met up at the building so i could give fluids until they could be brought to the vet the next morning, and she wormed them herself. She's going to be a great asset to the program, along with her young teen son.
When cleaning the shelter, we dealt with several of the other cats from that house. Some of them are semi-feral, and will be altered at spay day and taken back to the lady. She can handle several cats, just not when they keep increasing in number.
Meanwhile, Turtle and Corrie were adopted last week.
Grady is losing weight! Running around the big room is working for him. It's a shame it's not working for Prissy, Ginny, and Baby. Candy and Clint and Gidget don't need to lose any.
Frieda was not a happy camper. Apparently she had already had enough attention, so when i petted her, ears and neck only, she told me to stop with a quick swipe, but no claws. She and i then talked a while. She wanted conversation, not petting, which was fine with me.
Lucky is looking better, but old. He eats anything and everything, and stays skinny. He has staked out his territory in the storage room, and is happy. Not much more can be asked for a geriatric, hyperthyroid cat.
The cages were very full. Rosie is on meds for an upper respiratory, Buttons has an scratch on his cornea, Samantha, Cheri, Perry, Rusty, and Cami (some of whom came from the older lady) had just come back from vetting and are recovering nicely.
Rocky is recovered, and has been neutered. As soon as there is a spot, he will get a room, and be able to run, finally.
The Six, most of which will go back to the lady, are sharing 3 huge cages. They are all orange boys, and rather skittish most of them. One cannot be held at all.
Angel is on meds, and because she was taken to South Vet, we can't find out what med is for what. They can't even tell us which of their many vets she saw. Thus i stick with my vet. That place treats our cats like garbage, sorry to have to say that about any vet. She is still limping, and no answers.
Teddy has been moved in with Bowie and JuJu. He is very friendly, so i hope he will help Bowie get back to his usual loving self.
Monty is most certainly eating, finally. So are Sophia and Roxanne, one of whom celebrated Corrie being gone by gorging and barfing. People party, cats barf, at least that's what we think. Just a whole different way of relating to the world.
Scottie, Gulliver, Portia, Tiffani, Molly, Heathcliff, Devon, and Kati are doing well.
Other than needing to really increase our adoption rates, if we can, things are going well.
Our Executive Director has plans to hold more adoption events. Let's hope that helps.
Oh, and if you don't know where kittens come from, please call us before you have a colony of your own on your hands. We know you only took in a couple of strays, one of whom was pregnant, but call us right away, before we end up with your mess in our laps. We're glad to help you get low or even no cost spay/neuter, and when you only have 5-6, instead of 20.
Bubblegum Sculpture Day
Carnation Day
Freethinkers Day (To honor Thomas Paine)
Fun at Work Day
St. Juniper's Day
St. Sulpicius Severus' Day
Thomas Paine Day
The first direct commercial flights from mainland China (from Guangzhou) to Taiwan since 1949 arrived in Taipei. Shortly afterward, a China Airlines flight lands in Beijing, 2005
Snow Is Bad Enough
Snow can be pretty, especially in pictures. It is also very nice from behind a picture window, when you have a nice fire going and something warm to drink.
When your city has gotten more than twice what it usually gets in a winter, and winter isn't over yet, it's not so pretty. Cities running out of money for plowing, no ice or sand available, hundreds of cars and trucks abandoned on the roads, power out in many places -- again, not very nice.
Flights canceled, no Amtrak either, and then the icing on the cake, people getting killed by snow plows running into them.
Yes, on top of the insult of having to resort to beet juice to melt the snow and ice on the roads, add the injury of the places that do still have plows running have reported deaths due to plows backing over people.
We need some good news. Even though i don't live where it snows, this makes me sad.
How about this gem, from the BBC. Elsie and Leslie Harper, married before the War, and divorced after, have decided to remarry 57 years later. Each had another marriage in between, that ended with the death of the subsequent spouse. It seems they get along better now than they did the first time, so with Leslie at age 93, and Elsie at 90, they are tying the knot again.
Good news. I hope they have many happy years together.
The next good news i read i hope is about snow melting.
Army Day -- Armenia
Clash Day (Dress any way you want, and make sure it clashes. Celebrate at your own risk.)
Democracy Day -- Rwanda
Festival of the Lenaia to Dionysus -- Ancient Greek Calendar, end January through February 5
National Blueberry Pancake Day
National Kazoo Day
National Spieling Day
Rinkydinks Annual Snowball Fight -- Fairy Calendar
Runic Half Month Elhaz commences
Serendipity Day
St. Charlemagne's Day
St. Thomas Aquinas's Day (patron of students, pencil makers, theologians)
Elijah Wood, 1981
Nick Carter, 1980
Joey Fatone, Jr. 1977
Sarah McLachlan, 1968
Nicolas Sarkozy, 1955
Rick Warren, 1954
Alan Alda, 1936
Susan Sontag, 1933
Jackson Pollack, 1912
Robert Stroud, 1890 (The Birdman of Alcatraz)
Arthur Rubenstein, 1887
Colette, 1873
Jose' Marti, 1853
Peter the Great of Russia, 1775
St. Thomas Aquinas, 1225
The Walk to Canossa: The excommunication of Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor is lifted by Pope Gregory VIII, 1077
The first Crusaders begins siege of Hosn-el-Akrad Syria, 1099
Pope Alexander VI gives his son Cesare Borgia as hostage to Charles VIII of France, 1495
Edward VI, age nine, succeeds his father Henry VIII as king of England, 1547
By the Edict of Orleans, the persecution of French Huguenots is suspended, 1561
Articles of the Warsaw Confederation are signed, sanctioning freedom of religion in Poland, 1573
Sir Thomas Warner found the first British colony in the Caribbean, on St. Kitts, 1624
The Russian Academy of Sciences was founded in St. Petersburg by Peter the Great, and implemented in the Senate decree (it was called St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences until 1917), 1724
Horace Walpole, in a letter to Horace Mann, coins the word serendipity, 1754
London's Pall Mall is the first street lit by gaslight, 1807
Pride and Prejudice is first published in the United Kingdom, 1813
The first locomotive runs from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean on the Panama Railway, 1855
In a snowstorm at Fort Keogh, Montana, the world's largest snowflakes are reported, being 15 inches (38 cm) wide and 8 inches (20 cm) thick, 1887
Walter Arnold of East Peckham, Kent became the first person to be convicted of speeding in an automobile. He is fined 1 shilling, plus costs, for speeding at 8 mph (13 km/h), thus exceeding the contemporary speed limit of 2 mph (3.2 km/h), 1896
The Carnegie Institution is founded in Washington, D.C. with a $10 million gift from Andrew Carnegie, 1902
An act of the U.S. Congress creates the United States Coast Guard, 1915
The first Jewish US Supreme Court justice, Louis Brandeis, appointed by Wilson, 1916
A symbolic Tomb of the Unknown Soldier is installed beneath the Arc de Triomphe in Paris to honor the unknown dead of World War I, 1921
The name Pakistan is coined by Choudhary Rehmat Ali Khan and is accepted by the Indian Muslims who then thereby adopted it further for the Pakistan Movement seeking independence, 1933
The Lego company patents the design of its Lego bricks, still compatible with bricks produced today, 1958
The current design of the Flag of Canada is chosen by an act of Parliament, 1965
Tropical Storm Domoina makes landfall in southern Mozambique, eventually causing 214 deaths and some of the most severe flooding so far recorded in the region, 1984
Supergroup USA for Africa (United Support of Artists for Africa) records the hit single We Are the World, to help raise funds for Ethiopian famine relief, 1985
Space Shuttle Challenger breaks apart after liftoff killing all seven astronauts on board, 1986
Felines on Duty
In Boston, apparently they were having trouble filling the jury box last year, and called in a family cat to serve. The family tried to have him dismissed, but weren't successful until it made the local news.
This got me to thinking about what my cats would say about jury duty. I can hear them now.
Kida: Well, it's about time someone recognized that we Siamese cats have more sense than you humans. Of course jury duty will be a bit of a bore, having to listen to those silly humans discussing their foolish actions, but it should be easy to set them straight about what they should do. Make them our slaves, of course.
Horizon: (furtively looking around) I lived on the streets, and remember characters like what end up on trial. Don't like them. Put them where I won't have to see them again.
Little Girlie: How much of my nap time will I miss? Or may I sleep through it? Oooh, will I have to deal with mean people? I don't like mean people, they interrupt my nap time.
Badlands Blackie: They are going to wish they never had me on a jury! I'm tough, I'm mean, I'll put them away for ... oh, is that tuna? Um, what were we saying?
Hope: Will they feed me? I like anyone who will feed me. Or brush me. Or both. Yes, both! Make sure they have food and a brush.
Brussels Lace Day
Chocolate Cake Day
Family Literacy Day
International Day of Commemoration in memory of the victims of the Holocaust
Mozart Day
Punch the Clock Day
St. Angela Merici's Day
Thomas Crapper Day
The University of Georgia is chartered, the first state university in the US, 1785
The first sorority, Kappa Alpha Theta, is founded at DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana, 1870
Jennifer LB Leese, 1970
Patton Oswalt, 1969
Bridget Fonda,1964
Cris Collinsworth, 1959
Mikhail Baryshnikov, 1948
Nick Mason, 1944
Troy Donahue, 1936
Donna Reed, 1921
David Seville, 1919
Skitch Henderson, 1918
Jerome Kern, 1885
Samuel Gompers, 1850
Lewis Carroll (Charles Dodgson), 1832
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, 1756
Trajan becomes Roman Emperor, 98
The Rashidun Caliphate ends with the death of Ali, 661
Song Dynasty General Yue Fei is wrongfully executed, 1142
Dante Alighieri becomes a Florentine political exile, 1302
The trial of Guy Fawkes and other conspirators begins, ending with their execution on January 31, 1606
The first American lime kiln begins operation in Providence, Rhode Island, 1662
Mustafa II becomes the Ottoman sultan in Instanbul, 1695
Czar Peter the Great sets the first Russian state budget, 1710
Abdication of Stanislas, the last king of Poland, 1736
The US Congress approves the opening of Indian Territory for settlement, which led to the forced relocation of Native Americans on the "Trail of Tears," 1825
Manitoba and the Northwest Territories are incorporated, 1870
Thomas Edison is granted a patent for the electric incandescent lamp, 1880
The National Geographic Society is organized, in Washington, D.C., 1888
"Tarzan of the Apes," the first Tarzan movie, premiers, 1918
Apollo 1 – Astronauts Gus Grissom, Edward White and Roger Chaffee are killed in a fire during a test of their spacecraft at the Kennedy Space Center, 1967
More than sixty nations sign the Outer Space Treaty banning nuclear weapons in space, 1967
Through cooperation between the U.S. and Canadian governments, six American diplomats secretly escape hostilities in Iran in the culmination of the Canadian caper, 1980
The pilot shaft of the Seikan Tunnel, the world's longest sub-aqueous tunnel (53.85 km) between the Japanese islands of Honshu and Hokkaido, breaks through, 1983
Germany first observes International Holocaust Remembrance Day, 1996
Western Union discontinues its Telegram and Commercial Messaging services, 2006
These Kids Need More Than Crispy Treats
Sometimes my co-teachers at homeschool co-op remind me why i keep getting elected to teach the cooking class.
Please don't misunderstand, these are nice ladies. Few of those i've taught with, however, know anything about cast iron, how to just decide what tastes good with what with no recipe, or what really has to go into choosing a recipe for the class to make.
One of them offered to choose the recipe and bring all the ingredients for this week's class. We are talking 10 young people, ages 11-16, in a class for 40 minutes. They have to fix something and eat it in that time, and clean up. Often i teach "cooking show style", meaning i have the dish already prepared, pull it out when the one the first class prepares gets put on the stove or into the oven, and use the one the first class made to feed the second class when theirs starts cooking.
So we have to come up with semi complicated, but not overly complicated, recipes that require all of the kids get some time doing hands on work with the food.
She picked Peanut Butter and Jelly Rice Crispy Treats.
Anyone out there know how easy it is to make rice crispy treats? Yes, this added peanut butter, and yes we used blueberries to make a jelly like topping, but still.
Add to that the fact that she misread how many ounces each bag of marshmallows held, thus making them far too sticky and gloppy, and we had a bit of a mess on our hands.
Plus, peanut butter and jelly mixed with rice crispy treats is just a bit ... odd. Some of the kids liked it, some ate a bit and said no thank you, some declared it disgusting.
If you ever want to try it for yourself, just add 1/3 cup of smooth peanut butter to the basic recipe, and cook down some frozen or fresh fruit of your choice with 1/8 cup sugar and a tablespoon of cornstarch to thicken, and pour that over the top. Yes. Really.
There are a few ideas bubbling around in the old bean about what we will do next week to get that taste out of our mouths, and it will be a more complicated recipe, although not excessively so.
Meanwhile, if you want good rice crispy treats, add the peanut butter, yes, but also a bag of butterscotch chips, and leave out the jelly. Much better.
Australia Day (Commemorates Captain Arthur Phillip's arrival at Sydney Cove with the First Fleet, on January 26, 1778.)
Duarte Day -- Dominican Republic
End of the Fifth Quarter of the Ninth Dozen of the Thirteenth Set -- Fairy Calendar
Liberation Day -- Uganda
Lotus 1-2-3 Day
National Peanut Brittle Day
National Speak Up and Succeed Day
Republic Day -- India
Spike the Punch Day
Spouse's Day
St. Paula's Day (patron of widows)
Toad Hollow Day of Encouragement (Began at Toad Hollow School in Kalamazoo, Michigan in the 1800s, a day to encourage your friends.)
Michigan becomes the 26th US state, 1837
Kherington Payne, 1990
Kirk Franklin, 1970
Wayne Gretzky, 1961
Anita Baker, 1958
Ellen DeGeneres, 1958
Eddie Van Halen, 1955
Lucinda Williams, 1953
Gene Siskel, 1946
Angela Davis, 1944
Scott Glenn, 1942
Bob Uecker, 1935
Jules Feiffer, 1929
Paul Newman, 1925
Anne Jeffreys, 1923
Maria Augusta von Trapp, 1905
Douglas MacArthur, 1880
Mary Maples Dodge, 1831
Emperor Go-Nara of Japan, 1497
The fifth recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet, 66
Vicente Yáñez Pinzón becomes the first European to set foot on Brazil, 1500
The Council of Trent issues its conclusions in the Tridentinum, establishing a distinction between Roman Catholicism and Protestantism, 1564
Isaac Newton receives Jean Bernoulli's 6 month time-limit problem, and solves the problem before going to bed that same night, 1697
The magnitude 9 Cascadia Earthquake took place off the west coast of the North America, as evidenced by Japanese records, 1700
The British First Fleet, led by Arthur Phillip, sails into Port Jackson (Sydney Harbour) to establish Sydney, the first permanent European settlement on the continent of Australia, 1788
The Rum Rebellion, the only successful (albeit short-lived) armed takeover of the government in Australia, 1808
Tennessee enacts the first prohibition law in the United States, 1838
Hong Kong is proclaimed a sovereign territory of Britain, 1841
The first US income tax, passed to raise funds for the Civil War, is repealed, 1871
Muhammad Ahmed ("Mahdi") rebels conquer Khartoum, Sudan, 1885
The World's largest diamond, the 3,106-carat Cullinan, is found, 1905
The Short Magazine Lee-Enfield Mk III is officially introduced into British Military Service, and remains the oldest military rifle still in official use, 1907
Glenn H. Curtiss flies the first successful American seaplane, 1911
Richard Strauss' opera Der Rosenkavalier receives its debut performance at the Dresden State Opera, 1911
Former Ford Motor Co. executive Henry Leland launches the Lincoln Motor Company which he later sold to his former employer, 1920
Rioters burn Cairo's central business district, targeting British and upper-class Egyptian businesses, 1952
Danny Heater sets a worldwide high school basketball scoring record when he records 135 points for Burnsville High School (West Virginia), 1960
Ranger 3 is launched to study the moon, but misses its target by 22,000 miles (35,400 km), 1962
Hindi becomes the official language of India, 1965
The Great Blizzard of 1978, a rare severe blizzard with the lowest non-tropical atmospheric pressure ever recorded in the US, strikes the Ohio – Great Lakes region with heavy snow and winds up to 100 mph (161 km/h), 1978
Israel and Egypt establish diplomatic relations, 1980
An earthquake hits Gujarat, India, causing more than 20,000 deaths, 2001
All's Well That Ends With Friends...In One Piece
"Hey, mom, good news!"
Coming from #2 Son, that could mean anything, and usually with him good is relative.
"Sammy's mom says we can hang out again!"
There was a problem?
"Well, yes, ever since New Year's Eve and the explosion."
Do i really want to hear about this?
"Yeah, it was awesome! You see, Fred and me decided to set off one of those artillery shells, and you're supposed to put them in a tube, see? So we did, but we forgot that it has to have back pressure to push up against, and so we lit it, and then Fred says, 'Hey, dude, we don't have a back on this thing!' and I said, 'Oh, this is going to be bad!' and about then it blew up. And it burned my hands, and set Fred's afro on fire, and it was really, really loud, and Sammy's mom said I was a bad influence and couldn't hang around with Sammy any more. But I explained to her that we only set stuff like that off on New Years and Fourth of July, and besides I won't set stuff off if he's too close, 'cause he's younger'n me, so she said we could hang out together again."
You set your hands and Fred's afro on fire?
"Yeah, but we're both okay, and it wasn't too bad."
To me, that did not end well. To him, if he still has his friends, mostly intact, it's all good.
A Room of One's Own Day
Aukland Day -- New Zealand
Better Business Communication Day
Bubble Wrap Appreciation Day
Compliment Day
Conversion of St. Paul -- Christian
Dinner Party Day (for Bobby Burns, of course)
Dydd Santes Dwynwen -- Wales (For St. Dwynwen, the Welsh Valentines Day)
Festival of Constructive Energy
Macintosh Computer Day
National Irish Coffee Day
Observe the Weather Day (A beautiful St. Paul's Conversion day means a prosperous year, precipitation means an expensive year, clouds mean much loss of livestock, and wind means war looms in the year ahead.)
Old Disting -- Norse Calendar (A market day held at the same time as a sacrifice to the female powers.)
Robert Burns' Night -- Scotland; Newfoundland
St. Tatiana's Day
Up-Helly-AA Day -- Lerwick, Shetland (fire festival)
Henry VIII marries Anne Boleyn, 1533 (secret wedding)
Moscow University is established, to coincide with St. Tatiana's Day, 1755
Alicia Keys, 1981
China Kantner, 1971
Etta James, 1938
Corazon Aquino, 1933
Dean Jones, 1931
Edwin Newman, 1919
Virginia Woolf, 1882
William Somerset Maugham, 1874
Robert Burns, 1759
Founding of Sao Paulo, Brazil, 1554
Battle of Mikatagahara, in Japan; Takeda Shingen defeats Tokugawa Ieyasu, 1573
The Treaty of Utrecht marks the beginning of the Dutch Republic, 1579
Eliakam Spooner of Vermont patents the first seeding machine in the US, 1799
The first US engineering college opens, Rensselaer Polytechnic, Troy, NY, 1825
Sojourner Truth addresses the First Black Women's Rights Convention, in Akron, Ohio, 1851
Mendelssohn's "Wedding March" is first played, at the wedding of Queen Victoria's daughter Princess Victoria, to crown prince of Prussia, 1858
The soda fountain is patented by Gustavus Dows, 1870
Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell form the Oriental Telephone Company, 1881
Bilu, a Russian Zionist organization, forms, 1882
Nellie Bly beats Phileas Fogg's time around world by 8 days (72 days), 1890
The first US transcontinental telephone call is made when Alexander Graham Bell in NY calls Thomas Watson in SF, 1915
The League of Nations is founded, 1919
The 1924 Winter Olympics opens in Chamonix, France (in the French Alps), inaugurating the Winter Olympic Games, 1924
The Guiding Light debuts on NBC radio from Chicago (in 1952 it moves to CBS television, where it remains until Sept. 18, 2009), 1937
At the Hollywood Athletic Club the first Emmy Awards are presented, 1949
The Clementine space probe launches, 1994
Russia almost launches a nuclear attack after it mistakes Black Brant XII, a Norwegian research rocket, for a US Trident missile, 1995
During a historic visit to Cuba, Pope John Paul II demands the release of political prisoners and political reforms while condemning US attempts to isolate the country, 1998
Three independent observing campaigns announce the discovery of OGLE-2005-BLG-390Lb through gravitational microlensing, the first cool rocky/icy extrasolar planet around a main-sequence star, 2006
Not a whole lot to blog about right now. If you think that is going to stop me, you are mistaken, however.
Because he can't really do anything more for me, and my insurance has "run out" in that i have to pay for everything out of pocket for the next however much it is that we don't have, i canceled my appointment this week with the orthopedic hand specialist. My regularly scheduled yearly checkup with my primary doc is this week, that will be enough.
Our church is planning the "Becoming Beautiful" evening for the kindergarten through 5th grade girls again, and once again i will be presiding, with Miss R, over the kitchen. We've decided on taco salad, with lots of healthy choices of veggies for them to have with it, and lean ground turkey or grilled chicken as their choices of meat. Like most kids, they will probably just eat the chips and cheese, but at least we can offer them the good stuff. You can lead a kid away from candy, but you cannot make them eat rabbit food. Or something like that.
We have run out of kitten chow again, and the animals that are the most upset about it are the adult cats that like to sneak around and eat it! At their annual check up last week, all of our cats had gained weight except Kida, the one who is on steroids for asthma. The only one with an excuse to gain. Go figure. The kittens are happy to eat the adult food and do so all of the time anyway, but it costs me when they do, so i need to make a run to the shelter for more kitten food.
There were no adoptions this weekend, so we still have 9 fosters in the house. I need to check with the vet to see when i scheduled these guys for surgery, and try to fit Ming in, as we couldn't tell if she was sick last time we tried. Every time they tried to listen to her lungs, she would purr so much they couldn't hear anything. One of the advantages of having other pets, i guess, you can actually listen to their heart or lungs and not have to try to sneak up on them and catch them when they aren't making a noise that masks what you want to hear.
Brother-in-Law, The Mouth, really outdid himself this weekend. We are officially cleared of leftovers for the time being. Which is a good thing and a bad thing. It means nothing to fall back on if i have a bad day, but it also means no bacon grazing on the lettuce in the back where i won't catch it.
Speaking of bacon and such things, my fridge, after being repaired last year, is working a bit too well. Stuff at the back, and especially on the left side looking in, tends to get frozen. Probably i had been turning it colder as the coil was going bad last year, and i've never readjusted it back down. Something to attend to before we lose anything that should get that cold. So far, it's just frozen some meat that needed to be kept that cold anyway, and put some ice crystals on a couple of things that ice didn't hurt.
Okay, okay, i'll quit rambling. Maybe something more tomorrow, but no promises.
Alactis Fair -- Aymara Indians, Bolivia (offerings to the god of prosperity)
Beer Can Appreciation Day
Economic Liberation Day
Eskimo Pie Day
Fairy-Four Paganalia -- Fairy Calendar
National Peanut Butter Day
Paul Pitcher Day (So called because it is the eve of the Celebration of St. Paul's Conversion on the road to Damascus. Cornish tin miners would traditionally set up a water pitcher in a public place and throw stones at it to destroy it. A replacement pitcher was then bought and filled with beer, which was drunk and replenished through the day. These miners were great inventors for reasons to celebrate, and they did this to rebel against the rule that only water was to be consumed during the work day.)
Sementivae, in honor of Ceres and Terra, begins -- Roman Empire
St. Babylas' Day
St. Francis de Sales' Day (patron of journalists, editors, writers; against deafness)
Tricknology Day (celebrating the clever tricks of a ruling class conspiracy)
Popeye meets Olive Oyl, 1929 (in Elzie Segar's Thimble Theater comic strip)
Tatyana Ali, 1979
Mary Lou Retton, 1968
Nastassia Kinski, 1960
Jools Holland, 1958
Yakov Smirnoff, 1951
John Belushi, 1949
Warren Zevon, 1947
Sharon Tate, 1943
Neil Diamond, 1941
Aaron Neville, 1941
Ray Stevens, 1939
Maria Tallchief, 1925
Jerry Maren, 1920
Oral Roberts, 1918
Ernest Borgnine, 1917
Granny D (formerly Granny Haddock, or Ethel Doris Haddock, political activist)
Edith Wharton, 1862
Caligula, known for his cruel despotism, is assassinated and succeeded by his uncle Claudius, 41
Connecticut colony organizes under Fundamental Orders, 1639
The first Jewish doctor in US, Jacob Lumbrozo, arrives in Maryland, 1656
Henry Knox arrives at Cambridge, Massachusetts with the artillery that he has transported from Fort Ticonderoga, 1776
The University of Calcutta is formally founded as the first full-fledged university in south Asia,1857
The Romania principality arises under King Alexander Cuza, with Bucharest as the capital, 1862
General Baden-Powell's publication of Scouting for Boys starts the Boy Scouts movement, 1908
The Gregorian calendar introduced in Russia by decree of the Council of People's Commissars effective from February 14(NS), 1918
Vincent Massey is sworn in as the first Canadian-born Governor-General of Canada, 1952
A bomber carrying two H-bombs breaks up in mid-air over North Carolina. The uranium core of one weapon remains lost, 1961
Jackie Robinson is elected to Baseball Hall of Fame, 1962
Japanese Sgt. Shoichi Yokoi is found hiding in a Guam jungle, where he had been since the end of World War II, 1972
Soviet satellite Cosmos 954, with a nuclear reactor on board, burns up in Earth's atmosphere, scattering radioactive debris over Canada's Northwest Territories. Only 1% is recovered, 1978
The first Apple Macintosh goes on sale, 1984
Voyager 2 passes within 81,500 km (50,680 miles) of Uranus, 1986
They're Arriving
One by one. They are arriving. Dreaded, expected, awaited with all of the welcome you would give a burglar, appearing in the mailbox with depressing regularity.
The tax forms are arriving.
Those that tell how much you earned -- so depressing! Where did it all go? Those telling you what you gave to charities -- a bit less depressing, except that you really wanted to give so much more. The "friendly" ones reminding you to get your taxes to your CPA early, or to buy the program to help you file now, while you can get a $5 early buyer discount.
Yes, we know it is going to be tax time in the blink of an eye, but can't they at least let us catch our breath over what we spent on Christmas (or on that car we had to buy to replace the wrecked one) before they are in our faces, demanding that we warm up our calculators and start pulling what's left of our hair out?
This year will be especially fun, with having to file for all 4 kids, since they all now earn an income. We were hoping to have enough to start retirement funds for them because they have earned income, but with the car fiasco that is not happening. I hate putting it off, but there it is, they have to eat today first.
So, at least for now, i can put the papers aside as they arrive, and sort them soon. Just don't ask me to define soon. No, i do not mean the night before the tax deadline. The accountant has to have it all by the end of February, so it really will be soon. Just not tonight, i have to go do something less painful, like hand feed these shark kittens that bite, or stick my sore, cracked hands into the wash water in the sink without gloves.
Bounty Day -- Pitcairn Island (celebrates the burning of the HMS Bounty in 1790
National Pie Day
National Rhubarb Pie Day
Measure Your Feet Day -- one can only ask...."Why!?!"
Ragwort Dance -- Fairy Calendar (Pixies only)
Snowplow Mailbox Hockey Day
St. John the Almoner's Day (known for his generosity to the poor, "If we are able to enter the church day and night and implore God to hear our prayers, how careful we should be to hear and grant the petitions of our neighbor in need.")
The founding of Georgetown University, the first US Catholic college,
Princess Caroline of Monaco, 1957
Antonio Villaraigosa, 1953
Rutger Hauer, 1944
Chita Rivera, 1933
Jeanne Moreau, 1928
Ernie Kovacs, 1919
John M. Browning, 1855
Edouard Manet, 1832
John Hancock, 1737
In China, the war elephant corps of the Southern Han are soundly defeated at Shao by crossbow fire from Song Dynasty troops, 971
The first printing of Ramban's Sha'ar ha-Gemul, 1490
The first printing of the Pentateuch, 1492
The second version of Book of Common Prayer becomes mandatory in England, 1552
What is probably the most deadly earthquake in history kills 830,000 in Shensi Province, China, 1556
Queen Elizabeth I opens the Royal Exchange in London, 1571
Blaise Pascal publishes the first of his Lettres provinciales, 1656
Joseph Pease, a Quaker, is admitted to Parliament on his affirmation, 1833
Elizabeth Blackwell becomes the first female physician in the US, 1849
The first bridge over the Mississippi River opens in what is now Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1855
Alesund Fire: the Norwegian coastal town Alesund is devastated by fire, leaving 10,000 people homeless an one person dead, 1904
Charles Curtis of Kansas becomes the first Native American US senator, 1907
Pianist Ignaz Paderewski becomes premier of the Polish government in exile, 1940
Duke Ellington plays at Carnegie Hall in New York City for the first time, 1943
The bathyscaphe USS Trieste breaks a depth record by descending to 10,911 m (35,798 feet) in the Pacific Ocean, 1960
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducts its first members: Little Richard, Chuck Berry, James Brown, Ray Charles, Fats Domino, the Everly Brothers, Buddy Holly, Jerry Lee Lewis and Elvis Presley, 1986
Final communication between Earth and Pioneer 10, 2003
All was not happy in Shelterville this day. We arrived for our weekly cleaning in the middle of a bit of commotion.
Two cats, Ollie and Felicia, had just been adopted a half hour before. Another caretaker volunteer was there, waiting for a friend of hers, who showed up at the same time we did. There was also a meeting going on. Meg took me aside and said that, depending on that meeting, she might be turning in a resignation effective immediately. Talk about walking into it.
The other shelter caretaker's friend turned out to be someone i knew also. A very wonderful lady named Paula who, since her parents became unable to do so, has devoted her life to working as an attorney and taking care of her mentally disabled younger brother, Jerry. Jerry used to attend the same clinic for neurodevelopmental therapy that Bigger Girl attended, and so we had a nice reunion. Jerry will never be any better, although he is able to hold down a small job sweeping and raking and fetching and carrying for a lawn service. Paula has given up any kind of personal life she ever could have had and takes care of him as if he were her child, dropping him off at his daytime caretakers in the mornings, picking him up in the evenings, and getting only occasional weekends off when one of the other sisters takes Jerry. He is like a small child mentally, and needs constant watching. We paid a lot of attention to him as he paid attention to the cats.
Paula and Jerry had two cats until recently, when both of them died of advanced age -- over 20 years old each. Jerry keeps saying he "needs" a cat, and Paula loves cats, too, so they came up on a non adoption event day to look around. It is better that way for Jerry, who could be easily overwhelmed if the place were crowded with lots of other people looking at the cats also. They went from room to room, spending time, asking questions, and Paula will come back again and decide. She is leaning toward Devon, and Jerry loves Heathcliff. They might take both, Paula is sure they will adopt at least one cat.
More commotion commenced when Bigger Girl let Grady out, and then i went in the big room and found him, Gidget, Baby, Ginny, Prissy, and Candy, but no Clint. I searched that room three times, and finally found out he has a new hiding spot, perched way up high on a shelf in the window where he can play king of the hill. Better, i guess, than hiding under things all day long, but i didn't like not being able to find him for so long. It made me nervous.
Lucky has been designated the shelter mascot, which i guess makes him very lucky indeed. He still takes anything you put in a pill pocket, so he gets his thyroid medicine regularly, and eats tons and holds his weight. Not much more you can ask for an ugly, 15 year old cat.
Frieda was happy, as the meeting was going on in the office, and as i cleaned near there i heard our Executive Director smoothing ruffled feathers a bit. He has the makings of a peacemaker, which is a good thing. Meg came out of the meeting saying everything is fine for now. Dodged a bullet there.
Rocky kitten has only one more week until he can come off of cage rest, and i know we will all be happy to see that. Tyler was going crazy in his cage because he just got neutered and was ravenously hungry, having traded breakfast for surgery. He got a bit extra when no one else was looking. Turtle needs to be called something else, she is one messy eater in her cage, i hope she turns out neater in her room, when she gets one. Conan, meanwhile, is not sure what he thinks of this new shelter gig. Some cats don't know how good they have it, off the street and safe and warm.
Monty and Scottie have been sent to separate rooms not because of anything bad, but because no one had seen Monty eat for a while, and he seemed listless. The answer is that yes, he is eating, but not much.
Bowie has been spooked by having to get medicine for so long, and hides on a shelf now until he is sure you have no nefarious plans. It seems JuJu is rubbing off on him, which is a shame, he was so ingenuous and friendly.
Molly, Katy, Corrie, Roxanne, Sophia, Tiffany, and Rosie are all doing well, i'm glad to say.
Poor Angel is not. Dustie seems fine, but Angel is sneezing, with a runny eye again, and is limping from the shoulder. We're not sure what would cause that, it's not her paws this time.
So a bit of commotion this week, let's hope it calms down and things go at a more even keel for a while.
Celebration of Life Day
Dance of the Seven Veils Day
National Blonde Brownie Day (I thought these were just called "blondies.")
St. Vincent's Day (Spanish martyr and patron of winegrowers, schoolgirls, vinegar makers) - a sunny day today indicates a good wine crop next season
Unification Day -- Ukranian
Wellington Day -- Wellington Province, New Zealand
Steven Adler, 1965
Diane Lane, 1965
Michael Kelland Hutchence, 1960
Linda Blair, 1959
Steve Perry, 1949
John Hurt, 1940
Joseph Wambaugh, 1937
Sam Cooke, 1935
Bill Bixby, 1934
Piper Laurie, 1932
Ann Sothern, 1909
George Balanchine, 1904
D.W. Griffith, 1875
Grigori Rasputin, 1869
Nat Turner, 1800
Lord Byron, 1788
Sir Francis Bacon, 1561
The first contingent of Swiss Guards arrive at the Vatican, 1506
Postal service between NYC and Boston is inaugurated, 1673
The Native American Iroquois tribes renew their allegiance to the British against the French, 1690
Spain ceded the Falkland Islands to Britain, 1771
A severe earthquake in southern Syria kills thousands, 1837
The Zulus attack the British Army camp in Isandhlwana, South Africa, 1879
The Ancient Egyptian obelisk "Cleopatra's Needle" is erected in Central Park, 1881
After 63 years, England stops the sale of Queen Victoria postage stamps series and begins King Edward VII series, 1901
First live radio commentary of a football match anywhere in the world, between Arsenal F.C. and Sheffield United at Highbury, 1927
KTLA, the first commercial television station west of the Mississippi River, begins operation in Hollywood, California, 1947
Apollo 5 lifts off carrying the first Lunar module into space, 1968
The Boeing 747, the world's first "jumbo jet", enters commercial service, 1970
Another Yo Yo Day
"I like liquor – its taste and its effects – and that is just the reason why I never drink it."
Thomas Jonathan 'Stonewall' Jackson, American Confederate general, born on January 21, 1824
May i add to that, i would never get the errands run.
Called someone about getting another car for #1 Son, and went to meet him at the dealership. That was the beginning of a run that took me all over town, all day long.
There was a vehicle available that was "just within" our price range. At least, that's what i thought. We added a very, very basic warranty, so that we wouldn't have to do major repairs. Came up with a price that was a stretch. Then it was time to go get everything taken care of with the insurance people.
Across town to get the insurance paper that had to be notarized. Got it, and went to Sweetie's workplace, where the nice lady in the office down the hall notarized it for free.* Back to the house to find the title, which was right where it was supposed to be and still in the envelope the state mailed it to me in.
Back to the insurance company, deliver the papers, get the check, off to the bank. Then home, take the kids to school.
Now on to the rental car place to turn in the rental and back to the dealership, where the snags come in, of course.
The key they had with the vehicle, the only key, doesn't quite work right. You have to hold it at just the right angle to get it to turn the car over. They had promised two keys anyway, but didn't have another blank and couldn't seem to locate one. Then there was the matter of me writing them a check.
Ah, the check. I had figured up what it should cost, and it came to almost $500 more. It seems there were plenty of fees they didn't tell me about. So now, instead of being just outside our range, or a bit of a stretch, it is at the "we have no savings, and no way to pay bills the rest of the month" area. Great.
Also, they are supposed to have it cleaned, and make sure there are 5 gallons of gas in it. It was dirty and on empty. "We'll get that taken care of when you come back in for the key!" i was promised. After this, excuse me for being a skeptic.
Finally, after they make you wait an eternity (why? they already have the deal and your check!), we are able to go. #1 Son drives off and stops for gas, we both get home.
Just in time! Go get the kids from school so we can go clean the shelter.
Oh, did i mention dinner? Of course not. For heaven's sake, eat leftovers for once! We have plenty.
Also, forgot that in the middle of it all, Sweetie split his pants open at the seam (too many home cooked meals that he really goes to town on?) and wanted me to drop everything and bring him another pair. Couldn't do it. He had to run errands for the building and put a stop in at the house to do that for himself. Sorry, sometimes you just can't fit it all in.
Like the kittens. They needed to go to the vet. They have the runs again, and are losing weight, which they can't afford to do as they are so little anyway. No way to get them in with all the other running, and tomorrow is work, so they will have to make do with the very strong diarrhea medicine i have in the house and hope i can get a sample in at some point so we can find out what is going on with them.
Next week, i want to hibernate.
*That was big for around here. For those who don't know, in Louisiana, you have to study a huge amount and take a big test to be a notary public in the state. Once you pass, you can do almost anything a lawyer can, except argue in front of the bar and a couple of other things. This harks back to the time when the only attorney in a rural parish might be at the parish seat, and that was a huge distance away on foot or by horse, so you used a notary for everything except going to court at the parish seat. Now it is just that those who have studied and passed don't want it made the way it is in other states, because then they did all the work for nothing. Thus they charge a pretty penny to do everything, because they aren't dime a dozen and can do so.
Anniversary of the Elf Wars -- Fairy Calendar
Babin Den -- Bulgaria (Grandmother's and midwives day, celebrating the tradition of the grandmother's role in traditionally helping the new mothers of the family give birth.)
Celtic Tree Month Luis (Rowan) begins
Errol Barrow Day -- Barbados
Feast of Jolly Roger
Feast of Our Lady of Altagracia -- Dominican Republic
Get to Know Your Customers Day (quarterly)
International Fetish Day
International Hot and Spicy Food Day
National Hugging Day
National Granola Bar Day
Own Your Own Home Day
Quebec Flag Day -- Quebec, Canada
Squirrel Appreciation Day
St. Agnes' Day (patron of virgins, Girl Scouts)
Thorrablot -- Ancient Norse Calendar and Modern Iceland (festival for Thor, serving traditional Scandinavian and Icelandic food and drink)
Women's Healthy Weight Day
Robby Bendson, 1956
Geena Davis, 1956
Jill Eikenberry, 1947
Mac Davis, 1942
Placido Domingo, 1941
Jack Nicklaus, 1940
Wolfman Jack, 1939
Benny Hill, 1925
Telly Savalas, 1924
Paul Scofield, 1922
Barney Clark, 1921
Karl Wallenda, 1905
Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson, 1824
Philip II, Henry II, and Richard the Lionheart initiate the 3rd Crusade, 1189
The Swiss Anabaptist Movement is founded, 1525
The first American novel, WH Brown's "Power of Sympathy," is published, 1789
After being found guilty of treason by the French Convention, Louis XVI of France is executed by guillotine, 1793
Edward Jenner's smallpox vaccination is introduced, 1799
The envelope-folding machine is patented by Russell Hawes, Worcester, Massachusetts, 1853
The first US sewage disposal system that is separate from storm drains opens in Memphis, Tennessee, 1880
Kiwanis International is founded in Detroit, 1915
The first slalom ski race is run in Murren, Switzerland, 1922
The Flag of Quebec is adopted and flown for the first time over the National Assembly of Quebec, 1948
A B-52 bomber crashes near Thule Air Base, contaminating the area after its nuclear payload ruptures. One of the four bombs remains unaccounted for after the cleanup operation is complete, 1968
The current Emley Moor transmitting station, the tallest free-standing structure in the United Kingdom, begins transmitting UHF broadcasts, 1971
Commercial service of Concorde begins with the London-Bahrain and Paris-Rio routes, 1976
Production of the iconic DeLorean DMC-12 sports car begins in Dunmurry, Northern Ireland, 1981
NASA's MER-A (the Mars Rover Spirit) ceases communication with mission control. The problem lies in the management of its flash memory and is fixed remotely from Earth, 2004
Black Monday in worldwide stock markets. FTSE 100 had its biggest ever one-day points fall, European stocks closed with their worst result since 11 September 2001, and Asian stocks drop as much as 14%, 2008
The call finally came in for #1 Son's car (actually, my car, but he drives it to school and work). They decided to call it a total loss. Surprise, surprise. note the sarcasm.
So it was off to the body shop to get his stuff out of it, and grab that license plate, we don't want to lose that one for certain. It's a personalized tag that will go on the next car, and has been in the family since personalized tags were allowed over 30 years ago.
Armed with my trusty pink tool kit and a couple of bags, i went and hunted up the guy who runs the body shop. As i was about to ask him where it was, i spotted it, much to my horror, in the field behind the shop. Horror because it had rained hard the day before, and i knew it was in mud and water.
Yes, it was. I balanced as much out of the water as i could and opened the passenger door, as the driver side door won't open far any more, got a bag ready, and almost passed out. The stink! The trash! The stink! Later, the body shop guy said his first thought was that this was a college student car. How right he was.
The bag of garbage, stuff that was mostly paper and a few cans and plastic bottles that might have been recyclable, was almost full before i got the passenger side of the car done. By the time the back seat was finished, it was full.
I unearthed, amongst the rubble, one of my good plates from the kitchen, and a fork (yea! another one!), cups, his other pair of driving glasses, earphones the kids have been searching the house for in the past few weeks, CDs, and one shoe. By this time, my feet were wet and cold and i decided not to grab the shoe, after all, it wasn't one of #1 Son's friends and the friend had probably already given it up for lost in that heap and tossed the other and what are you going to do with one shoe, anyway?
I moved the umbrellas, loaded the stuff i had found in the cabin of the car into my van, and went back to open the trunk, which was empty the last time i looked. Not any more. A t-shirt, looking much worse for the wear, peeked at me out from under the ripped up old books that he no longer needed for classes. Side note: the way they do it now is to sell you a book you can only use for one semester, that you can't resell or reuse in any way, because it only works if you have a brand new disk with it that is one per person. So he had stuffed the old ones back there and was simply letting them deteriorate in the trunk.
His scientific calculator i grabbed, and called him to ask if he needed anything else. He assured me he didn't, and i perched in the mud, tools in hand, to try to get that plate. We had trouble attaching it in the first place, i had similar trouble getting it off.
By this time, so help me, i was whooped. I asked the nice body shop guy if it would matter if i didn't clear out the trash. He said i could leave anything in there i wanted to, as long as i had everything out that i needed. I stuffed the garbage bag in the trunk rather than try to lug it over that mud, shut the trunk and the doors, gave him the keys, and got out.
Oh, and the stink? Apparently #1 Son had gotten a fresh lunch, still in the fast food bag it came in, the day he had his wreck. In the shock of the wreck he had forgotten it. It wasn't fresh any more.
Armed Forces Day -- Mali
Camcorder Day
Celtic Tree Month Beth (Birch) ends
Heroes Day -- Cape Verde; Guinea-Bissau
International Life Day
La Tamborrada de San Sebastian -- San Sebastian, Spain (celebrating their patron saint with 24 hours of drumming)
Martyrs Day -- Azerbaijan
National Buttercrunch Day
National Disc Jockey Day
Penguin Awareness Day
Rio de Janeiro Foundation Day -- Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
St. Sebastian's Day (Patron saint of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, archers, athletes, and soldiers, and is appealed to for protection against plagues.)
Take a Walk Outdoors Day
Tenmangu Kowakamai -- Setaka, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan (festival of old style Japanese dances)
Tu B'shvat - Jewish
Rainn Wilson, 1966
Bill Maher, 1956
Dorothy Provine, 1937
Arte Johnson, 1934
Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin, 1930
Patricia Neal, 1926
Federico Fellini, 1920
DeForest Kelley, 1920
George Burns, 1896
Huddie "Lead Belly" Ledbetter, 1889
Carolus Linnaeus, 1778
André-Marie Ampère, 1775
The first elected English Parliament called into session by the 6th Earl of Leicester, and meets in the Palace of Westminster (a/k/a Houses of Parliament), 1265
The present-day location of Rio de Janeiro is first explored, 1502
The Casa Contratacion (Board of Trade) is founded in Spain to deal with American affairs, 1503
The cornerstone of Amsterdam town hall laid, 1648
The third and main part of First Fleet arrives at Botany Bay. Arthur Phillip decides that Botany Bay is unsuitable for the location of a penal colony, and decides to move to Port Jackson, 1788
China cedes Hong Kong to British, 1841
L.A. Thompson patents the roller coaster, 1885
The first full length talking motion picture filmed outdoors is released, "In Old Arizona", 1929
Nazi officials hold notorious Wannsee conference in Berlin deciding on "final solution" calling for extermination of Europe's Jews, 1942
The first atomic submarine, USS Nautilus, is launched at Groton, Connecticut, 1955
Witnesses report sightings of a Bottlenose whale swimming in the River Thames, the first time the species had been seen in the River Thames since records began in 1913, 2006
A three-man team, using only skis and kites, completes a 1,093-mile (1,759 km) trek to reach the southern pole of inaccessibility for the first time since 1958 and for the first time ever without mechanical assistance, 2007
Herd of Zebras
There is a saying in medicine that goes something to the effect that, when you hear hoof beats, think of horses, not zebras.
It is supposed to mean that when a patient presents with symptoms, you look at the most common things first, and then go after the uncommon if the common is ruled out.
This mimi is bone weary. After days spent shuffling to doctors, labs, back to doctors, to the pharmacy again and again, everything is pointing to a probable simple solution, and yet my doctors are all out zebra hunting.
The hand surgeon, of course, wants to open up my fingers and take samples. The dermatologist isn't going to let him, insisting that if they need samples, he will get smaller ones a better way, with less pain and faster healing.
The infectious disease specialist wants me to see a rheumatologist if certain tests come out one way, but so far, none of them have, and he is stumped.
The family doctor is just sitting back shaking his head, spitting out theories and watching the other doctor's tests results roll in.
As test after test blows their favorite, and complex, theory out of the water -- a totally normal CRP disproving both infection and inflammation, anybody? -- they come up with more complicated possibilities. The simple solution, offered by an observation of Sweetie, has been discounted, although every test points to it.
There is one more test result we await. If it comes back normal, and the latest cream works, i am assuming a diagnosis and sticking with it.
Meanwhile, i don't think i hear zebras in the middle of Louisiana, especially since i am nowhere near the zoo.
Annual Visit of the Poe Toaster (The mysterious person who, dressed in black with a wide brimmed hat and scarf, annually visit's Poe's grave on his birthday, leaving roses and cognac.)
Brew A Potion Day
Champagne Day
Confederate Heroes Day -- Texas, US
Full Wolf Moon
Mahayana New Year -- Buddhist (through the 21st)
St. Canute's Day (patron of Denmark)
St. Henry of Uppsala's Day (patron of Finland)
St. Wulfstan's Day
Theophany/Epiphany -- Eastern and Oriental Orthodox Christians who still follow the Julian Calendar
Timkat -- Ethiopian Orthodox Christian
Jodie Sweetin, 1982
Shawn Wayans, 1971
Wendy Moniz, 1969
Junior Seau, 1969
Paul McCrane, 1961
Thomas Kinkade, 1958
Desi Arnaz, Jr., 1953
Dewey Bunnell, 1952
Robert Palmer, 1949
Paula Deen, 1947
Dolly Parton, 1946
Shelley Fabares, 1944
Janis Joplin, 1943
Michael Crawford, 1942
Phil Everly, 1939
Tippi Hedren, 1931
Jean Stapleton, 1923
Guy Madison, 1922
John H. Johnson, 1918
Lester Flatt, 1914
Paul Cezanne, 1839
Edgar Allan Poe, 1809
Robert E. Lee, 1807
Rouen surrenders to Henry V of England completing his reconquest of Normandy, 1419
San Agustin Church in Manila is officially completed; it is currently the oldest church in the Philippines, 1607
The second group of ships of the First Fleet arrives at Botany Bay, 1788
The United Kingdom occupies the Cape of Good Hope, 1806
Goethe's Faust Part I premiers, 1829
Verdi's Il Trivatore preniers in Rome, 1853
The first electric lighting system employing overhead wires, built by Thomas Edison, begins service at Roselle, New Jersey, 1883
Ibsen's play The Master Builder premiers in Berlin, 1893
Georges Claude patents the neon discharge tube for use in advertising, 1915
The US Senate votes against membership in League of Nations, 1920
Coopers Inc. sells the world's first briefs, 1930
For the only time in recorded history, snow falls in Miami, Florida, 1977
The last VW Beetle made in Germany leaves the plant, 1978
United States and Iranian officials sign an agreement to release 52 American hostages after 14 months of captivity, 1981
The Apple Lisa, the first commercial personal computer from Apple Inc. to have a graphical user interface and a computer mouse, is announced, 1983
Czech Republic and Slovakia join the United Nations, 1993
The New Horizons probe is launched by NASA on the first mission to Pluto, 2006
Co-op is in full force, and last week we did a home made king cake that was easy and they enjoyed.
This time, taco soup.
1lb. ground beef, browned and drained
1 onion, chopped and browned with the beef
1 envelope taco seasoning mix
1 can pinto beans*
1 can kidney beans*
1 can hominy
1 can cream corn
1 can diced tomatoes with chiles
1 envelope Ranch dressing mix
Put all of the above in a pot and warm. Or put it all in the crock pot when you leave the house in the morning, on low, and come home to dinner.
Serve with chips and shredded cheese.
*Actually, you can use any kind of beans you want, we especially like black beans around here.
Carrot Day
Confession of St. Peter -- Eastern Orthodox, Lutheran, and Anglican Christian
Feast of the Cross -- Eastern Orthodox Christian
Four an' Twenty Day, Scotland
Jazz Day (Jazz gets recognized, it plays the Met!)
Metric System Day
National Peking Duck Day
Revolution Day -- Tunisia
Royal Thai Armed Forces Day -- Thailand (former Siam)
Santa Prisca Day -- Taxco, Mexico
Thesaurus Day
Tsuruga Tsunahiki Matsuri -- Tsuruga, Fukui Prefecture, Japan (Tug-of-War Festival, for the god Ebisu, for fishing luck; this one is similar to the one a few days ago, except that fishing teams compete against each other, not against harvesters, and are in the water.)
Week of Prayer for Christian Unity (Through the 25th) -- Christian
Winnie the Pooh Day -The Birthday of Winnie's author A.A. Milne
Dave Batista, 1969
Kevin Costner, 1955
Bobby Goldsboro, 1941
Constance Moore, 1920
Danny Kaye, 1913
Cary Grant, 1904
Oliver Hardy, 1892
A.A. Milne, 1882
Dr. Daniel Hale Williams, 1856 (The African-American doctor who performed the first open heart surgery.)
Thomas A. Watson, 1854 ("Come here, Watson, I need you," said Bell)
Daniel Webster, 1782
Daigo, Emperor of Japan, 885
Wesley College, Melbourne is established, 1866
Emperor Huizong abdicates the Chinese throne in favour of his son Emperor Qinzong, 1126
Francisco Pizarro founds Lima, Peru, 1535
The first documented UFO sighting in America, by some very perplexed pilgrims in Boston, 1644
Pirate Henry Morgan defeats the Spanish defenders and captures Panama, 1670
San Jose, California is founded, 1777
Captain James Cook stumbles upon the Sandwich Islands (Hawai'i), 1778
The first elements of the First Fleet carrying 736 convicts from England to Australia arrives at Botany Bay, 1788
Electro-Magnetic Intelligencer, the first US electrical journal, begins publication, 1840
Dr. William Price attempts to cremate the body of his infant son, J. C. Price, setting a legal precedent for cremation in the United Kingdom, 1884
Modern field hockey is born with the formation of The Hockey Association in England, 1886
The X-ray machine is exhibited for the first time, 1896
President Theodore Roosevelt sends a radio message to King Edward VII: the first transatlantic radio transmission originating in the United States, 1903
The first shipboard landing of a plane (Tanforan Park to USS Pennsylvania, flown by Eugene B. Ely), 1911
English explorer Robert F Scott & his expedition reach South Pole, only to discover that Roald Amundsen had gotten there before, 1912
Japan issues the "Twenty-One Demands" to the Republic of China in a bid to increase its power in East Asia, 1915
A 611 gram chondrite type meteorite strikes a house near the village of Baxter in Stone County, Missouri, 1916
The Metropolitan Opera House in New York City hosts a jazz concert for the first time. The performers were Louis Armstrong, Benny Goodman, Lionel Hampton, Artie Shaw, Roy Eldridge and Jack Teagarden, 1944
Willie O'Ree, the first African Canadian National Hockey League player, makes his NHL debut, 1958
A Disengagement of Forces agreement is signed between the Israeli and Egyptian governments, ending conflict on the Egyptian front of the Yom Kippur War, 1974
Scientists identify a previously unknown bacterium as the cause of the mysterious Legionnaires' disease, 1977
Phil Smith and Phil Mayfield parachute off a Houston skyscraper, becoming the first two people to BASE jump from objects in all four categories: buildings, antennae, spans (bridges), and earth (cliffs), 1981*
The International Olympic Committee restores Jim Thorpe's Olympic medals to his family, 1983
Boerge Ousland of Norway becomes the first person to cross Antarctica alone and unaided, 1997
The Tagish Lake meteorite impacts the Earth, 2000
Sierra Leone Civil War is finally declared over, 2002
A bushfire kills 4 people and destroys more than 500 homes in Canberra, Australia, 2003
The Airbus A380, the world's largest commercial jet, is unveiled at a ceremony in Toulouse, France, 2005
Hurricane Kyrill becomes one of Western Europe's deadliest storms, 2007
*Leading me to wonder why, and whether i am looking at the future of my own daredevil child!
One thing i am very glad about is that i never had twins.
Now, nothing against mothers of multiples, heaven help them, they deserve all the kudos, sympathy, and blessings they can get, and no lip from me.
I am, however, married to an identical twin. Twins can be, quite frankly, weird.
This can be true of even the nicest and most normal of twins. When one of them is very high functioning Asperger's. and the other has his moments, it makes things just plain awfully awkward at times.
Thus, Brother-in-Law, The Mouth. Has "borrowed" a stick of deodorant every month since we got married (over 25 years ago) and has yet to pay any of them back. He also "borrows" toilet paper and light bulbs.
He is chronically poor and on the edge of falling off that edge, yet gives things away that he can't afford. Forgive me if i've told the story before, but he once met a man who had no coat. The Scripture says that if you find someone without a coat, and you have an extra, give that person your extra. Well, B-i-L didn't have an extra, so he gave the man Sweetie's only winter coat.
Things have actually gotten better. When we were first married he tried to correct my behavior as a wife because, "Your husband isn't doing it." That got straightened out very quickly, but the stories i could tell and won't. He now only comes over on average once a week, instead of spending 2-6 hours a day, 6-7 days a week here. Seriously.
So, that is why his things are here. He claims, in his two bedroom apartment that he shares with no one, that he has no room to put anything. He also says the stuff will be "safer" here, although he has had items destroyed by both cats and children. The books he never looks at take up a good bit of shelf space, but there is no getting rid of them, and Sweetie just isn't up for the battle of "take them or they are going away." Some battles he has fought and won, this one he just would rather we store the stuff and say nothing.
Thus, as i sort out the house, B-i-L's things will stay, although my desire is to get them to where they are out of sight and taking up as little room as possible.
Twins. Don't marry one, if you can help it. It makes for a strange, often tangled life.
Blessing of the Animals -- Hispanic Christian (in association with St. Anthony's Day)
Customer Service Day
Ditch Your New Years Resolutions Day
Felicitas -- Ancient Roman Calendar (goddess of good luck)
Hot Heads Chili Day
Kid Inventor's Day
MLK Holiday -- US, observed
National Hot Buttered Rum Day
National Public Employees Appreciation Day
Patras Carnival -- Patras, Greece (opening ceremony, through Clean Monday)
Professional Boxer's Day
St. Anthony's Day (patron of basket weavers, brush makers, butchers, domestic animals, grave diggers, herdsmen, swine; against eczema, ergotism) and patriarch of all monks
St. Devota's Day (patron of Corsica, Monaco)
Zirgu Diena -- Ancient Latvian Calendar (Day of the Horses)
Octavian marries Livia Drusilla, BC38
George Burns marries Gracie Allen, 1926
Kid Rock, 1971
Michelle Obama, 1964
Jim Carrey, 1962
Susanna Hoffs, 1959
Anthony Glise, 1956
Andy Kaufman, 1949
Muhammad Ali, 1942
Maury Povich, 1939
Shari Lewis, 1934
James Earl Jones, 1931
Vidal Sassoon, 1928
Eartha Kitt, 1927
Betty White, 1922
Al Capone, 1899
Nevil Shute, 1899
Mack Sennett, 1884
David Lloyd George, 1863
Anne Bronte, 1820
Benjamin Franklin, 1706
Pope Gregory XI moves the Papacy back to Rome from Avignon, 1377
Cesare Borgia returns in triumph to Rome from Romagna, 1501
Giovanni da Verrazzano begins his voyage to find a passage to China, 1524
The Edict of St Germain recognizes Huguenots in France, 1562
England's Long Parliament passes the Vote of No Addresses, breaking off negotiations with King Charles I and thereby setting the scene for the second phase of the English Civil War, 1648
An avalanche destroys every building in Leukerbad, Switzerland, kills 53, 1718
Capt James Cook becomes the first to cross Antarctic Circle (66° 33' S), 1773
The first cable car patented, by Andrew S Hallidie (begins service in 1873), 1871
Queen Liliuokalani is deposed, the Kingdom of Hawaii becomes a republic, 1893
Sir Robert Falcon Scott reaches the South Pole, one month after Roald Amundsen, 1912
The first fully automatic photographic film developing machine patented, 1928
Popeye the Sailor Man, a cartoon character created by Elzie Segar, first appears in the Thimble Theatre comic strip, 1929
Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg, credited with saving tens of thousands of Jews from the Nazis, is arrested by secret police in Hungary, 1945
The United Nations Security Council holds its first meeting, 1946
The Goldbergs, the first sitcom on American television, first airs, 1949
The Great Brinks Robbery - 11 thieves steal more than $2 million from an armored car Company's offices in Boston, Massachusetts, 1950
A B-52 bomber collides with a KC-135 Stratotanker over Spain, dropping three 70-kiloton nuclear bombs near the town of Palomares and another one into the sea in the Palomares incident, 1966
Harald V becomes King of Norway on the death of his father, Olav V, 1991
The Czech Republic applies for membership of the European Union, 1996
Mount Nyiragongo erupts in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, displacing an estimated 400,000 people, 2002
Rioting begins between Muslim and Christian groups in Jos, Nigeria, which resulting in at least 200 deaths, 2010
Gauntlets?
The gauntlet has been thrown.
The goal is to go through the house, bit by bit, as quickly as i can, and get rid of everything that we do not currently use, or use during another season, or that the kids don't want to inherit.
This way, the decisions are easy. Not using it, or going to use it in summer or at Easter or whatever, it's gone. Kids don't want to have it someday, it's gone.
Searching online has even brought up a place that buys silver. You know, the kind everyone makes such a big deal about buying you for your wedding. That makes ours over 25 years old, and we have yet to use any of it. At all. And i hate polishing silver. The acquiring of such stuff is an outdated foolishness and if this place gives me a few dollars for it, at least i don't have to store it any more, watching it tarnish.
For Brother-in-Law, The Mouth -- well, his books are going in boxes. Not sure where they will be put, they won't be thrown out, but i'm not keeping them front and center in the library anymore when no one here is interested in them. Even he isn't interested in them, and hasn't looked at most of them in years.
Really i'd like to have the majority of the parts of the house people see the most done before the family vacation in March.
It's time to stop pussy footing around with having too much stuff. It's time to realize that i'm tired of cleaning around it all, and stepping around it all, and looking at it all.
Some of it is just annoying, like the silver. Some of it is from "who i thought i was" or maybe "who i wanted to be" at one point in my life. None of it needs to be here.
Have to tackle the taxes and paperwork at the same time, for us and for co-op. The homeschool co-op doesn't file taxes, but this is my last year in it as Little Girl will go to the private school next year. Thus, if they ask me to stay on just as treasurer, because it's hard to get someone to do that, i will. I want to be ready, though, to pass the stuff on if someone else does take it over.
So, it's time to buckle down.
Appreciate a Dragon Day
Concordia -- Ancient Roman Calendar (goddess of harmonious relations)
Festival of All Fairies -- Fairy Calendar
Haru-No-Yabuiri, Japan (Day of No Work for the Overworked, an extra day off for those who worked over the holidays.)
Magen David (Shield of David or Star of David) Day -- Israel (equivalent of Flag Day)
National Fig Newton Day
National Good Teen Day
National Nothing Day
National Work At Home With Your Spouse Day (Try if you dare, i won't, as much as i love him, i'd have to kill him.)
National Religious Freedom Day -- US
Sight-Saving Sabbath -- to alert church members to the importance of regular eye exams
St. Priscilla's Day (Patron saint of widows.)
Teacher's Day -- Thailand
There's No Business Like Show Business Day (Ethel Merman's Birthday!)
World Religion Day -- Baha'i
Birthday's Today:
Kate Moss, 1974
Sade, 1959
Debbie Allen, 1950
John Carpenter, 1948
Dr. Laura Schlessinger, 1947
Ronnie Milsap, 1944
A.J. Foyt, 1935
Dizzy Dean, 1911
Ethel Merman, 1908
Frank Zamboni, 1901
Harry Carey, Sr., 1878
Robert W. Service, 1874 (Poet, The Cremation of Sam McGee)
Andre Michelin, 1853
The title Augustus is bestowed upon Gaius Julius Casesar Octavian by the Roman Senate, BC27
The Ostrogoths, under King Totila, conquer Rome after a long siege, by bribing the Isaurian garrison, 550
A great storm tide in the North Sea destroys the German island of Strand and the city of Rungholt, 1362
The Medici family is appointed official banker of the Papacy, 1412
The first grammar of a modern language, in the Spanish language, is presented to Queen Isabella, 1492
Ivan IV of Russia aka Ivan the Terrible becomes Tsar of Russia, 1547
English parliament passes laws against Catholicism, 1581
The first edition of El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha (Book One of Don Quixote) by Miguel de Cervantes is published in Madrid, 1605
The Continental Congress approves enlistment of free blacks, 1776
The Commonwealth of Virginia enacted the Statute for Religious Freedom authored by Thomas Jefferson, 1786
The refrigerator car is patented by William Davis, a fish dealer in Detroit, 1868
The Pendleton Act creates the basis of US Civil Service system, 1883
The British explorer Ernest Shackleton finds magnetic south pole, 1909
The British House of Commons accepts Home-Rule for Ireland, 1913
Writer Maksim Gorki returns to Russia, 1914
The US ratifies the constitutional amendment on Prohibition, to take effect one year later, 1919
The League of Nations holds its first council meeting in Paris, 1920
The first photo finish camera installed at Hialeah Race track in Hialeah Florida, 1936
Benny Goodman plays the first jazz performance at Carnegie Hall, 1938
Crash of TWA Flight 3, killing all 22 aboard, including film star Carole Lombard, 1942
Soviet spacecraft Soyuz 4 and Soyuz 5 perform the first-ever docking of manned spacecraft in orbit, the first-ever transfer of crew from one space vehicle to another, and the only time such a transfer was accomplished with a space walk, 1969
Buckminster Fuller receives the Gold Medal award from the American Institute of Architects, 1970
The Shah of Iran flees Iran with his family and relocates to Egypt, 1979
First meeting of the Internet Engineering Task Force., 1986
El Salvador officials and rebel leaders sign the Chapultepec Peace Accords in Mexico City ending the 12-year Salvadoran civil war , 1992
The UN Security Council unanimously establishes an arms embargo and the freezing of assets of Osama bin Laden, Al-Qaida, and the remaining members of the Taliban, 2002
The Space Shuttle Columbia takes off for mission STS-107, but disintegrates 16 days later on reentry, 2003
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is sworn in as Liberia's new president, becoming Africa's first female elected head of state, 2006
We came home from work to see two young boys, probably 8-10 years old, on bicycles and hanging out where the scorch marks are in the park/playground. It immediately aroused my suspicion, especially as most kids that age are in school at that time of day. Yes, they could be homeschooled, like mine were and like Little Girl still is. Most homeschool parents don't let the kids out alone during school hours to ride bikes, though. Too many older residents of this neighborhood make a stink about it.
The boys got nervous when they saw us pull into our driveway right across from them, and as "the criminal always returns to the scene" is what #2 Son has been saying, he stood around watching them.
So they rode off, but kept coming back. They would leave when they realized they were being watched, but came back at least 3 times. At one point both #1 and #2 Son were in the car, driving next to them as they rode off. Both said the kids looked horribly nervous and were acting suspicious.
If Mike-Next-Door had been around, we could have asked if they were the same two he saw the day the fire was set. He was at work, of course.
Meanwhile, both of my boys claim they could identify the kids again. If that was the two who set the fire, they need to learn their lesson and just stay away and out of trouble.
Armed Forces Day -- Nigeria
Army Day -- India
Carmentalia -- Roman Empire (2nd day)
Ebisu Daikoku Tsunahiki -- Suruga, Fukui Prefecture (Two teams, representing the gods Ebisu and Daikoku, have a tug-of-war; a win for Ebisu brings good fishing, for Daikoku, good harvests.)
John Chilembwe Day -- Malawi
Korean Alphabet Day -- North Korea
Moliere Day -- France
National Hat Day
National Strawberry Ice Cream Day
Pilgrimage of Cristo Negro de Esquipulas -- Esquipulas, Guatemala
Procrastinator's New Year
St. Paul the Hermit's Day (the first of the Egyptian hermits)
Tree Planting Day -- Egypt
Elizabeth I is crowned Queen of England, 1559
Charo, 1951
Margaret O'Brien, 1937
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., 1929
John Cardinal O'Connor, 1920
Lloyd Bridges, 1913
Gene Krupa, 1909
Edward Teller, 1908
Aristotle Onassis, 1906
Pierre S. du Pont, 1870
Nebuchadnezzar II of Babylon lays siege to Jerusalem under Zedekiah's reign, in a siege lasting until July 23, BC588
Christopher Columbus sets sail for Spain from Hispaniola, ending his first voyage to the New World, 1493
Third sitting of the Council of Trent opens, 1562
The British Museum opens in Montague House in London, 1759
John Etherington of London steps out sporting the first top hat, 1797
The first US built locomotive to pull a passenger train begins its first run, with Mr. and Mrs. Pierson on board for the first US railroad honeymoon trip, 1831
The donkey is first used as a symbol for the Democratic Party, in Harper's Weekly, 1870
The Coca-Cola Company, then known as the Pemberton Medicine Company, is originally incorporated in Atlanta, Georgia, 1889
James Naismith publishes the rules of Basketball, 1892
Tchaikovsky's ballet "Swan Lake" premieres in St Petersburg, 1895
Dr. Lee DeForest patents a 3-element vacuum tube (one of the inventions that later made radio possible), 1907
The Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority becomes the first Greek-letter organization founded and established by African-American college women, 1908
The Boston Molasses Disaster, 2 million gallons of molasses spill, 21 killed, over 150 injured, 1919
The first building to be completely covered in glass, built for the Owens-Illinois Glass Company, is completed in Toledo, Ohio, 1936
The world's largest office building, The Pentagon, is dedicated in Arlington, Virginia, 1943
The US Supreme Court rules that "clear and present danger" of incitement to riot is not protected speech and can be a cause for arrest, 1951
The first Super Bowl is played in Los Angeles; the Green Bay Packers defeat the Kansas City Chiefs 35-10, 1967
The USSR launches Soyuz 5, 1969
The United Nations deadline for the withdrawal of Iraqi forces from occupied Kuwait expires, preparing the way for the start of Operation Desert Storm, 1991
Wikipedia goes online, 2001
An intense solar flare blasts X-rays across the solar system, 2005
ESA's SMART-1 lunar orbiter discovers elements such as calcium, aluminum, silicon, iron, and other surface elements on the moon, 2005
On The Shelter Front
Adoptions this past week: Buddy, Tiger, Manny, Leo, Louie, and a few foster kittens (none were my fosters, who continue to sneeze). Things seem to be picking up.
At the shelter, Angel, one of my favorite darlings, who rooms with Dustie, another beauty, has had bleeding paws again. She has been diagnosed with an infectious inflammation and contact dermatitis. Wow. That's one of the things they think might be wrong with my hands. She's had rough paws since she came, and has only recently started having serious problems. Hmmm. Very interesting. Miss W even thought so when we talked about it, especially as my fingers are starting to crack and bleed a little. They even gave Angel antibiotics and cortisone. Starting to sound a bit weird to me, but probably a coincidence.
Bowie is still on eye meds, and JuJu continues to stay on the top shelf or in her cube if she thinks anyone is coming in to see her.
Lucky still looks like a walking skeleton, although he has put on about a pound. He's up to almost 6 pounds, in fact. His pills go right down if wrapped in a treat. so his thyroid is being suppressed. He waits for his wet food now, though, and only eats the dry when no one is there to con into giving him a can.
Rocky is still on the antibiotic and doing well. Such a love, he wants to play and must stay quiet until he heals.
Ollie, on the other hand, showed up with two abscesses, just about the distance apart that tells dog teeth did it. He is glad to lie down and remain in his cage. The abscesses are going to be seen by the vet, and meanwhile he is eating and grooming and sleeping and nothing else. That's actually a good sign.
In the big room, Baby is back to hissing at everything, especially Prissy. Clint was easy to find, as he seems to have settled on a sleeping cube to stay in. Grady got out twice. Ginny, Candy and Zoe are doing well.
Frieda was totally back to normal this week. Of course, there were no other cats visible when i went in there to see her.
Roxanne has been put in the room with Sophia and Corrie, and they seem to be getting along well. Bobby the Bobtail startled #2 Son, who had never realized before that he was just that, a bobtail. Anyway, Bobby and Tiger Lily seem happy together.
Monty and Teddy have only recently moved into the same room, and Teddy has taken to getting on the shelf and looking at Monty, something he wasn't doing before. Monty, though, is a huge sweetheart. Huge and a sweetheart. They had notched his ear, thinking he was a feral, but we spent a huge amount of time loving on him. Nothing feral about the boy.
For the rest, Molly, Mamie, Isabelle, Francie, and Iggy are doing well.
Art Deco Festival -- Miami, Florida, through the weekend
Assembly Line Worker's Day
Cakes and Ale Day -- UK
Celebration of the 2nd Week of Moonhopper -- Fairy Calendar
Feast of Divina Pastora -- Barquisimeto, Venezuela
Feast of the Ass -- Medieval Christianity (commemorates the Flight Into Egypt)
Lee-Jackson Day -- Virginia, US
Makar Sandranti -- India (part of the sidereal solstice festivals)
Mallard Day -- All Souls' College, Oxford University
National Dress Up Your Pet Day
National Forest Conservation Day -- Thailand
National Hot Pastrami Sandwich Day
Niino no Yukimatsuri -- Izu shrine, Niino, Nagano Prefecture, Japan (offerings to the gods for good crops next year)
Organize Your Home Day (One Day? Try a couple of years!)
Pongal -- Tamil New Year, among the Tamil People
Sagicho -- Oiso, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan (burning of old shugatsu decorations and replaced with new)
Sidereal Winter Solstice Celebrations -- Throughout South and Southeast Asia
St. Sava's Day (patron of Serbia)
Take a Missionary to Lunch Day (To honor Albert Schweitzer's Birthday)
Winterskol -- Aspen, Colorado (Aspen's annual "toast to winter", through the weekend)
Joe DiMaggio marries Marilyn Monroe, 1954
Faye Dunaway, 1941
Jack Jones, 1938
Andy Rooney, 1919
William Bendix, 1906
John dos Passos, 1896
Hal Roach, 1892
Hugh Lofting, 1886
Albert Schweitzer, 1875
Thornton W. Burgess, 1874
Benedict Arnold, 1741
The Knights Templar are formally approved by the Roman Catholic Church, 1129
Pope Leo X issues a papal bull against slavery, 1514
Spain annexes Cuba, 1539
The "Fundamental Orders", the first written constitution that created a government, is adopted in Connecticut, 1639
Massachusetts holds a day of fasting for wrongly accusing "witches", 1699
Congress ratifies the Treaty of Paris, formally ending the American Revolutionary War, 1783
The US Supreme Court rules that racial separation on trains is unconstitutional, 1878
An earthquake in Kingston, Jamaica, kills more than 1000, 1907
Henry Ford introduces the assembly line to the production of the Model-T, 1914
The first prototype of the MiG-17 makes its maiden flight, 1950
The Reserve Bank of Australia, the country's central bank and banknote issuing authority, is established, 1960
Toronto, Ontario Mayor Mel Lastman becomes the first mayor in Canada to call in the Army to help with emergency medical evacuations and snow removal after more than one meter of snow paralyzes the city, 1999
The national flag of Georgia, the so-called "five cross flag", is restored to official use after a hiatus of some 500 years, 2004
Landing of the Huygens probe on Saturn's moon Titan, 2005
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From Berlin via Tel Aviv comes Moscoman, the music producer behind underground hits on Correspondant, I'm a Cliche, Eskimo Rec, and the curator and owner of the new record label, Disco Halal.
Mosco's sound, which takes in elements of Techno, New Wave, House, and the sounds of his native Middle East, has seen him quickly rise to prominence via his own production, his remix work, and his DJing style, and has now further been cemented by the success of Disco Halal, a label which aims to not only shine a light on lost musical curiosities from his own culture, but also to re-sculpt them for a modern dance floor.
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Susanna Clarke, ‘Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell’ (review)
July 7, 2016 by Laura | 1 Comment
Gorgeous. Enthralling. Captivating. Mesmerising. These are all words I certainly didn’t use when I first attempted to read Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell a few years ago, finally abandoning it around the 600-page mark. I remembered little about the book, except that I quite enjoyed it at first but found that it soon became dry and laborious. However, I recently came to realise that I might be the only person in existence who has a problem with the book, and so resigned myself to give it another go . . . and WOW am I glad I did.
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell is, ostensibly, a tale of two magicians named Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell. But this is far too simplistic a description for what is actually a lengthy, beautiful, meandering tale of magic and ambition and rivalry and friendship, told over the span of a decade and often focusing on subplots and minor characters as much as on its two main protagonists.
In Clarke’s alternative nineteenth-century England, magic is considered a lost art. Not since the disappearance of the Raven King – a legendary magician who once ruled the North – and his successors have there been any true magicians. That is, until Mr Norrell makes himself known as the only practical magician in England, and possibly the world. The fashionable people of London are delighted by such a novelty, while the government see in him an opportunity to gain advantage in the war against Napoleon. When a second magician presents himself to Mr Norrell as a pupil it seems everything is going splendidly . . . but it doesn’t take long before professional disagreements, a string of tragedies, and the interference of a mysterious gentlemanly antagonist begin to make both Strange and Norrell think twice about their ambition to restore magic to England.
Clarke’s story, and the alternative England in which it takes place, is incredibly detailed and ambitious, astonishingly so when considering that this is the work of a debut author. Although the plot itself is anything but focused, this is clearly an intentional quirk that only adds to the novel’s charm, and the sense of unexpectedness created by the winding series of events is just one of the things that kept me reading. Though meandering, the story is nonetheless coherent and engaging. Each chapter is titled with the month and year in which it takes place, which is particularly helpful in keeping track of events; and an abundance of footnotes alternately provides the reader with additional information, historical references and fascinating anecdotes, adding further charm and depth to an already rich and satisfying reading experience.
Furthermore, the pages are filled with beautifully vivid and evocative descriptions: of magical forests and city streets in winter, of candlelit libraries and dark landscapes, of ruined castles and mysterious roads. The author doesn’t just set the scene; she dazzles the reader with striking imagery and envelops them in an atmosphere both hauntingly magical and poignantly melancholy.
Clarke bravely and successfully attempts to emulate nineteenth-century novelists in both subject and tone. The result is a delightful hybrid of Austen’s droll social satire and ironic commentary and Dickens’s comical caricatures and perceptive observations of city life. On the other hand, the dry humour suffusing the whole is, I suspect, entirely the author’s own, and it is this mocking, almost self-deprecating voice that provides entertainment at times when arguably nothing is happening plot-wise. I particularly enjoyed the satirical portrait of Mr Norrell that continues throughout the novel: Norrell is somewhat despicable what with his jealous hoarding of knowledge, rudeness to others and egotistical sense of his own superiority, not to mention his hypocrisy; and yet he is also clever and fascinating, and I found myself turning page after page just to see what he would do next.
Of course, both protagonists are entertaining in their own way, but it’s the brilliantly varied cast of secondary characters that really helps them to shine: Drawlight is despicable yet strangely sympathetic; Lascelles is clever and manipulative; Stephen Black is noble yet naïve; Childermass is wry and enigmatic. And (naturally) none are quite as secondary as they first appear, least of all the spectacular villain known only as the gentleman with the thistle-down hair.
Despite Mr Norrell’s ongoing attempts to categorise it in lists and trap it in books, the magic of Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell is ephemeral, mutable and largely unexplained. In this day and age, where works of fantasy are too often judged by how fastidious and logical their magic rules and ‘systems’ are, I can’t stress how refreshing it is to read a work instead suffused with nebulous magic, myths and legends, where the limits and possibilities and, indeed, reasons for magic remain mostly unknown.
I’ll admit that I became a little disheartened not long after beginning the book, largely because it seemed to be taking so long to read. However I soon realised I was more than happy to linger over each page, to take the time to appreciate each word, and even to re-read lines and passages that particularly appealed. By the time I finally approached the end I deliberately slowed my pace even further, to savour the final moments of this extraordinary book that I once disliked but now utterly adore and admire. I’m running out of ways to express how much I loved this book, so I’ll end with an incoherent string of adjectives. Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell is gorgeous. It’s enthralling. It’s surprising. It’s captivating. It’s mesmerising. It’s hilarious. It’s heart-breaking.
It might even be the best book I’ve ever read.
(Review originally posted over at halfstrungharp.com on 17th May 2015)
The year is 1806, England is beleaguered by the long war with Napoleon, and centuries have passed since practical magicians faded into the nation’s past. But scholars of this glorious history discover that one remains, the reclusive Mr Norrell, whose displays of magic send a thrill through the country. Proceeding to London, he raises a beautiful woman from the dead and summons an army of ghostly ships to terrify the French.
Yet the cautious, fussy Norrell is challenged by the emergence of another magician: the brilliant novice Jonathan Strange. Young, handsome and daring, Strange is the very antithesis of Norrell. So begins a dangerous battle between these two great men which overwhelms that between England and France. And their own obsessions and secret dabblings with the dark arts are going to cause more trouble than they can imagine.
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Matthew J. Prinn and Katie Reagan,
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“This is not your father’s Oldsmobile.”
You may recall that famous advertising slogan from the 1980s. One could use a similar phrase when describing today’s legal marketplace. Changes in billing methods, improvements in technology, a turbulent economy and the globalization of the legal practice have left us with a landscape far different from the one we worked in even a decade ago.
While there will always be a core skill set of legal expertise, quality legal work, strong ethics and the ability to provide a high level of client service, today’s lawyers need to constantly evolve their skills in order to keep pace with the rapid evolution of the legal industry.
There are four key areas in which attorneys should focus on sharpening their professional skills:
• Pricing
Back when the billable hour was king, lawyers could concentrate on addressing matters at hand. As long as the bill wasn’t too outlandish, life was good. When the economy took a downward turn, however, buyers of legal services had more power and the emergence of alternative fee arrangements became noticeable at many law firms.
Due to the increased usage of AFAs, lawyers must now be skilled in identifying which model best suits specific situations. Options include fixed fees, capped fees, contingency fees and hybrid models, among others.
Attorneys must analyze the pros and cons of each model. They must educate both the client and internal law firm management and describe how they plan to execute under these billing parameters.
Even for matters in which the billing method is the traditional hourly model, a lawyer’s ability to negotiate an effective rate is a skill that is vital in today’s market. With many companies requesting double-digit discounts, lawyers must be able to convey to the prospect or client why their proposed price is of more value to the company — especially since a competitor may be proposing a lower rate for the same project.
Negotiating a fair but profitable price is a skill that can positively impact both the firm’s bottom line and the lawyer’s own compensation.
While project management has always been an important skill for lawyers, it has never held such a high level of importance as it does today. Without proper project-management skills, a lawyer can provide high quality legal work and still end up losing money on the matter.
In the past, when a project looked as though it could go overbudget, the lawyer could simply call the client and explain why the original cost estimate was going to be surpassed. Now, due to AFAs, the risk is shared or, in some cases, owned by the law firm, which may end up eating the cost.
There are training programs and tools available to help lawyers improve their project-management skills, and many firms have incorporated project management into their professional development curriculum. Attorneys who can manage a fixed-fee project and come in underbudget will not only increase the profit margin, but also impress the brass.
Whether it is management systems, e-discovery technologies, e-billing capabilities, or document imaging and review capabilities, modern technology allows and demands attorneys to be more efficient and productive.
Lawyers should consider inviting IT managers to conduct group meetings to discuss how best to leverage the latest developments in technology and implement them in their practice. By adopting new and relevant technologies, today’s lawyers are likely to experience a noticeable reduction in internal expenses, which will positively impact the firm’s profit margin.
• Globalization
As companies expand into new international markets, the lawyers who are able to effectively service them beyond local borders will be in higher demand. Whether your firm has offices outside of the U.S. or uses a referral system to find legal counsel for clients, it is imperative that today’s attorneys possess a deep understanding of their clients’ global objectives.
Those lawyers who act as connectors and provide seamless entry into new markets will be seen as a valuable asset.
This is certainly not your parents’ legal marketplace. Times and technologies continue to evolve at breakneck speed. Today’s lawyers can keep pace by focusing on the four areas outlined above. By honing in on each, attorneys will be better positioned to deliver superior service and value to their clients — and, in doing so, impress firm management.
Matt Prinn is director of business development at K&L Gates. Katie Reagan is business development and communications manager at Jones Day and 2012 president of the Legal Marketing Association’s New England chapter.
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Suspect Sought in Man's Beating Death
Friday, March 25th, 2011, 7:26pm
LAS VEGAS -- Police are looking for anyone who has information about an attack on a 51-year-old man that eventually lead to his death.
Juan Marti-Guillen was found injured at a Wells Fargo Bank parking lot near Nellis Boulevard and Harris Avenue on March 4. He died several days later.
Marti-Guillen was seen arguing with a Hispanic male in his 40's prior to the event. Another Hispanic man with two Chihuahuas was also observed in the area.
If you have any information, please call Crime Stoppers at 385-5555.
North Las Vegas Police Conduct Pedestrian Safety Event
Submitted by Adam Candee on Friday, March 25th, 11:12 am
North Las Vegas traffic officers conducted a "Pedestrians Matter" safety event March 18 targeting drivers who failed to yield to pedestrians in a crosswalk and pedestrians who failed to utilize marked crosswalks.
Officers issued the following citations:
104 - failure to yield to pedestrian violations
4 - seat belt/child restraint violations
11 - driver's license violations
6 - registration violations
2 - equipment violations
18 - insurance violations
1 - failure to yield violation
12 - miscellaneous violations
49 - verbal warnings
This event was designed in conjunction with the nationwide "Pedestri
Police: Cabbie Murder Suspect Also Robbed Convenience Store
LAS VEGAS -- Police have filed new charges against a 21-year-old woman accused of robbing and killing a taxi cab driver. About an hour before the deadly confrontation, police say Autumn Murry also robbed a convenience store.
Read the arrest report for Autumn Murry
Surveillance video from the Mini-Mart at 4589 East Russell Road, near Mountain Vista Street, shows a woman calmly entering the store and leaning on to the counter.
The 5 foot 4 inch, 120 pound woman suddenly whips out a silver and black semi-automatic handgun and aims it inches from the clerk's face. The woman demanded money and escaped with almost $500.
Metro Police say the woman and semi-automatic handgun would later be identified as the suspect and weapon involved in the murder of cab driver Tesfaye Arze.
Police seek help in identifying suspect
Submitted by Adam Candee on Tuesday, March 15th, 10:51 am
Detectives with Metro's Northeast Area Command need help in solving several grand larcenies committed by the same suspect, who is pictured above.
The suspect enters AT&T and T-Mobile stores located on the east side of the valley and pretends to be a customer. He then grabs high-end cell phones from the floor displays, pulls the security cords off the items and flees on foot. He is suspected in four or five different grand larcenies within the last month.
Anyone with information is urged to call Metro at 828-7351 or to call Crime Stoppers at 385-5555 if you wish to remain anonymous. You also may go to www.crimestoppers.com. Tips directly leading to an arrest or an indictment processed through Crime Stoppers may result in a cash reward.
Family, Friends Remember Slain Cab Driver
Wednesday, March 9th, 2011, 8:13pm
LAS VEGAS -- Less than a week after the death of a Las Vegas taxi driver, a group of cab drivers are concerned and are paying closer attention to who is in their backseat.
Thirty-year-old Tesfaye Arze was shot and killed after an apparent robbery last Friday. A candlelight vigil was held in his honor Wednesday. Arze's family and fellow drivers honored his life as many put a spotlight on his profession.
"We have funny people, aggressive people," said driver Asiwome Fiati.
It's not his dream job, Fiati drives a taxi out of necessity. He shares the threats he sees everyday on streets while driving his cab.
"Any particular time for a cab driver can be dangerous. Whoever wants to commit a crime can choose anytime," he said.
Video Released from Inside Murdered Driver's Cab
Monday, March 7th, 2011, 7:12pm
LAS VEGAS -- Las Vegas police released video showing the final fare a cab driver gave before being gunned down early Friday morning.
Police say 30-year-old Tesfaye Arze was shot an killed after an apparent robbery near Mount Hood and Carey Avenue.
Police said the driver picked a man and woman up at a different location and then came to the neighborhood where he was killed. Witnesses saw four black men flee the scene in an older model silver Ford Thunderbird or Taurus.
Late Friday, officers released still images from the cab's camera showing the man and woman. Monday, they released video of the man and woman entering and exiting the cab. They say the pair are not suspects, but they would still like to speak with them.
If you have any information, call Crime Stoppers at 385-5555.
Security Agents Face Busy NASCAR Weekend
Thursday, March 3rd, 2011, 7:20pm
LAS VEGAS -- NASCAR weekend is one of the biggest of the year for Las Vegas. But with it comes a difficult challenge for law enforcement trying to protect the 150,000 people in town from a possible terrorist attack.
It's a coordinated effort between federal, state and local agencies. They start looking for threats long before the cars hit the track. Every single car, trailer, or RV gets sniffed down by three highly-trained dogs before they get to enter the speedway. There are very real threats to events of this size.
If you do come to the race this weekend, you can't bring any weapons, ammunition, explosive devices or outside alcoholic beverages. U.S. Marshals and ATF agents don't take any chances.
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CPVC-O pipes awarded as Technical Novelty at Smagua 2019
The Technical Novelties Contest developed at Smagua, which aims to reward products and systems that involve a technical evolution in the water sector, has awarded Molecor's latest development: the "CPVC-O Pipes" with the denomination of Technical Novelty.
Molecor is a company committed to innovation and development, and within its ongoing R&D process, it presents its latest development: CPVC-O pipes, a new product in which the company has been investigating and which has successfully been tested .
By applying the principles of Molecular Orientation to the CPVC we achieve a product with all the advantages that traditional PVC-O pipes have, while increasing the resistance to the high temperatures that CPVC pipes have presented up to now. Being able to develop a product range with superior features and advantages, in addition to the possibility of expanding the current range of diameters.
C-PVC-O (Oriented Chlorinated Vinyl Chloride), Promoting the limits of Molecular Orientation.
The Molecor Molecular Orientation machine (Model M-OR-P-1640) was adapted to work in a higher temperature range. The tests were performed with a preform and a final pipe of a popular and existing product, the DN160 mm. The raw material was supplied by Lubrizol, TempRite 88703.
The implications of saving material, energy and reducing the carbon footprint are some of the remarkable features of this new material.
The Molecor technology, with the models M-OR-P 1640, M-OR-P 3163, M-OR-P 3180 and M-OR-P 5012 could develop CPVC-O pipes of higher diameters than those currently included in the CPVC standards. In addition to this, due to the reduction in thickness, it would also be possible to increase the nominal pressure of the pipes, which currently, in CPVC is limited to PN=10 bar and while in CPVC-O this range of pressures could be increased to PN=12.5 bar and even PN=16 bar.
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BBC to show WSL One matchesCrystal Palace become first Premier League club to sack their managerFootball related betting sponsorship under scrutiny from Labour PartyNewcastle United announce Tyre company to be first sleeve sponsorLeicester City's Jamie Vardy sees early success from V9 AcademyEngland and Arsenal's Jodie taylor named Player of the YearJimmy Floyd Hasselbaink reckons new side Northampton Town can 'be a bigger Burton'Tottenham announce world first pitchAFC Fylde to launch education programmeQPR announce fantasy partnership
Manchester City announce Jaguar deal
Manchester City has announced a new partnership with luxury car manufacturer Jaguar.
The three season deal will see Jaguar become the club’s Official Automotive Partner. The company’s branding will feature around the City of Manchester Stadium as well as in the club’s official match programme, magazine and on the website.
Commenting on the new deal, Manchester City’s CEO Garry Cook said: “Jaguar is without doubt one of the world’s most respected car manufacturers and a much loved national institution. It gives us great pride to be partners with such an iconic brand, deeply rooted in Britain’s proud automotive history.
“Like Manchester City, Jaguar is entering a new and exciting period in its history. They join the MCFC family of partners who are all recognised as world leaders in their respective fields from aviation, telecommunications, industrial projects, sportswear, tourism and now automotive.”
Jaguar UK’s Managing Director Geoff Cousins is equally excited about the deal and said: “Manchester City Football Club is in the process of transformation and rebranding to become one of the best football clubs in the world. This partnership is a long term commitment and one we hope will have global reach.
“Manchester is a very important city for sales of Jaguar. It is a dynamic, sporty, metropolitan area with a customer base we value greatly as a company. I am delighted to have this relationship with MCFC and wish them all the best for the coming season.”
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Chrysoberyl, Legends, Rare Gems
The Rare Gem Series: Alexandrite
January 28, 2013 Houston Wade 1 Comment
Once upon a time in Russia… Some dudes found a rock and named it after the crown prince since it was his birthday.
No wait, I mean: The Beginning.
A 1.29 carat Russian Alexandrite.
One day in the Summer of 1830 Finnish mineralogist Nils Gustaf Nordenskiöld (1792–1866) was sitting in his office at the Mining Board in Helsingfors when he received a parcel to examine. Nils was pretty much the most renowned mineralogist of his day so shiny hunks of dirt got sent to him all the time. No biggie.
Upon opening the contents of the parcel Nils said, “Green, transparent, shiny… Emerald” (or more accurately: “vihreä, tranparant, kiiltävä … smaragdi“), and almost didn’t conduct any further tests; but something just wasn’t sitting right with him. He began to poke, scratch, smash, and do all the things a good mineralogist does with Earthly byproducts, and he couldn’t get over the fact that the stone was just too hard and not brittle enough to be an emerald. Weird.
After fussing with it for a while Nils lost the sunlight so he grabbed some dinner and pondered this strange stone while he pushed peas around his plate. Being a good scientist he abandoned his meal and returned to the lab to inspect the stone under candlelight. “Mitä vittua?!” Nils half exclaimed/half asked. The stone, which a few hours earlier had been deep green, was now a rich red! The next morning the stone was no longer red and had returned to its former deep green! “Voi Luoja!”
This was no emerald.
The package with the strange stone had come from Count Lev Aleksevich von Perovski (1792-1856) who at the time was trying to climb the social ladder as the royal mineralogist for Tsar Nicholas I of Russia. Perovski had also identified the stone as an emerald, but the problem was that he kind of sucked at his job, so he sent a specimen to Nils to double check his “work”.
Earlier that Summer Perovski’s team had been poking around in the Izumrudnye Kopi (Emerald mines) in the Ural Mountains (you remember the Urals, that is where Demantoid Garnets were discovered as told via the previous Rare Gem Series post: http://noospheregeologic.com/blog/2012/10/11/the-rare-gem-series-demantoid-garnet/) when they discovered the stones in an alluvial deposit (think gravel river bed) along the Tokovaya River. By 1831 Perovski had opened his new “emerald” mine and was in full whipping peasants mode to dig faster when Nils sent him a message:
“This ain’t no emerald, genius. It’s a color-change chrysoberyl and I am calling it ‘diaphanite‘ which is Greek for ‘something your small brain cannot comprehend’.”
I paraphrase, of course.
Perovski, ever the ladder climber, had other plans in mind. He wanted to ingratiate himself further with the royal family, Perovski spun a tale that he had discovered it April 17, 1834, the sixteenth birthday of the crown prince and heir to the throne Alexander II, and named it “Alexandrite” in his honor.
Perovski didn’t know how to be a very good scientist, but he knew how to play the game like a champ. His ploy was well received and he got his ass ingratiated into the royal family like no body’s business; creating the Russian Geographical Society in 1845 and being named the Minister of Internal Affairs, and later the Vice President of the Appanage Department by Tsar Nicholas I (basically, he became the dude in charge of the imperial family’s estates, investments, personal property, and income). This fancy post also meant that Perovski was in charge of the jeweled trinkets and souvenirs the imperial lapists and jewelers created as rewards for the Tsar’s subjects.
Perovski was a greedy piece of crap. He used his position of power to threaten, bribe and steal the best stones for the Appanage collection which often found their ways into his own personal collection. One of Perovski’s underlings, Yakov Kokovin, the director of the Ekaterinburg lapidary, stole an amazing Ural emerald and was caught by Perovski and was braought to trail and later was “compelled” to commit suicide in the dreadful Ekaterinburg Prison. When Perovski finally kicked the bucket in 1856, the stone, which had now become known as the “Kokovin Emerald”, was found in Perovski’s personal collection. Dick.
Alexandrite quickly became one of the most desirable gem stones in the world. Many sources I have read claim that this is because red and green were the primary colors on the Russian Imperial Flag. Well, considering that the Imperial Flag was red white and blue, this “fact” is bullshit. It became popular because it is a rad stone that CHANGES FREAKING COLOR! Imagine yourself a rich asshole living in Feudal Europe: you have a fancy house, you have some books, you have a really comfy chair, you have candelabras, you have… well, that is pretty much it. Some other rich asshole comes along and shows you his new ring that is green during the day and red at night. “Holy shit!” You’d yell out, “I’ve got to get me one of those, especially since the invention of television won’t happen for another 90 years!”
A beautiful example of a natural Alexandrite in matrix, from Kevin Ward at Exceptional Minerals
By the beginning of the 20th century Russia had pretty much gobbled up all of the Alexandrites in the Urals. There has been no significant deposits of Alexandrite discovered in Mother Russia since the 1917 revolution. To this day the best red/green specimens are Russian stones. They are also the most valuable.
As mentioned above, Alexandrites are a form of chrysoberyl. While chrysoberyls contain beryllium, they are not related to beryls (emeralds, aquamarine, Bixbite, Morganite, etc…)… Only sort of-ish, I guess. Here’s how I would describe the stone as if I were the beaten, over-qualified interpretive guide of the hypothetical “Chrysoberyl Museum” leading a group of tourists in flip flops and aloha shirts:
Leading the tour group into the great hall of the museum: “Chrysoberyls are different from beryls mainly because of their crystal structure. Beryls are silicates that have big molecules and chrysoberyls only have one beryllium atom so there is less crap glommed onto the beryl atom. Chrysoberyls only form in pegmatites–“
“But so do Beryls!” Says some interrupting know it all eight year old.
“Shut up, not all of them do!” Says the pissed off tour guide, “Some beryls form in rhyolites. Ha! Now shut your yap and let me do my damned job!”
“What’s a pegmatite?” Asks some oafish dad dragging his bored children along (noses buried in their cell phones).
“Well, that’s a stupid question,” replies the guide (the know it all eight year old nods his head in agreement), “Especially considering that there isn’t a geologist alive that can accurately describe it to you without sounding like a child explaining the story line to “Syriana”. The facts: a pegmatite is an igneous rock (meaning that it was once molten magma goo that formed far beneath the crust); it created big crystals in its matrix as it cooled; the stuff inside those crystals is similar to that of granite (you know, the kitchen counters in the homes of yuppies); and for geologists it’s like porn, you know it when you see it. Does that help?”
“Whatever. Moving on. When this magma comes oozing up deep from the mantle, it can begin to gather up a bunch of ground water as it moves higher through the Earth’s crust. The magma is too hot to allow the now super-heated water to join into the formation of any crystals inside the magma. By the time the magma had mostly cooled, the trapped water formed chrysoberyl in the cracks and crevices out of bits of beryllium and aluminum. Basically, if it wasn’t for the water being present in the magma, the oxide that is chrysoberyl could not find the oxygen needed to form in the first place! All you need to make Alexandrite from here is some chromium and your set! Pretty bitchin’, right? Does that help?”
The eight year old nods because he already knew that.
*Sigh* “OK, beryls are a silicates that have the basic chemical composition of Be3Al2(SiO3)6, meaning the crystalline molecule forms an asymmetrical spur on one side of the molecule leading to a hexagonal crystal when the molecules are stacked, like parallelograms. While chrysoberyls are tinier than beryls and only have one beryllium atom to form around, so their crystal structure is much more symmetrical and forms an orthorhombic arrangements, sort of like cubes with dips in the middle. Does that help?”
Eight year old roles his eyes because everyone should know that by now.
Considering that none of you have learned anything from the prolonged inside joke above, I digress… To find Chrysoberyls one essentially needs to find pegmatites with beryllium and that also look like they had a lot of water in them when they formed. To find Alexandrites you find those same pegmatites but also look for evidence of there being chromium too.
The great things about gemstones is that there is always a new discovery to be found somewhere. Once the Ural source for these groovy stones played out, other deposits began to be discovered. Also, these pegmatites don’t just form chrysoberyls, they will have also have formed fantastic crystals of quartz, garnets, tourmaline, spinel, and corundum to boot. So, where there are chrysoberyls there are a shit load of other stuff to make some overlord really rich.
Most significant mineral discoveries come from alluvial deposits along some river or stream. In early 20th century discoveries of Alexandrite were made in Sri Lanka and India where the stones were nothing more than weathered pebbles found in streams. The stones are not of the most vivid color; with color changes going from brownish-orange to yellowish-brown. Other discoveries of Alexandrites have been made in Tanzania, Myanmar, Zimbabwe, and Brazil with most of the today’s production coming from mines in India and Brazil.
In Brazil, Alexandrites and other forms of chrysoberyls are found in the states of Espento Santos, Bahia, and Minas Gerais. Minas Gerais means “general mines” and was settled by prospectors looking for gold. Later, discoveries of diamonds, rhodonite, tourmalines, garnets, and everything else one would expect made it one of the great gem centers of the world. Miners in Minas Gerais work at the earth in the most primitive fashion imaginable. Modern mining technology isn’t really needed in an area where one can unearth a million dollar stone while digging a latrine, or putting a fence post in the ground! Noosphere Geologic has a near flawless 8.53 carat oval cut Brazilian Alexandrite as the flagship stone in our collection.
An 8.53ct oval cut Brazilian Alexandrite that is part of the Noosphere Geologic Collection
There have been several places in North America where one can find chrysoberyls: Pend Orielle County, Washington (also home to some GIGANTIC green beryls); the Black Hills of South Dakota; the border region of Nevada and Arizona in Northwestern Arizona; in North Central Colorado in the Front Range; and all along the Appalachian Mountains (basically the same age and type of mountains as the Urals) from North Carolina, Virginia, and all throughout New England. The only place so far, that I know of, where Alexandrites have been found in the United States is at the La Madera Mountain mine in Rio Arriba County, in central New Mexico, which is reported to produce occasional small chrysoberyl crystals with weak color change. I have yet to see any of these stones first hand, but I plan on getting me some!
Natural Alexandrites are among the most valuable stones in the world. True, clean red/green stones sell for more than $10,000 per carat. When the stones have more of a brownish or orange tint to the colors they sell for about $2,000 per carat; with raspberry/blue stones (common to the Brazilian variety) selling for about$8,000-$10,000 per carat. If the stone is Russian then expect to pay $50,000 per carat. If the stone is Russian, with red/green color change, is over ten carats, and is inclusion-free, just put a million dollar minimum on it from the get-go.
You can find a bunch of beautiful examples of lab-created synthetic Alexandrites out there, as well as imitation stones that are usually lab-created colorchange spinel or colorchange sapphire that are made with vanadium. Sometimes you can find “crown” or “doublet” Alexandrites that have thin, real sheets of Alexandrite glued to a different stone and sold as the real thing. If you are going to purchase an Alexandrite, take it to someone who knows what they are doing. Look for bubbles or curved striations inside of the stone with a microscope; this is a sign that it is lab-created and should only sell for a few dollars per carat. Also, having a certification from a reputable gemological laboratory is a good idea (like the GIA, EGL, AGL, Swiss Lab, IGTL, etc…), this will give you confidence that what you are purchasing is the real deal. You don’t want to drop $40,000 on that engagement ring to find out that you just bought a $5 stone that was made at a lab in an office park in Bangkok!
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Labour MP's demand Harman Resignation
Posted: Tue Nov 09, 2010 2:14 pm Post subject: Labour MP's demand Harman Resignation
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/nov/09/harriet-harman-phil-woolas-backbench-mutiny
Furious Labour MP's are demanding Harriet Harman's resignation as Deputy Leader after her disasterous handling of the Woolas affair. Harman rushed to state that Woolas would never be allowed to stand for Labour again even before his appeal is heard.
Ms Harman has long been considered a liability by Labour insiders for her frequently iunept handling of party affairs
Location: France/Spain/Peterborough/Tenerife
Harriet Harman has long been recognised as being a "talking head". I doubt whether she has a bone of political conviction in her body, she simply responds in sound-bytes to the populist theme of the day.
I smiled when she was applauding and cheering about some reversal of policy within the labour party recently, and David Milliband sitting beside her, turned and snapped "What are you applauding for? You voted for it."
And that for me just sums her up.
To err is human, to forgive - canine.
Minx wrote:
Yep. That was re- the Iraq war. Ed opposed it. Harriet- like david- supported it. And then she applauded ed opposing it
The Muslim Public Affairs Committee have been crowing on their website at having got rid of another Jew "One More Zionist Down & Out!" they crowed.
The MPAC have vowed to rid Britains Parliament of all Jewish MP's. The Liberal Democrats have been working hand in glove with the MPAC in local constituencies towards this end.
Now Harriet Harman appears to want to appease the MPAC. This will be tricky as her party leader is Jewish. And in any case the MPAC is wedded to the Liberal Democrats that a switch to Labour would not happen even if Labour became "juden-frei"
Posted: Wed Nov 10, 2010 1:45 pm Post subject:
Well according to JV's listeners the courts were right to dismiss him.
My argument is that if it was a lie then surely the LD candidate should be able to sue for libel. It sounds to me more mirky than that.
Saying that I guess on current trends since May the LD candidate will struggle to get his deposit back
I have read quite a bit about this case & fail to see where Mr Woolas was supposed to have "lied".
He claimed that Watkins was campaigning in alliance with the MPAC. Watkins has NOT denied this
He claimed that Watkins had refused to condemn Islamist Death threats against Woolas.
There is no record of Watkins condemning such threats.
What part of Woolas' claims were "lies"?
Clive he also claimed that his opponent did not live in the constituency and had exceeded spending on his campaign over and above what is allowed by law
I don't understand why people want to persist in defending such a person
We have a proper legal system to deal with such matters and people should leave it for the law to take its course
The Lib Dems are going to be wiped out in the forthcoming by election anyway so I don't see why you are making such a big issue out of this
Mr Woolass has behaved like an idiot whatever you may think of his views and he should have had more sense than to hand his opponent the advantage by scoring a massive own goal
Because it is contrary to democracy when judges not the electorate decide elections.
Furthermore, why is the MPAC allowed to carry on its current vendetta against Jewish MPs. Jews have lived in the UK a few centuries longer than Muslims have. Yet the MPAC are now in an influential position in Britain courtesy of their Lib Dem allies.
The power of the Muslim Lobby can be seen in British policy towards the middle east.
William Hague used to be quite a sensible, level headed polotician with a good grasp of foreign affairs.
Now we hear him issuing condemnations of Israel for building houses in Jerusalem, its own capital city. The Lib Dem parttners in govt are calling for a ban on arms sales to Israel & in favour of selling arms to Syria, a close ally of Iran & supplier of weapons to Hizbollah & Hamas
Clive I have quite a lot of sympathy with what you are saying but you are mixing up what is a perfectly valid point about Muslim extremism and its effect on British political life with trying to defend a man who has been found guilty of electoral lies by a properly convened English court of law
As I have said before I am concerned about the growing Muslim influence within this country but to link yourself with this discredited former MP is to undermine your own credibility concerning the very valid points which you are making and this only makes it harder to get your views across
I can't say that I noticed this
Now we hear him issuing condemnations of Israel for building houses in Jerusalem, its own capital city.
you don't have to be pro muslim to condemn Israel for building new townships over the border NEAR Jerusulem
IF Woollas had lied then there should be a case for libel being called, it hasn't casting doubt into whether he lied at all
The problem with libel is that to take action is extremely expensive which puts it off limits for most people even if they have a good case
Most top London solicitors would want around £100000 just to look at such a case so the fact a person has not taken action should not be seen as an admission that there has been no libel
Some solicitors may do the actual case on 'No Win No Fee' but only when they are sure there is a substantial guarantee of winning and it costs a lot of money to get to that point with no guarantee the case will even get off the ground
Libel action is fine for the very rich but generally out of reach for most ordinary people and I have long said that legal aid should be available for defamation cases provided the Legal Services Commission accepts that there is a good case but at a time of public spending cuts unfortunately the opposite is happening and legal aid is being cut which will cause problems for thousands of ordinary people on everything from divorce to housing and debt problems
Libel action is fine for the very rich but generally out of reach for most ordinary people
are these ordinary people then ?
I don't know the exact financial circumstances of the Lib Dem candidate nor do I know much about his background but I would imagine that he would need to be fairly rich in order to get a libel action off the ground
Just because a person is a Parliamentary candidate it does not mean they are necessarily well off and thankfully we have not yet quite got to the situation in America where a candidate needs millions behind them in order to stand in an election
I think that perhaps the Lib Dems have rather less of what might be described as professional politicians within their ranks compared to the two other major parties so I really don't think it is right to assume that money would necessarily be available to the candidate to bring an action for libel in this case
If we were talking about Nick Clegg then that would be an entirely different ball game as everybody knows he is a millionaire probably many times over
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1 2019-05-14T23:15:01-07:00 Mink and Pitch 14 Elsie Paul shares a story featuring qɑyχ (Mink). plain 2019-08-29T16:32:07-07:00 9780774861250_EP_528 As part of the oral traditions of the ɬaʔamɩn people, this story is their collective cultural and intellectual property. This recording © Elsie Paul (storyteller). 2009 Moving Image As told by Elsie Paul (storyteller) to Arlette Raaen and Phil Russell Courtesy of Elsie Paul Powell River, British Columbia, Canada (municipality located on traditional ɬaʔamɩn territory) English 2019-05-21T20:29:39+00:00
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1 2019-05-14T23:15:01-07:00 Mink and Salal 14 Elsie Paul shares a story featuring qɑyχ (Mink). plain 2019-08-29T16:34:19-07:00 9780774861250_EP_526 As part of the oral traditions of the ɬaʔamɩn people, this story is their collective cultural and intellectual property. This recording © Elsie Paul (storyteller). 2009 Moving Image As told by Elsie Paul (storyteller) to Arlette Raaen and Phil Russell Courtesy of Elsie Paul Powell River, British Columbia, Canada (municipality located on traditional ɬaʔamɩn territory) English 2019-05-21T20:29:39+00:00
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1 2019-05-18T05:14:48-07:00 Thank the Creator 8 Elsie Paul discusses the importance of gratitude, before going on to share what she learned from her grandmother about the need for self-discipline in life, particularly during times of difficulty or grief. plain 2019-08-29T17:51:11-07:00 9780774861250_EP_269 © Elsie Paul 2005-03-29 Sound Elsie Paul, interviewed by Paige Raibmon Courtesy of Elsie Paul Sliammon village (tʼɩšosəm), British Columbia, Canada English 2019-05-21T20:38:05+00:00
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qɑyχ says, “Oh, I can live your life, and I’ll be happy with you. I wanna be with you.” And Salal says, “I don’t think so.” And this went on, but again, qɑyχ won in the end, ’cause he was so persistent. Salal says to him, “You know, every time you put your arms around me, I will be rustling, and that’s not going to be very good.” And qɑyχ says, “Oh, that’s not a problem. That’s not a problem. It’ll be good. We’ll be happy.” So he gets together with the Salal, and sure enough, every time he’d go and give her a hug or embrace her, she would rustle, rustle, rustle. And he got pretty tired of that pretty quick. And he says to Salal, “Oh, this is not working. I’m just going to go on my way. ’Cause every time I embrace you, you’re rustle, rustle, rustle,” he says. So that was another failed adventure for him.
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The Ninth Configuration
Here’s a weird fuckin movie written and directed by William Peter Blatty, the guy who wrote the novel of THE EXORCIST. I’ve been hearing the title for years so I know it has a cult following, but I think they had trouble selling it because all they could figure was “from the creator of THE EXORCIST” but it’s not like that movie at all. It starts out as a goofy comedy and turns into a sad essay about God, or something. I don’t really understand the meaning of the title, but it has something to do with a protein molecules and the existence of God. It’s mentioned in a dream scene where an astronaut finds a giant crucifix on the moon.
But now I’m making it sound stranger than it actually is. All I can figure to describe it is “ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO’S NEST meets ROLLING THUNDER.”
The story takes place in an old castle “in the Pacific Northwest of the United States.” Which is funny because I’m pretty sure the Native Americans who lived here first didn’t build castles. And we don’t have Mideival Times restaraunt here so it can’t be that either. Anyway this castle is being used by the military as an experimental mental facility for mentally ill (or possibly faking) Vietnam vets. Neville Brand is an angry drill sergeant type but he pretty much just lets them have the run of the place, going around dressed as pirates and Superman and crap. One guy is busy casting a dog version of Hamlet (which perhaps could be an influence on Ang Lee’s racoon version). Robert Loggia does a blackface routine. One guy has a funny hat. etc.
There’s some funny lines in her but I have to admit I’m not entirely on the movie’s wavelength. This is in the SHOCK CORRIDOR kind of vein where each insane person has some gimmick or is wacky and cute. There’s all kinds of random dialogue like “the man on the moon fucked my sister!” and people do wacky things like read the miranda rights to a boar’s head on the wall or show up at 3 in the morning dressed in beach gear and dump a bucket of wet sand on the colonel’s desk. Sometimes it’s funny but I feel like it’s kind of forced and because so much of the dialogue has no meaning I found myself starting to tune out what people were saying.
But what makes the movie work is Stacy Keach as the main character, Colonel Kane. He’s the psychiatrist who’s just arrived at the castle determined to figure out how to help these people. He demands that the inmates be allowed to come into his office whenever they want, and he indulges anything they want to talk about, never dismissing their nonsense as nonsense. And he talks in an eerily calm voice like HAL in 2001. You start to realize that maybe he’s crazy too.
He’s especially fixated on helping one particular inmate, an astronaut who freaked out right before take off and was too scared to go to the moon. According to IMDB this is supposed to be the same astronaut character who (not that I remember this) is told by Regan in THE EXORCIST that he’s going to die in space.
And then a little more than halfway through there’s a big twist that you maybe saw coming and that’s when the movie gets much more interesting. There’s more going on here than you were told at first, and Kane and some of the others become much more interesting and tragic characters than they seemed at first.
The reason I finally got around to seeing this is a reader named Sean recommended it to me and he mentioned that there’s a fight scene in a bar. This was a real good scene, kind of like a more drawn out version of something that might happen in a Seagal picture. Unfortunately this was made in 1980 so you’ve got a certain cheeseball feel to it. The opponents are some kind of bisexual biker gang with a leader who looks like Gary Glitter. And they’re those kind of Troma style villains who just bully somebody for no reason at all. It might be better if they had even the slightest reason to be mad at these guys before they start picking on them. There’s a nice touch though, I didn’t make the connection until watching the movie again with the director’s commentary, but you see the biker gang driver by in the very beginning of the movie, and then forget about them.
Anyway, maybe the most significant thing about this movie that makes it different from others is that Blatty, who apparently is a Jesuit, is trying to have a religious discussion with this movie. THE EXORCIST showed that he believed in evil monsters but now he’s trying to show his feelings about God. The movie brings up this idea that if people are just molecules or animals, why do they sometimes do nice things for each other instead of only focusing on survival. It’s an interesting philosophical question but I don’t buy Blatty’s idea that it PROVES there’s a God. I figure most atheists don’t know why men have nipples or why people do nice things or even why the sky is blue, even though there is an official scientific explanation for that one. All they have to figure is that things are complicated and people don’t necessarily understand how they work. That doesn’t mean there is a God or there isn’t one, it just means that humans don’t know everything there is to know.
Still it’s a nice notion and I like that he is using movies to make statements that are that personal and profound to him. And especially weird ass movies like this. Put this in the not great but very original category.
VERN has been reviewing movies since 1999 and is the author of the books SEAGALOGY: A STUDY OF THE ASS-KICKING FILMS OF STEVEN SEAGAL, YIPPEE KI-YAY MOVIEGOER!: WRITINGS ON BRUCE WILLIS, BADASS CINEMA AND OTHER IMPORTANT TOPICS and NIKETOWN: A NOVEL. His horror-action novel WORM ON A HOOK will arrive later this year.
The Reviewing God Named Vern looks at the EXORCIST: The Version You’ve Never Seen Before!!!
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This is hands down one of my favorite movies ever made and I was really glad to see that you gave it a go. I agree it isn’t perfect. While I love the atmosphere and I think Blatty’s got a good eye for taking pictures, it does come off kind of random sometimes which makes me have to think hard before recommending it to certain people (usually those who have challenges in the patience department). Still, despite the “cheeseball” factor of the biker gang in that bar fight scene, it remains one of the most intense sequences in any movie I’ve ever seen. Maybe because it just comes out of fucking nowhere and I think the editing is great (specifically when that one broad gets tossed against the wall and her necks snaps. At least I think it does). Nice review, Vern <3
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German ‘Prepper’ Network Accused of Ordering Body Bags for Assassinations
A network of mostly police and military have been accused of ordering body bags and quicklime to dispose of political opponents following the “collapse” of Germany.
30 Jun 2019, 7:09 AM PST
Drug Dealer Offered 100k Euros to Assassinate Former Populist Leader Strache
A drug dealer allegedly offered a man 100,000 euros to plant a bomb in the car of former Austrian Vice Chancellor Heinz-Christian Strache, according to a report.
German Pro Mass Migration Politician Found Shot Dead
German Christian Democratic Union (CDU) politician Walter Lübcke, who recommended anti-mass migration Germans to leave the country, was found dead at his house after being shot in the head.
7 Jun 2019, 9:45 AM PST
Swedish Populists Most Likely to Be Threatened and Harassed for Views
A study by polling firm Demoskop has revealed that as many as three in ten Swedish politicians face threats and harassment, but the populist Sweden Democrats are the most likely to be targetted.
Political Violence: Swedish Populist Leader Attacked with Fireworks on Campaign Trail
Populist Sweden Democrats leader Jimmie Akesson was targetted by an attack earlier this week when an unknown individual shot fireworks at his car following a European Parliament election campaign meeting.
26 May 2019, 3:46 AM PST
Nolte: CBS News Encourages Physical Assaults Against Political Right
With its embrace of the left’s milkshake assaults on politicians, CBS News has joined CNN’s campaign to encourage violence against the political right.
Farage: ‘Radicalised’ Remainers Are Breaking down the Democratic System
Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage has warned that “radicalised” Remainers threaten to break down the UK’s democratic system.
21 May 2019, 11:39 AM PST
German Socialist Party Youth Wing Threatens Nationalists with Baseball Bat in Facebook Post
In the latest example of threatening political behaviour sweeping Europe, a youth branch of the left-wing German SPD (Social Democrat Party) has posted a picture of a member wearing a hoody with the European Union flag on while holding a baseball bat with a caption threatening nationalists.
Joe Markham
Nolte: Cannes Poster Features First Lady Carrying Donald Trump’s Severed Head
I’m all for artistic freedom, but you can bet your life that, all things being equal, if this movie featured Obama’s severed head instead of the Trump’s, THR and the rest of the leftist rags that cover the entertainment industry would be ignoring/blasting/blacklisting this filmmaker and his film before the hour was out.
Swedish Teen Assaulted While Leafleting For Populist Party Election Campaign
A 15-year-old man was violently attacked by a group of individuals while out campaigning for the populist Sweden Democrats (SD) for this month’s upcoming European Parliament election, it is claimed.
Villanova Professor to Defend Antifa in Upcoming Lecture on Political Violence
Villanova Professor Billie Murray is scheduled to give a lecture later this month that aims to normalize political violence from groups like Antifa.
17 Apr 2019, 9:21 AM PST
Migrants Investigated Over Bombing of Populist Salvini Party Office
A pair of Moroccan migrants in Italy are under investigation in connection with the bombing of an office of populist Interior Minister Matteo Salvini’s League party.
10 Apr 2019, 12:50 AM PST
Berlin Antifa Assault Populist Jewish Youth at Holocaust Film Screening
Members of the far-left extremist Antifa movement have been accused of a brutal attack on affiliates of the youth wing of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) including attacking a Jewish member.
12 Feb 2019, 12:45 AM PST
WATCH: Police Video of Suspected Alt-Left Attack on German Populist MP
Bremen police have released the CCTV footage of the brutal attack on Alternative for German (AfD) MP Frank Magnitz, with some claiming the footage shows the attackers using some sort of weapon.
Alleged Antifa Confession to Attack on German Populist MP Emerges Online
Following the brutal attack on populist Alternative for Germany (AfD) MP Frank Magnitz, a far-left extremist Antifa group have allegedly taken credit for the attack in a post on a well-known far-left website.
German Populist Party MP Slams Leftist Parties For ‘Encouraging’ Violence
Alternative for Germany (AfD) MP Petr Bystron has slammed the left, claiming they “encourage” violence following an alleged assassination attempt on the chairman of the populist party’s Bremen branch.
9 Jan 2019, 3:43 AM PST
German Populist Party Chairman Hospitalised in ‘Assassination’ Attempt
German member of parliament for the populist Alternative for Germany (AfD) Frank Magnitz was brutally attacked Monday evening in what some are labelling an assassination attempt.
8 Jan 2019, 12:44 AM PST
CNN Falsely Claims 'GOP Concedes Trump May Have Withheld Aid'
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Where 2018-19 Happens: Reason #24 We Love College Basketball
Posted by rtmsf on October 14th, 2018
As RTC heads into its 12th season covering college hoops, it’s time to begin releasing our annual compendium of YouTube clips that we like to call Thirty Reasons We Love College Basketball. These 30 snippets from last season’s action are completely guaranteed to make you wish the games were starting tonight rather than 30 days from now. Over the next month you’ll get one reason per day until we reach the new season on Tuesday, November 6. You can find all of this year’s released posts here.
#24 – Where Coach 1,000 Happens.
We also encourage you to re-visit the entire archive of this feature from the 2008-09, 2009-10, 2010-11, 2011-12, 2012-13, 2013-14, 2014-15, 2015-16, 2016-17 and 2017-18 preseasons.
| 2018-19 Season Preview, 30 reasons | Tagged: coach k, duke, milestones
ACC Conversation: Final Four Preview and Coaching Carousel Update
Posted by ACC Team on March 30th, 2018
Rush the Court’s ACC microsite writers Brad Jenkins, Matt Auerbach and Mick McDonald chatted this week to wonder why the ACC couldn’t get a team to the Final Four and talk about a pair of new head coaches joining the league.
Brad Jenkins: Well guys, the ACC came up empty in this year’s Final Four. Last week, we addressed what went wrong for Virginia and North Carolina. Why did Duke not make it either? Matt, why don’t you start?
Matt Auerbach: Well, I’m not exactly sure I’d tackle it from the same perspective. North Carolina and Virginia both lost games to opponents who were inferior — or, more accurately in the Tar Heels case, had inferior seasons. As for Duke, I think they just got nipped by an excellent team with an elite head coach playing its best at the right time of year. It’s a coin-flip game, and we’re having a different discussion if Grayson Allen‘s shot at the end of regulation falls. But that’s just the way the ball bounces sometimes.
Kansas Slayed Mighty Duke to Get to the Final Four (USA Today Images)
Mick McDonald: Right. If Allen’s shot goes in (and man, was it close), we are breaking down an epic Final Four matchup with Villanova this weekend. That said, I thought the key to the game was Bill Self. He coached a hell of a game and frustrated Marvin Bagley III unlike any team had all season. Also, imagine being a Mississippi State fan watching that game. That was the Malik Newman they were promised two years ago! He was outstanding.
Matt Auerbach: Newman was fantastic and his evolution into being the Malik Newman that everyone expected him to be as a freshman has been the change in Kansas‘ season that has elevated the Jayhawks to this point.
Brad Jenkins: I know a lot of people are pointing to Allen’s incredibly close miss as tough luck. But if it had gone in Duke would have been very fortunate to win the game. In my opinion they were outplayed considering all the open shots Kansas missed and the great job the Jayhawks did on the boards in addition to defensively on Bagley. Also, I know Duke had a couple of big calls go against them in overtime, but up until that point, I thought they had gotten a very generous whistle — particularly on out of bounds situations.
| acc, feature, microsites | Tagged: bill self, chris mack, coach k, duke, grayson allen, jeff capel, kansas, louisville, Malik Newman, Marvin Bagley, pittsburgh
NCAA Regional Reset: East Region
Posted by Tommy Lemoine on March 20th, 2017
Rush the Court is providing comprehensive coverage of the NCAA Tournament from start to finish over the next three weeks.
New Favorite: #4 Florida (26-8). Florida’s 65-39 drubbing of #5 Virginia on Saturday should put the rest of the remaining field on notice— the Gators are really, really difficult to score against. Mike White’s aggressive group held to Cavaliers to a paltry 0.65 points per possession, limiting its ACC foe to just 1-of-15 shooting from behind the arc and preventing any Virginia player from reaching double figures. Wisconsin, which is somewhat similar to Virginia stylistically, could be in for a rude awakening on Friday night. 6’8” swingman Devin Robinson, a supremely gifted athlete, is playing some of his best basketball of the season (19.0 PPG in the NCAA Tournament), and only West Virginia and North Carolina possess more depth than Florida of the teams remaining. Now ranked third nationally by KenPom, the Gators are as good a threat as any to win the National Championship.
Florida’ Defense Dominated Virginia This Weekend (USA Today Images)
Horse of Darkness: #8 Wisconsin (27-9). Despite being underseeded, Wisconsin outlasted Virginia Tech in the First Round before knocking off the reigning National Champion in the Round of 32. Saturday’s unexpected, high-drama victory over Villanova highlighted the Badgers’ strengths — patience, veteran leadership, stingy defense — and firmly establishes them as a threat in the East Region. Greg Gard’s club, now in its fourth straight Sweet Sixteen, will again enter Friday’s match-up with #4 Florida as an underdog. With a pair of seniors (Bronson Koenig and Nigel Hayes) and a First Team All-Big Ten forward (Ethan Happ) leading the way, bet against the dark horse Badgers at your own risk.
Biggest Surprise (First Weekend): #7 South Carolina (24-10). #11 USC shocked #6 SMU and #8 Wisconsin upended the reigning National Champion — both huge surprises in their own right. But it was the other USC — #7 South Carolina — that pulled off the biggest stunner in the East, and perhaps the entire Big Dance. #2 Duke entered the Thursday as the betting favorite win the NCAA Tournament, a testament to both its supreme talent and undeniable momentum heading into the event (the Blue Devils had just won the ACC Tournament). The Gamecocks, meanwhile, entered Friday having lost six of its previous nine games, including an 11-point stinker against Alabama in the SEC Tournament quarterfinals. And yet, Frank Martin’s defensive-minded group pounded Duke in the second half on Sunday night, scoring 65 points in the final 20 minutes and knocking off the Blue Devils in front of a home-state crowd filled with South Carolina fans and North Carolina fans (otherwise known as Duke haters) alike. Few people saw this coming.
| 2017 ncaa tournament, feature, regional resets | Tagged: ACC. Tony Bennett, baylor, big 12, big ten, coach k, Devin Robinson, duke, florida, frank martin, Greg Gard, jonathan motley, kevin white, Nigel Hayes, scott drew, sec, smu, south carolina, usc, virginia, wisconsin
Media Timeout: If It Bleeds, It Leads – Especially If It’s Duke
Posted by Will Tucker on February 7th, 2017
College basketball places huge emphasis on individual games — showdowns between top-ranked teams, annual rivalry clashes, single-elimination tournaments — but it’s important from time to time to take a step back and look at the bigger picture. The Media Timeout considers how fans and journalists watch, follow and talk about the sport.
For the second time in as many seasons, Duke entered February with five or more losses. Four of those have come in conference play, where Duke sits in the middle of the ACC log jam. What began as a National Title march went way off course over the winter break. First, the Blue Devils lost to Virginia Tech for the first time since 2011, with their best player riding the pine after losing his captaincy. Then they lost head coach Mike Krzyzewski to back surgery and a lengthy recovery. Then they lost access to their own locker room after falling to NC State in Cameron Indoor Stadium for the first time since 1995.
Assistant Jeff Capel presided over a rocky 4-3 stretch in Mike Krzyzewski’s absence (Mark Dolejs/USA TODAY Sports)
It’s safe to say Duke has staunched the bleeding after winning back-to-back ACC road games and escaping last-place Pitsburgh over the weekend with Krzyzewski back on the bench. But with plenty of questions remaining ahead of a date with North Carolina this week, it’s also too early to claim that the Blue Devils have righted the ship. In spite of Duke’s undistinguished resume and erratic play, the preseason #1 team remains a fixture in national headlines and ESPN segments. Why? The obvious answer is Grayson Allen, the embattled preseason Player of the Year pick whose volatile play and widespread criticism has delighted those who can’t stand his petulant and, at times, dangerous behavior on the court. But Allen obviously isn’t the first high-profile college player to behave badly, and the gleeful spectacle around his slow unravelling speaks to greater forces at play. Read the rest of this entry »
| feature, media timeout, Regular Features | Tagged: christian laettner, coach k, duke, espn, grayson allen, indiana, john calipari, kansas, kentucky, louisville, michelle beadle, mike krzyzewski, north carolina, pittsburgh, seth greenberg, steve wojciechowski
In Hoops We Trust: Trust Coach, “It’s OK”
Posted by Joshua Lars Weill on January 5th, 2017
When Grayson Allen suited up for Duke on Wednesday evening against Georgia Tech, much more than just an interesting news story erupted on social media. Writers and fans all jumped in to add their two cents on whether Allen’s remarkably swift return from his “indefinite” suspension for tripping an Elon player in a game last month was appropriate, adequate or even necessary. Predictably, most (presumably non-Duke) fans said Allen’s sentence was too short. And just as predictably, scribes across the spectrum said it was just enough and to trust the judgment of the legendary coach. Which, of course, (predictably) sent those same (non-Duke) fans into fits of eye-rolling at what they deemed as the writers’ (predictably) pro-Mike Krzyzewski response. Adding another layer to this is the news that Coach K is about to take a month-long leave of absence for back surgery, effectively handing over his team to assistant Jeff Capel. Toss in that Allen is the prototypical Duke “villain” personality (in attitude, demeanor, and, yes, race), and that the Blue Devils badly lost the only game Allen was “indefinitely” suspended for, and you have quite a little tempest brewing in Durham.
With back surgery looming, Mike Krzyzewski might have ended Allen’s suspension earlier than expected to ease the transition to Jeff Capel. (Photo by Nell Redmond, theACC.com)
It would be easy to see this as a craven move by a coaching lifer who is regularly given a tremendous benefit of the doubt by anyone in the basketball community. Or to see it as a sign of injustice for a white kid at the NCAA’s ur-basketball location. But to me, it’s pretty simple. Krzyzewski had Allen return after a one-game absence because the pressure would have been on Capel to mete out a punishment he didn’t inflict, and then to end that punishment when Capel deemed appropriate. That would be unfair to Capel and unfair to Allen. The coach who punished him should be the one that he signed with and the one absolving him, whatever that punishment might have been. You could argue that Allen deserved to miss more games, but not many more. Could Krzyzewski have handled the entire thing better from the beginning? Yes. Is this some case of malicious intent? Unlikely. Read the rest of this entry »
| feature, in hoops we trust, Regular Features | Tagged: buzz williams, coach k, duke blue devils, florida gators, grayson allen, Tripping, virginia tech
The RTC Interview Series: One on One With Grant Hill
Posted by Chris Stone on April 4th, 2016
Tonight’s National Championship game between North Carolina and Villanova will be televised on TBS, the first time in the event’s 78-year existence that the it will air on cable. Ahead of the finale to March Madness, Rush the Court got a chance to speak with Turner Sports analyst Grant Hill, one of the game’s announcing crew along with Jim Nantz, Bill Raftery and Tracy Wolfson. Hill is a two-time NCAA champion, a three-time Final Four participant and an 18-year NBA veteran. We spoke with the basketball icon about what it means to call this event, his experience playing in the Final Four, and the matchup between the Tar Heels and the Wildcats. This interview has been edited for clarity.
Rush the Court: You played in three title games while you were at Duke (1991, 1992, 1994) and now you’re calling the first title game to ever air on TBS. I’m curious what that’s like for you and in a broader sense what it’s like for the network.
Grant Hill: For me, it’s great. I’ve really loved everything about the tournament from the time I was nine years old. I still recall the first Final Four I ever watched, which really sparked a love of the game of basketball and a desire to want to play it back in 1982 when North Carolina beat Georgetown. Then to be fortunate enough play in three Final Fours, three championships, and then now to come full circle and be able to broadcast it, it’s just a tremendous honor and privilege. For us, this is history in the making. The first time a cable network broadcast the NCAA Tournament final. I’ve been exposed to it for the last three years in a couple of different roles, but it’s been great and I’ve enjoyed the combination of both networks’ resources in putting these games on, culminating with this weekend’s Final Four on TBS. It’s exciting and I’m really looking forward to tomorrow night.
Grant Hill played in three Final Fours while at Duke. (Credit: Duke Sports Information)
RTC: We have a Final Four with a lot of upperclassmen playing in it. How did your experience at the Final Four change from when you were a freshman to when you were a senior? What was that transition like?
Hill: I think I played important roles in both Final Fours, from freshman year to senior year. My freshman year, I was a young pup. I was a neophyte. It was my first experience and I really leaned on the leadership of our coach, but also our upperclassmen. They had a responsibility as leaders to lead, for lack of a better word. Then, I had that same role my senior year. Part of that is it’s not just what you do in the game, but it’s what you do prior to the game, preparation during the weekend, during the Final Four. It’s what you do throughout the season. It’s what you do in the offseason prior to that year. Everything is about living up to the championship standard and that responsibility is really on your shoulders as captains, as seniors, as guys who’ve been through it, good and bad. It’s upon you to help create an environment that is conducive to winning. It was something that we lived with every day and you did everything you could. From the time that we assembled as a team in the summer prior to school starting, everything as a leader is about getting yourself ready for this stage and so understanding that, you only get that from experience. You only get that from success and failures and it’s hard as a freshman to be able to know what that’s about. As much as I watched it, as much as I was able to go to a couple Final Fours as a fan in the 80s, not until you’re in it and not until you get a taste of it do you really understand what exactly it’s all about. So, experience, you can’t teach that and we’re seeing that here. We’ve seen it throughout the season. That’s been the theme of college basketball. You look at both teams. They’re senior-led.
| 2016 ncaa tournament, feature, Regular Features, rtc interviews | Tagged: coach k, grant hill, national championship game, ncaa tournament, tbs, turner sports, unc, villanova
What’s Trending: A Month Away from March!
Posted by Griffin Wong on February 4th, 2016
What’s Trending is a column examining the week that was in college basketball social media. Griffin Wong (@griffwong90) is your weekly host.
SEC/Big 12 Challenge
The midseason SEC/Big 12 Challenge took place last weekend, giving teams from both conferences a chance to prove themselves in a high-profile event. The highlight of the weekend was surely Oklahoma’s surge to beat LSU in overtime, as senior Buddy Hield poured in 32 points and pushed still closer to legendary 50-50-90 Club (50% 3FG, 50% FG, 90% FT). While Hield’s late flourish stole the show, it may have been Texas A&M that proved the most. Behind 20 points from guard Danuel House, the Aggies, lacking a signature win, cemented themselves as one of the best teams in the nation with a 10-point win over Iowa State. Overall, the Big 12 took the bragging rights with a 7-3 victory, and the event was a resounding success.
I'm loving the midseason Big 12/SEC Challenge. I propose they do the same thing in football — on the third Saturday in November.
— Stewart Mandel (@slmandel) January 30, 2016
Buddy Hield took 22 shots in Oklahoma's win at LSU. Ben Simmons took seven. You've got to want the ball in your hands at crunch time.
— Jon Rothstein (@JonRothstein) January 31, 2016
Texas A&M with a statement, bounce-back win against Iowa State with signature defense the key: https://t.co/UMCq8DTVMB
— Jeff Goodman (@GoodmanESPN) January 30, 2016
More Tragedy Strikes
| feature, Regular Features, what's trending | Tagged: Ben Simmons, big 12, buddy hield, coach k, Damion Lee, danuel house, duke, indiana, iowa state, isaiah cousins, kansas, lsu, mercer, roosevelt jones, sec, texas a&m, Wayne Selden
What’s Trending: Back Into the Thick of Things
Posted by Griffin Wong on January 22nd, 2016
Oregon State Be Trippin’
No, but literally. Moments after making an great steal and jumping on the loose ball, senior Jarmal Reid tripped the referee as he was getting up. An absolutely bizarre moment that turned a tied game into a Utah victory. Cue the puns…
Oregon State's Jarmal Reid was ejected today after he appeared to trip a referee. https://t.co/GU2d7bN9Ht
— SportsCenter (@SportsCenter) January 18, 2016
Drake is trying to figure out in which track to insert the line "you're trippin' like Jarmal Reid." Right now.
— Dawg Sports (@dawgsports) January 18, 2016
https://twitter.com/jordancornette/status/689240457528893445
As stated in the final tweet, Reid has been suspended for a minimum of four games.
| Regular Features, what's trending | Tagged: coach k, colorado state, Denzel Valentine, emmanuel omogbo, jarmal reid, michigan state, mike krzyzewski, oregon state
Final Four Storylines: Duke Edition
Posted by Henry Bushnell on April 3rd, 2015
The Final Four is set. This week we’ll continue our NCAA Tournament Storylines series focused on each of the remaining four teams. We kicked things off with Kentucky on Tuesday, and followed with Wisconsin yesterday. Today, it’s Duke‘s turn.
Coach K’s 12th Final Four Ties Him With the Legendary John Wooden For Most All-Time (USA Today Images)
Coach K in the record books. It’s been a pretty special year for Mike Krzyzewski, highlighted by his 1,000th win and an NCAA Tournament run resulting in his 12th Final Four appearance, tying former UCLA legend John Wooden for the most of all-time. And Coach K might not be done. He has a chance to improve his impressive 8-3 record in National Semifinal games this weekend in Indianapolis, the best such record of any coach. And with two more wins, he is poised to move into sole possession of second place in all-time national championships with five (his current mark of four is tied with Kentucky’s Adolph Rupp). Coach K’s long career means that he’s also experienced his fair share of postseason disappointments, but those exits more than anything speak to just how tough it is to win in March. The consistency with which Krzyzewski’s teams have gone deep into the second and third weekends of the Big Dance is astounding.
Duke is here because of its defense. Much has been made of Duke’s struggles on the defensive end of the court this season. The Blue Devils had an especially rough stretch in January and February during which they gave up more than a point per possession in eight of 10 games. Conventional wisdom suggests that it was Duke’s offense that carried it to a sterling 28-3 regular season record. But since the onset of the NCAA Tournament, Duke’s defense has been the driver behind its Final Four run. The Blue Devils have held all four of their opponents to fewer than 0.90 points per possession and, as a result, have now cracked the top 20 of KenPom’s adjusted defensive efficiency. Their performance in crunch time of the Elite Eight win over Gonzaga exemplified that improvement. Duke held the Zags to a single Byron Wesley free throw over the final 5:43 of the game. There hasn’t been a discernible difference in Krzyzewski’s philosophy — he’s always stressed the importance of team defense — but perhaps Duke’s young players have developed a better understanding of his defensive principles and it is translating now more than ever, a dangerous proposition for the rest of the Final Four.
| 2015 ncaa tournament, storylines | Tagged: coach k, duke, feature, final four, Jahlil Okafor, justise winslow, mike krzyzewski
Final Four Fact Sheet: Duke Blue Devils
Posted by Bennet Hayes on April 3rd, 2015
After a week of hype surrounding the most highly-anticipated Final Four in years, let’s do a reset on each of the four teams still standing. Today’s victims: We’ll start with Duke and finish the day with Kentucky. Wisconsin and Michigan State were published yesterday.
How Duke Got Here
South Region Champions. During the NCAA Tournament’s first weekend in Charlotte, the Blue Devils used friendly surroundings to coast by #16 seed Robert Morris and #8 seed San Diego State; Coach K’s team led the Colonials and Aztecs by double-figures in all 40 second-half minutes of those two games. Advancement was tougher at the South Regional in Houston, but Duke managed to break open close games against #5 seed Utah in the Sweet Sixteen and #2 seed Gonzaga in the Elite Eight, landing the Blue Devils a trip to Indianapolis this weekend.
Coach K And Duke Cut Down The Nets In Houston; Is The Indianapolis Twine Next? (USA Today Sports)
Mike Krzyewski. Like the other three coaches in this year’s Final Four, you already know Mike Krzyzewski. Unlike the other three coaches in the Final Four, there is no college basketball coach you know better than Mike Krzyzewski. Coach K’s list of accomplishments — 1,016 career wins, 12 Final Fours, four National Championships – leave him with little to prove. Can the longtime Duke head coach, in the twilight of his career, outmaneuver two of college basketball’s best (Izzo and either Calipari or Ryan) this Saturday and Monday nights?
For the seventh season in a row, Duke has an offense that ranks among the top 10 nationally in adjusted offensive efficiency. However, unlike most of those other attacks, this year’s version works from the inside out. Krzyzewski-coached teams have classically thrived from beyond the arc and this group certainly doesn’t struggle there either (39 percent), but Jahlil Okafor has transformed the Duke interior. The freshman All-American is the major reason why the Blue Devils made 56 percent of their two-point field-goal attempts this year (fourth-best nationally) and remains the clear focus of the offense. Defensively, Duke remains a man-to-man team. Midseason struggles in stopping penetration prompted a brief flirtation with a zone (which wasn’t necessarily unsuccessful), but Quinn Cook has spearheaded a significantly improved man-to-man approach during the latter half of the season.
| 2015 ncaa tournament, fact sheets | Tagged: acc, coach k, duke, feature, final four, grayson allen, Jahlil Okafor, justise winslow, matt jones, mike krzyzewski, quinn cook, south regional, Tyus Jones
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Paraguay Population: 7,025,763
Paraguay achieved its independence from Spain in 1811. In the disastrous War of the Triple Alliance (1865-70) - between Paraguay and Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay - Paraguay lost two-thirds of its adult males and much of its territory. The country stagnated economically for the next half century. Following the Chaco War of 1932-35 with Bolivia, Paraguay gained a large part of the Chaco lowland region. The 35-year military dictatorship of Alfredo STROESSNER ended in 1989, and Paraguay has held relatively free and regular presidential elections since the country's return to democracy.
Landlocked; lies between Argentina, Bolivia, and Brazil; population concentrated in eastern and southern part of country
Location: Central South America, northeast of Argentina, southwest of Brazil
Geographic coordinates: 23 00 S, 58 00 W
Area: total: 406,752 sq km
water: 9,450 sq km
Size comparison: about three times the size of New York state; slightly smaller than California
Land Boundaries: total: 4,655 km border countries (3): Argentina 2531 km, Bolivia 753 km, Brazil 1371 km
Coastline: 0 km (landlocked)
Maritime claims: none (landlocked)
Climate: subtropical to temperate; substantial rainfall in the eastern portions, becoming semiarid in the far west
Terrain: grassy plains and wooded hills east of Rio Paraguay; Gran Chaco region west of Rio Paraguay mostly low, marshy plain near the river, and dry forest and thorny scrub elsewhere
Natural resources: hydropower, timber, iron ore, manganese, limestone
permanent crops: 0.2% (2011 est.) permanent pasture: 42.8% (2011 est.) forest: 43.8% (2011 est.)
other: 2.4% (2011 est.)
Irrigated land: 1,362 sq km (2012)
Natural hazards: local flooding in southeast (early September to June); poorly drained plains may become boggy (early October to June)
Current Environment Issues: deforestation; water pollution; rivers suffer from toxic dumping; tanneries release mercury and chromium into rivers and streams; loss of wetlands; inadequate means for waste disposal pose health risks for many urban residents
International Environment Agreements: party to: Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol, Desertification, Endangered Species, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Ozone Layer Protection, Wetlands
Nationality: noun: Paraguayan(s)
adjective: Paraguayan
Ethnic groups: mestizo (mixed Spanish and Amerindian) 95%, other 5%
Languages: Spanish (official) and Guarani (official) 46.3%, only Guarani 34%, only Spanish 15.2%, other (includes Portuguese, German, other indigenous languages) 4.1% , no response .4% (2012 est.) note: data represent predominant household language
Religions: Roman Catholic 89.6%, Protestant 6.2%, other Christian 1.1%, other or unspecified 1.9%, none 1.1% (2002 census)
Population: 7,025,763 (July 2018 est.)
Age structure: 0-14 years: 24.13% (male 862,803 /female 832,325)
15-24 years: 18.8% (male 664,086 /female 656,947)
25-54 years: 41.59% (male 1,461,657 /female 1,460,565)
55-64 years: 8.13% (male 290,719 /female 280,328)
65 years and over: 7.35% (male 242,783 /female 273,550) (2018 est.)
Net migration rate: -0.1 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2018 est.)
Major urban areas - population: 3.222 million ASUNCION (capital) (2018)
Mother's mean age at first birth: 22.9 years (2008 est.) note: median age at first birth among women 25-29
Contraceptive prevalence rate: 68.4% (2016)
urban: 100% of population
total: 98% of population
urban: 0% of population
total: 2% of population (2015 est.)
urban: 4.5% of population (2015 est.)
HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS: 20,000 (2017 est.)
HIV/AIDS - deaths: <1000 (2016 est.)
Children under the age of 5 years underweight: 1.3% (2016)
Unemployment, youth ages 15-24: total: 14.5% male: 11.8% female: 18.7% (2018 est.)
Country name: conventional long form: Republic of Paraguay
conventional short form: Paraguay
local long form: Republica del Paraguay
local short form: Paraguay
etymology: the precise meaning of the name Paraguay is unclear, but it seems to derive from the river of the same name; one explanation has the name meaning "water of the Payagua" (an indigenous tribe that lived along the river)
Government type: presidential republic
Capital: name: Asuncion
time difference: UTC-4 (1 hour ahead of Washington, DC, during Standard Time)
daylight saving time: +1hr, begins first Sunday in October; ends last Sunday in March
etymology: the name means "assumption" and derives from the original name given to the city at its founding in 1537, Nuestra Senora Santa Maria de la Asuncion (Our Lady Saint Mary of the Assumption)
Administrative divisions: 17 departments (departamentos, singular - departamento) and 1 capital city*; Alto Paraguay, Alto Parana, Amambay, Asuncion*, Boqueron, Caaguazu, Caazapa, Canindeyu, Central, Concepcion, Cordillera, Guaira, Itapua, Misiones, Neembucu, Paraguari, Presidente Hayes, San Pedro
Independence: 14-15 May 1811 (from Spain); note - the uprising against Spanish authorities took place during the night of 14-15 May 1811 and both days are celebrated in Paraguay
National holiday: Independence Day, 14-15 May (1811) (observed 15 May); 14 May is celebrated as Flag Day
Constitution: history: several previous; latest approved and promulgated 20 June 1992 amendments: proposed at the initiative of at least one-quarter of either chamber of the National Congress, by the president of the republic, or by petition of at least 30,000 voters; passage requires absolute majority vote by both chambers and approval in a referendum; amended 2011, 2014; note - in April 2017, a proposed amendment to extend presidential term limits was defeated by the lower house of the National Congress (2018)
Legal system: civil law system with influences from Argentine, Spanish, Roman, and French civil law models; judicial review of legislative acts in Supreme Court of Justice
Suffrage: 18 years of age; universal and compulsory until the age of 75
Executive branch: chief of state: President Mario Abdo BENITEZ (since 15 August 2018); Vice President Hugo Adalberto VELAZQUEZ Moreno (since 15 August 2018); note - the president is both chief of state and head of government
head of government: President Mario Abdo BENITEZ (since 15 August 2018); Vice President Hugo Adalberto VELAZQUEZ Moreno (since 15 August 2018)
cabinet: Council of Ministers appointed by the president elections/appointments: president and vice president directly elected on the same ballot by simple majority popular vote for a single 5-year term; election last held on 22 April 2018 (next to be held in April 2023)
election results: Mario Abdo BENITEZ elected president; percent of vote - Mario Abdo BENITEZ (ANR) 46.4%, Efrain ALEGRE (PLRA) 42.7%, Juan Bautista YBANEZ 3.3%, other 7.6%
Legislative branch: description: bicameral National Congress or Congreso Nacional consists of: Chamber of Senators or Camara de Senadores (45 seats; members directly elected in a single nationwide constituency by proportional representation vote to serve 5-year terms) Chamber of Deputies or Camara de Diputados (80 seats; members directly elected in 18 multi-seat constituencies - corresponding to the country's 17 departments and capital city - by proportional representation vote to serve 5-year terms)
elections: Chamber of Senators - last held on 22 April 2018 (next to be held in April 2023) Chamber of Deputies - last held on 22 April 2018 (next to be held in April 2023)
election results: Chamber of Senators - percent of vote by party/coalition - ANR 32.52%, PLRA 24.18%, FG 11.83%, PPQ 6.77%, MH 4.47%, PDP 3.66%, MCN 2.48%, UNACE 2.12%, other 11.97%; seats by party/coalition - ANR 17, PLRA 13, FG 6, PPQ 3, MH 2, PDP 2, MCN 1, UNACE 1; composition - men 36, women 9, percent of women 20% Chamber of Deputies - percent of vote by party/coalition - ANR 39.1%, PLRA 17.74%, Ganar Alliance 12.08%, PPQ 4.46%, MH 3.19%; other 23.43%; seats by party/coalition - ANR 42, PLRA 17, Ganar Alliance 13, PPQ 3, MH 2, other 3; composition - men 66, women 14, percent of women 17.5%; note - total National Congress percent of women 18.4%
Judicial branch: highest courts: Supreme Court of Justice or Corte Suprema de Justicia (consists of 9 justices divided 3 each into the Constitutional Court, Civil and Commercial Chamber, and Criminal Division) judge selection and term of office: justices proposed by the Council of Magistrates or Consejo de la Magistratura, a 6-member independent body, and appointed by the Chamber of Senators with presidential concurrence; judges can serve until mandatory retirement at age 75
subordinate courts: appellate courts; first instance courts; minor courts, including justices of the peace
Political parties and leaders: Asociacion Nacional Republicana - Colorado Party or ANR [Pedro ALLIANA] Avanza Pais coalition or AP [Adolfo FERREIRO] Broad Front coalition (Frente Guasu) or FG [Esperanza MARTINEZ] Ganar Alliance (alliance between PLRA and Guasu Front) Movimiento Cruzada Nacional or MCN Movimiento Hagamos or MH [Antonio "Tony" APURIL] Movimiento Union Nacional de Ciudadanos Eticos or UNACE [Jorge OVIEDO MATTO] Partido del Movimiento al Socialismo or P-MAS [Camilo Ernesto SOARES Machado] Partido Democratica Progresista or PDP [Rafael FILIZZOLA] Partido Encuentro Nacional or PEN [Hermann RATZLAFFIN Klippemstein] Partido Liberal Radical Autentico or PLRA [Efrain ALEGRE] Partido Pais Solidario or PPS [Carlos Alberto FILIZZOLA Pallares] Partido Popular Tekojoja or PPT [Sixto PEREIRA Galeano] Patria Querida (Beloved Fatherland Party) or PPQ [Miguel CARRIZOSA]
International organization participation: CAN (associate), CD, CELAC, FAO, G-11, G-77, IADB, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICC (national committees), ICCt, ICRM, IDA, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, ILO, IMF, IMO, Interpol, IOC, IOM, IPU, ISO (correspondent), ITSO, ITU, ITUC (NGOs), LAES, LAIA, Mercosur, MIGA, MINURSO, MINUSTAH, MONUSCO, NAM (observer), OAS, OPANAL, OPCW, Pacific Alliance (observer), PCA, UN, UNASUR, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNFICYP, UNIDO, Union Latina, UNISFA, UNMIL, UNMISS, UNOCI, UNWTO, UPU, WCO, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO
National symbol(s): lion;
national colors: red, white, blue
National anthem: name: "Paraguayos, Republica o muerte!" (Paraguayans, The Republic or Death!)
lyrics/music: Francisco Esteban ACUNA de Figueroa/disputed
note: adopted 1934, in use since 1846; officially adopted following its re-arrangement in 1934
Diplomatic representation in the US: chief of mission: Ambassador Manuel Maria CACERES (since 11 January 2019)
chancery: 2400 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20008
telephone: [1] (202) 483-6960 through 6962
consulate(s) general: Los Angeles, Miami, New York
Diplomatic representation from the US: chief of mission: Ambassador Lee MCCLENNY (since 20 February 2018)
embassy: 1776 Avenida Mariscal Lopez, Casilla Postal 402, Asuncion
mailing address: Unit 4711, DPO AA 34036-0001
telephone: [595] (21) 213-715
FAX: [595] (21) 213-728
Landlocked Paraguay has a market economy distinguished by a large informal sector, featuring re-export of imported consumer goods to neighboring countries, as well as the activities of thousands of microenterprises and urban street vendors. A large percentage of the population, especially in rural areas, derives its living from agricultural activity, often on a subsistence basis. Because of the importance of the informal sector, accurate economic measures are difficult to obtain. On a per capita basis, real income has grown steadily over the past five years as strong world demand for commodities, combined with high prices and favorable weather, supported Paraguay's commodity-based export expansion. Paraguay is the fifth largest soy producer in the world. Drought hit in 2008, reducing agricultural exports and slowing the economy even before the onset of the global recession. The economy fell 3.8% in 2009, as lower world demand and commodity prices caused exports to contract. Severe drought and outbreaks of hoof-and-mouth disease in 2012 led to a brief drop in beef and other agricultural exports. Since 2014, however, Paraguay’s economy has grown at a 4% average annual rate due to strong production and high global prices, at a time when other countries in the region have contracted. The Paraguayan Government recognizes the need to diversify its economy and has taken steps in recent years to do so. In addition to looking for new commodity markets in the Middle East and Europe, Paraguayan officials have promoted the country’s low labor costs, cheap energy from its massive Itaipu Hydroelectric Dam, and single-digit tax rate on foreign firms. As a result, the number of factories operating in the country – mostly transplants from Brazil - has tripled since 2014. Corruption, limited progress on structural reform, and deficient infrastructure are the main obstacles to long-term growth. Judicial corruption is endemic and is seen as the greatest barrier to attracting more foreign investment. Paraguay has been adverse to public debt throughout its history, but has recently sought to finance infrastructure improvements to attract foreign investment.
GDP (purchasing power parity): $88.91 billion (2017 est.) $84.87 billion (2016 est.) $81.36 billion (2015 est.)
GDP (official exchange rate): $38.94 billion (2017 est.)
Gross national saving: 18.6% of GDP (2017 est.) 20.9% of GDP (2016 est.) 20% of GDP (2015 est.) GDP - composition, by end use: household consumption: 66.7% (2017 est.) government consumption: 11.3% (2017 est.) investment in fixed capital: 17.3% (2017 est.) investment in inventories: 0.3% (2017 est.) exports of goods and services: 46.6% (2017 est.) imports of goods and services: -42.2% (2017 est.) GDP - composition, by sector of origin: agriculture: 17.9% (2017 est.) industry: 27.7% (2017 est.) services: 54.5% (2017 est.)
Agriculture - products: cotton, sugarcane, soybeans, corn, wheat, tobacco, cassava (manioc, tapioca), fruits, vegetables; beef, pork, eggs, milk; timber
Industries: sugar processing, cement, textiles, beverages, wood products, steel, base metals, electric power
Industrial production growth rate: 2% (2017 est.)
Labor force: 3.428 million (2017 est.)
Labor force - by occupation: agriculture: 26.5%
services: 55% (2008)
Unemployment rate: 5.7% (2017 est.) 6% (2016 est.)
Budget: revenues: 5.524 billion (2017 est.)
expenditures: 5.968 billion (2017 est.)
Current account balance: -$298 million (2017 est.) $416 million (2016 est.)
Exports: $11.73 billion (2017 est.) $10.86 billion (2016 est.)
Exports - commodities: soybeans, livestock feed, cotton, meat, edible oils, wood, leather, gold
Exports - partners: Brazil 31.9%, Argentina 15.9%, Chile 6.9%, Russia 5.9% (2017)
Imports: $11.35 billion (2017 est.) $9.617 billion (2016 est.)
Imports - commodities: road vehicles, consumer goods, tobacco, petroleum products, electrical machinery, tractors, chemicals, vehicle parts
Imports - partners: China 31.3%, Brazil 23.4%, Argentina 12.9%, US 7.4% (2017)
Reserves of foreign exchange and gold: $7.877 billion (31 December 2017 est.) $6.881 billion (31 December 2016 est.)
Debt - external: $17.7 billion (31 December 2017 est.) $16.48 billion (31 December 2016 est.)
Stock of direct foreign investment - at home: $6.235 billion (31 December 2017 est.) $5.276 billion (31 December 2016 est.)
Stock of direct foreign investment - abroad: $705.1 million (31 December 2017 est.) $591.3 million (31 December 2016 est.)
Market value of publicly traded shares: $962.3 million (31 December 2012 est.) $958.1 million (31 December 2011 est.) $42 million (31 December 2010 est.)
Exchange rates: guarani (PYG) per US dollar - 5,628.1 (2017 est.) 5,680.7 (2016 est.) 5,680.7 (2015 est.) 5,160.4 (2014 est.) 4,462.2 (2013 est.)
Electricity - production: 63.13 billion kWh (2016 est.)
Electricity - consumption: 10.9 billion kWh (2016 est.)
Electricity - imports: 0 kWh (2016 est.)
Electricity - installed generating capacity: 8.87 million kW (2016 est.)
Electricity - from fossil fuels: 0% of total installed capacity (2016 est.)
Crude oil - production: 0 bbl/day (2017 est.)
Crude oil - imports: 0 bbl/day (2015 est.)
Crude oil - proved reserves: 0 bbl (1 January 2018 est.)
Refined petroleum products - production: 0 bbl/day (2015 est.)
Refined petroleum products - consumption: 43,000 bbl/day (2016 est.)
Refined petroleum products - exports: 0 bbl/day (2015 est.)
Natural gas - production: 0 cu m (2017 est.)
Natural gas - consumption: 0 cu m (2017 est.)
Natural gas - exports: 0 cu m (2017 est.)
Natural gas - imports: 0 cu m (2017 est.)
Natural gas - proved reserves: 0 cu m (1 January 2014 est.)
Carbon dioxide emissions from consumption of energy: 7.74 million Mt (2017 est.)
Cellular Phones in use: total subscriptions: 7,468,275
Telephone system: general assessment: the fixed-line market is a state monopoly and fixed-line telephone service is meager; principal switching center is in Asuncion; DSL, cable modem, FttP (fiber to the home) and WiMAX technologies available; competition in mobile market among 4 operators; 18 mobile phones for every fixed-line service phone (2018)
domestic: deficiencies in provision of fixed-line service have resulted in a rapid expansion of mobile-cellular services fostered by competition among multiple providers; Internet market also open to competition; fixed-line 4 per 100 and mobile-cellular 108 per 100 (2018)
international: country code - 595; satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean); Paraguay's landlocked position means they must depend on neighbors for interconnection with submarine cable networks, making it cost more for broadband services
Broadcast media: 6 privately owned TV stations; about 75 commercial and community radio stations; 1 state-owned radio network (2019)
Internet country code: .py
Internet users: total: 3,524,045
Airports (paved runways): total 15
914 to 1,523 m: 5 (2017)
914 to 1,523 m: 290 (2013)
Railways: total 30 km
(2014) standard gauge: 30 km 1.435-m gauge (2014)
Roadways: total 74,676 km
(2017) paved: 6,167 km (2017)
Waterways: 3,100 km (primarily on the Paraguay and Paraná River systems) (2012)
Merchant marine: total 80
by type: container ship 3, general cargo 23, oil tanker 6, other 48 (2018) note: as of 2017, Paraguay registered 2,012 fluvial vessels of which 1,741 were commercial barges
river port(s): Asuncion, Villeta, San Antonio, Encarnacion (Parana)
Military branches: Armed Forces Command (Commando de las Fuerzas Militares): Army, National Navy (Armada Nacional, includes Marine Corps, Naval Aviation, and Coast Guard), Paraguayan Air Force (Fuerza Aerea Paraguay, FAP), Logistics Command, War Materiel Directorate (2012)
Military service age and obligation: 18 years of age for compulsory and voluntary military service; conscript service obligation is 12 months for Army, 24 months for Navy; volunteers for the Air Force must be younger than 22 years of age with a secondary school diploma (2012)
Military expenditures: 1.25% of GDP (2016) 1.42% of GDP (2015) 1.29% of GDP (2014) 1.28% of GDP (2013) 1.3% of GDP (2012)
Disputes - International: unruly region at convergence of Argentina-Brazil-Paraguay borders is locus of money laundering, smuggling, arms and illegal narcotics trafficking, and fundraising for violent extremist organizations
Illicit drugs: major illicit producer of cannabis, most or all of which is consumed in Brazil, Argentina, and Chile; transshipment country for Andean cocaine headed for Brazil, other Southern Cone markets, and Europe; weak border controls, extensive corruption and money-laundering activity, especially in the Tri-Border Area; weak anti-money-laundering laws and enforcement
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Growing Together - Rated T to be safe.
Thread starter The Rising Phoenix
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The Rising Phoenix
Lapis Lunaris
Summary: Two Senshi traverse through life's ups and downs. Will they find their way? AU.Thanks to Transmissions From The Moon Tumblr Page for the prompts! I own nothing except the expansion on the characters. Any coincidence is purely that. (Not Usagi/Mamoru based).
I originally wrote these in numerical order. However, I am adding the chapters out of numerical order, as they relate to the overall story.
Please enjoy. Let me know what you think!
~TRP~
Nowhere - 459 Words - Tumblr Prompt #12.
"Where do you think you're going young lady?" Ikuko asked, as Usagi was just about to leave from her bedroom window.
It was midnight. To Ikuko, Usagi was dressed in her rabbit pj set: long sleeve shirt, pants, and socks. Her school shoes were on her feet. The Silver Crystal had disguised Usagi to her family when she was Sailor Moon in the house.
"Mom! Um…." Usagi was absolutely floored in surprise. And downright caught. There was no way to get out of this.
"Get back in that window, this instant." A tired, and disturbed looking Ikuko ordered.
Usagi did as she was asked, but was also just barely distracted by her beeping communicator that would have given her more location details had she raced towards danger.
"Give it to me."
"Give it to me. Now. That cell phone thing."
Usagi was reluctant, but the look in her mother's eyes told her not to try her patience.
Usagi handed her communicator over, and Ikuko flipped it over, switching it off completely.
"You are grounded for a week for attempting to sneak out. You will get this back then."
"But-"
"Usagi, you are on very thin ice right now, don't make it two weeks. Now, why in the world are you sneaking out at midnight, on a school night no less? I'm disappointed and quite frankly surprised. Was this why you were doing so poorly when you were fourteen?"
'No, Mom, I-"
"You were sneaking out at all hours of the night? What to see your friends? Do you have any idea how dangerous it is out there?! For a teenager no less? By yourself? No, you know what? I've changed my mind. You're grounded for two weeks. Home, school, and back. No friends, no arcade."
"Mom, please I-"
"I don't want to hear it tonight, Usagi. We, and your father, will have a very long discussion about this tomorrow after school. You can be sure of that."
"Yes Ma'am."
"Now go back to sleep. You have to be up for school in a few hours." Ikuko left, the communicator firmly in her pocket.
Usagi, as Sailor Moon flopped on her bed. Technically she could still leave, but she didn't trust that her mother wouldn't check in on her now.
Rei was going to kill her.
She concentrated, using the Silver Crystal. "Guys, I can't make it. I got caught by my mother. She's refusing to let me out of the house...There's no way I can help tonight….I'm sorry. Be safe. You've got this."
She hoped, but knew Makoto would be able to keep everyone safe. She always could. If she ever needed backup, Haruka would be right there with her.
For tonight, Usagi was going nowhere.
~*~*~*~*~*~
Chapter 2: Silly - Prompt 13
Silly - 1714 Words - Tumblr Prompt #13
Makoto was up late. It was Friday night. It was Usagi's last night of being grounded. They had already made plans Sunday. Usagi didn't want to seem desperate to her parents. Her dad was furious at finding out she attempted to sneak out in the middle of the night.
Usagi had "admitted" it was to see her friends once her father accused her of sneaking out to see Mamoru. Makoto all out knew Usagi would probably never see the light of day again if Usagi wasn't able to persuade him otherwise.
She was surprised to hear her communicator go off.
"Hey."
"Usagi? What are you-" Makoto was very surprised to see Usagi's face.
"My mom caved and gave this back to me a day early. My Dad is away on business, but I'm still not allowed out tonight."
"Missed you too, Usagi." Makoto chuckled.
"Very funny. So, want to come over?"
"Are you trying to get yourself grounded for a month? It's not your fault, but it's hard enough not fighting with you against youmas."
"Fair enough. And no. But because Dad isn't home to reinforce me being grounded, and Mom gave my communicator back…"
"You think she'll allow me to come over?"
"Uh-huh."
"Usagi, I think you're pushing it. It can wait until tomorrow; Sunday even."
"Didn't you ever want to something daring?"
"Wait wait wait...Are you being rebellious?! Besides, I do daring everyday, when I'm Jupiter."
Makoto was rather fascinated at this side of Usagi, having never pegged her for a rebel.
A few moments passed.
"Touche." Usagi conceded.
"You didn't answer my question, Usagi." Makoto reminded her, absolutely serious.
She saw Usagi hesitate, in consideration of her wants. That was the Usagi she knew more often than not.
"Yes. Tonight anyway."
Color Makoto surprised.
"Why tonight?"
"I don't know….I've just been cooped up. My Mom has me stuck home tomorrow for chores and food shopping...Sunday is too far away."
"You really want me to come over that badly?"
"Please?" Makoto saw her big blue eyes, pleading.
"What's your cover story?" Makoto smiled internally. She wasn't phased.
"What?" Usagi hadn't thought of that.
"Your cover story. I doubt I'll be in and out in five minutes Usagi. You need a cover story." Makoto leaned against the kitchen counter. She wanted to see Usagi, but she wasn't about to let her be grounded for longer than she had been.
She saw Usagi sigh. "I'll think of one. I'll probably have it by the time you get here."
"Save yourself the trouble, think of one now."
"Well?"
"You're not going to help me?"
"Nope."
Usagi sighed. A few moments more, and Makoto heard Usagi groan.
"I can't think of one...I don't know...Just that you needed to come over, you had something important to tell me."
"I don't like it...But, it'll have to do for now. But if we get caught, I had only been there for less than five minutes. I'd actually like to see you help us in battle at some point next week."
"Deal."
"You owe me. Big time."
"I am forever in your debt."
"Uh-huh. Sure you are. Look, it's 10:30, I assume you want me over now?"
"Actually, give it another hour to be safe. Mom tends to go to bed a little later on Friday and Saturdays."
Makoto shook her head. "See you at your window."
"You're the best!" Usagi said, hanging up.
11:30pm came, and Makoto found herself lightly rapping on Usagi's window. Happily, Luna had been with Artemis and Mina that night. She also wasn't happy that Usagi had been caught, but realized it wasn't her fault and was grateful for Usagi keeping her identity secret.
"Hey, come on in." Usagi whispered as she opened her window, allowing Makoto in.
Makoto had no idea why she was encouraging Usagi's unusual behavior - having brought sweets with her.
Perhaps her own mini rebellious side finally found the spark, potentially awakening the dormant "I do what I want" side of Makoto.
Makoto quickly shook her head. She's worked too damn hard to get where she is today to go that far backwards.
"You do realize, you're dead meat when you get caught, right?"
"If, I get caught, Makoto. If." A mischievous smile graced Usagi's face.
'We're in a boat load of trouble if this streak continues any longer than tonight...But damn this side is *very* interesting...I'll have to ask Pluto if there's some alternate reality where I can see how this would play out if Usagi continues as the Rebel…' Makoto thought, an unintentional smile graced her own face.
"What?" Usagi asked.
"Huh? Oh nothing. Just thinking."
"Of?"
"Of...How you'll pay me back for coming over…"
Usagi looked almost deflated, until she noticed the smile and brief sarcasm in Makoto's' words, betraying any seriousness Usagi thought she had.
"Mean."
"Not mean."
"Fine."
Makoto rolled her eyes, and lightly tossed a pillow at Usagi, who yelped briefly, quickly covering her mouth as to not disturb her mother.
"Shh!" Makoto admonished, a look of shock, and for them both to freeze written on her face...Along with a smile with throwing the pillow.
"You were the one who threw the pillow at me." Usagi whispered harshly.
Makoto chuckled.
Usagi glared, but shook her head. They hadn't been caught.
"So, what did you have planned?" Makoto asked.
"Movie night?"
Makoto yawned. Okay, but just one, then I'm going back home. I'm tired...And I'll see you on Sunday. What are we watching anyway?"
"Ever After." Usagi replied, as she sat against the pillows and headboard on her bed, leaving enough room for Makoto.
'Damnit! She knows me too well.'
The one movie Makoto would always watch when it was on TV, even though she owed it.
"Fine." Makoto relented, sitting up next to Usagi.
They had both made it halfway through the movie. Usagi had dozed off first, even though Makoto was the more tired of the two. Makoto dozed off too at some point, having missed a minor piece of the movie.
Makoto was barely awake by the time the movie ended. Usaig had been out cold for the last 15 minutes on her right shoulder. At some point they had drawn the comforter over them, both having forgotten to close the window enough.
Makoto carefully moved Usagi off her shoulder, and just as carefully slipped out from the covers. Except what Makoto didn't count on was Usagi's arms had managed to warp around her waist. Makoto didn't feel it at first because of the blankets until she stood up and started to walk towards the window.
She fell to the floor, bringing Usagi with her.
Both yelped in surprise.
Usagi blinked, startling awake. But she wasn't scared.
She looked in front of her, at Makoto's face bathed in the moonlight.
Usagi found herself starting to laugh hysterically. Makoto found herself laughing, along with Usagi, whose laughter became contagious.
"Shh...We're going...to get caught…" Makoto tried quiet her laughter.
Usagi was still hysterical, but calmed down enough to only giggle hysterically instead of boisterous laughter.
"Usagi..." Ikuko swung her door open with a growl, annoyed.
All giggles immediately stopped, sucked out by the older woman, the hallway light shining behind her.
"Mom. I-"
"I'm so sorry to have woken you, Mrs. Tsukino. It's my fault. I was having a really rough day...I begged Usagi to come over. I knew she was grounded-she even reminded me as much...But I just showed up; just now. She let me in. She suggested a movie to - "
Ikuko held a hand up.
"Makoto, dear. Please don't lie this late at night. I know my daughter. I've seen her go stir crazy the past two weeks. I know it was her. Admittedly, even I"m surprised at her recent display of disobedience." Ikuko gave a small knowing smile.
"Please don't keep her grounded…" Makoto asked.
Ikuko leaned against Usagi's doorframe.
"Makoto. I know you've been here for at least an hour."
Makoto took a cautious glance at Usagi, whose eyes were like saucers, attempting to comprehend the true depths of the possible consequences.
"How…?" Usagi dared ask as she somehow managed to find her voice.
Ikuko shook her head and gave a small smile. "You two were out cold by that point. I came to check on Usagi when I heard the movie after getting some water, and found the two of you. I turned off your table lamp."
"Makoto, stay the rest of the night. It's too late to go home now...Usagi, next time you want to shave one day off of your grounding - whether your Dad is home or not, just ask okay?"
"Wait, what?" Usaig asked.
"She's...she's not grounded, again...or still I suppose?" Makoto practically regretted this question as soon as it came out of her mouth.
"Why?" Usagi whispered.
'Of all the questions...That's worse than mine!' Makoto thought.
Ikuko sighed. "Because, I've never seen you work harder for what you wanted from yourself over the past few months, and even tonight. This piece of...rebellion...is normal. Even with children who are very well behaved...like you are...Like you both are."
"Now go back to sleep. It's late." Ikuko said, as she turned around to leave.
"Mom?"
"Yes?"
"Thanks. I love you."
"I love you too." Ikuko replied, smiling. She left, closing Usagi's door.
What Ikuko didn't say was, that she saw that on some level, for whatever reason still unknown to her, or the girls for that matter - they needed each other.
Both girls sighed in relief.
As Makoto stood, Usagi stopped her.
"Wati...Makoto...WHy did you cover for me like that? You said you weren't going to...Why...with, well that reason?"
Makoto shrugged. It wasn't a big deal to her. "I changed my mind."
"But...why?"
Makoto shrugged again. "Because you would have done the exact same thing for me."
"That's all there is to it?" Usagi asked, more to herself than Makoto.
"Yes. It's as easy as that." Makoto replied with a smile, shaking Usagi out of her thoughts.
With Usagi smiling in return, they got back into bed, and rewound the movie to start from the beginning.
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Chapter 3: Imagination - 256 Words - Tumblr Prompt #7
"It is with great honor that this council is pleased to introduce to you her royal highness: Queen Makoto."
Usagi smiled widely as she saw Makoto appear in an emerald gown, with crystal and light pink accents around her waist.
Her typical high ponytail was instead an elegant bun with two brunette tendrils framing her face. She wore her classic pink rose earrings and an accented green eyeshadow.
Makoto had a beautiful emerald encrusted silver crown atop her head.
Usagi couldn't be prouder at Makoto's inauguration announcement.
It was then Makoto reached for Usagi's hand, pulling her up alongside her. Usagi pulled back a bit, unsure of why she's being welcomed beside Makoto.
"It is with great honor that this council is pleased to introduce to you her royal highness: both as Queens of the Moon and of Jupiter: Queen Makoto and Queen Usagi!"
The crowd Usagi had been with erupted in applause.
"Huh?" Usagi questioned.
Makoto giggles. "Usagi…"
"Usagi…."
"Usagi?"
"What?" Usagi said, blinking rapidly as a hand waved in front of her face.
"Usagi, where did you go?"
Usagi looked around. She was still at the arcade with Makoto at lunch before heading back to school. She was finishing her chocolate milkshake.
"Oh..Sorry. Too much sugar had me drift off I guess...Sorry." She replies with a slight blush.
It's not like that was going to happen. Where did that even come from, or why?
Makoto simply smiled and shook her head. She enjoyed watching Usagi get lost in her own imagination, and then try to think of a cover-up story.
Chapter 4: Never - Prompt #4 - 315 Words
"Seiya, I do not love you, nor have any romantic feelings for you. I'm sorry."
This was becoming more constant than Usagi would have liked. Mamoru had been in the States for a few months now, and Seiya had not been taking no for an answer.
"Usagi, please. I know you do."
"Seiya, please. Do not tell me how I feel. I know how I feel. I do not feel that way for you. Only friendship."
"Please, Usagi, if you only give me the chance, I can prove to you that I am better than Mamoru."
"If that's your overall goal, than you've already blown your chance with me before you could start."
"But he left you. For school! Who does that?"
"How dare you scoff at one's pursuits of a higher education to make his career dreams of being a doctor come true!"
Seiya glared.
"You are not better than him Seiya. There's no competition! If you keep acting this way, and IF there was one, consider yourself already disqualified."
Seiya blocked her path. "Seiya, get out of my way." Usagi demanded.
"Surely you have five minutes to spare."
"Actually, I do not." Usagi started to walk away again, until Seiya grabbed her arm.
"Seiya. Let go. Now. Consider this strike 2. Do not come near me anytime soon - even in battle. You will maintain your distance around me - and my friends. Got it?"
Seiya released her. "If I have to, I will do all that I can to prove to you that we're meant to be together."
"Don't bother. I don't know how I can be any clearer. We will never be together." Usagi thought about apologizing again, but she decided against it.
Usagi walked away, leaving a frustrated Seiya wondering where he went wrong.
This was the first time Makoto or even Haruka wasn't with her.
She really wished they were.
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Chapter 5: Itch - Prompt 10 - 916 Words
Usagi found herself having finished her homework. She was bored. She had been making a change for the better over time. She thought of everyone she could ask to hang out with, but found herself only wanting to spend time with just one.
Meanwhile across town, Makoto had finished her shift at the Arcade. Motoki had put in a good word for her, to her surprise, with a friend of his who worked at one of the evening restaurants. She had an interview tomorrow.
She couldn't wait to tell her friends, one in particular.
She gave thought for a moment, looking at the time, and thinking of what day it had been. Makoto realized it had been three weeks since Usagi's mom had caught her sneaking out of the house at midnight, and one week since her mother had caught Makoto in Usagi's room after Usagi had encouraged her to sneak over. Usagi was no longer grounded, but had decided to stay home just to reassure her parents.
Makoto smiled, and grabbed her communicator, ringing Usagi.
"Hey Makoto, what's up?"
"You busy?"
"Just finished homework, why?"
"Up for meeting me at my place?"
"Sure! Let me ask my parents. I don't think I'll be able to stay long though." She sounded a little disappointed.
"That's okay." Makoto didn't care how long Usagi stayed, so long as she was there. Usagi wanted to stay a little longer though.
Neither could understand this invisible pull to the other though.
Usagi had rang her back a few minutes later, saying she was on her way.
Arriving about 10 minutes later, Makoto would have been lying if she had said she wasn't worried about Usagi during that time. She offered to walk Usagi, and go together. But Usagi said there was no need and that she was fine.
Though, had you asked Usagi, she would have been lying if she said she didn't feel comforted more often by not with Makoto's offer, or constant protection.
Letting Usagi in, Makoto had already set out two cups of tea on the coffee table by the couch.
"Makoto? Are you okay?"
While Makoto was certainly hospitable, she typically didn't have tea ready to go unless she needed to talk about something.
"Yes...A little nervous, but otherwise okay."
"What's wrong? Why are you nervous?"
Makoto smiled. Usagi, always made sure her friends were okay. She hoped Usagi would never lose that about her. Likewise, Usagi hoped Makoto never lost her willingness to fight for the little guy; or to protect those who needed it the most.
Both looked at the other ever so briefly in admiration of what they hoped the other would never lose or give up on. They both hoped the other wouldn't notice, but did not understand why.
Usagi sat on the couch, waiting Makoto's information.
"So...Motoki decided to...push my career forward if you will."
"What do you mean?"
"He spoke to a friend of his who works in one of the restaurants...I've got an interview tomorrow."
"Makoto that's fantastic! I'm so happy for you!" Makoto loved how Usagi's smile lit up her eyes. 'Why does her being happy mean so much?!'
Usagi sensed Makoto's hesitation.
"...But you're not? Makoto...You've got this! Is it one of the application/resume type interviews or demonstration ones?"
"Demonstration...And I'm really nervous...I don't even know what they're going to ask me to cook for them!"
"Makoto…" Usagi restrained herself from reaching out to take Makoto's hands in hers. 'Why do I want to feel her hands in mine so much?'
"Look, you're extremely talented. Presentation will be a non-issue. Everything you serve always looks beautiful. You could cater for weddings one day if you really wanted! As for food...Whatever they ask, I know you can do. Whatever you do not know, you'll learn and you'll learn it quickly. You'll learn to refine what you may not be as good with now, improve what you do know, and probably learn something entirely different. They'll love to hear about your passion for this; your passion to learn more and gain knowledge. You will do great."
Makoto wanted to cry. "Thanks."
"And I better be the first one other than maybe Motoki to know how it went once your done!"
Makoto outright laughed. "I promise, you will! You will be the first one I call."
"Good."
Usagi found herself staring at Makoto. She enjoyed seeing the confidence in her eyes. Usagi knew Makoto was talented, as did Makoto, but like now, Makoto had her doubts.
Makoto was truly working towards her dream.
It's often a scary thing to do.
"What?" Makoto asked.
'Oops.' Usagi gave a slight blush, having been caught staring. "Sorry. Got carried away thinking about your name plastered on billboards, television and movie ads encouraging the world to go to your restaurant…"
Makoto smiled, a wistful look in her eyes, thinking of her own big dream of owning her own restaurant. "One step at at time Usagi. Let's see how tomorrow goes first okay?"
"It will go smashingly good!"
Makoto shook her head. "You have got to stop hanging around Mina so much."
The two dissolved into giggles as they finished their tea.
Before leaving, Makoto had grabbed Usagi's hand, needing to feel a physical connection to her. "Thanks, Usagi. For everything."
However, even this small gesture was no longer enough for Usagi, who launched herself into Makoto's arms. "Anytime, Makoto. Whenever you need."
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Chapter #6 - Nudge - 1487 Words - Tumblr Prompt #24
Haruka was on a mission.
One vastly different from her duties as a Senshi.
Haruka also recruited Michiru in this mission. It didn't take much convincing though.
Haruka met Makoto in the park.
"What did you need to speak to me about?"
Then, Haruka jumped up the tree branches, indicating Makoto to follow her.
Haruka had been observing them for months. They weren't dancing around things, but didn't know how to move forward.
"Sorry we're up here. FIgured we'd get the most privacy."
Makoto looked at her, a bit confused.
"So, how long?" Haruka wasn't cutting corners, getting straight to the point.
Makoto blinked. "How long for what?"
"How long have you liked her?" Haruka replied, a smile to her lips, and a quick sparkle in her eyes.
"How long have you liked Usagi?"
Makoto looked around, not necessarily to see who had overheard, just simply because she was so unprepared for the question.
Makoto blushed deeply, ducking her head.
"How did you-"
Haruka laughed.
"Makoto...You guys are both so obvious. Especially to me and Michiru. And it's perfectly okay. Trust me, we see it. The looks, the glances, the almost over-protectiveness...The not wanting to be away from her for longer than a normal school class."
"You're not even in our school."
"No, but Hotaru is."
"You brought Hotaru into this?"
"No. She told us on her own."
Makoto sighed. "It doesn't matter."
"Why not?" Haruka asked, concerned and sympathetic. She was almost flabbergasted.
How could this not matter?
"Because...she doesn't feel the same."
"Oh yes she does." Haruka couldn't be more confident.
"How do you know?"
"Hotaru, remember? She sees the same things Michiru and I do. Plus because of your differing instructors, she's able to spend more time with Usagi than you."
"So...How long have you liked her?" Haruka prodded. The rare older teenage side of her poking out.
"Haruka….Okay fine...At least a month or two...Maybe longer. I don't really know. The need to protect her was always there since we first met. The friendship developed quickly...She didn't care about my past or my past reputation...She actually cared more about my food...But even she said it was because I saved her from three goons that morning was what drew her to me. The fact that I could cook was a bonus if you ask her. But, I don't know how things are on her end...But my feelings...increased as we kept fighting enemy after enemy...Her resilience, her drive, her willing to fight for the greater good...Even when she was fighting for Hotaru..."
Makoto shook her head. "Yet...yet, she doesn't even see that being Sailor Moon has nothing to do with any of this. It's all about her own light, her own damn will that is so strong beyond what any of us could comprehend…And the thing is, any small recognition she does acknowledge, it's like she brushes it aside, not in a 'it's not important' way, but in a 'there's still more to do, more to fight for, let's keep fighting for good.' sort of way."
"That's Usagi for you." Haruka agreed.
"But how do we make her see this? Any of it?"
"Well...Do what I did with you: give her a nudge."
"Hmm...I think I will. I'll think on that one."
"Now, back to this: let's figure out how to nudge the two of you together."
"Do you think she'll really want that?" Makoto asked, a rare look of uncertainty; unconfidence in her green eyes.
Haruka smiled, a mischievous glint in her navy eyes.
"Positive. Besides, Michiru is with her now."
Meanwhile, back at the house, Michiru had asked Usagi over for lunch.
After eating and small talk, Usagi had found herself looking out the window.
She had looked at Michiru's vast amount of string instruments; her violin, and a cello that rested in the corner. Her fingers gracefully touched the instruments.
"When did you realize?" Michiru softly asked.
"Huh?" Usagi turned out Michiru, drawn out of her own thoughts.
"When did you realize your feelings for Makoto?"
Michiru giggled at Usagi's deep blush. "It's alright, Usagi. It's nothing to be ashamed of."
"It just feels…"
"Weird?"
Usagi took a cautious glance at Michiru, not wanting to cause offense.
"Totally normal at first. You're simply trying to figure out your feelings. It's going to be awkward. But eventually you'll figure it out."
"That obvious?"
"To 'Ruka and I? You bet...To everyone else other than Hotaru, they're oblivious."
Usagi gave a soft sigh of relief.
Usagi was hesitant.
"You can tell me Usagi. There's no judgement here. All I am going to do is listen."
"When I first met her, saving me from those guys...it was instant...like...for lack of a better phrase, a bolt of lightning...She saved me, and while that is probably not the best reason to form a friendship, it happened. She was tough, strong...unafraid...But possessed a gentle side that radiated through to me. I was also fascinated by her earrings."
"Then when she was at school, she was just...alone. Everyone was afraid of her, and the rumor mill about her reputation lit up like a wildfire...Yet, yet I felt like I was the only one to see beyond it. Pretty stupid huh? Over one encounter hours prior, me, I saw all of that? I must be crazy." Usagi continued, with a frustrated sigh.
"Actually, you couldn't have been more on point, Usagi."
"Yeah, now."
"And if you didn't see that within her, if you didn't sit next to her at lunch on her first day, do you think any of us would have known her, or seen who she really was? - Senshi aside - Do you think she would be who she is today without that one instance of unadulterated grace from you?" Michiru pointed out.
"I suppose not."
"No, I know not."
"How?
"Simple. 'Ruka and Makoto are so much more alike than anyone really notices."
"Is that why they tend to disagree?"
"It's because of their similarities that they disagree - it's like arguing against a mirror. They both feel right, but when the exact same suggestion is given by the other, it's takes on a different form - they hear it not only within themselves but someone else and begin to question themselves, just a little...But it's also why they get along. It's why they are good partners in battle. I'd even say that right behind you, they are the first ones in and last ones out."
"Hmm…" Usagi gave this some thought. She saw the similarities between the two Sky Princesses.
"Now back to you."
Usagi sighed.
"When did your feelings go beyond friendship?"
"I don't know...I just found myself wanting to be near her all the time...I'm not sure if I craved the protective feeling she always gave me or what...But…"
"But what?"
"It's silly…"
"Usagi, you're talking to me here. I'm with 'Ruka. I'm sure anything you're going through now, we've already been through, and then some. Nothing will surprise me."
"My...my imagination, my dreams even have been playing tricks on me."
"Oh." Michiru replied, her eyes widening, eyebrows bouncing.
"You said you wouldn't be surprised! And no, it's not like that!"
Michiru laughed heartedly.
"I'm teasing Usagi, keep going. Please."
"Well, it's the only one so far...But I've had this dream where I'm watching Makoto be crowned as Queen of Jupiter...but then she's said to be Queen of the Moon too...and she's leading me up to the thones with her…We're both rulers; both Queens...Together."
Michiru had a serene, wistful look to her face. "Sounds romantic."
"Michiru…" Usagi said, sounding a bit annoyed, and embarrassed. 'You're not helping…"
Michiru laughed.
"Besides, none of that will happen."
"Says who?"
"Me...Or her. Why would she feel the same about me? Please tell me because I would like to know."
"I love you both, but she'd be stupid if she didn't."
Usagi gave a glare.
"Usagi, Haruka, myself, and Hotaru all see it. She feels the same. I think you two are in a place where you're not quite sure how to admit it to each other yet."
"I've barely admitted it to myself."
"Exactly."
"So? How do you feel about her? Not what, but how?"
"Like...LIke…" Usagi trailed off with a shrug of her shoulders. An unsure, almost sad look seemed to fill Usagi's eyes at not having the words to express what she felt.
Michiru smiled. "Like she has taken ahold of your heart in her hands and you never want her to let it go?"
Something in Usagi's mind clicked.
That's exactly what she wanted.
"Yes." Came the whisper as a tear fell from the corner of Usagi's eye, as she leaned her head against the window pane, still doubtful of Makoto's feelings.
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Chapter 7: Flowers - 360 Words - Tumblr Prompt #14
Roses. Red and white. They were beautiful. Usagi inhaled their scent.
She placed them on her window sill a few days ago. Usagi managed to keep them almost perfectly fresh.
Mamoru sent them. He had been in the States for the past six months.
Usagi missed him greatly. It was hard to see him go, but she was truly happy for him.
They had both wanted to give him the opportunity to not only pursue his career, but love.
Lately, Usagi had been having serious issues with their relationship, as she worried it really was only based on past lives, and potential destinies.
She wanted Mamoru to write his own.
Usagi ended up letting him go.
Mamoru was a bit broken hearted, but also asked about ChibiUsa. Usagi looked him in the eyes, and said that if ChibiUsa was meant to be, then they would all figure out a way to bring her into this world - a way that would work best for everyone, including any significant others either person may have, after Mamoru graduated medical school.
Hearing her name from her mother downstairs, Usagi went down to find another bouquet of flowers. Assuming they were from Mamoru again, she went back up to her room.
They were of blue and red roses. Odd choice in color, but Usagi liked them. She searched for the note, only to find it taped the very bottom of the vase.
"My dearest Usagi, may these flowers find you well and let you remember me when you look at them; when you inhale their exhilarating scent. - Seiya."
Usagi dropped them in the trashcan by her desk.
Seiya had been a very aggravating thorn in her side almost as soon as Mamoru left town.
He moved on from creepy to stalker-like behavior.
He had previously sent letters prior to the flowers, except they were so intermittent, Usagi worried it wouldn't warrant any action.
Usagi hadn't told anyone about her physical confrontation with Seiya, but now she's rethinking that decision.
The only flowers she would treasure were the ones given by Mamoru.
Usagi opened her communicator to call the one person she knew would always answer...
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Chapter 8: Scrumptious - 421 Words - Tumblr Prompt #8.
Usagi busied herself with the recipe. She'd slowly become better at baking, paying more attention to her mother, and showing some interest.
When her mother asked who it was for, Usagi said she wanted to do something nice for a friend.
Usagi hoped both her mother and the recipient would be proud of her. She really hoped things tasted good. She did exactly as the recipe instructed and used the observations of both her mother and her friends.
Usagi tasted a smaller one, left a few for Haruka, and left two for her mother before putting the rest of the brownies in a rabbit eared lunch bag before leaving for the park.
Sitting under the large oak tree, she waited.
When Makoto approached, Usagi's nerves settled. She'd always had a calming effect on Usagi.
Greeting the other, Usagi simply handed the bag to Makoto. Makoto opened it, and was surprised by the gesture.
"What's this?"
"It's just to say thanks. For everything...And I hope you like them…" What didn't need to be said was what everything was, specifically who.
Seiya had been a constant nuisance since Mamoru had left a few months ago. Between the rare altercations, and the gifts Usagi had been receiving, she had stuck close to her two tallest friends, her soldiers of the sky.
Usagi was comforted that they appointed themselves her personal bodyguards, even though she felt a bit guilty. But upon learning that he went from an annoying fungus to stalker-like behavior, they insisted and wouldn't take any argument. Telling her parents, they then began the process of a restraining order simply for safety.
Makoto smiled, one that reached her eyes. She hadn't been smiling that much lately. But Usagi couldn't figure out why.
Makoto wasn't up for talking about things. But Usagi understood that when Makoto was ready to talk, she would.
And Makoto understood that when she was ready to talk, Usagi would be there.
Usagi hoped it wasn't because of her; wasn't her that made Makoto not so happy or not yet willing to talk. Usagi hoped she was inconspicuous with her slowly deepening feelings for the taller brunette.
So far she found out she was successful. Except with Haruka and Michiru.
The only issue was, if Makoto didn't feel the same, Usagi had best figure out how to live with and move on from her feelings.
Usagi was surprised at how good Makoto thought the brownies were.
Apparently 'scrumptious' was the word Makoto felt described Usagi's success.
Usagi felt better.
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Chapter 9: Saturday - 392 Words - Tumblr Prompt #9.
"I want to be better. I want to learn how to fight."
"You know how to fight."
"I want to be better...More coordinated...I know you could help me do that."
It was Noon. Makoto was on lunch, having finished up her morning classes teaching 5-17 year olds in various groups between 8a-12pm.
Makoto looked at Usagi. Usagi was serious. Her eyes were almost begging. She really wanted to learn.
Apparently Usagi had read some books on martial arts, even telling Makoto some of what she had learned.
"It will not be easy."
"I don't expect it to be easy. I know it will be hard. I know it will take a lot of commitment. I am ready, and prepared to do that. Even if it's a little at a time for our schedules; even if it's once a week...Then we can increase it. I need to be better."
"For who?"
"All of us...And me."
"Why?" Makoto asked, skeptical, thought not doubtful of her reasoning. She simply wanted to know why this was happening so suddenly.
It was then that Usagi failed to meet her eyes.
She sighed. "It was because everyone's words had gotten to me...I am a klutz and if I can't grow out of it, then at least let me work to use it to my own advantage in battle...And while I know I can't let anyone else define my success...I just want to show them and myself I can do it, that I can be better at something...Even show that I at least gave an effort."
Makoto saw the desire and seriousness in Usagi's eyes.
"What are you doing for the rest of today and next weekend?"
"I'm free."
Makoto smiled.
"Not anymore. Starting today, and every Saturday from 1-4 you and I will train."
Usagi smiled. "Wait, you can do that? This space is free to use?"
Makoto laughed. "I'm the owner, remember? I can do what I want. Besides, I was looking to fill the time anyway. I think some one-on-one training will be good for you. Haruka may even stop by; she's known to do so from time to time in the afternoons."
Usagi smiled back. "Thanks, Makoto."
Makoto soon tossed a gi towards her. "Let's first eat, then change into your gi. We'll start at one."
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Apologies in advance if this seems off compared to the others. I wrote the prompts themselves in the numerical order that they appeared.
This is one of my favorite pieces. I hope you like it.
Tomorrow - 183 Words - Tumblr Prompt #1.
Tomorrow was it.
Tomorrow was the day.
Usagi was going to do it.
She kept gathering her courage.
Day after day.
But then her eyes again fell on the one who made her heart beat faster, harder, and swell with love.
Usagi continued to chicken out.
Talking herself out of the words that constantly swirled in her head.
Days where she even talked herself out of her own feelings.
Feelings that Michiru had confronted her on when she invited Usagi for lunch at her place.
Feelings Usagi had been afraid to not only admit to herself, but to anyone else.
Tomorrow she would state how she truly felt.
Tomorrow she hoped her feelings were reciprocated.
Tomorrow she would not talk herself out of things.
Tomorrow she would not self-deprecate or tell herself she was being foolish.
Tomorrow she would declare her...love?
Perhaps that was too much too soon.
Usagi settled into bed, rubbing her nervous stomach.
Tomorrow she would put her own heart on the line and hope it did not end in heartbreak.
Tomorrow she would tell Makoto.
Chapter 11: Answers - 234 Words - Tumblr Prompt #3.
The words of affection filtered through my ears.
It wasn't expected.
None of this.
However it was wanted, hoped for, wished for even.
And I cannot believe I stood here now, having it all come true.
It would probably not come without its challenges.
Different wants, desires, needs…
But with love at this relationship's roots, we could probably survive anything.
We've survived much worse after all.
I was still processing the lovely words that graced my ears.
I was very fortunate.
While I was by no means wealthy, this admission of fondness, of beginning romantic feelings made my life that much richer.
I looked back at Usagi. Her face was an almost embarrassed, deep blush, but looked pensive. Her declaration also left her eyes a bit glassy with unshed tears-which I had a feeling would soon fall either way.
I have the feeling she worried the same things I did - specifically if I returned her feelings.
I gently took her slightly shaking hands, and pulled her into a hug.
"Thank you for telling me. Yes, I feel the same way." I felt my shoulder dampen.
"Really?" Usagi asked, suddenly even more unsure of anything she or I just said.
Usagi looked up at the one person who always protected her without a second thought.
"I'm really happy to hear that. I worried you wouldn't feel the same…I'm excited for the adventures to come, Makoto.
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Today's Lit Quote
Posted by TS at 11:22 AM 6 comments:
Gotta Meet that DUI Quota
I got a star on my car and one on my chest,
A gun on my hip and the right to arrest
I'm the guy who's the boss on this highway
So watch out what you're doin' when you're drivin' my way
If you break the law, you'll hear from me, I know
I'm a-workin' for the state, I'm The Highway Patrol
- Junior Brown song
So dinner with Bob* last night at "The Levee", a little Cajun cooking hole-in-the-wall praised by the Bass Brothers on the local radio station 610AM. I shied away from gustatory boldness and got a chicken burrito (which was delicious).
Afterwards we headed to Macs saloon for a couple of beers, literally two for me, but only one for Bob. He of the small bladder went to the bathroom at 7:15 but then finds, on the ride home at 8, that he has to go again. Badly. There is no where to stop. He waits and waits through the hour ride until, 3 minutes from home, he knows he'll have an accident in the car. He takes a side road, pulls over to the shoulder, then finds his car on a decline. He puts the breaks on but the car is still inching forward, at about 1 mile per hour. He ends up in a ditch and can't get out. He goes to pee, then comes back to the car. He calls home and asks his wife to get a tow truck. A local police officer comes by and talks with sympathetically. The state highway patrol apparently hears the local officer calling into the station (apparently monitoring that frequency) and radios the local officer to hold Bob. About an hour later up walks the highway patrolman like he's God's gift to the world. "What happened?" he snarls, and Bone tells him. He says, "I don't believe you. Look at these tire tracks - I think you loss control of the vehicle and drove over the ditch. And I don't believe you had one beer - how come you smell so bad?" So Bob had to go through all the humiliating rituals, hopping on one leg, eye exercises, reciting alphabets, etc. Finally the cop says he'd let him go, but said he still doesn't believe his story. "If there were one scratch on that car I'd have written you up for reckless op." Another law-abiding citizen treated like a common criminal.
* - Name changed to protect the innocent.
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Saw an old black man in deepest Hamilton, Ohio on Christmas Eve, his face like a topographical map of age and wisdom, walking not far from a corner Mom & Pop grocery, his hands clutching a brown paper bag which presumably held a 40-ounce beer or a bottle of vino. It was about 4 pm, and I instantly saw him as alone, but then/now think he could have a wife or son or daughter and was merely buying something to share with them. But somehow I doubt it. Kinda sad.
I like what St. Patrick's does to honor the "already and not yet-ness" of the Advent season: they put up Mary, Joseph, the shepherds and kings but no baby Jesus until the actual day. Next time I'll have to do that although admittedly the baby is hardly noticeable on our mantle. But I would know he's not yet there. I like the idea of the manger scene being up during Advent because it keeps the goal in mind: the Incarnation. There's no question that Advent & Christmas are my favorite liturgical seasons, by far. Lent reminds me of suffering, His and my own tiny amount, while Easter seems always of a false cheer quality, a premature celebration given our own lack of resurrected bodies. Ordinary time is, well, a tad ordinary, albeit there's nothing ordinary about the Mass and Eucharist of course! But Advent and Christmas? Pure bliss. I think if this season came in January I'd be slightly more a fan of that dastardly cold month!
Last night saw the movie "The Descendants" starring George Clooney and the Hawaiian land/seascape. Rather dismal despite the latter and was universally panned by those who saw it, although it did hold our interest.
Today or tomorrow would be a good day to go to Darby Metro Park. I recall walking the long path up to the place where wild deer, once in a blue moon, might be seen, walking those steep-raked hills like ghosts. The surprise of seeing the unexpected in nature recalls the spiritual surprise of seeing God in the quotidian.
Mornings are not broken when it comes to vacation mornings. I enjoy the pacific tendency of early to bed/late to rise. I gather breakfast in a leisurely fashion, sometimes as late as 10:30. Today we had a guy drive down from Cleveland to put in an alarm system. I found it alarming, to say the least, when every time you open a door you hear a loud "ding, ding!". Fortunately Steph read the owner's manual and was able to soften that down to a dull roar.
Heather King had a guest blogger yesterday. That's usually English for "you can skip this post." But the priest was so incredibly in my comfort zone talking about comfort zones; I was simultaneously encouraged and discouraged, encouraged that even a priest has such issues but discouraged that my own laziness and love of creature comforts was so nakedly exposed.
So now I listen to more of Josh Groban's hymns of Christmas because I haven't heard any since the morning of the 25th. Like the flip of a switch, the radio stations have determined Christmas season over. They who so assiduously and early announced to us Christmas now announce it done (since no more gifts are being purchased), thus skewing the twelve days of Christmas to Dec. 13-25. Got to go to the iPod as a corrective.
It's not widely known, but December 26th is also known as "National Introvert Recovery Day".
One of the great ways to pass long drives is to listen to downloaded Brian Lamb's C-Span podcasts. Enjoyed the author Simon Winchester's hour-long interview, he of "The Professor and the Madman" fame, a book I've long thought about reading.
They Almost Fell On Their Swords
I was amused by the abrupt about-face down by the Boehner's crew. Even I, a political novice, knew that protesting a two-month extension of the payroll tax isn't a good place to spend your political capital.
I'm thinking the House Republicans wouldn't make good poker players. They'd raise the pot while holding a pair of deuces. God love 'em, they go around looking for Pickett charges: places to die politically. I don't get why they wanted to make their stand in what is a short-term conservative victory (two months extension of payroll tax cut, I think - I don't much follow politics closely enough but still feel the need to holler.) What makes the tea party particularly fascinating is the political tone-deafness. It's their nemesis and their saving grace all at once. They show it's not "business as usual" by never having read a political science book. They don't play the "gotcha" games of D.C, so they get had by the Dems nearly every time. They don't want to be good at both politics AND policy, as if the two are mutually exclusive.
Power and the Flesh
There's a liberal priest who blogs and who is avidly followed by a family member. The priest recently criticized the pope obliquely by comparing him, unfavorably, with the average CEO. Our numbers aren't improving - Christians make up only about 17% of the world's population - therefore our "CEO" isn't doing his job. This is false on so many levels, beginning with the fact that we look without when we should be looking within, but even given that I don't think we can measure our success with numbers. And I think it's because we are confused about power, as said so eloquently by far and away the best priest blogger I'm aware of, the Friar Minor:
Reflecting on Christmas, and especially our Holy Father's Christmas homily in which St. Francis plays such a part, I've been thinking about contemporary disbelief in God and how maybe it relates to our wrong ideas of power.
Perhaps part of what makes it so hard for folks to believe in God--and even for us religious folks, sometimes, to act as if he exists--is that we are confused about power. God is the Almighty; he is the infinite creative power that made the heavens and the earth and sustains all things in being. And yet, when the Almighty God is revealed to us, what do we get? First, a baby born not only in an obscure place but away from home, to plain parents, and into an ethnic group that was--at least at that time--historically important by no accepted standard. Second, a tortured and convicted criminal being executed on the cross. Christ crucified could not even move his hands and feet, much less control anything or make anybody do anything. And yet these are the privileged revelations of the all-powerful, Almighty God.
Perhaps when we talk about power we are too often talking about what is really the abuse of power, the leverage or ability to manipulate and coerce, to make others conform to our will, to co-opt others into the disorders of our hearts and the futility of our sins.
In Jesus Christ the highest power is revealed as self-emptying humility. If we were to come to really understand and practice our own wills to power in this way, maybe it would be easier to believe in God. Indeed, perhaps God would become as self-evident as he necessarily must be.
Not that it's easy. To embrace the true power revealed in humility is hard on the flesh, which has lusted for the violent domination of others ever since Cain killed his own brother. The crown of thorns cuts and digs when we put it on. But is the crown of the true royalty of this world, of those who bear the real power that is the only source of peace.
Writers and their personal libraries for $200 Alex!
Jonathan Lethem:
"People sometimes act as though owning books you haven't read constitutes a charade or pretense, but for me, there's a lovely mystery and pregnancy about a book that hasn't given itself over to you yet—sometimes I'm the most inspired by imagining what the contents of an unread book might be."
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Politics...
It seems to me one of the "x-ray machines" of a political party's soul is to see how, when in power, they apportion legislative districts. The Republicans in control of the Ohio have gotten hilariously creative in drawing districts and this, to me, is a sign of corruption. It's a graphic - literally - display of the dearth of fairness and common sense versus their own self-interest. Ridiculous gerrymandering is the last refuge of a political scoundrel and like pornography you know it when you see it.
The other sign of corruption is that the Bush Derangement Syndrome of yesteryear seems to have its corollary with Obama Derangement Syndrome. How else to explain the rise of Herman Cain, Donald Trump, and Newt Gingrich in the Republican primary polls? This desperation bespeaks less a desire to win the election than to beat Obama up in the debates. Anger makes one less than politically astute, among other things.
A Tale of Two Interpretations
Angel appearing to Zechariah
Interesting to hear the differing takes of two priests at the downtown Dominican parish concerning the visits of the angel to Mary at the Annunciation and the visit to Zechariah. (And given, of course, on different days.) One priest said that the reactions of Mary and Zechariah were similar, so why the difference? Because the difference in condition. Mary was treated differently, he argues, because she *was* different - she was conceived without sin and had no original or other sin on her soul. This is one of the biblical clues we have that Mary was uniquely created.
The other priest there said that there was a difference in response and intention: Mary was asking - purely as a practical matter - how this could happen (i.e. give birth without losing her virginity), while with Zechariah, it was obvious how it would come about and it wasn't something that hadn't already happened before in salvation history (see Abraham and Sarah). Plus the priest said Zechariah's tone was different, which doesn't come through in the English so well but was more of a more scoffing attitude.
The first priest's interpretation seems to favor one of predestination. His homilies are big on praising God and not looking at ourselves so much, not trying to take credit for any improvements or become discouraged with lack thereof. The second priest's emphasizes human response and tends to emphasize our role in salvation. So in retrospect it's no wonder that they look at the same biblical story in different ways.
UPDATE: The Friar Minor has worthwhile thoughts on the same subject.
This & That Monday
Two reads:
"...to lose physical sight, it is thought, is to gain second sight. One door closes and another, greater one, opens. Homer’s blindness, many believe, is a kind of spiritual channel, a shortcut to the gifts of memory and of prophecy."
- from novel "Open City"
"O God who wished Blessed Margaret be blind from birth so that the eyes of her soul enlightened by your grace, might more clearly see the value of spiritual realities..."
- from novena prayer to Blessed Margaret of Castello.
From Betty Duffy:
My brother-in-law discovered that he could create a musical communion in the bar from his I-phone, by sending a virtual request to the I-tunes jukebox to play any song he chose, without ever getting up from the booth. No one would know who requested the song. He selected Andrea Bocelli singing Ave Maria.
From the very first notes, the other patrons of the bar were alarmed. The bartender went to the jukebox to see what was playing. Another patron went with him, and together they tried to override the song. But it couldn't be done. The bartender tried to comfort his customer saying, "Well, it's sort of a pretty song."
To which the patron replied, "I'm going to throw up."
This is one of those very rare cases where technology thrills me: you could potentially request an I-jukebox song from your I-phone, without ever even entering the bar. If you want the pool-hall patrons to spend the evening listening to Gregorian Chant, sit in your car, and request (for a small fee) all the songs you desire, from your phone.
Pray that Maureen secure employment!
It's funny that the last mortal thoughts of Christopher Hitchens might well be on that most Catholic of English writers, GK Chesterton.
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Amazon Search Results
Unlikely juxtaposition of results:
Christendom Review Up
Striking Christendom Review images:
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Translating Cheers
High school jeer/cheer that will apparently forever be lodged in my head went:
"Go Back! Go Back! Go back to the woods! Your coach is a farmer and your team is no good!"
Alternative renderings include:
"Retreat! Retreat! Retreat to the pines. Your coach is a rancher and your team is not exceptional."
Dylan has some much better ones:
Unto the woods convey yourselves with haste; for, as your coach is adept at nothing save tillage of the soil, your team, O hapless foe, is of truly mean estate.
No laurel of victory shall come your way, O wretched contestants of the gridiron! It would seem that your athletic director is incapable of anything but making the earth yield produce in abundance; therefore, O team, return with all due haste to the rural atmosphere; indeed, go back to the bucolic spot which gave you sustenance.
Links & Thoughts
OP Reach likes Isaiah too.
Pope Speaks of Something Greater Than Answered Prayers
Being of a conservative, risk-adverse bent, it took me many years to accept the notion that alcohol had been tested by humans long enough in order for me to indulge, and so it's odd I'm so willing to being part of this on-the-grid experiment.
Been watching a very watchable movie in 30 minute increments: "Crazy Heart" starring Jeff Bridges. It's about an old time country music star finding love and meaning. Really well-acted by Bridges, whose gruffness and frankness sounds authentic, to my ear anyway. It's like a Western, only with no gunplay.
Grey and overcast, greyest overcast. The weather has a charismatic quality simply in its newness, in its freshness and its omnipresence. There's always weather, always some differing quality of light and temperature. I want to find the bright side, pun unintended, of this gray-ly authentic December weather. It's very fashionable, very much "of the minute", very much of the season. The grey-ness is not the artificially static climate of southern California but one capable of donning many disguises, from a dapper "London fog" sort, to a Nome-ian snow blitz, and in summer to an equatorial heat. Meanwhile a second squirrel nest has come to lodge in a nearby maple.
A wonderful writer, I think of Christopher Hitchens as the H.G. Wells or George Bernard Shaw of our time, a man of deeply flawed convictions but capable of very loyal friendships. At the end he began to see our weakness in the face of disease and death, or at least see that that which does not kill us does not necessarily make us stronger. Only God can make us stronger, in body and spirit, and I would that he would know that now.
There were more similarities between Christopher Hitchens and William F. Buckley than many think. Both were boarding school survivors, hedonists, contrarians, great writers, and intellectuals. Both had an especial talent for friendship and were charismatic. I can't be alone in being a fan of both and to feel the pain when they left this world. Advice for the young: don't pick older writers as favorites. They'll die on ya.
First reading today:
Let no foreigner who has attached himself to the Lord say, ‘The Lord will surely exclude me from his people.’ Let no eunuch say, ‘And I, I am a dried-up tree.’ Foreigners who have attached themselves to the Lord to serve him and to love his name and be his servants – all who observe the sabbath, not profaning it, and cling to my covenant – these I will bring to my holy mountain.
- Isaiah 56
Life After First Things
Riveting read about the recent success of Joseph Bottum's Dakota Christmas.
Above me a blue skylight, or "solatube" casts the dying rays downward. The blue gets deeper and deeper as time passes. Ten feet away stand the stalwart volumes of the 1911 Britannica Encyclopedia, standing athwart history yelling, "Stop!" How gladsome those soldiers make me feel! They seem too distant from my recliner, and so I imagine ways to integrate them more fully into my life without risking that they lose their salt, so to speak. Right now I look more than touch.
So I have a broad margin of time today as I hole up in the "temple of peace", the library, and read the novel "Open City" by Teju Cole which includes the 'graph:
"His reverie took him out of the everyday, away from the blankets and the bag of urine. It was the late thirties again, and he was back in Cambridge, breathing the damp air of the fens, enjoying the tranquility of his youthful scholarship."
Ah how I love that phrase: "the tranquility of his youthful scholarship". How high the stakes seemed, holding to my coveted if meaningless goal of graduating "cum laude", the fruit of having acquired a 3.5 on a 4.0 scale over the years. And how true it was that the scholarship was played out in a tranquil fashion on those long evenings at King Library. I would wander over to the periodicals after studying and feed on some of the vitality of those wondrous, eclectic magazines. Oh how the ache of learning was slaked in those days!
Now I have this dream stretch of time available on the heels of a beer-free Saturday (a chance to spare the liver and cleanse the palate, or vice-versa.) Got the Bengals on the DVR for later, their fate not necessary for current conditions. For now I drink a Two-Hearted Ale, a crisp remnant from vacation bliss, while reading and writing. I finished "The Marriage Plot" yesterday, experienced the dubious ending but can find little fault in a writer that so engages.
On Guadete Sunday I read Pope Paul VI's apostolic exhortation "On Christian Joy", which cleansed me of any irritability. I was filled with joy, appropriately, especially when the pontiff, with exquisite sensitively, said that we need not be discouraged if we're not full of Christian joy just yet. To my mind, we've had a good long run of excellent popes, from John XIII through the present one. It's fitting somehow that Paul VI, so long type-cast as the shepherd who was mournful and depressed, writes on joy such that even some thirty-five years later, a priest at a parish in downtown Columbus takes the time to print off copies for parishioners.
Watched an HBO documentary on a private detective in Calcutta, fascinating on both a human and photographic level. Then COPS ("Ho, Ho, Ho!" about prostitutes -- always figures of interest given that they sell their souls, it seems. It may be the world's oldest profession, but it also seems the most... disturbing.)
On Joy
Paul VI Apostolic Exhortation
http://www.ewtn.com/library/papaldoc/p6gaude.htm
Let us now pause to contemplate the person of Jesus during His earthly life. In His humanity He had experienced our joys. He has manifestly known, appreciated, and celebrated a whole range of human joys, those simple daily joys within the reach of everyone. The depth of His interior life did not blunt His concrete attitude or His sensitivity. He admires the birds of heaven, the lilies of the field. He immediately grasps God’s attitude towards creation at the dawn of history. He willingly extols the joy of the sower and the harvester, the joy of the man who finds a hidden treasure, the joy of the shepherd who recovers his sheep or of the woman who finds her lost coin, the joy of those invited to the feast, the joy of a marriage celebration, the joy of the father who embraces his son returning from a prodigal life, and the joy of the woman who has just brought her child into the world.
It's perhaps of interest that Paul VI wrote that in 1975, when he was in old age and after Humane Vitae's poor reception, when he was said to be downhearted and discouraged. Later he writes:
Here below this joy will always include to a certain extent the painful trial of a woman in travail and a certain apparent abandonment, like that of the orphan: tears and lamentation, while the world parades its gloating satisfaction. But the disciples’ sadness, which is according to God and not according to the world, will be promptly changed into a spiritual joy that no one will be able to take away from them.
"I Dare Not Risk the Sweetness of the Title"
Ha, I've said something similar to this in the past on my blog:
I remember the buying of my "Anatomy of Melancholy" (that I have never read, nor ever mean to—I dare not risk the sweetness of the title); two big beautiful volumes, with a paper label on the back of each, they stood imperious on the shelves.
Robust Low-Hanging Fruit Leveraging Outside the Box Thinking
Most hated buzzwords...
Back to Back Tweets in the Twitter Feed
Whoda thunk these back-to-backers?:
I'm sure they don't follow each other.
How Doctors Die
Interesting link via Elena on how doctors die. (Hint: they're not keen on chemotherapy.)
Found from various & sundry places...this first quote is an argument against nominating Newt Gingrich for president.
Shakespeare seems to have sensed very early—what the world at large has still to learn—that he who cannot rule himself is not entitled to rule a city, still less a nation. - Goddard's "The Meaning of Shakespeare"
After the birth of a human being his early years are obscurely spent in the toils or pleasures of childhood. As he grows up the world receives him, when his manhood begins, and he enters into contact with his fellows. He is then studied for the first time, and it is imagined that the germ of the vices and the virtues of his maturer years is then formed. This, if I am not mistaken, is a great error. We must begin higher up; we must watch the infant in its mother's arms; we must see the first images which the external world casts upon the dark mirror of his mind; the first occurrences which he witnesses; we must hear the first words which awaken the sleeping powers of thought, and stand by his earliest efforts, if we would understand the prejudices, the habits, and the passions which will rule his life. The entire man is, so to speak, to be seen in the cradle of the child. - Tocqueville's "Democracy in America"
Unlike every other famous tourist sight Mitchell had seen in his life, the Acropolis was more impressive in reality; no postcard or photograph could do it justice. The Parthenon was both bigger and more beautiful, more heroically conceived and constructed, than he’d imagined. - Eugenides's "The Marriage Plot"
a snapping turtle lumbered down the center of the asphalt like an ambulatory helmet. His long tail dragged, blunt head jutting out of the lapidary prehistoric sleep of shell.
the drowned boy blurred as much by memory as by water, molded toward an essential, remote ideal. Longing, of course, become its own object, the way that desire can make anything into a god. - Doty's "Fire to Fire"
If Thinking With the Church Were Easy, Everybody Would Do It
Here's National Review's take on the new translation:
On Looking Forward to Friday (in this case, today)
There's a thin line between passion and pathology, goes Heather King's motto, and similarly there's a thin line between looking forward to some earthly good and looking TOO much forward to it. "Seek first the kingdom of God and all else will be added," is gospel truth.
There's a catch-22 nature to addiction and/or looking too forward: something has to be really good for it to be looked forward to too much. By striving to find transcendent experience one is unwittingly striving to find addiction. You can't really have one without the other, it would seem. Drug addicts have found the most obvious and seemingly dependable source of pleasurable experiences while simultaneously finding the most addictive and destructive. And, of course, the thrill wears off even as the need for the the substance doesn't.
I suspect one reason to not to look forward so much is because by definition you're not living in the moment. By definition you are, in a sense, "wishing your life away" and we know how precious life is. It's not particularly helpful or conducive to gratitude, to be bummed that it's Monday instead of Friday, say, and gratitude is arguably the mark of true religion.
Happened across a Psychology Today link:
The circuitry connecting the orbitofrontal cortex and ventral striatum is a beautifully crafted machine for learning what you like and pursuing it with single-minded purpose. Its fuel is dopamine. And this machine sends messages directly to the premotor and motor cortex. It guides behavior, action, in pursuit of the good things in life...We can learn to go after anything, full bore, if it attracts us. And that's how we get ahead in life.
But it's also how we get addicted. The goal-pursuit circuit is a bit too flexible. Cocaine high. Oh yeah. That feels good. Want more. Got to get it. That drink at the end of the day. Feels good. Want it. Stop at the liquor store on the way home. These tendencies eventually cause us a lot of suffering, but they are simply byproducts of a brain that evolved to seek rewards, based on their attractiveness, and to pursue them with almost relentless energy.
When your back-ache gets bad enough, you start doing physio or yoga, so that you can use your upright spine to its best advantage. When your addiction gets bad enough, you'd best figure out how to use the goal-pursuit circuit for what it's designed for: to be successful and happy, to avoid suffering, and—of course—to feed the little ones back at the cave.
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West Market Street Station tenants confirmed
Submitted by Jeff on Mon, 2017/04/10 - 10:48am
The developer of new retail space West Market Street Station confirmed several of the site’s tenants March 29.
Set to open this summer, according to S.J. Collins Enterprises officials, are Anthony Vince Nail Spa, PetPeople, Piada Italian Street Food and Salon Lofts. In addition, Orangetheory Fitness opened at the end of December and Great Clips opened April 1.
The retailers will be located in the new development anchored by a 30,000-square-foot 365 by Whole Foods Market grocery store at the site that was previously the longtime location of West Point Market at 1711 W. Market St.
A media representative for S.J. Collins said the developer cannot provide a date for the opening of the 365 by Whole Foods Market store. At presstime, an email requesting comment from Whole Foods Market officials had not been returned.
Among the websites and Facebook pages for the new businesses, the only one for which a specific date of opening is given is Piada, which is slated to open June 6.
S.J. Collins officials said additional leasing opportunities are available at West Market Street Station. For more information, call 770-692-8300, ext. 130.
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“Density & Openness Revisited”: Recoding Building Bulk in Hong Kong
Hong Kong’s cityscape is primarily shaped by the typology of the tower. While specifically in Hong Kong the tower is utilized as an extension of the urban programmatic user surface, the question of public space within this vertical urban fabric remains unaddressed. This research project is the search for an alternative approach to think about open and public spaces in the context of the city and the context of buildings.
In a city like Hong Kong the building envelope, which usually expands to the maximum boundary of the site defines the void space or possible exterior public space. It could be argued that the GFA (gross floor area) for building plots is responsible for this dilemma. While the GFA could be theoretically freely interpreted and would allow for many different versions of integration of public and open space into the building bulk, the common practice is to extrude the boundaries of the plot area in order to maximize the GFA. The building code is conceptually the genetic DNA for the life and success of cities. If the code is misused, the vitality of a city can suffer. Hong Kong is massively shaped by the building code. The call for density is a necessity; however the quality of urban space should not suffer. The question that strikes us: How can we rethink the building code in order to overcome the lack of public space?
This hypothetical project tries to establish an alternative system to define building bulk. Instead of extruding the maximum boundary condition of a given site to determine the building mass, this model incorporates a ratio of open space in the design process. At its core is a computational logic that calculates the amount of open space for each city plot. The rule-based model can adapt to different site and programmatic conditions. It has the capacity to generate new forms of public space, semi public and private exterior and interior spaces. Outcomes never look identical and result in specific massing configurations. The intention of this set-up is to produce varying spaces and varying densities between solid and void patterns.
Project Title:“Density & Openness Revisited”
Client/Organisation: Hong Kong & Shenzhen Biennale
Density Openness Rocker Lange Hong Kong Biennale 2012
Density Openness Rocker Lange Christian J Lange
Density Openness Rocker Lange parametric field
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SPACE Studios
Kindling Fund
Howard Fonda
Aug 2, 2019 – Sep 21, 2019
SPACE is pleased to present an exhibition project that pairs paintings by Oregon artist, Howard Fonda, with baskets woven by Wabanaki artists Gabriel Frey, Jeremy Frey, Suzanne Greenlaw, Jennifer Neptune, Sarah Sockbeson, and Fred Tomah.
Often referred to as a painter's painter, Howard Fonda creates work with a folksy air. The works in the exhibition are composed of acrylic and colored pencil on raw canvas in artist frames and continue his bold use of mark and color. Thematically, nature abounds as marks abstract, turn to pattern, or lose themselves in themselves. When conceiving the exhibition with SPACE’s curator Elizabeth Spavento, Fonda wanted to pair his contemporary practice with First Nation peers in the region. Knowing the rich history of weavers that predates painting in the Americas, Fonda wanted to couple the two traditions and highlight their contemporary equivalency. Fonda writes that the baskets could provide a frame that "draws a connection among content, craft and form," drawing a parallel in artistic practice and allowing the viewer to experience the hand at work. With close attention to materials, mark making, and the hand, the artwork in Carry Me points toward a spiritual dialogue and larger historical arc often blurred by a narrow, Eurocentric view of the world.
On the one hand, the exhibition complicates traditional definitions of fine art and craft which allow the paintings and baskets to hold equal significance within the gallery; on the other, it confronts our notions of power and otherness in a stolen land.
Baskets are positioned in conversation with Fonda's paintings, side by side in groups and pairings. These aesthetic groupings speak to a formal connectedness that underscores the contemporary nature of all the work, while simultaneously providing a deeper historical dialogue about tradition, identity, and humanity.
These exchanges unpack the role of the contemporary in curatorial practice. One byproduct of this exhibition is to investigate and confront the ways in which colonial narratives of the past might better inform more equitable curatorial conventions today. In most higher education institutions and large museums, exhibition practices favored histories of painting that align with Eurocentric, patriarchal narratives inherited from America's racist roots. This type of selective historiography fails to question the bias of this narrative and how it impacts the field at large. Museums are notorious for "othering" indigenous art in their collections, as evidenced in the many human remains that exist in spaces across New England, and the fact that many of these objects follow a provenance that traces white collectors while omitting details about indigenous artists. Carry Meoffers a more considered curatorial positioning that takes into account an inclusive historical narrative which in turn allows for more comprehensive definitions of contemporary artistic practice.
An opening with Howard Fonda will be held during the first Friday Art Walk on Friday, August 2nd from 5p - 8p.
Howard will be in residence at SPACE from July 24 - August 3, 2019 where he will be working on a limited edition print with Pickwick Independent Press to benefit SPACE. Howards works will be available for $75 each -- that's HALF OFF the normal price -- only at SPACE. Each print is signed and editioned by the artist and is available on a first come, first served basis.
Howard Fonda is an artist, former educator, father and husband living in Portland, OR. Philosophical and introspective, Fonda’s work expresses a romantic worldview and mystical inner journey within a painterly dialogue. He has been the recipient of grants from a number of institutions including the Oregon Arts Commission and the Joan Mitchell Foundation. Previously an instructor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Fonda has lectured, served on jurying and critique panels and pursued curatorial projects at numerous universities and art centers. The artist’s work has been exhibited throughout the United States and abroad since 2000.
Follow Howard on Instagram @fondahoward or read more about him in Artmaze Magazine and Artforum.
Special thanks to Beverly Werber & Peter Goldman for their support of this project with the loans of work from their private collection.
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A NOVEL ─ THE ADVENTURES OF KEVIN KRAMER IN COMMUNIST EUROPE ─ A Novel about the End Times ─ Chapter 16 ─ "The Chase Underground” (Last Chapter)
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The Adventures of Kevin Krämer in Communist Europe
- The Escape from Communist Europe -
(A Novel about the End Times)
By: Justin Brown (a pen name)
Recommended reading for ages 14 and older.
This is a novel for teens and adults.
This novel contains some violence (such as gunshots and fights); intense chase scenes;
clean romantic elements (i.e. clean conversations between a guy and his girlfriend);
and themes appropriate for teenagers and adults.
You will not find any profanity, immorality, or gore in this novel.
It is written to edify the reader, and not to provoke sinful thoughts.
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Europe has been invaded, the superpower across the sea is no more, and the country of "Baltania" is controlling Europe through communistic puppet governments. Under the oppressive cloud of communism, a small group of underground Christians faces a powerful crime organization bent on their capture and destruction.
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Under this heavy, oppressive cloak, Kevin Kramer, a 30-year-old, and Maritza, his attractive, 27-year-old girlfriend, must decide who they will serve as they fall in love with each other, start a romantic relationship, and try to evade the unrelenting and dangerous members of a criminal organization, which seeks to kidnap underground Christians to sell to the secret police.
Together with some friends, Kevin and Maritza must do their best to avoid being captured as they learn to trust God and follow His guiding hand in these last days just before the rise of the Antichrist. This fast-paced story is designed to be fascinating. But, don't just take our word for it...
[Note: Baltania is a fictional country within the Eurasian landmass. At one time, it had a communistic past. During a third world war, communism revived in this country as its armies conquered Europe. Since we do not want to point fingers at any particular country, we will not name this country or coalition of countries.]
"The Chase Underground”
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The Crate Room
Wolf, Stingray, and Jackal were standing at the bottom of the staircase, inside the concrete room. Against two of the four walls, crates and boxes were stacked. The fluorescent ceiling lights were still on, proving that someone had been down there not long ago. Where the Christians had vanished to was still a mystery to Wolf. It seemed that the only way out of that room was by the stairwell he had just descended.
But, the crates stacked against the wall got Wolf thinking…
The rugged-faced, blond-haired man began walking along the wall, keeping himself at an arm’s length from the stacked, wooden crates and metal boxes. As he walked halfway around the room, Wolf saw nothing amiss, until his attentive, blue eyes noticed a small, dark gap between the edge of a crate and what appeared to be a shaded, metal doorpost. ‘What is this?’ Wolf said as he drew a small, LED flashlight from a pocket.
Shining the flashlight beam into the gap, he instantly realized that it was a partially-concealed tunnel entrance. ‘This is no doubt where the Christians went,’ Wolf thought.
“Jackal,” Wolf said, “I want you to get two more men to come down here. Do it as quickly as you can. Meanwhile, I and Stingray will unblock this tunnel and take a look inside.”
“Right away, Wolf,” Jackal said before he hurried toward the stairs.
Then, Wolf had the strong and muscular Stingray assist him in pushing aside the wooden crates. Stingray stood on the right side of the stack, which blocked the door, and Wolf stood on the left. While Stingray pushed on his end, Wolf pulled on his side. Stingray and Wolf were so eager to get the obstacle out of the way that they both applied as much force as they could and as quickly as they could.
Screech! The stack of crates scraped across the concrete, making a high-pitched squeak. But, the top wooden crate suddenly slid off the crate below it and fell to the floor. Crash! As the heavy crate struck the concrete, the wood splintered, and the contents of the crate ‒ large ball bearings and packaging material ‒ came tumbling out onto the floor. The metal spheres bounced and rolled as they struck the cement floor.
Started by the loud crash, Wolf jumped back, but his boots landed on several ball bearings which had just rolled under him, and he tried to regain his balance. He was unsuccessful and fell to the ground, hitting his back. Lying on the ground with ball bearings rolling past him, the Red Venom gangster groaned in pain and frustration.
“Do you need a hand, boss?” Stingray said looking at him with concern.
“No! Leave me alone,” Wolf said as he leaned forward. “I can get up by myself.”
Standing to his feet, the tall, muscular man winced in pain and placed a hand on his lower back.
“Are you okay?” Stingray said.
“Yes,” Wolf muttered. “My back is just a little sore, but I will be able to manage.”
Wolf grabbed the latch of a heavy, stainless steel door, which had appeared after the crates had been moved, and opened it. In the opening, the gangsters saw the underground, concrete tunnel, with fluorescent shop lights still on, extending far into the distance. ‘The Christians went this way no doubt,’ Wolf thought to himself.
“Scorpion, let’s go. They are down here,” Wolf said as he removed a tranquilizer gun which was slung over his shoulders. Then, he started jogging forward down the tunnel, and Stingray followed him once he had un-slung his tranquilizer gun.
As they ran, they engaged in lively conversation, joking about how much suffering they’d inflict on the Christians. And, a minute later, as they increased their jogging speed, Wolf caught sight of a large group of people far down the tunnel. To Wolf, it appeared to be a large group of possibly 30 or more men, women, and children, who were still a considerable distance ahead of him. But, soon, they would be within range of his tranquilizer darts.
“Everyone,” Daniel said, as he turned around to face the anxious crowd, “we must stay calm.”
In the near distance, two gangsters, Wolf and Stingray, were quickly approaching.
“We are being chased,” Daniel continued, “but remember what Elisha said to his servant in 2 Kings 6? Elisha’s life was being sought after by an army of ancient Syrian soldiers. In 2 Kings 6:16, it says: ‘[16] And he answered, Fear not: for they that be with us are more than they that be with them.’”
"Then, Elisha prayed that God would open the eyes of his servant. Shortly after his prayer, the servant’s eyes were opened to see God’s angels riding in fiery chariots, surrounding the fortified town in which Elisha was dwelling. Shortly after that, God blinded the eyes of those enemy soldiers to protect Elisha. What then could God do for us?”
But, as he spoke, Stingray and Wolf were quickly closing the distance between them and the Christians. Both were armed with tranquilizer guns and silenced pistols. Both also had several ammunition clips for their pistols, in case they had to empty their guns.
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The little girl in Maritza’s arms cried in fear, and Maritza held the girl closer, saying, “Shh. Everything will be okay, darling. God is with us.” Though she said those words, she felt some fear rising up in her chest.
The little boy in Kevin’s arms squirmed to get down. And, he lowered him to the floor. Once his feet touched the ground, the boy ran off to his dad, who was carrying one of the boy’s younger brothers.
Then, Maritza began praying quietly, and the little girl listened and began to calm down. Even so, many of the parents began to tremble in their shoes, and struggled to try to comfort their children.
“You Christians!” Wolf said loudly as he reached a point 16 meters from the group. “You thought you could escape the power of Red Venom, our great organization, but you can’t. I am called Wolf, and I am the new grand Venom commander of the Kühnburg chapter of my order. If you do not submit to me, I will be forced to kill you all right now, starting with the children.”
“No!” a mother cried.
“If you want your children to live, you will do as I say,” Wolf said as he slowed his jog to a walk, and Stingray followed suit.
“And, if anyone of you so much as attempts to run,” Stingray said, “I’ll shoot him in the leg.”
Wolf turned toward Stingray with an angry glare in his eyes. “What do you mean by that, Stingray? I am the one in charge here, not you! I will give the orders around here. Get back to your place as my subordinate, you ….” He uttered a number of swearwords.
Wolf said the last sentence with an elevated chin as he jabbed his left pointer finger toward the ground. As Kevin saw it, he was surprised at how arrogant Wolf was, and amazed that he would treat his men in such a disrespectful way.
“I thought that would be a good idea, Wolf,” Stingray said. “Why isn’t it?”
“I didn’t say it was a bad idea, but I’m the one making the rules, and you … have just as much leadership in this matter as my … pet dog,” Wolf said, uttering more profanity.
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Stingray raised his tranquilizer gun and aimed it at Wolf’s chest, but Wolf reacted instantly, and knocked the gun from his hand with a swift chopping motion of his left arm. The strong and powerful man with short, black muttonchops was now full of fierce determination and hatred for his arrogant boss, who had insulted him in front of men, women, and children.
Stingray would never tolerate that treatment from anyone, regardless of his position of authority. The powerful man suddenly moved into action and struck Wolf in the chest with some solid, quick punches, but Wolf tensed his muscles and blocked some of them with his arms. But, Stingray was fast like a bolt of lightning, and he began striking Wolf like a jackhammer hitting concrete.
As the two men fought, Daniel began walking away from the men, and the Christians timidly began to follow. Then, Daniel increased his pace to a light jog, glancing back to see if the others were following him. And, he was grateful that they were picking up on his cue.
The tough blond-haired man did his best to block Stingray’s hard and fast punches, but he was not as competent at Stingray since he had not been fully focused on the fight. Every so often he tried to catch a glimpse of the retreating Christians, but he often suffered a blow to his stomach or barely missing getting an uppercut to the jaw.
Then, when the Christians were a little over 228 meters away,* Wolf turned his head to glare at the people he considered to be “dangerous radicals.” But, as Wolf looked away, Stingray flicked out a sharp knife with a 10-centimeter-long blade. With some quick motions, Stingray struck his opponent as he was distracted, and the blond-haired gangster, known as Wolf, collapsed to the floor, dead. His days as a criminal had come to an end at the hands of one of his own men.
[* Or almost 750 feet.]
“You got what you deserved, Wolf,” Stringray said as he wiped his knife blade on the hem of Wolf’s shirt. “Now, I will be the leader, and no one will stop Stingray. No one!”
[See Matthew 26:52: "Then said Jesus unto him, Put up again thy sword into his place: for all they that take the sword shall perish with the sword."]
“This is Rat calling Wolf,” a voice spoke into Stingray’s earbuds. “Where are you, Wolf? Over.”
“This is Stingray. Wolf is dead. A Christian killed him,” Stingray lied as he pressed the talk button on a device clipped to his shirt collar. “I just found his body. He foolishly ran out alone after the Christians, and someone jumped on him from the shadows, and killed him with a knife. Over.” As he spoke, his breathing was slightly heavy due to his intense and vicious fight with Wolf.
“This is Rat. Stingray, that is shocking. Over,” Rat’s voice spoke through Stingray’s earbuds.
Stingray turned back toward the direction he had come from and saw several of his team members running toward him down the tunnel. ‘They must have just arrived,’ he thought.
“This is Stingray. We need to stop those Christians from getting away. Over,” Stingray said into his two-way radio.
“This is Rat. I understand, Stingray,” Rat’s voice said through the earbuds of the man with the black muttonchops. “But, who will be the new leader?”
“I, Stingray, am the new leader,” Stingray said. “With his last words, Wolf told me that he appointed me to take over his position. Over.”
“This is Rat. I understand, sir. Over.”
“Scorpion, and the rest of you men, do you hear that? Over.” Stingray said, hoping all the men on his team were paying close attention to their earbuds.
“This is Scorpion. I heard you, Stingray. You are the new leader. Over,” Scorpion’s voice said. His statement was echoed by other team members.
A short time later, the three men who were jogging toward Stingray reached him. As they slowed to a walking pace and drew near, he said, “We need to catch our breath for a couple minutes, and then we will continue our pursuit of these troublesome Christians.”
Scorpion, Rat, and Jackal were now standing before him, breathing somewhat heavily from their jogging.
“Sir, if I run ahead and tranquilize two adults,” Scorpion said, “that will slow down the others. I don’t believe they have any weapons, except for some knives, possibly, but I am a good knife fighter and I am much better armed than they.”
“Go do it, Scorpion,” Stingray said, “and kill anyone of them who offers the slightest resistance.”
“Yes sir,” the other said before sprinting off down the tunnel.
As he watched the man go, Stingray chuckled and said, “Christians, you will not escape the bite of the Scorpion.”
“Look out!” a man at the rear of the group of Christians exclaimed. “I see someone running toward us. He looks like he wants to kill!”
The Christians stopped in their tracks and looked behind them. Sure enough, a lone man was running toward them. He was armed with an uzi automatic pistol and a tranquilizer pistol. It seemed that he fully intended to stop their escape, and capture them.
Seeing this, Kevin and many of the others began praying fervently. As they did, a vibration began to pass through the tunnel along with a faint, low, rumbling sound. Dust began to appear in the air.
“Dear Father God,” Kevin said quietly, “we look to you for deliverance. We have no strength against these gangsters. I trust that you are the God of the Bible and that you will deliver us like you said in Psalm 18. Deliver us, I pray!”
The vibration began to get stronger and the rumbling sound increased in volume.
Maritza silently prayed at the same time as Kevin. She said, “Father God, your Word says this truth in Psalm 91:1-4: ‘[1] He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. [2] I will say of the LORD, He is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust.
“‘[3] Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome pestilence. [4] He shall cover thee with his feathers, and under his wings shalt thou trust: his truth shall be thy shield and buckler.’ I ask you to do that for us now, and I trust that you will. In Jesus Christ’s name, amen.”
Just as Scorpion came within 17 meters of the Christians, a powerful earthquake suddenly shook the tunnel ‒ boom! ‒ and huge blocks of concrete began crashing to the floor and splintering into smaller fragments all around the sprinting man. But, Scorpion ignored them. As he closed the distance to 12 meters, a huge load of concrete chunks abruptly broke off from the ceiling and crashed down over him ‒ wham! ‒ burying him beneath their solid mass.
Chunks of concrete crashed to the ground directly behind the Christians, but not a single chunk landed closer than 10 meters from the group. Kevin was simultaneously bewildered and frightened as the large chunks violently impacted with the tunnel floor and shattered. He caught a glimpse of some men fleeing back down the tunnel as chunks of stone crashed to the ground behind them ‒ Boom! Wham! Crash! But, the falling chunks caught up with the fleeing men, and buried them under tons of rock.
The earthquake continued for another minute, and caved-in a large portion of the underground tunnel, filling the air with dust. Seeing this, Kevin realized that this cave in would prevented the group of Christians from returning back the way they had come. But, Kevin had no desire to return to the compound.
He knew that the Red Venom organization would keep its eye on that place. ‘No, the place to go is where God sends us,’ Kevin thought to himself. And, he remembered how Daniel had told them that an underground bunker lay at the far end of the tunnel. ‘That will be a temporary place to stay before we would move on to the next place God has for us,’ Kevin thought as he scratched his clean-shaven chin.
After the earthquake had passed, Maritza looked at Kevin and sighed as she lowered the girl to the ground. He turned his eyes to her pretty face and they gazed at each other for a few seconds before Kevin said, “Maritza, you had said earlier how you wondered what God’s plans were for us. Do you remember?”
“Yes,” she said, smiling. “But, I think God has shown me something.”
“What’s that?” Kevin said.
“You have some dust on your nose,” Maritza said.
“Oh,” Kevin said, rubbing the tip of his nose. “What did God say?”
“I’ll let that be for a later time. But, tell me what God has shown you,” Maritza said. “It seems you know something I don’t know.”
“Maritza, I know this is a bad time and place to say it, but …” Kevin started to say.
“Yes?” she said.
“Maritza, would you like to court me?” Kevin said, looking into her eyes.
“I’d be delighted,” she said smiling as she gazed into his.
“What are you two love birds talking about?” Rolf said in his deep, gently voice as he approached them, with his brunette wife, Svenja, at his side.
As they walked toward Kevin and Maritza, men and women were simultaneously praising God for the deliverance and praying. And, some people were coughing or sneezing to clear the dust out of their nostrils and mouths. Children were staying close to their parents, but joy had replaced fear on their young faces.
“Kevin just proposed to me,” Maritza said, blushing.
“Is this the best place to do it?” Rolf said. “It’s not a very romantic setting, is it?”
“Well, I really just asked her if she wanted to court me,” Kevin said.
“Isn’t that the same thing?” Maritza said, looking at Kevin.
Kevin swallowed as he turned his eyes back to Maritza’s face. “I love you, Maritza.”
“I love you too, Kevin,” Maritza said, feeling her heart stirring. She wanted to embrace him, but both maintained some physical distance, and didn’t touch each other. They both desired to follow what God had told them, for Maritza had also heard from God about not touching her future spouse until he and she were officially married.
Rolf turned to Svenja, and said quietly, with a smile on his large, clean-shaven face: “Honey, I believe that these two are made for each other. I am glad your brother has a godly girlfriend.”
“Me too,” Svenja said as she glanced at her brother and his future wife. “May God bless their future marriage and give them many children.”
The Rumbling
Hearing and feeling the ground rumbling, Grizzly became very concerned about his own safety. He was standing guard over five shackled prisoners who were seated in the guest-house living room, and he was armed with a bullpup machine gun and a tranquilizer gun. He could feel the floor shaking and watched as pictures hanging from the walls began to vibrate. Plates and silverware rattled and clattered in the kitchen.
The bald, blond-bearded giant was nervous. He didn’t want to fall into a deep sinkhole or a fissure. And, he knew such strange occurrences were becoming more common in recent years than in past decades. One of his friends had had his entire house rapidly engulfed by a giant sinkhole.
Grizzly felt he had to leave, but he couldn’t just leave the prisoners the way they were. Grizzly reached into his backpack and drew out three pairs of handcuffs.
“If you don’t want to die, do as I say,” Grizzly said to them with a harsh, gruff voice. “Move a little closer together.”
The prisoners complied with his orders and moved closer to each other. Then, one by one, he began locking their ankles together. His captives included four men and one woman. To use as few cuffs as possible, Grizzly had earlier locked the prisoners’ wrists together using one handcuff for two different people’s wrists.
“What are you doing?” Wilfred said.
Grizzly didn’t respond to the young man as he bent down and used the same pair of handcuffs to lock Wilfred’s and Viktor’s ankles together. After doing this to all the prisoners’ ankles, Grizzly stood up to his full height of 2.49 meters and said, sternly, “You Christians must stay in this house, do you understand? If you try to escape, I will kill you.”
The prisoners nodded. Then, Grizzly hustled over to the front door, and passed through it.
About ten minutes earlier, he had noticed a thick tree limb on a spruce tree, which was not far from the guest house. He had earlier located a handsaw in a small tool shed on the property, and had placed the saw at the base of the tree, in preparation for what he was about to do. The limb was over 8 centimeters in diameter. It was perfect for what he needed.
With the earthquake past, the remaining gangsters had realized that Scorpion, Rat, Jackal, and Stingray were dead due to the underground tunnel caving in. Only Whiplash, Vulture, and Grizzly remained of the team of nine. Claw had been killed by Wolf, and Wolf had been killed by Stingray.
Taking the handsaw, he rapidly sawed through the limb like a madman. Once he had severed it from the tree, he quickly sawed the limb in half. Without wasting any time, Grizzly ran toward the front door. Upon reaching the solid, wooden door, he snapped a metal cuff tightly around the limb. And, he snapped the other end of the pair of handcuffs tightly around the metal door knob. Now, the door could not be opened unless the handcuffs were somehow removed. Those inside would be trapped since both their ankles and wrists were shackled.
Running around the house to the rear door, Grizzly fastened the other half of the thick limb to that door, using the same method. ‘Now, it will be nearly impossible for the people inside to escape,’ he thought, gloatingly.
A powerful rumbling vibration suddenly came from the ground under his feet, and Grizzly felt fear creep up his spine. So, he didn’t waste any more time and made a beeline for the chain-link perimeter fence. As he ran, he caught sight of Whiplash running too. But, he soon saw that Whiplash was running for a different reason.
A lone Eurasian wolf was chasing Whiplash, and it was full of predatory fury. It appeared that the animal was gaining on the stout, muscular man. It was closing the distance between itself and Whiplash to three meters when Grizzly stopped running, raised his bullpup, and fired a rapid burst. Rat-tat-tat! It was accurately aimed because all the bullets struck the wolf in its torso, and the beast fell to the ground, dead, just a meter from Whiplash.
“Thanks, Grizzly,” Whiplash said, breathing hard as he slowed to a stop. “You saved me.”
“Don’t mention it,” Grizzly said. “You’d probably do the same. Now, let’s get out of here. It seems that a sinkhole could open up at any minute.”
“What about the prisoners?” Whiplash said.
“I locked them in the house,” Grizzly said.
“We have to bring them with us,” Whiplash said, angrily.
“Look out!” Grizzly shouted.
A pack of ten wolves were charging toward them from only 18 meters away. That distance would soon become 5 meters if the two crooks didn’t start running immediately. Without hesitating, the men ran toward the fence. Hitting it, they threw their guns over the top to the other side, and Grizzly left his backpack behind as he began clambering up the tall, chain-link structure. Whiplash was slightly ahead of him, being shorter and faster than the 2.49-meter-tall giant.
Just as the wolves reached the fence, the men were halfway up it, climbing rapidly. From the bushes on the other side of the fence emerged Vulture, with a grin on his face.
“You two look like a couple of frightened tabby cats,” Vulture said, mockingly as he snickered.
The wolves were standing on their hind legs and placing their front paws on the fence, looking hungrily up at the men climbing above them.
“Be quiet, Vulture!” Whiplash snarled. “If you don’t, you’ll wish you had.”
Before long, the men reached the top of the fence and quickly climbed down the other side. Near the bottom, they dropped to the ground and landed somewhat hard.
“That was close,” Grizzly said, standing up straight, and stretching.
“We’re not out of this mess yet,” Whiplash said. Pointing toward Grizzly’s left, he said, “Look!”
A group of at least fourteen tawny wolves was hustling toward them through the bushes. They appeared to be a little over 35 meters away. Without wasting any time, the three gangsters dashed toward a large oak tree, which stood seven meters from the fence. They had no time to grab their guns. And, to gain more speed, Vulture tossed aside his machine gun and dropped his heavy, slotted ammo belt.
Once they reached the tree, Grizzly lifted his two companions, one at a time, into a large tree limb, which was over two meters from the ground. Then, he climbed up after them. His feet left the ground just as five snarling wolves reached the oak tree. The vicious canines looked up at their unarmed, human prey and bared their teeth.
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While the wolves had been chasing the gangsters, Ludwig, Mary, Mark, Wilfred, and Viktor had been standing in the living room of the guest house and looking out through the windows at the wolfs running through the compound.
“What should we do?” Mary said to her husband.
“We should pray,” Ludwig said. “Folks, I must confess something to you. I was wrong to not seek God about Hans, that stranger, and I was wrong to mock those who didn’t trust Hans. Hans and his cronies were bent on our capture and death. I was also wrong to have disrespect for Daniel’s leadership and to doubt that God had translated Rolf, Svenja, and Abdul. I asked God for forgiveness just minutes ago, but I needed to share that with you because some of you had heard what I had wrongfully said.”
“Those evil men shocked me when they revealed their true purpose,” Mary said.
“Yes, they shocked me as well,” Ludwig said. “But, regarding our present situation, I believe that God will give us the ability to leave this house, free of our shackles, and will help us find Daniel.”
“Let’s pray then,” Mark suggested as he looked at Mary and Ludwig.
The group closed their eyes and began praying, and soon felt the Holy Spirit guiding them in their prayers. Suddenly, clicking sounds came, and Mark opened his eyes to see that his handcuffs and leg cuffs were unlocked. Bewildered by the miracle, he awkwardly drew his hand out of a handcuff and then removed his unlocked shackles.
Feeling his friend moving, Wilfred opened his eyes and turned to see that his handcuffs were unlocked.
“What is this?” he said, baffled. “My handcuffs are opened?” Looking around the room, he noticed that all the shackles were unlocked. Then, with enthusiasm and joy, he shouted, “Our handcuffs are opened! God has freed us from these chains!”
“What?” Ludwig said, opening his eyes. “The handcuffs are unlocked? What?”
Seeing the reality that all the metal cuffs were opened, he shouted, “Praise God for His deliverance!”
“Hallelujah,” Mary said as she removed her shackles. “God is watching over us even though we were not following Him the way we should have.”
“I want to stop playing video games from now on,” Viktor said, as he smiled with wonder and joy. “If I hadn’t been glued to my VR game, I would have seen that crook enter the house. Now, thanks to God, I’m free.”
After having a time of rejoicing, the group settled down, and Ludwig said, “Let’s seek God separately and see what He shows us to do now.”
“Good idea,” Mark said.
The group then began to seek God in separate rooms on the first floor. After several minutes had passed, Ludwig reentered the living room from the hallway. He walked over to a window and slid it open. Then, he moved the window screen out of the way and dropped to the ground outside. He was glad to be outdoors again.
“Are the wolves gone?” Mary said as she poked her head out the living-room window to look at her husband.
“God told me we are protected from the wolves,” Ludwig said as he turned back toward his wife with a peaceful smile on his face. “Come, join me, dear. We will be safe out here. Do you remember how God shut the lions’ mouths when the prophet Daniel was thrown to them in the book of Daniel, chapter 6?”
“Yes,” Mary said. “So, God will do that for us too.”
“I believe He will,” Ludwig said, calmly. “Come.”
She hesitated a moment before she overcame her fear, crawled out the window, and dropped to the ground.
“It’s good to be free again,” she said, looking up into her husband’s eyes as they stood outside near the house.
In the Tree
Some distance far beyond the couple, the three surviving gangsters’ teeth were chattering in fear, as they sat in thick tree limbs above the snapping jaws of dozens of hungry wolves. “One of these days, I will return and kill all these pesky Christians,” Vulture said as he held onto a branch to steady himself. “One of these days…”
“That’s only if we make it out of here alive,” Grizzly grumbled.
“Grizzly and Vulture, your talking is not helping our situation,” Whiplash said, with annoyance in his voice, from a limb above Grizzly.
As he spoke, several wolves hopped up, with exposed teeth, trying to reach a lower branch.
“Give me some time to think, and I will find a way out of this predicament we’re in,” Vulture said. “Just give me some more time…”
~ This is the end of this novel.
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Toronto 111, L.A. Lakers 98
When: 8:00 PM ET, Thursday, March 14, 2019
Where: Scotiabank Arena, Toronto, Ontario
Officials: #72 JT Orr, #8 Marc Davis, #74 Curtis Blair
By Field Level Media
Kawhi Leonard scored 25 points, grabbed eight rebounds and added four assists as the Toronto Raptors defeated the visiting Los Angeles Lakers 111-98 Thursday night.
Norman Powell added 20 points and eight rebounds for the Raptors, who have won their past nine games against the Lakers dating to 2015.
Pascal Siakam scored 16 points and Marc Gasol contributed 15 points for Toronto.
LeBron James led the Lakers with 29 points. Alex Caruso added 16 points, Rajon Rondo had 13 points and eight assists, and JaVale McGee contributed nine points and nine rebounds.
The Raptors took a six-point lead into the fourth quarter after leading by as many as 13 in the third. Toronto scored the first five points of the fourth quarter.
The lead reached 13 when Malcolm Miller hit his second 3-pointer of the period with 7:35 remaining. The lead reached 15 on Powell's two free throws six seconds later.
The closest the Lakers could get thereafter was nine.
The Raptors led 33-25 after the first quarter.
Toronto was on top by 10 early in the second quarter before Los Angeles used a 12-2 run to tie the score with 6:42 left in the first half.
Toronto regained the lead and was ahead by five after Jeremy Lin's 3-pointer. However, the Lakers came back to take a two-point lead with 4:34 left on Caruso's 3-pointer.
The Raptors finished the first half on a 14-2 run capped by Leonard's steal and 3-pointer at the buzzer that produced a 65-54 halftime lead.
The Lakers had 12 first-half turnovers leading to 14 Raptors points.
The Raptors had a 12-point lead three minutes into third quarter before McGee's dunk in the middle of the period had the Lakers within five. Leonard struck again with a 3-pointer, and the Raptors led by 11.
Patrick McCaw made two free throws with 2:09 left to boost the lead to 13. The Lakers, though, finished the quarter on a 7-0 surge, and Toronto led 90-84 after the third.
--Field Level Media
Top Game Performances
L.A. Lakers Toronto
LeBron James 29 Scoring Kawhi Leonard 25
Rajon Rondo 8 Assists Pascal Siakam 6
JaVale McGee 9 Rebounds Kawhi Leonard 8
Alex Caruso 5 Free Throws Made Pascal Siakam 10
Reggie Bullock 2 Steals OG Anunoby 2
Kentavious Caldwell-Pope 2 Blocks Pascal Siakam 2
Team Stats Summary
Team Points FG% 3PM-3PA FTM-FTA Assists Rebounds Blocks Steals Turnovers
L.A. Lakers 98 44.7 7-31 15-24 24 46 3 11 21
Toronto 111 39.6 16-41 23-29 21 52 6 15 17
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L.A. Lakers will play their next game on the road against Detroit. The Lakers have a W/L % of .406 after a win and .500 after a loss.
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Dominique Krief, 30, who worked with vulnerable pupils, preyed on the 14-year-old girls after taking them tohis home, Leeds Crown Court heard.
Krief, a former academy footballer at Leeds United, continued to meet one of the girl victims and sexual activity took place in his car. He also forced himself on a fellow teacher. Prosecutor Philip Standfast said Krief grabbed the woman in a sports room and tried to kiss her.
The court heard he then told her he was not going to let go of her until she told him she wanted to have sex with him.
The attack only ended when Krief, of Leeds, was disturbed by a pupil knocking on the door.The teacher, a semi-professional footballer for Harrogate Town and Farsley Celtic, pleaded guilty to six offences of sexual activity with a child and one of sexual assault.
At his sentencing on Friday the judge read a letter from Krief, who was engaged at the time of the offences, which said: “I took my dream life for granted and selfishly wanted more no matter who got hurt along the way.
“I accept full responsibility for my actions and the offences and make no excuses. I am full of guilt, shame, remorse and utter disgust at my behaviour.”
The offences came to light after one of the girls told a psychiatrist that Krief was the reason for her problems. Jailing him for four years and eight months, Judge Christopher Batty said: “You were sexually attracted to the children and you abused your position as a teacher in that school in order to get close to them with only one thing on your mind – your sexual gratification.
“It mattered not to you that they were your pupils. It mattered not that they were aged 14.
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THE FANGO FILES: Issue #02 – Phantasm Vs. Fantasy As The Battle Rages On
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The second issue of Fangoria is a big improvement on the first. The overall level of writing is much improved and the horror element is becoming more pronounced as this publication inches its way towards its fright-mag destiny. However, it’s still a magazine with a divided soul at this stage – and issue #2 suffers from some noticeable growing pains.
The MVP of this issue is definitely Bob Martin. He kicks the issue off with a trifecta of fanboy-pleasing greatness. The first is an editorial where he proposes a film rating to separate films with shocking non-sex content from pornography (sadly, a wish that has yet to come true). He follows it with a nice feature on Phantasm that mixes a Don Coscarelli interview – who is as personable as always – with interesting descriptions of how the film’s memorable effects were achieved. This is followed by a nice little piece on Nosferatu: The Vampyre that was probably the first exposure many young American minds got to the work of Herzog.
The retrospective articles in issue #2 are also quite good (this remains an enduring part of the magazine’s appeal). The first is the debut installment of a two-part Richard Matheson interview. Matheson is likeably frank, freely discussing his problems with the editing of The Incredible Shrinking Man and his bitterness over The Last Man On Earth (which he reveals was originally to have been directed by Fritz Lang!). There’s also a fascinating interview with Robert Bloch, who waxes eloquent about the why’s and wherefore’s of the horror genre, and a solid making-of piece on War Of The Worlds that goes into great detail on its visual effects.
Elsewhere, issue #2 runs into problems. The fantasy-magazine directive from the front office leads to some boring non-horror content: for example, there’s a Dr. Who feature that feels like a leftover from Starlog and unwanted talk of Saturday morning cartoons in the news section. There’s also some obvious rush-jobs that shamelessly pad out the page count: the features on Dracula (1979 version) and The Humanoid have a sloppy, rewritten-press-kit feel and there is a unabashed puff-piece that promotes the supposed excellence of the infamously lousy Prophecy.
However, the issue finishes with a few nice bits in its closing news section (once you get past that Saturday morning cartoon talk). One of the most fascinating parts of reading old film magazines is the news of projects that never came to be. There are two gems of that ilk in this issue. First, a brief chat with John Landis yields talk of Creature From The Black Lagoon and The Mummy remakes that never happened (his instincts on keeping The Mummy as a period piece were vindicated by the success of the Stephen Sommers version a few decades later). There’s also talk of War Of The Insect Gods, an unmade comedy script about mutant cockroaches invading New York that was penned by Mr. Mike himself, Michael O’Donaghue. Oh, what could have been…
In short, Fangoria #2 is about half of a good magazine. Clearly, the publishers had yet to learn that no one can serve multiple masters and still manage to do a good job. It would take a few more hits to the corporate pocketbook before they’d be willing to take chances in favor of a horror-dominant direction. In the meantime, there would be a few more issues with contents stitched together, Frankenstein-style.
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April 2, 2010 Jose Viruete Reply
Wonderful series, this Fango Files. Inties with Matheson and Bloch, how cool is that?
You mentiones the Psychotronic Video Magazine in your last post… How I miss that magazine!
April 3, 2010 Don Reply
Thanks – writing these Fangoria entries is a challenge that I’m truly enjoying. I may do other vintage magazine writeups in the future.
And glad you like the talk of Psychotronic – FYI, the picture scans in my review of PSYCHEDELIC FEVER were taken from the William Rotsler interview in issue #18 of Psychotronic.
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Next is the ‘Big One’: California was shaking again Tuesday, with six earthquakes of 3.5 or greater
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A magnitude 4.3 earthquake shook the eastern San Francisco Bay area at 1:11 p.m. Tuesday.
Four minutes later, a magnitude 4.5 quake hit near Ridgecrest, which, earlier this month, was rattled by a pair of massive temblors, including the most powerful shaker (a magnitude 7.1) to strike California in 20 years.
And, then, at 1:24 p.m., the Bay Area felt another rumble, this time a magnitude 3.2, again centered near Blackhawk, an unincorporated community east of Oakland. It was originally reported as a magnitude 3.5.
Does this mean “The Big One” is coming? Don’t panic, the U.S. Geographical Survey cautioned.
“This specific sequence of earthquakes – the ones in Ridgecrest and the ones in Blackhawk – are not indicative that ‘The Big One’ is coming,” said Rafael Abreu, a geophysicist with the USGS National Earthquake Information Center in Colorado.
But still, I do!
Were the earthquakes connected?
No. The earthquakes near Blackhawk are a different set from the aftershocks following the 7.1 Ridgecrest event on July 5.
They also occurred near different fault lines. About 270 miles lies between the centers of the quakes in northern and southern California.
The Ridgecrest quake occurred near the Little Lake fault zone, according to USGS maps. Geophysicists recorded the Blackhawk quakes near the Greenville fault zone. Neither are connected and both have a slip rate of 1 to 5 mm a year.
By comparison, the San Andreas Fault, which serves as a tectonic boundary between the North American and Pacific plates, moves more than 5 mm per year. California has gone past the average time between large earthquakes along the San Andreas, leading some to say the area is overdue for a massive temblor.
Is California experiencing an unusual number of earthquakes?
This is all normal, according to the USGS.
“We’re having quakes exactly where, geographically speaking, we’d expect these quakes to happen,” Abreu said. “And we’re having the amount of earthquakes we’d expect to see.”
California earthquake swarm: Map showing the epicenters of the M6.4 and M7.1 earthquakes in California. Map via USA Today
In terms of magnitude and number of quakes, Abreu said the Ridgecrest sequence has actually decayed faster than expected, but the variation isn’t unusual for the geological setting.
Four other quakes registering magnitude 3.5 or greater occurred in the Ridgecrest area Tuesday: one in the early morning, one in the afternoon, and two at night.
What are the aftershock predictions?
Northern California has a 4% chance of one or more earthquakes stronger than magnitude 4.3 over the next week, the USGS said. Smaller earthquakes are likely over the same time period, with up to five magnitude 3 or higher aftershocks predicted near Blackhawk.
For the Ridgecrest sequence, the USGS last updated its predictions on Monday. Geophysicists recorded 524 magnitude 3 or higher earthquakes and five magnitude 5 or higher earthquakes since July 5. The first group are strong enough to be felt while the second can do damage.
[USA Today]
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I remember gazing out the window as our British Airways flight enters Italian airspace flying at 10,500 metres, steep and rugged tree-covered hillsides give way to unending stretches of sandy beaches, which gracefully share their beauty with the blue-green waters that wash on them all along the coastline.
Islands of different shapes and sizes dot the horizon.
The tranquility of the sea is punctuated by the streaks of white wake from hundreds of boats on the water.
It is along the waters which cover the inside of this knee-length shoe of a country that lays the soul of Italy. The Mediterranean Sea is the gateway to Rome, Florence, all of Tuscany, Sicily, Naples and the Amalfi Coast. From this shoreline you can capture the culture of a nation, relive the history of a people, and photograph memories of spectacular vistas which will impress even the most travelled cynics.
While most visitors to Rome will take in the most publicized attractions, like the Vatican, the Coliseum, Trevi Fountain and the Spanish Steps, the city itself is a constant, ever-changing museum. There are few turns where you don’t come across ancient Roman ruins of the city that held a population of over one million at the peak of its empire.
Along the Appian Way, a visit to the Catacombs — where hundreds of thousands of Christians were buried during this era — brings home a sober realization of how difficult life and death was for those who chose to follow the new faith.
Rome is a fascinating city, but to stay in Rome and say you saw Italy is akin to visitors going to Toronto and suggesting they experienced Canada.
Finding unique places to visit, with exceptional photo opportunities, is easy in Italy. So one wonders why nearly everyone who visits the Leaning Tower of Pisa insists on having a picture taken of them in such a way as to suggest they are holding up the famous structure. It has become the ultimate cliché photo opportunity in capturing one of the world’s greatest architectural failures. And yes we did that as well.
As the soft earth beneath the base of the tower caved in over the centuries, its lean became noticeable. And the more noticeable it became, the greater the millions of annual tourist dollars became, until 1990 — following modern engineering reports — $30 million was spent to ensure this cash cow of a building would not collapse. The investment returned the slant to what it was approximately 200 years ago so tourists could continue to appreciate what engineers and architects would be fired and sued for if they repeated such a colossal error today.
While the tower itself may not be worthy of architectural praise, the cathedral or Duomo that stands in the Field of Miracles in front of the tower is one of the best examples of Pisan Romanesque architecture anywhere.
This style of cathedral design can be found in other places, but especially in the nearby walled city of Lucca, where it seems there is a church on every corner. The best known of these is the San Martino Cathedral, which serves as a focal point near the centre of an exceptional shopping and restaurant square in Lucca. Upon first glance, one could conclude it is an identical copy of the one in Pisa.
Considerably fewer tourists travel the extra few miles to get to Lucca, but with no cars allowed inside the walls of this fortress city, it is a side trip definitely worth taking. Bicycles and pedestrians share the narrow streets, which all seem to lead to unique shops and Gelato bars, where locals brag that you can find the best Italian version of this ice cream-style treat than anywhere in the country.
Only a few miles inland, the topography shifts dramatically as the hills turn steeper and the rows of grape vines and olive trees begin to control the landscape. Castles and cathedrals from the past have been turned into today’s hotels and wine producing headquarters, where tours with purchases of the most exquisite wines are readily available. While this may sound fairly commercial, the personality of Tuscany is in fact the opposite.
Even with all the movies produced featuring the Tuscan region in its cinematic glory, I never really appreciated what the attraction was.
Overlooking vineyards, you can choose to relax or spend your days travelling to the larger nearby tourist cities like Siena. Siena comes to you right out of the Middle Ages. It’s famous cathedral was built in the 12th century, and twice a year in its central plaza, called the Piazza del Compo, perhaps the most dangerous horse race in the world takes place as riders from 10 adjoining neighbourhoods race for pride and preservation of history two times around this relatively small circle, as thousands cheer from the inside and outside of the makeshift track.
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#TBBCongratulations are in order for actor O.T. Fagbenle who you can see in the hit US Drama series The Handmaids Tale which will be coming to the UK very soon!
The series which launched on Wednesday 26th April via streaming service HULU has unsurprisingly had critical acclaim since its first episode. The show is set to be picked up by a British broadcaster although it has not yet been confirmed which one.
British actor O.T. Fagbenle (Death In Paradise, NW, The Five) stars alongside Elizabeth Moss (West Wing, Mad Men), Joseph Fiennes (Shakespeare In Love, American Horror Story) and Yvonne Strahovski (Chuck, Dexter, 24:Live Another Day) and
The series is an adaption of the novel (of the same name) written by Canadian writer Margaret Atwood. Set in a dystopian near-future, where the U.S. is at civil unrest and ruled by a Totalitarian / Christian fundamentalist government Gilead. This is a time where women are not allowed to work, read or control money.
The main character Offred (Moss), is the Handmaid assigned to the home of Gileadean commander Fred Waterford (Fiennes). We see Offreds flashbacks to the “time before” when she was married and had a daughter, but to survive she must abide by the strict rules and constant scrutiny to avoid execution in order to once again live free.
Fagbenle has a recurring role as Luke, Offred’s husband thought to be dead after the couple failed an attempt to flee the U.S. and were captured. We see him in a number of flashbacks of Offred’s former life.
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SINS & SECRETS documents how a crime alters the community in which it occurs, revealing how the city and its people are forever changed. In one episode, a carjacking in Knoxville leaves two college-age sweethearts murdered, igniting racial tension throughout the city. Each 60-minute episode spotlights a different city, including Aspen, Nantucket, New Orleans, Knoxville, Albuquerque and Shreveport. Investigation Discovery debuted the fourth season of this series on Monday, April 15, 2013 at 9pm ET/PT, with an episode featuring Ronald Shaw, a local oil man, who was found shot to death outside his Louisiana home.
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The light has gone out of our lives," Jawaharlal Nehru said on January 30, 1948. It has gone out of ours too. He was speaking metaphorically; I am not. The light has gone out. So has the water. The clean air -- and I am old enough to remember the days when Bombayites would come to Delhi to fill their lungs -- seems to have joined the list of vanishing items. And don't even get me started on the economy!
But none of this appeared to matter to our representatives in Parliament for the better part of two weeks. Both the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha were shut down for days on end as the Opposition howled over the merits of debating Gujarat under Rule 184. Not over discussing the situation in the state, mind you, but over a procedural issue!
It was a bogus battle. The Opposition knew perfectly well that it lacked the numbers in the Lok Sabha. But I must say that the actual debate fell well below even my expectation (never very high to begin with).
Gujarat itself seemed to fall off the radar. Nobody in the Opposition seemed terribly concerned to ascertain why the riots began, nor how the situation deteriorated. The debate meandered into the familiar blind alleys -- communalism, secularism, and history lessons by the score. But in all the hours of 'debate' there was precious little discussion; all we got to hear were speeches that had been prepared well in advance.
And so, predictably, there was little benefit to be reaped. What message did the Lok Sabha send to divided Gujarat? That the House of the People was itself bitterly divided on some issues! Any little good that came out of the few calls for sanity dissipated in a hurry 24 hours later as Sonia Gandhi flew to Porbandar to accuse Narendra Modi of having turned "Gandhi's Gujarat into Godse's Gujarat"! What was the point of calling for restraint in Delhi if such inflammatory statements were to be made from a public platform in Porbandar?
May I add that it was also continued proof of Sonia Gandhi's ignorance of India? Porbandar may continue to be lauded as Mahatma Gandhi's birthplace in the tourist guides that foreigners read. The cold reality, however, is that the town has earned a notorious reputation for itself as the crime capital of Gujarat.
Some years ago, Kiran Bedi visited the town to pay her respects to the Mahatma. She was horrified to find that piles of garbage, and a stinking fish market, were in close proximity to Kirti Mandir, while the road to Kasturba Gandhi's house had been blocked by an ugly, illegal construction. The Magsaysay Award winner complained about all this in a letter to the Supreme Court.
Their lordships, she says, "asked me to widen the scope of the petition to include the criminal activities in Porbandar and the smuggling of weapons and RDX. People in Porbandar live in fear of the mafia and have no protection. It is the heart of criminal activities."
Sonia Gandhi, unlike Kiran Bedi, surely didn't bother to walk around the streets of Porbandar, or she could hardly have failed to notice the stench. But surely she has heard of the Shabana Azmi starrer Godmother and knows that it is based on Santokhben Jadeja -- one of Porbandar's better-known citizens today. And she might also mull over the fact that when Mrs Jadeja's son got married the guests included the then Congress chief minister of Gujarat. (It may be a coincidence, or a compulsion born of the Supreme Court's attention, but the crime rate has dipped a little in Porbandar over the past five years -- about when the Congress left office.)
Sonia Gandhi's fatuous remark was just another instance of the complete divorce between the realities on the ground and the speeches made by those who supposedly represent us. And it raises an issue, which has disturbing implications: just how far can politicians go before citizens at large decide that they aren't being represented adequately? Or represented at all?
In the last months of his life, it was precisely this question that troubled Biju Patnaik. His grim conclusion was that the youth of India had probably lost all faith in the democratic system and would not mind some form of mild dictatorship. He was howled down by his fellows in the United Front -- this was when Deve Gowda was the prime minister -- but the problem isn't going away.
I mentioned problems with water and electricity. The head of the Delhi Jal Board openly admits he is absolutely helpless to supply more water to the national capital. But when was the last time you heard this being discussed in Parliament? And it is not as if this problem is confined to Delhi. Several districts in Madhya Pradesh are already reeling under drought -- with the worst months of summer yet to come.
These are the real issues that trouble Indians. Discuss Gujarat by all means, but must time be wasted shouting about under which rule the debate must be conducted? Discuss the Budget, and don't just let it slip by almost without comment. And, if it isn't asking for too much, do try to present a united face from time to time, rather than widen the chasm as in the debate on Gujarat. (The only consensus achieved in the Budget Session was members voting themselves a hike in pay and pensions!)
In the next six months, India will get a new President and a new chief justice. The Lok Sabha will have a new speaker, and the bureaucracy shall have a new cabinet secretary. I am sure that they shall all be good men and true -- but unless our representatives get a new mindset, India's real problems will never be solved.
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Tag: Park City Concerts
Gregory Alan Isakov December 7, 2019, Park City Live
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Squeeze September 7, 2019, Deer Valley
Photo Credit: Kevin Rolfe
I forget sometimes how iconic a band Squeeze is. Of course, they have hits in the US like “Tempted” and “Pulling Mussels (From the Shell). But they are much more than their hits. At one point Glenn Tilbrook and Chris Difford were considered “Heirs to Lennon and McCartney’s throne”. And while that correlation may or may not have taken place, the British rock band have definitely left their mark over the last 45 years. Squeeze was the perfect band to close out this summer’s Deer Valley Concert Series.
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Thievery Corporation August 23, 2019, Deer Valley
By: Cassilyn Anderson
Photo Credit: Cassilyn Anderson
With the stars shining up against the mountains, and along the silhouetted trees the beautiful stage of the Snow Park Outdoor Amphitheater at the Deer Valley Resort played host to one of the most interesting bands I’ve ever seen. The Deer Valley Concert Series invited Thievery Corporation to be its guest for the second to last show of the summer. Nights like this just don’t happen very often, so I was glad I got to be there.
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John Butler Trio+ August 17, 2019, Deer Valley
Photo By: Kevin Rolfe
I’ve spent the last several minutes staring at a blank page, trying to choose the genre or style of music that best describes the John Butler Trio +. I couldn’t settle in on a genre so I went to my Apple Music account and looked up what they titled JBT+ under. Well, it would seem they were as unsure as I was. They were listed under Rock, (I agree with that) Roots Rock, (Yep sound about right) Alternative (Yeah that works) and Jam Band (There was some serious jamming going on so, yes). Then I ventured over to Wikipedia and they added Blues Rock and Funk Rock. Here’s the thing, all of these are exactly right! So I guess it’s safe to say that John Butler and his trio plus one are an Alternative Blues Funk Roots Rock band that absolutely killed it at Deer Valley last Saturday night. If there was an award for “Deer Valley Concert of the Summer”, this one would most certainly be one of the favorites to win that prize.
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Ben Harper & Trombone Shorty August 11, 2019, Deer Valley
It’s impossible to hold your head steady when Trombone Shorty and Orleans Avenue are playing. After Jessy Wilson warmed up the crowd, Troy Andrews and his band took the stage by storm with two full drum sets, three guitars (one bass), two saxophones (tenor and baritone), two backup singers, and Troy himself alternating between the trombone, trumpet, and vocals—nothing short of epic.
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Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real August 8, 2019, Deer Valley
Photo By: Fred Hayes
The beauty of live music is the simple fact that no live show is exactly the same. And Lukas Nelson & the Promise of the Real was a testament to that! Never has the Snow Park Outdoor Amphitheater felt more outdoors than it did on the night of August 8, 2019. Not only were we treated to one of the best shows so far in the Deer Valley Concert Series, but on this night, ‘Ol Mother Nature didn’t want to be left out of the action.
The evening began as any other might at a Deer Valley concert. Many fans showed up early, lawn chairs in one hand, picnic baskets in the other ready to wine and dine with their friends on the hill before an incredible night of music. This is one of my favorite aspects of the Deer Valley Concert series. We get to escape the warmer temperatures of the Salt Lake Valley and enjoy a cool pleasant evening with the food, drinks, and pleasant company. The atmosphere is casual in nature and the 360° views are incredible.
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Renée Elise Goldsberry w/ the Utah Symphony July 20, 2019, Deer Valley
By Kevin Rolfe
When I saw the 2019 Deer Valley Music Festival Utah Symphony summer lineup, one of the first names that stuck out was Renée Elise Goldsberry. Renée has had an extensive career on Broadway, but the reason she is headlining this concert is due to her originating the role of Angelica Schuyler in the smash-hit musical, Hamilton. Ever heard of it? Not only did she originate that role, but she won a Drama Desk, Grammy and Tony Award for her performance. So I knew when her name was announced, I knew that I had to be at the Snow Park Outdoor Amphitheater to see this performance. I’m so glad I didn’t miss this.
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Disney In Concert Utah Symphony July 19, 2019, Deer Valley
By: Kevin Rolfe with contributions by Kerriann Haycock
Photo By: Kerriann Haycock
It was the perfect evening for an outdoor concert! Escaping the heat, heading up to Deer Valley, throwing down a couple of chairs and a blanket, eating and drinking with friends, what could be more perfect? How about a concert full of the greatest music from the Disney songbook? Sounds like the perfect evening! As part of their Deer Valley Music Festival series, the Utah Symphony presented Disney in Concert: A Magical Celebration at the Snow Park Outdoor Amphitheater.
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Jenny Lewis July 11, 2019, Deer Valley
Have you ever been to a concert that you really enjoyed and thought, “You know, I really wish I could see this show again really soon!”? But you know that in most cases it’ll be up to a year and most likely longer until that artist returns to your city. It doesn’t happen often, but this year we were fortunate to have Jenny Lewis bring her On The Line Tour through Utah twice in the last two months. Jenny Lewis gave a rousing performance at The Commonwealth Room on May 18 then returned to Utah but this time up in Park City as part of the Deer Valley Concert Series at Snow Park Outdoor Amphitheater on July 11. Same tour, same artist, two very different shows.
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Underground Railroad Tour Featuring Zion I & Equipto July 4, 2019, The Cabin
By: Mike Gomez
Photo By: Mike Gomez
Underground Hip Hop is an interesting art form and Zion I seems to represent the genre to the fullest. With the ability of the public to pay for individual songs, rather than having to buy an entire album, it is imperative that artists of all genres tour consistently to remain relevant and connect with their fans. Luckily, Oakland, California’s Zion I were already reaching the 10,000 hour mark (Malcolm Gladwell) of touring when album sales began to plummet, so their live show is definitely dialed-in. And the legend lives on…
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That being said, this is a pretty good novel (if you can get past your bias against fanfic-like novels) so far. They resolved to fight for the possession of the Iso-8, and decided to use the broken shell of this world as the arena for their Contest of Champions, a competition where several individuals, taken from Battleworld and the reborn Multiverse, fought to the death on behalf of each Elder. Heroes Wiki is a reference site for NBC 's popular sci-fi drama Heroes and Heroes Reborn. Follow Hulk and his Warbound as they set their sights on smashing the people res. Click to find 100+ Slash X of 4 × Slash Front Rear Shock Absorber Springs For Traxxas by Elroy Kuphal also more Ideas like Slash X Camping, Slash Playing Guitar, Rocker Slash, Slash Quotes, Spider-Man X Venom, Slash Wallpaper Desktop, Slash X Ranch Logo, Slash X Ranch Cafe, Slash From Guns and Roses, X Slash Pokemon Move, Slash Today, Slash X Poker Run, Slash X Ranch Cafe Menu, Slash Guitar. William Russette. 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Recommendations Any good reincarnate into DCU or I can definitely say his stories are better than 99% of the rest of fanfiction. Stories of - Tsuna is not the vongola decimo but his twin is -class trips to vongola mansion -travel to parallel world -second chance to change his past/future -getting reborn into KHR world -Tsuna is the sky arcobaleno -Tsuna is no good self is act out before reborn came -others (too much to name ) More stories at (Of Parallel Worlds & Second Chances ) - another community Have fun reading. com and the NBC App. Marvel Comics, Playing Cards, Cards, Game Cards Marvel Comics Vintage World Maps. The epic sci-fi tale of people with extraordinary abilities continues. What is Pokémon Reborn? Pokémon Reborn is a fangame created by Amethyst in RPG Maker XP and Pokémon Essentials. The Marvel Universe includes examples of most major science fiction and fantasy concepts, and writers keep adding more continuously. In the present time, however, after his future-self was defeated by Tsuna, Byakuran seems to have had a change of heart even though he still retains his carefree and easy-going personality. Loki would do anything to humiliate, defeat or hurt Thor, even enslaving the world he cared about and supposedly killing himself. These fanfics can be found on fanfiction. Aug 16, 2019 · The fanfiction website Archive of Our Own — where people post stories about their favorite movies, books and TV shows — is up for a Hugo Award, one of the highest awards in sci-fi and fantasy. Also included are major events in Marvel History that take place in a single series like the Kree-Skrull War and Infinity Abyss. So stayed tuned as the site leads up to Endgame and then Marvel Reborn will jump 3 years forward bringing it to the modern day. The protagonist is an OC, and there are a huge number of original side characters. ♥ Thor would try to love him even more and do anything to keep him satisfied. I would have preferred it if you had left the previous Marvel Reborn story on your profile and simply wrote this one under a slightly different name. TtH hosts all genres of cross over fanfic as well as non-crossover stories from both BtVS and other fandoms by writers who archive their cross-over fan fiction here. This universe may appear somewhat dull from a cerebral perspective, but it does have its good sides, for those willing to recognize them. On August 2, 2010, the story was revived by TheJadedDolphin. Rei: Look, this is your first encounter with a superhero. Tumblr is a place to express yourself, discover yourself, and bond over the stuff you love. William Russette. Violence Profanity. The story centers around a boy who has been reincarnated and as a result, can't remember who he is. 2 Day(s) 1236 Readers 8 Reviews 08-16-2019. Mar 31, 2016 · Why Tom Hiddleston's Loki could be Marvel's next great supervillain movie The Dark World. Play free online games, watch videos, explore characters and more on Marvel HQ. Explore Marvel's Spider-Man game details, story, demo, screenshots, videos and more. You can expect some of these comics to become movies. Chapters Heroes of Marvel. Uncanny Avengers #1 out of a lot of ANAD Marvel was one I didn't find myself that hyped about. Chapters Heroes of Marvel. Part of his bitterness stemmed from the fact that he was a Frost Giant and was intended as a political tool to bring peace between Asgardians and Frost Giants. Introducing the MARVEL COMICS app, a revolutionary new way to experience the Marvel Universe on your iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad, featuring the world's most popular super heroes! Download hundreds of comic books featuring your favorite characters -— including Iron Man, Thor, Captain America, Spider-Man, Wolverine and more -- on your mobile. Sometimes it's a drabble, sometimes it's an epic long-fic that is over 500,000 words. COMPLETED ON 2017. Heroes Wiki currently has 6,563 articles. The Marvel Masterworks Resource Page! As author of this page, my hopes are that it will be a one-stop resource for information about the content of the MASTERWORKS that have been published, as well as the most current news about this series and its future volumes. The Avengers are a fictional team of superheroes appearing in limited series comic books published by Marvel Comics. What is Pokémon Reborn? Pokémon Reborn is a fangame created by Amethyst in RPG Maker XP and Pokémon Essentials. An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works. The user is capable of surviving and escaping death by being reborn in the body of another or possess a body that was just born. The first is the version introduced in the Heroes Reborn series of books. Pokemon Online Game, Pokemon Dusk, PkmnReborn RPG. He will do anything to achieve his goal, not caring if it would mean sacrificing innocent people or destroying the world, even referring to them as his toys. No more chronological jumping around or story line confusion. BTS World's premise could have been lifted out of a self-insert fanfiction. Following the successes of Netflix original film Bird Box, Sandra Bullock has once again teamed up with Netflix to work on a new film. It's coming! And with your contributions, it can be beautiful!!! Let's make some marvel sprites, animations, portrait art, stories, etc. Surgeon Guan Ryo Is reborn in Naruto’s world!. Several versions of Wolverine exist in the All-New All-Different Marvel Universe, including X-23, a female clone of Wolverine who is going by the name Wolverine, and Old Man Logan, a time-displaced alternate universe Wolverine from the rehash of the Old Man Logan storyline in the Secret Wars super-mega-crossover event, but the original. 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Great characterization, and worth the read especially if you miss the "good old days" of the classic Avengers. Even if you didn't plan to ever go back to it I still would have liked to re-read it. Limited (1 for 25) Variant by JOHN CASSADAY. Now it's up to Doctor Octopus and the Superior Six to stop the Lords of Darkness. Summary Short summary describing this issue. The Mighty World of Marvel » The Mighty World of Marvel #44 - The DEFENDERS REBORN! released by Panini Comics on July 12, 2006. Wow, it looks like my life is about to. Furthermore, Frigga seemed to be the only one who loved and understood her youngest son the most. Reincarnate In Another World: Any living being - both humans and animals - that have ever died reincarnates in this fantasy realm in a different form that they used to be in life (though they still retain their memories) and its random from person to person: Bonnie was a old woman before being transformed to a tall and buxom blonde, while her. Captain America first appeared in 1941, just as the United States entered World War II. Marvel characters' personality seems consistent so far, so I assume that author has down his work in researching Marvel Universe. Loki Laufeyson was an Asgardian prince, the God of Mischief, and usurper of the Asgardian throne. But in the waking world, Rogers is just an ordinary man, or so he thought. Also included are major events in Marvel History that take place in a single series like the Kree-Skrull War and Infinity Abyss. 2 Day(s) 1236 Readers 8 Reviews 08-16-2019. Salivation (200?). Peter Maximoff, (born in the 1950s) also known as Quicksilver, is a mutant capable of moving and thinking at superhuman speeds. Agent Venom: Reborn is a series by Agent Venom. (Remake of my first fanfic) After trying to fend off a robber twins Danny and Jet were reincarnated in equestria as a pony and dragon who can fuse into one. In this new world, Apocalypse rose early, before. Fanfiction Sort by. 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(This actually has several interesting effects on your powers, such as removing a very specific flaw the Stones/Gems had. You decide who are the founding members of the X-men, Avnegers, or. Shop with confidence. I decided to do something different in this World. All Games Full Games Digital Only Indies Free-to-Play Ultimate Editions Bundles PS2 Games Classics Cross-Platform Minis. Fast loading speed, unique reading type: All pages - just need to scroll to read next page. Pokemon Online Game, Pokemon Dusk, PkmnReborn RPG. The Marvel Cinematic Universe wiki has a collection of images and media related to The Other. Invisible Woman is from the Non MAU series Fantastic Four: World's Greatest Heroes. Can't say I've read much, but I take it as a compliment -- fans digging the world and wanting to explore it!" he shared during a Reddit AMA about his new Amazon series The Boys. 8 Marvel Characters Who Could Fill Spider-Man's Void in the MCU. 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With Avengers: Endgame now in theaters worldwide, we look through all the phases of the MCU and rank all of the Marvel movies from worst to best. Discover (and save!) your own Pins on Pinterest. This is a collection of stories that involve Harry Potter and the Marvel Universe. Like last month Marvel Comics has released their November 2019 solicititations without an embargo, so here they are as we got them. If you're a fan of Iron Man be sure to Create Your Own Iron Man Suit. A Nerd dies and is reborn in the Marvel Universe as the son of the Green Goblin, how will he react? how will he prepare for the challenges to come? Find out here readers! Honorable mentions to Joe Lawyer for his help. She specializes in Ground-types and is fought at the Champion Room. With Robert Downey Jr. With Brie Larson, Samuel L. I will let you free if you beat these shadow men, You fight Shadow men and when you defeat the last one you get into Regular Earth. 2 Day(s) 1236 Readers 8 Reviews 08-16-2019. 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Tech & Service
316/316L Stainless Steel
Type 316/316L Stainless Steel is a molybdenum steel possessing improved resistance to pitting by solutions containing chlorides and other halides.
In addition, it provides excellent elevated temperature tensile, creep and stress-rupture strengths.
Chemcial Composition - 316/316L stainless steel tubing and pipe
UNS Designation
Carbon (C) Max. 0.08 0.030*
Manganese (Mn) Max. 2.00 2.00
Phosphorous (P) Max. 0.045 0.045
Sulphur (S) Max. 0.030 0.030
Silicon (Si) Max. 1.00 1.00
Chromium (Cr) 16.0 – 18.0 16.0 – 18.0
Nickel (Ni) 10.0 – 14.0 10.0 – 14.0
Molybdenum (Mo) 2.0 – 3.0 2.0 – 3.0
Nitrogen (N) — —
Iron (Fe) Bal. Bal.
Other Elements — —
The main constituents of 316 stainless steel - other than iron - are Chromium and Nickel. However, it is the addition of 2% Molybdenum that provides the increased corrosion resistance.
316 contains 16 - 18% Chromium (Cr). Chromium is the essential chemical in all stainless steel and it is that which forms the thin passive layer that makes the metal "stainless"
316 also contains 10-14% Nickel (Ni). This is added to make the Austenitic structure more stable at normal temperatures.
The nickel also improves high-temperature oxidation resistance makes the steel resistant to stress corrosion cracking.
Where the steel is to be stretched formed a lower percentage (8%) of nickel should be selected. If the steel is to be deep drawn a higher percentage is better (9% or more).
In addition a number of other chemicals may be present but these are expressed as maximum permited levels with the exception of the increased quantity of carbon required in 316H - i.e. a minimum of .04% and a maximum of 0.10%
7.2e-005 ohm-cm
at 20°C (68°F); 1.16E-04 at 650°C (1200°F)
Magnetic Permeability
at RT
Typical Mechanical Properties- Stainless Steel 316/316L
Tensile Strength (ksi)
Yield Strength (ksi)
% Elongation
Alloy 316L 316L Sheet AMS 5507 100 max - 45
Alloy 316 316 Sheet AMS 5524 75 min 30 45 207 max
Physical Properties - 316/316L/316H stainless steel in the Annealed Condition at -20°F to +100°F
UNS Design
-ation
Yield Strength
Elongation in 2 inches (min.) %
Grain Size Req.
Max. Hardness
Modulus of Elasticity (x106 psi)
Mean Coefficient of Thermal Expansion (IN./IN./°F x 10-6)
(BTU-in/ft2-h-°F)
316 S31600 A249, A312 75,000 515 75 30,000 205 30 35 — 90 Rb 28.0 9.2 116
316L S31603 A270, A312 70,000 485 70 25,000 170 25 — — 90 Rb 28.0 9.2 116
316H S31609 — — — — — — — — 7 or coarser — — — —
Product Range - 316/316L Stainles steel
Werkstoff NR.
316 S31600 1.4401 A269, A/SA249, A/SA312, A1016, A632, A/SA688
316L** S31603 1.4404 A269, A/SA249, A/SA312, A1016, A632, A/SA688
*Note: The specifications noted including ASTM, ASME, or other applicable authorities are correct at the time of publication. Other specifications may apply for use of these materials in different applications.
Design Features - 316/316L Stainless Steel
Type 316 is more resistant to atmospheric and other mild environments than Type 304. it is resistant to dilute solutions (i.e. 1-5%) of sulfuric acid up to 120°F. However, in certain oxidizing acids, Type 316 is less resistant than Type 304.
316 is susceptible to carbide precipitation when exposed in the temperature range of 800° - 1500°F and therefore is susceptible to intergranular corrosion in the as-welded condition. Annealing after welding will restore corrosion resistance.
Type316L has the same composition as Type 316 except the carbon content is held below 0.03%. Not unexpectedly, its general corrosion resistance and other properties closely correspond to those of Type 316. However, it does provide immunity to intergranular attack in the as-welded condition or with short periods of exposure in the temperature range of 800° - 1500°F. The use of 316L is recommended when exposure in the carbide precipitation range is unavoidable and where annealing after welding is not practical. However, prolonged exposure in this range may embrittle the material and make it susceptible to intergranular attack.
The maximum temperature for scaling resistance in contnuous services is about 1650°F, and 1500°F for intermittent service.
May be susceptible to chloride stress corrosion cracking.
Non-hardenable; non-magnetic in the annealed condition, and slightly magnetic when cold worked.
Improved corrosion resistance to chlorides.
Typical Applications - Stainless Steel 316/316L
Heat exchangers, condensers & evaporators
Tensile Requirements - Stainless Steel 316/316L
Tensile Strength (KSI): 70
Yield Strength (KSI): 25
KSI can be converted to MPA (Megapascals) by multiplying by 6.895.
Material stainless steel grades:
Also known as "marine grade" stainless steel due to its increased ability to resist saltwater corrosion compared to type 304. SS316 is often used for building nuclear reprocessing plants.
304 Stainless is a low carbon (0.08% max) version of basic 18-8 also known as 302.
Type 316 is more resistant to atmospheric and other mild environments than Type 304.
310S Stainless Steel has excellent resistance to oxidation under constant temperatures to 2000°F.
317L is a molybdenum bearing austenitic chromium nickel steel similar to type 316, except the alloy content in 317L is somewhat higher.
321/321H Stainless Steel
Type 321 is basic type 304 modified by adding titanium in an amount at least 5 times the carbon plus nitrogen contents.
Type 410 is a martensitic stainless steel which is magnetic, resists corrosion in mild environents and has fairly good ductility.
Duplex 2205 (UNS S31803)
Duplex 2205 (UNS S31803), or Avesta Sheffield 2205 is a ferritic-austenitic stainless steel.
Duplex 2507 (UNS S32750) is a super duplex stainless steel with 25% chromium, 4% molybdenum..
SUPER DUPLEX UNS S32760
UNS S32760 is described as a super duplex stainless with a microstructure of 50:50 austenite and ferrite.
ASTM A269 / A269M Standard Specification for Seamless and Welded Austenitic Stainless Steel Tubing for General Service
SA 249 Stainless Steel
ASME SA 249 Standard Specification for Welded Austenitic Steel Boiler,
Superheater, Heat-Exchanger, and Condenser Tubes.
Dual phase steel
Dual-phase steel (DPS) is a high-strength steel that has a ferrite and martensitic microstructure.
316 Stainless steel FAQs
Stainless steel 316 is an austenitic steel with excellent welding and forming characteristics.
It is the second most commonly used stainless steel and represents around 20% of the entire world production of stainless steel.
The key element that differentiates it from most other stainless steels is the inclusion of molybdenum, between 2% and 3%, which enhances its resistance corrosion in general and pitting corrosion in particular.
It is malleable and ductile and has good weldability. Its austenitic structure allows it to be deep drawn without intermediate annealing. It is also unnecessary to anneal it following welding thin sections.
However, the inclusion of molybdenum may have some adverse effects on its formability.
It is widely used in:
Chemical processing and storage equipment.
Refinery equipment
Marine environments, especially those with chlorides present
In its annealed state it is virtually non-magnetic even when cold worked, unlike 304 which can be significantly attracted to a magnet after cold working. This may make it more suitable in some applications.
What are its main benefits of 316?
The range of properties of 316 make it second only to 304 in quantity used and it is employed in many industries.
It is a good choice for architectural applications in coastal areas where there may be a significant amount of salt in the atmosphere however it is more expensive than 304 and is unnecessary away from the coast. Onboard seagoing vessels it is the natural choice for steel fittings whether on-deck or below.
It should also be considered for use in cold climates where significant amounts of de-icing salt is used on the roads. In these environments the level of salt in the atmosphere can be much higher than that found in coastal areas.
The combination of greater corrosion resistance and good formability make it a good choice food and beverage processing equipment; hot water systems; and plant for chemical, petrochemical, mineral processing if chlorides are likely to be present.
It should, however, be borne in mind that it is not as easily machined as other austenitic steels.
The major benefit of 316 is its increased corrosion resistance. In addition to its resistance to chlorides it is also highly resistant to sulfuric, and sulfurous acids, acetic acid, as well as many industrial chemicals and solvents. These types of corrosive process chemicals are used to make a wide variety of products including inks, textiles, photographic chemicals, paper, textiles, rubber, and bleaches.
You should be aware that there are limitations to 316's corrosion resistance and if it is being used in hostile environments care should be taken. It is generally safe to use in the offshore industry in northern European waters this is regarded as the maximum temperature at which it is safe to use for prolonged exposure to seawater.
The UK HSE has produced an excellent paper on the selection of stainless steels for the offshore industry. Click here.
316 resists oxidation well in intermittent exposure to temperatures up to 870oC and in continuous exposure to temperatures to 925oC.
It is not recommended for use in the 425oC to 860oC range if resistance to aqueous corrosion is required.
If there is a danger of intergranular corrosion 316L, the lower carbon form, is more resistant to carbide precipitation and should be considered.
316H provides greater strength at higher temperatures and is often used in high-pressure applications above 500oC. If there is a need to provide increased resistance to chlorides you should consider 316Ti. The addition of titanium results in the forming of titanium carbides rather than chromium carbide resulting in better resistance to intergranular corrosion.
What are the limitations 316?
The major drawback of 316 over 304 stainless steel is the increased cost - generally about 20% to 25% higher. However, when considering cost the "whole-life" cost should be calculated and the increased corrosion resistance of 316 may result in it producing a considerable saving.
Stress Corrosion Cracking
Austenitic stainless steels can be subject to stress corrosion cracking but 316 is generally more resistant particularly at ambient temperatures. However, there have been some curious examples of stress corrosion cracking that are worth bearing in mind.
In continuously high humidity environments in the presence of halides stress corrosion cracking at ambient temperatures has been noted. at least one swimming pool roof has collapsed as a consequence.
It should be emphasised the the production of a good surface finish and good welding techniques do much to reduce the vulnerability of all forms of corrosion.
Variants - 316L, 316H & 316Ti
The two main variants of grade 316 are the low carbon form 316L and the high carbon form 316H
316L has a maximum of 0.30% carbon. This reduces the tendency for carbide precipitation when welding. Carbide precipitation can result in intergranular corrosion.
316H has between 0.04 and 0.1% carbon. This gives it greater strength at high temperature but does make it more vulnerable to carbide precipitation when welding.
If avoidance of carbide precipitation is important then the use of 316Ti, which has Titanium added to it, may be the answer. The titanium combines with the carbon forming titanium carbides, in preference to the chromium preserving the passive layer.
In common with 304, 316 has a maximum of 0.08% carbon, there are potential overlaps in the specifications which means that it is not uncommon to find dual specification.
316L having less than 0.08% carbon it can, therefore, be described as 316/316L.
316 may have up to 0.08% carbon so if its carbon content is between 0.04 and 0.08% carbon it may be described as 316/316H.
Forms available
Stainless 316, 316H, 316L Forms Available
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Lighter, More Powerful, Cheaper. Can J-CESR Bring Us Better Batteries?
Dean Sigler 12/03/2014 Uncategorized Leave a Comment
$70,000 is a sizable base price for a car. That sum for the simplest of Tesla S sedans makes a bigger than average debt load for most of us, probably more than most can responsibly assume. Even the much anticipated model “E” at half that price is more stunning than the average sticker shock these days. What if, by some act of art or science, that $70,000 could be slashed to $14,000 for an electric vehicle that could travel 265 miles on a charge? That tall order is the order of the day for the Joint Center for Energy Storage Research, started two years ago under Dr. Steven Chu, who was then U. S. Secretary of Energy. He and his …
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The New Mythbusters: Slow Charging May Not Make Batteries Last Longer
For the last 60 years, your editor remembers the oft-repeated advice from garage mechanics and now lithium-ion advocates that slow charging is the way to make your batteries last for many cycles. Where does this put Tesla, for instance, with its 20-minute Superchargers? Are you damaging your expensive cells by being in a hurry? In yet another example of counter-intuitive thinking at work, researchers at SLAC, the National Accelerator Laboratory at located on the Stanford University campus have challenged several tenets of conventional battery wisdom. According to PC World, their work, “published on Sunday in the Journal, Nature Materials, challenges the commonly held notion that slowly charging a battery helps prolong its life and that it’s damaging to a battery …
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I’ll Take Manhattan
While much of battery research goes into crafting the ultimate anode, cathode or electrolyte, there seem to be few efforts, at least to outside observers, of integrated approaches to making a better total battery. That may change soon, with the Department of Energy announcing formation of a new Joint Center for Energy Storage Research (J-CESR, or J-Caesar). Dr. Steven Chu, U. S. Secretary of Energy, has established the Center at Argonne National Laboratory with a budget of $120 million over five years to create a battery five times more powerful and five times cheaper than today’s norms – all within five years. For those of us who’ve grown wary of those “breakthough” announcements that almost always include the line, …
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Solar Cells – All That Glitters Need Not Be Gold
Dean Sigler 08/09/2010 Sustainable Aviation Leave a Comment
The search for less expensive solar cells drives many lines of research these days, with trends toward smaller collectors and less expensive materials leading the way. Many solar cells use gold and other pricey metals to provide junctions within the cell structure. Gold closed Friday at $1,204.00 per troy ounce on the London Metal Exchange, and nickel at $10.01 per pound. That would make gold worth $17,558 per avoirdupois pound (14.583 troy ounces per pound), or 1,754 times more expensive than nickel. According to Gizmag, University of Toronto investigators found that substituting nickel for the previously used gold as collection contacts in their colloidal quantum dot solar cells provided equal performance, at a 40 to 80-percent drop in solar …
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So Long, Farewell – But Not That Well
July 31, 2008 / Sara / 1 Comment
Manny is gone. Wait, no really. Manny is gone. There will be no more calls from inside the wall, no more antics. And I don’t care. Okay, I care. I’m a little sad, I’m gonna miss the crazy man, but now, at least, we won’t have to deal with it anymore, and I know life will be much easier on Tito.
The only thing I am worried about is Papi. I hope he’s still happy in Boston, but he and Manny were good friends…so I don’t know. Papi, we still love you, and I will absolutely cry if you leave us. Do I think this will help? Probably. We needed a bat to back up Ortiz, we got that, and hopefully we’re done with the antics. At least, the detrimental ones.
I’m interested in what can happen. Right now, I’m in limbo on how I feel about the Red Sox. I agree with what Alex Cora said. They are playing like they don’t have any energy. Maybe some new (and younger) blood will get the Sox moving again. Youk is on a hitting streak, Pedroia is the Destroya, Ellsbury seems to be excelling in his new spot, and JD Drew has been better about not hitting into double plays. We’re still waiting for them to get on a streak, but I always have faith that they will.
So long Manny. I hope you are happy now, because you clearly weren’t happy at Boston. I feel like this will do nothing but good. So here’s to life after Manny, may it go well.
Stress and the Sox
July 30, 2008 / Sara / Leave a comment
Okay, I know, we’re reining world champions, but I am not at the point where I can take a loss or a slump without the inevitable question of whether or not we’re done. It is still as stressful as ever, I think had we been no hit tonight, I might have given up on them for longer than 24 hours. I might have even gone a whole week. But in comes Pedroia on his shining white horse and his hot bad, come to chase to no-hitter away. And just so we weren’t shut-out, Youk knocks one into the monster seats. Do I feel bad about the Angel losing his no-hitter with one out in the ninth? Heck no. The only no-hitters I want to see in Fenway are the ones the home-team throws.
Tonight highlighted all the reasons I hate it when Clay Buchholz pitches. He’s like the schizo pitcher. He’ll be lights out, then suddenly, its like he’s a whole different pitcher. Then he gets back to business. Tek, if you can hear me, can you figure out a way to fix that please?
One good sign in this game that maybe we’re about to turn things around is the fact that Lackey only struck out four and gave out 2 free passes (one on a hit batter to Drew). So that means 21 of 27 outs came from fielding the ball, either with a ground-out or a pop-out or a line-out. We;re making contact, and as my coach would always say, that’s the first step. Its always better to make contact or walk than strike out. Okajima was on tonight, but the rest of the bull pen…shaky as ever. I was so glad Tito put Paps in during the 9th. I mean, if he could just be our designated 9th-inning guy (winning or not) At least until the bull pen pulls it together on a consistent basis.
Speaking of Paps, I think 20 years from now, when we look back on it, we’ll be remembering a lot of greats from this team. We’ll look back on Paps, Nomar, Pedro, Schilling, Tito, Wake and all of those guys and talk about them like we talk about Tony C, Fisk, and Bobby D. We’ll always remember Damon as a traitor (sorry, but that’s life), so long as Manny doesn’t do anything stupid and retires in Boston or goes out quietly somewhere other than the Yankees or another AL east rival, we’ll always remember Manny, but what happens after this year determines how fondly we’ll remember him. Lester? Give him a few years and we could be calling him one of the best ever. Youk? Um, its Youk. That’s it. We don’t even need to say any more. He’s a beast. If Ellsbury continues to develop (and I think he will) he could become one of the greatest base runners ever. We just have to get him on base. Mike Lowell is one of the most remarkable and likable guys to play the game, of course we’ll be telling our kids about how, at the end of the 2007 world series, hundreds of fans stayed behind to throw their support at Mike Lowell and let management know what they wanted.
Then we have Papi. I mean, he’s Papi. We love Papi. Of course we’ll be telling our kids about the slugger. Drew? Maybe. If he sticks around long enough and plays well. We’ll certainly remember his grand slam forever.
The guys I think we may be mentioning up there with Cy Young, Ted Williams, and Yaz someday are Pedroia and Varitek. (Note, Papi will be here too, but we already covered him) Tek could probably be in a hitting slump the rest of this year, and we’ll still be talking HOF. (In my book, anyway) Anyone who is named the Captain of his team, and then is their captain for TWO world series (and hopefully more!) wins and is one of the main reasons they didn’t get discouraged when they were down games in the ALCS (both times) is a Captain to be respected and proud of. He had one of the worst batting averages in the league and the players STILL wanted to honor him as an All-Star. That tells you something right there. And as for Pedroia, he has all the makings of a phenomenal player. Low on the errors, gets on base, a lot, fast, smart at the plate, and plays with a lot of heart. I’m not saying he’s playing at a HOF level now, I just see a lot of potential (do not let him go, Theo). Who else would have broken up the first possible no-hitter at Fenway since 1953? My money was on him or Papi.
So now we’ve lost two series at Fenway. Can this be our home losing slump for the season and then we can be done with it? Please? We haven’t had a real good hot streak all year. We’re starting the hottest month of the year, maybe we could develop a streak to match the weather? (watch, as I say this, God is going to make it the mildest August ever)
We are now back to two games behind Tampa Bay, but another Yankee loss puts them further in our rear-view mirror. (Thank goodness). I almost expected this, because if you compare the teams we’re playing to the teams the Rays are playing…they’re playing Toronto, who are just barely above .500, we played the Angels, who currently have the best record in baseball. But, as I say that, I have to say this: look at their division. Their only competition is Oakland, who are 12 games back. The last place team in the whole AL East is only 11.5 games back. The AL East is the only division in baseball where four teams are above .500. So right now, I don’t mind losing to the Angels. As long as we win when it counts, like when we fell out of shouting distance of first place and won five out of six (helped by a Rays 7-game losing streak) to get back into right before the break, I’m happy. And here’s a good thought to end this not-so-happy blog on: the Yankees, who were surging, have now lost three straight, two to the worst team in the AL East. How nice would it be to have the 9-2 loss on Sunday be the catalyst for the Yankee’s undoing? (I was raised to hate them, for better or worse, richer or poorer, ’til death do I stop)
Next up, Beckett. He only allowed one run to the Yanks last time, but since no one felt like swinging the bat against the platypus (Joba C.), we lost. Maybe Becks will only give up one run this time and we can actually do a little work on offense. Who knows. Here’s hoping for some good mojo. We certainly need it.
Wheels, Deals and Happy Meals
In the course of one weekend, I went from hating the game of baseball, deciding the fat lady had sung on the Sox season, and giving up on baseball all together for about 24 hours to being impressed with the team and hoping for another championship. There is only one team in baseball that can do that with all of their fans so effectively: the Boston Red Sox. Its like one of those movies where you are so angry at the characters that you get up to leave, but once your out, you can’t stand to leave in the middle, so you just go to the bathroom and head back in, only to see the characters completely turn things around.
Lets not talk about the first two games, where the Yankees hot streak clearly got the better of the issues Boston has with leaving men on base, the bullpen, and the lineup. I’m sorry, when Josh Beckett pitches out of his mind and you can’t get him any runs to help out? That is not good. But that’s all I’m going to say about Friday and Saturday. On to Sunday.
Once again, the Sox lean on Jon Lester when they are spiraling into a losing streak. Once again, Jonny pulls out a great game and saves the Sox. I had a lot of confidence going into Sunday, because lets face it, Sidney Ponson? Despite the surprising streak he’s been on, his low inning count and high walk rate had to eventually catch up with him. I’m hoping that this loss sparks a whole new Yankees collapse, though I doubt it because yet again, the big money boys have made some big money deals to bring in a bit of help. Sure enough, the combination of the-pillar-of-the-pitching-staff Lester (note, he may not have the most wins, but he always goes deep, and I always feel a little bit safer when he’s on the hill.) He’s the only one I really trust to pull the team out of a losing streak, he’s really good at that, and like Tek said, he’s only going to get better. Coming from Tek, who is probably one of the best pitching judges out there (he should really become a pitching coach when he retires, with all the good he does behind the plate, I think he’d be great as a coach.) that’s high praise.
Speaking of Tek, guess who is still hitting. Yay! And the Papi-Manny Double-Whammy is back in business as of last night. I think Manny is starting to realize that he needs to be on his best behavior if he wants to get a better deal at the end of the season, which I’m sure his agent has been telling him. But that’s all I’m going to say about the Manny Saga. Anyway, Boston’s bats were a’swinging last night with a bunch of doubles and a two-run dinger from none other than Big Papi. I think he needed that.
Man, its good to have the big guy back. And with him back, Dustin can be the lead-off man (I know Tito still wants Jacoby in that spot, but I think he’s not ready yet) followed by Youk (anyone else think Joba should have been ejected from the game for that ball he threw at him? I don’t care how stupid the timing was, there is just no way that wasn’t intentional) then the Papi-Manny duo that hopefully will again start to terrify opposing pitchers. I like the batting order now. I like having Jacoby at the bottom, I think he needs some more time in the bigs before he really is an effective lead-off man. I think this visit to the 9th spot will be good for him. Speaking of Jacoby…
What a catch. I tell you what, with his speed and defensive ability, I don’t care that his arm strength isn’t that good. That boy has wheels. He’ll be stealing bases again in no time, and with him on, a single can turn into a double or triple. We like to call him wheels.
The trade deadline approaches, and no word yet from Theo about anything. Do we make a quick trade to shore up the bull pen or do we work from within, like with Masterson? (who I still think is going to be a solid reliever). Do we trade Coco or keep him? (keep, sorry Coco) Can we please trade Lugo? I mean…come on, won’t anyone take him? What kind of dealing will be done? Will the Pirates continue to let other teams raid their cookie jar? Who knows. Will the Yankees continue to make ridiculous deals to make sure they are contenders? Of course. They’re the Yankees. They must be in the playoff hunt every year. Its a conspiracy, I tell you, the Steinbrenners are paying off the baseball gods…but thats another story for another day.
So, that’s the wheels, the deals…what about the Happy Meal? After deciding the fat lady had sung on the 2008 season, I went and got myself a Happy Meal to bury my sorrow in a little pack of fries, a burger, and a very small diet coke. It was partially the Happy Meal I had for lunch on Sunday and the Sox performance that night that renewed my faith in the boys. (Not that I had ever actually lost it, but in true Sox fan form, I let it go temporarily) What did I have for lunch today? What do you think. Superstition rules all, and the toy I got today was way better than yesterday.
Next up, Dice takes on the Halos. God help us and not them. (Seriously, I know they’re the Angels, but we could use a little help, and if that help comes in the form of a Rays and Yankees collapse or Sox mega-hot streak, I’ll leave that up to You, Big Man.)
Batter up!
July 28, 2008 May 13, 2011 / Sara / 1 Comment
They’re Baaaaaaaaaaaack!!!!
Man, does it feel good to have the west-coast swing over with or what? I know I needed some sleep.
And the rivalry is renewed, and it matters, again. Despite pesky little Tampa Bay making this a ménage à trois, the Sox are in first place (tied with said Rays) and the Yankees are breathing down everyone’s necks, coming in on a hot streak. We all knew this would happen. I remember listening to ESPN Radio, the show Sportsnation. They asked who would be in the AL Wild Card Race, and I said the Yankees. The guys on the show disagreed and said that the Yankees just didn’t have the pitching to make it. Of course, the moment someone says that, the entire pitching staff in NY goes on a tear and plays out of their collective minds.
Its fate. The Rays are in the mix this year, and probably for a couple more years, but it always comes back to the Yankees and the Red Sox. Always. Its like God is sitting up there, laughing at us, because just when you think one team is out, they come roaring back in. Its why I have faith, that, at the end of the day, though Tampa Bay will continue to be a presence, it will always come back to the Yankees and the Red Sox. Its like, the Yankees and the Sox have been preforming this great dance, year after year, and one of them eventually falls, leaving the winner. The Rays have come in, and they look good, but it remains to be seen if maybe they will be standing towards the end there.
Was that a weird analogy? Moving on. Back in the lineup tonight will be the big man, Big Papi, or as Paps calls him “The Large Father”. Do I think he’ll hit a homer? Not likely, it would be great, but I’m not getting my hopes up. Do I think he’ll be a force in the lineup to terrify platypus man Joba Chamberlain? Oh yes.
So here’s to a good outing by Papi, and a great outing by Beckett, who has looked better since the break.
Lets go Sox!
They’re Baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaack!
That Old Bull-Pen Magic
I hate it when Clay Buchholz pitches. Hate it. It makes me very, very nervous. He looked good, though, which was a welcome and pleasant surprise. He looked leaps and bounds better than his first start coming out of the break, he had a lot more control. It was good.
Then we have the bullpen…as a Red Sox fan, especially this season, we are trained to say a Hail Mary and pray frantically when Tito pulls in Delcarmen, Hansen, Okajima or Timlin. Its always iffy. Masterson…I haven’t seen in anything but a start. We got to see almost all of them last night, and let me tell you, I actually dare to hope. Masterson was lights-out. Absolutely fabulous. Delcarmen: solid. Okajima: solid. Paps…came on in relief, and I got worried when he had guys on the corners. But Mikey and Dustin came through to get the double play. (in a side note, why is Dustin Pedroia’s nickname Petey?) Speaking of Paps, what was with that dribbler? I’m not sure Paps would have handled that even if he was using his glove. That thing was possesed.
Then the top of the 12th…Ellsubry got his firt hit of the night (what a clutch hit!). Pedroia grounded out but Wheels got to 2nd, JD took a walk, and Youk got a lucky (but also good) hit. Mikey came through in the clutch with a two-run single, and Casey added to it with an RBI single. And all of Boston started to breathe again. Hansen pulled out a strong save, despite starting a little shakey, and the Sox completed the sweep of the Mariners.
So now the Sox head home on a day of rest before they take on the Yanks. And here’s the best news I’ll day: (note, if the Rays loose tonight, it will be tied as the best news) Papi is back in the line-up and ready to swing. Yay!
So some interesting things come out of the West Coast swing: the bull-pen looks much better. Its still not great, but it is no longer my greatest fear. Manny is being Manny. This is what he does in July. Go back every year and Manny is just like this, every July. The trade deadline will pass, it will become August and September, and the slugger will be back in form and back to loving being in Boston. I think its some kind of seasonal disorder. Mikey seems to be out of his mini slump, Jacoby can get back deeper in the order when Papi comes back, which will probably help get him out of his slump, Dustin is still on a hitting tear, JD Drew is hitting into fewer double plays, and Tek has a three game hitting streak. That’s right. The Captain may still be struggling with the stick, but he’s looking better all the time. Clay B. picked a batter off…man is he fast. Next up: Skankees. But we’re at the Fens, so all is well.
Bring on the Bombers.
July 24, 2008 May 13, 2011 / Sara / Leave a comment
Dice-K and Dustin: The Road Warriors
Okay. Dice-K wasn’t dicey. At least until the 8th. That was a switch. And the Sox are looking good on the road, I mean, its against the Mariners, but still. I’ll take what I can get.
Some really good things happened yesterday:
1. Dice-K went 7 1/3 and only let in 2 runs towards the end there…not too bad
2. Okajima looked good. It was like a flashback to last year, maybe he’s out of his slump?
3. Paps notched save #30. That’s the third year in a row he’s had a least 30 saves in a season.
And its only July. We’ve got a lot more baseball to play.
4. Tek had another hit. Do we dare to hope?
5. Mikey had a good day swinging the bat, possibly signifying that he’s coming out of his little mini-slump
6. Jacoby Ellsbury looked good. I mean, he didn’t have a great night for a lead-off man, but he looked good.
7. Manny and Dustin extended their game hit-streaks to 11 and 23, respectively.
8. This afternoon’s game will hopefully be the last one we play this season without Papi, who returns for Friday’s home stand against the Yanks.
9. JD Drew homered. That’s always a good thing.
10. The Rays lost. Actually, the Rays got spanked. Good stuff.
So now that we’ve discussed the 10 good things that happened last night, lets talk about something magical. I was watching the game, and there were a couple of balls hit to third, and I remember thinking: “okay, good, we got that out.” when in fact Mikey had barely begun to field the ball. The duo of Mike Lowell and Kevin Youkilis is the most comforting corner combination ever. They are both tremendous defensive players, and sometimes I feel like any ball hit to them is an automatic out. And obviously Dustin Pedroia is up there too, they’re all golden glove candidates (again in Mikey and Youk’s case) in my book. That should have been your All-Star infield: Youk, Pedroia, Jeter, Mikey. (A-Rod is WAY overrated. I mean, at least Jeter is good and a class-act, but A-Rod…eh. not so much.)
Clay B. is starting for the Sox this afternoon (what a weird time for a game, not that I’m complaining, because I’ve been up late every night this week watching the late night games. I mean, I know its a 1:40 game in Seattle, but 4:40 is just a bizarre time to start a game ) hopefully this start will be better than the last few, especially since the Sox are up against Felix Hernandez, which is quite scary (especially for righties).
We need a quality outing from Buchholz, good, clutch bats from the boys, and I want to see Paps out there in the 9th. And a Rays loss wouldn’t hurt either 🙂
Go Sox!!
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Paratesticular malignant mesotheliomas are exceedingly rare and make up less than 1% of all mesotheliomas. They arise from the tunica vaginalis which is formed by the evagination of the abdominal peritoneum into the scrotum. The age range is between 40 and 80 years (mean around 60 years). Most of the patients present with a hydrocele. Some have history of asbestos exposure. Morphologically, the majority of the tumors are purely epithelioid type (almost 80% of cases), showing an admixture of papillary, tubular, and solid patterns. The remaining 20% of cases show mixed epithelioid/sarcomatoid pattern. This image shows tubular structures infiltrating a densely sclerotic stroma. For a more detailed discussion of mesotheliomas, check out peritoneal mesotheliomas
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Wellington Gardens become CarbonZero certified organisation
December 13, 2019Business, PressRelease10 comments
News from Wellington City Council
The Wellington City Council is proud to announce that the Wellington Gardens have achieved certification to be a Toitū CarbonZero organisation – businesses working together to sustain the future of our environment and economy.
The three year certification was given to the Wellington Gardens after a rigorous process which included operations at the Wellington Botanic Garden, Otari-Wilton’s Bush, Truby King Park and Bolton Street Cemetery.
The process began in September 2018 when David Sole, the former Manager of the Wellington Gardens, was motivated by Botanic Gardens around the world taking on an activist role and advocating for sustainability and being proactive in the face of climate change.
Wellington Gardens Manager Rewi Elliot says this an incredibly significant moment for the Gardens and staff who have all worked really hard in order to achieve this certification.
“It is a demanding process to become CarbonZero as you have to record all information around energy and consumption across all areas of operation, at all times. We are really proud to have achieved this certification and are looking forward to seeing more organisations around Wellington do the same.”
The focus was on four key areas – reducing waste, energy consumption, travel and fuel.
Some of the initiatives Wellington Gardens have introduced include reducing their energy by reviewing how they manage their glasshouses, and by turning off lights and computers when they are not in use. They have reduced waste by removing rubbish bins across the gardens with the idea that ‘what you bring with you is what you take out with you.’
“This has encouraged the public to think about their waste and take responsibility for what they purchase and bring with them to our spaces,” adds Rewi.
In terms of travel, the Wellington Gardens team have future plans to reduce travel to meetings both nationally and regionally. They have also reduced fuel consumption by progressively replacing power tools to with electric models. Next on the list is moving their entire car fleet to EV or hybrids as each car comes up for replacement.
Natural Environment portfolio lead, Councillor Teri O’Neill, says it’s important that the City Council leads the way for a better collective future for the capital.
“Wellington Gardens join Wellington Zoo and Zealandia under the Wellington City Council umbrella moving towards Zero Carbon. The Council itself is Toitū Carbonreduce certified, and continues to look at ways to minimise and manage the impact we have now, and the footprint we leave behind,” says Councillor O’Neill.
Within a fortnight there will be a ceremony where Toitū will present the award to the Wellington Gardens.
Neaven Grady, 13. December 2019, 14:11
A garden “certified” as carbon zero how inane. Come over and certify my garden as carbonzero… wait don’t because it’s unneeded bureaucratic nonsense. Whose garden plants are emitting C02 instead of eating it up?
Catlin Makery, 14. December 2019, 1:11
Agree with you Neaven, it sounds like insanity to me too.
Greta Wonderbird, 16. December 2019, 7:27
Are they going to drive a turbine from the methane emissions of their compost heap?
Johnny Overton, 16. December 2019, 12:25
Whoopty doo, how (green wash) cool is that. The ruling liberal elite need their heads red!! Surviving the imminent repercussions of dwindling resources, climate change, water shortage, over population & environmental degradation will require declaring a state of emergency & wholesale future proofing action on a national scale. Continuing to vote for our current globalisation parties simply justifies & perpetuates the liberal establishment’s short-term electoral cycle thinking, she’ll be right attitude & do nothing tinkering. The kids need to wake up to the fact that meaningful change will only come about by taking matters into their own hands. This will involve such things as coming up with radically new way of life models, & committing themselves to putting such alternative experiments into practice. Yes this will require personal sacrifice & 100% commitment to finding ways to adapt & survive in a future world that’s about to get even more volatile & bleak. Nothing short of taking radical unilateral steps to bring about a more localised parallel society & alternative economic & political systems will do.
Greta Idiota, 16. December 2019, 13:38
Quick we need to criminalize lawnmowing, hedge-trimming, pruning, and tree cutting.
Dave B, 16. December 2019, 13:51
Joking apart, CO2 and CH4 emissions from bio-waste are not really a problem since these add zero additional carbon to the eco-system. They are part of a natural equilibrium between growth and decay, both emitting and absorbing carbon. “Carbon-neutral” if you like.
The real culprit is fossil-carbon that has lain safely buried for millennia, only to be dug up and liberated into the eco-system. This definitely adds carbon. Big distinction.
Barney Bubble, 16. December 2019, 16:31
Dave B – pity the dinosaurs didn’t compost trees. But they did live with five times as much CO2 in the atmosphere. Had it coming then, didn’t they, dinosaur-induced climate change! Or was it an asteroid that wiped them out not CO2?
Mark, 16. December 2019, 18:18
Dave who is the culprit? And for what crime? Carbon, CH4, methane or Co2 ? You’re a carbon based life form and you breathe out c02.
C02 is an innocent and yet vilified gas that has been wrongly accused of a crime it did not commit.
@ Mark: What part of “safely buried for millennia, only to be dug up and liberated into the eco-system” don’t you understand? Not wanting to get into a debate as to whether CO2/CH4 really is causing global warming or not (I’ll leave that to the “experts”, and sure enough you can find one to support whatever theory you have made your mind up on). But yes, *some* CO2 in the atmosphere is good, and necessary for life. *Too much* CO2 in the atmosphere we are told, promotes global warming through the “greenhouse effect”. We are adding too much, not by breathing and farting (that’s biogas), but by digging and burning (that’s fossil gas). Of course the majority of experts may have it wrong and somehow the more carbon we pump into the atmosphere the nicer the world will become, but I am prepared to take their word that extracting millions of tons of carbon from the ground every day and burning much of it in our finite atmosphere is not the recipe for a healthy planet.
Mark, 17. December 2019, 5:59
Dave. “We are told” is the giveaway on how all this started. “We are told the earth is flat” was a popular old dogma gifted from experts. That said I agree fossil fuels emit pollutants (not referring to small part of c02). And then it’s a simple matter to switch to solar energy and electric cars. You may ask why a carbon industry that does nothing but take money out to the 1% is going to be the recipe for a healthier planet?
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DINING REVIEW: MEET
People chatter, loudly,as plates crashonto stained timber tables ready for serrated knives and silver forks to scratch and clang against fine white porcelain. The floor staff carry around long shafts of meat from four types of beast, which they carve up at your table. Soon, my clean white plate is stained with crimson red drops of blood from a slice of picanha, then charred brown from a chunk of peito defumado, and oily yellow from a piece of sobrecoxa. The muddy colour of the black bean feijão can’t keep the plate from staying clean for long either, even when the bright white arroz rice or the salada de batata com ovo is added to the mix.
GATHER: MEET’s black and white dining room features splashes of colour and loads of atmosphere. Pictures: Max Mason-Hubers
SIZZLE: Some of the meat selection being cooked over the flame grill.
In case you don’t know what I’m talking about, let me explain.MEET is the latest addition to Newcastle’s ever expanding and diverse dining scene. Inspired by the traditional Brazilian barbecue, known as churrascaria, MEET is a protein lover’s paradise, a carnival for carnivores, and a horror for herbivores… althoughthey do offer vegetarian options for the iron averse.
Inside, nearly everything is painted black, or white, which makes the brightly coloured Brazilian artwork hanging on the wall look even more brilliant than it already is. The kitchen can been seen through a black rectangle, cut out of the wall, where busy bodies scuttle back and forth amid the glow of fluorescent lights and stainless steel, and the occasional orange flare up from the churrasco BBQ. Above the kitchen cut out is a glowing white neon sign that says, MEET.
TAKE A STAB: Waitstaff carry around giant skewers of barbecued meat to the tables.
You pay a fixed price, which doesn’t include drinks, and just like the chaos of yumcha, staff roam around the room with all sorts of barbecued treats, stopping at each table to offer you a slice of something that’s just been rubbed, marinated, or smoked, and then slowly spitroasted over wood and charcoal to produceincredibly flavoursome food.
For instance, the sobrecoxa (chicken thigh) is bursting with tonnes of smoky, sweet and savoury flavours courtesy of a thousand rubbed spices, a mustard marinade and the charcoal smoke that’s all infused within white flesh. The pernil (lamb leg) is sliced off in thin rashers of savoury flavour featuring garlic and tomato, salt and pepper, while the picanha (rump cap) is a medium rare treat of simple flavours made complex by the accompanying sides (tip: sprinkle a pinch of the farofa manioc flour over all the meats).
The table is graced with a wooden chopping board loaded with fresh sides and sauces. There’s white rice (arroz), potato and egg salad (salada de batata com ovo), and smoky black beans (feijão) to accompany the plethora of protein. Plus three pots of condiments: chimichurri (herb sauce), vinagrete (Brazillian salsa), and the molho barbecue de casa (home-made barbecue sauce), which goes with everything on the plate, including the sweet stuff.
When the banana empanada (crumbed and deep fried banana) and the abacaxi grelhado (BBQ pineapple) arrive you could be forgiven for thinking that dessert is served, but that’s a whole other menu. The banana is a sweet digression from all the savoury we’ve been eating;so too is the pineapple with a dusting of cinnamon. If you want to transition back to savoury, order a serve of queijo qualho (grilled haloumi) and aipim frito (fried cassava).
It’s hard to keep up with exactly what’s on your plate, but I think that’s half the fun.Everything that comes out from the kitchen tastes wonderful, even the coração (chicken heart), so just embrace it and try as much of the food as you can. Don’t worry if you don’t get to try it all the first time around, because, speaking from experience, it won’t be long before you get the MEET sweats and you’ll want to go back again.
Tony McEnally dedicates much of his week to keeping Belmont Wetlands State Park beautiful
Tony McEnallyBelmont Wetlands State Park treasurer and volunteerWHEN Tony McEnally retired, the Redhead localfound himself hitting the beach to fish, surf or walk his dogs most days.
He was also doing some Landcare work in the neighbourhood when the Belmont Wetlands State Park advertised for a new board.
“I thought, well, this is my back yard and I use it every day, so Imay as well get involved and be part of running the place,” he said.
“It was nice to be able to have a say in what happens, and help it improve and recover from all the bad things that have happened to it over the years, like the sand mining, and thesand extraction –there is a whole lot of our sand that now makes up Waikiki beach in Hawaii.”
He has since helped plant about 50,000 trees in the 549 hectare state park.
Mr McEnally’sretirement hobby has becomemore like a full time job, but it gave him immense satisfaction.
“It is such abeautiful, untouched space –afantastic areathat needs helpbecauseit has been brutalised with the sand mining and the sand extraction,” he said.
“But with a little bit of help, it actually cleans itself up really well. You get the chance to see something that has gone from being covered in bitou and various other nasty weedsand turns out at the end of the day to be a beautiful area with eucalyptus trees and banksias and various coastal plants.”
The Belmont Wetlands State Park Trust introduced a permit system and employed a ranger to help controlfour-wheel drives on Nine Mile Beach, between Redhead and Belmont in November.
“It’s changing the face of the place,” he said.
“I work with the ranger as a volunteer and I cover the days he’s not there. I run aroundthebeach and just make sure we don’t have too many people doing the wrong thing,because we want the place to be there for families, not for people who just want to go nuts.”
The damage caused byrecentwild weather had kept them busy.
“We lost a lot of maturetrees in the April storms,and we spent a fair amountof time cleaning that up. But we are blessed with somereally good volunteers,” he said.
“Wealways welcome more volunteers. We’re down there every Tuesday from February throughto December clearing and putting in new treesand mulching.”
Mr McEnally also helpsa Work For The Dole participant, and the Green Army –a federal government initiative thatsupportslocal environment as well asheritage conservation projects.
“They are a fantastic team ofkids, I’ve been working with them doing dune restoration,” Mr McEnally said. “They will also beplanting 3,300 plants for usin March.”
Chipping in: Redhead’s Tony McEnally and the Green Army are doing their bit to bring the Belmont Wetlands State Park back to its former glory. Picture: Marina Neil.
Wonder Woman: sneak peek at her first ever film
Gal Gadot in a still from Wonder Woman. Photo: YouTube Gal Gadot battling Nazis in a still from Wonder Woman. Photo: YouTube
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It’s taken 75 long years to bring Wonder Woman to the big screen, but the first trickle of footage from her movie debut suggests a film rich enough to forgive the mother of all delays.
Electrifying footage from the World War II-era film shows Wonder Woman, played by Gal Gadot, beating up a bunch of Nazis with her famous shield, leading an expedition of 1940s normies in immaculate costume, and then letting her hair down by galloping about on horseback while swinging her lethal sword.
It’s not the first look at Gadot’s Wonder Woman per se, she unexpectedly appears in the trailer for Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice trailer, right when the two more established superheroes are wondering how to battle their foe. But these are the first scenes from her headline movie.
DC Films took the unusual step of releasing a promo clip for Wonder Woman anchored by its Chief Creative Officer, Geoff Johns, talking about the character to director Kevin Smith.
From a purely action standpoint, Johns succeeds in whetting the appetite: “She’s an Amazon warrior, she’s the best fighter in the DC universe. She has strength and speed and she’s been training her whole life for war.”
“Wonder Woman is one of the greatest superheroes out there but people don’t know her origin like they know Superman’s origin or Batman’s origin and so what we want to do in the film is tell people who she is where she comes from and why she does what she does.
“She comes from a Greek mythology, she comes from this island of Amazons, it’s called Themyscira.”
Gadot, the Israeli actor/model who plays Wonder Woman (and her alter ego Diana Prince) gets to speak, briefly: “We’re gonna see her coming of age, the entire history, what’s her mission.”
Then it’s back to Johns: “These Amazons were once created to protect man’s world but they since abandoned it. And Diana is asking constantly ‘why don’t we go do what we were created to do and protect man?’ and they say ‘because they’re not worth it’.”
The original story of how Wonder Woman – who was created by polygraphy inventor William Marston in 1951 – comes into the human world is that she leads a wounded pilot back to civilisation after he crash-lands on Themyscira, and goes forth with a grand mission of bringing peace to the world.
The film’s director Patty Jenkins (who directed Charlize Theron in Monster) also gets a word in: “The greatest thing about Wonder Woman is how good and kind and loving she is, yet none of that negates any of her power.”
Some might add her lasso – which forces its captives to tell the truth – was pretty great too, although it wasn’t sighted in the first-look clip. Neither was the somewhat ridiculous invisible plane which TV Wonder Woman star, Lynda Carter flew with commendable dedication in the 1970s.
Christopher Pine (who plays Steve Trevor, the fortunate pilot) nails the reason why Wonder Woman should be a huge box office smash when it finally drops – after 14 years stop-start years of development: “Telling a story like this now is pivotal and important: the story of a very powerful woman.”
Wonder Woman is due for release in June 2017.
Spotlight: a brilliant film with such explosive subject matter it died several deaths before being made
Rachel McAdams as Sacha Pfeiffer, Mark Ruffalo as Michael Rezendes and Brian d’Arcy James as Matt Carroll, in a scene from the film, “Spotlight.” Photo: Kerry Hayes Spotlight director, Tom McCarthy on set with Rachel McAdams, Michael Keaton and Mark Ruffalo. Photo: Supplied
Sacha Pfeiffer (Rachel McAdams) in a scene from Spotlight. Photo: Supplied
They don’t make films like Spotlight any more, so people say. Perhaps they never really did. Spotlight is about a real-life team of investigative reporters at the Boston Globe who worked for months to document and finally reveal the cover-up by the local Catholic church of the sexual abuse of children by priests. What Spotlight is not about: star performances (even though its ensemble cast includes Michael Keaton, Mark Ruffalo and Rachel McAdam); the reporters’ personal lives; plot twists or emotional peaks and troughs; reporters as heroes. There is just work: the painstaking, paper-shuffling, probing work of accumulating facts and corroborating them to the point where a newspaper – that hulking, old-fashioned, barely lamented old warhorse of the Fourth Estate – can speak authoritative truth to power. And, as signposted by its six Oscar nominations, it is absolutely gripping.
The Spotlight team’s investigation came relatively late in the saga of sex-abuse scandals within the church; the series, which would eventually top 600 articles as more people came forward with stories and more priests were exposed, won the Pulitzer Prize for journalism in 2003. One thing Tom McCarthy’s film makes clear, however, is that Boston is a staunchly Catholic city where the Church, schools, sport and government are clubbily intertwined. Fifty-five per cent of their readers were practising Catholics. “The church had such power,” says Walter “Robbie” Robinson, the real head of the Spotlight unit, played by Michael Keaton in the film, “that if legislation it didn’t like was before the Massachusetts Legislature, they could get it killed.”
Not that the Globe felt compromised. Successive metro-section editors had run stories for years about accused and convicted priests in the normal run of its news coverage, earning a rebuke and an invocation of heavenly punishment from the local cardinal in the process. Even so, it took the arrival of an editor from outside Boston – Marty Barron, who came from the Miami Herald and would go on to become executive editor of the Washington Post – to lift the lid on the whole can of worms. “Don’t go after the man; go after the system,” he tells the team early in Josh Singer’s script, which has reportedly cleaved as closely as possible to the facts even down to what was said. So they do.
Rachel McAdams as Sacha Pfeiffer, Mark Ruffalo as Michael Rezendes and Brian d’Arcy James as Matt Carroll, in a scene from the film, Spotlight. Photo: AP
When they start, they think they have identified “as many as seven” abusive priests, who had simply been moved to other parishes when anguished parents complained. Then, in consultation with a psychologist and former priest who has made abusive priests his life’s study, they take a punt on the statistical likelihood that the numbers are much higher: maybe as many as 90 in Boston alone. By checking year-on-year church records, court reports and victims’ testimony, they find 87. By the end of their investigation, they have found 250.
Many of these priests’ victims had reported their attackers to the Church hierarchy and to the law. Some won small pay-outs in exchange for non-disclosure agreements. Apart from the cases the Globe had already reported, all were swept under the rug one way or another. Their investigations led back to the cardinal, who is shown in the film to have presided over the cover-up and resigned at the end of 2002; he is now Cardinal Priest of Santa Susanna, Rome’s American Catholic Church.
Producers Nicole Rocklin and Blye Pagon Faust thought they had identified one of America’s great untold stories in 2008, the year they had the idea for Spotlight. They were thus confounded to find it was difficult even to find a screenwriter willing to tackle it. “People were not responding to the story the way we thought they would,” Faust said later. “They were a little bit scared.” Financing was even more problematic: McCarthy says that after he signed on to direct it in 2011 – fortunately bringing screenwriter Josh Singer with him – he saw the project die decisively three times.
Most dramatically, their major backer Dreamworks pulled out while McCarthy and Singer were working on the screenplay. “We never knew why,” says Rocklin in an on-set story from the Hollywood Reporter. “They never told us. But I can speculate. It’s a movie about paedophilia in the Catholic Church.” The Washington Post later said that Dreamworks dropped it after The Fifth Estate – about Julian Assange and Wikileaks, scripted by Singer – failed at the box office. Whatever the real reasons, the production went on hold and McCarthy took another job directing the disastrously bad Adam Sandler indie The Cobbler. This was Spotlight’s most decisive death so far.
In the end, Participant Media picked up Dreamworks’ share, but the same spirit of resistance emerged in dealings with the next tier of businesses involved in getting a film to the audience: the distributors. By that time Mark Ruffalo had signed up, but even the Hulk didn’t convince them. McCarthy says they would tell him that “even though it’s a great read, it doesn’t scream box office”.
The American release of the film in November was accordingly limited, the press coverage scant. This last point is particularly surprising for a film that actually lionises the press.
I love all the lionising, of course. To see a bustling, fully staffed newsroom on screen is actually thrilling. Recreated in a former Sears warehouse – the Sears catalogue being another victim of the online age – the Boston Globe of the turn of the millennium is furnished with cubicles coincidentally sold off by the downsizing Toronto Globe and Mail. These are our times. Back in 2001, however, the journalists spend weeks ploughing through archives in the basement while librarians bring down sheafs of files; the switchboard’s phones run hot. If they don’t make movies like this any more, they don’t make newspaper offices like this any more either.
Spotlight director Tom McCarthy on set with Rachel McAdams, Michael Keaton and Mark Ruffalo. Photo: Supplied
“I don’t think the general public really has any sense of what’s happened to the journalism industry in the last 10, 15 years,” McCarthy told the Washington Post. “People say there’s so much media out there, with the internet and new media, but I don’t think they really understand what professional journalism, institutionally supported journalism, is. And I think it’s in the great interest of many of the other big institutions to make sure that they don’t.”
Mark Ruffalo, who plays dogged, abrasive reporter Michael Rezendes, described journalists to the Hollywood Reporter as “our last defence against tyranny, our last defence against atrocity.” That may not be true very often, but McCarthy’s point is that this work, involving court hearings and doorstepping, expenses and huge swathes of time, is not the sort of work that can be done by a lone blogger.
But something similar could be said of audiences and films, few of which deal with anything difficult or dangerous or dare to step beyond the narrow expectations of soaring emotional arcs and loveable characters. This one does, which was why Michael Keaton wanted his role as soon as he read it. “I went to college in the ’70s. I went to anti-war demonstrations. We were aware of the civil rights movements,” he said at the time. “To think that someday you’d be doing what you love, and it could have an effect on society: that’s pretty great. In this movie, it’s stuff that people have been talking about a long time. But then when you see it this way, you realise that it’s shocking this hasn’t been addressed before on film. In that regard, it kind of feels bold.”
Warlords wield axes in Wills contest
Wills is a plum Labor seat once held by Bob Hawke.Labor’s internal battle for the heartland seat of Wills has tightened, with a former security adviser to the Rudd government strengthening his claim after winning over key ethnic voting blocks.
As candidates prepared for a town hall debate in Coburg on Wednesday night, the field of realistic contenders had narrowed, with one formal withdrawal and at least one other candidate accepting defeat.
A plum Labor seat once held by Bob Hawke, Wills is a key test of the party’s internal democracy and gender policy under Bill Shorten.
It comes at a difficult time, with Malcolm Turnbull continuing to ride high in the polls, and the Victorian party in turmoil over over branch-stacking.
Bill Shorten is believed to be comfortable with two candidates – his own staffer Anna Maria Arabia, and Peter Khalil, a Victorian multicultural commissioner and former security adviser.
Mr Khalil, of Egyptian background, also has the support of Right-faction heavyweight and neighbouring Batman MP, David Feeney.
An important development in the preselection is that local Kurdish and Lebanese groups are close to a deal to back Mr Khalil, a non-local but a candidate with an understanding of Middle Eastern issues and the plight of the Kurds.
Mr Khalil has firmed as a favourite along with Ms Arabia and Mehmet Tillem, a former senator, local numbers man and adviser in the Andrews government.
Increasingly, the contest appears to be down to these three – out of a field of seven – with Mr Shorten and Mr Feeney determined to block Turkish-born Mr Tillem. He is viewed by many as archetypal Labor warlord and, therefore, the wrong type of candidate for such a high profile seat.
But Mr Tillem has the full backing of the defence shadow minister, and formidable factional hard man, Stephen Conroy.
Although not well known in the party, Ms Arabia ticks many boxes important to Labor’s push for wider community relevance, including her gender, age (”40ish”), her Italian background and her qualifications as a scientist (therefore not a union leader or lawyer). Nor is she known as a factional player, having also worked for Mr Shorten’s leadership rival in 2013, NSW Left-faction leader Anthony Albanese.
Preselection is a two-stage process, the first stage a ballot of local members, the second a vote by a central panel elected by state conference and unions.
An important factor – especially for Ms Arabia and Mr Khalil – will be the choice of candidate by the shrinking but still powerful Australian Workers Union, Mr Shorten’s former union. AWU support will be especially important at the second, central vote.
Campaigning hard is funds manager and former Yarra councillor Josh Funder. But without a strong local vote or factional and union base, he will struggle.
Melanie Raymond, a candidate earlier backed by the Feeney camp, has withdrawn from the Wills race, which was triggered by the resignation of long-time maverick member, Kelvin Thomson.
The Age understands that candidate Lambros Tapinos – a Moreland councillor also linked to the Feeney group – has all but given up hope of winning after losing the support he expected from the Kurdish and Lebanese groups.
Under a stability deal between the party’s two dominant factions, the right wing ShortCons (named after Shorten and Conroy) and the left group led by veteran party boss Kim Carr, Wills is a Right-faction seat
If the Labor right delivers a crony numbers man as the candidate for Wills, it will be gift to the Greens who increasingly view the seat as winnable.
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Bill Shorten’s chief spin doctor, Kimberley Gardiner, exits as Labor struggles in the polls
Opposition Leader Bill Shorten consults advisers Ryan Liddell and Kimberley Gardiner during question time in May. Photo: Andrew Meares Team Bill: Shorten in Canberra in November with his staff, including Kimberley Gardiner (left) and Ryan Liddell (second from left). Photo: James Brickwood
Bill Shorten’s chief spin doctor, Kimberley Gardiner, is leaving the Opposition Leader’s office by mutual agreement following an internal review ahead of the next election.
In a move that will be interpreted as the Opposition Leader looking to sharpen his political messaging and re-connect with voters in 2016 after falling well behind Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull in the opinion polls, Ms Gardiner is leaving the role of communications director after more than three years working for Mr Shorten.
The review of Mr Shorten’s office was undertaken by chief of staff Cameron Milner, a former Queensland Labor state secretary who replaced Ken Macpherson as chief of staff in September last year.
Ms Gardiner was a long serving staffer to Julia Gillard when she was deputy prime minister and worked for Mr Shorten when he was a minister in the former Labor government as well as in opposition. She has clocked up almost a decade of service in total with the ALP, including time with former Queensland premier Anna Bligh, as well as for AFL club St Kilda.
She had a reputation inside the parliamentary wing of the ALP as a political hard-head, leading some Labor MPs to criticise her performance for being too risk averse.
Others, however, have praised her for running a tight ship and for helping guide Mr Shorten’s political ascendancy over Tony Abbott before the change of prime minister in September last year.
Her exit, after that of deputy chief of staff Sarah Adams last year, means there are now no women in senior roles in Mr Shorten’s office. It also marks another significant change of personnel in the Shorten office after the addition of Ian McNamara as strategy director in June last year.
Ms Gardiner remains close to Mr Shorten, who praised her work ethic and commitment to the ALP. In a statement, the Opposition Leader said he was sorry to see her leave.
“Kimberley has done a tremendous job for me over many years, for which I’m forever grateful,” he said.
“She has played a critical role in driving Labor’s agenda over the past two years – I have greatly valued her strategic advice.”
A spokesman for the Opposition Leader emphasised the move was by mutual agreement and that a number of positions in Mr Shorten’s office would be restructured.
A replacement as communications chief has not yet been identified and it is possible that a “flatter” structure will be put in place that would see the position abolished, in a move that would be designed to better integrate the policy, strategy and media teams in Mr Shorten’s office.
In the short term, Mr Shorten’s well-regarded senior press secretary Ryan Liddell will run the Opposition Leader’s centralised media unit.
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Four lesser-known but talented jazz musicians from the Midwest are featured on this set of standards and post-bop tunes. Tenor saxophonist John Greiner displays a strong improvising style and an appealing sound; he is joined by pianist Mary Louise Knutson, bassist Charlie Hoots, and drummer Mark Ladley (the best-known of the players). Greiner contributed two complex originals, digs into three standards ("I Thought About You," "Like Someone in Love," and "Don't You Know I Care"), and performs two obscure John Coltrane songs: "Satellite" and the never-before recorded "Thing in D Flat." Well-worth searching for.
The John Coltrane-inspired tenor saxophonist John Greiner is in top form throughout the well-conceived From A to B set. Mostly featured in a quartet or quintet with one of two rhythm sections and sometimes either John Allmark or Robert Kase on trumpet, Greiner performs six of his originals and four standards. Highlights include the offbeat and catchy ballad "Remember Me," a stretched-out Coltrane-style blues "From A to B," Horace Silver's obscure "Adjustment," and a trumpet-bass duet on "Star Dust." The musicians all play quite well and deserve to be much better known. This set is easily recommended to fans of modern straight-ahead jazz and is one of Greiner's best recordings to date. ~
Tenor saxophonist's second release, standards and originals Personnel: John Greiner (tenor saxophone); Robert Kase, John Allmark (trumpet); Laura Caviani (piano). Recording information: Pete's Basement Studio, Westwood, MA; Riverside Productions, Mosinee, WI.
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Tuesday, November 30, 2010. Chaos and violence continue, John Chilcott's Iraq Inquiry exposed as a sham, look who's blurbing, Bradley Manning's mother denied right to visitation, and more.
Starting with Roger Hodge, author of The Mendacity of Hope: Barack Obama and the Betrayal of American Liberalism which he discusses on the latest Law and Disorder Radio (aired on WBAI yesterday and on various stations throughout the week) with hosts Heidi Boghosian, Michael Ratner and Michael S. Smith. For an excerpt of the discussion, refer to yesterday's snapshot. In his book, Hodge writes:
President Obama has made permanent the enormous increase in military spending since 2001. His budget projections through 2017 allocate $4.8 trillion for the Defense Department, compared with $4.6 trillion spent by Bush over eight years. Given the escalation in Afghanistan, however, it is likely that Obama will spend more than $5 trillion on the military -- more, in inflation-adjusted terms, than has been spent during any eight-year period since 1946. The number of U.S. troops in Iraq has been euphemistically "drawn down" -- as of May 2010 there were 92,000 -- but all evidence suggests that we will never fully withdraw. In 2010, American military contractors were still building permanent bases all over that shattered country, and even if every single American soldier were to be withdrawan (a condition no competent observer ever expects to see), an army of unaccountable mercenaries employed by the United States is still by any substantive definition an American occuption force. In December, when Obama nnounced his surge in Afghanistan, the Congressional Research Service reported that the 30,000 new troops would be accompanied by up to 56,000 additional private contractors. As of May 2010, according to the official Pentagon figures, there were 112,092 private military contractors in Afghanistan and 95,461 in Iraq, with 42,782 in other U.S. Central Command locations, for a total of 250,335. The official total is very likely to be a significant undercount, of course, and it does not include the contractors employed by other agencies, such as the State Department and USAID, nor does it include those working for the CIA.
No, no comptent observer ever expects to see that but then when has -- as he's known among his students -- Professor Bitch ever been compentent? The over-praised blogger deleted a post he put up yesterday -- if he'd like to deny it we have screen snaps -- which resulted in people pointing out that academics should stick to reality and not tea leaf reading. Poor Professor Bitch, he'd almost lived down the tender smack down on Iraq that Steve Rendell inflicted upon him a few years back when he was making an appearance on CounterSpin. Thanks, Professor Bitch, for showing your true colors yet again. Screen snaps will run in the gina & krista round-robin and we'll be handing them out at speaking engagements all week as well. It takes a lot of whores to keep propping up Barack, in fact it takes an entire brothel.
Which is why Hodge's book is so important. Tariq Ali has a new book out (disclosure, I've known Tariq for years) entitled The Obama Syndrome: Surrender At Home, War Abroad. It's an excellent book. But Hodge manages to easily top Tariq for one reason.
Look Who's Blurbing. While both books offer excellent text, Hodge's book is a keepsake For Those Of Us Who Never Drank The Kool-Aid for the dust jacket alone. It's there you'll find key members of the Cult of St. Barack. Look, there's Socialist Barbara Ehrenreich.
You may know Babs from her constant attacks on women (such as at the FAIR gala last decade where the 'feminist' thing to do was for her to deliver a speech trashing Gloria Steinem and Jane Fonda). You may not know her political affiliation because, like so many too juvenile to cop to being a Communist or Socialist, she flocked to "Progressives" for Obama. Why not "liberals"? You need to study up on your New Left and Cold War history -- Socialists and Communists do not identify as liberals. There was Babsie injecting herself into the Democratic Party primary, writing psychotic pieces about Hillary's 'secret' religion -- while Babsie hid in a political closet -- and doing everything a media whore could. As Bob Somerby noted in real time, "There ought to be a special circle in hell for hustlers like Barbara Ehrenreich." You may also know Babsie from her big-boned daughter Rosa Brooks who now works in the administration (Los Angeles Times readers are just glad she's gone) where she is most infamous for advocating that the US government institute licensing for journalists thereby controlling who could and who could not report. As Babsie and her brood have long demonstrated, totalitarianism knows no political boundaries.
On the back of Hodge's book, Babsie pants: "This is what I've been waiting for -- a profound and hard-hitting critique of the Obama administration from the left!" Golly, Babs, couldn't you pen one yourself? Oh, of course not. Whores aren't known for courage, now are they. She continues, "The Mendacity of Hope should help wake up all those Obama voters who've been napping while the wars escalate, the recession deepens, and the environment goes straight to hell."
Who's been napping, Babs? Those of who didn't enlist in the Cult of St. Barack didn't pack up our bags after the 2008 election. Closet Communist Leslie Cagan did and, when packing up her own bags, she packed up the bags of the organization she RUINED United for Peace & Justice. Napping? Babs, you've written six columns in two years -- going by your own website -- and for one who proclaimed Barack to be The One, you've been strangely silent on him ever since, now haven't you, tired whore?
Oh, look. Another whore, Naomi Klein, blurbs, "Ready to wake up from the Obama dream yet? If so, this thrilling scathing and relentlessly truthful cri de coeur is your strong cup of coffee. Hodge skewers the sloppy intellectual cluture that willed this political chimera into being, while expertly unmasking the corporate machine that is the real Barack Obama. Drink up." You first, Naomi, and why don't you choke on it?
For those who don't know, Naomi swore she was staying out of the 2008 election -- and, as a Canadian-American citizen, she had every reason to. She really doesn't want to raise the issue of dual citizenship, does she? If you think the immigration discussion is ugly in this country (and it is) wait until people get a load of the fact that Naomi may be voting in US elections . . . after her father fled the US (I applaud him for it) to avoid serving in Vietnam. You can hear the rumble of grandstanding on the part of GOP senators starting up, can't you? "She has American citizenship and her father deserted!" Yeah, Naomi, you really need to learn to stay out of US elections.
But of course she couldn't. And it went far beyond what she thought was her 'careful' and 'undetectable' slanting on the Real News Network in 2007 and 2008. Naomi decided to do a book tour. Naomi decided to do stand-up on her book tour. The Chicago September 2008 appearance? So much sexism has never been unleashed by one woman -- not even by Phyllis Schlafly. Stay on the sidelines? No. Despite preaching in 2004 that the peace movement (Naomi prefers "anti-war movement" so that she can reject her father -- having already rejected her feminist mother) should never be hijacked by elections, there was Naomi making a fat ass out of herself. There was Canada's very own Tiffany-era mallrat telling 'jokes' that would make Hugh Hefner blush. Was it worth it, Naomi? Really?
There are two Naomis. Many confuse them. Used to be Naomi Klein was the thin one -- that changed about two years ago. Not because Naomi Wolf began to lose weight but because Naomi Klein's been seriously packing on pounds. Naomi Wolf. Everyone's favorite pill-popping columnist. Naomi explained the 'feminist' thing to do was to spit on Hillary and support Barack. She did that during the primaries. She did that by cloaking herself as the victim. It was a cute little act and the only time the term "cute" has been applied to Naomi in years. She continued that bulls**t throughout the lead up to the election as well as after -- breaking only when donning her sexually enhancing burqa. She was on CNN in January 2009 proclaiming -- as Ms. magazine had -- that Barack was what a feminist looked liked.
On the back of Hodges' book, Naomi Wolf blurbs, "Roger Hodge has written a desperately needed expose of how Barack Obama is not the messiah of liberalism but its deisgnated gravedigger -- he is one of the all too few voices on the progressive side who dares to tell the truth about the corporate masters this administration actually serves, and the dire effects of that allegiance upon what is left of our Republic. This is a blazing indictment of corporate collusion and a bracing injection of hard truths."
I'm counting nine columns you've written for the Huffington Post, Naomi, since Barack was sworn in. While I see your attempts to distract and defocus for the administration by obsessing over the Tea Party -- a party that your last bestseller (and I do mean "last") owes a debt too but we don't talk about that, do we? -- I see nothing calling out the administration. Where is it, Naomi? Or did you pop a pill and think you wrote it when you didn't?
Babsie's always been nuts, Naomi Klein's been a non-stop disappointment to her parents, but Naomi Wolf? No one went nuttier than Naomi Wolf. Appearing in public -- often with a dirty face and hair unkempt -- she spent most of 2007 and 2008 insisting her tax returns were stolen by the government. (Because the government didn't have them already?) She would tell anyone who listened that she was being spied on, her mail opened, her calls listened into. She could hear the "clicks"! Was she on a party line? Today's surveillance doesn't provide clicks when tapping. (Echos do, however, occur.) She went completely bonkers. An Alan J. Pakula character transposed into a Stephen Spielberg film. It was not a pretty sight.
And the reason we open with this is to make very damn clear: IT'S NOT THAT EASY.
Having whored and lied for Barack Obama, you're not just going to sneak back in to the party. No. The three above are not Democrats (Naomi Wolf once was but she denounced that around the time she denounced Judaism). In their political affiliations, they damn well know they have to practive confessions in their own political cells. They need to make a point to do the same in the political discourse at large. Meaning, you better get honest about your whoring or you better expect that you will go the way of Faith Popcorn and so many other pundits whom the public rejected. You whored, you lied, you attacked.
Those of us who gave a damn about the Iraq War -- the one that is still going on, the one that Naomi Klein can't seem to find today despite the fact that it is her claim to fame -- refused to play the game, refused to whore. We're not letting you back in unless and until you confess. You were handed the reigns of the movement -- look at Leslie Cagan -- and what did you do? You destroyed the movement. (UPFJ posted a yea-war-is-over message the day after the 2008 elections and closed shop.) To let you slink back in now without confessing to your crimes would be a betrayal of the movement.
So your pimp Barack got a little rough with you, slapped you around and now you want to sneak back over to our side? It's not that easy. And what's up here online is nothing compared to what we have taken to college audiences for two years now. They know you, across the land, as the whores you are. Outside of the tiny circle-jerk that passes for Panhandle Media, you are whores, you are known whores. And as others in the beggar media realize that, you won't be booked. Or they'll risk being fired on air as well. This isn't a vanity issue, this isn't hurt feelings. This is you have blood on your hands.
You whored and Iraqi s died. You whored and the war went on. You have blood on your hands and you will confess or you will continue to be known as the whores you are. Naomi Klein asks if people are "Ready to wake up from the Obama dream yet?" Naomi, what were you doing in DC the day of the inauguration? Oh, that's right, you were fundraising. And partying. We know you were attacking others. You gave that idiotic interview to Matthew Rothschild, remember? Castigating 'radicals' who refused to belive that Barack was the savior. Do you expect The Progressive to 'disappear' your words, Naomi? Your attacks on the left critics of Barack Obama are well known and public record. Now you want to show up on a dusk jacket pretending you were there all along? They really raise those Canadian mallrats dumb, I guess.
The Cult of St. Barack got their commemorative plates in January 2009. It took a little while for the truth tellers of the left to get our own commemorative keepsake: The dusk jacket of Roger Hodge's new book. Suitable for framing. At your local bookstore and available online. And let's note this from yesterday's Law and Disorder Radio .
Heidi Boghosian: Roger, you actually sort of sum up it up in talking about health care by saying: "The health bill is of a piece with Obama's general approach to governance which is to make loud, dramatic claims about his purportedly reformist agenda -- claims that both his supporters and his enemies almost always take at a face value -- while working behind the scenes to make sure that no major stakeholder in his coalition of corporate backers will suffer significant losses." And that could sum up most of what he's done.
Michael Smith: Yeah, that was an outstanding passage in the book, I thought
Roger Hodge: Thank you. Thank you. And we see it again and again. We see it with detentions --
Heidi Boghosian: Guantanamo.
Roger Hodge: Guantanamo. We see it with --
Michael Ratner: State secrets.
Roger Hodge: -- Afghanistan. We see it with Iraq. Supposedly the war in Iraq is over. People take that at face value. 'Oh, he ended the war in Iraq.' Well he didn't.
Michael Ratner: He just said he did.
In England, the Iraq Inquiry has been going on for some time and we've covered it for some time. We voiced doubts but, until they went to Iraq and refused to interview Iraqi citizens, we held off passing a judgment that they were a fake process. They were fake, they were a fraud and that's revealed in today's news cycle. Robert Booth (Guardian) reports, "The British government promised to protect America's interests during the Chilcot inquiry into the Iraq war, according to a secret cable sent from the US embassy in London.
Jon Day, the Ministry of Defence's director general for security policy, told US under-secretary of state Ellen Tauscher that the UK had 'put measures in place to protect your interests during the UK inquiry into the causes of the Iraq war'." From the cable:
10. (S/NF) Day also promised that the UK had "put measures in place to protect your interests" during the UK inquiry into the causes of the Iraq war. He noted that Iraq seems no longer to be a major issue in the U.S., but he said it would become a big issue -- a "feeding frenzy" -- in the UK "when the inquiry takes off."
Miranda Richardson (Sky News) adds, "The cable, released on the Wikileaks website, says the then foreign secretary David Miliband was present at a meeting with US officials, during which the head of security policy at the Ministry of Defence said the UK would protect American interests." Christopher Hope and Robert Winnett (Telegraph of London)note, "The Stop the War Coalition claimed the document was evidence of 'the beginning of the cover-up' and brought 'the whole inquiry into disrepute'." For an overview of the latest release by WikiLeaks, we'll note this from Sunday's KPFA Evening News:
Anthony Fest: The whistle blower website WikiLeaks released another trove of confidential documents today. Last month WikiLeaks released thousands of Pentagon documents most associated with the US occupation of Iraq. In contrast, the documents made public today include thousands of diplomatic cables -- communications between the State Dept and Washington and US consulates all around the world. The documents cover both the George W. Bush and the Barack Obama administrations. WikiLeaks gave an advance look at the documents to several media organizations including the New York Times and the British newspaper the Guardian. Those publications now have articles on their websites analyzing the documents. WikiLeaks says it will post the documents on its own website in the coming days although it has said its site was the target of a cyber attack today. The documents release is certain to provoke tension between the US and its allies. For example, some of the cables say that Saudi donors are the largest financiers of terror groups. Other cables detail the cover-up of US military activities. One of them records a meeting last January between US Gen David Petreaus and the president of Yemen about air attacks against rebels in Yemen. The president, Ali Abdullah Saleh, tells Petraeus, "We'll continue to say they are our bombs and not yours." According to the Guardian, the documents reveal that some Arab leaders had privately urged an air attack against Iran and that US officials had been instructed to spy on the United Nations' leadership. Among the other disclosures are deep fears in Washington and London about the security of Paksitan's nuclear weapons. Another document asserts massive corruption at high levels of the Afghanistan government saying the Afghan vice president traveled to the United Arab Emirates carrying $52 million in cash. Still other documents disparage the British military in Afghanistan.
Hugh (Corrente) notes the laughable response fromt he US government and press talking heads, "The most recent release of wikileaks docs has provoked all the standard reactions we have come to expect. The punditocracy, both governmental and media, have thrown everything they could think of at them hoping something will stick. We are told that the docs are an attack on our national security and not just that but the international community. Then we are told often by the same people that they are of no importance, that they are full of mistakes and inaccuracies, that they are essentially gossip, that foreign leaders say even worse and more impolitic things about our leaders." That's an excerpt, he charts the kabuki dance in full. In full on Media of the Absurd, The NewsHour (PBS) 'explored' the issues last night by having Judy Woodruff speak to (I am not making this up and link has text, video and audio) with Zbigniew Brzezinski and Stephen Hadley. Hadley, of course, still hopes that the cover story on the outing of Valerie Plame holds. Strangely, Hadley had much to say to reporters about how the leak of Valerie Plame wasn't really a story. For some reason, Judy didn't bring any of that up. Brzezinski maay be the most Castro hating official to serve any administration and that might be his tombstone note had he not been the 'genius' that turned Afghanistan into a quagmire that became the Taliban. That's right, he should be on trial for War Crimes but instead PBS thought we needed to know that he was against WikiLeaks. By the way, if The NewsHour is going to be played on NPR stations --and it now is -- and they want to remember the war dead, they need to name the fallen. Showing pictures and displaying text onscreen? Doesn't play on the radio. Not at all. It's so obvious you wonder how they could be so stupid? Then you remember, they booked Stephen Hadley to talk about leaks. To catch how The NewsHour should have covered the WikiLeaks release but didn't, check out Marco Werman (PRI's The World) discussion with Le Monde's Sylvie Kauffman. Sam Dagher (Wall St. Journal) and Leila Fadel (Washington Post) cover the WikiLeaks release in terms of Iraq and US fears of Iranian influence.
In bad news for Hoshyar Zebari, Alsumaria TV reports, "WikiLeaks documents revealed on Monday that Iraq's Foreign Ministry has provided US Embassy in Baghdad since 2008 with the names of Iranian diplomats asking for a visa to enter Iraq." Zebari is the Minister of Foreign Affairs. Staying with the WikiLeaks revelations, Deutsche Presse-Agentur reports that the release includes State Dept cables about how the US Embassy in Spain pressured Spanish officials to drop the case brought by the family of journalist Jose Couso -- a Spanish citizen who was killed by the US military in Iraq.
Turning to the topic of Bradley Manning. Background, Monday April 5th, WikiLeaks released US military video of a July 12, 2007 assault in Iraq. 12 people were killed in the assault including two Reuters journalists Namie Noor-Eldeen and Saeed Chmagh. Monday June 7th, the US military announced that they had arrested Bradley Manning and he stood accused of being the leaker of the video. This month, the military charged Manning. Leila Fadel (Washington Post) reported in August that Manning had been charged -- "two charges under the Uniform Code of Military Justice. The first encompasses four counts of violating Army regulations by transferring classified information to his personal computer between November and May and adding unauthorized software to a classified computer system. The second comprises eight counts of violating federal laws governing the handling of classified information." Manning has been convicted in the public square despite the fact that he's been convicted in no state and has made no public statements -- despite any claims otherwise, he has made no public statements. Manning is now at Quantico in Virginia, under military lock and key and still not allowed to speak to the press. The latest WikiLeaks release has brought Manning's name up again.
Marc Ambinder of The Atlantic blogs, "To date, Bradley Manning stands accused only of providing a classified video of U.S. operations in Iraq to WikiLeaks. But U.S. government officials say they consider Manning the prime suspect behind the flood of documents that have wound up being promulgated by the group determined to bust U.S. secrecy." In every culture in decay, you need the whores like Marc Ambinder. Little flecks of trash who will repeat what the government wants them to. Isn't it funny that Manning is identified by Ambinder but his accusers are not.
Does Marc Ambinder know the first damn thing about the US justice system? I'm sure if we were to ask him how to best pleasure a source or how to toss the salad of government anonymice, he could give us a vivid description, probably even draw an intricate diagram. But the actual justice system and the belief that people are innocent until proven guilty? He'd be hazy there. He'd be even more confused if we asked him to speak to the issue of the government attempting to try their case in the press. And even more so about the issue of the government going off the record to plant details in the press about an ongoing case.
But whores don't need to be smart, they just need to be willing. Marc Ambinder is always willing -- kind of like cellulite, which has a memory, Ambinder.
Hillary embarrassed herself yesterday in such a manner that the press conference may go down as her Colin Powell before the UN moment. If the US is in danger, as Rebecca pointed out last night, or if the White House just believes the US is in danger, then that was a message that should have been delivered by President Candy Ass. As president of the United States, it's his job, if the US is in danger, to alert the citizens. He didn't do that -- big surprise, what jobs can he handle? But Hillary joined a long conga line of self-righteous government officials decrying leaks.
The only leak that matters, pay attention employees of the US electorate, is the leak that interferes with a legal case and is done by the government. The government's not allowed to leak and, if it's demonstrated that they have, judges can and often do toss cases out of court. Point, if you're going to ride your self-righteous pony through the town square, you damn well better shut down your own leaks. The administration has always been a glossy photo of hypocrisy but never more so than when they send the anonymice out to attack Bradley Manning and his chance at a free trial. Climb down from the crosses, Hillary and all the rest, you have no grounds to decry leaks while you turn a blind eye to your own leaks that attempt to poison public opinion against someone who has not been found guilty of a damn thing.
Richard Savill, Victoria Ward and Nick Allen (Telegraph of London) report that Bradley Manning's family attempted to visit him and WERE TURNED DOWN. He's been arrested since May. What does it say about the United States and the pathetic leadership of Princess Candy Ass that someone found guilty of nothing is refused the right to see his family. Furthermore, even if he were found guilty, they would have no rights to deny him visits. Bradley has been found guilty of nothing and locked away for months and they won't even let him see his family. His own mother was refused the right to see her son. As David Bowie once sang, "This is not America" (song written by Bowie, Pat Metheny and Lyle Mays, first appears on the soundtrack for The Falcon and the Snowman).
Turning to violence, Mohammed Tawfeeq (CNN) reports a Baghdad car bombing claimed 1 life today while a second Baghdad car bombing has left three people injured and, last night, a Baquba car bombing claimed 4 lives and left twenty-nine people injured.
Over the long holiday last week, The Nation waived through an attack on a US citizen by the 'reporters' who've brought you so many distortions on the Tea Party (those wanting actual reporting on the Tea Party should refer to Kate Zernike's Boiling Mad: Inside the Tea Party -- the only clear eyed study of the movement thus far). And you can refer to this column by Justin Raimondo for details of the shameful piece of 'writing' The Nation ran. Excerpt:
If Ames and Levine are going to become the "go to" team for the dirt on libertarians, such as it is, they ought to learn their subject. Because the very idea of Charles and David Koch leading a national resistance movement involving civil disobedience on a massive scale is laughable: to anyone who knows them, or knows of them in more than a glancing way, this can only provoke gales of unrestrained laughter. It is sheer laziness to believe this. Indeed, if only the Brothers Koch, and the plethora of organizations their money has funded, were that radical! Unfortunately, they are not: a stodgy, boring conservatism marks both their methods and their politics, and always has.
Ames and Levine need to do some real research. It was the anti-Koch wing of the libertarian movement, centered around LewRockwell.com, that first gave John Tyner's act of defiance the publicity and velocity that made it go viral. And if LRC is a front for the Koch brothers, then we have truly entered Bizarro World. In that case, so too is Antiwar.com a Koch front – and so why have we been doing this fundraising campaign for the past two weeks, begging our readers to save us from oblivion?
And we note it to note John V. Walsh's latest critique of The Nation:
But the editorial policy of The Nation for a long time now has been slowly strangling the magazine. The underlying problem is that this once great journal has become a house organ for the Democratic Party. Nowhere is this more evident than in the editorial stance of The Nation on the wars in Iraq and Af-Pak, especially at the all-important moment to our politicians, election time. While the editorial problems at The Nation affect virtually every issue of importance to its readers, let's simply focus on the question of war and empire to see the nature of the fault.
In 2004, The Nation endorsed John Kerry on its cover despite the fact that he ran as a pro-war candidate. Ralph Nader was also turned into a non-person in the pages of The Nation for daring to run again as an independent. The unappealing and egotistical Kerry may have lost the election because of his pro-war position, as the polls shifted against the war in October 2004 to a near majority, too late for Kerry to make the switch. Had he taken on the war and opposed it, that shift might have turned into a majority against the war and Kerry might have been the victor.
Then came 2006, when the Dems promised impeachment hearings against Bush for his wars should they win control of the House. The Nation urged us to vote Democratic, but when the hearings did not materialize, silence fell over the magazine. John Conyers was the Democrats' poster boy for the promise of impeachment, but after the election he folded at once. The much ballyhooed impeachment hearings never materialized, and Conyers slunk away.
In 2008, The Nation backed Obama, the candidate of the most "progressive" wing of the Democratic Party and of "Progressive" Democrats of America. The endorsement was proffered despite the fact that Obama was promising to step up the war in Afghanistan. When Obama won and the wars continued and military spending increased above Bush levels, The Nation went limp in its criticism of empire. Yes, there were exhortations to Obama to do the right thing, implying that he wants to do so, a proposition so lame at this point as to be comic, but never attacks like the well-deserved salvos fired at Bush for the very same policies on war and civil liberties.
Walsh sweeps over one thing and I'm sure it's due to space -- he's a longterm critic of The Nation. They didn't just walk away from impeachment. They attacked it after the Democrats got control of both houses of Congress. You can refer to the Feb. 4, 2007 "The Nation Stats" at Third where we cover the February 12, 2007 issue which ran Sanford Levinson's awful "Impeachment: The Case Against" (and we parodied Levinson here). Again, I'm sure that John Walsh knows about that article and that space limitations prevented him from going into it. Prior to the election, The Nation never questioned impeachment, they fully supported it. After the election? Time to damp down on voter expectations.
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Asia 20,000 apply for chance to 'vent anger' at Hong Kong leader
20,000 apply for chance to ‘vent anger’ at Hong Kong leader
"Many young people these days are very mature-minded and they knew perfectly what they are thinking... and what a civilised society should be."
Protesters face off with police (bottom) during a demonstration against a controversial extradition bill in Hong Kong on July 28, 2019. - Tens of thousands of pro-democracy protesters defied authorities to hold an unsanctioned march through Hong Kong, a day after riot police fired rubber bullets and tear gas to disperse another illegal gathering, plunging the financial hub deeper into crisis. (Photo by Anthony WALLACE / AFP)
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Hong Kong’s embattled leader said Tuesday more than 20,000 people have applied to take part in a dialogue session with her and “vent their anger” at the government after three months of huge pro-democracy protests.
It is the government’s first attempt to reach out to the protestors since millions took to the streets in the biggest challenge to China’s rule since the city’s handover from Britain in 1997.
Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam said Thursday’s meeting would be an opportunity for people to have their voices heard but some protesters said they were not interested as their demands are already clear.
“We have promised that participants from different background, with different political stands could express their opinions freely, even vent their anger,” Lam said.
While thousands have applied, just 150 people will be chosen at random to attend the two-hour session with Lam, and protest equipment such as umbrellas, helmets and gas masks will not be allowed.
“I hope the community dialogue could be held in a peaceful, rational and calm environment,” Lam said.
Hong Kong has entered a 17th week of political unrest which seen hundreds of rallies, some of which ended in violent clashes between police and protestors.
More than 1,500 people have been arrested, the youngest aged 12.
Lam said she felt “heart-ache” seeing children being arrested and asked “how well can children understand the current political issues?”
“Here I need to urge parents, teachers and principals must let children know that political problems are not that simple,” Lam added.
Her remarks drew criticism from opposition legislators.
“You never under-estimate the young’s voice,” pro-democracy lawmaker Claudia Mo said.
“Many young people these days are very mature-minded and they knew perfectly what they are thinking… and what a civilised society should be.”
The protests were initially against a bill that would have allowed extradition to China, but have snowballed into wider calls for democracy and police accountability in the semi-autonomous city.
Video emerged over the weekend of officers kicking a detained man wearing a yellow shirt in an alley.
At a press conference Monday a senior police officer suggested it was not clear the “yellow object” was a man and claimed the video might have been doctored, sparking ridicule online.
Higher resolution footage of the same incident shows a man on the ground, surrounded by police, one of whom kicked him.
Police have repeatedly denied using excessive force and Lam insisted they had exercised restraint.
“The fact that over three months, we have not seen major fatalities in Hong Kong, by world standard … it is quite remarkable,” Lam said.
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Bang, Bang, Yer Ded
Two recent government interventions supporting gun rights are clearly aimed at courting that segment of society in which I was born, the yokel class Garrison Keillor calls the "Yahootude." But I've got to wonder if the politicians are reading us right.
Last spring, legislation to provide Washington, D.C. with full voting rights in the House of Representatives stumbled when Senator John Ensign (R-Nevada) introduced an amendment to repeal the district's ban on handguns and semi-automatic weapons.
And this month the Senate has voted to deny Amtrak its $1.6 billion subsidy unless it allows passengers to carry handguns in their luggage. "Americans should not have their Second Amendment rights restricted," said Senator Roger Wicker (R-Mississippi) in the New York Times, "for any reason."
Second Amendment intellectuals like Ensign (who in June admitted his parents paid $96,000 to a woman whose discretion he sought after he had an extramarital affair with her, but that's another blog) and Wicker have probably done their homework. They must have poll numbers showing that their largesse will make us Yahoos all weak-kneed with appreciation and maybe even fire a few celebratory rounds in the air. But as an erstwhile hunter, marksman and card-carrying member of the National Rifle Association, I wonder if they're right. Allowing citizens to carry guns in Washington and on trains sounds like a dumbass idea to me. And I think a lot of my homies would agree.
By way of full disclosure, my father -- a WWII infantry lieutenant with an Army marksman's badge -- was ambivalent about guns. A veteran of the bloody Papua New Guinea campaign, Dad had little patience with gunplay, imaginary or real. One Christmas when my brother Larry and I were very young, he bought us cowboy hats and Roy Rogers cap pistols, but he insisted that we not point them at each other. (Dude! What else can you do with a cap pistol?) Later, in a rough prelude to Jean Shepherd's A Christmas Story, Dad gave me a Red Ryder Carbine Action 200 shot range model air rifle. I was thrilled to the point of nearly wetting my pants, and I did not put my eye out. Dad carefully designed a BB range in the cellar, with side-guards and padded backdrops so we could safely shoot at targets. That didn't last long, because my brother (I won't say which one because of the 55 exemplary years he has lived since) shot one of his friends with a BB and gave him a redundant nipple that must have been quite a conversation piece on his honeymoon. I never saw the air rifle again.
As I grew into early teen-dom, Dad and I had our share of father-son disagreements, but the only thing he absolutely forbade was my participation in an organized war game in the woods between Cedar and North streets. (There were a lot of woods and few streets in Morrisville, N.Y.) The game was harmless enough, actually a 1950s precurser to paintball, without the paintballs. About 20 of us would divide into two warring teams. You knew you were dead when a soldier on the opposing team saw you hiding in the trees and shouted, "Pow! Phil!" and the rules required that you lay in the pine needles until the war was over. For some reason that eludes me now, I thought it was a lot of fun. The very idea of a war game gave Dad a chill, and in unequivcal terms he declared me a conscientious objector. Later, when I learned some of the details of his combat experience in the New Guinea jungle, I understood, but at the time I thought he was being a reactionary bastard.
Even so, guns were not a problem to Dad's way of thinking -- only the frivolous and stupid use of them. When I turned 14 and expressed an interest in hunting, he didn't flinch. He pulled out the .22 rifle his father had given him and said it would be perfect for target practice and small game. Then he went to the local chapter of the National Rifle Association and got himself credentialed as a gun safety instructor. He took me up to the woods and set up paper targets, all of them mounted on thick trees that the rounds could not penetrate. Then before he gave me the rifle he presented me with my first NRA card and told me to read the gun safety instructions on the back. The rules included logical precautions like keeping the gun unloaded when it wasn't in use, and -- loaded or unloaded -- never pointing it at anything you didn't intend to shoot. The NRA also insisted that you keep your finger off the trigger when you weren't about to shoot, to know your target and what was beyond it, and -- important in our neck of the woods -- to never climb a fence with the gun in your arms. Modern updates to the rules include wearing goggles and ear protection when you fire a gun, but that never occurred to us in 1960.
As time went on, Dad offered the same training to all my brothers and possibly to my sister, but I was out of the house when she came of shooting age. I took the .22, and later a 20-gauge shotgun, into the woods a few times before my interests turned to more effete pursuits. I rarely shot an animal, not because I didn't shoot at them but because rabbits and pheasants (and rats at the dump) are very good at eluding your aim. On the rare occasion that I shot something, even a rat, I found it a nauseating experience and I quickly lost interest in the whole gun thing.
Dad's training did serve me well when I joined the Air Force. I was comfortable around the M-1 carbine and could shoot it accurately enough to earn the Air Force expert marksmen's ribbon -- the only decoration I earned for doing something other than showing up. But by the time I had spent hundreds of cold hours on guard duty on a USAFE base in England, my interest in firearms had ebbed completely.
I do recall one sad incident involving guns. When I was 19 I used to sit next to a major's wife on bus trips to London. At the time I regarded officer's wives as an unreachable superior species, but she was also a beautiful young woman with a seductive Alabama accent. She may have sensed the crush I had on her because she talked constantly about her husband, an F4C fighter pilot. "He's just mah AH-ll," she'd say, batting her eyelashes, and I'd try not to look jealous. A few weeks later, the major accidentally shot and killed her while cleaning his pistol. But I didn't blame the gun. I blamed the damn fool for not following simple NRA guidelines.
In the ensuing decades I have rarely picked up a gun. A couple of decades ago, when I was going through a particularly rough patch, my brother Paul invited me to Florida and took me to a deserted field behind his house. He suggested I let off steam by shooting his 30.06 rifle, and I fired round after round at rocks and shrubs and possibly an armadillo or two. It felt good. It felt curative. I'd probably do it again.
Growing up in Madison County, New York, was certainly a gun-intensive experience. In the 18 years I spent there, I learned that guns were fun when used right, and bad when used stupidly. And they were used stupidly at times. During hunting season, you'd hear stories of errant rounds whizzing past people's heads or into their laundry because distant hunters weren't following NRA rules. And Uncle Bob (the deerhunter in my family) would warn us with widening eyes not to shoot a gun straight into the air no matter what we were celebrating, because the damn bullets tended to come back in the same direction. He never told us how he knew that.
But those of us who grew up in the sticks -- in Yahoodom -- understand that guns were an essential tool in the building of the nation, and continue to be a wholesome and enjoyable instrument for recreational activities like hunting, skeet shooting and target practice.
We may not be able to argue the legal nuances of the Second Amendment with you. But don't be fooled by the way we wear our baseball caps backward or smear oil on our foreheads when we lube our cars. We're not that dumb.
And most folks I know will tell you: allowing unrestricted gun use in Washington, D.C. or on Amtrak trains are dumbass ideas.
Posted by Philip E. Jenks at 9:16 AM
Martha M. Cruz September 18, 2009 at 1:08 PM
Brilliant, querido.
Very interesting. I didn't know you were (are?) an expert marksman.
Melissa Dixon September 22, 2009 at 8:03 PM
Awesome! Great points. I love your writing style.
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I can’t get the sight out of my mind—that of her standing over his body holding a knife, which was dripping blood on the floor. When she turned, her dress was drenched in blood.
She looked at me and said, “I didn’t do this. Josiah, you’ve got to believe me.”
I rushed over, feeling for a pulse. “He’s still alive. Call an ambulance!”
How could such a nice evening go so wrong?
It all began with those stupid chairs.
The squat, moustached man was perspiring heavily and mopped his neck with a crisp, monogrammed cotton handkerchief. He anxiously watched a dark-haired woman with patrician features turn over a Louis XV chair, which had been custom made for His Majesty’s last mistress, Madame du Barry.
The chair had a sensuous medallion backrest and delicate fluted legs, sitting close to the ground and at an angle. The armless chair was designed with a voluptuous seat, short legs, and a sloped backrest. The sloped backrest accommodated mesdames and mademoiselles who fancied dresses with panniers, which allowed their dresses to expand three or even four feet in width at the hips, thus enabling court ladies to gracefully alight in their impossibly elaborate couture.
The young woman put on a jeweler’s magnifying headlamp and meticulously scanned every square inch of the chair’s bottom. “Uh-huh,” she mumbled. “As I suspected.”
The man grew increasingly nervous. “Qu’est-ce que c’est, Mademoiselle Asa?”
Asa threw off her headset and flipped the chair upright. “I’m very sorry, but I’m afraid this chair is a fake.”
“That can’t be!” exclaimed the curator of the museum. “Over a million US dollars was spent to purchase this chair. I had several experts authenticate it.”
“You should get your fee back from them.”
“Why should I believe you when other experts in eighteenth-century French furniture say this chair is one of the original twelve chairs made by Louis Delanois in 1769?”
“Because they are either lying or mistaken, but either way, the insurance company will not underwrite this chair after I submit my report.”
“Mon Dieu! This you must not do.”
“I am sorry, Monsieur Faucheux, but the proof is in the pudding.”
Faucheux looked confused. “What does pudding have to do with this?”
Asa gave a ghost of a smile. “Let me explain. Do you agree that Louis Delanois was commissioned by King Louis XV to make twelve chairs for Madame du Barry?”
“Mais oui, Mademoiselle. Everyone knows that.”
“We agree on this very important fact?”
“Certainement.”
“Versailles is in possession of ten of the chairs, and a collector bought the other two chairs from the estate of André Meyer in 2001 so that accounts for all twelve.” Asa shot a glance at the chair and looked up to meet the anxious stare of Monsieur Faucheux. “This is a fake. I can prove it. There are no tan lines for one thing. Wood from the eighteenth century would be more discolored. Also, its construction is too tight where two pieces of wood meet. The joints would be looser on a chair over two hundred years old.”
“Simple conjecture on your part.”
“Hmm,” murmured Asa, not pleased at Monsieur Faucheux’s stubbornness. She was not accustomed to having people, especially men, question her authority. “Sir, I recognize the handwriting on the label. It is the handwriting of a well-known forger. The label should be more distressed and faded. The forger has soaked it in tea to make the label look older. You can smell the lack of age on it. It doesn’t smell musty.”
Monsieur Faucheux wiped his forehead and patted his palms. His coloring was a bright cherry red.
“Would you please taste the medallion, Monsieur Faucheux?”
“You want me to eat the chair?”
“No, I want you to lick the wood. Please.”
Looking dubiously at Asa, Monsieur Faucheux bent over and did as requested. “It tastes like, um, candy, perhaps licorice?”
“That is the final proof. Black licorice has been melted and rubbed into the wood to give it an aged and tarnished look. It’s clever, but a dead giveaway. The chair is worth something as a fine reproduction, but far less than the money you paid for it. I’m very sorry.”
Asa closed her briefcase and picked up her jacket. “The insurance company will bill you for my time. My final report will be mailed to you. Don’t bother to see me out. I’ll find my way. Again, I’m very sorry to be the bearer of such bad news.”
She made her way out of the small inspection room, through the main gallery hall, and out onto the noisy street where she hailed a cab. Curators had been known to become violent, so she liked to make a quick exit when presenting bad news. After telling the cab driver to hurry to the airport, Asa called her employer and gave a report. She listened to new instructions that she was to fly to Lisbon and pick up a cache of diamonds.
“What is the origin of the diamonds?” Asa asked, listening intently to the answer. She didn’t like what she heard. “Sorry, I don’t move conflict diamonds. Get some other patsy.” She hung up.
Before putting the phone in her pocket, she looked for any calls or texts from her mother, Josiah Reynolds. Nothing. She hadn’t heard from her mother in two weeks. She had contacted Lady Elsmere, but neither she nor Charles had seen Josiah for several weeks either. When she finally got ahold of Eunice Todd, her mother’s business partner, Eunice reassured her that Josiah was fine, and she would tell her mother Asa had called, but Eunice sounded tentative. Asa wondered if her mother was in the hospital and had told everyone not to alert her.
There was only one way to find out.
No time for sightseeing in Paris, France.
Asa was going home.
Iknew Asa was calling. I didn’t want to talk to her. Asa was like a drill sergeant. Nag. Nag. Nag.
Oh, wait a minute. That’s me. A little chuckle there, but it was true. I was avoiding her.
It wasn’t just Asa. I didn’t want to talk to anyone.
Here’s another truth. I was depressed. Not the average middle-age “how did I get to be so old?” depression, but a ripe, bruised, fruity depression that sucked the life out of a person breath after breath. I was struggling—staggering like a sailor on an all-night drinking binge, in fact—not physically, but mentally. Let me tell you how it is.
I was, I mean, I am becoming unhinged.
My name is Josiah Louise Reynolds. I own a farm in the Bluegrass and live in an iconic mid-century house called the Butterfly. I make my living by selling honey, so you can say I’m a beekeeper. I would say I’m a bee guardian. I love my bees, and in this upside-down world of pesticides and backyard grass deserts, I do all I can to protect them. They need me.
I also board horses, and I am a partner with Eunice Todd in an event/catering business.
I was finally in the black each month. My animals were fat and happy. Clients gave rave reviews on the web. The farm was in good shape.
Things should be hunky dory, right? So why was I becoming unhinged?
Because my life sucked.
I guess I never fully recovered from my husband Brannon leaving me. Brannon lied to me. Cheated on me. Stole from me. Abandoned me. The man I loved bellowed that he hated me in the parking lot of Keeneland Race Course. What had I done to deserve such loathing from a man I had slept with for over twenty years? What was my big crime? What?
And then there was that nutcase of a cop stalking and pulling me off a cliff and leaving me with this busted-up body.
It’s a wonder I still get out of bed in the morning.
I dutifully wash my face, comb my hair, and put on clean clothes. I feed my animals, check the horses in the pastures, pay my bills, take my pills, and clean the Butterfly. I smile at appropriate pauses during conversations until I no longer listen and miss all the social cues, causing people to think I’m an odd duck.
Well, maybe I am an odd duck.
It was one thing for me to know I was sinking. I certainly didn’t want the world to see me fumble the ball as well, so I retired from life.
I told Eunice I was not up to the event/catering business any longer and wanted out. I was grateful when she agreed to take over all the details and rent the Butterfly from me when she had a booking, refusing to dissolve our partnership.
“You’ll snap out of this funk. Everything from the past few years is just catching up with you.”
I didn’t believe her words of cheer, but I knew she needed the money we made from renting out the Butterfly, so I was willing to do what Eunice wanted.
But what about what I wanted?
It seemed all the people who kept me on an even keel were gone. Meriah Caldwell won her custody battle for Emmeline, so Matt, my best friend, had packed up and moved to California to be near his child.
Asa closed her office in London but had come no nearer than New York. She might as well have stayed in London.
Now that Officer Kelly was a homicide detective, he never brought hot chocolate and donuts to my stand at the farmers’ market.
My buddy Detective Goetz had moved to Florida. He had not called nor written once. I guess he’s still mad that I turned him down. I agree with him that it’s best we don’t communicate.
I hadn’t heard from my former boyfriend—young hot Choctaw Jake—in years, but I think of him from time to time. Fondly.
Franklin moved in with his brother Hunter, and they spend their time working on Wickliffe Manor.
Hunter had decided to sell the family estate and was heartbroken over the decision, but he was close to bankruptcy. Having no choice in the matter, he girded up his loins, so to speak, and was working at a frantic pace to make his ancestral home fit to sell.
Consequently, I saw neither Franklin nor Hunter unless I hopped in my car and drove to Wickliffe Manor, but I rarely went. It was hard to think that an estate with such an illustrious history, bad and good, was going to be sold and most likely carved into tiny one-acre lots with cheap housing.
Oh, don’t get me wrong. Young couples have to buy starter homes somewhere. And don’t forget my late husband Brannon and I made quite a bit of money on a housing development we did ourselves, but dismantling Wickliffe Manor and its land didn’t feel right.
God wasn’t making any more Bluegrass. Once the land was bulldozed, it was gone forever.
Enough of my preaching. You know how I feel about children, littering, and development of the land. I could go on ad nauseam, but there was a knock on the door.
Eunice had booked the Butterfly for the weekend, so Baby, my English Mastiff, and I had taken up residence in Matt’s bungalow, which is located on my property.
Since Baby hadn’t bothered to raise his head from his mammoth paws, I realized he knew the person at the door, so I opened it.
“Here you are!” There stood my favorite grande dame, Lady Elsmere, aka June Webster, wearing a vintage sixties blue and gray plaid dress suit with a strand of pearls. An old-fashioned plastic rain cap, fastened under her chin, covered her silver hair. I glanced up into the sky for pending rain. Not a cloud was to be seen.
Peering about the cottage’s tidy yard, I asked, “What are you doing here?”
“Are you going to invite me in or keep me wobbling on my arthritic knees?”
I stepped out of the way as June shoved past me and promptly plopped down on Matt’s couch.
“Where’s Amelia?” I asked, referring to June’s nurse and companion.
“I dispatched her on a little errand and scooted out the side door.”
“Why? You could have called, and I would have come to see you.”
“Would you have? I was under the impression you were absorbed in a little pity party.”
“Why would you say that?”
June reached up and pinched my cheek as if I were a toddler. “Don’t lie to me, Babycakes. I see all the telltale signs of a serious hissy fit. I’ve gone through several of them during my lifetime. I know what I see.”
I started to tear up. “Oh, June. I don’t know what’s wrong. Everything upsets me. I’m confused and feel like bawling all the time.”
“Every woman goes through this one time or another during her life.”
“I just want to be left alone.”
“Meaning you want me to go?”
“Well, actually, yes. I would like for you to leave, June.”
She gave me a smile reserved for small children and dinner guests who didn’t know which fork to use. “Not going to happen. You need to snap out of this funk.”
“Oh, here it comes—the lecture. ‘Just get on with it, Josiah. It’s mind over matter. You can be happy if you put your mind to it.’” I spouted in a syrupy voice, making air quotes as I spoke. “What a load of crap! If I could click my heels together three times and snapout of the blue meanies, don’t you think I would?”
“You do? Then why did you tell me to snap out of it?”
“To make you angry. Nothing motivates people like anger.”
“It worked.”
“Good. Now get some shoes on and bring this slimy monster with you,” June said, nudging Baby with her Christian Louboutin shoe, which would have cost me a whole month’s pay.
Baby made a puffing noise and rolled onto his other side, ignoring June and her pointed shoe.
“He doesn’t like to be poked,” I mentioned before slipping on some rubber flip-flops.
“What do you feed that thing?”
“That thing has a name,” I said, huffing while trying to find a leash. I jerked my head up. “Oh, are you still trying to make me mad?”
June beamed a self-satisfied smile. “I’ll wait outside. Don’t forget to bring the dog.” With that, she slammed the screen door behind her.
I put on a clean shirt and brushed my hair. Lately, I brush my teeth, but not my red hair. I could see the day coming when I wouldn’t bother to brush my teeth either. Shaving my legs? Don’t even go there. I looked in the mirror and saw a woman teetering on the brink of just not giving a damn anymore. How did June keep it together all the time?
Heading outside, I called to Baby. “Come on, big boy. We’ve been summoned.”
Baby groaned, sleepily struggling to stand up on all fours. He glared at me as though saying, “I was having such a good dream. I had all the treats I desired, and you weren’t there telling me I couldn’t eat them all.” He trotted outside, making complaining noises all the way, with me following behind.
I searched for June and discovered her perched on the passenger seat in my beat-up golf cart. I didn’t see the Bentley and wondered how she got here, but pushed those thoughts aside, as I got in the driver’s seat while Baby jumped in the back, immediately sliding his gigantic head over June’s shoulder, wanting to be petted.
She laughed and reached up to stroke Baby’s nose. “You’re just a big baby, Baby.”
I reached for a towel in the back of the cart to wipe away the strands of drool hanging from Baby’s mouth. “Baby, sit down. You’re getting June all grimy.”
“Don’t worry, Josiah. I don’t care.”
“For a woman who doesn’t care about clothes, you sure have a lot of threads in your closet.”
Ignoring me, June suggested, “This cart is on its last legs. You better get it replaced.”
“Sandy Sloan shot it trying to kill me, and then Darius shot it trying to save me. I’m lucky Matt got it to run at all.”
“How is our deliciously beautiful Matt?”
I sighed. “Settling in. Meriah is being difficult about letting him see Emmeline.”
“Doesn’t he have a court order stating when he can visit?”
“Yes, but Meriah keeps making excuses when Matt comes to pick Emmeline up.”
“She’ll say Emmeline has a temperature—stuff like that.” I fidgeted in my seat. “Can we talk about something else?”
“For instance?”
“How did you get over here? I don’t see a car.”
“I had Malcolm drop me off.”
“All of a sudden I need a reason to see one of my dearest friends?”
I gave June a “look.”
June decided to fess up. “I got a telephone call less than an hour ago, so you and I are embarking on a mission of mercy.”
“Who called?”
“Rosie.”
“Oh, dear. What’s happening now?”
“That Neanderthal has locked her in and won’t let her out.”
“We should be going. The police should be there by now.” June gave me a hard look. “Doesn’t it make you feel better knowing Rosie is having such a hard time with that monster?”
“I know this is terrible, but it does. However, I strongly sympathize.”
“There is no better medicine for depression than helping someone else suffering from worse afflictions.”
“I feel guilty.”
“Don’t. It’s human nature.”
“What’s Baby for?”
“Baby is a deterrent. Gage is terrified of big dogs.”
“Then let’s go and save Rosie from the despicable troll at her gate.”
June licked her lips and smiled. “Misery loves company.”
“Nothing. Just drive, mon amie. Just drive.”
The golf cart rattled and lurched down my gravel driveway until we hit the smooth asphalt of Tates Creek Road. We drove a mile or two until we came to Wiley Road and made a left.
We were no longer in Fayette County, but in Jessamine County. We passed people mowing yards, weeding gardens, and tending to horses on their ten-acre mini-farms. They would look up and wave, recognizing Lady Elsmere, who waved back with little twists of her right hand like her friend, Queen Elizabeth II or “Lizzie” as June calls her. Personally, I think June has never met Queen Elizabeth, but the queen does board some of her horses in the Bluegrass, and they both run in the same circles since June had married an English lord.
Still, I rolled my eyes.
Finally, we reached the remotest part of the road where the real, working farms were. Scruffy farm dogs yapped at us as we skirted their territory, and I had to veer around an errant cow that had decided the middle of the blacktop road was as good a place to poop as any.
Welcome to the country.
I could feel Baby rise on all four paws in the back of the cart, snarling warnings to any dog venturing too close to our slow-moving vehicle. As soon as we reached the end of a farm’s property line, its sentinel mutt would abruptly stop barking and give up the chase.
No longer obliged to protect us, Baby would whine and rest his massive head on my shoulder.
“Thank you for saving us. Good dog. Good dog,” I said to Baby each time he “protected” us from a motley spate of irate mutts.
“Turn here,” ordered June.
“Yes, I know,” I complained, turning the cart a sharp right onto a badly maintained gravel road. Oh Lordy, was it badlymaintained!
I hit a pothole, and June was almost thrown out of the cart. “Hold on!”
“This road is disgraceful,” June spat out. Her eyes narrowed, and her face turned a hot shade of pink under her already heavily rouged cheeks. June was working herself up to chew nails and spit out barbwire. Gone was the cool, collected Lady Elsmere. This gal was all June Webster from Monkey’s Eyebrow, Kentucky and fighting mad.
Oooh-whee, this was gonna be fun to watch! I suddenly felt much better about the world.
The road meandered into deep woods littered with abandoned washers, old tractor tires, rusty shells of cars, refrigerators, and other assorted metal trash. Scattered among the refuse were crude, hand-painted signs with messages like “PIGS LIVE HERE” or “WILL SHOOT YOU ON SIGHT” or “GIT OUT NOW AND YOU MIGHT LIVE!”
Charming, huh?
Rounding a bend, we came upon a freshly mowed meadow and saw a deputy’s cruiser parked next to a shiny new Lexus. Beyond the cars was a cattle fence, behind which stood a little cottage that reminded me of a hobbit’s den—cute, tidy, and perfect for one Rosamond Rose, a shy, retired, widowed librarian who took in stray animals and gave them a forever home. She had no kith nor kin to speak of, and her dearest friend was June’s butler and heir Charles Dupuy, who also was an equally devoted animal lover and helped her out from time to time with vet bills and feed. Everyone called Rosamond “Rosie.”
At the moment, Rosie was standing behind a red metal farm gate, frantically waving to us while talking on her phone. Her dogs were barking excitedly from inside her house and pawing at the windows.
I helped June out of the cart and told Baby to stay, so he straightaway jumped out and trotted after us.
June pushed through a knot of two deputies and one gnarled old man chuckling together.
The old man wiped the smile off his face when June stood squarely in front of him. “What are you doing, June? You are as welcome here as a breeze coming off an outhouse.”
Rosie called out, “He locked me in, June. I can’t get out. I’m on the phone with my lawyer right now.”
I walked over to the fence where Rosie stood and yanked on the chain securing the gate to the post. “He’s put a chain and lock on her gate.”
June spat at the county deputies. “What are you two knuckleheads doing about this? Get your bolt cutters and set this woman free.”
One of the deputies retorted, “He says she owes him back rent, and he needs two thousand dollars before he’ll let her out.”
“You two must have rocks rattling around in your skulls. Miss Rosie doesn’t owe this man one red cent. She is on herproperty, and if you had checked, you would have found that this man has a Protection Order against him for harassing this sweet woman. He is not supposed to be anywhere near this property for two years. Did you bother to check?”
The two officers quickly glanced at each other and looked back at June with blank expressions.
“Now, I think locking a woman up infringes upon her right to come and go as she pleases. Kidnapping for starters. Violating the PO. Lying to law enforcement officers. I think Miss Rosie’s lawyer will throw a couple more charges into the mix before he’s done, like making a formal complaint to your boss. What was the deal? Gage would slip you both a couple hundred from the two thousand?”
Both deputies blinked and shifted their weight, looking down.
“Thought so. Now let this woman out.”
Both ashen-faced officers backed away and scurried to their vehicle.
“What do you have to say for yourself, Gage Cagle?”
Gage inched closer to June until they were almost touching noses. “Who do you think you are, Miss High and Mighty, coming over here and sticking your nose where t’warn’t wanted?”
Baby growled and tried to step between Gage and June. I hurried over and pulled him away only to have Baby look up at me and whimper.
June didn’t flinch but stepped even closer. “You’re a mighty small man, Gage. Not in body, but in mind and spirit.”
“Don’t get uppity with me, June. I remember your ma used to make your dresses out of feed sacks. You think you can ride in here and tell me what to do, let me tell you somethum’. Don’t you act like you’re better ’n me. I knew you as a scrawny brat crying for extra biscuits and gravy at my ma’s table ’cause there t’warn’t nothing to eat at your house.”
June’s back was up. “Let me tell you somethum’, Gage Cagle. Don’t piss on my back and tell me it’s raining. You’ve done nothing but torment Rosie ever since your daddy sold her this piece of property.”
“She’s got no business squatting on the family farm.”
“Rosie’s not squattingon your farm. She’s living on herfarm, and your daddy and mother granted her the right-of-way through your family farm in perpetuity. I should know. I was a witness to the reading of their will.”
“A handwritten will not worth the piece of paper it’s on.”
“It was and still is legal in Kentucky. They loved Rosie, and that’s what you can’t stand. You’re just making a fool out of yourself, you old fool. Now, you really are in trouble. You’ve broken the conditions of the PO.”
One of the deputies walked over to June and Gage while the other one sheepishly walked past me and cut the chain, placing it in an evidence bag. “Sorry, ma’am,” he muttered. “We were just having a little fun.”
“Some fun,” Rosie shot back. She pulled the gate open and stepped out. “Are you going to arrest him?” she yelled at the other officer.
The deputy pulled out a pair of cuffs and said, “Mr. Cagle, we’ve got orders to bring you in. The Jessamine County DA wants to talk to you. The call came in over our radio.”
“You’re going to cuff me, boy?”
“Sorry, sir. Standard procedure.”
As the deputy pulled Gage away, he screamed, “I’m going to make you pay, Little Miss Rosebud! You mark my words. You’re going to get your comeuppance too, Juneytooney! You’re nothing but white trash dressed up in your better’s clothes! My mother wasted her time on you. I remember. Don’t think I don’t!”
“Make sure you add terroristic threats to those charges,” June yelled at the police.
I was so angry with Gage that I let loose of Baby’s collar. Suddenly aware he was free, Baby bounded after Gage, sensing he was the object of our scorn.
Seeing Baby lope toward him, Gage broke free and jumped onto the car hood.
This only made June cackle with laughter.
Rosie and I chuckled too. It was too rich seeing Gage frightened of one of the most harmless dogs in the Bluegrass. What was Baby going to do? Lick him to death? The worst Baby might do is sit on him. Of course, having two hundred pounds of canine muscle resting on one’s chest could be cause for alarm.
“Don’t tinkle on yourself, Gage,” June called out.
Watching the deputies pull Gage off the hood, June murmured, “Being around that old fart is like eating potato salad left out on the Fourth of July.”
“Drinking water out of a toilet.”
“Stop. I get the picture.”
June smirked and called, “Baby, come!”
Of course, Baby minded her instantly and ran over to her. Why doesn’t he obey me like that?
Rosie hugged June. She tried this with me, but I backed away. You know I don’t like hugs. What’s wrong with a friendly handshake?
But Baby liked hugs and enjoyed the one Rosie gave him.
“Thank you both so much. I was scared to death!” exclaimed Rosie. “Gage has tried some scummy stuff over the years, but he never pulled a stunt like this. What if my house had caught on fire or one of the animals needed medical treatment?”
“Or youneeded an ambulance?” I pointed out.
Rosie put her fingers to her lips. “Didn’t think of that.”
“It’s over,” June said.
“For now. I don’t know why that man will not leave me alone. He’s crazy, June. I’m afraid of him. He’s getting more violent. I fear one day he’s going to kill me. I really do.”
I didn’t naysay Rosie because I thought she was right. Gage Cagle had a grudge against Rosie, and men killed women all the time in Kentucky while little was done about it.
June asked, “You want to stay with me, Rosie?”
“Much obliged for the offer, June, but my animals need me. I couldn’t leave them.”
“You could come over during the day with one of my workers to feed them.”
“No, no. I’m afraid Gage might come back and hurt them. You know he’s already poisoned some of my dogs.”
“Suit yourself then. Call me if you change your mind.”
“Will do, June, and kindly thank you again. Thank you, Josiah.” She bent over and petted Baby. “And you too, Baby.”
“Twarn’t nothing,” June said, mimicking Gage.
We all laughed, but as I helped June back into the golf cart, I was uneasy.
Kentucky isn’t called the “dark and bloody ground” for nothing.
I knew in my bones Gage Cagle wasn’t finished with Rosie.
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Answer: The objective of the Livestock for Livelihoods Project (L4LP), funded by the European Union, is to strengthen livestock-based livelihoods and improve food and environmental security in arid and semi-arid lands.
Answer: Competition for scarce grazing and water resources is increasing in sub-Saharan Africa drylands, and the potential for conflicts between wildlife managers and livestock owners is growing as pastoralists and agro-pastoralists move into new areas and/or live in the vicinity of protected areas. Conflicts between people and wildlife are a daily occurrence as wildlife migrates from parks to surrounding areas, where animals, people, and livestock compete for resources.
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Higher Education Scholarship Program for International Students, Taiwan
International education and training has long been one of the TaiwanICDF’s core operations, among many others. Human resources development programs play a vital role in assisting partner countries achieve sustainable development, and education is a crucial mechanism for training workforces in developing countries. The TaiwanICDF provides scholarships for higher education and has developed undergraduate, graduate and Ph.D. programs in cooperation with renowned partner universities in Taiwan.
Scholarship Benefits
Entitlements: The TaiwanICDF provides each scholarship recipient with a full scholarship, including return airfare, housing, tuition and credit fees, insurance, textbook costs and a monthly allowance. Details of Scholarship Benefits
TaiwanICDF Scholarship Partner Universities
The TaiwanICDF has established the Taiwan International Cooperation Alliance (TICA) with its partner universities, setting up an operational platform under this TICA framework to manage and improve the scholarship program. More information about each of the programs offered through the TaiwanICDF International Higher Education Scholarship Program can be found on the relevant partner university’s website (links are also provided under each program introduction provided as part of the following list of partner universities). List of TaiwanICDF Scholarship Partner Universities
Applicants applying for a TaiwanICDF scholarship must meet both the general eligibility criteria and be a national of a country on the List of Countries Eligible for TaiwanICDF Scholarship. Applicants must also meet the Regulations Governing Visiting, Resident, and Permanent Residency of Aliens set by ROC(Taiwan) National Immigration Agency.
The annual application period runs, in principle, from January 1 to March 15 (for 2014 Scholarship programs, the application period runs from January 1 to March 14, 2014)
Applicants should submit the documents listed below to the ROC (Taiwan) Embassy/ Consulate (General)/ Representative Office/ Taiwan Technical Mission or project representative in their country.
Applicants must ensure that they submit accurate and complete documentation; failure to do so will result in the application not being processed. Please also note that late submissions will not be accepted and/or processed.
A completed application form (completed online, printed out and signed) Please note: The online application system will be closed on March 14. Please complete the application as earlier as possible.
A photocopy of applicant’s passport or other document showing proof of nationality.
A photocopy of applicant’s highest-level diploma and academic transcripts. Please note: If not issued by a Taiwanese educational institution, these documents must be authenticated by an ROC (Taiwan) Embassy/ Consulate (General)/ Representative Office, or be sealed and delivered by the awarding institution. If these documents are in languages other than Chinese or English, a Chinese and/or English translation should be provided.
A photocopy of applicant’s English proficiency certificate. Please note: This means a TOEFL test score or that of another recognized English proficiency exam, or documents certifying that the applicant has graduated from a program where all courses were taught in English. Applicants who are unable to provide such proof of English proficiency due to special circumstances may be assessed for English proficiency by an ROC (Taiwan) Embassy/ Consulate (General)/ Representative Office/ Taiwan Technical Mission or project representative via interview or other forms of testing. Applicants whose official national language is English are exempt from needing to supply these documents.
A TaiwanICDF Medical Report(including an HIV test)dated within the the past three months.
Two letters of reference.
Any other documents specifically requested by an ROC (Taiwan) Embassy/ Consulate (General)/ Representative Office/ Taiwan Technical Mission or project representative.
In addition to the above documents requested as part of their scholarship application, applicants should also submit all documents required by the TaiwanICDF partner university that they are applying to before the admissions deadline of that university. For detailed information on such documents, please refer to the individual enrollment websites for TaiwanICDF Scholarship Partner Universities.
The ROC (Taiwan) Embassy/ Consulate (General)/ Representative Office/ Taiwan Technical Mission or project representative will conduct a first review of applicants based on the eligibility requirements and selection criteria of the TaiwanICDF, and then submit their list of recommended applicants to the TaiwanICDF no later than March 31 each year.
A second review of the qualified applicants will be conducted by an academic committee organized by the individual partner university in joint cooperation with TaiwanICDF representatives. Such reviews will be based on each university’s selection criteria, whilst also accounting for the eligibility requirements and selection criteria of the TaiwanICDF.
After the second review has been conducted in cooperation with all partner universities, the TaiwanICDF will announce its list of scholarship recipients, in principle, no later than June 30 each year. Successful applicants will receive an acceptance letter through the ROC (Taiwan) Embassy/ Consulate (General)/ Representative Office/ Taiwan Technical Mission or project representative to whom they originally applied.
Please note: Gaining admission from the university does not necessarily mean that the applicant has also been given a TaiwanICDF scholarship. Only the applicant who receives the acceptance letter issued by the TaiwanICDF is the scholarship recipient.
Go to TaiwanICDF Scholarship Online Application
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Chart of application procedure
Q1: Where is the direct link to apply for a TaiwanICDF International Higher Education Scholarship?
A1: Please visit http://www.icdf.org.tw/ct.asp?xItem=12505&CtNode=30316&mp=2 for detailed application procedures. You’ll also find links to the online application system and the complete Program List of the Taiwan International Cooperation Alliance (TICA) universities on this page.
Q2: Can I apply to more than one program at the TICA universities?
A2: No. You can only apply for one program at one of the TICA universities each year.
Q3: I realized that my printed form has some mistakes, what should I do?
A3: If you discover any mistakes or typos in your printed form, you can apply again (please remember to type carefully). However, you will need to take your final, corrected forms to the ROC (Taiwan) Embassy/ Consulate (General)/ Representative Office/ Taiwan Technical Mission or project representative for their first review.
Please be aware that your printed forms must be identical to the information you saved in the online system, since the ROC (Taiwan) Embassy/ Consulate (General)/ Representative Office/ Taiwan Technical Mission or project representative may refer to both versions during their first review.
Q4: What if I cannot apply for TaiwanICDF scholarship program due to my nationality?
A4: We only offer TaiwanICDF scholarships to citizens of nations in our list of eligible countries. If your country does not appear on our list, you are not currently eligible to apply.
Q5: My country is on the list of eligible countries, but there is no ROC (Taiwan) Embassy/ Consulate (General)/ Representative Office or Taiwan Technical Mission here. Where can I send my documents?
A5: If there is no ROC (Taiwan) Embassy/ Consulate (General)/ Representative Office/Taiwan Technical Mission or project representative in your country, please send your documents to the nearest ROC (Taiwan) Embassy/ Consulate (General)/ Representative Office. Please see http://www.boca.gov.tw/mp?mp=2 to find the nearest such point of contact.
Q6: If I gain admission to the university I applied to, does that mean that I have also got the TaiwanICDF scholarship?
A6: If you are a successful recipient of a TaiwanICDF scholarship, we will mail you our acceptance letter to inform you. Therefore, gaining admission from the university you applied to does not necessarily mean that you have also been given a TaiwanICDF scholarship.
For more information, please visit official website: www.icdf.org.tw.
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Speers-Roesch Marine Ecophysiology Lab
Ben Speers-Roesch, Ph.D.
Department of Biology,
University of New Brunswick,
E-mail: bspeersr@gmail.com
Comparative and Environmental Animal Physiology Lab
Metabolic and cardiorespiratory physiology of fishes; mechanisms of
hypoxia and thermal tolerance; mechanisms of metabolic rate depression; energy metabolism; cardiac function and metabolism; biology of sharks, rays, and chimaeras; phylogenetic patterns of metabolic organization; physiological reaction, acclimation, and adaptation to challenging environments; mechanisms and significance of physiological diversity
My Resarch
The overarching goal of my research program is to understand the mechanisms and functional, ecological, and adaptive significance of physiological diversity among animals. My work considers the physiological variation that exists within individuals (i.e. acute reactions, phenotypic plasticity) as well as across populations, species, and broad phylogenetic boundaries (i.e. evolutionary). Studying physiological diversity and its underlying mechanisms across these scales, in particular, provides insight into the vulnerability or tolerance of animals to environmental change, which can challenge organismal persistence by constraining function and performance. Much of my research, therefore, is directed at understanding the physiological responses that allow animals to maintain function and performance and thus persist in challenging environments, including exposure to abiotic, biotic, and anthropogenic stressors. Working mostly on fishes because of their biological and economic importance, I focus on two major, integrated physiological systems: energy metabolism, or how energy is supplied and used, and the cardiorespiratory system that sustains it. These are ideal systems in which to broadly explore the significance of physiological diversity because metabolism is fundamental to all life processes, and metabolic function is sensitive to many forms of environmental stress. My research involves comparative and experimental approaches incorporating biochemical, molecular, cellular, organ system, and organismal techniques. Ultimately, I aim to integrate physiology from cell to environment, to use physiology to assess and forecast the consequences for animals of anthropogenic impacts on the environment, and to understand the physiological linkages between environmental variability, organismal function and performance, and ecological and evolutionary patterns.
Currently, I am carrying out projects to investigate (see Current Research for more details):
The physiological and behavioural mechanisms underlying winter dormancy in fishes
Causes & consequences of overwintering strategies in fishes
Physiological and behavioural responses to 'ocean acidification' in temperate and tropical fishes
The physiological bases of variation in hypoxia tolerance among fishes
The impacts of dietary preference and fasting on metabolic pathways in fishes and cephalopods
The interactive effects of biotic stress (competition with invasive species) and abiotic stress (UV radiation, temperature) on physiological performance in amphibians and fishes
The diversity and patterns of energy metabolism among vertebrates, including elasmobranchs
Prospective M.Sc. or Ph.D. students are encouraged to contact me to discuss possibilities for graduate research in my lab.
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Brussels, July 18 (BTA) - Eurostat released its report on income inequality in EU Member States on Thursday, according to which Bulgaria had the highest income inequality in the EU in 2017.
The way income and wealth are distributed across society determines the extent to which individuals have equal access to the goods and services produced within a national economy. One important measure of income distribution is the ratio of total income received by the 20 per cent of the population with the highest income to that received by the 20 per cent of the population with the lowest income, known as the income quintile share ratio, Eurostat's press release explains.
In 2017, the income quintile share ratio in the European Union (EU) was 5.2. This ratio was highest in Bulgaria at 8.2, followed by Lithuania (7.3), Spain (6.6), Romania (6.5), Latvia (6.3), and Greece (6.1).
Czechia and Slovenia had the lowest income inequality in 2017 (3.4). These were followed by three other Member States with ratios below 4.0: Finland (3.5), Slovakia (3.5), and Belgium (3.8). MY
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Is Anime for Children Only?
Posted by Editor on Oct 10, 2018 in Entertainment and Recreation | 0 comments
Long story short, the answer is yes and no. Japanese animation, or anime, is a different genre from other animated movies and series not only because of its distinct style, but also because its target audience are not just children.
History of Early Anime
The first anime film was released sometime in 1916, but it was only 5 minutes long and the drawings were sketched using chalk that were redrawn in between takes. However, this is still unreliable because early Japanese films in general were stored in reels that were dismantled, and some were also destroyed during earthquakes and bombings. The distinction of the first anime film released commercially goes to Dekobo Shingacho – Meian no Shippai. It was followed by several short anime films that were the works of Junichi Kouchi, Oten Shimokawa, and Seitaro Kitayama.
The use of chalk was not productive, so the animators turned to paper cutouts for silent 2d stop-motion anime. Even then, most of the themes will seem familiar to fans today, such as folk tales and samurai life.
In the 1930s, Kenzo Masaoka produced the first anime with pre-recorded voices called Chikara to Onna no Yo no Naka, about a man having an affair. By 1934, anime was made using cels. So far, all the themes of the old anime were not exactly made for children. Some were even made to sell propaganda and promote the military, although educational themes were also produced. In 1945, the full-length anime film Momotaro: Umi no Shinpei was used to send a message of hope, but it was not until 1958, when an anime film was released outside Japan with the production of Hakujaden.
Anime from 1950s to Present
Osamu Tezuka gained cult status as a mangaka (comic artist) and collaborated with animators to produce Boku no Son Goku. The first female animator gained recognition when she directed Ribon no Kishi, while the first anthology was released in 1960 with the title Mittsu no Hanashi, which consisted of 3 segments.
In 1961, the first regular TV anime series Otogi Manga Calendar was aired, but anime TV series was made famous with the release of Tetsuwan Atom, or more popularly known as Astro Boy. The show set the standards and artwork that most anime still use today, such as the stylized hair and big eyes.
The first romance series, Sennin Buraku, and the first children’s series, Tetsujin 28-Go, were both released in 1963. The first anime for girls, Mahotsukai Sally, was released in 1966, while the first space opera, Uchu Senkan Yamato, was aired in 1974.
The Anime Genres
The anime target audience is divided into 5 groups based on age, namely; Shojo (Young Girl), Seinen (Adult Male), Shonen (Young Boy), Josei (Adult Women), and Kodomomuke (Kids).
These are further subdivided into the following categories:
• Action
• Adventure
• Akuma (Demons)
• Bishounen
• Card/Monster Battle
• Comedy
• Drama
• Ecchi (Erotic)
• Fantasy
• Game
• Harem
• Hentai
• Historical
• Horror
• Idol
• Magical Girl
• Mecha (Robots)
• Romance
• Shonen Ai (Girls’ Love)
• Shoujo Ai (Boys’ Love)
• Yaoi
• Yuri
Do Not Stop Dancing While in Singapore
Posted by Editor on Jun 9, 2014 in Entertainment and Recreation | 0 comments
Dancing is one of the famous talents or perhaps a sport an individual has. In Singapore, dancing is like a hobby. In fact, there are a lot of clubs in the country that provides a great experience especially when dancing.
If you don’t have any place to go during a night out with your friends, Singapore is the place to be. Aside from the great services that these clubs offer, they also have cheap prices compare to other countries.
Acid Bar: Here, live band performances are what they offer. Usually, they feature here jazz and other genre as long as they know that is it pleasing to the ears.
Dragonfly: This striking name of the club makes every Singaporean as well as tourists go back. With its amusing crowd and plays Chinese pop music. Here, you can literally dance even if you’re not on your mood. The excellent music that they play makes their customer be satisfied with their services.
Rupee Room: Dance till you drop is the common motto here. Here, the music that is usually played is Indian music and the trending Bollywood music today. Also, if you want to eat, they will serve you with different cuisines.
Bellini Grande: One of the most famous clubs in Singapore is the Bellini Grande. The club boasts their spacious and a large dance floor wherein you can dance all you want. The typical music that is played here are the music that is related to boogie.
In Singapore, they seriously and dedicatedly follow this simple rule in clubs: Do not stop dancing.
Horse Clubs that Singaporeans Go For
Horseback riding is a fun exciting sport. However, it can be a tough sport when you are not into it. In Singapore, there are a lot of horse clubs that teaches horseback riding. But this is far away different from the other horse clubs in the globe wherein one specific requirement includes owning a horse or perhaps be a member in their club.
In Singapore, horseback riding club offers their ideas to non-members especially children, elderly as well as adults. Horseback riding associations provides trainings whether it is for beginner or for the intermediate.
1. Horsecity. Aside from horseback riding, Horsecity offers pony feeding and pony riding. Also, they offer lessons and trainings for those who want to learn riding on a horse. Leasing of horses is also available in the club.
2. Singapore Turf Club Riding Centre. This horse club targets young people ages 8 years old up to 18 years old. Singapore Turf Club Riding Centre is a project that is made through the funds that comes from the horse racing in Singapore and now, it continues to develop a riding population in the country.
3. Bukit Timah Saddle Club. Beginners and Professional horse riders are frequent in this club. It has a facility that meet the international competition standards for international horse jumping contest. Bukit Timah Saddle Club provides the beginners to develop the horse riding skills in their awesome grass trails and roads.
As they say, horseback riding is a popular sport of kings. But once you are in one of the horse clubs in Singapore, you’ll experience what a King experiences.
How Singaporeans Learn Skydiving
In Singapore, Skydiving is illegal and this is because of the airspace limitation in the country. There are a lot of good Skydivers in Singapore who indulge in this kind of sport; however, they do not have a place to enjoy their hobby or perhaps their most loved sport or desire. Aside that Skydiving is fun; Skydiving also motivates anyone to get off with their fears especially acrophobia (fear of heights). While skydiving is banned in Singapore, Singaporean skydivers find ways on how they are going to execute the sport in the country.
1. iFly Singapore. For people who wants to experience flying and at same time skydiving, iFly Singapore is the one for you. Located in Sentosa Island Resort, iFly Singapore is a large perpendicular wind tunnel that is enough for more than 15 persons to fly and replicate skydiving for Skydiving aficionados.
2. SkyDive Singapore. This is a professional group of Skydivers that are based in Singapore. They provide education and training for those people who want to learn to skydive. Apart from making skydiving famous in the country, they also teach skydiving in Singapore. Also, they educate students in the neighboring countries such as Malaysia and Thailand.
3. Skydiving Gears and Jumpsuits. Since skydiving is unlawful in Singapore, skydiving enthusiasts in Singapore can only purchase Skydiving apparatus. However, Singapore does have an authorized seller for skydiving suits and equipment which includes crated suits, comp suits, free fly suits and pants and with the opportunity to select whether you put a camera on it or not.
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VF Corporation Announces New Science-Based Targets to Accelerate Social and Environmental Responsibility Programs
New goals are part of the latest Made for Change Sustainability & Responsibility Report
DENVER--(BUSINESS WIRE)--VF Corporation (NYSE: VFC), one of the world’s largest apparel, footwear and accessories companies, today published the latest iteration of its Made for Change Sustainability & Responsibility report, including the announcement of industry-leading science-based targets (SBTs) and a bold vision for sustainable materials.
VF’s Made for Change report details the company’s aspirations for advancing environmental and social improvements across its business, portfolio of brands, global supply chain and communities worldwide. The report also highlights achievements from the last reporting year, which was 2018.
“Our workforce of 50,000 performance-driven people share a commitment to be more than just an apparel and footwear company. We strive to be a purpose-led enterprise that leverages the strength of our business to deliver positive impacts for people and the planet we share,” said Steve Rendle, VF’s Chairman, President and CEO. “We're proud of our progress but know there is so much more we can do. Our Made for Change strategy outlines our forward-looking priorities and provides us with a renewed focus to push ourselves harder and farther as we address some of our industry’s most challenging issues.”
VF’s Made for Change strategy focuses on three areas:
Circular Business Models: The commercialization of circular business models to reduce VF’s environmental impact while creating new growth opportunities;
Scale for Good: Leveraging VF’s global scale and influence to drive impact reduction across the business and broader industry; and,
Movement Makers: Enabling VF and its brands to serve as a catalyst for powering movements of sustainable and active lifestyles for the betterment of people and our planet.
Made for Change Report Highlights
As outlined in the report, and in alignment with the UN Sustainable Development Goals, VF has made measurable progress against its targets. Highlights include:
50 percent of VF’s distribution centers around the world are zero-waste facilities;
16 of VF’s owned buildings are LEED certified;
The launch of a bold sustainable materials vision focusing on three key concepts: regenerative, responsibly sourced renewable, and recycled materials; and,
The improvement of worker livelihoods in Bangladesh, Cambodia, India, the Dominican Republic, Vietnam, China, Kenya and Lesotho through VF’s Worker and Community Development (WCD) Program.
VF’s Science-Based Targets Approved by the Science Based Targets initiative
VF’s new science-based targets (SBTs) are among the most ambitious in the industry and are aligned with the ideology of using its global scale for good. SBTs are greenhouse gas emission reduction targets that are in line with meeting the goals of the Paris Agreement.
“VF is the largest company in the textiles, apparel, and luxury goods sector to set a 1.5-degree target for its Scope 1 and Scope 2 emissions, and a well-below 2-degree target for its product-related Scope 3 emissions,” stated Ben Peel, Consultant, the Carbon Trust.
VF underwent an intensive, two-year long collaborative process to develop its new SBTs. The company partnered with global consultancy, the Carbon Trust, to model data across its owned and operated facilities as well as its entire operations from farm to retail store; and engaged deeply with its entire value chain. Primary data was gathered from VF’s 1,400 owned facilities, distribution centers and global logistics as well as more than 100 Tier 1 and Tier 2 suppliers, strengthening its ability to identify and implement reduction strategies.
VF’s science-based carbon emissions targets include:
An absolute reduction of Scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions 55 percent by 2030, from a 2017 baseline year; and,
An absolute reduction of Scope 3 greenhouse gas emissions 30 percent by 2030, from a 2017 baseline year focusing on farm-to-retail materials, sourcing operations and logistics.
The Science Based Targets initiative champions science-based target setting as a powerful way of boosting companies’ competitive advantage in the transition to the low-carbon economy. It is a collaboration between CDP, the United Nations Global Compact (UNGC), World Resources Institute (WRI), and the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) and one of the We Mean Business Coalition commitments.
“This is the most comprehensive strategic advice we have delivered to an organization on how it can achieve its SBTs across its own operations and its value chain,” said Tom Delay, Chief Executive, the Carbon Trust. “This work sends a strong signal to the apparel sector about the degree of transformation needed to truly address emissions across global supply and distribution chains and multiple brands. The collaborative development process and focus on influencing others is what true corporate leadership looks like. We are excited to see VF achieve its ambitious goals.”
A New Vision for Sustainable Materials
Also announced today, VF’s new sustainable materials vision is key to achieving its SBTs. Extraction, production and manufacturing of raw materials account for the largest portion of VF’s carbon emissions globally. The innovative vision establishes a clear path for reduction through yet another bold commitment:
By 2030, VF commits that 100 percent of its top nine materials, which account for approximately 90 percent of its materials-related carbon emissions, will originate from regenerative, responsibly sourced renewable, or recycled sources.
Using tools such as the Sustainable Apparel Coalition’s Materials Sustainability Index and Life Cycle Analysis methodologies, VF is assessing its materials choices within these three areas to identify the greatest opportunities for environmental impact reduction, and to understand how accelerating against these choices will contribute to achieving its science-based targets.
More information about VF and its Made for Change Sustainability & Responsibility report can be found at www.vfc.com.
About VF Corporation
Founded in 1899, VF Corporation is one of the world’s largest apparel, footwear and accessories companies connecting people to the lifestyles, activities and experiences they cherish most through a family of iconic outdoor, active and workwear brands including Vans®, The North Face®, Timberland® and Dickies®. Our purpose is to power movements of sustainable and active lifestyles for the betterment of people and our planet. We connect this purpose with a relentless drive to succeed to create value for all stakeholders and use our company as a force for good. For more information, please visit vfc.com.
About the Carbon Trust
The Carbon Trust is an independent, expert partner of leading organisations around the world, helping them contribute to and benefit from a more sustainable future.
We advise businesses, governments and the public sector on their opportunities in a sustainable, low carbon world.
We measure and certify the environmental footprint of organisations, supply chains and products.
We develop and deploy low carbon technologies and solutions, from energy efficiency to renewable power.
Molly Cuffe
Director, Corporate Responsibility Communications
Molly_Cuffe@vfc.com
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